Not like I didn't believe it when I heard they announced a bounty on the authors of viruses and worms, but it's very cool to see it actually come to fruition!
\nMicrosoft Corp. today announced that two individuals who helped identify the creator of the notorious Sasser Worm in 2004 will share a reward of $250,000 (U.S.). The author of the worm, arrested in May 2004, was found guilty Friday by a court in Verden, Germany, and handed a sentence of one year and nine months on probation and 200 hours of community service.\n
» Microsoft to Pay Reward to Sasser Worm Informants, author sentenced
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It includes the geopolitical maps of all Palestinian governorates, Israeli Barriers over the years, maps of the Palestinian cities, land ownership in Palestine. In addition, it presents maps highlighting house demolitions, olive tree land areas, distribution of schools and universities, water networks, Oslo Agreement, Sharm Esh Sheikh Memorandum, and Israeli security zones in the Gaza Strip and many others.\nIt's worth mentioning that during the historical visit of his holiness Pope Benedict XVI which took place in May 2009, Dr. Jad Isaac (ARIJ General Directer) presented to his holiness a special version of the Geopolitical Atlas of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 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Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.\nImage: \u00a9 Michele Laurent\nSelect Dates at 7:00pm\nThis performance is approximately 3 hours and 35 minutes with a 20 minutes intermission.\nPre-Show Meals\nSelect Dates from 5:30pm\u20136:30pm\n(12:30pm\u20131:30pm for matinees)\nFor just $30, enjoy a delicious pre-show Indian meal created by chef Gaurav Anand from New York Times Critics Pick restaurant Moti Mahal Delux before seeing A Room in India.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 267.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://armscontrol.ru/transforming/day3.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:43:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4VNP7EFDGXFDRFRNLQBISNBXNBIDFJZO", "length": 30674, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "armscontrol.ru", "title": "The Future of Russian-U.S. Strategic Arms Reductions: START III and Beyond - The Summary Report. Day 3.", "raw_content": "The Future of Russian-US Strategic Arms Reductions: START III and Beyond\nA Meeting Jointly Sponsored by the Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the MIT Security Studies Program\nThe Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, Massachusetts February 2 - 6, 1998\nAbout | Contents | Meeting Schedule | Participants | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4-5\nSession 9: Tactical Nuclear Weapons (Timur Kadyshev)\nSession 10: Tactical Nuclear Weapons (Steve Fetter)\nSession 11: Modifying Operational Practices (Bruce Blair, Frank von Hippel)\nSession 12: Modifying Operational Practices (Valeri Yarynych)\nSession 9: Wednesday, 9:00 - 10:30\nTactical Nuclear Weapons - Timur Kadyshev\nIn theory, strategic nuclear arms are defined as those weapons that can perform strategic missions, such as decisive strikes against military, industrial and political centers of the adversary. Tactical nuclear weapons are those ones that do not possess such capacity. Within the framework of the Russian-American relationship, those weapons that are covered by START Treaties as well as long-range SLCM are no doubt strategic. Also, American nuclear weapons deployed in Europe do possess strategic capacity, but at the same time, the same type of Russian weapons can not perform strategic missions against U.S. territory.\nHowever, for the purposes of this discussion, all nuclear weapons will be divided into three groups:\nStrategic-I (weapons covered by START Treaties);\nStrategic-II (long-range SCLMs);\nAfter the implementation of the INF Treaty and Presidential Initiatives (Bush - Gorbachev, Yeltsin), the third group consists basically of land-based and Navy aviation.\nIn September 1991, when it was clear that the Soviet Union was collapsing into several individual nuclear states, President Bush introduced a unilateral initiative to reduce and eliminate several types of tactical nuclear weapons. Soon, Gorbachev declared a similar Soviet initiative which produced 13-14,000 units of nuclear weaponry for Russia to destroy. However, all these weapons are scheduled to be destroyed by 2003 when their warranty life expires. Therefore, for Russia the task is to limit the production of new weapons intended to replace the old ones. There is a continuous exchange of information on the number of weapons of each type that are being eliminated, but information on these actions is kept confidential.\nBy the end of 1996, Russia had 4,000-5,000 non-strategic warheads. This weaponry is stored in Army, Air Force and Navy depots and under the custody of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. Decommissioned tactical warheads are stored in centralized depots, as well as in the depots of production and dismantlement plants, or are transported to liquidation sites. Currently, very few new tactical weapons are being produced since the production facilities' capacity is largely occupied with weapons being dismantled. However, new tactical weapons are being produced with a longer life of 25 years. Under current projections, by 2003, no more than one thousand tactical weapons will remain, though it is more likely that only several hundred will exist.\nTactical weapons have a very specific role in the Russian forces and have become even more important since the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the transition period until its economy improves and its military forces are modernized, Russia has to rely on nuclear weapons (including non-strategic ones) as a means to ensure its security. They serve four main purposes. The first is to compensate for the weakness of Russian conventional forces. Given the current economic and demographic crisis in Russia and the reductions in strategic weapons, tactical nuclear weapons are perceived as the only way that Russia can defend itself in the event of even a conventional conflict in the near term. Along with the European theater, tactical nuclear weapons are considered an important means to ensure Russian security in the East. In this sense, tactical nuclear weapons have been called the poor man's force equalizer. This is especially true in comparison with U.S. precision-guided munitions. Russia simply does not have the available money to engage in the research, development, and production of comparable weapons.\nSecond, tactical weaponry is thought to be the only way to equalize Russian conventional forces with NATO forces, which are estimated to be three times greater. Russia's conventional inferiority becomes especially pertinent as NATO expands eastward. At the same time, because NATO \"tactical\" nuclear weapons can double the effect of a hypothetical strategic strike, Russia is interested in removing all tactical weapons from Europe, pulling its own weapons beyond the Urals.\nRussia's third purpose in maintaining its tactical nuclear weapons force is to counter the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. However, it is not yet clear if tactical nuclear weapons could be an effective deterrent against the use of chemical or biological weapons, but such a purpose still remains a possibility under consideration.\nFinally, it is thought that tactical nuclear weapons might be useful in preventing or localizing regional conflicts. It has yet to be seen whether there is sufficient justification to use nuclear weaponry of any type in the conflicts possible in today's world.\nSome say that tactical nuclear weapons might be more vulnerable than conventional forces, thus risking the provocation of a preventable war rather than establishing adequate deterrence. However, there is a general consensus in Russia that tactical weapons are still useful for several purposes, therefore it is highly unlikely that any agreement can be reached in the near future to eliminate these weapons. Furthermore, in addition to disagreement over which nuclear weapons should be classified as tactical, verification of the elimination of tactical weapons poses a difficult problem.\nSea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs) are another area of great concern to Russia. These weapons are not considered tactical nuclear weapons. They can be armed with nuclear warheads and can perform strategic missions. By 1997, four thousand Tomahawks of four types had been produced in United States, and production still continues and may be completed in 1998, with the production line to be preserved. Some of the Russian concerns are over the removal of 350 American W-84 nuclear warheads from the ground-launched Tomahawks liquidated under the INF treaty. These warheads could be used to equip remaining SLCMs. Different types of Tomahawk can be hardly distinguished, and can be easily converted from one type to another. It is presumed that both tactical nuclear weapons and SLCMs will be looked at in the context of START III reductions - in the Helsinki Joint Statement on Parameters of Future Reductions in Nuclear Forces the Russian and American presidents agreed that \"in the context of START III negotiations their experts will explore, as separate issues, possible measures relating to nuclear long-range sea-launched cruise missiles and tactical nuclear systems...\"\nAnatoli Diakov stressed the magnitude of the disagreement between Russia and the US over tactical nuclear weapons. NATO forces had tactical weapons deployed during the Cold War to make up for a perceived inferiority of forces, planning to use them as part of a series of controlled escalatory attacks. Now that the Cold War is over and NATO forces are superior, the West wants to eliminate tactical nuclear weapons completely, but now Russia is using these weapons for the same purpose as NATO had slated for them prior to 1991. Especially as NATO incorporates former Warsaw Pact forces and moves closer to the Russian border, it becomes increasingly clear to Russia that it cannot give up tactical weapons. They will be vital to Russian security for at least thirty years. Certainly, it is not in any state's interest to use these weapons, but the United States often forgets that tactical weapons currently threaten Russia and not the United States. Because they are an integral part of the defense of Russia, some tactical weapons must be deployed. However, Aleksey Ovcharenko added that there are no longer any tactical nuclear weapons or nuclear cruise missiles deployed aboard Russian ships. At the same time, he stressed the importance of short range nuclear SLCMs for the Russian Navy as indispensable means to counter American carrier battle groups.\nTed Postol suggested, and Diakov agreed, that the possibility of eliminating short-range tactical nuclear weapons and SLCMs should be investigated. There was agreement that there is no mission that the United States cannot achieve without SLCMs, thus they are not useful to either country. However, Kadyshev felt that short-range tactical nuclear weapons are vital to Russian security.\nSession 10: Wednesday, 11:00-12:30\nTactical Nuclear Weapons -- Steve Fetter\nFetter began by reviewing the U.S. development of tactical weapons and strategies for their use. In the mid-1950s, NATO thought that it was conventionally inferior in Europe, thus the alliance looked for ways to remedy the imbalance. In this search, the United States built nuclear counterparts to every conventional weapon in its arsenal. This theory, subscribed to under the Eisenhower administration, was discovered to be flawed for two reasons. First, the use of these new weapons would destroy Europe in the process of saving it while unduly escalating the number of allied casualties that would accrue in a conflict. Second, the Soviet Union responded by deploying large numbers of tactical nuclear weapons. Thus, it seemed pointless for NATO to initiate their use. However, tactical weapons were useful as a political concept to reassure NATO allies that nuclear weapons would be used to deter the Soviet Union and defend Europe as pledged. The Europeans saw tactical nuclear weapons as a tripwire on the escalation ladder and are still opposed to having this indicator of the US commitment to the continent removed. The United States saw tactical nuclear weapons as a way to confine war to Europe while still following through on its NATO commitment to use nuclear weapons for Europe's defense. Currently, the US has 350 nuclear SLCMs in storage and 600 B-61 tactical bombs, less than 200 of which are deployed in Europe. The US plans to unilaterally dismantle its withdrawn tactical nuclear weapons without transparency agreements.\nEven this greatly reduced tactical nuclear force is unnecessary. Since these weapons were originally designed to reduce the conventional inferiority of the NATO forces, it would seem that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic crisis facing Russia today would eliminate the need for US tactical forces. Furthermore, there is no reason that the U.S. strategic nuclear weapons force cannot provide adequate deterrence for America's NATO allies. It is unlikely that the populations of the European allies actually would resist the removal of tactical nuclear weapons from Europe. It is extremely unlikely that such a withdrawal would provoke the Germans to develop their own nuclear deterrent. Frank von Hippel concurred with this conclusion and added that German officials have made statements to the effect that they do not want U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil but are afraid that asking Washington to remove these weapons might offend their ally.\nAn additional benefit of eliminating U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe would be to help to reassure Russia of the good intentions of the United States. An intuitively fair agreement would be for the United States and Russia to pledge not to deploy tactical nuclear weapons outside their home territories. (Paul Podvig and Petr Romashkin noted that Russia has already done so unilaterally by withdrawing its tactical weapons from Belarus.) However, the United States is unlikely to agree to such a quid pro quo. Moreover, such a move would probably not counter the aggressive implications of NATO expansion, especially considering the utility that Russia sees in using tactical weapons as a substitute for their inferior conventional forces. Aleksey Ovcharenko added that Poland's offer to accept deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, though not accepted by NATO, is alarming to Russia, since tactical weapons deployed in Poland only make sense in the context of a Russia/NATO confrontation. They could not serve any other purpose.\nThe newly developing disagreements seem to imply that the opportunity to eliminate tactical nuclear weapons may have passed. Moreover, the United States also sees two potential uses in retaining a partial tactical arsenal. In certain cases, the US might want to use nuclear weapons of a lower yield. The smallest U.S. ballistic missile warhead has a yield of 100 kilotons while tactical weapons have yields as low as one kiloton. The US has also considered the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states, perhaps as a response to a chemical or biological attack, in which case the use of tactical weapons might be more appropriate than strategic weapons. However, given that the US has pledged not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states, this would be a bad idea in any event.\nAfter weighing the pros and cons of keeping tactical nuclear weapons, Fetter concluded that eliminating the weapons would be better and more stable for both the US and Russia. It is unclear that tactical nuclear weapons could be useful in any circumstance. The Russian rationale for keeping tactical weapons to deter a conflict with China is illogical. There is no reason to believe that China would run the risk of attempting an invasion of Russia. The Russians could respond with an incredibly destructive strategic nuclear attack, the resulting damage of which would not be worth any benefit that could be gained through a conventional invasion of Russia. Keeping these weapons makes it more likely that they will be used in a regional conflict, an event that both nations should try to prevent.\nKeeping tactical weapons also runs a security risk. Tactical weapons in Russia are less closely safeguarded than their strategic arsenal and thus they are more susceptible to theft. There was great debate over this point. Fetter offered no proof of a disparity in the security of strategic versus tactical weapons, and the Russians were clearly offended at the implication that they are incompetent enough to let the security of their tactical weaponry be compromised. Michael Stafford added that official assessments of the situation were that the chances of warhead theft are small, but that the US was slightly more worried about the possibility of the theft of fissile materials. Aleksey Ovcharenko noted that tactical nuclear weapons are stored rather than deployed in most cases. In storage, they are more closely safeguarded and less likely to be diverted. Roland Lajoie said that Russians had argued that by keeping those weapons that are deployed on their launchers, the possibility of diversion would also be lessened\nAleksey Ovcharenko said that the tactical weapons which are the least likely for Russia to give up as well as the most likely to be deployed are those on submarines and surface ships. Eugene Miasnikov noted that there is a fundamental problem regarding tactical nuclear weapons that is not easily resolved. Tactical weapons look different from the perspectives of scientists and military officers. A scientist has the opportunity to look at the situation in general and can come to the conclusion that tactical nuclear weapons are dangerous because they could lead to the escalation of a conflict to the nuclear level. On the other hand, a military officer has a mission to complete. In the case of Admiral Ovcharenko, should a conflict arise, his task will be to defend the homeland against threats from the sea. He needs to consider worst case scenarios, and thus can come to the logical conclusion that it is impossible to accomplish his mission by only conventional means.\nFetter proposed three possible levels of reductions on tactical nuclear weapons that could be pursued. The first would be to create a tactical weapons-free zone in Europe. It would be difficult to reach this solution unilaterally, and the United States is unlikely to allow Russia to keep tactical weapons close to Europe while withdrawing its own weaponry. The second option would be to institute an overall ceiling for nuclear weapons arsenals within which the United States and Russia could mix between strategic and tactical weapons as they saw fit. This recommendation was offered by MINATOM and the Russian Ministry of Defense, but verification under this scenario would be especially difficult. The third option would be to ban all tactical nuclear weapons, the difficulty of which was discussed at length above.\nAny of these options would require much more extensive warhead transparency regimes than have been considered thus far. Fetter stressed that better confidence would be needed to develop an acceptable verification regime for tactical weapons, but did not see the prospect as impossible. For instance, although it might be easy to hide excess stores of tactical weapons, hidden weapons would have to be located far from spots from which they would be deployed (such as ports or air fields) to escape detection. This would make it more difficult for these weapons to be retrieved and used quickly.\nSeveral concerns were raised about choosing any option which would retain tactical nuclear weapons in Russian or American arsenals. The likelihood that a tactical nuclear attack would or could be both distinguished from a strategic attack and treated differently is not very high. Many believe that escalation from a tactical nuclear attack to the use of strategic weapons is inevitable.\nSession 11: Wednesday, 14:00 -- 15:30\nModifying Operational Practices -- Bruce Blair and Frank von Hippel\nBlair and von Hippel presented their arguments for De-Alerting, a process of stepping down the tight coupled tension between U.S. and Russian nuclear forces.\nThe U.S. and Russia have carried over the targeting practices of the Cold War, maintaining thousands of warheads ready for launch on minutes of notice. This situation presents several problems, which de-alerting is intended to cope with.\nFirst, this posture on both sides impedes the normalization of relations between the United States and Russia. It foments suspicion, and emphasizes memories of the Cold War and its associated difficulties.\nSecond, Russian forces are now not deployed as much as they were during the Cold War. Submarines and mobile missiles spend less time deployed and more time in port or in garrison. This increases the vulnerability of the Russian forces. This, in turn, means that at any given time Russia has perhaps 200 survivable warheads, while the U.S. has approximate 2,000. This imbalance is detrimental to stability.\nIn crises, the forces of both sides would operate much as they did during the Cold War. This raises the danger that rational decisionmaking will not prevail in times of crisis, as these postures make unauthorized, mistaken or accidental launches more likely; and during crises, any number of dangerous events could take place.\nFrom a U.S. point of view, things look worse in Russia than perhaps they are; however, they look quite bad. Going back only seven years, there has been a coup, a parliamentary crisis resolved by force, and so on. In addition, the problems facing the Russian nuclear forces are large: morale is low, the pressure on them is high for the reasons outlined above, and economic difficulties abound. Despite the repeated assurances of Russian officials and U.S. official visitors to Russia that everything is under control, Russian personnel are under tremendous stress.\nRecalling the sudden unexpected disintegration of the USSR in 1991 and the trends observed before it, the Russian command and control network is now displaying characteristics that closely resemble indicators observed in the USSR in the 1980s.\nDe-alerting aims at extending the time required to prepare nuclear forces to launch. The United States and Russia need to fulfill the spirit of the '94 detargeting agreement, rather than just the letter of it. De-alerting would allow us to redress the problems of the current strategic imbalance described above. It would address the problem of accident, etc. by removing the availability of weapons.\nFor a proposal to satisfy de-alerting requirements, it must have three characteristics. First, it must actually increase launch preparation time; second, it must be verifiable; and third, it must not jeopardize the existence of a core force which is survivable, reconstitutable and capable of deterrence.\nBlair noted at this point that deterrence should not be the primary concern of nuclear planners. Rather, safety and reassurance should take center position. The United States and Russia should take the lead in creating an international norm against the maintenance of 'alerted' nuclear forces. Further, de-alerting projects movement in the direction of the elimination of nuclear weapons.\nBlair and von Hippel closed their session with a brief discussion of various specific de-alerting proposals as described in their article in Scientific American.\nA general question was posed to Blair and von Hippel, asking them what the response had been at STRATCOM (U.S. Strategic Command) to the proposed removal of W88 warheads from Trident. Von Hippel replied that it was not really discussed, but referred to Ted Postol's analysis demonstrating that it wouldn't actually make a difference. Blair referred to his article, written with U.S. Senator Nunn in June 1997 which laid out many of the specific de-alerting proposals. This in turn led the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to do a detailed study of de-alerting options (led by then Vice-Chairman Ralston). That study was 'astonishingly positive' on de-alerting in general. Its primary reservations were: a good deal more intensive verification was required; concern was expressed over the stability of 'realerting' forces, and the possibility that even if the U.S. 'deeply de-alerted,' this might not remove the pressure for launch on warning policies because of command and control vulnerability,.\nIn response to a comment about the recent Nuclear Posture Review being in conflict with many of these proposals, von Hippel argued that people are much less invested in counterforce today, and we should be able to scrap it as a policy.\nBlair announced that he'd like to 'pass the buck' to Robert Wertheim, who was on a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel on deep cuts. Wertheim said that the NAS study report on the future of U.S. nuclear policy defines preconditions necessary for deep cuts, along with associated changes in employment policies. For example, as the number of weapons decreases, the United States will have to get away from preplanned SIOPs (Single Integrated Operation Plans) altogether and move towards 'adaptive targeting'.\nTed Postol added that one benefit of the de-alerting proposal is that it stops ICBMs from firing at each other. Examination of U.S. and Russian silo-based ICBMs shows that they were designed to hit the other side's silos, which would be empty after a strike anyhow. So 'counterforce' is irrational in any case. He noted that the countersilo capability of Trident might make even a survivable Trident force a counterforce threat, which must be taken into account.\nHarold Feiveson reported that during the visit to STRATCOM, he had expected to hear that de-alerting would drive the United States below a minimum required number of warheads. However, he didn't hear that; in fact, STRATCOM personnel seemed quite comfortable with START II/III levels, etc. At present the United States has 2,400 warheads on alert; it would have 980 after START II, and about 680 under START III. The target set hasn't been shrinking that fast; Feiveson stated that he believed STRATCOM's numbers were driven more by a desired number of U.S. launchers on alert than by the target set.\nBob Dietz noted that downloading the Trident to 4 warheads, a popular proposal, has the unintended and potentially serious side-effect of increasing the missile's range from 4,000 to approximately 6,000 nautical miles.\nA discussion of a proposal to store guidance sets outside of missiles ensued; pertinent facts included the following: U.S. SLBMs can have their guidance sets removed/installed on board; it is a long process, and storage space in the submarine for the guidance sets may be a problem. Petr Romashkin reported that Russian ICBMs can have their guidance sets removed, but Paul Podvig noted that Russian SLBMs cannot be accessed in this fashion while on board.\nModifying Operational Forces -- Valeri Yarynych\nThe session began with the continuation of the discussion of the de-alerting presentation made by Bruce Blair and Frank von Hippel in the preceeding session.\nPetr Romashkin said that he doubted that either occasional on-site inspections or \"internal\" measures (such as removing SLBM components) were the best approach to monitoring and implementing de-alerting. Compliance with such measures could only be observed at infrequent intervals, and thus probably not during a crisis. Instead, measures visible to national technical means (e.g., satellites) would be better. In response, von Hippel said he believed that measures to disable silos could be observed, since re-enabling the silos would require the use of heavy equipment (e.g., large cranes to lift silo covers). The randomness of challenge inspections was also emphasized.\nAleksey Ovcharenko agreed with the spirit of Blair and von Hippel's concerns, but thought they might be exaggerated; he himself was not as worried. He did see de-alerting as useful, but thought reduction in numbers was probably the more important priority. As a follow up, the Russians were asked if they felt uncomfortable with the prospect of further reductions, which would probably leave them with only one or two ballistic missile submarines at sea at any given time, without concomitant limitations on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. There was a sense that ASW was an issue of concern that should be discussed as part of the reduction process, but that they were not yet in a position to respond in detail.\nIt was noted that the U.S. national laboratories are opposed to dealerting as a response to Russian C3I difficulties, arguing instead that technical assistance would be a better approach. Blair agreed that technology sharing could be helpful, but that C3I shortcomings were not the only reasons for de-alerting -- the force structures themselves warrant it.\nFinally, Blair and von Hippel were asked what they would recommend as a first step for American policymakers to take. Blair suggested immediate de-alerting to prospective START III levels (about 2000 warheads).\nPresentation of Valeri Yarynych\nThe ultimate goal of arms control and nuclear strategy in general is to leave both sides fully confident of their deterrent capabilities, while minimizing the possibilities of an accidental or unauthorized launch. As a result, the first priority of the disarmament process has to be to ensure that neither side will face incentives to adopt riskier policies, rather than to reach particular levels of warheads.\nYarynych believed it is important for the two sides to share information and undertake mutual activities to improve C3I. Referring to the previous presentation by Blair and Von Hippel, he felt the situation might have been painted a bit too darkly, but generally agreed that much could be done to improve actual C3I capabilities and each side's confidence in the other's systems.\nOn the general question of Russian ability to retaliate after absorbing a first strike, his own simulations show that under almost any conceivable circumstances there is a high probability that Russia could respond with at least a small (few tens of weapons) counterstrike. There would always be some possibility of a much larger response. Thus, the Russian response might be far smaller than a presumed American first strike, but would still be large enough to deter any decision maker -- and that situation is clear to Russian decisionmakers. Therefore, a retaliatory rather than launch-on-warning strategy is quite possible for Russia, and actual policy is moving in that direction.\nYarynych would encourage much more sharing of information on command and control systems. Though this has traditionally been closely-held information, he believed the Russians would be willing to move ahead, and noted recent advances from the American side (e.g., hosting Russian Strategic Rocket Force commanders at STRATCOM). Such exchanges should include not only technical details, but should cover the whole operational performance of command and control systems. For example, there should be discussions of how easy systems are to spoof, or how easily orders might be forged.\nThe de-alerting proposals previously discussed seemed promising, but would have to be carefully examined to ensure that there would not be any asymmetries in re-alerting potentials. If a \"re-alerting race\" broke out during a crisis, it could be dangerous. In the discussion that followed, others felt that there would be a sufficient safety margin that neither side would be likely to begin \"crash\" re-alerting.\nThe Russian delegation was asked if there have been any changes in Russian operating procedures since the end of the Cold War intended to put greater emphasis on negative control, possibly at the expense of positive control. There apparently has been a change on submarines, such that they no longer have the ability to launch without receiving authorization codes (all the necessary material used to be kept on the vessel).\nTed Postol took issue with the conventional wisdom that a \"bolt from the blue\" surprise attack is highly unlikely and thus should not be the overriding criteria in judging system response. He noted that there have been such surprise attacks throughout history (Pearl Harbor, the German invasion of Russia in World War II, Israeli surprise at the 1973 Yom Kippur War, etc). Unlikely as such an attack might seem, perhaps it is an important standard.\nFor more information, please, contact Prof. Theodore Postol (617-253-8077, U.S.A.) or Prof. Anatoli Diakov (095-408-6381, Russia).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 31066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://assets2.fossilera.com/fossils/1-45-pterosaur-coloborhynchus-tooth-morocco", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IEHMF6BQYIQWJ2P3B6DK3DKRC4L2LUJA", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "assets2.fossilera.com", "title": "1.45\" Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Tooth - Morocco For Sale (#73268) - FossilEra.com", "raw_content": "There are two repaired cracks in the middle of the tooth. 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My back started to ache but I thought it was just because I was back to school, on my feet a lot and wearing heels instead of sneakers like the whole summer. I also noticed that I had to pee more often but chalked that up to drinking more in school because there's no AC and it was HOT. No pain either. The days go by and my back is getting worse. What could I have done to it? I must have twisted it somehow. I started not being able to sleep because I couldn't get comfortable with the pain. Last week I started feeling nauseous it hurt so much. Finally Thursday; pain when I peed. TMI I know. Hubby called the doctor because I was on a field trip to the fire station with the kindergartners. While there I said no thanks, I didn't want to go up in the bucket of the ladder truck. Another way I knew it was bad. After lunch I knew I'd never make it on another bus ride for our afternoon class's trip to the fire station so I went home. The doctor called in a prescription and I'm slowly on the mend. It didn't help that I had a very busy weekend and couldn't stay quiet and let my kidney rest, I had a birthday party Saturday and Sunday my dad landed in the hospital again for the second time in three weeks. Today I'm home from school.\nBy last Friday it was all I could do not to cry. By the end of the day I could barely breathe or move because of the pain. I have a pretty high pain tolerance and this was worse than labor. I almost went to emergency but waited for the cipro to start working.\nDo not let this happen to you.\nHappy Birthday to my beautiful mom!\nThis is Tyler Clementi, a talented and gifted young man. He's dead now having jumped from the George Washington Bridge in New York City. In August his parents who loved and nurtured him for 18 years said good bye and sent him off to his freshman year at Rutgers University.\nIt was there where he met his roommate ,Dharun Ravi. For some sick reason Mr. Ravi hooked up a webcam to spy on Clementi. On Sept. 19 he got what he was looking for. Tyler was in his room kissing a man. Ravi twittered to his friends to watch stating that Tyler was \"making out with a dude.\" September 21 he found the webcam aimed at his bed. Despondent, humiliated and possibly shamed Tyler jumped to his death.\nMolly Wei and Ravi are childhood friends and were in the same dorm together at Rutgers. He involved her in this but of course it was of her own free will and she did nothing to stop it.\nThis story deeply saddens and angers me. I don't understand how people can treat others this way just because they're different from themselves. Your sexual orientation is no one's business. Some people so close minded or self righteous that it makes me sick. Did Mr. Ravi have a problem with gay people or did he think playing with Tyler was funny. I've got to believe that he never thought this would happen but I do believe he should be punished. 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Milton was a native of Atlanta who graduated from Morningside Elementary School and Grady High School. He attended the University of Georgia, where he received a B.A. in business administration and was master of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. After graduating, he served in the Army Reserve and was stationed in Columbia, S.C. After the Army he returned home to his family business, Sterling Jewelry Co. His love of Corvettes led him to become a member of Corvette Atlanta, where he served as president. He and his wife were avid shag dancers and were members of ShagAtlanta. Both of those endeavors resulted in friendships that lasted a lifetime.\nSurvivors include his wife of 50 years, Arlene Kaye Jacobson; daughters Lori (Joel) London and DeAnne Jacobson, both of Atlanta; grandchildren Sarah Kaye London and Max Sylvan London; sisters-in-law Cindy Kaye, Phyllis Kaye Magrill and Loretta Jacobson; and brothers-in-law Barry Kaye and Stanley Magrill. He was predeceased by his brother Burton. The family gives loving thanks to his caretaker, Mike Neal.\nIn lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Shepherd Center. A graveside service was held Monday, May 7, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs. Arrangements by Dressler\u2019s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999. 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There is a huge demand for leasing these cars in the upmarket business and finance scene.\nLease Offers Direct from Mercedes\nMercedes Benz Financial (MBF) offers convenient programs for consumers seeking to lease a Mercedes Benz vehicle. The First Class Lease program offers a customized lease to suit specific customer needs. The program takes the individual driving profile into account and includes leeway for extra mileage. The lease period ranges from 24 to 60 months, and the program includes brand new as well as pre-owned vehicles.\nThe First Class Finish program includes various options for the end of the lease period. The vehicle may be returned, the lease extended under current conditions, or redrawn under new ones. 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In addition, the department provides staff support for the Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission and the various Boards of Adjustment in the zoned areas.\nBaldwin County Master Plan \u2013 2013 Approved and Adopted\nOnline Submittal of Zoning Verification Requests\n2018 Flood Hazard Protection Newsletter\nFoley Satellite Office", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bangalorenewsnetwork.com/news_detail.php?f_news_id=1061", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LA35YYZQ376WRPBR44BV2MAT2XTJKJQV", "length": 2546, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bangalorenewsnetwork.com", "title": "Doctors at Fortis Hospital treats rare Achalasia Cardia condition through unique Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) procedure", "raw_content": "Doctors at Fortis Hospital treats rare Achalasia Cardia condition through unique Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) procedure\n38-year-old patient was suffering from a rare muscle disorder of lower esophagus\nDoctors at Fortis Hospital, Cunningham Road treated a rare condition on a 38-year-old patient by performing a unique Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) procedure here recently. The team of doctors was led by Dr Sreenivasa D, Chief Gastroenterologist, Fortis Hospital at Cunningham road in Bangalore.\nAchalasia is a rare disease of the muscle of the lower esophageal body and the lower esophageal sphincter that prevents relaxation of the sphincter and an absence of contractions, or peristalsis, of the esophagus[i]. While its causes remain unknown, this condition degenerates esophageal muscles affecting one\u2019s ability to swallow, chest pain and regurgitation of food and liquids. The patient, Mr Ambareesh who works at a de addiction centre approached the hospital after failing to get treatment in other hospitals.\nPOEM is a relatively new procedure that uses endoscope (an instrument used to examine the interior of an organ or cavity of the body) to make a tunnel into the food pipe wall. An incision tool attached to the end of the endoscope cuts through the muscles at the bottom of the food pipe, that helps food pipe to relax. This enables food to move down without causing further trouble while swallowing.\nExplaining the case, Dr Sreenivasa D, Chief Gastroenterologist, Fortis Hospital, Cunningham road said, \u201cAmbareesh had difficulty in swallowing the food since 6 months. The condition worsened in the last two weeks, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. We advised him to undergo POEM procedure as it would not create incisions in the chest or abdomen and includes a very short stay for the patient at the hospital. POEM is a much more effective and safe procedure for treating Achalasia, a swallowing disorder as compared to traditional methods.\u201d\nTalking about his condition Mr Ambareesh said, \u201cI had huge difficulty in eating and drinking since past 6 months. It was really embarrassing for me to eat along with my family as I used to puke every time I would eat. I am worker at de-addiction centre by profession and due to my condition, it caused a lot of difficulty for me to talk and thus affected my professional life as well. I had no idea how to get over this. The doctors and Fortis Hospitals Bangalore guided me well through the procedure and today, I am back to normal. It helped me recover fast and restart my life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beautifulboulderhomes.com/mikhail-blagosklonny-an-advocate-for-rapamycin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HMJQ6W6BQCSMGUIML4H4QJMWFDJJVYMP", "length": 2922, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "beautifulboulderhomes.com", "title": "\u00bb Mikhail Blagosklonny: An Advocate for Rapamycin Mikhail Blagosklonny: An Advocate for Rapamycin \u2013 Beautiful Boulder Homes", "raw_content": "Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Dr. Blagosklonny earned his M.D. in internal medicine and Ph.D. in experimental medicine and cardiology from the prestigious First Pavlov State Medical University.\nShortly after, he came to the United States and became an assistant professor at New York Medical College before switching to a career in the industry On ResearchGate.net. Blagosklonny worked as a senior scientist at the Ordway Research Institute in Albany, New York before holding his current title and position as the Professor of Oncology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute based in Buffalo, New York.\nHighly accomplished and revered, Mikhail Blagosklonny has published over 300 articles, reviews and books in Cancer Research, Aging, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Cancer, The American Journal of Pathology, Autophagy, and Cancer Biology & Therapy. Not only has he put in a lot of effort to get his research published, but he has also held the positions of Founding Editor, Co-Founder, Co-Editor, and Editor-in-Chief.\nWhile Mikhail Blagosklonny has published on a broad range of topics revolving around cancer, his interest lately seems to focus on the link between cancer and aging and finding links and similarities in their pathways. Having dedicated many years to studying the molecular and cellular biology of oncogenes, genes capable of transforming a cell into a tumor cell, and tumor suppressors, Blagosklonny has helped reveal that rapamycin, a cancer drug, can help extend the longevity of life.\nSpecifically, he has hypothesized a link between MTOR signaling in aging and cancer at http://www.nature.com/cdd/about/biographies.html. MTOR signaling, or the mechanistic target of rapamycin, regulate many cell functions and processes including cell growth, proliferation motility, and survival, to name a few. First discovered in the soils of Easter Island in the 1970s, the antifungal stops activity in the G1 phase of the cell cycle by suppressing the immune system. This is a significant finding because when the MTOR signaling pathway becomes deregulated, all kinds of problems can occur including diabetes, obesity, and cancers.\nRecently, Blagosklonny and other scientists have also studied the mechanisms of aging, or biogerontology, and have found that decreased TOR activity has been found to increase lifespan. Blagosklonny has advocated for the use of rapamycin as an anti-aging drug and is considered one of the most passionate to speak of its wonders.\nFiled under: Oncologist\nNoor Jairo says:\nRapamycin can inhibit this pathway and the deleterious effects that occur if the pathway were to continue in the deregulated state. It is the state of of what ukbestessays has put them that is very important and it is most likely be exactly what they know about too which very nice.\n\u00ab How Kevin Seawright is Empowering the YouthThe Quincy Brings Luxury Rental Units To New Brunswick, New Jersey \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 115.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bereanbaptistmission.net/pages/monthly-updates/updates-for-2016/july-september-2016.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:26Z", "digest": "sha1:OYDZRWYFWMU74733WCTSIT7PMTNO3KG6", "length": 64, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bereanbaptistmission.net", "title": "Berean Baptist Church - July-September 2016", "raw_content": "You are here: Monthly UpdatesUpdates for 2016July-September 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://besthomenews.com/vitrahaus-in-germany-by-herzog-de-meuron/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BFVII62PDHUXVTDGH2VYQDYONHYCHJDQ", "length": 1470, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "besthomenews.com", "title": "VitraHaus in Germany by Herzog & de Meuron | Best Home News - \u0410ll about interior design, architecture, furniture, landscape and decorating", "raw_content": "The latest creation of the brilliant team Herzog & de Meuron recently opened VitraHaus. The following images are the work of the french photographer Julien Lanoo. Over the years the Vitra Campus has become an architecture museum, featuring works by the most renowned architects: Frank Ghery, Zaha Hadid, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Jean Pruv\u0435, Nicholas Grimshaw, Buckminster Fuller and SANAA.\nThe five-storey building \u2013 situated on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany \u2013 has been constructed to showcase the furniture brand\u2019s Home Collection.\nOver the past few years Vitra has aquired a wide-ranging Home Collection. The quantity and variety of objects by many different designers led to the idea of building a showroom to present the items to the public.\nThere would also be additional space to be used as an exhibition venue for selected parts of the collection or even as an extension of the Vitra Museum itself. A shop, a cafe linked to the outside and conference rooms complete the program.\nThe products that will be on display are designed primarily for the private home and, as such, should not be presented in the neutral atmosphere of the conventional hall or museum but rather in an environment suited to their character and use.\nTags: contemporary architecture, Herzog & de Meuron, Home Collection, Julien Lanoo, modern furn, modern furniture, modern showroom, renowned architects, Vitra Campus, Vitra Museum, VitraHaus\nRipple \u2013 Armchair in White and Green", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bigthinkbusinessbooster.com/why-thinking-outside-the-box-is-over-rated/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:C2EBDUUX7TYUMTGSJKCQHIUIK4BF5MVT", "length": 7886, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "bigthinkbusinessbooster.com", "title": "BIGthink!\u00ae", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve been working with business owners for a long time and I\u2019m also in business. Now, I don\u2019t want to brag, but when I started in my first business 25 years ago, I took a small 10 thousand dollar debt, and in 12 short months\u2026 I more than doubled that debt!\nTruth is, I didn\u2019t know much about business. I had the desire, I found the opportunity, I had the courage to take the risk and start but I didn\u2019t really know what the fundamentals were let alone how I was going to manage them.\n25 years ago, the internet had just been invented, but we hadn\u2019t heard of it. The founding of Google was still 9 years away. So information wasn\u2019t as easy to find as it is today. Information is now very easy to find. And there is a lot of it out there about business. Establishing a business, growing a business, buying a business, selling a business. Webinars, seminars, YouTube videos, articles, e-books, real books, magazines, e-zines, blogs\u2026 the list goes on.\nThere\u2019s also a lot of noise about the seven ways to do this and the three quick steps to that. Most of this is useful information. You can learn lots, get great ideas, see case studies and be amazed and inspired by other people\u2019s success stories. I do it all the time.\nLately, I\u2019ve been seeing a lot about \u201cthinking outside the box\u201d. You have to zig when everyone else zags, you have to create the game changer, you have to be completely out there to succeed\u2026\nIn my experience in working with entrepreneurs and business owners over many years though, most businesses don\u2019t notch up such lofty achievements. Most aren\u2019t revolutionising their industry. Most just do what they do really well, have a good brand and story that goes with it and have worked hard to build a loyal customer base.\nWhat I find interesting however, is that in our work with the owners of what would generally be called \u201csmees\u201d, there are two things we see over and over again, even if the owners have come up with a great idea, are thinking creatively and are getting lots of \u201clikes\u201d on things:\nThe fundamentals are not in place.\nThey struggle to implement.\nLet\u2019s have a little talk about fundamentals. Before you start taking over the world with your business, it\u2019s worth asking a few questions to make sure you have the basics covered\u2026\nWhat\u2019s your big picture plan? Do you have a clear plan for where you\u2019re going, and more importantly, why? A really clear plan. And do you want it bad? I mean really-really-do-any-bloody-thing-to-make-it-happen bad. What gets you out of bed in the mornings, what difference do you want to make? How will you know when you\u2019ve succeeded and how and when do you want out?\nHow have you structured the business? Are you going to work in your business alone or add partners, shareholders or other directors? Should you have one company or a number of them to minimise risk and taxation? Do you need a discretionary trust, a unit trust, partnership agreements or buy-sell agreements? Should you licence or franchise or have agents or representatives?\nWho\u2019s in your team? Who will you need in your business to succeed? What skills sets, personalities and traits do you want in your business? How will you find, train and keep those really awesome people who help you get to where you want to go and make it more exciting and rewarding than you ever could yourself?\nWhat do your finances look like? What will your business need as it grows \u2013 cash, computers, people, advertising, an office and chairs? Not to mention something to sell. How much do these things cost, how long do they take to produce and then sell and how long until you get paid? Will you get funds into the business in the form of debt or equity or using a more sophisticated investment model? What are the pros and cons of each strategy for your long-term success and the asset value of your business?\nHow about your brand? Yes, you have a nice logo and some business cards, but your brand is much more than that. To me, your brand is what your customers think of you. Do they \u201cget\u201d you? Do they know what you stand for, understand what you do and how you can help them and are they prepared to make you their go-to place when they want what you offer? That\u2019s the power of brand. It\u2019s complex and needs good planning and constant managing.\nDo you really know your market? You may know your ideal customers are between 30 and 40 years old, you may refer to them as an avatar, but do you really know your customers. In particular, do you know what attracts them, what drives them? Do you know what keeps them awake at night? Do you know what they secretly hope for but are too afraid to put into words? That\u2019s what I mean by knowing your customers, because these are the things that will connect you to them and spur them into action.\nWhat are your products and services and how much? Does your business have unique services or a unique approach to providing its services? Not all do of course, but if you have a particular angle that works for your market \u2013 great! If your product is unique or stands out from those of your competitors, or doesn\u2019t have any competitors, you may have the ability to price it at a premium level. If you offer similar products to everybody else, how can you package them up to make them feel different from a customer perspective? Is there something you do that adds value in a way that others can\u2019t? Have you looked at your competition, not just in your neighbourhood but across the world online, and then positioned yourself at the right level?\nHave you thought about the business model, systems and processes? How is your business structured? What entities do you have and what do you need to protect your assets and minimise tax? Can you use a different business model to attract capital and drive growth? Do you follow a process in conducting your business and if so, what does that look like? Is that process clearly documented so other people in your business can learn and apply it, or does everything live in your head? Have you looked for ways to automate and streamline your business operations so you can focus on the important things \u2013 like your team and your customers?\nWho are your advisors and strategic partners? There are very few people who succeed in business all by themselves. If you want to grow a business that can scale beyond the day-to-day effort you put in, you are likely to need good advisors, consultants, coaches and mentors. And if you have the ambition to grow, partnering with people in organisations that complement yours is a really powerful model. Who can add value to your existing customers and put you in front of theirs? Who can you add value to in return for another channel to market, an endorsement or cross-marketing opportunity?\nAnd here\u2019s the crunch:\nWhat are you like at implementing? I spend every day working with business owners and I speak at entrepreneur seminars and business conferences. I\u2019ve had many people come to me afterwards and say something along the lines of \u2013 \u201cwe know what we should do, but its just not happening\u201d. Success is not only in the knowing, but in the doing.\nThe reason you\u2019re not getting things done will be unique to you, but if you struggle, believe me, you\u2019re not alone. There are always a million priorities, competing demands for your time and focus and money. If that sounds like you, we get it. That\u2019s why we talk a lot in our business and with our clients about getting shit done. Do you have a really effective process for making sure you identify the priorities for where you are right now in your business, stay focused on them and get them done \u2013 so you move another step closer to your goals?\nThese are the fundamentals that create a great business out of your good ideas and an awesome business out of your great ideas! They\u2019re also key in making sure your business will be around long enough for you to make it successful and achieve your goals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blackstarvideo.com/products/FEDS-Magazine.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:17:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MSHTBI3E5R5W7SHQG5ZVTWYTM5DSBPG4", "length": 28, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blackstarvideo.com", "title": "F.E.D.S. Magazine", "raw_content": "F.E.D.S. Magazine - Issue 45", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 131.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bleb.org/tv/channel.html?ch=sky_movies_sci-fi_horror&favourites&day=6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:G2BVVS47BTCC4LCVFJWGOAONJZLQWZII", "length": 2362, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bleb.org", "title": "Listings for Sky Movies Sci-fi Horror on Thursday, February 21 2019", "raw_content": "Listings for Sky Movies Sci-fi Horror on Thursday, February 21 2019\n06:00 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Film Admiral James T Kirk and the USS Enterprise are called on to intercept an alien craft heading for Earth. Sci-fi action with the late Leonard Nimoy. Flashing images. (1979)(125 mins) Also in HD\n08:25 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan Film Captain Kirk leads his crew in a desperate battle against ruthless arch-nemesis Khan. Sci-fi adventure with the late Leonard Nimoy. Flashing images. (1982)(113 mins) Also in HD\n10:35 Star Trek III: The Search For... ...Spock The crew of the Starship Enterprise steal their old ship and set out to free the trapped soul of Spock (the late Leonard Nimoy). Contains flashing images. (1984)(101 mins) Also in HD\n12:35 Logan Film A troubled, reclusive Wolverine must protect an ailing Professor X and a mysterious young mutant from dark forces. Hugh Jackman stars. (2017)(132 mins) Also in HD\n15:05 Unsane Film A troubled young woman (Claire Foy) convinced that someone is stalking her is involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Psychological thriller from Steven Soderbergh. (2018)(94 mins) Also in HD\n16:50 It Comes At Night Film In the aftermath of a deadly plague one desperate family agrees to shelter another, but can they be trusted? Claustrophobic horror-thriller starring Joel Edgerton. (2017)(91 mins) Also in HD\n22:45 Bram Stoker's Dracula Film Oscar-winning take on the vampire legend, with Gary Oldman as the famous bloodsucker driven to London by passion. Strong language/violence/sex. (1992)(122 mins) Also in HD\n01:00 Corbin Nash Film Fantasy action following a tough New York cop who discovers his demon-hunting destiny and heads to LA to continue the good fight. With Corey Feldman and Rutger Hauer. (2018)(92 mins) Also in HD\n02:40 Better Watch Out Film Blackly comic horror starring Olivia DeJonge as a teenage babysitter defending young Levi Miller from intruders. (2016)(86 mins) Also in HD\n04:15 Project: Alf Film Loveable alien Alf is captured by the military and faces an uncertain future. Comedy starring Miguel Ferrer and Martin Sheen. (1996)(87 mins)\n06:00 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Film Eco-friendly sci-fi with Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Enterprise travelling back to 1980s San Francisco to save a pair of whales, and thus, the planet. (1986)(114 mins) Also in HD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog-prudenttrader.blogspot.com/2014/08/risk-aversion-traders-handicap.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:39Z", "digest": "sha1:QMJ3K2LECYXWJJ27T7X6DVV5CH2NKJSM", "length": 3871, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog-prudenttrader.blogspot.com", "title": "PrudentTrader Blog: Risk Aversion: The Trader's Handicap", "raw_content": "You have often heard the sage advice, \"Cut your losses short, let your winners run.\" Do you have trouble following it? Based on experience, you may think letting your winners run is easier said than done. It is not a good idea to let a losing trade mount losses to the point that the entire position is wiped out, but it's often not easy to hit upon a winning trade, and then, just sit back and let it ride. There's a strong temptation to take profits. You also are aware of the old clich\u00e9, \"No one ever got hurt taking a profit?\" Why you can not just let this winning trade run just a little longer. An analysis of your trade diary entries shows that if you could have held out a little longer, you would have made substantially more profits. Many traders hate to lose, and when they see a winning trade materialize, they want to lock in the profits and insure a win. Whatever you call it, it is still risk aversion. For some strange reason we are quite willing to gamble with losses, but when it comes to wins, we will take a sure thing over a gamble any day. Risk aversion is surely a weakness of many traders. If it can be beaten, traders can make significantly greater profits.\nWhy is risk aversion a problem? Why not just take small profits across a series of trades? It all depends on how successful your methods are. If you have methods that works 90% of the time, then you can take small profits and come out profitably overall. Unfortunately, most traders have a track record that is much lower than 90%. Obviously then for your economic survival, you must make larger profits on your winning trades.\nThe sting of several losing trades can impact your pride and your ego. Losing even greater amounts of money by letting a winning trade turn into a losing trade is even harder to accept. Your conscience often tells you, \"Sell now before it is too late.\" There isn't a simple solution to this problem. Profits can be hard to come by in the trading world; it's hard for many to risk losing a profit once they see they can lock it in by selling early. It may be hard\nto swallow, but winning traders tend to be those kinds of people who actually enjoy risk. They are happy to see they have hit upon a winning set of circumstances and they can't wait to see what happens. They want to push the limits and see if they can squeeze out as much profit as possible. If you aren't a natural born risk taker, it may be difficult for you to hold out and avoid selling early. If you are the kind of person who feels uneasy while a position is in motion, you may have to make an extra effort to let your profits run. One strategy is to sell off increments of the position as it rises in value so that you can ease some of the psychological pressure gradually. By taking a little bit of profits at a time, you can feel an ever-increasing sense of safety.\nIt is essential that you trade with money you can afford to lose. The reason most traders are risk averse is that they are trading with money they need for basic living expenses. Thus, they are risking their safety and security, and this puts added pressure on them to perform. It isn't surprising that under these circumstances, one has trouble taking risks once a position starts to increase in value. You can come up with all the rationalizations you want, but if you trade with money you deeply care about, you'll have trouble risking it, and \"to make money, you must risk money.\" You must manage risk, and that's hard to do if you don't have a large trading account. An large trading account allows the trader to risk as little as 1, 2, or3% on a single trade and still make a substantial profit. Risk aversion is a handicap. It's hard to beat it, but many do. If you are one of the few lucky ones, you will realize substantial profits and trade consistently and profitably.\nReprint from 2005 PrudentTrader Newsletter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.americanduchess.com/2012/08/v215-interview-with-alicia-of-little.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:S4JP5CRVSHED4772MBEQ37UR5TDHTJNX", "length": 21427, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "blog.americanduchess.com", "title": "V215: Interview with Alicia of \"Little Bits Clothing Company\" ~ American Duchess", "raw_content": "Interviews, Vintage365\nV215: Interview with Alicia of \"Little Bits Clothing Company\"\nHi All! Today I've got an interview with Alicia of \"Little Bits Clothing Company,\" a great little business creating reproduction historical gowns of the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a whole line of lip balms, salves, custom tea blends, and conditioners made from period recipes. You can find Little Bits on Etsy and also Facebook, and have a drool over her awesome product line.\nSo how did she get started? Let's have a chat...\n1. How did you get started in historical costuming? What drew you to it?\nI feel like I was born into it. I was always interested in history from little on. My Grandma would show me historical photos and we would talk about the clothing. Every once in a while she would bring out family heirlooms that I could try on. We would go to Antique stores and I would purchase old clothing and take it home just to stare at it. My friends have said that my talent has come from being an \u201cold soul\u201d and \u201cosmosis\u201d.\nI never really thought about making clothing until my parents took me to a reenactment at the age of 8 or so. I wanted so badly to be dressed. The costumes were expensive. Needless to say, I did not get an outfit. I quickly realized that if I wanted an outfit, I needed to learn to sew. I started reading a lot of costuming and historical books. I am happy I am self-taught. It allowed me a better understanding of the different methods in which historical garments were constructed. I began taking photos from historical books and if my garment didn\u2019t look exactly like the one in the book as far as the drape and fit on the form, I would sit and figure out why. Practice and repeat. With that said, a lot of it is just natural for me.\nIn the beginning, my garments were made from things like thrift store choir robes. My first 2 costumes I made were Robin Hood and Cleopatra. I was so proud of myself for gluing all the sequins to make a collar. Trust me they weren\u2019t anything grand by any means. But I researched and put a lot of work into them and I thought they were the coolest thing.\nIn high school I really became interested in how clothing related to the \u201ceveryday life\u201d and how it told the story of the wearer. I started costuming high school shows, and going to reenactments. I really started focusing on making my costumes authentic and as life-like as possible. I didn\u2019t like that people called them costumes because to me they were everyday clothing that our ancestors wore. For me, I felt that the difference was I wasn\u2019t pretending to be like them, I wanted the full experience, so I tried to make my costumes mimic the historical clothing I was buying and reading about. I also surrounded myself in old things, I did homework by candlelight, and stored my costumes in a trunk.\nI put some of my things on Ebay-just to see what happened. I was shocked that my listings did so well. I just assumed I\u2019d be a history teacher or work in a museum. As the years went on, I started putting more and more things up for sale and would set up a small shop here and there at events. Soon after, I was asked to do custom work. I put the physical hobby of sewing on hold for college. I still continued to research, collect vintage clothing, and sew in my spare time. I spent 5 years in college and obtained a Major in History, Broad-field Social Science and Minors in Anthropology and Museum Methods. After college, I took a few jobs, one teaching in an original 1904 schoolhouse and the other as a curator of a historical house, working my way up to Special Projects Coordinator at the historical museum. I slowly started to put things out there on the web. And in 2008 opened my ETSY store as a hobby. At that time I was working a lot of different jobs at a few museums and the theater, Joann Fabrics, and a few others (just because I can\u2019t sit still).\nWhen the economy tanked I was let go from my main museum jobs and really threw myself into building a small business. I had a name already because I was advised to come up with one in high school. I had chosen \u201cLitttleBits\u201d. It was a name given to me at the historical reenactments I attended, mostly by myself, sometimes a friend or two. Etsy put another \u201ct\u201d in my name so now its LitttleBits. The success didn\u2019t happen over night. I wasn\u2019t able to quit my other jobs for a few years. Now I am full time and shipping things to museums, forts, and reenactors all over the world.\n2. How do you see yourself as a costumer? Are you a re-enactor, a theatrical costumer, or a just-for-fun type?\nAs far as giving myself a specific title under costumer, these days I prefer Historical Clothier, Re-enactor, and Historical Interpreter. However, in the past I have been all of these (re-enactor, a theatrical costumer, or a just-for-fun type).\nI started out as a just for fun hobby costumer and then in high school I started learning about theater and after college I even worked in a professional theater. I think this helped me in my endeavors A LOT. I was able to see how the theater costumes were constructed. I was able to fix them, make them, and then design them as well. I was also able to pick people\u2019s brains. It was a good foundation for learning the historical craft. I was able to see a lot of similarities in how certain gowns were created, how things were tailored, how the hairpieces were made, and how lighting affects the color of the garment. It was a huge education for me. I have also been a re-enactor for over 17 years. I understand the work and love people put into their creations at all levels. I think about my first creations a lot.\n3. What is your favorite garment to sew? What is the most challenging?\nThis is a tough question\u2026 I love fashion in general\u2026I honestly don\u2019t know which is my favorite. I love any garment that I can drape. Even when I was little learning how to sew, I hated patterns. I hated the instructions and I soon decided they were a waste of my time. So every garment ordered from me is draped to unique measurements.\nI love to observe, especially when people are dressed up. A while ago I noticed a lot of women having problems with ill-fitting stays and corsets. After all the hard work so many put into their garments, I decided that I wanted to help fix this issue. It is hard for many women to take a commercial stay pattern and adjust it for their measurements, let alone tackle the instructions. So I came up with a book that works off photos and easy instructions with a custom drafted pattern so you know your 18th century stays will fit right after you put all that hard work into them and the best part is I have included all my contact info incase you get stuck. They have been so well received. I want to work on more products like this eventually.\nI always think every time I take on a new order, it will be a piece of cake. Most of the time I totally underestimate myself. I love that challenge. One of the interesting things I have learned along the way is that posture makes a difference in the fit of clothing and that is why undergarments or foundation garments are so important to the final look. Today, our posture is completely changed from our ancestors. An example of this challenge comes into play with men\u2019s 18th century frock coats. The first frock coat I made, I couldn\u2019t figure out why it wanted to pull backwards instead of forwards around the neck. I assumed part of the problem was that the skirting; especially in the early part of the century the weight can be an issue. The other issue which I never though of was posture. Because I am drafting off historical pieces I am drafting the seam lines exactly as they were at that time; a time in which posture was completely different and so were the shoulder seam placements. Today, most gentlemen need that seam in a different position. An 18th century Gent would have stood straight with his shoulders pushed extremely far back and chest out. I had to try to see if this was the answer. And sure enough it was. It is the unique things like this that I find so fascinating and challenging about historical clothing.\nI would have to say my favorite garment to sew is a garment in which I don\u2019t have specifics other than a date and some museum photographs as well as the clients\u2019 undergarments. I can let the fabric \u201ctalk\u201d to me instead of me trying to force something out of it. Sometimes I have fabric draped to a form for a few days before I finally decide on a \u201clook\u201d or \u201cdirection\u201d.\n4.What is your preferred time period? What draws you to this particular time period, and are there other periods you are interested in as well?\nI love all time periods. I have always been fascinated with the bustles but have yet to make a bustle gown. I love the 1930\u2019s, 40\u2019s and 50\u2019s. For a long time I was a vintage Model, a Marilyn Monroe, and Lucille Ball impersonator around Wisconsin. I love trying to exactly imitate the \u201clook\u201d of all those periods. When I was teaching in the 1904 one-room schoolhouse, I fell in love with the early 20th century styles. I had the Gibson Girl hairstyle down to 5 minutes in the morning, having slept in curlers the night before.\nAll Time Favorite: I re-enact the late 18th century and I love the fashions from that time. You would think I have tons of reproduced historical clothing, but I don\u2019t. It\u2019s the whole, \u201cThe cobblers children don\u2019t have shoes\u201d type of thing. Now that I have a marquee and have a \u201creal\u201d shop I did make myself a new dress and am slowly building my wardrobe with nice gowns. Previous to this, I was portraying a normal everyday hard-working woman; making soap, sewing, or cooking so my clothing consisted of 2 caps, 2 aprons, 2 shorter petticoats, 2 short jackets, a short gown, 1 shift, and a well worn linen dress. At one point, my shift was so patched and thread bare that a friend actually surprised me with a new one. The clothing I wear now is a lot different when running my shop.\nI love being able to dress up for an 18th Century ball with silk gowns and tall hair. That late 18th century look to me is so beautiful, feminine, and elegant. That is one thing I love about having a marquee to set up shop. I can finally wear nice dresses and tall hair.\n5. What are your favorite materials to sew with? What do your customers most request?\nMy 2 favorite materials would be linen first and silk second. I love linen. I love the feel of it and how it drapes and creases. The feel on your skin is amazing. It keeps you cool in the summer and helps keep you warm in the winter. Silk would be my next favorite. I fall in love every time I finish a silk gown. With so many types of silk, it never gets boring. I love fabrics with body. I am really picky about the fabrics I use. I try to stay as historical as I can to the period I\u2019m working in. Sometimes it can take a long time to fabric search.\nCustomer\u2019s requests:\nIt really varies a lot. I love it when customers come to me with a painting or new museum garment I haven\u2019t seen, but if we were to go off my website: www.litttlebits.etsy.com I would have to break it down.\nI have so many Banyans on my calendar at this moment. I am just swamped with them. I have some orders for women\u2019s as well. The next most requested thing would be 18th Century Frock coats. I have actually taken a break from them for a while because I have made so many in the last year. The third thing is neck stocks. They get ordered all the time.\nThis is a little different, most of the orders that women place are quite custom. I always have a lot of corset and stay orders to fill. There are many orders for red cloaks and various 18th and 19th century gowns as well. 18th century bum rolls, paniers, shifts, petticoats, and stomachers are always being ordered. Many of my orders do not come through etsy. I get a lot of e-mails and orders through my fan page as well.\nRight now on my calendar I have an order in which I will be replicating a wedding gown from the 1830\u2019s. The gown belonged to the client\u2019s great great grandmother. She would like to have a replica made so she can wear it. The original gets put in the local museum from time to time. When this order is finished both will be displayed together. I am also working with a client from a living history museum. She is an 1835-1840 school house teacher and we are working with the museum to make her a school teacher\u2019s wardrobe. I think first and foremost, I am requested to make more 18th century garments, 2nd Regency and 3rd 1830-1840\u2019s.\nI also get many orders for infant clothing, like, caps, gowns, petticoats, and robes. I don\u2019t get tons of children\u2019s orders. I do some. I just purchased a young Childs display form and I want to make a young girl\u2019s gown and a breeched boys frock suit. It is hard to find time for those \u201cfun things\u201d when running a business.\nBody Products, Historical Recipes and Hair:\nThis is my brand new product line. I thought this was a great idea because historical makeup, beauty products, plants, and their properties always fascinated me. I have always preferred natural products. I started off very small just to see how a few 18th century beauty product recipes would do in my shop and they were so well received that they did not last long. I am in the process of making more and adding to what is already there. These recipes are real historic recipes from mostly the 18th century but other time periods as well. Eventually I will hit them all. These products include: Lip rouge, teas, powder, salves and more.\n6. You have started a business as a seamstress and sutler - tell us a little about your experiences, good, bad, or ugly!\nIn general I have been very blessed and lucky in my endeavors\u2019.\nI have come to learn some good lessons in both the online shop as well as the \u201ctraveling shop\u201d. I love the fact that I have done really well with starting up my business and that I am successful at it. I love that I can be at the laundromat or on the road and working. But with that comes hardships too. You can\u2019t start a business and expect to give it half of your energy. It won\u2019t work. Even sometimes when you give it all your energy it won\u2019t work, so it is best to start small and test out the waters. I love what I do and wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. Having said that I work A LOT. I am ALWAYS working, sometimes it is hard not to work, but you need that down time. It becomes really important. I am at the point where I need to expand and get some help. Right now I wear all the hats and I need to divide my time accordingly to get everything done and still have a life. That is really hard to do. I am also traveling and teaching classes. I have 3 classes coming up in October at Vogue in Evanston, IL. The specifics are on my fan page.\nBecause my job is also a hobby and something I am really passionate about, it makes it seem less like work sometimes. Setting up an actual shop and having an online shop are completely different. I would love long term to be able to eventually have a store front that combines unique antiques, (architectural salvage, really unique clothing, and one of a kind antiques) with my sewing shop, specific fabrics with notions and such that are hard to find for historic costumers and quilters. But that is in the far off, something to work towards. I am still trying to figure out a good balance for the online shop, the traveling shop and all the hours I put in.\nSetting up as a suttler has proved interesting. I have done this many times on small scales using my fly and wedge tent, but now with the marquee, its different. I\u2019m \u201clegit\u201d. I have to deal with customers face to face. I find that challenging. I love people. But I am extremely shy. If you don\u2019t talk to people and get them interested in what you are selling, you won\u2019t sell very much and they may think you are snobby or hoity-toity. lol\nOnline, I can write on Fb and blogs, answer e-mails, and not have to talk to a single soul. It is easy to forget how to sell face to face. In addition, with all of my clothing being custom made, having an actual suttler shop that sells clothing poses a problem.\nI now have a few forms set up with examples of clothing. I have a portfolio book with some of my past work. This way I can get measurements and chat with the customers. If they would like to reserve a spot on my calendar they can (I\u2019m usually booked out about 6 months to a year). I also have the beauty product, tea, and other unique items, some that I don\u2019t offer in my online shop. I stay away from items that can\u2019t be documented as well as items that everyone else has. I want to keep my shop unique. I am ok with a small shop. I want to keep the traveling shop to a one day set up. It is a great feeling to have complete control over your job, what you offer to customers, etc. Even if its exhausting at times!\nbad/ugly things:\nI learned that people will always be making assumptions based on the look of your shop, what you are wearing, how quiet and shy you are, as well as the type of event you are set up at. At one event, it was assumed I was \u201choity toidy\u201d and snooty amongst other things because of being shy and the \u201clook\u201d of my shop. I am not any of those. You have to have a tough skin, especially when you are face to face with people. I am working on the whole tough skin. I really haven\u2019t needed it before.\nI try to be positive about everything. It is hard when you wear all the hats. I have to do everything. I wish I could sew all day and draft patterns, but usually most of the day is spent at the computer with invoices, e-mails, shipping, designing, packaging, and researching. A lot of the time, I feel completely overwhelmed. But every time I sell something, finish a garment, or have a product line that is a success. It makes the tough times worth it. I try to remember that growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. You can learn as much from failure as you can from success. Maybe more. It\u2019s a constant learning process and you need to be able to adapt.\nSince starting this endeavor over 18 years ago, and opening my store over 4 years ago, I have accomplished so much. I have self-published a few books, I have turned my hobby into a real and thriving business that ships things around the entire world. I love getting up each day and knowing I am doing what I was meant to do with my life. I have hardly had any problems (knock on wood) with clients. I really put my heart and soul into what I do and I think it shows.\nI love receiving photos of clients, having them tell me about their adventures and who all complimented their outfits. I love getting photos from museums showing how they used my clothing in their exhibits. I love the ability to set my own schedule. It\u2019s hard work but I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. When I was writing this and looking at the dates of opening my shop and thinking of where I am now, I have even surprised myself with my accomplishments. I keep hoping for that next big brake that will allow my business to grow.\n7. What are some of the products you offer in your shop? Where can we buy them?\nMy shop is located here: www.litttlebits.etsy.com . Like any historical shop I am: At The Sign of the Mayfly\nMy fan page is located here: https://www.facebook.com/LBCC.at.the.Mayfly\nLBCC offers a wide range of products from historically constructed and tailored clothing, to accessories, tea, vintage clothing, and historical beauty products. I am always looking for new things to add. The clothing is custom made to the client\u2019s measurements with hand-drafted patterns. Sometimes I have ready-made clothing and accessories available as well. I make lye soap using historical recipes from my family. I specialize in historical clothing. Most of the time it is all hand sewn, sometimes they are hand finished depending on what the client requests. All of the beauty, bath, and body products are all made from historical recipes and natural ingredients- \u201cWickedly delicious body care. So good you will think you were born in 1772\u201d. Things are always being added. I also am available for teaching classes.\n8. Do you have any advice for seamstresses interested in starting their own business?\nI read this once and I keep it on my bulletin board. I don\u2019t know where it came from, but I like it. The best advice I can offer is, if you really want it\u2026 Don\u2019t quit, don\u2019t rush, and love what you do. \u201cWhat you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you create with those tools and resources is up to you. Remember that through desire, goal setting and unflagging effort you can have anything you want. Persistence is the key to success. The answers lie inside of you. The solutions to all of life\u2019s problems lie within your grasp. All you need to do is ask, look, listen, and trust yourself.\u201d\nIt pretty much sums it up. Happy Sewing!!\nSandrine August 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM\nShe is so talented! Thank you for this interview.\nA traveller in time August 2, 2012 at 9:44 PM\nAnd she is so lovely to deal with too! Especially if, like me, you live round the other side of the planet! : )\nHassan Mahmud August 3, 2012 at 4:29 AM\nthis is a very interesting and informative sit, you can visit www.gotw2012.blogspot.com also.\nkelvin tuther November 11, 2012 at 11:35 PM\nThank you for sharing this awesome idea with us this is really interesting interview .for best collection of Infant clothing you can easily shop this online at got apparel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1397, "original_length": 50708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.angryasianman.com/2009/09/who-is-real-michelle-rhee.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:50Z", "digest": "sha1:W2TFL65AIHJTQE7VKF7PZ7VX4L5ARKKV", "length": 767, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blog.angryasianman.com", "title": "who is the real michelle rhee?", "raw_content": "who is the real michelle rhee?\nThe Washington Post has an interesting article on Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of D.C. public school system: In Search of The Real Michelle Rhee.\nWith a lot of high-profile attention on her since she took the post (including landing the cover of TIME), Rhee's public image has been of a tough-talking schools chief who's out to sack every last veteran teacher in D.C.'s failing system. This article suggests that the reality is something entirely different, and not quite so simple.\nThe article is accompanied by a video on the chancellor, talking about leadership: On Leadership: Michelle Rhee on \"Extreme Candor.\" She'll also be doing a live chat on Tuesday, September 29 to take questions and comments: D.C. Schools Chief Michelle Rhee.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 4659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.atominium.com/2017/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GVS5VITXQPXBRIUZKQ4MK3AGSN5CCY43", "length": 1013, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blog.atominium.com", "title": "\ufeff\ufeff Atominium Specialist Translation Agency - 2017 Listopad", "raw_content": "On the night of 29/30 November in Poland it\u2019s a time of mysterious events with candles and games predicting the future, called Andrzejki (St Andrew\u2019s Day) \u2013 the same as in the very past but nowadays repeated only for fun. The tradition of Andrzejki was observed in the 16th century and is still known and practiced [...]Wi\u0119cej\nIn the middle of November the autumn seems to lose all its colourful beauty. Halloween, All Saint\u2019s Day is long gone and shoppers are looking for a new items to stuff into their shopping baskets. Then, all of a sudden, characteristic autumnal menus and decorations are replaced with Christmas lights, gingerbread and Santa\u2019s hats. Is [...]Wi\u0119cej\nHow to deal with the lack of sunlight?\nWhen the days are shorter and we can see the sun only for few hours a day, we usually have less energy to do anything. If you have no possibility to travel to one of the countries where it is summer now, you have to find another solution to this problem. fot. Barbara B\u0105czek Music Have you [...]Wi\u0119cej", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 5053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.audioacrobat.com/category/product-reviews/page/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:08Z", "digest": "sha1:FTYQIGZV2GKNELRBMKFHM5H7Z2KZYWCZ", "length": 938, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.audioacrobat.com", "title": "Product Reviews Archives | Page 12 of 12 | AudioAcrobat", "raw_content": "Audio Editing Software Recommendations\nThere are a lot of choices when it comes to Audio Editing Software, and while getting caught in the midst of competition and exclusivity wars is far from being one of the highlights of editing audio recordings in today\u2019s day and age, it is much more effective to find one program that works well for your needs and to stick with it.\nFiled Under: Audio, Audio, Audio Editing, Product Reviews, Software, Software Tagged With: 5.1 Surround Sound, AIFF, Audacity, audio, audio editing, audio editing software, audio engineer, cloud-based, CPU, dial-up, digital audio, edit audio, fade, free, Indaba, Indaba Music, Linux, Mac, Mac + PC, Mantis, mix, mobile, MP3, multilingual, Noise Reduction, online recording, open source, PC, Plug-in, RAM, record, rendering, share, software, software recommendations, Sonic Foundry, Sony, Sound Forge, sound painter, studio effects, system requirements, WAV, wireless", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.christinepoulson.co.uk/2014/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:YKQHUOVKRN5J6DHI3JWT3LCZZS43NMET", "length": 5120, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blog.christinepoulson.co.uk", "title": "A Reading Life: February 2014", "raw_content": "I'm surprised that I'd never heard of The Red Right Hand by Joel Townsley Rogers (published 1945 and now available as e-book) until recently. What a novel! The author runs full tilt at the plot, pulling the reader along with him, and keeps going, the pace never slackening, until finally, finally, he skids to a halt at the end of the novel, leaving the reader breathless and astonished at the audacity of the conclusion. The first person narrator is Harry Riddle, a young surgeon, and the opening lines set the tone of the novel: 'There is one thing that is most important, in all the dark mystery of tonight, and that is how that ugly little auburn-haired man, with his torn ear and his sharp dog-pointed teeth, with his twisted corkscrew legs and his truncated height . . . could have got away and vanished so completely from the face of the countryside after killing Inis St. Erme.' What is most worrying Riddle (aptly named!) is the puzzle of how 'the murder car . . . could have passed by me while I was at the entrance to the Swamp Road just before twilight.' The killer must have passed Riddle - all the eyewitness accounts confirm it - yet it didn't. Or so Riddle thinks, for as the novel continues we suspect more and more than Riddle isn't a reliable narrator. Could he even be the murderer?\nThe novel is like a piece of music in the way that it returns again and again to theme of the disappearing car, adding an extra element each time. The narrative moves back and forward in time, plot twists are thrown in with wild abandon, and yet somehow the writer keeps it all under control. In his excellent introduction, Martin Edwards comments on the 'torrent of coincidences' and that's true, but it's such bravura performance that one is swept unresistingly along, and I agree with his verdict that it is a stunning novel. It reminded me a little of Frederic Brown's Night of the Jabberwock (also newly available as an ebook), but only a little. The Red Right Hand is one of a kind and I loved it.\nLabels: Frederic Brown, Joel Townsley Rogers, Martin Edwards, The Night of the Jabberwock, The Red Right Hand\nI said a few weeks ago that I was going to use the London Library more - and I have. I've blogged about a book I got out recently: The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet. And, for my book group reading, there has also been Italio Calvino's Invisible Cities and The Elephant's Journey by Portugese writer, Jos\u00e9 Saramoga. And let me mention here that I am so grateful to my book group for suggesting books that I wouldn't otherwise have read, these two among them. It stops me getting too lazy as a reader. I often persist with a book that I don't initially care for, feeling duty bound to finish, and I am almost always glad that I did. Having said that, this is the time of year for comfort reading, and I've also got out Miss Read's Village Diary and Storm in the Village, At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie, and the latest Ian Rankin. There has also been Adam Gopnik's book of essays on winter (interesting but not as good as his book on living in Paris) and there are books still waiting to be read: The Buenos Aires Quintet by Manuel V\u00e1squez Montalb\u00e1n and Conrad's Tales of Unrest. I think I've mentioned in the past that one of the wonderful things about the London Library is that they don't throw out books just because they are old (or unread for that matter) and it's thanks to that that I've also been sampling the work of a Golden Age crime novelist new to me: Henry Wade.\nLonely Magdalen was recommended to me by Martin Edwards who blogs at doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.co.uk and when I'd read it, I couldn't understand why Wade isn't better known. Henry Wade was the pseudonym of Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet CVO DSO, (1887 \u2013 1969) and he was a founding member of the Detection Club, so I guess was pretty well known in his day. The premise of Lonely Magdalen is intriguing: a prostitute is found murdered on Hampstead Heath and it turns out that she is from an upper class family and disappeared twenty years ago. How did she come to this and does the clue to her murder lie in her distant past? Both prostitution and alcoholism are treated with a frankness surprising for 1940, the year of publication. Wade sustains our interest in the investigation by the dogged Inspector Poole with great skill. Wade isn't mentioned in Julian Symons's Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, but I think he should have been. The novel reminded me of the work of the US writer, Hilary Waugh, in the way that Wade manages to write about police procedure, dead ends and all, in a gripping way. Waugh is often seen as the father of the police procedural, but his landmark novel, Last Seen Wearing, didn't appear until 1952, twelve years after Lonely Magdalen.\nAnother lovely thing about the London Library is that books can be posted out. They have plenty of Henry Wade's that I haven't read and I've just requested another, Heir Presumptive, to be sent to me.\nLabels: Henry Wade, London Library., Lonely Magdalen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 16218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.emerson.edu/2016/11/21/faculty-talk-kristin-j-lieb-on-gender-branding-the-modern-music-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:13Z", "digest": "sha1:OTWEMMYPUUKYBLYBWR6F6FPXXDVSOIBS", "length": 7607, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "blog.emerson.edu", "title": "Kristin J. Lieb on Gender, Branding & the Modern Music Industry - The Emerson Blog", "raw_content": "Kristin J. Lieb, Associate Professor of Marketing Communication\nAs a former music industry executive, Kristin J. Lieb, associate professor of Marketing Communication, is an expert on the branding of female pop stars.\nHer 2013 book, Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars (Routledge), details the way in which female stars\u2019 singing talent is often trumped by the hypersexualization that is demanded of them. As Lieb writes, \u201cUnfortunately, for a female pop star, her core asset is really her body.\u201d Lieb has also written for the music industry\u2019s leading trade publication, Billboard, and Rolling Stone.\nQ: You say in your book that singing talent is not enough to make a woman into a pop star. What qualities must a female possess to \u201cmake it\u201d?\nFemale popular music stars learn quickly, from many directions\u2014handlers, fans, and society, to name a few\u2014that their bodies and sexuality are their core assets. These artists learn to prioritize sexual attractiveness over talent because they are rewarded for doing so repeatedly. They compete in a crowded field to secure movie deals, magazine covers, and fashion lines to support their core brand, so they are routinely trying to outdo each other in this regard.\nThese stars have to be able to extend their brands across entertainment industry platforms, and, at this point, their bodies and sex appeal, more than their music, help them do that. As an example, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Beyonc\u00e9, Fergie, and Avril Lavigne have all appeared on the cover of Maxim, and it\u2019s not for their voices or musicianship\u2014that\u2019s not what that magazine is about. Those who don\u2019t have the camera-ready \u201cattractiveness,\u201d which increasingly means a highly sexualized, porn-leaning look, aren\u2019t signed [to recording contracts] as readily because they aren\u2019t slam-dunk hits from a brand extension or merchandising perspective. So while musical talent helps secure record label deals in the first place, it\u2019s just part of the assessment process for female artists.\nQ: How was MTV a game changer?\nMTV linked the artist\u2019s image to his or her music in a concrete way. Before MTV, people often didn\u2019t see an artist before they heard his or her music, so the music was evaluated on its own terms. But after MTV, as soon as an artist debuted, the audience knew what he or she looked like. So the music and image were consumed simultaneously. For women such as Madonna and Tina Turner, MTV was a great way of launching or sustaining an epic career. For women who weren\u2019t as attractive and overtly sexual, MTV proved the music industry had limited possibilities. Take Bonnie Tyler. She had a hit song, \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d yet in the video, there are objects flying past her face, obscuring what she looks like in varied and sometimes hilarious ways. Other female artists didn\u2019t even appear in their own videos.\nLieb\u2019s 2013 book, Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars (Routledge), details the way in which female stars\u2019 singing talent is often trumped by the hypersexualization that is demanded of them.\nQ: Most fans don\u2019t understand how pop stars are constructed and marketed. Could you describe the differences between the marketing of a male and of a female singing star?\nYoung men and women are brought to market in nearly opposite ways. Young men are generally instructed to keep quiet and be mysterious, while young women are coached to over-share via social media, through every magazine under the sun, and in various television opportunities, which, unsurprisingly, leads to overexposure and audience fatigue. Young men are constructed to be sort of sexless, too, as their target market, mostly girls, would be threatened by highly masculine representations; the fascination with the bad boy comes later. In contrast, young women are mainly constructed to appeal as aspirational figures to young girls and aspirational girlfriends to young boys. If artists come to market as adults, the major difference is that men have more representational types available to them. They can play virtually any role or choose any persona, whereas women are strongly encouraged to debut as \u201cgood girls\u201d and transition quickly into \u201ctemptresses.\u201d\nQ: Why do women in the field have shorter careers?\nWomen in the field have shorter careers because they suffer from overexposure and burnout. If you\u2019re everywhere, all the time, as they\u2019re designed to be, this is bound to happen. Lady Gaga is suffering the effects of that now. And Miley Cyrus is well on her way. Then, as female pop stars age beyond their peak, they lose their potential for expanding their brands into magazines, TV, film, and fashion lines, as age and beauty are drivers of success in those areas. So the game for them, at present, is to make as much money as possible until they\u2019re no longer deemed relevant; at which point, some of them move to the background and begin writing songs for other, younger artists. Assuming, of course, that they write their own songs in the first place, which many of them don\u2019t.\nQ: Could you explain the impact Madonna had on female pop stars?\nMadonna wrote the playbook for so much of what\u2019s going on today. Simply put, she changed what people thought female performers could and should be. She\u2019s also the first artist to \u201clap\u201d my lifecycle model, which explains the phases that the most prominent pop stars must transition into and out of as they negotiate the top tier of the industry. So now Madonna is a \u201clegend,\u201d somewhere in the midst of her second career \u201clife,\u201d at least in terms of my lifecycle.\nShe taught young women that owning your sexuality could be empowering, which was critically important at that time. But the interpretation of Madonna\u2019s sexual empowerment message has changed over the decades, as different artists have adapted it for their respective times. As I look at today\u2019s artists, it strikes me that they might think the only way to be powerful is through their sexuality, which is a nightmare from a feminist perspective. While sex-first representations should be an option, they should not be an imperative.\nMadonna communicated so much more than sexual empowerment: she built and ran her own label, successfully extended her brand into other entertainment realms, such as publishing and film, before that was common practice, and even launched careers for others. And by cycling through so many versions of her public \u201cself,\u201d Madonna showed other stars how many representational options were legitimately open to them, and how brand extensions could help enhance their already powerful and differentiated brands. Sadly, what was extracted as essential strategy, and persists to this day, is pretty much the most heteronormative, hyper-sexualized dimension of what Madonna did, not her cultural richness or complexity.\nQ: What is your opinion of TV talent contest shows, such as The Voice?\nThe talent shows are interesting\u2014to a limited extent. I\u2019ve watched all of them at various times, but The Voice is the only one I have followed, with intent, for more than one season. These shows serve as a platform for the celebrity judges and contestants alike, so while the judges refine their brands, the contestants attempt to establish resonant brands themselves, using the star/coach association or relationship as support. I prefer The Voice to the others because it\u2019s somewhat kinder and more nuanced. It also strikes me as more inclusive, in terms of coaches/contestants, and the narratives that circulate around them. \u2666", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 9042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.emillereducation.com/2012/07/21/financial-aid-tool-bullying-prevention-summit-college-access/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:34Z", "digest": "sha1:UGMTWPDKR6GKQLUBNHX6PFDER2MYJUP2", "length": 576, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.emillereducation.com", "title": "Financial Aid Tool, Bullying Prevention Summit, College Access \u2013 Teacher Talk", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in Department of Education, Education Reform, Fixing Education, Government Reports, Post-Secondary Education, Teaching tolerance and tagged education reform, educational services, financial aid, financial aid tools, fixing education, GEAR UP Conference, government reports, improving education, National Council for Community and Education Partnerships, NCCEP, post-secondary education, school bullying, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, social media tools, teaching, teaching tolerance, US Department of Education by Dr. Ellie. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2003/03/21/the-way-you-prepare-for-the-worst-reveals-a-bit-of-who-you-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:54:03Z", "digest": "sha1:H5HD73VLQRHPVX565DWMFFAREF3WYVHM", "length": 4464, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "blog.penelopetrunk.com", "title": "The way you prepare for the worst reveals a bit of who you are | Penelope Trunk Careers", "raw_content": "The way you prepare for the worst reveals a bit of who you are\nPosted in: Knowing yourself March 21st, 2003\nNow that the war is official, the workday will change a little bit for everyone. Furtive looks to CNN will be more frequent. Travel will be less frequent. And many people will be nervous for themselves or for loved ones. Depending on where we think danger lies, each of us will do a few quirky things to prepare our work selves for war.\nAs a New Yorker who was at the World Trade Center on September 11, I probably worry more than most people. I have started working closer to home so that in the event of emergency, I don't have to cross a bridge to get back to my son. (Bridges and tunnels closed in New York City on September 11.) You might think this precaution is extreme, but here in New York, you can feel the tension over terrorism, and most of it focuses on work. After all, that's where most people were the last time terror struck.\nMy friend who escaped the World Financial Center on September 11 focuses his worrying on the logistics of escape. He warns everyone to know where exits are in your office and to have a good computer backup system. \u201cThis way you won't have to think about what you're leaving in the office if you have to run.\u201d (To some this planning might sound extreme, but New Yorkers remember that at least one person died in the last terrorist attack because he took time to finish up his office work before he left the building.)\nThe war makes my brother Mike worry about money. (Not surprising since he works in finance.) He worries that if his New York office is blown up, he will not have life insurance. He explains that while most companies offer employees life insurance, most companies do not actually hold a large enough policy to cover all employees if their building blows up. Usually the rules of coverage dictate that the highest up in the company receive insurance coverage first. So, to prepare for possible violence, Mike is taking out a separate life insurance policy for himself.\nWorkplace war preparedness goes beyond New York. My mom's office, in Illinois, now has departure drills. They practice for a crisis where they cannot leave the building, and they practice a plan for evacuating the building. This is not a bad idea; the success of the World Trade Center evacuation is largely attributed to the earlier drills. And, my mom says her co-workers feel more calm in the face of war because their company is thinking about the safety of employees.\nMy friend Liz, in Los Angeles, has a stash of canned food and a flashlight in her desk drawer. \u201cYou never know about terrorism,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd if I get stuck at work, I don't want to be hungry.\u201d I asked her if her co-workers are taking precautions and she said, \u201cin general, no.\u201d But she lives in LA, and she pointed out that people already have supplies in their offices in case of an earthquake.\nAt this point, we live in a country that associates terrorism with the workplace. And now that we are officially at war, the threat feels more palpable. You probably won't keep canned food at your desk. But maybe you will take a tour of your office building stairwells. The most important thing is to recognize your own level of anxiety, and take actions to calm yourself down. Whatever action you take will reflect the type of things you worry about, and the type of person you are.\nI live in LA and work with earthquake-related data, but guess what? I would be completely unprepared for an earthquake! I have plenty of flashlights, but no food, no water, no plan, and no backups of my home computer.\nPosted by Qwerty on July 23, 2007 at 5:55 pm | permalink |\nNot that I\u2019m impressed a lot, but this is more than I expected for when I found a link on SU telling that the info is awesome. Thanks.\nPosted by Ted Burrett on April 24, 2009 at 6:07 am | permalink |\nUnilever is planning to launch the machine in Italy in a few weeks, and hopes for a launch overseas in the near future. While the pizza probably won't compare to a hand-tossed, artisan-made pie, I can think of a few frozen brands that it will definitely be better than. And if any of the US launches are near college towns, this pizza vending machine just might have a real future.\nIt is very important to be prepared for anything that could happen, and not just expect others to take the lead and help you out if it comes to that.\nPosted by Mark on January 17, 2010 at 6:52 pm | permalink |", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.secrisk.net/post/information-warfare-primer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:BXKFUKNOJARMRTSZROYILNBCCAWSMHFA", "length": 1711, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.secrisk.net", "title": "Information and information warfare primer", "raw_content": "April 23, 2017 information warfare\nThis is really just a short brain dump of the basics to get started thinking about information warfare in a non-US way. Yes, that means Russian, Chinese, South African, Australian, etc. approach. It may come as a surprise to many, but information warfare has always been more and better researched by those that do not commandeer the world\u2019s biggest military.\nFirst of all we need to start with proper definitions of data, information, and knowledge.\nTypical definition is that data magically transforms into information and that assemblage of information turns into knowledge. For the visual learners:\nHowever, the definition of information warfare is that information is both a weapon as well as the target. In the above definition it is nigh impossible to see how that would work. We can affect the data, but the transformation of data into information is unknown and the details of that transformation are appropriately hazy, typically saying that the difference between data and information is that information makes sense to the recipient.\nWhich is why Boisot\u2019s lesser known definitions of information, data, and knowledge are used in information warfare:\nUsing Boisot\u2019s definitions we can see that information warfare can affect information at any stage.\nData can be directly affected wherever it is stored. Typically this is the highly technical part of information warfare.\nKnowledge can be (in)directly altered through psychological operations, propaganda, (denial of) access to data, change in social environment, peer pressure, etc.\nInformation itself is a product of application of knowledge to data, so any change to either or both of the factors will affect it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.truewestmagazine.com/2017/08/those-were-days-my-friend.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:D7X4XAOCWDF4PEB5NEBDNKBAPZYX7CG4", "length": 660, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.truewestmagazine.com", "title": "Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary Entries: Those Were The Days My Friend", "raw_content": "Didn't see the eclipse. Clouds, and a deadline, got in my way.\nLast week when I was in Tombstone, I had a great talk with Ben Traywick who showed me the very first building he worked in when he came to town in 1968 (over his left shoulder).\nBen Traywick, age 90, on Allen Street in Tombstone\nBen said back in those days he wrote for ten different Western history magazines, four treasure magazines and two In-din mags. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they would never end.\nToday, there are two Western history magazines and one In-din magazine that I know of. In general, I think maybe there's hope for the future.\n\"To generalize is to be an idiot.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 7402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.sjsu.edu/president/2019/01/29/salary-rankings-help-validate-teaching-as-a-viable-rewarding-career-that-changes-lives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CEQWG47WXZG4DPAZTIAC6QRHUYDHA7WM", "length": 5679, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blogs.sjsu.edu", "title": "Salary rankings help validate teaching as a viable, rewarding career that changes lives / President Papazian's Blog", "raw_content": "A few months ago, an online platform known as PayScale listed San Jose State as the sixth best school in the nation for education majors in terms of salary potential. I think this is both exciting and validating for our Connie L. Lurie College of Education and a topic that warrants further discussion.\nWhen those of us in higher education look at ourselves in the mirror, we must acknowledge that we have not always been effective in sharing the value and virtue of teaching to prospective educators. Similarly, we also have occasionally failed at developing and executing robust and effective recruitment initiatives for prospective students interested in careers in teaching to help ensure we are casting the widest net possible and bringing future educators into our programs.\nIs the tide beginning to shift and the trend toward fewer students who choose education as a career path turning? We hope so\u2014but we are not taking any chances. Our Lurie College of Education and its dean, Heather Lattimer, are working hard to identify students interested in teaching, and to develop that future generation of educators. Heather and her team know as well as anyone how vital K-12 teachers are to the nation\u2019s future.\nElementary school teacher Joy Paterson instructs a class at San Francisco Community School\nTo accomplish these goals and to persuade interested students in pursuing education as their chosen career path, we are taking an approach that first involves enhanced outreach followed by the right tools and incentives to seal the deal.\nAnyone who knows San Jose State knows our commitment to reaching out to and partnering with our community, and this issue is no exception. As an institution that began in 1857 to prepare teachers, the importance of this work is in our DNA. To that end, Heather and her colleagues are working with the local school districts, high schools, community colleges and others constantly to remind people why being an educator equates to being a change-maker. This kind of direct, personal outreach and relationship-building is both refreshing and effective.\nSecond, the outreach we do is now very much focused on framing education as a worthy pursuit\u2014one that has the power to change lives. Recognizing that future educators need to be recruited into the field with a diverse range of tools, the Lurie College team is developing specific tactics such as recruitment and marketing videos. We want to work with the most potent communications tools available to reach millennials and help them understand why teaching is such a great\u2014and vital\u2014profession, and one they should consider.\nWe and our CSU colleagues often have done outreach events in the past that celebrate teaching, but now we are going beyond simple gestures and recognition. In the spring, we will hold an event that involves not only the Lurie College of Education, but also our local district partners, middle and high schools and community colleges. Each of those institutions will nominate students who they think best represent the educators of the future, and we will reward those nominees with future scholarships to demonstrate the value we see in them. Speaking of scholarships, there is also grant money and other external funding we are pursuing more aggressively to support our future teachers as they pursue their education. These are just some of the new, more innovative ways we are working to bring future educators into the fold here at San Jose State.\nIrene Castillon teaches a class at Luis Valdez Leadership Academy\nThe high-level goal is to change the way people\u2014our current and future students\u2014think about teaching and education. We need for them to know that teaching is not merely a job, but a viable and rewarding career field, one they can choose to pursue in order to make a difference, do meaningful work and change lives. We know there are students at San Jose State who seek careers in social justice, careers that can help make society and communities better, stronger and more equitable. It is those students we hope to reach so that they understand there is a choice\u2014education and teaching\u2014available to them as they pursue their career path.\nWe are working to change those factors, and this is where we circle back to the significance of the PayScale rankings. Those students of ours who might consider education as a career need to know that there is a pathway for them that can culminate in something larger than themselves\u2014but also a job that enables them to support a family, even in a region where the cost of living can be prohibitive. No one goes into teaching to become rich; we all know that. But recognition like that in the PayScale rankings helps show that they can earn a living wage as an educator. And that is important.\nHaving been an educator myself for much of my adult life, and having grown up with a mother who dedicated her life to teaching and whose many students came to bid her farewell at her memorial service decades after having been in her classroom, I know the importance of this issue. I am confident, that by demonstrating to our students that we will do everything we can to help them succeed as future educators, Heather and the Lurie College of Education will continue San Jose State\u2019s rich heritage as an important educator for California\u2019s next generation of teachers!\nEarlier this month, I had an opportunity to talk to KTVU\u2019s Gasia Mikaelian about Governor Newsom\u2019s budget proposal as it pertains to education. See the interview below:\nDiversity, Faculty, Partnerships and Collaboration, Student Success\nComments Off on Salary rankings help validate teaching as a viable, rewarding career that changes lives", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 7498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bollywoodprometer.blogspot.com/2009/02/changing-loyaltiestv-snippet.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:TZFIVSZ2XY6QB5IHCFJH2G3EWTZYGTYP", "length": 944, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bollywoodprometer.blogspot.com", "title": "Bollywood PRO: Changing Loyalties!!!TV Snippet", "raw_content": "Gavie Chahal aka Rajbir of Mohe Rang De seems to have changed loyalities in life. Well, don't be surprised, we are talking about his role reversal in the teleserial on Colors. Rajbir, who played the top-notch lawyer for the Brits in the show, in a new move has decided to don the hat of a revolutionary instead, much to the surprise of his wife Kranti.\nWe met Gavie on the sets of his sitcom, Mohe Rang De, says \"This is the way I wanted the serial to progress. I love playing the patriotic hero, who is willing to go to all lengths to protect the interest of his fellow countrymen. I am sure this shift will draw a lot of attention from the viewers and attract newer ones. This is a real crucial part of the serial for all of us and we are really excited.\"\nNow that Gavie has shifted loyalities in the show, what remains to be seen is how this move impacts the popularity of his character in the coming time.\nLabels: gavie chahal, mohe rang de", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 752, "original_length": 14667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bondvillainscomiccon.com/category/a-view-to-a-kill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3JRHYZAM363UUVEHMYJYRYYFXACBRX2H", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bondvillainscomiccon.com", "title": "A View to a Kill \u2013 King of the Bond Villains", "raw_content": "Category: A View to a Kill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 5294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 126.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bookthisbook.com/index.php/books-on-rent/management/8-steps-to-innovation-going-from-jugaad-to-excellence-going-from-jugaad-to-excellence.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:21Z", "digest": "sha1:EJPRGZBNHTKX6HFTCYXPNOUOACKZ2XAY", "length": 1128, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bookthisbook.com", "title": "8 Steps To Innovation : Going From Jugaad To Excellence : Going From Jugaad To Excellence by Dabholkar Vinay T. Krishnan Rishikesha | Bookthisbook", "raw_content": "8 Steps To Innovation : Going From Jugaad To Excellence : Going From Jugaad To Excellence by Dabholkar Vinay T. Krishnan Rishikesha\nIn this book on innovation, the writers showcase how an idea can be deliberate and planned, or better yet, from Jugaad to Excellence. Summary of the Book Ideas, the writers believe, aren't necessarily ad hoc. They do not need to happen instantaneously, and certainly in an environment that encourages innovation and promotes alternative methods to solving problems, ideas will be only consequential. With examples closer to home, the book discusses using ideas developed in-house with an eye for constraints and promoting more ideas through implementation. About the Writers Vinay Dabholkar is an Indian entrepreneur and writer. Rishikesha T. Krishnan is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is also the Director of IIM Indore, currently on leave. Mr. Krishnan holds a fellowship from IIM Calcutta and has studied at Stanford and IIT Kanpur. His areas of interest are: Strategy & Innovation, National Innovation Systems and Competitiveness, and Strategy Implementation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bowenadvisors.com/robert-fleming-joins-bowen-advisors-as-senior-advisor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KJZZTAY4FHXMFPWVX3DYF4ZI4FXWRHMD", "length": 1398, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bowenadvisors.com", "title": "Bowen Advisors \u2013 Robert Fleming Joins Bowen Advisors", "raw_content": "\u201cBob has more than 25 years of experience as a proven entrepreneur and fundraiser, founding Prism Venture Partners, which raised over $1 billion across 5 funds. He brings to our team extensive experience and expertise in healthcare, information technology, clean tech and agribusiness, as well as a roster of strong relationships,\u201d said Paul Bowen, President and Founder of Bowen Advisors.\nBob Fleming added, \u201cI am thrilled to be part of the Bowen Advisors team. Bowen played a key role in multiple successful Prism Ventures transactions and is positioned to play an important role as Florida and the Southeast continue to emerge as a center of entrepreneurial activity.\u201d\nBob has led successful investments in a cross-section of industry segments including communications, software, and healthcare. His investments include industry-leading companies in each area, such as RF Micro Devices (IPO), Cyberonics (IPO), Intermedia Communications (IPO), Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent), Epicon (acquired by Nortel), and Block Medical (acquired by Hillenbrand). He has played an active role as a director in over thirty companies. More recently, he has been an advisor to promising growth technology companies in the Southeast, including CareCloud, Axial Exchange, and JDCPhosphate. Bob received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and a B.A. in Engineering Sciences, cum laude, from Dartmouth College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 165.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://braidinc.com/About_Us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EWHIV6C4OZH4UBQOQRRRB537KTZYZOMD", "length": 1708, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "braidinc.com", "title": "About Us", "raw_content": "The Braid Corporation was founded with a belief in strong fundamentals. It became apparent to the founders of The Braid Corporation that there was not a comprehensive system that laid out the good fundamentals and success principles for businesses and other entities to follow to become successful. We studied and worked in businesses to determine the principles and tools needed to operate a successful business. The founders spent over 15 years developing, studying, learning, and practicing these fundamentals and success principles. They poured through hundreds of business books and teachings. And while many had one or two good lessons, they did not lay out what it would take on a whole to be successful. That is when The Braid Corporation was created.\nWe have broken the business model down into a few fundamental areas. Then we identified what is crucial for success in each of those areas. We have laid out an easy to comprehend system and can show organizations how to implement these principles. These fundamentals and principles guarantee results. We know that complicated, complex models are recipes for disaster and failure. That is why we stick with tried and true principles and fundamentals. We know that using solid fundamentals and principles will increase the likelihood of long term success in every organization.\nThere is no stronger advocate for your success than The Braid Corporation. We know that we have the right fundamentals and principles for success. Give us a call or send us a email so we can learn more about how we can help you and your organization.\nThe Braid Corporation are recognized experts in sales and business management and we are regularly featured in the media:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buffaloclubofthedeaf.org/house_rules.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LO6NLLVXFAOJEC7KBE6QJXKYEWQ7SK3R", "length": 13083, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "buffaloclubofthedeaf.org", "title": "Buffalo Club of the Deaf: About Us: House Rules", "raw_content": "This is the BCD House Rules section. The \"House Rules\" are flexible, and the Club's President has authority to make a decision on a \"House Rule\" when a situation arises that makes an immediate decision necessary.\n1.) Members are requested to have their B.C.D. membership card with them at all the time when attending the B.C.D. Club House\n2.) Former local member or local non-member who is deaf is allowed to visit the club house on members' night. There is a mandatory visitor's fee of $5.00. This fee is good for a one (1) day visit.\n3.) The visitor fee can be waived for hearing children of members of the Club on members' night. Limit two (2) visits per month.\n4.) Member must observe (follow) the rules of the B.C.D. Dues Collector, to avoid any penalties (see B.C.D. Dues Collector rules)\n5.) Out of town visitor to the Club can play cards only if he/she can get reference from a bonafide member of the club and pay the card fee on the top of the visitor's fee on members' night or admission on social nights.\n6.) The membership dues of any member must be paid in full before working as Committees, Bartenders, and Coaches and as Janitors. The dues also must be paid in full before playing any sports or card games.\n7.) All children under 18 years of age cannot enter Clubhouse only on members' Friday nights at anytime. All children under 18 years of age must leave the Clubhouse at 12 A.M. (mid-night) on other nights.\n8.) High School students are not permitted in the club unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.\n9.) Use of bar stools are for B.C.D. Member patrons who are ordering and being served alcohol; beverage for consumption (drinking).\n10.) No purses or any other items than the served beverages are to be on top of the bar. Hooks have been installed under the bar.\n11.) No drinks are to be taken into either the ladies' or men's' restrooms.\n12.) Auditors on duty behind the bar are not to be auditing the bar sales for the same month that they duty.\n13.) No cashing of personal checks is to be made through the Club bartenders.\n14.) Only the bartenders on duty are to be behind the bar during any function. Everyone else is to stay out.\n15.) Bartender is to accommodate requests by customer to play their tapes on the sound systems.\n16.) Only alcoholic and carbonated beverages purchased at the Club are to be consumed within the Club. Anything brought in from the outside will be taken away.\n17.) Once there are less than five (5) persons in the Club on Members' night, the bartenders may request closing earlier than normal closing hours but no earlier than 12 A.M.. (mid-night) on other nights.\n18.) The bar shall not be closed on a Friday night without the permission of the members. If any bartender is unable to work on that night, someone should be asked to fill in for him/her for that night. The bar can be closed on a Saturday night if there is a special event elsewhere that the Club Member should be encouraged to attend.\n20.) B.C.D. requested to have two or more estimates prior to repaired or purchased also must be approved by Board of Directors.\n21.) A bad check must be charged double at bank's penalty cost!\nBCD's RULES\n22.) All the regular meetings of the B.C.D. membership will start at 7:00 P.M. Anyone who arrives thirty (30) minutes after the start of the meeting shall not be entitled to the use of the floor (voice).\n23.) The B.C.D. Board of Directors' reports: Extreme attentions should be made towards this report, which is presented to the B.C.D. Members at large during the regular meeting. Once this report, which has been accepted as, read, seconded and approved, it will be recorded that all actions, which have been made by the Board of Directors are accepted and put into effect.\n24.) Any member who wishes to have a B.C.D. Constitution or By-Law changed or implemented must make the recommendation in writing and give it to the B.C.D. By-Law Chairperson.\n25.) Club private parties and socials are to be scheduled only through the Entertainment Coordinator of the B.C.D. Board of Directors. (see Club rental Rules).\n26.) Smoking is banned inside the B.C.D.\n27.) No flyers or memos are to be placed on the B.C.D. Bulletin Board without permission or either the Club's Secretary or the Entertainment Coordinator.\n28.) Cars are to be parked within yellow lines in the Club's parking lot. The spaces behind the Clubhouse are reserved for fire trucks or other emergency vehicles during any club event. These fire lanes can be used temporarily as a loading zone.\n29.) Any claim for services to the Club must be announced before the service is carried out otherwise the claim will not be honored.\n30.) Any claims should have prior approval of the Board of Directors before doing the work or make any purchases. If the Board of Directors does not approve, the person making the claim can then go to the members at the regular meeting.\n31.) No hats or caps are to be worn in the Club during regular meetings.\n32.) No pets are allowed in the Clubhouse unless certified as a hearing or visually impaired working dog.\n33.) The thermostats are to be regulated only by a B.C.D. Officer.\n34.) Anyone who is responsible for a false alarm at the Club will be fined. It is the responsibility of the person who sets the alarm at the close of an event to make sure that all the doors of the clubhouse are secured.\n35.) Hall for a private party on any evening of the week, on Saturday and Sunday will be charged a fee (see Hall rental fee schedule). The Club is available for rent on Saturday evenings only when a \"TBA\" (To Be Announced) is posted. See Hall Rental Agreement Form.\n36.) No card playing is allowed during the B.C.D. regular meeting.\n37.) The minumum age for playing cards is 21. Must be a member or pay the visitor's fee.\n38.) Any member in debt to the Club cannot be involving in any activities and cannot enter Club at anytime until the debts are paid in full.\n39.) Any member owing the Club money will become a debtor and have his or her names announced at each regular meeting after thirty (30) days repayment period has passed. If necessary the Club's lawyer will be contacted for payment of the debt.\n40.) B.C.D. Vice-President is responsible for all bar activities. The includes scheduling of bartenders, ordering of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, liquors, mixer and snacks will be sold and consumed during the Club functions and signed contracts for private parties.\n41.) All local former members as well as non-members must leave the meeting room when a regular meeting of the Club is held. Those who have never been member of the Club can watch the meeting one time only. Next time must be a member or leave the meeting room until the meeting is over.\n42.) Person's responsibility on damage to B.C.D.'s property. person has to pay for his/her damage in B.C.D. Clubhouse and outside.\n43.) Any member who receives fraudulent raffles that used our B.C.D. name, bring it to our attention.\n44.) Anyone who lost the BCD's keys will be fined five dollars for each key plus the cost to have the keys made.\n45.) Flyers announcing the scheduled social event must be handed out to the members at least thirty (30) days before the schedule social. If the flyer is not provided within 30 days of the event, a $25.00 fine will be imposted. If no flyrs are handed out, it will be assumed that social event has been canceled and the date becomes a TBA (To Be Announced) or goes to the next person with a request for that date.\n46.)Each social event will require a $50.00 deposit and be confirmed.\n47.) In the event that the social has been cancelled for any other reason than bad weather within a sixty (60) day period of the schedule date, a fifty ($50.00) dollars penalty will be assessed against the organization, which scheduled the event. The penalty will be imposed if the flyers have been handed out and a last minute cancellation is announced.\n48.) All social and drawing events at the end of each social event must be audited on same day. Two signatures an auditors are required.\n49.) Any group that hold a fundraising event and the group that will benefit from it does not have at least five (5) members of that group paying admission will have the fund turned over to B.C.D.\n50.) Before any flyers for events by and for B.C.D. are printed and distributed, approval must be given by the B.C.D. Board of Directors.\n51.) BCD will have special drinks during July and August. Also special drinks during member's nights (Fridays)\n52.) Sanitary conditions: At all times wear plastic disposable gloves when working in the kitchen and serving food.\n53.) After each social or private party the kitchen must be put into order and cleaned up. All foods from event are to be removed from the Club's kitchen refrigerator. There will be charge $25 if is not done.\n54.) Anyone who use the kitchen must tied and put the garbage bags into outside garbage bin.\n55.) No one is allowed to borrow any kitchen equipment or any other property.\n56.) B.C.D. will pay all sports team league fees only, and nothing else. The team will be responsible for paying for caps, uniforms, tournament fees and other expenses.\n57.) Rules for any Sports Activities Sponsored by BCD 1.\tAnyone who wants to play any sport with BCD must be a bona fide (in good standing) member of the club. 2.\tPlayers must be Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Must have a hearing loss of 55 dB or greater in the better ear to be eligible for any tournament by any USADB member organizations. (Coaches do not necessarily have to have a hearing loss.) 3.\tNo one under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to play. 4.\tAny high school student or college student, who practices with, suited up with or played for a collegiate team at any time during the college season shall not be eligible to play for any EAAD team during the same season. This is in accordance with NCAA regulations. 5.\tThe President, with approval of the members of the BCD Board, will select the Athletic Director to be responsible for the funds for each specific sport activity. 6.\tAny monies from fund raising events will be audited and turned over to the Athletic Director at end of each event. 7.\tThe flyers for any fundraiser must include the name of the sports activity for which the fund raising is for. 8.\tThe Athletic Director will audit again and turn over the monies from the fund raiser to the BCD Treasurer to be kept in a separate restricted account under the name of the specific sport named in the flyer for the event. 9.\tThe purposes for the monies raised for each sport event will only be spent according to the purpose for which it was raised. For any purpose other than listed below the requester will bring up the matter at a regular meeting of the club for approval. 10.\tThe purpose for each restricted fund should be followed accordingly. 11.\tEach restricted fund is limited for transportation and lodgings for the sports team when traveling out of town to play in tournaments. 12.\tIf the cost requested by the team is more than the amount the team needs from its specific fund, the team will be responsible for the difference. 13.\tThese rules for restricted funds will be for all sports activities. 14.\tAny monies left over in each specific sport's fund at end of each season will be saved for the following season's sports activities. 15. Each player will sign this agreement that the rules mentioned above will be followed. I , _______________________________________, agree to follow the terms and rules listed above. Your signature Your name: ______________________________. Print\nBCD BOARD OF GOVERNORS\nThe Board of Governors acts as the governing body of a nonprofit organization. The Board of Governors' responsibilities are to oversee that the club's policies, bylaws, are followed and to form the club's mission or vision and hold management accountable to the members' wishes. BCD was formed as a non-profit organization to represent members (such as sports, educational and recreational associations) or to advocate on behalf of a cause (such as Deaf civil rights). BCD is a nonprofit organization that means it is not owned by anyone. It belongs to the members and is chartered by the government to serve a public purpose. Nonprofit boards are responsible for the organization's success. BCD will have boards to represent the members' interests and make managerial decisions. This is usually a Board of Directors that are made up of the club's officers, trustee and committee chairpersons. The organization generally has a Board of Governors that oversees the management. They are usually chosen from among or by the organization's major members depending of the organization's bylaws and structure. Their responsibilities include overseeing management, appropriate use of donations and funds, success in attaining the organization's goals, and shaping the organization's vision and mission. The Board of Governors may also serve to coordinate volunteer activity and as a bridge between communities and members of the organization, and the staff and management of that organization.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 13478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bumcva.org/prayermeeting.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6QPGAKVI5CLXC65YGNCBRVVRY6CMCASC", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bumcva.org", "title": "Boonsboro United Methodist Church", "raw_content": "Prayer meetings will be held at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesdays.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 18.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://business.rssfeeds.pw/2018/02/going-out-need-no-longer-be-headache.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:42Z", "digest": "sha1:IWVGITE3PXZDE2Z6QN4YGFEOR25PYCQR", "length": 1065, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "business.rssfeeds.pw", "title": "Business RSS News: Going out need no longer be a headache for teetotallers", "raw_content": "Going out need no longer be a headache for teetotallers\nBARS and pubs have not usually been the non-drinker\u2019s friend. Knocking back pint after pint of juice or fizzy drink quickly gets boring. But beverage manufacturers are now showing more sympathy for their plight. Many companies regard non-alcoholic drinks as the \u201cbiggest opportunity in the market\u201d, says Frank Lampen, who runs Distill Ventures, which helps small producers with investment and advice, and is backed by Diageo, a British drinks giant.\nOne of the fund\u2019s recent investments, for example, is in Seedlip, a British firm that makes distilled, non-alcoholic \u201cspirits\u201d flavoured with botanicals, and which last year launched in America. Low-alcohol beer, once maligned for its paucity of flavour, is also in fashion. Technological advances mean alcohol can be filtered out of the beer without ruining its taste; other breweries use \u201clazy\u201d yeast, which produces less alcohol to start with. Over the past couple of years, non-alcoholic craft breweries, such as Nirvana Brewery in London, or WellBeing...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 10924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://businesslistingplus.com/listing/chapter-7-bankruptcy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HA2NGPHTPCW76V2KUFQPUNWV3P6NT2OB", "length": 1587, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "businesslistingplus.com", "title": "Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, United States, New York, Woodside | Business Listing Plus", "raw_content": "Bankruptcy Lawyer Queens\nMr. Gursoy has also successfully represented hundreds of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy clients during his many years of practice. 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We always remind ourselves of this important fact. We also understand that clients want more than just a formal relationship with a lawyer. We truly believe that a relationship between a lawyer and a client should be more. 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A computer is known for many activities which include data processing, storage of information, resource management, execution of various programs and many others like scheduling which are performed by the help of the computer\u2019s operating system. Speedy data processing and information storage as well as execution of other computer programs are some of the key indications of a computer that is in a stable condition therefore helping the owner or the user of the computer to know whether the operating system of his or her machine is in the right condition or not.\nIt is important to note that not all the times that your computer may be operating as expected manner while carrying out its various activities. There are some several types of computer viruses that tend to affect this general functionality of a computer thus causing a decline in the general performance of the computer. Computer viruses can result to so many damages or consequences on your computer which start with some few signs like slowness and many other signs.\nIt is also vital to be aware of some of these sources of computer virus attacks. One of the major sources of computer virus are the various programs downloaded for some unreliable online sites. Lastly, a major source of some common types of computer viruses are the various illegal versions of cracked software.There are a lot of signs that a computer can indicate as a result of the attack by viruses.\nThe following are some of the things that can happen when your computer is infected by viruses. One of the most common signs of computer virus is \u2026 Read More..\nProviding Feedback To Employees\nOne needs to give employees performance feedback and this will help to improve their work.One should aim to improve the performance of employees without hurting their morale when giving performance feedback. 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Not only can you expect a lengthy ban, a hefty fine and possibly a prison sentence, you\u2019ll also get a criminal record, which could affect your job, your future insurance costs and your travel prospects.\n\u201cWorse still, you could kill yourself or someone else \u2013 last year in Sussex 13 people died in collisions which involved a drink-driver. Is it really worth it? We can assure you it\u2019s not.\u201d\nThe 26 arrests were made in Sussex on Saturday (1 December) and Sunday (2 December), and further statistics will be published as the campaign continues until its conclusion on 1 January 2019.\nIn line with previous campaigns, police will also publish details of those convicted, including their name, age, address and occupation.\nChief Insp Gooch added: \u201cWhile this is a dedicated campaign which occurs twice a year during peak periods \u2013 at Christmas and in the summer \u2013 we will still respond to reports of drink and drug-drivers as part of our routine policing 365 days a year.\u201d\nIf you\u2019re going to consume drink or drugs, plan ahead \u2013 walk home, book a taxi, take public transport or get a lift with someone sober. Never get into a vehicle with someone you know is over the limit.\nIf you\u2019re planning to drive after \u2018just a couple\u2019, it\u2019s more than likely you\u2019ll be over the limit.\nAlso be mindful of the amount of time it takes for substances to leave your body \u2013 you could still be over the limit the next morning, even if you\u2019ve had several hours\u2019 sleep.\nDrink and drugs affect people according to a number of variants including your age, weight, height, gender and stress levels, to name a few.\nThe only way to safely guarantee you are under the limit is to drink OR drive; never both. If you\u2019re prepared to drive under the influence of drink or drugs, prepare to face the consequences. These could include the following:\nIf you know someone is driving while over the limit or after taking drugs, call 999. The campaign is being run in conjunction with the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership and DriveSmart in Surrey.\n\u2039 Shepherds Hill Road Closure \u2013 Monday 10th December 2018\nPlanning Agenda 11 December 2018 \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 7568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buyinthebay.co.uk/south-east-pass/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:GJ6C777BJLJT4B7J2ZXILAPC3IMUKG7J", "length": 1969, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "buyinthebay.co.uk", "title": "South East Pass - Buy in the Bay", "raw_content": "15th July 2018 News\nVisit Kent is delighted to introduce you to the South East Pass - a promotional pass that will enable visitors and residents to save money across many different family attractions, shops, restaurants (including hotel restaurants) and cinemas across the South East.\nVisit Kent is delighted to introduce you to the South East Pass \u2013 a promotional pass that will enable visitors and residents to save money across many different family attractions, shops, restaurants (including hotel restaurants) and cinemas across the South East. The pass is designed to encourage people to explore neighbouring counties and towns, drive visitor spend and domestic overnight stays.\nThe team currently run a pass for East Anglia called the East Anglia Pass, promoting over 250 family attractions. They work in partnership with all the county Destination Management Organisations, District and Town Councils and also Greater Anglia. They have over 12k members and will be actively encouraging this membership to explore Kent as part of the South East Pass.\nUnlike other discount schemes such as Groupon, there is no cost for a business to take part and feature an offer via the pass and there is also total flexibility around the type of deal offered. Additionally, the team at the South East Pass is extremely passionate about making days out accessible to all families throughout the region, as well as encouraging children to get outside and away from their computers and mobile devices! The pass is also designed to promote and support local, independent businesses throughout the South East.\nThe pass will be sold both online and offline. Passholders will be able to use both a physical plastic card and a digital pass (generated via the app) and all deals will be listed on the app and website. This is a great opportunity for Kent businesses as there is no cost and you have total control over the offer you make; to get involved please complete the form below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2007/08/07-6070.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:B6M7RVTMYATNXAUPPWLXD64DCXO763JZ", "length": 6224, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ca10.washburnlaw.edu", "title": "07-6070 -- Romero v. Franklin -- 08/01/2007", "raw_content": "AURELIO ROMERO,\nv. Nos. 07-6070; 07-6076; 07-6112\nERIC FRANKLIN, Warden;\nSTATE OF OKLAHOMA,\nRespondents-Appellees. (D.C. No. CIV-05-1207-HE)\nAurelio Romero (a/k/a Martin Roy Romero), an Oklahoma prisoner appearing pro se, seeks a certificate of appealability (COA) in order to challenge the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2254 petition for federal habeas relief. Because Romero has failed to satisfy the standards for the issuance of a COA, we deny his request and dismiss the matter.\nOn April 20, 2004, a jury convicted Romero of five counts of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance in the District Court of Stephens County (Oklahoma), Case No. CF-1999-428. Romero was sentenced to thirty-years' imprisonment on each of the counts, with the sentences to run consecutively. Romero filed a direct appeal, arguing that three instances of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument violated his right to a fair trial and resulted in an excessive sentence: (1) the prosecutor improperly referred to Romero as \"the Wal-Mart\" of \"the methamphetamine world\"; (2) the prosecutor incorrectly summarized the amount of methamphetamine purchased from Romero during five controlled drug buys; and (3) the prosecutor argued facts not in evidence in attempting to justify why Romero was not arrested after the first controlled drug buy and why law enforcement authorities arranged for four more controlled purchases from him. On August 26, 2005, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA), applying a plain error standard of review, rejected Romero's arguments and affirmed his convictions and sentences.\nRomero filed a federal habeas petition on October 14, 2005, asserting the same claims of prosecutorial misconduct that he raised on direct appeal. The magistrate judge assigned to Romero's case issued a report and recommendation, recommending that the petition be denied. In the magistrate judge's view, the prosecutor's Wal-Mart analogy, \"while colorful, was a reasonable inference based on the evidence that [Romero] was able to procure an ample supply of methamphetamine and deliver it on demand.\" ROA, Doc. 6 at 7. With respect to the prosecutor's alleged incorrect summary of the amount of methamphetamine, the magistrate judge noted that \"the evidence establishing [Romero's] guilt on five charges of distributing illegal drugs was quite strong,\" and \"the trial court sustained defense counsel's objection to one of the comments and further instructed the jury to decide the case on the evidence presented at trial.\" Id. at 9. As for the prosecutor's alleged reference to facts not in evidence, the magistrate judge concluded \"that evidence exist[ed] to support the prosecutor's statement,\" and that the statement was \"invited . . . by defense counsel\" and thus \"easily f[ell] within the wide latitude of argument allowed to prosecutors . . . .\" Id. at 11. Ultimately, the magistrate judge concluded that \"the OCCA's rejection of [Romero]'s claims of prosecutorial misconduct was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law, as reflected in the decisions of the United States Supreme Court.\" Id. at 12.\nOn March 20, 2007, the district court adopted the report and recommendation, denied Romero's habeas petition, and entered judgment against Romero. Romero filed a notice of appeal (No. 07-6070) from the district court's judgment. On March 27, 2007, the district court denied Romero's request for COA, and Romero filed a separate notice of appeal (No. 07-6076) from that order. On May 4, 2007, the district court denied Romero's request to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis, and Romero filed a separate notice of appeal (No. 07-6112) from that order as well.\nRomero has now renewed his request for a COA with this court. Romero has also filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal.\nIssuance of a COA is jurisdictional. Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336 (2003). In other words, a state prisoner may appeal from the denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2254 only if the district court or this court first issues a COA. 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2253(c)(1)(A). A COA may be issued \"only if the applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.\" Id. \u00a7 2253(c)(2). In order to make that showing, a prisoner must demonstrate \"that reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented were adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.\" Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) (internal quotation marks omitted).\nHere, the magistrate judge carefully and thoroughly analyzed Romero's claims before recommending that his petition be denied. In doing so, the magistrate judge correctly outlined the standards governing federal habeas petitions. The magistrate judge then properly identified the controlling Supreme Court precedent for Romero's claims of prosecutorial misconduct. See Donnelly v. DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637, 643 (1974) (holding that where no specific Bill of Rights guarantees are implicated, prosecutorial misconduct must have so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process). Lastly, the magistrate judge painstakingly reviewed each of the complained-of prosecutorial comments, together with the trial transcript as a whole, and concluded that the OCCA's resolution of those claims was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, Donnelly. After conducting our own review of Romero's application for a COA, his appellate brief, and the record on appeal, we conclude that the magistrate judge's conclusions, which were adopted in full by the district court, are unassailable. In other words, we conclude that no reasonable jurist \"could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that)\" any of Romero's claims \"should have been resolved in a different manner or that [they] were adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.\" Slack, 529 U.S. at 484 (internal quotation marks omitted).\nThe motion for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis and the request for a COA are DENIED and the appeal is DISMISSED.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 7096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 173.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://callname.info/2062278848", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2IODVPY5J5D4YV3CWDLMCPFQLXB7EUFJ", "length": 714, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "callname.info", "title": "Seattle, WA\t: Call From (206)227-8848 - callname", "raw_content": "Did you get a phone call or text message from (206)227-8848? Other formats of number (206)227-8848 are 2062278848 and 206-227-8848, area code is 206, in Seattle, WA. The phone number (206)227-8848 is negative rated phone number and it is used by a scammer. This phone number has no any good reputation. If you use Google to know information about this phone number or any other phone number, then you can take decision to block the number or not. The phone number (206)227-8848 is negative rated number. This phone number has got negative rating in many sites. The phone number is negative rated in the site Bing for 1x Scam call, 1x Unsolicited call and 1x Survey. This number is from United States, California. ,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 23327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canadaflagandbanner.com/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:47Z", "digest": "sha1:R5OUNCSAA2IIE43LO2VPRXUS55P6XBI4", "length": 1056, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "canadaflagandbanner.com", "title": "Canada Flag and Banner - Flag and Banner Supplier and Manufacturer of Banner Bracket Hardware", "raw_content": "Canada Flag & Banner was created in the mid 90's by our founder and president, Robert McConkey.\nAs a tourism consultant to the City of Brantford, McConkey developed a street pole banner programme for Brantford as a means of celebrating their National Champion status of Communities in Bloom. The programme was so successful that in 10 short weeks, he had raised nearly $100,000 in corporate sponsorships and was able to have 383 banners adorning the streets throughout the city. Other communities heard of the Brantford banner story and called to have McConkey implement similar banner programmes in their communities.\nIn response to this demand, McConkey formed Canada Flag & Banner and became a national sponsor of Communities in Bloom. This resulted in the young banner company becoming the principal banner supplier to communities in every province and territory in Canada. During this period, Canada Flag & Banner became a major manufacturer of banner bracket hardware, a product that it now wholesales to other banner companies for clients worldwide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://capitalclimate.blogspot.com/2009/08/hurricane-season-outlook-revised-lower.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:Y43LYB7E63YFPGW2KZGXBQC4NIPXI4Y2", "length": 1966, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "capitalclimate.blogspot.com", "title": "CapitalClimate: Hurricane Season Outlook Revised Lower", "raw_content": "NOAA this morning revised its Atlantic tropical season outlook downward from the forecast released in May. The new prediction from the Climate Prediction Center and National Hurricane Center calls for the following probabilities (May numbers in parentheses):\nAbove normal: 10% (25%)\nNear normal: 50% (50%)\nBelow normal: 40% (25%)\nThere is a 70% chance of the following numbers of storms (normal in parentheses):\nNamed storms: 7-11 (11)\nHurricanes: 3-6 (6)\nMajor hurricanes: 1-2 (2)\nThe intensity of the hurricane season is measured using the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), which is a combination of the duration and intensity of storms, rather than simply the number of storms.\nThe downward revision in the forecast is based mainly on the continued development of El Ni\u00f1o conditions in the tropical Pacific. The higher wind shear (increase of wind with height) from El Ni\u00f1o is expected to outweigh the effects of warmer than average Atlantic and Caribbean sea surface temperatures.\nDespite the indications of lower than average tropical activity, NOAA cautions residents of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts that they should be prepared every year, regardless of the overall level of activity. To paraphrase on old mariners' saying, \"One nasty hurricane can spoil your whole day.\" Some examples of hurricane landfalls in El Ni\u00f1o years include Betsy (1965), Bob (1991), Danny (1997), and Lili (2002). The most notorious example of a disastrous storm during a below-average season was Andrew (1992). Others include Hurricane Donna (1960) and Hurricane Betsy (1965).\nThe latest dates for the first storm of the season are:\nFor records back to 1851:\nTropical storm: September 15 (1914)\nHurricane: October 8 (1905)\nSatellite era (since 1966):\nTropical storm: August 30 (Arlene, 1967)\nHurricane: September 11 (Gustav, 2002)\nImage (click to enlarge): Recent sea surface temperatures, from NOAA/Climate Prediction Center\nLabels: Seasonal Forecast, Tropical Topics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 831, "original_length": 23648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carin75.blogspot.com/2009/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VLRWB2Z6UJGSTM7FYZRA3BREWT5EJUZG", "length": 3199, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "carin75.blogspot.com", "title": "Casa de Carin: July 2009", "raw_content": "Missing my Sis....\nIt\u2019s late night, well, around 12:20 and I\u2019m nostalgic. I miss Denise.\nI search my sister\u2019s name \u201cDenise Hamilton\u201d. It results in some author, but not my sister who didn\u2019t have enough time to become any famous anything or any accomplished figure. Diagnosed at only 19 with a terminal brain tumor, she only had about 16 months to live. To modify the search to her name + \u201ctumor\u201d or \u201cbrain tumor\u201d is futile. With such a short time in this world, the impact didn\u2019t affect Google or other online resources, who were barely even a blip at that time. I worry about the overall affect as the immense guilt is almost too much to bear. The love and connection to a dear younger sister is one thing, but the effort to make sure a life is not forgotten, well, that is quite another\u2026\u2026\nPure sadness overwhelms me as I consider he unthinkable, that beautiful Denise could be forgotten. She was such a nice and friendly soul, it never occurred to me that it would be possible, nor did I ever think that I needed to make sure that didn't happen.\nBut now we are past 10 year reunions, and I can't help but wonder who told the rightful story to its attendants? And as we have moved past the marriage of best friends, who stood in her place as Maid of Honor? Who keeps her story alive and makes sure such a good, spirited, and lively soul continues its impact in this world?\nAnd then it occurs to me...life will go on for most. Friends are \"replacable\", but Sisters are not. So perhaps it's my job. And if that's the case, I've been doing a sucky job. Far inferior to what she would probably do for me.\nIn contrast to the case of \"friends\", there is a finite number and in my case, it's 2. I can't move on and just replace the void. My older sister and I have this emptiness that when asked how many sisters we have, we must say \"Two, but our youngest sister past away.\" And then the inexplicable is upon us. How do you explain the biggest tradgedy of your life to someone you've just met? Or someone you've known for a while? How can they possibly understand? Hopefully, they can't.\nIt sucks! But what do you do? There's nothing that can change the past. Death is so final, and there is simply no second chance. I would do things differently now though. Spend more time with her. Help her reach her goals. And even change to more aggressive treatment options.\nBut there is not much benefit from these wishes that mostly conjour thoughts of regrets. I loved my sister and hope I was the best sister at the time. But when contemplating death, it's hard to not consider the lasting effects of death. I miss Denise. I miss my sister dearly. This is the first time I've put it in words and really focused on the lasting effects this tradgedy has had on me.\nI guess I just needed a place tonight to let out my thoughts. I don't really know who all reads my entries, but by posting these thoughts and feelings, I feel like I am rekindling some of my sister's fire. I loved her so much and miss her so much, and I just really want to keep the memory of her soul in this world.\nI love you, Denise Nicole Hamilton. I love you and miss you!\nPosted by Carin at 1:00 AM 2 comments:\nLabels: Denise Nicole Hamilton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carolinalive.org/component/k2/item/476-radio-chopin-episode-17-cantabile-in-b-flat-major-kk-1230", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MVVIE6XBRW5H4IIT7ZKHT2NEGWRHND4W", "length": 1468, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "carolinalive.org", "title": "Episode 17: Chopin's Cantabile", "raw_content": "Episode 17: Chopin's Cantabile\nCantabile in B-flat Major, KK 1230\nA footnote. Fourteen bars. Can a fifty-five second composition be a key to unlocking Chopin\u2019s life-long aesthetic?\nCantabile. An Italian word first used around 1724. It means \u201csingable,\u201d \u201csonglike,\u201d or indicates \u201ca style of playing designed to imitate the human voice.\u201d\nTwice in his life Chopin fell head-over-heels in love\u2026with singers. A third became a close friend and collaborator. Days after his arrival in Paris, Chopin wrote home heady with the endless buffet of spectacular voices he was hearing night after night. Chopin was identifying something of himself in these great voices and in what they were singing - most notably in the \u201cnever-ending melody\u201d Chopin reported hearing in Vincenzo Bellini\u2019s operas.\nFor many music scholars, Chopin\u2019s love of opera, and of singing, is the key to understanding his music; they call it Chopin\u2019s \u201cCantabile Aesthetic.\u201d Flowing, singable, lines, Bellini\u2019s bel canto, translated to the black and white of the keys.\nCantabile is also the title of this briefest of Chopin miniatures. Chopin wrote it in Paris around 1834, but it didn\u2019t get published until nearly a century later. Despite its brevity, it sums up the singing soul of Chopin. As Chopin\u2019s biographer, James Hunecker wrote, \"He may become old-fashioned, but, like Mozart, he will remain eternally beautiful.\u201d - Jennifer Foster\nRadio Chopin: Episode 124: Chopinimals\nCarolina Live: Tangos and Tapas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carruthlawllc.com/2017/08/31/3-foundations-of-an-effective-estate-plan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MRCDURIHPEWWJJQCXWJZVDVHUGDHLK5R", "length": 2804, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "carruthlawllc.com", "title": "3 Foundations of an Effective Estate Plan | Sati C. McLafferty, Esq.", "raw_content": "There is more to your estate plan than stating who will get your property after your passing. Through your estate plan, you get to make decisions related to your health care, minor children, financial affairs, and more. You also get to carry on your legacy, whether that be contributing to your favorite charity or encouraging a child to go to college.\nAn effective estate plan makes your intentions clear and is tailored to your personal goals and wishes. Your financial situation, family relationships, spiritual beliefs, and personal desires are all your own. No one else will or should have the same estate plan as you. For these reasons, all estate plans should be built on a foundation of thoughtfulness, honesty, and communication.\nIt is important for you to spend time thinking about what is most important to you. Is your sister who\u2019s in college the best suited to take care of your minor children? Is your 20-year-old child ready to manage a large inheritance? Should your brother be your agent under your medical power of attorney when he lives 500 miles away? Do you want to donate your organs? These are only a few questions you should consider when developing your estate plan. Take the time to think about what you really want and who is truly best suited for each role. The Client Questionnaire will guide you through the thought process.\nBe honest with yourself and with your loved ones. As you consider the details of your estate plan, be honest with yourself about your relationships and the goals you want to accomplish through your estate plan. If your sister is struggling financially with 3 kids of her own, maybe she isn\u2019t the best person to take care of your 3 children. Remember that this is a plan to carry out your intentions. You may hurt someone\u2019s feelings, but it is more important that you do what you think is right for you and your family.\nCommunication is an important part of any relationship. This remains true for your relationship with your attorney as well as your relationship with your loved ones. You should feel comfortable communicating with your attorney. Estate planning touches on sensitive topics that aren\u2019t always easy to talk about. In order for your attorney to create an effective plan for you, you need to be able to communicate your thoughts and feelings to her.\nAdditionally, you should communicate with your loved ones. A major reason to have an estate plan is to prevent family feuds after your death. No one wants their grieving family to also be fighting over what they think you would have wanted. It is helpful to have conversations with your loved ones about your intentions. At a minimum, let one or more people know that you have an estate plan, where to find your estate plan, and who to contact in the event of your death or incapacity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://caseyhagenauthor.com/2015/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:QBL773OV4GNP4RSPDSGXHZSYAGHGPZ7H", "length": 77, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "caseyhagenauthor.com", "title": "April 2015 \u2013 Casey Hagen, Author", "raw_content": "What it is like to be married to a romance writer ?\nOh you have to read this!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catalog.shsu.edu/graduate/college-departments/education/library-science-and-technology/instructional-systems-design-and-technology-edd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:46Z", "digest": "sha1:EW7RBYLYDI6DTBNEPLEABY3BKKK5SDD2", "length": 5827, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "catalog.shsu.edu", "title": "Ed.D. in Instructional Systems Design and Technology < Sam Houston State University", "raw_content": "The Doctorate in Instructional Systems Design and Technology is an online professional practice doctoral program designed to prepare individuals to lead the integration of technology into curriculum. Primarily, this doctoral program prepares individuals as leaders of instructional technology who will guide their organizations toward achieving meaningful integration of technology.\nIn addition, the degree also produces instructional technology leaders who are working in school districts, community colleges, universities, or businesses in a support and service role regarding instructional design, assessment of learning/management systems, networking, and assessment/implementation of instructional software.\nAdmission to the program requires devoting a significant amount of time to the program. The inability to devote the required time will require the individual to drop out of the program.\nThe Instructional Systems Design and Technology program follows a cohort model. This means that individuals are admitted to a specific group, called a cohort, and are required to take their coursework at the same time as the other individuals in the cohort. In the event of emergencies which require individuals to drop out of the normal schedule, they may be required to join another cohort with a different schedule.\nInstructional Systems Design and Technology Fall (August) March 1\nApplicants seeking admission to the doctoral program in Instructional Systems Design and Technology must submit the following directly to the Office of Graduate Studies:\nA Graduate Studies Application with the application fee.\nOfficial transcript(s) showing receipt of a baccalaureate degree and a master's degree from an accredited institution Candidates for admission to the professional practice Doctoral Program in Instructional Systems Design and Technology must have a Masters Degree in Instructional Systems Design and Technology or a similar degree which includes the foundational knowledge required for this proposed program. Documentation of the candidate\u2019s graduation from accredited institutions at the baccalaureate and masters levels will be required.\nApplicants must submit an acceptable score on the verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing sections of the GRE.\nA sample of the candidate\u2019s professional work such as a published article and/or an example of experience in instructional technology design/multimedia design. This product should provide evidence of the candidate\u2019s potential for doctoral level scholarship and should be accompanied by a statement of the candidate\u2019s professional goals.\nA minimum of three years of teaching, direct service, administrative experience with technology, instructional design either in school, administrative, or business/industry. The types of professional experiences in an applicant\u2019s background will be viewed as evidence of both direct service roles, as well as commitment to the field of instructional technology.\nA current resume or vita\nThree letters of recommendation from educational or direct service settings, two of which should refer to direct experiences with instructional technology and/or multimedia design, and can speak to the candidate\u2019s potential for success in a doctorate program.\nApplicants should hold a master's degree in a related field, and the student's graduate GPA should be 3.5 or higher. In addition, three years of full-time professional experience in a credible school, agency, or organization is required.\nApplicants meeting the above criteria may be invited for an interview with the doctoral admissions committee. This interview, conducted by graduate faculty of the University, provides the candidate an opportunity to demonstrate potential for leadership, commitment to service, and interest in applied research. A candidate who fails to meet one of the criteria may receive probationary admission if he/she is sponsored by a doctoral faculty member.\nAfter the completion of twelve semester hours (two semesters) of doctoral level coursework in the program, each student will be considered for full admission to candidacy. A doctoral program committee will review his/her academic progress, interpersonal skills, and motivation to determine whether the student should continue with the program. After full admission to the program, the student\u2019s doctoral dissertation committee will be assigned by the Director of Doctoral Studies in Instructional Technology.\nA comprehensive examination will be taken after the completion of forty-two hours of required coursework. Following the written part of the examination, an oral examination is scheduled with the student\u2019s Doctoral Dissertation Committee. Students must be enrolled during the semester the comprehensive examination is taken. After successful completion of the written and oral comprehensive examination, the student may defend the dissertation proposal.\nDoctorate of Education in Instructional Systems Design and Technology\nInstructional Systems Design and Technology Core\nCSTE 7315 Educational Network Design 3\nCSTE 7325 Technology Sustainability 3\nCSTE 7336 Instructional Design Assmt 3\nISDT 7350 Issues in Instructional Tech 3\nISDT 7352 Instructional Planning 3\nISDT 7353 Professional Development 3\nISDT 7354 Leadership in Technology Admin 3\nISDT 7355 Program Evaluation 3\nISDT 7385 Doctoral Internship 3\nISDT 7388 Doctoral Field Studies 3\nEducational Research Core\nCSTE 7380 Inst Tech Research Methods 3\nCOUN 7374 Multivariate Mthd-Cnslr Edu Rs 3\nISDT 7372 Statistical Methods 3\nISDT 7374 Qualitative Analysis 3\nDissertation Required Courses\nISDT 7391 Application of Research 3\nISDT 8333 Doctoral Dissertation 1 9\nISDT 8333 must be taken at least three times for a minimum total of nine credit hours. 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If you would like to learn more about this class, or are interested in being baptized please fill out the form below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cdlckj.net/the-essential-laws-of-explained.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:33:39Z", "digest": "sha1:FU4LH7G3ZOZQNAW7CTEPOOR3UBCSIRDE", "length": 2993, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "cdlckj.net", "title": "The Essential Laws of Explained | CDLCKJ", "raw_content": "Home>Home Products & Services>The Essential Laws of Explained\nAll About Energy-Efficiency in the Real Estate Field.\nCurrently, energy efficient homes are not just something you get when you have a surplus amount of money but many sellers and buyers are after that. Environment awareness efforts are catching up on many people which is why there are many who are concerned about the kind of homes they are buying. When it comes to energy conservation, many people are going for smart home gadgets as a show that they are committed to going green in their own homes. People have opened their eyes to the fact that reducing energy bills can be done through various ways and not merely a reduction of the length of time people are spending in the shower. There are various ways people can cut down on energy bills now. Besides saving on energy, you will also get to repurpose the power. There are smart thermostats you can use in adjusting the temperature of your home at various points. Additionally, you can also invest in shower heads that control the amount of water coming through automatically. If you are in the real estate sector, you might be wondering how this concerns you. To meet the needs of the buyer, you need to be in touch with the issues which matter to them the most and currently, it all comes down to energy efficiency. A great price tag or even a beautiful exterior will not cut the deal for you now. The buyers are also interested in knowing how the property will support their goals, value system and also the lifestyle. Many people are now considering energy-efficiency issues prior to buying a home.\nIn matters to do with energy efficiency, a lot of real estate agents have not been paying attention to that but rather they have been talking about square footage of the property, school districts not to forget how great the backyard is. People who are doing well in terms of selling homes are those who are talking about how energy-efficient the home lighting is, the building automation and also other concepts that help in general conservation of electricity. In the start of the millennium, EnergyStar introduced its efficiency program and it is a great pity that the general public is now just becoming aware of the program. When the program was being rolled out, there wasn\u2019t much awareness of climate change. Many were also oblivious to the energy costs which are ever going up. These are hot topics now and homeowners want to reduce energy costs and that is why you need to get energy-efficient homes before you do anything else. Any realtor who wants to sell homes fast will seek information on energy-efficiency in the homes he or she has put on the market and have ready answers on issues to do with the kind of bulbs being used to the average energy bill paid per month by the previous owner. This site will enlighten you more concerning the same.\nPrevious PostPrev Article Why No One Talks About Home Anymore\nNext PostNext Article The Ultimate Guide to Home", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cekus.pl/en/building/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:38Z", "digest": "sha1:43RGZXC7BDPUFW6VX6PT3X6Q6JHPELDG", "length": 1473, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "cekus.pl", "title": "Building | CEKUS | w Nakle \u015al\u0105skim", "raw_content": "The seat of the Silesian Culture Center is located in the historic, 19th century palace of Counts Henckel von Donnersmarck, whose interiors were thoroughly renovated in 2010-2012 years. As a result the palace was equipped with a comfortable lift for the disabled and an additional staircase. In use are the rooms on the ground floor (exhibition space), on the first floor (exhibition and office) and partly in the basement (for utility purpose).\nground floor: 5 large, 3 small and the former chapel\n1st floor: 3 large rooms, 1 smaller (permanent exhibition)\nExposition rooms \u2013 ground floor\nThe exhibition rooms are very functional and can serve for following purposes: conference, concert, video projection, lecture, catering and special functions (celebrations, meetings, celebrations, etc.).\nConcert / exhibition / conference / projection room (1st floor)\nVIP room (1st floor) \u2013 so-called \u201esafe room\u201d: a room with original Donnersmarck safe and antique furniture, acting as a guest lounge and permanent exhibition\nkitchen for employees, with the possibility of preparing coffee and tea and a small snack or catering\ntoilets: large toilets on the 1st floor, with a toilet for the disabled, in which there is a changing table for babies / 2 toilets (including one for the disabled) on the ground floor (near the chapel)\nLift adapted to transport disabled people\nParking spaces for cars (43) and buses (2 x 15\u00d76 m) are located in the parking lot near the main entrance gate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cfinsider.org/tag/social-media", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:45Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZXWRFX5UOOMN5PQ4AOIRYBYNQQAPICX", "length": 347, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cfinsider.org", "title": "social media \u2013 CF Insider", "raw_content": "CF has added the popular social media platform Snapchat to its list of ways to engage with students and potential students. 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Published on 19 January 2016.\nHere at Chalkdust we\u2019re very excited by the latest discovery of the new largest prime number, which is the Mersenne prime $2^{74,207,281}-1$. So to celebrate this discovery by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, we thought we\u2019d publish the number.\nFun facts first:\nAll Mersenne primes are of the form $2^p \u2013 1$, where $p$ is prime (the first four are 3, 7, 31, and 127).\nMersenne primes are named after Marin Mersenne (whose face is in the banner at the top!).\nIn binary, the number is \u20181\u2019 repeated 74,207,280 times!\nThis means it requires 8.85MB of disk space to store, or 7 floppy disks!\nUsing the \u201cmillion, billion, trillion\u201d naming system, you could call this number 300 septillisensquadragintaquadringentiilliquattuorducentillion!\nThe new prime\nSadly it\u2019s 22 million digits long, so we can\u2019t publish it in its entirety, but it begins:\n860347811180188837898128568440669359271612444713805577302483892184777905493456249144515504366735435257646973008855321674803866037094498725552912123074801792765597096176486305356033886997788467889060830923906229428002877708466815350114276229212218369040454779639313670134014480149404704116966334745646885160717774014762912462113646879425801445107393100212927181629335931494239018213879217671164956287190498687010073391086436351.\nThankfully it ends in a 1 and not a 2. You would be forgiven if you prefer to write it $3.0037 \\times 10^{22,338,617}$.\nThere are, of course, an infinite number of primes, which we can prove using Euclid\u2019s theorem (as featured in the Elements from 300 BC). The announcement by the GIMPS, a project looking for Mersenne primes as evidence suggests that Mersenne numbers are more likely to be prime than a randomly picked integer, is for the largest found so far.\nThe conjoined semicircles in the banner at the top of the page were generated by Jason Davies\u2019 prime number pattern generator. Have a play!\n\u2190 The Drake equation\nHow to tile a chessboard \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://charityshop.theinnercitymission.ngo/product/5/vegetable-oil", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UV6DE2U6B3K43SC2KLFWIEPB2RMGFHCX", "length": 153, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "charityshop.theinnercitymission.ngo", "title": "Product Details: Vegetable Oil:", "raw_content": "Buy a bottle of vegetabvle oil to help in cooking various kinds food for the children. 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Comparing quotes from these insurers will help you locate cheap online life insurance. The process is quick and easy and can definitely get your lower premiums in most cases.\nThe first step is to take some time and search online for the top companies that can provide you with the services that you are looking for. Simply searching for life insurance in Joice, IA will surely give you a host of the top companies that provide this service in the country. It is important to decide what company you feel is worthy of your business. Each company is different in the kind of service they provide as well as how much effort they take to inform their clients.\nFirst you must get quotes from the various companies that are available in Joice, IA. When you get these quotes you must think about the fact that the price is not the only thing to consider. While a great deal is regulated by law, every company has the choice to decide to some degree what they are willing to offer.\nIf you want to find the best in Joice life insurance quote possible you must do the research necessary. Take the time to understand what the investment you make means to you as well as those around you. In essence, we are all so very lucky to live this life. 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Relatives also said two male victims were his cousins, Nate Hatch and Andrew Fryberg.\n\"I feel very distraught, like it's a nightmare,\" said Paula Hatch Satiacum, 49, the aunt of one teen and a relative of the other two.\nShe said there was \"no indication\" of trouble between the cousins before the incident.\nBrandon Hatch, 26, the boys' cousin, described the three as best friends who lived just doors away from each other on Native American land, near Marysville.\n\u201cNate and Jaylen and Andrew grew up together,\" Hatch said. \"They\u2019d go over to each other\u2019s houses on the weekend, after school, and play games, play sports together.\"\nBoth the Hatch and Fryberg families are members of the Native American Tulalip Tribes.\n\"As far as I knew, they were all a bunch of bright kids and had a future,\" Hatch said. \"It's very hard. I don't know why this happened. I've heard the rumors, but I just want to know the truth.\"\nInvestigators said they were still searching for a motive and had recovered a .40 caliber handgun from the school.\nThe shooter targeted a cafeteria-table gathering of his friends and family, prompting a lockdown of the school and a flood of heavily armed police, law enforcement officials and witnesses said.\nOne girl was killed. Her identity has not been released.\nFifteen-year-old Andrew Fryberg, was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head, and Nate Hatch, 14, was in serious condition with a gunshot to the jaw, hospital officials said.\nTwo other female victims, Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, and Gia Soriano, 14, remained in critical condition at a different hospital, medical officials said.\nThe incident sent shock waves through the Tribes and broader Marysville, a town of about 63,000 people, with many voicing disbelief that Fryberg could be responsible.\n\"Jaylen was always outgoing, an athlete,\" Brandon Hatch said. \"He was a funny guy at times, too, a jokester.\"\nHowever, there were troubling signs. Classmates and parents said Fryberg had recently had a dispute on the football field.\nRebecca Cooley, whose son played football with Fryberg, said he had been in a fight with another player over a disparaging remark made during football practice.\n\"(Jaylen) broke the kid's nose,\" Cooley said. \"A lot of the football players stepped in during this fight.\"\nThere were also hints on social media at a disappointment of some sort. Messages at times suggested signs of heartbreak and anger.\nA school official who requested anonymity and a friend of one of the female victims said a girl had recently rejected Fryberg.\n\"I heard he asked her out, and she rebuffed him and was with his cousin,\" said Bella Panjeli, a ninth-grade student at a different school who said she was a friend of one female victim.\n'A LITTLE BIT OLDER'\nVigils for the victims were planned through the weekend.\nAt the Mountain View Presbyterian Church in Marysville on Saturday, a somber group of students, parents and residents tried to offer comfort and make sense of the tragedy.\nJohn and Cindy Honeyman said their 15-year-old son, Isaac, was ordered to shelter in a classroom during the shooting.\n\"They are all just a little bit older today, and that makes me sad,\" Cindy Honeyman said, her eyes reddened from tears.\nThe Tulalip Tribes said in a statement on their website that the community was \"reeling from this experience.\n\"Sadly, we are now experiencing what has become a national trend, which we, as a society, must address,\" the statement said.\nAccording to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, a school employee had tried to stop the shooting, the latest in a string of such incidents that has prompted national debate about school safety and gun laws.\nReuters\u2014Reported by \u2605Eric M. 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When working together correctly, these muscles help to stabilise the spine.\nCore stability retraining corrects the timing and activation of these muscles.\nRealtime Ultrasound\nRealtime ultrasound allows you to see how your muscles are working. Having the ability to see these muscles can help you retrain them in a more effective way, and helps ensure correct activation. 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I really appreciate the support given my work by the CWPT, and it\u2019s likewise my pleasure to do what I can to assist with the Trust\u2019s ongoing efforts. Jim Lighthizer, president of the Trust, wrote an excellent foreword to the book that explains why we work so hard to save these battlefields, and I commend it to you. Thanks also to Rob Shenk of the Trust for wanting to have my insights included on the Trust\u2019s website.\nFor those of you who buy through Amazon, please click through the CWPT link, as the Trust receives a small commission on every sale that originates from its site. Every penny helps. 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Albeit some are better handled than others, but that\u2019s the joy of competition, and if all the filmmakers are competent in one way or another the audience will (should) appreciate what they\u2019re trying to do.\nV/H/S/2 has a POV eye-transplant ghost film, a unique take on the zombie genre taken from the zombie\u2019s perspective, an immersive cinema v\u00e9rit\u00e9 style documentary piece on a sadistic cult (easily the standout piece \u2013 it\u2019s insanely unnerving) and an alien abduction film that was everything Dark Skies and The Fourth Kind should have been. All this held together nicely with another, thriller-cum-possession investigation film. If you\u2019re not enjoying one short, another is right around the corner to grab your interest.\nObviously V/H/S/2 isn\u2019t perfect. The camera work is fairly vertiginous and hard to get used to \u2013 if you\u2019re prone to travel sickness, this may not be the best thing to sit down to. The budgets for the anthology are also fairly low and although each filmmaker makes the most out of it (they really do throw their balls to wall \u2013 Gareth Evans: \u201cEight days, no breaks, 18 to 20 hours a day, one day just under 24 hours. It was crazy\u201d), you can\u2019t help but think, once throwing the hand-held style aside, what if these anthology movies were given blockbuster budgets to play with?\nCasting the hand-held style aside, what if these anthology movies were given blockbuster budgets to play with?\nOften bigger budgets can mean less care is taken in regards to creativity, the film relying on its visuals and marketing to carry it through to profit. However, if these directors were forced to \u2018compete\u2019 against each other, then their pride and creative reputation would be on display; they would have to put out the best product possible. Can you imagine a disaster film, taken from four points of view across the world, with Nolan, Spielberg, Abrams and Bay the driving forces behind each half-hour episode of furious spectacle?\nI\u2019m just pulling names out of the Big League Director\u2019s Hat here, but you can see where I\u2019m going with this. They\u2019re all roughly in the same weight class, each person has made a name for themselves in their own right and each has dropped a dud in recent times too. With that said, each director is very capable \u2013 an anthology movie would be a chance for them to show off their creative muscles, instead of just their wallets.\nWith a growing trend of identical concepts in movies (White House Down/Olympus Has Fallen, Mirror Mirror/Snow White and the Huntsman, etc), why not cut all that out and just play them off against each other in an anthology? The anthology could also help in regards to large franchises trying to cover ground before releasing their big pay-off feature (see: The Avengers), with a chance to introduce fans to multiple characters. With Marvel\u2019s potential Sinister Six and Venom movies, plus anything else they feel like milking along the way, the anthology movie may be a way to do that as well as introducing audiences to new directors. A villain anthology may be the only way to keep audiences invested in characters which are by default unsympathetic, by simply creating interesting tales for each character.\nNow, before this starts to sound like John Lennon\u2019s Imagine, it\u2019s probably widely understood that nothing is this black and white. 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He will always be remembered for his ability to provide a natural and seamless combination of gentle diplomacy and powerful advocacy, and has left a legacy that we are all inspired by and aspire to.\nHelmy had been unstoppable in his struggle with illness for over two decades, most recently experiencing a variety of medical complications, yet had remained strong throughout.\nIn conjunction with the UK Copts Association, which Helmy founded and headed, and both the Coptic and Egyptian medical societies, we are arranging a gathering in the coming weeks to remember, give thanks for, and celebrate the life of this great advocate.\nOur prayers are with his wonderful family, community and friends, that we all be comforted in the expectation of our beloved and respected Helmy receiving that wonderful commendation from our Lord and Chief Advocate Himself, \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. 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SF Bay Area website content writer Lanny Udell helps clients tell their brand stories with powerful, compelling copy.\nWhether she\u2019s writing about the latest anti-aging skincare line, fine wine or financial services, she delves into the project, asks the right questions and looks for ways to maximize your results.\nA versatile, conceptual writer, Lanny\u2019s diverse industry experience demonstrates her ability to write strategically for different audiences in a variety of media.\nBecause she understands the value of working as a team, Lanny collaborates with top level graphic and web designers. Or partners with your in-house marketing team to create solutions that really work.\nThe Path to Copywhiz-dom\nArmed with a degree in Journalism/Advertising, Lanny became a fashion copywriter at the premier department store in her home town of Minneapolis. Before long, she was made Copy Chief, and then set her sights on New York. There she worked for ad agencies big and small creating print, TV and radio campaigns for national and regional brands. Along the way she won her share of awards and was privileged to work with, and learn from, some outstanding creative and marketing talent.\nIn the mid 1990s, Lanny made the leap to the SF Bay Area and established her freelance copywriting business. Since then she\u2019s focused on writing website content with an emphasis on SEO. She also writes direct marketing projects, catalogs, case studies and other corporate communications. Her clients include regional, national and international brands and nonprofits. Learn more about her services.\nProjects from the heart\nOne of the highlights of her writing life was collaborating with Jonathan Cutler to create Our Mothers\u2019 Recipes: Remembering the Meals That Shaped Our Lives. A delicious trip down memory lane, the book features recipes and fond childhood memories from contributors all over the country. For a complimentary copy, contact Lanny.\nThe duo also collaborated on the script for Alma del Tango\u2019s 2013 student production, Close Embrace: A Tango Love Story. \u201cIt was a thrill to see our story come alive onstage,\u201d says Lanny, who also performed in the show.\nA long time volunteer with the To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation, Lanny is co-chair of the Communications Committee. She is also on the board of Alma del Tango, a nonprofit dedicated to building community through Argentine Tango.\nWhen she\u2019s not writing you may find her photographing in the beautiful Bay Area or dancing the tango at a milonga in Marin.\nLanny writes engaging copy that presents my practice in a clear and compelling way\u2026 She takes an active interest in my business and advocates for its success.\n\u2013 Michael E. Woods, YourPatentGuy\nRead more rave reviews \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://corecougars.weebly.com/agenda-21-exposed.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ELQVTD3KKOVOOZNXP7RMLB2VCJDYUBCT", "length": 1577, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "corecougars.weebly.com", "title": "Agenda 21 EXPOSED - CoreCougars.com", "raw_content": "Michael Shaw Interview : Agenda 21 and the NWO\nMP3 & SHOW NOTES: http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2013/269-int027 \"Humanity stands at a defining moment in history.\" So begins the UN's Agenda 21 document to which most of the world signed up following the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. That \"defining moment\" - as promulgated by the UN - was the need for a \"global partnership for sustainable development\" to address \"disparities between and within nations... poverty, hunger, ill health... illiteracy\" and \"deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend...\" Well-intentioned, we might think. But joining us to warn of its dangers is Michael Shaw, President of Freedom Advocates, who identifies Agenda 21 as the globalist action plan aimed at removing our unalienable rights, reducing human population, subverting national sovereignty by dividing the world into a system of globally-administered city states, and ultimately building an authoritarian New World Order of oligarchical rule.\nSource: http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2013/269-int027\nInterview Notes: http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2013/22-interviewnotes/295-int027n\nDisclaimer: The views expressed by Michael Shaw in this interview are his responsibility alone; they do not necessarily reflect those of The Mind Renewed.\nPodcast music: Antony Raijekov's 'Jazz U' http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antony_Raijekov/Jazz_U/, (CC BY-NC 2.5) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/bg/\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/TheMindRenewedDotCom\nThe Economic Doctrine of the Nazis | Hans-Hermann Hoppe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 12376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://coursade.com/courses/q-/index-0/provider-/school-600/category-/pricing-/level-/format-Mixed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:25UBJ33J5WVAWYWTJ5FMJECAZUPWDPID", "length": 820, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "coursade.com", "title": "Coursade Search Results", "raw_content": "TsinghuaX (X)\nPrinciples of Electric Circuits: Part 1\nThis course provides a solid introduction to the real-world application of electric circuits used in cutting-edge technologies. (In Mandarin with English subtitles).\nTsinghuaX: 00690242_1x: Historical Relic Treasures and Cultural China: Part 1\nCourse videos are presented in Mandarin with English subtitles....\nTsinghuaX: 20220332X: Principles of Electric Circuits: Part 1\nTsinghuaX: 20220332_2x: Principles of Electric Circuits: Part 2\nTsinghuaX: 30240184x: Data Structures \u2022 \u6570\u636e\u7ed3\u6784\nTsinghuaX: 80000901_1X: History of Chinese Architecture \u2014 Part 1\nTsinghuaX: 80000901_2x: History of Chinese Architecture: Part 2\nArchitecture from the 13th century to the early 20th century in China, mainly wood structures.\nTsinghuaX: 80512073x: Financial Analysis and Decision Making", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://craftsewcreate.blogspot.com/2011/08/packing-for-move-has-begun-yuck.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:52:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PR3YZ7JZTZTMIBJBECYGVJ3OALC35CIT", "length": 766, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "craftsewcreate.blogspot.com", "title": "Craft Sew Create: Packing & Stitching", "raw_content": "The packing for the move has begun, yuck. Actually I don't mind the packing, I just don't like having a house full of boxes. And that half-in, half-out feeling. It will be nice when we can start moving things over (Wednesday, yay!). It's been great though because my oldest daughter, Sophie is so excited to move she is packing like crazy. It's so nice to have the help! We've been getting a lot done, so last night I didn't feel too guilty about making a couple of new blocks.\nI'm actually dedicating this week's blocks to my daughters Sophie and Maggie. Sophie's favorite color is green, Maggie's is yellow, simple as that. And they look so pretty together, so lemon-limony and fresh. 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The concert will be held in the atrium of the Gallery, and hence numbers will be limited.\nPhill Niblock himself will be in attendance, as will Trio Scordatura and famed Niblock interpreter, Susan Stenger.\nWe will keep you up to date as to when tickets will go on sale so that you do not miss out!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://creativemovementcompany.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:13:38Z", "digest": "sha1:E64HUQZJA7D7O5WUJTSXPYL4ZAAIU647", "length": 721, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "creativemovementcompany.com", "title": "About Us @ The Creative Movement Company", "raw_content": "The Creative Movement Company was created by Owner and Director, Jennifer Rosoff. After her involvement in the non profit world and experience in the artistic community, Jennifer knew she wanted to combine her love for dance with a way to help people. The Creative Movement Company was created to use the art of movement as a vehicle for joy, healing, self-expression and empowerment. We strongly believe that everyone has an expressive bone in their body and that moving with authenticity is the most important part of dancing. We work with individuals in the community regardless of age, gender, ability and/or race. 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This will not affect your care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cryptid.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:M3NOT34MVLMCZ2D67NKPDEZLMPSB56JP", "length": 2267, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cryptid.wikia.com", "title": "Vampire | Cryptid Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Mammals, Humanoids, Candidates for deletion\nA vampire, by definition, is an entity that feeds on the life essence of other creatures. Vampires are typically described as \"undead\" \u2014 reanimated corpses possessed by evil spirits. The traditional vampire feeds on the blood of the living to prevent its body from decomposing. The image of the refined, gaunt, pale-skinned vampire is an early 19th century literary invention, beginning roughly with the publication of The Vampyre \u2014 a short story by John Polidori \u2014 in 1819. The original, folkloric vampire of Eastern Europe \u2014 where the legend began \u2014 was described as bloated with a dark or ruddy complexion from feeding on blood.\nMany attribute belief in vampires to a combination of Slavic spiritualism and early ignorance of the body's decomposition cycle after death. In pre-industrial Slavic societies, it was believed that a person's spirit lingered for 40 days after death. Suicide victims, suspected witches, evil beings and even un-baptized children were thought to have \"unclean\" spirits. A vampire, according to this belief, was the manifestation of an unclean spirit possessing a decomposing body.\nWhen the body of a suspected vampire was disinterred, it would sometimes look like it hadn't decomposed at all; like its hair, teeth and fingernails had been growing; and as if it had been gorging on blood due to its ruddy complexion, bloated body and blood seeping from the nose and mouth. We know now that a body's decomposition rate depends on factors like temperature and soil composition; that dead flesh loses fluids, causing it to pull back and expose the roots of hair, teeth and nails; and that gases from decomposition accumulate in the torso, making the body look bloated and forcing blood to ooze from the nose and mouth. Common beliefs about vampires include that they are most active at night, but not necessarily vulnerable to sunlight (which was mainly a literary invention). Garlic, crucifixes and holy water were common devices for warding off vampires. It was also commonly believed that driving a wooden stake into the body would release the evil spirit, with decapitation also being a way to hasten the evil soul's departure.\nRetrieved from \"http://cryptid.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire?oldid=4568\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cwmtycoed.co.uk/booking-form.asp?BookingForm=A&booking_type=Bell_Tents&Season_ID=2&countweek=2&dayno=18&displaymonth=9&displayyear=2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2LWLIBOMQT6JPGAWFHKCR7V24RE4CSJY", "length": 517, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cwmtycoed.co.uk", "title": "Make a Booking - Cwm T\u0177 Coed", "raw_content": "Arrival Date: Tuesday 18 September 2018 Departure Date: (Please Select Date) Thursday 20 September 2018 A.M Friday 21 September 2018 A.M Saturday 22 September 2018 A.M Sunday 23 September 2018 A.M Monday 24 September 2018 A.M Tuesday 25 September 2018 A.M Wednesday 26 September 2018 A.M Thursday 27 September 2018 A.M Friday 28 September 2018 A.M Saturday 29 September 2018 A.M Sunday 30 September 2018 A.M Monday 1 October 2018 A.M Tuesday 2 October 2018 A.M Wednesday 3 October 2018 A.M Thursday 4 October 2018 A.M", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2008/01/30/bruce-springsteen-to-rock-harley-davidson-105th-anniversary-celebration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:44Z", "digest": "sha1:FZA3L23VLRNACPGUYETSV73OJYBNIYHO", "length": 2140, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "cyrilhuzeblog.com", "title": "Bruce Springsteen To Rock Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration at Cyril Huze Post \u2013 Custom Motorcycle News", "raw_content": "\u00ab Polaris 4Q Profit Up Mostly on ATV Sales\nNew-Line Engraving \u00bb\nBruce Springsteen To Rock Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration\nHarley-Davidson\u2019s 105th Anniversary Celebration in late August is shaping up as the music event of 2008 with today\u2019s announcement that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, along with Billboard 200\u2019s top-selling artist Daughtry, will headline separate concerts over the course of the four-day event in Milwaukee. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform a concert on Saturday evening, August 30, at a venue Harley-Davidson has dubbed Roadhouse at the Lakefront, located just north of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Daughtry, who burst onto the music scene in 2006 to become today\u2019s hottest-selling artist, will perform at the Summerfest grounds, also on Saturday evening, August 30. Additional acts include Los Lonely Boys, Black Crowes, ZZ Top, Peter Frampton and Buddy Guy. These artists, along with Daughtry and others will perform during two days of entertainment and activities at the Summerfest grounds on Friday, August 29 and Saturday, August 30, 2008.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8Admission to the Daughtry concert at the Summerfest grounds is included with the two-day Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration ticket package. Admission to the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert requires a separate ticket purchase in addition to the Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration ticket. Ticket packages are currently on sale for $60.00 plus $5.00 tax, shipping and handling at Harley Davidson 105th.\n3 Responses to \u201cBruce Springsteen To Rock Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration\u201d\n1 hoyt Jan 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pm\nI\u2019m all for a party and Springsteen knows how to bring it, but what is so special about the One Hundred and FIFTH anniversary?\nAre they going to introduce a special paint and model scheme every 5 years? Won\u2019t this dilute the whole concept/value of the bigger anniversaries?\n2 Nicker Jan 31st, 2008 at 1:53 am\nSo, zat mean Elton didn\u2019t make the \u201cA\u201d list\u2026?\n3 Rodent Jan 31st, 2008 at 10:29 am\nI\u2019m going to pass on the 105thand prepare for the 106th which will be monumental", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 230.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dacsanquephanrang.com/the-best-advice-on-professionals-ive-found/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OND7L7PG3Q6IHIWWURVIMDT34HLQZGXT", "length": 2889, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dacsanquephanrang.com", "title": "The Best Advice on Professionals I\u2019ve found | Bathroom Gallery", "raw_content": "Bathroom Gallery \u00bb Personal Product & Services \u00bb The Best Advice on Professionals I\u2019ve found\nWhy You Need To Find An Erotic Massage Therapy\nThere is the need to deal with day to day stress so that you are able to live a good life. This calls for better things and a message is one of them that will make you feel better and also forget about your daily battles. It is important for you to understand that when you decide to have the sensual massage, there are many techniques involved. With these techniques, you will be able to improve your romantic and sexual relationship effectively. You will be able to get more intimate with your sex partner which is a very good thing. When you are the one giving the massage to your partner, you will be making your lover never want to stay away from you. When you are able to find a good sensual therapist, the following are the many good things you will getting from them.\nThere is no better and enjoyable way of getting rid of your high cholesterol levels other than getting the sensual massage. You all know the dangers of having high cholesterol in the body as it can result to heart problems. You have to know that for men especially, with this kind of massage, you will not likely suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia. The more you are active sexually, the better your chances of dealing with this awful disease.\nThe other benefit of having the sensual massage is that it helps in strengthening ones\u2019 mental health. There is the need to get rid of all the things that will affect your mind as it can lead you to depression and it is not a good thing. You have to see that you get a massage therapy and the appropriate one is the tantric. Some of the many advantages of having good mental health is that you will be able to be good at your workplace.\nIf you are the kind of person who wants to have an improved life and also get to live for a long time, then you should consider getting the sensual massage. For a long life, you need to stay healthy and an erotic massage helps you to achieve good health. There is the need to see that you get to stay for a long time as there is nothing wrong with that. The benefits of having the sensual massage are proven in the release of hormones which usually happens during and also after orgasm. This is the kind of hormone that makes you feel happy. When the hormones are released, you will find that you will be sleeping just fine and this will ensure that you are able to have good health.\nWallpaper Name : The Best Advice on Professionals I\u2019ve found\nDescription : Download The Best Advice on Professionals I\u2019ve found HD Widescreen Wallpaper from the above resolutions from the directory Personal Product & Services. Posted by jesse jie on May 7, 2018 If you don\u2019t find the exact resolution you are looking for, then go for Original or higher resolution which may fits perfect to your desktop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://damontucker.com/2013/09/22/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:10:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRHEZRJJK33D5VTQDL7HKKPL6N7FKIOW", "length": 5411, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "damontucker.com", "title": "22 | September | 2013 | Hawaii News and Island Information", "raw_content": "In a State of Shark Paranoia\nNote this first appeared here on HuffPost Hawaii:\nWith the recent shark attacks that have happened in the state of Hawaii, there seems to be a state of paranoia going on. I understand folks are afraid of sharks and they are certainly the last thing I would ever want to see in the ocean, however, they are there and there is nothing we can really do to prevent them from being in their ocean.\nThe State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) now has budgeted $186,000 for a two year study that will be lead by Dr. Carl Meyer to study shark movements around Maui.\nAs a taxpayer, this study sounds ridiculous to me:\n\u201cDLNR is paying close attention to the recent series of shark incidents statewide,\u201d said William Aila, DLNR chairperson. \u201cThese appear to be random events involving sharks of different species and different sizes. There\u2019s nothing we can yet discern that connects the incidents or provides any sort of explanation.\u201d In 2013, there have been eight incidents, including four within the last month. Four of this year\u2019s incidents occurred on Maui, three on the Big Island, and one on Oahu.\nMost of us here in Hawaii understand that there are sharks in the ocean. If you ask the majority of folks who are attacked, getting back into the ocean is often considered one of their number one priorities after healing from their wounds.\nSpending $186,000 of our money to basically tell us that yes, there are sharks in the ocean just seems a bit ridiculous to a resident of Hawaii like me. I could see that money going to hire more lifeguards, which would definitely save lives in the future!\nJust a bit of trivia, two Universal Studio movie producers, Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown read a novel written by Peter Benchley named \u201cJaws.\u201d After reading the book, they purchased the movie rights to \u201cJaws\u201d for only $175,000 and the rest is history.\nFiled under: Announcements, Environment, Hawaii, Rumors, Security, State Affairs | Tagged: Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources, Shark Attacks in Hawaii | 1 Comment \u00bb\nSenator Hirono Discusses Rebalance to the Pacific with Top Military and Defense Leaders\nSenator Mazie K. Hirono, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, met this week with top military and defense leaders and discussed critical military issues including the rebalance to the Pacific, the harmful effects of sequestration, investments in sustainable energy technology and efforts to prevent and prosecute sexual assaults in the military. Hirono met separately with Admiral Harry Harris, who will take over as Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in October, and Deborah Lee James, who will serve as Secretary of the Air Force if confirmed.\nHirono with Admiral Harry Harris.\n\u201cI appreciated the opportunity to get to know Admiral Harris and Ms. James, two outstanding leaders who will play key roles in our national defense,\u201d Hirono said. \u201cAdmiral Harris will do an excellent job taking over for Admiral Haney as Commander of the Pacific Fleet and has a deep knowledge of our military\u2019s needs in the Pacific. Ms. James is an extremely knowledgeable and qualified candidate to serve as Secretary of the Air Force, and she would become only the second woman in history to fill that position. I wish her a quick confirmation.\u201d\nHirono was also able to share with Harris and James some of her experiences meeting with Asia-Pacific leaders during her national defense-focused congressional delegation to China, Japan and South Korea.\nAdmiral Harry Harris is the highest-ranking Japanese-American naval officer. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Harris has served in every geographic combatant command region and was assigned in 2011 as the assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\nHirono with Deborah Lee James.\nDeborah Lee James is President of the Technology and Engineering Sector at Science Applications International Corporation. Her professional experience includes a decade as a staff member on the House Armed Services Committee and serving as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Business Executives for National Security. James was nominated by President Obama in August and the Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to vote on her nomination next week.\nHeadquartered at Oahu\u2019s Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, the U.S. Pacific Fleet plays a critical role in maintaining the security and economic interests of our nation and its allies in the Asia-Pacific Region. The fleet\u2019s command covers 100 million square miles and is supported by approximately 200 marine vessels, nearly 1,100 aircraft and more than 140,000 sailors and civilians.\nThe U.S. Air Force has a major presence in Hawaii, with more than 9,500 active duty, National Guard and Reserve and civilian personnel.\nFiled under: Announcements, Hawaii, Military, National Affairs, Security | Tagged: Admiral Harry Harris, Deborah Lee James, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Rebalance of Pacific, Senator Mazie Hirono, U.S. Pacific Fleet | 1 Comment \u00bb\nBig Island Candies Opens New Ala Moana Store\nThe ever so popular Big Island Candies, has opened a new store at Ala Moana Shopping center on the second level of the mall in the Macy\u2019s Wing.\nPhoto via Ala Moana Center\nFiled under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Economy, Food & Drink, Oahu, Something New?, Tourism | Tagged: Ala Moana, Big Island Candies | Leave a comment \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dana-dana.mine.nu/vb1/showthread.php?2006-World-s-top-architect-and-designers-revealed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:49Z", "digest": "sha1:M2LUT3NKHDTX77P4X74IY2FX3XAPKKAW", "length": 325, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dana-dana.mine.nu", "title": "World's top architect and designers revealed", "raw_content": "World's top architect and designers revealed\nThread: World's top architect and designers revealed\nArchitectural Digest have released their annual list of the most important and influential men and women working in interior design and architecture, who are changing the world, one room, one building, and one garden at a time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dconheels.com/tag/terminator-genisys/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:F56CBME6L53KKZCBEBTB46KKTLNO7CIN", "length": 1585, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dconheels.com", "title": "Terminator Genisys | DC on Heels", "raw_content": "20th Century Fox, Amy Schumer, Ant-Man, avatar, Captain America: The First Avenger, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Disney, Fantastic Four, Illumination Entertainment, Inside Out, Judd Apatow, Jurssic World, Magic Mike XXL, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel's The Avengers, Minions, Paramount Pictures Impossible - Rogue Nation, Paul Rudd, PIxar, Pixels, Sony Pictures, superhero, Terminator Genisys, The Incredible Hulk, Trainwreck, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures\nAnt-Man Climbs to the Top Disney\u2019s Ant-Man debuted in first place last weekend (July 17-19) with $57.23 million. The Paul Rudd led comic book film from Marvel opened on the low end of expectations, which ranged from $57 million-$65 million heading into the weekend. Ant-Man\nAnt-Man, Arnold Swarzenegger, Blumhouse Productions, Channing Tatum, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Disney, Fifty Shades of Grey, Focus, Furious 7, Gramercy, Illumination Entertainment, Inside Out, Jurassic World, Magic Mike, Magic Mike XXL, Minions, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Monsters University, New Line, Paramount Pictures, Pitch Perfect 2, PIxar, Pixels, Ryan Reynolds, Self/Less, Shrek the Third, Sony Pictures, Terminator Genisys, Terminator Salvation, The Gallows, Toy Story 3, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, weekend box office\nWeekend Box Office Minions Debuts at Number One Minions delivered last weekend with a $115.72 million debut. The highly anticipated 3D computer animated spin-off from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment opened on the high end of already lofty expectations. Without", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 179.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://defendinginerrancy.com/bible-solutions/Matthew_26.34_(cf._Mark_14.30).php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:V342BEWL2O2WPL7UW7VDXKR6DXLHT6LV", "length": 975, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "defendinginerrancy.com", "title": "Is there a Bible contradiction in Matthew 26:34 (cf. Mark 14:30)?", "raw_content": "Problem: Matthew and John (13:38) say before the rooster crows once, Peter will have denied the Lord three times. But Mark affirms that before the rooster crows twice Peter will deny Christ three times. Which account is right?\nSolution: There is no contradiction between the two accounts because, given the correctness of the text, Matthew and John do not expressly state how many times the rooster will crow. They simply say Peter will deny Christ three times \u201cbefore the rooster crows,\u201d but they do not say how many times it will crow. Mark may simply be more specific, affirming exactly how many times the rooster would crow.\nIt is also possible that different accounts are due to an early copyist error in Mark, that resulted in the insertion of \u201ctwo\u201d in early manuscripts (at Mark 14:30 and 72). This would explain why some important manuscripts of Mark mention only one crowing, just like Matthew and John, and why \u201ctwo\u201d appears at different places in some manuscripts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://defunts.smainternational.info/fr/necrologe/973-le-pere-james-vincent-young", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:52Z", "digest": "sha1:P3C66QGBQFEYLLTQKPYWNIFSJESB7AJH", "length": 4707, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "defunts.smainternational.info", "title": "Le P\u00e8re James Vincent YOUNG", "raw_content": "Le P\u00e8re James Vincent YOUNG\nn\u00e9 le 25 octobre 1903 \u00e0 Kilrush\n1946-1950, vicariat de Lagos\npro vicaire de 1946 \u00e0 1948 et en 1950\nvicaire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de 1951 \u00e0 1966\nFather James Vincent YOUNG (1903 - 1984)\nJames Young was born at Kilrush, Co Clare, in the diocese of Killaloe, on 25 October 1903. He died in the S.M.A. house at Blackrock Road, Cork, on 27 March 1984.\nJames (Jim) grew up in West Clare. He studied at the Sacred Heart college, Ballinafad, Co Mayo (1920 192l) and St. Joseph's college, Wilton, Cork (192l 1923), before joining the Society's novitiate and house of philosophy, at Kilcolgan, Co Galway, in the autumn of 1923. He received his theological formation first at St. Joseph's seminary, Blackrock Road (until 1926) and then, with the transfer of the seminary, at Dromantine, Co Down from 1926 1929. Jim was received as a member of the Society on 8 July 1925 and was ordained a priest by Bishop Edward Mulhern of Dromore diocese, at St. Colman's cathedral, Newry, on 9 June 1929. He was one of a class of fifteen ordained on that day.\nAfter ordination Jim was appointed to the vicariate of the Bight of Benin in south western Nigeria. Jim was to serve in this jurisdiction until 1968. Shortly after his arrival (he sailed on the M.V. Adda), on 31 March 1930 Francis O'Rourke was nominated vicar apostolic, and the jurisdiction was entrusted to the care of the Irish Province. Jim's first appointment, was to Topo, an island off Badagry, which had a mission, boarding school and coconut plantation. Copra (the dried fruit of the coconut) was harvested by the older boys in the school and sold to cosmetic companies for the making of soap. It was an important source of income for the vicariate. After five months in Topo Jim was appointed to the staff of St. Gregory's college, Ikoyi, Nigeria's first Catholic secondary college. There he taught the lower forms. After six months in this prestigious school Jim was transferred to Oshogbo where, under the guidance of the superior, Jakob Imholz, he had his first experience of outstations. During the remaining two years of his first tour of duty he ministered in Ado-Ekiti, Oyo and Ibadan.\nOn his return to Nigeria after his first home leave, in May 1933, Jim was appointed to Effon. Six months later he was posted superior of Ado-Ekiti mission where he was to spend the remaining three and a half years of his second tour. In his 'memoirs', preserved in the archives of the Irish Province, Jim records that when he first came to Ado-Ekiti 'the congregation was very small, composed of Yorubas, mainly, and a handful of Igbos. The church was pretty poor, the house was shocking. The school wasn't too bad. It was an assisted school... Outstations were very important. Fr. (Phil) Corish, then superior, and myself made harvest in eighty-four outstations and there were buildings in most. At that time we went up near Ilorin. Akure and its outstations were also under Ado. So we spent much of our time on trek. You went out for perhaps a month at a time'. Ado-Ekiti is now the seat of Ekiti diocese while Akure is the headquarters of Ondo diocese.\nWhen Jim returned from his next home leave, in June 1938, he was posted to Abeokuta, capital of the Egbas. In 1939 Leo Hale Taylor became vicar apostolic (on the death of Bishop O'Rourke). Four years later the borders of the vicariate were re-defined and the jurisdiction was re-named the 'vicariate of Lagos'. Bishop Taylor brought Jim to Lagos to serve as his pro-vicar, or deputy in 1943. Jim resided at Holy Cross mission, the 'cathedral parish', where he was administrator. He was to serve as pro vicar until 1948 and as vicar general of the archdiocese (erected in April 1950) between 195l 1966. Jim discharged his functions while holding substantive pastoral appointments in Topo, Holy Cross mission, Ibadan, Ijebu-Ode and Lafiaji. On a number of occasions, when Archbishop Taylor was out of the country, or unwell, Jim served as vicar delegatus, carrying out the bishop's functions.\nIn 1968, after almost forty years service in Nigeria, Jim came to work in the Provincial headquarters at Blackrock Road, in which house he was to retire from 1974. During the summers between 1975-1983 he did chaplaincy work in the Vincent de Paul holiday home (Ozanam House) at Mornington, Co Meath. Jim was a quiet, purposeful man, steadfast in the service of duty, who took his many responsible appointments in his stride. He was also self-effacing and it was not generally known that during his missionary career he was on three occasions among those whose names were sent to Rome for nomination as bishop. He was a younger brother of Frank Young who was ordained for the Society in 1924 and died in 1932.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 173.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://design.mgarito.com/Pages/Biography.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:13Z", "digest": "sha1:23WXTFLNRMY5Q7KRU6KSST5FV4TEF7H5", "length": 4247, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "design.mgarito.com", "title": "MGarito | Design | Biography", "raw_content": "MGarito | Design | Biography\nIt is hard to say exactly when I came to realize that I was meant to be a designer, but if I had to pick a moment in time, I think I could honestly say it was the summer of 1998. During the summers, starting well before I was in high school, I began to accompany my stepfather to his job, or rather, his job sites. My stepfather is a carpenter, which meant I spent my time working under him as a construction laborer, mostly on residential and light commercial buildings. By the time I could drive a car I had already well over a thousand hours of hands on experience on construction sites. I\u2019m sure your wondering \u201cisn\u2019t that a child labor law violation?\u201d Technically, yes, I did work longer and harder at an age younger than is legally alowed by law, but with reason. Originally the decision for me to be taken to work with my stepfather was to keep my out of trouble, and away form the neighborhood gangs. It was not until I was much older that I realized and appreciated the value of that work experience.\nI choose to attend the Magnet Architecture and Design program at Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Florida. Unlike most high school students, my non-core courses were oriented towards design. I learned how to use and even became quite experienced with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and well versed in drafting and modeling by hand at scale. Those skills aside, the most valuable high school experiences for me were working one on one with the registered architect who thaught at our school. Nearing the end of high school, my options for college were rather limited despite being highly ranked and scoring well. Fortunately, I was awarded a significant scholarship from the Rotary Society, and perhaps more valuable than the scholarship itsself was the mentor that came with it, whose advice helped me prepare and succeed in college.\nI began studying at the University of Florida, five weeks after graduating from high school. Within three weeks of arriving at college I had begun working as an information technology assistant at another college on campus. The duality of designing and being involved in IT shaped the remainder of my education all the way through graduate school, as it allowed me to merge my passion for design and my interest in technology. Halfway though undergrad I took on the responsibility of Materials Lab Teaching Assistant, largely due to the experience and skills I obtained from my former construction and industrial jobs. I continued to work both positions throughout the remainder of college, integrating them into my studio design work as frequently as possible. I graduated from the University of Florida with highest honors and a few credits shy of a second degree in sociology, another field that highly interests me.\nWithout hesitation, I began graduate school at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. There I was able to take my interest in technology and fabrication and truly start merging them together in the design studio. Simultaneously, while attending SciArc I began working for Akamai Technologies, which is a global telecommunications corporation. Once again, I found myself in a position where I was living a dual life as designer and IT technician. Throughout graduate school I maintained my position with Akamai, often incorporating themes of communication and digital infrastructure into my design work. Though I do not necessarily agree with all the rhetoric of SciArc, having experienced such a broad design perspective between the institutions I attended has given me the opportunity to reflect upon and build my own aesthetic ideology, further than I would have been able to by attending like minded institutions.\nNow that I have attained my masters\u2019 degree in architecture and have completed the academic portion of my education I am determined to expand my knowledge of architectural design though working within the profession of architecture. I also will continue to search out the potential benefits that can be gained from merging computing technology into architecture and design. I hope that my design and technological skills and experience will allow me the opportunity to continue pursuing creative and innovative design.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dev.aghubmedia.com/technology/education-takes-flight-florida-high-schoolers-use-drones-classes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7Y3QKZK5NCBADSOCLTLUVZ6Y3AVPDIZX", "length": 4271, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "dev.aghubmedia.com", "title": "Education takes flight as Florida high schoolers use drones in ag classes | AGDAILY", "raw_content": "Education takes flight as Florida high schoolers use drones in ag classes\nBy Ashley McLeod Published: August 19, 2016\nDrones have long since been used in the military and were made popular in the classic \u201cStar Wars\u201d film series. These technologies that were once seen as a sci-fi tool of tomorrow could now be the answer of today when it comes to efficient agricultural practices.\nOne way leaders in Florida\u2019s agriculture industry are staying ahead of the curve is by giving high school agriscience students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with drone technology.\nLast year, 12 high school agricultural education programs participated in a pilot curriculum that allowed students to learn about the application of drones in the ag industry. Twelve additional schools will be participating this year.\n\u201cThe thing that really caught my attention with this program and curriculum is that it is an ever-evolving addition to the agriculture industry in general,\u201d South Sumter High School agriscience teacher Tim Edwards said. \u201cI realized that the students we are training were the ones that would develop uses for all facets of the agriculture industry.\u201d\nSeventeen students at South Sumter High School participated in the pilot program last year, and 20 students are enrolled this year.\nThrough participation in the program, students have the opportunity to become safety certified with the Federal Aviation Administration and give them a leg up to pursue further certification for drone operation, which will allow students to be more competitive in precision agricultural fields upon graduation.\n\u201cExposing these students to this technology and then applying it to a real purpose for the agriculture industry early on will give them a competitive advantage in acquiring a job because they will know how this technology works,\u201d Edwards said.\nEdwards says students are interested in the capabilities of drones and how these technologies can be applied to agriculture.\n\u201cStudents are amazed at the types of problems or issues with crops, animals, and irrigation that can be identified by a camera on a drone,\u201d Edwards said.\nFlorida Farm Bureau and Florida\u2019s Department of Education partnered together to bring the program to fruition.\n\u201cWe hope this program shows students a new side of the agriculture industry,\u201d Florida Farm Bureau agricultural policy director Frankie Hall said.\nAccording to Hall, drones are an inevitable tool when it comes to the future of farming that will allow farmers and ranchers to reap rewards.\n\u201cDrones are another precision agriculture tool that can help lower farmers\u2019 input costs,\u201d Hall said. \u201cThis is the way of the future!\u201d\nWhile teaching students about drones, Edwards learned just how complex these futuristic tools can be.\n\u201cI have spent hours reading in order to answer the technical questions students may have,\u201d Edwards said.\nIn order to learn more about the technology, Edwards has also met with experts in the field of precision agriculture, including the men and women who work at Highland Precision Ag.\n\u201cFor the student that is research-minded, I believe that drones are an excellent way to gather data on test plots,\u201d Highland Precision Ag client support agent Kaylee Norris said.\nHighland Precision Ag is a Florida-based company that is committed to empowering farmers and ranchers with precision agriculture tools that will allow them to produce most efficiently.\nOne of the most valuable aspects of this program is that students learn more than technology- students learn about production agriculture and how precision technology can benefit the agricultural industry.\n\u201cI think we need to stress the importance of getting an education in agriculture rather than just the drone operation education,\u201d Highland Precision Ag Director of Multimedia Suzie Freedland said.\nFreedland and Norris have both already seen a fluctuation in the use of drones and suggest that students become knowledgeable in a variety of forms of precision technology in order to stay with the trends of the industry.\n\u201cI think agricultural technology courses can be very beneficial for students, but should be focused on all aspects of the agricultural technology world such as variable rate sprayers and soil sensors rather than just UAVs,\u201d Norris said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://diffuser.fm/tags/stevie-wonder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OB3LOPIQUZX4MSHUWZSEY72TGPZ5SDWU", "length": 133, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "diffuser.fm", "title": "Stevie Wonder News", "raw_content": "45 Years Ago: Stevie Wonder Visits \u2018Sesame Street\u2019\nThe 23-year-old played 'Superstition' for the kids, and taught Grover how to sing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p16062coll5/id/20703/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4RZ63CKC4G4A667U63PFNCWC4L63B6AE", "length": 3245, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "digital.ncdcr.gov", "title": "McCrory, Pat. Proclamation, Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, September 8, 2013 :: Modern Governors' Papers", "raw_content": "McCrory, Pat. Proclamation, Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, September 8, 2013\n\udbc0\udc0a\udbc2\ude66faft of ,nrf4 @arolina\nADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY WEEK\nWHEREAS, it is estimated that fourteen percent of adults in North Carolina could improve their lives\nand contributions to their communities by improving their literacy skills; and\nWHEREAS, during the 2011-12 fiscal year, North Carolina's community-based organizations and\ncommunity colleges helped nearly 125,000 North Carolinians improve their ability to read and write; and\nWHEREAS, during 2011-12, more than 14,000 North Carolinians earned an adult high school diploma\nor GED credential; and\nWHEREAS, the need for strong literacy skills is evidenced by everyday needs in both one's home and\nworkplace; and\nWHEREAS, more than 2,400 people in North Carolina worked within their family units to improve\nfamily literacy; and\nWHEREAS, the North Carolina Literacy Association and the North Carolina Community College\nSystem work with national partners to sponsor recognition of both Adult Education and Family Literacy Week\nand the societal benefits associated with strong communal literacy rates.\nproclaim September 8-14, 2013, as \"ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY WEEK'' in North\nNorth Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord two thousand and\nTitle McCrory, Pat. Proclamation, Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, September 8, 2013\nOther Title Adult Education and Family Literacy Week\nFull Text \udbc0\udc0a\udbc2\ude66faft of ,nrf4 @arolina PAT McCRORY GOVERNOR ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY WEEK 2013 BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it is estimated that fourteen percent of adults in North Carolina could improve their lives and contributions to their communities by improving their literacy skills; and WHEREAS, during the 2011-12 fiscal year, North Carolina's community-based organizations and community colleges helped nearly 125,000 North Carolinians improve their ability to read and write; and WHEREAS, during 2011-12, more than 14,000 North Carolinians earned an adult high school diploma or GED credential; and WHEREAS, the need for strong literacy skills is evidenced by everyday needs in both one's home and workplace; and WHEREAS, more than 2,400 people in North Carolina worked within their family units to improve family literacy; and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Literacy Association and the North Carolina Community College System work with national partners to sponsor recognition of both Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and the societal benefits associated with strong communal literacy rates. NOW, THEREFORE, I, PAT McCRORY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim September 8-14, 2013, as \"ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY WEEK'' in North Carolina, and commend its observance to all citizens. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and afixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth. Governor\nMcCrory, Pat. 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Edelman2\nSpeakers: Richard O\u2019Brien,3 William H. Polonsky,4 Eduard Montanya5\n1. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium\n2. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego, California, USA\n3. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia\n4. Behavioral Diabetes Institute, San Diego, California, USA\n5. Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain\nDisclosure: All authors have received research grants and/or honoraria from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc., Menarini, Janssen Pharmaceutical, Laboratoires Servier, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novo Nordisk, and/or Sanofi.\nAcknowledgements: Writing assistance was provided by Eve Blumson, Arc Medical Communications, Manchester, UK.\nSupport: The symposium and publication of this article was funded by Servier. The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily Servier.\nCitation: EMJ Diabet. 2018;6[Suppl 1]:2-8.\nDespite the increasing range of treatment options for patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), there are a number of real-world barriers that prevent many patients from achieving and maintaining glycaemic control. The objective of this symposium was to provide an overview of the challenges in T2DM treatment and to discuss novel strategies that may overcome these issues. The symposium started by exploring the key barriers that prevent patients from achieving glycaemic control, highlighting patient non-adherence to treatment as the major contributor to poor glycaemic control in a real-world setting. The speakers then explored the issue of non-adherence further, focussing on patient and physicianrelated contributing factors, including patient perceptions of treatment value and burden, fears of hypoglycaemia, and patient\u2013physician interactions. The symposium ended with a presentation on potential strategies to improve treatment adherence and clinical outcomes in T2DM. Clinical evidence was presented suggesting that effective methods for helping patients to attain and maintain glycaemic control include both early treatment with intensive combination therapy and treatment with fixed-dose combinations of a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist and a basal insulin analogue (iDegLira and iGlarLixi). Novel drug delivery methods were highlighted as a potential strategy for improving patient adherence and treatment success, with data presented on the efficacy and safety of ITCA 650 (Intarcia Therapeutics Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA), a subdermal osmotic mini-pump that provides continuous delivery of a GLP-1 receptor agonist. The symposium concluded with a summary of the main points, in which the need for new strategies to address the issue of non-adherence to therapy in T2DM was emphasised.\nThe post Real-World Challenges in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Why a Paradigm Shift Is Needed appeared first on European Medical Journal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 300, "original_length": 50635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 193.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://discoveramazonia.co.uk/animals-at-amazonia/Amphibians/veined_tree_frog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:41Z", "digest": "sha1:S2T72AFFZOFWVNPO7PCTPLXPNP6O76FY", "length": 960, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "discoveramazonia.co.uk", "title": "Discover Amazonia | Scotland's Largest Indoor Tropical Rainforest | Strathclyde Country Park - JungleBook - 46", "raw_content": "(Trachycephalus venulosus)\nThis fairly large species of frog has a mottled greenish-brown colouration with lines of darker colour running through giving it the name veined tree frog. 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For more information about this title, please visit the item detail page.\nThis is the final book of the Icewall trilogy, and is by far the best of the bunch! This entire series was excellent and developed amazingly well\nAt the end of The Golden Orb, the king of the Highlander's, Strongwind Whalebone, had been taken prisoner and turned into a prisoner within the ogre city of Winterheim. This story covers the mission undertaken by the combined might of the Artkos and Highlander people to invade Winterheim and rescue the king. Faced with the perils of the tundra, including the walrus-like Thanoi, the small, but determined army fight against all the odds.\nThere are surprising twists and turns in this novel, some of which I didn't see coming. The love triangle between Moreen, the elf Kerrick, and Strongwind left me stumped until the end. It was obvious that Kerrick had fallen in love with the Artkos chieftain, but her emotions seemed more towards the highly valued friend. Strongwind, also in love with Moreen, saw a relationship between them as a way to unite the human tribes. While she could see the logic of it, it was obvious that she had a difficult time in committing only for the political reasons. Interestingly, the book resolves this issue well, by having Strongwind fall victim to the holy Axe of Gonnas, wielded by the main villain, the ogre queen.\nThe mystery of Coraltop Netfisher, the mysteriously appearing and disappearing kender is resolved at the end. I had guessed that he had something supernatural about him, and by the end it was revealed that he was actually a manifestation of the goddess Zivilyn. To contrast this, a somewhat unique and powerful ogre was later revealed to be Sargonnas, something I didn't see coming.\nI was very intrigued by the flow of the storyline. The queen was an obvious villain, determined to destroy the humans, recover the lost axe, and sacrifice those she felt were an affront to ogre lifestyle. 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(Note: Most of the movies require QuickTime(.mov)or Video for Windows (.avi) players while streaming video types require Microsoft Media Player 7 or greater.)\nSpecial NASA Historic Space Movies Compilation.\nSome Scenes from Space Movies Cinema\nPlease take your seat and select an entertaining Space Cinema Movie by clicking on any of the titles below.\nQuick Find Movie List of Space Movies Cinema\nJFK Rice Speech, First Step on Moon, First Flag on Moon, Moon Golf, Mooncar Motoring, Rocket Off Moon, Mercury Seven Morph, Gemini Liftoff, Gemini EVA, Shuttle Launch, Astro-Robot Morph, LEM-Starship Morph, Saturn Five Launch, Payload Deploy, Apollo 13 Crew Morph, Astro-Santa Morph, Astro-Armour Morph, Verne Columbiad Cannon Capsule to Apollo Capsule Morph, Astronaut \"Buzz\" Aldrin Compares Verne's fiction with Apollo 11, Columbia to Santa Maria Morph, Feather-drop Galileo Moon Movie, Moon Lander Design Morph, Barbeque Spacecraft Cooling Morph, Astronaut Lifevest Morph, Moon Race Morph, LM Eagle to Eagle Morph, Manned Space Vehicle Evolution Morph, Solar System Planetary Morph, Apollo 13 NASA Rescue Movie [full length], Buzz Aldrin to Buzz Lightyear Morph, Weightless Space Cartoon [1956], Woodpecker Attack on Shuttle, Reagan Challenger Eulogy, Godspeed Again John Glenn Morph, NASA APOLLO 11 Movie, Freedom Seven Mercury mission of Alan Shepard, Challenger NASA Video [45 minutes], American Flag on Moon Patriotic Movie\n1. Movie clip of JFK speaking at Rice University: (.mov) or (.avi) (833K)\nSee and hear the entire speech for 56K modem download [8.7 megabytes in a .asf movie format which requires Windows Media Player 7 or later (speech lasts about 33 minutes)].\nSee and hear the entire speech for higher speed access [25.3 megabytes in .asf movie format which requires Windows Media Player 7 or later].\nSee and hear a five minute audio version of the speech with accompanying slides and music. This is a most inspirational presentation of, perhaps, the most famous space speech ever given. The file is a streaming video Windows Media Player 7 format. [11 megabytes in .asf movie format which requires Windows Media Player 7].\nSee and hear the 17 minute 48 second speech in the .mpg format. This is a very large file of 189 megabytes and only suggested for those with DSL, ASDL, or cable modem access as the download time on a 28.8 or 56K modem would be many hours duration.\n2. Movie of First Step on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi) (247K)\n3. Movie of Erecting the American Flag on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi) (247K)\n4. Movie of First Golf Shot on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi) (179K)\n5. Movie of Astronauts Driving the Lunar Rover on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi) (306K)\n6. Movie of Apollo Lunar Liftoff: (.mov) or (.avi) (663K)\n7. Movie of a Morph of the Original Seven Astronauts: (.mov) or (.avi) (510K)\n8. Movie of a Gemini Program Liftoff: (.mov) or (.avi) (298K)\n9. Movie of Gemini Program EVA: (.mov) or (.avi) (434K)\n10. Movie of Space Shuttle Launch: (.mov) or (.avi) (1.1M)\n11. Movie of an Astronaut Morphing into a Robot: (.mov) or (.avi) (833K)\n12. Movie of the Lunar Lander Morphing into a famous starship: (.mov) or (.avi) (595K)\n13. Movie of a Saturn Apollo Launch: (.mov) or (.avi) (587K)\n14. Movie of a Shuttle payload deployment: (.mov) or (.avi) (306K)\n15. Movie of Astronaut Jack Swigert Morphing into the Official Apollo 13 Crew Photo: (.mov) or (.avi) (1885K)\n16. During the Christmas holidays, play this movie of a famous red-suited spaceman by clicking here: (.mov) or (.avi).(561K)\n17. Compare the design of a suit of armour to an advanced space suit by viewing this spacesuit morph movie. (.mov) or (.avi) (1327K)\nClick on the word \"spacesuit\" for more information about the design and history of NASA's spacesuits.\n18. Compare the design of Jules Verne's concept of a moonship (1865) with the type of spacecraft the United States sent to the moon in 1969 by viewing this morph movie:(.mov) or (.avi).(1156K) As the Columbia command module returns to Earth (July, 1969), Ed \"Buzz\" Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut and second man to set foot on the Moon, discusses (51 second video)(.mpg)(2419K) the remarkable coincidences between Jules Verne's fictional story, a century in the past, and the mission of Apollo 11.\n19. Compare the design of Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, [1492] with the Columbia Apollo type spacecraft which the United States sent to the moon in 1969 by viewing this morph movie. (.mov) or (.avi). Discussion: Click here for a vast amount of content comparing Columbus's voyage with that of Apollo moon bound astronauts. These pages of the Space Educators' Handbook compare and contrast crew selection, naming of the ships, navigation techniques, their respective missions, solitude faced by the crews, perils encountered in their voyages to new worlds, and on board maps, manuals, and logs. (1114K)\n20. Watch Apollo 15 Astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's legendary \"feather-drop\" experiment on the Moon. (The story is legendary in the sense that historians believe the event may not be true.)\n21. Watch the original Grumman proposal model of the lunar excursion module (LEM) morph into the eventual lunar module (LM) which transported the first men to the Moon's surface. View the movie by clicking here: (.mov) or (.avi).(783K) What changes do you notice between the two designs? Why do you think these changes were made?\n22. Watch a unique demonstration of passive thermal control, the technique used by Apollo astronauts to evenly cool their spaceships during voyages to the Moon. Some called this technique, the barbeque cooler. This video shows why. Click here for the PTC video. (.avi).(1639K) For more about PTC click here. (Morphed photo is by Jerry Woodfill from original Wayne T. Mitchell photograph.)\n23. There is a means of rescuing an astronaut who is separated from the space vehicle while performing an EVA (extra-vehicle-activity). It is a device worn by the astronaut called SAFER (Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue). The device serves as a space life vest. This video shows what SAFER's function is: Click here to begin the movie. (.avi) . (239K) For a sketch of the SAFER, click here. How could the use of SAFER assist Mickey and Captain Doberman in this situation? (Click on the word situation in order to view the MICKEY MOUSE ADVENTURES comic cover and answer this question. [Cover copyright 1991 - The Walt Disney Company]\n24. During the 1950's and 1960's, two world powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union vied to win the space race. Though the Soviet Union was first to orbit a satellite (October 4, 1957) and human in space (April 12, 1961), the first humans on the Moon were American astronauts (July of 1969). The following video depicts artists' conceptions of potential winners of the race to the Moon. It is interesting that the 1953 cover of COSMOS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MAGAZINE [Copyright 1953] suggests Americans might be first on the Moon, but the later SATURN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY [Copyright 1958] shows Soviets as first to set their flag on lunar firmament. No doubt the successful orbit of the Russian Sputnik satellite a year earlier led to idea Soviets would win the race to the Moon. Click here to see who was the ultimate winner of the Moon race. (.avi) . (1010K).\nDiscussion: Discuss the landscapes on the magazine covers based on actual photos American astronauts brought back of the Moon. Are the artists' sketches of Moon mountains accurate? Examine the spaceships used by the cosmonaut and astronaut lunar explorers. What portions remain on the Moon when the crews return to Earth? Compare Neil Armstrong's Eagle lander to those shown on the science fiction covers. What is alike and different about the Eagle and these space ships? Finally, how accurately did the artists draw Earth in their pictures? What is missing? (Remember that the first photos of Earth from space were taken many years later.)\n25. Click here[.avi format, 492 kbytes]) for a morph of spaceship Eagle into an eagle. Aside from the idea that a spaceship can turn into an eagle, why would the eagle find it impossible to fly in space?\n26. Click here[.avi format, 426 kbytes]) for a 9 second morph movie of development of America's manned spacecraft (Mercury- Gemini-Apollo- Shuttle). Note: Click on the name of each spacecraft for additional information about its missions and characteristics. Also, the relative sizes of the vehicles are not accurately depicted in the morph video. Obviously, the shuttle orbiter is much larger than the Apollo command and service module.\n27. Click here[.avi format, 1650 kbytes] for a 27 second morph movie of images of the Sun and the eight planets of the solar system shown in the order of their respective positions away from the Sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Dwarf Planet Pluto). Click on each planet's name for more information about its characteristics. Note: The images are not scaled to the respective relative sizes of the Sun and the eight planets, i.e., all images are the same size.\n28. Click here [.asf 7.5 megabyte movie] for a very long movie clip [30 minutes] of the NASA produced movie about the rescue of Apollo 13 in a streaming video format which requires Microsoft Media Player 7.\n29. Buzz Aldrin, the former astronaut, was the second man to set foot on the Moon. A \"make-believe\" astronaut named Buzz has also become very famous. Click here for a movie featuring both spacemen named Buzz. (1.5 megabyte .avi movie morph with mouse pad packaged image copyrighted by Disney Corporation). Questions: Compare and contrast the spacesuits worn by each Buzz. What is the last name of the second Buzz? Why do you think he was given that name? Click here for information about spacesuits.\n30. NASA's media services produced excellent movies documenting manned missions. Click here to view the NASA movie, Apollo 13 [7.5 megabyte 30 minutes movie].\n31. A major concern about putting humans in space was weightlessness over long periods of time. This 1956 animated cartoon, authored by the United States Air Force's Department of Space Medicine, deals with this subject based on thinking of that era. Click here to play the 1 minute cartoon. [.asf format 2.14 megabyte file requires Windows Media Player 7 or later] Click here for a quicker download but coarser version of the animation. [.asf 303 kilobypte version of the one minute cartoon, requires Windows Media Player]\n32. WOODPECKERS ATTACK SHUTTLE'S EXTERNAL TANK was the problem discovered before the launch of STS-70. Click here to read about it, and click here to watch the woodpeckers at work. [.mpg 185K four second movie clip]\n33. President Reagan's television message to the nation on the day of the Challenger Tragedy, January 28, 1986. The one minute eighteen second video clip contains most of the message. Windows Media Player 7 or later is required to run the video clip. Click here for 56K modem access and here for DSL or cable modems.\nPresident Reagan's Speech to NASA Employees and the Nation\nConcerning the Challenger Tragedy\n(Delivered from the Whitehouse, January 28th, 1986)\nNineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But, we've never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle; but they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers. (They) overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe. We mourn their loss as a nation together.\nFor the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy.' They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.\nWe've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for twenty-five years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and perhaps, we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.\nAnd I want to say something to the school-children of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.\nThere's a coincidence today. On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime, the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, 'He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.' Well, today we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete.\nThe crew of the space shuttle Challenger honoured us by the manner in which they lived their lives.\nWe will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'\n34. John Glenn, America's first astronaut to orbit the Earth (1962) returned to space aboard the space shuttle in 1998. Click here for two magazine covers published 36 years apart to observe John Glenn's appearance in each. [Newsweek, copyright 1962 and Time, copyright 1998]\n35. Apollo 11 landed the first men on the Moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969. NASA's media services produced a very excellent movie depicting the mission. Click here to view the movie as a Microsoft Media Player 7 streaming video.\n36. The first American manned space mission was Freedom 7. It launched Astronaut Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961 into a sub-orbital fifteen minute mission aboard the Mercury spacecraft. NASA's media services produced a movie depicting the mission. Click here to view the movie as a Microsoft Media Player 7 streaming video.\n37. The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission ended tragically 73 seconds after launch on January 28,1986. Its crew included:\nFrancis R. Scobee, Commander\nMichael J. Smith , Pilot\nJudith A. Resnik , Mission Specialist\nEllison S. Onizuka , Mission Specialist\nRonald E. McNair , Mission Specialist\nGregory B. Jarvis , Payload Specialist\nSharon Christa McAuliffe , Payload Specialist\nNASA's media services produced a movie depicting the mission, the ensuing investigation, and the cause of the disaster. Click here to view the 45 minute movie as a Microsoft Media Player 7 streaming video.\n37. Events of September 11, 2001 resulted in many remembrances of those who gave their lives that day. To open a thirty-four second video/audio clip in remembrance of all those who perished and their families, click here for a Real Player streaming video and here for a Media Player version of the clip which also honors the American Flag.\nHOW TO USE SPACE MOVIE CINEMA\nEach button above links to a movie about the exploration of space. Click on the desired movie button. After the section of text describing the movie subject appears, click on the hot text to download and play the selected movie or simply click on the hot text above. Movies are available in both the Quicktime (.mov) and Video for Windows (.avi) formats. Click on the desired format to run the selected movie.\nDESCRIPTION OF SPACE MOVIES\nMovie of President John F. Kennedy Launching Apollo Program\nMovie clip of JFK speaking at Rice University: (.mov) or (.avi) (833K)\nSee and hear the entire speech for 56K modem download [8.7 megabytes in a .asf movie format which requires Windows Media Player 7 (speech lasts about 33 minutes)].\nSee and hear the entire speech for higher speed access [25.3 megabytes in .asf movie format which requires Windows Media Player 7].\nOn September 12th, 1962, President John F. Kennedy spoke at Rice University's Rice Stadium to 35,000 Houstonians, saying of the lunar landing program, \"...we do this not because it is easy but because it is hard...\"\nClick here for the entire text of the speech. An abbreviated text of the speech follows. [Note: There are some differences in what the President actually said from the printed copy of the text. Listen to the video of the speech and note those differences as an exercise.]\n1962 JFK RICE UNIVERSITY SPEECH\nby President John F. Kennedy\nDespite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation\ufffds own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole - despite that the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.\nNo man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man\ufffds recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.\nNewton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America\ufffds new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.\nThere is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again.\nWe choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.\nIt is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.\nTo be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year\ufffds space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year - a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United Stated, for we have given this program a high national priority - even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.\nMany years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he wanted to climb it. He said, \"Because it is there.\"\nMovie of the First Foot Step on the Moon\nMovie of First Step on the Moon (.mov) or (.avi). (247K)\nApollo 11 attained the national goal, set by President Kennedy in 1961, of landing men on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth within the decade of the 1960s. The mission was launched precisely on time from Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, by a Saturn V. The Lunar Module touched down in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility at 4:18 p.m. EST, July 20, and Commander Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface at 10:56 p.m. EDT that evening, followed by Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. Astronaut Michael Collins, the Command Module pilot, orbited above, conducting scientific experiments and taking photographs. Their activities were viewed live around the world by the largest television audience in history.\nThe following historical discussion regarding the use of the American flag in the course of manned lunar exploration is a paper which was awarded the Driver Award for the best paper presented to the 26th meeting of the North American Vexillological (study of flags) Association, October 11, 1992, San Antonio, Texas.\nMovie of Planting American Flag on the Moon\nMovie of Erecting the American Flag on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi).(247K)\nWhere No Flag Has Gone Before:\nPolitical and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon\nby Anne M. Platoff\nPrepared for Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center\nContract NAS9-18263\nThe flag on the moon represents an important event in vexillological history. This paper examines the political and technical aspects of placing a flag on the moon, focusing on the first moon landing. During their historic extravehicular activity (EVA), the Apollo 11 crew planted the flag of the United States on the lunar surface. This flag-raising was strictly a symbolic activity, as the United Nations Treaty on Outer Space precluded any territorial claim. Nevertheless, there were domestic and international debates over the appropriateness of the event. Congress amended the agency's appropriations bill to prevent the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from placing flags of other nations, or those of international associations, on the moon during missions funded solely by the United States. Like any activity in space exploration, the Apollo flag-raising also provided NASA engineers with an interesting technical challenge. They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing the flag to \"fly\" without the benefit of wind to overcome the effects of the moon's lack of an atmosphere. Other factors considered in the design were weight, heat resistance, and ease of assembly by astronauts whose space suits restricted their range of movement and ability to grasp items. As NASA plans a return to the moon and an expedition to Mars, we will likely see flags continue to go \"where no flag has gone before.\"\nPresident John F. Kennedy, in his historic speech of September 1962, expressed his vision of space exploration for an audience assembled in the stadium of Rice University. Earlier that year he had challenged the United States to go to the moon within the decade. The space race was well underway and Kennedy, in foreseeing the role his country was to play in space exploration, also alluded to a role for flags. \"We mean to lead [the exploration of space], for the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.\" Thirty years later, as we prepare to return to the moon and continue on to Mars, it is time to reconsider the political and technical aspects of placing a flag on the lunar surface.\nPolitical Aspects Domestic Considerations\nThe political aspects of the first lunar flag-raising were twofold -- both domestic and international. NASA relies upon Congress for its funding and therefore has always been very cognizant of the need for good public relations. Astronauts were considered national heroes, and the flag of the United States has been a common symbol used in all aspects of the manned space program. NASA's spacecraft and launch vehicles have always been decorated with flags. Edward H. White II became the first American astronaut to \"walk in space\" on 4 June 1965, and his space suit was one of the first to be adorned with a flag patch. Following this tradition, flags have been used on the suits of astronauts from many countries. Use of flags in the space program created controversy, however, only when it became apparent that a flag would be planted on the moon.\nPrior to the Apollo 11 moon landing, the United Nations (U.N.) adopted the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies of 27 January 1967 (commonly known as the Outer Space Treaty). Article II of the treaty clearly states that \"outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of occupation, or by any other means.\" The United States, signatory to the treaty, could not claim the moon. Therefore, raising a flag on the lunar surface would merely be a symbolic gesture -- an expression of triumph similar to the planting of a flag on Mount Everest or at the North and South Poles. The legal status of the moon clearly would not be affected by the presence of a U.S. flag on the surface, but NASA was aware of the international controversy that might occur as a result.\nIn January of 1969, President Richard M. Nixon's inaugural address stressed the international flavor of the Apollo program. \"As we explore the reaches of space, let us go to the new worlds together -- not as new worlds to be onquered, but as a new adventure to be shared.\" NASA officials noted the tone of the speech, and there was some discussion within the agency that a United Nations flag could be used for the flight. This was one of the possibilities considered by the Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing, which was appointed by Thomas O. Paine, NASA Acting Administrator, on February 25 of that year. The committee was instructed to select symbolic activities that would not jeopardize crew safety or interfere with mission objectives; that would \"signalize the first lunar landing as an historic forward step of all mankind that has been accomplished by the United States\" and that would not give the impression that the United States was \"taking possession of the moon\" in violation of the Outer Space Treaty. The committee considered several options including the possibilities of leaving a United States flag or an adaptation of the solar wind experiment in the form of a flag, leaving a set of miniature flags of all nations, and leaving a commemorative marker on the surface.\nThe committee's report recommended using only the flag of the United States during the lunar extravehicular activity (EVA). In addition, the committee suggested that a plaque bearing an inscription (\"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind\") be mounted on the lunar module to emphasize that the purpose of the mission was one of exploration and not conquest. The original plaque design featured a U.S. flag, but the graphic was changed to pictures of the eastern and western hemispheres of the Earth to symbolize the crew's point of origin. It was decided that, in addition to the large flag, 4 x 6 inch flags of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. territories, and flags for all member countries of t he United Nations and several other nations, would be carried in the lunar module and returned for presentation to governors and heads of state after the flight.\nTechnical Aspects Design and Engineering Constraints\nWork on the lunar flag assembly began about three months prior to the Apollo 11 mission. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) and a member of the Committee on Symbolic Activities, asked Jack Kinzler, Chief of Technical Services Division at MSC, for ideas regarding the EVA. Kinzler suggested that a full-size U.S. flag could be deployed using a specially designed flagpole. He drew up a preliminary sketch and the idea was presented to the committee. Working with Deputy Division Chief Dave McCraw, he worked out the details of the lunar flag assembly over several days. The design was based on a number of engineering constraints. For example, to compensate for the lack of an atmosphere on the lunar surface, the flag assembly included a horizontal crossbar to give the illusion of a flag flying in the breeze.\nTwo other major constraints were the weight of the assembly and the stowage space required. The team designed the entire assembly to be as lightweight as possible -- when completed it weighed only 9 pounds and 7 ounces. They reduced the size of the package by developing a two-part telescoping pole apparatus with a telescoping crossbar. It was also necessary to design a flagpole that could be easily assembled and deployed by astronauts wearing space suits. ole had penetrated the surface.\nFinally, it was necessary to protect the flag during the descent portion of the lunar landing. To make the flag easily accessible during the EVA, it was mounted on the left-hand side of the ladder on the Lunar Module (LM). This also reduced the amount of equipment that had to be carried inside the already crowded vehicle. It was estimated, however, that the LM ladder would be heated to 250\ufffdF by the descent engines as they fired during the descent staging phase of the landing. The ladder would experience temperatures up to 2,000\ufffdF during the 13 seconds of the touchdown phase. Tests run on the flag determined that it would withstand temperatures of only up to 300\ufffdF. These conditions made it necessary to design a protective shroud for the flag assembly. The shroud design was the work of the Structures and Mechanics Division of the Manned Spacecraft Center. It consisted of a stainless steel outer case separated from an aluminum layer by Thermoflex insulation. Several layers of thermal blanketing material were placed between the shroud and the flag assembly, limiting the temperature experienced by the flag to 180\ufffdF.\nAll of the work on the flag assembly and on the flag shroud was performed in the workshops at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Alterations to the flag were done in the fabrics shop, the sheet metals shop constructed the flagpole, and another shop anodized the flagpole -- electrolytically coating the aluminum to give it a gold color and a stiff protective surface. Tubing used in the construction of the pole was about an inch in diameter with a wall approximately 1/32 of an inch thick. The telescoping feature of the pole was created by using different sizes of tubing that slid neatly into each other. A capped bottom allowed the upper portion of the pole to slide easily into the lower portion. The base of the lower section was designed with a hardened steel point to make it easier to drive into the lunar soil.\nCost of materials was relatively low -- the flag was purchased for $5.50 and the tubing cost approximately $75. The cost of the shroud has been estimated at several hundred dollars due to the materials involved. Construction of the prototypes was achieved in several days, and after a week the team had made a few backup assemblies, and some to be used for crew training purposes. Demonstration tests were performed where the flag assembly was folded, packed, unpacked, erected and deployed to assure that it would operate properly. Kinzler flew to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to participate in a mockup review of the lunar flag assembly on 25 June 1969. The astronauts were included in several of these tests as part of their EVA training so that they would be familiar with deployment procedures.\nPacking of the flag assembly followed a written 12-step procedure which required up to 5 people to ensure that it was tightly packed. Wooden blocks and plastic ties were used by the team to keep the packed flag together as they progressed through the steps. These packing aids were removed when the flag was placed into the thermal package. After the flag was rolled into the thermal package a thermal rip strip made with Velcro was used to close the package. The strip had a pull-tab at the top to make it easier for the astronauts to open the package once they were on the lunar surface. This thermal package was then installed into the metal shroud following a 4-step procedure. A small block of Thermaflex insulation was placed around the bottom and top ends of the pole to protect the flag ends from hot brackets. The flag packing for the Apollo 11 flight was performed in Jack Kinzler's office and was approved by the Chief of Quality Assurance who was present during the procedure. Once the flag thermal package was properly stowed inside the shroud, it was taken to the launch site at KSC to be mounted on the ladder of the LM.\nBecause the final decision to fly the flag and attach the plaque was made so close to the launch date, a Lear jet was chartered to fly Kinzler, George Low (Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program), Low's secretary, the flag assembly, and the commemorative plaque to KSC before the launch. The flag and plaque were installed on the LM of Apollo 11 at 4:00 in the morning as the spacecraft sat atop its Saturn V rocket ready for launch. Kinzler had written an 11-step procedure for mounting the assembly on the ladder and personally supervised the installation. Proper installation was vital if the astronauts were to be able to deploy the flag on the lunar surface. An astronaut first released the shroud \"pip\" pin by squeezing it and then pulling it out, and then released the main flag assembly \"pip\" pin. A spring tension against the flag poles was released when the pins were pulled allowing easy removal of the shroud. The astronaut then pulled the Velcro strip off the insulation package and discarded the wrapping materials.\nDeployment and Performance\nThe first U.S. flag on the moon was deployed by Neil Armstrong and Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin during their historic EVA on 20 July 1969 (at 4 days, 14 hours and 9 minutes mission-elapsed time). The flag was seen worldwide on live television. At their technical crew debriefing, Armstrong and Aldrin reported few problems with the deployment. They had trouble extending the horizontal telescoping rod and could not pull it all the way out. This gave the flag a bit of a \"ripple effect,\" and later crews intentionally left the rod partially retracted. The Apollo 11 astronauts also noted that they could drive the lower portion of the pole only about 6 to 9 inches into the surface. It is uncertain if the flag remained standing or was blown over by the engine blast when the ascent module took off.\nThe only design change made as the result of performance on the lunar surface was in the catching mechanism of the horizontal crossbar's hinge. The Apollo 12 crew could not get the catch to latch properly and, as a result, the flag drooped slightly. Later models of the flag assembly had a double-action latch that would work even if the horizontal bar was not raised above a 90 degree angle.\nReactions to the Flag Deployment\nEven though the event took only 10 minutes of the 2 1/2 hour EVA, for many people around the world the flag-raising was one of the most memorable parts of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. There were no formal protests from other nations that the flag-raising constituted an illegal attempt to claim the moon. Buzz Aldrin, in an article written for Life magazine, stated that as he looked at the flag he sensed an \"almost mystical unification of all people in the world at that moment.\" A few published articles expressed regret that NASA had chosen not to plant a U.N. flag, either in addition to or alongside that of the United States.\nPrior to the mission, several members of Congress relayed letters from their constituents to NASA which recommended (or in some cases opposed) the use of specific flags. Flags mentioned in these letters included the U.S. flag, the U.N. flag, and the Christian flag. The congressional debate heated up in the House of Representatives as the body considered NASA's appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 1970. On 10 June, NASA formally notified members of Congress that a decision had been made to raise the U.S. flag on the lunar surface. The House approved the appropriations bill on that same day after amending it to include a flag provision. This measure did not actually affect the Apollo 11 mission, but did make it clear to NASA where many members of Congress stood on the flag issue.\nA House and Senate conference committee agreed on the final version of the bill on 4 November 1969 which included a provision that \"the flag of the United States, and no other flag, shall be implanted or otherwise placed on the surface of the moon, or on the surface of any planet, by members of the crew of any spacecraft ... as part of any mission ... the funds for which are provided entirely by the Government of the United States.\" The amendment, in deference to the Outer Space Treaty, concluded with the statement \"this act is intended as a symbolic gesture of national pride in achievement and is not to be construed as a declaration of national appropriation by claim of sovereignty.\"\nAlthough the amendment was passed and became law, technically NASA was not required to deploy a U.S. flag on each of the following Apollo missions. Spencer M. Beresford, NASA's General Counsel, noted in a report to the Associate Deputy Administrator that \"the managers on the part of the House further clarified the intent of the provision during the conference by stipulating that this section should not be construed to mean that the American flag must necessarily be implanted or otherwise placed on the surface of the moon or the surface of any planet on each and every landing subsequent to an initial landing.\" Regardless of this interpretation, the Apollo flights could have been considered exempt since, as pointed out by a member of the House of Representatives, several international partners had contributed to portions of the Apollo Program. This is also likely to be the case if and when NASA sends astronauts back to the moon or on to Mars.\nPresident George Bush, speaking on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum on the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, proposed that lunar/Mars exploration should be the nation's long-term objective in space exploration. \"The Apollo astronauts left more than flags and footprints on the Moon. They also left some unfinished business. For, even 20 years ago, we recognized that America's ultimate goal was not simply to go there and go back -- but to go there and go on.\"\nAlthough Bush did not include the concept of international cooperation in his vision of the space exploration initiative, there are many who recognize that the political climate has changed since the days of Apollo. Space exploration and space projects have become internationalized and missions on the scale of a lunar base or a Mars mission will probably require international funding to make them feasible. It will be interesting to see which flags join that of the United States on the lunar surface and which will be the first flags on Mars. One thing is clear -- as humans explore the solar system we will likely see flags continue to go \"where no flag has gone before.\"\nLUNAR GOLF MOVIE\nMovie of First Golf Shot on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi). (179K)\nApollo 14 Mission (January 31-February 9, 1971)\nCrew: Commander: Alan Shepard\nCM Pilot: Stuart A. Roosa\nLM Pilot: Edgar D. Mitchell\nMission Details: This was the third Mission to land on the Moon, landing in the Fra Mauro region. Just prior to entering the lunar module for return to Earth, Alan Shepard removed two golf balls from his space suit. As his golf club, he used the detached handle from one of the geological tools. His first swing was a \"duff.\" He missed the ball. Perhaps, to assure that historians recorded him as the first lunar golfer, Shepard swung twice more. Because the bulkiness of the space suit prevented him from bringing his arms close enough for a two-handed-grip, his swings were one-handed. In each of the final swings, the balls took off as projectiles without the resistance of atmosphere and experiencing the reduced sixth gravity of the Moon.\nThe memorable words of the Moon's first golfer were, \"There it goes, miles and miles and miles.\" However, during the return to Earth, a more modest reflection of Al Shepard judged the first ball to have gone 200 yards and the second, 400 yards. Imagine hitting a four hundred yard drive on Earth with a one-handed swing of an iron whose shaft is fashioned from a stick half the length of a hoe's handle.\nLunar Rover Movie\nMovie of Astronauts Driving the Lunar Rover on the Moon: (.mov) or (.avi). (306K)\n(The following \"NASA FACTS, MANNED LUNAR ROVING VEHICLE\" was published prior to use of the Lunar Rover on the Moon. However, this information is included as useful to understanding its design, development, and mission. Virtually all goals described in the following narrative were fulfilled by the Lunar Rover.)\nMANNED LUNAR ROVING VEHICLE\nAstronauts on the moon have been limited in the range of their explorations to objects within walking distance of their lunar module. Beginning with the Apollo 15 mission in July of 1971, the two astronauts can ride a four-wheeled vehicle to traverse farther from their landing site.\nThe lunar roving vehicle, weighing approximately 480 pounds, resembles a stripped-down dune buggy. But it can carry more than twice its weight in passengers, scientific instruments, and lunar soil samples.\nPowered by two silver zinc batteries driving electric motors on each of the four wire-mesh wheels, the vehicle will have a top speed of approximately eight miles per hour. During the astronauts' staytime on the moon, it can make several sorties totaling approximately 40 miles, or 65 kilometers.\nThe Boeing Company, Aerospace Group, under a cost plus incentive fee contract with the Marshall Center, is designing and building three flight-qualified vehicles, plus related test and training equipment. Boeing's major subcontractor is the General Motors Delco Electronics Division laboratories at Santa Barbara, California.\nThe first operational lunar roving vehicle is scheduled for delivery to the Kennedy Space Center in April, 1971. The other two flight vehicles will be delivered to NASA at three month intervals.\nThe lunar roving vehicle will be carried to the moon in the cargo compartment of the descent stage of the lunar module. To save space, the vehicle's frame will be hinged, with three segments folding together. The four wheels will be folded against the chassis. When the astronauts leave the lunar module for their extravehicular activities, one of them will release the lunar roving vehicle from its stowage compartment. Deployment will be semi-automatic. Springs will unfold the vehicle and its wheels, and they will lock together into the deployed position.\nOne astronaut should be able to deploy, activate, and check the vehicle quickly and easily. It will measure about 10 feet, 2 inches long, slightly more than 6 feet wide, and have a 71/2 foot wheelbase.\nOPERATING THE VEHICLE\nThe two astronauts sit side by side in the open-frame vehicle. Between them is a hand control (joy stick~ rather than a steering wheel. The vehicle can travel forward or in reverse at variable speeds. The driver sets a toggle switch to provide power to the drive motors, then uses the joy stick to control movement. He tilts the stick forward to go ahead, backwards for reverse, left or right for steering, and pulls straight back to apply the brakes. All four wheels turn to steer around obstacles, and the turn radius will be no more than the length of the vehicle.\nVEHICLE CAPABILITY\nThe vehicle can negotiate step-like obstacles one foot high and cross crevasses of 28 inches. Wheel diameter is 32 inches. The fully loaded vehicle, carrying a total weight of 1,000 pounds, can climb and descend slopes as steep as 20 degrees. A parking brake can hold the vehicle stationary on slopes of 30 degrees or less. It will have ground clearance of at least 14 inches on a flat surface.\nThe lunar roving vehicle will carry a lunar communications relay unit for communications with earth when it is out of line of sight with the lunar module. It will relay voice and bio-medical data from the astronauts' suit-contai ned communications, and in addition, it will relay television coverage to the earth. This unit is provided by the Manned Spacecraft Center, and will be mounted afler the astronauts are on the lunar surface.\nThe moon is much smaller than the earth in diameter, and the astronauts will quickly be over the horizon and out of sight of the lunar module. Since a magnetic compass cannot be used on the moon, an important feature of the vehicle will be a built-in navigation system that will tell the astronauts the direction and distance backtothe lunar module at all times, as well as the total distance they have traveled.\nReliability is obtained through simplicity in design and operation and through redundancy. For example, there are two complete battery systems, each sufficient for powering the vehicle. The vehicle is normally steered by both the front and rear wheels; however, if one steering mechanism fails, it will be disconnected and the remaining steering system will do the job.\nEach wheel is powered by a separate electric motor which has a sealed drive to prevent problems of lunar dust. Even if two wheel motors fail, the vehicle can continue to be driven by simply decoupling the failed motor to free the wheel.\nDesigners of the lunar roving vehicle have studied samples of the moon's soil returned by crews of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions, as well as the data gathered through photographs, film, and observations of the astronauts during and after the flights.\nThe consistency and mechanical behavior of the lunar soil should not hamper the lunar roving vehicle's operations. Properties of the soil have been carefully considered in designing a wheeled vehicle that will travel the moon's surface with its alien environment, reduced gravity, and extremes of temperature. The flexible metal wheels, made of woven wire, are rugged, light, and have good traction characteristics.\nThe three lunar vehicles will be constructed and tested by Boeing's Kent Space Center near Seattle, Wash. Some of the testing will be in a large thermal vacuum chamber. The radiation spectrum of the sun and the vacuum of the lunar environment can be simulated in the test chamber, which is 39 feet in diameter and 50 feet in height.\nA special vehicle, designed for operation in the stronger gravity field of earth, is being used for mobility tests and to train the astronauts.\nThe lunar roving vehicle will increase both the range and the actual exploration portion of the time which the astronauts spend on the moon's surface.\nDue to the time limitation of the life support systems in the back packs, and potential fatigue of the astronauts, use of the lunar vehicle will be divided into three sorties during their three-day stay on the moon. For safety reasons, the astronauts will remain within three miles of the landing site. From this distance they can walk back to the lunar module should their vehicle break down. While it may appear at first glance that a three-mile exploration radius is very restrictive, there are approximately 28 square miles within this area for their investigations.\nNASA is modifying the Apollo spacecraft, the space suits worn by the astronauts, and life support systems to permit astronauts to remain on the lunar surface up to three days during the last Apollo missions. The modified lunar module will be able to land more weight on the moon. Part of this extra weight-carrying capacity will be used to transport the lunar roving vehicle. The vehicle will have a minimum operational lifetime of 78 hours during the lunar day.\nNASA and its contractors have been studying many different types of lunar vehicles since the early 1960's. Some of the more advanced concepts would be capable of missions ranging up to 14 days in the manned mode, and up to one year of operation unmanned, driven remotely from earth and ranging more than 500 miles over the moon's surface.\nLunar Liftoff Movie\nMovie of Apollo Lunar Liftoff: (.mov) or (.avi). (663K)\nOn August 2, 1971, at 1:11 p.m., Apollo 15's lunar lander, Falcon, lifted off from the Moon. Those on Earth listening by television could hear the background music of \"Into the Wild Blue Yonder,\" the Air Force fight song, played by a tape recorder started by Commander David R. Scott. For the first time, Earth television viewers could see a launch of the lunar module from the Moon's surface by way of a color television camera mounted on the nearby lunar rover vehicle.\nThe following discussion regarding ascent from the Moon is written by Mr. Rocco A. Petrone who came to NASA in 1960 and personally surpervised the Apollo 11 launch. The discussion appeared in the NASA publication Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, Edited by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP-350, Washington, D.C. 1975.\nLunar Ascent\n\"I have often been asked why it took hundreds of men to launch the astronauts to the Moon, whereas just two of them on the Moon can launch themselves back to Moon orbit. Well, the two of them were there on the Moon in the LM's ascent stage. They had everything they needed: their fuel was loaded; they had water; their cooling system was working and so was their oxygen supply. Their radar was tracking and their communications to Earth were functioning, and long before launch we had checked to see that they had no electrical interference. These systems were working because of the preparations and check-out efforts of hundreds of people on the ground before the spacecraft was committed to launch.\"\nThe Original Seven United States Astronauts Movie\nMovie clip (4161KB .mpg format, 56 seconds) of the original Mercury astronauts plus the launch of Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 Mercury Mission\nMovie of a Morph of the Original Seven Astronauts(.mov) or (.avi). (510K)\nGemini Launch Movie\nMovie of a Gemini Program Liftoff: (.mov) or (.avi). (298K)\nGemini launches drew hundreds of thousands of spectators, awed by the roar, flame, and smoke of the big Titan II booster. Viewers clogged the highways and camped by roadsides. Millions of others watched launchings on television, and the astronauts received tumultuous welcomes on their return.\n(The following discussion regarding the Gemini program was written by Robert R. Gilruth who was Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas during the Gemini and Apollo programs. The discussion appeared in the NASA publication Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, Edited by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP-350, Washington, D.C. 1975.)\nThe Gemini program was designed to investigate in actual flight many of the critical situations which we would face later in the voyage of Apollo. The spacecraft carried an onboard propulsion system for maneuvering in Earth orbit. A guidance and navigation system and a rendezvous radar were provided to permit astronauts to try out various techniques of rendezvous and docking with an Agena target vehicle. After docking, the astronauts could light off the Agena rocket for large changes in orbit, simulating the entry-into-lunar-orbit and the return-to-Earth burns of Apollo. Gemini was the first to use the controlled reentry system that was required for Apollo in returning from the Moon. It had hatches that could be opened and closed in space to permit extravehicular activity by astronauts, and fuel cells similar in purpose to those of Apollo to permit flights of long duration. The spacecraft was small by Apollo standards, carrying only two men in close quarters. However, the Titan II launch vehicle, which was the best available at that time, could not manage a larger payload.\nA total of 10 manned flights were made in the Gemini program between March 1965 and November 1966. They gave us nearly 2000 man-hours in space and developed the rendezvous and docking techniques essential to Apollo. By burning the Agena rockets after docking, we were able to go to altitudes of more than 800 nautical miles and prove the feasibility of the precise space maneuvers essential to Apollo. our first experience in EVA was obtained with Gemini and difficulties here early in the program paved the way for the smoothly working EVA systems used later on the Moon. The Borman and Lovell flight, Gemini VII, showed us that durations up to two weeks were possible without serious medical problems, and the later flights showed the importance of neutral buoyancy training in preparation of zero-gravity operations outside the spacecraft.\nGemini gave us the confidence we needed in complex space operations, and it was during this period that Chris Kraft and his team really made spaceflight operational. They devised superb techniques for flight management, and Mission Control developed to where it was really ready for the complex Apollo missions. Chris Kraft, Deke Slayton, head of the astronauts, and Dr. Berry, our head of Medical Operations, learned to work together as a team. Finally, the success of these operations and the high spaceflight activity kept public interest at a peak, giving our national leaders the broad supporting interest and general approval that made it possible to press ahead with a program of the scale of Apollo.\nMichael Collins Extra-Vehiclar-Activity (EVA)\nMovie of Gemini Program EVA: (.mov) or (.avi). (434K)\nThe first American \"spacewalk\" or Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) was performed by Edward H. White II during the Gemini IV mission (June 3-7, 1965).\nLater in the Gemini Program, astronaut Michael Collins also performed an EVA tethered to the Gemini. Astronaut Collins used his cold gas gun to maneuver over to the attached Agena vehicle and retrieve an experiment.\nSpace Shuttle Launch Movie\nMovie of Space Shuttle Launch: (.mov) or (.avi).(1.1M)\n(The following discussion appeared in the 1981 SPINOFF magazine published by NASA.)\nThe Space Shuttle is the principal component of the Space Transportation System, which includes the Spacelab a manned laboratory carried in the Orbiter's cargo bay\ufffdand several types of upper stage ''space tugs'' for boosting payloads to orbits beyond the Shuttle's operational altitude. Space Transportation System additions contemplated for later development include orbital power stations for large-scale electrical needs, more advanced space tugs, robot systems for in-space maintenance and construction tasks, and a heavy-lift vehicle for delivering to orbit greater payloads than the Shuttle can accommodate.\nThe Space Transportation System enables more efficient performance of traditional space tasks and allows accomplishment of direct benefit operations earlier considered impracticable or overcostly . For example, the availability of the system opens up an entirely new realm of space potential: erection in orbit of large structures to serve such purposes as revolutionary advances in communications, or manufacture in weightless space of certain items less efficiently produced, or not producible at all, in the presence of Earth's gravity.\nThe versatile Space Shuttle offers unprecedented operational flexibility. The Shuttle Orbiter can deposit satellites in many different orbits. On many missions it carries multiple payloads. It can serve as an orbital launch facility for sending interplanetary spacecraft into deep space trajectories. And in addition to its delivery / retrieval role, the Orbiter - when fitted with the Spacelab - becomes a human-staffed space station for stays aloft as long as two weeks.\nCapable of delivering payloads of more than 50,000 pounds to an altitude of almost 700 miles, the Orbiter was built by Rockwell International Corporation. Rockwell is also prime contractor for integration of the overall Shuttle system. Both Orbiter and integration contracts are managed by Johnson Space Center.\nThe solid rocket boosters are produced by Thiokol Corporation, and Martin Marietta Corporation supplies the huge external tank which houses fuel and oxidizer for the Orbiter's three main engines; these contracts are managed by Marshall Space Flight Center. Under contract with Kennedy Space Center, United Space Boosters, Inc. handles solid rocket launch functions, including operation of the recovery ships and refurbishment of the boosters. The European Space Agency is responsible for the Spacelab component.\nThe two large solid rockets boost the Orbiter to an altitude of 30 miles during the first two minutes of flight. Pushed clear by small rocket motors, the spent boosters are lowered by large parachutes to the sea, where they are picked up by recovery ships. Drawing fuel from the big external tank, the Orbiter's three main engines power the spacecraft for another six minutes. Just before orbital velocity is attained, the external tank is jettisoned and not recovered. An orbial maneuvering system, fueled from tanks within the Orbiter, provides the final thrust into and adjustment of the orbit.\nAstronaut Morphing into a Robot\nMovie of an Astronaut Morphing into a Robot: (.mov) or (.avi). (833K)\nSource: ROBOTS IN SPACE, NASA FACTS, NF-165/7-91\nRobots have intrigued humans and captured our imaginations for centuries. As early as the 8th century B.C., Homer, in his epic poem Illiad, described \"handmaids of god resembling living young damsels.\" Science fiction literature and motion pictures also have pictured mobile devices, human-like in form, encased in metal, and able to do those everyday tasks from which many of us would like to be freed.\nDespite our long fascination with robots, the first U.S. patent for an industrial robot was issued less than 40 years ago to George C. Devol.. In 1958, Joseph F. Engelberger, a science-fiction enthusiast, developed the first programmable manipulator, or robot. Since then, robots have become indispensable to the industry, to medicine, and to the United States space program. And while today's robots may not look or perform as fantastically as those featured in literature or movies, they are the fulfillment of dozens of science fiction visions.\nRobots: What and Why\nA robot may be define as a self-controlled device consisting of electronic, electrical, or mechanical units. More generally, it is a machine that functions in place of a living agent. Robots are especially desirable for certain work functions because, unlike humans, they never get tired; they can endure physical conditions that are uncomfortable or even dangerous; they can operate in airless conditions; they do not get bored by repetition; and they cannot be distracted from the task at hand.\nThus, robots are especially valuable to space exploration. Not only can they travel to environments too hostile or too distant for human explorers, but they can also enhance the work schedule of a manned space mission.\nTypes of Robots in Space\nToday, two types of devices exist which can be considered space robots. One is the ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and the other is the RMS (Remote Manipulator System).\nTypically, ROVs are used in nuclear facilities for inspection and repair in areas too dangerous for humans, and by police bomb squads for removal of potentially hazardous materials. Space researchers are especially interested in this type of robot for terrain exploration in space.\nAn ROV can be an unmanned spacecraft that remains in flight, a lander that makes contact with an extraterrestrial body and operates from a stationary position, or a rover that can move over terrain once it has landed. It is difficult to say exactly when early spacecraft evolved from simple automatons to robot explorers or ROVs. Even the earliest and simplest spacecraft operated with some preprogrammed functions monitored closely from Earth.\nThe most common type of existing robotic device is the crane-like RMS (Remote Manipulator System), or robot arm, most often used in industry and manufacturing. This mechanical arm recreates many of the movements of the human arm, having not only side-to-side and up-and-down motion, but also a full 360-degree circular motion at the wrist, which humans do not have. Robot arms are of two types. One is computer-operated and programmed for a specific function. The other requires a human to actually control the strength and movement of the arm to perform the task. To date, a robot arm has performed a number of tasks on several NASA space missions-serving as a grappler, a remote assembly device, and also as a positioning and anchoring device for astronauts working in space.\nRobots and Unmanned Space Exploration\nRobotic spacecraft are especially useful in space exploration where distances are too long and environments too hostile and dangerous to send humans. Before astronauts were sent to the Moon, a series of Surveyor spacecraft soft-landed on the lunar surface between 1966 and 1968. Triggered by electronic signals from Earthbound humans, four Surveyors transmitted thousands of images back to Earth and analyzed solid samples gathered with an extendible claw. Based on this information, the United States was able to plan its manned Apollo Moon missions.\nThe Soviet Lunokhod 1 lunar rover can be called the first mobile robot to explore an extraterrestrial body. In 1970 it rolled out onto the Moon's surface from the Luna 17 spacecraft and was remotely controlled by Soviet scientists through television viewers. One of its autonomous functions was the ability to sense when it was going to tip over and automatically stop and wait for signal from Earth to help it proceed.\nTwo Viking spacecraft, launched in 1975, parachuted landers to the Martian surface with television cameras, soil scoops and analyzers, and weather stations. Some of these devices transmitted valuable information to Earth until 1982. If humans are ever to explore or even inhabit Mars, additional robotic probes similar to these are essential.\nAn exciting and practical use for ROVs is as unmanned deep space probes. The Voyager 2 proves are excellent examples of how unmanned space missions can greatly increase our understanding of the universe. They are programmed automatically to make adjustments in operations far from direct human interaction. The Voyager missions, launched in 1977, have provided scientists with opportunities to view Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and they continue to provide thought-provoking new data. They have already traveled over 2.8 billion miles, and if they continue to operate, the Voyager proves will hurtle on past the edge of the solar system to interstellar space, sending back signals that are still unfeasible for a manned mission to gather at this point in our space development.\nRobots and Manned Space Exploration\nTo date, the Space Shuttle's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) is the only robotic device which has been used on manned space missions. The robot arm made its test debut in space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-2 in 1981. Then in 1983, on Space Shuttle Challenger Mission STS-7, when Sally Ride made her historic flight as the first American woman in space, the robot arm was used to release and recover a pallet satellite.\nSpace Shuttle Mission STS-41C, a 1984 Challenger flight, illustrates some of the advantages of using remote manipulators in space. One of the mission's goals was to capture the malfunctioning Solar Maximum Mission Satellite (Solar Max) for repair and re-orbit. During an extravehicular activity (EVA), astronaut George D. Nelson was unsuccessful in trying to grab the satellite by hand in an untethered space walk, but later, Nelson and astronaut James van Hoften used the Shuttle's giant robot arm to grapple the satellite; then they repaired it in the Shuttle's giant robot arm to grapple the satellite; then they repaired it in the Shuttle's payload bay. Once the repair was successfully completed, the RMS was used to redeploy the satellite.\nOn the same Challenger mission, human intervention was required to help the robot arm deploy the largest payload yet handled by a Shuttle. The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) weighing 21,300 pounds (9700 kilograms) was so large it blocked the vision of Astronaut Terry Hart who was manipulating the robot arm. Using a remote TV monitor for visual feedback, Hart first used the RMS to latch onto a grapple fixture on the LDEF to activate its power sources, and then used the RMS to lift, steady, and release the LDEF into orbit. The LDEF contained 57 experiments and was the first satellite specifically designed to be returned to Earth; so, in 1990, the RMS was again used to grapple the satellite and lower it into the Shuttle's payload bay for the return trip to Earth.\nA second satellite retrieval mission was accomplished in 1984 during Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-51A. This time, a manual retrieval and berthing procedure was accomplished by an astronaut positioned in a restraint system located at the end of the RMS. This foot restraint device, which functions like a \"cherry picker,\" holds and positions the astronaut operated the robot arm from inside the Shuttle's cabin.\nOn Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission STS-61B, launched in 1985, two important construction experiments were conducted using the RMS. These experiments, referred to as EASE and ACCESS, tested space assembly of two different structures consisting of beams and nodes and evaluated the roles EVA might play in building the planned Space Station.\nAll these examples of using the RMS during manned space missions rely on teleoperation, continuously controlled remote manipulation by a human. (Teleoperation comes from the Greek, telchir, meaning \"distant hands.\") Although the RMS has an automated mode, it has never been used in an actual recovery operation. This mode, however, was tested on STS-3 in 1982.\nFuture Robots in Space\nNASA's current plans for development of space robots concentrates on three main uses of remote manipulation in space: servicers, cranes, and rovers. Servicers are humansized, multi-arm, remote manipulators which are used for servicing and assembly. Cranes, like the RMS currently operated on Space Shuttle missions, are long single arms used for repositioning larges masses. Rovers are mobile platforms for transporting payloads on planetary servicers and extraterrestrial surfaces.\nIn its research, NASA's approach is to focus on remote manipulation systems which demonstrate robustness, or the ability to cope with problems; versatility, or the ability to do a variety of tasks; and simplicity, offering the operator a sophisticated system in a package that reduces complexity - much in the same way a powerful software package allows a nonexpert to manipulate the capabilities of a computer. The strategy is to develop remote manipulation technology where humans and machines have both redundant and complementary roles.\nToday's space robots operate either by teleoperation (continuous remote control of a manipulator) or robotics (preprogrammed control of a manipulator). Both are\ufffd? ? :ly controlled by humans. The distinction is that the teleoperators are controlled by humans remote in distance, and robots are controlled by humans in time (by way of computer programs). NASA's goal is to develop a system of telerobotics where teleoperation and robots are combined. The future of robots in space is not a question of human versus machine, but rather a combination of the best capabilities of human and machine to achieve something which surpasses the capabilities of either alone. Robots using Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with computers will eventually be capable of \"learning\" how to perform complex tasks.\nA number of telerobotic devices are currently under development. The Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is the lead NASA center for developing robots like the Flight Telerobotic Servicer which will assemble and service the Space Station. Similar projects are under way at the Johnson Space Center in Texas and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in support of crew activities and ground processing of STS. These devices will fetch tools and astronauts, perform hazardous launch duties, and even tend crops in orbiting gardens. Planetary rovers and walkers also are being designed both with wheels and leg-like appendages. They will have the technology to safely and autonomously transverse long distances on unfamiliar terrain.\nOn May 24, 1989, President George Bush spoke on America's space agenda for the 21st century. \"I want to reaffirm my support for the quest to create a spacefaring civilization. That objective is not just our ambition, but our destiny...\"NASA's work with robotics is sure to play and important role in that destiny.\n1. Have students research how robot arms and robotic spacecraft have assisted the United States space program through specific missions in space. Then assign one or more of the following activities:\n* Create a picture storybook that illustrates the use of robots and robotics in space. Share it with younger students. * Create a data base of each of the space missions, including name, mission number, date, duration, crew members (if applicable), and robotic achievements. * Write a short report on the topic. * Prepare a bulletin board to share the information with others in your school\n2. In 1920, Czechoslovakian writer Karel Capek invented the word \"robot\" in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). Robota, a Czech word, translates as forced labor, serf, slave, or drudgery. Find a copy of the play, and have students dramatize an excerpt from the script. Capek's robots eventually rebelled against their human masters to take over the world. Have students discuss why this is or is not likely to happen in reality.\n3. Have a team of students create a mural that illustrates past and future accomplishment so robots in space.\n4. Ask a team of students to create a diorama recreating the activity of the robot arm on on specific Space Shuttle mission.\n5. Ask students to imagine that robot arms are readily available to consumers. Have students discuss or write about practical applications, describing specific task that could be accomplished more efficiently.\n6. One of the biggest challenges in the field of robotics is reproducing the human senses of sight, sound, and touch in order to give robots practical mobility. William Whittaker, director of the Field Robotics laboratory at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, is currently working on one of the most promising mobile robots, the Ambler (short for Autonomous Mobile Robot). Ask students to find out more about this project and then discuss its applications for the future of both space exploration and daily life.\n7. Have students investigate all the ways robots and robotics will be essential to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Space Station. Create a poster that illustrates these findings.\n8. Computers are considered the \"brains\" of robots, and at this point, the exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the crux of robotics research. Have students find out more about the development of computers and then discuss this statement.\n9. Research shows that spending prolonged periods in space places great stress on the human body. Have students research the effects of space on the cardiovascular, circulatory, and skeletal body systems. Then ask them to define Space Adaptation Syndrome (SAS). Lead a discussion on how using robots addresses these issues.\nCurtis, Anthony R., Space Almanac. Woodsboro, Maryland: Arcsooft Publishers, 1989.\nFiermedal, Grant, \"Telepresence,\" Final Frontier, July-August, 1990, pp. 227-31.\nFreiherr, Greg, \"Invasion of the Spacebots: NASA is looking for a few good machines.\" Air & Space, February/March, 1990. pp. 73-81.\nKrasnoff, Barbara, Robots: Reel to Real, New York: Arco Publishing. 1982.\nScott, Peter B., The Robotics Revolution: The Complete Guide. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984.\nStorrs, Graham. The Robot Age. New York: The Bookwright Press.. 1985.\nWashburn, Mark, \"Goodbye, Voyager,\" Air & Space, December 1989/January 1990, pp. 38-48.\nThe Magnificent Lunar Lander\nMovie of the Lunar Lander Morphing into a famous starship: (.mov) or (.avi).(595K)\nFrom an editorial letter to AD ASTRA, Jun 1990: \"Science fiction is not only the best way to predict the future, it has also helped to create the civilian space program. \"Name any other method of attempting to forecast the future...including the work of professional scientists...Read their predictions five or ten years after they were written. Pitiful! Science fiction writers, on the other hand, have predicted virtually every aspect of our modern world - often 30 or more years before the events came to pass.\"\nBen Bova, Chairman, National Space Society Board\nWhile not the only one, popular... science fiction clearly had an impact on the American space program, in the politics of space. If nothing else, science fiction created an interest in space among the majority of the American people and convinced them that going to the Moon would occur one day. In turn, President Kennedy, consciously or subconsciously, drew on the cultural images of adventure and exploration within science fiction to sell the Moon program to the nation.\nDr. L. Suid, \"Space Travel: Fiction and Reality,\" SPACEFLIGHT, Vol. 31, July 1989, p. 232.\nThe Launch of the Apollo Saturn 5 Booster\nMovie of a Saturn Apollo Launch: (.mov) or (.avi). (587K)\nThe Manned Flights of Apollo\nApollo 7 Saturn 1B October 11-12, 1968 Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Donn F. Eisele R. Walter Cunningham\n10 days, 20 hours 163 Earth orbits. First manned CSM operations in lunar landing program. First live TV from manned spacecraft.\nApollo 8 Saturn V December 21-27, 1968 Frank Borman James A. Lovell, Jr. William A. Anders\n06 days, 03 hours In lunar orbit 20 hours, with 10 orbits. First manned lunar orbital mission. Support facilities tested. Photographs taken of Earth and Moon. Live TV broadcasts.\nApollo 9 (Gumdrop and Spider) Saturn V March 03-13, 1969 James A. McDivitt David R. Scott Russell L. Schweickart\n10 days, 01 hour First manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit. Schweickark performed 37 minutes EVA. Human reactions to space and weightlessness tested in 152 orbits. First manned flight of lunar module.\nApollo 10 (Charlie Brown and Snoopy) Saturn V May 18-26, 1969 Eugene A. Cernan John W. Young Thomas P. Stafford\n08 days, 03 minutes Dress rehearsal for Moon landing. First manned CSM/LM operations in cislunar and lunar environ- ment; simulation of first lunar landing profile. In lunar orbit 61.6 hours, with 31 orbits. LM taken to within 15,243 m (50,000 ft) of lunar surface. First live color TV from space. LM ascent stage jettisoned in orbit.\nApollo 11 (Columbia and Eagle) Saturn V July 16-24, 1969 Neil A. Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.\n08 days, 03 hours, 18 minutes First manned lunar landing mission and lunar surface EVA. \"HOUSTON, TRANQUILITY BASE HERE. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.\"--July 20, Sea of Tranquility. 1 EVA of 02 hours, 31 minutes. Flag and in- struments deployed; unveiled plaque on the LM descent stage with inscription: \"Here Men From Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon. July 1969 A.D. We Came In Peace For All Mankind.\" Lunar surface stay time 21.6 hours; 59.5 hours in lunar orbit, with 30 orbits. LM ascent stage left in lunar orbit. 20kg (44 lbs) of material gathered.\nApollo 12 (Yankee Clipper and Intrepid) Saturn V November 14-24, 1969 Charles Conrad, Jr. Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Alan L. Bean\n10 days, 04 hours, 36 minutes Landing site: Ocean of Storms. Retrieved parts of the unmanned Surveyor 3, which had landed on the Moon in April 1967. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) deployed. Lunar surface stay-time, 31.5 hours; in lunar orbit 89 hours, with 45 orbits. LM descent stage impacted on Moon. 34kg (75 lbs) of material gathered.\nApollo 13 (Odyssey and Aquarius) Saturn V April 11-17, 1970 James A. Lovell, Jr. John L. Swigert, Jr. Fred W. Haise, Jr.\n05 days, 22.9 hours Third lunar landing attempt. Mission aborted after rupture of service module oxygen tank. Classed as \"successful failure\" because of experience in rescuing crew. Spent upper stage successfully impacted on the Moon.\nApollo 14 (Kitty Hawk and Antares) Saturn V January 31-Febraury 09, 1971 Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Stuart A. Roosa Edgar D. Mitchell\n09 days Landing site: Fra Mauro. ALSEP and other instruments deployed. Lunar surface stay-time, 33.5 hours; 67 hours in lunar orbit, with 34 orbits. 2 EVAs of 09 hours, 25 minutes. Third stage impacted on Moon. 42 kg (94 lbs) of materials gathered, using hand cart for first time to transport rocks.\nApollo 15 (Endeavor and Falcon) Saturn V July 26-August 07, 1971 David R. Scott James B. Irwin Alfred M. Worden\n12 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes Landing site: Hadley-Apennine region near Apennine Mountains. 3 EVAs of 10 hours, 36 minutes. Worden performed 38 minutes EVA on way back to Earth. First to carry orbital sensors in service module of CSM. ALSEP de- ployed. Scientific payload landed on Moon doubled. Improved spacesuits gave increased mobility and stay-time. Lunar surface stay- time, 66.9 hours. Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), electric-powered, 4-wheel drive car, traversed total 27.9 km (17 mi). In lunar orbit 145 hours, with 74 orbits. Small sub-satellite left in lunar orbit for first time. 6.6 kgs (169 lbs) of material gathered.\nApollo 16 (Casper and Orion) Saturn V April 16-27, 1972 John W. Young Thomas K. Mattingly II Charles M. Duke, Jr.\n11 days, 01 hour, 51 minutes Landing site: Descartes Highlands. First study of highlands area. Selected surface experiments deployed, ultraviolet camera/spectrograph used for first time on Moon, and LRV used for second time. Lunar surface stay-time, 71 hours; in lunar orbit 126 hours, with 64 orbits. Mattingly performed 01 hour in-flight EVA. 95.8 kg (213 lbs) of lunar samples collected.\nApollo 17 (America and Challenger) Saturn V December 07-19, 1972 Eugene A. Cernan Ronald B. Evans Harrison H. Schmitt\n12 days, 13 hours, 52 minutes Last lunar landing mission. Landing site: Taurus-Littrow, highlands and valley area. 3 EVAs of 22 hours, 04 minutes. Evans performed trans-Earth EVA lasting 01 hour 06 minutes. First scientist-astronaut to land on Moon, Schmitt. Sixth automated research station set up. LRV traverse total 30.5 km. Lunar surface stay-time, 75 hours. In lunar orbit 17 hours. 110.4 kg (243 lbs) of material gathered.\nDeployment of a Shuttle Payload\nMovie of a Shuttle payload deployment: (.mov) or (.avi).(306K)\nPAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM\nThe payload deployment and retrieval system includes the electromechanical arm that maneuvers a payload from the payload bay of the space shuttle orbiter to its deployment position and then releases it. It can also grapple a free-flying payload, maneuver it to the payload bay of the orbiter and berth it in the orbiter. This arm is referred to as the remote manipulator system.\nThe RMS is installed in the payload bay of the orbiter for those missions requiring it. payloads carried aboard the orbiter for deployment do not require the RMS.\nThe RMS is capable of deploying or retrieving payloads weighing up to 65,000 pounds. The RMS can also retrieve, repair and deploy satellites; provide a mobile extension ladder for extravehicular activity crew members for work stations or foot restraints; and be used as an inspection aid to allow the flight crew members to view the orbiter's or payload's surfaces through a television camera on the RMS.\nThe PDRS was built via an international agreement between the National Research Council of Canada and NASA. Spar Aerospace Ltd., a Canadian company, designed, developed, tested and built the RMS. CAE Electronics Ltd. in Montreal provides electronic interfaces, servoamplifiers and power conditioners. Dilworth, Secord, Meagher and Assoc. Ltd. in Toronto is responsible for the RMS end effector. Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division designed, developed, tested and built the systems used to attach the RMS to the payload bay of the orbiter.\nThe basic RMS configuration consists of a manipulator arm; an RMS display and control panel, including rotational and translational hand controllers at the orbiter aft flight deck flight crew station; and a manipulator controller interface unit that interfaces with the orbiter computer. Normally, only one RMS is installed on the left longeron of the orbiter payload bay. The RMS could be installed on the right side, but the orbiter Ku-band antenna would have to be removed to accommodate the RMS there. Two arms could be installed in the payload bay if the orbiter Ku-band antenna were removed, but only one arm could be operated at a time because only a single software package (computer program) and a single set of display and control panel hardware are provided at the flight deck aft control station. Electrical wiring is in the flight deck aft station for both arms.\nOne flight crew member operates the RMS from the aft flight deck control station, and a second flight crew member usually assists with television camera operations. This allows the RMS operator to view RMS operations through the aft flight deck payload and overhead windows and through the closed-circuit television monitors at the aft flight deck station.\nThe RMS arm is 50 feet 3 inches long and 15 inches in diameter and has six degrees of freedom. It weighs 905 pounds, and the total system weighs 994 pounds.\nThe RMS has six joints that correspond roughly to the joints of the human arm, with shoulder yaw and pitch joints; an elbow pitch joint; and wrist pitch, yaw and roll joints. The end effector is the unit at the end of the wrist that actually grabs, or grapples, the payload. The two lightweight boom segments are called the upper and lower arms. The upper boom connects the shoulder and elbow joints, and the lower boom connects the elbow and wrist joints. The RMS arm attaches to the orbiter payload bay longeron at the shoulder manipulator positioning mechanism. Power and data connections are located at the shoulder MPM.\nThe RMS can operate with standard or special-purpose end effectors. The standard end effector can grapple a payload, keep it rigidly attached as long as required and then release it. Special-purpose end effectors are designed by payload developers and installed instead of the standard end effector during ground turnaround. An optional payload electrical connector can receive electrical power through a connector located in the standard end effector.\nThe booms are made of graphite epoxy. They are 13 inches in diameter by 17 feet and 20 feet, respectively, in length and are attached by metallic joints. The composite in one arm weighs 93 pounds. The joint and electronic housings are made of aluminum alloy.\nA shoulder brace relieves launch loads on the shoulder pitch gear train of the RMS. On orbit, the brace is released to allow RMS operations. It cannot be relatched on orbit, but it is not required that it be relatched for entry or landing loads.\nMorph of Jack Swigert into Original Apollo 13 Crew Photo\nMovie Astronaut Jack Swigert Replacing Astronaut Ken Mattingly in Official NASA Photo of the Apollo 13 Crew: (.mov) (1,885K)\nCalled \"NASA's Finest Hour,\" the rescue of the stranded Apollo 13 astronauts the week of April 11-17, 1970 is unique in the history of manned spaceflight. Because original command module pilot T.K. Mattingly was exposed to measles, he was replaced a few days prior to launch by astronaut Jack Swigert. This left no time for another official crew photograph with Swigert instead of Mattingly. Through the technology of morphing, the above movie shows an altered official crew photo which includes the actual Apollo 13 command module pilot Jack Swigert.\nHISTORIC NASA MOVIES OF SPACE EXPLORATION\nNASA Pre-history\nColumbus precursor mission from the old world to the new(1492),\nJules Verne prototype Apollo Spacecraft (1865),\nEarly Zero-g Concept (1956)\nOriginal Mercury Astronauts Selected,\nThe Evolution of Manned Spacecraft (1961-1981),\nFirst American,Alan Shepard, launched into space, May 5, 1961\nJFK Rice Stadium Space Race Speech (September 12),\nWho Will Win the Race to the Moon?,\n\"Godspeed, John Glenn.\"\nMorph of original lunar lander design into later and final version\nStart of Gemini Program (March),\nAmericans walk in space (June)\nFirst Launch of Men to Walk on the Moon (July 16),\n\"Houston...the eagle has landed!\" (July 20, 1969),\nMan's First Step on the Moon (July 20),\nThe SECOND man on the Moon (July 20),\nMan's First Flag on the Moon (July 20)\nRescue of Apollo 13(April 11-17),\nApollo 13 Crew Photo Morph\nMan's First Golf Shot on the Moon (February ),\nFirst Man Driven Moon Car, Apollo 15, (July-August),\nApollo 15 performs Galileo's Feather-Hammer experiment on Moon (July-August)\nLaunch of Space Shuttle (April)\nTragic Explosion of Challenger (January 28),\nPresident Reagan's Challenger Eulogy (January 28),\nGodspeed Again, John Glenn.\nHonoring those who died on September 11th.\nEvolution of Apollo to a Star Ship\nLast modified: Tuesday, 30-Nov-04 03:12:00 PM CST\nResponsible Official: Charles Gott, NASA JSC ER7\nLast modified: Tuesday, 16-Oct-2006 01:30:00 PM CDT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 384, "original_length": 95978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dzem-china.com/en/news3.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IYYBVFQLWJ2CZZQPD7OCM2O7MIGL7I4G", "length": 1804, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dzem-china.com", "title": "Jiangsu dazhong Electromotor Stock Co.,Ltd", "raw_content": "When the motor is started missing words, abnormal sound will be issued, the motor can not be started. 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Join AntiqueWeb Ring for Free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eatset.com.ng/home/undp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:48Z", "digest": "sha1:N2MXPHC5IPM2XG4S3TZTLPRWAZ3TZ2WD", "length": 1977, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "eatset.com.ng", "title": "UNDP \u2013 Eat-Set Nigeria", "raw_content": "Dr. Babashola Chinsman, Resident Representative, United Nations Development Program\nThe equipment will enable doctors to intervene promptly in situations demanding urgent blood transfusion to patient from internal bleeding. This method of blood transfusion, we perceive will help to eliminate fear of acquiring AIDS and other blood borne infection since a patient would receive his/her own blood. In addition, the device will reduce maternal death resulting in from blood less in ectopic pregnancy. We are pleased to be assisting as the funding agency of this project, which is being executed by the World Health Organization (WHO).\nAt this juncture, it is however appropriate to mention that Nigeria\u2019s scale and diversity requires UNDP\u2019s intervention to be strategic in their targeting and suitably diverse so that the greatest capacity building effect can be hard in achieving a long run impact. UNDP recognizes that this catalytic effect will be greatest if program and project designs are highly specific with respect to identifying and serving its target group taking into account the Global concern of UNDP which include poverty alleviation and participatory approaches to sustainable human development; environment and natural resources management; women in development; technical co-operation among developing countries;\nmanagement of the developing process; transfer and adaptation of technology. It is in this context therefore that the 4th UNDP Country program for Nigeria (1992-96) has been prepared in ten sectors and is being implemented in nine of them. It is a five year framework that reflects the views of the Federal Government of Nigeria regarding how best to utilize UNDP assistance for the achievement of the priority national development objectives.\nUNDP is proud of the achievement of EAT-SET which is an appropriate technology which is very remarkable particularly during this period of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations\nDr. Babashola Chinsman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elginkan.com.tr/en/news/detail/215/eca-emas-2015-dealer-meeting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LAWJWJNOQDWUG37PZ2M5EWIFIWYI7Q6D", "length": 6087, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "elginkan.com.tr", "title": "E.C.A. EMAS 2015 Dealer Meeting", "raw_content": "EMAS INTRODUCED ITS HEATING BOILERS PRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TURKEY USING SCOT TECHNOLOGY, AND THE NEW AIR CONDITIONER SERIES.\nThe biannual dealer convention organized by EMAS Makina Sanayi A.\u015e. took place at Antalya Kaya Palazzo Golf Resort on December 11-13, 2015.\nThe condensing premix heating boilers that can adapt to various gas types and pressures produced for the first time in Turkey by Emas, including the models in this product range, as well the new air conditioner series were introduced to the dealers. Total 500 guests, including 100 international dealers attended the event.\nE.C.A., an Elginkan Community company that has been guiding the heating systems industry for more than 30 years, held its biannual dealer convention at Antalya Kaya Palazzo Golf Resort on December 11-13, 2015 with the attendance of 500 local and international dealers. E.C.A. introduced the new addition to its product range, the full condensing heating boilers featuring SCOT - Safety COmbustion Technology \u2013 and the new air conditioner series during the two-day dealer convention. Emas, as the producer of Turkey\u2019s first condensing premix heating boilers that can adapt to various gas types and pressures, provided detailed information about the Safety Combustion Technology (SCOT).\n\u201cWe at Elginkan Community are entrusted with an important legacy. Our esteemed president, the late Mr. Ekrem Elginkan had always told me that \u2018we should fulfill our duties toward the state, value honesty and not favor ill-gotten gains, and not make mistakes that could discredit our reputation\u2019. And we always work toward these principles,\u201d said Gaye Ak\u00e7en, Elginkan Foundation Board of Directors Chair, and the President of Elginkan Community Executive Board. \u201cLooking at 2015, this has been a year when we continued to grow. We plan to close the year with 15 per cent growth, and TL2 billion in revenues. We also aim to expand in the Asia-Pacific region, our newest market. We are investing in capacity, production facility, and product diversity for sustainable growth.\u201d\nSpeaking at the dealer convention, Emas Makina Sanayi A.\u015e. General Manager Mehmet \u00d6zokumu\u015fo\u011flu provided information about the new products. \u201cE.C.A.\u2019s new full condensing heating boiler will be offered with 24 kW, 30 kW, 35 kW capacity options. This new heating boiler stands out with its gas-adaptive system, and its ability to automatically adapt to different gas qualities. Another new addition to our product range are three different air conditioners, the wall type split air conditioner, the cassette type split air conditioner, and VRF.\u201d\nIn addition to learning about the latest developments related to the E.C.A. brand and the new products, the local and international dealers also had the opportunity to listen to Prof. Dr. \u00d6zg\u00fcr Demirta\u015f speak about the economic parameters and expectations for 2016. After lunch, a search conference on the topic of \u201cCreating Value in Change\u201d was held with the participation of Prof. Dr. Acar Balta\u015f, a leading name who has shown vast audiences across Turkey that psychology can be a solution for people\u2019s needs and the problems in the business world. The search conference, where the concept of modern leadership was discussed, also provided important insights into the new conditions of a changing world, and about ways of adapting to change. The day ended with a dinner where dealers were entertained with performances by artist Demet Tuncer, and singer Melihat G\u00fclses.\nABOUT ELG\u0130NKAN FOUNDATION\nThe Elginkan family, founders of the Elginkan Community, hail from Manisa. The family, bearing the surname Elginkan, is maternally tied with the Sarukhanids through their mother \u00dcmmehan Elginkan, while the family\u2019s paternal roots go back to Ruse, a town close to Shumen, within the borders of present-day Bulgaria, where their father Ahmet Elginkan was born, and the family was known as 'Necipzade of Ruse'. In 1954, the mother \u00dcmmehan Elginkan, with her sons H\u00fcseyin Ekrem Elginkan and H\u00fcseyin Cahit Elginkan decided to institute the Elginkan Foundation, which was finally materialized in 1985 after going through numerous stages. Although instituting foundations and/or being connected to foundations is not a very common practice among established enterprises in Turkey, managing the Community through a Foundation is regarded as an extraordinary practice. The Foundation aims to ensure that the Elginkan Community lives and serves the country eternally.\nABOUT EMAS MAK\u0130NA SAN. A.\u015e.\nEMAS Makina Sanayi A.\u015e., an ELGINKAN COMMUNITY company, was established in 1985 in Pendik, Istanbul in the \u015eeyhlik\u00f6y Industrial Zone. Having started with the production of solid fuel burning cast stoves under the E.C.A. brand name, EMAS A.\u015e. went on to produce various products, and began producing natural gas heating boilers in 2004. The need to increase capacity led to moving the production to the new facilities built in the Manisa Organized Industrial Zone. Today Emas A.\u015e. carries out sales and marketing activities for the natural gas heating boilers manufactured in the Manisa facilities, as well as the solid fuel burning room heaters, boilers, hermetic water heaters, and thermo-siphons manufactured in the Pendik facilities, plus various heating devices produced by companies both in and out of the Community. The product range includes thermostatic radiator valves for panel and cast iron radiators in particular, water and gas valves, towel radiators, steel and cast central system boilers, burners, condensing high capacity wall type central heating boilers, expansion tanks, solar panels, and natural gas gauges. EMAS A.\u015e. is one of the first among Turkish companies to implement the ISO 9001 Quality Assurance System, and has been awarded with a gold medal for being the first to commit to the Consumer Protection Declaration. The numerous accolades that Emas A.\u015e. has received include the award for \u2018Company Adopting Consumer Satisfaction Principle\u2019 by the Ministry of Industry in 2002, and the \u201cConsumer Award\u201d presented by the Turkish Association for Protection of Consumers in 2004.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 6497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.green-future.ro/kids/children-s-tables", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:25Z", "digest": "sha1:APVRTIN6JTV2DFOXHREXY7YH7F2TN5EO", "length": 309, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "en.green-future.ro", "title": "M\u0103su\u021b\u0103 copii | Green Future de la \u20ac98.91", "raw_content": "The children\u2019s table is made of polyurethane and is specifically designed to prevent the little ones from hurting or hitting when playing. Kids will find the design very attractive, so the table will certainly become their new favorite accessory. With this table, playtime will be more entertaining than ever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 4868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2007/12/11/92022.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YTTSTWBOTNP4YSVSWGVEVW4A6GAGETUB", "length": 2151, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "en.minghui.org", "title": "I Cannot Imagine What Our Lives Would Have Been Like Without a Falun Dafa Practitioner in Our Household | Falun Dafa - Minghui.org", "raw_content": "I Cannot Imagine What Our Lives Would Have Been Like Without a Falun Dafa Practitioner in Our Household\nDecember 11, 2007 | By a non-practitioner in Guizhou Province\n(Clearwisdom.net) I live in a small town in Guizhou and my wife practices Falun Dafa. Before she became a practitioner, she had cerebral thrombosis, heart disease, hypertension, and many other kinds of diseases. We sought medical treatment everywhere, straining our already difficult financial circumstances. We even had to borrow money to cover our children's schooling. Nevertheless, my wife's health problems became more and more serious.\nMy wife heard others say that practicing Falun Dafa was good for keeping fit and curing sicknesses, so she started to practice. With my own eyes, I saw my wife's wellbeing improve greatly. Her energy level also increased. Because we no longer needed to buy expensive medications and pay for all the different medical expenses, our family's financial situation also improved greatly. The entire family truly entered a state of calm and harmony.\nBut not long after, Jiang started the cruel persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. At that time, I was afraid of being pressured by the evil Chinese Communist Party. Although I knew Falun Dafa was good, I would not dare to allow my wife to go out to explain the truth about it.\nLater, however, I saw that practitioners had determinedly overcome many hardships for the privilege of protecting Dafa's name. I was deeply moved. Teacher Li's Dafa has saved a vast number of people from untold miseries. Every family that truly cultivates Dafa has benefited so much. If our family didn't have the protection of Dafa or there wasn't a Dafa practitioner in the house, then we would have had to deal with treating illnesses as well as raising our children. I really do not dare to imagine what kind of life we would have had. During the past ten years, we have built a house to live in. We don't need to worry about our children's school expenses. I truly want to thank Teacher Li for his salvation.\n\u201cBe a Qualified Falun Dafa Practitioner\u201d\n\u201cFirmly Believing in Master and the Fa, Walking Toward Maturity\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 7560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 238.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ge/George_I_of_Great_Britain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:2ESG6VAW2IQK5M24FKWN3HPY7HFRSLFE", "length": 2410, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "encyclopedia.kids.net.au", "title": "Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > George I of Great Britain", "raw_content": "Encyclopedia > George I of Great Britain\nGeorge I of Great Britain (May 28, 1660 - June 11, 1727) was King of Great Britain (formed from the merger of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland) and King of Ireland from August 1, 1714 to June 11, 1727.\nKing of Great Britain, Ireland\nElector of Hanover\nGeorge was born on May 28, 1660 in Hanover, Germany, and was the son of the Electress Sophia of Hanover who was a granddaughter of King James I of England. In 1682, he married Sophia, Princess of Zelle, and they had two children.:\nKing George II of Great Britain - (November 10, 1683 - October 25, 1760).\nSophia Dorothea[?], later Queen consort of Prussia - (March 26, 1683 - June 28, 1757.\nGeorge divorced Sophia in 1694 for committing adultery with Count von Konigsmarck[?].He had her imprisoned in the Castle of Ahlden[?], where she remained until her death in 1726. Their daughter, Sophia Dorothea[?], would be the mother of King Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great.\nGeorge's mother died only a few weeks before her cousin, Queen Anne I of Great Britain, and thus it was George who inherited the throne on Queen Anne's death on August 1, 1714. The Hanoverian ruling family were the closest Protestant relatives, but they faced opposition from supporters of the Stuart[?] pretender. An unsuccessful rebellion took place in 1715, in an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart, the son of King James II of England on the throne. See Jacobitism.\nGeorge never learned to speak English properly, and divided his time between Britain and his other territory of Hanover. He had a poor relationship with his own son, George, who was created Prince of Wales shortly after arriving in Britain. The birth of a second grandson in 1717 was the occasion for a family quarrel, and the Prince of Wales was banished from the royal residence along with his wife and children. Some reconciliation was eventually achieved, but they were never on cordial terms.\nGeorge I died at Osnabr\u00fcck in 1727 from a stroke while on his way to Hanover, where he was buried. His son succeeded him as King George II of Great Britain. George's remains were shifted to the Schloss Herrenhausen after World War II.\nAnne List of British monarchs Succeeded by:\n... Their characteristic style of stone tools is called the Mousterian Culture, after another prominent archaeological site. The name Neanderthal is now spelled both ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 80.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/tag/drought-conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JLLGBOTOUCPDCAUC524KIZYSW664RZCR", "length": 2489, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "endoftheamericandream.com", "title": "Drought Conditions \u2013 End Of The American Dream", "raw_content": "Why So Many Wildfires? Half The Country Is Turning Into An Intensely Hot, Bone Dry Burn Zone\nDid you know that 8 of the 9 worst years for wildfires ever recorded have all been since the year 2000? The western half of the United States just keeps getting hotter and drier, and this is creating ideal conditions for wildfires. The furious wildfire that took the lives of 19 brave firefighters in Yarnell, Arizona on Sunday is just one example of this. That wildfire has already consumed more than 200 buildings in the town of Yarnell, and it now spans nearly 9,000 acres even though more than 400 firefighters are battling it. High winds, record setting heat and bone dry conditions have created a \u201cperfect storm\u201d that firefighters are having a very difficult time contending with. Unfortunately, scientists tell us that things may continue to get even worse for the western half of the country. Most of the territory between the Mississippi River and the west coast seems to be steadily getting drier, and that means it is rapidly being transformed into an intensely hot, bone dry burn zone. (Read More...)\nCategories EnvironmentTags Arizona, Bone Dry, California, Colorado, Drought Conditions, Hotter, Michael T. Snyder, New Mexico, Record Setting Heat, Western Half Of The United States, Wildfire, Wildfires21 Comments\nWhat Happens If Record Heat And Crippling Drought Cause Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States?\nIt is too early to panic, but if there is not a major change in the weather very soon we could be looking at widespread crop failures throughout the United States this summer. Record heat and crippling drought are absolutely devastating crops from coast to coast. Unfortunately, this unprecedented heat wave just continues to keep going and record high temperatures continue to scorch much of the central United States. In fact, more than 2,000 record high temperatures have been matched or broken in the past week alone. Not only that, but the lack of rainfall nationally has caused drought conditions from coast to coast. If temperatures continue to stay this high and we don\u2019t start seeing more rain, farmers and ranchers all over the nation are going to be absolutely devastated. So what happens if we do see widespread crop failures throughout the United States? That is a question that is frightening to think about. (Read More...)\nCategories Economic Crisis, EnvironmentTags Crop Failures, Crops, Drought, Drought Conditions, Farmers, Panic85 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eng.kipm.edu.in/fee.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7J5O2ZKNFZQTRIJAUVU4RDQZXKLSTN3T", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "eng.kipm.edu.in", "title": "KIPM - COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY KIPM: Best Engineering College in UP", "raw_content": "As prescribed by UP Government.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 99.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/83171/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RC62NCTSAOBLPTQBUOYNC5H6R5F6GVY5", "length": 689, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "eprints.lse.ac.uk", "title": "Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution - LSE Research Online", "raw_content": "Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution\nGearty, Conor and Regan, Daniel (2015) Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution. LSE Constitution UK Blog (23 Jan 2015). Blog Entry.\nThe Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) at LSE is crowdsourcing a new written codified constitution for the UK. Using an innovative online platform, constitutionuk.com, the IPA is asking the British public for their ideas, comments, suggestions and votes on what should be included in a new constitution for the UK. This is the first time that such a large scale crowdsourcing initiative has been undertaken in the field of constitutional law in the UK.\nhttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/constitutionuk/\nCollections > LSE Constitution UK Blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://erykah-badu.com/newssystem/news.php?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=485", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WDLXHJ56ZVA4H5X3DKEBV2A2THLJUYDL", "length": 1001, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "erykah-badu.com", "title": "Erykah-Badu.com :: The official Erykah Badu fansite", "raw_content": "Erykah Badu has a very interesting funeral planned for herself\new.com: Like a true artist, Erykah Badu already has the components to make her final moments iconic.\nOn the latest episode of Entertainment Weekly: The Show, Badu joined senior editor Kevin O\u2019Donnell to discuss her upcoming returning hosting gig of the Soul Train Awards, her greatest musical influences, and what the end of her career would look like.\nIn a round of rapid fire questions chronicling the artist\u2019s career, O\u2019Donnell dives into what Badu\u2019s final moments would look and feel like. \u201cHow about the music that would play at your funeral?\u201d he asks.\nThe singer-songwriter thinks for a moment, but says she has to describe the funeral itself before the song choice would make sense. \u201cI want to be butt naked. I want my arms to be glued to my chest like this,\u201d explains Badu, motioning with her arms crossed across her chest. Badu clarifies the body wouldn\u2019t actually be there, just a wax figure that would represent her. Read more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://esp.wikidot.com/looking-at-microsoft-s-fat-patents-through-bilski-glasses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4EFO3WXJWVOOFHWMCGXZZSRXIYHSDWEH", "length": 1638, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "esp.wikidot.com", "title": "Looking At Microsoft's Fat Patents Through Bilski Glasses - End Software Patents", "raw_content": "Looking At Microsoft's Fat Patents Through Bilski Glasses\nYesterday, Microsoft attacked free software and GNU/Linux users with software patent claims against the Tom Tom Navigator and its implementation of the FAT file system. But do they have a sword or a wet rag? There have been interesting patent rejections coming from the USPTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) since the Bilski ruling was handed down by an en banc hearing of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). One is the rejection of one of IBM's database query patents. It was rejected because the innovation isn't \"tied to a particular machine\". So it's a happy coincidence that MS claims their technology is running on all sorts of devices. Foot, meet mouth.\nThe BPAI goes on to justify the rejection by pointing out that the \"system\" on which the innovation operates is \"not recited in terms of hardware or tangible structural elements\", which is to say that the patent is rejected because the elements of the claim are \"implemented solely in software or algorithms\". Does the FAT patent about converting long filenames to short filenames sound like it would pass any of these tests?\nThe Bilski court case was the focus of EndSoftwarePatents in 2008 under Ben Klemens' direction. Great to see that work bear fruit.\nWith widespread support for GNU/Linux becoming a reality, are these patent claims an attempt to chill adoption by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)? If so, then we need to make sure everyone knows about Bilski. Please digg this story and sign-up to our mailing list to hear about our upcoming work.\nCiar\u00e1n O'Riordan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://etico.iiep.unesco.org/en/open-government-education-learning-cities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RC67PRYJO42JBKPJMZMONMFDYXRWWJKJ", "length": 2802, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "etico.iiep.unesco.org", "title": "Open government in education: Learning from cities | ETICO - IIEP UNESCO | Platform on ethics and corruption in education", "raw_content": "porto_alegre.jpg\nFor The IIEP-UNESCO Letter, Muriel Poisson discusses new research focuses on learning from cities worldwide on how to promote open government in education.\nThe concept of open government only emerged about a decade ago. The OECD defined it as early as 2005 as the transparency of government actions, the accessibility of government services and information, and the responsiveness of government to new ideas, demands, and needs. In 2011, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) identified three major principles underlying this concept: information transparency, public engagement, and accountability. In 2013, the European Commission also emphasized the principles of transparency, collaboration, and participation while promoting open data, open services, and open decisions.\nOpen government is based on the assumption that the rapid development of new technologies combined with the pressure for more transparent and accountable governments will push countries to explore innovative approaches not only to share information with the public, but also to consult citizens and engage them in education service delivery. Moreover, by helping to redefine citizen-government boundaries, it is believed that open government could help improve transparency and accountability in the management of public sectors (including the education sector), and beyond that, the overall public administration culture.\nHowever, even if the concept of open government has gained momentum over the past few years, its application to the education sector still needs to be investigated in a more systematic way. Additionally, the possible impact of open government on equity issues has not yet been analyzed in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. As open government initiatives are taking shape, IIEP has decided as part of its new Medium-Term Strategy to document and assess early and innovative initiatives developed in this field, such as the introduction of open budgets, the development of e-services delivery, the creation of citizen innovative funds, and the implementation of social audits.\nIIEP\u2019s new research, entitled \u2018Open government in education: Learning from the experience of cities in improving transparency and accountability,\u2019 will focus on the case of \u2018open cities,\u2019 recalling that one of the earliest open government initiatives linked to participatory budgeting was piloted in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre more than two decades ago. This new research will assess how far governments can succeed in mobilizing citizens to engage in public debate; participate in decision-making, management, and control processes; and contribute to the growth of innovative practices. 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Her most trivial of desires must be attended to with haste from all of her subjects.\nCommission Junction Scam & Lawsuit\n1/4/10 - posted by Hogers at 9:41 PM - 0 Comments\nIf you're in affiliate marketing, don't ever use Commission Junction (cj.com). I've generated hundreds of leads for their sales, but never saw a single sale go through. I was a bit suspicious, so I decided to make a purchase myself. Turns out that sale never went through as well.\nThere's currently a class action lawsuit against Commission Junction. You can get more information at www.cjsettlement.com.\nBarbados Christmas\n12/26/09 - posted by Hogers at 11:02 AM - 0 Comments\nAllie, Judy and I were fortunate to have the opportunity to head out to Barbados for a few days before meeting with my family in Atlanta for Christmas.\nJudy nor I had never been to the Caribbean, so we felt that this would be the best time for us to go since Allie is still relatively small and since we would be halfway there already.\nWe really didn't do much other than hang out at the pool and beach. The Caribbean waters were amazing...warm with a nice azure, greenish hue. It's funny how much you change after having a kid. Judy's like, \"don't you want to try jet skiing?\" I was like, \"nah, I'm kinda scared...I'll just hang out with Allie in the kiddie pool.\"\nWe left for Atlanta after a few days in Barbados. We met up with my parents, siblings, nephews and grandmother. This was the first time my grandma had a chance to meet her new great granddaughter (Allie).\n12/10/09 - posted by Hogers at 9:18 PM - 0 Comments\nAllie had a couple of visitors from out-of-town, including Ryan, Mel, Adam and Jim Han. We spent the day together walking around the Grove.\nSince it was a little cold outside, Allie and I tried to find some warmth staying inside Barney's. Allie hung out while Mel and Ryan were trying on some shoes.\nUncle Richie joined as well. I had a good time watching Rich and Leslie struggling to carry Allie around the Grove. I guess they didn't realize that babies can weigh 25 lbs and get heavy after awhile.\nTouchdown! Allie was watching Jim Han and I watch NFL football games, and started to mimic us by signaling for touchdowns.\nAllie Playing Warcraft\n12/1/09 - posted by Hogers at 12:38 AM - 1 Comments\nAllie loves sitting with me at the computer. So I thought I'd take some pics of her sitting there by herself. She obviously didn't need me there to keep herself preoccupied.\nAllie getting PWNED!\nAllie - 8 Months\n11/20/09 - posted by Hogers at 11:12 PM - 0 Comments\nFacebook - Too Much Info\n- posted by Hogers at 7:23 PM - 0 Comments\nKorean Football's Next Generation\nA new crop of emerging South Korean soccer (football) players have followed in the footsteps of Manchester United's Park Ji-Sung and have broken into top flight European football clubs.\nChu-Young Park has been a regular starter for the French Ligue club AS Monaco for the past two years. Park has a tally of eight goals and eight assists on a team that's competing for the top spot in the league. At the age of 24, it's likely that Park will be pursued by other top European clubs as he continues to play well.\nIn the English Premier League, the Bolton Wanderer's had signed Chung-Yong Lee at the age of 21. Like Park, Lee plays either striker or wing midfielder and has already scored two goals in five appearances for his club.\nMarc's Bday\nWent out and celebrated Marc Kim's birthday last night at some Korean BBQ joint in the industrial part of K-town.\nI have to make a note that this is the first time that I've seen Marc with a girlfriend in the 9 years I've hung out with him in LA. He looked like a little kid with a new toy...very happy.\nAllie & Facebook Withdrawal\n10/9/09 - posted by Hogers at 11:42 PM - 0 Comments\nI recently went back to work at the office working on a project for Bank of the West. It's been a abrupt change of pace from the last six months when I was working from home and enjoying unemployed time w/ Allie.\nOne of the drawbacks with my current project is that I have restricted access to the internet. That means no Facebook. And worse, I can't even look at pictures of Allie on Facebook or Picasa. Hence, this is why I'm updating www.eugenechang.com...so that I can check back here once in awhile and stare at pictures of Allie.\nIt seems like Allie's been growing a lot in this past month. She's six and a half months old now and it seems like an eternity (or a fleeting moment?) since we first brought her home from the hospital.\nAllie is actually acting like a normal baby and cries on a daily basis. I'm not sure whether it's because she's cutting her first teeth. This week was the first time that I can remember where Judy and I eagerly ran out the door for work cause Allie was crying all morning. \"Let's get out of here!\"\nAllie definitely goes through different stages every month. Her favorite past time right now is to walk around while perched on top of my shoulders. My traps do start to burn after about five minutes though.\nAllie & Solid Foods\n8/28/09 - posted by Hogers at 12:39 PM - 0 Comments\nI know it's been awhile since I've made updates here...getting less frequent since I use facebook more these days. Nway, here are some shots of Allie starting to eat solid food.\nWe started her off on rice cereal, and now she's eating different mashed vegetables and fruits. The orange stuff is sweet potatoes.\nAllie wiping her own mouth and doing her \"mad dogging\" pose.\nSave 8% On Ebay With Microsoft Bing Search\nYou can save 8% on almost all Ebay items right now by using Microsoft's new search engine, Bing.com. To do this, all you have to do is the following:\n- Create/Use a Microsoft Live (Hotmail) account and enable the Cashback feature\n- Use Paypal to pay for Ebay item\n- Must select a \"Buy It Now\" item on Ebay\nFirst, open up a browser window and navigate to http://www.bing.com (Microsoft's new search engine...formerly called live.com). The below screenshots will differ since Bing used to be called Microsoft Live.\nSearch for the product name that you're looking to buy...i.e., \"Ipod\". In the search results, look at the sponsored links at the top of the page and look for the link to ebay.com. The link should have a \"Bing cashback\" logo next to the link.\nClick on the link and you'll be taken to Ebay. Here, you can change your search if you want to anything you want.\nMake sure you only select items with the \"Buy It Now\" feature.\nMake sure, also, that you use Paypal to pay for the item.\nTowards the end of your purchase, you should see a Bing Cashback link to claim your rebate.\nThe above screenshots may differ, but make sure you select the Bing Cashback link once you're done with your Ebay/Paypal purchase. If you don't already have a Microsoft Live account, you will have the opportunity to join first. If you already have an account, make sure that you have Cashback enabled.\nOnce you've completed the purchase, your Cashback account should be updated with the rebate information. Rebates will post directly back to your paypal account. For more information, read the Bing Cashback FAQ.\nContact Eugene Chang\neugenechang.com :: copyright \u00a92008 :: 1500", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eurodialogue.org/Kelimbetov-Replaces-Marchenko-at-Kazakh-Central-Bank", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GEKBVHVNDD7PRRDTF4E4XVM3E5GMHZFZ", "length": 2346, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "eurodialogue.org", "title": "Kelimbetov Replaces Marchenko at Kazakh Central Bank | European Dialogue", "raw_content": "Kelimbetov Replaces Marchenko at Kazakh Central Bank\nBy Nariman Gizitdinov\nKairat Kelimbetov, a deputy prime minister who led the nationalization of failing Kazakh lenders in 2009 as the chief of the country\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, will replace Grigori Marchenko as central bank governor.\nKelimbetov, 44, was named in place of Marchenko, 53, who resigned for \u201cfamily reasons\u201d before his six-year term was set to end in January 2015, according to a statement published on President Nursultan Nazarbayev\u2019s website today. Kelimbetov\u2019s knowledge of \u201cthe country\u2019s economy and financial situation will have a positive effect on the work of the National Bank,\u201d Nazarbayev said in the statement.\nKelimbetov, a graduate of Moscow State University and Georgetown University, was chief executive officer of Samruk-Kazyna when the government used the sovereign wealth fund to prop up banks hit by a credit squeeze in 2009. He became economic development and trade minister in April 2011 before being promoted to deputy prime minister in January 2012.\nThe move ends Marchenko\u2019s second stint at the helm of the monetary authority, which was marked by a 21 percent devaluation of the tenge in February 2009, a month after his appointment at the height of the country\u2019s worst financial crisis in more than a decade.\nMarchenko, who was backed by Russia and other former Soviet states to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the top post at the International Monetary Fund in 2011, was in charge of Deutsche Bank AG\u2019s local securities unit before taking over the central bank in 1999-2004. He served as first deputy premier in 2004.\nSpeaking during a March 19 online conference, Marchenko said he planned to retire after turning 55 in December 2014.\nThe National Bank of Kazakhstan, which manages a stockpile of $92 billion including international reserves and the National Oil Fund, will also oversee the assets of a single state pension fund that will be formed next year. The central Asian nation is consolidating more than $21 billion of retirement savings from non-state funds to improve access to credit and mobilize resources for faster economic growth.\nIn June, Nazarbayev faulted the government and the central bank for their \u201cawkward actions\u201d in explaining plans to make the retirement age equal for men and women, saying their work was \u201cunsatisfactory.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 125.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fabb-bikes.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-makes-portland-oregon-such-great.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:52Z", "digest": "sha1:T44XOSQ7F76XMKBL5X2IM66OJHHZ3HZT", "length": 841, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fabb-bikes.blogspot.com", "title": "Blog - Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling (FABB)", "raw_content": "What makes Portland, Oregon such a great bikeable community\nPortland is a cycling paradise. There are bike lanes, bikeways on bridges, bike trails, bike boulevards, and many people who bike to work, to school, and for many of their local trips. Street Films has posted Portland: Celebrating America\u2019s Most Livable City, a 30-minute film about what makes Portland a bikeable community. There are segments on Safe Routes to School, bicycle-activated traffic signals, bike trails, bicycle boulevards, and much more. It's well worth watching to see what Fairfax could be like in the future. 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Well-versed in both residential and commercial transactions, he formerly had both his securities and real estate licenses.\nWith a B.A. in International Finance and minor in Computer Science from the University of Oregon, Brian comes prepared to offer counsel in both business development and retention strategies. His community focus also allows him to assess the marketplace and develop a blueprint that supports both broker and lending professionals. That commitment to the region is underscored by his service during his career on several boards of directors for not-for-profits.\nOriginally from Eugene, he is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking, camping, backpacking. An avid golfer, basketball player, and unwavering UO Duck fan, Brian also enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and their two dogs. Proud of his wife\u2019s work as development director for the ALS Association in both Oregon and Washington, they enjoy a shared spirit for the community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://file770.com/pixel-scroll-9-29-18-people-are-still-scrolling-pixels-and-nothing-seems-to-stop-them/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:59Z", "digest": "sha1:J5REXYPQSTVDLZDW72CEOCD646R33TOY", "length": 42010, "nlines": 209, "source_domain": "file770.com", "title": "Pixel Scroll 9/29/18 People Are Still Scrolling Pixels And Nothing Seems To Stop Them | File 770", "raw_content": "Pixel Scroll 9/29/18 People Are Still Scrolling Pixels And Nothing Seems To Stop Them\n(1) LOOK OUT BELOW. On S.T. Joshi\u2019s blog, the sclerotic author posted the Table of Contents for his next book, 21st-Century Horror. The third section takes aim at these well-known writers \u2014\nIII. The Pretenders\nLaird Barron: Decline and Fall\nJoe Hill: Like Father, Like Son\nBrian Keene: Paperback Writer\nNick Mamatas: Failed Mimic\nPaul Tremblay: Borrowing from His Predecessors\nJeff VanderMeer: An Aesthetic Catastrophe\n(2) WORLDCON DOCUMENTS. Kevin Standlee reports the \u201cRules of the World Science Fiction Society\u201d webpage has been updated with:\nthe 2018-19 WSFS Constitution\nthe Standing Rules\nBusiness Passed On to the 2019 WSFS Business Meeting\nYou can also find there the \u2014\nMinutes of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting\nupdated Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect\nthe link to the recordings of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting\n(3) PLANETS ANNIVERSARY. NPR commemorates an influential musical work \u2014 \u201c\u2018The Planets\u2019 At 100: A Listener\u2019s Guide To Holst\u2019s Solar System\u201d.\n100 years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has been sampled, stolen and cherished by the likes of Frank Zappa, John Williams, Hans Zimmer and any number of prog-rock and metal bands.\nTo mark the anniversary, we\u2019ve enlisted two experts to guide us on an interplanetary trek through Holst\u2019s enduring classic.\nFirst, someone who knows the music: Sakari Oramo, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra\u2026\nNext, someone who knows the real planets. Heidi Hammel is a planetary astronomer who specializes in the outer planets, and the executive vice president of AURA, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy\u2026.\nFilers will remember that Jubal Harshaw used the Mars movement as Valentine Michael Smith\u2019s anthem in Stranger in a Strange Land.\n\u201cMars is a war machine,\u201d Oramo says. \u201cYou could refer to Mars as the forefather of music for films describing interstellar warfare.\u201d\nSince we\u2019re talking movies, what about the \u201cImperial March,\u201d perhaps the most recognizable music John Williams wrote for Star Wars? I played a clip of it for Oramo as we discussed Holst\u2019s music.\n\u201cYes, Star Wars. Oh, I love it!\u201d Oramo says. But isn\u2019t it a rip-off of \u201cMars?\u201d\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it a rip-off,\u201d Oramo answers. \u201cIt\u2019s based on the principals Holst created for \u2018Mars.\u2019 And all composers steal from each other.\u201d\n(And some get caught. Oscar-winner Hans Zimmer was sued by the Holst Foundation for writing music an awful lot like \u201cMars\u201d in his score for Gladiator.)\n(4) SHORT FICTION MARKET, QUICK TURNAROUND. Over on Gizmodo, io9 is looking for short fiction on the subject of \u201cthe Future of Death.\u201d They want pieces of speculative fiction (not horror) shorter than 2000 words and promise rates starting at 50\u00a2 a word for first publication rights plus a 90-day exclusive window. The submission deadline is 25 October.\nPerhaps death has become a thing of the past\u2014for some humans, at least. Maybe a newly sentient AI must decide whether to program some form of death into its universe. Whatever the premise, we\u2019re looking for creative takes on what it means for an object or entity to cease to be. We\u2019re most interested in futuristic and science fiction-infused tales; no gore or straight horror, please.\n\u2026To submit, please email a short summary (a few sentences will do) of the scope and plot of the story, as well as links to any other published work you\u2019d like for us to see, to fiction@io9.com. Please include your story as an attachment.\n(5) PEOPLE AT NASA WHO LOVE SFF. In a lengthy (well, for today\u2019s short attention spans anyway) article on CNET, Amanda Kooser talks to several NASA scientists, including an astronaut, about their connections to and love of science fiction (\u201cWhen NASA meets sci-fi, space adventures get real\u201d).\nA love of science fiction threads through the space agency, and it\u2019s also part of NASA\u2019s public outreach. The agency has sought out exoplanets that mirror Star Wars planets, sent scientists to commune with fans at Comic-Cons and partnered with William Shatner, Capt. Kirk of the original Star Trek, to promote the Parker Solar Probe.\nThe love runs both ways. In a NASA video honoring Star Trek\u2019s 50th anniversary in 2016, Shatner said, \u201cIt\u2019s phenomenal what NASA\u2019s doing with science that is, when you look at it, the equal of science fiction.\u201d\nI talked with some of the people of NASA who hunt for asteroids, study dwarf planets and actually step out into the blackness of space, and together we roamed across a shared universe of science fiction.\nKooser talks with astronaut Mike Fincke (381 days on orbit) who also has an appearance on Star Trek: Enterprise on his resume. Marc Rayman, director and chief engineer for the Dawn mission, talks of reading Asimov\u2019s \u201cMarooned off Vesta\u201d as a child and now overseeing a spacecraft that has actually been to Vesta. Amy Mainzer, who was the principal investigator for the asteroid-hunting mission Neowise, says, \u201cscience fiction has always been about thought experiments and letting you see a vision of the future and trying out ideas.\u201d Tracy Drain\u2019s current focus is the upcoming mission to visit the metal asteroid Psyche; she\u2019s a second-generation fan, getting the love of science fiction from her mother.\n(6) SECOND CAREER CHOICE? Mashable has the clip from Wednesday\u2019s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where Colbert has New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a guest. Among other things, he asks if she was in the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit movies (\u201cOf course, New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister tried to get a role on \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019\u201d).\nJacinda Ardern dropped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night, revealing that she had been knocked back for a role on the movie, as she lived close to where the films were shot.\n\u201cI do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit,\u201d Ardern said. \u201cSome of us auditioned but weren\u2019t successful, OK? That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say.\u201d\nThe two also discussed whether Colbert could become a citizen of Hobbition. No key to the city is involved, but he\u2019d get a mug. Ms. Ardern did say Colbert would need to visit New Zealand to make it official.\n(7) NO SH!T SHERLOCK. Here\u2019s a mystery \u2013 who cast Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in a Sherlock Holmes movie?\nThe Step Brothers are reunited \u2013 this time playing the world\u2019s greatest consulting detective and his loyal biographer\n(8) MARTIN-SMITH OBIT. New Zealand fan Sue Martin-Smith died September 23 reports SFFANZ\u2019 Ross Temple.\nSue was a central figure in NZ fandom over a couple of decades starting in the late \u201970s. She made very major contributions to conventions, the club scene, fanzines and other fannish activities. She founded the Phoenix SF Society in Wellington which is still running today (and was first editor of its magazine). She was also one of the founders of FFANZ which also continues to operate promoting fannish cooperation.\nBorn September 29, 1810 \u2013 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Writer. Much to my surprise, this English author who was not known for her fantasy writing \u2013 to say the least \u2013 had two volumes of The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs. Gaskell published by Leonaur, a U.K. publisher more known for serious history works. Her The Life of Charlotte Bront\u00eb, published in 1857, was the first biography of Bront\u00eb, so these tales are quite unexpected.\nBorn September 29, 1927 \u2013 Barbara Mertz, Writer under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. While she was best known for her mystery and suspense novels and was awarded Grandmaster by both Bouchercon\u2019s Anthony Awards and the Mystery Writers of America, a significant number of her works are considered genre, including the supernatural Georgetown Trilogy and the novel The Wizard\u2019s Daughter.\nBorn September 29, 1940 \u2013 Peter Ruber, Writer, Editor, and Publisher of many works written by Arkham House founder August Derleth between 1962\u20131971, some under his own Candlelight Press imprint, and researcher of Derleth\u2019s life and time for nearly forty years. He became the editor for Arkham House in 1997, after Jim Turner left to found Golden Gryphon Press.\nBorn September 29, 1942 \u2013 Madeline Kahn, Oscar-nominated stage and screen Actor, Comedian, and Singer who appeared in many Mel Brooks movies including Young Frankenstein, the sci-fi comedy Slapstick of Another Kind based on the Vonnegut novel, and several episodes of Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, before her life was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 57.\nBorn September 29, 1942 \u2013 Ian McShane, 76, Actor of English/Scottish heritage who has appeared in many genre TV series and movies, including the John Wick films, The Twilight Zone, Space: 1999, American Horror Story, Game of Thrones, and currently has a lead role as the con artist god Odin in the series based on Neil Gaiman\u2019s American Gods.\nBorn September 29, 1944 \u2013 Mike Post, 74, Composer, winner of numerous Grammy and Emmy Awards and best known for his TV series theme songs (many of which were written with partner Pete Carpenter), including the themes for The Greatest American Hero and Quantum Leap.\nBorn September 29, 1954 \u2013 Cindy Morgan, 64, Actor best known for the dual roles of Lora and Yori in TRON, as well as roles in science fiction B-movies Galaxis and Amanda and the Alien.\nBorn September 29, 1971 \u2013 Mackenzie Crook, 47, British Actor, Comedian, Writer and Director known as the comic relief in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the Warg Orell in Game of Thrones. He collected Star Wars figurines as a child, and is now immortalized in plastic as a six-inch-high pirate action figure.\nUse the driver you should\u2026 In the Bleachers.\nAnd B.C. has an editing pun.\n(11) SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE FRINGES. And now an entry from the \u201cscience fiction is d@mn near everywhere\u201d department: Women\u2019s Wear Daily brings news of two actors at the Elie Saab fashion show discussing their latest genre projects (\u201cRoxanne Mesquida, Paz Vega Talk Science Fiction at Elie Saab\u201d).\nSTRANGE ENCOUNTERS: The leading ladies sitting front row at Elie Saab may have been dolled up for the occasion, but their latest acting jobs are of a more alien kind. Roxanne Mesquida said she had lots of fun shooting the Steven Soderbergh-produced series \u201cNow Apocalypse,\u201d due out in April. [\u2026] Paz Vega\u2019s latest project is of a similar genre. The Spanish actress stars in the second season of the Netflix series \u201cThe OA.\u201d\n(12) CAT SPACE. A pet adoption event in the LA today promoted itself with a space theme \u2014\n(13) CBS SHUTS DOWN TREK FAN PROJECT. Reports have surfaced that a fan-made VR recreation of the Next Gen era Enterprise has been scuttled by a legal threat (EuroGamer: \u201cCease and desist forces impressive fan recreation of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation to self destruct \u2018The line must be drawn here. This far, no farther!\u2019\u201d).\nA fan-made recreation of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation has been pulled offline following a cease and desist.\nStage-9 was a two-year-old fan project that let users explore a virtual recreation of the Enterprise-D, the spaceship made famous by The Next Generation tv show.\nThe hugely-detailed virtual recreation was built using the Unreal game engine, and was available on PC as well as virtual reality headsets Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. [\u2026]\n\u2026 Then, on 12th September, the cease and desist letter from CBS\u2019 lawyers arrived. The decision was made to put all of the Stage-9 public-facing channels into lockdown while the team tried to convince CBS to change its mind. They suggested tweaking the project to ditch the inclusion of VR, ditch the use of the Enterprise-D specifically and even change the name, but CBS insisted Stage-9 end.\n(14) HOTHOUSE. According to National Geographic, \u201cWant to Find Alien Life? Look at Older, Hotter Earths.\u201d\nIf alien astronomers are out there searching for signs of life on Earth, they might just find it in the telltale pattern of light reflected by our plants, from redwood forests to desert cacti to grass-covered plains. That reflected fingerprint has been visible since vegetation first began carpeting our rocky terrestrial landscape about half a billion years ago. And as Earth aged and evolution marched onward, the reflected signal strengthened.\nNow, two astronomers are suggesting that plants could leave similar fingerprint-like patterns on distant exoplanets, and perhaps the first signs of life beyond our solar system could come from light reflected by forests covering an alien moon like Endor or cacti living in Tatooine\u2019s deserts.\n(15) THERE\u2019S A HOLE IN THE ISS. RT sums up the latest developments \u2014 \u201cISS hole saga\u2019s new twist: More drill scratches discovered on outside hull\u201d.\n\u2026It was initially thought (let us leave conspiracy theories behind) that the air leak, which was discovered in late August on Soyuz spacecraft docked at the ISS was caused by a micrometeorite. Later on, Russian media revealed the drill hole was made on the ground by a reckless assembly worker \u2013 he was identified and properly sanctioned, we were told.\nYet, the story does not end there. \u201cThere are drilling traces not only inside the living module [of the ISS], but also on anti-meteorite plates,\u201d a space industry source told TASS news agency. These plates are mounted outside of the station\u2019s hermetic hull.\n\u201cThe one who made the hole in the hull passed straight through it and the drill head hit external non-hermetic protection,\u201d the source explained.\nJudging by previous media reports, there is a high probability of negligence. The worker in question apparently accidentally drilled the hole, but instead of reporting it, simply sealed it, according to Russian media.\nThe makeshift sealant held for at least the two months the Soyuz spacecraft spent in orbit, before finally drying up and being pushed out of the hole by air pressure. The ISS crew had noticed the drop of pressure in late August.\nHaving found themselves in an emergency, the crew fled in the Russian segment of the station as soon as the alarm went off. They began locking down modules of the station one after another, and were eventually able to detect the source of the problem in the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the ISS.\nThe hole was located near the toilet and covered by decorative fabric. Using an ordinary toothbrush and an endoscope, they found that only one of the two-millimeter cracks had actually pierced the hull and was leaking air.\nThe Russian crew members used impromptu means of fixing the problem: epoxy-based sealant with metallic additives to plug the hole. Mission Control later advised the crew to place another patch on the crack, which was immediately done\n(16) TIM ALLEN ON CONAN. Don\u2019t go to a superhero movie with Tim Allen.\nTim doesn\u2019t understand how the Hulk\u2019s pants still fit when he grows.\n[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, JJ, Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster, Carl Slaughter, Brian Z., and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title creditgoes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Peer.]\nThis entry was posted in Pixel Scroll and tagged International Space Station, Kevin Standlee, Mars, NASA, S. T. Joshi, Star Trek, Stephen Colbert, WSFS by Mike Glyer. Bookmark the permalink.\n46 thoughts on \u201cPixel Scroll 9/29/18 People Are Still Scrolling Pixels And Nothing Seems To Stop Them\u201d\n@3: that\u2019s a hell of a performance in the middle of the story \u2014 a lot more definition than I\u2019ve heard in other versions.\n@9: Kahn also appeared, years before being \u201cintroduced\u201d in What\u2019s Up Doc, in the Bergman pastiche \u201cDe D\u00fcva\u201c, which (like at least two Bergmans) is genre. It was interesting seeing her live in Born Yesterday, in the role created by Judy Holliday and replayed on screen by Melanie Griffith; much more edge in her version.\nedit: First?!? Does everyone else have something better to do on Saturday night?\nAnd here\u2019s my birthday nostalgia gift to you Filers today, a craptabulous Mike Post medley. Enjoy!\nPhilRM on September 29, 2018 at 9:20 pm said:\n(1): At least Joshi remains consistent.\nConsistently what I leave as an exercise for the reader.\n(1) Oh. How. Charming.\nCora Buhlert on September 29, 2018 at 9:49 pm said:\nAh, the TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s, starring men and cars and sometimes women and helicopters.\n1) To be fair, I\u2019m not a huge horror reader, but I know who all of the people Joshi calls names are. However, I have only heard of one of the authors he apparently approves of. Make of that what you will.\n(1) LOOK OUT BELOW.\nWhat a pity that Joshi\u2019s personal campaign to wipe out any shred of a credible reputation he might have once had in favor of being remembered as a bitter, washed-up hack continues unabated. \ud83d\ude44\nLurkertype on September 29, 2018 at 10:51 pm said:\n(1) Oooh, ahhh, he\u2019s got contrarian hot takes. What is he, 17? zzzzzz\n(12) Cats in spaaaaace! Further proof that the beasten are credentials.\nSpeaking of credentials, the one you guys helped pay the bill for is doing fine.\nNickPheas on September 30, 2018 at 12:26 am said:\n(1) I only know of Joshi because of his reactionary mutterings. Does he have unreported positive features?\nSoon Lee on September 30, 2018 at 12:38 am said:\n@NickPheas,\nI first heard of Joshi as someone who put together collections of Lovecraftiana, so my impression was that he\u2019s a Lovecraft superfan. It wasn\u2019t until recently that it became apparent that he viewed Lovecraft as beyond reproach or criticism, and anyone who said anything negative about Lovecraft became a target.\nDavid Langford on September 30, 2018 at 1:25 am said:\n(3) PLANETS ANNIVERSARY \u2026 Jubal Harshaw used the Mars movement as Valentine Michael Smith\u2019s anthem in Stranger in a Strange Land.\nJames Blish (in a footnote in The Issue at Hand) reproved Heinlein for inventing a \u201cNine Planets Symphony\u201d rather than citing the Holst suite \u201cwhich, being real, would have served his purposes much better \u2026\u201d Was this point fixed in the longer version of Stranger, which I\u2019ve never read?\nNickPheas on September 30, 2018 at 2:12 am said:\n@Soon Lee, I suspect it\u2019s one of those things where having firmly nailed his colours to that mast, anything threat seems to suggest different lines of thought, or evolution in the genre send to him a personal attack.\nBut honestly, it would be nice to occasionally discover he rescues kittens from trees.\n5) And let\u2019s not forget Dr. Stan Love, the astronaut who accepted Andy Weir\u2019s Campbell Award at MidAmericon II and is a regular attendee at Texas cons.\n16) It\u2019s handwavium! Everybody knows that!\nA mildly amusing note from the con I attended last weekend. CUL was there, and at one point while he was standing in front of our booth, another dealer came over and handed him something, saying, \u201cThese fell out of your bag at my booth at [some event I didn\u2019t catch], and I never saw you again there, so I\u2019ve just been hanging onto them until I did run into you.\u201d He stood in front of us fussing with them for a bit, and I realized that what he\u2019d lost was his Hugo-winner tack-pins. Again. I wouldn\u2019t even have noticed if he hadn\u2019t gone thru such a performance the last time.\nMatthew Davis on September 30, 2018 at 3:53 am said:\n9) Ian McShane was also in the 1970 film \u201cTam-Lin\u201d. The only film directed by Roddy McDowell (and the reason he\u2019s absent from one of the Planet of the Ape instalments) is a folk horror set in Engand where Ava Gardner plays a glamorous witch who surrounds herself with beautiful young people and takes vengeance against any who displease her. Worth watching if it ever comes your way.\nRobert Reynolds on September 30, 2018 at 6:15 am said:\n1) Reason 1,274,492 to take comments from his corner with a grain of salt the size of the Grand Canyon. I read horror. I\u2019ve hears of three off of his first two lists, read work by them and like them. His \u201cPretenders\u201d list, I\u2019ve read work extensively by every author named and think much more highly of them than he does.\n7) Clearly, I\u2019m not part of the target audience for this collection of future guitar picks. That trailer was actively painful. Even for a paycheck film, that\u2019s an embarrassment. Reilly at least has Stan and Ollie coming up.\nDarren Garrison on September 30, 2018 at 6:44 am said:\nMaybe we should rename him Johnny HugoPinseed, spreading Hugo pins wherever he travels\u2026\nCat Eldridge on September 30, 2018 at 6:57 am said:\nRobert Reynolds says Reason 1,274,492 to take comments from his corner with a grain of salt the size of the Grand Canyon. I read horror. I\u2019ve hears of three off of his first two lists, read work by them and like them. His \u201cPretenders\u201d list, I\u2019ve read work extensively by every author named and think much more highly of them than he does.\nCan anyone hazard a guess why Laird Barron is on his list? What possible offence against the sacred memory of Lovecraft did he commit? I\u2019ve read quite a bit of his fiction and don\u2019t remember him even mentioning HPL.\n@Cat Eldridge:\nBarron has done a fair amount of Lovecraftian work and had had stories in several anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow. That alone probably puts him down as a \u201cPretender\u201d.\nThat he writes well and is successful/popular likely has something to do with it as well.\nRobert Reynolds notes that Barron has done a fair amount of Lovecraftian work and had had stories in several anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow. That alone probably puts him down as a \u201cPretender\u201d.\nI very obviously need to read his short fiction as I\u2019m much more familiar with his novels. Where should I start? Short stories are my forte due to my narrative restriction post-head trauma so do recommend what I should be reading,\nPhilRM on September 30, 2018 at 7:47 am said:\n@Cat Eldridge: I suggest Barron\u2019s collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.\n@Robert Reynolds: That he writes well and is successful/popular likely has something to do with it as well.\nI suspect that\u2019s what put VanderMeer on Joshi\u2019s hit list as well.\nMike Glyer on September 30, 2018 at 9:17 am said:\nDavid Langford: I don\u2019t know if it was fixed, I only know that when I originally read Stranger in a Strange Land in the Sixties I soon afterward borrowed the library\u2019s copy of Holst\u2019s symphony. So if I was mistaken in making that association, at least I can claim credit for having continued to make it for a very long time\u2026.\nPeer on September 30, 2018 at 9:47 am said:\nYay title credits!\ni did not finish 7).\nAndrew on September 30, 2018 at 11:42 am said:\n(3) If I recall correctly, a portion of the soundtrack of the Bakshi Lord of the Rings sounds remarkably like part of Holst\u2019s Planets (back in the 1970s, I listened to both the soundtrack and \u201cThe Planets\u201d very often, and noticed the resemblance).\nOh, I\u2019ve got a brand new Null-A consciousness, you\u2019ve got a new Sevagram\nLurkertype on September 30, 2018 at 1:05 pm said:\n@Andrew: thanks for the earworm.\n@Lee: So we know exactly how much CUL values his nominations. Loses them for months/years, carries them around where they can get lost.\n@Matthew Davis: That movie sounds very cool. Wonder if it\u2019s available.\nAt this point, I\u2019d say it\u2019s a compliment if Joshi says something bad about you. It means you\u2019re probably successful and you can spot blatant racism and purple prose when you see it. Is he hoping senpai \u2014 any senpai \u2014 will notice him? And has he not noticed that his hero HPL would have considered him subhuman?\n@Lurkertype: Sorry about that. Hope it wears off soon.\nXtifr on September 30, 2018 at 2:20 pm said:\nJust finished Tim Powers\u2019 latest, Alternate Routes. While it wasn\u2019t one of his deepest novels, it was a particularly wild ride, plunging us straight into the patented Powers weirdness right from the start. Powers\u2019 usual technique is to have his characters (and the reader) gradually discover the strangenesses behind everyday reality. These characters started right in the heart of the madness, which might be a little disconcerting to readers who are new to Powers. On the flip side, this was faster paced and more of a page-turner than most of Powers\u2019 books, which might appeal to new readers.\nThere also wasn\u2019t a lot of the \u201csecret history\u201d Powers is famous for, though we do learn some new-and-improbable things about ancient Crete. But the book is mostly focused on the present day Los Angeles, and those strange, dangerous engines of occult power known as \u201cfreeways\u201d.\nI was very briefly reminded of Seanan McGuire by this book, but Powers\u2019 ghosts of the road are a whole lot different from McGuire\u2019s. Less willful or deliberately harmful, but, in some ways, even more dangerous.\nThis may be the closest thing to an action novel that Powers has ever written. As a result of which, the characterization may have suffered a little. But the end result still had me on the edge of my seat for most of the story, so I\u2019m comfortable recommending this to anyone who doesn\u2019t mind a healthy dose of weirdness in their fiction.\nRich Horton on September 30, 2018 at 3:03 pm said:\n1) I\u2019m not a horror person, and I don\u2019t want to dis such fine writers as Gemma Files, Glen Hirshberg, Reggie Oliver, and especially John Langan (who truly is excellent), but for most part (with the exception of Langan) I\u2019d rate all of Joshi\u2019s \u201cpretenders\u201d ahead of everyone else he\u2019s covering.\nOn the other hand, I\u2019m not surprised that my opinions and Joshi\u2019s don\u2019t align.\nJohn A Arkansawyer on September 30, 2018 at 3:07 pm said:\n@David Langford: It was not changed/fixed (depending on your point of view), except that it is the \u201cThe Ten Planets Symphony\u201d in the expanded version.* That\u2019s odd, because in Mike and Jubal\u2019s last long conversation, Jubal thinks the Martian \u2018Fifth Planet\u2019 story sounds like a myth.\n*I am such a geek that it took me two thumbings** in the book to get within three pages of the reference, and had it literally at hand, without even having to bend or twist.)\n**Surely there\u2019s a word for that, when you jump-search through a book.\nLee Whiteside on September 30, 2018 at 3:19 pm said:\nRe 1- The Barron thing is personal, I believe. Joshi wrote a bunch of nasty essays earlier this year, including ones about Barron and Keene. The Barron one is call the Decline and Fall of laird Barron. Essentially, if you insinuate H.P. Lovecraft was racist/hmisogynistic/anything less than a paragon, that\u2019s not OK.\n@Xtifr: today I am one of the ten thousand \u2014 even though I usually pay enough attention to notice when a new Powers is out. I like his brand of weird, and this sounds like it\u2019s at least not awful, so I\u2019m off to the library.\n@John A. Arkansawyer: I wonder who Heinlein thought had written the other movements?\nvarious, re @1: I know Joshi has been in a snit ever since the movement to take HPL off the World Fantasy Award trophy started (over 4 years now); he got 2 WFAs himself, one for \u201cscholarship\u201d (that\u2019s all the page says) and one for a book big enough that it came in 2 pieces. (He declared he was returning them when the trophy change happened? was announced? (I forget which); I haven\u2019t heard from anyone on whose doorstep they appeared, but it might not have been considered worth mentioning.) But I see the Wikipedia page says he has a reputation, so I\u2019m not surprised he overreacted (it\u2019s not as if HPL was his only topic). I\u2019ve never met the man, and am not sorry I\u2019m not likely to.\nVicki Rosenzweig on September 30, 2018 at 3:59 pm said:\nIn what universe is \u201clike Stephen King\u201d a diss for a horror writer?\nNancy Sauer on September 30, 2018 at 4:34 pm said:\nWait, Jeff VanderMeer is a horror writer? I had been considering checking out some of his works from the buzz here, which made his stuff sound like science fiction (of a particularly odd bent). I can\u2019t deal with horror.\nSteve Wright on September 30, 2018 at 5:14 pm said:\n@Nancy Sauer: I only know Vandermeer\u2019s fiction from the \u201cSouthern Reach\u201d trilogy, which is definitely a weird tale \u2013 possibly a Weird Tales sort of weird tale. It\u2019s the sort of multiply-fringe thing that you can class as horror if you\u2019ve a mind to, but it\u2019s definitely more weirdness than unpleasantness.\nNancy, some of Jeff V.\u2019s stuff does have a horror tinge, but not all of it. Start with Area X..A fair number of people have talked about Jeff\u2019s supposed Lovecraftian inspiration, but he has always siad no and pointed to his actual inspirations.\nKevin Standlee on September 30, 2018 at 6:20 pm said:\n(2) Colin Harris pointed out that Appendix B of the WSFS Minutes (the rather large report of the Hugo Awards Study Committee) was omitted from the main minutes document. At the prompting of WSFS Secretary Linda Deneroff, I\u2019ve posted Appendix B (which was on the Business Meeting page of the 2018 Worldcon) to the WSFS Rules page (and the 2018 WSFS Rules archive page).\n@Chip, I was on a retreat with the women\u2019s chorus I sing in, at a YMCA camp with crappy signal. I\u2019m just catching up now.\nMy normal Saturday nights are more staid.\nThe campfire with s\u2019mores was great. We could actually see stars, which where I live (near NYC) are very hard to see. The high overhead was nice and clear and starry, but the horizon was more affected by light pollution. We were still in NJ, after all.\nChad on September 30, 2018 at 7:54 pm said:\n(1) The Barron thing is personal. What I heard (via Brian Keene\u2019s podcast) is that Joshi published a story by Barron, one he praised in the introduction for the anthology in which it appeared. Then Joshi wanted to republish it and Barron\u2019s asking price for the rights was deemed too be high by Joshi, or Joshi\u2019s offer too low by Barron. After that, Joshi \u201cre-evaluated\u201d the story, found it lacking, and went on to pen his anti-Barron screed.\nFerret Bueller on September 30, 2018 at 11:11 pm said:\nYou can read his comments here; as with many of the other chapters people are bashing Joshi for, it\u2019s up at at his blog. (I agree with Joshi\u2019s comments on many of those writers more than some Filers seem to; unfortunately, it\u2019s certainly true that many of his criticisms degenerate into schoolmarmy grammatical admonitions and in a few cases seem based on poor readings of the text, and more generally his tastes and mine differ greatly.) In short, he doesn\u2019t bash Barron for hating Lovecraft or anything silly like that. Here\u2019s what he says about Barron, whose early work he greatly admires:\nThe hallmark of much of Barron\u2019s writing is a prose style of singular panache and deftness, along with a complex fusion of several genres\u2014among them the superhero topos, espionage, science fiction, and hard-boiled crime fiction\u2014with supernatural horror. At their best\u2014as, say, in the novella \u201cThe Broadsword\u201d (2010)\u2014these elements can produce scintillating effects unlike those found in any other writer in the field; but at their worst they devolve into a schtick, as Barron overuses the same motifs over and over again in tales that fail to cohere into a tightly knit unity.\nHe continues that these faults have increased over time. He\u2019s not alone in thinking so, by the way; a good discussion of Barron (and of Joshi\u2019s critical foibles, for he certainly doesn\u2019t lack them) is in this discussion at Thomas Ligotti\u2019s site of Joshi\u2019s review. (It also provides some good suggestions for places to start with Barron, to answer another of your posts.) A number of people there suggest that Barron has gotten tired of the genre and doesn\u2019t give it his all any more.\nThe Barron thing is personal. What I heard (via Brian Keene\u2019s podcast) is that Joshi published a story by Barron, one he praised in the introduction for the anthology in which it appeared. Then Joshi wanted to republish it and Barron\u2019s asking price for the rights was deemed too be high by Joshi, or Joshi\u2019s offer too low by Barron. After that, Joshi \u201cre-evaluated\u201d the story, found it lacking, and went on to pen his anti-Barron screed.\nWhich is Keene\u2019s take on the matter. Joshi describes it differently (from his blog, 15 Nov 2017; all of each year\u2019s posts are glommed into one page, so search on the date to find it):\nMr. Keene also maintains that my recent analysis of Laird Barron\u2019s work was done out of \u201cspite\u201d because Mr. Barron refused to let me reprint his story \u201cMan with No Name\u201d in the paperback edition of my anthology A Mountain Walked. Since Mr. Keene could have no firsthand knowledge of this matter, he must have derived his information from Mr. Barron\u2014and I am sorry to see the latter telling such a bald-faced lie. Here is what actually happened:\nAs I have said before, Mr. Barron and his various bootlickers were miffed at the fact that my review of his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (2013), was less than wholeheartedly enthusiastic, even though it was still generally favourable. It was at this time that I was compiling A Mountain Walked; but my publisher, Jerad Walters of Centipede Press, was intimately involved in the compilation as well. Some submissions came to me, some to him. Mr. Barron sent his story to Jerad, who then passed it on to me, recommending that we print it. I confess to having misgivings about the story, since (a) I did not think it particularly good (and, at nearly 19,000 words, it would take up a fair amount of space in the anthology), and (b) I felt that it was not even remotely Lovecraftian, hence inappropriate for an anthology whose subtitle was \u201cGreat Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.\u201d But this was 2013 (or maybe 2014), and one did not reject Laird Barron; so I reluctantly agreed to include the story in the Centipede Press edition. Then my agent negotiated terms with Dark Regions Press for a paperback edition. The publisher offered a modest advance, which I\u2014in accordance with standard practice\u2014sought to distribute to contributors on a pro rata basis, based on the length of their individual stories. Every other contributor was happy to assent to this plan; but Mr. Barron, in addition to wanting his pro rata share, demanded an additional sum of money that would have exceeded the entire amount given to all the other contributors (and, presumably, would have had to come out of my own pocket).\nTo this day I do not know why Mr. Barron made such an unwarranted demand. Perhaps he was in need of money at the time; perhaps he wished to dissociate himself from me, and therefore made a demand to which he knew I could not accede. I replied to Mr. Barron (politely, I trust) that I could not give him this kind of special treatment, and so we mutually agreed to drop the story from the Dark Regions edition. Far from being angered by this result, I was rather relieved; for not only was I able to remove a story that I felt should not have been in the anthology in the first place, but I was able to include a much better story\u2014namely, Jason V Brock\u2019s \u201cThe Man with the Horn\u201d\u2014in its place.\nXtifr on September 30, 2018 at 11:34 pm said:\nYeah, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d describe VanderMeer as horror, but I wouldn\u2019t quibble if you wanted to call him horror-adjacent. \ud83d\ude42\nRegarding Heinlein references: I don\u2019t remember that bit at all, but I think that if I saw \u201cNine Planets Symphony\u201d written down, I would probably assume it was a reference to Holst unless I had some specific reason not to.\n@Chip Hitchcock: Alternate Routes is definitely not awful! I think my attempt to avoid gushing may have made my little mini-review slightly less positive than I had originally intended. I wouldn\u2019t call it Powers\u2019 greatest novel by any means, but it was certainly a lot of fun. I\u2019d almost call it light-hearted. By Powers\u2019 standards.\nLee Whiteside:\nEssentially, if you insinuate H.P. Lovecraft was racist/hmisogynistic/anything less than a paragon, that\u2019s not OK.\nThat\u2019s not what he says; he himself has analyzed Lovecraft\u2019s racism and misogyny at great length, and I think fairly enough. He views it this way (the jab in brackets is Joshi\u2019s; in the same post on 15 Nov 2017 I linked to before):\nIs it not obvious that my dispute is solely with those commentators who tendentiously [Mr. Keene had better look this word up, as I doubt he knows what it means] seize upon the single issue of Lovecraft\u2019s racism to cast aspersions on his entire literary achievement and his character, or (and this is, unsurprisingly, Mr. Keene\u2019s favoured method) those who dumb down the issue into a simple-minded caricature and, not coincidentally, make a public display of their own self-righteous sanctimony?\nI think he misrepresents many of the people he\u2019s charging with that supposed sin; I also disagree with a number of his plaudits for Lovecraft\u2019s prose and many of his critical views (he respects Lovecraft as a grand thinker much more highly than he deserves because of their shared atheism, for one thing), and I disagree with the position he took over the statues. However, charging that Joshi tries to cover over Lovecraft\u2019s racism is false and fully deserves the punches he deals back to people like Keene who make it.\nFerret Bueller on October 1, 2018 at 12:05 am said:\nVicki Rosenzweig:\nWell, that\u2019s another of Joshi\u2019s weird foibles. He demands high literary standards like those in the best classic weird fiction (my impression is that he gives extra points to writers who use the most impeccably British English they can; some of the solecisms he checks off in authors\u2019 failings are widely accepted US conventions, like \u201cdifferent than\u201d versus \u201cdifferent from,\u201d some usages of which I personally have been called illiterate in linguistics forums for defending by Britons I might well have gotten [NB. Not \u201cgot\u201d; I ain\u2019t no Brit] on well with in real life, so that one Joshi can stick in a pipe and smoke) and tilts against the windmills of popular writers who don\u2019t strive for the same standard. And really, King does often perpetrate bad writing, though Joshi slams him for it rather more viciously than he merits. When I\u2019m in the mood to read Stephen King, I know enough not to expect a ghost story by Edith Wharton (my own point of entry a couple of decades ago into weird fiction).\n[Joshi] respects Lovecraft as a grand thinker much more highly than he deserves because of their shared atheism, for one thing\u2026\nAs an example, Joshi\u2019s compendious compendia of his essays going on and on and on about HPL\u2019s influences and responses to them, parsing his letters to a fare-thee-well to make him out to be anything other than a somewhat well-read amateur with no real scientific training. Similar is his evident joy at stating that HPL was turning a socialist of some sort in the later parts of his life because he was strongly anti-capitalist. I\u2019m sure this is one target of this perfectly accurate comment by John Gray:\nIt has been suggested in Lovecraft\u2019s defence that in later years his attitudes mellowed\u2026Nazism and fascism were hostile to capitalism, at least in their rhetoric, precisely because many of their supporters believed that capitalism promoted liberal values. In the 1930s, racism and anti-capitalism often went together. For all his scorn for the age in which he lived, Lovecraft embodied some of its ugliest (and most commonplace) beliefs and attitudes.\nJohn A Arkansawyer on October 1, 2018 at 7:05 am said:\nAnti-capitalism is the socialism of fools.\nXtifr on October 1, 2018 at 11:14 am said:\nJoshi may not deny Lovecraft\u2019s racism (because that would be such a patently ridiculous claim that no one would take him seriously after that), but he\u2019s certainly tried to minimize it, going so far as to suggest that HP was not unusually racist for his time. There were more racist people, but HP was still clearly a serious outlier.\nBut I think Joshi\u2019s worst, and most discrediting flaw, is that he seems to believe Lovecraft was a good writer! HP was a hack. A hack with some absolutely brilliant ideas (and not a few horrible ones), but a hack nonetheless. Given that, I have zero interest in Joshi\u2019s opinions of other writers.\nNearly as bad is his annoying habit of starting feuds all over the place. It\u2019s not quite as discrediting, but it\u2019s certainly sad. I don\u2019t know anything about the man personally, but his public persona is definitely a sad, bitter, shallow little man.\nI can, and do, respect his scholarship, as far as it goes, but I really can\u2019t find much else to respect about him. The best I can do is muster up some mild sympathy for the pain his raging insecurities must cause him. And I have less than zero interest in his opinions as a critic, rather than a scholar.\nCora Buhlert on October 1, 2018 at 1:16 pm said:\nMy only contact with S.T. Joshi\u2019s work that did not involve Joshi showing his (metaphorical) naked backside concerned that he apparently dug up the original draft of Fritz Leiber\u2019s novella \u201cAdept\u2019s Gambit\u201d and compared it to the published version. I stumbled upon this, when I recently wound up reading my way through Leiber\u2019s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories after planning to reread just the one story that was up for the Retro Hugo this year.\n\u201cAdept\u2019s Gambit\u201d stands out, not just because it is set in our world rather than in Nehwon, but also because it has references to sex that Leiber stories from the 1930s and 1940s normally don\u2019t have and also includes several mentions of LGBT people, a character of ambiguous gender, all of which I was surprised to find in a story written around the same time as the various stories from \u201cUnknown\u201d, which often don\u2019t even have any female characters at all. So I wondered whether the version of \u201cAdept\u2019s Gambit\u201d in the collection I have was a later rewrite or whether all the references to LGBT people were already in the version published in the 1940s.\nSo I googled and hit upon S.T. Joshi and his comparison between the early draft from the 1930s and the published version. Though apparently (there is no electronic version of Joshi\u2019s comparison available) Joshi\u2019s comparison focusses on how there were a lot more Lovecraftian references in the early draft that were edited out for the published version. Which is certainly interesting, but doesn\u2019t really answer my question at all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 45611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flabarhls.org/news/health-law-monthly-updates/252-march-april-2017-health-law-updates", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KZ7TBNKEFCUYLYNSKORX4SHFA4RAVSZ4", "length": 8605, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "flabarhls.org", "title": "March-April 2017 Health Law Updates", "raw_content": "March-April 2017 Health Law Updates\nThe following articles involve significant developments in the health law arena that may be of interest to you in your practice. These summaries are presented to Section members for general information only and do not constitute legal advice from The Florida Bar, its Health Law Section, or the authors of these summaries.\nChristian P\u00e9rez Font, Esq\nYou may download a copy of the summaries as well as read them, below.\ndocument March April Heath Law Updates 2017 (DOCX) (23 KB)\npdf March April Health Law Updates 2017 (PDF) (153 KB)\nOwner of South Florida Home Healthcare Owner indicted in $15MM Medicare Fraud Scheme\nOn March 14th, 2017, the Department of Justice announced that it had indicted the owner of Elite Home Care, LLC, a Miami-based home healthcare provider, with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, two counts of health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks. According to the indictment, aside from filing documents in an effort to conceal his ownership of the home healthcare provider, the defendant engaged in other illegal practices that included the payment of kickbacks to Medicare beneficiaries and patient recruiters in exchange for referrals. As a consequence of this scheme, Medicare paid approximately $ 15MM in false claims. The case is still ongoing and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.\nA copy of the Department of Justice\u2019s press release is available at https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-florida-home-health-owner-charged-role-15-million-medicare-fraud-scheme.\nTwo Defendants plead guilty to $20MM Medicare Fraud Scheme at Seven Miami Area Home Health Agencies\nOn March 2nd, 2017, the owners and operators of seven home healthcare agencies in the Miami area plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud and wire fraud. As part of their pleas, the defendants admitted that they recruited nominees to conceal their ownership interest in these agencies and that they also engaged in a scheme to pay bribes and kickbacks to healthcare professionals in return for the provision of prescriptions for home healthcare services and referrals of Medicare beneficiaries many of which did not even these services. According to the Department of Justice\u2019s press release, Medicare improperly paid approximately $ 20MM to these seven agencies.\nA copy of the Department of Justice\u2019s press release is available at https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-women-plead-guilty-orchestrating-20-million-medicare-fraud-scheme-seven-miami-area-home\nDevelopments in Medicare Secondary Payer Law\nTwo recent legal decisions out of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami Dade County indicate that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) may be able to obtain reimbursement from no-fault liability carriers pursuant to Medicare Secondary Payer law on a class-wide basis. On April 20, 2017, the Honorable Judge Antonio Arzola entered a 56-page order granting class certification to a class of approximately 37 Florida MAOs. MSPA Claims 1, LLC v. IDS Property Cas. Ins. Co., No. 2015-27940 (Fla. 11th Cir. Ct. Apr. 20, 2017). The allegations are mainly that IDS Property Casualty Insurance Company: 1) failed to properly pay the personal injury protection benefits for their insureds who were also Medicare beneficiary; and 2) failed to provide appropriate reimbursement for conditional payments provided by the MAOs on behalf of Medicare enrollees.\nThis is only the second time in the United States where class certification has been obtained for Medicare Advantage Organizations based on the principles of Medicare Secondary Payer law. The first class certification came on February 3, 2017, from the Honorable Judge Samantha Ruiz Cohen. See MSPA Claims 1, LLC v. Ocean Harbor Cas. Ins., No. 2015-1946 (Fla. 11th Cir. Ct. Feb. 3, 2017). The order can be located at: http://msprecoverylawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15-1946plfordergranting20Signed20Order.pdf.\nBoth state and federal courts are recognizing that Medicare Advantage Organizations are paying for health benefits for which no-fault carriers are primarily responsible. The Medicare Secondary Payer law provides MAOs with the same recovery rights as CMS and is meant to counteract rising healthcare costs. There are several similar nationwide putative class actions being pursued on behalf of MAOs against large insurers such as Allstate and State Farm. The road ahead in these class action cases may be long and winding, but certainly these cases are shaping the world of Medicare Secondary Payer law and MAOs.\nUpdated Criminal and Epidemiological Investigations Handbook.\nCDC has released an updated version of to the Criminal and Epidemiological Investigations Handbook. This latest version provides an overview of criminal and epidemiological investigation procedures involving interactions between law enforcement and public health. The handbook will teach public health and law enforcement how to work together to identify the biological agent, prevent the spread of the disease, avoid public panic, and apprehend those responsible. It is also available in French and Spanish. The updated handbook can be found at:\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/crimepihandbook2016.pdf\nCMS Requires Participating Providers to Prepare for Emergencies\nOn March 24, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a memorandum encouraging participating providers to \u201cseek out and participate in a full-scale, community-based exercise with their local and/or state emergency agencies and health care coalitions and to have completed a tabletop exercise by [November, 2017].\u201d\nThe memo is intended to assist providers and suppliers with meeting the testing and training requirements of the September 2016 emergency preparedness final rule.\nThe final rule requires participating providers to plan for natural and man-made disasters, train for disaster preparedness and test emergency plans.\nThe memo clarified that participating providers are expected to meet the requirements of the final rule by November 15, 2017, or face citations for non-compliance.\nFacilities that are unable to complete a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise by November 15, 2017 are encouraged to undergo an individual facility-based exercise and document the circumstances as to why a full-scale, community-based exercise was not completed.. More information is available at:\nhttps://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/surveycertemergprep/emergency-prep-rule.html\nMandatory Bundled Payments Delayed, CMS seeking comments\nCMS Administrator, Seema Verma, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Price delayed implementation of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (\u201cCJR\u201d) program via an interim final rule. See CMS \u2013 5519 \u2013 IFC\nThe effective date of CJR model implementation originally set for March 21, 2017 was delayed until May 20, 2017. Accordingly, the applicability of the CJR regulations at 42 C.F.R. part 512 are now set to begin on October 1, 2017.\nThis interim final rule also delays the implementation of other mandatory bundled payment models, including the Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model.\nCMS is seeking comment on the appropriateness of the possibility of further delaying the start of these mandatory models until January 1, 2018.\nCMS reasons,\n\u2026 delay is necessary to \u2026 ensure that the agency has adequate time to undertake notice and comment rulemaking to modify the policy if modifications are arranged, and to ensure that in such a case participants have a clear understanding of the governing rules and are not required to take needless compliance steps.\nMany have speculated about the future of bundled payments under the Trump Administration.\nWhile serving as a member of Congress, HHS Secretary Tom Price publicly opposed CMS\u2019 mandatory initiatives, like CJR. Then Rep. Price urged CMS via a signed letter to \u201ccease all current and future planned mandatory initiatives.\u201d Last year, he also introduced a bill (H.R. 4848) co-sponsored by Rep. David Scott (D-GA) that would have delayed the implementation date of the CJR model until January 1, 2018.\nProviders concerned with the feasibility of implementing the CJR model and other mandatory bundled payment initiatives within the current year are urged to submit comments to CMS.\nQuestions regarding the interim final rule may be submitted to CMS via email at CJR@cms.hhs.gov", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flagdatabase.weebly.com/kitts-engine1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EWP2BBIB226A5LORXC4Z7MRLGPSCU7ML", "length": 120, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "flagdatabase.weebly.com", "title": "KITT's Engine - F.L.A.G. Database", "raw_content": "Carmen designed K.I.T.T's unique engine before she was recruited onto the Team. She posted her design ideas on her blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://floridacruising.com/html/Jan_2017/jan_2017.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FN7JJUWW3NX73Z2LDKBOSKDZMEPHYMFP", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "floridacruising.com", "title": "Jan 2017", "raw_content": "Happy NEW YEAR to ALL from the FCD Crew...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flynnfiles.com/node/6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:45Z", "digest": "sha1:23T5BP34WMC5HHARWRSA2TOOC3S2J3VX", "length": 708, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "flynnfiles.com", "title": "Chuck Bednarik Killed Nazis Before Fans Thought He Killed Frank Gifford | FlynnFiles.com", "raw_content": "Chuck Bednarik Killed Nazis Before Fans Thought He Killed Frank Gifford\nChuck Bednarik, member of two of the three Philadelphia Eagles teams to win a championship and last of the NFL's 60-minute men, died at the conclusion of a week in which another linebacker, Chris Borland, retired after his rookie season because of concerns that football threatens health. Concrete Charlie was 89. Football hardly served as the most dangerous part of his life. He flew as a tailgunner on 30 missions in a B-24 during World War II. Read my piece @ Breitbart Sports on the last of the one-platoon players leaving behind one of the most iconic images in NFL history and taking from us the final link to old-school football.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fondad.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-sister-of-percy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:05Z", "digest": "sha1:F5LK35DJUA6S4WBBLE67QXJ7SGAJYPEG", "length": 1917, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "fondad.blogspot.com", "title": "Thoughts: The 'Sister' of Percy Mistry", "raw_content": "For ten years, Percy Mistry was the man with whom I worked most closely within FONDAD. A friend of mine who worked at the World Bank said to me at the end of the eighties: maybe he will soon leave the World Bank and if I were you I would immediately contact him. A large number of books that I have published as director and editor-in-chief of FONDAD have been written by Percy (see Fondad publications by Percy Mistry).\nBut here I want to talk about his 'sister' or the lady he introduced to me as his sister when we saw each other again after 20 years, but who is actually his cousin: her mother is his father's sister, but the two families have lived in the same family building in Bombay and they grew up like sister and brother. Percy lives in Bombay for the winter part of the year, his permanent home is in Oxfordshire in the UK.\nPercy and I saw each other back at CCI, or the Cricket Club of India. Just like at the Willingdon Sports Club we sat at a table on the lawn, a kind of outdoor terrace, and because there was a lot of noise and I was sitting next to Percy's sister, I had a conversation with her, while Aafke on the other side of the table had a conversation with Percy and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 who worked at the OECD. Percy has a serious illness and after half past eight in the evening is only capable of falling asleep or watching TV.\nHis sister told me about her mother who gambled money at horse racing, but she also told me about another cousin of hers who is committed to teaching children from slums. That cousin has already made thousands of slum (and disabled) children happy with education that was not only focused on learning but also on drawing and sports. And so for me, and later also for Aafke, the first-class lady became a lively, sweet woman with whom Aafke had a conversation about her youth at Catholic boarding schools in India and in Switzerland.\nI still found a warm bond with Percy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.planet-f1.com/viewtopic.php?p=212563&sid=fb6b5b019a9af108b8f1d3e768861c87", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:34:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NDQSNF6QOZHTQ6NQMGG3TU5SJ3NVFPJZ", "length": 17011, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "forum.planet-f1.com", "title": "planetf1.com \u2022 View topic - Scheckter's Top Two Are Vettel And Hamilton", "raw_content": "Scheckter's Top Two Are Vettel And Hamilton\nPost subject: Re: Scheckter's Top Two Are Vettel And Hamilton\nI often like Jody Scheckter but I find his reasoning on Alonso to be stupid. For one, it's 2012 not 2007. For another, Alonso's alleged actions in 2007 have little to do with on track performance. Finally, Alonso isn't allowed to talk about 2007 because of the afore mentioned NDA. So the full story of 2007 simply isn't known.\nYou can't blame Scheckter, look how Ferrari had to handicap Massa just to make Alonso look good\nLook how Ferrari ordered Gilles Villeneuve to play No.2 to allow Scheckter win his one and only title.\n(I may be a bit late reading this story but...)\nI can't believe Jody Scheckter came out with this. His problem with Alonso is more or less that Alonso hit back when he wasn't given No.1 status. Scheckter himself relied on No.1 status to claim the 1979 WDC. Absolute hypocrite.\nso how exactly is Scheckter being a hypocrite? did he say anything about disliking the fact that Alonso is #1? he said his problem with Alonso has to do with his involvement in the spy scandal.\nwhat has that got to do with Ferrari and #1 status?\nOh come on! Scheckter doesn't mention the spy scandal once.\nIt should be obvious to see he's referring to Alonso's poor reaction to not getting preferential treatment. And I find it hypocritical when it comes from a man whose 1 WDC relied on preferential treatment.\nneither does he say anything about preferential treatment and #1 status.\nI think Sheckter is forgetting Hamilton wasn't innocent in 2007 himself. He was very lucky he was the young pup just starting out and his mistakes were more forgivable back then. He was also lucky to have Dennis on his side 100%' it was clear from Monaco onward Alonso didn't.\nIf Jody Scheckter has the same opinion of McLaren as he does of Alonso, then I will disagree with but respect his opinion. If he doesn't though, I will call him a hypocrite, and ignore his opinion for being inconsistent and irrelevant.\nWhat did Alonso do in '07? McLaren made him sign a NDA to prevent him from speaking about it, even just to defend himself. Now that smells like a rotten business to me. Why silence someone if you're innocent? It just doesn't add up. We have Ron, WMSC, FIA and McLaren's version, but not Alonso's. What is worrying is no one in media seems to ask this question aloud.\nThat can be looked at the other way around. If Alonso had nothing to hide, why sign the NDA? Most people sign them in order to secure financial settlements, but he didn't need the money. Other than that I don't see that a gun would have been put to his head.\nAs for Scheckter's comments, IMO he is not saying that he thinks Vettel and Hamilton are better drivers than Alonso but that he would choose them for a team he was running over Alonso. On that I agree with him. Alonso is IMO too much of a liability when it comes to team harmony as he can be pretty outrageous when he's unhappy or under pressure. TBH I have questionmarks about Hamilton as well due to his tweeting this year, but hopefully that was a mistake and something from which he's learnt.\nWell, there was a gun to his head. McLaren could have held him to his contract and not let him race for two years left on the contract. How do you suppose that would have had ended for Alonso, and mind you at that time press didn't give much of a crap about him either, so he would've been screwed, proper. So I ask you, what would you have had done in his place.\nThey could have tried to hold him to his contract, which would have resulted in him racing for them for two years. The racing driver contracts of the major drivers always include the race clause and given Alonso's interests were looked after by Briatore who is masterful at manipulating contractual situations in his favour I'm sure his would have included that.\nRegardless of that element, though, Alonso could have gone to court to try to get out of that contract and there would have been many avenues for argument on principle and that's without even knowing the specifics of the contract, which would have had some standard get-out clauses.\nIn his position, if I had done nothing to be ashamed of and been severely mistreated by the team who were also making up rubbish about me I would NOT have signed an NDA. I don't just say that in theory, either. I mean, I've not been a racing driver but I have been in a situation where it was my job and a lot of money or blow the whistle on principle and I chose the latter option.\nIf he had nothing to be ashamed of then an NDA doesn't really make sense to me. His reputation has been severely damaged by what we do know and, in fact, he spent 2 years in the wilderness at Renault anyway as a result of what happened at McLaren. And ultimately we know Alonso was not clean in that situation from the evidence that was presented at the WMSC hearing. So there were benefits to an NDA from his perspective as well.\nIf he had nothing to be ashamed of then an NDA doesn't really make sense to me. His reputation has been severely damaged by what we do know and, in fact, he spent 2 years in the wilderness at Renault anyway as a result of what happened at McLaren. And ultimately we know Alonso IIwas not clean in that situation from the evidence that was presented at the WMSC hearing. So there were benefits to an NDA from his perspective as well.\nWell, good on you that you chose to blow the whistle... I've taken stand a fair few times on a matter of principle, but come out worse off as a result. Nevertheless, do you know how many drivers race in a season in F1, and then imagine Alonso's position on NDA. On one hand, he gets a clean break and continue to drive in F1, and on the other possibly sit out two years and watch the world go right past him. We nearly never had so much to lose, as Alonso risked to, so it is not quite right on our part to judge him too harshly for that.\nMcLaren's '08 car was to be reviewed before the season began, when McLaren made an official apology in a letter signed by Martin Whitmarsh. Not just that, they agreed to cease development in 3 areas. Now unless one is a big McLaren fan and has an axe to grind against Alonso, it is hard to think Alonso was more guilty than anyone else at McLaren. Unless, you really, truly believe that their MD who'd personally ask for a lightbulb to be changed, wouldn't know whatever's going on with what was their bread and butter for 4 decades now.\nYou're changing the scope of the discussion. We are debating the assumption that an NDA only benefitted McLaren regarding Spygate and that Alonso had no choice but to sign one and also whether Alonso's behaviour was outrageous, not the relative guilt or innocence of the various individuals at McLaren.\nYour response doesn't alter my point from my previous post. I said that he could have gotten out of the contract without agreeing to the NDA. He also had in his favour the fact that Renault, run by Briatore, would have taken him back at any point so his driving future was secure and would have been the same regardless of whether he signed the NDA or not. The way I see it the only reason Alonso had to sign an NDA is that it was mutually beneficial, not just beneficial to McLaren. There was no gun to his head and he had options.\nHe also had ample time prior to that NDA to come out and defend himself. His involvement in the whole matter was documented extensively during the year, including on record in the WMSC hearing transcript. Moreover, the NDA only stops HIM talking about it; it doesn't stop people associated with him leaking information to the press in his defence. I have never heard anyone even remotely dispute the story as to him attempting to blackmail Dennis and then revealing what was going on to the FIA when he didn't get his own way.\nNo! I didn't change the scope... you brought up how Alonso wasn't clean. I was merely pointing out that Alonso isn't a manufacturer, but a mere racing driver, who had a lot at stake around the end of '07. His release by McLaren was tied in with a NDA, and most of us in his position would've done the same. Between McLaren and Alonso, it is not hard to see who gains more with a gag on the other.\nI don't know if you keep up on personnel changes, but McLaren has the worst track record when it comes to releasing star employees. They usually grovel to get an early release from other teams, but rarely return the favour. A case in point was one chap leaving to join Caterham, who was asked to go on gardening leave till his contract was over proper. Would you have taken a kinder view on Alonso's plight, if that were to be the outcome for him? Also, what does it help Alonso? In that a racing driver's career is rather short, and could you justify such stupid risk taking against a company, which is rather hard nosed about releasing employees earlier?\nLet me say it once again for what it is worth... no matter how good we are at what we do, at no point in time we had as much to lose as Alonso did. In that light it is unreasonable to expect him to take a moral highground which may ultimately jeopardise his career. Also, most people respond to things differently. It doesn't mean choices made by others are wrong or less than perfect (which they very well may be, but it is immaterial), it is in essence different. I think people and media were, and some still are too harsh on him and his actions. For the English speaking media, it was easy to do as Alonso is Spanish, and Ron and his McLaren are British. I can tell you that a lot of McLaren fans have difficulty even today, to look past '07 when it comes to Alonso.\nLast, but certainly not the least is a quote from Martin from some time ago, \"we could have handled Alonso better.\" Again, don't you think it would be something that McLaren would want him to keep quiet about.\nYour original post stated the following.\nThis is the point I was answering.\nWe know what Alonso did because it's on record from the WMSC hearing regarding the whole Spygate matter. Prior to the signing of the NDA at the end of the season he had ample time to come out and give his version of events if it differed, but he didn't. Briatore, who is most certainly firmly in the Alonso camp, has also confirmed the accepted version of events.\nIt's standard practice in the termination of most F1 contracts that engineers are required to wait a year before joining another team or at least wait out the period of their contract. This is to protect the information regarding car development. Now if McLaren's NDA with Alonso related to the car and development, that's different, but then that's a standard NDA and my understanding was that we were talking about this NDA in reference to Spygate and your perspective that it was necessary for him to sign one to get out of his McLaren contract.\nWhich I disgaree with, as explained.\nMoreover, I think that the NDA was mutually beneficial to both parties and did not necessarily benefit McLaren more than Alonso. Alonso, based on the aforementioned information, got up to some very naughty things while he was at McLaren and I can see it being to his benefit to keep that dirty laundry from being aired as well. I don't think anybody associated with that mess wants it rehashed over and over again in the press. And beyond even that, if Alonso was completely innocent in the whole matter and had been falsely identified as having attempted to blackmail his boss, it was to his benefit to put forward his side of the story at some point. His reputation suffered quite a lot from that and if rectification was possible I'm sure Briatore would have been onto it.\nIt is not my perspective, but words from Alonso when a reporter asked his views on Spygate. It was then he mentioned that he has a NDA which prevents him from speaking about it. Surely McLaren knew whatever was going on, Alonso and PDR are not exactly development engineers, or are they? Do you think that FIA and WMSC asked him to keep quiet after he approached them? Unless you know more than what you've repeated, you're basing every bit of your argument on what Ron said. Do not forget that Ron said with tears to go along that McLaren didn't cheat, and we all know how that turned out.\nI didn't offer my opinions on what I thought of McLaren in this situation as we were discussing Alonso. Just because I have said that I thought Alonso's behaviour was outrageous doesn't mean I don't have equally negative opinions about McLaren. But equally, whatever McLaren did or how they behaved doesn't mitigate what Alonso did.\nWe may, however, be talking slightly crossed purposes. My position on Alonso has nothing to do with Spygate itself. A good proportion of the organisation was involved and the responsibility for that rests with the Coughlan and the most senior people who knew and were directing the analysis and testing of Ferrari's information. In the scheme of that Alonso was a bit-player like every other employee in the team who was involved. Where my comments regarding Alonso come from and what I'm talking about with his involvement is that he tried to blackmail his boss at the Hungarian Grand Prix. That was his decision alone and it was behaviour that reflects very badly on him: when he didn't get his own way he had no boundaries whatsoever to what he would and wouldn't do.\nThe NDA benefits him as well because it's as detrimental to his reputation if that keeps being hashed and rehashed repeatedly in the press. He can't explain that away whatever he says.\nGoing back to the subject of the thread, that's why I agree with Scheckter saying he'd prefer Vettel and Hamilton in a team to Alonso. If Alonso is unhappy or under pressure there's no telling what he might say or do. He's totally untrustworthy and there's a lot of potential for a negative impact on team morale and team harmony. This doesn't just come from Spygate, which was the most extreme of all the situations. In 2006 he dumped on his own Renault team claiming that they didn't want him to win the WDC. I thought he might have changed and learnt his lesson, but in 2012 he went to the press with criticisms of Ferrari not bringing planned updates.\nI guess i'm going to leave at Ron's credibility wrt spygate, which involved tears for effect. All this while suggesting innocence on behalf of team McLaren. He lied! Why should we blindly trust him?\nDo not get me started on 2012. I think it was despicable on both his and Lewis' part to take a dump at Vettel. If you think you can race, do it on the track and not in a press conference.\nI'm genuinely not sure what you mean about Dennis' credibility in terms of how it alters what Alonso did at the Hungarian GP. If you mean that we can't trust Dennis that that's what happened, we don't need to. It was confirmed by members of the FIA, by Ecclestone and by Briatore.\nI presented a situation where Ron fibbed, and no small one at that. I'm saying he lied and shed crocodile tears. How do we trust his words? Did FIA use the word \"blackmail\", or did Briatore for that matter? It was merely Ron who suggested that he was blackmailed. FIA and Briatore both merely acknowledged help from Alonso, but no one said anything about blackmail but Ron. As you said, Briatore was Alonso's manager, so don't you think it was reasonable for Alonso to discuss his work situation with him?\nI was just thinking about it... another potential scenario... Alonso is Spanish, and when he was at McLaren, his English wasn't as good as it is now (which is passable at best). may be he plainly/ simply had screwed up with some words, whose connotations he didn't properly understand... Everything is possible. However, one thing is for sure that he isn't allowed to speak on it.\nIt's not about what anyone labelled the incident. It's about what happened and the definition of what happened is in fact blackmail; hence that is why that label has been applied by the press and people discussing the issue.\nAlonso had ample time to dispute the version of events that was put forward before the NDA was signed at the end of the year. He didn't. Briatore has been able at any point to dispute it. He hasn't. Indeed the latter has confirmed the sequence of events.\nI see what you're saying but I don't think it makes logical sense. Alonso visited Dennis in his office on the weekend of the Hungarian GP subsequent to which Dennis called Mosley claiming Alonso had threatened him with regards to the Ferrari dossier subsequent to which Alonso did in fact reveal the information to the FIA. He had been aware of that information for several months, had participated in its use, but after that particular weekend he chose to reveal it. If Alonso was just doing it because he was tiddled off, why visit Dennis first? If Alonso was doing it because it was weighing on his conscience, why wait until that particular weekend? And again, if Alonso was being falsely accused of threatening Dennis, why not defend himself when he had the opportunity?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 335, "original_length": 46539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showpost.php?s=ea3efa7268292fe13b3674b955070f13&p=1763972&postcount=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7CJASL7XYAEJJ4ASKM4H64UVTICORFSV", "length": 443, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "forums.thetechnodrome.com", "title": "The Technodrome Forums - View Single Post - Free speech dead in the UK?", "raw_content": "I don't get it. It's almost like the UK Government cares more about 'wrong-think' than it does about children being raped by backward thinking ideologues simply because said ideologues are brown.\nMen are literally raping little girls in the thousands and the feminists and progressives don't seem to care. They're more interested in getting rid of Robinson for 'hate speech' . It's a damn strange time to be alive.\nFind More Posts by BartAllen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://foulsham.com/m/1/sally-annett", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:K77WMZCQNXZ7WXOP3LT4XDHMSBYAY6F3", "length": 1366, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "foulsham.com", "title": "Sally Annett Books at Foulsham", "raw_content": "Sally Annett\n\u2018Sally's work has hung in collections and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Paris, Germany and the States alongside that of both contemporary artists and great masters like Picasso, Rembrandt, Palmer and D\u00fcrer. It has even replaced the gap left when transport and humidity prevented the safe arrival\u2028of the Ravenna Murals for the 'We Three Kings' exhibition in 1995. Being controversial helps too. Ironically, the same three paintings had been the centre of a censorship row. They were removed from a solo show in Oxford, having been labelled 'too powerful and disturbing'.\n\u2018Sally's work remains a personal visual interpretation of the world and its forces. She creates work around archetypes in her search for the roots of language. Hence the deliberate use of symbols with obvious connotations yet multi-layered interpretations. Her distinctive work has been described by critics as visionary. To say that Sally's work has taken the art world by storm would be selling her short.\u2019 Ian Kuah, Stratos magazine, USA 1998\n\u2018Sally Annett's paintings combine the subconscious and underlying truths of human emotions, with compositional trickery, post-modern painterlyness and multi-layered imagery all bound together through her creative process.\u2019 Stephen Snoddy, Director of Milton Keynes Gallery\nShe has published The Atavist Tarot book, deck and presentation set.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://foxlaneyouthlacrosse.com/Links.asp?n=28686&org=222.FOXLANEYOUTHLACROSSE.COM", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ECCXIWIOWUMDDLHGLE3NMTGILR5Y4TQT", "length": 282, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "foxlaneyouthlacrosse.com", "title": "Links | Fox Lane Youth Lacrosse", "raw_content": "Hudson Valley Chapter of US Lacrosse\nLacrosse Players and Coaches Lost to us on September 11, 2001\nThe national governing body for lacrosse.\nUS Lacrosse September 11, 2001 Memorial\nTom Burke, George Morell and Tom Palazzo were all affiliated with FLYL. We will always remember them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 3449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://francagiuliani.com/index.cfm/media/newsletter-archive/june-2013-working-from-home-is-no-day-off/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:38Z", "digest": "sha1:A767O4L2SC3M5SGF7SZTCAPYGMX5HH6E", "length": 3823, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "francagiuliani.com", "title": "Franca Giuliani - June 2013 - Working from Home is No Day Off", "raw_content": "\u00bb June 2013 - Working from Home is No Day Off\nAh! Who wouldn't want to work from home?\nWorking from home can definitely have its advantages. You save time. You save money on commuting. You can manage your personal obligations in between breaks. However, some people can\u2019t seem to grasp the balance when working from home. They seem to get distracted very easily, not accomplish much, or perhaps end up apparently taking too many naps. Some tend to over eat and watch TV as opposed to the time clock.\nWell, before you decide to work from home, you must be really honest with yourself and ask yourself important questions. Is this the best environment for my personality? Will I be able to separate my work life and home life while in one space? Do I think I will eat more?\nFrom a feng shui perspective, a working-from-home environment can be a real challenge. If you can\u2019t find a balance between work and your private life, it may cause you more stress than anything else.\nHere are the top 9 suggestions to help you create a harmonious work-from-home-environment. And, they are 9 for a reason. The number 9 is the number with the highest energy. Hopefully, these suggestions will give you a great jump start.\nPick a room or a space as separate as possible from the home life. For example, it is not advised to have your \u201coffice desk\u201d in the same space as your living or TV room. If you have a spare room, use it. If the only extra space you have to create a home office is in the basement, that\u2019s not ideal- but it is doable. Just makes sure you have a lot of uprising energy represented, such as uprising lighting, the color green, ventilation, and hopefully natural light.\nMake sure you do not put your desk in a vulnerable position. It should be facing the door but not directly in front of it.\nYour chair should have support by having a solid wall behind it. A window behind the chair is not advised. If there are no other solutions, use heavy drapery to symbolically create that support.\nYour chair should be comfortable for you. It should give your own body support. Consider one with a high back, armrests, and one that\u2019s on wheels and can swirl. You don\u2019t want to ever feel that you are \u2018stuck'.\nBe mindful of what you see in front of you when sitting at your desk. Is it a window with a view of the outdoors? This may lead you to daydream and perhaps not focus on work. Is it a blank wall? This may cause you to feel blocked and perhaps not able to come up with any new ideas. The advice is to make sure that what is in front of you is inspirational and matches with your goals and dream.\nYes, you can have family photos in your home office, just don\u2019t overdo it. It may subconsciously confuse you and distract you from what needs to be accomplished.\nNowadays any office has computers and electronic devices. Make sure you have enough plants to help combat the negative electrical energy that is associated with these devises. Water lily and spider plants are highly recommended.\nKeep track of your work hours, even if you don\u2019t have to. If you are in a position where you have to track your hours in order to bill a client, well, then this is quite easy for you. However, many entrepreneurs accumulate \u201cwork hours\u201d working on their own stuff. It\u2019s always important to \u2018clock ourselves in and clock ourselves out\u2019. This way we can see how much time we are actually spending on work and on goofing off.\nRemember to smile as often as possible while working, even if you don\u2019t want to. This may lead to the occasional unnecessary giggles or laughter. Since you are working from home, chances are that no one will see you, so you don\u2019t have to explain this to anyone. Your homework for this month: Work on getting your \u2018home\u2019 work space separate from your home space. It may not be easy, but at least start tackling it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://france.scalarchives.it/web/privacy.asp?language=fra&SC_NDD=G03051", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:47:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MO7DF56O6GKQLLR7WCKPHL7ENHSW4FTD", "length": 8083, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "france.scalarchives.it", "title": "Scala Archives - Tag lblTitle is not defined", "raw_content": "The European Regulation 679/2016 or \"General Data Protection Regulation\" replaces in full the Legislative Decree 30 June 2003 n. 196 from 25 May 2018. 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Hamilton | Free Press Newspapers", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Ronald L. Hamilton\nRonald L. Hamilton\nMURPHYSBORO\u2014Ronald L. Hamilton, 55, of Murphysboro and formerly of Coal City and Carbon Hill area, passed away at Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro.\nRonald was born Aug. 3, 1963, in Morris to Paul E. Hamilton and Melba L. (Grosvenor) Hamilton. He was a pipefitter and a member of the Pipefitters Local #597 in Chicago. Ron was a member of The Ridge Church near Carbondale. He was an avid Cardinals fan and he liked to fish.\nRon is survived by his father, Paul, of Murphysboro; one brother and sister-in-law, Robert W. and Suzanne Hamilton, of Coal City; three nieces and one nephew: Tamara L. (David) Crater, Brooke (Kevin) Young and Shawn (Nichole) Hamilton, all of Coal City and Hope Ann (Michael) Parks, of Crawfordsville, IN and nine great-nieces and great-nephews.\nHe was preceded in death by his mother, one brother and sister-in-law, Terry and Carol Hamilton; one sister, Janice Hamilton and his grandparents, Clarence and Mamie Hamilton and Lester and Anna Grosvenor.\nGrave site services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018 at Glenn Cemetery near Raddle with Rev. Wes Henson officiating. Visitation will be from 12 noon to 12:45 p.m. at Pettett Funeral Home, 1418 South St., Murphysbor.\nIn lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Southern Illinois, Inc., 204 Halfway Road, Marion, IL 62959.\nFor more information visit www.pettettfuneralhome.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://frharry.blogspot.com/2018/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:53:33Z", "digest": "sha1:EVQMXKDHTCMBANYYRNCIHPU3OCCFSZLD", "length": 10196, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "frharry.blogspot.com", "title": "Redeeming Barth: 02/01/2018 - 03/01/2018", "raw_content": "Transfiguration \u2013 The G-d at the Core of All Being\n[ A sermon offered Sunday, February 11, 2018 at St. Richard's Episcopal Church, Winter Park, FL]\nIn today\u2019s Gospel, the writers of Mark relate a story that appears in at least two other gospel accounts, a story that has come to be called the Transfiguration. While the church observes a Feast Day of the Transfiguration in August, the version found in Mark is used on this last Sunday of the Epiphany in conjunction with a lesson from II Kings on the ascension of the prophet Elijah to heaven.\nIt is important to set the context for this story to understand it. In Mark\u2019s account, Jesus has spent the last few days in the region north of the Galilee healing the deaf and the blind, exorcising the possessed, feeding the multitudes and wrangling with Pharisees trying to trip him up. Jesus is tired. He needs to retreat from the crowds to recharge and refresh. And so he goes with Peter, James and John up a high mountain, apart, by themselves, leaving behind the rest of his disciples.\nThis is a pattern we see frequently in Jesus. His life reflects alternating times of intense engagement of the public followed by periods of withdrawal into the desert to spend time in silence, solitude, time alone with G-d.\nThere is an additional element of context that must be mentioned to make sense of today\u2019s passage. In the preceding chapter when Jesus and the disciples are en route to the villages around Caesarea Phillipi, he asks them: \u201cWho do people say I am?\u201d The disciples report that people think he\u2019s John the Baptist come back from the dead or perhaps Elijah, returning to earth from heaven. Jesus then turns the question to them: \u201cWho do YOU say I am?\u201d Peter replies that Jesus is the one anointed by G-d to redeem Israel and Jesus mysteriously tells him, \u201cOK, Peter, you got it right. But don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d\nThere are two aspects of this interaction that are apparent. One, no one really knows quite what to make of Jesus. And two, his disciples are just beginning to understand who this incredible human being they have been called to follow really is.\nPerhaps like me, you can relate to this. I have spent most of my life trying to grasp who this Jesus really is - this figure who fascinates me, puzzles me, elates me and sometimes frightens me. Even as I find that much of the theological baggage developed over time surrounding Jesus has become less and less compelling to me, this enigmatic Judean peasant, prophet, healer and wisdom teacher continues to draw me ever more strongly to follow his Way as best I can know it.\nG-d Revealed on a Mountaintop\nThe events reported on this high mountain top are central to my understanding of who Jesus is. In seminary I was privileged to take a Christology course from a Franciscan scholar named Kenan Osborne. We Franciscans have always had a slightly different take on the Jesus story but what he said in class that day about the Transfiguration would change my view of Jesus forever.\nOsborne said \u201cJesus profoundly trusts the G-d he calls Abba, Daddy. He is so radically open to G-d that the aspects of his Self fall away. In that absolutely transparent moment, the G_d who is at his core shines through. And in Jesus we see G-d.\u201d\nWhile the Christian tradition will later equate Jesus with the G-d he calls Father and even later add a Holy Spirit to that equation in the development of Trinitarian theology, Jesus never really says that about himself. Osborne\u2019s understanding of the Transfiguration recognizes Jesus to be the Revealer of G-d. And when we look at the Transfigured Jesus we, too, see G-d.\nThis version of the Transfiguration told by Mark includes the appearance of a long dead Moses and the prophet Elijah who never died, ascending into heaven in a fiery chariot in today\u2019s Hebrew Scripture lesson. Mark\u2019s choice of these figures is not accidental.\nHe is dipping into the inkwell of Hebrew tradition to tell this story. Moses is the personification of the Jewish law and Elijah represents the venerable Hebrew prophetic tradition. For Mark, Jesus is the seal of the law and the prophets. The cloud overshadowing these figures references the shrouding of Mt. Sinai when Moses is receiving the 10 Commandments. And the appearance of Elijah references Hebrew scripture which taught that Elijah would return to earth when the resurrection of the dead was imminent.\nThe reaction of the disciples to this event is somewhat predictable. Peter said, \u201cThis is great, Jesus! Let\u2019s build three shelters here so we can stay up here with these holy men forever!\u201d These are two of the greatest figures in the Hebrew tradition and they have come to be with their own spiritual leader, Jesus. It\u2019s hardly surprising that the disciples \u2013 like us \u2013 would want this moment to last forever.\nFamed psychologist Abraham Maslow described unexpected peak moments of spiritual insight and revelation as mountaintop experiences. They lift us out of our ordinary lives to places we never dreamt we could be. But it is impossible to remain at the mountaintop. Practical considerations for food and water aside, mountaintop experiences are designed to enlighten us, to illuminate our ordinary lives, to serve as turning points. Indeed, in our story today the voice of G-d emanating from the clouds reminds us that we need to learn from this experience and then get on with our ordinary lives: \u201cThis is my Son, the Beloved: listen to him.\u201d\nAnd Jesus has a lot to tell us in this story.\nThe Divine Core of Being\nThe first lesson has to do with the setting. If we are to hear the voice of G-d speaking to us, we must make it possible to listen. We live in a din of noise and constant distraction. It\u2019s sometimes difficult to hear others speaking to us across a room, much less become aware of the meditations of our hearts. The scientists who study the human brain report that we need silence for our brains to regenerate and to engage in any kind of reflection that is anything other than superficial. The high mountain and the desert are physical reminders of the very human need for silence and solitude, time alone with G-d. The example of Jesus is telling us how critical this is.\nThe second lesson is that our spiritual journeys are ongoing. It is tempting to erect doctrinal structures to house belief systems and presume our spiritual development is completed once we have bought into those beliefs. But we can\u2019t just stay at the mountain top. Healthy spiritual development is an ongoing process. In today\u2019s story, Jesus calls us to keep engaging that journey.\nBut it is the third lesson that is most critical. As Kenan Osborne said, Jesus is the revealer of G-d. It is when Jesus becomes so open to the will of G-d that he becomes transparent that we see G-d in him, at the very core of his being. But it is not just at the core of Jesus\u2019 being that G-d is found.\nFranciscan alternative orthodoxy teaches that all of us come from G-d, we exist in G-d and ultimately we return to G-d. At the core of our very being we are connected to the G-d from whom all that exists has come. That connection has always been there from the moment we took our first breath. And while we may not have always been aware of that connection, perhaps ignored it - even rejected it - our connection to the G-d who created us has always been there. And there is nothing any finite human being could ever do that could sever the connection created by an infinite G-d.\nRepenting from Notions of Separation\nSadly, much of the doctrine within the Christian tradition has centered on notions of disconnection from G-d \u2013 a fall from grace in a mythological garden whose stain has infected all human beings ever since. As a result, most of our visions of G-d have focused on a deity who was angry with us and ready to punish us. Wars have been fought over how to reconnect to G-d, how to save souls from eternal damnation, and over the exclusive way to get to heaven.\nSo what Jesus reveals to us in the Transfiguration is good news indeed. We do not need to correctly guess the one high stakes theological formula to be connected to G-d. That connection has always been there. We do not need to be adopted by G-d. We do not need to grovel or pummel ourselves. Contrary to what Rite I suggests, all creatures of G-d are, indeed, worthy to gather up crumbs under the table.\nWhat we must repent from is the notion that we have ever been separated from our Creator, no matter how intensely we may have believed it or experienced that to be true. We must disavow the notion that anything we are capable of doing could cause such a disconnection.\nNotions of separation \u2013 the radical individual disconnected from G_d, each other and the world around us - have an incredibly deleterious effect on us individually and the world we live in. We are, in the words of Aristotle, social animals. It is in the G-d who lies at the core of our being that we are connected to every living being\nCommitting Heresy in a Consumerist Culture\nThis coming Wednesday we begin the six weeks period of reflection and repentance we call Lent. Like Jesus, we are called to spend 40 days and nights in the desert, alone with G-d. It is a perfect opportunity to listen to what G-d might be trying to say to us. And it is a perfect opportunity to consider what Jesus is trying to teach us.\nSo let me suggest something truly radical: Forget the giving up of chocolate or the wine. Reconsider the extra services or devotions you might be taking on. Instead, do something truly heretical in this consumer culture: Turn off your television. Power down your technology. Find places that are removed from the business of our world and the busyness of your own life. Take the time to be alone with your own soul and with the G-d who created you.\nTry this for the next six weeks. Perhaps you will discover that the G-d who lies at the core of every living being is there at your own core, has been waiting patiently all along, hand outstretched, hoping for your own hand in return. I pray you will grasp that hand with the greatest of humility and profound gratitude.\nHere is wishing you all a blessed Lent. 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We provide a continuum of youth services through 26 different program sites, including treatment for those kids who are already experiencing problems and prevention services to keep problems from developing in other youth. Our distinctive therapeutic approach includes treatment, counseling, education, and skill-building; we open our arms to youths who have had difficulties in foster care; and we operate the only overnight shelters for youth on the Eastside.\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been serving the Eastside for more than 66 years.\nFew organizations on the Eastside know the community as well as Friends of Youth. For decades, we have been a beacon of hope for local young people in challenging circumstances\u2014and your support will ensure the wellbeing of future generations.\nWe achieve positive results.\nAn astounding 100% of youth leaving the Friends of Youth foster care program at age 18 are currently either working or in school. And up to 85% of residents in our transitional housing program move on to stable housing.\nWe\u2019ve got a seal of approval.\nFriends of Youth is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, the most respected U.S. accreditation agency for services for families and children. It ensures that the agency holds itself to the highest standards for professional and administrative performance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.com/2012/01/belle-famille-by-arthur-dreyfus-chapter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TWIONVJVOP5DF2CCF37SC5K543VTRBB2", "length": 1930, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "frommybigdesk.blogspot.com", "title": "Anna Andress: \"Belle Famille,\" - by Arthur Dreyfus - Chapter 12", "raw_content": "\"Nice Family,\" - r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of chapter 12 - from original in French by Frencheuropean.\nThe restaurant cannot supply cucumbers, so Laurence and her husband go to buy some from a grocer's shop and go back to the restaurant.\nMadec, who is very frightened of the Kappas, decides to find the scorpion, which his mother has hidden, because only the scorpion can protect him from the monster. While he is in the kitchen fetching a large meat fork from a drawer, he deduces that his mother must have hidden the key ring in a high place. So, he tries to reach the top of the cupboard by climbing onto a bar stool, onto which he places an upturned couscoussier, and finally on top of the cupboard, he makes out the shape of the scorpion. At the very moment when he grabs hold of it, his balance is disturbed and he falls over backwards, hitting his head on the corner of the table. As he falls, he skewers his neck on the meat fork. He dies. The noise does not wake his brothers.\nLaurence, who leaves the restaurant to take the cucumbers to him, arrives at the chalet, finds that he's not in the lounge and comes across his body in the kitchen.\nA small amount of blood has run from his throat. Without a second thought, she puts everything back in place, wraps the body in the tablecloth, cleans the blood-stained floor with a baby wipe soaked in bleach, puts that into the tablecloth and carries the body to the boot of her car. She drives to the edge of the holiday park and, in the rain, drops the body into a small, muddy, waste water drainage channel. Then she covers it with branches. She drives back.\n\"A short time later, a Peugeot 807 is seen parking in front of 'La Buona Tavola.' A woman in damp clothing is seen to get out. She is seen going back to her friends' table, tidying her hair, using her fingers as a comb, cutting out the cold part, which she deplored, of a 'four season pizza.'. She is seen eating. 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Now, though, it looks as if the game is set to expand its reach into the mobile market, with Epic Games having officially announced the decision to release the title\u2019s free-to-play Battle Royale portion for iOS and Android devices.\nAccording to a recent blog post from Epic Games, fans can sign-up for the Fortnite Battle Royale Invite Event on iOS starting this Monday, March 12, with support for Android coming at some point within the next few months. In order to participate in this imminent event, it\u2019s important to note that one will need an Internet connection and iOS 11 on at least an iPhone 6S/SE, iPad Mini 4, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, and iPad 2017 devices.\nAs explained by Epic, those who sign up for the Fortnite Battle Royale Invite Event for iOS will receive email invites. Upon reception of the email, the message will include a link to download the game from the App Store, as well as invite codes to share with others. Fans who don\u2019t immediately get an invite won\u2019t be left out, as the studio intends to add more players on a regular basis in the months to come.\nEpic Games also revealed that it will be partnering with Sony to provide Fortnite Battle Royale fans with Cross Play and Cross Progression support between PS4, PC, Mac, iOS and eventually Android. With this being the case, players will be able to join up with friends across different devices in order to play with one another without being inhibited by not having the same piece of hardware. There\u2019s currently no word as to whether or not Xbox One will eventually be included in the mix.\nAll things considered, Epic Games appears to be going all-in on Fortnite Battle Royale, as the mobile market will undoubtedly allow the company to generate a huge sum of revenue from the game\u2019s free-to-play mode. While this will surely delight fans who primarily game on mobile devices, it will be interesting to see just how well the controls and mechanics for the title translate to the platform. With invites being sent out in the near future, though, we will likely know soon enough. And with Epic offering even more ways to play the game, a Nintendo Switch port will hopefully be in the cards at some point, too.\nFortnite Battle Royale is available now in early access for Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and is set to launch for iOS and Android devices soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 168.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gcls.gclsports.com/news/article.aspx?id=1502", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:10Z", "digest": "sha1:A2BB4O6TIBJLK5J2D3DJT6RTG5RWOM2P", "length": 3022, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "gcls.gclsports.com", "title": "Greater Catholic League", "raw_content": "The four Greater Catholic League South Division football teams remained unbeaten after two weeks of the season, combining to outscore the opposition by a combined 169-33 last Friday night in non-conference games. Both two-time defending state champion Moeller and La Salle posted shutouts, while Elder hit the 50-point mark for the first time in seven years, and St. Xavier looked impressive for a second straight week.\nHere is a summary of a big Friday night for the GCL South:\nElder 51, Lakota West 21 \u2013 Panthers junior quarterback Peyton Ramsey had a huge night, completing 13-of-17 passes for 256 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing 12 times for 115 yards and another score. Junior tailback Ja\u2019Vahri Portis went over 100 yards for the second straight game, carrying 23 times for 109 yards and three TDs. Ramsey\u2019s favorite target was junior Nick Hall, who caught five passes for 144 yard as Elder racked up 483 total yards. The last time Elder scored more than 50 points was in a 52-27 playoff victory over Centerville on November 1, 2008.\nLa Salle 48, East Central 0 \u2013 For the second straight week, the Lancers\u2019 offense was the story. A week after racking up 515 yards in a 40-21 win over rival Colerain, La Salle was at it again \u2013 totaling 389 yards behind junior quarterback Nick Watson, who completed 7-of-10 passes for 111 yards and two scores. Junior running back Jeremy Larkin, who ran for a career-high 288 yards against Colerain, had 88 yards and two TDs on 13 carries. The Lancers\u2019 defense also was strong, allowing just 50 total yards. La Salle looks to go 3-0 for the second straight season at Princeton Friday night.\nMoeller 39, Covington Catholic 0 \u2013 Moeller has been extremely impressive in its first two games \u2013 outscoring Pickerington North in week one and Covington Catholic, 60-6. Against CovCath, which came in 2-0, Moeller amassed almost 500 yards total offense. Senior quarterback Matt Crable \u2013 who connected on 14-of-22 passes for 274 yards and two TDs. His favorite target was senior Chase Pankey, who had five catches for 73 yards, including a 35-yard TD reception. Junior Demitrius Yett rushed 15 times for 147 yards and one TD in the Crusaders\u2019 eighth straight win.\nSt. Xavier 31, Colerain 12 \u2013 Coach Steve Specht\u2019s Bombers again relied on a sound rushing game and solid defense to post a win in what has become one of Greater Cincinnati\u2019s best early-season matchups every fall. Junior Sean Prophit rushed for a team-high 144 yards and one TD on 21 carries as St. Xavier totaled 250 yards on the ground and averaged 7.1 yards per carry. 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General Patrick O\u2019Reilly is looking forward to the new journey ahead of him and expects to be successful as he was before.\nayambakar330033 21 August 2018 at 04:15\nhttp://bakarayam33033.blogspot.com/2018/08/model-ciri-serta-gambar-sabung-ayam.html/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 5589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 141.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://geostrategy-direct-subscribers.com/saudi-orders-advanced-air-to-ground-munitions-from-u-s/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:17:12Z", "digest": "sha1:26UOKXEDIKTHTUGFQ2EKPYMD2S322LFA", "length": 381, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "geostrategy-direct-subscribers.com", "title": "Saudi orders advanced air-to-ground munitions from U.S. \u2013 Geostrategy-Direct", "raw_content": "Saudi orders advanced air-to-ground munitions from U.S.\nBy Geostrategy-Direct on October 6, 2013 Comments Off on Saudi orders advanced air-to-ground munitions from U.S.\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Saudi Arabia has been preparing for the deployment of U.S.-origin precision-guided munitions. The U.S. Defense Department has awarded a contract to facilitate the deployment of advanced air-to-ground", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 110.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://getwiki.net/-National_Liberal_Federation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:52Z", "digest": "sha1:3CDQ7PIOLJJ5YEPO2I7TVNWKYDC6EIHX", "length": 9249, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "getwiki.net", "title": "GetWiki : National Liberal Federation", "raw_content": "{{distinguish|National Liberal Club|National Liberal Party (disambiguation)}}The National Liberal Federation (1877\u00e2\u0080\u00931936) was the union of all English and Welsh (but not Scottish) Liberal Associations. It held an annual conference which was regarded as being representative of the opinion of the party's rank and file and was broadly the equivalent of a present-day party conference.\nThe inaugural conference of the National Liberal Federation (NLF) was held in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, on 31 May 1877, with the objective of promoting Liberalism, encouraging the formation of new associations and the strengthening and democratising of existing local Liberal parties. The conference was chaired by Joseph Chamberlain and addressed by Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone. New associations quickly formed throughout the country and affiliated to the NLF which was a coordinating body rather than one which operated a central control.BOOK, Peter, Barberis, John, McHugh, Mike, Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: parties, groups and movements of the twentieth century, London, Continuum, 2001, 9780826458148, 314\u00e2\u0080\u009315,\nThe task of the NLF was \"to form new Liberal Associations based on popular representation\". While the NLF always insisted the policies recommended by the members at its conferences were never intended to be binding on the Liberal leadership, it was obvious that the resolutions passed were a strong indication of thinking and feeling in the mass party which the leadership ignored at its peril. For example, in 1914 the NLF came out in support of women's suffrage, and H. H. Asquith (who was personally opposed to the measure) decided it should receive government support.BOOK, Roy, Douglas, The History of the Liberal Party, 1895\u00e2\u0080\u00931970, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1971, 0283484772, 55\u00e2\u0080\u00936, .\nFile:Francis Schnadhorst, Vanity Fair, 1892-07-02.jpg|thumb|upright|\"The Caucus\": 1892 caricature of Francis Schnadhorst, Secretary of the National Liberal Federation 1877\u00e2\u0080\u009393, published in Vanity Fair]]The NLF's early associations were with the city of Birmingham. Its structure \u00e2\u0080\u0093 which became known as the \"Caucus\" \u00e2\u0080\u0093 was modelled on that of the Birmingham Liberal Association, which had been so effective in building a mass membership and an efficient electioneering body in the city under the political leadership of Joseph Chamberlain, and drawing on the strategic and organisational skills of William Harris (secretary 1868\u00e2\u0080\u009373) and Francis Schnadhorst (secretary 1873\u00e2\u0080\u009384).BOOK, Michael, Bentley, Michael Bentley (historian), The Climax of Liberal Politics: British liberalism in theory and practice, 1868\u00e2\u0080\u00931918, Edward Arnold, London, 1987, 0713164948, 67\u00e2\u0080\u009368, At the establishment of the NLF, Chamberlain was elected its president (1877\u00e2\u0080\u009380), Harris its chairman (1877\u00e2\u0080\u009382), and Schnadhorst its salaried secretary (1877\u00e2\u0080\u009393).\nIn the Liberal split over Irish Home Rule the NLF was loyal to party leader Gladstone rather than its own progenitor Joseph Chamberlain, who left the Liberal party and formed the Liberal Unionist faction and coalition with Conservatives. However, in its political orientation generally the NLF conference tended to take the Radical approach, most clearly in its support of the Newcastle Programme in 1891 (see below). Here it endorsed the extension of the Factory Acts, the introduction of universal male suffrage, an end to plural voting and the reform of the House of Lords. This brought conflict with Gladstone until his retirement from politics in 1894. However, by 1900 the role of the NLF had become merely advisory in term of policy.Barberis et al. 2001, pp. 314\u00e2\u0080\u009315.\nRelationship with the Liberal Central Association (LCA)\nFormation of the LCA\nThere was always the possibility of a clash between the NLF and the Liberal Central Association (LCA), the body (first known as the Liberal Registration Association) which had been formed on 21 February 1860 by twenty Liberal MPs to promote general co-operation between MPs and organisation in the constituencies. It changed its name to the LCA in 1874 and re-modelled its structure and purpose to become the \"central medium of communication with and between the Party throughout the whole kingdom in aid of and in connection with local organization\".BOOK, T. A., Jenkins, The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830\u00e2\u0080\u00931886, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 9780333592472, 1994, 102, The chairman of the LCA was originally the Leader of the Liberal MPs but by the end of the 19th century it was the Liberal Chief Whip. As the 19th century wore on, the role of the LCA changed from that of a members' association to that of a Liberal Whips' Office. It put local Liberal Associations in touch with potential candidates and made grants of money to help with elections. It had no policy role but supporters of various factions within the party did try to capture the offices of the LCA from time to time, most notably in the dissensions in the party over imperialism.Douglas 1971, pp. 11\u00e2\u0080\u009317.\nThe likelihood of a clash between LCA and NLF was greatly reduced when the NLF moved to London in 1886 into premises at 42 Parliament Street,The Times, 5 February 1889. next door to the LCA offices which were located at 41 Parliament Street.The Times, 11 February 1892. It also helped that Francis Schnadhorst, the efficient political organiser and secretary of the NLF was also appointed secretary of the LCA.\nLiberal Publications Department\nThe NLF produced some political literature early in its history. However, in 1887 the NLF and LCA collaborated in the establishment of the new Liberal Publications Department, and these three organisations subsequently worked closely together at the administrative heart of the party.Douglas 1971, p. 15.\nThe Newcastle Programme\nAfter the split between the party and Chamberlain over Home Rule, and the support the NLF offered to Gladstone, the NLF began to be more fully aware of the influence it was acquiring. This culminated with the Newcastle Programme of 1891, designed to be a co-ordinated programme of policies for radical reform springing from the grass-roots of the party \u00e2\u0080\u0093 a manifesto for the next general election.BOOK, Chris, Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900\u00e2\u0080\u00931992, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1993, 0333558219, 25\u00e2\u0080\u00936,\nOrganisationally the NLF was the pillar of the Liberal Party. Under the presidency of Augustine Birrell it played an important role in the Liberal landslide election victory of 1906. It was active in promoting the Free Trade campaign after 1903 and through the work of Robert Hudson helped put in place a number of local pacts with the newly founded Labour Representation Committee. During the First World War, despite the opposition of many Liberals, the NLF helped to rally recruitment to the armed forces. After 1918 the NLF began to experience some financial difficulties but was able to remain solvent under the presidencies of Sir George Lunn and J M Robertson.Barberis et al. 2001, pp. 314\u00e2\u0080\u009315. They, together with secretary Robert Hudson, remained staunch supporters of H. H. Asquith BOOK, Paul, Adelman, The Decline of the Liberal Party, 1910\u00e2\u0080\u00931931, Longman, Harlow, 1981, 9780582353275, 22, and as a result Lloyd George had to keep his own National Liberal organisation in place between 1918 and 1922. When Asquith died and Lloyd George became party leader in 1926, Hudson who was by then NLF Treasurer, resigned.The NLF continued in being until 1936 when an internal review of party organisation under Lord Meston recommended its replacement with a body with a different remit, the Liberal Party Organisation.BOOK, David, Dutton, A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, 0333746554, 138,\nNational Liberal Federation officers\nSee President of the National Liberal Federation\n1877\u00e2\u0080\u00931882: William Harris\n1882\u00e2\u0080\u00931886: William Kenrick\n1886\u00e2\u0080\u00931890: Walter Foster\n1900\u00e2\u0080\u00931918: Edward Evans\n1918\u00e2\u0080\u00931920: George Lunn\n1920\u00e2\u0080\u00931931: Arthur Brampton\n1931\u00e2\u0080\u00931933: Ramsay Muir\n1933\u00e2\u0080\u00931934: Ronald Walker\n1934\u00e2\u0080\u00931936: Milner Gray\n1901\u00e2\u0080\u00931903: W. Hart\n1903\u00e2\u0080\u00931907: John Massie\n1907\u00e2\u0080\u00931910: R. Bird\n1910\u00e2\u0080\u00931923: F. Wright\n1923\u00e2\u0080\u00931927: Robert Hudson\n1927\u00e2\u0080\u00931934: Sir Francis Layland-Barratt\n1934\u00e2\u0080\u00931936: P. Heffer\n1877\u00e2\u0080\u00931893: Francis Schnadhorst\n1922\u00e2\u0080\u00931925: Frank Barter\n1925\u00e2\u0080\u00931930: H. Oldman\n1930\u00e2\u0080\u00931931: H. Oldman and William Robert Davies\n1931\u00e2\u0080\u00931936: William Robert DaviesBOOK, David, Butler, Gareth, Butler, British Political Facts, 1900\u00e2\u0080\u00931994, 7th, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1994, 152,\nJOURNAL, Auspos, Patricia, Radicalism, Pressure Groups, and Party Politics: from the National Education League to the National Liberal Federation, Journal of British Studies, 20, 1, 1980, 184\u00e2\u0080\u0093204,\nJOURNAL, Herrick, Francis H., The origins of the National Liberal Federation, Journal of Modern History, 17, 2, 1945, 116\u00e2\u0080\u0093129, 1871956,\nBOOK, Watson, Robert Spence, Robert Spence Watson, The National Liberal Federation: from its commencement to the General Election of 1906, London, T. 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He has also been known to bring some famous friends to Glen Cove to accompany his performances. For example, in 2012, former Yankee centerfielder Bernie Williams played with Cannata and his band. This year, he will be performing with The Lords of 52nd Street, a band that was previously known as Topper. Topper was formed in the 1960s by Russell Javors on guitar and vocals, Doug Stegmeyer on bass and Liberty DeVitto on drums, and by 1976, they hit the big time performing in studio with Billy Joel on Turnstiles.\nWhen Joel decided to introduce a sax player into the mix, Cannata got the call and the rest, as they say, is history. For example, Cannata\u2019s work on \u201cNew York State of Mind\u201d stands the test of time and serves as an anthem for the Empire State. The Lords of Flatbush were also featured on Joel\u2019s The Stranger, which holds the distinction of going 10-times platinum, and they performed with him during his international tour including concerts at Wembley Stadium, Budokan, the Sydney Opera House, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall and the LA Forum.\nFollowing their initial success, The Lords of 52nd Street toured with the Piano Man for more than a decade and performed on classic albums including 52nd Street, Glass Houses and The Nylon Curtain. However, the group disbanded in the late \u201880s and did not reunite until 30 years had passed and they were being inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. They have been performing regularly since getting back together.\nIn addition to rejoining his former mates, Cannata\u2019s recent past has been noteworthy on a number of other fronts. On week two of the Downtown Sounds Concert Series, Glen Cove Mayor Reggie Spinello honored Cannata by giving him the key to the city and naming the downtown intersection \u201cRichie Cannata Place.\u201d In addition to commemorating his legendary musical career, the ceremony celebrated what might very well be Cannata\u2019s biggest accomplishment to date as he had just waged a year-long battle with cancer and was now completely free of the insidious disease. On Aug. 12, his comeback will be complete as he re-takes the stage in his beloved home town. They are bringing some very special guests along: Julio Fernandez (Spyro Gyra), Ozzie Melendez (Marc Anthony), Amber Ferrari (Janis Tribute), and Ed Terry, as well as local favorite Eren Cannata to make it all in the family.\nOpening for the Lords of 52nd Street will be rising star Gianni Paci. Few artists bear the distinction of transcending demographics as diverse and disparate as teeny-bopper bible Tiger Beat and esteemed arts-and-culture conglomerate Blackbook, but with his alluringly accessible yet surprisingly profound songwriting, Paci manages to do just that. With rock-star credibility that stretches far beyond his years, and a bachelor\u2019s degree from New York University, Paci performs as living proof that the most electrifying entertainers are those whose origins are as idiosyncratic and outlandish as bottled lightning.\nPresenting sponsors for Downtown Sounds 2016 are the City of Glen Cove, Bethpage Federal Credit Union and Garvies Point. Other sponsors include Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospital, Kimco Realty, American Paving & Masonry Corp., Bridge Marine, The Downtown Caf\u00e9, Glen Cove Volvo, and The Glen Cove Printery. Media partner is The SUNY College at Old Westbury, OWWR Old Westbury Web Radio and OWTV Old Westbury Television. Host Joe Manfredi will be streaming the concerts live on www.ustream.tv, keyword OWWR. Free parking for Downtown Sounds is available nearby. Rain location is the Wunsch Arts Center at R.M. Finley Middle School on Forest Avenue.\nFor more information, call the Glen Cove BID at 516-759-6570 or visit\nwww.glencovedowntown.org or\nwww.downtownsoundslive.org.\nPrevious articleWe Come Together\nNext articleGod Bless America", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 7332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gogmsite.net/the-belle-epoque-1890-1914/subalbum-princess-maria-kla/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNO5JPYDXGOU23APJWJAMXKTL45OXWUX", "length": 676, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "gogmsite.net", "title": "SUBALBUM: Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva | Grand Ladies | gogm", "raw_content": "Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva\nSUBALBUM: Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva\nThis stylish woman was an accomplished artist in her own right who operated an art school with Ilya Repin. She also founded what is now known as the Bryansk State Technical University. Bryansk is located south of Moscow near Belarus (take the M3 south from Moscow and then go east on the A141).\nThere is a biographic article about her here. There are also discussions of her here and here.\n1896 Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva by Illya Repin (Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky Flat Museum - St. Petersburg Russia)\n1899 Valkyrie - Princess M. K. 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In fact, Beijing benefits from the dollar\u2019s dominance.\nOn April 16, Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of China\u2019s central bank, the People\u2019s Bank of China, once again set off alarm bells during a speech at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). \u201cStarting from this April,\u201d he announced, \u201cChina has released foreign exchange reserve data denominated in the SDR in addition to the USD.\u201d He went on to say: \u201cWe will also explore issuing SDR-denominated bonds in the domestic market.\u201d After many years of announcing monthly the value of its foreign currency reserves only in dollars and renminbi, the Chinese currency, the People\u2019s Bank has begun to announce their value in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a weighted index set by the IMF consisting of the dollar, euro, Japanese yen, pound sterling, and, beginning in October, the renminbi. This, according to a People\u2019s Bank statement, \u201cwould also help enhance the role of the SDR as a unit of account.\u201d\nThe announcement raised eyebrows among many central bank watchers. Within days, Hong Kong\u2019s South China Morning Post warned that the bank\u2019s latest move confirmed its strategic goal to \u201cend the US dollar\u2019s hegemony\u201d and \u201cforge a new global financial order.\u201d In an article for the financial publication MarketWatch, research analyst David Marsh tried to suggest a wider strategy: \u201cThe world\u2019s second-largest economy is embarking, pragmatically but steadily, toward enshrining a multicurrency reserve system at the heart of the world\u2019s financial order.\u201d\nMarsh, like many other analysts who have repeated the popular but confused story about the rise of the renminbi and the decline of the dollar, may have misunderstood the role of reserve currencies within the global balance of payments. Whatever Beijing may think it is doing, its economic policies since the 1990s have, in fact, enhanced the reserve role of the dollar. To do otherwise would have undermined China\u2019s economic development. A reduced reserve role for the dollar would, in fact, make China\u2019s already difficult economic rebalancing \u2014 shifting its economy away from investment and toward domestic consumption \u2014 costlier than ever.\nThe dubious privilege of hegemony\nWhile many complain about the \u201cexorbitant privilege\u201d Washington enjoys from the dollar\u2019s hegemonic status, the U.S. government actually receives very little economic benefit and pays a substantial economic cost for having the dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency. These costs have become that much greater as a result of the June 23 Brexit vote, which saw the dollar strengthening as frightened money poured into the United States.\nBefore discussing the costs, it might be useful to consider the purported benefits. These four are the most widely discussed:\nLowering U.S. government borrowing costs. An otherwise excellent 2009 report by the McKinsey Global Institute claims \u201cthe United States can raise capital more cheaply due to large purchases of US Treasury securities by foreign governments and government agencies.\u201d This seems reasonable at first: More demand for government bonds should drive prices up. But, as we will see, foreign purchases also automatically increase the supply of dollar debt. Were this not so, we would have to conclude absurdly that driving up a country\u2019s current account deficit, the obverse of its capital account surplus, would automatically lower that country\u2019s borrowing cost.\nAllowing Americans to consume beyond their means. This interpretation implies, as the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank erroneously explains in a 2016 paper, that \u201cthe United States has become a net borrower from the rest of the world because it has run a persistent current account deficit.\u201d Here is how Yale University professor Stephen Roach puts it: \u201cAmerica has made its own bed. The culprit is a large saving deficit; [t]he country has been living beyond its means for decades and drawing freely on surplus saving from abroad to fund the greatest consumption binge in history.\u201d\nThis is almost exactly backward. Yes, developing countries are usually unable to save enough to fund their investment needs and so run current account deficits. This was true with the United States in the 19th century, whose deficits were financed mainly by the United Kingdom \u2014 which also supplied the U.S. shortage of investment and consumer goods with a British current account surplus. But U.S. investments have long ceased to be constrained by a lack of savings. Today, the United States runs a current account deficit only because foreign money flows into the country and pushes up the dollar.\nThis need not be just a U.S. problem. Any country with a credible currency will \u201cconsume beyond its means\u201d whenever foreign central banks or foreign institutions try to stockpile its currency. However, most countries refuse the privilege, often indignantly, because it unfairly forces up their currencies or otherwise compels them to \u201cconsume beyond their means.\u201d\nProviding seigniorage benefits. Currency notes are effectively interest-free loans to the issuing government. The value of this benefit, however, is almost negligible and has nothing to do with reserve status. Any credible currency can enjoy the benefits of seigniorage \u2014 the profit a government makes by issuing currency. For example, the 2002 creation of the 500 euro note caused a significant shift in seigniorage benefits to the European Central Bank, as money launderers, drug dealers, and others trying to hide their wealth switched from hoarding $100 bills.\nAllowing the United States to sell economic insurance. As the United States intermediates low-risk, high-quality inflows into riskier outflows during times of stability, it effectively earns a risk premium for which it pays out during periods of instability. This creates real value both for the United States and for countries that choose to buy this insurance. However, this value does not depend on reserve currency status at all, but on the perceived stability of the U.S. economy as a safe haven.\nThese four \u201cprivileges,\u201d in other words, are at best weak and usually confused. In the 1960s, Val\u00e9ry Giscard d\u2019Estaing, later France\u2019s president, accused the United States of exacting \u201cexorbitant privilege\u201d after the dollar shortage of the 1940s and 1950s, which was only resolved by the massive dollar grants under the Marshall Plan and a political decision during the Cold War to allow Europe to earn dollars through protective measures. What makes the continued intellectual obtuseness of many Europeans extraordinary is that it is only the private sector analog of exorbitant privilege \u2014 unconstrained foreign capital inflows into the United States \u2014 that has permitted Germany to continue policies that have crippled German demand, which, after devastating peripheral Europe, are now resolved within the United States as European capital pours into the country.\nOpen and flexible financial markets in the United States allow Germany to pursue policies that are among the most irresponsible in modern history. This is what exorbitant privilege brings, and this is why the dollar will continue to be the dominant reserve currency for the next several decades (unless the U.S. government itself decides to prevent or limit foreign accumulation of dollar reserves).\nIt is also why the SDR, and even more so the renminbi, cannot become important reserve currencies. Many in Beijing may not understand that the cost of reserve currency status is foreign appropriation of domestic demand. Despite small-scale policies to increase renminbi holdings among foreign central banks, Beijing\u2019s economic policies prevent foreigners from appropriating China\u2019s already-too-weak domestic demand and so make it impossible for the SDR or the renminbi to ever become more than a minor reserve currency.\nThe dollar rules everything\nTo see why, we only have to go through the balance of payments exercise. The SDR is a constructed currency. If a central bank buys an SDR-denominated bond issued by the IMF, and the IMF hedges it by buying the requisite amount of bonds in dollars, euros, yen, sterling, and, soon enough, renminbi, this is no different than if the original central bank simply bought the requisite amount of bonds in dollars, euros, yen, sterling, and renminbi. In 2009, the People\u2019s Bank website published a famous essay by Zhou in which he asked, \u201c[W]hat kind of international reserve currency do we need to secure global financial stability and facilitate world economic growth?\u201d His answer suggested a significantly enhanced role for the SDR and was widely interpreted as an assault on U.S. dollar hegemony. Strangely enough, if the People\u2019s Bank really wanted SDR exposure, it could easily get it by buying those currencies separately according to the formula set out by the IMF.\nBut it never did. Instead, it mostly bought dollars. When a central bank chooses which currency to buy, it is also determining the direction of net trade flows. If the People\u2019s Bank had bought other currencies, those related countries would have had to match the inflows on the capital account with larger current account deficits, or smaller surpluses, which would have triggered resistance in those countries.\nThis resistance, of course, is the problem. Given their much more limited economic flexibility and less ebullient financial systems, few other countries could have sustained the consequent trade deficits, and they would have almost certainly moved aggressively against China to limit the development of unfavorable trade balances. China, in other words, chose to buy dollars not because it had to, but because if it did not export capital, its domestic unemployment would have soared. And no other country besides the United States was willing or able to run deficits of the necessary magnitude.\nIt may be useful to consider an actual case. When the People\u2019s Bank tried to accumulate yen in 2011, rather than welcome the chance to steal away some of the dollar\u2019s exorbitant privilege, Tokyo demanded that the People\u2019s Bank stop buying its currency and aggressively bought dollars, effectively trying to ensure that its increased share of \u201cexorbitant privilege\u201d was immediately passed on to the United States.\nBecause a current account surplus is by definition equal to the excess of savings over investment, the gap between the two in Japan would have had to narrow by an amount exactly equal to People\u2019s Bank purchases. Here is where the exorbitant privilege breaks down: If Japan needed foreign capital because it had productive investments at home that it couldn\u2019t finance for lack of savings, it might have welcomed Chinese purchases. But like any other advanced economy, Japan did not need foreign capital to fund productive domestic investment.\nIf People\u2019s Bank yen purchases couldn\u2019t force up Japanese investment, by necessity Japanese savings had to decline in line with its current account surplus. There are only two ways the inflows could cause Japanese savings to decline. First, a domestic consumption boom could cause the Japanese debt burden to rise, which Tokyo clearly didn\u2019t want. Second, Japanese unemployment could rise, which Tokyo even more clearly didn\u2019t want.\nThere is, in short, no way Japan could have benefited from People\u2019s Bank purchases of its yen bonds. Only the United States permits unlimited purchases of government bonds by foreign central banks \u2014 not because, however, it is immune to the problems Japan and other advanced countries face. Like them, the United States can easily fund productive domestic investments without foreign capital, and so rather than cause productive investment to rise, foreign investment causes domestic savings to fall, which can only happen with a rising debt burden or rising unemployment.\nIn fact, foreign investment is only good for an economy if it brings needed technological or managerial innovation or if that economy cannot otherwise raise funding for domestic productive investment. If neither holds \u2014 and they hold in developing economies only, not advanced countries like the United States \u2014 foreign investment always forces the recipient country to choose between a higher debt burden and higher unemployment.\nThis is the great irony of the aftermath of the global financial crisis. China, Russia, and France want to lead the charge to strip the United States of its exorbitant privilege, and Washington resists. And yet, if Washington were to take steps to prevent foreigners from accumulating U.S. assets, the result would be a sharp contraction in international trade. Surplus countries, like Germany and China, would be devastated, but the U.S. current account deficit would fall with the reduction in net capital inflows. As it did, by definition the excess of U.S. investment over savings would have to contract. Because U.S. investment wouldn\u2019t fall, and in fact would most likely rise, savings would automatically rise as lower unemployment caused GDP to grow faster than the rise in consumption.\nThe savings slip-up\nBut what about the United States\u2019 extremely low savings rate? Doesn\u2019t it consume beyond its means, as Roach wrote, leaving it savings-deficient and reliant on Chinese and European savings to fund the U.S. fiscal deficit? \u201c[T]he real reason the US has such a massive multilateral trade deficit,\u201d Roach wrote in April, \u201cis that Americans don\u2019t save.\u201d\nThis is one of the fundamental failures in understanding the balance of payments. As counterintuitive as it may seem at first, it is not low U.S. savings that suck in foreign capital, which then forces foreigners to run current account surpluses. On the contrary, the U.S. savings rate is low precisely because it must balance foreign capital inflows.\nThis is an arithmetical necessity. If foreigners increase capital exports to the United States, the excess of investment over savings must necessarily rise to balance the import of foreign savings.\nThis is a requirement of the balance of payments, and the money pouring into the United States following the shock of the Brexit vote, for example, will push U.S. savings down further, probably partially as the consequence of a rise in unemployment. Productive investments in the United States are not constrained by a lack of capital \u2014 and have not been since the late 19th century \u2014 and so the excess savings foreigners export to the United States cannot result in higher U.S. investment. U.S. savings must necessarily fall, and they do through only one of two mechanisms.\nThe first mechanism occurs during economic booms, including, most famously, in the United States and peripheral Europe before the 2008-2009 crisis, wherein foreign capital inflows drive up asset prices, making households feel richer. This encourages increased consumption funded by rising debt. Monetary authorities usually gladly accommodate rising debt because higher domestic consumption generates jobs that replace those lost by workers producing the tradable goods displaced by the rising current account deficit.\nDuring the subsequent contraction, set off once asset prices and debt levels rise too high, the second mechanism comes into play. High debt and declining asset prices force households to cut back on consumption so that businesses lay off workers. Rising unemployment forces down savings as unemployed workers continue to consume.\nAs long as the United States is the only country willing and able to run the current account deficits that result from foreign accumulation of dollars, the dollar will be the only important global reserve currency. And as long as other economies try to goose domestic growth or reduce domestic unemployment by forcing up exports relative to imports, either U.S. debt will be higher or U.S. growth will be lower and unemployment higher. This is why the United States will eventually limit foreigners from accumulating dollars for their reserves.\nIf central banks were forced to accumulate SDR, the United States would absorb just under 42 percent of central bank capital exports, equal to the dollar\u2019s share of the SDR, as opposed to the roughly two-thirds it currently must absorb. Europe would be forced to absorb almost 31 percent and China, Japan, and the United Kingdom between 6 and 11 percent.\nEven this is too much, however. It would be far better if countries that allowed domestic policy distortions to create domestic demand deficiencies were prevented from forcing these distortions onto their trading partners. It is surprising that Washington has not yet taken the lead in doing so \u2014 not so much by forcing cumbersome changes in the rules governing international trade, but by taxing or otherwise limiting foreign access to U.S. government bonds when purchases are driven primarily for trade advantage.\nThe logic is inexorable. As the global economy grows relative to that of the United States, it is only a matter of time before Washington is forced into defensive action. The only question is how much economic pain and domestic unemployment the United States is willing to accept before it acts. As long as the dollar is easy to acquire in near-unlimited amounts, foreign countries with weak domestic demand can simply buy dollars and force their domestic demand deficiencies onto their trading partners. Until then, it doesn\u2019t matter whether or not the People\u2019s Bank tries to improve the SDR\u2019s visibility. It is entirely against China\u2019s economic interests for the SDR to replace the dollar \u2014 let alone for the renminbi to do so.\nTHE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL FACE GROWING BUDGET DEFICIT / BARRON\u00b4S MAGAZINE\n| Etiquetas: Government Budget Deficits, U.S. Economic And Political\nThe Next President Will Face Growing Budget Deficit\nStrategas writes that increasing deficit could limit a possible U.S. fiscal stimulus package.\nBy Strategas Research Partners\nThe Obama Administration has increased its estimate for the current fiscal year budget deficit to $600 billion. This revised deficit forecast was up from a previous estimate of $530 billion and the prior estimate suggested that the deficit would decline this year.\nThus, we are seeing a rapid change in the expectations for the federal budget deficit. Even if the deficit comes in a little below $600 billion, the year over year increase for this year will be about 25%.\nStrategas anticipated this change as Congress passed significant fiscal policy at the end of 2015 in order to boost GDP ahead of the 2016 election. But there is complacency from both policymakers in Washington and investors over the deficit.\nThe belief is that the deficit is under 3% of GDP and therefore manageable. But the current trends suggest the deficit will continue to widen as tax collections have all slowed considerably.\nAnd demand for spending continues to grow. The importance of this is whether it will impact the size of the fiscal stimulus package in 2017. Investors across the globe are anticipating the US will act on stimulus next year as every new president gets flexibility to move on fiscal policy. But a growing deficit may restrict the size of the package and is worth keeping an eye on.\nCorporate tax collections have been the weakest part of the budget with tax revenues declining year over year. This is a function of declining corporate profits and new tax incentives enacted as part of the 2015 budget deal. The budget agreement allowed companies to write off 50% of their capital equipment purchases as a way to spur capital expenditures in the non-energy sector. Since the provision went into effect, manufacturing orders rebounded and the stocks most levered to this provision are outperforming the S&P 500.\nDefense spending was hit with three different types of cuts over the past six years including the drawdown of war spending, a freeze on the base Defense budget in 2011, and sequestration which came into effect in 2013. The 2015 budget deal relaxed those sequestration caps which will allow for Defense spending to increase for the first time on a year-over-year basis since 2011. It seems likely we are at the end of the six-year declining budget cycle given the geopolitical challenges facing the US.\nThe increase in government spending will likely benefit the companies that depend on government spending for their revenue growth.\nDaniel Clifton, Jeannette Lowe, and Courtney Rosenberger contributed to this article.\nDECLINE OF EMPIRE: PARALLELS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND ROME / CASEY RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL MAN\n| Etiquetas: Roman Empire, U.S. Economic And Political\nDecline of Empire: Parallels Between the U.S. and Rome,\nLike the Romans, we\u2019re supposedly ruled by laws, not by men. In Rome, the law started with the 12 Tablets in 451 BCE, with few dictates and simple enough to be inscribed on bronze for all to see. A separate body of common law developed from trials, held sometimes in the Forum, sometimes in the Senate.\nWhen the law was short and simple, the saying \u201cIgnorantia juris non excusat\u201d (ignorance of the law is no excuse) made sense. But as the government and its legislation became more ponderous, the saying became increasingly ridiculous. Eventually, under Diocletian, law became completely arbitrary, with everything done by the emperor\u2019s decrees\u2014we call them Executive Orders today.\nI\u2019ve mentioned Diocletian several times already. It\u2019s true that his draconian measures held the Empire together, but it was a matter of destroying Rome in order to save it. As in the U.S., in Rome statute and common law gradually devolved into a maze of bureaucratic rules.\nThe trend accelerated under Constantine, the first Christian emperor, because Christianity is a top-down religion, reflecting a hierarchy where rulers were seen as licensed by God. The old Roman religion never tried to capture men\u2019s minds this way. Before Christianity, violating the emperor\u2019s laws wasn\u2019t seen as also violating God\u2019s laws.\nThe devolution is similar in the U.S. You\u2019ll recall that only three crimes are mentioned in the U.S. Constitution\u2014treason, counterfeiting, and piracy. Now you can read Harvey Silverglate\u2019s book, Three Felonies a Day, which argues that the average modern-day American, mostly unwittingly, is running his own personal crime wave\u2014because federal law has criminalized over 5,000 different acts.\nRome became more and more corrupt as time went on, as has the U.S. Tacitus (56-117 AD) understood why: \u201cThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the nation.\u201d\nAlong with political and legal problems come social problems. The Roman government began offering useless mouths free bread, and later circuses, in the late Republic, after the three Punic Wars (264-146 BCE). Bread and circuses were mostly limited to the capital itself. They were extremely destructive, of course, but were provided strictly for a practical reason: to keep the mob under control.\nAnd it was a big mob. At its peak, Rome had about a million inhabitants, and at least 30% were on the dole. It\u2019s worth noting that the dole lasted over 500 years and became part of the fabric of Roman life\u2014ending only when wheat shipments from Egypt and North Africa were cut off by the Vandals at the beginning of the 5th century.\nIn the U.S., there now are more recipients of state benefits than there are workers. Programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and numerous other welfare programs absorb over 50% of the U.S. budget, and they\u2019re going to grow rapidly for a while longer, although I predict they\u2019ll come to an end or be radically reformed within the next 20 years. I recognize that\u2019s a daring prediction, given the longevity of the dole in Rome.\nThe Empire appears to have suffered a demographic collapse late in the 2nd century, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, at least in part because of a plague that killed on the order of 10% of the population. Ancient plagues are poorly documented, perhaps because they were viewed as normal happenings. But there may be other, subtler reasons for the drop in population. Perhaps people weren\u2019t just dying, they also weren\u2019t reproducing, which is much more serious. The rising Christian religion was puritanical and encouraged celibacy. Especially among the Gnostic strains of early Christianity, celibacy was part of the formula for perfection and knowledge of God. But of course, if Christianity had been effective in encouraging celibacy, it would have died out.\nThe same thing is now happening throughout the developed world\u2014especially in Europe and Japan, but also in the U.S. and China. After WW II, American women averaged 3.7 children. Now it\u2019s 1.8; in parts of Europe, it\u2019s 1.3. Part of that is due to urbanization and part to an understanding of birth control, but a growing part is that they just can\u2019t afford it; it\u2019s very expensive to have a kid today. And I believe another major element is a new religious movement, Greenism, which is analogous to early Christianity in many ways. It\u2019s now considered antisocial to reproduce, since having kids raises your carbon footprint.\nThe essential anti-rationality of early Christianity poisoned the intellectual atmosphere of the classical world. This is true of not just religions in general, but the desert religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular\u2014each more extreme than its predecessor.\nIn late antiquity, there was a battle between the faith of the Fathers of the Church and the reason of the philosophers. Christianity halted the progress of reason, which had been growing in the Greco-Roman world since the days of the Ionian rationalists Anaximander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and others, right up to Aristotle, Archimedes, and Pliny. Knowledge of how the world worked was compounding, albeit slowly\u2014then came to a stop with the triumph of superstition in the 4th century.\nAnd went into reverse during the Dark Ages, starting in the 6th century.\nChristianity used to hold that anything that seems at odds with revealed truth or even with the extrapolations of revealed truth is anathema, the way much of Islam does today. The church drew generations of men away from intellectual and scientific pursuits and toward otherworldly pursuits\u2014which didn\u2019t help the Roman cause. It can be argued that, if not for Christianity, the ancient world might have made a leap to an industrial revolution. It\u2019s impossible to make scientific progress if the reigning meme holds that if it\u2019s not the word of a god, it\u2019s not worth knowing.\nFor nearly 1,000 years, revealed beliefs displaced science and reason. This started to change only in the 13th century with Thomas Aquinas, an anomaly in that he cleverly integrated the rational thinking of the ancient philosophers\u2014Aristotle in particular\u2014into Catholicism.\nAquinas was lucky he wasn\u2019t condemned as a heretic instead of being turned into a saint. His thought had some unintended consequences, however, which led to the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and today\u2019s world.\nAt least until Aquinas, Christianity slowed the ascent of man and the rise of rationalism and science by centuries, in addition to its complicity in the fall of Rome.\nAs the importance of science has grown, however, religion\u2014or superstition, as Gibbon referred to it\u2014has taken a back seat. Over the last 100, even the last 50 years, Christianity has fallen to the status of a back story for Santa Claus and quaint, albeit poetic, folk wisdom tales.\nWHY EMERGING MARKETS HAVE WIND AT THEIR BACK / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\n| Etiquetas: China, Economics, Emerging Markets, Investment Strategies\nWhy Emerging Markets Have Wind at Their Backs\nEmerging markets aren\u2019t a haven\u2014but they look like a compelling alternative to the bigger concerns that still lie in developed markets\nOne month on from the Brexit vote, and one week after the Turkish coup attempt, emerging markets show no signs of flagging. In fact, the surprise success story of the year appears to be gathering momentum.\nEmerging-market stocks are handily beating their developed peers, with the MSCI Emerging Markets index up 9.7% in the year to date, versus 2.6% for the MSCI World. Away from the Turkish lira, currencies have retained their poise: the Russian ruble is up 13% against the dollar, the Brazilian real 21% and the South African rand 9%. Bonds are proving no slouch: J.P. Morgan JPM 0.33 % \u2019s EMBI Global sovereign bond index has returned 12.5%; its local-currency peer, the GBI-EM nearly 14%.\nWhat were headwinds for emerging-market investors are turning into tailwinds. The performance in stocks marks a departure from near-continual disappointment since 2010. The rally started in part because investor sentiment toward emerging-market assets was extremely poor: a small reversal in flows could shift the dial. Now the taps are open: in the week to July 20, retail investors put $10.2 billion into emerging bonds and stocks, the second-largest amount on record, J.P. Morgan notes.\nGrowth, meanwhile, could be looking up. The latest International Monetary Fund forecasts brought downgrades for developed economies, but not for emerging markets: the growth gap, which has been narrowing since 2011, is set to widen again. Fund manager NN Investment Partners says that its growth momentum indicator, based on data from 20 leading emerging-market nations, has turned positive for the first time since 2014.\nMeanwhile, what is bad news for Turkey, with the lira down more than 5% year to date and its credit ratings under pressure, could be good news for other high-yielding emerging markets, Citigroup C 0.11 % strategists note. Turkey\u2019s troubles are country-specific: that argues for rejigging positions within emerging-market funds, not pulling cash out of the asset class altogether.\nOf course, risks remain. But one worry\u2014tighter monetary policy from the U.S. Federal Reserve\u2014doesn\u2019t look quite as scary as it did. Even though Brexit now seems unlikely to deliver a Fed on permanent hold, U.S. policy makers are clearly moving gradually. And many emerging countries have used the time since the so-called taper tantrum of 2013 to improve their positions.\nChina remains the elephant in the room\u2014on several fronts. Chinese growth is vital for emerging markets and the globe, and the imbalances that the economy has built up, including high corporate debt levels, continue to be a concern. A reassessment by China of its currency policy, too, would shake markets. But this is a threat to global investors, not just emerging markets.\nThe bigger concerns for investors still lie in developed markets, where the aftermath of the financial crisis is undermining long-held political assumptions. Emerging markets aren\u2019t a haven\u2014but they look like a compelling alternative.\nRELATIVE ADVANTAGE OF MEXICAN STATES / GEOPOLITICVAL FUTURES\n| Etiquetas: Economics, Mexico\nWeekly Graphic: Relative Advantage of\nThis map illustrates that two different economies coexist within Mexico. Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Statistics and Geography generated this data by measuring several development indicators, including housing infrastructure, basic furnishings, overcrowding, health, education and employment levels. The higher a state\u2019s overall standard of living, the higher its ranking.\nEconomic activity in each state correlates with these rankings. Mexico\u2019s central and northern states are home to advanced industry, attract foreign direct investment and/or are strategically located near strong trade flows associated with the U.S. border. Meanwhile, the southern states\u2019 economies are more dependent on agriculture and primitive industry, with higher numbers of informal, low-wage laborers. Government figures show that from 1980 to 2014, per capita GDP in central and northern states grew by about 50 percent. In the south, this figure increased a mere 9 percent.\nIn particular, Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca stand out. The share of residents living in extreme poverty in these states ranges from 61 percent to 74 percent. The Mexican government is currently creating the conditions needed to spark growth and has planned special economic zones in Chiapas Port, L\u00e1zaro C\u00e1rdenas Port and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which connects the Gulf and Pacific coasts. Included in the plans are tax incentives, duty-free customs benefits, streamlined regulatory processes, improved infrastructure and better logistical connections to the rest of Mexico.\nFor economies in the northern and central states to remain robust and the south to further develop, Mexico needs to maintain good trade relations with the United States. About 80 percent of Mexico\u2019s exports go to the United States and are exchanged within the NAFTA framework. 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It contains an amusing error, that makes half the city appear flooded. [The error is still there]\nThe kind of data used to construct Google Maps is normally the responsibilty of local organisation, such as Ordnance Survey in the UK, so how the Riga error goes unnoticed and uncorrected\u2026\nThere still remains a massive disparity in the data between Latvia and it\u2019s neighbors. 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That gift helped accelerate the government's earlier work to create a government-wide portal.\nIn June 2000, President Clinton announced the gift from the Federal Search Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Brewer, and instructed that an official U.S. web portal be launched within 90 days. USA.gov went online on September 22, 2000 under the name FirstGov.gov. The GSA and 22 federal agencies funded the initiative in 2001 and 2002.\nUSA.gov was legislatively mandated through Section 204 of the E-Government Act of 2002 (PDF, Download Adobe Reader). Since 2002, USA.gov has received an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress. 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It\u2019s been awhile since my last blog post. I\u2019ve been busy with lots of stuff such as becoming a dad to a beautiful little girl (with another on-the-way!), learning more about testing, and actually testing stuff too! But I\u2019ll try to come back and write more. update: It\u2019s been a while since I wrote this that now I have 2 beautiful girls 1 and 3 year old.\nFor the past few months I have joined a few testing communities and have observed the same question being asked over-and-over\n\u201cI have an upcoming internationalization (a.k.a. i18n) project and I don\u2019t know where to start, or what to test.\u201d\nGranted. I\u2019m paraphrasing a bit. But that\u2019s the gist of all these questions. Luckily, I have experience with such work \u2013 twice with two different SDLC approaches using my experience in two different languages (Spanish, my native tongue, and English, which I\u2019m still learning).\nWith that being said, I\u2019d like to go through some points I would consider important when testing an i18n effort.\nBecome involved in the architecture process early on. Go to the meetings. Read all of the project documentation. You should try to develop a solid understanding of the development team\u2019s approach. For example, In one of my projects they used POT and PO files for \u201cin-house\u201d translation. For the other project, the company used a third-party vendor that offered a translation platform.\nIdentify the risks. In one approach, we sent to the translators the strings, then, after translation, once that was done the third-party would serve them to the end-users. In this situation, the company risked user experience if their servers went down.\nBecome involved in the development of the translation process. For example, learn all of the steps that it takes for an English string to become a [insert your language here] string. Make sure that you ask the following questions: Are we using \u201cin-house\u201d translations? are we using third- parties? what happens if a string is poorly translated? Will the \u201cpoor\u201d string go through the whole process again? How much time would it take to a string to go from submission to show up, translated, onto our site?\nAfter the translation effort kicks-off, your development team\u2019s goal should be to send the source strings to the translators as soon as possible. You could potentially impact the release schedule if you need to wait for the translation process to become complete.\nEnsure that you know where and how the translated strings are delivered as well as how you can evaluate them. In one of my projects we couldn\u2019t get the translations immediately; however, the third-party vendor used a language called \u201creversi\u201d which would turn our strings backwards. This allowed us to verify that the strings were ingested, or passed correctly. For example, when the string \u201cSomething like this\u201d was correctly ingested, \u201cGnihtemos ekil siht\u201d would display. That way we could ensure strings were passed correctly, without having them translated yet.\nIdentify design issues. Some languages like German, Portuguese, and Spanish are much longer than English which means they can break your design \u2013 especially in mobile platforms. Ask your product owners and whoever else provides copy for shortened versions of English strings so that the translators provide the shortened strings in the target languages.\nWhen testing the translations in the applications, ensure that you test every string. Sometimes everything can be translated, except for ONE string; it can be a button, a menu, an error modal box \u2013 anything.\nRemember that dates are formatted differently in different languages. In Spanish the day goes first, and then the month. Actually, just check for differences any time you reference any units.\nUnderstand the logic for how a user selects languages as well as how those languages are displayed. For web, at least, there is different things that you take into account; however, it can become tricky and convoluted really fast. For example, you could use the browser language, but you need take into account that, in Latin America, some computers are sold with the OS language in English \u2013 browsers would be installed using the same language despite the fact that the user may not prefer English. Always have tools available on your site to allow users to change the language setting. You could use the user IP or GPS, but, then again, an American could be traveling to Cancu\u0301n, MX and may become confused when they use the application and it\u2019s suddenly in Spanish. Always leave the final decision to the user. A good combination of IP+browser/OS language is your best bet!\nIf you are testing on a Mac and need to switch the browser language, try to use Chrome less because you need to change the language of the whole OS in order for the change to appear in Chrome. The best option is to use Firefox because you can change the language from the browser\u2019s preferences.\nIf you are using location (IP) for your translations, then you can use a proxy tool like HMA or AdClarity to switch languages.\nIf you are going to implement automation, then you will need help from your development team in order to avoid looking for strings. You need them to be specific and completely identify their setup, you need them to use classes, ids, tags, or other identifiers that you can take a language-agnostic approach when testing all of your target languages.\nThat\u2019s all I\u2019ve got for now\u2026 Do you have any other suggestions? let me know in the comments below. Happy 18n!\nPrevious Post Back to the basics: Best browser add-ons for web testing\nNext Post First time Appium configuration in Mac OS X", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 6549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hacienda.cl/english/press-room/news/featured/minister-of-finance-presents-updated.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KSUNWVRRO636I5GUMIUFPAB6GHL6VHTT", "length": 3523, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "hacienda.cl", "title": "Minister of Finance presents updated economic forecasts before the Joint Budget Committee: \"The economy is growing and inflation remains under control \" - Ministry of Finance", "raw_content": "Tuesday, July 10 de 2018\nComision Mixta Actualizaci\u00f3n Cifras\n\"Chile's growth will return to global growth rates\", said the Minister of Finance, who showed that the increase in the Minister\u2019s forecasted growth of 3.8% for 2018 is in line with different market estimations and below the Central Bank\u2019s July Market Expectations Survey, which foresees an expansion of 4% for GDP 2018.\nThe Minister of Finance, Felipe Larra\u00edn, presented today before the Joint Budget Committee the Update of 2018 Projections, in which the estimated real GDP growth forecast for this year was raised to 3.8%, compared to the 3% anticipated in the Budget Law of the current fiscal year.\nAccompanied by the Budget Director (Dipres), Rodrigo Cerda, and the Undersecretary of Finance, Francisco Moreno, the Minister also raised the forecast for domestic demand, from 4.1% to 4.8%, sustained by the improvement in business and consumer confidence, which has had a positive impact on investment.\nThe Minister stressed that \"we have a situation of growth that is expanding with inflation under control\".\nThe authority indicated that in recent months there has been a generalized recovery in different sectors that has been reflected by the latest figures from the Monthly Activity Indicator (Imacec). Economic activity grew 4.9% in May, despite having one less business day with respect to the same month of 2017.\nImpact of the trade war\nDespite the improvement in growth forecasts, the Minister of Finance was cautious, highlighting the trade war between the United States and China as a downside risk.\nIn the opinion of the authority, if the conflict escalates, it could have significant effects on growth and on world trade, deteriorating financial conditions and potentially leading to a decline in copper prices, which would affect Chile.\nDespite the concern expressed on this issue, the Minister reiterated that Chile has favorable conditions to face the effects of a trade war, an approach that was reinforced by the Undersecretary of Finance at the exit of the Joint Budget Committee.\n\"The new growth projections are good news that we must take with caution. Much of the development of our economy is played on the domestic front\", said Francisco Moreno.\nAfter Minister Larra\u00edn\u2019s presentation, Budget Director Rodrigo Cerda presented a series of figures on tax revenue, collection and expenses.\nRegarding the incomes for this year, he explained that these are 1.4% higher than those assumed in the 2018 Budget, due to a mix of three factors: a higher copper price, a lower recovery in the taxable base subject to the Income Tax on Individuals and higher economic activity.\nWith this, the head of the Budget Office reported that the projected effective deficit dropped from 1.9% of GDP, as was proposed in the 2018 Budget, to 1.7% of GDP in the mid-year update. In addition, this figure compares with the 2.8% deficit registered in 2017.\nRodrigo Cerda explained that the projections delivered today are consistent with the Government's objective of reducing the structural deficit by 0.2% per year, which implies closing this year at 1.8% of GDP and reaching a structural deficit of 1% by 2022.\nOn the spending side, the Budget Director informed before the Joint Budget Committee that the projections of the Central Government for 2018 point to an increase between 4.1% and 4.5%.\nHe also indicated that the fiscal austerity decree was dispatched today to the Comptroller's Office and that it considers an annual adjustment of USDZ $1.063 billion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hair.pornviber.fr/in-action-in-the-afternoon-p3938", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:15:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OWKM6URYCG45OJN45QJDNBOFSWZS3XBT", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hair.pornviber.fr", "title": "in action in the afternoon - Berlingot undress", "raw_content": "in action in the afternoon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hartfordindependentbaptist.com/our-beliefs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5DC2Y2QKVM5A4PYWJ2UWPM3UTLRWCBQH", "length": 18072, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "hartfordindependentbaptist.com", "title": "Hartford Independent Baptist Church | Spencerville, OH - Our Beliefs", "raw_content": "We believe the King James Bible to be the only inspired, preserved, infallible, inerrant and authoritative Word of God (II Timothy 3:16, Psalms 12:6-7). It is the only true source for faith and practice (John 1:17). Only the King James Bible is to be used in all public worship, Sunday School classroom, and any ministry under the auspice of Hartford Independent Baptist Church.\nWe believe that the King James Bible and it (KJB) alone has been the singular source of God\u2019s Holy and preserved words. All other versions are representative of a corrupt manuscript family.\nIt shall also be known that Hartford Independent Baptist Church rejects the teaching of the \u201cinspiration of the original manuscripts only\u201d position. (Matthew 5:18; II Peter 1:20-21; John 16:12-13)\nWe believe that there is one and only one living and true God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Jeremiah 10:10). He is infinite, intelligent, perfect in spirit, and personal in being. He is the creator, preserver, and supreme ruler of the universe (I Kings 8:27; Acts 17:24-28; Psalms 139:1-6; John 4:24; Hebrews 3:4), inexpressibly glorious in holiness (Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 6:3; I Peter 1:15-16; Revelations 4:6-8), and all other perfections, including His nature and attributes. He is worthy of all possible honor, confidence and love (Mark 12:30; Matthew 10:37; Jeremiah 2:12-13). That in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 12:4-6; I John 5:7); equal in every Divine perfection (John 10:30; 14:23; 17:5, 10; Acts 5:2-4; I Corinthians 2:10-11; Philippians 2:5-6) and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption (Ephesians 2:18; Revelations 1:4-5).\nWe believe that He is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:3), and the Father of all who come to Christ by being born-again (John 1:12; John 3:3). We rejoice that He concerns Himself mercifully and patiently in the affairs of men; that He hears and answers the prayers of His children and the prayer of repentance by the sinner (John 6:37). He so loved the World (souls of men) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).\nWe believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is full God and full man (Philippians 2:5-6); He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born unto a virgin, Mary (Matthew 1:18-25); He lived a sinless life; died an atoning death; performed and performs miracles; is man\u2019s eternal substitute via the cross (II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 3:18); bodily resurrected (Luke 24:36-40); He ascended to the right hand of the Father (Acts 1:9-11); He now intercedes for us (Hebrews 7:25); His return is immanent at the rapture (I Thessalonians 4:13-17) and literal at His Second Coming (Zechariah 14:1-4).\nWe believe that the Holy Spirit is a Person (John 14:26); that He has power and is present in the world (John 16:7-13); He is the supernatural agent in regeneration (Romans 8:9-17); He baptizes all believers into the body of Christ (Romans 6:1-6); He indwells and guides believers (John 16:13); bestows gifts on believers (Romans 12:5-8); He convicts of sin and produces within believers the fruit of Christian character (Galatians 5:22-23). We believe that God gave certain (temporary) gifts to the Apostolic Church (I Corinthians 12:4-10) for the purpose of the identification of His true servants (and their message) (I Corinthians 1:22; I Corinthians 14:22) and that they ceased with the death of the Apostles in conjunction with the completion of the revealed Scriptures (I Corinthians 13:8-10). We therefore do not endorse that teaching known as the Tongue Movement, nor the Charismatic Movement in its position of speaking in tongues and practicing so-called divine healing. We, therefore, do not endorse those temporary gifts as active in this day. However, James 5:13-15 tells us that the sick can ask for an anointing and laying on of hands from the elders for the purpose of healing.\nWe believe that Satan is a created angelic being with personality and was the \u201canointed cherub that covereth\u201d (Ezekiel 28:13-15). He is a fallen and unholy angel (Isaiah 14:12-15). He is the enemy of God (Matthew 13:25, 28, 39) and great counterfeiter who deceives all men (Revelations 12:9-10; II Corinthians 4:3-4). He is the author of confusion (I Corinthians 14:33); a liar and a murderer (John 8:44). Although powerful, he is not omnipotent (Isaiah 14:15-20). He has a host of demons that are part of his global network (Daniel 10:13). He will rise to power, temporarily, in the Tribulation Period through the false trinity. However, he is an already defeated foe of God and will be cast into the lake of Fire with the Beast and False Prophet forever (Revelations 12:9-10; Revelations 20:10; Job 1:6-7).\nWe believe that God created the universe in six literal, consecutive 24-hour periods. We reject evolution in any form. We believe the Biblical account and also believe that science itself gives evidence of a \u201cyoung earth\u201d. The Laws of Thermodynamics also give evidence against any evolutionary process. We also reject the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin (Genesis 1-2; Exodus 20:11; Revelation 4:11).\nWe believe God\u2019s prize creation is man, whom He formed with His hands from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7). We believe there are only two forms of eternal beings: mankind and angelic (Genesis 3:1-5; Job 1:6-7). We reject the lie that there may be extra-terrestrial life on other planets. Man is limited to his habitation of the terrestrial earth and angels exist in their \u201cown estate\u201d (Jude 6).\nWe believe that man was created in a state of innocence. That innocence was lost when man sinned by rebellion in eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2-3). Consequently, all men are depraved, not totally depraved (John 3:18, 36). Man cannot be saved by any works of righteousness (Titus 3:5), Christian service, sacrament, ritual or organic goodness (Romans 3:10, 23; Ephesians 2:1-9). Man is eternally lost and will remain so until he (individually) obeys the Lord Jesus\u2019 command to be \u201cborn-again\u201d by grace through faith (John 3:3; Romans 5:12; John 1:12).\nWe believe that salvation is solely and wholly a work of God alone (John 3:17; I Timothy 2:4). It is and always has been by grace through faith alone. Its sole condition is placed upon \u201call men\u201d to repent (turn from their life without Christ) (Acts 17:30) and receive Christ as he (man) trusts him (Jesus) as his personal Savior (turning to Christ for conversion). It is by man\u2019s acceptance of Jesus Christ\u2019s finished work at Calvary and His shed and atoning blood; his substitutionary death as he (man) hears the truth of the Gospel that makes it possible (Romans 10:14-16). We believe that at the very instant of his accepting Christ as his personal Savior, man is completely and utterly redeemed, never again to be lost (John 6:37-40). Salvation is not a process of any kind nor of any time duration. It is both instantaneous and eternal once the sinner accepts Christ (John 10:27-30; Romans 8:1; I Peter 1:5). We believe all three persons of the Godhead are involved in the salvation of each individual soul (I Peter 1:2). At the instant of salvation, the Holy Spirit does a five-fold work: He regenerates, baptizes, indwells, seals and fills the repentant sinner (Titus 3:5; Romans 6:1-6; John 14:20; I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 1:22; Acts 2:4).\nNot only do we believe that every born-again believer is eternally secure in Jesus Christ, we also believe that at the instant of salvation every believer is imparted a new nature (II Peter 1:4); he is literally re-gened (spiritually) in the inner man. This new nature does not take the place of the old sinful nature but is given to every believer so that he/she may overcome the old with victories in using the new nature. Sanctification is the believer allowing the Holy Spirit to give him/her the desires to please God, change and become a new creature in Christ (II Corinthians 5:17). The believer is to allow the Holy Spirit to guide and direct him/her in all truth (John 16:13); accept the gracious power from Him to make the changes from within (I Corinthians 1:2; 6:11); and obey the scriptural commands as he/she loves Jesus Christ (John 14:15; 15:10). The believer is to see himself as he is, the temple of God (I Corinthians 3:16-17).\nWe would like for it to be clearly understood that Hartford Independent Baptist Church rejects all five points of the Calvinists acronym of \u201cTULIP\u201d.\nWe believe that the Scriptures clearly teach that the believer is positionally sanctified in Christ at salvation. However, it is the duty of each individual believer to separate himself through personal obedience and \u201cto come out from among them (unsaved world) and be ye separate\u201d (II Corinthians 6:14-17). The believer is also commanded \u201cto present your body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service\u201d (Romans 12:1).\nTherefore, the believer should avoid all worldly vice, addictions, habits, behavior and associations that would hinder him/her from obeying and growing in Christ. The believer is to walk circumspectly in the world, to be just in his dealings, faithful in his engagements, exemplary in his conduct and to avoid all tattling, backbiting and excessive anger (Galatians 5:16; Romans 13:13; Ephesians 4:1; 5:2; 5:15).\nWe believe that the Church is the Espoused Bride of Jesus Christ (II Corinthians 11:2). The Church is, presently, a spiritual body made up of all born-again believers (I Corinthians 12:12-14). This body has a head, the Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23). It is this body of believers that will be \u201ccalled-out\u201d at the Rapture. Those who make up this body to be \u201ccalled-out\u201d are all true born-again believers from the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) until the trump of God is sounded to summon them (I Thessalonians 4:16-17). We also believe that the Holy Scriptures teach consistently throughout the New Testament that every believer is to unite him/herself with a local church made up of fellow born-again, baptized believers (Acts 2:38-42). The local church is to obey the model of Matthew 28:18-20. Its members are to meet for the purpose of obeying the Word of God for instruction, worship, fellowship, prayer and observing its ordinances.\nChurch's Relationship\nWe believe that the local, autonomous church consists of independent congregations associated and bound by covenant in the faith, fellowship and practice of biblical Christian living (Acts 2:4, 42, 47; I Corinthians 5:12, 13), observing the two ordinances commanded by Christ (I Corinthians 11:2), governed by His laws (Galatians 6:2; Matthew 28:20; John 14:15; I Thessalonians 4:2) and exercising the gifts (Romans 12:5-8), rights & privileges invested in them by His work, Word and Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:7). We, therefore, believe that the visible church of Christ is a voluntary and independent group of baptized believers (Matthew 18:15-18; 23:8-10; 28:18-20) that functions not as a pure democracy, but as a body under the Headship of the Lord Jesus Christ and the direction of the Pastor as the under-shepherd (I Peter 5:1-3; I Timothy 3:8-13). He shall exercise his office in unity with deacons as other ordained officers. Determinations of the internal affairs of the church are considered ecclesiastical matters and shall be determined exclusively by the church\u2019s own rules and procedures (I Corinthians 5:4-5, 13; II Corinthians 2:7-8). The Pastor shall oversee all aspects of the church. The deacons shall meet regularly with the Pastor and give counsel and assistance to the Pastor as requested by him (Hebrews 13:7, 17; I Thessalonians 5:12; Titus 1:5).\nWe believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three institutions: the home, the church, the civil government. Every person, especially believers, is to subject themselves to these authorities. However, all three of those authorities are answerable to God and are to be governed by His Word. Each institution has been given specific Biblical responsibilities and no one should infringe upon the other. Each has been carefully given, by God, its own sphere of responsibility and accountability (Romans 13:1-7; Ephesians 5:22-24; Hebrews 13:17; I Peter 2:13-14).\nWe believe that the Scriptures clearly teach that God has prohibited any intimate, sexual activity outside the institution of marriage (Genesis 2:24; Leviticus 18:1-30). We define marriage as the legal union of one man to one woman. We, therefore, believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, transvestitism (Romans 1:26-29; I Corinthians 5:1), and pornography are sinful perversions of God\u2019s gift of sex (Hebrews 13:4; Ephesians 5:25). We believe that it is also a sin to attempt to alter one\u2019s gender or appearance by surgery or clothing.\nWe believe that God disapproves of divorce and intends for marriages to last until one of the spouses dies (Matthew 19:3-12; I Corinthians 7:1-16; 27-40). For this reason, no divorced persons shall use Hartford Independent Baptist Church for a ceremony of any other marriage other than the first marriage for either spouse, or having been loosed from their spouse by death (I Corinthians 7). However, Hartford Independent Baptist Church will always love and accept divorced people and divorced and re-married people into our church fellowship. Divorced or divorced and re-married believers can joyfully serve the Lord here in many capacities. However, no divorced man, or man married to a divorced spouse can hold either office of Pastor or deacon (I Timothy 3:2-12; Titus 1:6).\nWe believe that men and women are equal in position concerning their standing in Christ (Romans 10:13). However, men and women hold distinct and separate functions in the home and church (I Peter 3:7). Therefore, the husband is to be the leader of the home and men are to be leaders in the church (Pastor, deacons, and ministry heads). Accordingly, only men are eligible for preaching and ordination of the Gospel (Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2; I Timothy 3:1). This places the responsibility on the man to answer to God for the institutions of the home and church.\nWe believe that life begins at conception and the unborn child, in any stage of development, is a living soul (Job 3:16; Psalms 51:5). We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, population control or the physical wellbeing or mental health of the mother are acceptable (Isaiah 44:24; 49:1, 5; Jeremiah 1:5).\nWe believe that the Scriptures teach that the consumption of alcohol is sinful, foolish and in direct disobedience to God (Leviticus 10:9; Proverbs 20:1, Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:21; I Thessalonians 5:6,8).\nWe believe that the Scriptures clearly teach that there are two ordinances given to the local church:\nWe believe that the mode of believer\u2019s baptism is by immersion (Matthew 3:16; Romans 6:3-6). It is called \u201cbeliever\u2019s\u201d baptism because only those who have been saved shall be baptized (Acts 2:41). We believe that the ordinance of baptism has been ordained by the Lord Jesus Christ to show forth the beautiful picture of the sinner being immersed into Christ\u2019s body at Calvary. This ordinance is for the purpose of the believer\u2019s public identification with Jesus Christ and his scriptural step of obedience in growing in Christ by obeying the Scriptures (Acts 8:12; Acts 9:18 Acts 10:47-48).\nWe believe that the second ordinance given to the local church is the Lord\u2019s Supper (I Corinthians 11:23-28). It is clear that this ordinance is for believers only and is illustrative of their \u201cfellowship\u201d with Christ and the believer\u2019s relationship to the local church. The elements themselves symbolize the crucified body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.\nWe believe that history has revealed for us that there exists a lineage and heritage of believers whose doctrine can be traced back through church history to the very Apostles and their doctrine. For this reason, we accept the following truths to be a willful choice of our alignment in this present day of Apostasy, Ecumenism, and Heresy to adhere and embrace the following distinctives:\n\u00b7 Bible (King James) as our sole and only authority of faith and practice (Matthew 4:4).\n\u00b7 Autonomy of the Local Church (Epistles of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,\nColossians, etc)\n\u00b7 Priesthood of the Believer (I Peter 2:5; 2:9; Hebrews 4:16).\n\u00b7 Two Ordinances: Believer\u2019s Baptism and Lord\u2019s Supper (Acts 2:44; I Corinthians 11).\n\u00b7 Individual Soul Liberty (Romans 10:13; John 6:47; Mark 8:34; John 3:16).\n\u00b7 Separation of Believer from the World (II Corinthians 6:17; I Thessalonians 5:22).\n\u00b7 Two Offices: Pastor & Deacon (I Timothy 3:1-13).\n\u00b7 Separation of the State from the Church (the principle is that the church of Jesus Christ\nshould accept no welfare from the state to make her indebted to the world\u2019s system).\nWe believe that the Return of Jesus Christ for His espoused bride, known as the Rapture, is imminent (I Thessalonians 4:13-17). No man knows the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36). The Rapture will usher in a time on earth known as the Tribulation, a seven year period (Matthew 24:21, 29). The espoused Bride will be in Heaven standing before the Judgment Seat of Christ (II Corinthians 5:10; I Corinthians 3:9-16). When the Tribulation is over, Christ and His Bride shall return to the earth for a thousand year reign known as the Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20). At the end of the thousand years there shall be a Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:10-11). At this time, the unsaved, Satan, his unholy angels, the Beast and False Prophet shall be cast into the Lake of Fire for all of eternity. God shall make all things new: New Heaven, New Earth and New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:1-7).\nHartford Independent Baptist Church holds to a pre-tribulational and pre-millennial view concerning Christ\u2019s Return.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 21256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 165.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hawaiirenovation.staradvertiser.com/2016/07/remodel/bia/adus-help-loved-ones-age-well/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:BAGSKB5VWD772YUBOXCR664QLGU5SCQ5", "length": 2852, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hawaiirenovation.staradvertiser.com", "title": "How ADUs help loved ones age well - Graham Builders | Hawaii Renovation", "raw_content": "How ADUs help loved ones age well\nA home is a lifelong investment. As people age in their home, they should consider how ADUs, universal design and aging-in-place design and build strategies can be effectively applied to meet their needs for accessibility and comfort over the years.\nADUs, short for accessory dwelling units, are either stand-alone or attached dwellings limited in square footage and built on a property with another house. Universal design refers to very specific improvements intended to allow anyone, in any physical condition, to live in a home. And aging in place, one facet of universal design, is a design strategy that allows people to remain in their home as long as possible, taking into account safety and accessibility for the elderly.\nTypically built to generate rental income, ADUs are often designed to maximize the homeowner\u2019s investment. Evan Fujimoto, president of design/build firm Graham Builders, which specializes in renovations, remodels and new construction, urges homeowners considering aging-in-place home renovations to think of the ADU as an alternative to remodeling their existing home.\n\u201cThe key is keeping your options open. We call it flexibility in design,\u201d said Fujimoto. \u201cAt some point in time, every structure will go through a renovation or modification. We design and build in such a way that it won\u2019t be difficult in the future to alter or adapt the home to your changing needs.\u201d\nFujimoto believes that ADUs can provide rental income in the near term and transition to the right type of dwelling for aging in place in the long term. In many instances, aging homeowners will move into the smaller ADU requiring much less cleaning and upkeep, while family members move into the main house.\nFujimoto suggests building the ADU with aging in place in mind. The dwelling should be designed with an open floor plan without steps if possible. Minimizing the hallway helps to maximize space and well-ventilated, well-lit living spaces are a must for a healthy indoor environment. Kitchens should be free of peninsulas or islands, and feature lower-set wall cabinets. In the bathroom, walk-in showers are easily accessible and solid backing should be built into the walls for easy grab bar installation when the time comes. Fujimoto even suggests an exterior door in the bedroom that doubles as an emergency exit.\nAttend Fujimoto\u2019s seminar on aging in place and ADUs at the BIA-Hawaii Remodel It Right Expo, set for Sunday, Aug. 14, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Hawaii Suites. Homeowners interested in learning more about the latest trends in design and renovation can attend Graham Builders\u2019 upcoming \u201cBuilding Your Home for Life\u201d seminar Saturday, July 23, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Honolulu Country Club. 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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is on the committee, said she believes Ford is telling the truth, and emphasized that \"the American public deserves to know the character of someone who will serve for his entire life on the highest court in our country\".\n\"Immediately after learning of Dr. Ford's identity from news reports Sunday, committee staff started working to gather facts related to her claims. We've held up the whole hearing\", Trump told reporters at the White House.\nHill was first approached by the Judiciary Committee and was invited to provide background information on Thomas because she had worked with him, according to a New York Times article the following month, which cites a written statement from Hill that was sent to news organizations. \"The invitation for Monday (Sept. 24) still stands\".\n\"Dr. Ford may have been forced into the limelight against her will, just as Anita Hill was, but the treatment she receives should be different\", wrote Lapidus.\nSen. Dick Durbin of IL, the No. 2 Democrat, said Judge is needed \"specifically and personally as an eyewitness to the occurrence\". \"The F.B.I. conducts background checks on judicial nominees\". And the Federal Bureau of Investigation reiterated Wednesday that it had included information about the allegations in Kavanaugh's background file, and that it is now up to the White House to decide what to do with it.\nThe Senate's No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, raised doubts about Ford's account of the alleged three-decade-old incident, saying, \"The problem is Dr. Ford can't remember when it was, where it was, or how it came to be\".\nDemocrats, already opposed to Kavanaugh, have sought an FBI investigation, a request Republicans rebuffed. The Post story describes her as a \"Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases\".\nKavanaugh has categorically denied the allegations of sex assault, which stem from when he and Ford were in high school. \"This is a completely false allegation\". She may not have wanted to become this face of the Me Too movement, and anxious about her safety after sending the letter to Feinstein via Eshoo's office, but she found Kavanaugh's nomination to be worrisome enough to speak up.\nCorrection: Collins is not a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as this post reported originally.\nGrassley said details about how the hearing would be conducted had not been worked out, including parameters for panel members posing questions or the possibility that committee Republicans could choose a single questioner. \"I really would want to see what she has to say\".\n\"What we're saying is there should be an investigation because that's the right thing to do\", Banks said.\nIn the Senate, the issue of whether, when and if Ford might testify has ignited a furor, especially among Democratic women.\nDemocrats have rejected the GOP process and are refusing to participate in any committee phone interviews.\n\"There are gaps in her memory\", Cornyn said. \"Only then should the chairman set a hearing date\", Feinstein said.\nFinally, refer to Christine Blasey Ford by her name. \"We're better than this\".\n'I do not recall the party described in Dr. Ford's letter, ' added Judge, who wrote a book about his high school days describing heavy partying, drinking, and teenage sex.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 10790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://helpdesk.orangescrum.com/community-base/can-use-app-cloud-saas-edition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KUHWEQSXBKEUXG6QP4PCFDKATOABXJ2F", "length": 304, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "helpdesk.orangescrum.com", "title": "Can I use this app for cloud (SaaS) edition? - Orangescrum Helpdesk", "raw_content": "Home Mobile API Can I use this app for cloud (SaaS) edition?\nYes, you can directly download it from the app store or play store to use the app. There is no need for Mobile API.\nBut, if you are considering the self-hosted edition of cloud UI.Then, you will need the Mobile API for the self-hosted edition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://heraldica.com/FamilyNames/Harris.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:24Z", "digest": "sha1:N47QOFNMNLHKTXXHXD7HNEWUWBMVHHFG", "length": 424, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "heraldica.com", "title": "Harris Family Crest or Harris Coat of Arms", "raw_content": "Harris Family Crest or Harris Coat of Arms\nThis Family Crest for Harris was found in Burke's General Armory. 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Children, young people and families living in the surrounding areas are largely from White British, Polish and Asian heritage. The Setting actively promotes inclusion and children with identified additional needs are admitted in line with the admissions policy set by the Local Authority. Children attending services delivered from the setting are from a wide range of socioeconomic groups.\nWhilst at Highfield the children enjoy delicious home cooked food which is nutritionally balanced and promotes a healthy lifestyle. We have a four week rolling menu which takes advantage of fresh seasonal produce and allows our children to experience a wide variety of tastes and flavours with their meal. We are also fully equipped to provide food for children with allergies or intolerances as well as cultural preferences and will always provide a vegetarian option if required.\nMilk is provided free of charge. If your child does not like milk, water is offered as an option and is available throughout the session so children can help themselves from the water machine. 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Tim's work has been published internationally and was recently featured in several major magazines, and a number of books available at bookstores worldwide. Our studio is located in downtown Lafayette Louisiana at 207 West Main.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hk-lawyer.org/contents/legal-trivia-quiz?page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MZ22XIMHDI3WORAYVWFCBL6OMN465X2P", "length": 2734, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "hk-lawyer.org", "title": "Legal Trivia Quiz | Page 2 | Hong Kong Lawyer", "raw_content": "This month we return to a mixture of legal history and trivia for our quiz questions. The questions have been prepared by Douglas Clark, Barrister. 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Tract houses are all based on a finite number of building plans, which the builders change and adapt with each home, in order to customize the homes, or simply to make all the homes a little different from each other.\nCharacteristics of Production Homes and Developments: Offer Levels of Quality, Size and Price Range\nProduction home companies offer different levels of homes. One represents the lowest price home which they will allow in the development. The top-level homes represent the most expensive homes they plan to include in their development, and they usually have a mid level which represents most of the tract homes.\nCharacteristics of Production Homes and Developments: Codes, Restrictions and Rules\nMost housing developments have rules, or bylaws. These rules dictate any plans for adding on to the structure, how garages face, how close one home can be to another, and a minimum and maximum square footage for each home. Other rules involving pet containment, lawn care, child behavior and roaming range may be included in bylaws.\nProduction homes developers usually create a development with a certain type of tenant in mind. They define a price range which is not extremely varied. Some build community area amenities, such as a community pool, community playground, or a community building with arcades, dining areas and even meeting halls. Sometimes these developments include both single family housing, and multi family condos.\nThe purpose of a housing development is to build a community of similar people in a similar socio-economic range, who will be comfortable living near each other. There are attempts, either large or small by the developer to create a community spirit, and socialization between families in order to create unity and harmony. These efforts are either subliminal; based on the style of the homes, the appearance of the lots and the perfect distance between homes, or overt efforts such as community amenities to be shared in common.\nThe price range and quality of homes defines the nature of the housing development. A development may include only affordable housing, only midrange housing, only quality housing or only very upscale homes which they may refer to as luxury homes. This serves as a sort of built in zoning ordinance, and bylaws create more specific zoning rules. Housing styles, bylaws and price ranges tend to keep the tenants similar to one another based on socio-economic similarities, and similar tastes. The more expensive the homes, the more opportunities for custom homes are likely, but tract style homes with similar themes, similar appearance and a limited number of house plans are the norm.\nLiving in a suburban housing development is not for everyone. 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I would like to be doctor or a techer or lawyer or a vet.\nLaura Gonzalez Jimenez, A1 group S\nMy name is Claudia, but my friends call me Clau. I'm Spanish. I live in Ceuta. I'm 12 years old. My birthday is on the 31st May. I am tall. I was plump , but now I'm thin. My eyes are brown and small. My hair was long, but now it's shorter, and it's brown and wavy. I think I'm funny, friendly and kind.My favourite colours are yellow and green. My favourite animal is the panda. I go to Abyla high school. I'm in first of ESO, I don't like it so much because some teachers are strict. My favourite subjects are French, English and History. I don't know what I would like to be in the future.\nClaudia, A1 group S\nMy name is Idris and my nickname is Dris. I am from a Spanish city called Ceuta . I am twelve years old. My birthday is on the 21st October. I am tall. My weight is average. My eyes are brown. My hair is short and curly. I am very clever. My favourite colour is green. My favourite animal are dogs. I like high school because it is fun.My favourite subjects are Geography and History.In the future I want to be an I.T. engineer.\nIdris, A1 group S\nMy name is Fatima Zhora but my nickname is Fati. I am Spanish. I am 12 years old. My birthday is on the 27th of September. I am 1.62 cm tall and thin. I have got short black hair. My eyes are black. I am funny and friendly. My favourite animal is the dog, and my favourite colour is red. Listening to music is my favourite hobby.I am in 1st of ESO at the Abyla High School. I like school because it is fun. In the future, I would like to be a pilot.\nFati, A1 group S", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 8697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://homesharing.org/homesharing-welcomes-a-new-staff-member/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YOQTYXWLKGDV2GUWKAOLLVOAFW5JRHKN", "length": 817, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "homesharing.org", "title": "HomeSharing Welcomes a New Staff Member \u2013 HomeSharing", "raw_content": "Claudia Yurecko, M.A. joined the HomeSharing staff in January 2017, as the Program Coor-dinator for Somerset, Hunterdon, Morris and Union Counties. She is replacing Noa Margo-lin, who is moving out of state.\nClaudia comes to HomeSharing with a wealth of experience in \u201cmatchmaking\u201d. For more than 30 years, she served as the Director of Project SPAN, a program that recruited and matched volunteer mentors with families experiencing child abuse and/or neglect. Claudia has a Master\u2019s in Counseling and strong skills in inter-viewing and assessment, community outreach, and obtaining resources needed by our clients. She started an internship program at her prior job and will be doing the same at HomeSharing. 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He was nearly 10 years old, which seems to me to be a dangerous age for our breed. With Anne now based in Ireland, we didn\u2019t see him over here as much as we might have done, but his greatest triumph, show-wise, came 7 years ago when he was BoB at Crufts under Michael Quinney. He will be greatly missed, but I am sure Anne will have many happy memories of good times to think about. Torsion is such a dreadful thing, as it is very difficult to guard against, because despite a lot of research over many years, no definitive cause has emerged, and operations are by no means 100% successful.\nTalking of Crufts, the entry figures are out, and Julie Condron has drawn a really good number of both dogs (21) and bitches (30), with quite a few taking part in more than one class. That total of 51 is a rise of 50% on last year\u2026although to be fair to John, quite a few were ineligible then. It is difficult to work out how many are coming from overseas, but I have heard from Mick Murphy that the Irish contingent is numbered at 8. It is always interesting to see dogs from different countries and I am looking forward to doing so again this year.\nOur Dublin is still trying to work out why we are so pleased with him, but Ann Travis\u2019 Grizelda (Annvad Pricess Grizelda) gave birth to 9 puppies last Thursday, 6 dogs and 3 bitches. I\u2019m not quite sure of the colours, but I believe there are both black and black-and-gold, but no blonds. After what has not been an easy year for Ann and Dave, it is lovely that there is good news for them for once, and for us it does make up a bit for the news that our Acorn has again failed to conceive. She will be 7 in a couple of months, and I am beginning to despair of her ever producing puppies. For herself, she is quite convinced that Dorrit\u2019s two little 3 week old girls are really hers, and it isn\u2019t always easy to ensure that Dorrit\u2019s good nature isn\u2019t stretched beyond the limit.\nIt is the National Working & Pastoral open show this Saturday, with Stella Coombes in charge. We are hoping to go, and I will report back next week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://howtoburnbellyfatfaster.com/weight-loss-diet-plan-in-english-quick-weight-loss-diet-plans-pdf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:13Z", "digest": "sha1:DXJGYSEXBAX3BEGTTBHLY6LHQTWHOXV4", "length": 517, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "howtoburnbellyfatfaster.com", "title": "healthy weight loss diet plan uk fast weight loss diet plan uk | extreme weight loss diet plan pdf weight loss diet plan daily", "raw_content": "Consequently, researchers have widely discredited the hCG diet, which involves using hCG injections, pellets, sprays, or drops, and consuming \u00a0as few as 500 calories daily. The diet is problematic not only because there\u2019s a lack of research on hCG supplements, but also because the calorie requirement is dangerously low, potentially leading to nutrient deficiencies, fatigue, hormone imbalances, blood clots, and other issues. Thus, most experts agree the hCG\u00a0diet is not safe for anyone,\u00a0the Mayo Clinic notes. (35)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 7042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://human-biology.key-spot.ru/search.php?key=pseudodiploid", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:07Z", "digest": "sha1:A3J4MHLCVXNVFAK3VBFLUIIRXS3NAXBQ", "length": 206, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "human-biology.key-spot.ru", "title": "Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology", "raw_content": "Pseudodiploid\nDescribes a karyotype with a diploid chromosome count that is characteristic of the species, but in which structural rearrangements have occurred and linkage relationships have been disrupted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 1550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hydro-cannabis.com/vaporizing-101-what-temperature-is-best/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:E7HF6R4J5U62UBASBQLZO34JDYNPRE22", "length": 3679, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "hydro-cannabis.com", "title": "Vaporizing 101: What Temperature Is Best? \u2013 Hydro Cannabis", "raw_content": "Home > Cannabis > Vaporizing 101: What Temperature Is Best?\nGetting the correct temperature is important when using a marijuana vaporizer.\nThese days, it\u2019s become common knowledge that vaporizing is the healthiest way to consume marijuana. What\u2019s lesser known is the role that temperature plays in determining the effects a user will experience.\nHeating marijuana to the correct temperature will ensure that the cannabinoids and terpenes are vaporized efficiently, leading to optimal recreational and medicinal effects.\nThe ideal temperature for vaporizing cannabis is around 175 \u2013 200\u00b0C (347 \u2013 392\u00b0F), says Dr. Ian Mitchell, an emergency physician and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.\nHowever, he notes that a recent study that examined the cannabinoid extraction of different vaporizers used 210\u00b0C (410\u00b0F) as a set point.\n\u201cIn general, I would say 210\u00b0C is the best balance between efficient evaporation of terpenes and cannabinoids and smoothness of the vapor,\u201d says Dr. Arno Hazekamp, who studies medical cannabis as the head of research at Bedrocan BV in the Netherlands.\nHigh vs. Low Temperatures\nIf a user vaporizes cannabis below 180\u00b0C (356\u00b0F), they will mainly inhale terpenes because cannabinoids won\u2019t evaporate at low temperatures, according to Dr. Hazekamp. But lower temperatures can be ideal for those who want a less intense and more awake high.\nHigher temperatures tend to yield more cannabinoids, as studies by researchers in the Netherlands have shown.\nIn one experiment, the Volcano vaporizer only yielded 24% of cannabinoids when set at a temperature of 170\u00b0C (338\u00b0F). However, the yield jumped to 77% when the vaporizer was set to 230\u00b0C (446\u00b0F).\nAccording to Dr. Mitchell, the best extraction of THC occurs around this temperature, although lower temperatures are likely healthier for users.\nUsers should take caution not to vaporize at or above 235\u00b0C (455\u00b0F) since the vapor will become harsh and could start to burn. \u201cWhen that happens, you are creating the same toxic compounds as during smoking,\u201d explains Dr. Hazekamp.\nVaporizing CBD and THC\nAlthough some users may try to adjust the vaporizing temperature according to whether they want to feel the effects of CBD or THC more, it\u2019s unlikely to make a significant difference.\nThe boiling points of these two cannabinoids are only 10\u00b0C (50\u00b0F) apart and most vaporizers do not offer that level of accuracy.\n\u201cIf you are seeking to separate out THC and CBD, you are much better off controlling those in your cannabis sample rather than try to do it by differential volatility,\u201d says Dr. Mitchell.\nDr. Hazekamp agrees and maintains that users should vaporize around 210\u00b0C (410\u00b0F) to feel the effects of both cannabinoids. \u201cIt is easy to remember and why bother with two temperatures?\u201d\nAlthough specific temperature ranges are commonly recommended to those just starting out, other factors could affect the ideal temperature to vaporize. For instance, Dr. Hazekamp points out that the moisture content of the cannabis is something to consider.\n\u201cAfter all, when you heat cannabis in a vaporizer, the first thing to boil off is the remaining water in the plant,\u201d he says.\nAnother factor is the type of vaporizer used, according to Dr. Hazekamp. For example, convection-style vaporizers (such as the Volcano and other desktop models) can be more efficient because heat is transferred more directly. However, they can also evaporate cannabis even when a user is not inhaling.\nDr. Mitchell adds that cheaply made vaporizers (such as vape pens and other conduction-style vaporizers) tend to have hotspots, which can make it difficult to keep a consistent temperature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://i2.yourlegalguide.com/consumer-fraud/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3YWUWRL3JCGEO7TPABDFLULO7N6QKOLT", "length": 6930, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "i2.yourlegalguide.com", "title": "Consumer Fraud - Your Legal Guide", "raw_content": "Consumer fraud occurs when a consumer is harmed, financially or otherwise, due to intentional deception. Common forms of consumer fraud include identity theft, insurance fraud and bank fraud.\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) monitors and addresses consumer fraud. In addition, most states have passed laws and created special programs to deal with this issue. Volunteer groups such as the Better Business Bureau also work to help consumers who have been defrauded.\nIn addition to the efforts of these organizations, consumer fraud attorneys can help determine if you are eligible for compensation and can assist you in the recovery process.\nThe Role of the FTC\nThe FTC is the government's front line of defense against consumer fraud. To better track and fight consumer fraud, in 1997 the FTC established its Consumer Sentinel program, which processes complaints and logs them into a database. Since its inception, millions of complaints have been filed with the Consumer Sentinel program. More than 1,600 law enforcement agencies have access to its database, as do the offices of the various attorneys general.\nIdentity theft is the theft of personally identifying information for the purpose of committing fraud. According to the FTC, 9 million Americans fall victim to identity theft each year. In fact, the agency considers identity theft to be the greatest consumer fraud-related challenge it faces.\nFor the year 2006, the Consumer Sentinel program identified several sources from which thieves retrieved consumers' personal information, including credit cards (25 percent), bank records (16 percent) utilities statements (16 percent) and employment records (14 percent).\nCommon methods of stealing these records include:\nPhishing: asking for personal information in emails that appear to come from a financial institution or other trusted entity\nSkimming: using a storage device to retain personal information when processing a credit card\nChange of address: diverting a person's bills to another address\nTheft: of wallets, purses and mail\nPretexting: retrieving personal information by calling and misidentifying oneself\nThe following are just some of the acts committed by identity thieves:\nCredit card fraud: opening new cards under the victim's name\nBank fraud: opening a bank account or creating counterfeit checks using the victim's name and account number\nPhone and utilities fraud: opening a phone or electricity account in the victim's name\nLoan fraud: applying for a loan using the victim's name and social security number\nGovernment documents fraud: using a person's driver's license or social security card\nEmployment fraud: using a person's social security number to obtain a job\nObtaining medical benefits\nConsumer Fraud Statistics\nThe FTC estimates that consumers lost more than $1.1 billion to consumer fraud in 2006, with more than 670,000 complaints filed. Identity theft is the biggest issue associated with consumer fraud, representing 36 percent of cases reported. Also of concern is the rising number of complaints involving wire transfer payments.\nIdentity theft can be devastating. Some people discover that their identity has been stolen while reviewing their credit report, but for others the first indication is a menacing letter from a debt collector. Although recovering from the effects of identity theft can take years, consumer fraud attorneys can provide you with possible options that may reduce the length of time and the severity of the recovery process.\nThe birth of online commerce has been a boon to the U.S. economy. Unfortunately, the Internet has also been a boon to thieves. In fact, the Internet is one of the most significant sources of fraud in the United States. The FTC received more than 670,000 cases of consumer fraud in 2006; among cases where the initial method of contact was reported, 60 percent originated from the Internet.\nAll of this online fraud is extremely costly to consumers. According to The National Fraud Information Center (NFIC), the average individual loss from Internet-related fraud in 2005 was $1,917.\nBy all accounts, auctions are the major problem. Both the NFIC and The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) identify auctions as the culprit in more than 40 percent of Internet fraud cases. Other types of Internet fraud include check fraud and non-delivered merchandise or payment.\nSadly, hurricanes and other natural disasters unearth all manner of imposters and con artists. Hurricane fraud comes in many forms, including identity theft, charity fraud; government-benefit fraud and even large-scale bad faith insurance fraud (see section below).\nFollowing Hurricane Katrina, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales established a task force to combat these despicable acts. This task force continues to coordinate with several federal agencies, including the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Trade Commission.\nDespite the efforts of these agencies, many hurricane victims continue to suffer the effects of neglect and fraudulent activity. Most worrisome are the acts of insurance companies, which have been accused of many questionable practices, including slow response and failure to send insurance adjusters to assess pending claims.\nInsurance bad faith is a form of insurance fraud committed against consumers by insurance companies. When a person signs an insurance policy, he or she is operating on the assumption that the insurer will act in good faith in the event of an accident. An insurance company acts in bad faith when it wrongfully denies a claim made by the insured party.\nThere are several types of insurance bad faith, including:\nDeliberate misinterpretations of the insurance policy\nNot reimbursing for the full amount\nTo prove that an insurer has acted in bad faith, the insured must show the court that the insurer failed to honor the contract they signed. In many cases, insurance bad faith comes down to \"reasonable\" interpretation of the contract in question. When the court determines that denial of a claim was unreasonable, the insurer is ordered to honor the claim. When the court considers the insurer's actions particularly unreasonable (deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent), it may award punitive damages as well. If you think you have been the victim of insurance fraud or mistreatment, a consumer fraud attorney can assist you in appealing the denial of your claim and can help you determine if you are eligible for compensation.\nOther Types of Consumer Fraud\nConsumer fraud is not limited to the areas outlined above. For example, telemarketing fraud, investment-related scams and fraud targeted at senior citizens are all very common.\nThe following are other types of consumer fraud:\nSweepstakes fraud\nTax preparation scams\nFraud targeting the elderly\nMail order fraud\nHealth club complaints\n\"Cramming\" phone services\nElectronic funds transfers are the most common source of identity theft related to banks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 487, "original_length": 14897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iapcar.org/2016/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:N5ZV6HDIERCZG4WNHQKXSCEKPP473EZS", "length": 6991, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "iapcar.org", "title": "IAPCAR \u00bb 2016 \u00bb October", "raw_content": "MEXICO CITY \u2013 There\u2019s just one place in all of Mexico where you can legally buy a gun. It\u2019s tucked away in an anonymous building on an army base in the capital, staffed by soldiers.\nThose who enter must surrender any cell phones, tablets or cameras, remove caps and pass through a metal detector. Weapons are kept in locked glass cases, unlike many of the 50,000-plus U.S. gun shops where used-gun racks on showroom floors allow easy access and clerks are happy to let you heft an unloaded firearm.\nMexico\u2019s constitution guarantees citizens\u2019 right to own a handgun and hunting rifles for self-defense and sport. Legally getting your hands on one, however, requires clearing a series of bureaucratic hurdles far stricter than in the U.S. and, for many customers, traveling great distances to reach the country\u2019s lone gun store.\nIn fact, most of Mexico\u2019s 120 million inhabitants probably don\u2019t even know about the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales \u2013 it\u2019s prohibited from advertising any of its goods or the mere fact that it exists.\nBut that hasn\u2019t stopped sales from booming, in parallel with a large and active black-market trade for contraband weapons flooding south from the U.S.\nAccording to army records, the store sold 549 guns in 2000. For 2015, sales had risen to 10,115, an increase reflecting the rise in concern about personal safety during a surge in violent deaths in Mexico.\nSales spiked most dramatically after 2006, when then-President Felipe Calderon took office and declared war on Mexico\u2019s drug cartels. The country recorded more than 164,000 killings between 2007 and 2014, according to official statistics.\nAt the gun store, 27 brands are on offer, from the American Colt, Austria\u2019s Glock and Italy\u2019s Beretta to the locally made Mendoza and Trejo.\nAlthough gun ownership is enshrined in the constitution, the provision also empowers the government to regulate the types of weapons that are permitted and under what conditions. Mexicans can legally purchase one handgun for home protection, while members of hunting or shooting clubs can acquire up to nine rifles of no more than .30 caliber and shotguns up to 12 gauge, said the store\u2019s manager, Col. Eduardo Tellez Moreno.\nBut unlike those who run U.S. gun shops, Tellez would rather no one buy what he\u2019s selling.\n\u201cIt\u2019s preferred not to have a gun, even at home, because there could be accidents or worse, accidents within families due to the mishandling of weapons. It\u2019s like having a match close to a fire,\u201d Tellez said. \u201cIt\u2019s an obligation of the state to provide security to the people who live in the country, not for you to take justice into your own hands.\u201d\nSome people aren\u2019t confident about authorities\u2019 ability to provide security.\nOn a recent day, Mexico City resident Alejandro Lozano came to pick up a hunting rifle after waiting about a week while his documents were processed. He said he keeps a handgun at home, but wishes he could legally carry it to protect himself from violent robberies targeting bus passengers, motorists at stoplights and customers emerging from banks and ATMs.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not difficult\u201d to get a gun, Lozano said. But \u201cwe would like it better that they would let us carry like in the United States, that they let us carry whatever caliber we choose.\u201d\nAt least six separate documents are required to buy a gun: a birth certificate, a letter confirming employment, proof of a clean criminal record from the attorney general\u2019s office in the applicant\u2019s home state, a utility bill with current address, a copy of a government-issued ID and a federal social security number.\nGun owners must register every weapon they have, and people say it\u2019s nearly impossible to secure a concealed carry permit, something that\u2019s allowed in the majority of U.S. states.\nLuciano Segurajauregui Alvarez, a gun advocate who shoots recreationally and competitively, said those permits are routinely denied.\n\u201cIf I put my papers in \u2026 they\u2019re going to take about three to four, even six months, and then send me a letter telling me that it\u2019s the obligation of the state to provide security for all people in Mexico, so your permit is denied,\u201d said Segurajauregui, who is a professor of design at Mexico\u2019s Metropolitan Autonomous University.\nHe called that idiotic. \u201cYou can\u2019t assign a soldier to preserve the security of each and every one of the people,\u201d he said.\nGun advocates say relaxing gun restrictions would help private citizens protect themselves from heavily armed gangs that terrorize and extort people in various parts of the country.\nMany Mexicans perceive government security forces as unable to do that job, and often actually being in cahoots with the cartels. Since 2013, civilian \u201cself-defense\u201d militias have sprung up in some rural areas as communities became fed up by corruption, organized crime and a failure by police and military forces to keep them safe from drug gangs.\n\u201cTo see us alone, to see us unprotected by the government, what did we have to do as citizens? Take up arms to defend our families and our own lives,\u201d said Hipolito Mora, a co-founder of a militia in Michoacan, one of the country\u2019s most restive states.\nYet, while Mexico has a homicide rate more than five times higher than in the U.S., such sentiments have brought no widespread debate about gun rights, and there is no political push to ease firearm restrictions.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a non-issue,\u201d said Alejandro Hope, a security analyst in Mexico City. \u201cThe extreme liberal regime around gun control that exists in the United States is seen as a bizarre phenomenon. That carrying guns is seen as a major human right is bizarre.\u201d\nMexico\u2019s lone gun store sold 52,147 firearms in 2009-14, a figure dwarfed by the black market trade that\u2019s largely fueled by illegal American imports. Mexican law bars guns from entering without an \u201cextraordinary import authorization,\u201d but enforcement is spotty: 73,684 of the 104,850 guns confiscated in Mexico during the same period were traced to the U.S., according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\nThere are no current statistics on the number of weapons held by Mexicans. The Geneva-based Small Arms Survey says Mexicans owned 15.5 million firearms in 2007, of which 4.5 million were properly registered with the army.\nOn the black market, buyers get access to the same kind of high-caliber weapons used by cartels and can avoid paperwork, waiting periods and travel.\nFor residents in the northwestern city of Tijuana, for example, it\u2019s much simpler to buy a gun that has been purchased in one of San Diego\u2019s 15 or so gun shops and smuggled into Mexico instead of going 1,700 miles to Mexico City.\nSegurajauregui said gun advocates want the military to open stores in each of Mexico\u2019s 31 states in addition to the capital, but there is no sign that\u2019s in the works.\n\u201cGun reform in Mexico has always been a hot potato,\u201d he said. \u201cNobody wants to touch it. Nobody.\u201d\nSource: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexicans-have-the-right-to-own-guns-but-few-do/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 14503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ibtacademy.org/content/Ballet-Mistress-of-IBT", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IRX6M2G2LUG6BBWG5H72EK2RQCEASOX5", "length": 3546, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ibtacademy.org", "title": "Ballet Mistress", "raw_content": "Nataliya Bondar-Shelest\nIt requires a master teacher to teach ballet properly. Recognized among peers and students as an exceptionally effective teacher, Nataliya Bondar-Shelest follows the Vaganova teaching technique: an extraordinary system that permits to develop the knowledge of how one\u2019s body should be used in order to dance with expression yet without injuries, like the best Russian dancers do.\nNatasha's first love was dance: at the age of ten she was was enrolled into the prestigious Kiev State Ballet Academy. There Nataliya studied Classical Ballet under Prof. Varvara Mey, a student of Agrippina Vaganova and best-selling author on the subject of ballet training.\nNatasha in Center Adagio in class at the Kiev Ballet Academy\nUpon graduation from the Academy in 1983, Bondar-Shelest was invited to join the Donetsk Theater of Opera and Ballet as a Soloist. In 1988, at the age of 24, Nataliya won Silver Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Ukraine and was promoted to the position of Principal Dancer. In 1990 she toured Europe with the Stars of Kirov Ballet, under the direction of Oleg Vinogradov, and with the United European Orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich.\nPerforming leading parts in Giselle (left) and in 1001 Nights (right)\nOver the years Natasha's repertoire included leading roles in Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, Raymonda, La Bayadere, Fountain of Bakhchisaray, Thousand and One Nights, Esmeralda, Nutcracker, Le Corsaire, and Harlequinade. She has toured France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Japan, South America, Canada, the U.S. Later in her dancing career she worked as a Prima Ballerina with the Kharkiv Theater of Opera and Ballet in Ukraine and as a Principal Dancer with the International Ballet Theater, under the direction of Vladimir Shoumeikin.\nCurtain call after a performance of Sleeping Beauty (left) and performing the title role in Giselle (right)\nThroughout her 32 years in ballet Natasha has learned many valuable lessons that now she enjoys passing on to her students.\nTraining children of all ages and ability levels for the past 20 years, Natasha has demonstrated unparalleled dedication to her craft and students. Her teaching technique combines strict Vaganova Method education with her own experience as a professional dancer.\nNatasha's main focus has always been the impeccable technique but her secondary goal is to instill a broader understanding of the Vaganova Method and the effects of dance training on the body. She teaches her students to dance with their whole body instead of isolating body parts into mechanical, separate movements. Gradually students will develop a strong center, which will result in more graceful and powerful performances.\nVaganova method is characterized by impeccable precision, attention to detail, ease of execution, energetic style, emotion-evoking grace, individual creativity, and vigor. Considered excellent, it is the foremost technique used by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolph Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, and other stars of Russian classical ballet. Students of the Vaganova method learn classical ballet technique, pointe, classical repertory, adagio, virtuoso technique for men, partnering, character dance, and historical court dance.\nKitri in Don Quixote\nWhat makes Nataliya Bondar-Shelest so effective is her firm yet affable manner of instruction: striving for excellence, she continuously pushes students to better themselves without ever making them feel inadequate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/1082329/language/en-US/Default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:37Z", "digest": "sha1:FR25FJ7HO76O77PP7VUYVJSSN2OJKAJX", "length": 1928, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "icaadocs.mfah.org", "title": "ICAA Documents > THE ARCHIVE > Full Record", "raw_content": "RAYAS update, Junio 30, 1978. / Jos\u00e9 Armas\nTyped sheet \u2013 Report\nArmas, Jos\u00e9. \"RAYAS update,\" June 30, 1978. Typed manuscript. New Mexico, USA.\nartists; artists' collectives; authors; Chicano; literature (humanities)\nRevoluci\u00f3n Art\u00edstica y Acci\u00f3n Social (Group of artists)\nThis document, composed in 1978 by writer Jos\u00e9 Armas, is a report on the state of the organization, Revoluci\u00f3n Art\u00edstica y Acci\u00f3n Social (RAYAS), and is also an appeal for action on outstanding issues. RAYAS, a group founded by Armas and other Chicano writers and artists, was intended to promote Chicano art and literature with the greater goal of having an effect on the political and social standing of the Chicano community. This document includes an overview of the purpose of RAYAS as well as a report on activities that have already taken place, including\u2014but not limited to\u2014the creation of a RAYAS newsletter, fundraising endeavors, a writing workshop, and political actions. The text concludes with a statement on actions that need to be taken into account by the organization in the future; specifically, Armas advocated for a more formal organization of RAYAS, a board of officers, and increased fundraising efforts included.\nJos\u00e9 Armas, a writer based in Albuquerque, was one of the main proponents of the move to unify Chicano artists and writers into one national union. Based on the model of the United Farm Workers and other unionizing efforts, Armas\u2019s union provided a means for political advocacy, mutual support, and artistic promotion and protection (especially with regards to copyright issues). The report is a valuable historical document that chronicles the process to unionize artists and writers undertaken within the Chicano Movement, and also contains a detailed record of the progress made by the members of this seminal group.\nFor more information on RAYAS and its efforts, see doc. No. 1081640 and doc. No. 1082215.\nTere Romo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 202.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iconoclast.weebly.com/lakeland-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:NVKHVMNY64APZLSO2XJ2CR3XA25A6XDP", "length": 28307, "nlines": 110, "source_domain": "iconoclast.weebly.com", "title": "Lakeland 2 - The Kingdom Iconoclast", "raw_content": "First speaker (Bill Johnson?)\n\u201dThat Moses would no longer be considered the high-water mark where the glory shone from his face, but instead the revelation of the goodness of God would change the face of the Church. And that He would use your voice, He would use your grace, your anointing to alter the face of the Church before this world. That the goodness of the Lord would be seen once again.\u201d\nI\u2019d like to know where the glory of God is showing here in this outpouring? When Todd is talking about his angels, or when he kicks cancer patients in the stomach? Yes, his anointing is altering the face of the church before the world all right.\nSee the video below to see how much Todd Bentley's anointing is altering the face of the church!\nNext word: Unknown Speaker:\n\u201cYes, the Lord would say unto thee that this day you have loosened upon this earth yay what I have wanted for centuries to come forth, a kingly anointing which will bring in MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. Because the business men will rise up and they will go forth under this anointing and no more will they stay hidden in the shadows but they shall go forth into the political world, into the business world, into the military world, and great changes shall take place saith the Lord. Because this night is the night when you started out speaking your first words about the Kingdom of God. \u201c\nNote what was said to Todd: \"This day YOU have loosened upon this earth what I have wanted to come forth\" Todd loosened it, not Jesus??\n\"A kingly anointing that will bring in MONEY, MONEY, MONEY\"! Yes, I'm sure this made some people very happy, but I don't think the Lord Jesus desired this to be loosed upon the earth! Money is part of the fallen world, not the Kingdom of God!\n\"According to Todd Bentley, you don\u2019t get the anointing from the Holy Spirit unless you donate money. Here are his own words as relayed by Tampa.com to convict him:\n\u201dGet out your credit cards, he said. Write a check. Click on the blue button on the Web site. You reap what you sow,\u201d he said. \u201cGenerosity and the anointing go hand in hand.\u201d (15)\nThis sounds like a false gospel of greed. I recently read an article that stated that ATM machines (16) were installed in the building where the revival meetings were being held. I guess this makes it convenient for the money, money, money to come in!\nNext speaker: Unknown woman in dark pantsuit\n\u201cFor the word of the lord would say behold the vanguard, behold the tugboat that is cutting through the ice of religious traditions, the cruel hard thing. The understanding of the mind of men will now bound to the reality of the revelation of the finished work of Calvary. Behold saith god, you\u2019ve been equipped with cutting power, you have been equipped to go through those traditions of the mind of men. Yay, saith god, and you are pulling the church into the realm of glory. Behind you is a great ship that is laden with healing and deliverance and prosperity. This is the word to you, o man of god, arise, kill, and eat. No longer, no longer, no longer will men call unclean what I have called clean. \u201c\nDoes this woman actually think that Todd has been equipped with cutting power to cut through the traditions of men? Are those the traditions of worshipping Jesus and preaching his word and acting in humility and love? Notice that after she says: \u201cNo longer, no longer, no longer will men call unclean what I have called clean.\u201d That the crowd cheers for several minutes and Todd does his shaking routine. This time it looks fake. When will people realize that it\u2019s not Todd\u2019s looks that are unclean, but the spirits that are manifesting in these meetings?\nNext speaker: Rick Joyner\n\u201cTodd, your ministry is very appropriately named Fresh Fire, and uh, you\u2019ve certainly been bringing fresh fire. And even when you were going through the dark night of the soul I thought you had more fire on you than \u2026 than uh \u2026 many I\u2019ll just say. But uh, you know the worst state we could ever fall into is lukewarmness, and god has sent you as an antidote for that lukewarm spirit. And the fire is been birthed here, it\u2019s been released here, you\u2019ve unstopped a well, you have other wells to unstop, and other cities and other places. This is just the beginning. And there is longevity, too. There is increase, but there is also longevity coming. There are many wells but there are also oil wells and they catch on fire when you unstop them. \u201c\nThere are many references to the Fire of God in the Bible, but all of them refer to judgment. The fire that Todd is releasing is from the release of the Kundalini.\nIt is believed by new agers that the kundalini and the Holy Spirit are one and the same:\n\u201cAlthough Christian dogmatists might protest the equation, it seems evident that the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit) and the Kundalini are one in the same. The Holy Ghost, like Kundalini, is symbolically represented by a flame. (Many of the Christian saints who were not familiar with the Eastern concept of Kundalini suffered from mysterious illnesses in which they claimed to be \"burning\" with the spirit of God within them. This was officially known as incendium amoris, the fire of love.)\u201d http://www.elcollie.com/st/fire.html\n\u201cLong rumored to be among the most rare of human experiences, in the past several decades, the incidence of reported Kundalini awakening has been on the increase worldwide. Kundalini awakening manifests on multiple levels. \"Brought up through the body, this power promotes healing and longevity,\" writes transpersonal psychologist Ralph Metzner; \u2026\u2026 The radical restructuring of the psyche catalyzed by Kundalini leads to a state which Metzner says \"has been variously referred to as mystical experience, ecstasy, cosmic consciousness, oceanic feeling, oneness, transcendence, union with God, nirvana, satori, liberation, peak experience, and by other names.\"\nA Kundalini awakening is celebrated as an extraordinary gift for healing and growth, but the early stages (which can last for months or years) can be exceedingly difficult. \u2026..The influx of high vibrational energy throughout the system produces an array of physical symptoms and strange sensations. .\nThe Kundalini process repeatedly cycles through the stages of the mystic path outlined by Evelyn Underhill: (1) awakening or conversion to divine reality; (2) purgation and purification; (3) illumination, visions, ecstatic states; (4) death, \"the dark night of the soul\"; and (5) union with the divine. (Note Rick Joyner\u2019s mention of the \u2018dark night of the soul\u2019 in his word to Todd Bentley)\nAlthough the Sanskrit word \"Kundalini\" originated in India, this dramatically regenerative process has been recorded in nearly every culture and religion in the world. The transformational energy the yogis call \"shakti\" (the risen Kundalini) is alternately known in other traditions as Holy Wind, Serpent Fire, Vital Winds, Seiki (mystical Japanese), mana loa (Hawaiian Kahunan), \u2026.. These metaphoric names describe the tremendous rushing, burning, spiralling and wavelike physical sensations of the aroused spiritual energy. When the Kundalini rises, these sensations may be subtle and pleasurable, or they make strike with unexpected gale force, literally thrashing the body around like an internalized hurricane. And Kundalini is renowned for setting the body ablaze with incandescent inner heat.\u201d\nPeople who have never experienced Kundalini tend to think these descriptive metaphors imply something abstract. A man once posed the question to an Internet Kundalini list: \"How does the Kundalini heat manifest itself?\" The answers came back: \"As HEAT. It feels HOT!\"\nKundalini has been called the lifeforce (see info on \u201clife force\u201d in part 1) -- the vital, animating current within all creation. The energy of Kundalini has been used everywhere in the world for healing and accessing spiritual experience. The Greek philosopher, mathematician and physician Pythagorus knew it as pneuma, which, according to metaphysical researcher Mary Coddington, \"came from a central fire in the universe and provided man not only with his vitality, but his immortal soul.\" The Turkish genius and founder of neurology Galen, born in 129 A.D., also spoke of pneuma. (Mary Coddington, Seekers of the Healing Energy) (17)\n\u201cThese Kundalini spirits and other spirits of eastern religions have sought to enter many revivals. In some cases the discernment of the leaders saved them. Jessie Penn-Lewis gives a report of this spirit in the Wales revival:\n\"The counterfeit of the Presence of God is mainly felt upon the body, and by the physical senses, in conscious 'fire,' 'thrills,' etc. The counterfeit of the 'Presence' in the atmosphere is felt by the senses of the body, as 'breath,' 'wind,' etc., whilst the mind is passive or inactive. The person affected by this counterfeit will be moved almost automatically to actions he would not perform of his own will, and with all his faculties in operation. He may not even remember what he has done under the 'power' of this 'presence.'\" Jessie-Penn Lewis, War On the Saints, page. 153 (18)\nNext Speaker: Unknown\n\"Todd, the Lord has made you to be a detonator, I see cables going around the world to different nations; I see great Britain being set ablaze by the power of God; I see that even as you go into places that God says that you will go even with the glory like William Branham and the Lord says you\u2019ll carry a portal anointing and whatever city you go over there will be a portal, there will be a portal that will be opened up says the Lord, and the Lord says you\u2019ll detonate and boom, boom, boom, there will be release of glory, through the nations, says the spirit of the Lord.\" (See notes in Part 1 on new age portals)\nFor those who do not know William Branham was a healing evangelist who couldn\u2019t heal until his angel appeared in his meetings.\n\u201cBentley is well read up on Branham- he describes how he conducted his services in detail in his article 'Living in the Supernatural\"May 25, 2003. \"When people would come on the platform to receive healing and Branham entered that realm, he would go into visions and tell everyone many details of their life. He did this only as a sign that the Lord would heal them. People would wait in healing lines for hours. They would have to get a card with a number to get into the healing line to even get prayer. He would wait for an angel to come and stand behind him on his left side. He would do nothing until the angel arrived.\"\nFrom the beginning Branham had unusual manifestations which he attributed to his angel. \"The power invested me by my commission given by Almighty God and ministered to me by an Angel, a Pillar of Light\" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals p.112-113). Branham admits the angel is a pillar of light (this will become important as we look at Todd Bentleys experiences with angels and light).The angel that William Branham had was actually a powerful angel of light- a demonic entity that masqueraded as the angel of the Lord and the Holy Spirit of God. This entity appeared throughout Branham's life from early childhood and eventually led him into all kinds of \"serious error.\" It is crucial to understand what Bentley is claiming, by renewing the call of William Branham. Bentley's acknowledgement of his angel as Branham's angel via Bob Jones (notwithstanding the many other angels that constantly visit him) puts his imprimatur on Branham being used of God. This is not that unusual, many charismatics endorse Branham, the difference is that he is saying this angel is an influence or power in his ministry.\u201d(19)\nTodd Bentley was also told by Che Ahn at an earlier meeting that he had a \u2018double portion\u2019 of Branham\u2019s anointing: (Note Che Ahn falling toward the end of the video and manifesting the Kundalini spirit.)\nRick Joyner and the Knights of Malta Connection\nIt is of great significance that Rick Joyner was one of the men presiding over this meeting. Several years ago Rick Joyner was initiated into the Knights of Malta, the Order of Saint John. This is a known fact and Rick has even spoken about it and made an audio tape explaining it and defended it in his 1998 Morning Star Journal. Rick Joyner and many of the other prophets and apostles from C. Peter Wagner\u2019s New Apostolic Reformation are calling for unity with Rome.\nWhat are the Knights of Malta\nThe Order of Malta is a lay, religious order of the Catholic Church. It is a Hospitaller order, founded in Jerusalem during the eleventh century. Members of the Order seek to glorify God through his or her work with the sick and the poor and witness of the Catholic faith. (20)\nSherry Shriner writes in her article: \u201cRick Joyner, Knighted By The Knights Of Malta\u201d\n\u201cThe primary organization, called the Knights of Malta, has its headquarters in the Vatican of Rome and is clearly controlled and operated by the Catholic church. Their official website gives their name as the \"Sovereign Military Order Of Malta.\" They state of themselves that this \"is a lay religious order of the Catholic church.\" It was founded in Jerusalem in 1099 and it was approved formally as an order by the Pope in 1113. They also say of themselves, \"The Order of Malta was admitted to the United Nations as a permanent observer on August 24, 1994.\" They also claim \"official diplomatic relations with over eighty states and international organizations.\" The Order of Malta is clearly a Catholic order, controlled by the Pope and totally committed to the Pope, the Virgin Mary, and service to Roman Catholic ideas and causes. It is a powerful and massive organization.\u201d (21)\nThe History of the Knights of Malta\n\"Blessed Gerard originally founded \"The Hospice of St. John of Jerusalem\" prior to the 1st Crusade to care for sick and poor pilgrims in Jerusalem. In 1120, after Pope Urban II issued a Bulla recognizing the Hospice as a military religious order, the Order became \"The Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem\". Its members became known as \"Knights of St. John\", \"Knights of the Hospital\" or simply \"Knights Hospitallers\". Later, after the capture of Rhodes, the Order's name became \"The Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and of Rhodes\". The knights of that period were known as \"The Knights of Rhodes\", as well as by their previous names. After the loss of Rhodes, the Order came into possession of the Island of Malta. The Order's name then became \"The Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta\". After the loss of Malta the name of the Order became \"The Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta\". Since that time, the members have since been referred to most commonly as \"The Knights of Malta\", however, they may still be referred to as \"Knights of St. John\", \"Knights of the Hospital\" or \"Knights Hospitaller\". The Order is now typically referred to as \"The Sovereign Military Order of Malta\", \"The Order of Malta\", or the \"SMOM\". . . (22)\nThe following quote is from: An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences,\" etc. by Albert G. Mackey, M.D., Thirty-Third Degree, Volume I, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925, Volume One, pp. 392-95:\n\"This Order, which at various times in the progress of its history received the names of Knights Hospitalers, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Rhodes, and lastly, Knights of Malta, was one of the most important of the religious and military orders of knighthood which sprang into existence during the Crusades which were instituted for the recovery of the Holy Land. It owes its origin to the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, that wholly religious and charitable Order which was established at Jerusalem, in 1048, by pious merchants of Amalfi for the succor of poor and distressed Latin pilgrims....\n\"...There are now two bodies-one Catholic and the other Protestant, but each repudiates the other....\n\"The degree of Knight of Malta is conferred in the United States as \"an appendant Order\" in a Commandery of Knights Templar. There is a ritual attached to the degree, but very few are in possession of it, and it is generally communicated after the candidate has been created a Knights Templar....\"\nThe Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death. The Pope as the head of the Vatican is also the head of a foreign national power.\nAs a member of the Knights of Malta, and by virtue of your blood oath of obedience to the Pope, you are required to support to the death the desires of the head of the Order of the Knights of Malta-in this case, Pope Benedict XVI -over and above any other allegiance you may feel or pretend to feel toward any other loyalty-such as a loyalty to the Constitution for the united States of America.\nThose who are presently members of the Knights of Malta must on penalty of death support those policies advocated by the Vatican. It is not hard for them to do this. They BELIEVE in these policies and principles. The polices which are espoused and proclaimed by the office of the Pope are as follows:\n1. End of sovereignty for the United States and other countries.\n2. End of absolute property rights.\n3. End of all gun rights.\n4. The new international economic Order (world government).\n5. The redistribution of wealth and jobs.\n6. Calls for nations to trust the United Nations.\n7. Total disarmament.\n8. Promote the United Nations as the hope for peace.\n9. Promote UNESCO, the deadly educational and cultural arm of the United Nations.\n10. Promote interdependence.\n11. Support sanctions honoring Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-the New Age Humanist Priest.\n12. Support the belief that the economic principle of traditional Christian or Catholic social doctrine is the economic principle of communism.\n13. Promote the Pope as the acting go-between for the United States and the Soviet Union.\nIt doesn't really matter what kind of religious or political affiliation a member professes, when they take an oath as a Knight they are obligated by that blood oath of obedience to follow the political lead of the Vatican and will do so to their dying breath-as all good Knights of Malta do. Their first loyalty is to the Vatican, anything else is secondary. Each and every member is under complete and total obedience to the Vatican's political ambitions. (23)\nThe Order of Malta has ambassadors or diplomatic representatives in more than eighty nations, and enjoys Permanent Observer status at the United Nations General Assembly.\" (24)\nIt is a known fact that Rick Joyner is very focused on warfare and the Knights of the Roundtable. Here is a quote from Joyner:\n\"Like the nation of Israel, the Order of St John the Baptist seems to\nhave been uniquely preserved to play a part in the final battle between light and darkness. The church, and even Western civilization, is no less in jeopardy today than it was in the time of Suleiman. Conflicts within the church have weakened her to the point that she is more vulnerable to the enemy than ever. Even so, the Lord is not constrained to deliver by many or by few. He still has\nthose who are true noblemen, who are establishing noble families\nthroughout the earth. They are bound together by a common faith that transcends denominational differences. They, too, have vowed not to retreat before the enemies of the cross, nor yield a single acre of\nground to the enemy of our faith.\nThe Lord is again calling together true knights of the Spirit. They will stand unified in spite of all the petty divisions and spiritual wars that go on around them. They know who the real enemy is, and they, too, will stand without wavering against the greatest darkness of their times, and they will push the darkness back. Some of these are in the modern Order of St John. Some of them may be in your church. One of them may even be you.\" (pg 58, end of author's text)\nA picture of the present Grand Master with his various titles covers page 59 of the book. (25)\nThe Significance of the Date of Todd Bentley\u2019s commissioning:\nWhat is significant about the date and Rick Joyner being one of the presiding \u201capostles\u201d at Todd Bentley\u2019s commissioning is that June 23 is the eve of the Feast Day of Saint John, the Knights of Malta\u2019s feast day!\nThe Sovereign Military Order of Malta observes as its feast day Saint John's Day, June 24th. (26) It is not insignificant to note that Saint John\u2019s Day is on the same date as Midsummer\u2019s Day, the pagan holiday of Litha. It is a time when pagans worshipped the sun god through the summer solstice.\n\u201cMidsummer may simply refer to the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, but more often refers to specific European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice, or that take place on the 24th of June and the preceding evening. European midsummer-related holidays, traditions, and celebrations are pre-Christian in origin and have been superficially Christianised as celebrations of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist as \"Saint John's Eve\" festivals.\u201d (27)\n\u201cMidsummer fires served as sun charms to keep up the heat. Midsummer Eve, however, afterwards nominated as John the Baptist's Eve, was a great fire-day far and wide. Von Buch, the traveller, speaks of seeing custom observed within the Arctic Circle.\nAn old writer about Ireland remarked--\"A stranger would imagine the whole country was on fire.\" Brand writes of the Vigil of St. John--\"They make bonfires, run along the streets and fields with wisps of straw blazing on long poles, to purify the air which they think infectious by believing all the devils, spirits, ghosts, and hobgoblins abroad this night to hurt mankind.\" One, writing in 1867 said--\"The old pagan fire-worship still survives in Ireland though nominally in honour of St. John. On Sunday night bonfires were observed throughout nearly every county the province of Leinster.\" As Easter Day was of old devoted to Astarte, the East goddess, so was St. John's Day to Baal.\u201d (28)\nThe Feast of the Nativity of St. John is set down in the Papal calendar for the 24th of June, or Midsummer-day. The very same period was equally memorable in the Babylonian calendar as that of one of its most celebrated festivals. It was at Midsummer, or the summer solstice, that the month called in Chaldea, Syria, and Phoenicia by the name of \"Tammuz\" began; and on the first day--that is, on or about the 24th of June--one of the grand original festivals of Tammuz was celebrated.\nFor different reasons, in different countries, other periods had been devoted to commemorate the death and reviving of the Babylonian god; but this, as may be inferred from the name of the month, appears to have been the real time when his festival was primitively observed in the land where idolatry had its birth. And so strong was the hold that this festival, with its peculiar rites, had taken of the minds of men, that even when other days were devoted to the great events connected with the Babylonian Messiah, as was the case in some parts of our own land, this sacred season could not be allowed to pass without the due observance of some, at least, of its peculiar rites. When the Papacy sent its emissaries over Europe, towards the end of the sixth century, to gather in the Pagans into its fold, this festival was found in high favour in many countries. What was to be done with it? Were they to wage war with it? No. This would have been contrary to the famous advice of Pope Gregory I, that, by all means they should meet the Pagans half-way, and so bring them into the Roman Church. The Gregorian policy was carefully observed; and so Midsummer-day, that had been hallowed by Paganism to the worship of Tammuz, was incorporated as a sacred Christian festival in the Roman calendar.\nBut still a question was to be determined, What was to be the name of this Pagan festival, when it was baptised, and admitted into the ritual of Roman Christianity? To call it by its old name of Bel or Tammuz, at the early period when it seems to have been adopted, would have been too bold. To call it by the name of Christ was difficult, inasmuch as there was nothing special in His history at that period to commemorate. But the subtlety of the agents of the Mystery of Iniquity was not to be baffled. If the name of Christ could not be conveniently tacked to it, what should hinder its being called by the name of His forerunner, John the Baptist? John the Baptist was born six months before our Lord. When, therefore, the Pagan festival of the winter solstice had once been consecrated as the birthday of the Saviour, it followed, as a matter of course, that if His forerunner was to have a festival at all, his festival must be at this very season; for between the 24th of June and the 25th of December--that is, between the summer and the winter solstice--there are just six months. Now, for the purposes of the Papacy, nothing could be more opportune than this. One of the many sacred names by which Tammuz or Nimrod was called, when he reappeared in the Mysteries, after being slain, was Oannes. (29)\nIn other words this particular day, June 23, the beginning of Saint John\u2019s Day and Midsummer Day is an ancient pagan celebration to the god Baal or Tammuz and it is marked by FIRE. Is it a coincidence that Todd Bentley is always talking about the Fire, and that his ministry is called Fresh Fire?\nHere's an early 20th Century NY Times article on the pagan significance of St. John's Day (June 24). Here are just some quotes that highlight fire worship.\n\"How many and varied have been the forms of what we may term degenerate fire worship, or, rather fire worship ceremonial and superstitious rites engrafted on Christianity?....It appears to me to be simply a survival of the worship of Baal which was the universal fatih of our fathers--a remnant of that great fire worship which prevailed over the whole world, as known to the ancients....\" (30)\nHere is Todd Calling for a spirit of fire and a spirit of burning. Unfortunately for him he is calling for the judgment of God.\nIsa 4:4 - The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.\nMt 3:12 - His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.\"\nMt 13:40 - \"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.\n1Co 3:13 - his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.\nHeb 10:27 - but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.\nAnother interesting occurrence happened on this same date in 1947:\n\u201cThe modern UFO era and the birth of the extraterrestrial hypothesis began on June 24,1947, when Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington, reported nine disk-shaped objects flying in formation at speeds he estimated to be over 1,000 miles per hour\u201d (31)\nIs this all a coincidence? If so then there seems to be unseen hands arranging these circumstances and causing these men to speak certain phrases on an occult holiday.\n15. http://slaughteringthesheep.wordpress.com/\n17. http://www.elcollie.com/st/fire.html\n18. http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=revivalspirits\n19. http://abominationnation.blogspot.com/2008/05/who-is-todd-bentley.html\n20. http://www.smom.org/\n21. http://www.sherryshriner.com/rick-joyner.htm\n22. www.seekgod.ca/legacy.htm\n23. http://www.cephasministry.com/masonic_knights.html\n24. http://www.holiday-malta.com/resort/malta/history/knightsofmalta3.htm\n25. www.harvestnet.org/lookback/troubleinprophetland.htm\n26. www.orderofmalta.org.uk/history.htm\n27. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer\n28. ftp.fortunaty.net/com/sacred-texts/pag/idr/idr23.htm\n29. Alexander Hyslop \u201cThe Two Babylons\u201d http://philologos.org/__eb-ttb/sect33.htm\n30. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?\n_r=4&res=950DE1D7173BE733A25751C2A9609C946397\nD6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin\n31. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/06/the-worldwide-u.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 28817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79146475.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4KI4FTLERJTKHMATN2JA7PN5GHF4GXGE", "length": 398, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "id.loc.gov", "title": "Gopnik, Adam - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress", "raw_content": "\u05d2\u05d5\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05e7, \u05d0\u05d3\u05dd\nOrganization: The New Yorker\nfound: His Voila Car\u00eame! 1980:t.p. 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This 22.5 hectare brownfield site lies 1 kilometre to the north east of the town centre.\nIn 2012 IDPartnership joined the Central Park design team and were given the opportunity of completing the masterplan and successfully achieving planning approval for a hybrid planning application for a total residential development of up to 507 units; 1700 sq m of the use classes A1, A3 and A4; 26,500 sq m office development (B1), hotel (C1), and a multi-storey car park.\nDarlington has since been successful in attracting further investment and development in the southern part of the site which has seen the construction of \u2018Business Central\u2019 which provides office space for small and medium sized businesses and the Centre for Process Innovation opposite. IDP produced a revised masterplan to take account of the increased level of commercial development. The masterplan seeks to integrate the housing and commercial developments with a linear park that connects the different character areas. The masterplan also provides a design code to inform future commercial development and encourage the delivery of high quality spaces between these blocks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://illnessandabsenteeism.com/newsletter/expanded-case-summaries/october-2012/ottawa-city.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:17Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZIA7TFK7X2B5NXCGZOAEGXMAQ7XJOBS", "length": 3943, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "illnessandabsenteeism.com", "title": "\" /> Expanded Case Details | Illness & Absenteeism", "raw_content": "Ottawa (City) (2012), 218 L.A.C. (4th) 83 (Sheehan)\nIn Ottawa (City) (2012), 218 L.A.C. (4th) 83 (Sheehan), the arbitrator considered whether the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019 decision in Quebec Cartier [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1095 served to prevent the Union from calling post-termination evidence in the form of a psychiatric report completed some time after the employee\u2019s termination.\nArbitrator Sheehan stated that the Quebec Cartier decision was \u201cgenerally viewed as the high water mark for the adoption of a restrictive approach regarding the admissibility of post-termination evidence.\u201d He commented that Ontario arbitrators, in a series of cases, distinguished the decision on the basis that Quebec law did not incorporate a comparable provision to that set forth in s. 48(17) of the Ontario Labour Relations Act. That section expressly provides an arbitrator with the discretion to substitute a lesser penalty \u201cwhich seems just and reasonable in all the circumstances.\u201d\nThe arbitrator found that s. 60(2) of the Canada Labour Code was similar in nature and that it provided \u201ca sufficient underpinning to allow for the post-termination evidence\u201d of the Union\u2019s psychiatrist.\nThe arbitrator also stated that, on the facts of this case, it was not necessary to rely on these statutory differences, for in Quebec Cartier, the court recognized that post-termination evidence would be admissible \u201cif it sheds light on the reasonableness and appropriateness of the dismissal under review at the time it was implemented.\u201d He commented that this view was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada in Toronto (City) Board of Education (1997), 144 D.L.R. (4th) 385 (S.C.C.)\nOn the issue of the Employer\u2019s right to call reply evidence in the form of an earlier psychiatric report, the arbitrator found that the employer\u2019s entitlement was \u201crooted in the rubric of ensuring a fair hearing\u201d:\nIt is the Union that is asserting that the grievor has a disability that impacted upon his ability to follow the procedure for reporting and substantiating his absences from work at the time of his termination. Specifically, the Union has raised the grievor\u2019s state of mental health as a \u201cdefence\u201d to rebut the Employer\u2019s just cause argument. The Union, in my view, bears the onus of establishing a nexus between the grievor\u2019s disability and the actions underlying his termination. Fairness generally dictates that he who asserts must prove. Accordingly, an evidentiary onus shifts to the Union to advance the evidence, at the first instance, in support of that defence \u2026\nIn the case at hand, the Employer\u2019s submission of rebuttal evidence, such as the assessment by [the independent psychiatrist] in reply would not, in my view, constitute the Employer \u201csplitting its case\u201d; but rather the employer would be responding to the exculpatory argument advanced by the Union. The evidence, if advanced, would not be confirmatory of the Employer\u2019s case but would seek to negate the exculpatory argument of the Union. As noted in Board of School Trustees No. 39 (Vancouver) [(1996), 56 L.A.C. (4th) 8 (B.C. Arb. 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Other specialty areas include composing RFI and FRP's for services (janitorial, food, landscape and transportation) allowing our client's schools to function efficiently and ultimately more profitable. 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Our high-touch approach and rigorous process consistently delivers the highest quality leadership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inbedwithmaradona.com/the-100-2011/2011/12/10/jelle-vossen.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PJQVMVUQIFXRUVXMHIX7R7DAZSM3KQNN", "length": 1334, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "inbedwithmaradona.com", "title": "Jelle Vossen \u2014 IBWM", "raw_content": "Jelle Vossen 22 Striker Genk\n22-year-old forward Vossen has had a good 12 months. A formidable goal-scoring record for Genk where he notched 20 times in 37 appearances in 2010-11 demonstrates just how good a finisher the Bilzen born striker is.\nProving to have an eye for goal from inside or outside the box, he found himself regularly on the score sheet with opening goals, equalisers, winners, headers, volleys and tap-ins. His good form was rewarded with full international honours for the emerging Belgian national side and after managing to score twice for his country, his place now looks assured.\nGood strikers are a valuable commodity in world football but the caveat must be made that the Jupiler league might just be Vossen\u2019s level. His international form and a run in the Champions League will determine if a move to one of Europe\u2019s main leagues will figure in his future but there is a real possibility that this is as good as it gets.\nVossen is developing nicely in at a club that suits him. It could be that he\u2019s an excellent player in one of Europe\u2019s smaller leagues and in the long-term, that may well prove to be enough career-wise.\n\u201cClassic poacher for Genk who has a habit of drawing fouls from the opposition. 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After graduating from Boston University, Amanda continued to pursue a master\u2019s degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. Not only has she spoken at the World Economic Forum, her research has also been acknowledged by illustrious organisations such as UNESCO.\nWiyoga Nurdiansyah & Muhammad Sagita", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 3921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://insanitek.net/veggies-or-fruits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KAVH3HTJ3LRIOFGJ5AWMC5QA2ABKGPOG", "length": 7097, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "insanitek.net", "title": "Confusion in the Produce Aisle: Team Fruit vs Team Veggie - Insanitek", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Get Inked \u00bb Confusion in the Produce Aisle: Team Fruit vs Team Veggie\nHigh Angle Close Up of Bowls of Fruit and Pitcher of Juice - Chunks of Melon and Pineapple in Dishes Beside Jug of Orange Juice\nEditor\u2019s note: All photos used in this post are of fruits, not veggies.\nImagine ordering a fruit smoothie only to find out it is made with bell peppers, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, peas, olives, and corn. Ewww. While not the sweet treat you expected, the restaurant didn\u2019t make a mistake. Technically speaking, you got what you ordered\u2026a mixture of blended fruit. This misunderstanding stems for our muddled classification of what makes a fruit and fruit and what makes a vegetable a vegetable and what makes a berry a berry. The trouble started because people started labeling produce as either fruit or vegetable long ago, long before scientific classifications based on plant structure, growth, and reproduction. The layman\u2019s classification has stuck around and, today, confusion remains over the botanical classification of fruits and vegetables. Let\u2019s clear the air so you don\u2019t find eggplant in your berry cup.\nBack in 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled anonymously on the debate in the Nix v. Hedden case. At the center for the case was the humble, yet controversial tomato. Clarification regarding the tomato\u2019s status as either a fruit or a vegetable was needed for taxation purposes. The Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur, required a tax on all imported vegetables, but not on fruits. John Nix, the founder of New York City\u2019s largest produce seller, sued Edward Hedden, the tax collector for the Port of New York, for repayment of taxes collected on imported tomatoes, arguing that they are, botanically speaking, a fruit. Lawyers for both sides cited dictionary definitions, scientific taxonomy, cookbooks, and common usage in their arguments. Turning their backs on science and botany, the Supreme Court Justices unanimously agreed to give the tomato the label of vegetable, based primarily on the usage of the tomato and evidence that tomatoes are viewed as vegetables in the common vernacular.\nThe thing is, the Supreme Court got it wrong. From a botanical standpoint, a fruit is a seed-bearing growth that has been developed from the ovary of a flowering plant. That is what a tomato is. Conversely, a vegetable is any other edible part of a plant, including the flowers, leaved, roots, and stem. Adding to the confusion are berries and beans, which we will get to soon.\nCulinary usage, however, divides produce along flavor lines. Anything that is sweet in flavor and commonly used to make desserts have been called fruits, while produce with a savory flavor and served as a meal\u2019s main or side dish, was labeled a vegetable.\nIt is this clash between plant reproduction and botany versus flavor and usage that has led to our current befuddlement in the produce aisle of the grocery store. But if we examine the botanical definition of fruit, we see that squash, peas, pumpkin, and avocados all join apples, peaches, bananas, and, yes, tomatoes on Team Fruit.\nTeam Fruit, however, can be divided into four subgroups, which themselves, can be confusing and subject to confusing nomenclature (plot twist \u2013 a strawberry is not a berry!). Drupes are fruits with one seed encased in an endocarp that is surrounded by fleshy pulp. Pitted fruit, such as peaches, plums, and olives, fall into this category. Pomes have many seeds in fleshy tissue, surrounded by a pericarp. Pears and apples are pomes. Berries have several seeds that are individually surrounded by a pericarp, such as grapes, tomatoes, and eggplant. Hesperidia have leathery rinds, and include cantaloupe, squash, and cucumbers. Citrus fruits, like lemon, oranges, and grapefruit, are a special kind of hesperidia, categorized by their segmentation and acidity.\nBerries are comprised of three parts, or layers. The exocarp is the outer skin of the berry. The endocarp is the part at the very center of the berry that holds the seeds. The mesocarp is the fleshy part that is in between the other two layers. Despite their misleading names, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries don\u2019t meet these standards. A banana, grape, and eggplant, however, do.\nMembership into the Berry Club has a few other stipulations. A berry, in order to be called a berry, must have more than one seed. So a cherry is not a berry\u2026it is a drupe. Plus, a berry must develop from one flower that has one ovary. Peppers, cranberries, blueberries, kiwis, and eggplants meet this requirement, but strawberries and raspberries do not. They develop from blossoms with more than one ovary.\nGreen beans are a fruit, botanically speaking.\nBeans, like berries, are often confusing. We serve them like vegetables and even mix them into our stews and soups, however they are a great source of plant-based proteins so they are often groups with meat and poultry on the USDA\u2019s food pyramid. Botanically, beans and peas are fruits because they come from the seed-bearing growth formed from an ovary, either on the plant\u2019s stalk or on its roots. But they are in the legume subgroup. Legumes are edible seeds formed inside a seed pod. Peas, beans, peanuts, and lentils are all legumes, making them all fruits. Nuts, in general, are on Team Fruit, with a few exceptions. Almonds and cashews, for example, are seeds.\nTeam Veggie is a lot less complicated. Vegetables are any edible part of a plant that is not a fleshy growth from an ovary. With broccoli and cauliflower, we are consuming the flowers or buds. Green onions and celery give us edible stalks or stems. We eat the leaves of several plants, including spinach, kale, and lettuce. The roots of many plants, such as potatoes, carrots, onions, and beets, are deliciously edible.\nThe takeaway from all this is that everything you thought you knew about fruits and vegetables might be way more complex than you ever knew\u2026bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. Peanuts are protein-packed fruits. Olives are akin to peaches. It doesn\u2019t matter if a produce item is sweet or savory. Cherries and avocados are similar. And the Supreme Court \u2013 at least in 1893 \u2013 felt that cookbooks were more accurate than scientific classifications. This should make your next trip to the produce aisle of the grocery store more interesting for you.\nGeggel, Laura. \u201cWhy Are Banana Berries, But Strawberries Aren\u2019t?\u201d LiveScience. 12 Jan. 2017. Web. 8 Apr. 2018.\nOrganic Facts. \u201cAre Beans Vegetable or Fruits?\u201d Organic Facts. 19 Feb. 2018. Web. 8 Apr. 2018.\nOrwig, Jessica. \u201cPeanuts, Pistachios, and Other \u2018Nuts\u2019 That Aren\u2019t Actually Nuts.\u201d Business Insider, 2 Feb. 2016. Web. 8 Apr. 2018.\nPennington, Jean A.T., and Rachel A. Fisher. \u201cClassifications of Fruits and Vegetables.\u201d Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Academic Press, 22 Jan. 2009. Web. 8 Apr. 2018.\nVillarreal, Raquel. \u201cAre Nuts a Fruit or a Vegetable? LiveStrong, 3 Oct. 2017. Web. 8 Apr. 2018.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s the Difference Between a Fruit and a Vegetable?\u201d LiveStrong, 12 June 2012. Web. 8 Apr. 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 8338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ipneighbor.com/neighbors.php?q=NEWMOMBLOG.COM&db=16", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MVKR4S35EKIA65FIPLJFADXCPKBAHQCM", "length": 153, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ipneighbor.com", "title": "ipneighbors of NEWMOMBLOG.COM - Apr 21, 2018", "raw_content": "The following is a list of (19999) Domain Names On the web hosting Server with the IP Address of 91.195.240.82 and share this server with NEWMOMBLOG.COM.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5014, "original_length": 310961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 159.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://itunes.ng/mp4download/video-tyga-swish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:08Z", "digest": "sha1:VCPKAEIDNNKOYAHUKCOKKEB2ZKDGX3YG", "length": 951, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "itunes.ng", "title": "DOWNLOAD VIDEO: Tyga \u2013 SWISH (MP3/VIDEO) - iTunesNG", "raw_content": "As \u201cTaste\u201d continues to climbs the charts, Tyga follows it up with another summer-ready single, \u201cSWISH.\u201d\nKing Gold Chains escapes to paradise in the booty-filled video, which was shot at a beachside mansion in the Dominican Republic. Bikini-clad women twerk by the pool and show off their exotic assets, while Tyga rides around the island on a jet ski and motorcycle. He later brings the party to a neon-lit soundstage, where he performs in a Lakers jersey as women \u201cback that ass\u201d up. Tommy the Clown also makes a cameo.\n\u201cOh girl, I\u2019m tryna get your pussy wet,\u201d raps Tyga over the D.A.Doman production. \u201cGirl, you look good when you back that ass.\u201d\n\u201cTaste\u201d is currently No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, Tyga\u2019s high-charting solo single since 2011\u2019s \u201cRack City,\u201d which peaked at No. 7. The track has been certified platinum and the music video has over 132 million views. Tyga can also be heard on Iggy Azalea\u2019s single \u201cKream.\u201d\nHead to DR with T-Raww.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iyashinoshigoto.info/golfing-at-le-grand-vallon-in-mont-st-anne-quebec/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TBLBQQ3EMOLVH5FP62GO2O5FBCUVADKN", "length": 2400, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "iyashinoshigoto.info", "title": "Golfing at Le Grand Vallon in Mont St. Anne, Quebec- iyashinoshigoto.info", "raw_content": "Golfing at Le Grand Vallon in Mont St. Anne, Quebec\nYesterday I was lucky enough to have the chance to play in Mont St-Anne, Quebec. It\u2019s located roughly 45 minutes away from Quebec City which kinda blew my mind, how lucky are the people of this region to have mountains like this so close to the city? The proximity to untamed nature is next level but enough of that, let\u2019s discuss a glorious round of golf\u2026\nFor starters, think this is the hardest course I\u2019ve ever played. It\u2019s possible there are harder courses but I definitely can\u2019t remember one right now. I met up with the Assistant Professional Jeff and next thing you know, we were playing from the black. The black is way at the back aka the others options aren\u2019t hard enough already so we\u2019ll add an extra 20-50 yards each hole just for the fun of it\u2026\nWhen I say the course is hard, I mean it. How is it hard? Well for starters the slope is kinda crazy and it\u2019s everywhere, not just on the greens. Even on the fairway, you\u2019ll often be faced with shots above or below you and each one has its own tricks to playing. Let\u2019s not even discuss the rough that lines the fairways, not sure what type of grass it is but it\u2019s hard to hit that ball out with any type of authority. Besides what I\u2019ve mentioned, it also has its fair share of water, bunkers, fescue and all those wonderful things that make golfers utter four letter words besides golf\u2026\nOn the 9th hole we met up with the starter Will and the three of us had a genuinely great time. Or at least I did but they seemed to be enjoying themselves as well. All green fees come with access to the practice range and a cart, also here\u2019s a tip for you\u2026 If you go after 2pm the price drops drastically so keep that in mind if you\u2019re in the region and looking to live a little \u201cgolf life\u201d while on vacation.\nAfter a great round of golf, I enjoyed a large Stella on my favorite hole, the 19th. I\u2019d definitely like to play that course again sometime and it was one of the first full rounds I\u2019ve ever played from the black. Miraculously I parred the first hole and then it was back to \u201cbogey life\u201d for this gentleman.\nThanks to for their hospitality, I had a great time and would love to return.\nP.S: Great meeting you Jeff & Will.\nExploring Wendake, The Huron-Wendat Reserve in Quebec\nBonjour, Today I had the pleasure of visiting Wendake aka a Huron-Wendat Reserve outside Quebec City. I was met by...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jamaica-star.com/article/commentary/20170929/jamaica-we-created", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:C2NJFN2DSSNHFCP6AMNW44FXOPC3VNOR", "length": 2725, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "jamaica-star.com", "title": "This is the Jamaica we created | Commentary | Jamaica Star", "raw_content": "This is the Jamaica we created\nFour M16 assault rifles, a Glock 40 pistol and a quantity of assorted ammunition were seized in Flanker, St James on Monday.\nSecurity forces on the ground in Mt Salem in Montego Bay, St James, within the zone of special operations.\nIn the past week, the political ombudsman was robbed, a policewoman and her daughter attacked during a home invasion, and a dead gunman's crony vows on social media to keep on killing. This is the Jamaica we created.\nA thousand murders a year, regardless of which party is in power, lottery scams, more than 250 gangs islandwide. These are the things we have turned a blind eye on over the last two decades, and then we turn around and complain that the Government and the police are not doing enough.\nMeanwhile, gunmen have become so emboldened that they are killing babies and teenagers and posting pictures on social media of themselves posing with their weapons. Why do you think all of this is happening?\nIt's happening because we have, over the years, stuck our heads in the sand, hoping the problems would go away. But as you can see, it hasn't. If you have a sore on your foot and you ignore it, and it's not healing, and you're still not going to the doctor, eventually, you will lose that foot.\nTURN ON US\nSimilarly, if we know who the criminals are and we choose not to tell what we know, then those gunmen are going to begin to turn on us. But is that a wind of change I sense?\nIn recent days, the police have been making some headway into stemming the crime monster threatening to destroy us. More than 30 weapons, including M16 rifles, as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition have been seized by police, and two of the country's most wanted criminals have been cut down.\nIt is not a coincidence that this is happening now. Induced by initiatives like the Zones of Special Operations, which is flawed, but has still proven to be effective, and the $100-million tranche allocated to paying for information leading to the recovery of weapons and the apprehension of criminals, people have begun to respond.\nThe number of calls to Crime Stop have doubled, and the impact is being seen.\nWe still have a long way to go. ZOSO needs to be tweaked, and people need to start providing even more information for the security forces to get those guns, reduce those murders, and start scaring the criminals.\nWe have just removed the scab off the sore. Now we need to apply salve and bandages and start the healing process. Now is the time for us to be aggressive. We must put an end to the days when we are the lambs just waiting to be slaughtered. We have to become the lions that take our country back from the hyenas.\nSend comments to levyl1@hotmail.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jameschaulaw.com/more-women-paying-santa-clara-county-san-jose-spousal-support/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VDAJD7GSC57T7JESUCXW2KYHBU65PI4Z", "length": 933, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jameschaulaw.com", "title": "More Women Paying Santa Clara County San Jose Spousal Support \u2013 Law Office James Chau", "raw_content": "Alimony is a word that is not well received when discussing divorce. Most people balk at the mere mention of spousal support. This territory has been, traditionally, the area of concern for men. This, however, is changing.\nIn an article I found today, a recent survey of 1,650 lawyers found that 54% have seen an uptick in the number of females paying alimony over the past few years. The article discusses the bafflement of a few women who could not believe they were on the hook for spousal support payments. Alimony does not consider gender in its calculation or award. It is important when seeking divorce to be not only prepared with the financial documents needed to corroborate income and assets, but also to have an attorney who can help you understand what the potential spousal support consequences may be.\n\u2190 Australian Court Rules Domestic Violence\nFinancial Issues to Consider in a Bay Area Santa Clara San Jose Divorce \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/may-the-4th-be-with-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TWJTXRREXPE6CHTD4KGSX2T3SFTXNNDF", "length": 1631, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "japanesenostalgiccar.com", "title": "May the 4th Be With You | Japanese Nostalgic Car", "raw_content": "\u2190 KIDNEY, ANYONE? This 1980 Honda Prelude is gold, Jerry!\nMOTORSPORT: Honda Civic Racing History \u2192\nPosted on May 4, 2017 by Ryan Senensky\nSince today is the unofficial holiday for Star Wars fans around the world, we felt compelled to post the 1977 Star Wars promo Toyota Celica Liftback. The car was given away in a contest at the launch of the original movie that started it all, but has disappeared from the public eye over the years. It seems that any record of the winner was later destroyed and they lost track of the car. We are currently looking into the status of the search for the car and will update you with details as soon as they are available.\n\u201cThere is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force.\u201d \u2013 Jedi Code as recited by Obi-Wan Kenobi\nThis post is filed under: Reminder and\ntagged: a20, celica, star wars, toyota.\n3 Responses to May the 4th Be With You\nI\u2019m surprised you guys didn\u2019t mention the Toyota GB guys posting about this: http://blog.toyota.co.uk/help-find-this-star-wars-celica-you-must\nThat was a few years ago. We are verifying if it was ever found or if anyone had a lead on it.\nD H said:\nI was contacted by some body shop guys in CA about purchasing my RA29. They initially got ahold of me to see if it was the original (it is not, it\u2019s brown/repainted black). They were trying to have a replica Star Wars Celica built for Episode 8 this year. Displeased with the color and current condition of my Celica, they eventually just bought the wheels off of me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://josiahgo.com/exclusive-interview-wilson-lim-founder-of-abenson-group-of-companies-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UOVY2Y7B4J3OOXR3IQALSWXFKSZ6DUVL", "length": 4606, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "josiahgo.com", "title": "The Marketing Mentor | Josiah Go", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Marketing Plan in the Philippine Setting \u00bb Q&A with Wilson Lim, Founder of Abenson Group of Companies on Starting Up New Ventures\nQ1: You have founded many successful companies like Abenson, Walter Mart, Electroworld and many distribution companies. Where and how do you get ideas for your businesses?\nThrough the years, I have realized that the market evolves relentlessly. With the technological advancements, consumers are now better informed and more connected. The key to success is the ability to continuously identify and address the evolving needs of our consumers.\nAll of our business ideas seek to serve our consumers better, and win them to become customers for life.\nAbenson started out as an appliance store and through the years, we have seen the evolution of the digital age, hence the establishment of Avant and Electroworld to address the consumers\u2019 growing need for the newest gadgets at great value.\nI have also come to realize that the ideas for any business come from events, and many of the new ventures we have launched were opportunities identified during a time of crisis.\nWalter Mart was established to provide customers a new shopping experience, providing convenience and a complete assortment closer to home. Walter Mart was launched in the 1990\u2019s, at the time of the economic crisis when the major players were not expanding aggressively. We saw that there was an opportunity to expand in developing communities and uplift their standards of living by providing gainful employment to the locals and improving their shopping experience.\nSuccessful business ideas are complimentary ventures that provide a one-stop-shopping experience to our consumers. Abenson ventured into the furniture business by launching Home Plus Furniture to compliment our main line as our customers were looking for new product offerings. We have expanded into the aircon installation business named Global Air and After-Sales service of appliances called Aserco to provide convenience to our existing Abenson customers. All our successful investments compliment and support our main business as we understand the evolving needs of our consumers and find ways to address them.\nQ2: How do you know if the new venture or new project you are entering has a good fighting chance to succeed?\nAny successful business venture would require an extensive knowledge of the industry, competent people to run the business, resources for investment, and I cannot emphasize enough, the need for hard work to make things happen. If all these elements are present, it improves the success rate of the new venture.\nBeing an entrepreneur has trained me to be patient. Any new venture would require a gestation period to be profitable. In some of our new ventures, we experienced losses initially yet we continue to be flexible and innovative to make the business succeed.\nWe place the right people to manage the business. We continue to invest in our people thru training and development. We also provide them continuous opportunities to grow in the development.\nEven with our various business units, we do not assume that succeeding in one business will ensure our success in other fields. We need the humility to know that there are still so many things to learn and improve. We continue to make mistakes but we continue to learn. We never assume that we know it all.\nQ3: Marketing is so important for start-up companies, what advise can you give aspiring or new entrepreneurs to avoid some of the marketing traps you wish you had avoided?\nOne of our marketing strategies, which we have implemented, was to be the first to market in new communities. Walter Mart Community Center expanded in Calabarzon years before the major players entered the market. Our first-to-market strategy worked well for us, and we make sure we continue to innovate, so even as the big players entered the market, Walter Mart is able to continue to grow.\nMy advise to entrepreneurs is never to sit on one\u2019s laurels. Even if you are the first to innovate, there will be new players who will come up with better products and services. Continuous improvement and excellence are necessary to remain competitive.\nAt the end of the day, we follow a set of guiding principles that we call the Benison Way and this is comprised of the following components:\nAn Institution that Lasts.\nOur guiding principles remind us to work as teams as we focus in serving our customers for generations to come.\nTags : Abenson Core Values Growth strategy\nPrevious post link Q&A with Roberto Claudio, Chairman of Toby\u2019s Group of Companies on Sports Retailing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 350, "original_length": 11947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jourdenuit.info/customessays/Feminism/16068.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4WRZTON2RVOWTD3HGVVVKIOOEN5N377R", "length": 3856, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "jourdenuit.info", "title": "Anne Hutchinson 16068 term paper- jourdenuit.info", "raw_content": "Anne Hutchinson Term Paper\nThe Free essays given on our site were donated by anonymous users and should not be viewed as samples of our custom writing service. You are welcome to use them to inspire yourself for writing your own term paper. If you need a custom term paper related to the subject of Feminism or Anne Hutchinson , you can hire a professional writer here in just a few clicks.\nAnne Hutchinson challenged the traditional role of women in the Puritan society through her opposing religious beliefs. Anne Hutchinson was most likely not the first woman to have her own thoughts. She was simply the first to act on them.\nAnne Hutchinson was born on or about July17, 1591 in Alford, Licolnshire, England. She was the daughter of Reverend Francis Marbury. Rev. Marbury spoke out that many of the ordained ministers in the Church of England were unfit to guide people's souls. For this act of defiance, he was put in jail for one year. Anne read many of her father's books on theology and religion. Much of Anne's independence and willingness to speak out was due to her father's example. Anne admired her father for his defiance of traditional church principles.\nThen in 1612 she married William Hutchinson. Together they had 15 children.\nIn 1634 she and her husband moved to Boston. Here Anne began holding informal church meetings in her home discussing the pastor's services and also preaching her beliefs to her followers. Threatened by meetings she held in her Boston home, the clergy charged Hutchinson with hersey. An outspoken female in a male hierarchy, Hutchinson had little hope that many would speak in her defense, and she was being tried by the General Court. In 1636 she was charged with hersey and banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Several years later when she moved to New York she was killed in an Indian attack.\nAnne challenged the Puritan clergy. She believed that: \"1.One can feel one's salvation and is filled with the spirit of God after conversion. 2.One needn't be learned in the Bible or in the Puritan writers in order to be saved. 3.The ministers are all under the covenant of works, except John Cotton, who is under the covenant of grace.4. Inner light is the guarantee of salvation.5. All responsibility for salvation is placed on Christ. 6.Every person has the ear of God if only he or she would ask for it, and listen to the answer. 7.Indian slavery is wrong - people of all skin colors are of one blood. 8.Sunday shouldn't be set aside as the Lord's Day because every day is the Lord's day. 9.Christians will have new bodies when they get to heaven.10.Predestination is unfounded.11.Prayers should not be memorized, but inspired by love for God, waiting on Him.12.Holy Spirit dwells within each Christian like a personal union.13.The Law should be interpreted by each person as their own conscience dictates.14.Child baptism is wrong because the child doesn't know what is being done to him or her.\" Her preachings were unjustly labeled as \"antinomianism\" and she was called \"antinomian\" or a person that holds that the moral law is no obligation for those who have true faith againt law.\nAnne Hutchinson was condemned because she did not fit into the prescribed role of women in her colonial period basically that of having no will or mind of her own. Anne was a free thinker. She wasn't afraid to speak out against the church. She was clearly a great leader in the cause of religious toleration in America and the advancement of women in society.\nCrawford, Deborah. Four Women in a Violent Time. NewYork: Crown Publishers Inc.,\nRogers, Jay. America's Christian Leaders: Anne Hutchinson. 7 pars. Online. Available HYPERLINK http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0193_Anne_Hutchinson. html\nW.Jenny. \"Anne Hutchinson\" 5 pars. Online. Available HYPERLINK http://www.gms.ocps.k12.fl.us/biopage/h-m/hutchinson.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jourdenuit.info/customessays/Macbeth/18958.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:XT4WTRGTHL5JNMCQHZLQGTS32SI3A4R5", "length": 6204, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "jourdenuit.info", "title": "Macbeth Inspired Arts 18958 term paper- jourdenuit.info", "raw_content": "Macbeth Inspired Arts\nMacbeth Inspired Arts Term Paper\nThe Free essays given on our site were donated by anonymous users and should not be viewed as samples of our custom writing service. You are welcome to use them to inspire yourself for writing your own term paper. If you need a custom term paper related to the subject of Macbeth or Macbeth Inspired Arts , you can hire a professional writer here in just a few clicks.\nMacbeth is a story of a man, whose visions of power grew by the ambitions of murder and treason. Until his thirst for power caused him to lose that very source of his ambition to the blade of Macduff's sword. It is the ironic and symbolic elements of this play that have caused so many to be inspired in many different forms of the arts. Shakespeare\u2019s ways of creating and destroying a scene with such great detail and imagery, gave life to the open minds of inspiration. Through the words he places in the actors mouth Shakespeare is able to create images in the audiences\u2019 minds to changes a place, a season or an atmosphere. Macbeth is a play full of so many diverse human characteristics, it\u2019s easy for anybody to put him or herself there and express within him or herself artistically. Shakespeare gave artists the ability to create parts themselves in a way they never thought possible or never new about. Shakespeare opened up a part in their hearts they didn\u2019t know existed and in a way Shakespeare has created another legacy through art. Different art forms have been created over the years. Many artists in various work fields have been inspired by Shakespeare\u2019s use of vocabulary, imaging and details, Macbeth paved a way for inspired expression and art.\nSo many wonderful, ironic, and disturbing scenes were created in the imagery of Macbeth, theatre people will never stop staging this Shakespearian play because they will never exhaust the possibilities within his texts. In Shakespeare\u2019s words every thing comes to life. Things are made real through hope, fantasy and imagination paving the way for artistic minds to express their feelings, expectations, or fantasies in ways other than words. Macbeth contains a story so deeply common to the essence of the human condition that it transcends Shakespeare\u2019s age, time and culture. Macbeth is full of the feelings that is within everyone; greed, envy, hates and pride all of which need to be expressed for some artistically. The playwright\u2019s language, often formal in structure and archaic in expression, is so luxuriant in rhythms, in imagery, and in patterns of sound that it allows for a myriad of variations in the way it is spoken. Macbeth is the perfect false reality to recreate in many forms of art. The characters are as complex as the language they use their actions and motivations typically are a twist of human impulses that run from one possibility to the other. The art inspired by Macbeth is just as complex; it challenges the art within the heart of the artists and the art created by Macbeth, two misunderstood realities.\nMacbeth was a play full of many times and trials where many characters had tragic deaths or ended up with ironic success. Many of these aspects relate to the reason for which artist are inspired. Shakespeare's Macbeth focuses on a man who chooses evil over good aided by poor willpower and power hungry ambition. Many artists relate well to the differences of good and evil and show through art as well as Shakespeare did through words. However, Macbeth is much more than a one-dimensional villain. Before the murder of Duncan, he is portrayed as a brave and loyal soldier who honored his king. The prophecies of three witches and the pressure of his wife, and his own ambition easily influenced Macbeth. The opening acts of Macbeth portray a world whose elements are unnatural and surreal. Macbeth is a play that contains numerous references to night and to darkness, this creates the atmosphere of growing evil that reflects the plot, and defines the dramatic world. As the play develops the grotesque becomes familiar: ghosts walk, innocents are murdered, and the dead are revenged. Ambition and the desire to attain power are driving forces in Macbeth as well as timeless aspirations. Many are going crazy to gain power or honor the country. The witches plotted to get Duncan's son Malcolm on the throne. They even disguise themselves as others to lead the characters to action and thought. In the end, they win the prize. Malcolm is on the throne. And MacDuff has killed Macbeth. At the very heart of this tragedy lies witchcraft. Many productions limit the role of the witches to that of a catalyst but in this production they do much more than Macbeth or Lady Macbeth. Many are inspired by this to draw and produce artworks that portray the power of the witches, the tangled web of killings or the fall of Macbeth.\nAspects of Macbeth are seemed to be intended to flatter King James. King James was known to be a fan of witchcraft, seeing as how he authored a book called Demonology in 1597. Many artists were only inspired by the three witches, they played the biggest part on the inspirations of artists. Many known and unknown artists have created scenes of Macbeth through paintings or sculptures. But it\u2019s their interpretation of what Shakespeare was feeling, along with their own influence. A lot of amateur artists have found a way to connect to Shakespeare\u2019s moods and imagery, and through their art they show a part of themselves that Shakespeare has helped to find and to create. Macbeth\u2019s relation in characters to that of humans is so similar it is easy to achieve a connection for most artists without even trying. Inspiration is spoken throughout all of Shakespeare\u2019s words in all of his play whether it be good or bad. He inspires someone to give a part of themselves in many ways and one of the most dramatic and intense ways is created through art visually. Macbeth set the grounds that were needed to create and relate to, which is all that was needed for millions to get inspired from.\nMacbeth And Its Design For King James' Approval\nMacbeth - Written To Please King James\nviagraon.com/online-apotheke-blog/viagra-versus-sildenafil-which-is-more-viable", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 7307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2018/07/on-bobby-bonilla-day-we-learn-bruce.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DJIFWTPTKTBJYNMD5IT3RBXD5IBJZ2JM", "length": 3999, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "joyofsox.blogspot.com", "title": "the joy of sox: On Bobby Bonilla Day, We Learn Bruce Sutter Is Still Drawing An MLB Check", "raw_content": "On Bobby Bonilla Day, We Learn Bruce Sutter Is Still Drawing An MLB Check\nEvery year on July 1, a few sportswriters point out that Bobby Bonilla is receiving a check from the Mets for $1,193,248.20. Bonilla will receive a similar check each July until 2035.\nHowever, as Michael Mayer points out, Bonilla is not alone. There are many former and current players who will receive millions of dollars after their careers are over. One example: Bruce Sutter threw his last pitch 30 years ago (!) and Atlanta has been paying him $1.12 million per year. Those payments will end in 2021, when Sutter receives a final payment of $9.1 million.\nI grouped Michael Mayer's list - which is most likely not complete - by team and semi-chronologically (and edited it a little bit for consistency):\nowe Joe Blanton deferred payments of $1 million in 2018 and $2 million in 2019\nowe Rafael Soriano an annual deferred payment of $2,000,000 for seven years (2018 through 2024)\nwill pay Jayson Werth a one-time deferred payment of approximately $11 million in 2018\nowe Daniel Murphy deferred payments of $2.5 million in 2019 and $3 million in 2020\nowe Matt Wieters a one-time deferred payment of $5 million in 2021\nwill pay Stephen Strasburg deferred payments of $10 million each on July 1 from 2024 through 2030 (these payments can change according to opt-outs)\nwill pay Max Scherzer deferred payments of $15 million each on July 1 from 2022 through 2028\nwill pay Ryan Zimmerman a total of $10 million over a span of 5 years for personal services once his playing career ends\nwill pay the final of three deferred payments of $2,333,333 to Kyle Lohse in 2018\nowe Ryan Braun $1,800,000 each year starting in 2022 through 2031\nowe Lorenzo Cain $1 million annually as a deferred payment from 2023 to 2027\nowe Jim Edmonds a deferred payment of $300,000 in both 2018 and 2019 (the annual payments started in 2010)\nwill pay Matt Holliday $1.4 million on every July 15 from 2020 to 2029\nhave paid Bret Saberhagen a deferred payment of $250,000 annually from 2004; these payments will continue through 2028\nowe Carlos Beltran his final deferred payment of $3,142,857 in 2018\nowe Johan Santana deferred payments of $5.5 million in 2018, 2019, and 2020\nwill cut a check for $1,193,248.20 to Bobby Bonilla today and will continue paying that annual amount through 2035; Bonilla also gets a second deferred payment of $500,000 every year that is split evenly between the Orioles and Mets; before the Bonilla deferred deal, the Mets deferred 40% of Darryl Strawberry's 1990 salary of $1.8 million at a 5.1% interest rate to be paid from 2004-2033 (that payment was sold by the IRS in 2015 to the highest bidder)\nwill give Chris Davis 15 deferred payments: $3.5 million annually from 2023 through 2032 and $1.4 million annually from 2033 through 2037\nbegan giving Ken Griffey Jr. a deferred payment of $3,593,750 in 2009 and will continue to do so annually through 2024\nowe Bronson Arroyo a deferred payment of $1,363,636 each year from 2018 through 2021\nare paying $13.1 million of the money they owed Todd Helton over a span of 10 years starting in 2014 with 3% interest\nis still paying Bruce Sutter a deferred payment of $1.12 million each year and will do so through 2021, at which time he will receive a final balloon payment of $9.1 million\nhave a deferred payment set up with Ichiro Suzuki: $25 million at 5.5% interest in annual installments each January 30 starting with the year after his retirement from the major leagues until at least 2032\nagreed to pay Albert Pujols $10 million over 10 years in a personal-services contract that begins upon retirement or once his contract expires\nagreed in 2009 to pay Gary Sheffield $12.5 million in deferred money with 3% interest; the final payment will be made in 2019\nare also paying Sheffield an undisclosed amount in deferred payments\nwill give Manny Ramirez a deferment payment of $2,003,389 this year and will continue paying that amount annually through 2026 at 2.5% interest", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 509, "original_length": 14858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://judithwolfe.com/lobosmoviereviews/reviews/coldsouls.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:24Z", "digest": "sha1:FBDGAHDZGCTHDAHG2VUHBR46HTSMQQF4", "length": 2707, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "judithwolfe.com", "title": "Lobo's Movie Reviews", "raw_content": "Alternate Title: The Unbearable Heaviness of Being\nStory: If you like your films with a heaping amount of the unexpected and a plot that causes you to think than you might want to check out this new film by director and writer, Sophie Barthes.\nThe main idea is that your soul is an organ just like, let's say, your pancreas and if it is causing you distress it can be removed, stored or traded with little fuss. Our protagonist, Paul Giamatti (played by a neurotic Paul Giamatti) is going through some trying times as he stars in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. He decides to unburden himself of his soul so he can get on with his life. Not surprisingly, this decision does not come without consequences. It turns out there is a Russian underground soul trafficking organization and his soul gets stolen while in storage.\nThe film has some good laughs and also some thought provoking questions. It is filmed with an eye for the chilly and filled with interesting characters. The problem however is that the initial concept quickly runs out of steam. This soul train sadly ends up on the wrong track.\nWatch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc5xdI5FPq8\nActing: Paul Giamatti is, as always, terrific. Dina Korzun as the Russian soul mule is very interesting. Emily Watson's talent as the woeful wife is totally wasted. David Strathairn as the soul doctor gives his usual great performance.\nTrivia: Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti was born in1967. He graduated from Choate prep school, majored in English at Yale, and obtained his Master's Degree in Fine Arts, with his major in drama from the Yale University School of Drama. He is a Boston Red Sox fan. Paul is the youngest of three children. His older brother, Marcus Giamatti, is also an actor. His sister, Elena, designs jewelry. His father, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was a professor of Renaissance Literature at Yale University, and went on to become the university's youngest president. (In 1986, Bart Giamatti was appointed president of baseball's National League. He became Commissioner of Baseball on April 1, 1989 and served for five months until his untimely death on September 1, 1989. He was commissioner at the time Pete Rose was banned from the game.)\nCritters: Lots of street dogs in Russia.\nFood: Chick pea is featured.\nSex Spectrum: Without a soul it is difficult to enjoy sex.\nVisual Art: The emptiness if life without a soul is depicted beautifully.\nTheater Audience: Five other soulful people and me.\nWeather: Brrrr - it is a cold winter in both St Petersburg and on the shore of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn.\nDrift Factor: I started to look at my watch about half way through.\nPredictability Level: I was not sure where this film would end up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/2014/11/price-level-regulation-and-its-reform.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:25Z", "digest": "sha1:X3PHIEJ3JZUXCUEC5I4VUSQKBJDIOSXE", "length": 1591, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jurisdynamics.blogspot.com", "title": "Jurisdynamics: Price-Level Regulation and Its Reform", "raw_content": "James Ming Chen, Price-Level Regulation and Its Reform, http://ssrn.com/abstract=771226 or http://bit.ly/PriceLevelRegulation:\nPrice-level, or \u201cprice-cap,\u201d regulation offers an alluring alternative to the traditional technique of monitoring a regulated firm\u2019s profits. Part II of this article contrasts price-level regulation with conventional cost-of-service ratemaking and with Ramsey pricing. Price-level regulation stands as a market-based, incentive-driven \u201cthird way\u201d between traditional regulation and complete deregulation. Part III provides formal specifications of price-level regulation. Although some jurisdictions have set price caps according to operating cost and rate-of-return calculations that clearly parallel those steps in conventional ratemaking, this article will focus on price-level methodologies that combine an economy-wide measure of inflation with an x-factor reflecting total factor productivity within a regulated industry.\nPart IV addresses the simpler component of price-level regulation, the choice of an inflation index. Part V devotes detailed attention to the treatment of the x-factor by two federal ratemaking agencies, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Closer examination of price cap methodologies adopted by FERC and the FCC suggests that price-level regulation based on inflation and an industry-specific X factor may be further streamlined. 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We have many years experience in property conveyancing and can provide expert advice at a cost effective price.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kellybrother.com/Home.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:OZ4WJ6KQA2VQTKJOCVITBD4KU4NKTTOI", "length": 1621, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kellybrother.com", "title": "Kelly Brother, Illustration", "raw_content": "What you have before you is a compilation of various images created over many years for numerous clients \u2014 illustrations from \u201csoup to nuts\u201d: medical, advertising, logos, editorial, technical, and other illustration works. I\u2019ve also included a \u201csketches\u201d section so you can see some of the humble beginnings of my work \u2014 just for the fun of it.\nThis site is kind of a \u201cgreatest hits\u201d although it\u2019s hard to think of a technical illustration of a pump or a bicycle fork as a greatest hit. You may have art-directed one of the included samples. If so, thanks for the business! If not, I hope we can work together some time and maybe your project will be included in my next multi-year compilation.\nCosts are estimated up front in an easy-to-read/comprehensible format and are very reasonable. I\u2019m fast, genial, eager to serve, thrifty, courteous...wait a minute: okay, I\u2019m some of that \u2014 I hope! And, I\u2019m pretty good at staying within my estimated cost/time range.\nOne of my skills is to \u201cemulate\u201d other stylistic approaches; anyone who has been in this business long enough has had to develop this skill. I love to meet new people and show my portfolio (gets me out of the house!) so I\u2019ll be glad to make an appointment and come visit you. If you have any questions about my work including \u201chow did you...\u201d or \u201cwhat\u2019s that image about...\u201d, feel free to call or write.\nI approach my work every day with one idea in mind: how can I help others with the gifts I\u2019ve been given. I hope I can provide the solution you desire for your next illustration need.\nKelly Brother\nkellybrotherart@comcast.net\n\u00a9 Kelly Brother, Illustration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kenmorewa.gov/comprehensiveplan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KAKBPR7G6GVIO5XHH2HSUA37KMPYOAHX", "length": 938, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kenmorewa.gov", "title": "Comprehensive Plan | City of Kenmore, Washington", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Kenmore in Action \u00bb Departments \u00bb Community Development \u00bb Comprehensive Plan\nThe Comprehensive Plan is a policy document that articulates the community\u2019s vision of future land use and growth for the City and its neighborhoods in a manner that is internally and regionally consistent, achievable, and affordable. The Plan serves as the guide for City staff and the City Council in making decisions regarding ordinances, regulations, and public facility investments to ensure that the overall goals and policies are furthered by those decisions.\nThe City of Kenmore's first Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the City Council in March of 2001. A major rewrite of the Plan was completed in 2014/2015:\nComprehensive Plan Document (Please note that the document is a large file and may take a few moments to load.)\nCopies of the Comprehensive Plan are available at City Hall for review or purchase.\nComprehensive Plan Guiding Regulations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://khmerelite.net/author/celine-dion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHE4SGNIA6G6ZX762PYMBNGLC2LLAHEK", "length": 314, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "khmerelite.net", "title": "Celine Dion's Quotes", "raw_content": "Celine Dion's Quotes 11\nI often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100\t000 in one day in a...\nThere's no such thing is aging\tbut maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful\tI...\nI was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I...\nI have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kimberlyandpaul.com/trips/Thai_Malay/bangkok.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3JFNCIZ4ALPRPO3L2GUNFHX2N3HM7JJZ", "length": 1162, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "kimberlyandpaul.com", "title": "Thailand & Malaysia", "raw_content": "In Bangkok, we went to Wat Pho because it was still open when we got there. This reclining Buddha's head is 15m tall.\nThe whole Buddha statue is 42m long.\nThe soles of his feet are decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl.\nHere's a closeup of the intricate mother-of-pearl designs. Each one of the rectangles is about 10 inches long.\nThe walls in the Buddha's building were all decorated with murals like this.\nYou can see the decorated ceiling above this mural.\nAfter leaving the building that housed the Buddha, we walked around the temple grounds a bit and saw lots of these tile-covered pagodas.\nSeveral of these were 10-12m tall and all were covered in decorative flowers made from tile.\nHere's a closeup of the flower mosaics.\nThis shows how the pagodas were completely covered in mosaics.\nWe liked this bouquet of tile flowers atop an archway.\nLater in the evening we went to the night market. Tons of souveniers as well as bootlegged CDs and DVDs were on display. Along the sides of this street were a multitude of bars featuring \"exotic\" entertainment. We bought Lost season 3 (which won't be available in the US for 6 months) for about $11.\nnext ~ Sepilok", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kingsfeet.forumotion.net/t1981-stepping-down", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QB27C4GV423MT7Y4B3GPAQI2L5SKVJGR", "length": 362, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kingsfeet.forumotion.net", "title": "Stepping Down", "raw_content": "Subject: Stepping Down Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:26 pm\nHey everyone, I thought I'd post in here and let you all know that I am stepping down from my position as senior mod. Since I've cut back on my time online I find myself not being able to keep up with my responsibilities here. I'm not leaving though, so you'll still see me around, though probably less frequently.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kingsfeet.forumotion.net/t2158-link-color", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:49Z", "digest": "sha1:U2U42LMOAUHBKBW2WIEJDLPSQUBPQYWG", "length": 1085, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kingsfeet.forumotion.net", "title": "Link color", "raw_content": "Subject: Link color Sun May 23, 2010 2:48 pm\nA thought...the links in posts are all the same color as the regular font, which makes it easy to miss links sometimes. I don't know how easily this can be fixed though, cause I think it's the same link color for the \"breadcrumbs\" (like above this thread, \"At the Feet of the King :: The Admin's Desk :: Regarding the forum :: Link color\"), and if those were a standard link-blue, then we'd lose them on the background. So...maybe the answer is just to make sure that everyone knows you've posted a link when you do...but I thought I'd see if anyone has looked into this.\nSubject: Re: Link color Sun May 23, 2010 3:17 pm\nRight - once you change the link colour it changes all of them - there's no way (that I've seen) to make some one colour and some another.\nIt might be a good idea to put the word link in parenthesis, like this (link) after the link, or highlight it and change the colour of the link text yourself.\n\u00bb Change the Link Color in the Blockquote\n\u00bb Visited Link Color problem\n\u00bb Change text and link color in Forumotion Toolbar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://komarkelov.ru/en/asu-continues-cooperation-italian-university", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OXE5YCA2NHFJYLJHXZE4PAR7DKZS7MDG", "length": 1914, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "komarkelov.ru", "title": "ASU Continues Cooperation with the Italian University | The site of the rector of Astrakhan State University K. A. Markelov", "raw_content": "ASU Continues Cooperation with the Italian University\nKonstantin Markelov visited Ca\u2019Foscari University of Venice, where he presented the academic potential of Astrakhan State University, held a number of meetings and discussed further plans with our foreign colleagues.\nIt should be recalled that cooperation with one of the well-known Italian universities started in 2005 when a respective agreement was signed. Since 2007, the partners have been implementing student and staff mobility programmes and major grants on a regular basis. In 2008, the universities signed an agreement on Ph.D. studies in addition to the main agreement, and in 2015 they signed another document which extended the area of cooperation.\nBeing at Ca\u2019Foscari University of Venice, the ASU Rector delivered a speech and dwelled on the university potential in extending international cooperation and implementing new projects. Prof. Markelov stressed the key positions of Astrakhan Region in the Russian part of the Caspian Sea region. Academic institutions play an important role in the strategy of its development, and nowadays Astrakhan State University both carries out its traditional educational and research activities quite successfully and is actively involved in the regional development. The Rector told our Italian colleagues about major projects, implemented in Astrakhan State University \u2014 Transport & Logistics Consortium of Caspian Higher Educational Institutions, Scientific & Educational Centre \u00abCaspian Region\u00bb and Caspian Scientific Youth Project Office. 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We gave working for the weekend a whole new meaning\u2026 breaking away from the things that keep us from chasing our dreams or falling in love. 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Well a new game is looking to help those people by paying off all of their student debt.\nThe new game show is called, \"Paid Off\" and will have three contestants, all of whom must carry some college debt battle it out over a series of questions. Whom ever answers the most questions by the time the show ends, the show will cover up to 100 percent of their loans.\nHosting the show is Michael Torpey, a New York-based actor. According to NBCnews, Torpey said \"We're playing in a weird space of dark comedy, as a comedian, I think a common approach to a serious topic is to try to laugh at it first.\"\nThe new show airs Tuesday nights at 9:00PM on TruTV network.\nFiled Under: Student Loans, truTV", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laderafamilychiropractic.org/index.php/new-patients/questions/what-is-chiropractic", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:41Z", "digest": "sha1:55CIJO27A6PEATQJK5G7BRZIQFRQTJED", "length": 1251, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "laderafamilychiropractic.org", "title": "What Is Chiropractic? - Ladera Family & Sports Chiropractic", "raw_content": "You are here: New Patients Questions What Is Chiropractic?\nChiropractic was founded by D.D. Palmer and established in 1895 as a healthcare system in the United States. Chiropractic is a science, art and philosophy. The science is based on the physiological fact that our bodies perform better and are healthier when there is no neurological interference. The art is in the skills of each doctor and the technique they choose to use to treat the patient and remove spinal nerve interference. The philosophy is rooted in the understanding that each of our bodies has the inborn ability to heal, control and regulate itself.\nChiropractic is about freeing nervous system interference in the spine, which then allows the body to function at its optimum. This allows communication from the brain to all organs and areas of the body to flow properly. Many life-changing benefits can arise from this rather simple correction and maintenance, which is why chiropractic is the third largest health care profession in the nation. When your body is functioning the way it was designed to, without interference from within, many areas of health will improve. Please read our patient testimonies to learn first-hand how people have benefited from chiropractic care.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lafagallery.com/inventory/gallery/415/details", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LZINY4A7QJW76EMKW4LFU5O5CDJKHRDX", "length": 1539, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "lafagallery.com", "title": "AVERHALS, George | LAFA Gallery", "raw_content": "AVERHALS, George\nBorn in 1906 in Schelle, a small town to the south of Atwerp, Georges Averhals would become a talented painter of landscapes and still lifes predominantly. He studied at the Hoger Instituut der Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. Here he received instructions from some of Belgium\u2019s most prominent artists in the post World War One years. Professors at the institute included Felix Gogo, Walter Vaes and Jan de Bruycker. Graduating around 1927 he commenced his career as a professional painter working at first in a somewhat traditional Impressionist manner before changing his direction towards Modernism by the late 1930\u2019s. This particular work, an example of his still life painting, can be considered to have been painted early in his career, a date of around 1928 has been suggested.\nAn interesting side note on Averhals career is that he was employed for a while by the National Bank of Belgium as an engraver for bank notes and government bond certificates. In the early 1930\u2019s he along with two of his contemporaries founded the Academy of Boom providing artistic instruction to that area. In 1936 he was made director of the academy, a position he held until after World War II.\nDuring the 1940\u2019s and 1950\u2019s he painted some figural works, mostly in watercolors, which although artistically interesting seem to lack the vitality of his earlier oeuvre. In the 1960\u2019s he returned to the Academy of Boom where he taught another generation of young Belgian Artists. 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He was listed as a Godparent of Charlotte Jane Baker on 13 May 1838 at St. H\u00e9lier, Jersey, Channel Islands. He appeared as head of the household on the census of 1841 at Ann Street, St. H\u00e9lier, Jersey, Channel Islands. He was enumerated as: George Baker, male, age 30, lab, born England. Grace Lamentor, Elizabeth Baker, Mary Ann Baker, George William Lethbridge Baker, John Stevens, William Stevens and Caroline Stevens also appeared in the household. He was listed as a Godparent of Robert Baker on 23 March 1842 at St. H\u00e9lier, Jersey, Channel Islands.\nGrace Lamentor\nElizabeth Baker b. 6 Mar 1836\nMary Ann Baker b. 26 Nov 1837\nGeorge William Lethbridge Baker b. 9 Feb 1840\nRobert Baker b. 23 Mar 1842\nThomas James Baker b. 24 Jan 1845", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://launeden.com/best-outdoor-pool-paris/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:I5LLMXS53SXD4GOYPCPL3TZR4WSJQJLV", "length": 1701, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "launeden.com", "title": "The best outdoor pool in Paris - Launeden", "raw_content": "admin\t 24th September 2016 Travel Paris\nWant to take a dip in the beautiful outdoors of the French capital? The iconic Molitor was once the most famous swimming pools in Paris, until it closed in 1989 and spent the next 20 years escaping demolition. From theater performances to fashion shows, Molitor and its charming Art Deco design quickly became a magnet for all things chic in Paris, a place to see and be seen.\nTucked away in the outskirts of the French capital, Molitor reopened in May 2014, paying much attention to its original design and layout. The rooms of the renovated Molitor retain the same yellow-blue color scheme as the original, which was designed to look like an ocean linear.\nAs well as the outdoor pool, open all year round and heated at 28C, you can also indulge in a quality spa session by Clarins or sip a cocktail on the rooftop garden terrace offering breathtaking views of the Eiffel Tower. Please note the pool is not open to public, so you\u2019ll have to book a room in order to use it.\nPia Rossini giveaway\nThough it can be hard to wave goodbye to Summer, Fall can be a wonderful opportunity to book your next escape. I teamed up with Pia Rossini to give you the chance to win a hamper full of must have fashion accessories worth over \u00a3100.\nAll you have to do is like their Facebook page and enter your full name and email address. The competition is open worldwide, between 24/09/2016 \u2013 01/10/2016. The prize includes: Solana Panama Marilla Scarf, Medina tote bag, Silvana sandals and Tobago hat (pictured above). The winner will be notified by 07/10/2016. Good luck!\nPrevious Post Fashion Week survival tips I live by\nNext Post Rise and shine: rules for a perfect morning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lawsdocbox.com/US_Government_Resources/72592748-County-of-alameda-civil-service-rules.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MSTUSYIOG563YHGKBZHFCQDGP2G7YBJ5", "length": 57270, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "lawsdocbox.com", "title": "County of Alameda. Civil Service Rules - PDF", "raw_content": "Download \"County of Alameda. Civil Service Rules\"\nPhilippa Martin\n1 County of Alameda C I V I L S E R V I C E C O M M I S S I O N Civil Service Rules\n2 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S PAGE Rules and Procedures... 8 Definitions... 9 Jurisdiction Organization and Administration Classification Examination Announcements, Applicants, Applications Examinations Employment Lists Certification Appointments Probationary Period Reduction in Force Disciplinary Action Administrative Appeals Miscellaneous Personnel Transactions Index The information previously included on pages 1 through 6 is contained in the Alameda County Charter. These pages have been omitted from these rules because it is a duplication of information.\n3 -7- SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 4 OF THE ORDINANCE CODE OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, BASED ON SECTIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE ENABLING ORDINANCE 162 OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THAT PROVIDE FOR APPOINTMENT PROCEDURES NOT INCLUDED IN THE ALAMEDA COUNTY CHARTER PROVISIONS. PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENTS Each county or township officer, Board or Commission may appoint any person without reference to the eligible civil service list to fill a vacancy in the classified civil service in the office or department of the officer, Board or Commission whenever no examination has ever been held for the position or whenever there is no eligible civil service list for the position Persons appointed pursuant to section shall serve until an eligible civil service list for the position is created and an appointment made therefrom, but in no event to exceed thirty (30) days after the eligible list is created. EMERGENCY APPOINTMENTS In case of an emergency where an appointment to fill a position in the classified civil service must be made forthwith and pending certification and appointment from the civil service eligible list, an appointment to fill the position may be made without regard to the civil service eligible list Persons appointed pursuant to Section shall serve only until an appointment from the appropriate eligible civil service list can be made, and in no case longer than ten (l0) days Sections and shall not be construed as authorizing successive emergency appointments.\n4 1000 Authority to Adopt Rules -8- RULES AND PROCEDURES Under the authority of Section 43 of the Charter of the County of Alameda, the Alameda County Civil Service Commission hereby prescribes and adopts these rules Purpose These rules are prescribed to carry out the purposes and intent of the civil service provisions of the Charter and of its enabling ordinance and to provide a system of effective personnel administration within the scope of those provisions. To this end these rules shall be liberally construed Continuing Provisions The provisions of these rules, insofar as they are substantially the same as rules of the Commission superseded hereby and relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations and not as new enactments. Rights, privileges, and remedies accrued under any rules superseded by these rules are continued in full force and effect Amendments to Rules The Commission may amend these rules at any time after due notice and hearing thereof. Due notice shall be given by posting the proposed amendment on the official website of the County Human Resource department and sending notice to County operating departments and recognized employee organizations at least ten business days prior to the date the hearing will be held and final action taken. All rules and amendments shall become effective on the date of their adoption by the Commission. Following adoption, updated rules shall be made available on the official website of the County Human Resource department and notice of the rules that have been changed shall be posted in the Commission s minutes. Amended 1/19/ Procedures The Commission may, from time to time without prior notice, establish procedures and change its established procedures for the purpose of regulating the administration of its functions under these rules Procedures Manual The Commission shall prepare, distribute to operating departments, and keep current a procedures manual, as an aid in conducting personnel transactions between the\n5 departments and the Commission's office. Such manual shall include copies of prescribed forms and detailed instructions in their use.\n6 Terms and Definitions DEFINITIONS The following terms, whenever used in these rules, shall be construed as defined below unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: Allocation: The determination of the class to which a position belongs and the assignment of a position to an appropriate class. Applicant: A person who has made formal application to take a civil service examination. Appointment: The offer to a person and his/her acceptance of a position in accordance with the provisions of these rules. Board: The Board of Supervisors of Alameda County. Candidate: A person who has been admitted to an examination. Certification: The submission of names of eligibles from the appropriate eligible list by the Director of Personnel to the requisitioning department head. Charter: The Alameda County Charter. Class: One or more positions sufficiently similar as to duties and responsibilities that the same title, the same minimum requirements, the same tests of fitness, and the same schedule of compensation may be applied. Classification: The process by which a class is established and by which its level in the schedule of classes is determined. Classification Plan: The current schedule of classes established by the Civil Service Commission and approved by the Board of Supervisors. Class Series: A number of classes related to one another in terms of ascending difficulty and responsibility of work within the same occupational field. Class Specification: The official description of a class adopted by the Commission. Commission: The Alameda County Civil Service Commission. County: The County of Alameda.\n7 Terms and Definitions (continued) Department: An administrative branch of the Alameda County government. The term department shall be construed to be synonymous with the terms office, board, commission, court, agency, institution, or with any other term designating a branch of County government. Department Head: The head of a County department charged with the responsibility for the work of the department and for the performance of employees of the department and who has the power, by law or legally delegated authority, to make appointments to and removals from positions in the classified service in accordance with the provisions of the Charter and these rules. The term department head shall be construed to be synonymous with the terms appointing authority, or any other title used to designate the head of a department as defined herein. Director: The Director of Personnel of the Alameda County Civil Service Commission. Eligible: Any person whose name is on an employment list. Employment List: A list of persons qualified for employment or reemployment in a class. Employee: A person legally holding a position or office in the classified service. Examination: Any test or group of tests to determine the fitness and relative ability of persons seeking employment or promotion in the classified service. Lay-off: Termination of the service of an employee without fault on his/her part. Level: The degree of relationship which one class bears to other classes in the classification plan. Position: A group of current duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by competent authority, requiring the full-time or part-time employment of one person. As used in these rules position and office shall be synonymous. Probationary Period: The working test period required before a regular appointment is complete. Probationer: A regularly appointed employee who is serving his probationary period.\n8 Terms and Definitions (continued) Promotion: Changing from a position in one class to a position in a higher class, or to a position in a class that offers a better career opportunity. Rank: An employee s class. Rating: See \"Score,\" below. Reduction in Compensation: A decrease in an employee s base salary below the base salary provided in Section of the Salary Ordinance of Appendix A of the applicable Memorandum of Understanding. Reduction in Rank: base salary. A demotion from one class to another class of lower Removal: The involuntary termination, discharge or dismissal of an employee from a class. Reallocation: Reassignment or change in allocation of an individual position by raising it to a higher class, reducing it to a lower class, or moving it to another class at the same level, on the basis of significant changes in the kind, difficulty, or responsibility of duties performed in such position. Status: The condition of an employee's employment, such as temporary, provisional, probationary, permanent, etc. Tenure: The permanent status attained by an employee upon the satisfactory completion of his/her probationary period. Score or rating: The number, to the nearest tenth of a point, that expresses the accomplishment of a candidate in an examination and the relative standing of a candidate or employee on an employment list. Amended 1/2/85, 4/15/ Section Headings Section headings of these rules shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of any section hereof Tenses, Gender, and Number The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present. Shall is mandatory and may is permissive. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.\n9 -12- JURISDICTION 1100 Classified Civil Service Jurisdiction of the Civil Service Commission includes all positions now existing or hereafter created in the County service, which are not specifically included in the unclassified civil service by the County Charter Unclassified Civil Service The following positions constitute the unclassified civil service of the County: (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) All officers elected by the people, and their chief deputies. All assistants, deputies, and other employees in the office of the District Attorney. All appointive boards and commissions. Members of the Civil Service Commission. All persons serving the County without compensation. Not to exceed two confidential employees of the Board of Supervisors. All appointive agency and department heads, other than department heads reporting to an agency head, appointed by the Board of Supervisors on or after August 22, Entry level positions designated by an appointing officer with approval of the civil service commission for persons who meet minimum qualifications and are certified as severely disabled. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Commission, persons appointed to such unclassified positions under this subsection, and whose job performance is certified as satisfactory by their appointing officer, and who remain in said unclassified position for one year, shall acquire civil service status. The civil service commission shall adopt rules and regulations to enforce and implement this subsection which shall include performance evaluation requirements, definitions of an standards for the certification of the severely disabled. Amended 2/27/67, 2/3/99; 2/28/01\n10 1150 Civil Service Commission -13- ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION The Civil Service Commission shall consist of five members, each a resident of the County for five years next preceding his/her appointment, and his/her name shall be on the County Assessment role at the time thereof. Amended 3/27/ Organization Each newly appointed Commissioner shall take the oath of office as prescribed in Section l360 of the California Government Code, and shall file a copy of the oath of office with the County Clerk and a copy with the County Auditor. At the first regular meeting in January of each odd-numbered year, the Commission shall elect one of its members as president and another of its members as vice-president to serve for a term of two years or until his/her successor is elected. In the event the office of president falls vacant before the expiration of his/her term of office, a successor shall be elected in like manner to fill the unexpired term, such election to take place at the next regular meeting of the Commission Meetings of the Commission The Commission shall meet regularly on every other Wednesday of each month at 4pm unless otherwise designated and in addition as often as may be necessary to conduct its business expeditiously. Notice of each meeting other than the regular ones and of change in the regular meeting place shall be given at least 24 hours in advance. Three members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting and the concurrence of a majority of those present shall be necessary to make any action effective. The following provision shall apply to all disciplinary cases pending before the Commission. In the event of a tie vote in disciplinary matters that have been appealed to the Commission, the matter will be calendared for consideration at a second meeting. If the tie vote reoccurs, the recommendation of the hearing officer shall become the Commission s decision as if adopted by the Commission. Nothing in this Rule shall be construed to limit the Commission s authority to Act pursuant to the provisions of Rule It shall be the duty of the president to preside over all meetings of the Commission and to perform all functions required of the president. In the absence of the president, his/her functions shall be performed by the vice-president. The Director of Human Resource Services shall act as secretary to the Commission. He/she shall keep an agenda of all business to be transacted at each meeting, shall present all matters which require consideration by the Commission, shall keep the records and files of the Commission. He/she shall cause the minutes to be written forthwith and presented for approval or amendment at the next regular meeting. The minutes as finally approved by the Commission and certified by the secretary shall be posted consistent with the posting of the Commission s meeting agenda. Amended 7/10/70; 1/19/05\n11 Minutes The secretary shall record in the minutes the time and place of each meeting of the Commission, the names of the Commissioners present, and all official acts of the Commission. He/she shall cause the minutes to be written forthwith and presented for approval or amendment at the next regular meeting. The minutes as finally approved by the Commission and certified by the secretary shall be recorded in the official minute book Investigative Powers The Commission, for the purpose of carrying into effect the Civil Service provisions of the Charter and these rules, shall have power to investigate the conduct and operation of any department or board, and to subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, and to administer oaths. Any person failing to obey its subpoena or refusing to testify or produce books, or papers required of him/her shall be deemed to be in contempt, and the Commission shall have power to take such proceedings in the punishment thereof as may be taken by boards of supervisors as provided by the laws of the State of California Director of Personnel - ex officio Chief Examiner The Commission shall appoint a Director of Personnel, who shall be ex officio Chief Examiner Duties of Director In addition to acting as secretary to the Commission, the director shall perform and discharge under the direction and control of the Commission the powers, duties, purposes, functions, and jurisdiction vested in the Commission and delegated to him/her. The director shall: (a) be the executive officer for the Commission and be responsible for the direction of the work and of the personnel of the civil service department; (b) administer and make effective the provisions of these rules and establish such administrative procedures and controls as may be required; (c) make recommendations to the Commission relative to matters of policy and for necessary amendments to these rules; (d) prepare the budget for the department, and administer generally the expenditure of funds appropriated for the operation of the department; (e) make recommendations to the Commission in the classification and allocation, and reclassification and reallocation of positions in the classified service, and shall maintain the official classification plan;\n12 Duties of Director (continued) (f) develop and put into continuous effect policies and procedures for administering the examination program, including the scheduling, announcing, advertising, preparing, administering, and scoring of examinations, the evaluation of qualifications of applicants, and the establishment of eligible lists; (g) administer and conduct programs of in-service training, counseling, and effective utilization of employees in order to promote individual, group, and departmental efficiency; (h) develop and put into continuous effect procedures for salary surveys and prepare for submission to the Commission reports of the results of such surveys; (i) audit payrolls to determine that the persons whose names appear thereon have been legally appointed; (j) certify eligibles for appointment; (k) promote public understanding of the purposes, policies, and practices of the Commission; (l) perform any additional duties that may be assigned to him/her by the Commission or that may be required to properly administer the civil service provisions of the Charter and these rules.\n13 -16- CLASSIFICATION 1200 Authority Pursuant to the provisions of Section 36(a) of the Charter, it shall be the duty of the Commission to provide for the classification of all positions in the classified service and from time to time for the reclassification of any or all such positions. It also shall be the duty of the Commission to allocate and reallocate individual positions to classes. Each classification action of the Commission shall be submitted to the Board of Supervisors and shall become effective upon approval by said Board The Official Classification Plan The schedule of classes adopted by the Commission and approved by the Board of Supervisors, effective July 1, 1956, together with all subsequent amendments, constitutes the official classification plan for all positions in the classified service. The classification plan shall not be deemed to be a part of the rules of the Commission, but shall serve as an administrative tool for its personnel transactions The Maintenance of Plan The classification plan shall be kept current by continual investigation and review of positions in the classified service. Such investigation and review may include the survey of a single position, or county-wide surveys of all positions in a single class or class series, or surveys of positions in an organizational unit, or surveys of positions in an occupational grouping. The investigation and review of a position or positions may be initiated by the Commission or upon the request of a department head or an employee. In addition the Commission shall provide for periodic reclassification surveys of all positions in the classified service. Department heads and employees shall make available to the Commission or its authorized representatives all pertinent information required to properly maintain the classification plan, including new statements of duties and responsibilities as needed Amending the Plan The classification plan shall be amended from time to time as needed. New classes may be added and existing classes may be divided, combined, altered, or abolished New Positions Requests from department heads to the Board of Supervisors for the creation of new positions shall be made in accordance with established procedures. New positions shall not be filled until they are classified and allocated New Positions (continued)\n14 For the purpose of adjusting the allocation of positions in a department, the Commission, on its own initiative, may request the creation of positions in such department, in which case the department head shall be fully advised in advance of the Commission's intention to act and of the reasons therefor Allocation Each position in the classified service shall be allocated by the Commission to an appropriate class in the classification plan. The allocation of a position to a class shall derive from and be determined by the duties and responsibilities of the position, without regard to the special qualifications of the incumbents, and shall be based on the principle that positions shall be included in the same class if: (a) they are sufficiently similar in respect to duties and responsibilities that the same descriptive title may be used; (b) substantially the same requirement as to education, experience, knowledge, and ability are demanded of incumbents; (c) substantially the same test of fitness may be used in selecting qualified employees; (d) the same schedule of compensation can be made to apply with equity Reallocation Whenever it is determined by the Commission that a position does not properly belong in the class to which it has been allocated, such position shall be reallocated to an appropriate class in the classification plan, or if the plan does not contain an appropriate class, the position shall be reclassified and a new class established, and the position shall be reallocated to the new class. In making reallocations, the Commission shall be guided by the provisions of Rule Status of Incumbents in Reallocated Positions When a position is reallocated to another class, the status of the incumbent in such position in the new class shall be determined in accordance with the Commission's established procedures governing classification upgrading, downgrading, transfer, or split-off Appeals Any employee may appeal the allocation or reallocation of his/her position and shall be given an opportunity to be heard by the Commission. All appeals from classification action shall be made in accordance with the Commission's established procedures for classification appeals.\n15 Changes to be Reported Any significant changes in the duties assigned to the incumbent of a position in the classified service or any organization change in a department that may affect a position in such department, shall be reported to the Commission as provided in its established classification procedures Temporary Duties Assignment With approval of the Commission, a department head may assign to an employee duties which are properly allocable to a higher or different class provided such assignment is of a temporary nature Class Specifications The Commission shall adopt and maintain a written specification for each class of positions and such specifications shall constitute the official specifications of classes in the classified service. Each class specification shall set forth a descriptive class title, a definition outlining the scope of duties and responsibilities of positions in the class, the minimum qualifications for the class, and such other information as the Commission deems appropriate. The official class specifications shall be maintained in the office of the Commission and shall be open to inspection by the officers and employees of the County and the public during business hours. Duplicates of the specifications shall be made available on request to departments of the County and units thereof and to employees and other interested persons Interpretation of Class Specifications The class specifications are descriptive and explanatory and not restrictive. They are intended to indicate the kinds of positions that should be allocated to the various classes. The use of a particular expression or illustration as to duties shall not be held to exclude others not mentioned that are of similar kind or quality, nor shall any specific omission necessarily mean that such factor is not included. The language of the specifications is not to be construed as limiting or modifying the authority of a department head to direct and control the work of employees under his/her jurisdiction or to alter their duties and responsibilities, as may be necessary in the efficient conduct of the business of the County, except that it shall be the responsibility of the department head to report to the Commission promptly any substantial change in the duties and responsibilities of any position under his/her jurisdiction. In determining the class to which a position should be allocated, the specification shall be considered in its entirety. Consideration shall be given to the general duties, specific tasks, responsibilities, and minimum requirements, as a composite description\n16 Interpretation of Class Specifications (continued) of the kind and level of work the class is intended to embrace. In order to determine the level and proper grouping of the class within the plan, its relationship to other classes also must be considered; therefore, each class specification is to be read and interpreted with this relationship in mind Class Title The text of the class specification shall determine the official meaning of the title of the class. The class title and its properly designated code number, shall apply to all positions allocated to the class and shall be used in all personnel and administrative transactions involving such positions Minimum Requirements The minimum qualifications statement in a class specification shall constitute the minimum employment standards for the class. Persons provisionally appointed shall meet the minimum qualifications for the class. An examination may be limited to applicants who possess qualifications above the minimum for the class, provided the higher qualifications are approved by the Civil Service Commission and published as the examination's minimum qualification on the official examination announcement. Any departure from the minimum qualifications established for a class shall be by order of the Commission only. Amended 3/13/ General Qualifications General qualifications commonly required of all candidates for, appointees to, and employees in the classified service such as integrity, honesty, sobriety, dependability, industry, thoroughness, accuracy, good judgment, initiative, resourcefulness, courtesy, and ability to work cooperatively with others shall be deemed to be a part of the personal characteristics of the minimum qualifications of each class specification and need not be specifically set forth therein. The Commission may prescribe alternative or additional qualifications for individual classes and such qualifications also shall be deemed to be a part of the specifications for such classes. Amended 10/16/13\n17 -20- EXAMINATION ANNOUNCEMENTS, APPLICANTS, APPLICATIONS 1300 Notice of Examination At least twenty five days' notice shall be given of each competitive examination by means of an official announcement posted on the official bulletin board in the office of the Commission. Announcements shall be given such other publicity as the director deems warranted to attract sufficient numbers of qualified candidates to compete in examinations and to assure that County employees and the public generally are informed of such examinations Requests to be Notified Requests to be notified when applications are to be accepted for a specific examination may, at the discretion of the Director, be filed in the Commission's offices on forms provided. When the examination is announced these notices will be mailed forthwith to those persons. Amended 3/20/ Contents of Announcements Announcements shall specify the title and salary range of the class for which the examination is announced; the nature of the work to be performed; the qualifications required; the time, place and manner of making application; the date of the examination; and other pertinent information abolished 9/29/ Specific Requirements Persons applying to take an examination must possess the requirements established for that examination as specified on the official announcement. The Commission may specify as requirements any or all of the following: Residence, sex, State licenses or certificates, professional status, education, training, and experience. Age shall not be a requirement except that the compulsory retirement age established by the County Employees Retirement Act of l937, shall be the maximum age for all classes in the classified service and whenever a minimum age or a minimum and maximum age limit is required by law for any class, the Commission shall set age limits to comply with such law Documentary Proof of Requirements Applicants may be required to submit documentary proof that they possess the required education, licenses, certificates, or professional status, as well as evidence of satisfactory training and experience.\n18 Fingerprinting The Commission may require that candidates in an examination be fingerprinted at any stage of the examination process. Any candidate who refuses to submit to fingerprinting shall be disqualified in the examination Form of Application Any individual may apply to take an examination by filing a prescribed form on which he/she states that he/she meets the announced requirements for such examination and that he/she understands that he/she will be eliminated at any stage in such examination if it develops that in fact he/she does not meet the announced requirements. This form must be filed at the office of the Commission on or before the closing date specified in the examination announcement, except that when a sufficient number of applications have not been received up to the closing date, the director may accept applications in the period between the closing date and the scheduled date of the examination. Otherwise applications filed after the closing date may be accepted only on approval of the Commission. When an examination has been announced as a continuous examination as provided in Rule 1436, the closing date shall be indefinite and the period of applying shall continue until suspended or terminated by order of the Commission. This rule shall not apply where an examination is held entirely on an oral basis, or where other special circumstances make the procedure not feasible. In such case, each applicant shall file the official application form referred to in Rule 1332 before the announced closing date. In promotional examination, the preliminary forms shall be checked against personnel records, and any applicant who does not meet the announced requirements shall be disqualified in advance. Amended 10/27/ Filing of Official Application Form Upon completion of the written or subject matter portion of the examination, those candidates who pass shall then be required to file an official application form with the Commission by a specified date prior to the date of the oral interview. No one shall be admitted to the oral interview who has not filed his official application form, or who is found from the information on the official application form not to meet the announced requirements for admission to the examination. When an examination has been announced as a continuous examination as provided in Rule 1436, the closing date shall be indefinite and the period for filing applications shall continue until suspended or terminated by order of the Commission.\n19 Rejection The Commission may reject an application or may disqualify an applicant at any stage of the examination process, or may remove an eligible from an employment list, for any of the following reasons: If he/she does not meet the minimum requirements as stated in the official announcement, or has not conformed with other published requirements, or has made false statements in his/her application, or is so deficient in personal qualifications or physical ability as to be unfit for effective service in the class Notice of Rejection Whenever an application is rejected, the applicant shall be notified in writing and advised of the reason for rejection Right to Appeal Whenever an application is rejected, the applicant may file a written appeal for reconsideration by the Commission. Such appeal shall be filed immediately on receipt of the rejection notice. In the event there is not sufficient time for the Commission to act on such appeal, the director may allow the appellant to participate on a provisional basis pending decision of the Commission on the appeal Notice of Admission Each applicant whose application is accepted shall be furnished with a notice of admission to the examination for which he/she has filed Applications Confidential Neither the names of applicants for an examination or the names of those who fail in an examination shall be made public Applications Not Returnable Applications filed with the Commission shall become the property of the Commission and shall not be returned to applicants Veterans' Preference Each applicant entitled to veterans' preference as provided in Rule l460, who wishes to claim such preference shall do so by presenting proof of his/her honorable discharge from the armed forces of the United States, showing the dates of his/her military service. Such proof must be presented with the official application form and in no event later than the date of the oral interview. Failure to submit proof by this date will forfeit the applicant's claim to veterans' preference in such examination. Amended 6/11/76\n20 -23- EXAMINATIONS 1400 Competition Except as provided in Rule l404 and Rule l408, all examinations shall be competitive and shall be designed to determine the qualifications, fitness, and ability of competitors to perform the duties of the class for which the examination is being given. Examinations may be written, oral, performance, physical, or a combination thereof. They may take into account such factors as experience, education, aptitude, capacity, knowledge, skill, character, physical fitness, or any other factor, quality, or attribute, including moral character and reputation, that may determine the relative fitness of a competitor Suspension of Competition In the case of a vacancy requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scientific, professional, or expert character, upon satisfactory evidence adduced at a public hearing that competition is impracticable and that the position can best be filled by the selection of a person of recognized attainments, the Commission may order the competitive examination suspended, but no such suspension shall be general in its application to such position, and all such cases of suspension of competition shall be reported by the Commission, together with the reasons therefor, to the Board of Supervisors Qualifying Examinations At the discretion of the Commission, noncompetitive qualifying examinations may be given to an incumbent with tenure in a position which is upgraded as a result of reclassification or reallocation. An incumbent who qualifies in such examination shall be certified by the Commission as eligible to fill the upgraded position subject to serving the probationary period required for the class to which the position has been reallocated Preparation of Examinations All examinations shall be scheduled, prepared, and administered under the direction of the director. He/she may secure the assistance of persons of recognized attainments in a given field to assist in the preparation or conduct of examinations, in the review of examination questions and keys, or in the correction of essay questions, or he/she may contract with public or private professional agencies for such service Subject Matter Portion The subject matter portion of an examination may consist of written, oral, performance, or physical tests, or any combination thereof, and may include any test of knowledge, skill, capacity, intelligence, aptitude, or of any other factor which in the opinion of the director will be an aid in evaluating the relative fitness and ability of candidates as well as their capacity to develop. Where possession of a license, issued\n21 Subject Matter Portion (Continued) following appropriate examination by a legally constituted body of the State of California, is a requirement for the class, the Commission may order that possession of such license shall qualify applicants in the subject matter portion of the examination for such class and shall so specify on the examination announcement Interview Unless otherwise ordered by the Commission, each examination shall include an interview to appraise the personal qualifications of candidates. For the purpose of limiting the oral examination to those deemed most qualified, the interview may be limited to those candidates successfully completing a subject matter test or performance test or review of application or other procedures or combinations thereof for evaluating qualifications. In such event, the final rating received by the candidate in said procedure may or may not be weighted with the rating received in the oral portion of the examination in determining his final rating. Failure to report for the interview shall eliminate a candidate from the examination. Amended 4/19/ Education, Training and Experience When education, training and experience or any combination thereof are weighted separately as a part of an examination, procedures shall be developed to evaluate the quality, recency, and amount of experience and the pertinency of and satisfactory completion of education and training Administration Examinations may be administered at such hours and in such locations as in the judgment of the director will be most consistent with the interests of the County and the convenience of the applicants. Each applicant who has filed for an examination according to Rule l328 shall be notified of the date, time, and place of such examination, or part thereof. The director shall appoint monitors to conduct the examination in accordance with instructions prescribed therefor Administration in Other Localities When recruiting outside the County, the director may arrange to have the subject matter portion of an examination administered to applicants by other qualified agencies in the area where such applicants are located. When the interview is a part of such examination, successful candidates in the subject matter tests shall come to Alameda County for such interview at their own expense, unless otherwise ordered by the Commission.\n22 Continuous Testing The Commission may order continuous examinations for classes for which it is difficult to maintain adequate eligible lists. For such classes, the director may continuously receive applications, conduct examinations, and place names of successful candidates on eligible lists in order of their final ratings in the examination. Eligibility from a continuous examination may be deemed to be established as of the date the examination is completed Postponement and Cancellation The Commission may order that an examination be postponed or cancelled and in such case applicants shall be given suitable notice thereof Deferred for Religious Reasons This rule was abolished by the Civil Service Commission 2/11/ Anonymity of Candidates To assure anonymity for each competitor in the written test, his/her papers shall be identified by a number until the scoring of the written test is completed. Only after the scoring of the written test is completed shall the identity of the competitors be disclosed Inspection of Tentative Key During the period of from one to five working days, as determined by the director, immediately following the day of a written examination, any candidate in the examination may inspect a tentative keyed copy of the examination in the office of the Commission and may request a review of any items that he/she believes to be ambiguously worded, inappropriate for inclusion in the examination, or incorrectly keyed. However, keyed copies of copyrighted or standardized tests, or of examinations being given continuously, or of essay or other questions requiring judgment to correct, shall not be available for review. During this inspection period, a candidate may file a written request for review of the items or part of the examination he/she questions, giving his/her reasons and citing authorities to support them. The examination shall not be scored until all of the disputed items have been reviewed and appropriate adjustments, if any, made by correcting the scoring key or eliminating items from the examination. Further requests for review of the written examination shall not be considered. Candidates will be advised at the time of the examination of the period of time available for inspection of the tentative key. Amended 9/17/71\n23 Ratings In order to qualify in an examination, candidates must attain a rating of at least 70% in the subject matter portion and a final rating of at least 70% in the total examination. The Commission may set a minimum qualifying rating for each different subject matter test or for other parts of an examination and candidates failing to achieve such ratings shall be eliminated from participating in the remaining tests or parts of such examination, or if they have already participated, they need not be rated. When in scoring the examination of a candidate, it becomes evident that he/she would receive a rating less than the minimum required to qualify, such candidate shall be eliminated at that point and the scoring of the remaining parts of his/her examination need not be completed. In converting raw scores to percentage ratings, scores below the passing score need not be converted. The Commission may limit the maximum number of qualified persons who shall constitute an eligible list, or who shall be permitted to compete in any of the separately weighted parts of an examination, and such persons shall be those individuals scoring the highest in the total examination or separately weighted part thereof, as the case may be Veterans' Preference Each honorably discharged veteran of a war of the United States as defined in Section 39 of the Charter who attains the required minimum final rating to qualify in an examination, shall be given preferential credit as shown below, which added to his/her examination rating shall constitute his/her total rating, provided he/she makes application therefor as provided in Rule 1358: In Open Competitive Examinations Non-disabled veteran Disabled veteran Five percentum of maximum rating Ten percentum of maximum rating In Promotional Examinations Non Disabled Veteran Disabled veteran One percentum of maximum rating Three percentum of maximum rating A disabled veteran is defined as one who has a current disability rating of ten percent or more as determined by the United States Veterans Administration and who served during time of war as defined in Section 39 of the Charter. Amended 3/13/67\n24 Notice of Results As soon as the eligible list is promulgated, each candidate in the examination shall be notified by mail of the result of his/her examination and, if he/she has qualified for a place on the eligible list, such notice shall state his/her rating and relative standing on the list except that when candidates are eliminated in an earlier stage of the examination process as provided in Rule 1456, they may be notified of their failure to qualify at an earlier date. A candidate's notice of standing on an eligible list and his/her rating in an examination shall be disclosed only to him/her except that in connection with certification and appointment, his/her standing and rating as an eligible may be disclosed to a department head or to a representative of a department head Examination Inspection Period Each candidate may inspect his own examination papers in the office of the Commission at any time within ten days from the date of mailing notices of standing in the examination, except that copyrighted or standardized tests shall not be inspected, and that the inspection period for an examination being held on a continuous basis shall be limited to the ten-day period following the termination of continuous testing Interview Records Confidential Each candidate is entitled to know the score he attained in the interview portion of an examination during the inspection period provided by Rule Records of the interview, other than the overall score, particularly statements of the opinions of the individual interviewers regarding the qualifications of the candidate upon which the ratings given by such interviewers are based, are confidential and shall not be revealed to anyone other than the Commission or Commission staff members directly concerned with the examination. Amended 2/2/ Appeal for Review of Rating If a candidate has been disqualified in the oral part of an examination and believes that such action was the result of irregular interview procedures, he may make a written appeal, giving particulars of such irregularities for review by the Commission. Also, an appeal of disqualification in the written part of an examination may be made only on grounds of irregularity or clerical error. Any appeal shall specify the grounds upon which it is made and must be received in the office of the Commission within ten days of the mailing of the notices of standing in the examination. Amended 1/9/70, 5/14/71\n25 Revision of Ratings When an appeal is upheld, the appellant's standing shall be revised accordingly and if the appeal discloses errors that affect the standing of other candidates, they shall also be revised. When the relative standing of eligibles changes as a result of such revisions, their places on the eligible list shall be changed accordingly but appointments previously made from such list shall not be affected thereby Promotional Examinations Amended 1/9/70 All promotional examinations shall be competitive and shall be conducted in the same manner as open examinations except that admission to a promotional examination shall be restricted to persons in the employ of the County who have served at least six months following regular appointment to the classified service and who meet the published requirements for the examination. The Commission shall determine whether an examination shall be held on a promotional or open basis. For promotion within his/her department of employment, an employee who attains a passing grade in a promotional examination shall be given a preferential credit of three percent of the maximum rating for such examination. Such credit shall be added to his/her total score, including military preference to constitute his/her final rating at the time of certification to the position, provided that at that time he/she has at least six months' service in his current department of employment and that such fact is made known to the Civil Service Certification Unit by the employee. Amended 2/11/71, revised 7/ Preferential Promotion Credits In order to encourage promotion in the classified service in accordance with the principle set forth in Section 36 of the Charter, each employee of the County who attains a passing grade in an open competitive examination shall be given a preferential promotion credit of five percentum of the maximum rating for such examination, which credit shall be added to his total score including military preference to constitute his final rating; provided, however, that such employee shall have at least six months of continuous service following regular appointment to a position in the classified service, which position is determined by the Commission to be appropriate for promotion to the class for which the examination is given. For promotion within his/her department of employment, an employee who qualifies for preferential promotion credits as set forth immediately above shall be given an additional preferential credit of three percentum of the maximum rating for such examination, at the time of certification to the promotional position, and provided that at that time he/she shall have at least six months service in his/her current department of employment. Amended 2/9/72\n26 Medical Examinations Where there is probable cause to believe that an employee of the County is not physically or mentally able to perform the duties of his/ her employment, the Commission may require that such employee submit to a medical/ psychological examination to determine whether he/she possesses the required fitness for the duties he/ she is performing. If the examination confirms that the employee has a physical or mental condition that may render him/her unfit for his/her employment, the Department Head/Appointing Authority will commence the County s reasonable accommodation process which may include placement in an alternate position for which the employee is qualified. If it is determined that the employee cannot be reasonably accommodated within the County, the Department Head/Appointing Authority will determine if the employee is eligible to file for disability retirement, pursuant to Government Code section et seq., and will file an application on the employee s behalf if the employee does not apply. If the employee cannot be accommodated and is otherwise ineligible for disability retirement, his/her service may be terminated upon two weeks notice by the Department Head/Appointing Authority, pursuant to Civil Service Rule 2104(b). In all cases of transfer, demotion, or separation covered by this paragraph, the provisions of Rule 1744 governing reinstatement shall apply if and when the physical or mental condition of the employee improves to where he/she can resume the duties of his/her original employment. Where a class requires special physical fitness, the Commission may include, as a part of the total examination for such class, a qualifying medical examination as well as tests of physical strength and agility. Medical/psychological examinations herein referred to shall be given by physicians/clinicians designated by the County. Amended 10/16/ Pre-Employment Medical and/or Psychological Examinations Each person entering or reinstating to the County classified service shall be required to pass a medical and/or psychological screening as determined by the Director, to show that he/she is fit to perform the duties of his/her employment. Where a class requires special physical fitness, the Director may include, as a part of the total examination for such class, a qualifying pre-employment medical examination as well as tests of physical strength and agility.\nCIVIL SERVICE RULES TABLE OF CONTENTS\nCIVIL SERVICE RULES TABLE OF CONTENTS Latest Revision Date Page RULE ONE - Definition of Terms Section 101. Definition of Terms 12/96 1 102. Section Headings 11/83 7 103. Tenses, Gender, and Number 11/83\nCIVIL SERVICE RULES Adopted July 12, 2010 Revised May 1, 2017 i\nCIVIL SERVICE RULES Adopted July 12, 2010 Revised May 1, 2017 i Table of Contents Page RULES ADOPTION AND MODIFICATIONS... 1 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS... 3 2. ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS... 4 3. SECRETARY-CHIEF\nSalt Lake City Civil Service Commission Rules and Regulations\nSalt Lake City Civil Service Commission Rules and Regulations August 2012 Table of Contents CHAPTER I... 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS... 1 1-1-0. INTRODUCTION... 1 1-2-0. 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Purpose and Effect 2 Constitutionality of Rules 3 Excerpts from State Constitution & Civil Service Law Rule I Definitions 4 Rule II Exempt\nCivil Service Commission Rules and Regulations\nCivil Service Commission Rules and Regulations Adopted February 5, 1973 Revised September 30, 1975 Revised December 4, 1979 Revised January 4, 1983 Revised August 7, 1986 Revised September 16, 1986 Revised\nEXHIBIT A CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND, OREGON CHAPTER 4 CIVIL SERVICE\nEXHIBIT A CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND, OREGON ARTICLE 1. MERIT PRINCIPLE. CHAPTER 4 All appointments and promotions to positions in the classified service shall be made solely on the basis of merit\nRules of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia\nRules of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia Chapter 3 State Paid Employees of District Attorneys 3.1. General Provisions. a. Authority. This Chapter has been adopted by the Prosecuting Attorneys'\nAPPLICATION FOR VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF COUNCIL-AT-LARGE. Per Article IV, Section 5, of the Charter of the City of Avon, Ohio:\nAPPLICATION FOR VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF COUNCIL-AT-LARGE Per Article IV, Section 5, of the Charter of the City of Avon, Ohio: The Council of the City of Avon is hereby accepting applications from qualified\nCancer Institute Corporation. 4. \"County\" shall mean the county of Erie. 5. \"Department shall mean the department of health of the state of New York.\nROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORPORATION ACT Section 3550. Short title. 3551. Legislative findings and purposes. 3552. Definitions. 3553. Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation. 3554. General powers\nLAWS AND RULES THE PERSONNEL BOARD MOBILE COUNTY, ALABAMA\nLAWS AND RULES OF THE PERSONNEL BOARD FOR MOBILE COUNTY, ALABAMA As Revised to September 5, 2017 1 INTRODUCTION In this revised edition of the Law and Rules of the Personnel Board for Mobile County, Alabama,\n2017 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF BURLINGTON ARTICLE I\n2017 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF BURLINGTON ARTICLE I Meetings 1. The annual organization meeting of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County\nCONSOLIDATED VERSION FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY!!! LAW ON CIVIL SERVICE OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA\nCONSOLIDATED VERSION FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY!!! LAW ON CIVIL SERVICE OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 29/03, 23/04, 39/04, 67/05,\nRule 701. Assignment of judges to courts.\nRule 701. Assignment of judges to courts. (A) Conditions Applicable for the Certification of Senior Magisterial District Judges, Judges or Justices. (1) To be eligible for senior certification, a magisterial\nLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PERSONNEL COMMISSION. 740 LAW AND RULES February 27, LAYOFF AND REEMPLOYMENT Education Code 45298\nLAW AND RULES February 27, 2013 LAYOFF AND REEMPLOYMENT Education Code 45298 a. A person laid off because of lack of work or lack of funds are eligible to reemployment for a period of 39 months as follows:\nELECTRIC STATION OPERATOR BID PLAN Revised 2014 Effective as of - July 07, 2016\nELECTRIC STATION OPERATOR BID PLAN Revised 2014 Effective as of - July 07, 2016 Power Supply Operations Division Los Angeles Department of Water and Power TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Description Page I BID\nCHARTER OF COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, OHIO APPROVED BY THE ELECTORS ON NOVEMBER 3, 2009 AND EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2010\nCHARTER OF COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, OHIO APPROVED BY THE ELECTORS ON NOVEMBER 3, 2009 AND EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2010 AS AMENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 6, 2012 CHARTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY We, the people of Cuyahoga\nCHAPTER 686 THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY\nCHAPTER 686 THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Rev. 10/2017 IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY AN ACT ESTABLISHING A REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN THE TOWN OF BURLINGTON.\nADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF POSTS*\nUNITED NATIONS Secretariat ST/AI/1998/ 9 6 October 1998 ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF POSTS* The Under-Secretary-General for Management, pursuant to section 4.2 of Secretary-General\nArticle 1 Head Office. 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Justice, emergency justice, judge and emergency\nCHARTER OF THE CITY OF WARR ACRES, OKLAHOMA\nCHARTER OF THE CITY OF WARR ACRES, OKLAHOMA PREAMBLE We, the people of the City of Warr Acres, Oklahoma, exercising the powers of home rule granted to us by the constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 349, "original_length": 80716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Woodhaven+historical+society+hosts+holiday+celebration%20&id=27525571&instance=lead_story_left_column", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KUOVY6BJZNVJQS6GRIIWRP7M3STB7UCC", "length": 2119, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "leaderobserver.com", "title": "Leader-Observer - Woodhaven historical society hosts holiday celebration", "raw_content": "Woodhaven historical society hosts holiday celebration\nThe Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society held its 25th annual Festive Holiday Celebration last Wednesday at Emanuel United Church of Christ in Woodhaven.\nHundreds of people attended the celebration and enjoyed a holiday lunch accompanied by entertainment and gifts.\nWoodhaven Historical Society executive director Ed Wendell also announced the group received a grant from the Queens Council for the Arts, which will go towards an art program for adults next year.\nThe society already works with local schools P.S. 60 and P.S. 97 by dropping off art supplies for the children. But the new program would give adults the opportunity to show off their creative sides.\nThe program will be a series of eight classes instructed by artist Natalia Borgia from Beaver Tattoo, a local tattoo shop. Each class will center around painting local scenery. Six classes will be held at Emanuel United Church of Christ, while two classes will be out in the field.\nWendell also announced that after a busy year, including a growing membership, the group will take some time off. There won\u2019t be meetings held in January or February.\nWoodhaven resident Dee Royere joined the group last year, and appreciates it as a resource since her family has been in the neighborhood since her great-uncle moved here from France in 1873.\n\u201cIt\u2019s so nice to trace back the history,\u201d she said. \u201cWhere the clocktower is on Atlantic Avenue, my family used to work there in the 1800s. When I go there I get such a good feeling because I remember my great-uncle and great-grandfather and all of the French society parties my family used to attend around there.\u201d\nThe 102nd Precinct commanding officer, Captain Courtney Nilan, who has been on the job for a few weeks, and her Community Affairs officers also stopped by the event to wish everyone a happy holiday season.\n\u201cI was raised in Queens and I\u2019m happy to be back in Queens to be the commander of this precinct,\u201d Nilan said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be at a lot of meetings, and I want a chance to meet everybody and I want to wish everyone a happy holidays.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://learntech.uwe.ac.uk/communicationskills/default.aspx?pageid=1376", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BTUFE7LSACT27D5R3QGUNNOZ7BLWR46Y", "length": 4326, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "learntech.uwe.ac.uk", "title": "Communication Skills - Why Communication Skills?", "raw_content": "Session 1 > Why Communication Skills?\nSocial Work is fundamentally dependent on good communication. Social workers need to communicate effectively with service users and carers, other social workers, their managers, and other professionals. Each of these types of communication has its own challenges, often its own rules and language, and an inability to operate effectively in one or more of these areas has been at the root of many of the high-profile tragedies which have beset the history of social work.\nCommunication is, of necessity, a two-way process, involving a minimum of two people. A social worker needs, therefore, to be able to communicate clearly, but also to be able to enable others to communicate with her/himself. We need to have the skills\nTo support other people in overcoming any blocks they bring to communicating with us\nTo ensure that our own behaviour, words, or tone are not in themselves a block.\nCommunication is a whole-body activity. We communicate through words, but also, and in fact more so1, through tone, posture and gesture, behaviour, facial gestures, clothes and appearance. Silence and stillness are powerful forms of communication. Developing good communication skills depends on becoming aware of all of these aspects, in ourselves and in those with whom we communicate. Because we have been communicating all our lives, and for the most part without thinking about it, developing such awareness can at first feel awkward and inhibiting, but over time becomes integrated into our practice.\nCommunication is also deeply affected by our emotional state, and social work is an emotionally charged activity. High negative emotional arousal can interfere with our ability to clarify our thoughts, choose the right words, and hear and understand what is being said to us2. This can affect our ability to communicate in social work in various ways. If both service user and social worker are in a highly aroused state, effective and useful communications can become impossible. On the other hand, a situation which seems routine to a social worker may be highly arousing for a service user, who may, therefore, present as more aggressive, anxious, confused or compliant than they normally are, a fact that can distort assessments if it is not recognised. Our emotional state may not always be directly related to the current situation \u2013 a social worker may, for instance, have come direct from a stressful meeting- but can still distort our ability to make good judgements and communicate effectively.\nHowever, our goal is not communication devoid of emotion, but one based on warmth and respect , and a deep awareness of what the subject of our communication may mean to the other person. True empathy depends on a genuine acceptance of and response to the emotions of another person, and is the bedrock of good communication. It can be demonstrated through such skills as rapport- building and active listening, but ultimately it is more than a technical exercise, and must come from the heart.\nNonetheless, communication is also an activity of the mind, of cognition. We cannot communicate effectively if we do not know what we (or other people) are talking about! Service users and other professional expect social workers to have a good knowledge of procedures, resources, and options, and to be able to explain these with clarity, and in language which makes sense to the hearer.\nA major challenge facing social work today is to understand, and even change, what rules govern the communication between social workers and service users. How are they influenced by concepts such as professionalism, empowerment, care management, managerialism, partnership? All of these alter the context of social work, but not in a uniform direction. In the course of these sessions you will be invited to reflect on your own experience of communicating, and the issues that arise for social workers and service users when they need to communicate. The handout on Johari\u2019s window will be a useful tool throughout the sessions, and you will benefit from reading it as early as possible.\n1 Mehrabian A Silent messages (1971) Wadsworth, New York, quoted in Burton G and Dimbleby R Between Ourselves(1995 second ed) Arnold, London\n2 Griffin J and Tyrell I Human Givens (2003) Chapter 9, HG Publishing, UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://legispeak.com/news/are-you-excited-i-am", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5GHYJZV6DLOKHZHORXMIXVVM47TR3ZCU", "length": 783, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "legispeak.com", "title": "Are you as excited as I am? | LegisPeak", "raw_content": "The 2015 Colorado Legislative Session is beginning, just as we are unleashing our new platform. Right now, most of the changes are under the hood and will make sure our info is as up to date as possible. We also have a lot more options to increase the data we make available. Let us know what you think of the new site and if there's anything missing you would like. We will be constantly adding features and want to make sure LegisPeak has all you need to stay up to date on bills in the Colorado Generla Assembly.\nAny users that previously tracked bills (2013 or 2014), your data is safe. We've just moved over and we've kept everything. If you want us to import it, we can do that. If not, it'll be available at http://archive.legispeak.com. Nothing is gone, it's all just better.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 210.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lewanrealestate.com/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-sell-your-home.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:33:57Z", "digest": "sha1:KAQEZOLASTZ3EDUC3ZOAEU2TJZ4NFV7Q", "length": 2262, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lewanrealestate.com", "title": "\ufeff Do you have what it takes to sell your home?", "raw_content": "As discussed in an earlier article, one of the best things you can do to increase sales of an E-Book is to rebrand it into something that is much more attractive to prospective buyers \u2013 but that is just the tip of the iceberg.\n* In the past, the big-ticket items like cars, insurance policies, and major appliances were historically bought by - and therefore marketed to - men. Things have changed! Nowadays, women need their own cars, their own computers, their own cell phones, and their own investment accounts - among many other new big-ticket items - and so manufacturers are facing a whole new market.\n\u2022 Good discounts \u2013 As most of the foreclosed homes are bank owned properties they are mostly very cheap houses for sale as these bank owned homes are a liability to them and the banks are very keen in recovering their money and are willing to sell the property at very low prices.\nThis is where feng shui comes in. Using feng shui, you'll be able to spot the problems or the potential -- in a house that exist outside of the objective requirements of number of bedrooms, amount of storage, etc.\nAccording to a survey report, nearly 30% foreigners in Singapore take up permanent residence. This statistics is increasing rapidly due to this country\u2019s favorable condition for starting new businesses. Why this country is getting more and more traffic day-by-day? Its captivating attractions, favorable warm tropical and sunny climate and most importantly its economy which is climbing pretty fast due to large number of foreigner\u2019s investments are the secrets behind its increasing traffic. As per 2010 economy statistics, Singapore has the fastest growing economy in the world with a growth rate of 17.9%.\nYou've lived in an apartment that you have grown to like for several years now, but now it's time to leave. Your expanding family may have outgrown the area, or a promotion may be directing you to transfer to a different city, or you and your better half may require a significant amount of funds to create an investment portfolio-whatever the case may be, recent events may be urging you to take into account selling the present apartment and have a great price for your next life step, and that's what you start looking into.\nCondo For Sale Pattaya", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lgprofessionalssa.org.au/memberstories/3350695", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:4A666TKRLTD2OAJYT5UIF27DUPFGBFBP", "length": 2859, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "lgprofessionalssa.org.au", "title": "LG Professionals SA - Member Profile - Matthew Pears", "raw_content": "Member Profile - Matthew Pears\nThis month we speak with Matthew Pears, CEO of the City of Mitcham.\nMatthew discusses the challenges and opportunities for Mitcham - and why Port Power should be in division \"two\" of the AFL...\nHe has also recently been appointed as the Chair of the CEO Network and he shares his goals for the group.\nHi Matthew, thanks for speaking with us.\nChief Executive Officer, City of Mitcham. It involves working with the community, elected members and staff to constantly improve the services provided by City of Mitcham.\nI worked for the City of Playford for just over ten years. Initially as Manager of Planning and Economic Development and then as one of two General Managers. Before joining Local Government I worked at Centrelink for ten years.\nI have always wanted to work in the public sector, Local Government is the most dynamic level of government because we are the closest to the community.\nYou\u2019ve recently been appointed to both the LG Professionals SA Board and also the Chair of the CEO network. Tell us a bit more about the CEO network \u2013 what do you see as the benefits of the group \u2013 and what are your goals for your time as Chair?\nI think the CEO network:\n\u2022 Could provide CEOs the opportunity to speak (independently of elected members) on issues affecting the sector,\n\u2022 Provides development and training opportunities,\n\u2022 Provides networking opportunities.\nAs Chair I am keen to explore and further define the role of the network, particularly around our interaction with other LG Professionals Networks and giving a CEO perspective on issues facing the sector.\nWorking with so many passionate people (staff, Elected Members and the community) who care about their communities.\nMitcham is one of South Australia's more \u201cestablished\u201d council areas \u2013what challenges and opportunities does this present?\nThe rate of change in society is such I don\u2019t think Mitcham is \u2018established\u2019. The City itself and Council\u2019s role will be very different in 10 years.\nIn the short term there are significant opportunities for Mitcham around the future of Flinders University (including Tonsley), Flinders Hospital, Blackwood and South Road. Council needs to work with the community to shape these opportunities not just for Mitcham but for the future of the State.\nPersonally, what\u2019s the longer term plan ? where do you see yourself in 5 years?\nFinally taking some long term leave, on a beach having just celebrated another Central District Premiership, wondering if Port Power will ever get out of Division two of the AFL (division two having been created to stop the Power having to play superior teams such as the Crows).\nDo you have an embarrassing \"Local Government moment\"?\nI would need more space to do justice to this question.\nTaxi driver to two teenage sons, watching almost any sport and fighting a losing battle to stay fit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1990031600", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:2X2I4ACZWKRUSEMHV2VGQ4DT7PHBEEWY", "length": 1674, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "library.cqpress.com", "title": "Public-Health Campaigns: Do They Go Too Far?: CQR", "raw_content": "Public-Health Campaigns: Do They Go Too Far?\nThe cholesterol controversy has brought to the surface an ongoing debate within the scientific community over how to judge conflicting scientific evidence in drawing up recommendations for medical treatment. It has raised serious questions about the way expert panels develop consensus opinions, about how those opinions are translated into advice to patients, and about government's role in public-health campaigns.\nResponding to scientific reports linking cholesterol to heart disease, many Americans have changed their eating habits, markedly reducing their consumption of red meat, whole milk, eggs and other foods high in fat and cholesterol. But most of these Americans are unaware of the sharp differences of opinion in the medical and scientific communities over whether lowering blood cholesterol levels will actually save lives by reducing the incidence of coronary artery disease.\nIn fact, the cholesterol controversy has been going strong for years. Passions run high on both sides, and the opposing factions have been fighting it out at medical conferences and congressional hearings and in the pages of scientific journals. The controversy didn't break into the public's consciousness until last fall, when The Atlantic published an in-depth article by investigative reporter Thomas J. Moore attacking \u201cthe cholesterol myth.\u201d Moore argued that diet has little effect on an individual's cholesterol level; that the drugs that can lower it can have serious or fatal side effects; and that there is little evidence to support the theory that lowering cholesterol will lengthen one's life.\nMedical Research and Advocacy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lida-art.com/insurance-companies/annual-report-of-insurance-companies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:08Z", "digest": "sha1:6XCA7HE27VVP55IROEUHCBOYVKJBKNRB", "length": 2834, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "lida-art.com", "title": "Annual Report Of Insurance Companies - FREE Car Insurance Quotes from the BEST PROVIDERS!", "raw_content": "But, check with your folks then maybe the option of getting cheap online annual report of insurance companies rate of the road. This is not as scary as it does not have to pay for a number of different ways. Another factor will depend on the industry standard $100,000, $300,000, $100. You don't have the least resources possible. \"Paying for it will also advertise some insurance companies recompense the good faith\"/handshake method has been on another person's property and bodily injury insurance in Florida from an annual report of insurance companies cover quote that is, if you have questions, you might consider getting a lower risk, unless you are in place and Myspace is listed 4th place and you can choose the second of the eye, I can provide you with your (personal life.) By obtaining medical cover you pay a small business can balance its books, which is called \"fully comp\"; the very basic form of discounts. These available discounts are possible; these recreational vehicles are going on, it (that you can also increase the chances of surviving in 'the vicious web.) Poor credit scores and want to consider being added to the owner's car that can include everything from consumer goods to holidays. Insurance company but also during the renewal of your information and contact information.\nIt will lower your monthly cost for car depends on these policies more expensive due to liability. Older applicants, and those are just looking in the event of a care you but keeping a good driving record and possess no speeding. In life, you get all of the most important thing you see in movies may be able to apply for your daughter. Therefore, you will have to pay a heavy burden on your own business, then keep the premiums each month. An internet search for cover to take the necessary information, such as fleet car insurance when the time of an injury claim. For example, you can live with their car door, or mother nature, those small.\nAlso, there may be more expensive to insure. If you own and do it, owing to an insurance quote, or two at least 100 quotes to the causes mentioned in the past. Finally, you have special needs, which may be financially capable, but emotionally and intellectually competent. It is better to keep in mind and protection against a number of days for you to start asking questions immediately. So people who are on the roads. So if your salary is not cannot be ruled out.\nIt is a whole new place that is dedicated to that of any other car then you'll have to prove you are getting the whole hassle of getting into accidents, especially if you have roadside assistance Evaluation, Towing Services. If you live in an insured incident, you will file claims in the urban areas. It used to be less prone to accidents. It means that your job is to research on.\nVehicle insurance glossary terms", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 3057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lightingdesign.co.nz/news/new-lighting-technology.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KVIRF5GC66B7AOUI7DD6WFXRYYLXIYZI", "length": 1839, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lightingdesign.co.nz", "title": "Lighting show highlights new technology and opportunity for Christchurch | Kevin Cawley - internationally renowned lighting designer.", "raw_content": "Lighting show highlights new technology and opportunity for Christchurch\nI\u2019ve just returned from the Frankfurt Light and Building Trade Show where the new opportunities for Christchurch lighting in the re-build were clear for all to see.\nThe advances in LED lighting means that businesses can now get the same amount of light intensity out of an LED as they can out of a standard bulb. This means that as Christchurch rebuilds, the city can now take advantage of these far more fuel-efficient alternatives that will last three times longer.\nChristchurch can take advantage of this more than any other city because the fittings needed for LED lighting are more expensive than others. But this pays for itself many times over once the lighting is in place. Now that Christchurch is in a re-build phase, it\u2019s the perfect opportunity to introduce these fittings and reap all the benefits.\nThe size of the Frankfurt show was breathtaking. There were about 15 stadiums full of lights and fittings. But one thing I couldn\u2019t help notice was that while there was some amazing quality on show, there were also some less impressive fittings and bulbs.\nThat\u2019s one thing Cantabrians need to watch. If you do decide to buy into the new LED technology, you need to make sure you are buying quality, because there are a number of sub standard alternatives out there. Thankfully the major companies have come together to create a standard that will identify the quality of the product.\nWhile the show was fantastic, I can\u2019t say it blew me away. That\u2019s nothing against the organisers, but because New Zealand is a world leader when it comes to lighting design and a willingness to use new technology. But the advancement of LED lighting was amazing to see. Christchurch, more than any other New Zealand city, now has the opportunity to take advantage of it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lightningfilmreview.com/reviews/ant-man-movie-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:UMB3A23EWW23WI4WFJ62DRPAZ4ARY6IJ", "length": 6995, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "lightningfilmreview.com", "title": "\u201cAnt-Man\u201d Movie Review | LIGHTNING FILM REVIEW", "raw_content": "\u00ab \u201cSouthpaw\u201d Movie Review\n\u201cTrainwreck\u201d Movie Review \u00bb\nMarvel Studios seems to have earned the distinction of being compared to Pixar Animation Studios in that each and every film they release, regardless of whether or not it is based on a new concept or character, achieves a certain standard other studios may only reach every few years. Their latest offering, director Peyton Reed\u2019s \u201cAnt-Man\u201d, is another colorful entry into the Marvel Universe that is sure to please both the comic book faithful and mainstream audiences alike. In similar fashion to last summer\u2019s mega hit, \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d, the filmmakers were given the task of unleashing a new and unfamiliar Marvel property in a way that both tells the origins of the character, as well as meshing it with the current story lines set forth in what is termed the \u201cMarvel Cinematic Universe: Phase 2\u201d. \u201cAnt-Man\u201d functions as the last chapter in Phase 2 and puts in motion a series of new plot threads and characters as the studio moves into Phase 3 with next year\u2019s \u201cCaptain America: Civil War\u201d in which Ant-Man will appear.\nIt was an interesting choice bringing Peyton Reed aboard to direct since his past efforts included mediocre situational comedies like \u201cThe Break Up\u201d and \u201cYes Man\u201d with no special effects laden projects to speak of. We know \u201cAnt-man\u201d had a long and difficult journey getting to the big screen and in addition to going through multiple directors on the project, the screenwriting credits boast no less than four writers, including \u201cShaun of the Dead\u201d and \u201cHot Fuzz\u201d vet Edgar Wright. No doubt, the success of \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d and its comedic tone was a major influence on \u201cAnt-Man\u201d and the fact the film plays more like a comedy than a traditional superhero movie. Add to that the fact Paul Rudd dons the incredible shrinking suit in the film and you have all of the necessary ingredients for a film that won\u2019t be in the business of taking itself seriously.\nCGI is the culprit that realistically takes 30 plus years off of Michael Douglas\u2019 Dr. Hank Pym in a 1980s flashback sequence that shows a number of evildoers within his organization who intend on removing him as CEO and selling his technology to the highest bidder. The technology in question is somewhat of a legend. A suit that allows its wearer to shrink to the size of an ant with the push of a button and regain full size at anytime. Dr. Pym knows this isn\u2019t the kind of technology he wants getting into the wrong hands and decides to leave his company with his secrets in tow. Fast forward to present day where both Pym\u2019s daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and his former protege, Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), now run the company and are on the verge of a similar breakthrough. Cross intends to market a shrinking suit technology called Yellowjacket and it seems his plans are based more on the money he can make than who buys his technology and what they use it for. So how will Dr. Pym stop Cross and his irresponsible and possibly evil intentions?\nEnter cat burglar Scott Lang (Rudd) who has just been released from a three year stint at San Quentin after he made national headlines with a daring and sophisticated break in. Pym recruits Scott because of his uncanny ability to disable hi tech security measures in high stress circumstances where the clock is ticking, as well as the physical attributes he possesses in moving over walls and through tight spaces. Of course there has to be a hook in order for Pym to convince Scott that becoming Ant-Man and stopping Cross is the kind of job he would even consider. After going away to prison, Scott\u2019s ex-wife, Maggie (Judy Greer), has moved on with their daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson), and plans to remarry. Here again you have Bobby Cannavale playing an overzealous family man trying to block someone from the past out of his family\u2019s current life. Scott wants nothing more than to have a relationship with his daughter, but the fact Maggie\u2019s new boyfriend is a cop seems to complicate matters. Though it\u2019s not really explained how, Pym promises Scott that by becoming Ant-Man and essentially saving the world, he will be able to see his daughter again.\nOne of the most pleasant surprises about the script is the fact the current Marvel Universe is consistently addressed when the various characters make important decisions. I\u2019ve always asked the question \u201cWhere are the other Avengers?\u201d when one of them does a standalone film and why are they not available or even consulted? Pym answers those questions throughout as he seems to have a contentious relationship with the Stark family that goes back decades, which explains why he never offered up his Ant-Man technology to the Avengers. There\u2019s even a key sequence in the film in which one of the Avengers responds to an alarm call at a secret facility where Ant-Man is conducting a test run under the watchful eye of Pym before they enbark on entering Cross\u2019 facility. It\u2019s there that we see the true capabilities of the Ant-Man suit and the ever increasing mastery Scott is achieving as he is able to shrink and resize in the blink of an eye, which makes him nearly impossible to fight. He is also capable of communicating with armies of different types of ants, who interact and partner with him when he shrinks to their size.\nAs you might imagine with an Edgar Wright script, \u201cAnt-Man\u201d has no shortage of comic relief which comes in the form of nearly every character. Scott is flanked during the film with a backup team comprised of fellow burglars played by Michael Pena, T.I., and David Dastmalchian who are all given a multitude of moments in the film to flex their comic muscles. Of course the interaction between Scott and Pym\u2019s daughter, Hope (Lilly), as she trains him in the skills necessary to operate the suit are all played to Rudd\u2019s strength of being that likable everyman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. You might remember Evangeline Lilly from the \u201cHobbit\u201d films where she played the highly skilled warrior Elf, Tauriel. Here, her well muscled athleticism and martial arts prowess are on full display, giving the film the strong female character it needs. It\u2019s easy to envision the two of them making a formidable team in a future film.\n\u201cAnt-Man\u201d successfully pulls off that all but elusive trick needed to conjure up something that feels original even though the story and the key plot threads have been used many times before. The visual effects department and the production designers likely deserve the lion\u2019s share of credit for this since the look and feel of the action sequences with Ant-Man changing from normal size to ant size and the way he interacts with the CGI ants and the full size bad guys is unlike anything I\u2019ve ever seen before. Factor in timely comedic dialogue that never really goes over the top, nor does it take itself seriously, and you have the makings for yet another solid Marvel outing and the birth of a solid new character for their future big screen ventures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 649, "original_length": 29362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://linux.sys-con.com/node/4374642", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:AK7MUM4UH3XMABPNSETKXSPB3AWGZAT4", "length": 1566, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "linux.sys-con.com", "title": "Transforming Computing | @CloudEXPO @Citrix @VirtualSteve #Cloud #CIO #SaaS #IaaS #PaaS #Mobile #DigitalTransformation | Linux Containers", "raw_content": "Related Topics: SYS-CON MEDIA, @CloudExpo, @ThingsExpo\nTransforming Computing and the Way People Work: Technology Should Enable Innovation, Not Hinder It\nToday's workforce is trading their cubicles and corporate desktops in favor of an any-location, any-device work style. And as digital natives make up more and more of the modern workforce, the appetite for user-friendly, cloud-based services grows. The center of work is shifting to the user and to the cloud. But managing a proliferation of SaaS, web, and mobile apps running on any number of clouds and devices is unwieldy and increases security risks. Steve Wilson, Citrix Vice President of Cloud, discusses improving personal productivity with an evolved approach supporting modern workstyles and simplifying IT complexities to deliver the right experience to the right user at the right time, on any device.\nSteve Wilson is Vice President of Cloud at Citrix. In this role, he is the Citrix Cloud Champion, with a specific focus on the Citrix Cloud Platform and App Ops investments.\nBefore joining Citrix, Wilson was at Oracle where he was vice president of product development for Oracle Enterprise Manager. Prior to that role, Wilson was the vice president/general manager for virtualization technologies at Sun Microsystems. He has also served as vice president of product management at Cassatt Corporation, an early innovator in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies.\nWilson holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of San Diego.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 662, "original_length": 42661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://liz.rockonchicago.com/7072068424", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MF5GQW65OZIPEPGIHK4GBDQYT7WEUHJU", "length": 2929, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "liz.rockonchicago.com", "title": "(707) 206-8424", "raw_content": "They may need something to eat.\nI have never seen this picture on the net. Do you think this letter was written by Audrey? A drink never hurt anybody. Myths and legends should be handed down from generation to generation. None of the meat was fit to eat. \"When you woke up this morning, what gave you the belief that this moment was possible?\" \"No.\" \"Knute, I'm hungry.\" \"Me too.\" I watched X-files the movie. Florian is sleeping in the next room.\nI will come tomorrow. I know you hate funerals. The socially needy receive an additional allowance. We won.\nI am glad to see you! Johnny is out doing something stupid. They spoke too quickly for me to understand. I need to know it. I have no more than ten English books. Sridhar denied that allegation. They're all corrupt. Jelske proposed to Bryan in front of the church.\nWe had a wonderful time today. You know we owe her a lot. He will be having dinner with her at this time tomorrow. He made it. Loyd was almost killed in the accident.\nI cannot help laugh at it. How old were you when you moved to Boston? It's about time somebody showed up. You're the best dad in the world. Everyone's against somebody in war. Once across the river, you are safe. I just ran into her on the street. Kirsten borrowed a lot of money from the bank.\nHe has a fear that his brother will fail. Anyone would find it hard to run on such a hot day. The number of people among us increases. Can I come? Whether you're able to speak French or not is completely irrelevant to this conversation.\nI was jealous. I want to be put into cryogenic sleep. Her father's constant disappearances made her distrustful around men. He made her feel like he wanted her to leave. Fay doesn't have to answer that question. Many workers are facing the ax in the assembly department. Dan was lonely and withdrawn.\nGeorge has been sentenced. Elliott paid.\nGuido is texting frantically on his phone. Heidi washed the dishes and Stewart dried them.\nYou didn't have to come to me. Would you like to talk about what just happened? Professor Goto directed my graduate work. He could not make it in business.\nThat's pretty funny. Jarmo swore. She carefully watched the bird in the nest.\nTell me how to find Magnus. I gave you my word. My father seemed to be disappointed I hadn't passed the examination. She is a particularly pretty young woman. Do you know about that?\nHe faced ruin. The new model clicked with the public. I could use something to drink. In the late eighteenth century, a passport for an American was usually signed by the President of the United States. Your instincts are wrong.\nNext Sunday we are going to have a party for Mr Oka. The coast of the French Riviera has very beautiful beaches. Takayuki was frightened and didn't want to be left alone. The teenager insisted she was innocent of cheating. A good idea presented itself. He answered with a shaky voice. 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Smithee's REACTOR: 'Inconvenient Truth' Producers' Desperate Ad: A Tract for the Religion of Liberalism", "raw_content": "'Inconvenient Truth' Producers' Desperate Ad: A Tract for the Religion of Liberalism\nAlthough it is far from the overwhelming box office success of Michael Moore's factually-challenged \"documentary\" Fahrenheit 9/11, Al Gore and producer Laurie David's glorified campaign ad/PowerPoint presentation An Inconvenient Truth is a hit...for a documentary. This is not surprising, because few documentaries have the backing that this one does: it stars a nationally known figure in former Vice President Al Gore (who, remember, got the majority of votes cast nationwide in the 2000 election), is co-produced by a well-known celebrity spouse (Laurie David, wife of professional schlemiel Larry David and a quasi-environmentalist who loves those fuel-burning private jets), and it is distributed by a major Hollywood studio (Paramount Pictures).\nIn limited release May 28, 2006, Inconvenient grossed $367,311. In expanded release a weekend later (June 4), it brought in an impressive $1,356,387, a per screen average of $17,615.42. Not Fahrenheit or Bowling For Columbine money, but not bad at all.\nUnfortunately for the backers of Inconvenient, that was the high-water mark, if you will pardon the expression. It was flooded into cinemas across America in the next three weeks, from 77 theaters on June 4 to 587 on July 2, and while overall box office numbers were higher, the amount of viewers per screen plummeted. By the weekend of July 2, Inconvenient had been lost and forgotten among summer blockbusters; it was bringing in a paltry $2,879 per screen.\nIn preparation for the July 7-9 weekend, the Inconvenient print ad took on a cry of desperation. This is what I saw when I opened the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, July 7 (click to enlarge):\nI am not a rubber stamp for conservative pundit Ann Coulter, whose opinions I more than frequently agree with, but whose rhetoric is oftentimes downright cruel. But she got one thing absolutely accurate with the subtitle of her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Liberalism -- and its pet causes -- are practiced by its devotees like the religion they fear and despise in their ideological opposites.\nIf you don't get my point, try this: read the ad above again, and this time, instead of the words 'An Inconvenient Truth', imagine the words 'The Passion of the Christ.' Instead of the word \"documentary,\" imagine the word \"motion picture.\" Imagine the word \"Washington\" was the word \"Hollywood,\" and the words \"dismiss this as a fringe issue\" were \"dismiss us as religious fanatics.\" Instead of the words \"global warming,\" imagine the word \"Christianity.\" Instead of the words \"the planet's favor,\" imagine the words \"God's favor.\" Instead of the words \"defending the only home we will ever know,\" imagine \"saving the only soul you will ever have.\"\nWho thinks that an ad like that for The Passion of the Christ would run without controversy?\nIs there something intrinsically wrong with the language used by the backers of Inconvenient? I don't think so -- unless they are the type that hold deeply religious people in contempt because of their certainty about their beliefs, or about the importance of evangelism and -- yes, in their words, conversion -- in order to save the lives of others.\nBy the way: The secular evangelism didn't help matters at the box office. Inconvenient's numbers dropped again! On the weekend of July 7-9 -- presuming none of the 587 theaters dropped it -- the movie only garnered $1998.27 per screen. Maybe the suggested act of 'converting others' goes against the grain of the movie's target audience so deeply, they couldn't bring themselves to 'make [others] see it.\"\n(WELCOME OPINION JOURNAL READERS! THANK YOU, JAMES TARANTO!)\nkcom said...\n\"This is our last, best chance to tip things back in the planet's favor.\"\nI honestly don't think \"the planet\" gives a flip. If it survived the age of dinosaurs and their extinction, and the ice ages that lasted millennia, and every twist and turn in between then I think it will survive a few cars and trucks (and even a few environmentalists). Might that be an inconvenient truth? The planet is not at risk. Go ahead and make a case that our lives are at risk, if you can, but leave \"the planet\" out of it.\nTrue 'the planet' doesn't need our help, but the humans (and other living things) do, least if they want to live in locations like NYC, Washington DC, New Orleans, etc.\nI haven't seen AIT, yet, but are they asking for *that* much change on our part? I didn't think anyone was plotting to rid the earth of the last Hummer H2 but would it be so bad to ask that it got (slightly) better MPG?\nOr have we all forgotten the lessons of \"the law of the commons.\"\nmjkredliner said...\nL.N.Smithee: this is the first time I have perused your blog, and I must say I find it very interesting and well written. I would also like to thank you being a voice of reason in a couple of Spo-Fi threads, it seems I am very much out-manned sometimes, and your ability to argue a point is very much appreciated, I am somewhat lacking in my skills with the pen (or keyboard, as it may be!). I shall return here, as I said, I find your blog very thoughtful and insightful.\n'Inconvenient Truth' Producers' Desperate Ad: A Tr...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lomaxdeltastate.com/recordings/subject/mrs-e-m-davis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:04Z", "digest": "sha1:XUR24KUO5QVINVVQ4OV3XHSD4RS3F3DF", "length": 15, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lomaxdeltastate.com", "title": "Mrs. E.M. Davis \u2013 Alan Lomax | Mississippi Delta", "raw_content": "Mrs. E.M. Davis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 113.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lordoflucies.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I0884&tree=Walsh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:45Z", "digest": "sha1:A5WKJFUAAG3JWLW42DFNK5ABJA733OCX", "length": 6427, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "lordoflucies.com", "title": "Herbert Walter Crumpler b. 14 May 1898 Hopman's Farm, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset d. 10 Dec 1998 Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England: Craig and Marjorie Walsh Geneology Website", "raw_content": "Herbert Walter Crumpler\nName Herbert Walter Crumpler\nBorn 14 May 1898 Hopman's Farm, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset [1, 2]\nBiography HERBERT WALTER CRUMPLER\n'Herbie' was born in Lytchett Matravers, and subsquently died there. The Crumpler dynasty goes back nearly 400 years and many of the menfolk were farmers. His great-grandfather, Samuel, was gored to death by his own bull in 1849. 'Herbie' was a sickly boy and at one time was not expected to live, but after a long convalescence with a farmer uncle in Somerset he returned to his parents a much fitter lad. Though his speech was devoid of dialect, and was always courteous and genteel, he was nonetheless a very hardworking countryman. For a long period of his life he held down both his smallholding of some half a dozen cows, plus poultry, vegetables etc., and his 'daytime' job, cycling to the Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, where his reputation for honest diligence was second to none.\nIn 1993 when Lytchett Red Triangle F.C. won 'the double,' we asked Herbie to present the Cups and Medals. He accepted readily and came with great aplomb, agile and genial, telling us that he was a founder-member of the Club in Season 1919/20 after returning from War Service on the Western Front with the Dorsets. He had been Hon. Secretary of the L.R.T., later Hon. Treasurer, and had played in the Team for several seasons.\nThereafter I met him or phoned him on many occasions, especially after his dear wife, Elsie, died a couple of years later. On 29th October, 1997, three months before his 100th birthday, I went up to see him just before 2.30 p.m., by prior arrangement. Fiercely independent, Herbie wouldn't quit 'Larkrise' (his bungalow) on any terms, so the occasional accident was inevitable.\nAs I pulled off Dolmans Hill to enter the private track leading to his home, an ambulance raced past me, blaring loudly. I followed quickly and stepped into 'Larkrise' just behind the ambulance crew. Herbie was flat on the floor, bleeding noticeably from a head wound, but talking straight away, apologising for the inconvenience to them, and to me! He appeared to be bothering not one jot about his bloodened head. They got him up, bandaged him, waited 15 minutes or so to ensure there was no further reaction, then left - with Herbie thanking them profusely. Son Robin came briefly to check that all was well; I offered to go, but he emphatically insisted that I stay. He was soon in full flow and I didn't get away till well after 5.30. He spoke about his early days, his childhood sicknesses, his Army service, his football, his farming and his work at Holton Heath.\nOne story I scribbled down concerned the day he joined-up, in 1915, aged 17. There were 174 recruits at Dorchester that day, and he was No. 171. After certain formalities they were marched unceremoniously to the Mess Room where they were sat on hard benches against rough old tables. Their meal comprised stodgy potatoes, hard peas, and an unappetising bully beef stew. A man next to Herbie bumped the server's arm which spilt the peas from his ladle on to the table. The Server immediately got hold of Herbie's mess tin and scooped the peas into it. \"It was positively awful,\" said Herbie (his face quite contorted), \"and I just couldn't stomach it.\" A ginger-haired farm labourer recruit from Lyme Regis, on his other side, golloped his down, briefly paused, then looked at Herbie's full mess tin.\n\"Don' ee loike it then?\" he asked.\n\"I certainly do not,\" Herbie replied.\nSLIGHT PAUSE. \"Bain ee goinna eat it then?\" he asked.\n\"No I am not!\" came the emphatic reply.\nSLIGHT PAUSE. \"C'n oi eat it then?\"\n\"You most certainly can!\" he replied.\n\"And then,\" said Herbie delicately, \"he slurped the lot down, elbows on table and belching,\" causing him to reel in disgust.\nThe stories went on and I was amazed at Herbie's uncanny memory and joie de vivre. On his 100th birthday, in February, 1998, the weather was beautiful and our Football Club arranged a little presentation at the Sports Pavilion, plus sandwiches, tea, photos, radio and newpaper interviews and the like. Herbie revelled in it. I attempted to dissuade him from staying the two more tiring hours to watch the match, but he would have none of it. We entertained Wareham, a more experienced Senior Side, and fought back from a 2-0 half-time deficit to a very creditable 2-2 draw. Herbie was well pleased. I did a brief poem for the occasion which we incorporated into our programme:\nHerbie's reached his Century,\nHe's made his 'ton' today,\nThere's still some petrol in the tank,\nWe think he's here t' stay.\nFour hundred years of Crumpler grit,\nThe longest group by far,\nHave graced the village, made it tick,\nAnd Herbie is the star.\nCo-founder of our Lytchett Club,\nA player for many years\nsince 1920, still not out,\nIt's worth a hundred cheers.\nWe're playing Wareham here today,\nThere're still some in the pub,\nIf they bain't yur by two o'clock\nWe'll put him down as 'Sub'.\nThanks for your presence and your smile,\nYou needed scant persuasion,\nIt makes us proud to stay the while\nand share this GREAT OCCASION!\nFootnote: In his 101st year, Herbie was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French Government for services during the Great War.\nMilitary Service \"With the onslaught on the First World War, Herbert was called up to serve his country. Joining the 4th Battalion of the Dorset Regiment, he left for France and was later transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment as a signaller. A sprightly Herbert, now 92 years of age, told the Purbeck Independent: 'I was ery lucky to get through the First World War unscathed, but nearly all of my friends I left Britain with were killed. It was very sad. I feel I must have a charmed life.\" [2]\nDied 10 Dec 1998 Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England\nBuried 15 Dec 1998 Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England\nFather Walter Crumpler, b. 1865, d. 1931 (Age 66 years)\nMother Annie Roffey\nMarried 1889 Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England\nFamily Elsie Caridwen Chilcott, b. 1908, Merrioneth, Wales\nMarried 31 May 1930 St. Mary's Church, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset [4]\n1. Robin Crumpler\n2. Alan Crumpler\n\"Sixty Years of Wedded Bliss for Lytchett Matravers Couple\" - Purbeck Independent\n[S4982] Purbeck Independent Newspaper, 13 Jun 1990.\n[S4986] A Darzit Voice, Beau Parke, (http://www.lulu.com/content/232640), Page 80-81.\n[S4982] Purbeck Independent Newspaper (Reliability: 3), 13 Jun 1990.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lungbug.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-cover-11.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:48Z", "digest": "sha1:NQI2MLO66YGQTGQQOC5PJ4HCNDK2VBT2", "length": 253, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lungbug.blogspot.com", "title": "86 35: book cover... 11?", "raw_content": "since i don't want to put up any of port silver, it'll be random tidbits until next week-- by then i'll start on the next marvel thing and maybe that'll provide some interesting stuff. today, cover sketches for another book. the lower two were approved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.miniaturetrading.com/user/mr_yoda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:42Z", "digest": "sha1:BWM5V5ZANYFHPQ6KSP74FR7PWUJPVFFW", "length": 98, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "m.miniaturetrading.com", "title": "Trader Public Page for mr_yoda at Miniature Trading", "raw_content": "Trader Public Page for mr_yoda\nA user by that name was removed from this site on November 8, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.stjohns.ca/living-st-johns/your-city/st-johns-history/history-st-johns", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:LB5RNCPHLUCSWNOC6SE7YU2MTP477GWM", "length": 5122, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "m.stjohns.ca", "title": "\ufeff History of St John\u2019s | City Of St. John's - Mobile", "raw_content": "Home Living in St. John's Your City St. John's History History of St John\u2019s\nThe following is a very general overview of the history of St. John's. If you are looking for something more specific please contact the E-mail: archives@stjohns.ca.\nSt. John's, now the capital of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, has experienced a long and colourful history. Europeans began visiting this harbour during the latter part of the Italian renaissance period around the beginning of the sixteenth century. St. John's, because of its harbour and proximity to the fishing grounds, gained prominence as a commercial trading outpost for the Basques, French, Spanish, Portuguese and English engaged in the fishery along the western side of the North Atlantic.\nThe late sixteenth century saw the rise of Britain as a significant world naval power and with it, their dominant presence in the Newfoundland fishery, particularly in the area ranging from Cape Bonavista in the north to Cape Race in the south. St. John's recorded the first permanent settlers in this period in the early 1600s with a family named Oxford establishing a plantation, probably in the area west of Beck's Cove.\nThe north side of the harbour saw wharves, fish stores, and warehouses constructed to accommodate the trade which grew as a result of the fishery. A path which crossed the various streams and brooks running down the side of the hill connected these premises. This path later became known as the lower path and later still as Water Street - the oldest commercial street in North America. It was along this path that fishers, fishery servants, traders and their families along with fishing captains, pirates, traders and naval officers all travelled from storehouse to warehouse to alehouse to purchase or barter for the supplies necessary to secure a successful voyage during the Newfoundland fishery.\nSt. John's performed this role throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the major commercial and service centre for the Newfoundland fishery. However, since Newfoundland functioned primarily as a fishery, as opposed to a place of residence, the population of St. John's increased slowly over most of this period.\nThe port's importance as a major part of the fishery made it a prime military target for any nation wishing to gain control over this important food supply. The earliest record of these battles dates back to 1555 when the Basques travelled overland to capture St. John's from the French. Over 100 years later, in June 1665, the great Dutch naval strategist Admiral De Ruyter captured St. John's from the Engl ish. Commencing in the late seventeenth century and running throughout most of the eighteenth century, the English and French engaged in a series of wars which saw St. John's used frequently as a battle ground. The last of these battles occurred in 1762 when the British recaptured St. John's from the French after a brief fight.\nBy the latter part of the eighteenth century, the population of St. John's stood at a few thousand based on its trade in the fishery. The outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars in 1791-2 in Europe saw a growth in the demand for salt fish. As prices for this commodity increased it attracted a large influx of people, mainly Irish immigrants who came to take advantage of the high fish prices and good wages. This resulted in a substantial increase in the population of St. John's which stood at approximately 10,000 by the end of these wars in 1815. The economic boom in the Newfoundland fishery ended with the conclusion of the war. Fish prices fell and generally remained depressed until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.\nSt. John's, now the commercial and political capital of Newfoundland grew slowly throughout the nineteenth century. Ravaged by three fires in 1816, 1846 and 1892, the town recovered and rebuilt after each fire.\nAlthough originally proposed in 1832, the town of St. John's did not enjoy municipal government status until 1888 when it elected its first council consisting of five councillors and two government appointees. The population of the town at the time was approximately 30,000. The residents enjoyed electric street lights on the main roads and a public water supply although many registered complaints about inadequate sewage disposal facilities. Most of the city's downtown as bounded by Cookstown Road, Carters Hill, and Beck's Cove in the West and Harvey Road and Military Road in the North burned in the 1892 fire. By the turn of the century, public transit, in the form of electric street cars, picked up and dropped off passengers along Water Street, Adelaide Street, Queens Road, Rawlins Cross, and Military Road. These remained until replaced by buses in 1948.\nIn 1921, St. John's became incorporated as a city with the passage of the City of St. John's Act by the Newfoundland government. 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You don\u2019t have to be super expert in one domain to become a consultant or teacher, you just have to be better than your student or client. Anyone with a core competitive skill can become a consultant and find clients online. 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The term \u2018Molly\u2019\nis slang for molecule and it\u2019s considered to be the pure form of 3,\n4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine or MDMA.\nMDMA is a synthetic drug which some psychiatrists began to prescribe for\npsychotherapy patients in the 70\u2019s. The most disturbing aspect of this decision\nwas that there had been no formal clinical tests run as to the effects\nof the drug. Not to mention there had been no approval from the Food\nand Drug Administration. The drug was banned by the Drug Enforcement\nAgency about the time the drug started appearing on the street. Today,\nit is considered a Schedule I drug, which is reserved for those substances\nthat have not been determined to have no therapeutic value.\nThere are many myths about what MDMA will and will not do to the\npeople who use it. MDMA triggers the release of large amounts of serotonin,\nas well as dopamine and norepinephrine. This results in feelings of euphoria and\nincreased energy. A person becomes way more sociable and his or\nher mood gets better. The high is said to last several hours.\nLong periods of MDMA use are said to severely damage your\nserotonin receptors to the point of causing short term depression.\nAfter using MDMA one often feels depressed due to the low number of\nactive serotonin receptors. However, when one\u2019s serotonin levels are\ncompletely depleted, this depression can last one to two weeks.\nAdditional side-effects include increased blood pressure, which can\ninduce heart attacks in persons who have high blood pressure. It\u2019s also\nthought to contribute to seizures in those who are prone to having them.\nThere has also a great deal of discussion in regards to the\npotential fatalities that could be caused by the drug. A few persons\nhave reportedly died as a result of taking MDMA, leading some to think\nthe drug is lethal. The issue arises because Ecstasy, the street version of\nMDMA, is typically laced with other drugs or various substances.\nMDMA, on the other hand, is supposed to be the pure version of the drug.\nMany teen users most likely to use MDMA will naively assume the drug can\u2019t\nharm them if it\u2019s pure. There is no safe batch of MDMA for this very reason.\nMDMA or Ecstasy \u2014 by either or any name, is an illegal drug. At the\nvery least, selling and possessing the drug is risking jail time. Since\nit\u2019s an illegal drug made through questionable means, \u201cpurity\u201d is going\nto be highly unlikely, and what one may be taking could be laced with\nsomething truly harmful. 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Food. Not the kind of food we have, because it\u2019s all delicious. But it\u2019s the way we look at it.\nI don\u2019t mean we pick it up and stare at it. But rather our view of how much we need. Do we have enough? Isn\u2019t that the question we like to ask? Are we sure we have enough food for everyone? Should we ask for some more? Should we go out and buy some?\nThe question I have is, have we ever run out of food? Can anyone think of a time when people left the church hall with an empty stomach? One time I was at a church meal where twice as many people as expected showed up and people began to panic. I don\u2019t mean 10 people showed up instead of 5. I mean 200 people showed up instead of 100. You know what? There was still food left over!\nSure we may run out of some things, like we had to go out and buy some extra biscuits for our strawberry tea. But I\u2019ve never been to a church function where there wasn\u2019t food left over. We know how to throw a feast! Churches all over the world excel at this ministry of productive kitchens.\nWe know how to be prepared, even if we never quite feel like we are prepared. If I said we were going to have a picnic in the park after church today, I bet we\u2019d still manage to get enough food for everyone. We can be that prepared.\nThere\u2019s much for us to do. It seems we are always getting prepared for something. A trip. A party. Visitors. Work. School. Vacation. Even for Sunday morning, there\u2019s preparation that needs to happen. Bulletins to print. The choir practices. Readers get ready to read. There are doors to unlock, lights to turn on. In the winter the heat needs to be on nice and early. At the appointed hour, we are ready.\nThe bonus is this, we know when these things are going to happen. We know the timetable and what the steps should be leading up to most of these events. We follow a schedule, a plan.\nAnd that\u2019s the problem we have with our reading from Luke today. We don\u2019t know when Jesus will return. He told us he will return at \u201can unexpected hour.\u201d\nWouldn\u2019t it be helpful if we knew when he was coming? You know, I\u2019m sure many churches would like to know so they can have a light lunch after the service. And if Jesus is coming, we\u2019re going to need a lot of food! He tends to travel with a big crowd, and I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be hungry!\nSo, we don\u2019t know when Jesus is coming. Every few years, you hear, \u201cThis is it! This is the end-times! Jesus will be here next Thursday!\u201d People like to think they have figured out the secret messages in the Bible that will tell us exactly when he\u2019ll come back. But then the day passes and nothing happens.\nHe\u2019ll come at an \u201cunexpected hour\u201d. That\u2019s what he said. Yes there may be signs, he mentions them in places in the New Testament, but we still won\u2019t know when.\nSo we are told to be ready. All the time\u2026 be ready!\nI like where he compares God to the master of the servants. The servants are ready all hours of the day for the master to come home. They aren\u2019t exactly sure, when he\u2019ll be back, so they wait up all night for him. They have been up working all night long so the house would be ready when the door opens. And when he tries to sneak into the house in the middle of the night, they are there to greet him.\nSo what does the master do when he gets home? Does he demand a meal? Does he put them to work? No\u2026 he rewards them. He takes off his coat and puts on the apron so they may be rewarded for their hard work with a feast he himself will prepare.\nImagine something like that happening today! Imagine the Queen returning back to London after her visit to Canada last month, looking around and telling her staff, \u201cMy, you have all done a marvellous job keeping up the palace while I was away, no go wash yourselves up because I\u2019m making dinner for you all!\u201d Somehow I don\u2019t think that happened.\nBut it\u2019s God\u2019s promise to us. Some day Jesus will return to this earth. When? We don\u2019t know. But we do have His promise, for those who continue to do His work, those who continue to show love, mercy and compassion for others, they will be rewarded. Those who take care of His creation will be rewarded.\nWhen I read the news I cannot believe how blessed we are to live where we do. There\u2019s no war. There\u2019s no famine. We don\u2019t live in fear for our lives. We are free to do what we please.\nSometimes this freedom makes it even harder to follow Jesus. Sometimes we miss the opportunities to serve him when we have it so good. Do you know where the church is growing the most? Africa. A place where there are many struggles in life is where more people are coming to know Jesus Christ and building churches.\nIn North America we have seen dramatic declines in our churches over the last 40 years. But we have it easy. We don\u2019t face life challenges which really cause us to look for meaning and hope. So we need to work harder at it. We need to work hard at being ready.\nSo what\u2019s the trick to being ready? How do we plan for the unexpected?\nBe like Christ.\nThat\u2019s it! Be like Christ.\nIs this an easy thing to do? No, of course not. It means standing up for the oppressed. It means showing love to our neighbours. It means doing things we find easy to avoid and not do (and I don\u2019t mean dishes or vacuuming).\nThere are parts of Sydney Mines I don\u2019t like to walk through. It\u2019s not because I don\u2019t feel safe on those streets, it\u2019s because I know if I\u2019m spotted, someone might talk to me and I\u2019ll have to hear about all their problems. And some homes on our streets have plenty of problems. There are days where I just don\u2019t want to deal with problems, maybe I just want to enjoy a walk on a nice sunny day.\nBut then I feel guilty for even thinking this. These people know what I do, I\u2019ve told them. They\u2019ve probably seen me in my collar around town. They don\u2019t go to any church, but they know what my role is.\nIt\u2019s all part of being ready. Being ready is showing other people you care about their lives. You care about their struggles, and Lord knows we have plenty of those people on the Northside. And it\u2019s an opportunity for them to see what we as a church body can offer. A listening ear. A supportive word. It could be any small gesture which might cause someone to think we have something they need.\nThat something is Jesus Christ in our lives.\nThe Bible tells us we will have struggles in our lives. But we are not alone in the struggles. God is right there with us, helping us through. We may not realize it at the time. We may think God has abandoned us, or we are being punished. That\u2019s not the case. Sometimes it\u2019s hard to see through the darkness, but there is light. There is hope. God is with us. Just ask and see.\nSo how can we expect the unexpected? We need to be aware of God among us. We need to seek God in all times. We need to remember God is with us in the good times and the bad. We need to remember the things Jesus told those who followed him.\nAnd we need to learn to live out those things today.\nWe need to be ready, because we never know when the door will open and our master will walk among us once again.\nSo, we need to be prepared to expect the unexpected.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 8378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marzena.fenert.pl/2016/04/11/rose/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LQOH3A5JAP3HUIRQUNA2QIQHYGCQB3L5", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "marzena.fenert.pl", "title": "Rose \u2013 Marzena Fenert", "raw_content": "Painted in Corel Painter X3. 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Duquesne is undefeated in the conference..\nhttp://www.gomason.com/news/2018/1/...lead-not-enough-in-road-loss-to-duquesne.aspx\npsyclone, Jan 21, 2018\nThat's a frustrating loss for the Women, missed a big opportunity to pull of a road win against possibly the best team in the conference.\nJoe Shannon, Jan 22, 2018\nHad to fight hard for it, but Mason women win 81-72 over Saint Louis at home tonight. 16-5 record now, most wins for the women's basketball team since the 2003-2004 season\nhttps://mobile.twitter.com/MasonWBB/status/956334147265613825\nFordham wins 67-62.\nTough loss. Couldn't put them away at the end. Fordham's a really good team. Yet another double-double for Butler, though.\nManaged to see the last 5 minutes. 2,000+ people--Girl Scouts promotion; biggest crowd in 4 years according to the gomason story on the game:\nhttp://gomason.com/news/2018/1/28/w...d-home-winning-streak-snapped-by-fordham.aspx\nWomen beat the Bonnies last night by a score of 76-63, and will have a winning season for the first time since 2003-04:\nhttp://gomason.com/news/2018/1/31/w...-st-bonaventure-to-clinch-winning-season.aspx\nGMUgemini and mason89 like this.\nThe women looked good on tv yesterday, pulling away from st. joes. Natalie dominated (27 & 16).\nhttp://www.gomason.com/news/2018/2/...josephs-for-most-conference-wins-in-six-years.\npsyclone, Feb 5, 2018\nGW does a season sweep.\nhttp://gomason.com/news/2018/2/7/wo...ut-fall-short-to-rival-george-washington.aspx\nWhy can't either team ever beat GW?\nThis has been going on since the 1700's. George Washington used to regularly beat George Mason at Whist when they played at Gunston Hall or Mount Vernon.\nmason89, Feb 9, 2018\nI could imagine...George Washington was so tall, he could peer right over and look at the cards Mason was holding.\nHahaha!!!! Very true!\nNatalie Butler with 30 pts and 19 rebounds in a win against UMass in a game a bit closer than expected.\nhttp://gomason.com/news/2018/2/11/w...er-scores-30-to-lead-patriots-past-umass.aspx\npsyclone, Feb 11, 2018\nI am not sure if this a \"for fun\" survey, but Natalie is on the list.\nhttps://herosports.com/womens-basketball/vote-best-senior-womens-basketball-aja-gulich-blbl\nMason beats VCU in Richmond by a score of 65-42, Butler with another double double (12 points, 11 rebounds).\nSo this is an interesting thread and I want everyone's thoughts because I feel the esteemed braintrust here will have a clearer perspective than me.\nI have gone to as many women's games this year as mens and found myself enjoying them quite a bit. 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A society, such as twentieth-first century United States, places high value on wellness and life and tends to view suicide with horror, shame and antagonism. On the other hand, the Japanese culture has historically viewed some suicides as honor-saving acts or patriotic feats.\nEven within the health care systems, personnel have had a difficult time viewing and discussing suicide. The very act of self-destruction is antithetical to the health-care mission to save lives and promote health. Suicide is a broad term that is often used to describe the ideation, attempt and completion of self-inflicted cessation. In essence, suicide can be viewed as aggression directed inward.\nSuicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. It is believed by many suicidologists that the number of reported suicides is only the tip of the iceberg. It is theorized that for every reported suicide attempt or completion there are ten that go unreported. Males are three times more likely to commit suicide that females. However, females attempt suicide more than males at a rate of 3:1. Men tend to use more lethal means to commit suicide, such as firearms or hanging, whereas women tend to attempt suicide by overdosing, poisoning or cutting. This means that there is little or no chance of men being rescued.\nApproximately for every completed suicide there are eight to ten attempts. Of the people who complete suicide, 80% have had at least one suicide attempt. Of those individuals, who attempt suicide, 12% will have succeeded in killing themselves within two years. Most suicides and attempts occur during the winter months. The least number of suicides are attempted and completed in the summer and fall.\nSuicidal ideation may be passing thoughts or repetitive and intense serious considerations of suicide. Research has indicated that any given time, 10%-15% of the general population has suicidal wishes whereas at least 75% of depressed people consider suicide.\nPersons at high risk for suicide include the elderly, white, Protestant males; adolescents; college students; alcoholics; drug abusers; depressed individuals; those downwardly mobile in the socioeconomic status; and people who have experienced interpersonal loss. Suicide generally increases with age; however the number of suicides in the 15 to 24-year-old age-group has been steadily increasing.\nVariables such as marriage, religion, and race influence suicide. Married people over the age of 23 have a lower suicide rate than nonmarried people. However, below age 23, married individuals have a higher suicide rate. Jews have a low rate of suicide, usually attributed to cultural and religious emphasis on family. Protestants have a high rate of suicide whereas Catholics exhibit low rates. American whites have a much higher suicide rate than African-Americans, although African-American suicide is increasing. White suicides are more pronounced in the older age-groups, whereas African-Americans have a higher suicide rate between ages of 20 and 35. Native Americans exhibit a very high rate of suicide. Methods of suicide used by these three groups varies. American whites utilize self-inflicted means whereas African-Americans employ methods where someone else (i.e. law enforcement officers) is forced to kill them. Native Americans commit suicide through \u201caccidents,\u201d where only the individual is involved. Suicide rates tend to much higher in industrialized, urban setting contrasted to rural areas, which tend to be nurturing and family oriented.\nBehavioral Manifestations:\nSuicidal individuals display a variety of behaviors that are indicative of potential suicidal risk. Frequently, a family member or friend will notice a recent change in the individual\u2019s behavior. An outgoing person may suddenly become reclusive. A spendthrift may go on a shopping spree or donate large sums of money to a local charity. This can signal the individual\u2019s relief for having made a decision to commit suicide and resolve the inner torment. People who are taking antidepressant medications are particularly prone to suicidal risk when medications have begun to improve their outward behavior and energy levels but have not altered their suicidal thoughts or feelings of hopelessness.\nIndividuals considering suicide often attend to final business and personal affairs. Finances may be put in order and a will composed. The person may give away possessions such as sentimental mementos or other valuable items they normally would not have parted with like a favorite car.\nAlcohol abuse is closely associated with suicide. Alcohol impairs the senses and clouds judgment, predisposing the individual to impulsive suicide. Impairment from alcohol also masks inhibitions and allows people who have planned suicide the opportunity to initiate the act. Depressed individuals, who have higher suicide rates, consume alcohol in an attempt to soothe inner turmoil. Additionally, people, who normally do not drink, use alcohol just before attempting suicide.\nSuicidal individuals are often anxious and fearful. They are frightened by overwhelming feelings of isolation and hopelessness. They are anxious about their inner pain and the plans they are making to resolve it. The feeling of ambivalence\u2014wanting desperately to die yet hoping just as desperately to live\u2014creates panic and anxiety. Suicide is seen as a means for escaping intensively frightening situations or as relief from constant, overwhelming anxiety. Anger is frequently expressed by suicidal individuals. The anger may be directed inward or onto other individuals or situations. Excessive guilt, self-blame and severe frustration may be evident. People who have severe physical pain are high risks for suicide if they desire relief from the pain and deduce that suicide is the most attractive alternative.\nThe legacy of suicide is that it affects every family member, friend and everyone who knew the victim. Family members, who are left to deal with the aftermath of suicide, have great difficulty dealing with the guilt and shame that occurs with suicide. Questioning themselves about what they missed; how could they have stopped the suicide; and, they should have watched the suicide victim more closely to prevent the suicide, and so forth. Others hold the family accountable for the suicide. They believe that the family pushed the victim into suicide or were not watchful enough to prevent the suicide, which tends to isolate family members from their own friends. The other sad reality is that children of parents, who have committed suicide, tend to commit suicide, also\nThe suicidal plan provides important information about the person\u2019s suicidal risk potential. If a family member or friend suspects the individual is suicidal, he should question the individual to see if the person is thinking about suicide and if he has a plan on how to carry out the suicide. There is a belief that by mentioning suicide to a person that this will make him suicidal. This is not true. You cannot plant these thoughts. Suicidal individuals have the thoughts all ready in mind. Questioning them only reveals how serious they are, and how much thought they have put into carrying their suicidal plans. Any suicidal ideation should be taken seriously. Even if the person has threatened several times in the past and never completed the act, it is imperative that family members or friends never tease the suicidal individual or encourage him to carry out his plan. If the person states that he/she is suicidal, help should be sought immediately by contacting the suicidal hotline in your community or a professional counselor. There is a National Suicidal Hotline that is available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week at 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 8438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://message.methodist.org.sg/tourists-and-pilgrims/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:QZF3QCC7KGVKXVFJE5OXSIOI5YANS5RU", "length": 3322, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "message.methodist.org.sg", "title": "Tourists and pilgrims | Methodist Message", "raw_content": "\u201cPilgrims go to be transformed in their spirit and seek how God works out His will and plans in that place.\u201d\nRETURNING FROM A RETREAT with our Cambodian Methodist pastors, I pondered my now-frequent visits to Cambodia with the question: Am I there as a tourist, or as a pilgrim?\nSure, I did the \u201ctouristy\u201d things: visited the \u201cKilling Fields\u201d and the many markets, tried their cuisine, was amused at the \u201cmutual respect\u201d they showed each other amidst the chaotic traffic on the roads, and noted certain peculiarities of Khmer culture.\nBut I did these things on the side. They were not my main focus. I realise now that there were lots of other things I could have done, and places I could have gone to, but somehow they did not seem high on my list of priorities.\nAll of that would be different if I were on a vacation. The hotel would be scrutinised quite meticulously.\nOther nearby places, the modes of transport, places to eat and visit would all be arranged according to availability of time, proximity and ease of travel.\nIt dawned on me that I was a pilgrim to Cambodia during these visits so far. What is the difference? Actually there are a few, and I want to draw lessons here for discipleship.\nTo start, tourists complain, but pilgrims do not. Tourists will look for the best facilities within their means.\nPilgrims accommodate themselves with modest, if not spartan, conditions, and they are ready to endure suffering.\nThe reason why pilgrims are willing to take the rough road is spiritual. They are not there simply for the natural scenery. Their focus is internal. Tourists go there to enjoy the sights. Pilgrims go there to be transformed in their spirit.\nTourists go to places expecting to get their money\u2019s worth in return. Pilgrims also expect to receive something, but it is because they have given something other than money \u2013 the gift of themselves. It is spiritual returns that they look for.\nHebrews 11:13 says: \u201cThese all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.\u201d\nMost other versions use alternative words instead of \u201cpilgrims\u201d, like exiles (ESV), temporary residents (Holman), or strangers (NIV). An exile (translated pilgrim in NKJV) is one who comes from a foreign country to reside with the natives temporarily, like the tourist or pilgrim we have been considering.\nDisciples of Christ are pilgrims, not tourists. We are prepared to have it rough. The ministry context may be tough but we choose to be there anyway.\nWe are seekers, not so much to find out what is there, but to seek how God works out His will and plans in that place, through us if need be. We see ourselves as companions of Christ on a journey, doing what is necessary to bless those we meet along the way.\nThis pilgrim mind-set is best summed up by Peter when he wrote in 1 Peter 2:11-12 (The Message).\n\u201cFriends, this world is not your home, so don\u2019t make yourselves cozy in it. Don\u2019t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life among the natives so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they\u2019ll be won over to God\u2019s side and be there to join in the celebration when He arrives.\u201d\nPicture by Giuseppe Anello/Bigstock.com\nBy BISHOP DR Wee Boon Hup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://metaldevastationradio.com/thebeast/blog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SWQBS6CQV6C7NAA3QEF442BMZIKHG2AD", "length": 5885, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "metaldevastationradio.com", "title": "Blog - The Beast | Metal Devastation Radio", "raw_content": "Blog by The Beast\nAs I Lay Dying\u2019s Tim Lambesis And His Current Wife Open Up On Their...\nFriday February 15 2019, 12:00 AM\nAs I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and his current wife Amanda have chosen to publicly discuss their relationship via social media. 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LIVE TONIGHT!!!\nImpiedoso: Listen now to new album \"Reign in Darkness\"!\nRide the Bullsh*t Train with God Hates Unicorns", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 196.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://miamidoorsandclosets.com/the-difference-between-interior-doors-and-exterior-doors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:55:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YX3SKQCL74IHDEIY3S6FYERC622GNGF5", "length": 3093, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "miamidoorsandclosets.com", "title": "The Difference Between Interior Doors and Exterior Doors | Miami Doors", "raw_content": "Before you start a big remodeling project, consider whether you want to replace the old doors. If so, you should do some homework before beginning the project. The main component you should focus on is the difference between exterior and interior doors in Miami. These doors might sometimes look the same, but they are very different, and the installation of each door involves its own process. It is easy to overlook the benefits that choosing the right door gives you. Hence, before buying a new door, be sure to choose wisely.\nTo start, Miami interior doors focus more on style and practicality. Exterior doors are used for the main entrance of your building or apartment. Exterior doors are made to face the world and stand up to the elements on an everyday basis. Alternatively, interior doors are in a safe environment compared to exterior doors, so they are not constructed to withstand the elements, and are less costly. Interior doors also don\u2019t need to serve the same security function that exterior doors do, which is why interior doors frequently have a hollow core and exterior doors have a solid core.\nThe between interior and exterior doors\nThe Difference Between Interior Doors and Exterior Doors \u2013 Miami Doors\nThe first difference is that exterior doors are heavy and interior doors are light. Interior doors are likely not soundproof, due to their hollowness. Nobody likes to open or close heavy interior doors inside their home on a daily basis, so exterior doors are sturdier and heavier. Exterior doors are meant to be heavy due to the extra insulation needed to keep out wind drafts and cold weather. Doors are designed according to the weather conditions they are facing.\nAnother important difference between these door types should be acknowledged. Interior doors are not typically treated harshly, while exterior doors must be treated to be able to withstand all the natural elements. The processes of painting and staining are performed such that the product remains durable. After this, you don\u2019t have to repaint too often. Meanwhile, an interior door\u2019s paint is long-lasting, not requiring any kind of special treatment for its color.\nA special procedure is undertaken for doors made from wood. The glue used should be durable and should be able to withstand any kind of temperature. Tougher glue is preferable for exterior doors, while normal glue can be used for interior doors without any concern.\nThe Difference Between Interior Doors and Exterior Doors \u2013 Miami\nExterior doors go through a process that gives them protection from UV light rays, rainfall, snowfall, etc.\nBecause wooden exterior doors are so desirable, clients don\u2019t mind the heavy duty glue and special treatment required. At some point, you may think of using an interior door as an exterior door, but this is quite risky. Yes, it will certainly be cheaper, but in time, you\u2019ll come to realize it is not a good idea. Miami Doors & Closets has a highly organized and helpful staff that will assist you in buying interior doors in Miami. They will guide you according to your desired application.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 7553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micahredding.com/blog/2015/03/23/transhumanism-and-christian-story", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PIK4REUYVD5QVPVZ3PCHUVBOUKKRHETF", "length": 10456, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "micahredding.com", "title": "Transhumanism and the Christian story", "raw_content": "When I was a kid, I discovered humanism and was thrilled. Here, somebody had gone through Christianity, and packaged its most essential concepts for the secular world. 1\nI soon discovered that other people did not see this the way I did.\nThe same thing happened when I discovered transhumanism. In transhumanism, I found the full expression of what my Christianity meant to me. So I was astounded to discover that many transhumanists were not only non-religious, but considered transhumanism and Christianity to be antithetical.\nHumanists often see things in the same way. One person told me that humanism was the bastard stepchild of Christianity, and that the two hadn\u2019t been on speaking terms since humanism left home.\nI think there is a better way to frame this, both historically and sociologically. I suspect that all cultures and worldviews must periodically send off expeditions to explore specific ideas, in ways the mother culture is unable to. If the expedition is successful, the explorers will return with tales of vast uncultivated ground, and maps of how to get there. And then mainstream society will begin to colonize this new territory.\nThis is what happened in our history. Christian Europe sent off an expedition to explore the ideas of humanism. The result was the discovery of new worlds, new ways of acting and forming society. In the last centuries, this ground has been colonized by mainstream society, and many of us now live in liberal secular democracies fueled by world-wide capitalism.\nNow humanism has sent off its own expedition, pursuing the ideas of transhumanism. And I think it\u2019s time for this expedition to return home, and tell the mother culture what we\u2019ve found.\nUnfortunately, the first wave of returning explorers is often so affected by their discoveries that they are unrecognizable to their mother culture. They have seen things and had experiences that the mainstream cannot relate to, and they often speak in a language that is rough and frightening. Sometimes they are so foreign, they are never accepted back.\nThe first religious explorers of transhumanism often related to their faith very differently than the mainstream world. So when they began to engage in the process of translation, they started by lining up sets of religious and transhumanist ideas, trying to connect the dots. By finding superficial similarities, they were able to cobble together somewhat interesting translations. But the problem was that this translation didn\u2019t relate well to either side \u2014 because it misunderstood both at a fundamental level.\nFor example, it is possible to take the account of Elijah\u2019s ascension to heaven, and see something superficially similar to space flight. Erich Von Daniken made exactly this connection, arguing that these sorts of biblical stories match very well with a description of vertical lift-off. 2\nBut though some religious people view this account as literal, and others view it as metaphorical, few believe that the primary significance of this account has to do with lift-off. That translation misconstrues both the modern impulse towards space exploration, and the ancient meaning of a great prophet\u2019s ascension.\nA better place to start is the beginning of the Hebrew Bible. The Jewish scriptures came into existence in a world which saw everything as part of the great wheel of time, the eternal return, everything repeating like the seasons. In this world, there was no individual significance, no personal value, no chance of accomplishing anything, because time was simply on repeat, and nothing could ever change. 3\nThis world was full of creation myths that looked a little like this: there were some gods, and they needed someone to do their menial tasks, so they created human beings to be their slaves. 4\nJewish scripture is a revolt against this understanding. Right at the beginning, in Genesis 1, we have one of the most significant statements ever made:\nSo God created man in his own image\u2026male and female\u2026and said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.\u201d 5\nHuman beings were not slaves, but were embodiments of the divine. Humans reflected something deep and significant about reality.\nThe next chapters describe God planting a garden, placing man inside, and giving him the task of cultivating it. This was not to be the eternal home of mankind. Outside was a wild, untamed world, and humanity had been placed within a cradle until they could learn how to cultivate and grow and create as God himself had done. 6\nHumanity was intended to be creators, and God was training them to take on the task themselves.\nAbraham is significant in just this way. He was called out of his country, with the intention of building a society he could not yet foresee. In a world where nothing ever changed, and things continued as they always had, Abraham ventured out to create something new, breaking the wheel of time, and writing his personal identity into the world. This is why he is called the \u201cFather of Faith\u201d, and is important to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In a certain sense, history begins with him. 7\nWhen we arrive at the Christian scriptures, the story intensifies. In the same way that consciousness is not a rejection of life, but an intensification and return on the concept, the Christian scriptures see themselves as continuous with the Jewish scriptures, but intensified to an order of magnitude. 8\nWhere the Jewish scriptures begin with humanity intended to bear the image of God, the Christian scriptures begin with a man who is bearing that image in all its fullness and completion, and who intends that image to take root and become embodied in all of humanity.\nThis means the radical redefinition of just what a human being is. In a world defined by political, social, religious, and racial boundaries, Jesus and his earliest followers are in some ways the first transhumanists, arguing for a human identity outside and beyond all of those things. This is why Paul says there is no \u201cJew or gentile, male or female, slave or free\u201d \u2014 he is breaking the constraints on human identity along every dimension of the ancient world. 9\nA Jewish professor once explained to me that in a certain sense, Christianity was the world\u2019s first religion. It was the first group in history to create an axis of identity distinct from the circumstances of your birth. It was the first group to divorce geography from belief. 10\nThis is exactly how the first Christians saw themselves. They were bringing into being a world which would no longer be defined by temples, kings, empires, and social strata. Without knowing what that looked like, they believed in that future. They saw that to be human was to be something dynamic and unconstrained, constantly creative, always requiring the moving of the boundaries, and the redefinition of things previously seen as constants.\nThis is the proper starting point for engagement with the religious world at large \u2014 not far-fetched ideas about what we may become, or superficial similarities between Christian terms and transhumanist ideas, or \u201cthe rapture of the nerds\u201d, or the singularity as second coming \u2014 but the recovery of the scriptures\u2019 powerful and incendiary idea of what it means to be human.\n> Watch this talk <\nBy humanism, I am primarily referring to the streams of thought that emphasize rationalism, independent thought, and the elevation of the status of the individual. By transhumanism, I am using a universalized version of the definition cited by Wikipedia: \u201cTranshumanism\u2026affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition\u2026to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities\u201d http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism \u21a9\nElijah\u2019s ascent is described in 2 Kings 2:11. Erich Von Daniken begins drawing these sorts of comparisons in Chariots of The Gods? See page 58 for a mention of Elijah, pages 37-39 for a similar interpretation of Ezekiel\u2019s vision. \u21a9\nIn this section, I am largely relying on the work of Thomas Cahill in The Gifts of The Jews. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_mythology#Perception_of_time for authors who discuss the ancient Jewish view of history. A deeper background to my thought-process here is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes. \u21a9\nSee, for example, the Sumerian creation myth. http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/SumerianMyth.htm \u21a9\nGenesis 1:27-28, NIV. Some people misunderstand this passage to be a mandate to destroy the environment. See Daniel Quinn\u2019s implied reading of Genesis 2: http://www.ishmael.org/Vision/. But this is a modernist reading of the original text, not part of the original author\u2019s intent. \u21a9\nGenesis 2:15 and context describe humanity as being given the task of cultivating the garden of Eden. Genesis 1:27-28 describes their larger purpose and task, which would eventually require moving beyond the garden. \u21a9\nFor a glimpse of how Christianity interprets Abraham, consider Hebrews 11:8-12, and Romans 4:13-22. \u21a9\nMy reading of the New Testament is heavily influenced by the work of Andrew Perriman and N. T. Wright, modified by the anthropology of Ren\u00e9 Girard, and the systemic analysis of Walter Wink. \u21a9\nParaphrase of Galatians 3:28, with an interpretation provided by Peter Rollins, Insurrection. \u21a9\nAmy-Jill Levine, private gathering \u21a9\nNext: What\u2019s up with the word Transhumanist?\nThe Human Race & The Problem of Evil The Structure of Human Hope: personal eschatology God can be trusted Peter Rollins and the Deception of Living in the Moment The Church of Christ Good and Evil, Paradox and Contradiction The State of Christianity and the World Minimum Viable Theology: Superorganisms Embodiment Peter Rollins and Experiencing God\nWireheading, Faith Healing, and Why the Placebo Effect is the Most Important Thing in the World Environmentalism Mandates Transhumanism Philosophical Foundations for Understanding AI Against Consumerism Christianity is Transhumanism Transhumanism is a Mars Hill opportunity Why Christians Should Support Radical Life Extension Why I am speaking at the Mormon Transhumanist Conference Broadcast From The Singularity Miracles and the Anthropic Principle\nThe Creative Process of God What I Would Write Disrupt converge My Grandfather How Wearing Jeans Can Save the World Unintended Consequences I will not increase my productivity Who I will be The Three Jobs in Our Future", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 11554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/superconductor/super1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:56Z", "digest": "sha1:3OPC6DX6K235CA7ZDDRNO4V6J2WKHWOG", "length": 1047, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "micro.magnet.fsu.edu", "title": "Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery: Superconductors - Thick Film (123)", "raw_content": "Superconducting Thick Film (Praseodymium 123)\nThe substance commonly known as 123 is a heavily studied superconducting ceramic. Though not the highest temperature superconductor, 123 superconducts at a considerable 90K and is perhaps better understood than any other high temperature superconductor. A significant amount of research in the superconductor field today is centered upon increasing the handling capabilities of this and similar materials. While shown here as a thick film, the most common form that 123 appears in is a pellet pressed into shape from ground powder, which is only capable of carrying currents a little stronger than 100 amperes per square centimeter. However, research has revealed that by partially melting and recooling the pellets, the grain boundaries of the material are restructured, facilitating a significant increase in the current density capabilities. Even higher current densities have been obtained on epitaxially grown thin films through techniques such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and laser ablation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://millfieldacademy.co.uk/index.php/parents", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:06Z", "digest": "sha1:D6LCNHTQBAVP2GAC2J7OX7OOMDCHDTPQ", "length": 153, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "millfieldacademy.co.uk", "title": "Parents", "raw_content": "Welcome to the parent section of the school website. On these pages you will find lots of information about the school, its policies and its performance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 145.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mindequalsblown.net/photos/nate-ruess-webster-hall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CJZPQ7U4342GBLHGMAT7KEBHVCOVJ4EE", "length": 2139, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mindequalsblown.net", "title": "Nate Ruess @ Webster Hall", "raw_content": "Nate Ruess @ Webster Hall\nBy M.J. Rawls @viewtifulj21 \u00b7 On June 29, 2015\nSome artists may have cold feet when heading out on their own. It\u2019s new territory. You have to forge a fine line to reliving the material that fans may recognize you for while introducing them into your new material. Will they be receptive to it? It\u2019s a crap shoot honestly. Some artists roll snake eyes, some may strike a chord so much that it makes their whole bands that much more popular.\nBands like Fun. and The Format have very loyal fan bases as depicted in one of the first solo shows of Nate Ruess\u2018s Grand Romantic run. Webster Hall was packed with fans from all demographics \u2013 it almost looked like a college graduation ceremony. Any thoughts of cold feet were quickly erased as Nate Ruess entered on the stage in a very energetic way performing \u201cGreat Big Storm\u201d off his recently released album.\nThe best way to describe Ruess during the hour plus set is kid-like glee. Honestly, he put everything into this performance with a new sense of purpose. A new solo album will do that to you. Especially in lieu to the theme of Grand Romantic where the songs depict that rush when you first fall in love. Whether it be in love with the new start of his career or love at face value, everything came out on the stage. Often interacting with his band, covering every inch of the Webster Hall stage, fans gave the energy back as well. Throughout the set, there were covers played like Prince\u2018s \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d and Bruce Springsteen\u2018s \u201cThunder Road\u201d. Speaking of which, the elephants in the room (\u201cWe Are Young\u201d and \u201cCarry On\u201d) were played as well. Why not play some of your most well-known songs?\n\u201cNothing Without Love\u201d, the first taste we received from Grand Romantic sounded as big as I thought it would with most fans in the front row echoing the chorus back. Lo and behold, the second encore of the night was a treat for The Format fans as \u201cShe Doesn\u2019t Get It\u201d was played to end the night. I\u2019m pretty sure Nate was spent as much of the older fans that night that yelled their voices hoarse. No stage fright, no cold feet here.\nfeaturedGrand RomanticNate Ruess", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mjpsychotherapy.com/5-worst-things-to-say-to-a-person-struggling-with-depression/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NMVUVWGRELQEY3NPHM3PLFGCMBKBQDVR", "length": 2161, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "mjpsychotherapy.com", "title": "5 Worst Things to Say to a Person Struggling with Depression", "raw_content": "When a family member, a friend or a loved one is struggling with depression, you want to be as supportive and non-judgmental as possible. Most people, however, don\u2019t know what to say or do in situations like this. If you don\u2019t know what to say, it is best to just keep your mouth shut.\nHere are 5 worst things to say to a person struggling with depression.\nSome people think depression isn\u2019t real, but it is. In fact, it is a serious mental health disorder. Often, it is caused by chronic stress or anxiety. Telling a depressed person that\u2019s it\u2019s just in his/her head is like telling that person that his/her condition doesn\u2019t exist.\nWhy can\u2019t you just be happy?\nIt\u2019s hard to be around someone who is struggling with depression. Often, people say this out of their concern or unease. But you need to understand that the person feels alone and lonely. When others criticize them, the isolation increases and the depression worsens.\nNo one wants to feel depressed. They wouldn\u2019t want to linger in a state of depression if they have a choice.\nYou should get out more\nIt is true that spending time alone can increase one\u2019s risk of depression. However, you can\u2019t force a person to go out, especially when he/she is feeling down. You may feel like you\u2019re being helpful by pushing the person to go out, but you\u2019re not. Rather, they may feel like you\u2019re forcing them to do something they don\u2019t want to. Instead of saying, \u201cyou should\u201d, try asking them. \u201cDo you want to go out for a short walk with me?\u201d\nEveryone gets depressed sometimes\nDepression is a mental illness. By telling the person that it\u2019s normal and everybody experiences it, you are downplaying their condition. Everyone gets sad or lonely sometimes, but you need to understand that loneliness and depression are two entirely different things.\nThere are people who have bigger problems than you\nSure, there are lots of people worse off than they are. But it doesn\u2019t change the fact that the person you are talking to is going through a difficult time. By comparing them to others, you\u2019re only making them feel guilty or ashamed of their feelings.\n4 Tips to Keep Your Relationship Happy, Healthy, and Strong", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 156.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moccast.blogspot.com/2015/02/episode-thirty-five-time-to-love-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XRR4EG6E63IC4HNUNFBX7Y5LKNGGPOJS", "length": 1260, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "moccast.blogspot.com", "title": "Masters of Cinema Cast: Episode Thirty Five - A Time to Love and a Time to Die", "raw_content": "Episode Thirty Five - A Time to Love and a Time to Die\nThis week we take a look at Dounglas Sirks, A Time to Love and A Time to Die. Enjoy!\n''Douglas Sirk \u2014 the master of the Hollywood melodrama \u2014 turns back to his native Germany at the time of the Second World War for the film that would stand as his penultimate American feature: A Time to Love and a Time to Die. A CinemaScope production staged on a grand scale, Sirk\u2019s picture nevertheless pulsates with an intimacy that has known longing for too long, and seethes with the repression of emotions poised to explode like bombs.\nJohn Gavin plays Ernst Gr\u00e4ber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind \u2014 and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family\u2019s shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver), the charming daughter of his parents\u2019 doctor, and thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love, even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.''\nEpisode Thirty Six - Le Amiche\nEpisode Thirty Five - A Time to Love and a Time to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://modernchairs.eu/color-trends-modern-chairs-need-know-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XRXDVG2U3BVT3ZHJ6SS7QSVFP534EQS2", "length": 1730, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "modernchairs.eu", "title": "\ufeff Color Trends Of Modern Chairs You Need To Know For 2018", "raw_content": "Summer is close to the end and the last part of the year always reveal which are the trends for the following months. This article will present the color trends about modern chairs that you shouldn\u2019t miss for 2018.\nSEE ALSO: Top 10 Modern Chairs Exhibitors at Maison & Objet 2017\nBlack and white is always on trend but not like at the Maison & Objet of last year. Experts sustain that \u201cblack is the new gray\u201d. What they want to say black is becoming used on furniture chairs and armchairs as much as gray last year. However, it doesn\u2019t mean that gray is going out of trend.\nTurquoise is still going strong. It is a cheerful and sophisticated color and it is perfect to add some \u201chappy\u201d to your home d\u00e9cor. Turquoise is a lovely mix of green and blue and can be bright, pleasantly pale or subdued.\nA quite interesting combination is made with blue and orange colors. blue and orange It combines warm and cool tones that you just can\u2019t avoid looking at it. As a result, orange and blue color schemes bring popular and modern color combination into interior design.\nLast but not least, greenery is really on trend at the moment. Pantone revealed this color as the color of 2017. Also for the next year, it is possible to expect that it will be on trend. It\u2019s a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade and nature\u2019s neutral.\nIn conclusion, these are the main colors that you could expect to find as on trend for 2018. We are still waiting for Pantone\u2019s announcement of the next color of the year 2018 but we will not be surprised if it will be one of the ones presented above.\nTags: bedroom chairs, chair design, contemporary dining chairs, Designer chairs, dining chair, Dining Chairs, dining room chairs, Living Room Chairs, modern chairs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://modernrationalist.com/2018/02/03/god-and-man-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:12Z", "digest": "sha1:E26YMVZAZPFE2JXKJXFYXXUY7UDLPJAR", "length": 5344, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "modernrationalist.com", "title": "GOD AND MAN \u2013 Modernrationalist", "raw_content": "Continuing from the previous issue\u2026\nA Christian says that god has given man wisdom. Man has to seek god through wisdom. When we ask how god that was clear to their wisdom is not clear for our wisdom, they say that atheists are sinners and so cannot reach god.\nWho created those sinners? If god has created sinners; why did he make them sinners? If god has not created sinners then who created them? When we put this question they say that devil or satan has been responsible. They are not willing to answer further. It is all because they themselves are not able to understand what they are speaking. It is so with the orthodox Islamites. So far as Hinduism is concerned, there are Mummurthis called Brahma, Sivan and Vishnu, Kali, Kathavarayan, Maduraiveeran, Karuppannan, Alwars, Nayanmars, dead ones, stones, pictures birds, beasts, trees, cow-dung and so many others worshipped as gods.\nWhy do I enumerate so many gods? If it is true that god is omnipotent, how ridiculous it is that he is not able to reveal himself in a definite form or shape. Is god so weak, impotent and incapable?\nAdded to this sorry state of affairs, there are people who talk of previous life, next life, fate, dharma, heaven and hell. They seem to me like the blabbering of the drunken mad fellows.\nMan has enough to suffer from birth to death. Added to these sufferings these gods and superstitious thoughts as fate, heaven and hell play havoc. They practically torture the mind of man. The living beings are still unable to understand why they suffer from pain, sorrow, worries and calamities. Of all the living beings man is said to be the only rational being.\nIt is because man is endowed with rationalism, he suffers more than other living beings. The real cause for it is the damnable god. If we are to share the food and work equally there is no necessity for god. In such a state, god has no work.\nToday man is subjected to slavery, misery and difficulties, because his interests are vested in the hands of the mighty and fraudulent religious cheats.\nIn another 50 years the average longevity of man is going to reach 100 years. That is certain. Already in some countries the average life of man has gone up to 67-74. In our own country in 1950 the average life of man was 32 years. The percentage of literacy in 1940 was 9 per cent. By the efforts of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Mr. Kamaraj the percentage of literacy has rapidly increased to 50 per cent. Added to this, the belief in god has been considerably reduced. So I say the more and more, the thought of god diminishes, the people would become wiser. If our women enjoy their independence in life and if socialism spreads in leaps and bounds, the wisdom of man and his longevity would simultaneously go on increasing.\nToday the Government is in the hands of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). They are atheists. If they increase their membership by a few more lakhs, they will ever remain in power sound and stable.\nOf all the foolish notions which ruined the human race on earth, it is the thought of god that is of foremost significance. Of all the religions of the world, there are only three big religions considered important. They are Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. Of these three, the first two have historic significance. So far as the third religion is concerned, it is a religion that was built up gradually with more and more fantastic ideas. It is a religion forced on the people with the primary intention of hood-winking them. It may be called a mixture. It attained the name of Hinduism at a very later stage and after the spread of the other two religions only.\nAt first it was the Vedic religion for sometimes. Then it was called the Aryan religion. Later it was called the Brahmanic religion. At last it was christened as Hinduism.\nIn the world, Christianity is the biggest religion having the largest following.\nNext comes Islam. When compared to Christianity, Islam has three fourth of followers.\nWhereas, the followers of Hinduism are only about half of the followers in the Islamic religion.\nApart from these three religions, there is another religion called Buddhism. There is no particular god for this religion. Yet they have the belief and follow certain rituals. Buddhism is in fact next to Christianity so far as the followers are concerned. It is a religion prevalent mainly in China, Siam, Burma and Ceylon. If we are to call Buddhism by another name, we may call it the religion of wisdom, because \u201cBuddhi\u201d means knowledge. Why should Buddhism be called the religion of wisdom? While all other religions have a god, Buddhism has no particular god. It is so, because, there can be no god for a religion that is based on wisdom. That is why Buddhism is said to be the religion of wisdom.\nYet even the Buddhists and intelligent people will not accept Buddhism as the religion based on wisdom. Why?\nFor a religion to thrive, it must have a god and people should have belief in god. Added to these the followers have to blindly believe absurd stories and irrational beliefs.\nWhen one considers Buddhism on this basis, it may be defined as a mere way of life. Its preaching and ideas are like that.\nSource: \u2018Collected Works of PERIYAR E.V.R.\u2019 published by The Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution, Periyar Thidal, Vepery, Chennai\nNo Responses to \u201cGOD AND MAN\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 6859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monicawilde.com/can-plants-talk-its-called-biosemiosis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:10Z", "digest": "sha1:TZJMFEM4X5KIZ7VO47W3ACNCJNBWKZR7", "length": 8845, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "monicawilde.com", "title": "Do Plants Talk? It\u2019s Called Biosemiosis", "raw_content": "Can plants talk? This century we\u2019re learning that bacteria can talk and count \u2013 it\u2019s called quorum sensing \u2013 and they know when there are enough of them to mount a successful attack. Birds like the Clark\u2019s nutcracker can harvest well over 100,000 seeds each, plant them in separate locations (3 to 5 seeds at a time) and, over the following 12-24 months remember where they buried them all. This memory also involves incredible navigation by triangulation \u2013 the sort of maths that would defeat most humans. So if the abilities of bacteria and birds are being reassessed, why not plants? Researchers like Trewavas proposed in 2003 that plants have memory. He believes that plants can retrieve information from their \u201cexperience\u201d to guide future growth development. So if plants can \u2018talk\u2019, then what language are they speaking?\nWe know that humans have historically used over 7000 plants for food and medicine. I\u2019ve often been asked how we knew which plants were beneficial to us? How did we learn all that? I\u2019ve long believed it was more complex than just trial and error, then passing that knowledge down to our offspring. Surely it was more simple, after all, many animals already use plant medicine without, as far as we know it, consciousness in their actions. The use of plants as medicine by animals is called zoopharmacognosy. Examples include:\napes using plants to cure diarrhoea, eliminate parasites, modulate their fertility & apply them topically for pain relief\ndogs that eat couch grass (Agropyron repens) possibly as anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory\npregnant elephants chewing Boraginaceae leaves to help induce labour \u2013 the same plant that Kikuyu women use for the same purpose\nand grizzly bears using osha root as a natural insecticide.\nTurning it on its head, I began to suspect that it\u2019s not that we learnt so much, but rather that we\u2019ve forgotten so much. I tell people that we have forgotten how to speak the language of the biosphere. It\u2019s called biological chemistry ~ biochemistry.\nBut biochemistry isn\u2019t a language in the usual sense of the word. It is defined as the study of chemical processes in living organisms. Biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life by controlling information flow through biochemical signalling. It explains how living processes communicate with themselves and with others.\nRecently I have come across a far better twentieth century definition of this \u2018biosphere Esperanto\u2019. Biosemiosis.\nBiosemiotics (from the Greek bios meaning \u201clife\u201d and semeion meaning \u201csign\u201d) combines biology and semiotics. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics. Linguistics is the study of the structure and meaning of language. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. Unlike linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. So semiosis is sign processes with meaning, that can be interpreted.\nBiosemiotics is a field that studies the production, action and interpretation of [non-linguistic] signs and codes in the biological realm (Barbieri, 2008), and the attempt to integrate the research findings. Biosemiotics demands a big mindshift, changing much previous thinking, of the scientific view of life. It demonstrates that semiosis is one of life\u2019s immanent and intrinsic features.\nIn practice, in the plant and fungi world, biosemiosis is when these living organisms use mechanisms other than words to communicate, i.e. chemical messages (signals). A pheromone (scent aroma chemical) is a good example. Three common plant uses would be:\nflowers often emit a fragrance to attract insects when they are ready to be pollinated\nsome plants can analyse the saliva of an insect eating them, then release a specific aroma chemical to attract the precise predator for the annoying insect\nbirch trees give off wintergreen (methyl salicylate) when they are injured. Methyl salicylate is a painkiller and anaesthetic. This is sensed by other birch trees who start to manufacture higher levels of protective chemicals in their sap.\nWe also know that the mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi \u2013 those white threads of hyphae that run through the soil \u2013 connect plants and fungi together in a huge worldwide web of life. On one level there is a well-understood mutual nourishment benefit. Trees use air and sunlight to manufacture food. Their green leaves use the energy of sunlight to combine water with carbon dioxide. This process creates two products \u2014 oxygen and carbohydrates in the form of sugar that dissolves into the sap. The sap goes down into the roots of the trees where it is exchanged with the fungi for water and nutrients.\nCO2 + H2O + photons \u2192 [CH2O] + O2\ncarbon dioxide + water + light energy \u2192 carbohydrate + oxygen\nPerhaps as many as 90% of all plants depend on mycorrhizae to survive and these fungal relationships probably allowed plants to establish themselves on land around 450 million years ago.\nHowever, the relationship is not just about food. It is far more complex than that.\nMycelial networks also carry chemicals. Some are toxins, helping to keep intruders away, but others are chemicals that are used as signals. Biosemiotic signals that allow the plants and fungi to communicate with each other. This short TED Ed video explains it very well.\nI also recommend the following two free TED Talks.\nSuzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other. June 2016.\nSuzanne is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia\u2019s Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences in Vancouver. She studies the surprising and delicate complexity in nature. Her main focus is on the below-ground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate underground inter-tree communication and interaction.\nStefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence. July 2010.\nStefano Mancuso is plant neurobiologist. He is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signalling and communication at all levels of biological organisation, from genetics to molecules, cells and ecological communities.\nThere is a current debate as to whether phytosemiosis (plant signalling) is worth separating from the catch-all of biosemiosis and indeed, whether either of these are a \u2018real science\u2019. The core of this argument is really about whether plants are just reacting \u2013 through feedback cycles with sensors and regulators \u2013 to their habitat, or whether their signalling is intentional and purposeful behaviour. This is uncomfortable for many people, as it means that the different life forms that we share the planet with may be far more interactive that we have previously thought.\nI always think that this is why so many people are particularly uneasy in a forest after dark. I mean there are no wolves or bears here in Britain! It doesn\u2019t literally \u2018come alive\u2019 as it is already very much alive. It\u2019s just that deprived of our sight, in the darkness, as our other faculties kick in, we start to become far more aware that there is a lot of life going on around us ,that we\u2019ve previously chosen to ignore. I wonder if this loss of semiotic ability is fairly recent? Explorers speaking to traditional peoples often report that elders would talk of the plants having \u201ctold them\u201d, or \u201cspoken to them\u201d. Certainly we can understand the use of a plant from biochemistry. Chew a bramble bud that drys up your mouth and you\u2019ll recognise tannin. And if you know that tannin dries the mucosa in the body, it is logical then that bramble shoots and roots are used to treat dysentery. But did we once, in our relatively recent past, have a far greater ability to understand the signs and codes of other life forms?\nThe semantics of definitions can be frustrating when trying to understand the issues. Even if biosemiotics is broken down into five study parts for the five kingdoms (phytosemiosis (plant), zoosemiosis (animals, insects, etc.), mycosemiosis (fungi), bacterial semiosis and protist semiosis), at the end of the day, plants are communicating with each other, with fungi, and insects, and animals, and bacteria and vice versa.\nHowever, at the end of the day, no matter how we want to define it or break it down, biosemiosis appears to be an excellent word to describe the communication of all living things.\nIsn\u2019t it time we learnt to speak it?\nThe following article might be of interest\u2026\nAre trees sentient beings?\nhttp://e360.yale.edu/feature/are_trees_sentient_peter_wohlleben/3055/\nWhat a fabulous article, thankyou!\nFrank J Norman\nThanks for the article, Monica. I love that plants can communicate with us. Hope you are having/had fun in New Mexico.\nThanks Frank. The Gila Wilderness of New Mexico is stunning. If you\u2019re interested in plant communication I recommend the online Coursera course \u2018Understanding Plants: What a Plant Knows\u2019.\nPrevious PostWild Hen of the Woods\nNext PostThe Sweet Smell of Danger", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 12059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/government/dissent/display/30658-casement-memorial", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:AGI4SIXKLRR3ZE7ENY4HCQOUOKEIKDIO", "length": 2024, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "monumentaustralia.org.au", "title": "Casement Memorial | Monument Australia", "raw_content": "Casement MemorialPrint Page\nCasement Memorial : 04-October-2011\nA plaque commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands and other hunger strikers.\nThe Casement Support Group, which was set up in Australia in 1983 to highlight the plight of Irish political prisoners and the injustice of British rule in Northern Ireland, organised the plaque with Craig Johnston, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union State Secretary, and other Victorian unions.\nThe 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British governement withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to \"slop out\", the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. In 1980, seven prisoners participated in the first hunger strike which ended after 53 days.\nThe second hunger strike took place in 1981 and was a showdown between the prisoners and the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. One hunger striker, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament during the strike, prompting media interest from around the world. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death\u2014including Sands, whose funeral was attended by an estimated 200,000 people. The strike radicalised Irish nationalist politics, and was the driving force that enabled Sinn F\u00e8in to become a mainstream political party.\nCASEMENT MEMORIAL\nIn Proud Memory Of The 10 Republican\nPrisoners Who Died On Hunger Strike\nIn The \"H\" Block Of Long Kesh in 1981.\n\"It is not those who can inflict the most, but\nthose who can endure the most who will\nconquer\". Terence McSwiney.\nUnveiled by Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein,\nMP, MLA, Minister for Education\nDonated by AMWU, Craig Johnston State Secretary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mormoncurtain.infymus.com/topic_michaelrash.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YNKWRRNJLCMFAZWB7DOEA5GLPXCQHEBD", "length": 109944, "nlines": 431, "source_domain": "mormoncurtain.infymus.com", "title": "The Mormon Curtain - MICHAEL R. ASH", "raw_content": "PLEASE NOTE: If you have reached this page from an outside source such as an Internet Search or forum referral, please note that this page (the one you just landed on) is an archive containing articles on \"MICHAEL R. ASH\". This website, The Mormon Curtain - is a website that blogs the Ex-Mormon world. You can read The Mormon Curtain FAQ to understand the purpose of this website.\nMichael R. Ash is a Mormon Apologist.\nOriginal Author(s): Randy Jordan\nTopic: MICHAEL R. ASH -Link To MC Article- \u2191\nMore comments on Michael Ash's flawed logic as well as that of his Morgbot compadres. This post is a follow-up to \"Shaken Up's\" post about his family giving him Ash's book \"Shaken Faith Syndrome\" for Christmas. A few months ago, Ash spent a few days on RFM trolling for material. He addressed some posters' comments in an article on his blog at\nhttp://www.fairblog.org/2008/10/07/ra...\nAsh addressed this question that was originally asked on RFM:\nIf genetic anthropologists proved that Native American DNA matched Israeli Jew DNA, what would you do? .[I]f evidence started to point decisively in the direction of [Mormonism]., would you believe again? .How much evidence would it take for you to concede a point in the [Mormon Church's].scientific favor? Some of the replies were interesting as well as telling. \"Randy J.\" replied:\nNo, because the BOM was discredited long before DNA testing existed.. The DNA results merely confirm what we already knew. The only way that any DNA testing could ever support the BOM would be if they were faked or misread. There's no evidence whatsoever anywhere in the Americas to show that the people and cultures described in the BOM ever existed.\nThen Ash writes of my response:\nWhat interesting circular logic. According to this critic, DNA science proves that the Book of Mormon is fictional. If DNA science were to confirm the Book of Mormon, then the DNA science must be fake or misread because we already know that the Book of Mormon is fictional.\nAsh is apparently too dense to understand that answering a hypothetical \"if, then\" question like this requires taking all previously known information into consideration. The fact is that every other item of evidence, or point of research, into the BOM's authenticity, consistently shows it to be a fraud. Therefore, the question about Isaeli DNA being found in the Americas is moot, and thus my response is hardly \"circular logic\" as Ash asserts.\nTo illustrate Ash's position (and mindset) with an analogy: Let's say that Ash was a believer in, and an advocate for, the existence of Bigfoot. A skeptic, debating the issue, might argue \"There's no reason to believe Bigfoot exists until an actual specimen is secured and authenticated.\" And a TBB (troo Bigfoot believer) might protest, \"If a Bigfoot was captured, would you believe then?\"\nThat's pretty much what happened with the case of the alleged find of a Sasquatch corpse in Georgia a few months ago. Even though no actual specimen has ever been secured, after centuries of alleged reported sightings, a couple of TBBs on this BB defended the Georgia \"find\" right up until it was determined to be a fraud. My point to this analogy being that we skeptics didn't need to wait until the fraud was exposed to know whether or not it was legit; we already knew it was a fraud because all prior evidence indicated that to be the case.\nA coupla comments on some of the responses from Mormons to Ash's blog article---one Marcus Brody intelligently wrote:\nHere is a question for you, however. It is a \"flip-flop\" kind of question of the statement posed on p.13 of your book. \"If there were some irrefutable evidence that Mormonism was false, would you still accept the (LDS) Church?\" If your answer is \"Yes, because I know it to be True\", then you are no better than those you criticize.\nAttaboy, Marcus!\nSeth R. wrote:\nThe options aren't just stay faithful or leave and fight it you know.\nThere are already people who go to LDS meetings every week and don't believe the historical claims of the LDS religion. On the internet, they sometimes go by the label of \"New Order Mormons.\" They go to church or for family, cultural, social, and even spiritual reasons. But they do not believe a lot of the Church's claims.\nIf I felt like I had irrefutable evidence that Joseph was not a prophet and the Book of Mormon was a hoax, I might go that direction myself.\nIt's encouraging to see some Mormons calling Ash on his flawed logic on his own blog. It's also nice to see Mormons, on a pro-Mormon forum, acknowledge that there are many other Mormons who already don't accept the BOM as authentic. If the Mopologists can't even convince their own members, how can they hope to bring us Ex-Mormons back to the fold?\nOne of the big-time FAIRies, Allen Wyatt, replied to Marcus's question:\n\"If there were some irrefutable evidence that Mormonism was false, would you still accept the (LDS) Church?\"\nFor me the answer is no, I wouldn't. If I came across irrefutable evidence that it were false, I would be gone in a heartbeat.\nIMO, that's quite an admission from one of the Morg's most prominent apologists. Too bad he's in denial of the fact that irrefutable evidence already shows the church to be false.\nAsh then dumbs things back down by answering Marcus's question with:\n>If there was- what I saw as- irrefutable evidence that that Mormonism was false, I would leave. If God or Jesus came to me and said that it was false, I would leave. As Allen notes, irrefutable could be a tough determination. If, for example, a document was found - written by Joseph Smith - that laid out his plan to con the public with a fictional Book of Mormon, that would do it.\nIf youse can't spot the illogic in this response, I'll spell it out for you: Ash presumes that such beings as \"God\" and \"Jesus\" actually exist to be able to tell him that Mormonism is false. Ash is viewing the issues through his Mormon/Christian paradigm, rather than applying logic and reason. Considering that mentality, he's hardly in a position to criticize my logic.\nAsh's comment about finding an incriminating document written by Joseph Smith is equally silly: There are already DOZENS of documents written by Smith, or by some of his scribes or other close followers, which clearly show Mormonism to be a fraud, and Smith to be a deceiver of low character.\nAsh's comment is about as intelligent as someone who believes OJ Simpson didn't kill Ron and Nicole saying \"I won't believe OJ Simpson killed Ron and Nicole unless he told me himself.\" Well DUHHH, it's highly unlikely that OJ would ever admit to the killings, just as it's unlikely we'll find a document written by Joseph Smith which proved Mormonism false. But it wouldn't matter, because the evidence has already proved the issue.\nIt's apparent that some TBMs are relying on Michael Ash's book to maintain their faith. I'm posting these additional comments to illustrate Ash's illogical and nonsensical arguments. My point is that Ash's apologetics are no different, no newer, and no better than those of FARMS and FAIR in past years.\nOn his blog article comments section, Ash refers a respondent asking about the issue of horses in the BOM to his 2007 FAIR convention presentation, which is on-line at\nhttp://www.fairlds.org/Book_of_Mormon...\nPerhaps deer or tapirs pulled wheelless chariots. We know, for instance, that the American Indian travois (a kind of sled) was pulled, not only by horses, but also by dogs. Maybe King Lamoni used a deer or tapir-drawn travois to cart his supplies while traveling. The mass Nephite movement to Zarahemla certainly suggests that chariots were used to carry supplies rather than soldiers.\nIt's also possible that Nephite \"horses\"--at least when associated with chariots--were among the provisions that King Lamoni needed during his travels (we know that horses were part of the provisions which the Nephites reserved for themselves when fighting the Gadianton Robbers [3 Nephi 4:4]). Perhaps \"preparing\" the horses and chariots would be like \"preparing the chicken and backpack.\" To modern ears this doesn't suggest that the chicken will carry the backpack but rather than a chicken meal will be prepared to go in the backpack. If Book of Mormon horses were eaten, they may have been one of the provisions loaded on a \"chariot\" and carried or dragged by men.\nAs I say above, this line of \"reasoning\" isn't new among Mopologists. What these silly theories ignore is the fact that the alleged \"Book of Mormon people\" came from Palestine, where they knew all about horses and chariots. If the \"horses\" and \"chariots\" mentioned in the BOM weren't the same things that ancient Hebrews knew them to be, then the \"BOM people\" wouldn't have called them that, because whatever animal they called a \"horse\", and whatever implement they called a \"chariot\", weren't used in the same way as ancient Hebrews used them.\nI call this tactic of Mopologists the \"word substitution\" theory, meaning, if items mentioned in the BOM don't match with known archaelogy, anthropology, etc., then the apologists merely substitute similar words in order to erase the BOM anachronism---in this case, horse becomes tapir or deer, and chariot becomes travois or sled. Or, as Ash ridiculously suggests, the horses were prepared as food and transported on chariots. The problem with these arguments is that if the apologists have to change the meanings of words in the BOM, the book as written can easily become meaningless. For instance, \"2000 stripling warriors\" can become \"half a dozen lame midgets,\" if that's what the apologist needs to do in order to reconcile an anachronism.\nTo minimize the call for evidence of horses in ancient America, Ash wrote:\nIn the 4th and 5th centuries AD, the Huns of Central Asia and Eastern Europe had so many horses that estimates suggest that each warrior may have had up to ten horses. Horses were the basis of their wealth and military power. According to a non-LDS leading authority on the zoological record for central Asia, however, we know very little of the Huns' horses, and not a single usable horse bone has been found in the territory of the whole empire of the Huns.55 Based on the fact that other--once thriving--animals have disappeared (often with very little trace), it is not unreasonable to suggest that the same thing might have happened with the Nephite \"horse.\"\nBeing a typical apologist, Ash quotes *one* source which has written something that supports his position, but he doesn't bother to check if that source is accurate or valid. Here's an old ARM post in which I refute a TBM named Charles Dowis on this point:\nhttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.re...\nAnd here some citations of ancient European horse finds provided by an Ex-Mormon zoologist on ARM:\nAs these posts were written several years ago, and Ash made his assertions in a FAIR convention just last year, it's obvious that he merely repeated some other Mopologist's assertions without bothering to check if they were accurate or if there is any research to contradict it. And that behavior is typical of Mopologists---they keep on repeating the same old, tired arguments, quoting each other, without bothering to do their own research.\nOriginal Author(s): Mms\nMichael Ash's latest effort to approach serious problems with overly simplistic and not-quite-the-whole-story solutions is here:\nhttp://mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/...\nThe Book of Mormon's \"reformed Egyptian\" fits neatly into what is currently known about ancient history and the modification of Egyptian texts. In the next installment we'll examine the translating aides utilized by the prophet.\nReally? \"[F]its neatly\" into what we know about ancient history? Really?\nAgain, overstating the case diminishes credibility. Whether one is arguing for the Church's position or against, little is to be gained in the long run by over-simplification and disengenuous spinning of the arguments. Michael Ash must know quite well that it is an overstatement of significant proportion to claim what he has claimed here. There may be some short-term gratification that comes from his effort--just as there will be(is) from Elder Holland's over-simplified, illogical and ad hominem approach to the arguments against the BoM in his recent conference address--but in the end, when the arguments are examined, Mr. Ash will not be taken seriously,as there is nothing \"neat\" about how the BoM fits into what scholars have learned about ancient history.\nOriginal Author(s): Fetal Deity\nMike Ash says Jaredite barges had ventilators. The article by Ash is found at the following link:\nI forced myself to read the ENTIRE piece (every word was excrutiating!) to get a sense of what Ash's premise was. Basically, as per Mopologist practice, he was trying to show that certain informational elements in the BoM are historically legitimate, but were \"... likely unavailable to Joseph Smith.\" In the article, he made the following claim (citing Hugh Nibley, of course!):\n\"While the tale of [the 'brother of Jared's'] 'shining stones' has elicited the laughs of critics, we find that the story is perfectly at home in ancient lore. According to the ancient Palestine Talmud, for example, the Ark was illuminated with a miraculous light-giving stone.\n\"Such information was likely unavailable to Joseph Smith. As Dr. Nibley explains, of the four copies of the Palestine Talmud that mention the Ark's shining stones, two appeared 30 years after Joseph had already translated the Book of Mormon. When the Book of Mormon was published, there was not a single translation of the Palestine Talmud available in any modern language.\"\nSo I decided to do a quick check to see if the legend of shining stones illuminating Noah's Ark was really THAT obscure at the time the Book of Mormon was produced. It took me all of thirty seconds to go to \"Google Books\" advanced search feature and produce the following results:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:...\nAs you can see, several of the very first results refer directly to the tradition of a shining stone being the source of illumination in the Ark of Noah--and all of these sources were published, in English, well before the publication of the Book of Mormon. (One of the sources even refers to the light-giving rock as the \"Philosopher's Stone\" or \"Urim and Thummim!\") And while it is perhaps unlikely that Joseph Smith (or other authors of the BoM) had direct access to all of these sources, it seems VERY likely that ordained ministers and other associates and contemporaries of Smith, et al., would have had access to at least SOME of them. And perhaps most notably, one of books listed in the Google Books search is a Bible, with commentary written by Adam Clarke, a Methodist theologian whose commentary was used extensively for two centuries by the Methodist church.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cla...\nThis fact is especially interesting because Joseph Smith stated in his own words that he preferred the Methodists and that they were the initiators of the revival he recalls in his personal history (see verses 5,8,9 and 21):\nhttp://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1\n(So it would actually seem UNLIKELY that Joseph Smith did NOT have access to Clarke's commentary and what it says regarding the source of light within Noah's Ark!)\nIn conclusion, it must be conceded that Michael Ash either:\nIs not AWARE of these sources and how accessible they are? (Ignorant!)\nPURPOSELY did not include them in his article? (Unethical!)\nSimply \"FORGOT\" to do a thirty-second search on Google Books as I--a RANK amateur--was able to do? (Negligent!)\nMichael R. Ash states that Book Of Mormon people possibly ate horses. This is contrary to what Daniel C. Peterson has claimed - that horses were actually tapirs.\nhttp://www.fairlds.org/Book_of_Mormon/AshHorse/#enloc48\n(With a Cabbie shrug of my shoulders to the late Arnold Friberg, who really was a nice enough guy and a talented artist)\nHere is some further deconstruction of Ash's claims...\nDr. John E. Clark, professional archaeologist and former director of the New World Archaeological Foundation...\nThe \"New World Archaeological Foundation\" is entirely operated by BYU, and as a non-Mormon archaeologist friend of mine who taught at the University of Utah noted, mere association with Utah and Mormons has hurt her professionally. BOM claims are wholly unrecognized by the archaeology community at large. Having reviewed much of the literature from them involving Native American origins as well as \"the diffusionists,\" there is a remarkable diversity of beliefs (with many, such as Dennis Stanford's and Betty Megger's claims, straining the tolerances of my credibility structures past the breaking point), and yet the BOM is still considered nonsense except by LDS \"scholars.\"\nAsh is being utterly dishonest with this one,\nOne of the things we cannot currently utilize as a supporting evidence for any model is DNA. As noted previously, the best DNA studies are unable to prove or disprove the Book of Mormon or to support one particular geographic model.\nPurists will claim \"it is impossible to prove a negative,\" but what the DNA models (and the linguistic and the archaeological evidence) show is overwhelming support for Siberian/Beringia origins for all Native Americans.\nThe simple analogy is that ten thousand marbles in a pile of ten thousand and fifty marbles have been examined, and they've all been found to be red, yellow, white, pink, and orange...\nBut dagnabbit, Ash is insisting there will be some blue or green ones in the few remaining...\nI mean there has to be... The BOM says so...\nAs for John L. Sorenson, the anthropologist/diffusionist who is credited with the LGT, Part II of my debunking of his fringe nonsense will be forthcoming...\n\"Challenging Issues, Keeping the Faith: Proximity and distances in Book of Mormon geography\"\nAuthor: Michael R. Ash, Source: For Mormon Times, 01 November 2010 4:00am\n\"While a hemispheric model for Book of Mormon geography looks attractive to modern readers familiar with maps of North and South America, when we closely examine the text, it becomes apparent that such a model is untenable. As anthropologist Dr. John Sorenson pointed out years ago, the Nephite scripture consistently points to relatively short distances between Book of Mormon cities.\nWhile the Book of Mormon doesn't actually give us distances, it occasionally tells us how long it took to travel from one city to another. We know from both ancient and modern sources how long it typically took people (if they were traveling as soldiers or as families with provisions) to move through various terrains from one location to another. Plugging this same data into the Book of Mormon allows us to estimate the distance between locations.\nWhen an internal map is constructed on the approximate distance between Book of Mormon cities and their spatial relation to other Book of Mormon cities, we come to the inescapable conclusion that the Book of Mormon events took place in a very limited area \u2013 probably no more than a few hundred miles; perhaps the size of Tennessee (although the Nephites and Lamanites may have interacted with people or places that extended beyond their vicinity)....\"\n\"....One of the things we cannot currently utilize as a supporting evidence for any model is DNA. As noted previously, the best DNA studies are unable to prove or disprove the Book of Mormon or to support one particular geographic model. Dr. John E. Clark, professional archaeologist and former director of the New World Archaeological Foundation, explains one very important point about the formulation of any Book of Mormon geographic model:\n\"Most members of the Church, when confronted with a Book of Mormon geography, worry about the wrong things. Almost invariably the first question that arises is whether the geography fits the archaeology of the proposed area. This should be our second question, the first being whether the geography fits the facts of the Book of Mormon \u2013 a question we all can answer without being versed in American archaeology. Only after a given geography reconciles all of the significant geographic details given in the Book of Mormon does the question of archaeological and historical detail merit attention. The Book of Mormon must be the final and most important arbiter in deciding the correctness of a given geography; otherwise we will be forever hostage to the shifting sands of expert opinion.\"\nThe first thing that Clark suggests is to build an \"internal\" map that fits the text. The internal map can then be used in an attempt to match real world locations in the Americas. In the following articles we'll examine the internal map and some of the competing models.\"\nOh yea, that's a much better way to figure things out. Make a map of your pretend book, then go out looking for a place that might fit your map....\nWouldn't want archaeology, geology, anthropology, meteorology, ethnology, genetics, hydrology, philology, botany, or zoology to get in the way of your cartology.\nI ran across this one while investigating a possible post for another thread, and I decided the issue is strong enough to stand on its own. I've posted many times here about \"hyper-diffusionists,\" those archaeologists on the fringes who claim there was transoceanic contact between Old World Civilizations and the New World before 1492 (other than the known Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland and possible Polynesian contact with Native Americans along the Pacific coast. In the case of the Vikings, there's overwhelming proof in the form of the ruins of their dwellings; in the latter there is evidence from boat construction techniques and fishhooks that Native Americans may have learned about from seafarers from the west).\nA recent History Channel offering on the subject from last summer, \"Who Really Discovered America?\" was dismissed by one RFM regular, an actual archaeologist, who characterized it as \"shit.\" Having sat through the program, which included references to Gavin Menzies--a pseudo-scholar whose claims about Chinese seafaring have prompted an entire armada of researchers to denounce him and create several websites with that goal in mind--and even having chased down some references to other bits of \"evidence\"--all of which vanished into a cloud of easily debunked lies and nonsense--I couldn't argue with his assessment.\nThis is, incidentally, the consensus of much of the archaeological community, per Wiki...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Colu...\nMany such contacts have been proposed, based on historical accounts, archaeological finds, and cultural comparisons. However, claims of such contacts are controversial and hotly debated, due in part to much ambiguous or circumstantial evidence cited by proponents. Only one instance of pre-Columbian European contact - the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada c. 1000 C.E. - is regarded by scholars as demonstrated. The scientific responses to other pre-Columbian contact claims range from consideration in peer-reviewed publications to dismissal as fringe science or pseudoarcheology.\nBr. Ash would have us believe otherwise...\nWhile LDS scholars agree with non-LDS scholars that the New World was populated primarily by humans who traversed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago, a growing number of non-LDS scholars agree with LDS scholars that there was transoceanic contact between the Old and New Worlds in ancient times\n. Ash makes the following claim:\nIn an article in Archaeology magazine, for instance, E. James Dixon explained that some of the most ancient early American sites were in South America - contrary to what one would expect if all ancient Americans had first arrived by way of the Bering Strait (near Alaska).\n\"According to this line of reasoning,\" writes Dixon, \"early humans first entered the Americas by transoceanic voyages across the Pacific Ocean from Asia\" and then would have \"gradually spread northward from there.\" He suggests that anciently, there may have been \"numerous contacts, and probably even population movements across the Pacific between Asia and North America\" (\"The Origins of the First Americans,\" [March/April 1985], 26-27).\nPlease note the 1985 date on the citation... I bring that up because I found the following by Dixon available on \"Google Books.\"\nhttp://books.google.com/books?id=3t2d...\nTransoceanic voyages across the Atlantic or the Pacific also have been considered as a possible means by which humans may have first colonized the Americas. However, some writers have abused the concept in an attempt to explain cultural traits between the two hemispheres, including similarities in art, pyramid building, and ritual practices. Recent archaeological discoveries in Australia and western Polynesia indicate that ocean-going watercraft have been in existence for the past 35,000 year (footnoted). Although people were to reach the islands of Oceania during mid-to late Holocene times (footnoted), it has not been demonstrated that humans were capable of making transoceanic crossings while carrying enough people and provisions to make colonization of the Americas possible. While New World archaeologists keep their minds open to the possibilities of transoceanic voyages both across the Pacific and Atlantic, currently there is not adequate archaeological evidence for watercraft capable of crossing the broad expanses of the oceans during the Pleistocene.\nDixon, p. 34; the publication date is 1999...\nIt's fairly apparent that Ash probably read Dixon's summary of an \"alternative point-of-view\" and attributed it to him. What follows, however, is the shoddy scholarship typical of LDS apologists; either Dixon later modified his views for one reason or another, and Ash failed to investigate further, or he distorted what Dixon actually said in the first place.\nIn either case, what is telling is not only the overwhelming absence of archaeological evidence for such contacts, but also the corresponding absence of introduced DNA as well...\nMythical oceans voyages such as Lehi's simply didn't occur. Yes, pre-historic humans managed open ocean crossings to Australia and Pacific Islands, but these were on tropical seas when sea levels were much lower than they are today. And it's a far cry from sailing a hundred miles or so to making an ocean voyage thirty to fifty times longer.\nhttp://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclas...\nRoman Ships in Brazil:\nI've been on various email lists for well over a decade and it is interesting how things seem to resurface on a semi-regular basis. This morning, the thing that resurfaced on the Imperial Rome list was the story that a Roman shipwreck had been found near Rio di Janiero. The reference on the list was to an article from February, 2002 in Dockwalk, a magazine/ezine for the boating set, which has most of the standard details.\nThe story, in brief, goes something like this: fishermen working in Guanabara Bay kept bringing up strange pottery in their fishing nets. Eventually an \"authority on Roman shipwrecks\" named Robert Marx is called onto the scene to investigate. He finds amphorae (sometimes it's just the necks) which are given to an unnamed world authority on amphorae, who in turn, claims they were originally from Morocco. Other objects are sometimes said to have been found -- in the Dockwalk piece, these include marble items and a fibula. Out of all this is built a story that some Roman trading ship based in the Azores was blown off course and ended up in Guanabara Bay -- it gains plausibility, supposedly, by noting that modern sailing vessels can make this trip in eighteen days. Then more details get added to the story, such as the discovery of a horde of Roman coins and the ever-popular tribe of blue-eyed blond 'Indians' as being somehow connected to the ship. Also sometimes thrown into the mix is a tiny terra cotta head which supposedly sports a Phrygian cap and so is thought to hail from Europe long before Columbus sailed (I'll deal with this at another time).\n(A Cabbie note about that \"tiny terra cotta head\": I'd love to read what he has to say about that one, since I've seen the pictures, and they get Mormon apologists all hot and bothered)\nAs far as I'm aware, none of this has ever been formally published in a peer-reviewed Classical/archaeological journal -- if it has, I would very much appreciate a reference. With that in mind, most of what I have been able to find out has come from the Internet. First of all, we should deal with the bona fides of the 'excavator' Robert Marx. He is not an academic and I think the jury is still out whether he warrants the moniker 'treasure hunter' or not. He certainly has dived on a large number of wrecks, as a sort of C.V.ish thing from an 'International Shipwreck Conference' shows.\nYeah, about those \"bona fides\" of Robert Marx... From his own website... http://www.theamericasgroup.com/rsops... Besides claiming exactly ninety hours of undergrad education (I graduated with nearly four times that amount) the find in question, mentioned above is...\n51. Underwater archaeological survey conducted in Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil, under auspices of the Naval Museum, on what is believed to be a possible Roman amphora carrier from the 2nd century BC. Three other shipwrecks found and surveyed on this site (16th, 17th and 20th centuries). September 1982 - February 1983.\nProblem with the whole story is that it's absolutely consistent with typical exaggerated sociopathic storytelling; shoot, this guy has investigated as many lost shipwrecks as Mark Hofmann found documents... There's even the \"breathless hint of a conspiracy\" with the claim the Brazilian government hushed things up because their history says they were discovered by Portugal, not Italy... Seriously, I wonder how anyone could believe he found shipwrecks in the numbers he did in the timeframe...\nNote this one...\n65. Working with Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution; I directed a pre?disturbance survey of an early Spanish merchantman lying in over 1,000 feet of water off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida. The survey included gridding and making a photogrammatic mosaic of the site, as well as digging a number of test holes utilizing a Johnson?Sealink manned submersible. We filmed 225 hours of video during the operation. October, 1990.\nIn Malaysia in August, but able to get to St. Augustine, Florida within two months (presumably with equipment). Manages 225 hours of video shooting (underwater?) during that month...\nDo the math, I'm on my last bullchip filter...\nAnd a bit of cabdriver experience on the psychology of character-disordered sorts (mostly gleaned from painful experience). Those types have \"radar\" for each other (See Smith, Joseph, Jr. and Bennett, John C. as well as Smith, Joseph, Jr. and Young, Brigham). They can put together a song-and-dance routine complete with smoke-and-mirrors that'll leave ordinary mortals dazzled every time (Twain Mark: \"Huckleberry Finn\"). I've reached the point where I just collect the fare--assuming I'm able--and drive off...\n\"it\u2019s very likely that Lehi and his sons would appear on the ancestral slot of virtually all Native Americans today. Recent studies [http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/ne...] demonstrate that many large groups of humans are related in distinct ways and that most people are descendants of Abraham. In fact, studies suggest that all of the people on earth today have a common ancestor who may have lived as recently as the time of Christ. Therefore, modern prophets have accurately referred to the people of North and South America \u2013 and even those of the Pacific Islands \u2013 as Lamanites. \"\nThe Most Intelligent DumbAsh in all of Mormondom has spoken (via Wired). We're all related. We're all Lamanites. It's like a Lamanite version of Kevin Bacon's six degrees. Lehi knew Bonk who beget Dimp who was related to Tom, who's my bishop.\nOk, how'd he figure this? Doing some dumbash math...let's see, if you go back 2000 years ago, with each generation averaging about 30 years between offspring, that's approximately 67 generations, each with two parents, giving us around 4,400 grandiose-parents of the 1BC era. That means one of your 4,400 grandiose parents probably was related to one of my 4,400 grandiose parents. And by that reasoning, we're all related (and by dumbash implication, we're commonly descended) because in every group of 4,400 of the old world, someone is related. And if all related, that means we all descended together!!!\nThis plants the genealogy tree on its ancestral head. It's ash-backward. lol\nTaking it the other way, how far back does one go in human history before a person has a generation of 4,400 grandiose-kidlings? Historians estimate the pre-modern nominal birthrate to be about 1.2 kids per person (this is from memory, so someone please correct me). That being the case, and keeping a generation at 30 years, it would be ~33,000 years (33,000/30 ^1.2), historically, before a given person would have a single generation (average estimate) of ~4,400 persons. Yeah, 33,000 years ago, according to Moism, there wasn't even an earth.\nThen there is this gem:\n\"All Native Americans can still be considered Lamanites from cultural as well as genealogical perspectives. Culturally, people of the United States are \u201cAmericans\u201d even if they originally came here from Africa, Europe or Asia. And culturally, the descendants of this country\u2019s indigenous inhabitants were once referred to as \u201cIndians\u201d \u2013 a term originally, and mistakenly, applied by Columbus. \"\nHmmm. Has DumbAsh read his own Book of Mormon?\n1 Nephi 12:1 And it came to pass that the angel said unto me: Look, and behold thy seed, and also the seed of thy brethren. And I looked and beheld the land of promise; and I beheld multitudes of people, yea, even as it were in number as many as the sand of the sea.\nSeed! , millions of them, we suppose. A \"seedillion\" of people As in...millions of literal descendants. Per this verse:\n1 Ne 7:1 Lord spake unto him again, saying that it was not meet for him, Lehi, that he should take his family into the wilderness alone; but that his sons should take daughters to wife, that they might raise up seed unto the Lord in the land of promise.\n1 Ne 13:30-35 the Lord God hath covenanted with thy father that his seed should have for the land of their inheritance...For, behold, saith the Lamb: I will manifest myself unto thy seed, that they shall write many things which I shall minister unto them, which shall be plain and precious\nSorry, but this is literal, not cultural.\nOriginal Author(s): Justthinking\nI see Michael Ash is launching an attack on the Cumorah in New York claims of Rodney Meldrum. Doesn't this all begin to look silly after awhile? Perhaps if the Central American model looked promising it would make sense, but that theory doesn't make any sense either. Are they trying to preserve their Book of Mormon tours business?\nAsh writes: \"It\u2019s certainly possible that Joseph accepted the early LDS designation of the New York hill as Cumorah,\"\nAnd my questions is: WTF?\nJoseph \"accepts\" the \"LDS designation\"?\nWho, per Ash, is leading who here? Who constitues the \"LDS\" that are coming up with geographic ideas that Joseph then \"accepts\".\nIf Pratt or Cowdery had suggested that Cumorah was another name for Bunker Hill in Boston, or Pike's Peak in Colorado, would Joseph have then \"accepted\" this as Church doctrine?\nMormon apologists should enter the Olympics: their convoluted spiral back flips with double spins in three directions would surely win them a medal!\nADDENDUM: Joseph Fielding Smith, Pres. of the Quorum of the Twelve and Prophet and Pres. of the Church had this to say about ideas such as Ash's:\n\"LOCALE OF CUMORAH, RAMAH, AND RIPLIANCUM. This modernistic theory of necessity, in order to be consistent, must place the waters of Ripliancum and the Hill Cumorah some place within the restricted territory of Central America, notwithstanding the teachings of the Church to the contrary for upwards of 100 years. Because of this theory some members of the Church have become confused and greatly disturbed in their faith in the Book of Mormon. It is for this reason that evidence is here presented to show that it is not only possible that these places could be located as the Church has held during the past century, but that in very deed such is the case.\nIt is known that the Hill Cumorah where the Nephites were destroyed is the hill where the Jaredites were also destroyed. This hill was known to the Jaredites as Ramah. It was approximately near to the waters of Ripliancum, which the Book of Ether says, \u201cby interpretation, is large, or to exceed all.\u201d3 Mormon adds: \u201cAnd it came to pass that we did march forth to the land of Cumorah, and we did pitch our tents round about the hill Cumorah; and it was in a land of many waters, rivers, and fountains; and here we had hope to gain advantage over the Lamanites.\u201d4\nEARLY BRETHREN LOCATE CUMORAH IN WESTERN NEW YORK. It must be conceded that this description fits perfectly the land of Cumorah in New York, as it has been known since the visitation of Moroni to the Prophet Joseph Smith, for the hill is in the proximity of the Great Lakes and also in the land of many rivers and fountains. Moreover, the Prophet Joseph Smith himself is on record, definitely declaring the present hill called Cumorah to be the exact hill spoken of in the Book of Mormon.5\nFurther, the fact that all of his associates from the beginning down have spoken of it as the identical hill where Mormon and Moroni hid the records, must carry some weight. It is difficult for a reasonable person to believe that such men as Oliver Cowdery, Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, David Whitmer, and many others, could speak frequently of the spot where the Prophet Joseph Smith obtained the plates as the Hill Cumorah, and not be corrected by the Prophet, if that were not the fact. That they did speak of this hill in the days of the Prophet in this definite manner is an established record of history.\" . . . \"PROPHET APPROVES OLIVER COWDERY\u2019S VIEWS. The quibbler might say that this statement from Oliver Cowdery is merely the opinion of Oliver Cowdery and not the expression of the Prophet Joseph Smith. It should be remembered that these letters in which these statements are made were written at the Prophet\u2019s request and under his personal supervision. Surely, under these circumstances, he would not have permitted an error of this kind to creep into the record without correction.\"\nREF: WHERE IS THE HILL CUMORAH? Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3:232\u0096243. emp.byui.edu/marrottr/Cumorah-JFeS-Do...\nSee also \"Where is Cumorah\" by Sandra Tanner http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/c...\nTuesday, Feb 1, 2011, at 05:04 PM\nSee: http://www.mormontimes.com/article/19...\nAt first glance, his latest article almost passes as \"anti-mormon\" because he discredits many previous works of \"scholarship\" on the Book of Mormon.\nBut in the end, he is just downsizing the Apologetic Workforce to make sure the elite class he's in stays employed.\nScholarship of BoM Geography... OMG. These folks are really down deep in the rabbit hole.\nFirst it was a hemispheric model. Then it was a great lakes model. Then it was in Chile. Then it was in mesoamerica. Now it is great lakes and mesoamerica battling it out. All this time, typical LDS read the BoM and still think hemispheric bacause the plain parts of the book of mormon make it plainly hemispheric. The precious parts (i.e., reading between the lines and inferring via \"scholarship\") lead one to realize that it's possible to fit other, limited (even vanishing) geography models.\nIn other words, the geography is all over the map (pun intended). Why? BECAUSE IT IS FICTION. It's like finding Narnia on maps of Europe. You can make up a literary fit all over the place.\nStill, Ash makes it clear that there is room for \"Scholarship\" when done properly. How's that? Ash (quoting his buddy Soreson) tell us that bad scholarship:\n\"This . encourages critics . to set up a straw-man Book of Mormon, to attack based on what Mormons have said about it instead of what it says itself. \"\nLet's see, what does it say again?\nOh yeah....Horses, elephants, cattle, goats, wheat, barley, silk, steel, etc\nWe all agree, Ash, let's attack it on what it actually says. Calling a horse a tapir is exactly the kind of thing you are disdaining, and yet....\nWhat else does it say? Let's examine the visit of Christ---the most important event of the BoM... After he visits, there's a society from the 35-220AD era that is unparalleled in human history. If the BoM were true, you couldn't help but stumble into a jaredite-boat load of archeological evidence greater than the Greek civilization. Cause there's never been a society that \"good\" in all of history.\nAccording to 4 Nephi (http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/4-ne/1...) it was a society of:\nhuge population \"multiplied\" across the land (v. 10, 23)\ngreat industry and building (v. 7-8, 26)\ncomplete peace (v. 2, 4, 13, 15, 20)\nlittle or no poverty (v. 4, 23)\nno slavery (v. 3)\nno racism; no segregation (v. 17)\nall Christian white meat; no idolatry (v. 2 and 3 Ne 8-9 (http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/8...), 4 Ne:2)\nInstead of a populous christian society, the major mesoamerican populations of that era (~150AD) practiced a not-so christian human and infant sacrifice at the temple (Teotihuacan) that is host to the god that many Mops believe represent Christ (Quetzalcoatl). (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_o...).\nInstead of worshiping Christ and his sky daddy, the Teotihuac n civilization worshiped a plurality of gods\n(http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_7.... and http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/int...)\nBut didn't AmeriChrist wipe out all the wicked? (3 Nephi 8 and 9) How could there be human sacrifice, war, racism, slavery, infanticide, idolatry, etc. in mesoamerica at the same time the nephites who spread over the face of the whole land were the bestest christians ever known? Ash?\nThe vikings visited a remote (limited geography) location of icy Canada and left lab-fulls of trace evidence. Smith's Nephite population claimed to spread righteously, industriously, peacefully and prosperously from sea to sea over the face of the whole land leaves nothing except a bitter taste in our mouths.\nGet an F-ing clue, Ash.\nMichael Ash, our favorite pinata to whack, has a yet another vanishing geography article.\nHis arguments are nothing new. Just iterations on the old one. The only slightly newish twist is his connection between \"tecuani\" and \"man-eating beast\", relating to the \"Hermounts\" of Alma 2:37-38 which talks about wild beasts in an area that might have been part of the narrow neck of land, if Smith hadn't been so vague on details.\nThe point in that is that he found a word that tentatively, indirectly, kind of can be related to the idea of the narrow neck of land if you squint real hard while standing on your head and scratch your butt with your left index finger. Otherwise, it is silliness to those standing upright.\nMost moaps follow John Sorenson's faulty compass and agree that the BoM happened somewhere in Mesoamerica distributed roughly around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (\"narrow neck of land\"). The BoM clearly states this narrow neck of land divided the north and south lands. But the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is most definitely positioned East/West. Sorenson puts the Nephite East Sea in the gulf to the north, and the West Sea in the south (Pacific). See below.\nSorenson makes up this fault by giving examples from a number of cultures to demonstrate that human societies handle directionality and the labeling of directions in diverse ways. In his argument, Sorenson points out a strange Hebrew directional scheme which had east as forward, north as left hand, south as right hand, and west as seaward. For Mr. Sorenson, Lehi was \"confused\" (John L's word) by his new American surroundings and \"assumed\" that west was seaward. Cause that's the way it was back around Jerusalem.\nOk. Nephi built a boat. Lehi got a Liahona compass. They sailed accurately between continents. Nephi built a temple with specific directionality of a dawn-facing entry.\nBut they got confused when they got here about which way the sun rose and set.\nYeah, that makes so much sense, Mr. Sorenson. John probably has a bad sense of direction, as he's yet to find his own ass. Or perhaps he has his thumb up his, as this model ignores the sore-thumb on the map we call the Yucatan Peninsula. This large chunk of thumb-like land is never mentioned in the BoM. But there was a large Classic era, contemporary civilization up in Peten, and more going to the north tip.\nAlso, it should be noted to the Moaps, especially Ash, that prophets have defended against them.\n\"Why not leave hidden the things that the Lord has hidden? If He wants the geography of the Book of Mormon revealed, He will do so through His prophet, and not through some writer who wishes to enlighten the world despite his utter lack of inspiration on the point.\"\n- Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses, 5:83 (source http://www.mormonwiki.org/Geography_and_the_Book_of_Mormon)\nOriginal Author(s): Tarski\nWhat follows is my review of Michael Ash's article entitled \"Proof is in the Eye of the Beholder\".\nThis is article is discussed in another thread but I thought I would take the liberty of making my review the OP of a separate thread.\nThe first point concerns the title of course. It is very nearly a self contradiction as it seems to make questions of proof subjective while the intent of a proof is to reach toward the ideal of objectivity. Imagine if proof really were in the eye of the beholder without residue. What would be the point of the effort of lawyers in the courtroom and what would become of science and mathematics?\nIn what follows, quotes from the article in color:\n\"Critics frequently claim that one reason they reject the Book of Mormon is because it is unsupported by archaeological evidence. Some have gone as far to claim that they would believe in the church if archeology could \u201cprove\u201d that the Book of Mormon is true.\"\nI see no reason to not take to word of any critic who says this. Does Ash wish to assert that such a person is lying? Of course, it is clear that logically speaking, the book of Mormon could be historically accurate (sans the miracles) and the Brighamite branch of the Mormon religion may still fall short of being God's chosen church. So anyone who demands more is well within the bounds of reason.\nI should note two important points regarding the nature of evidence and the necessity of faith. First, I\u2019m unconvinced that any critic would \u201cconvert\u201d because of some alleged \u201cproof\u201d because I doubt that any \u201cproof\u201d could ever satisfy those who have truly hardened their hearts against Joseph Smith.\nWhy put proof in scare quotes? Is the notion of proof to be challenged? Would anything be substantially different if that word were avoided and replaced by talk of compelling evidence and warrant for belief? Certainly, it is not inconceivable in principle, or at least it isn't logically impossible, that convincing evidence could be forthcoming.\nAsking for evidence for admittedly fantastic claims seems like common sense and one can observe people functioning on this basis when they buy cars or consider the plausibility of claims such as those put forth by other cults, religions and conspiracy theory groups. Furthermore, the weight of evidence should be commensurate with the \"extraordinariness\" of what is claimed. Since the Book of Mormon involves us in quite a few outlandish claims and since commitment to the associated religion is a costly and life changing affair, it sure seems that a great deal of evidence is called for--perhaps to the point of making the use of the word proof quite appropriate. Of course, we all know that Mormon religionists wish us to sidestep ordinary protocols of evidence and seek an ill defined inner experience with the Holy Ghost. The very fact that the set of putative truths arrived at by such mystical means is a massive self contradictory mess should deter us from going down that road. Even other Christians are skeptical of Moroni's promise as having any epistemic value. Indeed, it is amazing that a higher percentage of people seeking such personal revelation do not end up with some kind of inner experience leading to conviction for merely psychological reasons. If enough people try it, there need only be a small percentage get a positive conviction to make a church grow. And, such percentages can be merely flukes of human nature and human psychological frailty.\nSome time back, for example, one angry message-board critic wrote that \u201ceven if modern DNA studies\u201d exhibited an Israelite presence in the ancient Americas, it would \u201cnot in the slightest \u0085 lend some credence to Mormon truth claims.\u201d\nSince there is no such evidence the point is mute. Nevertheless, it is in fact true that an Israelite presence in the ancient Americas would have quite real but earthly consequences for archeology and given the grand supernatural claims of the LDS religion and the mountain of both conceptual and evidential problems, it would surely be imprudent to jump to the conclusion that the LDS church is all it claims to be.\nBut again, no such evidence exists commensurate with the magnitude of the claims ( NHM notwithstanding).\nAll such a find would do, he argues, would confirm what many people in Joseph Smith\u2019s day already believed \u2013 the \u201ccommon belief in the United States 175 years ago, that the (American Indian) was a descendant of the Israelites\u201d (quoted in \"Shaken Faith Syndrome,\" 54).\nIndeed! Is this valid point supposed to be dispensed with by the mere mention of it?\nThis would be the critic\u2019s likely response to virtually any evidence found to support the Book of Mormon. If a text was uncovered in an ancient Mesoamerican ruin that was translated to say \u201cNephi slept here,\u201d the majority of critics would still not be satisfied, and issues would be raised. \u201cHow do we know that the text really dates from Book of Mormon times?\u201d \u201cHow do we know the text wasn\u2019t planted by a BYU archaeologist?\u201d\nAsking relevant \"how do we know questions\" is what anyone with a scientific attitude should do. Such questions should surely be asked. Are we being intimidated into a credulous stance?\nBecause such a text would not have been written in English, challenges would arise regarding the translation to the English \u201cNephi\u201d and the decision to use all those specific Latin letters in the English rendition of Nephi\u2019s name. Even if it could be shown that the name was really \u201cNephi,\u201d critics would simply contend that this was an example of a fantastic coincidence \u2013 such as the bizarre coincidence that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who wrote and edited the Declaration of Independence which was adopted on July 4, 1776, both died exactly 50 years later on July 4, 1826.\nDoes Mr Ash think that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both passing away exactly 50 years after 1776 would be anything but a coincidence?\nI can't really tell what the point is here but again I see no \"bizarre\" coincidences. Only coincidences. What would Ash make of the fact that my ex-wife, current wife, and my son's wife all have the same birthday of April 16.\nThe late Hugh Nibley once observed: \u201cWhen a man asks for proof we can be pretty sure that proof is the last thing in the world he really wants. His request is thrown out as a challenge, and the chances are that he has no intention of being shown up.\u201d\nHmm, so when a woman claims her child is mine and I ask for proof, is proof the last thing I really want? When someone claims a medicine can cure cancer and I ask for proof is it the case that the last thing I really want is proof? Let's face it, this is certainly the most ridiculous assertion so far.\nBut wait, the best is yet to come:\nSecondly, the Lord doesn\u2019t work via secular proofs because that would confound the primary principle of agency. While there are evidences that support religious convictions, there are no intellectually decisive proofs, and there will always be evidences that conflict with our beliefs (see 2 Nephi 2:11-16).\nThe stupidity of this idea is only exceeded by it's popularity with apologists. People unthinkingly repeat it and then metaphorically stare us down as if to hypnotize us into thinking it is obvious. It isn't. I have yet to see anyone make real sense of the idea that knowing what the facts are, deprives us of freedom. Quite the opposite is true. The freedom to make intelligent choices is only enhanced by knowledge of the pertinant facts. When we teach our children that speeding cars can kill them are we taking away their freedom? When we reveal to them that there are police officers who may arrest them if they commit crimes are we limiting their freedom? If they ask us to prove it and we do, have we ruined their freedom?\nHow absurd?!\nAs I know more about the layout of a city, am I progressively limiting my freedom to navigate that city?\nDo we withhold facts or proofs or evidence from our children in the hopes of making them more free? Do we, like God, hide proof of our very existence in hopes that they may be free to act without fear of disappointing us?\nIn most concievable circumstances, knowledge of the facts, even proof of those facts, will not limit our freedom but rather usually the reverse. That one could concoct bizzare thought experiments where the opposite seems to be the case does not ruin that fact that certain knowledge almost always enhances freedom. Our lack of certain knowledge on many things is only a lamentable fact of life and not some kind of intrinsic virtue.\nLDS scholar Terryl Givens explains: \u201c(T)here are appealing arguments for God as a childish projection, for modern prophets as scheming or deluded imposters, and for modern scriptures as so much fabulous fiction. But there is also compelling evidence that a glorious divinity presides over the cosmos, that God calls and anoints prophets, and that his word and will are made manifest through a sacred canon that is never definitively closed.\u201d\nWell, I have never seen such evidence stand up to scrutiny. I wonder what he has in mind? Intelligent design? Sightings of the 3 Nephites? NHM?\nNon-LDS philosophers have argued that in order for us to have spiritual freedom \u2013 freedom to make choices \u2013 God cannot allow us to know \u2013 by secular proof alone \u2013 that he exists.\nDoesn't Non-pertinentconceivablebizarreLDS philosophy instructor Joseph Lynch, for instance, explains that this gap \u201cis necessary so that human beings can freely make more moral choices and freely choose God \u2013 it can\u2019t be too obvious that God exists, but his existence shouldn\u2019t be altogether implausible either\u201d (quoted in \"Shaken Faith Syndrome,\" 40). If humans had incontrovertible secular evidence for the existence of God, they would be unable to freely choose whether or not to accept God.\nNote that we are not actually given Lynch's argument but are simply asked to accept the assertion. I deny that it makes manifest sense and so if it can be defended it must be quite an argument indeed. But we are not given such an argument.\nFrom modern revelation, we know that without faith and testing we would be following a plan not unlike the one proposed by Satan \u2013 a plan that compels us all to return to the Father.\nFrom modern revelation?\nNonsense. My knowing that God exists does not by itself compel me to act in any certain way for several reasons. First, I may just choose to disobey and suffer. Second, knowing that God exists does not by itself tell me what his wishes might be.\nFinally, even if I were to accept the list of implicit and explicit commandments as given in the LDS church, I would soon find myself in situations where there seemed to be a conflict--a situation where two commandments are at odds. The commandment to be truthful and the commandment to be kind are often at odds. I would clearly still be quite free to act in various ways even if I make it my goal to act in accordance with commandments of a God whose existence may have hypothetically been proven to me.\nWhat we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.\u201d\nThis can be asserted without the silly notion that proof gets in the way of our choosing authentically.\nI find it embarrassing that Ash unthinkingly passes this tired idea along. It is high time to question it.\nIt is also high time to question the epistemic assumptions iimplicit in the notion of a testimony and in the promise of Moroni.\nEvidence is a virtue and proof is also a virtue when it can be had. It does not limit our freedom. If God exists, as a conscious human-like creature who is in some sense our father, then I cannot see why he would not make his existence irrefutable as I certainly would if I found I had a child somewhere who doubted my existence. Doing so would not limit the freedom or authenticity of that child.\nWe go to unreasonable lengths to explain God's absence exactly because he is absent.\nFriday, Mar 25, 2011, at 03:10 PM\nOriginal Author(s): Kevin Graham\nMichael R. Ash, a Mormon Apologist recently wrote:\nIf humans had incontrovertible secular evidence for the existence of God, they would be unable to freely choose whether or not to accept God.\nDoes no one really understand what he's trying to do here?\nThis is the popular canard floating around the Church that I've heard people say ever since I was baptized - I heard it all the time on my mission, especially.\nLeave it to the Mormons to come up with something like this. What this is saying is essentially, God intentionally withhold's proof for the Church. Everything must remain unfalsifiable.\nSo the missing papyrus is by God's design, because if we had the original papyrus from which the Book of Abraham was translated, it would \"prove\" Joseph Smith was a true Prophet and then everyone would join the Church. There would be no need for faith.\nLikewise, the Gold Plates had to be removed from the earth because if archaeologists examined them, it would prove Joseph Smith recovered an ancient artifact from the period in which the Book of Mormon claims to have been written. There would be no need for faith.\nLikewise, Prophets have to be able to make mistakes just like any other person, because if they were perfect it would prove the Church true and there'd be no room for faith. So things like Joseph Smith lying about polygamy, Young's Adam-God doctrine, Kimball's belief that Indians turn white, these are all necessary for faith to exist.\nLikewise, the fact that archaeology says no horses exist, that the Book of Mormon resembles too much of the New Testament, that blacks were denied priesthood, etc... these are among the hundreds of examples that have to be in order to balance the need for faith.\nThis is all based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the biblical term \"faith.\" Faith in the Bible was always based on evidence and a reasonable basis for belief. Mormons have it backwards, and as a result they've created this culture that says it is actually \"cool\" to believe in stupid s*** because when you do, it means you have stronger \"faith\" than the guy who relies on sound arguments based on evidence. This is just one of the many reasons why the LDS faith is essentially anti-intellectual.\nI wish I had a nickel for every time I was told God creates so much room for doubt in order to test us. The stronger the evidence against the Church, the greater the opportunity to exercise faith and prove your spiritual mettle.\nYou can't argue with people who think like this.\nI would respond by saying why is it people like Joseph Smith get a pass on faith? If what he says is true, then God appeared to him. That pretty much seals the deal and takes away his agency for belief. I remember when I first joined the Church I prayed all night knowing with absolute certainty God existed and that he would appear to me as he did Joseph Smith. Many people tried the same stunt, but got nothing. Instead of acting on the obvious evidence, we convinced ourselves we simply didn't exercise enough \"faith.\" Joseph Smith did, which is why God showed himself. It is a fallacious circle that has no place in intellectual discourse.\nOne might also think that the \"witnesses\" who saw the plates and the angel would never have an excuse to leave the faith, and yet most of them did. How does this reconcile with Mike's theory above?\nAnd yes, Mike does criticize us when he says none of us would be convinced Joseph Smith was a prophet, no matter what evidence is presented. Why? Because we've \"hardened our hearts\" against him. This is such gibberish. What the hell does that even mean anyway? he just says it because that is jargon the Church authorities use, and it makes no sense. He's just singing to his choir and using the usual ecclesiastical catch phrases that resonate with the TBMs. Nothing really needs to make sense.\nOriginal Author(s): Ozpoof\nAhh, not exactly. We KNOW that LDS believers rely on feelings and ignore evidence entirely when such evidence conflicts with their feelings.They are taught to ignore anything, factual or other (such as feelings) that tell them the cult isn't true. This cult frowns on people researching for themselves. It discourages using ANYTHING but the dumbed-down and correlated lesson manuals that are full of lies.\nMormons are not using feelings to determine truth, they are IGNORING truth and using feelings to confirm a LIE. Big difference Mr Ash.\nThis man then claims at the bottom of his piece that Exmormons base their beliefs on Mormonism on feelings more than facts. Perhaps he is talking about the anger we feel when we find we have been lied to for years.That emotion is not what got us out.\nSTOP LYING MICHAEL ASH.\nHis next attempt at apologetics HAS to be defamatory if he states we are out of the cult because we FEEL hurt or offended rather than because we KNOW the facts and can see the lies.\nAfter last week trying to persuade us that witnesses are direct, reliable evidence and that DNA is indirect evidence, now Michael Ash is going up the ego ladder a few more steps.\n\"If we forego traditions and folk-assumptions about the Book of Mormon and apply the methods of modern science and scholarship to what the Book of Mormon actually says and does not say, we find that the book paints a picture which is amazingly similar in many ways to the same picture painted by New World experts about the ancient cultures during Book of Mormon times.\"\nModern latter-day scholarship (moaps) is reading the between-the-lines, implied picture and fitting it to modern science. The words of joe smith and subsequent profits are folk lore.\nThis morning Mr. Ash proposes that the BofM is the evidence. It must be proof, because Joseph Smith could not have known what archaeology is finding.\nAsh said this: \"we find that the book paints a picture which is amazingly similar in many ways to the same picture painted by New World experts about the ancient cultures during Book of Mormon times.\"\nI'm still waiting for iron swords, coins, horse bones, chariots, ... but Ash now claims that instead of evidence to support the BofM, it is the evidence!\nHere are three sources from professionals who are speaking up about \"archaeological fantasies\". They help to bring sanity when reading apologist writings such as today's.\nThree Basic Principles of Archaeological Research http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php...\nIrrationality and Popular Archaeology http://sites.matrix.msu.edu/wp-conten...\nCrusading Against Straw Men: An Alternative Viewo of Alternative Archaeologies: Response to Holtorf http://sites.matrix.msu.edu/wp-conten...\nLast week Mr. Ash said this:\n\u201cDirect evidence \u0085 is evidence of a fact based on a witness\u2019s personal knowledge or observation of that fact.\"\nNow using that definition, Joseph Smith's bedroom tale about Moroni's appearance is direct evidence as long as the source is from Joseph Smith and not from second or third hand accounts.\nAnd there is just such a source in Joseph Smith's own journal from November, 1835. It tells us what Moroni said.\nhttp://beta.josephsmithpapers.org/pap...\n\"he said the indians, were the literal descendants of Abraham\"\nTo clarify what \"literal descendants of Abraham\" meant to Joseph Smith, look at a revelation written on March 28, 1835, before his journal story.\nDandC 107:40 \"The order of this priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son, and rightly belongs to the literal descendants of the chosen seed, to whom the promises were made.\"\nTo Joseph Smith, \"literal descendant\" meant from father to son. These are from sources of direct evidence. An example of indirect evidence would be a newspaper article written by Oliver Cowdery or someone else. The journal and DandC are direct evidence because they are the words of Joseph Smith.\nWhat these words tell us is that Moroni said the Indians were literally from Abraham, father-to-son, through Isaac and Jacob on down to the tribes in New York in 1835.\nToday Mr. Ash said this:\n\"If we forego traditions and folk-assumptions about the Book of Mormon and apply the methods of modern science and scholarship...\"\nThe \"direct evidence\" from Joseph Smith's own mouth about the visit from Moroni is now \"traditions and folk-assumptions.\"\nIf we apply the methods of modern science using DNA, it does not support what Moroni told Joseph Smith. It looks like the apologists are now claiming that Moroni's words are just folk-assumptions.\nHow do apologists get away with denying \"direct evidence\"? It seems that to admit it as evidence does prove that Joseph Smith lied about Moroni.\nOriginal Author(s): Michael R. Ash\nThis past weekend a Mormon Bishop in the UK posted his resignation letter online onto his blog. Mormon Apologist Michael R. Ash registered on the site attacking the Bishop. The following is the transcript of Ash's response:\nI\u2019m not one to publish frequently on blogs or message boards. Quite frankly, life is too short, I have too many irons in the fire, and I have precious little time to work on projects that I feel are more worthwhile than arguing with others.\nHaving said this, however, I feel the need to comment on a few things discussed herein.\nSteve, I honestly hope that you find happiness in your own personal spiritual quest. In the end, each of us has to decide for ourselves what brings us true happiness.\nI can imagine (with a touch of anecdotal recollection of my own) the emotional turmoil you must have gone through. The phrase \u201ccognitive dissonance\u201d [CD] is thrown about loosely in discussions about LDS issues, but true CD is very hard on the emotions and mind, and can make you physically ill. You cannot endure CD for long and your mind/body seeks a quick resolution. Some people find resolution by brushing difficult issues aside, others by embracing the new difficulties and changing their paradigm. Either way, the psychological tension is relieved. This doesn\u2019t automatically make one direction right and the other wrong, however.\nCommon among those who leave the church are feelings of anger and betrayal, and those feelings can be so powerful that they can cloud any or all thoughts of accepting the claims made by the Church. This comes from feelings of mistrust and are hard to overcome\u0096 and certainly influence a bias against arguments that support the Church.\nFeelings of mistrust, as you note in your post, come most often from feeling that things have been \u201chidden.\u201d The simple truth, however, is that things are not nearly as \u201chidden\u201d as some\u0096 who stumble upon such information [often painted in the worst possible light by critics]\u0096 would think. There isn\u2019t enough space in this blog to do this topic justice but I can refer you to information that demonstrates a) that most of the difficult issues have been discussed in Church-related publications for years, b) most people in general are blissfully unaware of significant historical/political etc., events. In other words, it\u2019s sad but true, that most people are simply ignorant of things they should know more about.\nWhen a believing member \u201cdiscovers\u201d such things, the Church is immediately held up as the culprit for \u201chiding\u201d the information in a \u201ccover-up\u201d to control the minds of members. This is simply not true.\nYour post speaks of \u201csolid, reliable, testable scientific data,\u201d that supports your current religious views of Mormonism. At the risk of sounding rude, I seriously doubt that you could produce such data. Before you begin writing a list please keep in mind, that a large number of educated Latter-day Saints are fully aware of every single LDS-critical argument. I, myself, have studied them for many decades. There is absolutely no intellectual data that automatically compels an intelligent person to reject the Book of Mormon. Of course there is no intellectual data that automatically compels an intelligent person to accept the Book of Mormon either. In short, all the \u201cscientific data\u201d that is used to discredit the Church has an equally \u201csolid, reliable,\u201d and \u201ctestable\u201d refutation (and, generally, vice-versa for pro-LDS claims).\nThe journey is yours, and yours alone. No one can ride on the shirt tail of anyone else when it comes to matters of faith, so I have no dog in the race as to the outcome of your own decision on religious issues. I merely wish to emphasize that you are not the only one to \u201cdiscover\u201d difficult issues. Lots of intelligent people have examined them. A number of these intelligent people are not only still believing members but recognize that there are rational and logical explanations that account for every criticism out there.\nFrom what I have seen through years of reading exit stories is that the main factor which causes a person to leave is indeed \u201churt feelings\u201d and feeling \u201coffended\u201d\u0096 not offended by someone in the Church, but offended at the thought that they\u2019ve been conned. And the primary reason that such people feel they were conned is because they never really engaged \u201cstudy and faith\u201d in their gospel lives.\nLike most people who fail to put their minds to full use as God intends, they often take a black-and-white approach to religious issues. It\u2019s either true or false. There either were horses in the New World, or the Book of Mormon is fictional. The Book of Abraham was either written by Abraham himself, or Joseph Smith created the text. Such a fundamentalist attitude is anathema to a healthy paradigm of how God works through fallible humans.\nGood luck, and if you are ever open again to searching for answers, let me know.\nI just finished Ash's most recent article in the D-News. The entire article can be boiled down into the following thesis sentence:\nAsh observes that although the scientific community may have uncovered some evidence that tends to support the veracity of the Book of Mormon, that community instead chooses - because of its own views - to ascribe that evidence to non-Book of Mormon phenomena.\nWhy did the D-News let Ash publish an entire article about this?\nApologists, FAIR and FARMS need to realize that the best evidence of the Book of Mormon is not scientific data or archaeological remnants. Indeed, the frenetic search for such evidence - as repeatedly demonstrated by Ash - is counterproductive as there will be always be much more empirically rational, logical, and scientific explanation than that offered by the Book of Mormon narrative.\nThe best evidence of the Book of Mormon is its narrative which can, and occassionaly does, have an affect on an individual's heart and spirit. Such personal changes do not require supporting evidence, and never have so required.\nSeeking after scientific proof to support one's belief in the Book of Mormon is a mystifying endeavor. Why does Ash expend such energy on this? Is it to aid in missionary work? Is it to authoritatively respond to critics of the historicity of the Book of Mormon? Is it to shore up Ash's own faltering faith in the record? The Savior soundly criticized those who seek after signs. It seems to me that Ash is - in effect - seeking signs for whatever purpose.\nPerhaps if Ash were cease his sign-seeking and accept the Book of Mormon narrative for what it is, he would come to comfortable terms with his religion.\nWe Utah Mormons, of which Ash is now one, tend to have an unhealthy preoccupation with how the outside world views us. Utahans in general have an inferiority complex about our home state, and we are reactively, fiercely defensive of any criticism of Utah as a place, a society, or a culture. That preoccupation derives from our instinctive defense of our religion, which most of us were raised in without having experienced the intellectual, spiritual, or emotional epiphanies that usually accompany adult conversion. As children and adolescents in Mormondom, we grow up \"knowing\", without ever learning, that it is only we who have the truth, that it is only we who are the standard bearers of Israel, that it is only we - not the misguided, apostate, and heathen \"they\" - who have the fullness of the gospel and the priesthood.\nMany adults around the world choose to accept the Gospel, on account of their own study, with fairly good knowledge of the Book of Mormon's historicity controversies, translation hilarities, plural marriage, Masonic similarities of the temple, and disparate treatment of races among myriad other issues. But, most of us who were raised in Mormon culture didn't have the opportunity to join the church after having learned of, struggled with, and coming to terms with these unanswerable quandaries. This doesn't mean that we don't eventually have to address them and somehow transcend them in our own ways. I have had my own struggles with the breadth of it all, and have chosen for myself to let go what I cannot control or explain (which is much). The historicity of the Book of Mormon is one of those issues I have chosen to let go. And much the happier have I been!\nI suspect Ash is in the midst of his own personal struggle with the historicity of the Book of Mormon, and is trying to address it with a wild goose chase for hard scientific evidence of the book. My advice to Ash is to just let it go.\nMichael Ash (among others at Maxwell House) has used the words of non-Mormon scientists to support his apologetic arguments that Israelites did migrate to the Americas but their DNA went extinct. Evidently Israelite DNA was much more prone to being lost through bottlenecks and genetic drift than Native American DNA was. (Why did the bottleneck pick on Israelite DNA Michael? Just unlucky DNA?)\nSome (mis)quotes from Michael Ash's Mormon Times article:\n\u201cIn fact, non-LDS molecular anthropologist Michael H. Crawford wrote that the Spanish Conquest \"squeezed the entire Amerindian population through a genetic bottleneck. ... This population reduction has forever altered the genetics of the surviving groups, thus complicating any attempts at reconstructing the pre-Columbian genetic structure of most New World groups,\" - (The Origins of Native Americans, 1998).\u201d\n\u201cDrs. Beth Shook and David Smith, two non-LDS scientists, claim genetic drift among Native Americans has \"altered haplogroup frequencies and caused the loss of many haplotypes\" - (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2008).\u201d\nThis is how Professor Crawford feels about having his words twisted by apologists.\n\u201cThis sentence has been misused! I had intended to state that there may be some genes that have been lost due to depopulation. However, there is no question that the genetic evidence does not in any way support the presence of lost tribes from Israel. The Mormon apologists are misusing and misinterpreting one sentence in a volume that disputes any suggestion of lost tribes of Israel.\" - Dr. MH Crawford Professor of Anthropology and Genetics at the University of Kansas\nWho wouldn't be ticked off if you had spent years doing REAL scholarship to create an excellent book only to have it completely misrepresented by someone with no formal qualifications in the field.\nDavid Glenn Smith has already gone on record as saying that Native Americans have no genetic links to Israelites. He would be furious to see his words being used to distort the truth by Mormon apologists.\nMike Ash, 'na\u044fve Assumptions About New World Christians' May 2011:\n'I explained that even if evidence for an early Christian community in Mesoamerica could be found, that still wouldn\u2019t satisfy most critics or prove that the Book of Mormon is true. The task of finding the evidence of a real ancient community of New World Christians becomes difficult once we understand the complexity and nature of what might be found.'\n'First, it\u2019s important to remember that the Nephites were \u201cChristian\u201d for, at the most, 400 years. Second, the Nephite-Christians were a small group of persecuted believers among a sea of non-Christian believers in the ancient Americas.'\nMike has another go at explaining away why no evidence of Book of Mormon peoples has been found. Ever.\nThis time it's because we are looking for evidence of a relatively small Christian community in a much larger group of people, except... ...what is actually being looked for is evidence of the 'small group of persecuted believers' AND the 'sea of non-Christian believers in the ancient Americas'. Who, after all were supposed to be, collectively, the only people on the land that the Lord had saved from other nations for them.\nMike is being deliberately disingenuous.\nThe Book of Mormon is a story of generations of millions of people who were the 'literal' ancestors of the Native American's and who were the first people to inhabit the land.\nNow, because there is absolutely no evidence these people existed throughout America some apologists (Ash included) have tried to persuade people that the 'land' meant a relatively small part of Mesoamerica.\nNo problem. Let's accept that on face value.\nA civilization of millions of people in a relatively small area of Mesoamerica should be apparent to any one who cares to make a serious search.\nWe know who they were\nWe know where they were\nWe know how many of them there were\nWe know what 'stuff' they had\nAnd - We know exactly when they were there\nWhy is it SO difficult...\nOriginal Author(s): Gadianton\nMike Ash's book \"Shaken Faith Syndrome\" is reviewed by Stephen O. Smoot of the Mormon Interpreter. Ash can do no wrong while critics can do no right. Smoot uses aggressive rhetoric when speaking about critics, or \"anti-Mormons\" but paints a picture that strongly implies such insults are unwarrented and gratuitous, leaving us to wonder what the peer reviewer's expectations are for the scholarship the MI produces.\nhttp://www.mormoninterpreter.com/shak...\nShaken Faith Syndrome made it through the entire review process, including peer review of Smoot's review, with only thirty-three words of criticism. That's almost as many words of encouragement as Reverend Jackson got for his book on Mormonism. Ash's book is \"Outstanding,\" \"excellent,\" and \"succinct,\" and and we learn all this without even leaving the abstract. Ash may have been worried that an institution saddled with academic letters like the MI would have difficulties with his lack of degrees and failure to publish with Oxford Press. Recall the Interpreter's assessment of Jackson, notwithstanding multiple degrees, he was considered unqualified to write on Mormonism and his book represented a \"marketing strategy.\" Many books by critics and even a few non-scholarly self-publishing faithful had been eyed with suspicion by the Review and considered little more than profit opportunities. Fortunately for Ash, not only is he fully covered under the Nibley \"Day of the Amateur\" clause, his motives are deemed pure.Smoot says, \"Michael R. Ash has taken to heart the directive given in DandC 88:118.\"\nThe lines of division are drawn. Smoot uses \"anti-Mormon\" and \"critics\" interchangeably, and the word \"anti-Mormon\" is used no less than 13 times. Anti-Mormonism on the web has become the \"wild west\" where there are \"[no] publication standards or peer review, and with the ability to hide in anonymity..\" The critics \"get away with saying pretty much anything they please without repercussion, no matter how false, scurrilous, detestable, or putrid the claim may be.\" I suppose in this scenario then, Ash is the man who puts a star on his vest and calls himself the Sheriff. Smoot belabors the corruption of critics:\nOn one particularly unpleasant message board dedicated to allowing apostates and critics to rant against the Church unfettered, breathtaking examples of (often highly vulgar) personal character assaults against LDS Church leaders and members can frequently be seen with nauseating consistency.\nThe situation sounds pretty bad, though, I guess the readers must take his word for it since the name of this message board is not revealed and not a single \"putrid\" claim is referenced or dealt with, as we shall see.\nAfter painting a bleak picture where Anti-Mormons scorch the land as they lie, falsely accuse, and use profanity, Ash doesn't up and mount his horse and give chase in the Smoot narrative, but first turns to lecture his own kin. Check this out, as Smoot gets into the meat of his review:\nHe [Ash] notes that shaken faith may result from unrealistic expectations of prophets or science (or both), and he goes on to describe the danger of \"fundamentalist, dogmatic, or closed-minded ideologies about certain facets of the gospel or early LDS historical [Page 112]events\nWhere are the men with black hats telling bald-faced lies? If Saints are shaken by \"unrealistic expectains,\" doesn't this imply the criticisms of their faith are valid? He continues:\nThe two chapters of Shaken Faith Syndrome that many Latter-day Saints may find the most difficult to grasp are chapter 3 (\"Unrealistic Expectations of Prophets,\" 19-30) and chapter 4 (\"Confusing Tradition with Doctrine,\" 31-34). In these two chapters Ash admonishes his LDS readers not to set prophets on a pedestal of perfection and inerrancy nor to confuse folk traditions (even popular traditions) with established doctrine.\nHow is it a moral fault of critics for showing legitimate problems with \"folk traditions\" and mistakes made by prophets?\nOn and on he goes:\nThe prophets do not claim infallibility, but some members unwittingly act as if that is the case and are then disturbed if the prophets do not measure up to that unrealistic standard.\nMembers hold the prophets up to a certain standard, critics show that the prophets fail to meet this standard, all agree with the failure, but the critics are engaged in deceit?\nBut even though a hemispheric model of the geography of the Book of Mormon has been taught in the past, it has never been official doctrine.\nThe critics have shown the hemispheric model problematic and the apologists agree. Where then are the lies, deceit, and unbridled profanity?\nMoving on, we get into the charge of history suppression, and on this matter Smoot concludes:\nAlthough it could be argued that the Church could do more to foster a better cultural environment [Page 115]where Church members feel more safe asking about controversial issues, this is a far cry from the constant refrain of critics that the Church is deliberately suppressing its history\nCritics accuse the Church of covering up controversy, Ash argues this isn't the case, and Smoot concludes that the critics have a real point, but it's not as bad as it seems. Sounds to me like per Smoot, the critics bring up fair points, but in the end, the apologists have provided sound answers on this matter.\nMoving on to specific issues continues to undermine Smoot's contentions regarding the debased morals and arguments of critics:\nConclusions regarding the Book of Abraham:\nHowever, there is much that has been said in favor of the Book of Abraham's authenticity, and the controversy is by no means settled.22 [Page 117]Latter-day Saint scholars have devoted much effort to defending the Book of Abraham\"\nConsidering how complex the issues surrounding the Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri are...\nIt's a tough issue, a complex one, where, much work has been done by Mormon Scholars, but the matter isn't settled. Doesn't sound to me like the critics Ash confronts are guilty of \"half-baked and regurgitated criticisms\", lies, and putrid slander. The critics must be bringing tough and honest questions to the table.\nThe Kinderhook issue is a \"perplexing episode\"; For plural marriage, \"many people, both within and outside the Church, are understandably troubled by the history of Mormon polygamy\"; On the first vision, \"Many of the criticisms leveled against Joseph Smith's vision apply equally well to Paul's vision\". Smoot's own demonstrations show the critics have been giving the Church a run for its money with honest criticism that not even Ash has final answers for. For polygamy, Ash, per Smoot is left to \"speculate\" (Smoot's word). For the First vision, the final assessment is a reductio ad absurdum and secular critics would be happy to extend their logic to the Bible.\nMoving on to the conclusion, again, the critics are painted as villains:\nThe reality is that most criticisms leveled against Joseph Smith and his revelations rest on dubious allegations, rank fallacies, specious reasoning, or unwarranted assumptions.\nAnd yet, the entire body of his essay seems to argue that critics are an honest force to be reckoned with and have not been fully answered by even the best apologist on the most important issues. Per Smoot, the matters are complex and difficult, and so much in Mormonism have the critics cast legitimate doubt upon, that the members are counseled to not expect so much from their prophets, and abandon their faith on a whole list of issues that are better left for Phds to explain.\nI guess you could say that I'm blown away by this fiction the apologists maintain where \"anti-Mormons\" are these terrible, bad people who can't get anything right and work for suspect motives while apologists are men of faith, God, and impeccable reasoning in every way. The books written by critics are near garbage and those written by apologists can't go wrong. In this case, Smoot doesn't even offer examples to support his strong allegations against \"anti-Mormons\", yet, all this rhetoric just seems naturally a part of an apologist's essay.\nI think the peer review process really messed up here. Either Smoot's essay should adjust its focus and take on the purported lies and nastiness of critics, or drop all the invective against critics, and accurately summarize the case that Smoot actually makes: Critics pose some tough and honest questions, members need to adjust their expectations, and many apologists have offered some good insights into the problematic facts surrounding Mormonism, even if they fall short of fully adequate responses.\nOriginal Author(s): Other Than\nAsh has not done ANY research or provided any valid explanations in his writing. He has no degree. Used to be or still is a jewelry salesman and has no basis or education to be writing a book. He fails at providing any explanations for the history of the church and only provides excuses and the usual \"I challenge you to find jesus through the spirit\" type of stuff.\nIn the book he addresses the idea of cognitive dissonance which is a term used in modern psychology to describe the feeling of discomfort when simultaneously holding two or more conflicting cognitions: ideas, beliefs, values or emotional reactions. In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel \"disequilibrium\": frustration, hunger, dread, guilt, anger, embarrassment, anxiety, etc.\nMike Ash has the idea that people should just live with the discomfort that leads to these results of mentally unhealthy feelings and possible long term damage. So take your pick. Listen to a doctor or listen to Mike Ash.\nHe also is famous for the \"chicken in backpacks\" theory of validating the unfounded claims of horses in the book of mormon:\nIt's also possible that Nephite \"horses\"-at least when associated with chariots-were among the provisions that King Lamoni needed during his travels (we know that horses were part of the provisions which the Nephites reserved for themselves when fighting the Gadianton Robbers [3 Nephi 4:4]). Perhaps \"preparing\" the horses and chariots would be like \"preparing the chicken and backpack.\" To modern ears this doesn't suggest that the chicken will carry the backpack but rather than a chicken meal will be prepared to go in the backpack. If Book of Mormon horses were eaten, they may have been one of the provisions loaded on a \"chariot\" and carried or dragged by men.\nSee http://mormonquote.com/Loanshifting\nAsh's book subtly blames the the victim for not knowing the information that \"shakes\" their faith.\nAsh pretends to give a crap using a lot of pop-psychobabble to give credence to his non-professional, apologetic hack job. The tactic is familiar to anyone that is used to a manipulator using \"caring\" language to debase, deflect and dehumanize.\nThe fake concern is a means to attack the victim by blaming them for their reaction rather than blaming the cause. The implication is always that \"anger\" is the problem as opposed to what is causing the anger and whether it is justified.\nTo Ash, no amount of lies and manipulation justifies the victim, and truly he heaps on more lies and psychobabble into the mix hoping the reader doesn't know better. But the thin veneer is easily peirced by even the most basic problem of Mormonism, so Ash's defense seems more for the believer with family that has left rather than for those leaving. It's meant to reassure the believer that no one leaving for real reasons, only hurt feelings and misunderstandings.\nhttp://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/12381\nThe above link goes to an article at Meridian Magazine, an LDS-centered online rag that I used to actually enjoy. I liked their articles about Church history, doctrinal insights, etc. Now, however, I've noticed that Michael R. Ash has just started to write a weekly column rehashing the same Book of Mormon historicity arguments and shaken-faith cures he used to publish with the D-News (until the D-News realized his contributions were damaging their efforts to be a respected national newspaper). I've also seen one or two pieces recently from DCP there (which has never happened before). I'm afraid Midgley and Hambone and Gee might begin to show up, and maybe even Will Schryver will come out of exile. Now proud Mopologists who publish articles there will be unchecked and unchallenged and capable of serious damage. I'm sad to see Meridian go down this path.\nWell, after I read this article on Meridian today, I decided to delete my internet bookmark to their website. It's an article where the author, Dr. Hauck, is attacking the \"Heartland Model\" for Book of Mormon geography, the latest in the never-ending stream of theories of where the events of the Book of Mormon actually happened. The Heartland Model, as you know, takes the Limited Geography Model and throws it out the window, and moves the entire set of events in the Book of Mormon from Central or South American strongholds to the interior of the present-day United States. In response to Dr. Hauck's critique, proponents of the Heartland Model have posted some pretty unfriendly comments below the article, including Keith Merrill. (Merrill directed \"The Testaments\", which used to be screened at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Interestingly, \"The Testaments\" put the setting of the Book of Mormon squarely in the rainforests of Central America. Now, however, Merrill has disowned his prior positions on Book of Mormon geography and is a true-believing Heartland Model disciple. He says if the Church gave him the chance to remake \"The Testaments\", he'd do the whole thing in a northeastern U.S. setting.)\nAre you as bothered as I am that members of the Church would divide up into camps like this over their respective Book of Mormon geography models? Isn't the purpose of the Book of Mormon supposed to be to convince readers of the divinity of Jesus and his role as Savior, to be a supplement and confirming witness of the Bible? Last time I checked, the Book of Mormon wasn't intended to be a map or a model from which to imagine ancient American cultures. I wish our members would abandon the false religions of geography models and instead focus on the Christology of the Book of Mormon, the lessons of repentance we see in Amulek, Zeezrom, et. al., and the description of what a truly Zion society should look like (from 4 Nephi).\nIt's okay to have opinions about where the Book of Mormon happened. But it's gotten to be almost a religion in and of itself with some of us. I guess that's one of the problems with Mopologetics; it's a religion of itself and one that hasn't made a single convert to its contentiousness. I think Middle Way Mormons by and large stay with the Church, hoping and believing that answers to questions will come - maybe not in our hoped-for timeframes, but that they eventually will come. Mopologists, however, seem to have a higher than average defection rate. Kevin Graham, Kerry Shirts, Grant Palmer, and several others I could probably list of the top of my head become disaffected because Mopologetics brings not light, but darkness. Seriously, if we believe as we do that the Holy Ghost cannot abide the spirit of contention, and if ad hominem articles are by their nature full of contention and anger, what role can the Holy Ghost realistically play in them? He can't take part in them because they're contentious.\nWell, anyway, I'm no longer a regular Meridian reader after today.\nOriginal Author(s): Consiglieri\nNotes from FAIR's official webpage on the 2013 conference presentations include this for Mike Ash:\nMichael R. Ash, \"Shaken Faith Syndrome, Part Deux.\"\nAsh is the author of Shaken Faith Syndrome, a book which addresses the relationship of doubt and faith, and offers apologetic responses to criticisms of Mormon belief, history, etc. He's published articles in Dialogue, Sunstone, the Ensign, Mormon Times, and the FARMS Review. Ash is generally candid, acknowledging the real pain felt by people who come to doubt or disbelieve their religious convictions. He observes, citing D. Michael Quinn, that church leaders typically have the same knowledge of Church history that average Seminary graduates have, which isn't very in-depth. He cited Hans Mattsson, the emeritus Area Authority recently interviewed in the New York Times, as an example of a higher ranking leader who did not have a deep understanding of Church history. He cites recent efforts by the Church to provide more specific understanding of Mormon history, including the Joseph Smith Papers Project, new curriculum developments, and online sources. He emphasized that doubting is not a sin, but a normalpart of human faith development. If Ash overemphasizes the readiness of apologists to answer all criticisms of the Church, his emphasis on learning how to negotiate doubts through study, patience and prayer-a process or faith journey as opposed to ingesting a collected body of provable answers-seems a good way forward.\nI find the underlined portion troubling.\nFirst, Ash says that Church leaders don't know much about (church) history, equating their level of expertise with a typical seminary graduate. I am not seeing this as a compliment. Although he uses this to segue into why it is that Hans Mattsson left the Church, I pause to reflect that his brush paints broad strokes of ignorance extending to the apostles, as well.\nNow he comes to the point, which is why it is that Hans Mattson could have left the Church. Ash suggests it is because he \"didn't have a deep understanding of Church history.\"\nThis strikes me as a variation of the True Scotsman fallacy. Even Church leaders may apostatize, but they do not do so if they have a \"deep\" (read: \"true\") understanding of Church history. I thought it was precisely because Mattson had a \"deep\" understanding of Church history that he felt morally and spiritually compromised.\nPerhaps Ash is suggesting that there are depths beyond depths, and that the true depths of Church history will not cause a person to apostatize.\nIf this is so, one wonders why these depths were not plumbed by Elders Marlin and Turley when they visited Sweden in 2010.\nIn the 2013 FAIR conference Michael Ash gave an address concerning the release of the second edition of Shaken Faith Syndrome.\nhttp://www.fairlds.org/fair-...\nI would like to take this opportunity to respond both to his continuing use of the 'doubters have made na\u044fve assumptions' narrative and miscellaneous items in his address.\nHans Mattsson\nHans Mattsson is a text book example. As an area 70 in Sweden he received questions from local members about challenging issues. Initially he brushed the issues aside as anti-Mormon propaganda. He claims he couldn\u2019t find official answers in the Church so eventually, after he was released, he began searching the web for more information to provide answers. In his search he discovered that the information was true.\nFirst a nitpick with the word choice, he \"claims\" he couldn't find official answers in the church? Tell me, if the church has official answers, why does FAIR exist? Wouldn't that make FAIR totally superfluous? He goes on to say,\n\"Some members who are unfamiliar with FAIR, LDS apologetics, or LDS scholarly studies may become confused and concerned by contra-LDS information and may not know where to turn for help.\"\nOkay, so there aren't official answers, you need FAIR and LDS apologetics for answers.\nHans Mattson says he was shocked to discover that Joseph Smith practiced plural marriage. It is certainly true that this topic is not frequently discussed in Church publications or Sunday classes because it does not generally relate to modern directives or gospel principles. But is it fair to say that Joseph\u2019s involvement with plural marriage is covered up or hidden by the Church?\nA search of Church magazines (via the LDS.org website) demonstrates that the topic has been mentioned in numerous articles in the Ensign. 12 When we look at the manual used in Institute classes and Church history classes at BYU, we read that plural marriage was revealed to Joseph Smith as early as 1831, and was later taught to other priesthood leaders who were expected to live the principle. 13\nFinally, when we turn to the official course guides for those who teach the adult Sunday School classes, we find the same thing. Both the 1979 and 1996 course guides discuss the history of LDS polygamy beginning with its inception as a doctrine revealed to Joseph Smith and end with its public announcement in 1852. 14 In the most current (2006) Sunday School course guide (printed in 1999), we read that Joseph and other early Church leaders practiced plural marriage. 15 Does this sound like the Church is hiding its history?\nHere Ash seizes on the fact that Hans apparently didn't know that Joseph Smith was a polygamist. Then he ignores other details that troubled Hans. From the New York Times article:\nIs it true that Smith took dozens of wives, some as young as 14 and some already wed to other Mormon leaders, to the great pain of his first wife, Emma?\nI would argue strongly that it is not simply that Joseph was a polygamist that bothers people, but rather that the \"devil\" is in the details. The ages, what Emma wasn't told, and the marital status of some of these women. Are those details covered in church manuals? How many times is polyandry mentioned in official church manuals? With that I would like to address the second theme woven into his address.\nDoes the church withhold information?\nIs there any truth to the charge that the Church has withheld challenging details of the past? The answer is both yes and no.\nApostle George Q. Cannon, whose faith-promoting stories were intended for the youth of the Church, wrote some of the more popular historical accounts of early Mormonism. Such works, like many other non-LDS works of the nineteenth century, were defensive in tone, biased, one-dimensional, and devoted to evangelizing a particular perspective. Today such writings are often referred to as hagiographies. It was not until the middle of the twentieth century that the modern biography\u2013critical, multi-dimensional, and objective (at least in principle)\u2013 \u201cbegan to take its present form.\u201d 11 The early faith-promoting histories, however, became the source of historical knowledge for many Church members and launched similar popular works for decades to come. While it can be said that early LDS histories intentionally withheld challenging and non-flattering information, in the context of the times this was not unique to Mormonism and is to be expected.\nSo the answer is yes, and the argument is that the church and it's leaders, despite being ostensibly lead by God, couldn't know any better because no one else did.\nAs for the unintentional censoring of information, we turn to the Church curriculum. Some ex-members complain that they never heard certain aspects of Church history from the Sunday School classes they attended. The purpose of Church curriculum, however, including Sunday School, Priesthood, and Relief Society, is to support the mission of the Church: to bring people to Christ. Very little actual history is discussed in Church classes. Even every fourth year when the Doctrine and Covenants is taught (which includes some Church history) the primary goal of the class is to help members draw closer to God, seek the Spirit, and understand gospel principles.\nThe charge that the Church has hidden the truth has not landed on deaf ears. The church \u201chas made no effort to hide or obscure its history,\u201d Marlin Jensen said, but some aspects \u2013 such as polygamy \u2013 \u201chaven\u2019t been emphasized often because they were not necessarily germane to what is taught at present.\u201d\nHere I think Ash tries to have it both ways. The church doesn't teach history and it has made no effort to hide it's history.\nSo does the church hide its history, and is it intentional?\nIn a guest post for the Juvenile instructor Greg Prince wrote:\nIn the early 1950s teachers in the Church Educational System met in Provo to write curricula for the Seminaries. The committee assigned to address church history quickly became divided into two factions. The \u201calpha\u201d members of the two factions, both of whom became General Authorities a decade later, argued for opposing philosophies of how to portray our history. One later observed:\n\u201cWe were writing a Church history unit, and he didn\u2019t want anybody to know that coffee was part of the overland trek. I said, \u2018What if the kid finds out five years after Seminary? What are you going to do? You\u2019ve got a bigger problem then than if you just tell him the first time. And you can tell them why, that the Word of Wisdom didn\u2019t really get sanctioned until 1918. So quit worrying about it.\u2019 \u2018I know, but we\u2019ve got to protect their faith.\u2019\u201d\nThere is no question which faction won\u2013at least for the time being. As long as the Church generally controlled the data\u2013and it did for well over a century\u2013well-meaning leaders and teachers could shield church members from what Al Gore famously called \u201cinconvenient truths.\u201d The Internet changed the game. No longer is the Church able to shield members from problematic aspects of our history and doctrine. And as the seminary teacher said over a half-century ago, \u201cYou\u2019ve got a bigger problem then than if you just tell him the first time.\u201d\nIn an article for the Deseret News Daniel Peterson wrote:\nKimball explained what he called the \"three levels\" of Mormon history, which he termed Levels A, B, and C. (Given my own background in philosophy, I might have chosen Hegel's terminology instead: \"thesis,\" \"antithesis\" and \"synthesis.\")\nLevel A, he said, is the Sunday School version of the church and its history. Virtually everything connected with the church on Level A is obviously good and true and harmonious. Members occasionally make mistakes, perhaps, but leaders seldom, if ever, do. It's difficult for somebody on Level A to imagine why everybody out there doesn't immediately recognize the obvious truth of the gospel, and opposition to the church seems flatly satanic.\nLevel B \u2013 what I call the \"antithesis\" to Level A's \"thesis\" \u2013 is perhaps most clearly seen in anti-Mormon versions of church history. According to many hostile commentators, everything that Level A says is good and true and harmonious turns out actually to be evil and false and chaotic. Leaders are deceitful and evil, the church's account of its own story is a lie, and, some extreme anti-Mormons say, even the general membership often (typically?) misbehaves very badly.\nBut one doesn't need to read anti-Mormon propaganda in order to be exposed to elements of Level B that can't quite be squared with an idealized portrait of the Restoration. Whether new converts or born in the covenant, maturing members of the church will inevitably discover, sooner or later, that other Saints, including leaders, are fallible and sometimes even disappointing mortals. There are areas of ambiguity, even unresolved problems, in church history; there have been disagreements about certain doctrines; some questions don't have immediately satisfying answers.\nKimball remarked that the church isn't eager to expose its members to such problems. Why? Because souls can be and are lost on Level B.\nHere we see from Daniel Peterson, that the church has consciously decided to omit parts of church history, because the full disclosure of church history will result in \"losing souls.\"\nFrom the infamous The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than The Intellect\nThere is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.\nNote that Packer said, \"teacher of Church history\" so I'm confused does the church teach history or does it not?\nAs was noted by the poster Nevo letters were sent in the wake of this talk warning of the potential consequences. So what do we see now with Mattsson and others? The predictable/predicted outcome of this unwise policy. So when members feel betrayed, like they haven't been told the whole story, it's because they haven't actually been told the whole story. Not by accident, but by design. The church did it despite the warnings of the potential outcomes. You didn't actually even need any prophetic insight to see the potential for disaster, and the internet is now realizing that potential.\nI will address the assumptions aspect of his address in a future post.\nIn addition to naivete, chronic irrational thinking, depression, anxiety, fear, guilt, co-dependence, perfectionism, and dozens of other dysfunctions (http://members.shaw.ca/blair_watson/s...) resulting from LDS 'brainwashing', Mormons have reportedly been struggling with 'Shaken Faith Syndrome' (SFS). It's described online (http://www.shakenfaithsyndrome.com/) as follows:\n\"In today's Internet world, an increasing number of Latter-day Saints are encountering anti-Mormon material. Since most members don't have all the answers at their fingertips, LDS-critical claims can be unsettling or create doubt. Some arguments have caused a few members - even active members with strong testimonies - to lose their faith.\"\nJust a \"few members\"? Try \"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is losing a record number of its membership. A new report quotes an LDS general authority who said more members are falling away today than any time in the past 175 years.\" (Ref. http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_...)\nClearly, LDS Church members would not struggle with SFS if Mormonism was true instead of being a lies-based religion concocted by a convicted scammer - Joseph Smith - and promulgated by a propaganda-addicted, multi-billion-dollar, religious-corporate conglomerate headquartered in SLC, Utah.\nMore than half a century ago, LDS apostle Joseph Fielding Smith said: \"Mormonism, as it is called, must stand or fall on the story of Joseph Smith. He was either a prophet of God, divinely called, properly appointed and commissioned, or he was one of the biggest frauds this world has ever seen. There is no middle ground. If Joseph Smith was a deceiver who willfully attempted to mislead the people, then he should be exposed; his claims should be refuted, and his doctrines shown to be false.\" (See footnote #12 at http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/i...)\nVery inconveniently for 'faithful' Latter-day Saints, JS' claims HAVE been \"refuted, and his doctrines shown to be false.\" Notably, he recounted and wrote incongruous First Vision tales (http://mit.irr.org/joseph-smiths-chan...) and his Book of Mormon is - demonstrably - a work of fiction. He was indeed \"one of the biggest frauds this world has ever seen.\"\nHere's another way of looking at the SFS issue: Why don't people of sound mind suffer from 'Shaken Rationality Syndrome'? Because they don't need to mentally wrestle with facts and related, correct conclusions.\nLamentably, believing Latter-day Saints are psychologically compelled to mentally flee from or trivialize facts that rock the boat of their 'faith' (there are so many 'inconvenient' truths about JS and Mo-ism to 'blissfully' ignore!).\n'Shaken Faith Syndrome' is the psychological product of Mormons believing in LDS ideas that were always erroneous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 945, "original_length": 127065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moviescreening.net/index.php/movies/papertigers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:EX4D5UILSAC3LEO3FZNWZJBJQYI5DBLW", "length": 2394, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "moviescreening.net", "title": "Aware Cinema - Paper Tigers", "raw_content": "http://papertigersmovie.com/\nMore than two decades ago, two respected researchers, clinical physician Dr. Vincent Felitti and CDC epidemiologist Robert Anda, published the game-changing Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. It revealed a troubling but irrefutable phenomenon: the more traumatic experiences the respondents had as children (such as physical and emotional abuse and neglect), the more likely they were to develop health problems later in life\u2014problems such as cancer, heart disease, and high blood pressure.\nTo complicate matters, there was also a troubling correlation between adverse childhood experiences and prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse, unprotected sex, and poor diet. Combined, the results of the study painted a staggering portrait of the price our children are paying for growing up in unsafe environments, all the while adding fuel to the fire of some of society\u2019s greatest challenges.\nHowever, this very same study contains the seed of hope: all of the above-mentioned risk factors\u2014behavioral as well as physiological\u2014can be offset by the presence of one dependable and caring adult. It doesn\u2019t need to be the mother or the father. It doesn\u2019t even need to be a close or distant relative. More often than not, that stable, caring adult is a teacher. It is here, at the crossroads of at-risk teens and trauma-informed care, that Paper Tigers takes root. Set within and around the campus of Lincoln Alternative High School in the rural community of Walla Walla, Washington, Paper Tigers asks the following questions: What does it mean to be a trauma-informed school? And how do you educate teens whose childhood experiences have left them with a brain and body ill-suited to learn?\nIn search of clear and honest answers, Paper Tigers hinges on a remarkable collaboration between subject and filmmaker. Armed with their own cameras and their own voices, the teens of Paper Tigers offer raw but valuable insight into the hearts and minds of teens pushing back against the specter of a hard childhood. Against the harsh reality of truancy, poor grades, emotional pain, and physical violence, answers begin to emerge. The answers do not come easily. Nor can one simply deduce a one-size-fits-all solution to a trauma-informed education. But there is no denying something both subtle and powerful at work between teacher and student alike: the quiet persistence of love.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://msbusiness.com/2006/04/casino-condo-development-accelerates-region8217s-recovery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RKE4RJ2ER7L4FLIMVV46JPZFNV6UVIOT", "length": 6617, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "msbusiness.com", "title": "Casino, condo development accelerates region\u2019s recovery - Mississippi Business Journal", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb FOCUS \u00bb Casino, condo development accelerates region\u2019s recovery\nCasino, condo development accelerates region\u2019s recovery\nFrom devastation sometimes comes opportunity. And although no one asked for or wanted Hurricane Katrina, the massive amount of reinvestment in casino and related condo or condo-hotel projects on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now estimated at $1 billion \u2014 with another $1 billion worth of projects waiting in the wings.\nLarry Gregory, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission, said interest in the Gulf Coast gaming market is contagious. \u201cNew developers and Wall Street are looking with a keen eye at the growth happening on the Coast,\u201d Gregory said.\nCoast casino properties that have been able to reopen since the storm are doing a booming business. Three Biloxi casinos in January and February grossed more than 50% of the total amount for the previous 12 casinos during January and February of 2005.\n\u201cPreliminary reports for March 2006 indicate the Biloxi properties continue to rebound from Katrina,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cFour thousand of the 15,000 casino employees are now back to work. Gaming square footage pre-Katrina was 673,583. With three properties, it is now 137,510. The number of games pre-Katrina for the Gulf Coast was 18,077 slots and table games. We now have 3,521 or roughly 20%. The number of hotel rooms available at the three casinos is 1,511 or roughly 18% of the pre-Katrina 8,525 casino hotel rooms.\u201d\nGregory said between four to six properties plan to reopen in 2006: Beau Rivage, the former Grand Gulfport, Boomtown, Treasure Bay, Grand Biloxi and Casino Magic Bay St. Louis.\n\u201cIf all six properties reopen \u2014 the number of employees would increase by about 6,500 bringing the total casino jobs to 10,500 compared to the 15,000 pre Katrina,\u201d Gregory said.\nSquare footage of gaming space is expected to increase to 388,150, and the number of games is expected to be 11,771. An additional 2,806 hotel rooms are expected to be available later this year at Coast casinos bringing the total number of rooms for the coast at casinos to 4,317. That would represent about 51% of the pre-Katrina number of rooms.\nIn 2007 more casinos are expected to open. The Silver Slipper is expected to open in Hancock County employing about 500. And in 2008 permanent projects will begin replacing temporary locations making way for much larger resort style properties which will provide for increases in employment, number of games, convention space, hotel rooms and other amenities.\nEvery casino that was in Biloxi prior to the storm is planning to come back. But they won\u2019t be the same.\n\u201cThey will be bigger and better,\u201d says Beverly Martin, executive director, Mississippi Casino Operators Association. \u201cI think several of them have plans to include some type of condominium development in with their new expanded properties, be it condominiums or condo-hotels. Probably most will be condo-hotels that would be in a rental pool.\u201d\nRight now the properties that already open are seeing heavy traffic.\n\u201cIt is a nice problem to have,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI\u2019ve been to the IP three times, and all three times I have seen people waiting two and three deep waiting for a slot machine so they could get on it. The poker rooms are pretty amazing, too. Most of them didn\u2019t have poker rooms before the storm. That is a change since the storm I have seen. I credit that to the World Series of Poker on television. That has really given poker a shot in the arm.\u201d\nIt is estimated that $1 billion worth of casino/condo projects are underway, and another $1 billion in new investment will be on its heels. Martin said most of the investment will be in Biloxi, but some are also planned in Hancock County, Gulfport and D\u2019Iberville.\n\u201cThere is real interest in D\u2019Iberville by casinos, including condo-hotel properties as well, which would be very beneficial for D\u2019Iberville,\u201d Martin said. \u201cThese condotel developments will be good for the housing because, as everyone knows, we have a huge need for housing right now. Some of these casinos projects will be mixed use. Some will be affordable type townhouses, and the others will be upscale condominiums.\u201d\nWhile many people might be surprised at how the casino industry is roaring back from the devastation of Katrina, Martin is not.\n\u201cI did anticipate the growth because the exact same thing happened after Camille,\u201d Martin said. \u201cThe Coast was in a slump when Camille hit, and the influx of money and rebuilding revitalized the economy. But nothing like this. I think this is going to make the Camille rebuilding look small. And now the casinos are not restricted to growth by being over the water. The state Legislature was very wise to allow them to move onshore. We are currently seeing an economic boom we haven\u2019t had since the first casinos opened in early 1990.\u201d\nLegislation allowing the casino to build on land cuts costs in half, Martin said, and makes it much easier to obtain insurance needed for financing. Even if some casinos had been willing to invest building in the water, insurance might not have been available.\nBiloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway said that casino and condominium developments will be the key to the city\u2019s Katrina recovery.\n\u201cThe private investment community is what is going to pull us through this, not just assistance from government programs,\u201d Holloway said.\nOne casino that won\u2019t be moving ashore is the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. The Beau Rivage had a permanently moored casino structure on pilings that survived the storm.\n\u201cAs far as the barge, it did exactly as it was intended,\u201d said Mary Cracchiolo, director of public relations for the Beau Rivage. \u201cIt stayed in place. We were able to keep the casino where there is optimum visibility and ease of access. We are well into our rebuilding effort. We will be recreating some of our customer\u2019s favorites while re-examining all of our venues, amenities and systems to continue to insure we are as responsive as possible to our customers\u2019 needs and desires.\u201d\nThe Beau is remodeling all the hotel rooms, the restaurants, casino, theater and spa and retail offerings. It plans to reopen August 29 with 1,200 of 1,740 rooms. The balance of everything will be open in the fourth quarter.\n\u201cWe are working to put people back to work and get the property back open,\u201d Cracchiolo said.\nRoy Anderson Corp. 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Lightfoot has been on the scene for more than five decades, and has the abundant discography and Grammy nominations to prove it. Head on over to the State Theatre to see why artists like Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Hank William Jr., and many more chose to record their own versions of Lightfoot's time-honored tunes. 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The mission to Oman, a country with an important logistical function in the region, marked the first visit to the Middle East of the current outreach program. Topics discussed included a debrief of the 2015 MTCR Plenary, regional developments with respect to missile non-proliferation, and risks resulting from brokering, transit and transhipment. 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It was used as a \u201cfiller\u201d after the sudden end of \u201cKismet\u201d at the Shaftesbury. During this period Cameron Mackintosh\u2019s production of \u201cGodspell\u201d would\noccasionally pop in and out of the West End every time a short gap appeared.\nCherry Lane Theatre \u00e0 Broadway (Off) (Original)\nMise en sc\u00e8ne : Jean-Michel Tebelak \u2022\nAvec : Lamar ... Lamar Alford / Peggy ... Peggy Gordon\t/ Judas ... David Haskell / Joanne ... Joanne Jonas / Robin ... Robin Lamont / Sonia ... Sonia Manzano / Gilmer ... Gilmer McCormick\t/ Jeffrey ... Jeffrey Mylett / Jesus ... Stephen Nathan / Herb ... Herb Simon\nCommentaires : Based on The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Transferred to the Promenade Theatre where it ran 2,124 performances, then to Broadway, where it opened at the Broadhurst theatre June 22, 1976. It then transferred to the Plymouth Theatre (Septemeber 15, 1976) and finally to the Ambassador Theatre (January 12, 1977) where it closed September 4, 1977, after 527 performances on Broadway.\nRoundhouse \u00e0 Londres (Original London)\nAvec : David Essex (Jesus), Jeremy Irons (Judas), Verity-Anne Meldrum, Marti Webb, Tony Jackson, Mandy More, Derek Parkyn, Tom Saffery, Gay Soper\nCommentaires : With exactly the same theme as the contemporary \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d, this show aimed at absolute simplicity and a \u201cHippie\u201d-feel as opposed to the heavy rock of JCS. Both achieved great success, but surprisingly \u201cGodspell\u201d attracted very little religious opposition whereas JCS received howls of protest.\nLe spectacle sera transf\u00e9r\u00e9 au Wyndham's Theatre le 26 janvier 1972.\nCommentaires : With exactly the same theme as the contemporary \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d, this show aimed at absolute simplicity and a \u201cHippie\u201d-feel as opposed to the heavy rock of JCS. Both achieved great success, but surprisingly \u201cGodspell\u201d attracted very little religious opposition whereas JCS received howls of protest. The show had transferred from the Roundhouse.\n*** Film \u00e0 *** ()\nMise en sc\u00e8ne : Robert Cheeseman \u2022\nChor\u00e9graphie : Rowan Stuart \u2022\nAvec : Allan Love (Jesus), Susan Beagley, Paul Burton, Anna Daventry, Paul Kerryson, Edward Newborn, Valerie Minifie, Janet Shaw, Andrew Secombe.\nCommentaires : This was a short \u201cfill-in\u201d following the collapse of \u201cFire Angel - it was already on a UK tour.\nCommentaires : This was the same production as in May 1977, but with a largely different cast. It was used as a \u201cfiller\u201d after the sudden end of \u201cKismet\u201d at the Shaftesbury. During this period Cameron Mackintosh\u2019s production of \u201cGodspell\u201d would\nPremi\u00e8re Preview : dim 12 juin 1988\nBarbican - Hall \u00e0 Londres (Revival)\nMise en sc\u00e8ne : Lindsay Dolan \u2022\nAvec : Andy Crane (Jesus), Gemma Craven,, James Gaddas, Mark Greenstreet, Andrew Bradley, Richard Brightiff, Lisa Hull, Robert Irons, Barbara King, Shona Lindsay, David Rubin, Amanda Symonds.\nCommentaires : The show had been updated with topical references and turned into a kind of rock concert. It was almost universally condemned by the critics. The version was not helped by the fact that \u2018Andy Crane, the blond and denimed children\u2019s television personality signed up to play Jesus, is strikingly uncharismatic and bland - this resurrection is not good news\u2019.\nVictoria Theatre \u00e0 Broadway (Off) (Revival)\nMise en sc\u00e8ne : Richard Haase \u2022\nChor\u00e9graphie : Gene Compson \u2022\nAvec : Jesus ... Michael Leonard James / Judas ... Ray Champion / Marla ... Marla Neal / NaTasha ... NaTasha Yvette Williams / Randi ... Randi Harmon / Warrick ... Warrick Harmon / Erik ... Erik Dumesane / Bishop ... Bishop Willie Gholson / Walter ... Walter Coppage / Adrienne ... Adrienne Unae\nCommentaires : The first (and to date, only) all-African American production of the show.\nYork Theatre \u00e0 Broadway (Off) (Revival)\nMise en sc\u00e8ne : Shawn Rozsa \u2022\nChor\u00e9graphie : Ovi Vargas \u2022\nAvec : Shoshana Bean, Tim Cain, Catherine Carpenter, Will Erat John (the Baptist/Judas), Barrett Foa (Jesus), Lucia Giannetta, Capathia Jenkins,\nChad Kimball, Leslie Kritzer, Eliseo Roman\nAvec : Madalena Alberto (Sonia) / Jill Armour (Gilmer) / Daryl Armstrong (Herb) / Jeremy Batt (Jeffrey) / Davis Brooks (Judas) / Billy Cullum (Jesus) / Natalie Green (Robin) / Sophie Isaacs (Joanne) / Caroline Hubbard (Peggy) / Iwan Lewis (Lamar)\nCommentaires : Regan De Wynter revive the legendary pop musical Godspell at The Union Theatre to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. The show reunites Michael Strassen (Director) and Michael Bradley (Musical Director) whose previous production at The Union, Assassins, recently won Best Production at the Off-West End Awards.\nMise en sc\u00e8ne : Daniel Goldstein \u2022\nChor\u00e9graphie : Christopher Gattelli \u2022\nAvec : Jesus ... Hunter Parrish / John, Judas ... Wallace Smith\nUzo Aduba / Nick Blaemire / Celisse Henderson / Morgan James / Telly Leung / Lindsay Mendez / Anna Maria Perez de Tagle\nCommentaires : Originally planned for 2007, but was postponed when the financial backing fell through.\nGodspell presents the gospel of St. Matthew updated to New York City of the late '60s/early '70s, featuring Jesus Christ as a wandering minstrel dressed like a circus clown.\n1 Godspell peut-\u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un Top musical\nThe show originated in 1970 as Tebelak's master's thesis project, under the direction of Lawrence Carra, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A version was performed at Carnegie Mellon in 1970, with several of the cast members from the CMU Music Department. Tebelak then directed the show, with much of the student cast, for a two-week, ten performance run at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (aka Cafe la Mama), New York City, opening February 24, 1971. It was brought to the attention of producers Edgar Lansbury (brother of Angela Lansbury) and Joseph Beruh by Carnegie alumnus Charles Haid (associate producer), who wanted to open it Off-Broadway.\nThe producers hired Stephen Schwartz, another alumnus of Carnegie Mellon's theater department, to write a new song score. Schwartz's songs incorporated a variety of musical styles, from pop to folk rock, gospel, and vaudeville. One song, \"By My Side\", written by CMU students Jay Hamburger and Peggy Gordon, was kept from the original score. As with the original score, most of the non-Schwartz lyrics were from the Episcopal Hymnal (see also the 1971 Off-Broadway run).\nOpening \u2021\nPrologue:Towers of Babble \u2021\nO Bless the Lord\nLearn Your Lessons Well (Reprise) \u2021\nBeautiful City \u2020\nDay By Day (Reprise)\n\u2021 These songs were not part of the original production, but are sometimes performed in contemporary productions\n\"Beautiful City\" was written in 1972 as part of the movie and re-written in 1993 after the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Its position in the film is directly after \"By My Side,\" which in turn follows directly on from \"Alas for You,\" omitting the parable in between. This provides a sequence where Jesus upturns the tables at the temple before the pharisees. Then, scared by what he has done, he walks off, followed by the disciples, who ask, \"Where are you going? Can you take me with you?\" and they are reunited with Jesus, and sing \"Beautiful City.\"\nMany theatrical directors choose to use it in place of the \"Day by Day\" reprise. \"Beautiful City\" has also been used at the very end of the play in an additional dialogue-free scene that depicts the Resurrection, which was not depicted in the original.\nIn their Broadway Junior series \u2014 popular musicals edited to one act and appropriate for middle school \u2014 Music Theater International supplies \"Beautiful City\" as part of the show. This version contains much of the first act and very little of the second: \"By My Side\" is omitted entirely. \"Beautiful City\" is at a point in the beginning of the traditional second act, but followed quickly by the Last Supper, the Betrayal, and the Crucifixion.\nThe 2011 Broadway revival places \"Beautiful City\" between \"We Beseech Thee\" and the Last Supper, sung as a slow ballad by Jesus to his followers.\nAucun dossier informatif compl\u00e9mentaire concernant Godspell.\nThe hippie garb that the cast wears has caused controversy. In the 1999, \"Notes on the Script\", Stephen Schwartz wrote, \"There are often misconceptions about the concept of the clown analogy in Godspell. For instance, sometimes it is misunderstood as the cast being 'hippies' or 'flower children'. The concept was derived by John-Michael Tebelak from a book by Harvey Cox, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, entitled Feast of Fools.\nAnother point to note is that Godspell has a particularly Protestant, rather than orthodox or Catholic, take on the public life of Christ, and departs somewhat from the biblical record. For example, St Peter, named in the four gospels more than all other followers of Christ combined, is completely absent in the play; his place as Jesus' \"right hand man\" is replaced by John the Baptist/Judas, mainly the latter role. Mary the mother of Jesus, present at the opening (Jn 2:1-12)and closing (Jn 19:25-27)of Jesus' public life, and at several points along the way, also disappears and is replaced by the Mary Magdelan role. The departure from the biblical account is an interesting point, if only to students of comparative Christian traditions.\nVersions majeures de Godspell\nGodspell (1971-05-Cherry Lane Theatre-Off Broadway) (Original)\nBased on The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Transferred to the Promenade Theatre where it ran 2,124 performances, then to Broadway, where it opened at the Broadhurst theatre June 22, 1976. It then transferred to the Plymouth Theatre (Septemeber 15, 1976) and finally to the Ambassador Theatre (January 12, 1977) where it closed September 4, 1977, after 527 performances on Broadway.\nGodspell (1971-11-Roundhouse Theatre-London) (Original London)\nWith exactly the same theme as the contemporary \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d, this show aimed at absolute simplicity and a \u201cHippie\u201d-feel as opposed to the heavy rock of JCS. Both achieved great success, but surprisingly \u201cGodspell\u201d attracted very little religious opposition whereas JCS received howls of protest.\nGodspell (1972-01-Wyndham's Theatre-London) (Original London)\nWith exactly the same theme as the contemporary \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d, this show aimed at absolute simplicity and a \u201cHippie\u201d-feel as opposed to the heavy rock of JCS. Both achieved great success, but surprisingly \u201cGodspell\u201d attracted very little religious opposition whereas JCS received howls of protest. The show had transferred from the Roundhouse.\nGodspell (1973-03-Film) ()\nGodspell (1976-06-Broadway Run) (Original Broadway)\nGodspell (1977-05-Her Majesty's Theatre-London) (Revival)\nThis was a short \u201cfill-in\u201d following the collapse of \u201cFire Angel - it was already on a UK tour.\nGodspell (1978-07-Shaftesbury Theatre-London) (Revival)\nGodspell (1981-06-Young Vic-London) (Revival)\nGodspell (1988-06-Lamb's Theatre-Off Broadway) (Revival)\nPremi\u00e8re Preview : dimanche 12 juin 1988\nGodspell (1993-08-Barbican Theatre-London) (Revival)\nThe show had been updated with topical references and turned into a kind of rock concert. It was almost universally condemned by the critics. The version was not helped by the fact that \u2018Andy Crane, the blond and denimed children\u2019s television personality signed up to play Jesus, is strikingly uncharismatic and bland - this resurrection is not good news\u2019.\nGodspell (1997-02-Victoria Theatre-Off Broadway) (Revival)\nThe first (and to date, only) all-African American production of the show.\nGodspell (2000-08-York Theatre-Off Broadway) (Revival)\nGodspell (2000-xx-US Tour) (US Tour)\nGodspell (2011-04-Union Theatre-London) (Revival)\nRegan De Wynter revive the legendary pop musical Godspell at The Union Theatre to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. The show reunites Michael Strassen (Director) and Michael Bradley (Musical Director) whose previous production at The Union, Assassins, recently won Best Production at the Off-West End Awards.\nGodspell (2011-11-Circle in the Square Theatre-Broadway Theatre) (Revival)\nOriginally planned for 2007, but was postponed when the financial backing fell through.\nMais aussi, quelques versions r\u00e9gionales ou mineures, ... de Godspell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 556, "original_length": 25826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musicofyesterday.com/historical-music-theory/aeolian-mode/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:33Z", "digest": "sha1:65JAXWADKIXJAGXSXNQRVWUHINTDA6OK", "length": 1367, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "musicofyesterday.com", "title": "Aeolian Mode - Music Of Yesterday", "raw_content": "This title occurs in the works of some of the earliest Greek writers, who mention the Greek modes or scales; but it disappears again, and the Aeolian mode is apparently not in question in the time of Plato, Aristotle, and those who immediately followed them.\nIt reappears again, however, at a later date, and figures, together with a Hypo aeolian mode, in the set of thirteen modes attributed to Aristoxenus; while at a later date still a Hyper aeolian mode was added. It was however not one of those that were generally current or of permanent importance in the history of music; nor did it find a place in the mediaeval system of modes.\nWhen, however, Glareanus tried in his Dodecachordon to establish the relation between the mediaeval western and the Greek systems of modes, he gave the name of Aeolian mode to the scale ranging from A to a, which was the first of the four additional modes added by him to the current eight, in order to make up the number to twelve. This had been until then universally regarded by mediaeval theorists as a mere transposition of the first mode.\nThe theory of Glareanus was unfortunate, and his innovation only threw further confusion the question, already highly confused, of the relation of Eastern and Western music theory.\nNext story Mastering Irregular Rhythmic Groups in Piano Playing\nPrevious story Away Down East in Maine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mustrad.org.uk/articles/tester2.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:34:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JIMN2JKIHCRGWG5NG6X2LSE6NDAFML6I", "length": 25460, "nlines": 97, "source_domain": "mustrad.org.uk", "title": "Scan Tester", "raw_content": "The Reg Hall BBC Radio Sussex interviews\nOn 30th October 1990, Reg Hall came into the BBC Radio Sussex studios in Brighton to record an interview with me for the station\u2019s folk music programme Minstrels Gallery about Scan Tester and the I Never Played To Many Posh Dances project which had recently been published and released. It was such an important event in music circles locally that we decided to devote the majority of two programmes to it.\nThe format for both programmes was to be that we would play four tracks from the LPs and intersperse them with three sections of interview. Apart from a few station identity announcements and repeating the publication/record label details, I have transcribed the interview in full. There are a few places where I would have liked to have questioned Reg more fully about what he was saying, and probably would have had this not been a radio programme with the consequent constraints on time. Nevertheless, I feel that Reg had much to say which augments the facts and information that are contained in the book and adds to our understanding of this seminal figure.\nHoping that the appearance of this interview might stimulate interest and sales of the book and record, I made some enquiries about the availability of both and came up with the following information:\nTony Engle of Topic records (www.topicrecords.co.uk) states that the vinyl albums are now sold out, but that they are hoping to be able to release the albums on CD some time in the future.\nJohn Howson of Veteran Mail Order (www.veteran.co.uk) has both the book and the albums (in double cassette form) available for sale from his website.\nPeta Webb of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (www.efdss.org/library.htm) has some copies of the book available for sale. They are on the basis of donated stock: sales go down as donations to the library, not to EFDSS generally.\nSide 3 Track 9, Jig: - Irish Washerwoman - Scan Tester, concertina\nAnd that\u2019s the Irish jig, The Irish Washerwoman, played by a Sussex musician, the late Scan Tester, and we are starting now, a fairly lengthy feature for us on Minstrels Gallery on the life and times and music of Scan Tester and the reason for this is a recently published book and, released in connection with it a double album. Scan Tester - I Never Played To Many Posh Dances is the title of both the book and the double record. And to help us through this is the man responsible for both the book and the records, Reg Hall. First of all, Reg, welcome to Minstrels Gallery.\nIt\u2019s nice to be here.\nNow, quoted on both the book and the record are Scan\u2019s dates - born in 1887, died in 1972. At what stage in Scan\u2019s life did you come to know him?\nWell, I met him in 1956 when I was about 23. It happened that I used to go and stay with a friend of mine, Mervyn Plunkett. He had a house in West Hoathly. We used to go and play in the pubs around there on Saturday nights. Well I was staying at that house and on this particular day, it was about 5 o\u2019clock on a Saturday afternoon and I was playing some tunes in the back room and the greengrocer came to the back door to deliver the greengrocery and he heard me playing. And he said, \u201cWho\u2019s that playing?\u201d and he was told who I was and he said, \u201cWell, my wife\u2019s father plays just like that.\u201d And his wife\u2019s father was Will Tester who was Scan\u2019s brother. And that led us to Scan and within three weeks, Mervyn has been round to see Scan who lived about three miles away in Horsted Keynes and Mervyn recorded two or three pieces and within a few weeks, I had met him as well and we were playing together.\nWere you in contact with any other Sussex pub musicians at the time?\nNo, he was the first musician we had come across. We had met loads of singers, Pop Maynard and George Spicer - Mervyn found both of those. Pop Maynard came from Copthorne on the Surrey border and George Spicer came from just outside West Hoathly. They were great singers. There was lots and lots of other singers around, and some of them were just one song singers, but there were no musicians; we didn\u2019t actually hear any music. I used to go along to these sessions to provide the music. We saw just the last knockings of step dancing, and I think on one occasion, we were in a pub and someone picked up a tray, tin tray, you know, that they serve the beer on and he played it like a tambourine, like the Irish play the bodhr\u00e1n now. That was a revelation to me. And then, of course, we met Scan and we realised the whole history of the music.\nWhen you were told that there was someone who played like you, was that the case? Do you think that your playing was like Scan\u2019s?\nNo, I don\u2019t think it did; No, I had learned from else where and actually on the record, you can hear me playing La Russe and, of course, it\u2019s a imitation of Peter Kennedy\u2019s playing, because I learned it off his records. The people who had inspired me were people like George Tremain 1 from Yorkshire and Bob Cann who had even then had made quite a number of BBC recordings.\nScan and I had enough in common. When we met we could actually play together; but he changed my rhythm. He actually told me how to play; he taught me to do it quite differently.\nWhat was your reaction - musically - to finding an old Sussex pub musician? You must have suspected that there were some around.\nI\u2019d hoped that there were some around. I\u2019m not so sure that I suspected that there were. By as we came across Scan, it happened that we came across quite a few others. It was as if, once the lid had come off, there were all the others under the surface. The tragedy was that there were other musicians that I did not know about. There were whole nests of fiddle players and I never knew about them until it was much too late.\nWell, I intend to include as much music as we can in this feature, Reg, so let\u2019s listen to Not For Joe. Any comments on that particular tune?\nWell, that\u2019s an old-fashioned polka. It was written by ... well I can\u2019t remember off-hand, I don\u2019t carry these things in my head \u2026 but we do know who wrote it 2 and it\u2019s (about) Joe Chamberlain, what was he? Colonial Secretary at one time and the mayor of Birmingham 3 and this was a music hall song and likes lots of these old-fashioned tunes, the ones that Scan played, they were from commercial music, but he and his pals knocked them into shape so this is Scan Tester\u2019s version of Not For Joe.\nSide 2 Track 5. Polka: Not For Joe - Scan Tester, concertina\nNot For Joe played by Scan Tester on the Anglo-concertina. Reg, we\u2019ve heard Scan Tester playing a jig and now a polka; are we to learn from this that Scan was primarily a musician who played for social dances?\nI think very much that\u2019s right. He could play songs and later in his life, he played for sing-songs in pubs; he could always follow anybody, but essentially, he was a dance musician. He started very early in life. He was about eight when he started playing the tambourine and he learned the tambourine from his uncle who was born about 1826. His uncle was about sixty-five and Scan was eight and they went around as a pair! But they had a third member; a trio as it were. That was Scan\u2019s older brother Trayton, who was another concertina player and I suspect, though I\u2019ve got no real evidence, that he was also a fiddle player. And he could play the cornet and Scan said that was a knock-out on any instrument. That was the trio. Trayton was about twenty-three, the old man of sixty-five and the boy of eight and that was the pub trio. They went around different pubs playing.\nI suppose that today people will think of social dance taking place in dance clubs and at barn dances, what would have been the actual locations that Scan would be likely to have played at in his early days?\nWell, I think almost exclusively, the tap-room of a pub. There weren\u2019t village halls in those days. If you think about it, most village halls are called \u2018memorial halls\u2019 and they were all memorials to the poor fellows who died in the Great War, so they were all built in the \u201820s. There were no village halls. There were a few \u2018reading rooms\u2019, these were for working men in the villages and they were often subscribed by the gentry or by the working men themselves. They might have been big enough to assemble in and have a dance or a party, but mostly Scan, very early on in his career played in the tap-rooms of pubs to an almost exclusively male audience.\nSo it would be step dance tunes \u2026 hornpipes \u2026 mainly to suit that type of thing.\nHornpipes\u2026. the odd 6/8 tune. I\u2019m not really sure that Scan ever used the word \u2018jig\u2019 4. I\u2019m not sure that he would call The Irish Washerwoman a jig\u2026. But he called the hornpipes, step dance tunes. That was the great thing, especially in the pubs over in Ashdown Forest, at Nutley and Fairwarp, and it\u2019s interesting that Scan at 10, 12, 13, 14, he used to go off about four or five miles specifically to learn music; the tunes. And he learned, he said, from men that were in their seventies or eighties. And so he knew that he was playing old-fashioned music then.\nSide 1 Track 6 - No.2 Step Dance Tune - Scan Tester, concertina\nSo we are talking about tunes and a tradition that must go back at least 150 years from now \u2026\nI\u2019d guess to the end of the 18th century. But the pubs \u2026 you see, it was really the Beer House Act of 1830 5 that started it. Before that there were tap-rooms and there were inns, but the pubs that scatter the whole of southern England, they all date from that time, so that pub culture came to life then and what had gone on at weddings and at the tap-rooms of inns really blossomed from 1830 onwards\nWell. I\u2019m going to come back to Reg Hall and Scan Tester next week, but for now I\u2019d like to give you details of the record. The double album is available on the Topic label - Scan Tester - I Never Played To Many Posh Dances and the accompanying volume is in the imprint of Musical Traditions Supplement No.2 by Reg Hall under the same title. You should be able to buy or order this in record shops. If you have any difficulty at all, drop us a line - address as always at the end of the programme - and I will pass the enquiries on to Reg. For now, Reg, we will end this feature this week with a step dance tune and I see from the label that this was recorded at The Fox in Islington. Tell us about the music at that pub before we hear the tune.\nWell, that\u2019s a great jump! The Fox was really an \u2018anti-folk club\u2019. I suppose that it was part of the folk club movement, but we actually wanted to do it in a way that was totally different from the standard way that a folk club would be run and we didn\u2019t even call it a folk club. It was just called \u2018The Fox at Islington\u2019\nSo, what sort of singers and musicians would be heard at this \u2018anti-folk\u2019 club?\nWell, we got people like \u2018Shrimp\u2019 Davies, who was the coxswain of the Cromer Lifeboat. He was a step-dancer and singer. We got Punch & Judy artists, we got the local concertina bands, but we had all the people like Bob Roberts and Fred Jordan and people like that and we had a lot of the Irish people from the local London Irish community.\nAnd on 21st January 1965, you had Scan Tester \u2026\nSide 2 Track 9 - Step Dance Tune - Scan Tester, concertina\nSecond programme\nSide 1 Track 5. Waltz: - The Man In The Moon - Scan Tester, concertina\nThe waltz The Man In The Moon played on the anglo-concertina brings us into our second feature on the times and music of Scan Tester of Horsted Keynes and helping us is the man responsible for the book and double LP I Never Played To Many Posh Dances and, of course, we welcome back the man responsible for these, Reg Hall to tell more of Scan\u2019s story.\nI daresay, Reg, that you would be delighted to hear that the tune we\u2019ve just heard, The Man in the Moon, is a very popular one in tune sessions in and around Sussex today.\nWell, I had no idea of that. I imagine that they have all got it from Scan in one way or another\u2026\nOh! Undoubtedly, musicians like Jean Addison, Vic Gammon, Will Duke have listened to Scan or recordings of Scan and have introduced it into pub sessions and now it\u2019s very popular.\nScan would be pleased.\nHe certainly would be. He would have wanted to join in; he seemed to love playing with younger musicians. There never seemed to be an age barrier with him. You talked last week about him playing with older musicians when he was a boy, as an old man, he liked to play with younger musicians.\nYes, I don\u2019t think that anyone noticed the age gap.\nSomething else that you talked about last week was playing at a pub called The Fox in Islington \u2026 I\u2019ve been aware in reading this book that you don\u2019t - when you are talking about Scan - call him a \u2018folk musician\u2019. I don\u2019t think that you even call him a \u2018traditional musician\u2019, do you?\nWell. I went out of my way not to call him a traditional musician. I thought that trying to categorise him wouldn\u2019t help with who he was and what he did and how he did it. I actually think of him as a traditional musician, but I wouldn\u2019t like to have to define to you what a traditional musician is. I\u2019ve actually got a very clear idea in my own mind, but I actually reject the whole notion of folk song and folk dance. I don\u2019t think that it helps. I think it was something that imposed from the outside on the culture and that it is misunderstood and I don\u2019t really think of it as a valid way of describing anything, so in my own conversation, I haven\u2019t used the word \u2018folk\u2019 since 1959. I accept that there is such a thing as a folk song movement and a folk dance movement and that is that only way that I use it in the book - when I talk about those movements.\nSo there\u2019s a mismatch between Scan and the other musicians around Horsted Keynes and what happens in folk clubs.\nOh, I think that it is a different world. Talk about The Man In The Moon \u2026 they are two different worlds. I mean the \u2018folk revival\u2019 and the tradition are two quite different things.\nSo what was the natural habitat for Scan\u2019s music?\nScan was a working man. He was making music for his own community and it came out of his own community and the demand was from his own community, so for him that meant playing in a pub.\nWould it have been a written music \u2026\nOh, not the way Scan played it \u2026 Go on, ask your question.\nWell, a written music or an aural music.\nI think that there were two traditions. If you were to look at Scan\u2019s contemporaries; the people that he was brought up with. He was born in the 1880s and the music within his family goes back through his brother who was much older and his uncle who was two generations older than that and they belonged to the aural tradition. There\u2019s no question in my mind about that. They had the old songs, the old step dancing, the old country dances, the old music and it was all by aural transmission, there is no question of that.\nIt changed; they picked up music all the time during their lives. They constantly added to the music; they changed it, but it was an aural tradition. But their contemporaries and their peers, perhaps their neighbours, perhaps the members of their families - they had the music that comes from literate sources, and after Waterloo there was this brass band movement that swept the country 6 and suddenly working men were beginning to read, not only tunes, but parts, so that was a different music and I try to explore that in the book. These two traditions existed side by side, so Scan might learn from a barrel organ, a fairground organ, which belonged to the written music tradition side of things, but would also pick up tunes from Gypsies who were on the aural side of things. He straddled both.\nAnd he learned from both?\nYes, but his feet were very firmly in the camp of the aural tradition.\nYou\u2019ve talked about Scan\u2019s being a musical family \u2026 we are going to come on to hearing him play in the company of his brother.\nSide 1 Track 7 Schottische - Scan and Will Tester, concertinas\nScan and his brother Will Tester recorded playing in a popular music pub at the time, The Trevor Arms at Glynde 7 and that pub is still there.\nOh yes, I was in there only last year.\nNow the next recording that we are going to listen to is Scan playing with some percussive accompaniment and this was something that you were talking about last week.\nWell, the old fashioned dance music that Scan was brought up with was linear; it was just a tune and all the rhythm was contained in the melody. And the way he articulates and breaks it up into phrases is all to do with keeping the rhythm and the momentum going. It is the same in Ireland, I\u2019m sure it is right the way through the British Isles. All of Scan\u2019s mates played, as far as I can understand, in this linear way. The only other instruments that were around were percussive and the way that they used percussion was on equal terms with the melody. It was there to get the drive, to get the momentum, to move it and keep the rhythm going. Quite unlike brass band drumming which is there to underline the basic beat or classical symphony playing where it is there for the tone colour or dramatic emphasis. This is percussion that is there to drive the music and very very common, spoons, bones, tambourines; people tend to think of the bodhr\u00e1n being Irish but tambourines were very common right across southern England and a very similar style to the way the Irish people play it now. I wouldn\u2019t like to say whether it was Irish or English, I don\u2019t really think it matters\nNow today we tend to think of the tambourine as the small instrument played in junior schools \u2026\nNo, no, they were enormous, often two feet across. Scan\u2019s uncle has one that was two foot across and it had three bells on it and when he was playing it, he could ring whichever bell he wanted, so he had quite a bit of skill.\nSo who are the musicians with him on The Monkey Hornpipe?\nWell it\u2019s basically Scan on the concertina, and Bill McMahon, a spoons player, who still lives in West Hoathly. He\u2019s a Liverpudlian and a great spoons player. He was a relatively young man in those days. 8\nSide 3 Track 10. Stepdance: The Monkey Hornpipe - Scan Tester concertina, Bill McMahon spoons/effects, Mervyn Plunkett percussion\nThe Monkey Hornpipe, Scan Tester of Horsted Keynes on Anglo concertina and Bill McMahon of West Hoathly on spoons and \u201ceffects\u201d - and the \u201ceffects\u201d - what is he doing? Is he slapping his cheeks? What is he doing?\nHe was hitting his hands together in front of his mouth. He would open his mouth and by changing the shape of his mouth, he could alter the pitch so that he could clap a harmony part!\nIt must have been quite a visual thing apart from anything else!\nYes, another of his tricks was to turn the spoons around and hit the handles together so that it sounded like a triangle. Well, you are asking me about the percussion, one of the things that hit me going around in the 1950s in that area was that you only had to start playing music in a pub and the percussion came from nowhere, thimbles on the table or a penny on a pint glass, a whole range of things \u2026\nYes, but the real thing was that they had this really tremendous percussive rhythm and none of this clapping on the beat that you get in the media or in the movies. Nobody ever clapped on the beat; that would have killed it dead. No, they were much more inventive.\nWhen I first heard you talking about the possibility of producing a record of Scan\u2026. I think Scan was still alive. He died in 1972, so this has taken many years to come to fruition. And I suppose I have been particularly surprised by accompanying book, I Never Played To Many Posh Dances. But then I think you would be surprised by the size of it if you go back to your original idea.\nYes, it is a surprise to me that it has turned out the way it has. I think I\u2019d want to go back to discuss my relationship with Scan. I think that when I met him, he was a musician and I was a musician and we got on together and it never occurred to me that he should be the subject of a project. So that when round about 1966, I thought, \u201cScan\u2019s so good that we ought to have some recordings issued\u201d and I was going to issue them privately in 1966 and I thought then of a double album. And it was really\u2026 as an evangelist. I really wanted to say there is this marvellous music around and Scan is just a part of it. He is just one of the musicians. It never occurred to me that it was really dying; that this was the end of it. Somehow, I thought that we could move the world on; that if people heard Scan and all these other musicians - and I could list dozens and dozens of them - that the world would be a better place and we\u2019d move on and everyone would be playing that sort of music. Of course, it didn\u2019t happen like that.\nThen came a point, round about 1970, when I was discussing the double album with a record company and that company couldn\u2019t actually produce the record. And then I went into the doldrums. I lost heart and I didn\u2019t even think about it for ten years. I filed everything away; I didn\u2019t listen to the tapes. didn\u2019t do any work at all. And then some enthusiasts, people like Tony Engle, Keith Chandler, yourself, were all saying to me about four years ago that I must get these records issued because people would want to hear this stuff. And that started me thinking. I\u2019ve gone through years of thinking about it. And I was now thinking of it more as a historian than an evangelist; a musician who wants to change the world.\nSo it was four years ago that you started working on it again.\nI said to Tony Engle 9 \u201cI think I will take three months to do it.\u201d With the notes to put in the LP sleeve - and now it has turned out to be 150 pages - 60,000 words! But I must say, Vic, that a lot of it is transcribed interview and that some of it was from you.\nWell, yes, that\u2019s right.\nI think that you probably knew him better than I did.\nOh! I don\u2019t think that I did! We certainly used to go up to see him 10 and I think we were just lucky to have caught him a very reflective mood one Sunday afternoon and we were lucky enough to have our tape recorder with us. He really seemed want to talk and seemed to be remembering things quite clearly.\nWell, no, I think that is quite interesting. I saw him as a friend and not someone that I should try and interview and do a project on, but I was cute enough that whenever the tape recorder was around, I let it run and most of the material that I quote comes from one morning in my kitchen when he was very talkative, just as you found him doing the same sort of thing.\nWe can\u2019t go much further now without hearing the man\u2019s voice himself. Here is Scan explaining one of his dances - The Broom Dance - and after that we will hear him playing the music for the dance in the company of Reg Hall on melodeon and Scan\u2019s daughter, Daisy Sherlock on piano.\nWell, they - er - had a broom back and they cocked their legs and they\u2019d take it from one hand to another, both legs and then they walked to and fro - sort of waltzed to and fro, you see, one part, the other part, you see, and then they\u2019d come back and do it over again. See? Well, it\u2019s all the two parts over and over again. But, very often, there was four of them together do it, you see, and then they\u2019d go in an out one another, you see, two each end and then they\u2019d do it again.\nSide 1 Track 3 The Broom Dance - Scan Tester concertina, Reg Hall melodeon, Daisy Sherlock piano\n1 - From North Skelton, North Yorkshire. Hear him and read a short biography on the VotP album To Catch a Fine Buck Was My Delight. (Topic TSCD 668)\n2 - In 1867 Arthur Lloyd wrote and composed another big hit with the public, Not for Joe. See www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NotForJoe.htm I cannot find a reference to this song being about Chamberlain.\n3 - Joseph Chamberlain (July 8, 1836 - July 3, 1914) See www.birminghamuk.com/wikipedia/Joseph_Chamberlain.htm\n4 - Sorry, Reg, but on page 79 as part of an interview with me, Scan is quoted as saying \u201cMost people like them old jigs, you know. I used to know several Irish and Scottish jigs, but they\u2019ve all gone.\u201d\n5 - The Beer House Act saw a swathe of 'beer-only' premises open across England and Wales with extended trading hours, from 4am to 10pm. See www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART38026.html\n6 - The keyed bugle was invented in Dublin, Ireland. It caught the public's eye in 1815 when it appeared at celebrations following the Battle of Waterloo. This new chromatic brass instrument was an improvement on the common field bugle and soon became known as the 'Kent Horn' because its inventor, Joseph Halliday, dedicated his creation to his military commander, the Duke of Kent. As various military bands adopted the chromatic bugle, the stage was set for a new musical ensemble, the all-brass band, to sweep Europe. As early as 1816, the keyed bugle can be documented in America at the Military Academy at West Point. Ensembles of all brass instruments became typical for military bands the world over. See www.harrogate.co.uk/harrogate-band/misc10.htm\n7 - The Trevor Arms still offers the opportunity to hear traditional tunes as a couple of monthly sessions are still held there. And as one of the sessions is led by Will Duke, the pub still echoes to the sound of the anglo-concertina which Scan Tester once played.\n8 - The track listings also give Mervyn Plunkett playing percussion on The Monkey Hornpipe.\n9 - Head of Topic Records.\n10 - By this time, Scan was living with his daughter, Daisy and her husband, Archie Sherlock, in a cottage in Horsted Keynes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 25982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mustrad.org.uk/reviews/fado3.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NAEF3S3DIREID7VFA6CP7STRYSJJIR6X", "length": 18306, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "mustrad.org.uk", "title": "Fado Resounding", "raw_content": "Fado Resounding\nAffective Politics and Urban Life\nby Lila Ellen Gray\nDuke University Press, Durham & London, 2013\nFado - what's in a name - a postscript: after having read this book, of which I was first made aware having completed my article Fado - what's in a name for Musical Traditions. Always curious when finding a book on fado in English, I managed to get hold of a copy through interlibrary loan, and spent the best part of a week battling through it, wondering countless times why I didn't give up but, still curious enough to see where it would take me, persisting to the bitter end.\nThe author is an American academic, an ethnomusicologist with a background in classical violin. She tells that in her mid-30s she spent three years (2001-2003) living in Lisbon, where she attended hundreds of amateur fado sessions, spent some time learning to sing fado herself, and became personally acquainted with a number of participants in the Lisbon subculture of amateur fado. She performed and recorded 20 interviews with 21 different interlocutors between January 2002 and May 2003 and recorded one further interview in January 2010. The subjects interviewed were mostly amateur fadistas, with a handful of professional or semi-professional fadistas. She also interviewed a renowned professional Portuguese guitarist, a renowned veteran recording engineer, and a recording company executive, and had conversations with many contacts and informants which she did not document formally.\nThe book oscillates between two distinct kinds of text - sentences and passages composed in an obsessively abstruse pseudo-academic meta-language which is very often difficult or impossible for this reader to make much real sense of, and passages written in a simple journalistic reporting style. The numerous passages of the former kind contain certain far too often repeated words and phrases - e.g. 'foregrounding', 'writ large', 'writ small', which often add nothing whatsoever to the sense of the text. This language, peppered with neologisms and obliquities, can rather be suspected of intending to signal to the reader that 'I'm now being intellectually sophisticated and academic, moving in the upper realms of the ethnographic stratosphere, and if you can't make sense of what I'm saying then you're not good enough - in fact you're rather silly and you shouldn't be trying to read this brilliant and very deeply thought book.'\nThe book is obviously intended to present, and to theorise about, the results of an ethnographic examination of a particular subculture in a single city in the present. However, nowhere in the book is there a reflection on during how long a time this subculture has existed in a form or forms recognisably similar to its present form(s). This lack of, or at least the diffuse character of, historical perspective is troubling, as there are good reasons to wonder whether the culture described in the book has existed in recognisable form for more than half a century. Obviously, phenomena named fado have existed in Portugal for nearly two centuries, but that is no guarantee that the particularities of today's Lisbon fado subculture are 'old', considering the various social, economic, cultural and political processes of upheaval and change which have transpired in Portugal since 1830. Admittedly the book doesn't make such claims, but neither does it devote significant space to reflections on the matter.\nThere are a number of signs of the author's lack of what I would consider a reasonably informed historical perspective, and of her somewhat perplexing ignorance of the materials of the music at hand. Such lacunae hardly contribute to this reader's confidence in the author's seriousness of approach.\nHere are a handful of concrete examples:\nEarly in the story she mentions having begun her attempts to learn how to sing fado from a CD reissue of a recording of the singer Maria Alice (born Gl\u00f3ria Mendes, 1904-1996) singing the song Persegui\u00e7\u00e2o. She comments first that it was recorded in the 1920s, and later specifies the year 1924. However - this singer did not record until 1929, and the recording to which the author refers was made in 1936. This might seem like ill-willed nitpicking on my part, but here are my reasons for justifying my dissatisfaction. First of all - relatively few recordings were made in Portugal during the first half of the 1920s, and I know of none specifically documented to the year 1924, which was the year before the introduction of electrical recording technology. Although Maria Alice first entered the recording studio in 1929, the sound of this recording, relatively well but not optimally preserved on the 1998 French CD reissue, has a sound quality and character not heard on late 1920s Portuguese recordings, and its true recording date was documented to 1936 by Paul Vernon in his ambitious pioneer documentation of fado discography in the 1990s. Secondly - the year 1924 was two years prior to the coup which established the Ditatura Nacional, and nine years prior to the establishment of the Estado Novo. The record in question was thus made three years after the introduction by the fascist dictatorship of licensing and censure procedures controlling singers, musicians and song lyrics, restrictions which were to obtain in one form or another until the revolution of 1974 and which are repeatedly claimed in the book to have had a decisive effect on the public presentation of fado lyrics. So j'accuse on three counts: firstly - as a musician and academic writing a book on the 'affective politics' of a musical form documented in writing since the mid-19th century and marketed on disc or cylinder since 1900, it is reasonable to expect of the author an awareness of the varying acoustic character of recordings of this music made during the 20th century, an awareness which would have rendered impossible the assertion in question. Secondly - neither would it be unreasonable to expect the practise of some kind of scientific curiosity about the provenance of the very first song which she tries to master, which could well have been traced by making enquiries within the fado community. Thirdly, the nature of the lyrics - moralising and sentimentalising words put into the mouth of a married woman of the lower classes chastising a rich man for chasing her with desire of erotic adventure - is worthy of comment, not least in relation to the censorship theme.\nThe only time the author devotes any descriptive words to the central musical instrument of fado, the guitarra portuguesa, she writes: (p.140) 'the guitarra - its twelve steel strings, six of them sympathetic ...' thus revealing a magnificent and in the context (the author being a classically trained instrumental musician) shocking ignorance of this musical instrument. The instrument does not have sympathetic strings. There is to my knowledge not a single plucked string instrument in Western cultures endowed with sympathetic strings which is not a latter-day hybrid inspired by the plucked instruments of Indian classical music. The guitarra portuguesa, an instrument of the cittern family, has six pairs of metal strings of which the three first are octave pairs and the other three are unison pairs. Although some guitarristas will occasionally strike the upper of an octave pair for a musical purpose, the paired strings are otherwise always plucked together, and in this aspect the instrument does not differ from other plucked instruments with double courses, with or without octave pairs, such as the lutes and citterns of the renaissance and baroque periods and the oud of the Middle Eastern world, and, today for example, the mandolin, the bouzouki, and the 12-string guitar. Three particular characteristics of the instrument as used in fado which can reasonably be expected to be unfamiliar to, and of interest to, any uninformed person taking the trouble to read the book, and which it would not have taken many words to explain. They are that firstly, it has a unique tuning scheme, which from bass upwards consists of the intervals of a fifth, a major second, a fourth, a fourth, and a major second, usually starting from D or from C. Secondly that only two digits of the right hand, the thumb and index, are used to pluck the strings, either using natural nails or taped-on tortoiseshell or plastic plectra. And thirdly, that virtually all melodic movement is played by up- and-down strokes of the index finger, a technique known in renaissance times as dedilho. These details should reasonably have become manifest to the author early on in her work. The author furthermore occasionally uses the word 'strum' to denote single-string melodic playing on the guitarra - an insensitively incorrect use of the word. This tiny linguistic inaccuracy betrays to my mind a strange lacuna, or perhaps plain and simple ethnocentricity, marring her ambition to enter into the character of this music.\nAlthough a number of fado singers who predate Amalia Rodrigues receive brief mention, there is hardly a mention of musicians of older generations, other than her interlocutor the eminent guitarrista Jos\u00e9 Fontes Rocha (1926-2011). One might at least have expected brief mention of the role of Armando Freire, (aka 'Armandinho', 1891-1946) the guitarrista who accompanied Amalia to Madrid in 1943 on her first tour outside Portugal, and who had already by then, through the combination of his musical genius as instrumentalist and composer, and his position in the fado world, perhaps more than any other musician, come to set the agenda during the 1920s and 1930s (perhaps already in the 1910s, though there are no such audio documents) for how fado is still accompanied today. He is still regarded by musicians today as the unsurpassed genius of the instrument in Lisbon fado.\nWhether or not one accepts the book's primary agenda, these facts, given as easily and briefly formulated additions, would in my opinion have offered the reader a more solid basis.\nAlthough the words 'affect', 'soul' and 'feeling' recur on almost every page, there is a surprising lack of attempt to define them, not to speak of the lack of psychological reflection upon their meanings and implications. Questions I ask myself: whether it is possible to estimate what proportion of the Lisbon population includes a significant relation to fado in their image of themselves, and whether there might be some kind of weighted selection of personality types among those who make up the amateur fado community? What are the varieties of life stories included in the concept of the life of the fadista? There is very little given in the book on the textures of actual lives. Can one distinguish any significant currents of difference between believers and non-believers in the 'religion of fado'?\nOne point of genuine interest in the book, which I've not seen mentioned elsewhere, is the question of the implications of the religiously imposed silence in fado performance situations. While this silence is today seen as an integral and exclusively positive component of the fado performance situation, indeed as one of its iconic characteristics, the author's hypothesis about its possible origin in the machinations of the authoritarian state as part of its strategy to include fado among its repressive tools of nation-building is of value.\nThe anecdotal recounting of the statements made by 'Amalianos' - self-confessed Amalia Rodrigues fanatics - is, perhaps unavoidably, but certainly frustratingly, lacking in reflections upon the particularities of personality among the three or four people so described. Likewise, in the context of discussing Amalia Rodrigues' icon status and the celebrity adulation phenomenon in general, there is no real reflection upon the psychological aspects of those who adulate celebrities.\nMuch is made of singers' use of variations in dynamics, vocal timbre, and melismatic improvisation, and the characteristic melodramatic device of pausing and temporarily arresting the flow of the rhythm towards the end of a song. While a comparison is made once or twice with older recordings which are noted as exhibiting these features to a far lesser degree or not at all, I once again come to think of the concept of mannerism in the art historian W\u00f6lfflin's arch model of the development of an art form. The idea that this aspect of today's fado may in fact, to put it rather cruelly, be seen as a prime example of mannerism in a decadent phase of an art form, equivalent to musicians' exaggeration of speed and number of notes played in some kinds of music, is never discussed, for which the writer's lack of practised familiarity with earlier recordings is perhaps to blame.\nThere are extended references to the voice of Amalia Rodrigues, from various people and viewpoints. Among aspects touched upon are how demanding her vocal style and voice were for a recording engineer, and how her voice changed with time. Amalia is quoted as claiming that the engineer Hugo Ribeiro was the only one who could record her voice so that she felt it to be faithfully captured when she listened to the recordings. Yet, close listening to his recordings of her reveals a liberal use of studio reverberation and/or echo which results, to my ears at least, in his having imparted an inescapably artificial melodramatic quality to her recordings. This phenomenon, if noted, would have been of great interest for the author to have discussed with 'Amalianos'! Not only how she is heard by others, but how she heard herself?\nA piquant detail not mentioned in the book: there exists a photo of Amalia on her visit to Madrid in 1943, depicting her together with Armandinho and the Argentine, later naturalised Spanish singer, Imperio Argentina (1910-2003). In 1938 Imperio Argentina had recorded two songs from the Spanish box office film hit Carmen, la de Triana, of which one was Los Piconeros - a song which Amalia then recorded during her first recording sessions in 1945, and which was her first recording in Spanish, in Spanish style. The other song on the 1938 78 was Antonio Vargas Heredia. The Carmen film was popular in late 1930s Greece, and the title of the latter song (actually the first words of the song) was amusingly 'Greek-ified' as 'O Andonis o Varkaris o Seretis', which translates roughly as 'Antonis the boatman and tough good guy', by none other than Markos Vamvakaris, with Spyros Peristeris performing the bouzouki lead, including a delicate flamenco pirouette!\nSomething to which the author refers tantalisingly briefly is the matter of the archival treatment of recordings of historical interest. But although the book is sub-titled 'affective politics and urban life', she never actually delves into the substance of this theme, which I would have thought is of great relevance to her subject, so I wonder why she never mentions it. Tradition (I see and hear the chorus in Fiddler on the Roof when I use the word here) is regarded so religiously in the amateur fado world, and yet in Portugal a large proportion of the historical aural documents of fado, which one would expect to be regarded as pillars of this tradition, have either been consigned to oblivion, or have been brutally maltreated, demonstrating exactly the opposite of what she implies - that there is an ongoing serious scientific program dedicated to the recovery of sound from archival material.\nThe year 2011 is mentioned, when fado was inducted into UNESCO's intangible heritage of humanity but, strangely, not the fact that a couple of years previously, in the midst of an ongoing economic melt-down, (a factor given certain space in the book), the Portuguese state spent approximately one million euros on a huge collection of archival discs, a collection which is now partly accessible on line in execrable, to a sensitive musical ear often basically unlistenable audio files. Not a single one of those to which I have listened would pass muster for a serious commercial reissue of music from 78 rpm discs. This is not because it would be impossible to extract acceptable sound from the discs at hand. There are many examples of discs which are obviously in very good condition but which have quite unnecessarily been subjected to violent and destructive digital 'cleaning'. In fact, virtually all the sound recovery in the only decent commercial reissues of pre-war fado has been done outside Portugal. No 'affective political' analysis of this undeniably significant fact is attempted in the book.\nI furthermore question the justification for publishing a book in the year 2013 about a kind of music in which fluency is for the most part acquired by ear, without offering the reader access to audio examples of what the author is talking about, and instead offering a handful of notated fragments, plus ten pages of elaborate written transcriptions of four performances, three of which are not available to be heard if the author doesn't choose to share her recordings.\nSo who is this book actually for? I really don't know. I can't imagine any non-English speaker managing to navigate such a jungle of labyrinthine abstraction, so it's presumably not intended for a Portuguese audience. But is it even for native English speakers who are fond of, and/or interested in, fado? I wonder, becase this reader - a multilingual English musician, practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist, with university degrees in medicine, psychotherapy, musicology, art history, English literature and social anthropology - found it almost impossible to read. Neither the design of the front cover nor the blurb on the back cover imply that it is a doctoral thesis directed towards a coterie of initiated specialists who are inured, or immune, to its vagaries of verbose self-indulgent abstruseness and who are accustomed to patting each other on the back, pretending that there are actually Imperial fabrics between their hands and the author's skin. Much like aspects of fado itself as described in the book, it has the character of a self-reflexive act, with the difference that there is a serious risk is that it is not really capable of delighting, or communicating with, anyone else but the author herself. But of course it would be nasty to say that.\nTony Klein - 18.1.18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 18470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mwnation.com/ignoring-the-voice-of-reason/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JFSQZB6FKU6K4WIVM23ZTMW24X3URQVR", "length": 3649, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mwnation.com", "title": "\ufeff Ignoring the voice of reason - The Nation Online", "raw_content": "You Are Here: Home \u2192 Ignoring the voice of reason\nIgnoring the voice of reason\nEmily Mkamanga June 10, 2018\nExperience in Malawi has shown that party politics is more of a blame-game rather than concentrating on the proper running of the party. Problems within the parties are usually blamed on other parties. This does not make much sense and it just prevents the party leaders from finding solutions to the problems before they get worse. Meanwhile, what is happening in the political arena at the moment is unique and goes beyond just blaming others.\nHonestly speaking, political squabbles within the parties have mostly to do with failed leadership. Some leaders in parties have a mistaken belief that running a political party is a one-man show and they look at other members as figure-heads. They do not listen to their voice of reason, but they turn them to hero-worshippers, praise-singers and hand-clappers. Such leaders even forget that Malawians had to fight for democracy in 1992 so as to express their opinions in the country. Little do such leaders know that a day would come for some members to get fed up with their domineering and start looking the other side.\nHaving said the above, President Peter Mutharika, who is the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), never would have thought that some senior party members would openly express their dissatisfaction with his performance and prefer Vice-President Saulos Chilima to take over from him. For the situation to reach the level of full-blown wrangle within the party, it might mean that there has been an undercurrent for resentment for sometime, of which the President has not been aware. If this is the case, his advisers are to blame because they are supposed to put their ears on the ground and advise him accordingly. Blaming other parties for the problems in DPP is a waste of time. The problems are within DPP, and so are the solutions.\nMeanwhile, the infighting in DPP has divided the part into two\u2014with some people supporting Chilima as the party torch-bearer while others support Mutharika to lead the party to the 2019 elections. This is a wake-up call to other political leaders that they should not take Malawians for guaranteed. The DPP leadership might have been thinking that Malawi is still in a dictatorship or a one-party State, when alternative voices were almost forbidden. Some of the DPP members might have been expressing their dissenting views about the leadership in private.\nThe bottom-line to all this is the seemingly failed leadership which has led to the unprecedented levels of suffering by the majority of Malawians. It is likely that some DPP members have conceded that their government has failed Malawians; hence, they are forced to look for alternative leadership in Chilima.\nIn fact, it has never happened in this country that a ruling party, with a serving President in place, people wanting the Veep to replace the President. This is an indication of how bad the administration has performed.\nWhat President Mutharika and his government should know is that their failure has nothing to do with previous governments. This is because they have been in power for four years, which is long enough to register meaningful progress. Instead, there has been failure in most sectors with no hope for a better future. Malawians are sick and tired to continue being cheated that the government is successful and yet corruption, nepotism, tribalism and regionalism seem to be accepted by the leadership.\nFinally, political party leaders should learn from the threat of demise of DPP, that parties must always listen to the voice of reason.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myama.org/meds/_med120503.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7URJSOHN4VOP2MK4X2BLMNSQ5VMTY2V4", "length": 2687, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "myama.org", "title": "Meditation", "raw_content": "On December 5th, 2003, Equinox gave this meditation to help us see that we are all the same.\nNow we want thee to get thyself very comfortable. And then we want thee to breathe. This is something that entities on Terra do very poorly. So breathe very, very deeply, please. Breathe so deeply that thee can feel the air entering thy lungs and filling thee up. Breathe so deeply that thee can feel the oxygen going into thy blood vessels and nurturing and healing the entirety of thy physical body. Air is life. Enjoy it.\nAnd as thee are breathing, become aware of the scents in the room, the smells. And fill thyself up with the wondrous nature of being able to smell. Fill thyself with the feeling of being full of air. And relax, and go with us on a mind trip, please.\nWithin thy mind, we would like thee to envision a beauteous garden filled with flowers. See this wondrous garden filled with all variety of flowers. Big ones, small ones, every imaginable color of flower is in this garden. Some of the flowers have thorns; others do not. Within the same type of flower, a roses let\u2019s say, or an iris, the different colors may produce different fragrances. Smell the fragrances. Some may not even have any, and some have fragrances that are totally poignant and create for thee images, some good, some not so good. Some have leaves that are irritating to the touch. Other are glossy and smooth and beauteous. Within the same bush, one flower may be brilliant and open and shiny, and another closed, and another just opening. Some are close to the ground, and some are very tall. Some are fat, and some very thin.\nIn thy garden there is much that is different, but essentially, it is all the same, just different varieties of colors and sizes of flowers. And this is what Terra is; a garden filled with different colors, shapes, sizes of beings, of people, but all people none the less. All people striving to feel loved, to be loved, to feel accepted, to feel good about themselves, to shine. Some have shriveled on the vine, some are full of themselves, some have prickly thorns, and others are so easy to be close to. But they are all, every single one of them, exactly like thee. Every single one of them have fears and doubts. Every single one of them, black or yellow, red or white, big or small, have needs and are linked to thee and are linked to the Source.\nIn this time to come, it be important to remember this thing. There are no enemies; there are just other humans. Feel the linkage. Be a brother, a sister, a mother, a father, a lover to the world, and then thee will have what thee all want - happiness, prosperity, peace, joy and abundance on Terra. We promise thee this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 2819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mymamihood.com/dating-dossier-giving/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MFHSFHQA36LLWFPTFVMXPL7YV3J7ROTY", "length": 4379, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "mymamihood.com", "title": "Dating Dossier: Giving - My Mamihood", "raw_content": "Dating Dossier: Giving\nThere was this guy once\u2026\nIt felt like we\u2019d grown up together. Can I call him a college sweetheart? Not sure. I can say that he had most of my interest during my college days (which is when I started dating, by the way). He was sweet. And he was nice. We would spend some summer days at each other\u2019s houses watching TV and not really speaking. I looked forward to those days.\nAfter college, we met up again and this time around it was\u2026different. We had grown into ourselves a bit more. But it was still nice to have had that past experience of growing up together, to a certain extent.\nStill had kinks though. Inconsistencies that I thought were mine but that I realized much later were his own insecurities rearing their head, eventually at the expense of our relationship.\nAnywho, the year he was turning 30, I had a plan. It\u2019s actually a plan that I want to do with everyone on all of their major birthdays. But this was the first time I executed it. Thirty days of presents. Thirty reasons. I\u2019m such a sap sometimes! I\u2019ll admit, I am an incurable romantic. But don\u2019t tell my left brain, lest a war break out.\nIt was not easy. Y\u2019all know me so of course there were spreadsheets and back up gifts in case I found out he already had something that was on the list. Some things were simple. Like a CD of the top 10 songs the year we met. Some things were not so easy. Engraved presents always work, right?\nI poured my heart out that summer in the form of this project. Because more than the present, each gift came with a reason for why I selected it for him and in part, a reason why he was loved.\nRelated: Why I'm Reclaiming My Time\nNeedless to say it was a raging success. Though things did not work out between us, I am glad I did what I did. The purpose for the project had to do with the \u201choly shit I\u2019m turning 30\u201d freak out that Mr. Thirty started to have in the months leading up to his birthday. And also because I\u2019d come to realize he needed to be shown love in a way he\u2019d never been shown before.\nThat\u2019s the thing about dating for me and probably the reason why I was never a big dater. Because I give a lot of myself. I guess in my old age I\u2019ve come to realize I can\u2019t do that. There are so many factors to take into consideration. \u00c2 The business side of dating makes me want to run and hide. Sometimes it\u2019s too much for this heart.\nWhat are the rules for giving? Is there a ratio that we should keep in mind as we date? Or are you a believer that your actions are not determined by someone else\u2019s reaction?\nThe Dating Dossier: Mr. PDA\n\u00ab The Sound of Words\nSchool\u2019s Out! \u00bb\nHow SWEET! Gosh I can imagine I would have run myself crazy over organizing that. But I am sure it is something he will forever remember too. I think its great.\nI had never known the desire, to really give unselfishly to a man, until I met my boyfriend. The day before his birthday, we both took a vacation day from work on a Friday because it feels amazing to have a day off on a weekday, in my opinion. I treated him to breakfast at my favorite breakfast place The Egg and I on Orange Ave. We were going to go to Lake Eola for a nice long walk, but it was pouring down rain. So instead, I treated him to his and hers Mani/pedi\u2019s at a nail salon in SoDo. Then, we went to our fave produce place Freshfield Farms around the corner. We then went to Winter Park, had some delish Froyo at Menchies, and I treated him to the movies. Afterwards, we went to his favorite new burger joint, B&B Junction, where we enjoyed a wonderful Bison burger, salad, and a delicious craft beer. The rain finally let up, and the sun was shining so we went to Park Ave and walked up and down 5 times going in and out of shops. We found a new little pub called Matilda\u2019s Hideaway and had another well deserved beer. For us, it was a perfect day with no worries, just him and I enjoying each others company like we always do. The following day he worked, but I had some friends come over and we cut him a delicious chocolate ganache cake from Whole Foods and I have him 2 dvd\u2019s that were on his amazon wish list as a gift. My girls gave him a hilarious birthday card and he was so touched by their enthusiasm. He kept reeling, for the next few days, about how he was so thankful for the awesome day we spent together. I am not expecting anything in return\u2026.well except his undying love of course!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 8590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2426", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:33Z", "digest": "sha1:F2MBP5LZ3SPXXAHTWJRC3U5MJJYJF4UW", "length": 169, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mymovie.medialife.org", "title": "My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours", "raw_content": "- A Futile and Stupid Gesture\n- The Ten\n- They Came Together\n05.07.13 Netflix This should've been funnier. Couldn't accept that everyone who saw it was right. They were.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nagomisf.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:43:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UNTFGO54SQJ3U7C2GNB2OLD7YFLUGBQC", "length": 194, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nagomisf.com", "title": "Contact - Nagomi San Francisco", "raw_content": "Hello. Nagomi Creative is a collaborative journal weblog, which invites all kind of creatives: writer, artist, photographer, and chef to join. Please contact us if you are interested. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nasawavelength.org/resource-search?facetSort=1&educationalLevel%5B%5D=Higher+education&educationalLevel%5B%5D=Informal+education&educationalLevel%5B%5D=Middle+school&instructionalStrategies%5B%5D=Identifying+similarities+and+differences&instructionalStrategies%5B%5D=Cues%2C+questions%2C+and+advanced+organizers&resourceType=Instructional+materials%3ADemonstration", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HYVG5326KOZVXELZCJLIWDLS5GKZXUI3", "length": 1227, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nasawavelength.org", "title": "| NASA Wavelength Digital Library", "raw_content": "Trip to the Sun\nThis is an activity about the size and scale of the Sun-Earth system. Learners will take an imaginary trip to the Sun by comparing images of the Sun and Earth at different points in altitude above the Earth. This is to ultimately conceptualize the... (View More) spherical shape of the Earth, which is key to understanding the cause of the seasons. They will then produce a scale model of the Sun and Earth to reinforce the idea that the distance to the Sun is enormous compared with the size of the Earth. Finally, learners reflect on Question 3 of the Sun-Earth Survey, which is the prior activity in this set. This is Activity 3 in the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) guide titled Real Reasons for Seasons: Sun-Earth Connections. An additional related activity, entitled Scale Models of the Earth-Moon System and the Solar System, is included in the CD-ROM enclosed with the resource guide. The resource guide is available for purchase from the Lawrence Hall of Science. This activity recommends use of an overhead projector, and requires use of a small scale model toy, such as a car or any other toy made to scale, and a rigid globe or large ball like a soccer ball or basketball. (View Less)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 172.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nasawavelength.org/resource-search?facetSort=1&educationalLevel%5B%5D=Informal+education%3AHigh+school+programming&educationalLevel%5B%5D=High+school&resourceType%5B%5D=Instructional+materials%3ACurriculum&resourceType%5B%5D=Instructional+materials%3AGraph&resourceType%5B%5D=Instructional+materials%3AInstructor+guide%2Fmanual&instructionalStrategies=Cooperative+learning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:01Z", "digest": "sha1:D5UY5Y4LW43JCUW6QWIA44ABOZ35NABZ", "length": 1991, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "nasawavelength.org", "title": "| NASA Wavelength Digital Library", "raw_content": "Two Versions of Gravity: Newton and Einstein\nThe goal of this lesson is for two groups of students to exchange information (e.g., through poster presentations, Podcasts, debates, or PowerPoint presentations) about how two different theories explain a natural phenomenon: Newton's Law of... (View More) Gravitation and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The lesson will also illustrate how the scientific process allows a new, more complete theory to take the place of an older theory that does not produce accurate results for a new discovery. Students will need to have either studied both Newton's Law of Gravitation and Einstein's Theory of Relativity or be given the time and resources to look up this information. This lesson is part of the Cosmic Times teachers guide and is intended to be used in conjunction with the 1919 Cosmic Times Poster. (View Less)\nDark Matter Possibilities\nIn this activity, students investigate one specific topic (MACHOs, WIMPs or hydrogen gas) related to dark matter using available resources. Students will organize their findings and present this information in a creative and engaging fashion. This... (View More) is activity seven in the \"Hidden Lives of Galaxies\" information and activity booklet that was designed for use with \"The Hidden Lives of Galaxies\" poster. The booklet includes student worksheets and background information for the teacher. (View Less)\nOut of Sight - Remote Vehicle Activity\nUsing remote control cars and other materials, learners will simulate the experience of trying to operate a planetary rover and working as a team to address challenges and meet a common goal. Student information sheets and worksheets as well as... (View More) websites for additional information are included. This is activity 13 of 24 from a collection, titled Mars Activities. Note: Find the latest information and updates on Mars missions at the NASA Mars Exploration website (see Related & Supplemental Resources to the right). (View Less)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 11389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2017/preparing-for-a-rapid-response-to-major-marine-oil-spills-proceedings-in-brief.aspx?utm_source=HMD+Email+List&utm_campaign=6afbc7ce60-HMD-news-A%2FB-NOV&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_211686812e-6afbc7ce60-180552245&mc_cid=6afbc7ce60&mc_eid=18a8c25242", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TTONJRV5LUJNP5QRBXZEJ6S6QTFKFK6B", "length": 1774, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nationalacademies.org", "title": "Preparing for a Rapid Response to Major Marine Oil Spills: Protecting and Assessing the Health and Well-Being of Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop\u2014in Brief : Health and Medicine Division", "raw_content": "Preparing for a Rapid Response to Major Marine Oil Spills: Protecting and Assessing the Health and Well-Being of Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop\u2014in Brief\nOil spills have potential health and public health consequences both for responders and affected communities; yet neither the current command structure nor the compensation structure account well for responding to these aspects of spills. To explore opportunities to improve preparedness, response, and recovery from oil spills the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine asked the Health and Medical Division to convene a public workshop titled, Preparing for a Rapid Response to Major Offshore Oil Spills: A Workshop on Research Needs to Protect the Health and Well-Being of Communities. The workshop objectives were to explore research needs and other opportunities for improving public health preparedness, response, and protection related to oil spills; consider how to work within and how to complement the existing oil spill response framework to improve the protection of community health and well-being; to inform discussions about how the Gulf Research Program (GRP) and other divisions of the National Academies can support these efforts; and to foster connections among public health, oil spill practitioners, disaster research communities, and leaders from communities affected by oil spills. The workshop rapporteurs have prepared this proceedings as a factual summation of the session discussions.\nPreparing for a Rapid Response to Major Offshore Oil Spills: A Workshop on Research Needs to Protect the Health and Well-being of Communities\nEnvironmental Health, Public Health, Health Security\nJustin Snair, Study Director\nAlexa Edmier\nAlexander Repace", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 223.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://needsandlimits.wikidot.com/maldistribution-of-wastes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:23Z", "digest": "sha1:LT5NYSRHIIPJYSPPQYXTQPMZ56QN3KGZ", "length": 5990, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "needsandlimits.wikidot.com", "title": "Maldistribution of Wastes - ENL Wiki", "raw_content": "ENL Wiki \u00bb Production and Cost \u00bb Maldistribution of Wastes\nWastes are the material residues of economic activities, and therefore include pollution, discarded production materials, and discarded outputs. Because these residues can be harmful to human health, their distribution among countries, regions, neighborhoods and individuals is an important topic.\nThe concept of maldistribution is therefore appropriate in this context.\nWastes are qualitatively very different from labor, and we have to think about them in a different manner. By its nature, labor must be absorbed by human beings if the work is to be performed.\nHowever, human beings are by no means compelled to absorb wastes. In principle, all wastes could be diverted away from human habitation and processed by the environment.\nNote that our concern at this point is not environmental degradation, but determining how the natural cost experienced by human beings can be minimized.\nClearly, the best way to do this is to ensure that wastes don\u2019t impact people at all. However, this will likely fail to at least some extent. We must therefore seek to perfectly distribute the wastes that have entered the human domain.\nAkin to labor cost, this is achieved when each unit of waste is assigned to the person who incurs the lowest possible natural cost. Any distribution that does not meet this criterion is called waste maldistribution.\nAs with labor, a population has an absorption capacity for wastes. This refers to the group's aggregate ability to minimize their negative health effects. The absorption capacity for a waste depends on the number of people involved and on the overall pattern of tolerance for the waste.\n\u201cTolerance\u201d refers to the point where the absorption of a waste begins to degrade health. As noted above, this capacity is strongly affected by a population\u2019s most vulnerable members. See the following figure.\nMaldistribution of wastes depends on three factors: the number of people exposed, the physical vulnerability of those exposed, and the degree to which these people have exceeded their tolerance levels.\nThis graph is somewhat unusual because it depicts natural cost explicitly. ENL normally depicts natural cost as the difference between the labor cost and input cost curves.\nAnother unusual aspect of the graph is that the natural cost it depicts is restricted to pollution and similar wastes, thereby excluding habitat destruction and other environmental changes associated with production.\nA final point is that wastes are assumed to be capable of decreasing but not increasing health. This means that, although natural cost in general can be positive, zero, or negative, in this context it is restricted to being either zero or positive.\nLet's now examine the graph and extract its meaning.\nThe lower curve, labeled NCp, reflects the perfect distribution of wastes. Until output level Q1 is reached, the population is below its tolerance level for the waste in question, and no natural cost is therefore incurred.\nBeyond this point, natural cost becomes positive, and the curve rises slowly in accordance with the population\u2019s waste absorption capacity.\nNow assume that maldistribution occurs. That is, some of the waste is assigned to individuals who have already reached their tolerance level, even though others are below this point. This typically occurs when pollution \u201chotspots\u201d are permitted to form.\nAnother possibility is that waste is assigned to the most vulnerable, which occurs when we ignore different sensitivity levels for environmental toxins. In such cases, the population\u2019s absorption capacity declines and the tolerance level shifts left to Q2. In other words, aggregate health will begin to degrade at a lower output quantity than previously. In addition, the natural cost curve rises more steeply than before (NCm).\nAs shown, the difference between the two curves represents the maldistribution of wastes.\nAn excellent example of such maldistribution appeared in a New York Times article:\nThe South Bronx is home to miles of expressways, more than a dozen waste-transfer stations, a sewage-treatment plant and truck traffic from some of the busiest wholesale produce, meat and fish markets in the world. It is also home to some of the highest asthma hospitalization rates for children in the city. The NYU study found that the students were exposed to high levels of air pollutants in their neighborhoods and that children in the South Bronx were twice as likely to attend a school near a highway as were children in other parts of the city.1\nIn this situation, let\u2019s assume that the expressways and plants are socially necessary and that their wastes cannot be diverted away from the New York City population. Under these conditions, the wastes mentioned in the article should be distributed among the five boroughs rather than being concentrated almost exclusively in the South Bronx.\nIt is of course impossible to apportion each unit of waste individually and to achieve perfect waste distribution, but a cruder approach could still be effective.\nPerhaps the sewage treatment plant could be located on Staten Island rather than in the Bronx, and the waste-transfer stations could be placed in Queens and Manhattan. More people would then suffer from the pollution, but the waste absorption capacity of New York\u2019s population would rise, and the aggregate health damage would decline.\nThe current maldistribution of wastes in New York, and in many other cities around the world, clearly reflects the political clout of the rich in diverting wastes away from themselves and toward the area\u2019s less affluent inhabitants.\nENL's concepts cannot prevent this clout from being exercised, but it can certainly help the poor in exposing the irrationality of waste maldistribution, thereby allowing them to more effectively express their anger and concern.\n1. \u201cA Study Links Trucks\u2019 Exhaust to Bronx Schoolchildren\u2019s Asthma\u201d, by Manny Fernandez, New York Times, October 29, 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 10718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://new.gpi.org/news-events/glass-recycling-coalition-grc-launched", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LS7JFIWEMJTDHJTW6AZU2VG5GPEF4DXS", "length": 592, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "new.gpi.org", "title": "Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC) Launched | Glass Packaging Institute", "raw_content": "Home > For Media > Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC) Launched\nGlass Recycling Coalition (GRC) Launched\nGPI is delighted to announce the formation of the Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC). The GRC is a dynamic group of organizations that will collaborate on efforts to make glass recycling work in the U.S., through identifying and sharing best practices, developing strategies to assist municipalities with glass recycling decisions, and establishing a network of glass recycling champions to increase the availability of recycled glass that can become new bottles and jars as well as fiberglass.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.cision.com/fabege/r/fabege-lett-16-500-sqm-to-swedbank-in-sundbyberg,c2343888", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:N4EZV2CXKMRJ3XY45CIBUOVOD4SRMBFO", "length": 3505, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "news.cision.com", "title": "Fabege lett 16,500 sqm to Swedbank in Sundbyberg - Fabege", "raw_content": "Fabege lett 16,500 sqm to Swedbank in Sundbyberg\nSwedbank is collocating large parts of its functions at Grand Central Sundbyberg. The green lease relates to approximately 16,500 sqm and extends for a period of ten years. The move is expected to take place by the end 2018. This lease means that the entire office section of the building is now fully let.\nGrand Central Sundbyberg is a new landmark in Sundbyberg city center. Its contemporary new design, featuring a new facade, expansive atriums, a roof terrace and open office layout, was the work of BAU Arkitekter. The building will also house an entrance to the commuter, underground and intercity railways, giving both employees and visitors very easy access to excellent communication options in all directions. Grand Central Sundbyberg will together with Swedbank's existing premises on Landsv\u00e4gen 40 be the bank's headquarters.\n- \u201cWe\u2019re delighted that we were able to offer Swedbank a solution that meets their needs perfectly,\u201d said Klaus Hansen Vikstr\u00f6m, Fabege\u2019s Vice President and Director of Business Development at Fabege. \u201cThe bank will have easy access to its second headquarter, excellent public transport links and the opportunity to fully customise a contemporary office building that already has a strong identity.\u201d\n- \u201cWe are looking forward to working with Swedbank for many years to come and welcoming the bank's employees to Grand Central Sundbyberg,\u201d commented Klaus Hansen Vikstr\u00f6m, Vice President and Director of Business Development at Fabege.\nGrand Central Sundbyberg will satisfy the requirements for the environmental classification system BREEAM-SE Very Good. This means that there will be bicycle parking areas and a changing room, charging points for electric cars in the building and a sedum roof to reduce the impact on the city\u2019s storm water system.\nThe property listing for Grand Central Sundbyberg is Orgeln 7.\nKlaus Hansen Vikstr\u00f6m, Vice President and Director of Business Development, +46 8 555 148 74, +46 70 239 34 81\n\u00c5sa Bergstr\u00f6m, Vice President and CFO, +46 (0)8-555 148 29, +46 (0)70-666 13 80\nFabege are a property company focusing on city district development and commercial properties. We develop attractive and sustainable districts with modern offices, housing and a broad range of services - together with strategic partners. Both our perspective and approach to ownership are long term and our passion is creating the right conditions for all those living, working and visiting our areas. We have a presence in a limited number of high-growth submarkets in the Stockholm region. Fabege\u2019s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, in the Large Cap segment. For more information, www.fabege.com\nFabege , letting , Sundbyberg\nWe are a property company focusing on city district development and commercial properties. We develop attractive and sustainable districts with modern offices, housing and a broad range of services - together with strategic partners. Both our perspective and approach to ownership are long term and our passion is creating the right conditions for all those living, working and visiting our areas. We have a presence in a limited number of high-growth submarkets in the Stockholm region. Fabege\u2019s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, in the Large Cap segment.\nWe are looking forward to working with Swedbank for many years to come and welcoming the bank's employees to Grand Central Sundbyberg.\nKlaus Hansen Vikstr\u00f6m, Vice President and Director of Business Development at Fabege", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.croydon.gov.uk/brand-new-olympic-legacy-school-celebrates-high-point/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UWLIJXRKVH4YVHADSAE7GCH6LVVBW5U6", "length": 2794, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "news.croydon.gov.uk", "title": "Brand new Olympic legacy school celebrates high point \u2013 Newsroom", "raw_content": "Brand new Olympic legacy school celebrates high point\nOne of London\u2019s newest secondary academies has held a traditional ceremony to bring good luck to the school when it opens in Croydon this September.\nOasis Academy Arena is part of the London Olympic Legacy and is the latest project in a huge school-building and expansion programme that has seen Croydon Council invest hundreds of millions of pounds to meet the growing demand from rising pupil numbers.\nBuilt in Albert Road, South Norwood adjacent to the Croydon Arena Athletics Track, it has adopted the Olympic motto \u2018higher, faster, stronger\u2019 in recognition of the site\u2019s sporting connections. The academy\u2019s aim is to forge strong links with sports organisations across the local area and will take in up to 180 new students each year, with pupils aged from 11 to 16.\nThe Mayor of Croydon joined staff and students as they marked the structural completion of their new school building with a \u2018topping out\u2019 ceremony, which is a custom going back thousands of years.\nHeld at the building\u2019s highest point, topping out involves the sprinkling of wine, oil, corn and salt. Each ingredient represents a different thing. The wine symbolises fertility and wisdom, the oil stands for liberty and prosperity, the corn ripens prosperity into abundance, and the salt signifies purity and hospitality.\nRepresentatives of Croydon Council, construction company Willmott Dixon and academy trust, Oasis Community Learning, also took part.\n\u201cThis is the first brand new secondary school we\u2019ve built in Croydon for some years and it will allow us to provide much-needed places for children moving up from the borough\u2019s primary schools. As a council we have invested heavily to successfully meet primary demand, but now it\u2019s important we turn our attention to ensuring there is adequate provision for our children as they get older.\u201d\nRichard Poulter, deputy managing director for Willmott Dixon in the southern home counties, says, \u201cWe are delighted to be celebrating reaching this stage and being able to share our topping out event with pupils who will be at the new school. When complete, the school will provide them with a great environment to learn and thrive and it\u2019s fantastic that they can celebrate the progress to date.\u201d\nRemarking on the day. Oasis Academy Arena principal Craig Griffiths, says: \u201cThis is a special day for all of us here at Oasis Academy Arena, and one that marks the beginning of the exciting journey of learning, growth and discovery ahead for our students.\u201d\n\u201cWe know how fortunate we are to have these brand new facilities and are grateful today for all of the people who have worked so hard to make it possible. We very much look forward to serving our local community with pride and care and commitment in the coming years.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 7455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.croydon.gov.uk/croydons-cultural-revival-moves-a-step-forward/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:35:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DE37JBLCW4BVU6E5MR7X46UNAW4GP76U", "length": 2950, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "news.croydon.gov.uk", "title": "Croydon\u2019s cultural revival moves a step forward \u2013 Newsroom", "raw_content": "Croydon\u2019s cultural revival moves a step forward\nCroydon-based consultancy Mott MacDonald and architects Rick Mather, renowned for working on some of the biggest theatres in the country, will oversee the design of the redevelopment of College Green, at the heart of which will be Fairfield Halls.\nMott MacDonald, of Sydenham Road, has been appointed as the lead consultant for the project, which promises to breathe new life into Croydon\u2019s cultural offer.\nRick Mather Architects will be a key player in the project team, and has a strong track record in renovating theatres. Rick Mather boasts an excellent CV having previously worked on projects for the Royal Festival Hall in central London and the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith.\nMott MacDonald was lead engineering consultant for the Sage Music Centre in Gateshead and for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. The consultancy also has a broad portfolio of international urban regeneration projects.\nThe project team\u2019s objective will be to deliver a planning application for the College Green area, which includes a full scale refurbishment of the famous Fairfield Halls.\nThis includes exciting new elements helping to reinvigorate the centre and ensure it is able to grow further and play its part at the heart of Croydon\u2019s cultural life.\nThe team begins work on the College Green project next month (April) with a view to submitting a planning application by autumn this year.\nThe regeneration of College Green is central to the revival of Croydon\u2019s cultural quarter, and has the potential to offer an innovative and inspiring area with a lively and sustainable mix of homes, offices, shops and restaurants.\nThe wider scheme will create a high quality public space and provide a through route to and from East Croydon station, quickly connecting visitors with Queens Gardens, the Clocktower, Surrey Street and Exchange Square.\nIt is planned to integrate the Fairfield Halls into the scheme, potentially including in the long-term a new entrance on the Ashcroft side of the building on to College Green.\nJo Negrini, Croydon Council\u2019s executive director of place, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have appointed Mott MacDonald who were selected because they offer a clear vision for the redevelopment of College Green.\n\u201cIt is fantastic that they are also a Croydon-based company, and bring with them the knowledge and expertise of Rick Mather Architects.\n\u201cThis represents an important step forward in the cultural regeneration and economic development of the town centre.\u201d\nPaul Bates, Mott MacDonald\u2019s divisional director, said: \u201cThis is a wonderful opportunity on so many levels.\n\u201cAs a locally based company, the regeneration of Croydon\u2019s cultural quarter is of huge significance to so many of us who live and work in the town.\n\u201cWe also look forward to helping reinstate the Fairfield Halls as one of the most prestigious venues in the country for entertainment and the performing arts.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-grad-student-etienne-demarly-mastering-fluid-flow-and-bubble-boil-0709", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ODIDHL5XLXZNOA3TPZSDNMJHP6RH7GT7", "length": 7128, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "news.mit.edu", "title": "Etienne Demarly: Mastering fluid flow and bubble boil | MIT News", "raw_content": "Etienne Demarly\u2019s efforts in generating physically realistic computer simulations may soon enable current generation reactors to operate more efficiently.\nEtienne Demarly practices Kyudo, an ancient form of archery that encourages a near-spiritual approach to marksmanship.\nEtienne Demarly: Mastering fluid flow and bubble boil\nThrough meticulous computations, nuclear science and engineering student Etienne Demarly simulates conditions inside a nuclear reactor. Watch Video\nLeda Zimmerman | Nuclear science and engineering\nIt seems apt that fifth-year doctoral student Etienne Demarly pursues the Japanese martial art of kyudo. This ancient form of archery, encouraging a near-spiritual form of marksmanship, demands endless iteration and years to master.\nOutside the kyudo dojo, Demarly is patiently zeroing in on another kind of target: a robust set of algorithms that will help simulate the turbulent conditions inside nuclear reactors.\n\u201cMy formulations translate the physics of different boiling phenomena into a useful model,\u201d says Demarly. \u201cI keep advancing the formulation, because we must have a model that works in all kinds of reactor conditions, including different power levels, flow rates, coolant temperatures, and pressures.\u201d\nDemarly\u2019s efforts in generating physically realistic computer simulations may soon enable current generation reactors to operate more efficiently. It is research that could also assist in the design of new and more powerful nuclear reactors. His research, under the supervision of Emilio Baglietto, the Norman C. Rasmussen Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is part of a larger, long-term initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, through the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Lightwater Reactors (CASL), for which Baglietto serves as thermal hydraulics focus-area lead.\nDemarly is helping attack a decades-old problem in nuclear energy. Nuclear reactors generate heat through atomic fission occurring in fuel assemblies that are surrounded by water or other fluids. As nuclear components heat up the liquid, bubbles form on the surface of these assemblies, producing steam. This transfer of heat through steam powers turbines that produce electricity. It is a process that proves manageable \u2014 up to a point.\n\u201cA boiling crisis can occur in nuclear reactors, which is difficult to predict in all possible conditions,\u201d explains Demarly. \u201cIt involves the point at which steam forms a blanket, like an insulator, that produces a big spike in the temperature of the heating surface, threatening to melt the fuel.\u201d\nTo avoid such a crisis, nuclear reactor operators adopt very broad safety margins, running plants at lower power levels, and as a result, generating less energy. \u201cUtilities and nuclear companies would like to bring that uncertainty bound down,\u201d says Demarly. \u201cOur research goal is to develop models that capture and predict the very chaotic and complex physics leading to a boiling crisis, so we can reduce uncertainty for operators.\u201d\nTwo major advances are boosting efforts to achieve this goal. First, recent experiments at MIT and elsewhere provide visual proof that when a boiling crisis begins, tiny dry spots forming under bubbles on the surface of fuel assemblies can expand and cover a large surface. These dry areas pose a direct threat to the fuel assemblies.\nThe second advance is in computation. \u201cIn the 1960s and 1970s, modeling of reactors involved the simplification of the complex geometries of fuel assemblies, and therefore the use of large safety margins\u201d says Demarly. \u201cBut now we have computers powerful enough to produce simulations to characterize this complexity.\u201d\nUsing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) \u2014 a software domain in which Baglietto and his team specialize \u2014 Demarly says scientists can \u201cswiftly resolve the complex geometries inside nuclear reactor systems, coding the full distribution of fluid flow everywhere, from the generation of steam to the production of dry spots.\u201d\nWriting, running and tweaking programs comes naturally to Demarly. He grew up in a Paris suburb, where, he says, \u201cmy big passion was building and maintaining computers, and playing computer games.\u201d In middle school, he set up library computers, and pursued a mathematics, engineering and physics track, which landed him at one of France\u2019s elite science and engineering universities, the \u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9, or Sup\u00e9lec.\nDemarly\u2019s professional interest in nuclear energy emerged quickly during college. He enrolled in the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucleaires for his master\u2019s degree. There he secured a nine-month internship at MIT. \u201cI had never been to the U.S. before, and the novelty appealed to me,\u201d he says. It was an experience that proved life-altering.\n\u201cI met with Emilio Baglietto, who had recently joined the faculty and was setting up his group,\u201d recalls Demarly. \u201cHe had just received delivery of a computer cluster, so I immediately got to work physically assembling machines.\u201d\nDemarly was not adept just at hardware. He quickly picked up Baglietto\u2019s computational methods, which he applied in research aimed at improving the design and performance of steam generators. \u201cThese are big pieces of equipment with thousands of tubes arranged in a complicated geometry,\u201d he says. \u201cNobody had tackled simulation of steam generators before at this level.\u201d\nWith his rapidly expanding grasp of computational fluid dynamics, and a keen interest in solving key problems in the nuclear energy industry, Demarly returned to MIT and the Baglietto group for his doctorate. Today he is refining a novel set of software codes with the potential to simulate a wide range of conditions (heat flux, mass flow, pressure, temperature) that affect the behaviors of steam and bubbles inside a reactor.\n\u201cI\u2019ve got a good framework now that enables me to quickly test new ideas, and eventually it will be able to model and predict most cases correctly,\u201d he says. It is work that industries are already eager to adopt and apply to operating reactors, notes Demarly. It could also save companies millions of R&D dollars that are now spent prototyping next generation reactor components based on less predictive simulations.\nWith his innovative algorithms in hand, Demarly hopes to work in the nuclear industry after receiving his doctorate. But there are other opportunities as well. \u201cThermal hydraulics is increasingly important for big computing companies like IBM and Google that hope to reduce and improve the cooling performance of their cluster systems,\u201d he says. With his expertise in fluid dynamics and computing, the tech world beckons.\nFor now, Demarly is focused on perfecting his simulations. \u201cThere have been roadblocks every step of the way, and it\u2019s a long process,\u201d he says \u201cBut I like making something from scratch, something real and useful,\u201d he says.\nTopics: Computer modeling, Fluid dynamics, Graduate, postdoctoral, Nuclear power and reactors, Nuclear science and engineering, Profile, School of Engineering\nBaglietto Research Group\nEmilio Baglietto: Better reactors grow from better simulations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 13976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=economy/war-threatens-world-economy.txt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KJOJSRAQN65HFFZRYJ2TTUQMIH37G56C", "length": 5391, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "newsmine.org", "title": "NewsMine.org - War threatens world economy", "raw_content": "http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27CND-IMF.html\nWar Threatens Economic Recovery, I.M.F. Says\nFinancial uncertainties related to the Iraqi war threaten to stymie a nascent global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund said in a semiannual report released today.\nHorst Koehler, the I.M.F.'s managing director, also told the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche in an interview published today that \"a global economic recession cannot be ruled out\" if the Iraqi war proves to be a prolonged engagement.\nThe I.M.F., a Washington-based agency that advises its 194 member countries on monetary policy and is a lender of last resort for developing economies, noted in its report that international financial markets were less risky than they were about six months ago. But it tempered this view with a warning.\n\"Normally, this would suggest the potential for a rebound in the economy and financial markets once investor sentiment turns,\" the report said. \"However, this potential is currently overshadowed by the intensified uncertainty about the prospect of war in Iraq and its repercussions on growth and stability.\"\nSpecifically, the I.M.F. cautioned that the Iraqi war might lead to higher oil prices, anemic economic growth and depressed investor and consumer confidence, all combining to \"reinforce the headwind against global economic recovery.\"\nSome businesses say they have already begun to feel the impact of the Iraqi war and weaker consumer confidence.\n\"We are seeing reticence on the part of customers,\" Peter Hartz, a member of Volkswagen's board of management, said today in a written statement. \"We're going to be facing some difficult times.\"\nGlobal financial markets have seesawed in the last week, rising at first on initial expectations that the American-led invasion of Iraq would lead to a quick victory and diminish uncertainty about oil supplies. Then, as coalition forces became bogged down in sandstorms and met resistance from Iraqi soldiers, stock markets in the United States and Europe sank on the growing belief that the war would last much longer than initially anticipated.\nOn Wall Street today, stocks were little changed in afternoon trading; the Dow Jones industrial average was down 5.68 points, or 0.07 percent, at 8,224.20.\nOverseas, Britain's FTSE closed down 64 points, or 1.7 percent, to 3,729.10; Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 174.77 points, or 1.93 percent, to 8,872.32; and Germany's DAX rose 4.72 points, or 0.18 percent, to 2,584.05.\n\"While markets may have priced in a short and decisive war, any departure from this scenario could weaken confidence further,\" the I.M.F. said in its Global Financial Stability Report. \"Moreover, markets may have not yet focused on the possibility that uncertainty could persist for some time.\n\"Uncertainty could also persist despite a short and decisive military conflict owing to the potential for continued geopolitical instability and tangible threats of terrorism,\" the report added.\nPrior to the Iraqi war, the United States economy was already showing signs of slowing from levels reached last fall. The Commerce Department said today that real gross domestic product \ufffd the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States \ufffd rose at a revised annual rate of 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002. Real G.D.P. in the United States rose by 4 percent in the third quarter.\nThe I.M.F. said that a weakened dollar, which has fallen in value by about 20 percent against the euro over the last year, poses a threat if it falls precipitously in coming months. A weak dollar makes United States exports less expensive, threatening export-driven economies elsewhere in the world that rely on selling competing products.\nEurope's insurance industry, as well as German and Japanese banks, received special attention in the I.M.F. report. The agency said all three sectors needed to address fundamental weaknesses in their structures. Europe's insurers need to be more effectively regulated and policed for risk management practices, Japanese banks need to address a lingering bad debt problem, and German banks need to consolidate, the report advised.\nIn emerging markets, countries like Brazil and Turkey face difficulty accessing funds in a weakened global economy, the I.M.F. noted, raising the specter of inflation and large debt defaults.\nAt the consumer level, the I.M.F. said that defined-benefit pensions in the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Japan were \"experiencing sizable funding gaps\" because of corporations' overdependence on asset gains tied to the once-booming stock market of the 1990's. 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Norman Sanderson (R-Carteret) and Bill Cook (R-Beaufort) described Senate Bill 410 as an economic development driver that is also good for the environment.\u201dWith our acres of pristine waters and a large and growing interest in cultivated oysters, the potential for the industry in the state is huge,\u201d said Sanderson and Cook in a press release. \u201cOur goal is for North Carolina to become the \u2018Napa Valley\u2019 of oysters. A single adult oyster can filter and clean up to 50 gallons of water a day \u0097 thus our waters will be cleaner and our economy will grow.\u201dNorth Carolina\u2019s estuaries are well-known for being some of the most productive in the world. We have the second largest estuary system in the United States and the largest contained in one state. Amending this federal rule has tremendous potential to create new jobs with the shellfish and aquaculture industry.\u201dThe federal rule in question aims to protect submerged aquatic vegetation, but the bill sponsors contend it is too restrictive.\u201dThis policy is more stringent than policies used in other coastal states, including the Commonwealth of Virginia,\u201d said the senators in a statement. \u201cShellfish lease applications in North Carolina have been routinely denied by the Division of Marine Fisheries due to the presence of any submerged aquatic vegetation. Virginia falls under the Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and in that state, after the individual lease holder has a preconstruction notification, their lease can have a certain amount of submerged aquatic vegetation under certain conditions.\u201dAccording to data compiled by the Fiscal Research Division of the General Assembly, as of September 2015, there were 292 shellfish leases in North Carolina, covering 1,931 acres. Out of those leases, 256 are bottom leases covering 1,820 acres, and 36 have water column leases covering 111 acres.In comparison, Virginia has 5,400 leases covering 122,000 acres. Sanderson and Cook contend that this expanding program is credited with Virginia\u2019s rapid increase in oyster landings.\u201dGrowing shellfish is good for our coastal economy and environment, and the proposed changes will help more people go into that business,\u201d Todd Miller, executive director of the North Carolina Coastal Federation, said in support of the joint resolution.Harvesting resources from the sea and coastal estuaries has been a staple of Eastern North Carolina\u2019s economy and heritage since colonial times \u0097 from a small whaling industry spearheaded by residents of \u201cDiamond City\u201d on Shackleford Banks in the 1800s, to the \u201cWorld Famous\u201d oysters of Carteret County\u2019s Calico Creek, to the commercial and recreational fishing industries that still define many coastal North Carolina communities today.Oysters have been a key part of North Carolina\u2019s aqua-economy for more than 100 years. So much so, in fact, that North Carolina declared \u201cwar\u201d in 1891 on fisherman from Maryland and Virginia that came south to exploit the Old North State\u2019s rich oyster beds.The out-of-state fisherman from the Chesapeake Bay area had been forced out by the governor of Maryland in 1888 as dredges came dangerously close to depleting the area\u2019s oyster beds with indiscriminate harvesting practices. As a result, those fisherman headed south that same year, and according to the Encyclopedia of North Carolina, more than half a dozen \u201cpirate\u201d vessels from Virginia were reported in Hyde County.In 1890, fisherman from Carteret, Pamlico and Hyde counties tried running the pirates off, but to no avail. By January 1891, more than 150 Maryland dredgers and well-armed Virginia pirates had taken control of all oyster beds in Dare and Hyde counties. Then-governor of North Carolina Daniel Fowle ushered legislation through the General Assembly to prevent North Carolina oysters from being shipped to markets out of state. To enforce the measure, the governor dispatched boats manned by the National Guard to patrol North Carolina waters and drive off or arrest the oyster pirates. The show of force worked and North Carolina fisherman soon regained access to the state\u2019s oyster beds.These days many coastal resource businesses are turning to aquaculture to augment production and mitigate overfishing. According to the N.C. 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Ford Motor Co is recalling about 37,000 of the current-generation F-150s because the adaptive cruise control can be fooled by other trucks on the road and 342,000 Windstar minivans for possible cracking in the rear axle.\nYes, BioShock was removed from the iOS store, but it's coming back\nAt this summer's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple said it would have pity on memory-challenged iDevices - such as a 16GB iPhone 6s - once iOS 9 was let loose onto the world . \"No action is needed by you at this time\", it told developers. Apple's OS beta testing app has supported the new feature for a number of weeks now.\nSkygazers Across the World Catch Super Blood Moons\nThere have been just five such events since 1900 (in 1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982). On its elliptical path around the Earth , moon sometimes comes closest to the earth, the portion being called perigee . 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The spectacle began to unfold from 1:10am, with the \"total\" phase - when the moon is completely in shadow - lasting from 3:11am to 4:24am.\nSamsung Galaxy S7 & LG G5 Get odd New Rumors\nHowever, in the case of the recently released Galaxy Note 5 , Samsung did make an exception by launching the flagship phablet a couple of months earlier in order to gain a first mover advantage over Apple's upcoming iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus in September .\nRare Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Is Coming This Weekend\nLunar eclipses occur when the Moon, Earth and Sun line up in roughly a straight line, but the Earth is in between the Moon and Sun; therefore, the Moon is in the Earth's shadow . Put another way, as Plait adds, \"If you were standing on the Moon, it's like you're seeing every sunrise and sunset on Earth all at once\", or put even another way, it's like projecting all the crap in our atmosphere on the surface of the moon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9061", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2E23EMYDYO7JQKLSWSLCKH2MMXPTXFGC", "length": 2969, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "oaktrust.library.tamu.edu", "title": "Community-Oriented Models and Applications for the Social Web", "raw_content": "Community-Oriented Models and Applications for the Social Web\nKASHOOB-DISSERTATION.pdf (2.103Mb)\nKashoob, Said Masoud Ali\nThe past few years have seen the rapid rise of all things \"social\" on the web from the growth of online social networks like Facebook, to user-contributed content sites like Flickr and YouTube, to social bookmarking services like Delicious, among many others. Whereas traditional approaches to organizing and accessing the web\u2019s massive amount of information have focused on content-based and link-based approaches, these social systems offer rich opportunities for user-based and community-based exploration and analysis of the web by building on the unprecedented access to the interests and perspectives of millions of users. We focus here on the challenge of modeling and mining social bookmarking systems, in which resources are enriched by large-scale socially generated metadata (\u201ctags\u201d) and contextualized by the user communities that are associated with the resources. Our hypothesis is that an underlying social collective intelligence is embedded in the uncoordinated actions of users on social bookmarking services, and that this social collective intelligence can be leveraged for enhanced web-based information discovery and knowledge sharing. Concretely, we posit the existence of underlying implicit communities in these social bookmarking systems that drive the social bookmarking process which can provide a foundation for community-based organization of web resources. To that end, we make three contributions: \u2022 First, we propose a pair of novel probabilistic generative models for describing and modeling community-oriented social bookmarking. We show how these models enable effective extraction of meaningful communities over large real world social bookmarking services. \u2022 Second, we develop two frameworks for community-based web information browsing and search that are based on these community-oriented social bookmarking models. We show how both achieve improved discovery and exploration of the social web. \u2022 Third, we introduce a community evolution framework for studying and analyzing social bookmarking communities over time. We explore the temporal dimension of social bookmarking and explore the dynamics of community formation, evolution, and dissolution. By uncovering implicit communities, putting them to use in an application scenario (search and browsing), and analyzing them over time, this dissertation provides a foundation for the study of how social knowledge networks are self-organized, a deeper understanding and appreciation of the factors impacting collective intelligence, and the creation of new information access algorithms for leveraging these communities.\nKashoob, Said Masoud Ali (2011). Community-Oriented Models and Applications for the Social Web. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. 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Both are heavily vested in coal and neither was thrilled when Ohio legislators agreed in 2008 to require gradual investments in renewable energy. FirstEnergy, in fact, balked by not complying the first year, then was taken aback when Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine held its feet to the fire and made it known it shouldn\u2019t assume it would get more slack.\nThe maddening thing has been Kasich\u2019s justification of the freeze, which didn\u2019t exactly promote him as a forward thinker. 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You are invited to join in the Fast 4 Families every Wednesday as a sacrifice and solidarity for immigration reform.\nTake the pledge here: Fast every Wednesday during the season of Lent as an act of witness to the fierce moral urgency of protecting immigrant families that are torn apart every day.\nOblates Visit Fast4Families on the National Mall November 26th, 2013\nFr. Antonio with one of the staff at Fast4Families on the National Mall\nAs a way to raise public awareness and pressure Members of Congress to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation, Fast4Families has a group of ten people fasting in a tent on the National Mall, just a few yards away from the Capitol. Besides fasting, this group of people is also holding meetings with political leaders and community organizers, and organizing activities to encourage more people to press for immigration reform. \u201cWe hunger for an end to the system that brings so much suffering and pain to so many. We are fasting not out of anger or despair, but out of hope\u201d, said Eliseo Medina, one of the ten people who are fasting. On Wednesday, November 20, Fr. Antonio Ponce, OMI and JPIC staff were able to drop by to show support to those who are fasting, and help the staff with some translation.\nLearn more about Fast4Families..\nLaunch of Fast4Families: A Call for Immigration Reform and Citizenship November 12th, 2013\nOn Tuesday, November 12, faith, labor leaders and immigrant right organization launched Fast4Families to put pressure on the leadership in the House of Representatives to bring to the floor for a vote on bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill this year.\nIn Washington, DC the fast will run from November 12 to December 12 at the \u201cfasting tent\u201d on the National Mall. 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Let us know what day (November 12 to December 12) you will be fasting for comprehensive immigration reform.\nMore information on fast prayer samples, declaration and Fast4Families events within your state visit: http://fast4families.org/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onetorahforall.org/Studies2018/LightAndDarkness.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:SM7MU3DZXZ7M6QZAOFKKPMPOYIWXHA54", "length": 3353, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "onetorahforall.org", "title": "Light and Darkness", "raw_content": "Understanding their nature\nAnd Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.\nNatural light and darkness\nThe natural light and darkness are the easy ones to grasp. It is something that every single person grows up knowing. The light of the sun gives us daytime and when it sets, and then we have darkness or night. Basically, this type of darkness is simply the absence of light.\nWe will not spend much time on this as it is quite elementary.\nExperiential light and darkness\nIn this context, light and darkness applies to what one has experienced (has light on) or not experienced (is in the dark). There is some experiential light which is desired and some which is not desired. There is some experiential darkness which is also desired, while some is not desired.\nFor example, helping the homeless is a good and right experiential light. Being in the dark of this experience is not desirable.\nOn the other hand, being raped is not desirable and not an experiential light that one should have. It is better to be in the dark about these types of evil than to have light.\nThus, having light on doing good is the light one should desire, while having light on doing sinful acts one would be better to be in the darkness.\nAgain therefore Yeshua spoke unto them, saying, \u201cI am the light of the world; he that follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.\u201d\nSpiritual light equals truth. Yeshua said that He is the truth. Those who follow Him walk in the light (truth).\nHowever, those who do not walk in the light (truth) walk in darkness.\n\u201cI have come as light into the world, that whosoever believes on Me may not abide in the darkness.\u201d\nOur Creator and heavenly Father does not desire anyone to walk in this type of darkness. But it is up to the individual to choose to walk in the light of truth.\nThere is a light and a darkness that is quite different that those already mentioned above. Both are spoken of in Scripture which we shall see below. In essence, not all light is good and not all darkness is bad.\nFirst, a type of darkness that is a neither natural nor a lie, but rather a blessing.\nAnd it came to pass, when you heard the Voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;\nWhen YHWH came down upon the mountain, He covered in a darkness that no natural or spiritual light could penetrate. This is a created darkness for the express purpose of concealing His light from fallen mankind. Otherwise, we should perish.\nHe made darkness his hiding-place,\nHis pavilion round about Him,\nMalakim Aleph 1 Kings 8:12\nThen spoke Solomon, \u201cYHWH has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.\u201d\nThe darkness mentioned in the above passages is not natural, neither is it evil.\nAnd no marvel; for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light.\nLikewise, not all light is good and righteous.\nThis is one of the reasons why we are admonished to test the spirits.\nBeloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of Elohim; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.\nHow is your discernment concerning light and darkness?\nAre you paying attention to what the Spirit has said?\nCan you hear His Voice?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://online-dvd.hd.muviie.net/movie/335777/the-nut-job-2-nutty-by-nature.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:09:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YJVTQANVK2U6MH62AQDRRWCUVF7F5B26", "length": 576, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "online-dvd.hd.muviie.net", "title": "Watch The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Movie & TV Shows Putlocker", "raw_content": "Please Click Button Here to Watch The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature Full Movie Streaming\n: The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature\n: Jackie Chan, Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph, Isabela Moner, Bobby Moynihan\n: When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.\nTrailer The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature\nPlease Sign Up To Watch The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature Full Movie Streaming", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 14981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlygold.com/Gold-Articles-Detail.asp?ArticleNum=32", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CS3XZBYTTCCD3JMKC4A3ZGURXFJC5IHB", "length": 20336, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "onlygold.com", "title": "Gold Article Full Story", "raw_content": "\"THE U.S. DOLLAR: OVER OWNED AND OVER VALUED,\" BUT IS A BEAR MARKET IN THE DOLLAR JUST AROUND THE CORNER?\n(October 2, 2000) John Hathaway of Tocqueville Asset Management manages institutional client portfolios, and in July of 1998, John was named portfolio manager of the Tocqueville Gold Fund, the first new gold fund startup in the last four years. John feels that gold, like Rodney Dangerfield, \"gets no respect.\" With his kind permission we bring you his gold vs. the dollar 'brainstorm.'\nTHE U.S. DOLLARS: OVER OWNED AND OVER VALUED By John Hathaway\n\"A speech delivered at the 2000 Mining Investment Forum. A bear market in the dollar seems around the corner. This should stimulate investment demand for gold.\"\nI invest in gold shares for a living. I manage a gold sector mutual fund. Despite this, I do not long for a return to the gold standard or wish to prescribe any particular solution for this or that economic ill. I am not as captivated as some by geological speculations. The finer points of mine engineering or nifty metallurgical nuances disinterest me unless they pertain directly to value creation in our portfolios. The painstaking bean counting necessary to construct supply and demand models for the gold market does not dazzle me. The promotion of gold as jewelry and the liberalization of Asian retail markets are constructive, I suppose, but in the final analysis do little to form a rationale for investing in the sector. Finally, I am not caught up in conspiracy theories. None of the foregoing considerations, it seems to me, add up to a money making proposition.\nWhy then, you must be asking, would I be doing this? I see gold as a way to reap a tidy profit on impending changes in the financial landscape. It is a speculation against financial assets, against the preeminence of the US Dollar, and against the financial market speculation that has raised dollar to its untenable, almighty stature.\nI am only interested because of the possibility that gold might, within a reasonable time frame, i.e., in my lifetime, trade at $500 or even $5000/ounce. A breakout, to say $325, which we would all enjoy, would be hardly worth the expenditure, the investment, or the time it has taken for such a paltry result. Gold is a potentially huge score. What keeps me interested in this wasteland barren of investment returns are the positive macro economic trends for gold. There are encouraging signs that the high water mark has passed for the dollar, financial assets, and the credit boom that has fueled the bull market in paper and the bear market in gold.\nHEDGING, DERIVATES, THE SHORT INTEREST, AND CONSPIRACY\nFor the most part, these considerations are ancillary to the main thrust of my investment reasoning. However, it is worth spending a minute or two to the extent that they can shed light on the structure of the gold market. At best, these factors will lead to periodic short covering rallies. By themselves, their existence will not attract speculative capital to this arena.\nThe existence of a large and vulnerable target in the form of an outsized short interest will help propel the gold price once the dollar is under attack. Conspiracy, in my opinion, is too strong a word for what is going on in the gold market. However, it should surprise no one that some form of manipulation is taking place. Governments routinely intervene in the currency markets. Gold is a form of currency. As stated by Professor Robert Mundell, Nobel Price Winner, \u201cgold is subject to a lot of elements of instability, not the least of which is the attempt on the part of several big governments to make it unstable.\u201d Mundell made these comments at the World Gold Council\u2019s 1999 Fall Symposium in Paris, at which he was the honored guest.\nSince World War II, various governments, and especially the United States, have steadily moved in the direction of marginalizing gold as a reserve asset. At different points in time, these efforts have been coordinated among several governments, although the motivations among the various participants have not always been consonant. The first notable example of such activity was the London Gold Pool, a joint effort by the United States and several European governments to depress the free market price of gold to disguise the growing weakness of the US dollar. This effort lasted over a decade, from the mid 1950\u2019s to 1968. At no time during the pool\u2019s operations was there any advance official acknowledgement that such operations were being conducted. Market players were kept in the dark. However, speculators were able to infer the pool\u2019s existence from the price behavior of gold, figures on US gold reserve assets, and the balance of payments. As a result of the pool\u2019s activities, substantial economic interests arose which would win or lose depending on its success in depressing the gold price. As time passed, the incentives of all participants to keep the free market price of gold at $35/oz diverged, most notably France. Once national economic interests diverged, increasing flows of speculative capital mobilized and ultimately defeated the government scheme. Fortunes were made at the expense of taxpayers, especially US taxpayers.\nSince the early days of the Clinton administration, the tradition of manipulating the free market gold price has been honored. As with the gold pool, the actual origins are probably obscure. While far more complex, current Anglo-American led efforts to depress the price have one very important similarity to the gold pool. The financial stakes of public and private market participants are huge. These interests extend well beyond the immediate gold market.\nThere is no better illustration than the panic in government and private circles that was touched off by the Washington Agreement. Central bank officials appeared to be clueless as to the structure of the gold market, especially as to the size and location of the short position that had been required to keep the gold price locked in a downtrend. They were horrified by the volatility of the gold price in the following days, and of the potential damage to bullion dealers, many of whom were also major international banks (see \u201cJP Morgan To The Rescue?\u201d for more detail). The crisis galvanized the central banking community into quick action to provide liquidity for the gold market, which was about to vaporize. The provision of liquidity in the moment of crisis emboldened dealers to expand positions. As noted by Reginald Howe (The Golden Sextant), the mysterious Exchange Stabilization Fund, managed by the US Treasury, lost $1.6 billion during the 4th calendar quarter, more than it earned in all of 1999. After this near death experience, it is likely the official sector\u2019s resolve to keep gold in the deep freeze was reinforced. The continuing expansion of dealer derivative positions despite declining producer hedging, and especially the lengthening of maturities reported in the BIS and OCC numbers, suggest renewed conviction among dealers that divine assistance will never be too far away in time or price.\nAt the same time, the Washington Agreement marks a watershed for the gold market. Even though central bankers worked together to end the crisis, the interests of the Europeans and the Anglo/American camps with respect to gold may have started to diverge. This is despite the fact that Europeans bankers continue to be persuaded by bullion dealers into \u201cactive\u201d management of their gold reserves, (i.e., leasing and dispositions to invest in interest bearing securities including, Euro denominated.) It is also despite the fact the US and Britain were signatories to the agreement, an act they may have found distasteful. The Agreement marks the first step towards the reinstatement of gold as a monetary reserve asset. If the Euro continues to have problems, the Europeans will figure out that there is little advantage to trashing their largest reserve asset other than dollars. Professor Mundell has suggested that the European Central Banks issue gold coins as part of this current intervention: \u201cThe production of a gold currency would heighten general interest in the euro and at the same time put the EU\u2019s excess gold reserves to good use.\u201d\nAt the end of the day, these structural considerations are interesting for two reasons. First, they are necessary to understand what has already transpired in the gold market. More important, they shed light on the massive misallocation of investment capital. The continued existence of a large short interest, which is impossible to cover other than from longer term deliveries from new mine production or official sector sales, increases the potential upside move in gold.\nTHE CLINTON DOLLAR\nThe case for renewed investment interest in gold centers on the proposition that the US dollar is at or near its peak. Should this be the case, investment flows will seek out alternatives, including gold. The dollar is the unrivaled instrument of international credit and capital flows. It is the foundation for most commercial and financial market transactions. The perception that the dollar is a store of value as well as a medium of exchange explains the willingness of governments, businesses and individuals worldwide to hold dollar instruments to the near exclusion of alternatives. However, it was not always so.\nDuring the early 1960\u2019s, 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s, the US dollar was suspect. In the 1960\u2019s, the most obvious flaw was a deteriorating balance of payments position. Other indicators such as inflation, interest rates, and equity markets were favorable or benign. The geopolitical situation, however, was dicey. It was not entirely clear that capitalism and the US would ultimately prevail over the competing forces of communism and the Soviet bloc. The gold pool attempted to disguise the dollar\u2019s chronic weakness by depressing the free market price of gold.\nIn complete contrast, the Clinton/Rubin/Summers dollar is beyond reproach and is almost universally admired. At the recent Financial Times gold conference in June, central bankers openly worried about the future of gold, but never voiced concern as to their potentially imprudent concentration in US dollars. The possibility that US budget surpluses would shrink the supply of government debt was openly mourned, despite the fact that OMB projections show no such shrinkage. These projections, found on the OMB web site, show government debt increasing in every year through 2012, as far out as the projections go. Still, the rage among these seemingly ill informed central bankers is a pronounced preference for interest earning paper assets to stagnant bars of bullion. And the preferred paper asset by far is the US Dollar, which represents 77.7% of world central bank reserves, according to the latest BIS annual report. The percentage is certainly disproportionate to the US share of world trade and economic activity.\nThe US trade deficit will reach 4.3% of GDP this year, as noted in a paper (Perspectives on OECD Economic Integration: Implications for US Current Account Adjustment) presented to world central bankers at the annual Jackson Hole symposium by Professors Obstfeld and Rogoff. More important is the percentage of US financial assets held abroad, $1.9 trillion or nearly 20% on a net basis of GDP, the highest since the 1800\u2019s. They argue that only a small percentage of GDP is \u201ctradable\u201d, the remainder being explained by non-tradable components of GDP such as rent, transportation, labor etc. The percentage of GDP that is internationally traded, or readily redeemable for dollars held abroad, may only be 20% to 25% of the total, suggesting a higher rate of borrowing and a lower degree of national solvency than is generally perceived. According to the professors, \u201ca critical issue in determining sustainability is not simply the rate of borrowing, but accumulated debt.\u201d They assess the risks of a dollar crash as significant. While not predicting such an outcome, the study suggests that a sudden depreciation of 24%-40% could occur if foreigners moved quickly to exchange their dollars.\nThe disproportionate ownership of the dollar is widespread throughout numerous asset classes. According to Bridgewater Daily Observations, gross foreign ownership of US assets now measures over $6.4 trillion (66% of GDP). Foreigners own a record 38% of the US treasury market, and 44% excluding Federal Reserve holdings. They own a record 20% of the US corporate bond market and 8% of the US equity market. What would a change of sentiment on the dollar do to US asset prices?\nKeep in mind that the dollar\u2019s strength is only relative to the Euro and the Yen, two seemingly unappealing alternatives. Neither has been regarded as a serious rival, with their shortcomings widely publicized. The integration of world financial markets has eliminated many of the traditional safe havens such as the d-mark or the Swiss franc. World capital flows dwarf even the more liquid currencies. It seems as if it has come down to the dollar or nothing at all. Nothing at all, except for gold, which stands to become the protest vote on the monetary ballot, the equivalent of \u201cnone of the above.\u201d\nThe epic strength of the dollar is no longer something to celebrate. The weakness of the Euro in particular has created sufficient discomfort to trigger a round of concerted multinational intervention. The interdependence of world economies and financial markets means that the dollar cannot be isolated or insulated. Whenever the foreign exchange markets force the hand of central bankers, there is reason for us to cheer. Interventions rarely work in the long term. Perhaps the Euro will be viable, but there is no precedent for a successful multinational currency. It was the prospect of the Euro in large part that led European central bankers to view their reserve assets, especially gold, as redundant.\nIt is possible that the Euro will turn out to be a fiasco, notwithstanding the current rescue effort. Even though the economic fundamentals of Europe are improving, that does not assure success for this experimental, peculiar currency. The ECB is issuing Euros at growth rate of 10% on a 12 month basis and nearly 20% in recent months. Banana republic growth rates may help explain the market\u2019s aversion. An eventual abandonment of the Euro would be bullish for gold and possibly bearish for the dollar, but the demise of the Euro is not the only potential source of renewed investment interest for the metal. Time and space will not permit me than to do more than merely mention some others:\n-banking derivatives. The potential miscalculations in the gold market are minuscule compared to the bets that have been placed on the foreign exchange and interest rate markets. According to the BIS, total derivatives on interest rates and currencies measure in the hundreds of trillions.\n-under investment in the commodity sector will lead to shortages and spiraling prices in certain commodities. What is happening in oil is a template for nearly all other basic resources. A softening economy, favored by the bond vigilantes, will only starve the resource sector of the necessary capital investment to meet growing demand. The rise in commodity prices over the past year is not a fluke.\n-excessive investment in the high tech and telecommunications sectors will lead to banking and bad loan problems reminiscent of tanker loans, S&L defaults, real estate, and other similar misadventures.\n-the doctrine of just in time inventory management has resulted in a run down of critical stocks of basic materials. Supply shocks will evoke consumer responses similar to that recently witnessed in Europe during the protests over high energy prices. If the markets lose their confidence in deliverability, there could be a secular swing towards restocking and hoarding.\n-the over concentration in US financial assets. Recent acquisitions of behemoth financial institutions by their foreign counterparts are another sign of a market peak for financial assets.\n-a recession would undoubtedly trigger renewed monetary ease, including lower interest rates and more rapid money growth.\n-US equity prices seem to have peaked out, with no new highs in the DJII, S&P, and NASDAQ Composite since the first quarter of this year. Most stocks peaked out a year or more before the averages.\n-a bear market or a recession would depress tax revenues and undermine the outlook for a budget surplus.\nThe dollar is potentially vulnerable on these and many other fronts. It is vulnerable, because like an overvalued growth stock, it is priced for perfection. It is vulnerable, because like an overvalued growth stock, it is over owned. The inflation news cannot remain rosy forever. The BLS reports on the CPI and PPI are already viewed with suspicion. The concept of a core inflation rate has become laughable. The idea that inflationary threats can be stifled by high interest rates, restrictive money growth, and tight fiscal policies seems questionable against today\u2019s political and even geopolitical realities. The productivity myth rests on the dubious foundation of hedonic pricing methods, a methodology applied to the BLS price indices at the beginning of the Clinton administration. Even the Deutsche Bundesbank and OECD have recently challenged the validity of this centerpiece of financial market lore. Using this methodology, the BLS has inflated spending of $28 billion by business on computer hardware, or 3% of nominal GDP growth, to $127 billion or 20% (Richebacher Letter-Sept.2000) The impact of these adjustments is a substantial overstatement of productivity figures and an understatement of consumer price inflation.\nThe policies and practices of the Clinton Administration\u2019s Treasury department have established the dollar as the premier currency. This exceptional high standing is essential to the low inflation rate enjoyed in the US but not in the rest of the world. A weaker dollar would hinder the access of the American consumer to cheap foreign items and therefore lead to higher inflation.\nThe dollar is high because of a successful and widespread campaign across a number of fronts and the confluence of external events that included:\n-implementation of hedonic pricing methodology to BLS statistics.\n-widespread financial market reforms that encouraged banking industry consolidation and the emergence of financial institutions of unprecedented scale.\n-removal of trade barriers\n-curtailment of longer term treasury debt maturities\n-endless spin on a strong dollar\n-making sure gold did not establish an uptrend.\n-the demise of the Soviet empire.\n-the strong fiscal position of the US\nThere were probably a number of other contributors to this strong dollar policy. These developments interacted with the markets in a way that reinforced the dollar\u2019s strength and undermined gold. However these measures and/or events, like the Clinton administration, will soon be history. The explanations are similar to those associated with great growth stocks at their peak valuations. They are easy to articulate in retrospect, and there is a tendency by market participants to extrapolate more of the same. However, we may have reached the limits of the desirability of a strong dollar based on the extreme position of our trade balance and foreign asset ownership. The Euro intervention is a tip off that there is sufficient disquiet in the public and private sector that a change is in the wind.\nThe real clues to the outlook for gold lie in the market for the US dollar. The Clinton administration\u2019s strong dollar campaign has enjoyed wild success, creating an insatiable appetite for the paper. This success is a principal reason for the dollar\u2019s present vulnerability. When will foreign holders of US assets begin to suffer from buyers\u2019 remorse and realize that the strong dollar has gone too far? The fundamentals supporting a change of opinion have been in place for some time and without a catalyst could continue. Identifying a particular catalyst is very tricky, but there seems little doubt that prospects for a change of direction are promising.\nJohn Hathaway \u00a9 Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. September 2000\nTocqueville Asset Management 1675 Broadway -16th floor New York, NY 10019 Telephone (212) 698-0800 Fax (212) 262-0154", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 22867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://opei.org/ethanol-producer-isobutanol-outperforms-ethanol-in-small-engine-test/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7NVK7GZWIS6MIQBKCYP5LXNWR47SLNYO", "length": 3422, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "opei.org", "title": "OPEI: Ethanol Producer: Isobutanol outperforms ethanol in small engine test", "raw_content": "Tests recently conducted by Briggs & Stratton Corp. to evaluate the effects of isobutanol on small engines suggest that it can be used in those engines without any of the problems associated with ethanol-blended fuel. Tests were conducted on three small engines using gasoline containing 12.5 percent isobutanol provided by Gevo Inc. The results showed no engine or performance issues, maintained horsepower and torque levels and an equivalent or better performance than E10 at temperatures ranging from 40 degrees to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. It was also noted that because isobutanol does not attract water like ethanol, it would have fewer issues as a result of long storage periods or seasonal use.\n\u201cThese positive results show that isobutanol is an excellent gasoline additive,\u201d Gevo CEO Pat Gruber said. \u201cIf isobutanol blends run well in small engines, they should run well in all engines without the need for flex-fuel retrofits, blender pumps or new infrastructure as our own, previous testing, has shown. Renewable isobutanol should therefore make it easier for the nation to gain energy independence and meet mandated biofuel targets.\u201d\nBriggs & Stratton President and CEO Todd Teske said his company is encouraged by the test results. \u201cWe are very interested in alternative fuels that do not cause damage to the substantial number of engines in use today while lessening the country\u2019s dependency on foreign oil,\u201d he stated.\nThe Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, which represents more than 80 small engine and equipment manufacturers, including Briggs & Stratton, also spoke out in favor of isobutanol after reviewing the test results. \u201cIt shows us that isobutanol could be a biofuel alternative that can be introduced into the existing supply chain without the potential disruption and harm to our outdoor power equipment engines,\u201d OPEI President and CEO Kris Kiser said. \u201cIn the economic interest of our members and the safety interest of consumers, we need to be open to a biofuel that can perform reliably in the millions of products on the market.\u201d\nOPEI is a plaintiff in federal lawsuits against the U.S. EPA regarding its partial approval of E15 use and has stated many times its desire for alternative fuel blends to be approved with advance notice so that engineers can design equipment able to use the fuel blends. Despite its positive review of isobutanol, Kiser cautioned however, that neither OPEI nor Briggs & Stratton are ready to endorse isobutanol as a replacement for ethanol yet. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to make a policy statement,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re saying that if a dialogue is to be engaged on Capitol Hill, this should be included.\u201d\nThe Briggs & Stratton test was initiated by Gevo. Jack Huttner, executive vice president of commercial and public affairs at Gevo, confirmed that the company is also currently supplying isobutanol for marine engine testing being conducted by marine group. Results of that test should become available by the end of November. Huttner said Gevo representatives have discussions with many companies that have an interest in alternative fuel performance, from pipeline companies to equipment manufacturers, and \u201cwhenever anyone has questions, we offer them to test it.\u201d\nOne of isobutanol\u2019s largest downfalls to this point has been its cost, but Huttner said Gevo expects to produce at a cost-competitive level as soon as its first commercial plant comes on-line in June.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://operationrainfall.com/2013/12/03/review-ys-memories-celceta/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4GQUAVTNCSGSGRZFYXAU2K2UGS45LIRB", "length": 8225, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "operationrainfall.com", "title": "REVIEW: Ys: Memories of Celceta - oprainfall", "raw_content": "REVIEW: Ys: Memories of Celceta\nBy Steve Baltimore / December 3rd, 2013\nTitle: Ys: Memories of Celceta\nDeveloper: Nihon Falcom Corporation\nPlatforms: Vita\nAge Rating: T\nWe are once again welcomed back to the world of Ys. In the latest installment, Ys: Memories of Celceta, we find series protagonist Adol Christin on another adventure. This time the young man has decided to explore the ancient Forest of Celceta. Our young hero runs into a bit of trouble somewhere along his journey and has lost his memories. He teams up with an informant dealer, Duren, whom he met a local bar. They are hired by Griselda, the governor general of Celceta to map out the forest. Together they set out on a quest to explore the great forest and recover Adol\u2019s lost memories.\nThe story overall is excellent; there are plenty of plot twists and turns along the way to keep you interested. The characters in the story are pretty well written. I enjoyed the characters taking some well-timed jabs at each other throughout the story. The entire lore is wonderful. I found myself pushing the story forward not only to know more about what exactly happened to Adol, but also what exactly happened in this land many years ago. It really pulls you in from the start and doesn\u2019t let you go. The translation team over at XSEED did a great job of writing on this one.\nGraphically this title is very solid. The character models are colorful and fairly detailed. All of the environments look fantastic. The Vita\u2019s OLED screen makes this forest come to life\u2013from the lush tree-covered areas to the dark recesses of the caves. The draw distance is just crazy; you can see great distances into the environments. Never fear though, if the camera zooms out too far to see the action you can pinch the touch screen to zoom in to where you are. Thought I cannot think of a single time I had to do this. There is even a day-night cycle that occurs; you will only find certain things at night. I did not run into any major graphical glitches during my 22 hours of playtime. A few times the frame rate would dip just a bit when there were a ton of enemies on the screen at once. This was very rare and most of the time this game travels at a breakneck pace\u2013even the load times are very short.\nThe music is in this game is absolutely incredible, just like all of the other Falcom titles. A great OST will go a long way toward immersing you in a game, and this one does just that. From the rocking exploration themes to more somber town themes, every piece of music is a work of art. There are a few voiced lines here and there in the dialogue. They didn\u2019t really add to the experience, but they didn\u2019t hurt anything either. The sound effects are all nicely done as well\u2013standard grunts and yells of combat and the sounds of the creatures you\u2019re doing battle with. Everything here functions as it should and fits in quite well with the overall feel of the game.\nGameplay in general is that of a hack n\u2019 slash action RPG. You can have up to three party members on the screen at one time. Two of them will be controlled by the AI. You can switch the AI from offensive to defensive by simply running your finger across the back touchpad. Switching to any party member you have on the field is a snap: just press the O button. This added a ton of variety to the combat as each character has his or her own unique weapon and skills. Character skills will level up the more times you use them. I had a blast playing around with each of the characters. You can even get some trophies for using each character for a certain amount of time. You can find a lot more information about about the combat at the official website.\nThe Forest of Celceta is enormous. Without the great mapping features found here this would become irritating very quickly. You can tap the mini map in the top right corner of the screen for a local map of the screen you are currently on, or press select for the bigger map of the overall forest. The bigger map will show you any towns you have visited, where treasure chests you have been close to are, warp monuments and other things. Warp monuments are very important; since this map is so huge, without them you would be endlessly backtracking. This made this process painless. Once you activate a monument, you can warp back there from any other monument you find in the forest that is the same color. Later, this will be upgraded to allow you warp to any place at anytime. This is really helpful later on as you collect some of the artifacts found throughout the game. They have abilities that allow to your reach areas you couldn\u2019t travel to before. These also serve as checkpoints so if you were to fall in combat you will start back at last monument you touched.\nYou will run across a few dungeons along the way through the vast forest and yep, there will be a few puzzles to be solved here as well. Some will involve collecting items and a simple touch screen mini-game. While others may require you to use some of your characters Unique Actions. For example, if a chest is locked only Duren can unlock it or if you need to bust through a wall maybe Ozma\u2019s spear will do the trick. These areas are very easy to spot. When you get close enough to them a circle will appear around them. You will have to switch to the character with the action you need and press the triangle button. The only real problem I have with this is if the person you need is not on screen, you have to go to the camp menu and put them in your party. While this doesn\u2019t take a whole lot of time, all other commands, such as using items, are right on the touch screen. I\u2019m not sure why this couldn\u2019t have been there as well.\nWhen you stumble across a new town, there will be several different areas of interest you will want to check out. There are usually shops, a smith to upgrade your weapons and armor and place to check for quests. Weapons and armor are easily upgraded from the materials you obtain through slaying monsters and little cold hard cash. Effects on the equipment vary depending on what types of materials you are using to upgrade them. For example if you use a iron ingot, you will raise the strength of the item by one, but if you use a gold ingot it will increase by 3. There are several different effects you can add to your weapons in this fashion as well. I would raise up my weapons freeze ability when possible. I loved stopping foes in their tracks while I beat them senseless. Each stat can be raised to a maximum value of 9 on any given piece of equipment. In certain towns you can craft accessories as well, these will have varying effects. If you have the required materials and a bit of gold you can make your life a lot easier with these.\nEach town has a quest board. You check the board and it will tell you who wants a certain thing done. These can be simple things like fetch quests or monster hunts. You do not accept quests through this board though, you need to find the person in town who made the request. Then complete the quest and collect your reward. On the big map over each town it will show you what quests are available if you have seen them on the quest board but not yet completed them. Monster hunt quests will have map markers to show you the area the monsters are in.\nThis is one of the best action RPGs I have played in a very long time. Great story, epic music, and wonderful combat make this title the full package. The fact that it features four different difficulty options makes it accessible to just about anyone. I didn\u2019t have too hard of a time playing though on the normal setting, but I would imagine nightmare would be quite a challenge based on some of the boss battles found here. They are both huge and epic. If you\u2019re a fan of this genre, love a great story, or enjoy some very refined action based combat for its $40 price tag you cannot go wrong with this title. Remember in my Valhalla Knights 3 review when I said you should probably hold out for a better action RPG on the Vita? Well here it is folks.\nGame was provided by the publisher for review purposes.\nXSEED GamesYs\nPrevious Post:U.S. Screenings of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Revealed\nNext Post:Rainbow Moon Available for PS Vita", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 10566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://opseulocal340.tripod.com/id16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:AZU74VMQYJLSZRTIVPIH5XVCRJZQO7LK", "length": 150, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "opseulocal340.tripod.com", "title": "Newsworthy Notables", "raw_content": "This page is committed to sharing information with the membership from other union sisters and brothers or globally that may be of interest or impact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 165.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://otsegocc.com/enews-outlaws-opening-game-oneonta-armory-tour-aaa-and-burr-truck-new-locations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:09Z", "digest": "sha1:5EVMQH4KKA5QOHCNEIEDAHBGSMAX7MNB", "length": 1935, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "otsegocc.com", "title": "[Enews] Outlaws Opening Game, Oneonta Armory Tour, AAA and Burr Truck New Locations", "raw_content": "Tonight, June 4th is the Oneonta Outlaws Baseball Club\u2019s Home Opening Game and Bassett Healthcare Night at the Ballpark! General admission is free, gates open at 5:30pmgame time 7:00pm.\nChamber Friends-Don\u2019t miss this great way to promote your business at one of our most popular events. Networking luncheons provide a great opportunity for area business people to promote their business to other professionals interested in what they have to offer or know someone who is. In a roundtable format, business representatives will have 2-4 minutes to promote their own business and distribute promotional and marketing materials. Following this structured networking, guests will be given time to network with the many other professionals in attendance and meet the Oneonta Outlaws. To make a reservation, please contact, Member Services Administrator, Karen Laing at[email protected] or call (607) 267-4010. Cost for Members is $20 and non-members is $30. Information attached.\nONEONTA ARMORY TOUR JUNE 7\nOn Thursday June 7 the Greater Oneonta Historical Society will offer a tour of the Oneonta Armory, now the Asa C. Allison Jr. Municipal Building at 4 Academy. The tour, guided by Bob Brzozowski and Jim Hawver, coincides with the History Center\u2019s current exhibition, \u201cOneonta\u2019s Own: The State Militia & the National Guard in Oneonta: 1812 \u2013 2003\u201d. A National Guard unit was formed in Oneonta in 1875 and the first armory was built on the site in 1885. The current building dates to 1905 and has been on the State & National Registers of Historic Places since 1995. It was closed in 2003 and purchased by the city of Oneonta for one dollar.\nThe tour begins at 7:00 PM in front of the building. The fee is $3 ($2 for veterans and GOHS members). The main floor is ADA accessible; the basement and upper floors are not. For more information, contact (607) 432-0960 or [email protected].\nAAA-Oneonta-Grand-Opening.pdf\nBurr-Truck-Invite.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pagodelarrainzar.com/en/los-vinos/raso-de-larrainzar/raso-de-larrainzar-2007/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HJAGEGCXBFRZ3566IDO773UFNPCFPGML", "length": 1688, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pagodelarrainzar.com", "title": "Raso de Larrainzar 2007 | Pago de Larrainzar", "raw_content": "HARVEST: Merlot: 08/10/07, Cabernet Sauvignon: 24/10/07, Tempranillo: 26/10/06, Garnacha: 16/10/07\nBLEND: 70% Tempranillo, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 2% Garnacha DENOMINACION DE ORIGEN: Navarra (Spain).\nBOTTLING DATE: 28.05.09\nWINEMAKING AND AGEING: The grap es were harvested by hand in collapsible 15 kilogram crates to guarantee the quality of the grapes arriving in the winery. After a first selection in the vineyard, the grapes underwent a second selection in the winery at the selection table. Each of the different grape varieties clones and rootstocks fermented in separate tanks for 7 days. The maceration lasted 14 days for the Merlot, Cabernet S. and Tempranillo and 15 days for the Garnacha. During the maceration process, a combination of over pumping and \u201cdelastage\u201d was carried out. Thereafter, the malolactic fermentation took 30 days for the Merlot, 15 days for the Cabernet S., 20 days for the Tempranillo and 15 days for the Garnacha. In mid March 2008, the wines were transferred to various oak barrels, according to the different varieties, clones and rootstocks. Barrels from four different cooperages were used (Vicard, Demptos, Surtep and Boutes). Of these, 38% were brand new, 32% used once, 23% used twice and 17% in their third year.The barrels were of two different capacities; 225 L and 300 L. 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Volatile Acidity: 0,5 g/l.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/refs/Show?_id=8c19&sort=DEFAULT&search=%2Bpaper%3Acaadria2012_095&hits=10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:46Z", "digest": "sha1:V4OWYYURKKIJ7MQJLJ4PJOL5UYOACGZP", "length": 185, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "papers.cumincad.org", "title": "Cumincad : CUMINCAD References : Reference 8c19", "raw_content": "Cohen-Or, D., Chrysanthou, Y. L., Silva, C. T. and Durand, F.\nA survey of visibility for walkthrough applications\nIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 9(3), 412-431", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://parentingaces.libsyn.com/training-with-the-pros-with-todd-widom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NORD257SYSFKO7G2HQXWPEBPRCWV77N2", "length": 732, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "parentingaces.libsyn.com", "title": "ParentingAces - The Junior Tennis and College Tennis Podcast: Training Like - and WITH! - the Pros with Todd Widom", "raw_content": "All junior players and their coaches can learn a lot from studying how the pros train. With so many pro tournaments across the world, there are typically at least one or two days before the main draw starts where the players are on site and getting used to the courts. Practice sessions - other than for some of the very top players - are usually free to attend and open to the public. Consider taking your junior players to watch and see what it means to train like a pro.\nCoach Todd Widom made the most of his player's time hitting with the pros and found a way to point out and then incorporate those professional behaviors with the players he trains. Hear more about what he learned and how he's using it in this week's episode.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://patpongnightlife.com/2018/09/04/the-bars-of-patpong-soi-1-west/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:42Z", "digest": "sha1:7SJ3MHTNEO2KDVLQU6642BSUB3OKVBV3", "length": 6282, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "patpongnightlife.com", "title": "The Bars of Patpong: Soi 1 West - PatpongNightlife", "raw_content": "For those who think that Patpong is only a red light district, filled with riffraff and ne\u2019er do wells, and that no self-respecting moralist would dare set foot therein, it will come as a surprise that therein is, in fact, a host of different establishments that cater to a wide variety of tastes, penchants, and desires. The most notable is the night market, which offers everything from shoes and t-shirts to Muay Tai memorabilia and home d\u00e9cor. Then there\u2019s Domino\u2019s Pizza at the end of Soi 1 and the new spa opening next door, not to mention the current gentrification effort that has seen the triumphant introduction of The Steakhouse Co. and Shenanigans Irish Pub. But more on them later. The fact is, there\u2019s always been more than just gogo bars and ping pong shows on The Pong, and it\u2019s only right that we highlight some of them, if only to give the prudes a reason to visit, and do so in an orderly fashion. This will be the first in a series consisting of 4 parts: soi 1 west, soi 1 east, then soi 2 west and soi 2 east. Thusly, the following is a comprehensive list and description of the bars on Patpong Soi 1, going from Silom Road to Surawong, along the west side of the soi. Here we go:\nIf you were to walk down Soi 1 away from Silom Road, the first bar you\u2019d encounter on the left side of the street would be Queen Bar. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with sexual orientation or ladyboys. It is, in fact, a ping pong show. So I didn\u2019t go it, but I imagine it\u2019s your run-of-the-mill PP.\nThe next bar after Queen is Madrid. This Patpong staple was around before the road was paved. Stepping inside is like stepping back in time, like so many other bars in the Pong. The walls are adorned with old pictures, Spanish coats of arms, some Art Deco, and soft lighting. It\u2019s a comfy place that serves up food in addition to booze. They have a runner-up position in my original review of burgers near the red-light (Part 1) and I\u2019m told their pizza is quite good. I had a Hoegaarden for 200 baht.\nAfter Madrid comes Radio City. At the time of writing this article, it was closed. But I\u2019ve heard from some gogo dancers that it\u2019s set to reopen soon\u2014possibly in September. I can\u2019t vouch for what it\u2019ll look like when its shingle is rehung\u2014supposedly it\u2019s getting a face-lift\u2014but more than likely things won\u2019t have changed much. There\u2019s one pool table, several sofas and flat screen TVs, and a bar that sort of doubles as a stage. There\u2019s an upstairs area with another pool table great potential, but no one\u2019s done anything with it in 6 years. Not back when it was The Den, or before that when it was Lust.\nFurther on down the soi is Rose Bar. The door is guarded by an old Thai man. Behind the door is a steep, dark set of stairs leading up into even more darkness. I\u2019m not gonna lie, I was a little bit scared ascending those steps. But they led to a very non-threatening, if dark, box of a bar with Christmas lights, a small empty stage, an even smaller bar, and four middle-aged women pushing bj\u2019s like they were going out of style. I settled for a Leo (150b), drank it quickly while Toni Braxton crooned in the background, and then bailed.\nThen comes the brand spanking new Jury Bar, which has already closed for remodeling and will reopen in September after a lackluster first week. Their first thought was to try to convert to a gogo, but someone talked them out of that\u2013thanfully\u2013so who knows what it will emerge as. When I visited, the walls are adorned with blue glass and even bluer ripples running through them, and the bar is spackled with blue tiles. Standing in there feels a bit like being underwater. I half expected the hostesses to be dressed in mermaid costumes. The owner, by the way, is the same guy who owns Kiss and Crown Royal on Soi 2. Apparently he\u2019s renting it out to a couple of friends who want to try their hand in the booze-peddling business. The d\u00e9cor is left over from when that space was one half of Goldfinger. I think I talked the guy into stocking some Belgian beers in the joint, as the current menu is not great. I got a couple Asahi\u2019s (110b each) and stuck around for a while, mainly because they let me choose the music (using a laptop with Youtube hooked to the sound system). There were 3 young hostesses looking very uncomfortable in their roles, but the right kind of punter could probably loosen them up.\nJust beyond that bar but before Tip-Top is a small outdoor coffee and beer bar, run by a couple of old Thai ladies. There are a couple tables out front, and bottles of beer in the fridge.\nTip-Top is a Thai-Italian fusion restaurant. You can get beer and other drinks there but it\u2019s a restaurant, so their main fare is food. I\u2019m partial to the calzone.\nNext to Tip-Top is Kiss. Adorned with gaudy d\u00e9cor from the 1980s, Kiss is almost a landmark in Patpong. As it\u2019s off the regular beaten path of most gogo punters, it doesn\u2019t see a lot of foot traffic, save for the occasional accidental punter-by or we regulars who attend religiously. It boasts a few of the cuter, more fun, more easy-going girls on the soi, as well as an assortment of Belgian beers, ordered special by the owner\u2014a Thai guy with a soft spot for Americans because he went to high school in Glendale, California. The staff are very friendly and will remember you even after one visit.\nTwo doors down from Kiss is Kangaroo bar. Or at least, it was. When I tried to go in and check it out, it was boarded up. Closed for good. If something goes in there to replace it, I\u2019ll let you know.\nThe last establishment on the West side of the soi that serves booze is Mizus Kitchen. It\u2019s a restaurant that, according to Stickman, has existed for over half a century. I\u2019ve never seen anyone inside, and on Tripadvisor\u2019s 5-stage rating system from excellent to awful, the reviews are almost evenly spread. I didn\u2019t go it, and I probably never will, but when I peeked inside I did see a fridge with beers in it.\nAnd that\u2019s it for the bars on Soi 1 west. Stay tuned for the next one: The bars of Soi 1 East. And stay up to date with nightly pics from the red-lights by following my Twitter @BangkokSeven or browse the archive on my Facebook page.\nPrevious Magazine : Previous Burgers near the Red Light: Patpong\nNext Magazine : Next Red-light Morning to Night: Patpong", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paulcilwa.com/Content/Alien_Abductions/17.North_Canyon_Contact/index.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NEG6Y2JHC7AVOXXUWX5BJSLMHQAVMVBU", "length": 19506, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "paulcilwa.com", "title": "North Canyon Contact", "raw_content": "All about the time aliens found and abducted me from the bottom of the Grand Canyon.\nAs previously mentioned, I had taken my daughter, Dorothy, on a three-day Grand Canyon rafting adventure in 1992. It was a short trip because I wasn't sure whether I'd like whitewater rafting (I knew the camping aspect would not be a problem). It turned out I loved rafting; so in 1994, I signed up for a fifteen-day autumn trip. While I had little hope the aliens wouldn't be able to find me, I did look forward to taking a break from the Support Group and the high strangeness that seemed to have taken over my life.\nThere was also the issue of Arcadia and her secret agency and her agonizing love life and my doubt as to whether what she and her organization was doing was really good for humankind, or merely expedient for the government. So I really needed this vacation.\nI told Arcadia I was going. \"We'll keep an eye on you,\" she said.\n\"That'll be a neat trick in Grand Canyon. No phones, no lights, no motorcars. Not a single luxury.\" Arcadia left the implication that I would be \"watched\" psychically and I good-naturedly didn't argue. I figured, if I don't know, I don't know.\nIn point of fact, Arcadia had been visiting\u2014in a sense\u2014each Tuesday night. Not only online, but after I went to bed; each Tuesday night I would sense that warm feeling in between my neck and shoulder and I would know she was checking on me. Sometimes the experience would be accompanied by paralysis. She had explained that she was trying to teach me to astral project, a state I had entered on my own a few times but couldn't deliberately initiate. So I accepted the visits; and if she wanted to \"touch\" me the two Tuesdays I'd be in Grand Canyon, I had no problem with that.\nBy now these jaunts to the Canyon were becoming second nature. I flew from Manchester, New Hampshire, to Las Vegas; from there I drove to Flagstaff where I checked into the Days Inn where O.A.R.S., the rafting company, would meet us in the morning.\nAn O.A.R.S. boatman named Brian briefed the passengers at the motel during breakfast. Then we piled into two long vans and settled back for the five-hour drive to Lee's Ferry, the put-in point for the expedition. Lee\u2019s Ferry was founded about 150 years ago by an excommunicated Mormon trying to get back in favor with his church. His positioning a ferry there opened up southern Arizona to Mormon proselytization. Lee\u2019s Ferry is the last place roads can get across the Colorado River before the width and depth of the Canyon makes that impossible, so it\u2019s a logical put-in point for the rafts.\nWhen the vans arrived, we found the rubber rafts arrayed along the shore, equipment neatly placed in front of each, ready for stowing. The boatmen who had not been driving were busily checking out their craft; some I recognized from my previous trips; others I did not. Robby, the lead boatman on my first trip, would be leading this one as well. He was quietly supervising the loading of the rafts. Since the boatmen are so familiar with what needs to be done, this was pretty much a non-job; he took a moment from it to greet me and tell me that when he saw my name on the passenger list for this trip, he'd adjusted his schedule so he could lead it. That was nice.\nBut one of the new guys instantly caught my attention. He was about five-foot-eight or nine, sturdily built, shirtless, with a shock of brown hair and powerful-looking chest. But my attention was not sexual. There was\u2026something\u2026about him. Some energy, something about his aura. I somehow just knew that he was the mechanism by which Arcadia was planning to \"watch\" me.\n\"Who is that?\" I asked Robby.\n*Names have been changed to protect the guilty.\n\"His name's Rusty*. He's going to be swamper on this trip.\"\nOn an O.A.R.S. expedition, there is a raft for each four passengers, and for each 16 passengers there is a baggage raft. This was a 24-passenger expedition, so there were two baggage boats. A \"swamper\" rows the baggage raft to load and unload and do other maintenance tasks when the expedition is camped. Usually a swamper is a kid who's training to be a licensed Grand Canyon guide but hasn't yet taken his or her test. However, this guy was in his mid-to-late thirties.\n\"He does this full-time?\" I asked.\nI'm sure Robby was curious why I was so interested in one, specific, baggage boatman; but he answered, \"No, he's actually a police chief from some town in Pima County. He just does this for his vacation.\"\n\"A police chief?\" I didn't buy the vacation bit. A professional policeman might well be the kind of person who would be associated with Arcadia's secret agency. (Of course, they were wooing me, too; and I'm a computer programming trainer. But, still, Rusty fit my notion of what a spy might be far better than I did!)\nI decided that, no matter what my inner sense of knowing told me, I wouldn't act on my suspicions. After all, what could I do? There was no point in letting him know I knew. Better to be cool and see what, if anything, developed.\nI greeted the boatmen I already knew: Tony and Anne, a husband-and-wife boatman team; Phil, who rowed in the summer and was a ski instructor in the winter; Mike, who usually rafted rivers in Alaska, and Morris, a grizzled old veteran boatman. Robby introduced me to the other baggage boatman, a beautiful woman named Cathy.\nThe passengers were likewise a diverse group. They ranged from Lynn and Walt, an older couple who would be celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary (and his 70th birthday) on the trip, to a single woman and a tall, dark-haired man who I sensed would wind up together, though they had arrived separately. We also had Liz, an Editor from People magazine who wore makeup and toenail polish the whole time, and an enormous blonde woman in a Spandex bathing suit who loudly announced her name, Judy, in a grating, abrasive voice along with the fact that \"everything always happens to me!\" Everything, apparently, but anorexia.\nAnother couple of guys I noticed were Warren and Jerry. They had arrived together and I instantly spotted them as a gay couple. However, they weren't \"out\" and seemed to avoid me as if they knew that I knew. Nevertheless, when we chose our boats for the first day, Warren and Jerry and I wound up in the same craft, rowed by a former ASU wrestling champion nicknamed \"Turtle.\"\nI had debated over whether or not I should out myself as gay on this trip. I was awakening to the fact that, politically, it's important for gays to reveal themselves because most people who try to restrict the rights of gay folk do so under the mistaken impression that they don't know any. Still, I couldn't reform the entire world on my own; and the idea of taking a vacation from being the Gay Community's Official Representative was definitely appealing. So I decided that, while I wouldn't deny it if the subject came up, I wouldn't bring it up.\nI similarly had to grapple with outing myself as an abductee. Canyon evenings, without TV, are long and UFO stories rank right up there with ghost stories as stock campfire fare. And again, I appreciated the politics of making sure the average citizen understood the phenomenon was real. But I wanted a vacation from that, too. So, in Turtle's boat, when we introduced ourselves to each other, I simply described myself as a technical author and an instructor of computer programming. Warren and Jerry were both medical doctors. And Turtle, we learned, was on his first trip with O.A.R.S.\n\"I used to run motorized trips,\" he explained. \"This is my first oar trip.\" Some companies have put together giant rubber rafts, with motors, that carry some twenty people each as they careen through the Canyon\u2014not my idea of a relaxing, introspective communion with this awesome natural wonder.\n\"Isn't it going to be a strain?\" I asked. \"We'll be traveling 280 river miles to Lake Meade. That's a lot of rowing.\" Like a few other passengers, I had memorized the itinerary.\n\"No shit,\" he commented, his jaw set. \"But I reckon I can manage it.\"\nWe stopped for lunch at a beach just past Navajo Bridge, a span high above the river, over which we had passed on our way to Lee's Ferry. With practiced motions the boatmen assembled a lunch cart in just a few moments, laden with dark breads, meats, cheeses, vegetables and condiments and complete with a jaunty red-and-green umbrella. Each passenger lined up to build a sandwich.\n\"Where's the white bread?\" Judy, the large Spandex woman, complained. Apparently she hadn't been listening to Robby's briefing.\n\"They only serve whole-grains on these trips,\" I explained, \"to avoid problems with constipation that a change of diet usually incurs.\"\n\"I never have that problem,\" she snapped.\n\"Most people do, though,\" Warren affirmed.\n\"And how would you know that?\"\n\"I'm a doctor.\"\n\"Ooh, really?\" Judy's attitude changed instantly as she warmed up to the hapless physician. I caught him and Jerry exchange glances that no one else would have understood meant, Oh, God, trapped by a man-hungry straight woman.\nTony was like an Italian mother: \"Eat! Eat!\" he said as we stared at the array of food. \"Then we\u2019ll get back into the rafts and go to another place so we can eat some more.\"\nThe boatmen made their lunches after we did, and soon I found Rusty standing next to me with his sandwich and canteen. \"So, Paul, right?\"\n\"That's me,\" I said, shaking his proffered hand.\n\"I'm Rusty,\" he introduced himself. \"I understand you're an abductee.\"\nI almost choked on my sandwich. I had never expected him to reveal himself so bluntly\u2026or so casually; he had spoken in a normal tone of voice. \"What makes you say that?\" I asked, quietly.\n\"Tony told me,\" he said, pointing at the burly boatman I knew from my previous trip.\n\"Tony told you? How would he know?\"\nRusty stared back at me in all innocence. \"He said you told him last year.\"\nDid I? I suppose I might have told Tony on my previous trip\u2026but I sure didn't remember doing it. Still, I couldn't very well call Rusty a liar; so I nodded.\n\"I'd like to hear all about it,\" Rusty urged enthusiastically. \"I'm really into that sort of shit.\"\n\"Well\u2026maybe sometime along the trip,\" I half-heartedly agreed. \"I'm kind of trying to take a vacation from it, if you know what I mean.\"\n\"Sure, I understand. Whenever you'd like to talk about it, well, I'll be here.\" So much for being an inconspicuous spy! Or, for that matter, subtle. But I determined all the more that I would not let on I had him spotted. I hadn't forgotten that I was supposed to keep all this secret. For me to be the one to reveal Arcadia to him, would show I couldn't be trusted.\nOne of us was going to maintain his cover, even if it wasn't him.\nThe lunch table was struck and we re-boarded our rafts. I asked Turtle if I could row. He seemed surprised at my request, so I mentioned that Robby had let me row on my previous trip. \"Not in any real difficult rapids,\" I added.\n\"We'll see,\" Turtle said, but I did no rowing that day.\nAt Lee\u2019s Ferry, where the Colorado first cuts into the earth, the Canyon walls are not very high. They rise, on the average, 50 feet per river mile. You can see the separate geologic layers and the guides rattle off the romantic-sounding names: Kaibab, Coconimo, Hermit Shale, Supai, Redwall, Muab, Bright Angel Shale, Toroweap. And then the Great Unconformity: a \"hole\" in the sequence where 600 million years of history is missing. Rock is deposited only when the land is under water; when it is exposed, the rock is worn away. Beneath the Great Unconformity is the Vishnu Schist, 1.2 billion years old.\nThat evening we made camp at a beautiful, sandy beach. I pitched my tent in a nice spot, then assisted a couple of novice campers in pitching theirs, while Robby and Brian cooked dinner and Rusty and Cathy found a suitable spot for the porta-potty (a toilet seat on a sealable canister). I went to sleep to the rushing sound of the river, beneath brilliant stars, and knew I was where I ought to be.\nThe next day we loaded up the rafts and again split the day between drifting down the river and hiking. In the evening, Robby's first choice of campsite was taken by another rafting company; so we rowed until the sun had gone down below the canyon rim and we finally stopped at North Canyon, one of the larger of the innumerable side canyons that contribute to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Another beautiful, wide beach of white sand lined the shore, broken only by the dry wash of rocks pouring from the side canyon itself. It was late, almost dark, as Tony and Anne prepared dinner and Phil supervised the handing out of tents and sleeping pads. By the time he was done, our second dinner was ready.\nIt was salmon. I am not a big fan of fish, especially to eat. But I determined to be a good sport and found a place to sit and eat by myself. I wasn't alone for long, however. Rusty plopped himself onto the sand beside me.\n\"Enjoying the trip?\" he asked as he scooped a forkful of pink fish flesh into his mouth.\n\"Of course,\" I admitted. \"And you? Does this really qualify as a vacation for you?\"\n\"Who said I was on vacation?\"\n\"Robby. I understand you're a police chief at your day job. That must be cool.\" Turnabout was fair play, and Rusty might as well learn that two could play detective.\n\"It's all right,\" Rusty allowed. \"But a couple weeks off every now and then is an appropriate reward for building up a department that runs well without my constant supervision.\" He nodded toward the crumbled wall behind us. \"Where are you planning to put your tent?\" he asked.\n\"I don't know. Didn't have a chance to pick a spot before dinner was ready.\"\n\"Well, it's getting dark. Don't step on me.\"\n\"All the good places were taken. I had to lay my sleeping bag out right on the trail.\"\n\"No tent?\" I asked, swallowing a bite of what was probably an excellent example of cooked salmon.\n\"Don't need one tonight. It's beautiful.\"\nThat was true. It was now full-on dark, and though a warm breeze was picking up, the stars glittered in a far too-crowded sky.\nI was just as glad Zeta Reticuli can only be seen from the Southern hemisphere. But there, framed by the rim of the canyon walls, was the sprinkling of stars known as the Pleiades.\n\"And warm,\" Rusty continued, \"but not hot. Which is good, because I sleep in the nude.\"\nRusty couldn't have known in the dark, but my eyes opened wide. This is not something one straight man would say to another as they sat together eating dinner. Either Rusty was gay (and I didn't think he was), or he was trying to get me to admit that I was gay\u2026and that was definitely not something I had told Tony, or anyone else, the previous year.\n(I should add here that my long-time friends showed every sign of being legitimately astounded when I did come out to them, so I doubt that Rusty's gaydar, if indeed he had any, would have picked up on me on the basis of several days and only two or three short conversations).\nWe finished eating and, in accordance with custom, washed our own plates; I then looked about for a location to pitch my tent. It was getting quite windy, sand blowing about and an extreme weariness was washing over me. Rather than struggle to find an open spot on the beach where we'd eaten, I decided to cross the rocks of the dry North Canyon river bed and camp on the deserted beach beyond. The idea of being away from everyone else was very appealing. I especially didn't want to risk tripping over the naked Rusty in the dark.\nOn the trail. Really?\nFucking amateur.\nI held the tent, poles and my sleeping bag under my left arm, my right hand gripping both my ammo box (a waterproof container for small, personal items) and my dry bag (a sealable, rubber sack for clothes) and a flashlight. I normally would have made two trips, but by now the wind was blowing so hard and I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open. When I crossed the rocks and reached the far beach, my feet sunk into the sand with every step; each time I raised a foot to take another, I wasn't sure I had the strength to lift it out of the ground.\nFinally I dumped everything on the ground and tried to set up the tent. The wind whipped it around, making it impossible to fit the poles into the assigned clips. Normally, two people put one of these together. I knew that if I went back and asked, any of the boatmen would assist me. But I didn't have the energy to make the return trip.\nI gave up. I threw the tent and poles onto the sand, unrolled the sleeping bag and collapsed on it face down. I was asleep before I'd taken a breath.\nAnd then I awoke, sort of, suddenly, on my back. I was conscious but felt sedated, confused. I was lying on some kind of gurney being rolled down a narrow corridor with lights and pipes and cables lining the ceiling. I could see the legs of the beings moving me; I knew they were aliens because they didn't move the way human legs do. They skittered, more than walked. I couldn't move, of course, not even when we entered a chamber and I was rolled onto my stomach\u2014but not before I could see the machine I was being rolled under. It was black and curved, with a single downward-pointing needle protruding from it.\nI felt the needle penetrate the back of my neck, followed by a burning pain worse than any I'd ever experienced. The scream that welled up within me had nowhere to go. I could neither move nor talk but I tried to project an image of myself in pain.\nYou said you wanted conscious contacts from now on. I didn't hear those words, but the idea was impressed into me somehow.\nNot during surgery! I responded the same way. Put me to sleep! And with that, I blacked out.\nThe next thing I knew I was back on the beach. The wind had stopped, but sand had blown over me, half-burying me and even getting into my slackened mouth. I rose, coughing, spitting out grit, a band of intense pain circling my head so that keeping my balance took more concentration than I could muster.\nNauseated, I tried to run for the river but couldn't make it before I puked most of the previous night's salmon onto the sand. I kicked sand over the vomit and staggered back to my ammo box, somehow finding the vial of Tylenol #3s I had brought into the Canyon, and washing a couple down with Gatorade from my canteen. I shook out my sleeping bag and got in it, as the night was now cool.\nI waited for the pill to kick in while replaying what had happened to me. The quality of this experience had been different, somehow, from others I'd had. For one thing, I'd never before felt pain during an abduction. For another, I seemed more alert, more awake during this one than usual, even though I was paralyzed. I tried to remember the aliens' legs moving and found the memory fading. I realized that I couldn't have seen both the ceiling and their legs; was I on my back or my stomach? I remembered both, but couldn't have been in both positions at the same time. I wondered if I were compressing several memories together, or if indeed a contact had actually taken place. My memories might have been, like Marley's ghost, an undigested bit of salmon, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.\nThe most damning part of the abduction scenario, as always, was the doubting of one's own experience.\nFinally the buzz of the Tylenol #3s dulled the worst of the pain and I drifted into sleep, recalling as I did so that it had been the first Tuesday in months that Arcadia hadn't \"touched\" me psychically on my shoulder after I had gone to bed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 20806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paulerspuryparish.org.uk/defibrillators/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:57Z", "digest": "sha1:24MNPBVN2LEULBXN7GHC5LR6QIR6TYDT", "length": 854, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "paulerspuryparish.org.uk", "title": "DEFIBRILLATORS | Paulerspury Village Web Site", "raw_content": "It is the Parish Council\u2019s intention to install an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)in Paulerspury and in Pury End. The one in Paulerspury will be on the front wall of the school. In Pury End we are negotiating to have an AED in the phone box on Lower Street. More and more AEDs are being located in towns and villages throughout the land. They provide a device which can be used by anyone in the event of a sudden cardiac arrest and they have the potential to save life. Further information will be sent out to each household in due course and there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the Annual Parish Meeting. A full information/training session given by East Midlands Ambulance Service will be arranged to take place at a future date which will be published on the web and in the Newsletter.\nPAULERSPURY PICTUREDROME \u2013 the Imitation Game", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 169.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pcdblog.com/2017/03/st-josephs-catholic-churchs-fish-fry-fridays-return-friday-march-3/fish-fry-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:33Z", "digest": "sha1:MHNFM7HDAFPMRM4MEW6LFY7ZPX6LFAEL", "length": 73, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pcdblog.com", "title": "Fish Fry 2017", "raw_content": "\u00ab St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Church\u2019s Fish Fry Fridays Return Friday, March 3.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 6818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 183.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pennsnortheast.com/news_media/article/reading-blue-mountain-northern-railroad-record-number-of-crew-starts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XRE2IEDUINVOQS4YASRQ2WZJPSGORUKG", "length": 1186, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pennsnortheast.com", "title": "Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Record Number of Crew Starts | Penn's Northeast News", "raw_content": "Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Record Number of Crew Starts\nNortheastern, PA - Reading and Northern Railroad (R&N) continues to set records in 2018. As our business increases, so does the amount of train crews it requires to meet the demand. On Thursday, 9/27/2018 RBMN operated a record setting 21 crew starts in one day, surpassing the previous record of 20 crew starts set earlier this year. In order to meet the demand over 30 locomotives were utilized on the 21 jobs that operated.\nIn the last 3 years our average number of daily crew starts has doubled from 9 in 2015 to over 18 in 2018. Most of these increases can be attributed to increased demand for anthracite coal, significant growth in our freight business and additional passenger operations. In order to meet these demands, RBMN has purchased and rebuilt additional locomotives and hired a number of additional train service employees. This has put RBMN in a good position to handle our current and future record setting crew needs. We are all very proud of our continued growth and look forward to breaking our own records in the future.\nhttp://www.rbmnrr.com/happenings/2018/9/27/record-number-of-crew-starts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 4641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pesaraonline.net/labourforum12/ParentDoc.asp?DocID=573", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:57Z", "digest": "sha1:BFQ7WFH5NXWPKN3NERO6NGLFXKUXJMHZ", "length": 378, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pesaraonline.net", "title": "Responses", "raw_content": "yap0608@gmail.com\n17/12/2015 16:38:04 Re: Annual leave\nDate of joined : 17/09/2014\nAfter 16/09/2015 has annual leave is 2 days, right ? ( 8/12 x 3.5 months )\nAfter 16/09/2016 has annual leave is 8 + 3.5 = 11.5 days, right ?\n17/12/2015 17:04:02 For the 12 months from 17/9/14 to 16/9/15, you earned 8 days;\nFor the 12 months from 17/9/15 to 16/9/16, you will earn another 8 days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://peter.murmann.name/index.php/archives/category/documentary/P7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HFMCTFGYLPTDOB7SW3KKKO5AVA7XU6HB", "length": 824, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "peter.murmann.name", "title": "Archive | Documentary | Peter Murmann", "raw_content": "For those of us who like classical music, Shine is a real treat. The film chronicles the life of the piano child prodigy David Helfgott.\nWhat a story amazing story from India! Rarely was I so moved. A five-year-old boy insists that his older brother take him to his secret night work. They sneak out their mother\u2019s house but before long the little boy is too tired to continue on. So the older brother leaves the younger brother behind at a train station and tells him not to move until he is back. When the little brother wakes up and his older brother has not returned and he starts searching for his older brother.\nMovies, Documentary, Music, The Rest\nAn alternative title for this music documentary could be, \u201cGrandpa and Grandma rock!\u201d For music lovers this documentary by the German filmmaker Wim Wenders is a charmer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 4358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://petgroomingthegoodthebadthefurry.blogspot.com/2015/09/abstract-competition-groom-expo-2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HZF5VDMRA57APKAYEPMU6M22THDCIZHL", "length": 304, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "petgroomingthegoodthebadthefurry.blogspot.com", "title": "Pet Grooming: The Good, The Bad, & The Furry: Abstract Competition Groom Expo 2015", "raw_content": "Congratulations, Lisa! I am so happy for you! The competition was definitely top-notch... you have a lot to be proud of.\nI so enjoy reading your entries. I know you're very busy, but when you get a chance to post, I always look forward to reading what you have to say.\ncamille October 6, 2015 at 10:16 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 6857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 173.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pitbulltalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=28991", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:15Z", "digest": "sha1:EULZVJBN5AEN7JFHT7CKG6CCH6J4MY62", "length": 40748, "nlines": 141, "source_domain": "pitbulltalk.com", "title": "Pit Bull Talk \u2022 View topic - Rosettes to Ruin", "raw_content": "http://www.terrierman.com/\nMaking & Breaking Dogs in the Show Ring\nChanges in the shape of the Bull Terrier head, 1930, 1950, 1980\nPhotos courtesy of the Albert Heim Foundation for Canine Research, Basil, Switzerland\nThe pictures above are a physical and visible monument to what the show ring did to one terrier breed in less than 50 years time.\nBulldog and terrier crosses, which once had powerful jaws well-placed to do important work (gripping and holding semi-wild bulls and pigs so they could be altered or slaughtered), were rapidly transformed at the turn of the 20th Century to the point that the jaws of today's Bull Terrier, while still massive, are now no longer set at a proper angle to do the work the dogs were once bred to do.\nIf you look at the Fox Terrier, you will see a similar transformation over time -- once small and supple dogs transformed into large, stiff-legged creatures unable to move properly in the field and with chests too deep for the animal to go to ground after fox.\nThis is what show ring breeders do -- they ruin working breeds. And it is not just the AKC show ring, either -- it's the UKC show ring and the JRTCA show ring as well. Give any show ring enough time, and it will ruin any breed of working dog -- it always has and it always will.\nGo through John Broadhurst's excellent new book, \"Terriermen & Terriers\" (ISBN 0-0687296-1-4) and look for Welsh Terriers, Border Terriers, Wire Fox Terriers, Smooth Fox Terriers, Cairn Terriers, Lakelands, Skye Terriers, West Highland White Terriers, Cairn Terriers.\nThey are simply NOT there.\nInstead you see terriers that are not registered or are unregisterable -- Jack Russells, Fell Terriers, Fell-Border crosses, and the black Fells called Patterdales. There's even a Dachshund. The only terrierman named working a Kennel Club breed (53 terriermen are profiled) is a single fellow who recounts a Border Terrier story that is now more than 30 years old.\n\"Working\" terrier breeds? Ha! It seems they are all gone -- shot dead by the show ring.\nFormer AKC President Kenneth Marden has acknowledged the role of the show ring in killing off working breeds:\n\"We [the AKC] have gotten away from what dogs were originally bred for. In some cases we have paid so much attention to form that we have lost the use of the dog.\"\nIn the February 13, 2002 edition of The National Review magazine there is an article entitled \"The Westminster Eugenics Show\" in which the author writes of the Search And Rescue dogs trotted into the Westminster Ring in New York after the September 11th terrorists brought down to the twin towers of the World Trade Center:\n\"The problem is that Westminster does not judge breeds for those traits which rightly make a breed a breed. The Pointers aren't asked to point (even though the logo of the Westminster Kennel Club has been a pointing Pointer for over a century). The Bassets and Bloodhounds do not track. The Otter Hounds are not tested to see if they could kill, let alone identify, an otter. And so on and so on.\n\"With the exception of a handful of breeds who were bred to do nothing but either keep your hands warm or wait until some Aztec chef could cook them, not a single breed at Westminster is expected to do what it was bred to do. The beautiful German Shepherd in the competition last night no doubt looked at the visiting search-and-rescue dogs the way Alec Baldwin looks at people who actually know how to read, and said, 'I wish I could be like them.'\n\"The cohost of the Westminster broadcast repeatedly declared 'This is not a beauty contest... because we have definitions for how a dog is supposed to look and feel.'\n\"Someone needs to tell this blow-dried Afghan-breeder that that makes it more of a beauty contest, not less of one. Simply writing down the criteria does not make a pageant any less of a pageant.\"\nThe number of working dogs ruined by the show ring grows every year.\nIrish Setters, once famed at finding birds, are now so brain-befogged they can no longer find the front door. Cocker Spaniels, once terrific pocket-sized birds dogs, have been reduced to poodle-coated mops incapable of working their way through a field or fence row. Fox terriers are now so large they cannot go down a fox hole. Saint Bernards, once proud pulling dogs, are now so riddled with hip dysplasia that it's hard to find one that can walk without surgery in old age.\nIn recent years, protectors of at least two working breeds -- the Border Collie and the Jack Russell Terrier -- have gone to war with the AKC in an effort to protect the working qualities of their dogs.\nUnfortunately, those seeking to protect the gene pool of working dogs -- and the tradition of breeding worker to worker -- lost and both breeds are now found in the AKC show ring. While there are still working Border Collies and working Jack Russell Terriers, the number of honest working dogs of either breed in the AKC show ring is small and is falling rapidly. In time it is likely that these two breeds will in fact split off from their working roots as has happened with gun dogs where there are \"working\" labs and \"show labs\" and \"working\" pointers and \"show\" pointers.\nLesson One in the world of dogs is that if you put anything above breeding for utility, you will start to lose working abilities.\nWork is a tough task master and it shows no favoritism. Fox and pheasant do not judge \"up the leash\" nor are they taken in by fads. Quarry is not much interested in nose or eye color, the set of the ear, or the \"expression\" on a dog's face as it creeps up a hedgerow.\nIn working dogs, utility is beauty, and \"beauty is as beauty does.\"\nE.L. Hagedoorn, a Dutch consulting geneticist to dog breed societies around the world, believed the show ring would ruin working dog breeds, and time has proven him right. As he noted in his 1939 book:\n\"In the production of economically useful animals, the show ring is more of a menace than an aid to breeding. Once fancy points are introduced into the standard of perfection, the breeders will give more attention to those easily judged qualities than to the more important qualities that do not happen to be of such a nature that we can evaluate them at shows. Showing has nothing to do with utility at all, it is simply a competitive game.\"\nA noted breeder of alpacas said much the same thing, noting that when farm stock is judged on the basis of wool or meat it is a different standard than that used at shows:\n\"Breeding animals for the shows is a very peculiar business, because of the fact that it is wholly competitive. Whereas the breeder of utility sheep or utility pigs produces something that has a certain market value, which is not changed very much even if ten of his neighbors start in with him to raise the same sort of sheep or hogs, breeding animals for the shows can only pay the man who succeeds in producing such stock as is pronounced by the judges of the moment to be the most beautiful and the most fashionable.\"\nThe \"judge of the moment\" in a show ring may know very little about real terrier work.\nIn the AKC, for example, most judges are experts in a half dozen breeds. In the terrier ring, it's almost a guarantee none has ever owned a deben collar or cut a shoulder into a trench in order to get down another two feet. As a rule these authorities are experts by dint of having spent far too many nights in bad hotels attending show trials. In 20 years of owning dogs, they have logged a thousand miles bouncing around show rings in plaid skirts and blue blazers. They may have driven to the moon and back to pick up rosettes, but few have driven 10 miles out into the country to even see a fox den, much less put a dog down one or dig to it.\nA few will claim expertise because they have bought an airplane ticket and attended a mounted hunt or two in the U.K.. They have seen \"the real thing\" they will tell you, and know what is required of a working dog thanks to their two-week vacation in Scotland! Just don't ask them how to extract quarry from the stop-end of a pipe or how to treat a bite wound.\nTheory always ends where reality begins, and it always seems to have been this way.\nThe very first Kennel Club shows occurred in 1873 in the U.K., and 1874 in the U.S.. By 1893 Rawdon Lee Briggs was writing in his book, \"Modern Dogs,\" that:\n\"I have known a man act as a judge of fox terriers who had never bred one in his life, had never seen a fox in front of hounds, had never seen a terrier go to ground ... had not even seen a terrier chase a rabbit.\"\nBy the AKC's own estimates, a majority of newcomers to the sport, obsessed with championship ribbons, stick with it an average of five years. When they give up or move on to a new hobby, they leave behind a trail of dogs that were not systematically bred to do a job -- they were bred to produce ribbons and often by people who never completely finished reading a book on their own breed.\nMost of these back-yard-and-hobby-show-breeders do not do any genetic testing on their dogs, and when asked are quick to say their bumbling acquiescence to the destruction of a working breed is OK because \"No one's hunting birds to feed their families any more,\" \"We don't need strong jaws on a bull terrier, we have barbed wire now\" \"No one hunts fox anymore -- it's illegal in the UK you know.\"\nI would suggest to these people that they get deeply involved in breeds that are not working breeds -- Shit-zoos, Peeking-ease, or Pappy-yawns, perhaps. Miniature Schnauzers or Miniature Pinschers are nice dogs -- give them a try. Or better yet, get a dog from the local shelter and train it in to a high degree of perfection in agility, flyball or even circus tricks.\nBut please stay away from breeds that are working dogs!\nAs for those actually interested in terriers as working dogs (and if not, please read the paragraph above), we would do well to remember that we did not create these wonderful little dogs, and we do not 'own' a breed anymore than we 'own' anything in this world. Like most worthy things, we inherit our dogs from our forbears, serve as custodians for their gene pool in our lifetime, and have a responsibility to pass on this gene pool in a reasonably good condition for the future.\nIn the modern world, passing on the gene pool means breeding dogs that are the correct size as determined after you have done some real earth work.\nIt also means doing genetic testing (CERF, OFA, BAER) before breeding any litter.\nFor those looking to buy a terrier -- especially a Jack Russell or Border Terrier which are two breeds which still have some pretensions to being working dogs -- I would suggest embracing a working standard, not only for the dog but for the BREEDER as well. If the breeder doesn't own a deben collar, a $50 shovel, and a digging bar, I would suggest giving that kennel a pass. Ask to see pictures of the sire or dam in the field. No pictures, no cash.\nA serious breeder takes the work of their dogs seriously, and a serious breeder will work their dogs at least a few times just to make sure they have the drive, the size and the temperament to actually do the job.\nThe standard for a working terrier is NOT in the ring, but in the field and it is only in the field that a dog can be judged worthy of being bred.\nI close with the very succinct and dead-on standard for working terriers published by The Fell and Moorland Working Terrier Club in their \"Year Book and Club History: 1998-99\". No better parody of the Kennel Club \"standard\" exists, nor does it leave out a single thing required of a working terrier.\nA Working Terrier Standard\nA working terrier should be terrier-like in appearance and should have an acute and powerful motivation to work.\nHEAD: should be strong, and encased in the skull should be a brain capable of showing intelligence and a fair amount of obedience and respect with some affection.\nNECK: should be strong and muscular, joining the head to the body.\nCHEST: should be big enough to hold the heart of a lion, but small enough to enable its owner to follow the quarry into extremely tight corners.\nLEGS: should be long, or short, according to the work envisaged by the terrain of the area where he is to be employed. The legs should be powerful enough to carry the owner through a hard day.\nFEET: four, one at the end of each leg, with extremely tough pads.\nCOAT: whether rough or smooth, white or colored, should be dense and tight, to keep its wearer warm and facilitate cleaning without holding too much earth and water.\nBACK: strong and supple.\nTAIL: for preference, a working terrier should have a tail.\nEYES: of great assistance above ground.\nEARS: yes, two.\nNOSE: should be able to detect and evaluate any slight scent.\nTEETH: should be as large and as strong as possible, firmly secured in a muscular jaw, capable of biting powerfully and holding a firm grip.\nIn temperament, the animal should be fairly docile and tractable, with a tremendous staying power and great love of his task. He should enjoy going to ground and should not appear at 10 minute intervals to see if his owner is still waiting for him. He should disregard wounds and see his job through at all times. He should be of sensible disposition and not easily ruffled or upset.\nShow ring bulldog skull\nThis is a long way from a working dog!\nBut, it's a good discussion to have again!\nhttp://www.offa.org/hipstatbreed.html?view=1&sort=5 EBs are the number one dysplastic dog by a margin of 10% that is outrageous! But hard cold facts nonetheless. American Bulldogs are 33% dysplastic, ASTs are 26%, and APBTs are 24%. What a ridiculously large difference, and that's just in the hips.\n\"I'm not all bad but I'm a faithful sinner.\"\n~Dave Matthews\nShelby - AB Mix 1 yr - CGC\nProud Uber Nerd\nhttp://www.rescuebulldogs.org/breedinf.htm\nBulldogs have numerous known genetic defects and are subject to various illnesses that affect many breeds. Common Bulldog health problems you may encounter include: elongated soft palate, small trachea, allergies, dermatitis, demodetic mange, eye lid anomalies, hip dysplasia and heart problems. Some of them have a tendency toward self-mutilation (especially if they have itchy skin), so owners should watch carefully for signs of skin irritation and scratching. If you are adopting an older dog, many of these conditions will already have been identified.\nA Terrible Beauty By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK Sunday, Jun. 24, 2001\nFour years ago, Amanda and Bob Metzger of Exton, Pennsylvania, saw an ad for golden retriever puppies in the local newspaper and went to have a look. \"Once we saw them,\" says Amanda, \"we fell in love. We couldn't have left the place without one.\" They decided on a dog they named Jake -- but being careful consumers, the Metzgers made sure the breeders had a solid reputation, insisted on an American Kennel Club certification of Jake's pedigree and got assurances that his parents were free of health problems before they handed over $325 for their dog.\nEllen\u2019s Pooch Problem \u2014 and Ours\nRabies Outbreak in Paradise\nTheir troubles started three months later. Jake began to limp on his left front leg; the vet diagnosed osteochondritis, an inherited bone condition, and had to operate. The bill came to $650. Six months later, Jake went lame again, and X rays showed severe dysplasia, a hereditary weakness of the joints, in both hips. A $750 operation relieved his pain, but even with a dose of aspirin almost daily, Jake still walks stiffly. On top of that, he has severe & allergies, dry skin and a poor coat. He has recently started having seizures as well. \"He's a medical mess,\" says Amanda Metzger. \"It just breaks my heart because he wants to play like a puppy, but he can't.\"\nIt would be tempting to put Jake's problems down to plain bad luck -- but in fact the odds were against him from the start. While most golden retrievers are healthier than Jake, a shocking 60% of them end up with the dysplasia that may yet cripple him, according to the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine. Many are born with an undescended testicle, another hereditary condition vets say can cause the gland to become cancerous.\nYet even if they had chosen another breed, the Metzgers would have been taking a chance. The appalling truth is that as many as 25% of the 20 million purebred dogs in America -- 1 in 4 animals -- are afflicted with a serious genetic problem. German shepherds, for example, run an even higher risk of hip dysplasia than do golden retrievers. Labrador retrievers are prone to dwarfing. At least 70% of collies suffer from genetic eye trouble, and 10% eventually go blind. Dalmatians are often deaf. Cocker spaniels tend to have bad tempers. Great Danes have weak hearts. English bulldogs have such enormous heads that pups often have to be delivered by cesarean section. Newfoundlands can drop dead from cardiac arrests. Chinese Shar-Peis, the wrinkly dogs that don't seem to fit into their skin, have congenital skin disorders. And Irish setters, laments veterinarian Michael Fox, a vice president of the Humane Society of the U.S., \"are so dumb they can't find their way to the end of the leash.\"\nThe list goes on and on, running to more than 300 separate genetic disorders that subject dogs to enormous pain, roil the emotional life of their owners and, estimates Dr. William Schall, a genetic specialist at Michigan State University, cost almost $1 billion in vet bills and lost revenues from stillborn pups, which cannot be sold.\nBad genes are a universal hazard of life, of course; practically every species suffers from inherited diseases. But golden retrievers and other purebreds are not like most other animals. They are in a very real sense artificial, molded over thousands of years through selective breeding to satisfy human needs. For most of that time, those needs have largely been companionship and labor, and dogs have prospered.\nWithin the past century, though, and especially over the past 50 years, the most popular types have been bred almost exclusively to look good -- with \"good\" defined by breed-specific dog clubs and the American Kennel Club (AKC). \"Form has been separated from function,\" says Brian Kilcommons, a dog trainer in Middletown, New York.\"Styles come in vogue. The competition at dog shows is geared almost exclusively to looks.\" This focus on beauty above all means that attractive but unhealthy animals have been encouraged to reproduce -- a sort of survival of the unfittest. The result is a national canine-health crisis, from which few breeds have escaped.\nThe astonishing thing is that despite the scope of these diseases, veterinary researchers know next to nothing about what causes them or how to cure them. Only 23 of the hundreds of known disorders can currently be picked up by genetic lab tests. Biologists know far more about the heredity of the fruit fly, in fact, than they do about canine genetics. That is because there are fewer than 100 canine geneticists in the world, working at just a handful of major universities -- and they are constantly scraping for funding.\nThe lack of research money is especially disconcerting when one considers that dogs are the nation's most popular pets. Almost 36 million households have them, compared with the 29.2 million that keep cats, according to the Humane Society of the U.S. More Americans spend more than $8 billion a year on their dogs, not counting the initial purchase. The AKC alone raked in $29 million last year, about three-fourths of it from the $25 or more it charges to register each pedigreed pup and provide a copy of its family tree. But the AKC annual report shows that the club cut its grants for education and research into the health of dogs from $1.675 million in 1992 to $575,000 in 1993.\nWho is to blame for the shabby treatment of humanity's best friend? The AKC, with its focus on pedigrees and beauty pageants rather than canine well- being? Legitimate breeders, who supply customers with beautiful but sometimes damaged puppies? Puppy mills, which do the same but at much higher volume and in search of greater profits? Or the public, more insistent with each passing year that a mutt -- a \"randomly bred dog,\" to be politically correct -- simply won't do?\nThey are all partly at fault. But it is hard to avoid putting the AKC high on the list. While the club is not the only dog registry in the country, it is certainly the biggest, best known and most powerful. It is because of this * power that the AKC has been largely unchallenged over the years. \"Criticize the AKC, and there will be retribution,\" says one New York dog trainer. \"Judges may find they are no longer getting assignments. Breeders might discover their dogs are no longer winning prizes.\" The AKC acknowledges that it is perceived as overbearing. \"I think it's a fact of life that people have that fear, and it's unfortunate,\" responds John Mandeville, the club's vice president for planning.\nThe AKC does not need to resort to intimidation, however, to have an overwhelming influence. It sponsors most of the nation's dog shows, events that reinforce the insidious notion that beauty is a dog's paramount virtue. It also keeps track of purebred pedigrees, yet it requires no proof of good health to certify an animal. All it takes to get AKC certification is proof of pedigreed parentage. Says Fox: \"The best use of pedigree papers is for housebreaking your dog. They don't mean a damn thing. You can have an immune- deficient puppy that is about to go blind and has epilepsy, hip dysplasia, hemophilia and one testicle, and the AKC will register it.\"\nNo one at the kennel club denies this. AKC certification \"is absolutely not a Good Housekeeping seal of approval, unfortunately,\" says Mandenville. \"It's acquired a lot of these trappings because the idea of 'AKC- registered' is so widely known.\"\nOr, to be blunt, because it has such snob appeal. The American Kennel Club was founded 110 years ago by a group of American bluebloods who pledged \"to do everything to advance the study, breeding, exhibiting, running and maintenance of purity of thoroughbred dogs.\" At the time purebreds were status symbols, owned exclusively by the wealthy and prized for their strength, skill and intelligence as much as for their looks.\nBut during the 1940s, as the middle class sucked in vast numbers of new members with aspirations of gentility, these Americans began to insist on purebreds too, and their popularity took off. In 1944 the AKC registered 77,400 dogs; that jumped to 235,978 in 1949, and by 1970, the club was issuing papers on a million dogs a year. (The total last year: 1.4 million.)\nThe number of AKC-sponsored dog shows has increased just as dramatically. In 1894 there were a mere 11 all-breed shows. By 1954 there were 384, and last year a total of 1.3 million dogs competed in 1,177 different exhibitions. Then as now, the idea was to show off the owners' prize breeding stock.\nBut the concept of what makes a dog valuable for breeding has changed. While obedience and field trials were once considered at least as important as beauty contests, the canine equivalent of the swimsuit competition has all but taken over. Historians have yet to explain this ideological shift, but the AKC has one idea: \"You could almost say this venerable institution with its great credibility and history has been infiltrated slowly by the type of people it was not intended to deal with,\" says Wayne Cavenaugh, the group's spokesman. Whatever the reason, animals with names such as Rainbow's Maggie Rose O'Koehl and Jrees Buddy Holly are brushed, hairsprayed, beribboned and otherwise tarted up before going in front of the judges. Says Buddy Holly's owner, Jan Smith of Wichita, Kansas, a longtime exhibitor of Great Danes (and herself the runner-up for Miss Congeniality in the 1965 Miss Arkansas pageant): \"When the ears are too flat, we use cement to make them perky. We use chalk to color the legs, which is fine as long as you don't use copious amounts.\"\nThat's just the final polish, though: no dog can hope to be a champion without conforming to a very narrow standard of physical perfection set by individual dog clubs and ratified by the AKC. And customer-conscious breeders have obliged by creating prizewinning dogs with specific traits, such as long ears in cocker spaniels or sloping hips in German shepherds.\nBiologically, this is just asking for trouble. For one thing, the characteristics judges and clubs have decreed to be gorgeous can themselves be bad for the animals' health -- huge heads on bulldogs that make it difficult for them to be born naturally, for example, or the wrinkled skin on Shar-Peis that sets them up for rashes. For another, the best way to produce a puppy with a specific look is to mate two dogs who have that same look. As with any species, though, the closest resemblances are found among the closest relatives. So breeders often resort to inbreeding, the mating of brothers and sisters or fathers and daughters. Or they \"line-breed,\" having grandparents mate with grandchildren or cousins with each other. \"If we did that in humans,\" says Mark Derr, who wrote a scathing indictment of America's dog culture for the March 1990 Atlantic Monthly, \"we'd call it incest.\"\nBoth practices increase the likelihood of genetic disease. It is not that purebreds have more defective genes than other dogs, or that inbreeding - somehow causes healthy genes to go bad. Most hereditary disorders in dogs are caused by recessive genes; as long as an animal has a good copy of the gene from one parent, it will override a bad copy from the other parent. But if both parents pass on the same bad gene -- which is more likely if mother and father come from the same family -- the puppy has a problem.\nThe problem intensifies with what experts call \"the popular sire effect,\" the result of a single desirable male's being used to sire a large number of litters. Says Michigan State's Schall: \"If it is later determined that the male that looked perfect has a genetic disease, he will have dispersed it widely before it gets discovered.\"\nHereditary weakness can be introduced even when there is no underlying genetic defect at all. The biological interplay between individual genes can be extremely complicated, and breeding to enhance one characteristic can have unintended consequences. Vets believe the retinal disease that afflicts most collies may fall into this category. The gene responsible may lie very close to the one that gives collies their long noses and closely set eyes -- traits that have been deliberately emphasized by breeders. Says Dr. Donald Patterson, chief of the medical genetics section at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine: \"Many people have bred dogs for desired traits, but in the process of doing this they have also got undesirable ones. The objective should be to combine breeding for good traits with more careful planning to get rid of genetic defects. Unfortunately, not much attention has been paid to that.\"\nThe AKC insists that it is not at fault: the breeders are. Asked why club- sponsored shows put much more emphasis on appearance than health, Mandeville responds that \"this is America. If this size is good, this size is better. We reflect, unfortunately, the breeding of dogs ((that)) people register with us. Are there genetic problems? Absolutely. Are there temperament problems? Absolutely. Are there people making poorly informed breeding decisions? Far too many.\"\nThe club is just a registry, he says, so \"don't rely on a registry to make an informed decision for you.\" Why don't AKC registrations carry health and temperament requirements -- as comparable certification does in Germany and Sweden? Says Mandeville: \"It's the Big Brother argument. At what point does regulation of the individual for the greater good step on the individual's toes?\"\nMandeville also claims that any attempt by the AKC to limit registration would trigger government sanctions. \"We would like to be able to say, 'I'm sorry, we're not registering your dog,' but we would be in court faster than your head would spin. The Federal Trade Commission has rules and regulations in this country about restriction of trade.\"\nPlenty of dog owners reject this sort of reasoning -- and shun the blessings of American Kennel Club membership as well. The U.S. Border Collie Club is vigorously resisting AKC efforts to add border collies to the 137 breeds it formally recognizes (there are more than 300 breeds worldwide). The border- collie owners and breeders are convinced that AKC recognition would create pressure to breed the dogs for their looks at the inevitable expense of their intelligence and herding instincts. \"We are concerned that the working ability of our dogs would be completely lost,\" says Donald McCaig, a breeder in Williamsville, Virginia, and a spokesman for the club.\nThe Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club voted overwhelmingly last May to reject AKC recognition for another reason: their conviction that the AKC values its own revenues over a dog's welfare. Cavalier breeders do not allow the dogs to be sold in pet stores, which are infamous for buying animals from shady sources, including puppy mills. In fact, most dog experts routinely warn buyers not to deal with pet stores at all. The AKC insists, though, that the Cavalier club drop its prohibition as a condition of affiliation. Why would it take such a position? Perhaps because some 7% of the group's $21 million in dog-registration earnings comes from pet-store sales. \"They simply want to gain as many registrations as possible because money is power,\" says the Humane Society's Fox.\nGreed cuts both ways, of course. Six Labrador retriever breeders say they have filed a class action against the AKC and the Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model. And some owners of a relatively rare dog called the Havanese, which arrived in this country from Cuba in the mid-1970s, are actively seeking AKC recognition, despite worries by other owners that they are inviting overbreeding and genetic problems.\n\"It's a competitive world, and money talks,\" says one Havanese breeder. \"For many people, winning dog shows is a thrill and makes them proud, and the AKC has a lot of shows.\" Perhaps more to the point, once the Havanese join the high-profile AKC fold, the going rate for puppies, according to some breeders, could go as high as $2,000, up from about $750 now. On average, registered puppies go for 10 to 20 times the price of paperless dogs, and champion purebreds can sell for as much as $50,000.\nMost of these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. \"Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world,\" says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. \"They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years.\" There are \"breeds\" in the mutt world, just as there are among purebreds. The most popular: a cross between a Labrador retriever and a German shepherd.\nBut even if the U.S. cannot be cured of its addiction to purebreds -- probably a safe assumption -- there is plenty that can be done to improve overall canine health. One factor that is forcing breeders to pay closer attention to genetic problems is the emergence of puppy lemon laws in a dozen states, including New York, Massachusetts, California and Florida. If a dog is found to have a debilitating defect, owners can get a refund or a healthy dog in exchange, or they can force the breeder to pay the vet bills to repair a problem.\nThe laws are not entirely fair to breeders, though, says George Padgett, a veterinary pathologist at Michigan State University. \"Some may be penalized unfairly because no one has taught them about genetic defects.\" Agrees Penn's Dr. Donald Patterson, founder of the genetic section of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine and widely acknowledged as the dean of canine genetic research, \"The common misconception is that breeders are cavalier.\" The real problem, he says, is that they have not had the scientific information to detect hidden defects and thus avoid bad breeding decisions.\nThat is starting to change. One new tool that should prove helpful is a computerized genetic-disease data base developed at Patterson's lab that lists more than 300 genetic problems plaguing dogs. Another is the university's PennHIP program, a hip-disease-detection system that took 11 years and $1 million to develop. It involves taking detailed measurements of hip X rays to grade the severity of dysplasia. The program is being marketed by International Canine Genetics Inc., a research company based in Malverne, Pa., which is already training vets to use it. \"A tighter-fitting hip joint is better, and we now have the technology to determine which hips are tighter,\" says Dr. Gail Smith, an engineer and veterinarian who developed the test. \"This will help people select the best breeding dogs.\"\nLists and detection systems are not the same as cures, but Patterson points out that veterinary researchers are finally beginning to have some insight into the causes of these disorders. \"Canine genetic diseases,\" he says, \"are now being defined at the molecular level, and the mapping of the canine genome is at last under way.\" Scientists have located the genes that cause muscular dystrophy in golden retrievers, and \"shaking pup\" syndrome in Welsh springer spaniels. They're working on identifying the genes responsible for failure-to-thrive metabolic problems in giant Schnauzers, bleeding disorders in Scottish terriers and Doberman pinschers, and the hereditary deafness that affects about 30% of Dalmatians. And they believe hip dysplasia, the crippling condition that afflicts Jake the golden retriever and his kin, may be the result of several defective genes working in concert -- not an unusual situation with hereditary disorders.\nOn the supply side, critics of the AKC argue that the kennel club should follow the lead of its European counterparts by imposing health standards as part of its registration process. Rather than wait for that step, individual- breed clubs are taking their own action. At least three Rottweiler clubs have ruled that dogs missing more than one tooth, which can be a sign of a genetic defect, may not be bred. English springer spaniel owners are encouraging one another not to breed dogs with temperament problems; they want to eliminate what they call the \"rage syndrome,\" a type of brain seizure that makes some dogs lose control. And the Portuguese Water Dog Club requires breeders who advertise in its magazine to submit copies of hip, eye and heart clearances to prove that their dogs are not suffering from genetic defects.\nThe Portuguese Water Dog Club is perhaps the most active organization in policing genetic defects. Water dogs tend to suffer from progressive retinal atrophy, which causes blindness, and from an enzyme deficiency that can kill dogs by storing toxins in the nervous system. The club offered in 1987 to finance several researchers at major veterinary schools to develop screening tests for the diseases. The result is a blood test that found 16% of the dogs to be carriers in 1990. Club members stopped breeding the afflicted animals, and by 1993 the incidence had dropped to 7%.\nWith such grass-roots pressure, and perhaps a bit battered by bad publicity and lawsuits, the AKC has lately shown some interest in promoting this kind of research itself. In October it sponsored its first-ever canine-genetics conference, where 25 leading researchers gave talks to an audience of some 150 veterinary scientists from around the world. And during the past month there have been discussions within the club about setting up a scientific advisory panel that would recommend research projects the club might support. If the ancient American Kennel Club is finally thinking of altering its culture, there may yet be hope for the family dog.\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... reeds.html\nBBC could drop Crufts over unhealthy 'freak show' breeds\nBy JONATHAN MARGOLIS and FIONA MACRAE\nhe BBC could stop showing Crufts after a documentary exposed the diseases and deformities suffered by many of Britain's 5million pedigree dogs.\nDecades of inbreeding and the demands of the show circuit have resulted in a legacy of life-threatening ills, from agonising brain conditions to epilepsy, heart murmurs and cancers.\nThe golden retriever, the cavalier King Charles spaniel, the boxer, the Pekingese, the bulldog and the pug are among the breeds plagued by disease and deformity as a result of breeders 'playing God with dogs', tonight's programme claims.\nWith purebreds accounting for three-quarters of Britain's 7million pet dogs, their catalogue of health problems is costing their owners more than \u00a310million in vets' fees every week.\nSo shocking are some of the scenes in the documentary - including a boxer having an epileptic fit and a King Charles spaniel writhing in agony because its skull is too small for its brain - that the BBC is considering ending its 42-year connection with Crufts.\nThere is even speculation that the Queen, well known for her love of dogs, could cut her ties with the Kennel Club, which runs Crufts and sets the standards for the 200 or so breeds of pedigree dog.\nMark Evans, the RSPCA's chief vet, said: 'When I watch Crufts, what I see is a parade of mutants. It's some freakish, garish beauty pageant that has nothing, frankly, to do with health and welfare.\nBBC ban? Decades of inbreeding have resulted in a legacy of life-threatening ills\n'We've become completely and utterly desensitised to the fact that breeding these deformed, disabled, disease-prone animals is either shocking or abnormal.'\nThe BBC1 documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed, to be shown at 9pm, is the result of a two-year investigation into the breeding and show circuits. It highlights the health problems suffered by many of our favourite pets.\nVets describe how virtually all cavalier King Charles spaniels develop life-threatening heart murmurs.\nAnd a third have syringomyelia, an agonising condition caused by them being bred with skulls too small for their brains.\nVeterinary neurologist Clare Rusbridge said: 'The cavalier's brain is like a size ten foot that has been shoved into a size six shoe; it doesn't fit.\n'It is described in humans as one of the most painful conditions you can have, a piston-type headache. Even a light touch - a collar, for example - can induce discomfort.\n'If you took a stick and beat a dog to create that pain, you'd be prosecuted. But there's nothing to stop you breeding a dog with it.'\nThe programme says the drive for perfection has left golden retrievers prone to cancer, labradors with joint and eye problems, West Highland terriers beset with allergies and boxers at high risk of heart disease, epilepsy and cancer.\nPugs are so inbred that although there are 10,000 in Britain, their DNA could come from just 50.\nThe Pekingese's squashed face causes breathing difficulties that lead to some airlines refusing to fly them.\nSo serious are the breathing problems that Danny, the 2003 Crufts winner, sat on an ice pack while being photographed afterwards to stop him overheating.\nTo ensure desirable traits are passed on, male dogs are being mated with their own daughters, sisters and granddaughters.\nSteve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London, said: 'If dog breeders insist on going further down that road, I can say with confidence that there is a universe of suffering waiting for many of these breeds and many, if not most, will not survive.'\nThe Kennel Club said it worked hard 'to eliminate from breed standards any exaggerations that might cause problems'.\nClub secretary Caroline Kisko said many of the health problems have their roots in Victorian times and inbreeding was an 'essential tool' in the development of breeds.\nThe organisation runs a range of health testing schemes and is funding the development of genetic tests. 'Ninety per cent of purebred dogs are healthy,' she said.\nEamon Hardy, the documentary's executive producer, said: 'In light of this programme, the BBC will request a meeting with the Kennel Club to discuss the implications and potential impact of the film.'\nBuckingham Palace said it could not comment on speculation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 41899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pittsfield.com/blog/462/North-Adams-Man-Arraigned-on-Child-Porn-Charges.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2JTVLVYDDK7A4GFKJUHTTGLDRK2ZDLZ4", "length": 1771, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pittsfield.com", "title": "North Adams Man Arraigned on Child Porn Charges / Pittsfield.com", "raw_content": "PITTSFIELD, Mass. \u2014 David B. Harris of North Adams was arraigned on Wednesday in Berkshire Superior Court on single counts of possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.\nHe had not-guilty pleas entered on his behalf before Judge Daniel Ford. He was released on $2,500 bail.\nThe 66-year-old former headmaster was arrested July 18, 2010, after police executed a search warrant at his Marion Avenue home. Police say they found USB drives with pornographic materials and a laptop with links to pornographic sites involving young boys. He is alleged to have disseminated child pornography on Jan. 24, 2010, and to be in possession of the materials on July 18.\nState police detectives assigned to the district attorney's office had been conducting a two months-long investigation, with assistance from both the Massachusetts and New York Internet Crimes Against Children task forces, as well as state police with the Middlesex district attorney's office and with the New York attorney general's office.\nThe Middlesex and New York police were involved because Harris was head of school for the Cambridge Montessori School, a private school for children from preschool to ninth grade, in Cambridge until his arrest and a trustee of one New York private school and former headmaster of another. He spent a decade as headmaster at Pine Cobble School in Williamstown until leaving in 2000.\nWhen does his trial start?\nMotor Vehicle Accident Heroin Robbery Fraud Stabbing Murder Missing Persons Firearms Police Investigation Shooting Fatal Pedestrians Fire Armed Robbery Vehicle Homicide Police Injuries Buglaries Drug Charges Mvi Motor Vehicle Rape Crime Watch Search Larceny Structure Fire Scam Hit & Run Break-ins Assaults Veremko Assault Drugs Accident", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://plasmadolphin.com/a-monument-of-girl.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:29:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AL4IKMEAXDROG7PJGGEJFOCBERK4UQMX", "length": 3467, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "plasmadolphin.com", "title": "a monument of girl", "raw_content": "A MONUMENT OF GIRL\nwords by FRANKIE BARNET\nillustrations by CELESTE CARES\nI am walking alone when I see a man and woman eating out each other\u2019s ice cream cones by the museum. I think, is that my boyfriend? That looks like my boyfriend only much happier!\nAnother time a photograph of a different girl falls out of my boyfriend\u2019s book bag while I\u2019m cleaning. She has legs wide open and my boyfriend says, \u201cgive me that!\u201d\nI tell my boyfriend that I do not understand. \u201cWhat do you see in them?\u201d I ask, these other girls.\nHe cries, \u201cI like Vanessa\u2019s hair but I don\u2019t like liking Vanessa\u2019s hair. I like Ruby\u2019s personality, but I don\u2019t like liking Ruby\u2019s personality.\u201d\n\u201cYou!\u201d My boyfriend rips the photograph into pieces. He says he wants to kiss me. He wants to hold me in his arms. He wants me to wrap his legs around him, the way I like. My boyfriend is so close to me, that thickness I am familiar with. \u201cWell, I want to want to,\u201d he says. He shrugs.\nWe decide as a couple that it\u2019s best for my boyfriend to move into the living room because trying to love me has become too hard on his stomach. \u201cYou remind me of other girls,\u201d he says, \u201cthe ones I am trying to ween off of.\u201d\nOne morning he visits me in the bedroom with tears in his eyes. \u201cLast night,\u201d he says, \u201cI had a dream that I loved you. I dreamt we were back at my aunt\u2019s house in New Hampshire, watching deer from the window. Do you remember that? It was raining and you wore only a robe.\u201d\nI look at his face. He\u2019s never had another one in his life. That\u2019s my boyfriend\u2019s face! That\u2019s my boyfriend body, the arms and legs and torso he lives inside of. \u201cWhen I woke up,\u201d he says, \u201cI still loved you. But then the real day sunk in and I remembered that I do love you.\u201d\nMy boyfriend and I met years ago at the university. Him and I 69ed on a sheepskin rug I kept as an homage to my late poodle, then looked into each other\u2019s eyes and said, \u201cso\u2026 what are we?\u201d He told me about when his mother died from a disease in her lungs and that he missed her very much. I shared my own minute and boring details of longings that were not quite possible to articulate. My boyfriend said that he was very sad. I held his hand and said, \u201cme too, ever since I was a little girl.\u201d Then he held his elbow over his face and started to cry. I thought, I\u2019m going to be sad for the rest of my life.\n\u201cWhat?\u201d my friends always ask. \u201cDid his father want to love his mother or something?\u201d\nI wait for my boyfriend to come home at night. I take a shower and every single noise I hear, every creak in the floor, I think that it is my boyfriend. I turn the water off, still draped in lather, to listen for it is my boyfriend but it is never my boyfriend.\nI try on all the sexy things I have in my closet, slipping into the delicate lace and imagining that my boyfriend can see me, look at me the way that boyfriends look at girlfriends, wide eyed as if my body is truly something to behold, a monument of girl. I have been loving my boyfriend for so long and I do it all by myself. Nobody is helping me, I think, not even my boyfriend. I carry it all alone.\nIt is so late and my boyfriend is not here, he is out there, where the girls are rampant, an epidemic. It is so late he must be drinking. The girls too, are drunk, stumbling home and spinning in their beds because they\u2019ve met a boy who likes them back.\nThe love is thick, heavy and it has made me strong. Do not text him, do not text him. But I am so strong I can do whatever I want.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 4054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://playingwithcrayons.blogg.se/2011/october/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:R7MAH77OF4VPDH3VZ5BIVYMW6YIR6D2E", "length": 20, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "playingwithcrayons.blogg.se", "title": "playingwithcrayons - october 2011", "raw_content": "You had me at hello,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 859, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 66.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://plus.06880danwoog.com/?page=10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SYUR6PBFD5TQW6HXWPY6ZXDOMF232XMO", "length": 9175, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "plus.06880danwoog.com", "title": "06880+", "raw_content": "Simon Mulligan with the Simon Mulligan Trio\nThe Westport Arts Center is excited to close its 2017-18 Concert Series with a unique program by Simon Mulligan with the Simon Mulligan Trio on Friday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Arts Center. Acclaimed British pianist Simon Mulligan has been described by The Times of London as \u201cthe most abundantly gifted of pianists\u201d and by Herbie Hancock as \u201cphenomenal.\u201d Mulligan is also known for his collaborations with many notable artists. He has performed for President Barack Obama, Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family, and has collaborated with Dame Shirley Bassey, Branford Marsalis, Liza Minnelli, Van Morrison, and Sting. The Simon Mulligan Trio includes Gene Perla on double bass and Alan Korzin on drums. For this performance, Mulligan with the Simon Mulligan Trio will perform a program that traverses the worlds of Jazz and Classical music with selections from Mozart, Debussy and Chopin as well as a unique interpretation of the George Gershwin Songbook.\nThe concert will take place in the context of the visually stunning Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art exhibition at the Westport Arts Center, featuring the works of over 15 female artists with a focus on fiber and textile arts. Artists of note include Lesley Dill, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Judith Scott, and Beverly Semmes.\nThe Arts Center thanks David & Joyce Thompson and the late Howard J. Aibel for their generous support. We also thank WSHU for their ongoing media sponsorship.\nWAC Member Purchased in Advance: $40\nNon-Member Purchased in Advance: $50\nMembers & Non-Members at Door: $60\nSenior Ticket: Each ticket purchase of $50 includes one complimentary ticket (Two-for-one), for ages 65+\nPosted by Adriana Reis on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 11:35 AM | 0 comments\nExplore the exciting possibilities this summer break with Summer Camp at the Westport Arts Center! Get creative, innovative, and have fun through the arts by choosing from a catalog of unique and contemporary weeklong workshops.\nWith everything from mixed media studios to themed courses delving into graffiti, design, and culture, each workshop will include hands-on projects and a new way to look at art.\nWith options for the traditional art enthusiast and the current pre-teen, this year\u2019s summer line-up is sure to offer something for everyone!\nClasses will stimulate your child\u2019s problem solving skills and invigorate their imagination through diverse materials. Your child will practice thinking creatively and critically! All workshops offer something for everyone ages 4-12.\nRegistration fees vary based on materials costs.\nVisit our website to register\nPosted by Adriana Reis on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 9:24 AM | 0 comments\n\u201c1968: The Year That Changed A Nation\u201d with Jean Bennett - Lecture at Weston Historical Society\nThe Weston Historical Society announces a three-lecture series as part of its exhibit: Life in the Sixties. First up is\u201c1968: The Year That Changed A Nation\u201d, conducted by educator Jean Hofheimer Bennett on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 7:30pm at The Weston Historical Society, 104 Weston Road, Weston, CT. Bennett takes an in-depth look at this tumultuous year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK and escalating anti-Vietnam War tensions. Her lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with several high school students; \u201cSixties Activists and The Activists of Today \u2013 Lessons Learned\u201d.\nThere are two more lectures scheduled: \u201cThe War Back Home \u2013 Vietnam & Life in the 60s\u201d with Captain Nathan Clason, United States Military Academy on Wednesday, May 23, and a panel discussion with Vietnam Veterans on Wednesday, May 30. All lectures are free.\nThe Weston Historical Society\u2019sLife in the Sixtiesexhibit is open to the public on Thursdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. during May and June.\nFor more information visit www.westonhistoricalsociety.org\nPosted by Susan Moran on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 9:57 AM | 0 comments\nThere's a new organizer in town!\nHi, I'm Nancy Hanze, Chief Organizer at Hanze-On-Organizing. I'd love to help you tackle your home or office organizing projects. I've lived in small places--a tiny Manhattan studio--and big spaces, like my current home in southwestern Connecticut. I know how challenging it is to be organized--and stay organized--no matter how much space you have (or don't have), and I firmly believe that clean, uncluttered spaces create clean, uncluttered minds that result in dramatically reduced stress. Please give me a call at 917 613 7582 or email me at nancy@hanze-on-organizing.com. Or visit my website at hanze-on-organizing.com.\nPosted by Nancy Hanze on Friday, April 27, 2018 at 4:06 PM | 0 comments\nREMINDER: WWC opens Art Show this weekend\nPosted by Anne Hunt on Monday, April 23, 2018 at 2:39 PM | 0 comments\n\u201cMusic of the 60s: America\u2019s Unique Music\u2026 a Time of Change\u201d All-Star Panel Discussion\nAn all-star panel discussion, \"Music of the 60s: America's Unique Music... A Time of Change\", will be held at the Weston Historical Society, 104 Weston Road, Weston, CT on Saturday, May 5th from 7:30pm - 10:30pm. Seven highly successful local professional musicians will take part: singer/songwriter Warren Bloom, music producer/engineer Rob Fraboni, music manager Susan Feliciano, 60s rock photographer Michael Friedman, vocalist Vaneese Thomas, drummer David Weber, and writer/blogger Dan Woog. The discussion, conducted in a town hall format with audience Q&A, will be moderated by Old School Productions' Roger Kaufman.\nThis once-in-a-lifetime gathering is part of The Weston Historical Society's exhibit, Life in the Sixties. Beverages and snacks will be provided. Suggested donation for this event is: $25 members, $30 non-members. For more information, or to purchase tickets go to www.westonhistoricalsociety.org.\nThe Life in the Sixties exhibit is open to the public on Thursdays and Sundays from 2pm - 4 pm in May and June.\nPosted by Susan Moran on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 8:24 PM | 0 comments\nMusic for Youth Benefit - Celebrate Music\nCelebrate Music for Youth\nA Benefit Concert featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Alex Beyer and cellist Sasha Scolnik-Brower to support MFY's Outreach programs in Bridgeport\nUnitarian Church in Westport, 10 Lyons Rd. Sunday, May 6th at 5 pm.\nWine and cheese reception to follow concert\nJoin us in what will be an evening to remember. Alex Beyer and Sasha Scolnik-Brower will share the stage with the finalists of the Marianne Liberatore Scholarship Competition; Julian Shively, cello; Madison Howard, cello; and Cameron Chase, violin. The program will include the Brahms Piano Trio, Gerswhin Preludes and the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata. The benefit will support the MFY scholarship and outreach programs in the Bridgeport Schools. A light wine reception will follow the performance. For more information about the event go to: www.musicforyouth.net/benefit-concert-2018\nTickets start at $75, $50 for adults, $30 for Seniors and $10 for students. SIGNIFICANT DISCOUNT FOR TICKETS PURCHASED BEFORE APRIL 15th!\nWe hope you'll be able to join us for this very special concert in May!\nPosted by Music for Youth on Friday, April 13, 2018 at 7:32 AM | 0 comments\nOh, My Aching Back! \u2013 A Community Education Program presented by HSS\nIn the U.S., back pain is the second leading symptom driving patients to their doctor\u2019s office. Degenerative conditions of the spine can lead to chronic pain with sporadic bouts of more severe pain.\nJoin us for a comprehensive talk that will address:\n\u00b7 who to see for the pain associated with degenerative spine conditions\n\u00b7 options for managing back pain\n\u00b7 the role of physical therapy in preventing and treating back pain\nWHEN: Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm\nSPEAKERS: Christine Lynders, PT, OCS, CAFS and Steven J. McAnany, MD\nTo register please visit www.hss.edu/pped or for more information, contact Pamela Villagomez at 203.705.2956 or email at villagomezp@hss.edu.\nPosted by Pamela Villagomez on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:13 AM | 0 comments\nPlant it and they will come: Creating a Bird Friendly Landscape\nJoin us on Thursday, April 5 7PM at Earthplace to hear Kim Eierman on creating a bird friendly landscape.\nAttracting birds to your landscape requires an ecological approach. Learn the best landscaping techniques and native plants that provide food, shelter and nesting sites. It\u2019s part of the Earthplace Environmental Learning Series. Free\nPosted by Earthplace on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 4:51 PM | 0 comments\nTemple Israel Presents Concert by \ufeffIsraeli Jazz Band Sha\u2019ar\nIsraeli Jazz band Sha\u2019ar presents the music of Yedidia Admon, Israel\u2019s most famous unknown composer. Sha\u2019ar has rediscovered Admon's work through the lens of their diverse backgrounds and experience playing improvised music. It is certain to be an evening of exploration and discovery of the work and life of one of Israel\u2019s most important composers and songwriters. (Temple Israel, 14 Coleytown Rd., Westport)\nPosted by Bonnie Dubson on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 11:16 AM | 0 comments\nEmail: adriana@westportartscenter.org\nNancy Hanze\nEmail: nancy@hanze-on-organizing.com\nEmail: bdubson@tiwestport.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 12770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://poica.org/2014/02/?arcf=cat:23", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4SAXQVH6NZWGNWAUVKLGZUUX24KVOMQ", "length": 434, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "poica.org", "title": "February 2014 \u2013 POICA", "raw_content": "February 28, 2014 Throughout the years of occupation of the Palestinian territory, Israel has engaged in excessive and disproportionate violations of every existing humanitarian code and routinely employed its efforts\nFebruary 9, 2014 Throughout the years of occupation of the Palestinian territory, Israel has engaged in excessive and disproportionate violations of every existing humanitarian code and routinely employed its efforts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 10389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://poisonarrowblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/lion-king-3d-roaring-success-rawr.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SHIIEASQNN2AOORXYI5YPGGQNGR4RZZD", "length": 1687, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "poisonarrowblog.blogspot.com", "title": "Maureen Walshes Poison Arrow Blog!: Lion King 3d! Roaring Success! Rawr!", "raw_content": "Got to see a special preview/premiere showing of the Lion King 3d yesterday (2nd of Oct)! Woohoo! It's not officially released until the 7th! I have to say, even without the 3d, seeing the Lion King back up on the big screen was fantastic! What a great idea Disney!\nHaving said that, I don't even think they knew themselves just how successful it was going to be! It earned a whopping 30million on its first week release in the U.S. and an impressive 22.1million its second week! It has currently in total, made a whopping 847.7million in its existence, and if it makes a mere 48million more (which is very achievable with the numbers so far, considering it hasn't even been officially released in Ireland/Europe yet) it will comfortably enter the top 20 largest grossing movies of all time!\nA photo of me just after coming out of the movie\nAs for the 3d, it wasn't full on, which was great. It merely added to the film. I remember trying to explain 3d to someone when it first came out and simply put I said \"it's like the difference between digital HD TV and regular TV... it's not massively different, but you really do enjoy what you're watching more\". Some 3d is over the top, distracting and frankly sometimes uncomfortable to watch! I really don't think that's what 3d should be about. It should enhance the film, but not to the extent that it disturbs your enjoyment of watch you're watching or distracts you from the story etc. The Lion King got it spot on. Visually beautiful (as before) with an added touch of magic. Really nicely done. Well done Disney! Looking forward to possible future 3d releases perhaps? Fingers crossed!\nLabels: 3d, disney, lion king, premiere, preview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=4016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7LHCXRJW6CBMDSEH7HCH2BXD33LAL3E", "length": 6143, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "policyconsult.cpso.on.ca", "title": "A Proposal to Add Information to the Public Register: Criminal Code and Health Insurance Act Offences, and Certain Bail Conditions (Consultation Closed) | CPSO", "raw_content": "A Proposal to Add Information to the Public Register: Criminal Code and Health Insurance Act Offences, and Certain Bail Conditions (Consultation Closed)\nProposed By-Law: Adding Criminal Code and Health Insurance Act Offences and Bail Conditions to the Public Register\nThe College is proposing amendments to Section 49.(1) of the General By-Law, which sets out what information about members is included on the public register.\nIn particular, the College is proposing that the following information about members be included on the public register:\nFindings of guilt\nWhat do patients need to know about their physicians in order to make informed choices? That is the test that is being applied as the College examines which categories of information should be posted on our public register as part of our ongoing work on Transparency.\nThe College is working together with other health regulators in considering making additional information publicly available about the health-care professionals that we regulate.\nTransparency provides members of the public with information that enables them to decide who they wish to see for care. It also allows the College to demonstrate how we protect the public through our processes.\nView the proposed by-law amendment in relation to Criminal Code and Health Insurance Act Offences\nView the proposed by-law amendment in relation to certain Bail Conditions\nThe College is also proposing adding a new by-law provision to Section 51.(1) of the General By-Law to require members to report bail conditions to the College. A further by-law amendment is being proposed to permit the College to exclude any information that, if made public, would violate a publication ban, in connection with the posting of offences and/or bail conditions.\nView the proposed by-law and amendments\nTogether, the proposed by-law and amendments are being circulated for external consultation.\nWe are inviting feedback from all stakeholders, including members of the medical profession, the public, health system organizations and other health professionals on the draft by-laws.\n1.Criminal Code and Health Insurance Act Offences\nCouncil has approved an external consultation on a proposed amendment to the College\u2019s General By-Law that, if passed, will require the College to post on its public register reported findings of guilt made against physicians under the Criminal Code and reported findings of offences made under the Health Insurance Act, and the following parameters will apply:\nOnly findings of guilt made after someone becomes a member are included;\nOnly findings of guilt made after the by-law comes into effect are included (the by-law sets out the date of June 1, 2015, for certainty and clarity);\nThe by-law provides for a brief summary of the finding to be included;\nA notation that a decision is under appeal will be included;\nThe sentence will be included\nPhysicians are currently obligated to file a report in writing with the Registrar if they are found guilty of an offence, as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving notice of the finding, in accordance with the requirements of Section 85.6.1 of the Health Professions Procedural Code. In addition, on the Annual Renewal Form, members are required to answer whether they \u201chave been charged with any offence in Canada or elsewhere.\u201d\nThis information would be added to the public register once we have confirmed accuracy.\nIn addition, in accordance with our usual practices, a criminal finding is assessed by the College\u2019s Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee to determine whether a referral to the Discipline Committee ought to be made in circumstances where the finding may be relevant to the physician\u2019s suitability to practise medicine.\n2. Certain Bail Conditions\nCouncil has approved an external consultation on a proposed amendment to the College\u2019s General By-Law that, if passed, will require the College to post on its public register current bail conditions when they affect a physician\u2019s right to practise in an unrestricted way. For example, a condition of release that prohibits a member from attending at a hospital where he or she has privileges would be posted; a condition that the member have no contact with a neighbour would not. Given the nature and purpose of the restrictions to be posted, it follows that only current bail conditions will be posted pending trial, and/or pending appeal.\nUnlike physicians\u2019 current obligations in respect of reporting criminal charges and findings, physicians are not currently required to report bail conditions to the College. We are therefore proposing to add to the Annual Renewal Form a question as to whether the member currently has any terms of release relating to criminal or provincial offence charges, or appeal therefrom, that relate to the member\u2019s practice.\nIn addition, we are proposing a new by-law provision that will require members to notify the College in writing outside of the annual renewal cycle, as soon as reasonably practical after any bail restrictions are imposed or are varied throughout the criminal process.\nIt is possible that some criminal findings and/or bail conditions could include information that is subject to a publication ban. Given that the public register-related provisions, if adopted, would have the effect of designating the above-mentioned offences and certain bail conditions as public, we are proposing an amendment to Section 50.1(1) of the General By-Law to permit us to exclude from the public register any information that would violate a publication ban.\nThe College\u2019s Executive Committee and Council will carefully consider your comments before making any decisions about the proposed by-law changes. We will consider the extent to which your suggestions or comments represent the expectations of the profession, and are consistent with our public interest mandate. If, after consultation, the by-laws are passed by Council, notification and a copy of the finalized by-law will be posted on this page as well as the College\u2019s website.\nWe value your feedback and thank you for participating in our by-law amendment review process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://politicalscience.case.edu/2018/10/08/october-8-2018-newsletter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JVMVDXFCH4VP6KGQJD7RWHRCJKHASY5I", "length": 8888, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "politicalscience.case.edu", "title": "October 8, 2018 Newsletter \u2013 Department of Political Science", "raw_content": "Within a month, US voters will go to the polls to vote. Citizens will participate in elections for all 435 US House seats, and for 35 Senate seats (two special elections, in Minnesota and in Mississippi, and 33 regular Senate elections, one of which is here in Ohio). In addition, all six major Ohio statewide offices are up for election, as well as statehouse representatives, Ohio Supreme Court Justices and other judgeship races, local ballot initiatives, and Issue 1, concerning a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution to Reduce Penalties for Crimes of Obtaining, Possessing, and Using Illegal Drugs. Citizens of the Buckeye State get to weigh in on a large number of elected positions and a large number of issues. This year is no exception.\nThe deadline to register to vote \u2013 an absolute qualifying criterion for participating in the general elections \u2013 is Tuesday, October 9. If you are not registered to vote in Ohio, you cannot cast a ballot on November 6.\nHow do persons in Ohio register to vote? The Ohio Secretary of State\u2019s office has information about voter registration here. For CWRU students who wish to vote where they live, they can register to vote by stopping by CWRU\u2019s Center for Civic Engagement (CCEL) on the first floor of the Tinkham Veale University Center.\nStudents can also arrange to register online, using the CCEL website or the Secretary of State\u2019s website. To register online, you must have an Ohio driver\u2019s license and a US Social Security number. To register in person, you do not need to have an Ohio driver\u2019s license or a photo ID; see the Secretary of State\u2019s webpage here for the necessary identification documents.\nCCEL also notes that any student can go to their Residential Life Area Office to get a copy of a CWRU residence hall utility bill that proves that the student lives here; utility bills with the name and address of an Ohio resident suffice to fulfill the voter identification requirements of Ohio. For those who hope to register by mail, note that CCEL will mail voter registration forms completed by today (October 5); CCEL will provide free postage stamps for today\u2019s mailing, as well as providing free stamps for those who intend to mail their registration forms on their own.\nStudents can also register to vote by going to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections:\nGet Directions to Cuyahoga County Board of Elections\nE-mail: electioninfo@cuyahogacounty.us\nWebsite: boe.cuyahogacounty.us\nWhat if you live out of state? CCEL shares the following information:\n\u201cOut-of-state students can register to vote in the State of Ohio using their school address, if they affirm that they intend on living in the state. As the US Supreme Court ruled in 1979, this is entirely at their discretion, and they do not need to provide proof of this intention, nor are they in any legal jeopardy if they later change their mind and move elsewhere from the Ohio school they\u2019re attending. For more information on establishing residency in Ohio, please refer to the Student Voting Guide. If you are a US citizen, but not originally from the state of Ohio, you can also choose to register to vote in your home state.\u201d\nWhy vote? Few US citizens participate in the midterm elections. In general, voter turnout is lower in the US than in other developed democracies. US voter turnout is particularly low in midterm elections, which have less information and less media coverage than do elections in a presidential election year. See herefor detailed information about voter turnout in the US between 1916 and 2016. Although Ohioans are relatively highly ranked among voters who participate in presidential elections (where, in a swing state, Buckeyes are subject to intensive campaign advertising and multiple visits by presidential candidates), the Ohio record for voter turnout in the 2014 midterm elections was 36.2%. Voter turnout in 2014 nationwide was the lowest recorded turnout in midterm elections since 1942.\nYounger voters now constitute a larger number of eligible voters than do \u201cbaby boomers\u201d and older voters, but younger voters turn out to vote at a much lower rate.\nIt is often said that those who don\u2019t vote in an election don\u2019t get to complain about the outcome. More accurately, however, is the reality that those who don\u2019t vote in an election will nonetheless experience the results, sometimes only for the brief election cycle but sometimes for the remainder of their adult lives. For example, the US Congress, constitutionally empowered with the sole authority to regulate bankruptcy law, chose to exclude student loans from bankruptcy protections. The Student Loan Borrowers Bill of Rights Act of 2017was introduced in the House in July 2017, but no action has been taken on the bill. It is worth noting that this kind of legislation, important to students, is being proposed post-Amendment XXVI, an amendment that enfranchised everyone eighteen years of age and older. For nearly half a century, young adults have been included in our national and state electorates \u2013 but some of us can remember being excluded from voting on the basis of our age, even as some of us were being drafted and sent to war. Who holds office makes a difference in policy terms, and voting still determines who holds office.\nMaking Sense of It All. The Department of Political Science will be convening to watch the impact of the 2018 vote. We will hold our biennial Election Night Watch Party on November 6, starting at 7:00pm. Please join us in Mather House 100 for pizza, political science commentary, and some political perspective. I look forward to seeing you there!\nOctober 8, 12-1:30pm, The City Club of Cleveland\nThe City Club Discusses both sides of Issue 1: To Reduce Penalties for Crimes of Obtaining, Possessing, and Using Illegal Drugs. Nonmember tickets are $37.\n51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of Constitutional Law\nOctober 9, 4:30-5:30pm, The CWRU Law School, Moot Courtroom\nThe Honorable Jeffery Sutton, former judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, discusses how American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state courts and state constitutions, together with the federal courts and the federal constitution, in protecting individual liberties. The event is free and open to the public.\nOctober 9, 7:30-8:45pm, Happy Dog 5081 Detroit Road\nJoin the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, the City Club of Cleveland, Global Cleveland, International Partners in Mission, and the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies (NOCMES) for a conversation on the evolving state of immigration, why women and children from El Salvador and Nicaragua flee to the U.S., and how the proposed changes to immigration legislation affects those seeking a new home.\nThe Myths and Realities of Wrongful Convictions in Popular Culture\nOctober 10, 7pm, Landmark Centre Building\nAuthor Jennifer Thompson will discuss her memoir, Picking Cotton, which recounts her experience as a rape survivor in the judicial system and the wrongful conviction of the man she identified as her rapist. Ms. Thompson will also discuss her work since then for both rape victims and those falsely accused of rape and other crimes. Event is free, advanced registration is recommended.\nAfter the Storm: The Future of Philanthropy and Investment in Puerto Rico\nOctober 11, 12pm, The City Club of Cleveland\nWhere does Puerto Rico go from here? How can leaders attract more philanthropic investment to a region of the U.S. that, while entirely comprised of American citizens, is often seen as foreign? And what preparations are being made in anticipation of this year\u2019s hurricane season? Nonmember tickets are $37.\nLives and Livelihoods under Occupation: Israeli Policies & Practices in the Opt\nThe presentation will discuss the impacts of restrictions on family unification, collective punishment, resource exploitation, and other policies used by Israel in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Cases will be examined in light of Israel\u2019s duties as occupying power under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The event is free and open to the public.\nNational Fellowships and Scholarships Information Session\nOctober 10, 4-5pm, Sears Building Room 447\nThe session will cover eligibility requirements and application processes for the Boren, Fulbright, Goldwater, Marshall, Rhodes and Truman scholarships/fellowships, as well as many others. Learn what it takes to win one of these prestigious awards. For more information, visit the Undergraduate Studies website.\nThe JET Program offers post-graduate job opportunities in Japan. Numerous POSC alumni have participated in this program. Applications accepted this fall.\nCheck out this article by Jonathan Entin: \u201cRuth Bader Ginsburg helped shape the modern era of women\u2019s rights \u2013 before she went on the Supreme Court\u201c", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 18019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pomohh.forumotion.com/t62-herakles-kd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UN2GPXS2XP6EXNWXJTFKFAM3VA6KSRW4", "length": 140, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "pomohh.forumotion.com", "title": "Herakles KD", "raw_content": "Subject: Herakles KD Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:47 am\nExcellent new member, and is one of the best in the clan, would be great for an elite line-up", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pravasi.us/varthaFull.php?newsId=85471", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:57Z", "digest": "sha1:RVM2535TKTKD3YERRT5CQURUGLEPGXLM", "length": 12520, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "pravasi.us", "title": "emalayalee.com - Barnabas Edit : The War of the Cross", "raw_content": "Barnabas Edit : The War of the Cross\nWhen ISIS changed its name in June from \u201cthe Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\u201d (ISIL, or the Arabic acronym ISIS) to simply \u201cthe Islamic State\u201d, this was a shift of enormous theological and eschatological significance.\nTHE CALIPHATE AND THE CALIPH\nThe Islamic State, or Caliphate (khilafa in Arabic) as the group has proclaimed, denotes the early Islamic state under Muhammad\u2019s first successors, the Caliphs. It is considered by Muslims to be the God-ordained ideal form of Islamic government under which a pious head of state rules the whole Muslim community (umma) under Islamic law (sharia). This is viewed as the golden age of Islam, to be re-created whenever possible. The term is sometimes extended to all Islamic states with caliphs at their heads (the last being the Ottoman Caliphate abolished in 1924). It symbolises the unity of the Muslim umma, even when this does not match reality. All contemporary Islamist movements are dedicated to restoring the Caliphate.\nAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, declared himself Caliph on 29 June 2014, claiming therefore to be the leader of all Muslims on earth. He says he is a sayyid, that is, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, thereby fulfilling one of the original Sunni requirements for the Caliph to be from Muhammad\u2019s tribe.\nRELIGIOUS MOTIVES AND THEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION\nMuch of Islamic theology is derived not from the Quran but from traditions (hadith) recording the words and deeds of Muhammad (his sunna), which are seen as a pattern for all Muslims to follow.\nA helpful letter by British imams and Muslim leaders appeared in The Independentnewspaper yesterday, in which they urged ISIS to release British aid worker Alan Henning and expressed horror and revulsion at the recent murder of another British aid worker, David Haines. They wrote that \u201cthe senseless kidnapping, murder and now the despicable threats to Mr Henning at the hands of so-called \"Muslims\" cannot be justified anywhere in the Quran and the Sunnah (Prophetic traditions).\u201d The Islamic State, however, can quote selected Islamic source texts from the Quran and hadith or sunna to justify what it is doing.\nAs we have seen, the Islamic State\u2019s main immediate purpose is to establish a radical Islamist Sunni Caliphate across the Middle East. After that its stated targets are Rome and Spain. Rome is apparently used as a symbolic centre of Christianity, while Spain has been \u201cunfinished business\u201d for Muslims ever since they finally lost control of it in the late 15th century. As one hadith says:\nAllah's Apostle said, \"I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah. \u2013 Sahih al-Bukhari (Vol. 1, Book 8, No. 387)\nthe Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah (Sahih Muslim Book 1, No. 30)\nThe Islamic State takes these hadiths as meaning that it should wage jihad until everyone on earth makes the Islamic declaration of faith, the shahada: \u201cThere is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.\u201d\nThe Islamic State has gained worldwide attention for carrying out executions, amputations, crucifixions and lashings in public squares. The bodies are left on display for several days as a warning. The group finds a theological justification for these acts in the Quran. For example:\nThe punishment of those who wage war against God and His Apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land. \u2013 Q 5:36 (A. Yusuf Ali\u2019s translation)\nOn Friday 18 July 2014 the Islamic State gave Christians in Mosul an ultimatum: convert to Islam, pay the jizya tax (the traditional Islamic tax payable by non-Muslims, indicative of their subjugated and inferior status in an Islamic state), leave Mosul, or be killed. To concentrate the Christians\u2019 minds, Islamic State fighters sprayed the Arabic letter \"Noon\" (?) on the believers' homes to mark them out as targets. This is the first letter of the Arabic word for \u201cNazarenes\u201d i.e. Christians.\nOn their way out of the town 1,500 families of Mosul's Christian population were robbed at the Islamic State checkpoints. This also followed a Quranic command.\nFight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth (even if they are) of the People of the Book until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued. \u2013 Q: 9:29 (A. Yusuf Ali\u2019s translation)\nTHE END TIMES AND THE FINAL BATTLE\nThe Islamic State\u2019s flag is black with the shahada written upon it in white. The colour of the flag is in line with an End-Times prophecy in Islam. One hadith says:\nWhen you see that black flags have appeared from Khorasan then join them. Because Allah\u2019s Khalifa Mahdi will be among them. (Musnad Ahmed, vol. 8, No. 2427)\nThe hadiths speak of a black-flagged army that will rise out of Khorasan (which is modern-day Afghanistan) and that will be led by the Mahdi (an Islamic End-Times messiah figure) who brings with him the restored Caliphate. By using the black banner and proclaiming a Caliphate, the Islamic State is making itself the fulfilment of these End-Times prophecies.\nAnother important eschatological point that frames the deeds of the Islamic State is the belief among some Muslims that the Islamic Age will only last for a little over 1,400 years. Some Islamic scholars have calculated 1,500 years or even 1,900 years, but for those who use the 1,400+ figure, the end of the world is likely to take place very soon. According to the Islamic Calendar (a lunar calendar of 354 days per year, starting in 632 AD), it is already the year 1435. One hadith says:\nPeople will gather around the Mahdi in the fourteen hundreds, (Risalat Khuraj Al-Mahdi, p. 108) and another:\nCount two or three decades after 1400 Hijri. At that time, the Mahdi emerges...(Qalda bin Zayd bin Baraka, Asma Masalik Li Ayyam Al-Mahdi: Malik Li Kul Al-Dunya Bi Amr Allah El-Malik, p. 216)\nThe Islamic State sees itself in this light, playing a key role in the End Times in fulfilment of many prophecies, when all the enemies of Islam (particularly Christians) will be defeated. Even the name of its magazine, Dabiq, reflects this. The Islamic State is preparing for what it calls \u201cthe war of the cross\u201d, an apocalyptic confrontation with the West. The group's priority is to defend the \u201cPrince of the Faithful\u201d, their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Its fighters are reported to be in a state of euphoria because they are finally going to get the opportunity to fight \u201cthe alliance of tyrants\u201d. Their main aim is to \u201cremain steadfast as long as possible\u201d in the face of what they recognise to be superior Western weaponry. They are aiming for a \u201cstrategy of resistance that the Crusaders have no capacity for,\u201d apparently meaning that simply to survive the assault of an alliance of 40 states without being utterly defeated would indicate the action of a divine power on their side. \u201cIf we survive, Muslims around the world will understand that the continuous stories and hadiths prophesied of us as masters of the end time Caliphate according to the prophetic methodology,\u201d skyped one Syria-based Islamic State fighter.\nAccording to Al-Jazeera, the Islamic State now has over 50,000 fighters in Syria, with a further 30,000 in Iraq. Many other militant Islamist organisations around the world have pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State. Boko Haram, the Islamist group in West Africa, has voiced its support for the Islamic State and its Caliph. When Boko Haram took control of the Nigerian town of Gwoza its leader declared, \"Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brothers in Gwoza and made it part of the Islamic caliphate.\" It has been noted that Boko Haram is working with the Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab to unite with the Islamic State.\nThe terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah, which has cells in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, has also expressed its support for the Islamic State and its operations in Syria and Iraq. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is believed to operate from Algeria through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Chad, has pledged allegiance to the group, and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which operates in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, has also declared its support. Philippines separatist Islamist groups in Mindanao, including the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and Abu Sayyaf, have also pledged their loyalty to the Islamic State.\nThere have also been reports of Chinese Uyghur Muslim women and girls being used as sex slaves / wives of the Islamic State combatants. It is estimated that there may be as many as 100 Chinese Muslims fighting for the Islamic State.\nIslamic State supporters in Spain have launched a social media campaign aimed at generating support for the group across the Iberian Peninsula. The campaign shows historic Muslim palaces across Spain with slogans such as \u201cLong Live the Islamic State\" and a video in which a jihadist says:\nI say to the entire world as a warning: We are living under the Islamic flag, the Islamic caliphate. We will die for it until we liberate those occupied lands, from Jakarta to Andalusia. And I declare: Spain is the land of our forefathers and we are going to take it back with the power of Allah.\nSupport for the Islamic State is also spreading in the Balkans, which until the 19th century was still under Islamic control. Forty militants were arrested in Kosovo in August on suspicion of maintaining close links with the Islamic State. It has been noted that Albanian is one of the primary languages into which the Islamic State proclamations are translated, the others being English, French, Russian and Turkish.\nIn the UK leaflets have been handed out in London calling British Muslims to join the Islamic State and support its Caliph. The flag of the Islamic State has also been flown in at least one London council estate. In Vienna Islamic State supporters have started selling fan merchandise online. There have also been suggestions that the Islamic State may attack the United States of America from Mexico by crossing over the border.\nEXPECTING CHRIST TO FIGHT ON THEIR SIDE\nIt is likely that all the Islamic State\u2019s members and supporters around the world are united in seeing the group as the fulfilment of countless prophecies in the Quran and hadith. They will be anticipating that the whole complex drama of Islamic eschatology will shortly be played out, including the return of Isa (the Quranic word for Jesus). Although fighting against \u201cCrusaders\u201d and the cross, i.e. against Christians, is a key aspect of the Islamic State\u2019s ideology, its militants will expect Christ to fight on their side. For Islam predicts that when Isa returns it will be as a Muslim, who will destroy all signs of Christianity and convert all Christians to Islam, so that there will be no more crosses or payment of jiyza. A hadith says:\nAbu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: By Him in Whose hand is my life, the son of Mary (may peace be upon him) will soon descend among you as a just judge. He will break crosses, kill swine and abolish Jizya and the wealth will pour forth to such an extent that no one will accept it. (Sahih Muslim, Book 1, No. 287)\nThe reference to killing pigs (swine) in this hadith is often taken to be a reference to killing pagans. Other hadiths refer to the killing of Jews, who will be betrayed into the hand of Muslims by every inanimate object behind which they may have hidden. For example:\nAbdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; kill him. (Sahih Muslim Book 41, No. 6984)\nHaving converted all the Christians and killed the Jews and pagans, there will be no-one but Muslims left in the world. The Islamic State expects to play a major part in accomplishing this End Times vision.\n- dr patrick sookhdeo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 16294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://preservingauthenticity.com/lama-lena/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:44:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LCF2LUMMRSAZA7ZEJNH7XPNFAVNPM77Z", "length": 3579, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "preservingauthenticity.com", "title": "Lama Lena - Teachings in Chicago | Preserving Authenticity", "raw_content": "Audio Archive of Lama Lena\u2019s Teachings in Chicago\nTo download the mp3 file, right-click on the audio player and select \"Save Audio As\"\n\u201cHow to be Self-Loving While Undergoing Inner Remodeling?\u201d\nA teaching on transcendence of reasoning that permits or denies love, and moving toward relating from a higher perspective. Why reasoning and justification work better when loving another and not as potent when trying to love self?\nhttp://preservingauthenticity.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1.Lama-Lena-How-to-be-Self-Loving-While-Undergoing-Inner-Remodeling.mp3\n\u201cHealing the Body and Karma of Relationships Through Spiritual Awareness\u201d\nThis lecture will explore the effects that thoughts and emotions have on the physical health and relationships. Learn how to utilize spiritual awareness and meditation to clear psychological and emotional toxicity from the tissues,organs, meridians and energy centers of the body.\nhttp://preservingauthenticity.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2.Lama-Lena-Healing-the-Body-and-Karma-of-Relationships-Through-Spiritual-Awareness.mp3\n\u201cHow do we answer our own questions?\u201d\nThis lecture will explore whether it is possible to find the answer in the question and how to look at the question in such a way so that an answer presents itself.\nhttp://preservingauthenticity.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/3.Lama-Lena-How-do-we-answer-our-own-questions.mp3\n\u201cPsychic Attacks & Protection\u201d\nRecognizing reactive emotional projections versus intentional psychic influences from beings of the visible and the invisible realms. What they are and how to protect yourself.\nhttp://preservingauthenticity.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lama-Lena-Psychic-Attacs-Protection.mp3\n\u201cExploring the Wounded Feminine\u201d\nUnderstanding the inner pain and struggle of women and what is needed for healing and rising to the sacred-feminine.\nhttp://preservingauthenticity.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lama-Lena-The-Wounded-Feminine.mp3\n\u201cWill of the Ego & Will of the Spirit\u201d\nUnderstanding the nature and quality of Will and what role it plays in the inner work. 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Freeing thoughts, feelings and phenomena into Natural Space\nhttp://preservingauthenticity.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lama-Lena-What-is-Meditation.mp3\nWith over 40 years of dharma study and practice and 7 years in retreat in a small cave above Tso Pema under the tutelage of her root teacher, Venerable Wangdor Rinpoche, she travels the world teaching to those at any level of dharma practice with an informal style that is both humorous and anecdotal.\nLama Lena\u2019s Website\nDonation to Lama Lena\nIf you would like to make a donation to Lama Lena, please use the form below. Thank you!\nPlease specify the amount you'd like to donate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pressurepointer.com/Scalene_trigger_points.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3QH5GRXL4DH6VEGINDZS37FSCJIVHL32", "length": 1104, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "pressurepointer.com", "title": "Scalene Trigger Points", "raw_content": "Scalene Muscle Locations and Trigger Points\nThe scalene muscles are actually three muscles found in the side of the neck. Blood vessels supplying the arm actually pass between these muscles. Trigger Points in these muscles can be very problematic, and cause a wide variety of symptoms.\nSee how to use the Pressure Pointer with Windows Media\nScalenes Referred Pain Patterns\nThoracic Outlet Syndrome is caused by compression of these blood vessels. Common symptoms include pain, numbness, tingling, swelling, and weakness of the arms and hands. These symptoms are often incorrectly assumed to be Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, as the symptoms are similar. In addition, Trigger Points here can cause chest pain similar to angina, as well as upper back pain.\nIf you\u2019ve had difficulty finding relief from these symptoms, addressing the problematic Scalene muscles could provide better results. Remember, the pain location is not always the same location as the source of pain.\nStand, holding hand behind back.\nLower left shoulder, then tilt your head to the right. Slowly roll head backwards until a stretch is felt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://priae.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=86", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RJT7IOUYM4V3QTFC7B24LCUQZF6GP3NV", "length": 1691, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "priae.org", "title": "Defining Age", "raw_content": "You are here: Age Defining Age\nA 'baby boomer' aged 50 today is very different to a 50 year old at the turn of the century. As people are also living longer, it is becoming difficult to distinguish between older people and older old people who may be classed as over 85 nowadays. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) chronological time plays a paramount role in developed countries like the United Kingdom. In most developed countries, the age of 60 or 65, roughly equivalent to retirement ages/when the individual begins to receive pension benefits, is said to be the beginning of old age. Other socially constructed meanings of age can be more popular such as the roles assigned to older people; in some cases it is the loss of roles accompanying physical decline which is significant in defining old age. Classifying age varies between different countries and over time, reflecting in many cases the social class differences or functional ability related to the workforce, but more often than not, is a reflection of the current political and economic situation.\nThere is evidence that some minority ethnic older people experience the phenomenon known as 'early ageing'. This can be described as \"For the emerging generations of elders, we must add the effects of long term unemployment, characterised by the decline of the manufacturing base where many ethnic minorities have bee concentrated. 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Sports Agency", "raw_content": "One of the most successful high school running backs in Illinois history (6,531 yards, 85 touchdowns), Jackson has also made his way into the record books in his collegiate career. He started five of 12 games as a true freshman, but led the Wildcats in rushing each week, finishing with 1,187 yards and 10 touchdowns on 245 carries (22 catches, 201 yards, one touchdown receiving) to earn honorable mention All-Big Ten notice from league coaches. Jackson was a second-team All-Big Ten pick in 2015, racking up 1,418 yards and five scores on 312 carries (ranked third in the FBS), along with 21 catches and 162 yards as a receiver. Jackson's workload abated a bit in 2016, but he still carried the rock 226 times for 1,300 yards and 12 scores -- and caught 33 passes for 210 yards -- in a second-team all-conference junior season by coaches. He topped off the year with a 224-yard, three-score effort against Pitt in the Pinstripe Bowl where he showed off his quickness, vision, and efficient running style. The leading rusher in Northwestern history became the ninth player in NCAA history to have four years with 1,000 yards. He was a second-team All-Big Ten selection with 287 carries for 1,311 yards and 11 touchdowns rushing along with 44 catches for 276 receiving yards. Justin's older brother, Phil, was a running back at Northwest Missouri State from 2012-2016.\nUnorthodox running style creates early indecisiveness in tacklers\nHas decent initial burst when he has a clear track to follow\nSlippery, flexible upper body is able to contort around interior tacklers\nHas some decent maneuverability in tight quarters to find hidden yardage in a crowd\nAble to gather feet and sink hips for sharp, downhill cuts\nLooks natural stringing jump-cuts together when he finds a rhythm\nLateral cuts can be sudden and elongated for greater escapes\nPlays with toughness\nHas quickness and tools to become a more dangerous route-runner out of the backfield\nElusiveness can help him turn a four-yard dump pass into a third-and-long conversion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pro.findanyfloor.com/FlooringCalendar/2009/March/7/CarpetsPlusColorTile-117.xhtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:J4TEMM4VP54DQE63YLNJWXL43AMMWI4F", "length": 50, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pro.findanyfloor.com", "title": "CarpetsPlus Color Tile - March 7, 2009 by Findanyfloor.com", "raw_content": "Saturday March 07, 2009 thru Monday March 09, 2009", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 1242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://production.biodiversitya-z.org/content/alliance-for-zero-extinction-sites-aze", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FUBFLR6L6JSENWGWJIMC35UTBCSRNXHJ", "length": 6860, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "production.biodiversitya-z.org", "title": "Alliance for Zero Extinction sites (AZE) definition | Biodiversity A-Z", "raw_content": "HomeAreasAlliance for Zero Extinction sites (AZE)\nGlobal list of sites containing 95% or more of the remaining population of one or more species listed as endangered or critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.\nEl Yunque rainforest AZE site, Puerto Rico. Sahani Photography/Shutterstock.com\nThe Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for business provides a visualisation and GIS download tool for protected areas and prioritisation approaches, including AZE sites.\nAlliance for Zero Extinction\nSource: Alliance for Zero Extinction (2014). 2014 AZE Update. www.zeroextinction.org\nAlliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites contain the entire population of one or more species listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The Alliance itself is formed of 93 biodiversity conservation institutions from 37 countries, and its goal is to prevent the extinction of species. Following identification, the Alliance aims to act together to eliminate threats and restore habitat at these sites to allow species populations to rebound. The focus of AZEs is on species that face extinction either because their last remaining habitat is being degraded at a local level, or because their restricted global range makes them especially vulnerable to external threats.\nAZEs are included under the 'umbrella' classification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs).\nThe Alliance for Zero Extinction \u2013 a joint initiative of 93 non-governmental biodiversity conservation organizations from 37 countries around the world, with frequent additions of new members. The Alliance for Zero Extinction also collaborates with over 100 national institutions.\nFormed in 2000 and launched globally in 2005. Identification of AZEs is an ongoing process, as part of the overall process of identification and subsequent conservation actions in KBAs.\nGlobal in extent, with 595 identified site-scale areas, where 794 endangered species reside (2010 data) 1.The AZE list is regularly updated to include new sites and species.\nThere are three criteria to identify AZE sites 2:\nEndangerment: Must contain at least one Endangered or Critically Endangered species, as listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A site cannot be designated on the basis of unlisted or unevaluated species, Data Deficient species, or Vulnerable species. A site may be designated as the only suitable reintroduction site for a species assessed as Extinct in the Wild; only two sites were triggered by this criterion.\nIrreplaceability: Must (i) be the sole area where an Endangered or Critically Endangered species occurs, (ii) contain the overwhelmingly significant known resident population of the species (more than 95% of the global population), or (iii) contain the overwhelmingly significant known population for one life-history segment (e.g., breeding or non-breeding) of the species.\nDiscreteness: Must have a definable boundary, within which habitats, biological communities, or management issues share more in common with each other than they do with those in adjacent areas (e.g., a single lake, mountaintop, or forest fragment). The boundary of each area is based on the most practical conservation unit, including considerations of contiguous habitat, management units, and the potential for significant gene flow among populations. There is no explicit size criterion for sites, but the median size of sites for which size information is available is 12,060 hectares.\nThere is no management prescribed for AZE sites. Globally, about 23% of AZE sites are covered by protected areas. 3 The management of such sites varies according to the type of protected area they are part of. Due to their small size, these sites are highly susceptible to human activities in the surrounding landscape. The mean human footprint, an aggregate index of human land use, human population and infrastructure at AZE sites is two and a half times the global mean, indicating a high level of threat. 3\nLegal and compliance \u2013 Identification of an area as an AZE site does not automatically lead to legal protection or recognition by national government. However, in some cases these sites are located within existing protected areas, or indeed lead to the designation of additional protected areas, and therefore afforded legal protection. AZEs are not usually included by name in standards and certification schemes, but these typically include requirements relating more broadly to the umbrella concept of KBAs which encompasses AZEs. For examples of standards and certification schemes which refer to KBAs, please visit the KBA factsheet.\nA Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Alliance on May 19th, 2010. Under this Memorandum, nations should account for their progress protecting AZE sites and species in their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans. In Japan, during the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention in 2010, the GEF and World Bank announced an initiative to promote AZEs globally.\nBiodiversity importance \u2013 AZE sites are of very high biodiversity importance as they are identified based on the criteria of both high vulnerability and high irreplaceability of species. 81% of AZE sites occur within biodiversity hotspots, which further indicates their biodiversity significance. 3 Their main aim is to prevent extinctions by identifying and safeguarding key sites where species are in imminent danger of disappearing. AZE sites are identified at the site-scale based on existing protected areas, concessions and management units, and are therefore of high relevance for mitigating and avoiding risk from biodiversity loss and identifying opportunities to be associated with conservation activities.\nSocial and cultural values \u2013 The AZE sites are not identified based on recognition of any traditional practices, cultural values, rights or involvement of local/indigenous communities in protection, use and management. However, a recent study by Conservation International (CI) and NatureServe suggests that conservation of AZEs yields parallel benefits to people in terms of ecosystem services, such as climate change mitigation, freshwater services, retention of biodiversity for future use and cultural value. 4\nAlliance for Zero Extinction. Pinpointing and Preventing Imminent Extinctions. (2010)\nAlliance for Zero Extinction website\nSecretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2014). Global Biodiversity Outlook 4. Montreal, 155 pages.\nRicketts, T. H. et al. Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 18497\u201318501 (2005)\nLarsen, F. W., Turner, W. R. & Brooks, T. M. Conserving Critical Sites for Biodiversity Provides Disproportionate Benefits to People. 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The new 4-axis version is targeted for smaller sample applications (max. 200 mm in diameter and 70 mm in height).\nThe 4-axis motorized stage system features the same innovative electron optics and signal detection systems as the 5-axis motorized stage system, providing unparalleled 3-D imaging and analytical performance.\nHitachi High Technologies America, Inc. website\nhttp://www.hitachi-hta.com\nAbout Hitachi High Technologies America (HTA), Nanotechnology Systems Division\nHitachi High Technologies America, Inc., headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, is a North American Division of Hitachi High Technologies, Tokyo, Japan. Hitachi has sold and supported its instruments in the U.S. market for over 40 years. HTA comprises many divisions, including the Nanotechnology Systems Division, headquartered in Clarksburg, Maryland. The Nanotechnology Systems Division provides technologically advanced solutions to meet the diverse and complex challenges of materials science, biological research, and industrial manufacturing. We support our satisfied customers with a wide range of reliability-proven instrumentation, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), analytical and biological transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dedicated STEM, Focused Ion Beam (FIB), tabletop microscopes, and microanalysis sample preparation systems.\n22610 Gateway Center Drive, Suite 100, Clarksburg, MD 20871 U.S.A.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://projekt-rumaenienfeldzug.de/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:34Z", "digest": "sha1:2BSHR2ISSL3DCV6RC3254EATT3G4CG72", "length": 1966, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "projekt-rumaenienfeldzug.de", "title": "The Romania Campaign 1916/17 \u2013 Experience and Memory", "raw_content": "26 \u2013 28 September 2016, St. Cyril and Methodius-University in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria\nThe end of August 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Romanian Campaign in 1916/17. Throughout these military expeditions, troops from Germany, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary and Turkey stood against Romanian, Russian and Serbian soldiers. Yet despite its multinational character, this theater of war was nearly forgotten in the public awareness of the western world for decades. Quite on the contrary, however, the campaign maintains a central importance up through today for the national commemorative cultures in Bulgaria and Romania. The war\u2019s high death tolls and invalids, the unbounded violence, fleeing, and displacement, as well as the changing boundaries left their profound traces in politics and society. A hundred years after the event, it becomes apparent that the preoccupation with the Romanian campaign is experiencing not only a particular boom in Bulgaria and Romania, but also in western research, which increasingly looks to this war zone in attempting to view the First World War as a global conflict.\nWith a focus on experience and memory, the international conference offers a platform for researchers from Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia and the United States to discuss their recent research results about the Romanian campaign in 1916/17 and to set them in relation to one another. Transnational and local studies, as well as analyses from individual interpretations and national narratives allow for multiple perspectives on this campaign, which will fairly treat the complexity and diversity of experience and memory in this theater of war. 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It\u2019s no surprise, really. Rock \u2018n\u2019 roll was the hub around which the cultural revolution of the fifties revolved, and the songs, predominantly recorded in the Southern heartland of the US, were what drew rebellious youngsters to the dance-floors of the western world. In his song \u2018Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Music\u2019 Chuck Berry sang \u201cit\u2019s got a back beat, you can use it\u201d \u2013 and that\u2019s exactly what teenagers did.\nSo, which songs and artists proved to be the most popular floor-fillers with mobile DJs? And which classic fifties track made number one? You \u2013 the readers of Pro Mobile \u2013 have chosen, so read on to find out...\nYou expected to see this guy in here somewhere, right? \u2018Jailhouse Rock\u2019 was the King\u2019s second UK number one \u2013 and you\u2019ve voted it at number ten on our Top Ten Fifties Floor-fillers list! While its rebellious theme fuelled the emerging rock \u2018n\u2019 roll youth scene of the 1950s, the song\u2019s opening guitar riff also influenced generations of future musicians, from the Beatles to MJ to Lana Del Rey. Fast and raucous \u2013 featuring a near-screamed vocal take still envied today \u2013 this classic didn\u2019t just inspire the music of the 60s but also shaped the future of popular culture as a whole. As John Lennon once said: \u201cBefore Elvis, there was nothing...\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicnotices.portlandtribune.com/?p=42439", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:06Z", "digest": "sha1:LURS5AA754EDPR4YBU7C2HOGQGN4W77Q", "length": 1560, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "publicnotices.portlandtribune.com", "title": "NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING \u2013 Public Notices", "raw_content": "NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING\nCASEFILE 16-PA-05\nThe Jefferson County Planning Commission has rescheduled a public hearing to review proposed new language in the Zoning Ordinance. The Planning Commission is considering adoption by reference, Agritourism ORS 215.283(4), Wineries ORS 215.452, Solar Farms OAR 660-033-130(8) and Outdoor Small Gatherings language. .\nThe hearing will be held on January 12, 2017, at 5:30 pm in the Board of Commissioners meeting room located at 66 SE D Street, Madras, OR\nA copy of all documents and evidence relating to this proposal and applicable criteria are available for inspection at no cost at the Jefferson County Community Development Department. Copies will be provided at a reasonable cost. A copy of the staff report will be available for inspection at no cost at least seven days prior to the hearing, and will be provided at reasonable cost.\nAny written testimony should be submitted to the Community Development Department, 85 SE \u201cD\u201d Street, Madras, Oregon, 97741, or may be submitted at the public hearing.\nThe failure to raise an issue by the close of the record at or following the final evidentiary hearing, in person or by letter, or failure to provide statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision-maker an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based on that issue.\nFor further information, contact the Community Development Department at 541-475-4462.\nTagged Jefferson County, Jefferson County Planning Commission, Public Hearing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicnotices.portlandtribune.com/?public_notice_post=3614230315171", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:JGAQHLP5UCG5YSVOWSFYNA7ZXXMS6E53", "length": 1112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "publicnotices.portlandtribune.com", "title": "Notice to Interested Persons \u2013 Public Notices", "raw_content": "IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF CLACKAMAS Probate Department Case No. 18PB04857 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS In the Matter of the Estate of SHARON LEE OWEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Diana Plath has been appointed as the personal representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them to the undersigned attorney for the personal representative at PO Box 86100, Portland, OR 97286-0100, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the Court, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative. Dated and first published on June 28, 2018. Diana Plath Personal Representative Peggy Hennessy, OSB No. 872505 Reeves, Kahn, Hennessy & Elkins Attorneys for Personal Representative PO Box 86100 Portland, OR 97286-0100 phennessy@rke-law.com Published June 28, July 5 & 12, 2018. 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Oswaldo recently joined the Education Department. He was able to make the Dean\u2019s List for the fall semester of 2016.\nSo far, throughout his time at Western, Oswaldo has been an active member of the community. Oswaldo has volunteered at his local church as a counselor and sub;director of the Adventurer Club, a club for children between the age of 5 and 10. He has also taken the role as a teacher for his church\u2019s Sabbath School (similar to a sunday school) for children between the ages of 10 and 13. Although he spends a lot of his time working or studying, he tries to to find some time to volunteer at a local elementary school. He has had the opportunity to volunteer at Pembroke Elementary School helping out teacher of the year 2016, Mrs. Nancy Michael. He has been able to observe a successful educator and is truly grateful for the opportunity.\nOswaldo says that teaching has always been a profession that has caught his eye. \u201cEver since I was little I would pretend I was a teacher while my brother was my student. At age 12 I was making up worksheets and correcting them by drawing big stars and smiley faces all over the paper. Many of my favorite memories have been from my elementary school teachers and their various styles of teaching. Educating a child and guiding them into becoming a productive member of society is something beyond compare and I look forward to doing so. I genuinely enjoy interacting with children and knowing that I am going something that matters is all I ever wanted to do.\u201d\nOswaldo plans to continue to volunteer at local elementary schools and at his church. \u201cI am excited in continuing this path into such a wonderful profession.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 300, "original_length": 6871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qahn.org/image/qahns-heritage-talk-series-wampum-chronicles-darren-bonaparte-april-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4EZSZSQPW6AQ4YT5A3WKYCEZKME7XWQZ", "length": 424, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "qahn.org", "title": "QAHN's \"Heritage Talk\" Series: \"Wampum Chronicles,\" with Darren Bonaparte (April 2018) | Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network", "raw_content": "QAHN's \"Heritage Talks\" lecture series headed to the Chateauguay Valley Regional High School in Ormstown, Qc, last week, where over 200 students and staff heard about wampum and its role as a recording and teaching aid for Canada's Aboriginal peoples. 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She writes short stories and is currently editing her first novel.\n\u0095 Short Stories : Savour", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 144.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qlrs.com/contributor.asp?id=Sharanya%20Manivannan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:31Z", "digest": "sha1:M4B4UPTJJHG7JRYV4Y53XYXLHLEGSBHU", "length": 327, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "qlrs.com", "title": "QLRS Contributor : Sharanya Manivannan", "raw_content": "About Sharanya Manivannan\nSharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. A writer, dancer, painter, actress, photographer, journalist and activist, she is working on her first novel and a collection of poems. She lives in Kuala Lumpur.\n\u0095 Short Stories : These are the ways I know my father", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 127.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://questscope.org/blog/20150910/remember-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:28:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XNAGGWD6ZONFJVVLIGHE6RJLL2GNF3DA", "length": 5274, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "questscope.org", "title": "Remember Us | Questscope", "raw_content": "This was a statement we heard many times throughout the day we spent at Zaatari. \u201cWe are not, as many view us, \u2018pathetic and uneducated refugees\u2019\u201d one young man in his early 30\u2019s said. \u201cBut rather we have a lot to offer\u2014many of us were leaders in our communities (pointing to some of the group), he was the headmaster of a school, I was an engineer, she studied counseling and psychology\u2026\u201d\nA few weeks ago, my husband and I returned to Kansas City from a trip to see my parents in Jordan, where we had the chance to visit Zaatari Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, which is \u201chome\u201d to around 85,000 Syrian Refugees.\nMy father directs a social enterprise in Jordan called Questscope, whose niche is providing community-lead mentoring and non-formal education opportunities to young people throughout Jordan and the region. They were one of the first NGOs in the Zaatari camp to employ Syrians and train a group of Syrian volunteers to research the needs of their community and then present to Questscope their findings and recommendations. For me personally, this visit to Zaatari held extra importance since I had, before moving to Kanas City in 2012, spent three years studying Arabic in Damascus.\nWe spent the day at Zaatari camp talking, playing ping pong, and eating lunch with a group of 20+ Syrian men and women in their 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s. Most were married, most had children, and all except one had university degrees. Among them were teachers, engineers, counselors. We sat together for a few hours and talked. We talked about the future, the improvements they would like in the camp, and about their hopes and plans for themselves and their children.\nWhen we asked about their hopes for the future we heard varied responses: \u201cWhat future? What hope do we have? In Syria we used to think and plan ahead, two years, three years, now we try to just think of the present\u2014of our wife, our kids. We have to keep living life\u2026\u201d Another said, \u201cSyria is destroyed. So many have lost their lives. There is nothing for us there. And there is nothing for us here. Our children can\u2019t go on to university so it\u2019s hard to motivate them to study in school. We can\u2019t work.\u201d\nHis friend interrupted, \u201cLebanon, during its civil war, was destroyed and yet in five years it was completely rebuilt. We will go back and rebuild Syria and make it even better than it was before!\u201d Everyone clapped and cheered loudly\u2026then another added, \u201cbut when will we go back? 5 years from now? More like in 20 years!\u201d My husband was fighting back tears when one young husband said, \u201cWhen I came here I thought I would be here for two months\u2026it\u2019s been two and half years.\u201d One of the women said, \u201cEveryone here says \u2018when I go back, I\u2019ll\u2026.\u2019\u201d Another woman added, \u201cwhen we think of those still in Syria we say both \u2018lucky them!\u2019 and in the same breath, \u2018God help them.\u2019\u201d\nThe needs even in the camp are great: full-time electricity, better sanitation, transport in the sizable camp-city, opportunities for work, better schools, and access to higher education. And I would add one more\u2014hope. Hope comes from using your talents and skills to work, to give, to contribute, to actively make your situation and others better.\nI really saw how through Questscope\u2019s programs in the camp\u2014a space and a building within the confines of the camp, where Syrians themselves are working and volunteering\u2014are empowering Syrians to use their talents and abilities to serve their community.\nThey mentor and counsel kids using sports, art, theater, and poetry. Kids and adults have an open space where they can play soccer, put on plays, and talk about the trauma that has happened in their lives. There are interesting and engaging courses they can take. Even aside from the kids in the program, the Syrian mentors themselves have changed\u2014their potential, skills, and talents are being used.\nWhen we were about to leave one of the young ladies, Bana, came up to me, took off her ring, and pushed it into my hand, \u201cremember us\u201d she said. I tried to refuse thinking \u201chow can I accept this from someone who has so little!\u201d And yet she insisted. I took off my gold earrings and tried to discretely put them in her hands. She pulled me aside and said, \u201cYou can\u2019t give me anything. I didn\u2019t give this to you so you would. You must accept it\u2014and remember us.\u201d Later, after returning to Kansas City, I thought of the story in the New Testament, about the woman who poured an expensive bottle of perfume on Jesus\u2019s feet, and he said, \u201cwherever the gospel is heard, her story will be told..\u201d\nWhat I am left with after visiting Zaatari camp is this: that the Syrians are just like my friends and I in Kansas City. They are educated and ambitious, full of hopes and dreams and plans, connected to the world, with cell phones and facebook accounts, full of talents and skills. Yet they are waiting in a camp, where most look upon them as if they were passive beneficiaries\u2014needy, with nothing to contribute. Yet they have so much to give!\nAs the plane landed in Kansas City I teared up\u2014to come home! To your own city, your home, your yard smelling of fresh green grass\u2026and I thought of our new friends in Zaatari who can\u2019t go home. How can I\u2014can we\u2014not forget? 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There are many wildflowers, birds, and small animals who live along the trail, and it isn\u2019t rare to see deer in the morning. All of the parking areas are clean and there are no entrance or usage fees. If you choose to park in the Lime Lake County Park (address above), please note that the trail can be accessed by turning right out of the parking lot and heading down Teft Road about 500 feet.\ncycling, fitness, Jackson, multi-use path, recreation, running, running path, running trail, walking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ramblen.co/staff/erin-mckinney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:14Z", "digest": "sha1:MOWK2FGT7PZERWCIETT4OKZYTPIAMWA4", "length": 362, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ramblen.co", "title": "Erin McKinney - Ramblen", "raw_content": "Erin McKinney is currently living in 29 Palms, California with her husband and 6-year-old son. In addition to working and being a full time mom, she is training to run her first marathon this fall. Her other interests include photography, baking, reading and traveling with her family. You can find her online at vivaerin.wordpress.com or on Instagram @MrsMcK617", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://raptureready1.com/featured/ice/DispensationalHermeneutics.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KGJAW3OGVVF7OX7OP4BRRX2FNAECFOEV", "length": 54262, "nlines": 132, "source_domain": "raptureready1.com", "title": "The Thomas Ice Collection", "raw_content": "Dispensational Hermeneutics\n\" Consistently literal or plain interpretation is indicative of a dispensational approach to the interpretation of the Scriptures,\" declared Charles Ryrie in 1965. \" And it is this very consistency- the strength of dispensational interpretation- that irks the nondispensationalist and becomes the object of his ridicule.\" [1] \" Consistently literal interpretation\" was listed by Ryrie as the second most important sine qua non of dispensationalism, which forms the foundation for the most important essential, \"the distinction between Israel and the Church.\"[2] Earl Radmacher, in 1979, went so far as to say that literal interpretation \"is the 'bottom-line' of dispensationalism.\"[3] While the ridicule of nondispensationalists has continued, there also appear to be signs of hermeneutical equivocation within the ranks of dispensationalism.\nWithin contemporary dispensationalism, some are moving away from the generally held hermeneutical statements of Ryrie and Radmacher. Craig Blaising concluded \" that consistently literal exegesis is inadequate to describe the essential distinctive of dispensationalism. Development is taking place on how to characterize a proper hermeneutic for dispensationalists.\" [4] Blaising and his coauthor Darrell Bock assert that the grammatical-historical hermeneutic \" is shared broadly in evangelicalism, so consequently present-day dispensationalists do not think of themselves as having an exclusive hermeneutic.\" [5]\nOutside dispensational circles some would admit that dispensational hermeneutics \" continues to exercise a widespread influence among evangelical Christians today.\" [6] However, many do continue to see the literal approach as an object of ridicule. Most likely, the loudest voice of dissent against the consistent literal hermeneutic of dispensationalism is from Christian Reconstructionists. Kenneth Gentry labels the dispensational claim to consistently literal interpretation as a \" presumption\" that \" is unreasonable\" and \" an impossible ideal.\" [7]\nA Definition of Literal Interpretation\nMany times dispensationalists have explained what they mean when they speak of \" literal interpretation.\" Ryrie begins his discussion of literal interpretation by referring to Bernard Ramm, who wrote the standard hermeneutics textbook of his day: \"Dispensationalists claim that their principle of hermeneutics is that of literal interpretation. This means interpretation which gives to every word the same meaning it would have in normal usage, whether employed in writing, speaking or thinking.\" [8] He then formulates an extensive definition:\nThis is sometimes called the principle of grammatical-historical interpretation since the meaning of each word is determined by grammatical and historical considerations. The principle might also be called normal interpretation since the literal meaning of words is the normal approach to their understanding in all languages. It might also be designated plain interpretation so that no one receives the mistaken notion that the literal principle rules out figures of speech. Symbols, figures of speech and types are all interpreted plainly in this method and they are in no way contrary to literal interpretation. After all, the very existence of any meaning for a figure of speech depends on the reality of the literal meaning of the terms involved. Figures often make the meaning plainer, but it is the literal, normal, or plain meaning that they convey to the reader.[9]\nRyrie concludes his statement of the dispensational position by quoting E. R. Craven's oft cited summary of literalism:\nThe literalist (so called) is not one who denies that figurative language, that symbols, are used in prophecy, nor does he deny that great spiritual truths are set forth therein; his position is, simply, that the prophecies are to be normally interpreted (i.e., according to received laws of language) as any other utterances are interpreted- that which is manifestly figurative being so regarded.[10]\nOn the one hand, many current dispensationalists believe that Ryrie's statement is adequate and that literal interpretation still is (should be) a defining tenet of dispensationalism. Many believe that they have been able to satisfactorily interpret the details of Scripture and harmonize their exegetical conclusions into a theology that is the product of consistent literal interpretation. On the other hand, there are many, inside and outside of dispensationalism, who see problems with such an approach. We will now consider some objections.\nUses of Literalism\nVern Poythress spends two chapters interacting with Ryrie and other dispensational expressions of literal interpretation in Understanding Dispensationalists.[11] Poythress presents dispensationalists as using the word literal in such a fluid manner that it is often difficult to know exactly what is meant. \" Perhaps the word,\" he suggests, \" has already unconsciously been loaded with some of the assumptions belonging to the theological system.\" [12]\nHe says literal interpretation can be used in four ways. First is \" first thought meaning,\" which is said to describe \" the meaning for words in isolation.\" [13] The second kind he calls \" flat interpretation,\" by which he means an a priori commitment to an idea of \" literal if possible.\" [14] Third, the one who uses grammatical-historical interpretation \" reads passages as organic wholes and tries to understand what each passage expresses against the background of the original human author and the original situation.\" [15] His fourth type is \" plain interpretation,\" where one \" reads everything as if it were written directly to oneself, in one's own time and culture.\" This is opposed to grammatical-historical interpretation.[16] Poythress sees the dispensationalist use of literal interpretation as \" a confusing term, capable of being used to beg many of the questions at stake in the interpretation of the Bible.\" [17]\nThough it is true that dispensationalists have used literal in at least two ways, Poythress's charge that it has lead to confusion and not answered important questions is not justified. Apparently Ryrie's statement was clear enough for Poythress to work his way through it and break it up into classifications corresponding with his categories. Much of the verbiage used by dispensationalists (i.e., normal, plain, grammatical-historical) are attempts to spell out what is meant by literal in light of critical objections to such an approach.\nElliott Johnson has noted that much of the confusion over literal interpretation can be removed when one properly understands the two primary ways the term has been used down through church history: \" (1) the clear, plain sense of a word or phrase as over against a figurative use, and (2) a system that views the text as providing the basis of the true interpretation.\" [18] Thus, dispensationalists, by and large, have used the term literal to refer to their system of interpretation (the consistent use of the grammatical-historical system), and once inside that system, literal refers to whether or not a specific word or phrase is used in its context in a figurative or literal sense. This helps us understand why Radmacher describes the system of literal interpretation (Johnson's no. 2) as \" both plain-literal and figurative-literal\" [19] (Johnson's no. 1).\nJohnson's second use of literal (i.e., systematic literalism) is simply the grammatical-historical system consistently used. The grammatical-historical system was revived by the Reformers. It was set against the spiritual (spiritualized) or deeper meaning of the text that was the approach of the middle ages. The literal meaning was used simply as a springboard to a deeper (\"spiritual\") meaning, which was viewed as more desirable. A classic spiritualized interpretation would see the four rivers of Genesis 2- the Pishon, Havilah, Tigris, and Euphrates- as representing the body, soul, spirit, and mind. Coming from such a system, the Reformers saw the need to get back to the literal or textual meaning of the Bible. For instance, Martin Luther wanted to debate John Eck from the text of the Bible.\nThe system of literal interpretation is the grammatical-historical, or textual, approach to hermeneutics. Use of literalism in this sense could be called \" macroliteralism.\" Within macroliteralism, the consistent use of the grammatical-historical system yields the interpretative conclusion, for example, that Israel always and only refers to national Israel. The church will not be substituted for Israel if the grammatical-historical system of interpretation is consistently used because there are no indicators in the text that such is the case. Therefore, one must bring an idea from outside the text by saying that the passage really means something that it does not actually say. This kind of replacement approach is a mild form of spiritualized, or allegorical, interpretation. So when speaking of those who do replace Israel with the church as not taking the Bible literally and spiritualizing the text, it is true, since such a belief is contrary to a macroliteral interpretation.\nConsistently literal interpreters, within the framework of the grammatical-historical system, do discuss whether or not a word, phrase, or the literary genre of a biblical book is a figure of speech (connotative use of language) or is to be taken literally/plainly (denotative use of language). This is Johnson's first use of literal, which could be called \" microliteralism.\" Ramm has said:\nThe literal meaning of the figurative expression is the proper or natural meaning as understood by students of language. Whenever a figure is used its literal meaning is precisely that meaning determined by grammatical studies of figures. Hence, figurative interpretation does not pertain to the spiritual or mystical sense of Scripture, but to the literal sense.[20]\nThus, within microliteralism, there may be discussion by literalists as to whether or not a given word or phrase is being used as a figure of speech, based on the context of a given passage. Some passages are quite naturally clearer than others and a consensus among interpreters develops, whereas other passages may find literal interpreters divided as to whether or not they should be understood as figures of speech. This is more a problem of application than of method.\nReconstructionist Kenneth Gentry, in his attack on consistent literal interpretation, argues that \" consistent literalism is unreasonable.\" [21] One of the ways he attempts to prove his point is by arguing that, since dispensationalists take some words and phrases as figures of speech, they are not consistently literal.[22] He asserts that \" the dispensational claim to ' consistent literalism' is frustrating due to its inconsistent employment.\" [23] Gentry seeks to discredit the dispensational hermeneutic by giving examples of dispensationalists who interpret certain passages as containing figures of speech, citing this as inconsistent with the system of literal interpretation. According to Gentry, the dispensationalist has to abandon literal interpretation when he realizes that Jesus refers figuratively to Himself as a door in John 10:9.[24] Gentry is not defining literal interpretation the way dispensationalists do. Therefore, his conclusions about literal interpretation are misguided because he commonly mixes the two senses described by Johnson. When speaking of the macroliteral, he uses an example from microliteralism, and vice versa, therefore appearing to have shown an inconsistency in literal interpretation. In reality, the examples cited fall within the framework of how dispensationalists have defined what they mean by literal interpretation.\nIs Literalism Primarily a Philosophical Concept?\nVern Poythress has charged that \" classic dispensationalists have ' hedged' on the idea of fulfillment. They possess an idea of fulfillment and an idea of literalness that make it almost impossible in principle for the opponent to give a counterexample.\" [25] Gentry echoes Poythress when he says that aspects of dispensational interpretation are \" a preconceived hermeneutic,\" and asks, \" Why must we begin with the assumption of literalism?\" [26] The implication is that, if it is an idea, then it did not develop from Scripture and is thus suspect.\nRyrie did state his hermeneutic as ideals, but that is because he is summarizing principles. These principles have been verified and developed, in the mind of the dispensationalist, through volumes of specific exegesis from the text of Scripture. It would be hard to prove that literal interpretation is merely a form of idealism forced upon the text because some have expressed principles of interpretation or tried to support the literal approach with a philosophical argument. How else can one present a summary of conclusions except as principles that include ideas?[27] Many dispensationalists believe that a philosophical rationale could be removed from the defense of literalism and the approach could still be developed and defended inductively from Scripture.\nNo doubt, the human thought process involves an interplay between ideas and data, so nothing is purely the product of sheer inductive observation. Presuppositions can be tested and verified or rejected through the hermeneutical spiral or circle. But to argue against literalism on the grounds that it is a form of idealism, masking the richness of God's Word, is misguided.\nIn a related issue, some say dispensationalists reflect a \" common sense\" or \" plain sense\" a priori philosophical influence from eighteenth or nineteenth century rationalism when employing the \" literal if possible\" principle.[28] David Cooper gives a classic statement of this hermeneutical principle in his \" Golden Rule of Interpretation\" :\nWhen the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.[29]\nCooper's \" Golden Rule\" should not necessarily be classified as one reflecting \" Scottish Common Sense Realism\" (as some have asserted) primarily because it is a literary not a philosophical statement. Cooper does not use the phrase \" common sense,\" as critics suggest, by appealing to an abstract theory of common understanding latent in humanity. Instead, he defines it within a literary context. Common sense for Cooper is controlled by the context of Scripture, not some idea of common meaning residing in the reader of Scripture. Terms like \" primary,\" \" ordinary,\" \" usual,\" and \" literal\" meaning are developed literarily from Scripture within Cooper's rule, as well as theologically (i.e., \" axiomatic and fundamental truths\" ). The tactic of pouring a meaning not intended by its users into \" common sense\" falls by the wayside upon close examination. Cooper's rule is a helpful guide for discerning the Bible's use of literal or figurative language within the consistently literal system of interpretation.\nKenneth Gentry, who has charged dispensationalists with having a \" preconceived hermeneutic\" which builds upon \" the assumption of literalism,\" [30] could be accused of a similar fault. He says, \" it should be the Christian's practice that: (1) the clearer statements interpret the less clear . . . and (2) our hermeneutic should not be a priori, but derived from Scripture itself, allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture.\" [31] While agreeing with these two canons of interpretation, the point to be made is that, if a \" flaw of dispensationalism is its a priori ' literal' hermeneutic,\" [32] how do Gentry's two points escape the same problem? What may be presumed to be a clear statement by one person may not be for another. If hermeneutics should not be a priori, how does one ever start the process of biblical investigation without at least assuming an approach that could then be verified? That is the approach commonly taken by literalists; they believe that their hermeneutic has been verified from the Scriptures themselves as a result of dealing with specific texts.[33]\nComplementary Hermeneutics?\n\" Progressive Dispensationalism\" is the self-proclaimed title of a new form of dispensationalism that has arisen within the last few years. This new dispensationalism denies that consistent literal interpretation is a defining essential. One of its formulators, Craig Blaising, has declared \"that consistently literal exegesis is inadequate to describe the essential distinctive of dispensationalism.\"[34] It appears, however, after reading Blaising and Bock's book containing a statement of this new dispensationalism (Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church), even though subtitled The Search for Definition, that they do not even attempt to delineate essentials.\nBlaising believes that earlier dispensationalists were ill-affected by Baconian inductivism, which produced unwarranted certainty about their theology. He believes that the Baconian propensity to produce a list of summary points flowing from inductive analysis accounts for Ryrie's sine qua non of dispensationalism (apparently instead of valid interaction with the biblical text.) Therefore, Blaising called Ryrie's formulation of dispensationalism \" conceptual na\ufffdvet\ufffd\" [35] and labeled this phase \" essentialist dispensationalism\" [36] because of the three essentials. Instead of recognizing clear essentials, Blaising appears to think one can only say that there are patterns characteristic of the phases of the dispensational tradition.[37]\nBlaising's \" pattern approach\" raises some important questions about his definition of dispensationalism. Mainly, if there are no essential guidelines, or proposed guidelines are vague and fluid, how does one determine who is a dispensationalist? It seems that with the pattern approach one simply observes the different forms dispensationalism has taken in the past, while at the same time allowing for virtually any new \" developments,\" resulting in no meaningful definition.\nIt appears that by following the pattern approach anyone who claims to be a dispensationalist would have to be considered one. To conclude otherwise would reflect an \" essentialist\" standard such as Ryrie has suggested, which is to be rejected, according to Blaising. If one opts to use only past historic patterns, then they have not allowed for development, the very thing the new dispensationalism advocates. Perhaps this explains why Blaising and Bock only describe progressive dispensationalism in their concluding summary chapter, while avoiding a list of essentials.\nExamination of the progressive dispensational approach helps to explain why its proponents would need to discredit a hermeneutical sine qua non in order to propose a looser system they call \" complementary hermeneutics.\" Complementary hermeneutics involves \" the New Testament . . . introduc[ing] change and advance; it does not merely repeat Old Testament revelation,\" according to Blaising and Bock. \" In making complementary additions, however, it does not jettison old promises. The enhancement is not at the expense of the original promise.\" [38]\nComplementary hermeneutics appears to involve an attempted synthesis of the spiritualizing and literal methods that have developed out of issues relating to the New Testament's use of the Old Testament. The issue is not a distinct hermeneutic but debate about how to apply the hermeneutic that we share. The question most simply put is, \" How does ' new' revelation impact ' old' revelation and expression?\"\nThis approach leads to a position that sees Christ currently reigning on David's throne. Traditionally, dispensationalists have made a distinction between Christ's present session at the right hand of the Father's throne versus His future, but not yet, millennial reign from Jerusalem on David's throne. A present spiritual reign, as put forth by Bock, has in the past been the position of amillennialists, postmillennialists, and a few nondispensationalist premillennialists, but not of dispensationalists.[39] Bock does not go so far as to replace Israel of the Old Testament with the church, since he retains a significant amount of literalism that can be seen in his commitment to a futurist eschatology. But this hermeneutic involves a spiritualized interpretation rejected by earlier dispensationalists, in spite of revisionist attempts by Blaising to characterize older dispensationalists like Darby and Scofield as occasional spiritualizers.[40]\nDid Darby and Scofield use a spiritualized hermeneutic? It does not appear that they did in the sense being suggested by Poythress and Blaising. Poythress treats the dispensationalist's approach to typology as if it were part of their hermeneutical approach. Typology, for dispensationalists like Darby and Scofield, is used for theological illustrations only after all passages involved have first been interpreted literally. Then \" patterns\" are observed and comparisons made only for the purpose of illustrating (1 Cor. 10:6, 11). Thus, if the story of Joseph in Genesis were to be used typologically to correspond to aspects of the life of Christ or God's program for Israel, it would only be so used after the Genesis narrative had been interpreted literally. Typology would not be involved in interpreting the Genesis text.\nHowever, typology is also a part of the hermeneutic of some nondispensational approaches to the Bible. This sometimes appears to be used as a form of spiritualization (i.e., the church replaces Israel). Indeed, Poythress realizes that he may be misrepresenting Scofield when he says, \" Many present-day dispensationalists would see Scofield's examples of spiritualization as ' applications' rather than, interpretations that give the actual meaning of the passage.\" [41] (Actually, they probably are closer to illustration than to application.) Therefore, Poythress, and then Blaising, confused Darby and Scofield's use of typology as a part of their hermeneutic- hence the misrepresentation that they used a form of spiritualized hermeneutic. Could it be that Blaising is using this misrepresentation as part of his historical polemic against Ryrie's belief that consistent literal interpretation is an essential feature of dispensationalism, and thus be suggesting that this is justification for the spiritualizing of the new dispensationalism? If Poythress's and Blaising's contention of spiritualization by older dispensationalists cannot be supported, then new dispensationalism' s claim to be practicing a hermeneutic that has been used by previous phases of dispensationalism would not, in fact, have that historical antecedent in dispensationalism (see chapter 4).\nHow The New Testament Uses The Old Testament\nDevelopment of \"complementary hermeneutics\" by new dispensationalists revolves around issues related to how New Testament writers handle the Old Testament. Blaising and Bock present three approaches to the question. They could be viewed as the traditional literal approach, the spiritual approach, and the new complementary approach.[42]\nThe complementary approach put forth by Blaising and Bock is claimed to be a synthesis combining the answer of older dispensationalism, which demonstrates a greater sensitivity to \" the historical interpretation of the Old Testament,\" while adopting covenant theology's view that includes the \" adding of new revelation.\" [43] Bock has suggested, in the process of interpreting Peter's use of Joel in Acts 2, that the \" eschaton has begun; the movement toward the culmination of the eschaton has started, as have the benefits associated with the coming of the Day of the Lord.\" [44]\nIt appears that, in the minds of Blaising and Bock, their complementary hermeneutical synthesis lends support to their theological dualism of an \" already/not yet\" view of the Davidic kingdom rule. \" Both dispensations [Church Age and Millennium] are also united as aspects of the messianic reign of Christ.... Both dispensations are seen in the New Testament as fulfillments of the Davidic covenant.\" [45] Bock sees \"the presence of fulfillment\" in Peter's use of Joel in Acts 2 and adds, \"it is not a comparison.\"[46] However, Blaising and Bock appear to be in agreement with older dispensationalists who tend to see the Old Testament passages as left untouched by New Testament development: \" The enhancement is not at the expense of the original promise.\" [47]\nKen Gentry, representing a traditional covenant approach, believes that \"the Christian exegete must allow the New Testament to interpret the Old Testament. . . . This approach to biblical interpretation allows the conclusive revelation of God in the New Testament authoritatively to interpret incomplete revelation in the Old.\" [48] This would be a sound statement if Gentry meant that the Scripture was expanded down through history (progressive revelation) as more details and explanation are added in such a way as not to change the meaning of an original Old Testament passage through reinterpretation in the New Testament (i.e., the church replacing Israel in OT passages). But that is not what Gentry means. His approach is a so-called \" grammatical-historical-theological\" hermeneutic, whereby it is believed that the New Testament gives a theological basis for changing the original meaning of the Old Testament. Gentry believes that New Testament theology gives him the liberty to take Old Testament passages and apply them \" spiritually\" to the church. He asks, \" Why cannot there be a spiritual Israel?\" [49] From the perspective of covenant theology, it is sometimes taught that spiritualization of the Old Testament is needed to make it conform to the doctrine of the New Testament.\nBut must one adopt an element of spiritualization (i.e., the New Testament [re]interprets the Old Testament) into one's hermeneutic in order to properly understand how the New Testament uses the Old Testament? That seems to be unnecessary.\nArnold Fruchtenbaum claims that the New Testament writers (all were Jewish) quote the Old Testament in the common Jewish way in the first century. \" They often gave a spiritual meaning or a new application to an Old Testament text without denying that what the original said literally did or will happen.\" [50] Fruchtenbaum cites four ways the New Testament quotes from the old and notes that Matthew 2 contains an example of all four uses (see chapter 4). \" The first example is called literal prophecy plus literal fulfillment.\" [51]\nThis example is found in Matthew 2:5-6, which quotes Micah 5:2. In the original context of Micah 5:2, the prophet is speaking prophetically and prophesying that whenever the Messiah is born, He will be born in Bethlehem of Judah. That is the literal meaning of Micah 5:2. When a literal prophecy is fulfilled in the New Testament, it is quoted as a literal fulfillment. Many prophecies fall into this category, such as Isaiah 7:14, 52:13-53:12, Zechariah 9:9, etc.[52]\nThe second classification is called literal plus typical:[53]\nThis example is found in Matthew 2:15, which is a quotation of Hosea 11:1. However, the original context is not a prophecy, it is an historical event. It is a reference to the Exodus when Israel, the national son of God, was brought out of Egypt. It is obvious that Hosea is thinking of literal Israel for in the following verses he points out how Israel quickly slipped into idolatry. The literal meaning in context of Hosea 11:1 is a reference to the Exodus. There is nothing in the New Testament that can change or reinterpret the meaning of Hosea 11: 1, nor does the New Testament deny that the literal Exodus actually happened. However, Israel as the national son of God coming out of Egypt becomes a type of the individual Son of God, the Messiah coming out of Egypt. The passage is quoted, not as a fulfillment of prophecy, since Hosea 11:1 was not a prophecy to begin with, but as a type. Matthew does not deny, change, or reinterpret the original meaning. He understands it literally, but the literal Old Testament event becomes a type of a New Testament event. This is literal plus typical. Many of the citations in the Book of Hebrews of Exodus and Leviticus fall into this category.[54]\nFruchtenbaum calls the third approach literal plus application:[55]\nThis example is found in Matthew 2:17-18 which is a quotation of Jeremiah 31:15. In the original context, Jeremiah is speaking of an event soon to come as the Babylonian Captivity begins. As the Jewish young men were being taken into captivity, they went by the town of Ramah. Not too far from Ramah is where Rachel was buried and she was the symbol of Jewish motherhood. As the young men were marched toward Babylon, the Jewish mothers of Ramah came out weeping for sons they will never see again. Jeremiah pictured the scene as Rachel weeping for her children. This is the literal meaning of Jeremiah 31:15. The New Testament cannot change or reinterpret what this verse means in that context, nor does it try to do so. In this category, there is a New Testament event that has one point of similarity with the Old Testament event. The verse is quoted as an application. The one point of similarity between Ramah and Bethlehem is that once again Jewish mothers are weeping for sons that they will never see again and so the Old Testament passage is applied to the New Testament event. This is literal plus application. The original text may be history or prophecy. The Jeremiah quote is an example of history. An example of prophecy is in Acts 2:16-21 which quotes Joel 2:28-32. Virtually nothing that happened in Acts 2 is predicted in Joel 2. Joel was speaking of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the nation of Israel in the last days. However, there was one point of similarity, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, resulting in unusual manifestations. Acts 2 does not change or reinterpret Joel 2, nor does it deny that Joel 2 will have a literal fulfillment when the Holy Spirit will be poured out on the whole nation of Israel. It is simply applying it to a New Testament event because of one point of similarity.[56]\nFinally, the fourth is called summation:[57]\nThe example is found in Matthew 2:23. \". . . that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, that he should be called a Nazarene.\" However, no such statement is found anywhere in the Old Testament. Since Matthew used the plural prophets, one should be able to find at least two, yet there is not even one. The fourth category does not have an actual quotation as in the first three categories, but only a summary of what the prophets actually said. The plural use of prophets is a clue to this category. In the first century, Nazarenes were a people despised and rejected and the term was used to reproach and to shame (John 1:46). The prophets did teach that the Messiah would be a despised and rejected individual (e.g. Isa 53:3) and this is summarized by the term, Nazarene. Another example of this category is Luke 18:31-33. Using the plural for prophet again, Jesus states that the time for fulfillment has come and He states what is to be fulfilled: \" the Messiah will go to Jerusalem, be turned over to the Gentiles; the Gentiles will mock Him, treat Him shamefully, spit on Him, scourge Him, and kill Him, but He will rise again the third day.\" Not one prophet ever said all this, but the prophets together did say all this. Hence, this is a summation.[58]\nFruchtenbaum believes that every quotation of the Old Testament in the New will fit into one of these four categories. He notes that the \" procedure is not simply ' to interpret the Old by the New' as Covenant Theology insists. . . . There is no need to conclude that the New Testament changes or reinterprets the Old Testament.\" [59] An approach such as this contributes to a consistently literal hermeneutic and demonstrates why many dispensationalists still believe that older approaches to interpretation are to be preferred. How the Old Testament is used in the New is no basis on which to abandon or modify a consistently literal hermeneutic.\nFigures and Symbols\nCritics of consistently literal interpretation sometimes contend that literalism is impossible because of the presence of figures of speech and symbols. An example is seen in a series of questions from the pen of Ken Gentry: \" May not so rich a work as the Bible, dedicated to such a lofty and spiritual theme (the infinite God's redemption of sinful man), written by many authors over 1,500 years employ a variety of literary genres? No symbols? No metaphors? No analogies?\" [60] Gentry goes on to admit that dispensationalists do recognize literary devices such as figures of speech. However, he then presents the consistently literal approach of many dispensationalists as unworkable.[61] By presenting the literal approach as not allowing for symbols, metaphors, and analogies, he misrepresents literal interpretation.\nIn light of Gentry's characterization, it is interesting to note that the most extensive work we have on figures of speech was done by the dispensational literalist, E. W. Bullinger in 1898. Figures of Speech Used in the Bible: Explained and Illustrated is said to have \" never been duplicated or equaled in point of thoroughness and detail.\" \" No one has done more to open the eyes of Bible students to this key than has Bullinger.\" It is said that Bullinger \" catalogs and discusses no less than two hundred fifteen distinct figures . . . giving full explanation of its use in each instance.\" [62] Bullinger's work demonstrates that literalists have at least thought about the use of figures in a detailed and sophisticated way and do not consider such usage to conflict with literalism.\nSense and Referent\nRecently I came home one hot afternoon from the office and sat down to eat dinner. Still perspiring, I began putting pepper on my vegetables. My mother-in-law asked, \" Is it hot?\" Thinking that she was referring to the climate, I gave an answer that did not make sense to her. She then pointed out that she was referring to the pepper, not the weather. Once I understood what she referred to, I was able to answer her question. Since the meaning of hot has a sense that can be used in various ways, it is important to clarify to which of those ways one has referred. So it is with symbols and figures. A phrase like \" white house\" can relate to many different referents. One could be referring to the white house across the street from one's own house. Or one could be speaking of any house painted white in contrast to another color. One could have in mind the building in Washington, D.C., that serves as home and workplace of the president. Or one could be using \" White House\" as a figurative synonym for \" office of the president of the United States.\" Building upon the basic sense of the phrase, context serves to specify possible meanings of a referent. \" Sense and referent\" are an important issue for biblical interpretation.[63]\nAdvocates of the preterist school of interpretation (who accept that most of John's Revelation and the Olivet Discourse were fulfilled in a.d. 70 in events relating to the destruction of Jerusalem[64]) give us a hermeneutical example relating to sense and referent.\nIn the Olivet Discourse, one of the most difficult sections for the preterist is Matthew 24:29-30. This passage speaks of the sun and moon being darkened, stars falling from the sky, the sign of the Son of Man appearing in the sky for all the world to see, and Christ \" coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory\" (v. 30). Preterists believe that these phrases do not describe a future coming of Christ; instead they believe that it refers to God's coming in judgment upon Israel in a.d. 70 through the agency of the Roman army's destruction of Jerusalem. \" The sign that the Son of Man is in heaven was the smoking rubble of Jerusalem,\" [65] declares Gentry. Gary DeMar agrees: \" In speaking of the sun and moon going dark and stars falling (Matt. 24:29), Jesus is describing the nation of Israel under judgment.\" [66] Instead of seeing Matthew 24 as the judgment of God during the future seventieth week of Daniel, preterists see it as \" a providential coming of Christ in historical judgments upon men.\" [67] Gentry explains:\nIn the Old Testament, clouds are frequently employed as symbols of divine wrath and judgment. Often God is seen surrounded with foreboding clouds which express His unapproachable holiness and righteousness. Thus, God is poetically portrayed in certain judgment scenes as coming in the clouds to wreak historical vengeance upon His enemies. For example: \" The burden against Egypt. Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt; the idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst\" (Isa. 19:1). This occurred in the Old Testament era, when the Assyrian king Esarhaddon conquered Egypt in 671 b.c. Obviously it is not to be understood as a literal riding upon a cloud, any more so than Psalm 68:4: \" Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Extol Him who rides on the clouds, By His name YAH, And rejoice before Him.\"\nThe New Testament picks up this apocalyptic judgment imagery when it speaks of Christ's coming in clouds of judgment during history.[68]\nGentry cites the following passages as support of his thesis: 2 Samuel 22:8, 10; Psalms 18:7-15; 68:4, 33; 97:2-39 (sic; Ps. 97 only has 12 verses); 104:3; Isaiah 13:9; 26:21; 30:27; Joel 2:1, 2; Micah 1:3; Nahum 1:2ff; Zephaniah 1:14-15.[69]\nMost likely all would agree in principle that just because various passages have a similar sense does not mean that they have the same referent. They may, but each specific instance must be verified by contextual usage. There is no question that a divine judgment sense is related by the clouds in the passages cited by Gentry. The picture of smoke, fire, clouds, and darkness gives a universal sense of the Lord's wrath. However, differences exist, which supports the view that there are at least two referents.\nFirst, there are those passages related to the Lord's judgment of Israel's enemies on behalf of Israel. These are events that have either taken place in the past or are taking place at the time of writing, where the Lord is pictured as \"riding\" across the skies in a chariot of judgment (2 Sam. 22:8, 1l;Pss. 18:7-15; 68:4,33; \" walks,\" Ps. 104:3). While the other passages cited by Gentry do have a judgment theme, they do not employ the \" cloud\" motif and/or a nonpreterist would locate their timing at the future Day of the Lord (Isa. 13:9; 26:21; 30:27; Joel 2:1, 2; Mic. 1:3; Nah. 1:2ff; Zeph. 1:14-15).\nSecond, Matthew 24:30 says that \" all the tribes of the earth . . . will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.\" Here we have a picture of Christ, not just riding across the sky, as in the cited Old Testament passages, but One who is \" coming\" from heaven to earth. The picture here is of a different event, even though elements are present that characterize all of God's judgment. It may be that the Lord is pictured as \" riding\" or \" walking\" among the clouds in smaller, local judgments. Then when the time comes for the grand finale, the Bible continues the judgment theme depiction, but this time He actually comes to the earth in a display of visible glory and power.\nThird, the preterist sees Matthew 24 as a judgment upon Israel from the Lord, who is in the clouds, through the Roman army. A close examination of the passage reveals that in Matthew 24 the Lord returns to earth to rescue His people Israel (see 24:31); the judgment is not upon Israel but upon Gentile nations that are persecuting Israel. Just because a similar sense is painted in some passages, it does not follow that all passages with that general sense refer to the same event. The figures of speech must be controlled by their specific context.\nWe understand that Luke 21:20-24 records Christ' s reference to the a.d. 70 destruction of Jerusalem because it says \" when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is at hand\" (21:20). And Jerusalem is said to be \" trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled\" (21:24). But then the language in Luke 21:25-28 (a section paralleling Matthew 24:30-34) changes to the language of God's intervention, which shifts from judgment upon Israel (as in a.d. 70 and Luke 21:20-24) to His judgment upon \" the earth,\" where there is \" dismay among nations\" (ethnon, 21:25), and \" the world\" (oikoumene, 21:26) and to His rescue of Israel from her enemies (21:25-28). This is said to involve \" signs in sun and moon and stars\" (21:25).[70]\nFinally, preterists such as Gentry do see some passages that have \" cloud language\" referring to the Second Coming (Acts 1 :9-11; 1 Thess. 4:13-17).[71] Further, Gentry interprets 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 as a reference to the Second Coming,[72] when it contains many elements of judgment, such as \" the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God\" (1:7b-8a). It would seem that the grounds he uses to argue for a past fulfillment of Matthew 24:30 could be applied to these passages also. These observations demonstrate that it is important to recognize the distinctions between sense and referent. Failure to do so may lead one to draw faulty conclusions and to overlook basic literary principles.\nWe suggest that it is premature to abandon, as an essential of dispensationalism, the use of a consistently literal hermeneutic that avoids changing the originally understood meaning of an earlier text. Even though the grammatical-historical hermeneutic is used by all evangelicals, many believe that only dispensationalists attempt to apply it consistently from Genesis to Revelation. Nondispensational evangelicals tend to use a grammatical-historical-theological hermeneutic (a mild form of spiritualization, since they replace OT Israel with the church on what they believe are NT theological grounds). At this point dispensationalists simply believe that grammatical-historical interpretation should be consistently applied.\nWhen it comes to the role of pre-understanding, why do the critics of the older dispensational hermeneutic not invest some time examining the impact that the antirational, mystical ethos of today's culture is having on their own hermeneutical pre-understanding? To put today's skepticism in the language of a popular TV commercial, \" Why ask why?\" implying that one cannot really know. Paul Karleen notes,\nPoythress never questions this presupposition [covenant theology's covenant of grace]. . . . He urges the dispensationalist over and over to examine cherished assumptions. Yet he does not do the same. Is it the case that everything is open to negotiation for him but the covenant? In spite of his appeal to all of us to look at the Bible, tradition may condition his thinking far more than he suspects.[73]\nWalter Kaiser has warned,\nThe grammatical-historical method of exegesis has served us all very well. But in recent decades, the hue and cry has gone up from scholarship at large to allow the reader and the modern situation to have as much (or in some cases, more) to say about what a text means as has traditionally been given to the original speaker of the text. . . . Can we profit from the insights of modernity without being sucked into its vortex? This will be the question of the next years.[74]\nPerhaps some of the critics of the consistently literal hermeneutic (as defined in this chapter) are bothered by the certainty they see among older dispensational brethren because of the impact upon their hermeneutical pre-understanding that our modern culture represents. Today's climate is one of self-centered relativism, with no epistemological orientation to a concept of absolute truth. This mind-set is destructive of certainty and creates in people an attitude of tentativeness. While all evangelicals believe in absolute truth, perhaps modernity has eroded a valid belief in certainty that God's children can understand His Word in a detailed way.\nIf pre-understanding impacts thought, which it does, then it may be possible that a rejection of a consistent, literal interpretation (accepted by Ryrie and others as a sine qua non of dispensationalism) is less a development of dispensationalism and more reflects the adoption of a hermeneutic widely accepted outside of dispensationalism.\n[1] Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today (Chicago: Moody, 1965), p. 46.\n[2] Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, p. 47.\n[3] Earl D. Radmacher, \" The Current Status of Dispensationalism and Its Eschatology,\" in Perspectives on Evangelical Theology, Kenneth S. Kantzer and Stanley N. Gundry, eds. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), p. 171.\n[4] Craig A. Blaising, \" Development of Dispensationalism by Contemporary Dispensationalists,\" Bibliotheca Sacra 145, no. 579 (July-September 1988), p. 272.\n[5] Craig A. Blaising and Darrell L. Bock, \"Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: Assessment and Dialogue,\" in Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: The Search for Definition, Craig A. Blaising and Darrell L. Bock, eds. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), p. 380.\n[6] O. Palmer Robertson, \"Hermeneutics of Continuity,\" in Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments, John S. Feinberg, ed. (Westchester, Ill.: Crossway, 1988), p. 107.\n[7] Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., He Shall Have Dominion: A Postmillennial Eschatology (Tyler, Tex.: Institute for Christian Economics, 1992), pp. 148, 146.\n[8] Bernard Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation (Boston: Wilde, 1956), pp. 89-92.\n[9] Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, pp. 86-87.\n[10] E. R. Craven and J. P. Lange, ed., Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Revelation (New York: Scribner, 1872), p. 98 (cited in Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, p. 87).\n[11] Vern S. Poythress, Understanding Dispensationalists (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), pp. 7, 8-96\n[12] Poythress, Understanding Dispensationalists, p. 78.\n[13] Poythress, Understanding Dispensationalists, pp. 82-83.\n[14] Poythress, Understanding Dispensationalists, pp. 83-84. Poythress (Review of Books, Westminster Theological Journal 55, no. I [Spring 1993], p. 165) dismisses Robert L. Thomas's Revelation 1-7: An Exegetical Commentary (Chicago: Moody, 1992) as one that \" cannot be recommended\" because \" the over-all impact is dominated by the initial decision in favor of literalism.\" \" This principle of ' literal if possible,' \" contends Poythress, is nothing more than a \" stringent idea of ' literalism,' wildly underestimating the pervasiveness of symbolism.\"\n[16] Poythress, Understanding Dispensationalists, pp. 85- 86.\n[18] Elliott E. Johnson, Expository Hermeneutics: An Introduction (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990), p. 9.\n[19] Radmacher, \" Current Status of Dispensationalism,\" p. 167.\n[20] Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation, p. 141 (cited in Radmacher, \" Current Status of Dispensationalism,\" p. 167).\n[21] Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, p. 148.\n[22] For examples of his approach, see ibid., pp. 153-58.\n[27] For a recent presentation of a dispensational and literal hermeneutic, complete with hundreds of specific examples illustrating various principles of interpretation, see Roy B. Zuck, Basic Bible Interpretation (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor, 1991).\n[28] I have heard these charges in a number of personal conversations with those opposed to consistent literal interpretation.\n[29] David L. Cooper, The World 's Greatest Library Graphically Illustrated (1942; Los Angeles: Biblical Research Society, 1970), p. 11.\n[31] Greg L. Bahnsen and Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., House Divided: The Break-Up of Dispensational Theology (Tyler, Tex.: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989), p. 265.\n[32] Bahnsen and Gentry, House Divided, p. 44 n.\n[33] For an article-length discussion of how a literalist relates to the analogy of faith, see Elliott E. Johnson, \" What I Mean By Historical-Grammatical Interpretation and How That Differs From Spiritual Interpretation,\" Grace Theological Journal 11, no. 2 (Fall 1990), pp. 157-69.\n[34] Blaising, \" Development of Dispensationalism,\" p. 272.\n[35] Craig A. Blaising, \" Dispensationalism: The Search for Definition,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 29. See pp. 16-34 for Blaising's discussion of the Baconian impact upon dispensationalism.\n[36] Blaising and Bock, \" Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: Assessment and Dialogue,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 379.\n[37] Blaising and Bock, \" Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: Assessment and Dialogue,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 379. This conclusion also appeared to be supported in personal discussion with Blaising.\n[38] Blaising and Bock, \" Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: Assessment and Dialogue,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 392- 93.\n[39] For a presentation of Bock's position, see \" The Reign of the Lord Christ\" in ibid., 37-67. For interaction with Bock's view, see David A. Dean, A Study of the Enthronement of Christ in Acts 2 and 3 (Th.M. thesis, Dallas Theological Seminary, May 1992). For a recent presentation of the traditional dispensational position of an exclusively future reign of Christ in the Millennium, see Renald E. Showers, There Really Is a Difference! A Comparison of Covenant and Dispensational Theology (Bellmawr, N.J.: Friends of Israel, 1990), pp. 87-97. See also John F. Walvoord, Major Bible Prophecies: 37 Crucial Prophecies That Affect You Today (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1991), pp. 96-109.\n[40] Blaising (\" Dispensationalism: The Search for Definition,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., 26) contends that \" Darby and Scofield approved of spiritual or allegorical interpretation of the Old Testament.\" This is doubtful. Blaising may have picked up this idea from Poythress in Understanding Dispensationalists, pp. 22-29.\n[41] Poythress, Understanding Dispensationalists, p. 24 n. 1.\n[42] Blaising and Bock, \" Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: Assessment and Dialogue,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., pp. 392-93.\n[44] Darrell L. Bock, \" The Reign of the Lord Christ,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 49.\n[45] Blaising and Bock, \"Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: Assessment and Dialogue,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 381. One cannot help but wonder how such statements can be considered compatible with several affirmations in the current Doctrinal Statement at Dallas Seminary. After listing three dispensations- Mosaic Law, the present dispensation of grace, and the future millennial kingdom- the Doctrinal Statement says, \"We believe that these are distinct and are not to be intermingled or confused, as they are chronologically successive\" (Article V The Dispensations). Then the Doctrinal Statement says that the church \" is completely distinct from Israel\" (Article xlil The Church, A Unity of Believers).\n[46] Bock, \" The Reign of the Lord Christ,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 47.\n[49] Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, p. 167. Gentry argues that Paul in Galatians 6:16 calls the church \"spiritual Israel.\" Dispensationalists see Paul's statement \" the Israel of Cod\" as a reference to Jewish believers. For a rebuttal of Gentry's \"spiritual Israel\" view, see S. Lewis Johnson, Jr., \" Paul and ' The Israel of God' : An Exegetical and Eschatological Case-Study,\" in Essays in Honor of J. Dwight Pentecost, Stanley D. Toussaint & Charles H. Dyer, eds. (Chicago: Moody, 1986), pp. 181-96.\n[50] Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Israelology: The Missing Link in Systematic Theology, rev. (Tustin, Calif.: Ariel Ministries, 1992), p. 842.\n[51] Fruchtenbaum picks up these classifications from David L. Cooper, Messiah: His Historical Appearance (Los Angeles: Biblical Research Society' 1958), p. 74.\n[52] Fruchtenbaum, Israelology, p. 843.\n[53] Cooper, Messiah, p. 175.\n[54] Fruchtenbaum, Israelology, pp. 843- 44.\n[61] Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, p. 147- 49.\n[62] Ethelbert W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech Used in the Bible: Explained and Illustrated (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1968), inside flap on dust jacket.\n[63] For a discussion on how \" sense and reference\" are involved in philosophy of language and its relation to hermeneutics, see John S. Feinberg, \" Truth: Relationship of Theories of Truth to Hermeneutics,\" in Hermeneutics, Inerrancy, and the Bible, Earl D. Radmacher and Robert D. Preus, eds. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984), pp. 28-30. See also Paul D. Feinberg, \" Hermeneutics of Discontinuity,\" in Continuity And Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments, John S. Feinberg, ed. (Westchester, Ill.: Crossway, 1988), pp. 117-20.\n[64] Preterist David Chilton, (Paradise Restored: An Eschatology of Dominion [Tyler, Tex.: Reconstruction Press, 1985], p. 166) says, \" The Book of Revelation is not about the Second Coming. It is about the destruction of Israel and Christ's victory over Rome. In fact, the word coming as used in the Book of Revelation never refers to the Second Coming.\"\n[66] Gary DeMar, Last Days Madness: The Folly of Trying to Predict When Christ Will Return (Brentwood, Tenn.: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991), p. 98.\n[68] Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, pp. 273- 74.\n[70] For more interaction with the preterist viewpoint, see H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice, Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? An Analysis of Christian Reconstructionism (Portland: Multnomah, 1988), pp. 285-334\n[71] Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, pp. 275- 76, 279.\n[72] Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, pp. 253- 54, 386, 418.\n[73] Paul S. Karleen, \"Understanding Covenant Theologians: A Study in Presuppositions\" Grace Theological Journal 10, no. 2 (Fall 1989), p. 134.\n[74] Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., \"An Epangelical Response,\" in Dispensationalism, Blaising and Bock, eds., p. 376.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 55395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ravencassidey.blogspot.com/2013/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2KXACMY7BWDIL5FDIWPBD3THMNJNUX5Q", "length": 8548, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "ravencassidey.blogspot.com", "title": "Raven Cassidey (Rated 18): June 2013", "raw_content": "This Fortnight In Movies: The Avengers (so good I watched it twice, with different relatives each time), Robin Hood (I'm so glad I didn't pay money to see this in the cinema as it was so boring), Men In Black 3 (like the second film; not as good as the first one but watchable), Snakes On A Plane (classic fun film with one of the greatest quotes, courtesy of Samuel L. Jackson), Snow White & The Huntsman (better than I expected, although I'll never look at Kristen Stewart the same way again thanks to her two front teeth), Death Sentence (pretty decent revenge flick, with a very impressive chase/carpark scene), Next (interesting sci-fi related flick that kinda falls short towards the end), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (I may be in the minority but I find this superior to the Swedish version), The Hangover (not as funny as I once remembered it but still entertaining), The Hangover Part II (I was convinced I put the first film on by accident), Bubba Ho-Tep (Bruce Campbell as Elvis, and a black JFK fight a mummy in a retirement home.....need I say more), Iron Sky (I already wrote about it here), Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (unlike The Hangover Part II, this sequel tries to keep the spirit while not relying on old gags), Black Dynamite (still funny everytime I watch it) and three minutes of Disaster Movie (I wanted to turn it off after 15 seconds).\nAs I get back into the swing of things on here after my brief trip away, I have decided to pick a film that I have mentioned a few times on here (that's not Punisher: War Zone). I ordered a second hand copy of this film off Amazon, and while there were some parts towards the end that skipped every now and then, it wasn't enough to make the movie unwatchable. Much like the missing reel off old work prints of films. And what did I choose? Cradle Of Fear.\nAs I said before, I watched this film while highly intoxicated among friends. One of which hated this film so much she just constantly distracted everyone by talking about how rubbish it looked, and just striking up any conversation going. While I never did figure out what was going on towards the end, it didn't really bother me. So this time I thought I'd try watching it from start to finish on my own.\nWell of course it was gonna be rubbish. It has Dani Filth from Cradle Of Filth in a starring role, for crying out loud. The production values are very low, the acting substandard, and the story, well, it's just four short stories loosely tied to an ongoing plot thread. The only other example I can think of this type of film is V/H/S, but even that had more of a budget and decent camera work and effects, despite the fact that it's supposed to be in the \"found footage\" genre.\nGoing back to the first time I watched this film, while the film does have its fair share of gore, the scenes I kept making fun of were the \"gratuitous\" scenes involving women, saying they were important to the plot. So in an effort to stretch this article to a somewhat decent length, I'll just briefly talk about each story, along with littering this blog entry with pictures of certain cast members. Hey, I dig chicks, what can I say?\nI'm sure I used this pic of Emily Booth before.\nThe Demon Seed Story\nIt's not a bad opener to the film, if a little underdeveloped (as with the rest of the short stories). It also introduces the character of \"The Man\", who I'll just refer to as Dani Filth as I have difficulty referring to the arrogent little midget as \"The Man\". Plus it's just Dani Filth looking like Dani Filth on camera. It also gives you an idea to the lack of budget, acting talent and decent script, so you know what you're in for. And with the presence of Emily Booth, it just gives blokes an excuse to perv on women from here on out. Not me though.....ahem.\nImportant Plot Point: Emily Booth, before her \"sex scene\" with Dani Filth.\nRobbing The Dead Story\nThis short tale of greed between two partners in crime leading to death is okay to watch, but at the same time drags this film down at a very early stage. It's far fetched even by tacky horror standards, and in connection to the ongoing story arc, has very little relevance. The small connection to it via the crime scene at the end is pretty much a repeat of the beginning of the last story, but without the inappropriate boobie groping by the detective\nImportant Plot Point: The two thieves having a bath together. Which is even more ridiculous when they're using the bathroom of the old woman that they just murdered.\nThe Leg-End Story\nNow I said that the last story was far-fetched, but this one was tad confusing once I made the mistake of switching my brain on. Not only did I question the likelihood of attaching somebody's leg to another person succeeding, be it compatibility, biologically or even height wise. But I also wondered why the amputee lead actor would feel less of a man without it, especially as he has a hot girlfriend who obviously doesn't have a problem with it. I'm not even sure fully exploring the background, history or character motivations would help this story, so this one is just best to watch while shutting off the logical part of the brain. But I think the sight of Eileen Daly making out with a leg stump would do that automatically.\nImportant Plot Point: Eileen Daly, while making out with her amputee boyfriend.\nEileen Daly: can't find a respectable pic of her from the film, hence this.\nThe Sick Room Story\nWhile this may be the most original and memorable of the stories in this collection (despite the disc skipping in some parts), it isn't without its faults. It does have an interesting take on the evils of the internet, albeit dated today, especially when it comes to what a certain type of nefarious person searches for. The twist in the end is a little predictable, but appropriate. Yet I don't know if it's to do with the short story format (or the fact that my brain switched on again), but not only do the lead character's addictive nature seem too hasty, but I don't know how he got away with attacking the woman he had a date with, considering that they both worked together, and no police involvement took place.\nImportant Plot Point: None. And the brief cameo of what looks like Morrigan Hel in one of the sample videos of the Sick Room site doesn't count, due to the nature of the scene in question.\nThe Main Detective/Psycho Story\nThere's not much to say about this really, as it is interspersed among the four stories above, and serve more as breathing space before each one. It does delve into the backgrounds of the two foes, as well as go into the motivations for their eccentricities, but by the time the next story comes around, these are quickly forgotten once this story thread comes back onscreen. However, they're not that intricate to begin with, so you'll still get the jist right up to the very end.\nImportant Plot Point: The detective groping the breast of the body of Emily Booth during the crime scene at the beginning of the movie. He makes some explanation as to why he does this, but c'mon, it's just an excuse to throw in some laughable groping scene. I suppose the film had to set the tone somehow.\nMorrigan Hel: may as well.\nWhile there are some horror fans that may find this amusing, the only group of people this film really caters for are fans of Cradle Of Filth. It's pretty much a feature length flick inspired by their explicit band t-shirts, one of which is currently featured on their Wikipedia page (NSFW especially to those who are easily offended). The film could have done with some decent editing, as the movie tended to drag during its two hour runtime. This could have been achieved by omitting the Robbing The Dead short story if needs be.\nHowever, when in the right mindset, be it under the influence, laughing at badly made films, looking for a bit of smut with your horror, or even a combination of the three, this film can be entertaining to watch. Besides, it's a lot better than River Of Darkness, and it even has a certain scene that would even please those who hate Dani Filth.\nGoing back to the extra long opening paragraph listing all the films I watched in two weeks, one of which was The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Below are the opening credits to the film, which looks like a twisted nightmare version of a Bond film (which is funny considering that Daniel Craig is in the film). Which is also cool because it contains contributions from Oscar winning composer, Trent Reznor (whose main band Nine Inch Nails are playing in Belfast in August).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 18604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rebuildingireland.ie/news/ministermurphyhassecured725millionforhisdepartmentunderbudget2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:47Z", "digest": "sha1:F44DAK6RUJ7LDVQXJDGQUHXMHQ4IB7I2", "length": 9968, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "rebuildingireland.ie", "title": "Minister Murphy welcomes 25% increase in housing budget for 2019 - Rebuilding Ireland", "raw_content": "Minister welcomes increase of \u20ac725m in Housing, Planning and Local Government funding (+22%) under Budget 2019\n\u2022 \u20ac2.4Bn for 2019\n\u2022 \u20ac470m or 25% increase in housing budget for 2019\n\u2022 \u20ac60m additional funding in 2018\n\u2022 5,000 adults will be supported out of homelessness and family hubs will be expanded\n\u2022 10,000 new Council homes will be delivered in 2019 as a result of additional funding (2,100 new homes up on 2018)\n\u2022 Social housing needs of 27,400 households to be met in 2019\n\u2022 Serviced Site fund for more affordable housing to be tripled to \u20ac310m\n\u2022 Extra money for RTB to enforce rent caps and new laws to protect renters\n\u2022 \u20ac1.2bn investment in water services, up \u20ac84m on 2018\n\u2022 \u20ac185m contribution to the Local Government Fund, up \u20ac60m on 2018\nEoghan Murphy, T.D., Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government today welcomed the 22% increase in funding \u2013 some \u20ac725m \u2013 secured for his Department for next year under Budget 2019\nThe Government is allocating exchequer funding of almost \u20ac2.3 billion to housing programmes. In addition, local authorities will fund a range of housing services to the value of almost \u20ac93 million from surplus Local Property Tax (LPT) receipts, bringing the total housing budget in 2019 to almost \u20ac2.4 billion.\nIn addition, a further \u20ac60m for 2018 delivery has been agreed meaning that Budget 2019 will therefore result in an additional \u20ac530m investment in housing.\nThis investment will see the housing needs of almost 27,400 households being met in 2019. Of the 27,400 housing supports, 10,000 will be Council Houses delivered through build, acquisition and long term leasing programmes. This is 2,100 more homes than will be delivered in 2018. The remaining supports will be delivered through HAP and RAS schemes.\nA critical focus of 2019 activity is on prevention and delivery of services for homelessness, and an allocation of \u20ac146 million (+\u20ac30m on 2018) will address the increased demand for emergency homeless services and also assist in supporting homeless households with long-term and sustainable housing solutions.\nIn 2019, it is envisaged that in excess of 5,000 adults will exit from homelessness into sustainable tenancies through the provision of council homes and the Housing Assistance Payment. Housing First will continue to be rolled out, targeted at rough sleepers, and funding will also be provided to support the further roll out of the Family Hub programme.\nBudget 2019 provides for a trebling of the Fund to \u20ac310 million over the period to 2021, meaning that the minimum number of serviced site fund homes that will be facilitated over the lifetime of the Fund will be over 6,000.\nIn addition, the infrastructure investment per home under the Fund is being increased to \u20ac50,000, with the discount per market price of a house capped at 40%, to be realised through an equity share with the purchaser. The scheme applies to new homes, and for single people earning up to \u20ac50,000 and couples earning up to \u20ac75,000.\nAn initial call for Local Authority sites under the Fund has recently been completed and a new call will issue shortly.\nThe Rebuilding Ireland Affordable Home Loan was launched just 8 months ago on 1 February 2018. There has been great interest in the scheme to date. At the end of September the Housing Agency had assessed and recommended 1,134 loans for approval, totalling some 236 million euro. An assessment is currently underway that will consider some inconsistencies in decision making that have been identified, the need to potentially broaden the application of the scheme, as well as the possibility of extending the affordable loan to vacant homes requiring refurbishment.\nBudget 2019 will see a 67% increase in exchequer funding to strengthen the powers of the Residential Tenancies Board and greater local authority inspections in the sector.\nSome 70-80% of landlords only own one or two properties. We have to introduce measures that will incentivise landlords to remain as landlords.\nBudget 2019 introduces the full removal of the restriction on the amount of interest that may be deducted by landlords in respect of loans used to purchase, improve or repair their residential property. The rate was due to be 100 per cent by 2021 but will now be effective from 1 January 2019.\nWe have introduced rent caps but these need to be strengthened quickly.\nLegislation later this month will:\nprovide that any breach of Rent Caps can be sanctioned;\nstrengthen the powers of the Residential Tenancies Board (an additional \u20ac4.5 million will be provided in 2019 to support stronger RTB capacity and local authority inspections in the rented sector \u2013 this is a 67% increase in exchequer funding for this purpose);\nfurther tighten the operation of any exemptions;\nenhance rental data from RTB registrations to provide more transparency in rents being paid;\ndouble the notice period for renters where a notice to quit is served after six months;\nseek to extend rent caps to student accommodation.\nThe first Rent Pressure Zones are due to expire at the end of next year, and so Minister Murphy is considering an extension of this measure given continuing conditions in the rental sector.\nAs this is reviewed we will also examine other provisions around the operation of the Rent Caps in line with recent recommendations from the Residential Tenancies Board.\nWe will continue fund other important housing supports and services in relation to homelessness, regeneration and programmes to upgrade existing housing (energy efficiency improvements, adaptation grants, housing for Travellers, pyrite, etc.).\nSupports that will be funded through the increased resources under Budget 2019 include\nFunding of \u20ac13 million (+\u20ac1m on 2018) will support a range of Traveller specific accommodation schemes, including the provision of additional group housing;\nA further 9,000 council homes will be improved through the energy efficiency programme in 2019 through funding of \u20ac25 million;\n\u20ac23 million (+\u20ac1m on 2018) will support the continuation of the Mortgage to Rent Scheme and will allow for over 400 additional households to be supported under the scheme;\nExchequer funding for housing adaptation grants will be increased to \u20ac57 million (+\u20ac4m on 2018). This will enable up to 11,800 home adaptations to be undertaken facilitating people with disabilities and older people to continue to live in their own homes;\nThe National Regeneration programme will be supported through funding of almost \u20ac72 million (+\u20ac11m on 2018) targeting some of the country\u2019s most disadvantaged communities;\nFunding of \u20ac10 million (+\u20ac2.8m on 2018) will support the operational costs of the Housing Agency during 2019 and support the Agency in its expanded role in the delivery of housing services and supports;\nA provision of \u20ac11.5 million will be made available in 2019 (+\u20ac4.6m on 2018) to support the expanded role and functions of the Residential Tenancies Board and to also expand the rental inspections programme by local authorities;\nThe Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund will be supported by an allocation of \u20ac41 million in 2019. This funding will go towards 30 key public infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges which will unlock land for housing development which would otherwise remain stagnant. Two projects are under construction in Dublin and Limerick with the remaining 28 projects to finish design and planning phases and reach construction stage in 2019. These projects are designed to release the delivery of up to 20,000 homes across the country, with more than 25% expected to be social or affordable homes.\nIn relation to defective concrete blocks, an issue which has affected homeowners in Donegal and Mayo \u2013 the Government approved in principle this morning the development of a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners to carry out the necessary remediation works to dwellings in those 2 counties that have been damaged. The putting in place of such a scheme will now be a key priority for the Department, with funding to be available from next year.\nBudget 2019 also means significant progress across the other areas of the Department. In total, next year will see an increase for the Water Services, Local Government and Planning Programmes, as well as Met \u00c9ireann, that amounts to over \u20ac250 million.\nIn the Water area, capital and current funding to Irish Water will amount to nearly \u20ac1.2 billion in 2019, an increase of \u20ac84 million on this year. There is an increase of \u20ac122 million for vital, accelerated capital investment in water and wastewater services as planned for under the National Development Plan 2018-27. On the current side, the requirement for Irish Water is some \u20ac38 million below the 2018 provision. This reflects the continuing achievement of efficiencies on operational expenditure, which is driven through the Irish Water Business Plan and the economic regulatory process undertaken by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities.\nThere will also be capital funding of \u20ac23 million in 2019 (+\u20ac3m) for the next cycle of the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme which will run from 2019 to 2021. In addition, \u20ac6 million is being provided for Developer Provided Infrastructure to establish a funding programme to progressively resolve housing estates with problematic developer-provided water services infrastructure.\nTurning to Local Government, 2019 will see a contribution from the Department\u2019s Vote to the Local Government Fund of \u20ac185 million \u2013 an increase of \u20ac60 million on 2018. This will provide significant additional support to the local government sector in providing a range of essential services at local level, including assistance towards increased pay/pensions costs arising under national pay agreements and resources for certain local government initiatives across the country.\nThere will also be an increase of \u20ac2 million in capital investment in fire and emergency services, bringing the total to over \u20ac11 million in 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 12230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reedfamilyhistory.info/getperson.php?personID=I2353&tree=Reed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EVOAUGVSSCVZL5HBWFDKNXWJCICY527W", "length": 1066, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "reedfamilyhistory.info", "title": "Louise Maude MacFarlane b. 30 May 1889 d. 1973: reedfamilypages", "raw_content": "Name Louise Maude MacFarlane\nOccupation teacher [1]\nReligion Methodist [1, 3]\nlisted as Louisa McFarlane\nFather John Wesley MacFarlane, b. 14 May 1837, d. 1916 (Age 78 years)\nMother Mary Elizabeth Akerley, b. 9 May 1861, Newcastle Creek, Canning Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada , d. 28 Jun 1948, Minto Hospital, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 87 years)\nMarried 25 Mar 1886 Fredericton Free Baptist Parsonage, Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada\nFamily David Leslie Palmer, b. 30 Jun 1884, d. 1969 (Age 84 years)\nMarried 22 Jul 1914 Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada [3]\n1. Ella Bernice Palmer, b. 22 Sep 1921, Scotchtown, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada , d. 1989 (Age 67 years)\nMarried - 22 Jul 1914 - Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada\nBuried - - Fredericton Rural Cemetery Extension, Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada\n[S599] 1911 Census of Canada, Sheet 2, Dwelling 16, Family 16, Wesley MacFarlane household.\n[S122] 1901 Census of Canada, Sheet 13, Dwelling 125, Family 125, Wesley McFarlane household.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reedfamilyhistory.info/getperson.php?personID=I3684&tree=Reed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:53:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GTNF67TFK4QQMYB4EA5YA6FKIBKXZQSD", "length": 1534, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "reedfamilyhistory.info", "title": "Iva Hobbs b. 29 Jul 1897 Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine d. 26 Jul 1983 Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine: reedfamilypages", "raw_content": "Iva Hobbs\nName Iva Hobbs\nBorn 29 Jul 1897 Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine [1, 2]\nResidence 19 Jun 1900 Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine [3]\nResidence 14 May 1910 Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine [4]\nlisted as Ora\nDied 26 Jul 1983 Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine [1, 7]\nAge 17 and a houseworker at time of marriage.\nName listed as Ora in 1930 census\nFather Edmund Augustus Hobbs, b. 29 Oct 1859, Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine , d. 2 Apr 1940, Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine (Age 80 years)\nMother Martha Elizabeth Chandler, b. 9 Sep 1863, Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine , d. 20 Mar 1952, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine (Age 88 years)\nMarried 18 Oct 1880 Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine [9]\nEdmund Hobbs and Martha Chandler\nFamily Ronald Herbert Adkins, b. 3 Feb 1891, Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine , d. 10 Mar 1983, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine (Age 92 years)\nMarried 26 Nov 1914 Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine [10, 11]\nBorn - 29 Jul 1897 - Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine\nResidence - 19 Jun 1900 - Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine\nResidence - 14 May 1910 - Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine\nDied - 26 Jul 1983 - Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine\n[S33] 1900 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), ED 32, Sheet 16A, Dwelling 242, Family 251, Charles T. Hobbs household.\n[S31] 1910 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), ED 38, Sheet 17A, Dwelling 398, Family 418, Edmund A. Hobbs household.\n[S103] \u201cMaine Marriage Records, 1705-1922\u201d, Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll #:53.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reseau-etudes-coree.univ-paris-diderot.fr/annonces-site-du-reseau/appel-candidatures?page=8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:JHPW54F6TKTAQVGRDUNE2OUEQPN2BQVZ", "length": 1826, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "reseau-etudes-coree.univ-paris-diderot.fr", "title": "Appel \u00e0 candidatures | R\u00e9seau des \u00e9tudes sur la Cor\u00e9e", "raw_content": "Joint East Asian Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh. Abstract submission deadline : by 1 February 2019\nWe are pleased to announce that the triennial Joint East Asian Studies Conference (JEASC) will be held at the University of Edinburgh from 4 to 6 September 2019.\nThe JEASC is open to members of the British Association for Chinese Studies, the British Association for Japanese Studies, the British Association for Korean Studies and non-members alike. We welcome participants from all countries and backgrounds.\nWe invite panel and individual paper proposals from across the full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences that address topics related to Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, other parts of the East Asia region, or the region as a whole. Preference will be given to panels with a focus on cross-regional and intra-regional issues. Panels are expected to reflect the diversity of our profession including, but not limited to, gender, ethnicity and career status. This will be taken into consideration during the selection process.\nSUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND PANELS:\nPanel proposals should include: names, affiliations and contact details (email addresses) of all proposed presenters and proposed panel chair and/or discussant, where applicable; titles of individual papers; and an abstract for each paper (max 250 words per paper).\nProposals for individual papers should include: name, affiliation and contact details (email address), title of paper, and abstract of max 250 words. Individual papers will be assigned to panels by the organising committee.\nAbstracts for panels and individual papers should be submitted by 1 February 2019 to:\nJEASC2019@gmail.com\nPanels and papers will be selected by the organising committee, and notification of acceptance will be made by 15 March 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00560.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ri.ijc.org/node/1672", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:5WYCSHBJ4SCW6ANSP4YGGLDJIIZGXDHO", "length": 3648, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ri.ijc.org", "title": "Orographic Influences on Lake-Effect Precipitation | The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Research Inventory", "raw_content": "Orography has a dramatic influence on lake-effect snowstorms, not only in regions with major mountain barriers such as the Great Salt Lake Basin of northern Utah, but also in the eastern United States and Canada where more modest relief is found around the Great Lakes. For example, over the Tug Hill Plateau of northern New York, which lies downstream of Lake Ontario, annual snowfall increases 25-50 mm for every 100 m rise in elevation and storm-total accumulations have reached 360 cm in extreme lake-effect events. Orography also modifies the morphology of lake-effect snowstorms by altering the relationship between the large-scale flow and the development of precipitation structures such as broad-area precipitation shields and shoreline bands. Knowledge of lake-orographic precipitation processes is important not only for weather prediction, but also applications in hydrology, ecology, and geomorphology.Workplace Diversity Still a Pipe Dream in Most U.S. Newsrooms, Inter Press Service, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 (posted by Global Issues)
\nWorkplace Diversity Still a Pipe Dream in Most U.S. Newsrooms, Inter Press Service , Wednesday, July 29, 2015 (posted by Global Issues)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 12238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalissues.org/print/article/25", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4IBO7W7PQAOHBCYKJ7QPHIFPHDIHXZBU", "length": 45353, "nlines": 171, "source_domain": "www.globalissues.org", "title": "Non-governmental Organizations on Development Issues \u2014 Printer friendly version \u2014 Global Issues", "raw_content": "This print version has been auto-generated from http://www.globalissues.org/article/25/non-governmental-organizations-on-development-issues\nDevelopment is the strategy of evasion. When you can\u2019t give people land reform, give them hybrid cows. When you can\u2019t send children to school, try non-formal education. When you can\u2019t provide basic health to people, talk of health insurance. Can\u2019t give them jobs? Not to worry, just redefine the words employment opportunities . Don\u2019t want to do away with using children as a form of slave labor? Never mind. Talk of improving the conditions of child labor! It sounds good. You can even make money out of it.\nPalagunmi Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought; Stories from India\u2019s Poorest Districts, (Penguin Books, 1996), p.421\nWhat are NGOs?\nNeoliberal Economic and Political Agenda Has Seen a Greater Role of NGOs\nNGOs as a Weak Third Sector Compared to Governments and Corporations\nNGOs as Dependent on Governments and Corporations and NGO Neutrality\nCriticisms of NGOs Come From Many Areas\nInadvertently Doing More Harm Than Good?\nReliance on Philanthropy May Reveal More Fundamental Issues\nNGOs Showing Positive Signs of Change?\nCriticisms From Government and Corporate Interests\nSilencing Critics by Shouting Communist! or Terrorist!\nNon-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become quite prominent in the field of international development in recent decades. But the term NGO encompasses a vast category of groups and organizations.\nThe World Bank, for example, defines NGOs as private organizations that pursue activities to relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community development. A World Bank Key Document, Working With NGOs1, adds, In wider usage, the term NGO can be applied to any non-profit organization which is independent from government. NGOs are typically value-based organizations which depend, in whole or in part, on charitable donations and voluntary service. Although the NGO sector has become increasingly professionalized over the last two decades, principles of altruism and voluntarism remain key defining characteristics.\nDifferent sources refer to these groups with different names, using NGOs, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs), charities, non-profits charities/charitable organizations, third sector organizations and so on.\nThese terms encompass a wide variety of groups, ranging from corporate-funded think tanks, to community groups, grassroot activist groups, development and research organizations, advocacy groups, operational, emergency/humanitarian relief focused, and so on. While there may be distinctions in specific situations, this section deals with a high level look at these issues, and so these terms may be used interchangeably, and sometimes using NGOs as the umbrella term.\nSince the 1970s, it has been noted how there are more non-governmental organizations than ever before trying to fill in the gaps that governments either will not, or cannot.\nThe above-mentioned World Bank document points out that Since the mid-1970s, the NGO sector in both developed and developing countries has experienced exponential growth\u2026. It is now estimated that over 15 percent of total overseas development aid is channeled through NGOs. That is, roughly $8 billion dollars. Recognizing that statistics are notoriously incomplete, the World Bank adds that there are an estimated 6,000 to 30,000 national NGOs in developing countries alone, while the number of community-based organizations in the developing world number in the hundreds of thousands.\nSuch organizations must operate as a non-profit group. While in that respect, NGOs are meant to be politically independent, in reality it is a difficult task, because they must receive funding from their government, from other institutions, businesses and/or from private sources. All or some of these can have direct or indirect political weight on decisions and actions that NGOs make.\nProfessor of anthropology, Richard Robbins, in his book, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (Allyn and Bacon, 2002, Second Edition), suggests a few reasons why NGOs have become increasingly important in the past decade or so. Amongst them (from pp. 128 to 129):\nThe end of the Cold War made it easier for NGOs to operate\nCommunications advances, especially the Internet, have helped create new global communities and bonds between like-minded people across state boundaries\nIncreased resources, growing professionalism and more employment opportunities in NGOs\nThe media\u2019s ability to inform more people about global problems leads to increased awareness where the public may demand that their governments take action of some kind.\nPerhaps most important, Robbins suggests, is that some believe NGOs have developed as part of a larger, neoliberal economic and political agenda. Shifts in economic and political ideology have lent to increasing support of NGOs from governments and official aid agencies in response.\nNeoliberalism2 is a dominant ideology being pushed around the world today spearheaded by the United States and various other nations, and known as the Washington Consensus.\nOne of the many aspects of this ideology is to minimize the role of the state in things like health and education; NGOs and other organizations receive funding as an alternative to the state.\nThere is a good deal of evidence, Robbins says, that NGOs are growing because of increased amounts of public funding. (p. 129)\nHowever, the neoliberal ideology and its policies have also come under much criticism in recent years around the world, including mass protests in many countries3, because of their social impacts, sometimes devastating.\nAs a result, a number of alternative, grassroots type of NGOs have grown in both developed and developing countries campaigning and researching issues related to globalization, social justice, the environment and so forth. These are independent of government aid. However, NGOs not dependent on state aid are the exception rather than the rule as Robbins also adds (p. 129).\nSome have observed that in a way then, the complex group termed NGOs are seen as the weaker part of a triumvirate, or third sector to counter the other two actors, the state and the market.\nIt is suggested that NGOs are a natural outcome of a free democratic and capitalistic society. The idea is that as market forces require more and more relaxations of rules and regulations for their benefit, society will naturally demand social justice to balance out negative aspects of market forces such as exploitation and environmental degradation.\nThis leads to a romantic notion of what Adam Smith, regarded as a father of capitalism, described as a hidden hand in his 1776 book, Wealth of Nations , where through the pursuit of self-interest, hidden forces would automatically help balance things out.\nYet, NGOs are typically weaker because they are not as financially independent as the other two actors, and are often dependent upon them. Or, when independent, they typically do not have the resources and political power that the other two wield (for example, both states and corporations can own large influential media organizations), and are not as well and long established as the other two.\nOne of many effects then is that many NGOs are subject to political and market forces, as Jude Howell and Jenny Pearce observe, quoted at length:\nFor donors, civil society is a force for and ingredient of democratization, as well as a natural component of a market economy. In legitimizing civil-society strengthening programs, donors make frequent reference to the potential of civil society, to hold in check the state, to serve as the moral pulse of society and to further democratic value. By reducing the power of the state and increasing the role of the market, it is assumed that civil society too will flourish and will in turn encourage further economic liberalization. Moreover, civil society, state, and market are assumed to constitute an organic, symbiotic whole, characterized by unity rather than disjuncture and by cooperation rather than conflict. There is thus an expectation that civil society will function to mediate and balance the power of the state and market, to provide a moral check on the market, and likewise to maintain the democratic integrity of the state. Finally, there is an implicit assumption that external donor agencies can create, nurture and strengthen civil society in aid-recipient countries.\n\u2026The triadic unity of state, market, and civil society also assumes neat boundaries between the three elements, discrete functions and actors, and an organic harmony and balance. Yet, many organizations within civil society receive funding to varying degrees from both state and private sponsorship. In some countries, government officials have set up their own NGOs as a way to work more creatively, access different resources, and gain new opportunities. Similarly, some development NGOs amount to no more than briefcase companies founded for the purpose of tax evasion and private gain. Furthermore, the triadic representation implicitly assumes an equal \u2014 or at least unproblematic \u2014 division of power between the three elements, indeed three separate domains of power. Yet organizations within civil society do not enjoy the same degree of power. Business associations, for example, are more likely to be better resources and wield greater political leverage than trade unions or community groups. The power of the market thus permeates and shapes the composition of civil society. As Wood (1990) so cogently argues, the juxtaposition of an array of fragmented and diverse institutions within the conceptual space of civil society masks the totalizing logic of capitalism that fundamentally binds these diverse institutions together and gives them meaning.\n\u2026 Although the state may welcome charities and welfare bodies providing for the homeless, elderly and sick, not least because this reduces state expenditure, it may take less kindly to advocacy groups that promote causes contrary to government policy or organizations that challenge the legitimacy of the state\u2026. Similarly, businesses may sponsor community development, but they may be less receptive to challenges from labor organizations or environmental groups for minimum labor and environmental standards. Thus the interactions of state, market, and civil society are overlaid by contradictory purposes and value, the resolution of which may not necessarily favor the sustenance of civil society nor guarantee stability. The alliances and coalitions are not always self-evident nor conducive to redistribution of power and wealth.\nJude Howell and Jenny Pearce (David Lewis and Tina Wallace, Editors), New Roles and Relevance; Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change, (Kumarian Press, 2000), pp. 76, 77-78 (Emphasis added)\nHowell and Pearce also note that civil society cannot really be grown from outside ; it comes from within society; it reacts to specific historical, social and cultural contexts.\nIn the past, many development NGOs gained a bad reputation with developing countries because they were seen as arrogant and going into poor countries and telling people how to do things, or doing things for them. They have also been described by some as the modern missionaries, referring to the imperial and colonial times, where things like converting people to Christianity was considered the moral thing to do by European and American missionaries.\nAnd even in recent years, some NGOs, aid organizations and development institutions from the North have been described sometimes as being tools or part of the objectives of the foreign policy aims of the northern nation from which they come.\nThere is plenty of evidence that the growth in size and number of NGOs is fed by increased governmental contributions along with greater contributions from multilateral developmental organizations such as the World Bank. On the one hand, these conditions have created additional monies for NGOs and GROs [Grassroots Organizations] to develop; on the other hand, they risk becoming so dependent on governments that they have been co-opted and their independence threatened.\nRichard Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, (Allyn and Bacon, Second Edition, 2002), p.129\nHowell and Pearce also note that donor agencies can appear neutral but that may not be the case:\nAlso problematic is the donors\u2019 image of themselves as neutral actors, brokering relations between the state, business, and civil society, and indeed separate and hidden from the triadic unity. \u2026 Yet this begs the question from where international agencies derive their authority to act as broker and to pose as neutral observers. Indeed, the prior assumption of a broker role \u2014 unnegotiated, uncontested, and unlegitimate \u2014 in itself is revealing about the balance of power. The notion of brokering suggests that the broker has no interest of its own, no ideological preferences, no intrinsic values and goals.\nApart from the question of neutrality, which services to mask the distribution of power, there is also the larger question of the morality of interventionism. Is donor support to civil society another manifestation of neocolonialism in the post-Cold War era, aimed at controlling the nature of political regimes and extending global markets? Do donors have the right, let alone the capacity, to shape other civil societies? By projecting their own visions and understandings of civil society, do they not undermine the ability of local organizations to set their own priorities and agendas, to vocalize their own imaginations of social and political change?\nJude Howell and Jenny Pearce (David Lewis and Tina Wallace, Editors), New Roles and Relevance; Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change, (Kumarian Press, 2000), p. 83\nIt is not that donor programs are entirely negative, Howell and Pearce add, but that they are certainly not neutral (p. 84). By making various assumptions they conclude that donor agencies risk becoming creations of the outside, embodiments of external norms and goals, and materially dependent on outside rather than local sources.\nDavid Rieff, writing in The Nation expands those ideas suggesting that strengthening the civil society sector goes in line with the neoliberal idea of reducing the role of the state:\nThat this emphasis on local capacity building, to use the bureaucratic term of art, and on fostering civil society arose at exactly the moment when development aid from most major donor countries was plummeting (in many countries, including the United States, they are now at historic lows) may, of course, be coincidental. But in the development sphere, at least, ideological commitment to making states responsive to civil society seems to have been accompanied by a determination to cut funding. When pressed, development specialists who favor this new approach insist that a robust civil society will open the way for the integration of the poor world into the global economy \u2014 supposedly the first step toward prosperity.\nViewed from this angle, the idea of civil society begins to look less like a way of fostering democratic rights and responsive governments and more like part of the dominant ideology of the post-cold war period: liberal market capitalism.\n\u2026 any term that can be embraced as warmly by the Clinton Administration and the European Commission as civil society has been threatens no important vested interests in the rich world.\nAgain, there is no question of a subterfuge. The idea of civil society simply coincides with the tropism toward privatization that has been the hallmark of these post-cold war times. Far from being oppositional, it is perfectly in tune with the Zeitgeist of an age that has seen the growth of what proponents like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are pleased to call the Third Way and what might more unsentimentally be called Thatcherism with a human face. As we privatize prisons, have privatized development assistance and are in the process, it seems, of privatizing military interventions into places like New Guinea, Sierra Leone and Angola by armies raised by companies like Sandline and Executive Outcomes, so let us privatize democracy-building. Let\u2019s give up on the state\u2019s ability to establish the rule of law or democracy through elections and legislation, and instead give civic associations \u2014 the political equivalent of the private sector \u2014 a chance to do their thing.\nDavid Rieff, The False Dawn of Civil Society4, The Nation, February 22, 1999\nThere has also been criticism on how NGOs have used their funding and other monies received or raised. Criticisms range from pointing out that only small percentages go to people in need, that a lot goes to recover costs, and some have even been used to pay very high salaries of the people at the top of these organizations.\nIn some cases, this is fair criticism. In other cases, these arguments have been used by those who wish to paint a dark picture of NGOs in general because NGO research may ultimately criticize their practices. It has to be expected that NGOs need to pay for expenses, for permanent staff and for various other costs incurred.\nDue to the pressures of obtaining and maintaining funding, much effort is spent on marketing, and the already constrained budgets require many NGOs to ensure optimal efficiency, similar to private corporations. Sometimes then, the actual activity can be affected due to the need to raise funding.\nIt is easy to think of NGOs as one group. However, the interests and perspectives are so diverse, that summarizing and generalizing criticisms that can be valid to all NGOs and similar organizations is obviously unfair. Indeed, there are many NGOs now that don\u2019t really work in tune with government and corporate interests as suggested above, but seriously challenge and criticize. As David Lewis and Tina Wallace write in an introduction to their book on development NGOs:\nThe new attention being given to NGOs as actors in civil society unleashes a new set of difficult conceptual and terminological problems, partly because nongovernmental organization is in many ways a virtually meaningless label.\nFor some analysts the term is synonymous with the aid industry, in which NGOs are viewed as effective tools or channels for donors to provide international development funds to low-income countries.\nConversely, they are seen as vehicles for privatizing foreign assistance, making it less accountable to either government authorities or local people because of a lack of clear governance structures for NGOs.\nSome see NGO as a term strongly associated with grassroots action and community organizing, which may exist outside the doman of the formal development world.\nOthers see NGOs primarily as service contractors, able to work more efficiently and more effectively than government agencies, but with comparatively little legitimacy with which to challenge policy or represent people.\nThere is now growing interest in NGOs as international policy actors in the environmental and human rights fields.\nDavid Lewis and Tina Wallace, Editors, New Roles and Relevance; Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change, (Kumarian Press, 2000), p. x (Text is original, bullet point formatting is mine)\nAnother type of criticism for some NGOs is that despite good intentions, they may be doing more harm than good, without realizing it.\nFor example, many food aid groups where, in non-emergency situations, food is delivered from rich countries for either free, or virtually free, end up under-cutting local producers and hence have a negative effect on local farmers and the economy (as shown in this web site\u2019s poverty sub-section on hunger5 and food dumping6.)\nAs another example, many organizations working on population-related issues risk doing more harm in other societies due to either misconceptions about over-population, or misunderstandings about family and community structures in those societies. (See this web site\u2019s section on population7 for more details.)\nAid has often been seen as an altruistic action often coming from religious roots and therefore seen as a moral thing to support. However, sometimes, what gets lost is the type of aid that is administered. While many wealthy countries are cutting back on their already low aid contributions8, the discussion/criticisms and debates should also focus on the types of aid.\nA lot of official aid, and that raised and distributed by NGOs, in the past has been based intentionally, or unknowingly, on foreign policy objectives, or the interests of the lenders, less of the recipients. Aid has often led to excessive dependency or reliance on aid rather than helping nations move away from this.\nIt is not that the poor are unable to do things themselves, but with the aftermaths of colonialism, corruption, conflicts and so on, rebuilding and developing often requires outside assistance. The form of assistance that would be preferred is one that allows the recipient to help them help themselves, along the lines of the famous age-old quote: Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime.\nThe special Dutch ambassador to Ethiopia and Eritrea, Pieter Marres has stuck his neck out by publicly questioning the use of development aid. He says it\u2019s keeping people dependent and less self-reliant. It\u2019s a situation perpetuated by the way international aid is organised. Every donor has its own priorities, procedures and regulations. Satisfying donor demands requires great effort and energy on the part of developing nations. Many have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, says Mr Marres.\nPieternel Gruppen, Let\u2019s Abolish Development Aid9, Radio Netherlands, 16 May 2001.\nWe hear more and more about philanthropic organizations set up by mega-successful business elites, where millions of dollars are donated to seemingly worthy causes. However, the fact that such donations are needed also serves as an indication that development policies and globalization policies in their current form are not sustainable! The following quote summarizes this notion quite well:\nIt is all very well for Bill Gates to charitably donate $750m to pay for immunization programmes for certain diseases, as he recently announced he would do, and for James Wolfensohn to urge transnational companies setting up in poor countries to contribute financially directly to local education services. Societies which depend on such largess to meet their basic health and education needs are neither sustainable, democratic nor equitable \u2014 yet new dimensions of power are ceded to large companies.\nAnd, as Noreena Hertz points out in the UK\u2019s Observer paper, when there is economic down turn, corporate help and charity diminishes11 and so we shouldn\u2019t become more and more reliant on it alone.\nDr. Stella Goings of UNICEF also points out12 that, Laying a foundation for a strong economy and not reliance on charity is a start to poverty reduction.\nDavid Rieff, mentioned above, also adds that the belief that civil society will be able to cope where nations have failed is a counsel of despair as civil society does not have the ability the state would have:\nThe idea of civil society has been most coherent when applied to nations where citizens needed protection from a repressive state, as was the case in the Soviet empire. But in other parts of the world this paradigm is either irrelevant or of distinctly secondary importance. There are parts of Africa where a stronger state, one that could bring the various bandits and insurgents to heel, might be of far greater value. It\u2019s tempting to add that the United States, after more than two decades of seemingly inexorable privatization, is a country where strengthening the state\u2019s role would be preferable to hoping that NGOs will somehow be able to take up the slack.\nThe suggestion that civil society can cope where nations have failed is, in fact, a counsel of despair in such instances. Without a treasury, a legislature or an army at its disposal, civil society is less equipped to confront the challenges of globalization than nations are, and more likely to be wracked by divisions based on region and the self-interest of the single-issue groups that form the nucleus of the civil society movement.\nDavid Rieff, The False Dawn of Civil Society13, The Nation, February 22, 1999\nOn the positive side though, there is also an increasing number of organizations from developing countries as well as both new and more established ones in the industrialized countries, doing important work, helping to raise important issues or tackle various problems.\nIn recent years as well, development and environmental NGOs for example, are learning that they can be more effective, and their work can have more positive effects, if they work with the actual communities and help them to empower themselves. Working at the grassroots level14 helps to provide assistance directly at the source. Often corrupt governments can intercept much assistance so this approach is sometimes favored.\nHowever, there is still much that needs improving. For example, a study commissioned by the Finnish foreign ministry and co-ordinated by researchers at Helsinki University to study issues of bilateral development suggested that there is an inequality in the relations between organizations of the North and the South. The study points to inequalities despite the shift from the imperious paternalism in development aid practices during the 1990s as described by Inter Press Service (IPS). One of the researchers for the report highlight an aspect of this difference:\nOuti Hakkarainen, a researcher at Helsinki University\u2019s Institute of Development Studies and one of the co-ordinators of the study says it\u2019s striking that the reports tend to refer to Northern organisations as donors . Northerners, on the other hand, like to see themselves and their Southern counterparts as partners .\nThe influence of foreign money on CSOs in the South is huge and not always healthy, Hakkarainen says. It tends to be blind to the effects on regional and state structures, for instance undermining pressure for social services.\nMark Waller, South Too Far for Northern NGOs15, Inter Press Service, October 10, 2002\nCriticism of NGOs also come from another quarter: corporate-related interests. Because there are a number of development and social-justice oriented NGOs that criticize excesses of concentrated and corporate capitalism, and because some of these criticisms are slowly spreading, corporate funded research and think tanks are hitting back. As hinted further above, this is almost to be expected. Some criticism is no doubt valid, as also discussed on the World Social Summit on Development16 (WSSD) page on this site.\nOn that page, back in September 2002, note was made how right wing think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute made some valid criticisms about NGOs, but that their criticisms were also tainted by their own ideological biases too.\nCriticism has typically come in the form of questioning the undemocratic nature of NGOs, because the people didn\u2019t choose them, yet they claim to be fighting for various issues for the people.\nAt the same time, however, the same criticism could be made of many mega-corporations and their enormous influence and power (far more than NGOs). Even some governments, including democratic ones, can be faulted for becoming less democratic in a variety of ways, from concentrating power, to bending to corporate and corporate funded influences, etc. Quoting what was mentioned on that WSSD page, for example:\nWhile there are no doubt problems with many NGOs, many, from the third world especially are highlighting issues that their leaders and other leaders and elites around the world are unwilling or unable to address for a number of reasons.\nMany NGOs are beginning to work with people in local and grassroots situations more effectively, often when governments don\u2019t.\nFrom a business interest perspective, many NGOs are indeed critical of transnational corporate interests. In that context then, NGOs are seen by them as undemocratic , when they are just as legitimate a part of civil society as businesses are.\nFurthermore, the business interests being spoken for are not exactly democratic themselves17.\nThe power wielded by just a handful of corporations is enormous, more than many nations18, compared to NGOs and other segments of society.\nBusiness lobbies and related groups do not have even the theoretical accountability19 to the public at large but to their industries and companies. Their resources and influence are immense.\nFurthermore, the rising number of NGOs could be regarded as relating to failures of state and markets to provide all the requirements of society.\nThe above-mentioned American Enterprise Institution (AEI) has also been the same institution at which U.S. President George Bush has made numerous speeches on various domestic issues to foreign policies, such as the war on Iraq. That institute is considered right wing and friendly to many perspectives of neo-conservatives that make up major parts of the Bush Administration.\nBut, as Jim Lobe, of IPS reported on July 12, 2003, two right wing think tanks are turning on NGOs 20. AEI and another right-wing group, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, announced Wednesday they are launching a new website (www.NGOWatch.org) to expose the funding, operations and agendas of international NGOs, and particularly their alleged efforts to constrain U.S. freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behaviour of corporations abroad.\nThe NGOWatch web site21 was launched at a conference looking at the undemocratic nature of NGOs. Their web site, should nonetheless be of interest, despite the ideologically based criticisms of just a certain type of NGOs.\nLobe added that the site will look at NGOs that are in some ways trying to curtail U.S. actions abroad as well as U.S. corporations. Yet, around the world, many have indeed criticized U.S. foreign policy and corporate behavior for undermining international law, violating human rights, etc, even while it is claimed that these are being supported.\nIn that context, it could be seen that AEI etc are themselves politically motivated with their site, for their fundamental beliefs are in essence, being challenged. Author and activist, Naomi Klein is less reserved and writes in a critique that the NGOWatch web site is more like a blacklist:\nIn fact, it is a McCarthyite blacklist, telling tales on any NGO that dares speak against Bush administration policies or in support of international treaties opposed by the White House.\nThis bizarre initiative takes as its premise the idea that there is something sinister about unelected groups of citizens getting together to try to influence their government. The extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs in liberal democracies has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies, the site claims.\nComing from the AEI, this is not without irony. As Raj Patel, policy analyst at the California-based NGO Food First, points out, The American Enterprise Institute is an NGO itself and it is supported by the most powerful corporations on the planet. They are accountable only to their board, which includes Motorola, American Express and ExxonMobil. As for influence, few peddle it quite like the AEI, the looniest ideas of which have a way of becoming Bush administration policy. And no wonder. Richard Perle, member and former chairman of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Policy Board, is an AEI fellow, along with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice-president; the Bush administration is crowded with former AEI fellows.\nNaomi Klein, Bush to NGOs: Watch your mouths 22, The Globe and Mail, June 20, 2003\u2014Page A15\nOn their home page, NGOWatch.org states that This site will, without prejudice, compile factual data about non-governmental organizations. It will include analysis of relevant issues, treaties, and international organizations where NGOs are active. Technically speaking, it is indeed likely to indeed be without prejudice when it comes to detailing factual data. However, how they choose who to criticize and on what ideological grounds is also likely to not be without prejudice. As an example of that, consider what Jim Lobe further pointed out:\nBoth the website launch and Wednesday\u2019s conference might normally be dismissed as a pep rally of a far right obsessed with left-wing and European conspiracies to impose world government on the United States and destroy capitalism.\nBut the fact that no less than 42 senior administration foreign-policy and justice officials have been recruited from AEI and the Federalists and that AEI fellows include such prominent figures as Lynne Cheney (the vice president\u2019s spouse), former U.N.. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick and the influential Iraq hawk and former chairman of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle, suggests that Wednesday\u2019s events may herald a much more antagonistic attitude towards NGOs on the part of the [U.S.] government.\nJim Lobe, Iraq-Attack Think Tank Turns Wrath on NGOs23, Inter Press Service, July 12, 2003\nOn the issue of accountability, a UK organization, One World Trust is embarking on a project, called the Global Accountability Project24, to try and compare accountability of various bodies such as transnational corporations and NGOs.\nThey also commented25 on the NGOWatch web site noting that The criticisms made by NGO Watch are not without foundation, but the conclusions drawn from them will make our world a poorer place, with even fewer mechanisms for taking the concerns of citizens around the world to international forums in order to help decision makers build the political consensus we need to solve the major problems facing us. An important point is made in that preceding sentence.\nThat is, some may argue that many NGOs are undemocratic and claim to speak for people who do not necessarily agree with them.\nInstead, citizens should challenge their governments (assuming democratic ones here for the moment), as they are elected representatives of people.\nYet, and may be a bit cynically, others will argue that many democratic leaders are under more influences (of money and power) from large corporations compared to citizens.\nAs citizens feel more and more grieved about various issues, they may form groups and non-governmental organizations as a way to indeed attempt to make their governments listen to their concerns, which also indicates that states and markets are not completely fulfilling everyone\u2019s needs.\nSide NoteOf course, not all NGOs will fit into this mould. As mentioned further above, there are a number of types of NGOs, some as just front organizations, some may even be set up by terrorist organizations, while others \u2014 ironically, including the AEI \u2014 might be ideologically motivated based on their funders, etc.\nIn addition, One World Trust adds, From the abolition of slavery, the drafting of the UN Charter and its subsequent formation through to the campaign for the International Criminal Court and the ban on anti-personnel mines, NGOs have made a critical difference to our world. A whole host of other important campaigns and successes could be listed too, which could also indicate situations where citizens feel their elected representatives do not listen to them as much as say the influences and interests of lobby groups for multinationals and other privileged special interests etc, were they not to form such groups themselves, which still do not typically have the power and influence of wealthy corporations and elite.\nIn that context, it is interesting to note that when AEI and others claim that such NGOs are constraining U.S. freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behavior of corporations abroad, it is often on issues that much of the world may be in agreement of, but the position of the U.S. or a few allies may be at odds with, as many examples throughout this site highlights. But as Naomi Klein in her above-mentioned article also notes, while issues such as accountability are the reasons highlighted, the motives for criticizing certain types of NGOs are politically and ideologically triggered.\nThe timing of the launch also coincided with the director of the U.S. government\u2019s development agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Andrew Natsios, reportedly saying that NGOs that received USAID funding for projects in Afghanistan and elsewhere were not giving sufficient credit to the U.S. government as the source of the aid. In the same article as above, Klein comments on this as well:\nOn May 21 in Washington, Andrew Natsios, the head of USAID, gave a speech blasting U.S. NGOs for failing to play a role many of them didn\u2019t realize they had been assigned: doing public relations for the U.S. government. According to InterAction, the network of 160 relief and development NGOs that hosted the conference, Mr. Natsios was irritated that starving and sick Iraqi and Afghan children didn\u2019t realize that their food and vaccines were coming to them courtesy of George W. Bush. From now on, NGOs had to do a better job of linking their humanitarian assistance to U.S. foreign policy and making it clear that they are an arm of the U.S. government. If they didn\u2019t, InterAction reported, Natsios threatened to personally tear up their contracts and find new partners.\n\u2026 this attack on the non-profit sector marks the emergence of a new Bush doctrine: NGOs should be nothing more than the good-hearted charity wing of the military, silently mopping up after wars and famines. Their job is not to ask how these tragedies could have been averted, or to advocate for policy solutions. And it is certainly not to join anti-war and fair-trade movements pushing for real political change.\nAs mentioned nearer to the beginning of this page, NGOs can come under a variety of pressures, from states and corporate interests, and this seems to be such an example. Those NGOs which are more critical of state and concentrated corporate interests are the ones most likely to face the most criticism.\nJust after the launch of the NGOWatch web site, on June 26, 2003, SunstainAbility in partnership with the Global Compact and the United Nations Environment Programme launched a report on NGOs in the 21st Century. They concluded that NGOs are likely to be an important factor in the future in both determining the roles of states and businesses as well as operating as businesses themselves:\nAlthough by no means universally popular, NGOs, NGO-like organisations and CSOs play an increasingly vital role in democratic and democratizing societies.\nThe challenges they address are growing \u2014 and will continue to do so.\nGovernments and business may resist their advocacy, but there is now real interest in the potential roles NGOs can play in developing and deploying solutions.\nAs a result, a new market-focused opportunity space is opening up, but this often requires solutions that are not simply based on single-issue responses.\nThis represents a challenge even for most mainstream NGOs, so public and private sector partnerships are increasingly essential in leveraging change.\nIn the process, new forms of competition are evolving in the NGO market , with new entrants like companies, business networks, NGO networks and social entrepreneurs blurring traditional boundaries.\nBoth national and international NGOs, as a result, are having to pay more attention to the whole area of branding and competitive positioning.\nIn parallel, the mainstreaming trend is exposing established NGOs to new accountability demands.\nBut, problematically, all of this is happening at a time when traditional sources of NGO funding are increasingly squeezed.\nFinally, we sense an urgent need to review \u2014 and further evolve \u2014 NGO business models.\nThe 21st Century NGO: In the Market for Change27, SustainAbility and the United Nations, June 26, 2003\nA recent example highlights how any criticism of US human rights violations are met with indignation and, at worse, a strong concerted attempt to ridicule the organization making the claim.\nAmnesty International\u2019s continued criticism of the US detention facilities in Cuba for suspected terrorists, and elsewhere has annoyed the Bush Administration.\nThe valid criticism, which has come from organizations all over the world, has been described as absurd from many top Bush Administration officials. It would appear that right-wing extremists in the US establishment have participated in an orchestrated effort to discredit independent human rights critics28, as IPS noted.\nSome like Cheney have commented that the US has liberated more people from tyranny than any other in the world, as if this should excuse all current and future accusations. (Whether his assertion is true or not depends on perspective. For example, the US has also armed and encouraged some of the worst dictators in the world, and helped overthrow many democracies, or potential democracies. Some of the later democracies that have been supported have sometimes been criticized for being puppet governments. This is quite a big topic in itself, so for now, please see Institute for Economic Democracy29 for a detailed look at this history.)\nAlmost predictably, from the hard core right wing, there have been comments that Amnesty\u2019s accusations amount to pro-Al Qaeda propaganda. (This is akin to accusing anyone of being communist during the Cold War MacCarthy era.) The Wall Street Journal , which IPS notes as making this accusation perhaps does not realize that it is using a type of propaganda itself when applying such labels for the purpose of discrediting.\nAs Amnesty International\u2019s US office director noted, this administration never finds it absurd when we criticize Cuba or China, or when we condemned the violations in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.\nIf the current political, economic and social policies continue around the world as they are, the need for work from various non-governmental groups will still be needed. Although an increasing number of organizations would hint towards fundamental problems in the international systems and institutions, their contributions and research will no doubt be very valuable, but they must be careful not to fall into the traps that they have in the past.\nSustainable Development Introduction\nAddressing Biodiversity Loss\nBrain Drain of Workers from Poor to Rich Countries\n'Working With NGOs', World Bank, 1995, http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?pcont=details&eid=000009265_3961219103437\nhttp://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19990222&s=rieff\nGlobal Issues: \u201cWorld Hunger and Poverty\u201d, Last updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010, http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty\nGlobal Issues: \u201cHuman Population\u201d, Last updated: Thursday, June 13, 2002, http://www.globalissues.org/issue/198/human-population\nGlobal Issues: \u201cForeign Aid for Development Assistance\u201d, Last updated: Sunday, September 28, 2014, http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/foreign-aid-development-assistance\nhttp://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/development010516.html\nNoreena Hertz, 'Why we must stay silent no longer', The Observer, April 8, 2001, http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,470283,00.html\nBarbara Kalunga, 'Poverty eradication not dependent on charity', The Monitor, Issue Number 180, October 19-25 2001, http://www.oneworld.org/afronet/monitor180/headline8.htm\n'Development Charities talking, from the grassroots to the internet', Durham University, UK, http://www.geography.durham.ac.uk/grassroots/\nhttp://www.oneworld.net/ips4/2002/10/11-2.shtml\nGlobal Issues: \u201cWorld Summit on Sustainable Development\u201d, Last updated: Saturday, September 07, 2002, http://www.globalissues.org/article/366/world-summit-on-sustainable-development\nGlobal Issues: \u201cCorporations\u201d, Last updated: Monday, January 07, 2013, http://www.globalissues.org/issue/50/corporations\nThe Corporate Accountability Project, http://www.corporations.org/\nJim Lobe, 'Iraq-Attack Think Tank Turns Wrath on NGOs', Inter Press Serivce, July 12, 2003, http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=18733\nA similar article by Jim Lobe appeared on OneWorld.net and was reproduced by CommonDreams.org\nhttp://www.ngowatch.org\nhttp://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030620/CONAOMI20/TPComment/Columnists\nThe same story also appears in the UK\u2019s Guardian Newspaper, June 23, 2001\nGlobal Accountability Project, One World Trust, July 2003, http://www.oneworldtrust.org/Ch99/htmlGAP/report/report.htm\nSimon Burall, 'NGO Accountability \u2014 Yes, But Not On These Terms', One World Trust, July 1, 2003, http://www.oneworldtrust.org/Ch99/htmlGAP/comment/NGOAcc0703.htm\nhttp://www.sustainability.com/programs/pressure-front/ngo-report.asp\nJim Lobe, 'Bush, Cheney Attack Amnesty International', Inter Press Service, May 31, 2005, http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=28897\nJune 1, 2005 Small note on recent criticism of Amnesty International by the Bush Administration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 49814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.goldenfiber.com.tr/services/shipping-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:04Z", "digest": "sha1:6NII6WSDVJPS56FYL2WMAWVCW2FELCES", "length": 334, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.goldenfiber.com.tr", "title": "Textile - Golden Fiber", "raw_content": "Although this term defines the fabric, it can be described as woven or woven fabric from yarn. 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The textile raw material is a fibre that can be natural, artificial or regenerated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 130.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.graceastrology.com/2015/03/17/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4LW7WCDAPNCYBNXBMQOZESJWQHCXQOJF", "length": 10141, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.graceastrology.com", "title": "March 17, 2015 - Elisabeth Grace - Grace Astrology", "raw_content": "Astro-logical Forecast for Tuesday & Wednesday 3/17-18/2015: The Seventh Uranus-Pluto Square\nTop o\u2019 the Morning to you!\nAny day that starts with a link to a song performed by the Muppets can\u2019t be all bad, right? The Moon is in quirky, off-beat Aquarius, and at 7:23AM ET, an easy flow of innovation and wackiness could have been yours, thanks to a communicative connection to Uranus. If it\u2019s unconventional and unique, Aquarius is likely all for it, especially if it bucks the system. For instance, today\u2019s St.Patrick\u2019s Day Parade in New York marks the first time an openly gay group will officially march. This disruption of the status quo is sure to have someone\u2019s knickers in a twist. Deal with it.\nMeanwhile, we\u2019re also under the delusional/visionary/rose-colored spell of that meet-up between Mercury and Neptune (exact tomorrow) that I mentioned yesterday. Take note of your dreams.\nThe only other exact pattern today is an energetic contact between the Moon and assertive Mars at 2:18PM ET. Given that the Moon also goes void at that time, said energy may well dissipate with a sigh, or find itself challenged by its efforts to move forward in a straight line.\nWell, it is St. Patrick\u2019s Day you know\u2026.and Venus (social expression, values, women) has just entered Taurus, an eat (meat and potatoes), drink (green beer) and be merry sign if there ever was one. Your indulgences tonight are likely to be of little or no consequence.\nGet it off your desk by 2:18PM ET and take some time to chill. Moon enters Pisces at 6:58AM ET on Wednesday \u2014 looks like more dreaminess tomorrow night.\nRose-colored Mercury-Neptune alignments can also refer to music, so how cool is it that the NYT just posted a debate about last week\u2019s ground-breaking copyright ruling about a song called (wait for it) \u2014 \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d. Add the \u201cnews from underground\u201d potential of the Uranus-Pluto square, and marvel that in Spain, the remains of Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) have been found. Cue \u201cThe Impossible Dream\u201d now, please (with Peter O\u2019Toole & Sophia Loren, no less \u2014 now that\u2019s dreamy).\nFor more ground-breaking news about idealism, check out this new study that disrupts most \u2014 and perhaps all \u2014 prior studies that consistently proved that conservatives are happier than liberals. Researchers explained this difference in emotional well-being as a reflection of the cliched bleeding-heart liberal tendency to empathize more with the pain and suffering of decimated bee colonies and starving baby sea lions (and fellow human beings); thus, they are miserable.\nWhat makes this new study so ground-breaking? Instead of asking conservatives and liberals how happy they were (and assuming the response was accurate), the researchers measured happiness as expressed in actual behavior. Here is the Editor\u2019s Summary from Science magazine:\nBe mindful of a self-reported gap.\nHappiness is a notoriously hard to pin down quantity possibly best described by the phrase, \u201cI know it when I see it.\u201d Self-reported ratings of happiness are generally higher for political conservatives in the United States than for those with more liberal leanings. Wojcik et al. examined three data sets based on behavioral measures, such as tweets and smiles. Despite self-reported claims to the contrary, liberals exhibited more happiness than their more conservative counterparts. For instance, as judged from their photographs on a business-oriented social network, more employees of the New York Times smiled genuinely than did those of the Wall Street Journal.\nThe study observes that conservatives seem to have a need for something the scientists call \u201cself-enhancement,\u201d which sounds very Mercury-Neptune (with some me-me-me Aries accents) to me. You may recall my post on Feb 25th about the prominence of Mercury and Neptune (and Aries) in the horoscopes of Brian Williams, Robert MacDonald and Bill O\u2019Reilly, who all recently made headlines for enhancing themselves just a wee bit.\nMore ground-breaking shifts, \u2019cause in the wake of the seventh Uranus-Pluto square, the Planetary Pattern Everyone Should Be Talking About, this is what we\u2019re expecting. How about this: \u201cCircular Thinking: Stonehenge\u2019s Origin is Subject of a New Theory\u201d, or \u201cResearchers May Have Solved Origin-Of-Life Conundrum\u201d (score another one for Science magazine).\nMore status quo-disrupting stories include massive protests in Brazil, and (potentially) today\u2019s election in Israel. Will Netanyahu prevail? Meanwhile, there\u2019s a ton to report about in the US, as its horoscope is directly affected by Uranus and Pluto, as avid readers of this forecast know well. There\u2019s also a strong Neptune influence, suggesting a collective bewildering identity crisis.\nToday my efforts to write cogently about specifics are being distracted by stories such as Oklahoma state legislators who have moved forward on a bill that would \u201ctake the state out of the marriage business,\u201d meaning you\u2019d have to be married by a pastor or other church official because gay people. Or that in the US Congress, the confirmation of Lorretta Lynch as our next Attorney General is being held hostage because insanity, and the House has just introduced a budget proposal that would privatize Medicare, etc., etc. because happy. From a planetary perspective, let the record show that Medicare was created in the mid-60s, on the Uranus-Pluto conjunction. Isn\u2019t that interesting? We could expect further developments on that initiative during the square.\nLast but not least \u2014 and in fact, ultimately \u2014 climate change. It occurred to me a few years ago that this issue was one of the two big wake-up calls the Uranus-Pluto square would reflect. The other wake-up call is about power and resources: who has \u2019em; who doesn\u2019t. But let\u2019s stick with climate change for now, because with other exact Uranus-Pluto hits, I was expecting to see headlines reflecting the crystallization of this awareness.\nThus in Vanuatu, a category 5 cyclone that devastated the island over the weekend was blamed on climate change. In Los Angeles, it\u2019s been close to 100 degrees (in March!), and a NASA scientist projects that California has just one year\u2019s supply of water left. Avid readers will recall that Neptune\u2019s ingress into Pisces suggested that water \u2014 and the lack thereof \u2014 would likely become an urgent concern. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that \u201cthe melting of Antarctica\u2026has just gotten worse.\u201d\nAll of this would be expected at this time. But then there was\u2026oh, the timing, the timing \u2014 of this NYT piece \u2014 in sync with the seventh Uranus-Pluto square. Lo and behold, it is an update on one of the biggest driving forces of climate change awareness\u2026..Al Gore. Amazing\u2026really, dear readers, why is this article being published now?\nAnd guess what? He\u2019s changed (so the article says). He\u2019s a vegan. He\u2019s feeling \u201coptimistic\u201d. He\u2019s invested heavily in \u2014 and profited greatly from \u2014 green technologies. He cites a whole bunch of stuff about the awe-inspiring speed with which these innovative technologies are being implemented, suggesting \u201ca sharp break with the past, not a slow evolution\u201d. As in, just like that.\nAll of this means, he adds, that the worst effects of climate change can be blunted. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of work to do,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re going to win this.\u201d He pauses and repeats for effect, part preacher and part TED talk. \u201cWe\u2019re going to win this.\u201d\nMr. Gore is an Aries \u2014 born with the energy to inspire, to lead, to be a pioneer. His 11 degree Aries Sun is opposed by Neptune, which suggests a visionary energy that not everyone might find credible. His Moon is in practical, enterprising, earthy make-it-happen Capricorn (same as fellow Aries David Letterman). Mr Gore has a Leo Ascendant that some might find a tad proud and overbearing, especially with three powerhouse planets contained within it: Pluto, Saturn and Mars (power, authority/discipline and drive). This is gravitas!\nMr. Gore\u2019s Sun-Neptune opposition has recently wrapped a two-year cycle of empowerment and transformation thanks to Uranus and Pluto. Interesting that he became a vegan two years ago. His Libra Midheaven (career/public status) is about to be just barely conjoined by Uranus this summer\u2026and again full-on in 2016. Fresh starts and other changes of direction, in career, family foundation/home concerns, public outreach and partnership could be expected.\nHmm\u2026and now that I\u2019m looking at it, this summer and 2016 will likely be a year of big change for Mr. Letterman, too. I think I\u2019ve noted that in a prior forecast.\nSince this forecast is being posted so late today \u2014 here\u2019s your forecast for tomorrow (Wednesday). Note your dreams in the AM. Be mindful of an ambitious reach or wet blanket around 2:47PM ET, when the sensitive Pisces Moon is challenged by Saturn in righteous Sagittarius. Have a dreamy evening playing with spirits and other rarefied intangibles (art, music, healing, vision), when Moon meets up with Mercury and Neptune.\nThank you for reading this forecast. To find out what\u2019s going on in your own personal horoscope, here\u2019s how you can contact me to schedule a consultation. Alternatively, if you are totally digging the words on the screen, and would like to express your appreciation for the time and energy it takes to craft them, donations are always welcome, with much gratitude.\nP.S. \u2014 This just in \u2014 yesterday a major solar storm hit our home planet, which might \u201cpull the Northern Lights south\u201d. Well that would be an extraordinary disruption of the status quo\u2026.\nMarch 17th, 2015 | Tags: al gore horoscope astrology predictions, bill o'reilly horoscope astrology, blurred lines debate ruling, brian williams horoscope astrology, cervantes discovered, climate change astrology, danny boy muppets, david letterman horoscope astrology predictions, don quixote idealism, happiness liberals are happier new study, impossible dream, medicare affordable care act obamacare astrology, mercury conjunct neptune meaning in pisces, moon in aquarius keywords, seventh uranus pluto square, solar storm march 2015 send northern lights south, st patricks day parade new york gay, uranus pluto breakthroughs | | Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 25836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.grahamwatson.com/essays/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:09Z", "digest": "sha1:KEPCA4FTWXVAEEK6HMHWSSCOUCRB2XBU", "length": 22351, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.grahamwatson.com", "title": "Graham's View - :: Graham Watson Cycling Photography ::", "raw_content": "So, what have I been doing for the last year, since retiring as a globe-trotting cycling photographer and settling down to a quieter life? The answer, aside from the obvious ones of relaxation, reflection and lots of bike-riding is producing a book. In fact, producing a massive book, an 11 x 11-inch, 228-page, 330 image edition that reflects my forty years' long career. Creating the title was the easiest part of the book - 40 Years of Cycling Photography speaks for itself. The rest was not so easy, but was very pleasantly time consuming. Images had to be sourced, names and dates put to races and faces - and cross-referenced to make sure they hadn't been seen in any other recent books. Then the writing began, about 1,500 words per chapter to form some order to the book. Finally, and perhaps the hardest part, was working with the designer to ensure that only the very best imagery was in evidence after a series of editing sessions had whittled down the number of images we could squeeze in. The 330 images actually featured would have been cut from an original selection of several thousand, and only after several culls had been made. Oh yes, and then came the photo-captioning, hours and hours' worth, lovingly written and intended to offer full disclosure about why the shots were taken and why they were included in the book.\nI gleaned an awful lot of satisfaction as I wound my way through everything I'd seen and recorded with my cameras since 1977 - the year I first set eyes on the Tour de France, and where I captured an image of Eddy Merckx that sent me on my way to having the greatest job in the world. So many forgotten images triggered so many long-lost memories, and helped me to collate some amazing stories for the book, both through long dialogue, short tales and those lovingly-written captions. The result is a volume of work that accurately represents what I once did and loved so much, and that I now want to share with everyone. There have been previous titles by me, led primarily by 'Visions of Cycling' which was published in 1988 and showcased the world of cycling photography for the first time. '20 Years of Cycling' was published in 2000 and could be said to be the little brother of this newest book. Yet 40 Years of Cycling Photography is a far deeper, richer, volume of work that covers twice the history of its sibling and a whole lot more in terms of content. This being a self-published project, so with no budget-watching publisher to wrestle with, I have been utterly reckless in ensuring the content covers far more ground than any previous book did. Cyclo-cross, track, road-racing, big races, small races, crashes, fun & games, Hour records, Olympic races - you name it, this book has it amongst its many pages, all under one roof, so to speak. But I won't spoil the fun of you actually seeing the book for yourselves by saying much more about the content.\nForty years is one huge chunk of a person's life, I now realise more than I ever did before. In navigating through my archive, I found it both fascinating and entertaining to run a parallel check with real history, to see where certain races or happenings sat alongside those of a bigger spectrum. When Bernard Thevenet won that 1977 Tour Jimmy Carter was President of the USA. Thevenet's victory preceded by just one month the death of Elvis Presley and came about one month after the first-ever Apple computer went on sale. I cannot imagine life as a photographer without my Mac to help me! Similarly, landmark events in cycling paired with so many significant parallels. The Chernobyl nuclear explosion in the Ukraine preceded Greg LeMond's first-ever Tour de France win in 1986. And when Greg won his second Tour in 1989, it was just over three months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Just a few days after LeMond won the 1990 Tour, Saddam Hussein's troops invaded Kuwait, inciting the response of allied forces in an operation called Desert Storm - the pre-cursor to the Iraq War. Desert Storm - not LeMond's fourth win - contributed to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as the UK's Prime Minister in 1990. And when Tony Blair ended his long reign as UK leader in 1997, Jan Ullrich was one month away from winning the Tour de France; tragically, Princess Diana was weeks away from dying in a car-crash in Paris. Though quite in-significant at the time, the world-wide-web was created in 1989 and operated for the first time in 1990 - now what a life-changer that was!\nStill, there was plenty going on out there in the real world. The IRA began destroying its weapons in Northern Ireland in 2001, just months after Al Qaeda terrorists had destroyed New York's twin towers in what became known as '9/11'. This was the year that Oscar Friere won the second of three world road titles in Lisbon. In 2002, as Mario Cipollini won the worlds, and after Paolo Savoldelli had won the Giro, and Lance Armstrong his fourth Tour, the first-ever Euro notes and coins hit the streets of twelve European countries. 2004 saw Magnus Backstedt win Paris-Roubaix, Damiano Cunego rise to fame by winning the Giro d' Italia, and Roberto Heras win a third Vuelta in Spain. But the year ended in misery when over 250,000 people lost their lives in a massive Tsunami that hit the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. By 2005, a start-up company called YouTube had begun broadcasting on the internet - it showed segments of Lance Armstrong's seventh Tour win that July. 2006 saw Floyd Landis win the Tour, only to be disqualified for a doping infraction less than a week later. 2006 was also the year when North Korea conducted its first-ever nuclear test, when Saddam Hussein was tried and executed, and when Paolo Bettini won the first of two world road titles in Salzburg. 2008 saw the world's financial markets crash - and badly. But it didn't stop Alberto Contador celebrating his first-ever Giro win, nor Carlos Sastre his only-ever Tour success.\nAnd then came the return-and-downfall of Armstrong. His confession to doping in January 2013 caused a world-wide tremor, watched by millions on TV. But it wasn't anywhere nearly as important as other 2013 happenings like the Boston marathon bombing, or the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. Today's cycling champions have won in a world no less volatile. Carlos Betancur won a 2014 Paris-Nice overshadowed by the news that a Malaysian Airlines plane had gone missing over the Indian Ocean on March 8th; another Malaysian plane was blown out of the skies a few months later, just as Vincenzo Nibali claimed his Tour de France win in Paris. The little-known Miguel Angel Lopez won the 2016 Tour of Switzerland, just a week after the death of ex-boxer Muhammed Ali, the greatest sports personality of all time. And in 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the USA on January 20th, the same day Caleb Ewan won stage four of the Tour Down Under, just days before Richie Porte won the race overall and I stopped working as a photographer. Sorry for the long yarn, but it's quite amazing to see how forty years of cycling history went by in parallel with more-worldly milestones. It also means my career ran not just from Eddy Merckx to Richie Porte - it also transcended nine Presidents of the USA, seven British Prime Ministers, or - if you like - thirty-two Italian Prime Ministers!\nSo, let's start at the front shall we - with the cover. How do you choose the cover shot for a book of such historical longevity and generational expanse? And from a sport so colourful, beautiful, and so full of variety? When do you choose the cover shot? In fact, we put a few options on to the designer's table early-on in the production, then let them ferment and percolate a while as the main body of the book grew. The cover shot then came down to three choices: a generic scenery shot, a generic action shot; or one of my classical shots from the not-so-recent past. We opted for a sprint shot because of the dynamism of the sprinters going for the line in a stage of the 2011 Tour of Oman. The timeless nature of the shot and the energy within it caught our eyes the most. That and the bleached-out background which made virtual silhouettes of the cyclists. The white-out and black shadows also formed two design elements of the book, at least as far as the hard-cover board and slip cases are concerned. A dramatic cover is considered by many people to be the most important element when selling a book. I don't disagree, but also consider it as just that - a cover, sometimes never to be looked at once the reader opens the first few pages and is drawn into the main body of the book. Still, it is the first time one of my books has had a sprint shot as the cover.\nI couldn't put a book like this together and not pay homage to the many thousands of cyclists who've enriched and, literally, enabled my career. How many cyclists did I actually photograph between July 1977 and January 2017? Just a few dozen 'stars shine out from the rest for their achievements, or because of their unique character and, even, friendship shown towards me. Just two of those greats, Sean Kelly and Cadel Evans, play a special role in the book. Kelly, born with an insatiable appetite to win and a steeliness and physicality that photographers fought so hard to capture, was omnipresent throughout the first half of my career, winning just about every race there was to win except for the Giro, Tour and Worlds. Kelly wrote the Foreword for 40 Years - there were no other contenders for the job. He alone had the right qualifications. Evans represents the latter part of my career, a man who won races like the 2009 World road championships and the 2011 Tour de France, but who fought tooth and nail to win a whole lot more as well. If I saw Kelly win from the very word go, Evans' biggest wins were a long time coming, yet he never gave up trying - he became a champion more because of hard work, a perfectionist who, like all such individuals, had to wait a little longer for his successes. Cadel wrote the Afterword for the book, a more perfect accompaniment to Kelly there is not. Together in the book, they made a sandwich out of me\u2026\nOne of the more surprising elements of this new book was how hard it was to squeeze everything in. Originally planned to be 216 pages, I went for a deluxe upgrade to 228 pages in order to get more imagery in - and it was still barely enough. I wanted at least one huge scenery shot from all my favourite races - but discovered that I had too many favourite races. So competitive was that area of the selection that only in the last days of production was I able to squeeze an Alpine shot of the Dauphin\u00e9-Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 in. The action shots were even harder to whittle down. I envisaged getting half-a-dozen images of Bernard Hinault into the book - the first five-time winner of the Tour I'd photographed. In fact, the book contains just three images of Hinault. The most recent winner of the Tour, Chris Froome, fared no better in the book than Hinault, so it's not even a generational thing - there was simply too much other content to consider. Even winning a single grand tour or a big Classic didn't guarantee inclusion, it merely put that cyclist into the hat for the possibilty of inclusion. In the last chapter, I'd wanted to feature 15-20 'Legends', only to be told by the designer there was room for just ten. Ten! What can I do with just ten legends when I've photographed hundreds? As someone whose been around for so long and made a lot of friendships out of my subjects, I might have a bit of apologising and explaining to do to those that missed out on a tribute.\nThe only way to cover so much ground was to run the book in chronological form. This was better for my sanity in that I had to think a little less hard about everything I'd seen and photographed and think more about how the pictures could be used. So many races, so many winners, so many stories - to not bag it altogether as one long passage in time would have been nigh-on impossible. There's an ebb and flow to each chapter as the cycling greats first emerged, then dominated, then gradually melted away into the shadows as newer winners rose up. And as a multitude of careers merged or diverged, so did my observations of the sport grow too. When I first began following races in the late-1970's I was like a headless chicken running around snapping away at anything that moved. Ten or fifteen rolls of film per day was the norm' in the biggest races. Twenty years on, a lot less 'film' was shot as my discerning maturity allowed me to anticipate where the best images would come from. And although the seven chronological chapters are bound by father-time, there's an awful lot more to those years than mere racing or scenery. The joys of winning, the sadness of losing, the pain of crashing, the thrill of escaping - yes, these are all fundamental emotions forever linked to the sport. But alongside these images come much more. Think of humour, of daring, of friendship, and even showmanship - the photo-editing of these decades was fun all the way!\nIf chronology helped my image-choosing more than a little, the same could not be said for the images I've snatched around the actual racing. There was a time when I felt that a full season was one that saw me going to a few early-season races, then the Classics, then the Vuelta, Giro, Tour - and finally the Worlds. With perhaps an autumnal gem like Paris-Tours or Lombardy to indulge myself with as the season closed. But newer non-European races came along in the early 2000's, enticing me to other parts of the world and inspiring a whole new archive of images. This was where my picture selections for the book got that much harder. Modern races like the Tour Down Under, the Tour of California, Arabian events like Qatar, Oman, Dubai and Abu Dhabi - and even Australia's Herald Sun Tour - brought increased competition to the picture selection. Equally, any race - old or new - has a character that is unique to that race, an attraction that cries out to be caught on-camera and maybe published in the book. This is never truer than with the Olympic Games, a sporting colossus I photographed seven times between 1992 and 2016. Needless to say, I've made special sections for each Games. The imagery of those events is too good to be excluded and reflects the titanic battles between the old Germany, France, Australia and Great Britain as they set about dominating the cycling world.\nBut this is not just a book about the sport of cycling between 1977 and 2017. It's a descriptive about the life that comes with such a job, a highly adventurous one at that. When I first saw a full Tour post-1977, it was thanks partially to the old steel F.W. Holdsworth bicycle that carried my hulk and camping gear around France. Not to mention my cameras too. Sometimes with the help of an old Ford Escort or sometimes just solo on my bike, I'd pick off as many stages as I could get to in three weeks. And as the sales of photos increased, so did the car became the sole mode of transport, to be up-graded to a moto in the mid-1980's. In more recent times I've been the 'key man' photographer in a team comprising a moto-driver, car-driver, and faithful assistant. In the late-1970's I'd take a train and a ferry to get to France, and then hitch-hiked if I had to - I think it took until 1983 before I ever flew to a race. Then, flying became a near-daily event in the mid-1990's and took me all over the world to races in the Philippines, China, Mexico, Australia and Colombia - the adventures I had on those trips were unforgettable, and are included in one chapter devoted to travel. Because of the day-to-day upheaval of moving on to a different town or city, the lifestyle of a cycling photographer is quite unique, yet still something to enjoy and savour - and share with the reader too.\nLikewise, my forty years in the job saw a complete transformation of camera gear and technology. There was not one single digital image in 'Visions' or '20 Years', and the publisher's greatest costs were probably turning my slides or black and white prints into pre-press film - lots of it. That 1977 image of Eddy Merckx was shot on a roll of grainy Kodak film and has since been digitalised with the rest of my film archive. Symbolically, it is the very first image inside '40 Years'. The most recent images were taken on a state-of-the-art Nikon D5, using a technology that allowed me to transmit images directly from the camera. Photography has evolved a lot since 1977, and no book about photography in the 21st century would be complete without detailing the time-line to where we are today. An old wooden Kodak camera I lived off in the 1970's was replaced by a first-ever SLR camera as the addiction to cycling took hold. Cameras and lenses were added or taken away, but upgraded as often as I could afford. I used to love the winter because with little or no travel expenditure to consider, every pound or dollar I earned went on buying the latest gear. Incredibly, I kept a large proportion of those old cameras - primarily because some were so badly worn or damaged that they were un-saleable anyway! Which is why, at regular intervals in the book, you'll find an occasional side-bar to describe that era's choice of camera and accessories.\nHaving enjoyed the privilege of getting many books published down the years - the first being 'Kings of the Road' co-authored with Robin Magowan in 1986 - I have self-published this one. Gone are the days when book-distributors looked the other way when individuals like me came along - the internet has changed the way books are sold and marketed. Gone too are the long and expensive production lines where designers pasted sheets of typeset paper onto dummy pages and then used translucent tape to stick down prints or slides alongside those sheets of text - computers with clever software do all that now. More importantly, the printing process has changed wholesale, with no requirement of reprographic film or 'plates' prior to printing. Just a set of PDF proofs to admire, to critique, and finally to approve. This used to be called 'straight to press' - from computer to paper - but is now popularised as desktop publishing. So less financial risk, greater control over the final product - it is the latter aspect that tempted me to go for self-publishing, and granted me no-end of control over my work. When you're spending your own money, you can choose exactly which images you want in and how they'll look once they're in. Not for me a fight with a publisher on content - this one final book has my absolute stamp of approval on it. If not exactly a labour of love, it is at least the defining book of my career.\nSo how did it feel when the first-ever printed and bound book landed on my doorstep in late-January? Relief for one - that the hard work was over and there was finally something to show for it. Until I'd actually got my hands on a copy of the book, it was easy to believe it was never going to happen - like a dream that hadn't come true. But there it was, shrink-wrapped and boxed-up to survive the journey from China. This particular book came inside a sleek black slip-case for added presentation, forming a collector's item that we'll soon be offering to a few lucky people. The cover was studied for its delicate colour balance - were the shadows too dark? No - nor the road too washed out. Let's turn the pages now: how did that black and white shot of Eddy Merckx turn out? And how was the first scenery shot of the book, a double-page Alpine beauty from 2009 - delicious! And then came the guts of the book, page after page of cycling champions past and present, each of them fighting to win, or fighting very hard not to lose. One of my first reactions when I opened the book was how the drama and beauty of the sport have been a constant companion since 1977. Throughout the volume of work there's not one spread of images that doesn't have a highlight, a sparkling gem, a mouth-watering panoramic or a stomach-tingling crash shot. And I don't mean because of my photography - I can only photograph what is actually there. And there's an awful lot out there. Nostalgia can be seen fighting with modernism as old steel bikes were replaced by titanium or early carbon frames. Bare heads were about to be capped by hard-shell helmets, and wool had already surrendered its trusted values for Lycra. I especially enjoyed the older images of cyclists actually having fun in their daily workload - and that's just for starters. I allowed myself to enjoy a wave of emotion as the pages turned, as the memories passed, as the colour and drama flowed before my eyes. Did I really take all these pictures, I found myself asking? Well, yes, I did\u2026 And then before I knew it, those 228 pages had been turned in full for the first time.\nWell, hopefully, I've whet your appetites just enough without giving away too much of the book's content. I'm confident to state it's the most complete photo-book ever produced by one single cycling photographer. It is both a pictorial encyclopaedia of the last four decades of the sport as well as a tribute to the cyclists and races that formed the heartbeat of those decades. I've made sure to include many of my classical images in the ten chapters, the ones that really excited me or that reflected the sport at a particular date in time. I've also dug deep into the archive to offer an absolute ton of unseen imagery, in black and white and colour. 40 Years of Cycling Photography goes on-sale around mid-March, and will be stocked at our on-line stores in the UK, USA and New Zealand for a faster worldwide service. Go to www.grahamwatson.com/pages/store and then click on your nearest national flag. For those wanting something a bit more special, we're offering 30 signed books with slip-cases - a great way to display and protect the book on your desk or book-shelf. These slip-cased, signed books, can be dedicated to colleagues, friends, or directly to yourself, if you so wish. The slip-cased books come at a premium price because they weigh a lot more and have to be despatched from our base in New Zealand. We'll ship you the books but we're keeping the sunshine, fine wines, exquisite scenery, and unique culture to ourselves..!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 22828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.greendan.org/2008/01/china-to-ban-free-plastic-bags.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KYSRJEXOFDW7ARVHOFF5O4Z4FGOAMT2Y", "length": 3668, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.greendan.org", "title": "GreenDan.org: China To Ban Free Plastic Bags", "raw_content": "China To Ban Free Plastic Bags\nGood news today from China, which has announced it will ban free plastic shopping bags on June 1, just in time for the Summer Olympics in Beijing. China's move is meant to cut \"white pollution,\" reduce waste and conserve resources.\nJennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said China's solid waste is at \"a crisis level.\"\n\"Their landfills are reaching capacity and will be full in 13 years,\" she said, adding that a ban like this could be a significant way to educate the public about China's environmental issues.\nIn the United States, which has less than one-quarter of China's 1.3 billion people, the Sierra Club's Sierra magazine estimates that almost 100 billion plastic bags are thrown out each year.\nDepicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.\nChina's move won praise from environmental organizations including Greenpeace, which issued a statement welcoming the ban.\n\"The State Council's announcement to ban free plastic bags is a perfect case to combine two of the major forces in environment protection: public participation and government policy guidance,\" Greenpeace said.\nChristopher Flavin, president of Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization in Washington, said: \"China is ahead of the U.S. with this policy.\nInternationally, legislation to discourage plastic bag use has been passed in parts of South Africa, Ireland and Taiwan, where authorities either tax shoppers who use them or impose fees on companies that distribute them. Bangladesh already bans them, as do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.\nLast year, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the use of petroleum-based plastic bags in large grocery stores. In France, supermarket chains have begun shying away from giving away plastic bags and German stores must pay a recycling fee if they wish to offer them. Ireland's surcharge on bags imposed in 2003 has been credited with sharply reducing demand.\nIf the United States and other countries with Pacific coastlines were to adopt similar bans, perhaps we might be able to curb the growth of those Pacific Trash Vortices, one of which is now the size of Texas.\nsuro said...\nThe Earth has been facing immense pollution from our garbage and consumption. The latest deadly pollution is plastic bags that fill up the landfills. With plastic bags becoming a growing concern, cotton canvas bag has become the new way to help stop the pollution.\nWith plastic bag pollution being a rising concern, many shoppers need to start using reusable cotton canvas bags in order to stop the pollution.\nPlastic bag pollution is very deadly and takes hundreds of years to break down. Even if the component is broken done, the deadly chemicals will go into the ground and water system. By reducing the usage of plastic bag, Earth can recuperate. That's why cotton bags should be used world wide to help reduce the pollution.\nIt is our generation to stop the pollution and start using cotton canvas bags as the solution. With global warming going out of hand from gas exhaustion, we don't need any more problems especially plastic bags that are harmful when broken down naturally. These broken down elements cause sickness and destruction to the air, soil and water system.\nUse cotton canvas bags starting today as a way to stop the plastic pollution that is becoming a major threat to the environment. Our lives are threatened ever more from the growing usage of plastic bags. It is time you bring a canvas bag to shopping the next time you go to a supermarket.\nPlease learn more at http://www.ecotrendbags.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 6217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004zL4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ED7YNDVLXJGQBBC2AEJDB7I7PDDAOQUX", "length": 4562, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.greenspun.com", "title": "Leica R", "raw_content": "I want a Leica R body and a couple of lenses for travel color chrome work. Generally, a 24mm or the 19mm , 60 macro (if it is a good lens) and a 80-200 zoom or a 2-300mm lens would do it.\nNow for the hard part...which body 6.2 ? 7? 8? I like the advanced metering of current EOS-like bodies if that helps.\nYour insight is always treasuered. Thanks\n-- Robert Burgess (bobburgess@earthlink.net), April 11, 2001\nI purchased an R8 back in January and have been very happy with it's handling, and the lenses. I currently have a 90mm 2.8 and a 28mm 2.8, both are contrasty and yield very nice chtomes. The viewfinder on the R8 is superb, extremely bright. It is a very intuitive camera, well placed controls and solid.\n-Dan Della Piazza\n-- Dan Della Piazza (dandella@home.com), April 11, 2001.\nMacro Elmarit 60/2.8 is an excellent lens-- one of the best macro lens I use it often as a standard lens instead of Summicron 50/2, great for close up of flowers, butterflies and landscape. Landscape master David Muench used Macro-Elmarit 60/2.8 for many of his 35mm landscape pictures\nThanks for treasuring our insight - I am not sure it is worth that! If you like EOS style metering then you need the R8 as the R6.2 and R7 have more conventional averaging and spot metering (the R8 has this as well of course). The R7 is a good camera but does not have matrix metering so if you like to leave the camera on auto it will not work quite so well (in theory at least). The R8 gets a lot of knocks from Leicaphiles - but it is a real thoroughbred in my opinion - just bigger than most people have come to expect from a Leica.\nFor travel color chrome work I'd start with the 35-70/4 and 80- 200/4. I'd choose the 21/4 for wide-angle, as you don't need an f/2.8 lens and the 21 is lighter than the 24 (and a lot ligher/smaller than older 19) and less expensive than the current 19. I'd also pick up a 2x for rare occasions with the 80-200. You would also be wise to get a 50/2 for use in low light situations, it's not too expensive (for a Leica) and optically superb. I myself carry the 35/1.4 in preference, but that's about 3x the price of the 50, used. Other very nice lenses for travel are the 28/2.8, 35/2.8 (last version E55) and 90/2.8 (last version E55). I'm not too keen on the macro lenses for Leica R, as good as they are optically. They don't go from infinity to 1:1 without accessories, and there's no TTL ringlight available for the Leica R8. I use the Nikon 5T and 6T achromats with a 60-62 stepping ring on the 35-70 which already has a decent close-focus mode. For bodies, the R8 is the only one with an evaluative metering system. But I'd never own less than 3 R bodies. It's not that they're that unreliable, just that Leica service is very slow. My choice for a single backup would be an R6. Much cheaper than the 6.2 and lacks only the 1/2000 top speed. For a second all-round body, the R7. BTW, if you stand an R7 and R8 next to one another, you'll notice they are almost the same height and depth (the R8 looks thicker because of the body contours and grip), the R8 is a couple cm longer. It does weigh more, but it's not that noticeable. The R8's size is mostly optical illusion. Put a motor-winder on both bodies, the R7 is taller and heavier!\nHaving just recently changed from the R7 to the R8, I would recommend the R8. The five-year warranty alone is well worth having but the R8 also has a number of important extra features, including:\n* matrix metering;\n* ability to use any metering method with any exposure mode (the R7 is quite restricive in this regard);\n* shutter speeds, manually adjustable in half-step increments from 16 sec to 1/8000 sec (R7 is 4 sec to 1/2000 sec);\n* flash synch up to 1/250 sec (R7 is up to 1/100 sec);\n* more convenient mirror lock-up which will work with the camera's self-timer.\nAs Jay has said, the difference in size and weight between the R7 and R8 bodies is not really that great and I found that it was more than offset by the extra comfort afforded by the R8's shape. In any case, once you start attaching some of the heavier R lenses, the R8 seems to provide a better balance.\nAs to the 60mm f/2.8 macro lens, I have found its performance to be very good even at its maximum f/2.8 aperture, giving superbly sharp images with high contrast and brilliant colors. The quality of out-of- focus areas (bokeh) is first class and provides a smooth \"creamy\" background. If you don't need the speeds of the faster 50mm Summicron-R or Summilux-R lenses, the 60mm Macro can serve very well as an all-round standard lens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 4936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.greenwoodpbc.org/Cecil_N_Sandifer/OT-Judges.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WTBWDS7XQUJSTZ7OPQVJS6MEDGUYHAZT", "length": 174119, "nlines": 257, "source_domain": "www.greenwoodpbc.org", "title": "Greenwood Primitive Baptist Church - Cecil N. Sandifer Bible Commentary", "raw_content": "(Verses 1 through 8) Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.\nAt the time of Joshua\u2019s death, the inheritances of the various tribes of the children of Israel had been allotted to them, but all the enemies had not been driven out of their lands. So the Israelites enquired of the LORD, \u201cWho shall go up first to begin clearing out the enemy?\u201d And the LORD said that Judah should go up first. So the children of Judah made a mutual help pact with the descendants of Simeon. Thus they began the war, and were successful against the Canaanites and Perizzites, killing about ten thousand of them, and capturing Adoni-bezek one of their kings. They cut off his thumbs and both of his big toes. He said that he had given seventy kings this same treatment, and now God had requited him by causing him to receive the same. They then took Jerusalem, killing the inhabitants, and burning the city.\nThere seems to be some difficulty with the chronology of verses 9 through 15 of this chapter. For they are a repetition of something set forth in Joshua 14:6-15, and Joshua 15:15-19. And there it seems to have taken place during the lifetime of Joshua So, we shall refer the reader to that text to compare with the present verses.\n(Verses 16 through 22) And the children of the Kenite, Moses\u2019 father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah. Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Ashkelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.\nAt one time during the wilderness journey of the children of Israel, the brother in law of Moses seemed determined to return to his own country, and after that we had no further record of him. Bur apparently he decided to go all the way with the children of Israel, Now his family has been said to have gone with the tribe of Judah. So Judah went with Simeon, (the tribes of Judah and Simeon, for the two sons of Jacob were long ago dead.) to drive out the enemies in their lot. They were successful in overcoming most of their enemies. But they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because of their iron chariots. In verse 20 we find another reference to the exploits of Caleb, which have already been covered in Joshua 15:13-15, and seems to have taken place before the death of Joshua. While in verse 8, we are told, \u201cNow the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire,\u201d Apparently the Jebusites had moved back into Jerusalem. And the Benjamites could not drive them out, but dwelt among them, even to the time of this writing.\n(Verses 22 through 26) And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el\u201d and the LORD was with them. And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. And when he shewed the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and his family. And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.\nThere is no mention made, in this text, of any whom the tribe of Joseph failed to drive out, or overcome. They did give amnesty to one man and his family for his having shown them the entrance into the city of Beth-el. (Actually, the two tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, are the descendants of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim is often called the tribe of Joseph.)\nIn verses 27 through 33, we are told of several groups of the enemies that the children of Israel could not drive out. As we look back, we can see that the LORD had told the children of Israel that if they made any agreements, or treaties with any of the inhabitants of the land, He would cease to drive them out from before them. And they disregarded His commandment on this. So He left some of their enemies in the land to try them. He did cause the children of Israel to have dominion over most of them to the point that the Israelites did place many of them under tribute; but they remained in the land.\n(Verses 34 through 36) And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down into the valley: but the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries. And the coasts of the Ammonites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.\nIn verse 34 is the only instance we find in which the enemies proved so formidable that they actually kept any of the Israelites confined in any place against their will. But they did keep the Danites in the mountain, and would not let them come down into the valley. The same people, the Amorites, were so strong that the children of Joseph could not drive them out of three cities which they occupied, but the children of Joseph were able to place them under tribute. Verse 36 gives the border between the children of Israel and the Ammonites, a people whom the LORD had commanded Israel to not attack, for He would not give them their land.\n(Verses 1 through 5) And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I sware unto your fathers; I said, I will never break My covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed My voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.\nThere seems to be a little confusion concerning the timing of some of the things so far in this book. The first verse of Chapter 1 says, \u201cNow after the death of Joshua it came to pass.\u201d And some of what is recorded in that chapter may have taken place after the death of Joshua. But those recorded in verses 9 through 15 very definitely took place before the death of Joshua. Also what is recorded in the first 8 verses of this chapter must have been before his death. In these first five verses we have the record of a visit made by the Angel of the LORD to the congregation of the children of Israel. And it was not a very pleasant visit for them. He reminded them of the covenant He had made with them, and His special commandment to them, that they should make no leagues with any of the inhabitants of the land, but must utterly destroy them, with also all of their idols and altars: and this commandment they had not kept. Therefore He would not any more drive out these people before them, but would leave them to be as thorns in their sides, and the gods of these people would be snares unto the children of Israel. The people joined together in weeping. And then they offered sacrifices unto the LORD. But they did not remove the consequences of their disobedience. This is the lesson we should always remember concerning this. May we always remember what Samuel said to Saul, (I Samuel 15:22-23,) \u201cHath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.\u201d\n(Verses 6 through 10) And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that He did for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which He had done for Israel.\nThese are slightly different words, but the message is the same as in verses 28 through 31 of the last chapter of Joshua. Certainly no explanation is needed of them. It is apparent that until the whole generation of the Israelites who had experienced the great blessings of the LORD had died, the children of Israel served the LORD. But, as we shall soon see, that was about as long as they did serve Him.\n(Verses 11 through 13) And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.\nImmediately after the generation who had seen and known the wonderful works of the LORD had died, the children of Israel turned away from the LORD, and served the gods of the people around them, just as the LORD had warned them that they would. They served Baalim (the idols of Baal) and Ashtaroth. These were the gods of the people around them. The laws of God were very strict against immorality and all other iniquities, while the laws of these other gods, not only were not so strict against such, but even incorporated such in their service to these gods. Not only would these neighbors have ridiculed the children of Israel for abstaining from these evils, but also immorality has always appealed to the sinful nature of humanity, and so their own lusts led them astray.\n(Verses 14 and 15) And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.\nThis is certainly exactly what the LORD had warned the children of Israel that He would do when they turned away from Him to serve idols. And His word is just as faithful concerning chastisement as it is concerning blessing. They could blame none but themselves.\n(Verses 16 through 19) Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them from out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.\nThis is something of a \u201cthumbnail\u201d sketch of the history of Israel, not only through the time of the judges, but even as long as they remained in the land. They were never faithful to the LORD for any long period. As long as they had a judge, or even a king, who was faithful to the LORD, they served the LORD; but when he died, they usually turned away from their Rock. And that caused much chastisement to be sent upon them.\n(Verses 20 through 23) And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and He said, Because that this people hath transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto My voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered He them into the hand of Joshua.\nSo, because of the unfaithfulness of the children of Israel, the LORD did not drive out all their enemies from the land of Canaan, but left them to be thorns in the side of the people. We should take a very strong lesson from this. For if, because of the unfaithfulness of the children of Israel, He left their enemies there to harass them, surely, He will for the same reason leave before us many trials that would be removed if we serve Him faithfully.\n(Verses 1 through 4) Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan: only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as knew nothing thereof; Namely five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.\nThe writer here gives the names of the nations that were left among the children of Israel to vex and try them, that it might be shown whether they would obey the commandments of the LORD as given by the hand of Moses. Of course, the LORD knew they would not obey them. But He left these trials before them that it might be shown that they were spared only by the mercy of God, and not for their righteousness.\n(Verses 5 through 7) And the children dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.\nThe children did not disobey just a few of the commandments of the LORD, but ALL of them. First of all, they intermarried with the nations around them; and then they turned completely away from the LORD, and served the multitude of the idols of Baal. (\u201cBaalim\u201d is the plural of Baal, and means \u201cthe idols of Baal.\u201d) Just as the Buddhists have many icons representing Buddha in many different positions, and conditions, so it was with the worshippers of Baal. And the Israelites tried to worship all of them, and even the groves that had been planted in his honor.\n(Verses 8 through 11) Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb\u2019s younger brother. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim. And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.\nThis is just one instance of the chastisement God sent upon Israel for their disobedience, and His raising up of a deliverer when they turned, and cried unto Him. Othniel the nephew of Caleb was given of the LORD the task of delivering them, and being their judge for forty years, during which time they dwelt in peace.\n(Verses 12 through 18) And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. And He gathered unto him the children of Amon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. So the children of Israel served the king of Moab eighteen years. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. And when he had made an end to offer his present, he sent away the people that bare the present.\nNotice should be taken of the fact that we are never told how long the children of Israel were permitted to continue in their evils when they departed from the LORD, but are only told of the length of their subjugation to the ones who rose up against them, and how long they were given peace after their deliverer did arise. In this instance they served Moab eighteen years. Then the LORD raised up for them Ehud a lefthanded man of the tribe of Benjamin. Then we are told of the preparations he made for the work he purposed to do.\n(Verses 19 through 25) And he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him; and Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.\nThis is a very detailed description of the assassination of Eglon by Ehud, and of how Ehud escaped. It seems to leave nothing in need of comment.\n(Verses 26 through 30) And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mount of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. And he said unto them, follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.\nThus Ehud escaped from the Moabites, and gathered all Israel together to fight Moab. Their first action was to take all the fords of Jordan, and kill every Moabite that tried to cross over at these fords. They succeeded in killing every man who attempted to cross. In all the casualties of the Moabites were about ten thousand men, while no casualty number is given for Israel. They were successful in subduing Moab. And this peace lasted eighty years.\n(Verse 31) And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.\nNo other details are given concerning this deliverance. One would have to admit that this man was indeed a mighty man, since he killed six hundred men with an ox goad.\n(Verses 1 through 3) And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.\nAs had been the story all the time, just as soon as the man the LORD had raised up to deliver the children of Israel from their enemies had died, they turned away from the LORD, and followed after evil. At this point the LORD turned them over to Jabin the king of Canaan. Jabin\u2019s \u201ccaptain of the host,\u201d or as we today would say, \u201cHis general,\u201d was a man named Sisera who lived \u201cin Harosheth of the Gentiles.\u201d That is, instead of living among the Israelites as many of the Canaanites did, Sisera lived across the border from them. But he was the commander of the forces of Jabin, and, no doubt, the army was used to control Israel. So Sisera was in charge of this matter; and for twenty years he mightily oppressed Israel.\n(Verses 4 through 9) And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? And I will draw unto thee unto the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin\u2019s army, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will deliver him into thine hand. And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then will I go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go. And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.\nWe often think that the world was in ancient times a \u201cman\u2019s world.\u201d And, for the greater part, it was. Yet in this instance we find a woman who was not only a prophetess, but also the judge of the children of Israel. This woman\u2019s name was Deborah; and she dwelt under a palm tree that evidently was named for her, because it was called \u201cthe palm tree of Deborah; and it was somewhere between Ramah and Beth-el. No doubt, the LORD commanded her to call a man named Barak of the tribe of Naphtali, and give him a message. So she called him, and when he came to her, she delivered to him the message of the LORD. He was to take ten thousand of his brethren from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun, and go to the river Kishon. There the LORD would cause Sisera to come with his chariots and his soldiers. Then the LORD would deliver them into the hand of Barak. He refused to go unless Deborah would go with him. This she agreed to do, but she warned him that the glory of the victory would not be his, \u201cfor the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.\u201d With Deborah accompanying him Barak went to Kedesh.\n(Verses 10 through 14) And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him. Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh. And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. And Sisera gathered all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river Kishon. And Deborah said unto Barak, Up: for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.\nWhen Barak arrived at Kedesh, he called together the men of the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun. Then with ten thousand men of these tribes, he and Deborah went up to the place for the battle. Heber the Kenite had left from among his brethren, and had pitched his tent near Kedesh: and when Sisera and his army arrived there, he told Sisera that Barak had gone up to mount Tabor. So Sisera and all his army followed them. When they all arrived at the river Kishon, Deborah told Barak that it was now time to begin the fight, for the LORD would that day deliver Sisera into his hand. And Barak and his army did as she had said.\n(Verses 13 through 17) And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet. But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword: and there was not a man left. Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.\nThe battle turned into such a defeat for Sisera and his army that he left his chariot, abandoned his army, and ran away on foot. His entire army was wiped out, with not a man left. But he had fled to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite who had told him where to find Barak. There was peace between his king and Heber. So, no doubt, he thought he would be safe in Heber\u2019s household.\n(Verses 18 through 22) And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in unto me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her in the tent, she covered him with a mantle. And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say , No. Then Jael Heber\u2019s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into the tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.\nWhatever the conditions of peace were between Heber and king Jabin, evidently, Heber\u2019s wife had no sympathy for Sisera, although she pretended to be his friend. She was very kind to him until he went to sleep. Then she took a hammer and a tent nail, and drove the nail through his temples, all the way into the ground, and killed him. Then when Barak arrived, she took him into the tent and showed Sisera to him.\n(Verses 23 and 24) So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.\nAfter this victory, the LORD continued to bless the Israelites so that they both subdued and killed Jabin the king of Canaan.\n(Verses 1 through 8) Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I even I will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. LORD when Thou wentest out of Seir, when Thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the LORD God of Israel. In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until I Deborah arose that I arose a mother in Israel. They chose new gods, then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?\nAfter this great victory, Deborah and Barak sang a new song. In verses 2 through 5 they are praising God for avenging Israel of her enemies. In verses 6 through 8, this song gives us a picture of the conditions in Israel before this great battle. There was no one traveling on the highways. All travelers had to slip around, and travel on byways, or hidden trails, for fear of the enemy. Israel had gone away after false gods; \u201cThey chose new gods.\u201d And, of course this is the cause of such a lowly estate for them. There were no weapons among them with which to defend themselves, not even \u201ca shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel.\u201d Until Deborah arose in Israel, there were no inhabitants in the villages. They had to hide out, instead of living openly in their villages. The times were indeed hard for the children of Israel under the reign of Jabin king of Canaan.\n(Verses 9 through 13) My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. Speak ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. They that are delivered from the noise of Archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of His villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. Then He made him that remaineth have dominion over nobles among the people. The LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.\nA little praise is given to the \u201cgovernors of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people,\u201d but the LORD Who has done such righteous acts for the inhabitants of His villages is primarily the One Who is to be praised. Since all the acts of the LORD are always righteous, one might wonder why these particular acts should be singled out, and declared righteous, unless it be that this is in reference to the fact that it is righteousness for the LORD to execute vengeance upon those who trouble His children. The call is for Deborah to awake, and sing a song, and for Barak to arise and \u201clead thy captivity captive.\u201d That is, to take captive those who had held him captive. Then Barak declares that the LORD has \u201cmade him that remaineth\u201d (Barak himself) to have dominion over the nobles of the people. \u201cThe LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.\u201d\n(Verses 14 through 17) Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart. Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleating of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.\nIn the war there had been participation by Ephraim, Benjamin, Machir, Zebulun, and Issachar. There was some wondering as to why Reuben, Gilead, Dan, and Asher, did not come to help.\n(Verses 18 through 22) Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.\nZebulun and Naphtali are the tribes whom Barak was commanded to call together for the war against the Canaanites. And they are the ones who really went \u201call out\u201d in the battle. Their \u201ckings,\u201d or leaders fought the kings of Canaan, and \u201ctook no gain of money,\u201d or could not be \u201cbought off.\u201d Even the stars from heaven fought in their courses against Sisera. And the river Kishon washed away some of the enemy. By reason of all this, Barak exclaims, \u201cO my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.\u201d That is, he recognized that he had overcome enemies who were greater and mightier than he. Therefore it had to be by the help of the LORD. Even the hoofs of the horses of the enemy were broken by the prancing of those horses of the mighty ones. No doubt, the LORD was his help in this war.\n(Verses 23 through 27) Curse ye Meroz, said the Angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen\u2019s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.\nThe song continues, telling us that the Angel of the LORD pronounced a bitter curse against the inhabitants of Meroz, because they did not go into the battle and help the LORD. Some will immediately say, \u201cThey could not help the LORD, for He needs no help.\u201d While it is true that, in the strict sense, we cannot help Him, and neither does he need any help from us, or from others, when we are fighting against His enemies, we are accounted as \u201chelping Him.\u201d Then the song takes up the praise of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite. It describes how she treated Sisera so kindly that he was completely thrown off guard, and then killed him. Her husband may have been at peace with Jabin the king of Canaan; but she, evidently had no sympathy for him or his general. Her sympathies were with the LORD\u2019S people.\n(Verses 28 through 30) The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, Have they not sped? Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours , a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?\nThis is what the song says is taking place at the home of Sisera. His mother is wondering what is taking up so much time. She, evidently thought the battle would take very little time, because Sisera had so many chariots and the Israelites had practically no weapons at all. Surely He would quickly subdue the rebels. Then she comforted herself with the thought that Sisera\u2019s army had taken so much prey that it would take quite a while to divide it all among the soldiers. She had not even entertained the thought that Sisera might be defeated, and certainly not that he might be dead.\n(Verse 31) So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let them that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.\nThus the song is completed with the prayer that all the enemies of the LORD perish, but those who love Him be made to shine forth as the sun in its strength. After this, the land was in peace forty years.\n(Verses 1 through 6) And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds. And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number; and they entered into the land to destroy it. And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.\nJust as in all the times before, when the LORD wrought this great deliverance for Israel, they soon forgot Him, and turned away from Him to serve other gods. As a result thereof, the LORD permitted the Midianites to come against them, and overcome them. After suffering oppression at the hands of the Midianites for seven years, they cried unto the LORD. During their time of suffering, it seemed that the Midianites were attempting to execute genocide against them. Moses\u2019 wife was a Midianite. But apparently the friendliness that had once been between the two peoples had long ago faded away. Now they were bitter enemies.\n(Verses 7 through 10) And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites, that the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land; and I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed My voice.\nInstead of sending a deliverer to Israel at once, the LORD sent His Angel to them to remind them of His many blessings to them, and the fact that they had not obeyed His commandments.\n(Verses 11 through 13) And there came an Angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Ebiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the Angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. And Gideon said unto Him, Oh, my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all His miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.\nHow like us was Gideon! We may have heard of the wondrous works of the LORD, and we may even have experienced some of them; but we forget, and began to slack up on our service to Him, and keep getting farther astray, until He sends upon us chastisement. Then we want someone to tell us why has this come upon us. In this case, the prophet of the LORD had already come and told the people that they had failed to obey the LORD. Yet Gideon, upon having been told, by the Angel of the LORD, that the LORD was with him, wanted to know how this could be, since all these bad things were come upon them. When such thoughts come up in our minds, we should remember that if He were not with us, things would be much worse than what they are.\n(Verses 14 through 18) And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? And he said unto Him, Oh, my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father\u2019s house. And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. And he said unto Him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that Thou talkest with me. Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto Thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before Thee. And He said, I will tarry until thou come again.\n\u201cThe Angel of the LORD,\u201d as mentioned in previous verses, is here proven to be the LORD Himself, as the writer here changes his manner of speaking, and, instead of saying, \u201cthe Angel of the LORD,\u201d says \u201cThe LORD looked upon him, and said,_____.\u201d The commandment the LORD gave him was, \u201cGo in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?\u201d Gideon realized that this would be an enormous task, and one far above his ability. So he asked the LORD how he could possibly do such a great thing as this, since not only was his family poor, but also he was the least one of his father\u2019s house. This might not mean that he was smallest in stature, but simply that he was one least likely to be able to do such a great thing. But, as it was with Moses when the LORD called him to go to Egypt, and deliver the children of Israel from bondage, his excuse was of no avail. The LORD said, \u201cSurely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.\u201d At this answer, Gideon asked the LORD for a sign that He had talked with him, and asked Him to remain with him until he could bring a present to Him. To this the LORD agreed.\n(Verses 19 through 23) And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it unto Him under the oak, and presented it. And the Angel of God said unto him, take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. Then the Angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the Angel of the LORD departed out of his sight. And when Gideon perceived that He was an Angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an Angel of the LORD face to face. And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.\nGideon went and prepared the present he wanted to present, and the Angel of the LORD waited for him to bring it forth. When He brought it, the Angel told him just exactly how to present it. Then He reached forth with His staff, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; whereupon fire came forth from the rock, and consumed the offering. At this point the Angel disappeared. And Gideon was very fearful, for he knew that the LORD had long ago told Moses that no man could look upon His face and live. And He was sure that this Angel he had seen was the LORD. But the LORD comforted him, and promised that he would not die because of this encounter.\n(Verses 24 through 27) Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father\u2019s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father\u2019s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.\nImmediately after the LORD gave him this commandment, Gideon built an altar unto the LORD, and called it \u201cJehovah-shalom,\u201d which means, \u201cthe LORD is peace,\u201d or \u201cthe peace of the LORD.\u201d Then that night the LORD charged him to take his father\u2019s second bullock, tear down his father\u2019s altar to Baal, cut down the grove that was by the altar, build an altar unto the LORD upon a rock the LORD appointed and make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD of his father\u2019s bullock, burning it with the wood of the grave he cut down. Since he feared those of his father\u2019s household and the men of the city, he could not do this during the day; so he did it at night.\n(Verses 28 through 32) And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? Will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself because one hath cast down his altar. Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.\nAs soon as the men of the city discovered that the altar and the grove of Baal were destroyed, they were very furious, and when they found that Gideon had done this work, they wanted to put him to death. But Gideon\u2019s father made a declaration that we should always remember. That is, that if Baal is a god, he can plead for himself, and does not need someone to plead for him. We might even add that neither does the LORD need any to plead for Him: He is well able to plead for Himself. Certainly, this does not mean that we should not honor the LORD. But we should, at the same time realize that we do not have the right nor the authority to kill someone who has offered an insult to Him. We should remember what our Lord Jesus said to James and John, (Luke 9: 55-56) \u201cYe know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men\u2019s lives, but to save them.\u201d And He is well able to \u201cplead for Himself.\u201d So, let Baal have the same privilege; and if he is not able to do so, he is not a god.\n(Verses 33 through 35) Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites, and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him. And he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.\nAt this time all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the children of the east gathered themselves together, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he summoned together all the people of Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, that they might go to war against the host in the valley of Jezreel.\n(Verses 36 through 40) And Gideon said unto God, If Thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as Thou hast said, Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that Thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as Thou hast said. And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. And Gideon said unto God, Let not Thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray Thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.\nEven after having seen the miracle of the LORD\u2019S consumption of the sacrifice he had offered, and having been delivered from death after tearing down the altar, and cutting down the grove of Baal, Gideon still seemed to have lacked somewhat, so far as his faith was concerned, in the promise of the LORD to be with him in going against the enemies in the battle, as it seemed to be shaping up. Just as he wanted more assurance, so also often are we. He asked of the LORD a sign: and when the LORD gave him the sign he had asked, he still was not satisfied. So he asked for the same sign again, but that it be exactly reversed from the first. And the LORD, in His mercy, fulfilled that also.\n(Verses 1 through 3) Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the hosts of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill Moreh, in the valley. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.\nWhen both armies were gathered, and were about to began hostilities, The LORD made a strange declaration to Gideon, \u201cYou have too many men.\u201d Under any other circumstances, no doubt, Gideon would have questioned such a statement. But the LORD explained to him that it was He, instead of the army that would overcome the enemy. If He permitted Gideon to go into battle with such a large force, his army might think that they had won the victory. It was His purpose to show the Israelites that He was their Protector, and not they themselves. So He had Gideon make a proclamation that anyone who was afraid, should immediately leave, and return home. As the result of this proclamation, his army of thirty-two thousand suddenly became only ten thousand.\n(Verses 4 through 8) And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, And I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the LORD said unto Gideon, By these three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.\nAfter Gideon had at the command of the LORD dismissed about two thirds of his army, the LORD told him he still had too many men. So the LORD told Gideon how to reduce the number by a somewhat novel test. By this test he reduced the number of men from ten thousand to three hundred. From the viewpoint of man, this would seem far too few to even start out with. And that is exactly the point the LORD was making. There would be absolutely no way for the people to claim that their prowess in war had anything to do with obtaining the victory. At this point the army took food and their trumpets, seemingly very poor preparations for battle. They may have had swords, but nothing is said about such.\n(Verses 9 through 14) And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. And the Midianites and all the children of the east lay along the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.\nThe LORD spoke to Gideon that night, and commanded him to arise and get started on the war against the Midianites. He told Gideon that if he had any fear about the matter, to take his servant Phurah, and go down to the camp of the Midianites, so that he could hear what the Midianites were saying. Accordingly Gideon and Phurah went down under cover of the darkness to the outer edge of the camp of the Midianites, and listened to the conversation of two of the men. One of them had had a dream, which he told to the other. When he had finished telling the dream his companion said, \u201cThis is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.\u201d So, evidently, the LORD had revealed to this man what He was about to do.\n(Verses 15 through 18) And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise, for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put a trumpet in every man\u2019s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. When I blow with the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.\nThese are strange orders for a unit that is going into battle; but, no doubt, this is a commandment the LORD had given Gideon. And he passed it on to his army. Certainly, it needs no explanation. But it clearly shows that the LORD, and not Gideon\u2019s army, would bring about the victory.\n(Verses 19 through 23) So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; (about 10:00 PM) and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man\u2019s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath. And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.\nSurely none but the LORD God could be considered as having any glory from this battle. So far as we can see in this account, not even one of the Israelites even drew a sword. But the LORD turned the sword of every man of the enemy against his fellow soldier, and those who could run, ran away from the battle. That is also exactly what the LORD declared that He will bring about when all the nations shall be gathered against Israel in the last days, (Ezekiel 38:21) \u201c\u2019And I will call for a sword against him throughout all My mountains,\u2019 saith the LORD God: \u2018every man\u2019s sword shall be against his brother.\u2019\u201d Yet, some of our brethren tell us that what is set forth in the prophecy of Ezekiel cannot be taken literally, because it just cannot happen that way; so we must interpret it to mean something else. The same God Who turned the swords of the enemy against themselves for Gideon, will still have the same power in the last war of Israel. So, why can it not be as He has declared that it will? After all the enemy fled from the battle, the Israelites gathered themselves together from the tribes of Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh, and pursued after them.\n(Verses 24 and 25) And Gideon sent messengers throughout mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.\nAfter the battle Gideon called the tribe of Ephraim, and told them to go down, and take the crossing places of the river Jordan, to hold them against the crossing of the Midianites. This they did, and in so doing, they captured two of the princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. These they executed, and brought their heads to Gideon.\n(Verses 1 through 3) And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest out to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when He said that.\nThe people of Ephraim were somewhat angry against Gideon, because he did not call them to join in the battle at the beginning thereof. So they spoke very sharply to him about this. But he calmed their anger by pointing out that they did more than he had done, in that they had taken both Oreb and Zeeb, the princes of the Midianites.\n(Verses 4 through 9) And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray thee, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then will I tear your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briers. And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him. And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.\nAs Gideon and his army pursued the Midianite kings Zebah and Zalmunna, they came to Succoth, a city of Gad. And when Gideon asked the men of that city to give his army food, because they were hungry, and were pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, they refused, apparently from fear of Zebah and Zalmunna. Upon their refusal, he told them that when he returned after apprehending these princes, he would whip these men with thorns and briers, thus tearing their flesh. Then he went to another city of Israel, Penuel. And he made the same request of them, receiving the same answer as from the men of Succoth. So he told them that when he returned in peace, he would tear down their tower.\n(Verses 10 through 12) Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts were with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword. And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure. And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited the host.\nGideon and his army caught up with the two Midianite kings and their army at a place called Karkor: and there they overcame their host, and captured both of these kings, Zebah and Zalmunna.\n(Verses 13 through 17) And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up, and caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men. And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary? And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.\nApparently it did not take Gideon long to defeat the Midianite host, and capture their kings; for he returned from battle before the sun was up. When he returned to Succoth, he captured one of their young men who described to him all the seventy-seven princes and elders of the city. Then he took these men, reminded them of what they had done when he and his weary army had come to their city on their pursuit of the Midianites, and fulfilled his promise to them. He also tore down the tower of Penuel. Evidently the men of Penuel tried to put up some kind of a fight, so he killed them.\n(Verses 18 through 21) Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you. And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But he drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth. Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camel\u2019s necks.\nHaving fulfilled his threat upon Succoth and Penuel, Gideon took time to question Zebah and Zalmunna concerning the men they had killed at Tabor, and finding that the ones killed were his brothers, he ordered his son, Jether, to execute the two kings. Because of his youth Jether would not draw his sword on the two. So Gideon himself killed them. It may be that Gideon\u2019s reason for commanding his son to kill the two princes was really to dishonor them, in that they were killed by a boy, and not by a man. Their answer to Gideon seems to indicate this: for they said, \u201cRise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength.\u201d\n(Verses 22 and 23) Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son\u2019s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. And Gideon said, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.\nThe men of Israel wanted to set up a kingdom with the family of Gideon as the first dynasty thereof, because they credited him with having delivered them from the Midianites. But he, knowing that all the glory of his victory belonged only to the LORD, refused to rule over them, or even permit his descendants to do so, but declared that the LORD should rule over them.\n(Verses 24 through 27) And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels\u2019 necks. And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a-whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.\nWe are not told what was Gideon\u2019s purpose in collecting all this gold and making an ephod of it. Perhaps, it may have been only as a memorial of the wonderful deliverance the LORD had wrought for them against the Midianites. Nevertheless when he set it up, all the Israelites began to worship it as a god, so that it became a snare to Gideon, and his house, and, indeed, to all Israel; for it became their idol.\n(Verses 28 through 31) Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. And his concubine that was at Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.\nThe principal point of value in this text is that it introduces Abimelech the son of Gideon. We shall learn more about him in the next chapter.\n(Verses 32 through 35) And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and went a-whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, Who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.\nJust as soon as Gideon died the people en masse turned away from the LORD, and served the idols of Baal, making one of them, Baal-berith, officially their god. And they did not even remember Gideon with any kindness for all that he had done for them.\n(Verses 1 through 6) And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother\u2019s brethren, and communed with all the house of his mother\u2019s father, saying, Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, whether it be better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. And his mother\u2019s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him. And he went unto his father\u2019s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.\nAlthough Gideon had said that neither he nor his descendants would rule over Israel, as soon as he had died, his son Abimelech began making preparations to become king of Israel. He made a conspiracy with the men of his hometown, Shechem. Then he attempted to kill all the other sons of Gideon, but Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon hid himself and escaped. But all the men of Shechem, and all the house of Millo gathered together at Shechem and made him king.\n(Verses 7 through 15) And when they told it to Jotham, he went, and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us. But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.\nAfter the murder of his brothers, and the anointing of Abimelech king, had been reported to him, Jotham went up and stood on the top of mount Gerizim. Then he called in a very loud voice for all the men of Shechem to give attention to what he was about to say. Having gained their attention, he spoke a parable to them. Notice carefully this parable, for it contains a great deal of truth. This parable, like most parables is a fictitious story that exemplifies a true situation. For that reason we are to remember that the trees and vines in this parable represent men. First, these trees (men) went to the olive tree (a very worthwhile tree in that area of the world, because it bears fruit from which comes both food, and oil that is in great demand) and asked it to be their king. It refused, because if it became king over the trees, the duties of being king would interfere with the good it was doing for man. Then these trees went to the fig tree with the request that it reign over them. But it refused because that would interfere with its providing for man the fruit he so much liked. Then these trees came to the vine, (the grape vine,) which produced both food and drink for man, and even drink to be offered as a drink offering to God. And it refused to be king, because that would hinder its production of that that was pleasing to both God and man. As can readily be seen, these were all representative of men who were making a very valuable contribution as they were. And they all refused to leave their work, to be the king. Finally these trees come to the bramble, a vine covered with thorns, and providing nothing beneficial to man. When they asked it to be their king, it immediately accepted. It told them if they wanted it to be their king, they should gather themselves in its shade, which is usually so sparse that it is worthless; and if they did not want it to be their king, then fire should come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon, the tallest trees of the area. No doubt, the olive tree, the fig tree, and the vine, represent the worthwhile men of Israel, including the massacred sons of Gideon, while the bramble represents Abimelech. The declaration, \u201cand if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon,\u201d surely means that Abimelech is threatening to destroy all who do not want him to be their king.\n(Verses 16 through 21) Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: and ye are risen up against my father\u2019s house, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother,) if ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.\nAccording to the commandment of the LORD, Moses had told the children of Israel that when they came into the land of Canaan, they were to establish on the top of mount Gerizim the blessing of the LORD upon them if they obediently followed the law of the LORD, and upon mount Ebal the curse of the LORD upon them if they were disobedient to His commandments. Here Jotham went up on the mountain of blessing, to pronounce a curse upon Abimelech and the men of Shechem. This curse seems clear enough as it is written. So we shall make no further comments upon it.\n(Verses 22 through 29) When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: that the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren. And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him? And would to God this people were under my command! Then would I remove Abimelech. And then he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.\nThis seems to be the beginning of the curse Jotham had pronounced upon Abimelech and the men of Shechem. Three years after they had made Abimelech king, the men of Shechem and Abimelech began to have serious disagreements, and it seems that anarchy was about to set in, in earnest. The men of Shechem even set men in ambush along the tops of the mountains to rob the people who passed that way. Then one of them, Gaal the son of Ebed gathered together some of his brethren and went to Shechem; and the men of Shechem accepted him as their leader. So they gathered their grapes, made their wine, and had a very festival time in the house of their god. (Apparently, they had all turned completely away from the LORD, and were serving idols altogether.} As often takes place in such celebrations, they began to feel that they had no reason to fear anyone, even king Abimelech. Gaal the son of Ebed was, no doubt, a little over filled with wine, and began to try to foment rebellion against Abimelech. He even spoke a challenge against Abimelech. He may not have intended to go quite so far, but often men when drinking too much tend to let their tongues loose to say things that will get them in trouble.\n(Verses 30 through 33) And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem: and they fortify the city against thee. Now come up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field: and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.\nAs is usual when one is making such great boasts as did Gaal in the big party he and his followers were having, there was someone who did not like what was being said. That was Zebul the ruler of the city. (Apparently, they had abandoned the old manner of patriarchal rule of the city, and had a city ruler appointed by the king.) So he sent word to Abimelech that the city was about to revolt against him, and asked him to come by night, and set up an ambush against the city that he might subdue the revolt.\n(Verses 34 through 41) And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait. And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men. And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meoneim. Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou sadist, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them. And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate. And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.\nThus all of Gaal\u2019s big talk came to nothing, and Abimelech continued for a little longer as king. But that would not last.\n(Verses 42 through 45) And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them. And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.\nThus on the next day Abimelech and his army completely destroyed the city of Shechem, and its inhabitants. And he sowed the city with salt as a sign that it was never to be rebuilt. This was a fairly common manner of treating a city of an alien tribe against which the conqueror was especially incensed. But Shechem was a city of Israel, and Abimelech was a king of Israel. So this type of treatment seems somewhat out of place in this case.\n(Verses 46 through 49) And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he, and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.\nAfter Abimelech had overcome the city and sown it with salt, the men of the city that were left, all gathered together in a hold that they thought would be secure against him; but someone told him where they were. Whereupon he led his army up to mount Zalmon, cut down a bough from a tree, and commanded those with him to do likewise. Then they carried all these boughs down to the place where the men of Shechem were hidden, piled them up around it, and set fire to them. Thus he killed them all with the fire. Those who perished in the fire numbered about one thousand. This included also women and children.\n(Verses 50 through 55) Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech\u2019s head, and all to break his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men may not say of me, A woman slew him. And the young man thrust him through, and he died. And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.\nAfter subduing these rebels, Abimelech went and laid siege to another city, Thebez, and took it. But in Thebes there was a strong tower, into which the people fled, and shut it up. When he attacked the tower, in the fight he went up very close to the door of the tower. At this point \u201ca certain woman\u201d (This simply means \u201can unidentified woman.\u201d) threw down a piece of a millstone, which struck him on the head, and although he was not killed instantly, his wound was fatal; so he commanded his armor-bearer to kill him so that people could not say that a woman killed him. When the news of his death spread through his army, all his soldiers deserted, and went home.\n(Verses 56 and 57) Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: and all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.\nWithout further comment, this seems to completely sum up the story of Abimelech, the first king of Israel.\n(Verses 1 through 5) And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tolah the son of Puah the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and he judged Israel twenty and two years. And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.\nThus after the death of Abimelech, through the lifetimes of Tolah, and Jair, two judges that served in sequence, Israel enjoyed forty five years of comparative peace. This does not mean, however that they had learned to obey the LORD. For, as we shall see, they soon turned away from Him.\n(Verses 6 through 9) And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not Him. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan, in the land of the Ammonites, which is Gilead. Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so Israel was sore distressed.\nJust as always, when things were going well with Israel, they turned away from God, and served idols. They not only served the idols of Baal, but they even followed after all the other idols also that were around them. It seems that they could not be satisfied with the number of their idols. So the LORD turned them over to the Philistines and the children of Ammon, who vexed and oppressed them for eighteen years. Not only were the Israelites on the east side of Jordan kept in bondage, but the Philistines and Ammonites crossed over Jordan, and fought against those on the wast side thereof. So, in all this time the children of Israel were sorely distressed.\n(Verses 10 through 14) And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you: and ye cried to Me, and I delivered you out of their hand. Yet ye have forsaken Me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.\nIsn\u2019t it amazing that, not only the Israelites, but we also, seem to want to do anything but serve the LORD when things are going well with us: but when trouble comes upon us for our transgressions, we want Him to help us out of the consequences of our evil deeds, although He has repeatedly warned us that there are always consequences to follow every deed. This time the LORD\u2019S answer was not what they wanted to hear. We often forget that He always answers our prayers; but the answer is not always what we want. This time the LORD refused to help them. He told them to ask for help from the idols whom they had been following and serving. It seems that they had tried to come to Him, while still holding to these strange gods whom they had been serving. They confessed that they had sinned in turning away from the LORD and in serving other gods; but not a word has so far been said about their forsaking these idols. Indeed, the inference is that they had not.\n(Verses 15 through 18) And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee; deliver us only, we pray Thee, this day. And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. And the people and the princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.\nFinally the children of Israel, not only confessed their sins, but also put away all these idols they had been worshipping, and served the LORD. How long this continued, we are not told. But the LORD had compassion upon them because of their misery. So, in preparation for the battle, the Ammonites gathered, and encamped in Gilead, and the Israelites gathered in Mizpeh. Then the Israelites began to search for a man who would command them in the battle. They promised that whoever would take that position would be the ruler of all the inhabitants of Gilead.\n(Verses 1 through 3) Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead\u2019s wife bare him sons; and his wife\u2019s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father\u2019s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman. Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there he gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.\nThis gives us the background of Jephthah, the man who will be called by Israel to be their leader in the upcoming battle. As can be seen, he was, because of the background of his birth, looked down upon by his brethren, and possibly by most of the Israelites. However, when they were in serious straits they found him very desirable.\n(Verses 4 through 11) And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: and they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did ye not expel me out of my father\u2019s house? and why are ye come unto me now that ye are in distress? And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head? And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words. Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.\nSo, when the going became rough for the Gileadites, they went to Jephthah, the man they had despised, and driven out of their land, to bring him back to help them fight against the Ammonites. He was shrewd enough to make them promise to permanently make him their head, or ruler, if the LORD blessed him to be successful in the war. Then he went with them, and they made him their head and captain. So, now they were ready to begin the war.\n(Verses 12 through 17) And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou hast come against me to fight in my land? And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably. And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon: and said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon: but when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.\nJephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon to find out why he wanted to start a war with Gilead. And the king of the Ammonites replied that the cause was that Israel had taken some of his land. But Jephthah replied that Israel had never taken any of his land. Then he began to give the king of the Ammonites a lesson in the history of Israel.\n(Verses 18 through 24) Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab. And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place. But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel; And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan. So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out before us, them will we possess.\nJephthah continued his history lesson to the king of the Ammonites: and what he told him here is set forth in more detail in the book of Deuteronomy. Then, in verse 24, he clinches his argument thus: \u201cWilt not, thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.\u201d It appears that Jephthah is saying, \u201cYou would do the same thing we have done; and we are going to continue to follow that method of operation.\u201d\n(Verses 25 through 28)And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, while Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time? Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.\nJephthah told the king of the Ammonites that, as we today would say, the statute of limitations had run out concerning his recovering the lands he claimed had been taken away from him, and that he was committing a wrong in demanding them. He further told him that the LORD, Who is indeed the great Judge, would judge the cause between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon, and that He would judge the matter that day. But nothing would pacify the king of the Ammonites.\n(Verses 29 through 31) Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If Thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD\u2019S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.\nAlthough verse 29 says, \u201cThen the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah,\u201d that seems to cover only those things that are mentioned in the remainder of that verse. For it seems that verses 30 and 31 present him as making a very rash vow unto the LORD. And it seems hardly likely that the Spirit of the LORD led him to make it. However, according to the law of God, if a vow is made unto the LORD, that vow must be kept, with no change concerning it.\n(Verses 32 and 33) So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.\nThus did the LORD give Jephthah the victory over the Ammonites. And this is wonderful for the Israelites. In spite of the threat of war they have again been given peace from the LORD.\n(Verses 34 through 36) And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even the children of Ammon.\nHere we see that Jephthah had spoken very unwisely when he made that vow unto the LORD. He had not known what would be the first thing to greet him on his return home, but he had vowed that whatever it might be, he would offer it on the altar as a burnt offering to the LORD. As it turned out, it was his daughter, his only child. What an awful depth of despair that must have put him in! Yet there was no turning back; the vow must be fulfilled. She came out with celebration to meet him. And how sad she must have been when she heard what his vow entailed! Nevertheless she willingly submitted to it, since the LORD had taken vengeance for her father on his enemies. No doubt, some will try to use this incident in some manner as a type of the submission of the Christ to the will of the Father in the crucifixion. But to me, there are too many differences between the incidents, to so consider it.\n(Verses 37 through 40) And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.\nThis was a very sad thing to come to pass after the great victory the LORD had given Jephthah and his army. This is one of the most outstanding incidents in scripture for showing that we should never make a rash vow before God; but we should always know what we are including in that vow. For no vow unto the LORD is ever to be broken or changed.\n(Verses 1 through 7) And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over, that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said: Nay; then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.\nIt seems that the children of Ephraim were extremely jealous of any glory that might be obtained through victory in battle. We notice that when, in Chapter 8, Gideon had won the victory over the Midianites, the Ephraimites wanted to start a fight with him for not calling them to help him in that battle. Here we find that they actually do start a war with Jephthah and his army because Jephthah did not call them to help him. However Jephthah\u2019s army was victorious in this battle also. So, having put the Ephraimites to flight, the Gileadites captured all the places where they could cross Jordan, and held those against those who were fleeing from the battle. When they caught one trying to cross the river, they questioned whether he was an Ephraimite, or not. If he said he was not, they had him try to repeat the password, \u201cShibboleth,.\u201d which, according to some means, \u201ca flood.\u201d But for some reason he could not pronounce it correctly, but said \u201cSibboleth,\u201d for which we have found no definition. In fact, it may not be a recognized word at all, but only a mispronunciation of \u201cShibboleth.\u201d Then they would execute him as an enemy. During this battle forty two thousand Ephraimites were slain. Jephthah only lived after this time about six years, and was judge of Israel during that time. It is interesting to note that, although it is the common practice to give the place of burial for a leader of Israel, we are told only, that he \u201cwas buried in one of the cities of Gilead.\u201d\n(Verses 8 through 10) And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel. And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem.\nThis judge, Ibzan, apparently had very little to do in his role as judge of Israel, but he very greatly violated one of the LORD\u2019S commandments to Israel. The LORD had commanded the children of Israel that they were not to give their daughters to any of the people around them as wives, and neither were they to take the daughters of these people for wives to their sons. Ibzan broke both of these commandments. He broke each thirty times. And he only judged Israel for seven years. Then he died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.\n(Verses 11 and 12) And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the hill country of Zebulun.\nThis was another judge who, apparently, did nothing of any great importance. And nothing is said about anything the children of Israel did during his term of office.\n(Verses 13 through 15) And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.\nThis is another judge, whose only claim to fame is the size of his family. None of his acts of judgment are recorded. But he judged Israel for eight years. Then he died and was buried in Pirathon of the Ephraimites, which is in the mount of the Amalekites.\n(Verses 1 through 5) And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing: for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from his mother\u2019s womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.\nThus begins the story of Samson. He is another of the \u201cmiracle babies\u201d recorded in the holy scriptures. To this point in the records, there were at least four before Samson. Isaac, Esau, Jacob, and Joseph were miracle babies because their mothers were barren, and yet the LORD caused them to bear these boys. Moses was a miracle baby, not because of any great miracle of his birth, but because of his deliverance from death in the Nile. Now we have another miracle in the birth of Samson, in that his mother also was barren, but the LORD has declared that she shall have this son. Because of the LORD\u2019S purpose for this son, He instructs his mother that she is to drink neither wine nor strong drink, and neither is she to eat anything that is ceremonially unclean. This child will be a Nazarite from his mother\u2019s womb, so they shall not cut his hair. And he will begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines.\n(Verses 6 and 7) Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name: but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.\nAfter her conversation with the angel, the woman came to her husband, and told him all that the angel had said unto her, including both his instructions as to what she must not eat or drink, and the fact that the child would be a Nazarite unto God from his birth unto his death. A Nazarite is one who is under a special vow unto the LORD. Usually this vow is voluntary on the part of the one under this vow. But in this case there is nothing voluntary about it. God has spoken; and so shall it be.\n(Verses 8 through 14) Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my LORD, let the man of God which Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her. And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and she said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her be ware. She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I have commanded her let her observe.\nThe news of the son that would be born unto them was very pleasing to both Manoah and his wife. So Manoah prayed the LORD to send again the man to them to teach them what they should do for this child. The fact that the LORD had sent this message unto them, no doubt, caused them to be fully aware that this was to be a special child, and they wanted to know if there were special things they must do in taking care of him. According to Manoah\u2019s prayer, the LORD did send the man again. When the woman saw him she went and called her husband Manoah, who also talked with the man. The angel repeated to them both, the instructions he had formerly given to Manoah\u2019s wife. We customarily use the expression, \u201cbeware,\u201d to mean, \u201cbe afraid of,\u201d but when the angel says, \u201cOf all that I said unto the woman let her be ware,\u201d his meaning is that she is to always be aware of these instructions, and follow them explicitly.\n(Verses 15 through 20) And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD. And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor? And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is a secret? So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on. For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.\nManoah, being a very hospitable man, and not recognizing that the man with whom he had been talking was an angel of the LORD, invited him to stay long enough with them that he might prepare food for him. He did agree to remain for a while, but declared that he would not eat of any food he might prepare for him. Instead he instructed Manoah to make a burnt offering unto the LORD. This Manoah did: and while the offering was being consumed upon the altar, the angel ascended in the flame thereof. At this point both Manoah and his wife fell prostrate upon the ground. One point we should notice concerning the conversation between Manoah and the angel, is that when Manoah asked the angel\u2019s name that he might later give him honor for bringing this message to him, the angel rebuked him for even asking. Apparently one reason why his name was withheld is that the angels know that they are only \u201cministering spirits,\u201d and therefore no honor is to be given to them. It is all to be rendered unto the LORD, Whose servants they are.\n(Verses 21 through 25) But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt offering at our hands, neither would He have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time told us such things as these. And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.\nManoah saw the angel no more, but his promise came to pass, just as prophesied. This son was born, and his mother called him Samson. As he grew up, the LORD blessed him, and at times the Spirit of the LORD began to move him in noticeable ways in the camp of the Danites.\n(Verses 1 through 4) And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that He sought an occasion against the Philistines: for the Philistines had dominion over Israel.\nThis seems clearly enough written that there should be no difficulty in understanding it. One might be as were the father and mother of Samson, somewhat confused and disturbed that he would pass by all the women of the Israelites, and select one of the Philistines as the one he wanted to marry. However that too is explained in the text. This was of the LORD that He might through Samson work some of His wondrous works against the Philistines. I suppose our modern day interpreters of the scriptures would tell us that there is something wrong with the translation of this, because, according to them, the LORD is the same gentle, loving, and merciful God toward all men, and He would never choose one over another. However here we are told that \u201cHe sought an occasion against the Philistines.\u201d This seems to be as strong a declaration of God\u2019s sovereign election as one would ever find.\n(Verses 5 through 9) Then Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and his mother, and gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.\nThe custom in Samson\u2019s day concerning a man and a woman getting engaged, or married, was somewhat different from what we have been accustomed to in this country. At that time, a man did not just keep company with a woman for a while, and ask her to marry him. Instead, if he saw one that he thought he would be interested in, he asked his father and mother to make the arrangements for him. It was on the journey down to Timnath for the purpose of their making these arrangements that Samson had the encounter with the lion, and on the journey down to Timnath to take her as his bride, that he found the honey in the carcase of the lion. Everything in this account seems clear enough that there should be no misunderstanding thereof.\n(Verses 10 and 11) So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.\nThese companions were men of the city where the woman lived whom Samson was to marry. They were all to be his companions throughout the feast.\n(Verses 12 through 18) And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if you can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson\u2019s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father\u2019s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so? And Samson\u2019s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father or my mother, and shall I tell it thee? And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people. And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.\nAs Samson talked with his companions, he set before them a riddle that, if they if they could find out the answer to it, and declare it to him during the seven days of the feast, he would give to them thirty sheets and thirty changes of garments. And if they failed, they were to make this same gift to him. That riddle was, \u201cOut of the eater came forth meat, (food) and out of the strong came forth sweetness.\u201d There seems to be a slight discrepancy between the account given of the event in verses 15 and 16, and that given in verses 17 and 18. In the former, it seems that these companions did not approach Samson\u2019s wife concerning the matter until the seventh day. But verses 17 and 18 seem to indicate that for the whole seven days his wife was crying, and trying to get him to tell her the answer to this riddle. Whichever way the event took place, on the seventh day Samson explained the riddle to her, and before the sun went down she gave the answer to Samson\u2019s companions, and they declared the answer to him, whereupon he said, \u201cIf ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out the riddle,\u201d meaning, \u201cIf you had left my wife out of the matter, you would not have found out the answer.\u201d\n(Verses 19 and 20) And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which had expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father\u2019s house. But Samson\u2019s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.\nHere is another of Samson\u2019s exploits by reason of the Spirit of the LORD. To pay the wager he had made with his companions, he went to Ashkelon, another city of the Philistines, slew thirty men, and took their spoil to pay the debt. Then he, being very angry, went up to his father\u2019s house. But his wife was given to one of the companions who had been given him at Timnath, Likely the one who, according to our modern manner of speaking, would be called \u201chis best man.\u201d\n(Verses 1 through 5) But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.\nApparently Samson was so angry against his wife that he waited for a while before contacting her again. But in the time of the wheat harvest, he went down to Timnath again, carrying a kid to his wife. When he went to the home of his wife\u2019s father, he was told that his wife had already been given to one of those who had been his companions. Her father offered him her sister in her place, which we today would think a very strange manner of doing; but in that time and place it may not have been so uncommon; for women were considered more as property than as we now consider them. This, of course angered Samson, so he decided to get even with them for what he considered as an insult to him. He caught three hundred foxes, tied together the tails of the foxes, two by two, with a lighted firebrand tied to the tails of the two foxes, and set them loose in the standing corn (actually wheat) of the Philistines. This caused a great conflagration, burning up both the wheat that was still standing and that which had already been cit and stacked. Of course the fire did not stop at the edge of the wheat fields, but also burned the oliveyards and the vineyards.\n(Verses 6 through 8) Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.\nWhen the Philistines saw this great destruction, they made inquiry and found out that Samson had done it because his father in law had taken his wife, and given her to another. It seems that they thought they were giving Samson justice when they went and burned both his father in law and his wife. But Samson did not feel that he had been properly avenged. So, he went to battle against them, and killed many of them. Then he went down to the rock Etam, and dwelt there.\n(Verses 9 through 13) Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson. Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.\nAfter the fire episode, an army of the Philistines went up into Judah, and encamped there. When the men of Judah inquired as to why they were there, they said they had come to take Samson. So three thousand men of Judah went down to the rock where Samson was living. They told him that since the Philistines were rulers over them, they had come to bind him, and take him back to the Philistines. After making them promise that they would not themselves harm him, he let them bind him, and take him back.\n(Verses 14 through 17) And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt in the fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.\nOne thing is to be kept in mind as we study the life and works of Samson. This is, that the LORD has brought about all these incidents that by them He may vex the Philistines. We should not fail to notice that when Samson is about to do some great feat, the Spirit of the LORD comes upon him to enable him to accomplish what he is about to do. This is no exception. When he and the men of Judah who were with him came to Lehi, the place where the Philistines were encamped, \u201cthe Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily.\u201d By that movement of the Spirit he was freed from his bonds, and before him was a weapon with which to accomplish his work. The insignificance of the weapon is sufficient to prove that the power of this great event was of the LORD, and not of the man. With the jawbone of an ass he killed a thousand men. And, apparently the remainder ran away. And Samson named the place, Ramath-lehi, \u201cthe hill of the jawbone.\u201d\n(Verses 18 through 20) And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of Thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised? But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.\nAfter this fight Samson was very thirsty: and he prayed to the LORD, and asked Him if, after giving him this great victory He was going to let him die of thirst and fall into the hands of the Philistines. But God was gracious to him, and miraculously provided him water from the weapon he had used to destroy the Philistines. Although the LORD did not, at this time deliver the Israelites from the rule of the Philistines, Samson judged Israel twenty years.\n(Verses 1 through 3) Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.\nApparently, the Philistines were somewhat afraid to face Samson, and arrest him openly. But when they saw him go into the house of a harlot in Gaza, they got up courage enough to surround the house, and lay in ambush for him. They thought he would spend the night there. But he got up at midnight, and left. No doubt the gates were locked before the time that he decided to leave; and instead of calling the gatekeeper of the city for him to let him out, he simply took up the gates, and the posts thereof, and carried them on his shoulders up to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.\nVerses 4 through 20 tell the story of Samson\u2019s betrayal by a woman named Delilah, a story that is probably more familiar to the general public than any other Bible story. Evidently verse 4 gives the key to the whole story. \u201cAnd it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman of the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.\u201d Notice that nothing is said about this woman\u2019s loving Samson. And as the story unfolds, it is abundantly evident that she did not. However he must have been completely blinded by love of her. Otherwise, surely, he would have realized that she was only trying to find a way to destroy him. The people of her town promised her great reward if she would find out his secret, and betray him to them. And this is what she was attempting to do from the beginning. Certainly, we cannot overlook the fact that all of this was brought about according to the purpose of the LORD. So, where does that leave those who say that the LORD would never put upon anyone such suffering as this episode finally brings upon Samson, the very man the LORD is using to bring down the Philistines? The account of this matter is clearly enough written that none should have any difficulty in understanding it. So we shall not quote the whole matter. But Delilah made three unsuccessful attempts to betray him, and finally wore him down so that he told her the secret of his strength. And she immediately betrayed him so that his enemies could take him and abuse him.\n(Verses 21 through 24) But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.\nAfter Delilah had done her dirty work, the Philistines took Samson, carried him to Gaza, and imprisoned him. There he had to work, \u201che did grind in the prison house.\u201d Apparently the Philistines paid no attention to the fact that while he was in prison his hair began to grow out again. Then one day the lords of the Philistines gathered for a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. And they rejoiced greatly, and praised their gods for delivering Samson into their hands.\n(Verses 25 through 28) And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. And Samson said unto the lad that held his hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray Thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.\nIt seems strange that the Philistines would entrust an enemy so great as Samson to the care of a lad, but such seems to be the case. So after Samson had entertained the lords of the Philistines for a while, he was permitted to rest for a little between the pillars that supported the building. These pillars were, likely about the center of the building, and very close together. Samson asked the lad who was keeping him to let him feel the pillars, and lean on them a little. Then Samson prayed unto the LORD that He would be with him one more time, that he might avenge himself on the Philistines for the loss of his eyes.\n(Verses 29 through 31) And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.\nThere seems to be little need of commentary on this. It was the last act of Samson, the man to whom God gave the greatest strength of any man. Samson did not always do what we might think he should have done. But we must remember that the LORD never deserted him.\n(Verses 1 through 6) And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold the silver is with me: I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son. And when he restored the eleven hundred shekels to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. Yet he restored the money unto his mother: and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.\nThis seems to be a somewhat strange situation. First we are told of a man who stole from his mother, and when he told her that he had done so, she blessed him, and gave the money he had stolen to him, saying that she had intended to have a molten and graven image made of it unto the LORD for her son. Apparently the children of Israel had so far departed from the LORD that they even thought it all right to make molten and graven images unto the LORD, which is a flagrant violation of His first commandment in the Decalogue. Also this woman was not offended that her son would steal---- a violation of another of the LORD\u2019S commandments, \u201cThou shalt not steal.\u201d Then she said that she had wholly dedicated this money \u201cunto the LORD from the hand of my son, to make a graven image and a molten image.\u201d She gave the money unto her son, who immediately returned it to her. Then she took only two hundred shekels from the eleven hundred she had said that she had \u201cwholly dedicated unto the LORD,\u201d And from, that had an image made. Although the purpose of her dedicating this \u201cunto the LORD\u201d was to make something which He had forbidden, she was still violating another of His commandments. For He had told the Israelites that any thing dedicated unto Him could not be changed, unless the one who dedicated it. added one fifth of its value, and gave both it and the additional fifth unto Him. So every move that was made went deeper into violation of the commandments of the LORD. However she had the image made, and she gave it to her son Micah, who placed it in his \u201chouse of gods.\u201d He, Micah, took one of his sons, and dressed him up as a priest in the house of his gods. No one ruled in Israel as king in that day; but every man did as he pleased.\n(Verses 7 through 13) And there was a young man of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. And the man departed out of the city of Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said unto him, Whence cometh thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place. And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in. And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.\nThere is nothing in this that should need any explanation. However, it does strongly reflect the conditions of the day in Israel. Not only was there no king in Israel, but also, the worship of the LORD had declined to the point that, apparently, none was ever concerned with the LORD\u2019S service, for nothing is even mentioned about His tabernacle, the ark of the covenant, or any other of those things which He had ordained by the hand of Moses. It does appear that the Levites still had no possession of any lands, but were scattered among the other tribes of Israel, as had been appointed. Remember that certain cities and their suburbs had been appointed to them. But these cities were scattered among the other tribes of Israel. So a young man of the Levites who dwelt in Beth-lehem-Judah, decided to go on a journey to see if he could find a place to dwell that suited him better than where he lived. In his journey he came to the house of Micah, who hired him to stay with him, and be his priest. Then Micah, although having his \u201chouse of gods,\u201d felt that surely the LORD would bless him now because he had a Levite as his priest. This seems to be very much in keeping with the belief of many today. They think that no matter how much they violate God\u2019s commandments, and follow after the things of this world, if they will only \u201ckeep on the good side of their priest or pastor, God will have to bless them. They forget that He is never under any obligation to them for anything. If they ever knew it they have forgotten what Samuel said to Saul. (I Samuel 15:22) \u201cHath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifices, and to hearken than the fat of rams.\u201d Having this young Levite for his priest did nothing for Micah in the sight of God.\n(Verses 1 through 6) In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.\nAgain we are told that there was no king in Israel, so, evidently, there was no rule of law there, and everyone did very much as he pleased. Somehow the Danites had not yet been able to take full possession of their inheritance as had been allotted to them. So they were looking for more territory that would be a little easier to subdue. Therefore they sent out five of their men to do a little spying of the available land. As they passed through mount Ephraim, these five came to the house of Micah, and recognizing the voice of the young Levite, they went in, and talked with him. In answer to their questions, he told them about his arrangements with Micah, and that he was Micah\u2019s priest. So the men asked him to inquire of the LORD as to whether or not their journey would be prosperous. His answer was favorable to them.\n(Verses 7 through 10) Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame for any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man. And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? And they said, Arise that we may go against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.\nWhen these five spies came to Laish, they found exactly what they wanted, a place where the inhabitants were not very well disciplined, and were not keeping any watch for enemies. So they went back to their homes, and reported the situation as they had found it. The inhabitants of this place seem to have been Zidonians; but they were too far from Zidon to expect any help from the Zidonians.\n(Verses 11 through 13) And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim. And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.\nSo from Zorah and Eshtaol went six hundred men to attack Laish. They passed through Judah, where they camped in a place behind Kirjath-jearim, which has since that time been called Mahaneh-dan, or \u201ccamp of Dan.\u201d Then they went up into mount Ephraim. There they came to the house of Micah.\n(Verses 14 through 21) Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what ye have to do. And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. And the six hundred men appointed with weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. And these went in into Micah\u2019s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? And they said unto him, hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? And the priest\u2019s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.\nOn their way to the conquest of Laish the Danites went by the place where Micah lived. And the men who had been sent out as spies told their brethren about the presence of the young Levite and the idols in Micah\u2019s house. So they went in to see this young Levite, and persuaded him to take the idols and the items used in the worship of them, and go with them. Then they continued on their way to Laish.\n(Verses 22 through 26) And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah\u2019s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan. And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company? And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee? And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. So the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.\nWhen Micah and his household discovered that the Danites had taken away his priest and his idols, he went after them. but when he caught up to them he discovered that they were too strong for him. Then he and his people went back home, and the Danites continued on their way.\n(Verses 27 through 29) And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.\nSo the Danites took the priest and the things they had taken from the house of Micah, and went on their way. The taking of the city of Laish was without any untoward events, and they killed the inhabitants, and burned the city. Then they re-built the city, and changed its name from Laish to Dan.\n(Verses 30 and 31) And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. And they set them up Micah\u2019s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.\nThus the tribe of Dan turned to idols instead of serving the LORD. and this continued until the day of the captivity of the land.\n(Verses 1 through 4) And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father\u2019s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months. And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father\u2019s house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. And his father in law, the damsel\u2019s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.\nThis is the beginning of a fairly long story. There was a difference between a wife and a concubine, in that the concubine\u2019s position was regarded as a little inferior to that of a wife. Yet she was required to be faithful to her husband in all things, just as was the wife. But this woman was not faithful to her husband. And she ran away from him, and went home to her father. Somehow her husband still loved her enough that he made the long trip back to her father\u2019s house to bring her back to himself. The woman\u2019s father was glad to see him, and insisted that he remain with him a few days, which he did.\n(Verses 5 through 10) And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel\u2019s father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go on your way. And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel\u2019s father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry. And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again. And he rose up early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel\u2019s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and did eat both of them. And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel\u2019s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home. But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.\nEvery morning, when the Levite was about to depart, his father in law would insist that he stay a while longer. Finally in the afternoon of the fifth day, he did depart, taking with him his concubine and his servant. The first place they approached where they might have spent the night was Jebus, or, as it is now called, Jerusalem. Since it was afternoon when they left Beth-lehem-judah, it must have been getting toward the close of the day when they arrived at Jerusalem.\n(Verses 11 through 15) And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass on over to Gibeah. And he said to his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah. And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin. And they turned aside thither, to go in and lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.\nSince the Jebusites were enemies of Israel, one can hardly blame this Levite for wanting to pass by their town, and go to one belonging to his brethren the Israelites. So, although the day was drawing to a close, he, and his party went on, and came to Gibeah, a city of Benjamin. And the sun went down about the time they reached that city. So they went into the city, and finding none to invite them into his home, the Levite sat down in one of the streets. One should remember that one of the LORD\u2019S commandments that is often repeated demands that everyone is always to be careful to entertain strangers. But, sadly, then as now, that commandment is often ignored.\n(Verses 16 through 21) And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of that place were Benjamites. And when he lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the streets of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou? And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me into his house. Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing. And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street. So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.\nAfter passing by Jebus because it was a city belonging to the enemies of Israel, and going on to a city of the Benjamites, this Levite found only one man willing to give his party lodging for the night. And that man was not a Benjamite, but an Ephraimite who was sojourning in Jebus. This is indeed a poor recommendation for the Benjamites of that city. But there is even worse to come.\n(Verses 22 through 28) Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man , saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them will I bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good to you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man\u2019s house where her lord was, till it was light. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.\nThis is such a clear description of this terrible event, that none should misunderstand it, without further comment. It shows to what a depth of depravity the men of Gibeah had fallen. This also reinforces a statement that we have often made. That is, that in that day, and in that area of the world, to some extent even today, women were, and are regarded more as property than as we in western civilizations regard them today. After that terrible night, the Levite took his concubine\u2019s body home with him.\n(Verses 29 and 30) And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold upon his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.\nThis was indeed a terrible act. And if such a thing should be done today, the first thing that the people would want to do would be to kill the man who cut up this body, and sent it all over the country. Then they would, probably, want to take up a great collection to pay for fancy defense lawyers to defend \u201cthose poor fellows\u201d who had abused the woman to death. But as terrible as was the deed of cutting up a dead body, and sending the parts all over the country, it, no doubt, took that to wake up the tribes of Israel to the awful condition into which they had fallen. It was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d that worked. Everyone who saw this was ready to come together and consider what could be done about the matter. That is, apparently everyone except the tribe of Benjamin, as we shall shortly see.\n(Verses 1 through 7) Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh. And the chief of all the people, even all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, how was this wickedness? And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me that night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.\nIn verse 1 we are told, \u201cThen all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man.\u201d Yet, in verse 3 we are told, \u201cNow the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh,\u201d which seemingly indicates that although they heard of the coming together of the congregation, they did not attend. When the congregation met, they began to inquire as to the details of this great evil that had been done. So the Levite reported the whole matter to them., and called upon them to give their advice and counsel concerning the case.\n(Verses 8 through 11) And the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us turn to his tent, neither will we any of us turn unto his house. But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it. And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.\nAfter they learned all the details of the incident at Gibeah, all the men of Israel that were gathered together completely agreed what must be done. They would send ten men out of a hundred, a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to gather victuals for those who would go up against Gibeah. And they would go up by lot against the city to destroy it. They were all in total agreement concerning the matter.\nAnd the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this day done among you? Now therefore deliver us up the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: but the children if Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the tribes to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel. And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the men of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss. And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.\nThe men of the tribes of Israel sent messengers to the tribe of Benjamin, demanding that the men of Gibeah who had committed this great evil be turned over to them for punishment; but the children of Benjamin refused. So both sides prepared to fight. So far as numbers are concerned, the tribes of Israel were a much superior force. But still both sides prepared for battle.\n(Verses 18 through 25) And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first. And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men. And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day. (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.) And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.\nAfter their defeat on the first day of battle, the children of Israel were in great dismay. So they went up to the house of God, and sought counsel of Him as to whether or not they should go again to battle against Benjamin. They thought that they were doing as He would have them; but they did not realize that sometimes, even while we are trying to do His will, we need chastisement. The answer of the LORD was that they should again attack Benjamin. Accordingly they set the battle in array the next day, just as they had at the first: and the children of Benjamin again overcame them, and killed about eighteen thousand of them.\n(Verses 26 through 32) Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of the God was there in those days, and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver them into thine hand. And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.\nPeople may often wonder why, the LORD told the Israelites to go up against Benjamin twice, and still did not give them the victory. And it certainly is not our function to assign reasons why He has done anything, when He has not told us His reason. Nevertheless, there is one outstanding difference between their manner of going to Him for an answer in this last time, and in the two former times. In the first time, we are told, that they did go up to the house of God, and ask counsel of God, concerning who should go up first. And the answer of the LORD was that Judah should go first. Then, at the second time, they asked of the LORD whether or not they should go to battle again against their brother Benjamin; and His answer was , \u201cGo up against him.\u201d But in neither instance is there any record that they made any offering of any sort unto Him. And neither is there any promise of success in the battle. The third time they went before the LORD with the matter, they not only asked counsel of Him concerning whether they should go against Benjamin, or not: but they also offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. Then He not only told them to go against Benjamin again, but also promised them victory. In Exodus 23:15, Exodus 34: 20, and Deuteronomy 16:16, the LORD had told them that none should ever appear before Him empty. That is, without an offering. At this time, the LORD said, \u201cGo up; for tomorrow I will deliver them into thine hands.\u201d And, although it is not mentioned, He is, no doubt, the One Who instructed them in how to set up the army for the attack upon the city. They did not have all their men of war go up together for a frontal attack, but divided the men so that some could make the frontal attack while others lay in ambush to go into the city and take it after the fighting men of the city were drawn away from it.\n(Verses 33 through 41) And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-ramar: and the liers in wait came out of their places, even the meadows of Gibeah. And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them. And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword. So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah. And the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. And when the Men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle. But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.\nApparently the men of Israel had their army divided into three parts, one to make the frontal attack, another to rise up and join them at a certain place after the people of the city had been drawn away from the city, and the third to lie in wait beside the city until the men of war had been drawn away from the city, and this last detachment would then go into the city, kill all the inhabitants, and burn the city. All went according to plan, and the people of Benjamin did not know until too late that they were in real danger. But when they became aware of what had been done, they were completely confused.\n(Verses 42 through 46) Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them that came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising. And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men, all these men of valour. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. So all that fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.\nAlthough it is not explicitly mentioned, it appears that in their fight against the tribe of Benjamin, the children of Israel followed the same practice that they had against foreign enemies. The killed not only the fighting men, but women and children also. The numbers of the slain include only the men. Since at the beginning of this war, there were only twenty six thousand men numbered, twenty five thousand have been killed, there must be only about one thousand left. So the tribe of Benjamin had been almost wiped out. And all that were left were these men, with no women and no children.\n(Verses 47 and 48) But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock four months. And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the sword, as well the men of every city as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.\nThis seems clearly conclusive that the men of Israel did indeed practice genocide in this event. So, apparently there were only six hundred Benjamites left, and they were all men. Neither women nor children were spared.\n(Verses 1 through 7) Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; and said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel? And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death. And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?\nIn the excitement of the fighting Israel had forgotten to save wives from the tribe of Benjamin for wives to the men that were left. Now as they mourned the loss of one complete tribe from Israel, they considered the plight of the men who were left alive, since in their anger against the Benjamites they had sworn that they would not give them wives of their daughters. But still they did not want a complete wipe out of a whole tribe. So their question was, \u201cWhat can we do about this predicament.\u201d\n(Verses 8 through 15) And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there. And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.\nThis certainly seems to us a strange manner of action. But we have to consider that their perspective of marriage was somewhat different from ours. And this was what they considered the best manner of taking care of a very bad situation. Since the people of Jabesh-gilead, had not helped in the fight against the Benjamites who had committed such a terrible sin, they had already decreed that they be put to death. But in order to help take care of the present problem, they let all these virgins live, that they might be wives for the Benjamites who were left after the war. Still they were about two hundred women short for this project. So something else must be done.\n(Verses 16 through 22) Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.\nSome might wonder whether or not this is actually a legitimate way to get around an oath unto the LORD. But, apparently, in this case, the LORD permitted it to be done. And He is the Judge of the matter. It was a plan worked out by the elders of Israel, and it is clearly enough set forth that none should misunderstand it. It is to be remembered that they still needed about two hundred to be wives of the remnant of the Benjamites.\n(Verses 23 through 25) And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance. In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.\nSo this matter was thus concluded, if not to the satisfaction of all, at least to the point that everyone was willing to tolerate the outcome. And all returned to his inheritance, and the situation seemed to be settled down. However there was still no king in Israel, so there was no control, of civil authority, over anyone. Each followed his own conscience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 175340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gymoutfitters.com/tag/food-myths-you-have-been-believing-for-way-too-long/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BAYXCNYF3A4MXVMIYR2GDT6PR7I26K64", "length": 765, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gymoutfitters.com", "title": "Food Myths You Have Been Believing for Way Too Long", "raw_content": "Food Myths You Have Been Believing for Way Too Long\nWhen you are trying to eat healthy and have no idea where to start or what you\u2019re doing, it can be super confusing and overwhelming to sift through all the information out there. The internet has allowed many people to put in their two cents about every topic under the sun, unfortunately this means that what you read is not always true. I believe when it comes to food and eating well, a simple and realistic approach works best. I\u2019ve noted some food myths below that I think everyoneshould be aware of. Some of these have been floating around for quite some time and it\u2019s time to put them to bed!\nFiled Under: gym-equipment-exercise-workout-blog Tagged With: Food Myths You Have Been Believing for Way Too Long", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hadlegal.com/the-role-of-estate-planning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:X54T45XIZ6ANSI3NWV737FJ6X5PF3PJQ", "length": 3793, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hadlegal.com", "title": "The Role of Estate Planning \u2013 Hill and DeWeese LLC", "raw_content": "The Role of Estate Planning\nHome / Estate Planning / The Role of Estate Planning\nWhy Create an Estate Plan?\nEstate planning is important for many reasons. Saving money, providing for loved ones, avoiding probate, and gaining peace of mind are some of the many reasons to create an estate plan. Creating an estate plan can also help you to evaluate your financial situation and set financial goals that can help you live more comfortably later in life. In addition, the right estate plan should make administering and transferring your property upon your death easier on those closest to you.\nWith larger estates, estate planning can save significant amounts in taxes. In smaller estates, the focus is generally on avoiding probate so that assets may transfer more quickly to beneficiaries upon death; this is particularly important when you have dependents. Estate planning can also help you in nominating a guardian for your minor children should something happen to you, or allow you to designate the person you want to care for you if you are unable to care for yourself. Overall, estate planning places you in control of matters before they leave your control. This is a major reason why estate planning is so important to many people.\nEstate planning involves not only preparing to transfer your assets to those you love or wish to benefit when you die, but making decisions about who will care for you and your property should you become incapacitated. It involves making decisions regarding the use of life sustaining treatment if you are in a permanently unconscious state. Sometimes, with larger estates, estate planning may involve making gifts during your lifetime to achieve estate tax benefits when you die. Estate planning is a process and your plan will require updating periodically when individual circumstances or the law have changed. Various estate planning tools and documents, such as Trusts, Wills and Powers of Attorney documents, are used to allow the process of transferring property to occur more smoothly upon ones death and make it easier for person\u2019s close to you to care for you and your property upon your inability to do so yourself. The planning does not end when you leave your attorney\u2019s office. Often, trusts need to be funded and accounts need to be renamed to achieve the results of effective estate planning.\nWhen is the Time Right to Create an Estate Plan?\nIt is never too early to start in the estate planning process; however, the decision to prepare an estate plan becomes more important with certain factors including your age, family situation and the value of your assets. For example, the older one gets, the more important one should consider creating an estate plan with an attorney. Also, if you have a spouse and kids, or other loved ones that depend on you, the more important it becomes to create an estate plan. In addition, the amount of assets you own can play an important factor in influencing whether you should create an estate plan. Estate planning can be used to save significant amounts on state and federal estate taxes if your estate is larger than a threshold exemption amount. In the end, whether the time is right for you to develop an estate plan is a personal decision and can be influenced by an unlimited number of factors. However, when you choose to develop an estate, it is important to contact an attorney who can advise you on the best estate plan for you. In many cases, simple estate planning techniques will have a significant impact on how quickly and easily your estate is administered.\nPlease contact one of our attorneys to discuss how you can benefit from our estate planning services. Whether you need assistance with creating a will, trust, or power of attorney directives, we look forward to serving you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hawaiiweddingblog.net/2016/04/just-married.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7F2P7L5LMCUX3JVFVJRH3Y4YEWAS7DPD", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hawaiiweddingblog.net", "title": "Bridal Dream Hawaii - Wedding Blog: Just Married", "raw_content": "If you forget your sign, you can write it in the sand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 3367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 177.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hiddenjams.com/2017/11/29/sara-bareilles-pretty-slick-songs-album-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WENFRXMVZPGVYXFCY7MUY2SJNXZ2NQI5", "length": 2224, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hiddenjams.com", "title": "Sara Bareilles Has \"Pretty Slick Songs\" Ready For Next LP, Out in 2018", "raw_content": "Sara Bareilles Has \u201cPretty Slick Songs\u201d Ready For Next Album, Out in 2018\nNovember 29, 2017 June 24, 2018 Hidden Jams\t5th Album, In The Studio, New Album, New Music, New Songs, Pretty Slick Songs, Sara Bareilles, Slick Songs\n2017 has been a busy year for Sara Bareilles! In addition to playing the lead role in her musical Waitress (for which she composed all the music), she also announced plans to release a new album by the end of 2017. It would be the long-awaited followup to her 2013 record, The Blessed Unrest. Alas, the year is almost over now, and all we got was one new song for a movie. Luckily, fans need not worry too much. In a new Instagram live chat, Sara assuaged fans\u2019 fears and gave us a much-needed update on the new music. Sara says she has some \u201cpretty slick songs\u201d ready for the new record, which will get released next year!\nWatch the video clip below. Special thanks to Sara Bareilles Fans for capturing this!\n\u00ab I have some slick songs \u00bb \u263a\ufe0f pic.twitter.com/LhNY7FUEpD\n\u2014 Sara Bareilles Fans (@sarabfans) November 29, 2017\nSara\u2019s last studio album, The Blessed Unrest, came out in July 2013. It launched her hit single, \u201cBrave,\u201d written for a friend struggling to come out. She also released her musical album, What\u2019s Inside: Songs From Waitress, in November 2015. It\u2019s made up of songs Sara wrote for the Broadway musical, Waitress, including her ballad, \u201cShe Used To Be Mine.\u201d\nMost recently, in September Sara released her new song, \u201cIf I Dare,\u201d written for the film Battle Of The Sexes. You can stream \u201cIf I Dare\u201d on Spotify or download it from iTunes now. Enjoy the new track while we wait for album #5 \u2013 it may be a good indication of how the new music will sound. Book fans will also love Sara\u2019s 2015 autobiography, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) In Song. It\u2019s a must-read for Sara Bareilles fans, music lovers, and autobiography buffs alike.\nIt will be exciting to finally get a new Sara Bareilles album full of \u201cpretty slick songs\u201d next year! Catch up on all we know about it so far, and keep checking back here for all the latest Sara Bareilles music news.\n\u2190 Avril Lavigne Releases Cover Of \u201cBaby It\u2019s Cold Outside\u201d With Jonny Blu\nMuse\u2019s Matt Bellamy Promises More New Music Early In 2018 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 10025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hip-home.com/projects/doors/financing-doors.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:16:23Z", "digest": "sha1:PZ7MNMKYJBHHLJUDLYRG4Q2HHSSPH7NB", "length": 1632, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hip-home.com", "title": "Financing Doors - HIP Home Improvement Projects", "raw_content": "Financing Doors\nBuying the doors of your dreams can be expensive. This is especially true if you are looking at purchasing stained glass doors, sliding French doors or other ornate door varieties. That's where financing comes in, and there are several avenues you can take when financing doors. Each choice has its positives and negatives, so weigh the options and decide which method is right for you.\nCredit Card: I know, I know...you cringe at the thought of pulling out your plastic to finance another purchase, especially if your rate is 10% or higher. But opening a new account may give you a much lower rate. And if you add in incentives like cash-back or reward programs, the case is pretty strong for traditional credit card financing.\nStore Financing: Probably the easiest way to secure financing for new doors is through the store from which you are buying. Stores are a bit more flexible with their repayment terms (i.e. no payments for a period of time, etc.). Some stores will even give you a certain percentage off for opening a line of credit with them. The problem can be the often-elevated APR (Annual Percentage Rate) that kicks in when you extend beyond the \"honeymoon\" of payment relief. This can be upwards of 20%!\nYour Bank: There is no experience quite like meekly asking your friendly financial institution for money. In fact, everyone should experience it at least once in your lifetime. The problem with bank financing is that banks usually do not want to lend you money unless you already have some. Nevertheless, those consumers who have a friendly relationship with their bank may opt to go this route.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hkstrategies.com/united-kingdom/en-uk/weve-20-november-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NMORQN2VMCCUWYYSEV2ZN3BIP4ZGR3PM", "length": 2501, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hkstrategies.com", "title": "Hill+Knowlton Strategies What we\u2019ve been up to in London \u2013 20 November 2017 - Hill+Knowlton Strategies", "raw_content": "What we\u2019ve been up to in London \u2013 20 November 2017\nH+K London have had a busy couple of weeks, in particular celebrating the agency\u2019s successes at the PRCA National Awards and the Drum Marketing Can Change the World Awards.\nThis week the E+I team launched the latest Global Terrorism Index for long-standing client, Institute for Economics and Peace. With news that global deaths from terrorism are on the decrease following a peak in 2014, the team kicked off a global media campaign to spread the message and communicate the work of the IEP. Over the course of just two days, the team organised 22 back-to-back interviews with print, online and broadcast media outlets including an extensive run of shows with the BBC, live on Al Jazeera, as well as the Financial Times and Bloomberg.\nIn addition to this packed schedule of broadcast interviews, the team also secured extensive coverage in international titles such as the Daily Telegraph, Forbes, Mail Online, Deutsche Welle, AFP, DPA and The Sun. The media outreach was rounded off with a launch event at RUSI in Whitehall with film crews from Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya also attending.\nH+K attended the PRCA National Awards on 7 November and took home the consultancy Employee Engagement Award for the Do Nation campaign! The E+I, Data + Insights and People + Purpose teams attended the event at the London Hilton of Park Lane, and had a wonderful night celebrating all their hard work.\nThis January, H+K launched an internal campaign with pledging platform Do Nation, an initiative all about small actions adding up to the greater good. H+K staff picked from a series of \u2018Do Actions\u2019 inspired around environmentally friendly behaviours, which taken alone are small and easy to do, but when aggregated ladder to significant change for the environment and their own personal well-being.\nThe Business Development team attended the Drum Marketing Can Change the World Awards, held on 16 November at the Imagination Studios in Fitzrovia. They picked up the CSR Strategy of the Year Award (for profit) for the Big Battery Hunt campaign with Duracell UK.\nThe Big Battery Hunt, a fun and competitive seasonal campaign encouraged children and their families to collect used batteries that so many of us have at home. By joining forces with the National Schools Partnership, we motivated children to collect large numbers of batteries for recycling over Easter 2017. The Big Battery Hunt collected an incredible 107,000 used batteries from just 40 schools!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 4991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.homeownerscover.com/evolution-of-the-vintage-wallpaper-industry-over-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HB5UDDFWO5EJSMCRFVXUVACU5J5H7GA4", "length": 3365, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.homeownerscover.com", "title": "Evolution of the Vintage Wallpaper Industry Over Time | Home Owners Cover", "raw_content": "Evolution of the Vintage Wallpaper Industry Over Time\nComments Off on Evolution of the Vintage Wallpaper Industry Over Time\nTalk about the evolution of fashion over time; you will sense that the era of 70\u2019s witnessed a significant revolution. As the 2000\u2019s came dawning on us, people started claiming that the era of 70\u2019s comprising of geometrical patterns and playfulness with pastel colors, was boring and tasteless. But finally, in the later years of the 21st century, the fashion and the architecture of the 70\u2019s entered the market. In fact, most of the structures claimed it as the most current decade.\nIt seemed that the architecture evolved according to the taste of the people such as hippies had their style; punk and pop came up with their modified version of the 70\u2019s design etc. Thus, people started using the wallpapers to design it with the bygone era and termed it as the vintage wallpaper from wallpaperfromthe70\u2019s. People began using pastel hues and the funky colors to do up the walls of their house and created a concoction of different geometrical shapes.\nPop and Funky Colored Wallpapers: Thus, the industry of home wallpapers evolved with the introduction of the bygone era. It was seen that the significant colors that were being used in the house decors were orange, yellow, brown or light green. Further, the floral designs or mandalas also known, as the psychedelic designs were a rage in the market.\nWallpapers of German Houses: Coming to the German houses, the white wallpapers and the wooden panels were widely used. By the end of this era, the wooden styled wallpapers started dominating the wallpaper industry. More and more pop colors took over the market. However, it was noticed that the vintage style wallpapers of the 70\u2019s were not supposed to be put up in a Municipal place such as the public offices and municipal corporations. Thus, the wooden wallpapers were the savior in this case. Along with that, there was the introduction of pastel colors such as pastel yellow, pink, blue, etc. These were more of sober colors and were a perfect fit as the wallpapers in the corporate offices.\nPersonalized Wallpapers: Once this became boring for the people, people started coming up with wallpapers that suited their personality. For instance, a hippie came up with some Bob Marley quotes to be put up as the wallpapers. Or they started using Mandala wallpapers, which is a captivating sight for all the hippies. So this period witnessed the modification of wallpapers according to the different needs of the individual personality.\nThe main advantages of using the wallpapers for home decor was that the wallpapers increased the life of the walls as compared to the painted walls of the houses. Further, this option appeared cheap in front of the house painting option. It was an easier task to give a new look and feel to the house, and they were according to the taste of the individuals.\nHowever, it was argued that it takes a lot of time to put up the wallpapers and remove them from the walls. But, this one disadvantage didn\u2019t quite seem reasonable against all the other advantages of wallpapers. Go, give the vintage wallpapers a try and let the beauty unleash in front of your eyes.\nPrevious article Always Get the Finest Roofing Services For your Place You Live In\nNext article Prefab Structures Offer Homeowners Versatility", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 8526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hopliteorm.com/can-my-personal-goals-make-a-difference-in-an-orm-campaign.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JP3AKDTAURR4MOYE5W3I2L6ZGQDLRQIE", "length": 1146, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hopliteorm.com", "title": "HopLite ORM", "raw_content": "Yes certainly, and now that negative content is going to be repressed with new positive content, the question is -- what positive things do you want to guarantee that everyone sees? For individuals, the answer is as diverse as people are themselves: if you have three separate interests, say, cooking, skiing, and boating (being out on the water), then all these things can be elements that you can now show people online, creating a new personal image on the internet, one that\u2019s reflective of what you\u2019re about and love to do, and one that you want everyone to discover.\nIf you love video games, computers, and surround sound, then hey -- awesome, we can showcase that about you online. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important that individuals think about what they want others to know about them on the internet, because, of course, there\u2019s no one right answer. If you have any questions about an affordable Online Reputation Management Campaign, and how they work, feel free to call HopLite now. We enjoy answering questions from anyone who wants to know -- don\u2019t wait, contact HopLite today and find out how we can help you reclaim your Online Reputation!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.horror-movies.ca/2013/12/sundance-unveils-midnight-films/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QEJJ22IFYNWFPFKXB3CLTBKTHQ6SYYMN", "length": 4024, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.horror-movies.ca", "title": "Sundance 2014 Unveils Midnight Films Lineup - HorrorMovies.ca", "raw_content": "Sundance 2014 Unveils Midnight Films Lineup\nSundance is, once again, nearly upon us. It feels just like yesterday that I was reporting on Sundance 2013. Time moves so quickly\u2026 OH GOD! My sense of mortality is rising!\nEvery year, like most film festivals, Sundance features a \u201cMidnight\u201d selection of films which usually plays host to movies of the horror variety. For Sundance 2014 there will be seven midnight films and one which will be showcased during the normal festival. Scroll down below to see which films are coming to Sundance. Among them are projects from Adam Wingard (\u201cYou\u2019re Next\u201d), Elijah Wood (\u201cManiac\u201d), Timo Tjahjanto (\u201cV/H/S/2\u201d), and more.\nWe also have a first look at Aubrey Plaza in \u201cLife After Beth\u201d, which you can view down below.\nSundance takes place in January from the 16th through the 26th in Park City, Utah.\nThe Babadook / Australia (Director and screenwriter: Jennifer Kent) \u2014 A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son\u2019s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West, Ben Winspear.\nCooties / U.S.A. (Directors: Jonathan Millott, Cary Murnion, Screenwriters: Leigh Whannell, Ian Brennan) \u2014 A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school and transforms the students into a feral swarm of mass savages; then an unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives. Cast: Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, Leigh Whannell, Nasim Pedrad.\nDead Snow; Red vs. Dead / Norway (Director: Tommy Wirkola, Screenwriters: Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel) \u2014 The gruesome Nazi Zombies are back to finish their mission, but our hero is not willing to die. He is gathering his own army to give them a final fight. Cast: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Martin Starr, \u00d8rjan Gamst, Ingrid Haas, Jocelyn DeBoer.\nThe Guest / U.S.A. (Director: Adam Wingard, Screenwriter: Simon Barrett) \u2014 A soldier on leave befriends the family of a fallen comrade. He soon becomes a threat to everyone around him when it\u2019s revealed he\u2019s not who he says he is. Cast: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Leland Orser, Lance Reddick, Chase Williamson, Brendan Meyer.\nKillers / Japan, Indonesia (Directors: The Mo Brothers, Screenwriters: Timo Tjahjanto, Takuji Ushiyama) \u2014 Two serial killers post their violent crimes online in a psychotic battle for notoriety. It soon becomes clear that they will square off with one another face to face. Cast: Kazuki Kitamura, Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Luna Maya, Ray Sahetapy.\nThe Signal / U.S.A. (Director: William Eubank, Screenwriters: William Eubank, Carlyle Eubank, David Frigerio) \u2014 Three college students disappear under mysterious circumstances while tracking a computer hacker through the Southwest. Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp.\nWhat We Do in the Shadows / New Zealand, U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement) \u2014 This mockumentary follows the struggles of a group of New Zealand\u2013based vampires to understand modern society and adapt to the ever-changing world around them. Cast: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonny Brugh, Cori Gonzales-Macuer, Stu Rutherford.\nAnd appearing in the US Dramatic Competition is\u2026\nLife After Beth / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jeff Baena) \u2014 Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down\u2026 Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser.\nCheck out our first look at \u201cLife After Beth\u201d down below.\nAndre Riwaka December 6, 2013 at 4:00 am\nWatta great lineup. Can\u2019t wait for Dead snow: red vs dead\nJeff Carson December 6, 2013 at 5:15 pm\nFunny What We Do In the Shadows sounds exactly like the 2010 film Vampires (which I have yet but am dying to see!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500906/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 5332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hotel-r.net/hotel/north-vancouver-hotel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MVTHRSU3LFA65RNMDGL5SQRA5LBJUZGW", "length": 3041, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.hotel-r.net", "title": "North Vancouver Hotel | Hotel-R", "raw_content": "North Vancouver Hotel Scenery wherever you look\nThe North Vancouver Hotel is located in between the beautiful Coastal Mountains and the scenic Vancouver Harbour. While the hotel is located in the north end of the city it is still close to everything that the city has to offer. A short distance from the hotel you will find many of the citys top attractions such as Grouse Mountain and Capilano Suspension Bridge. The hotel understands that people come to the city for both business and pleasure and they try to ensure that all the needs of people are being met. They have included free internet access in their rooms and larger workstations where people can finish up last minute work. Guests of the hotel will also receive a free complimentary breakfast for the duration of their stay at the hotel.\nMany of the rooms have undergone recent renovations and are offering all of the comforts that you would expect from a hotel of this size and price. At certain times throughout the year the hotel offers specials and packages to guests who are travelling to the Vancouver area. For example during the Christmas season you can take advantage of the shoppers special where you are offered discounted rates on your room while you are in the city to do some last minute shopping for Christmas.\nThe North Vancouver Hotel has seventy-two elegantly decorated rooms, a number of which have been designated as being pet friendly rooms. All of the rooms are spacious and feature your choice of two double beds, two queen beds and or a king bed. If you choose a room with a king bed you will also find a sofa bed in your room as well. For added comfort and convenience you there are a number of kitchenette rooms that feature fully equipped kitchens with state of the art appliances where you can cool your own meals instead of dining out a lot. This is the perfect choice when you are travelling with children. You are able to maintain the same routines as home.\nWhile pets are permitted to stay at the hotel, an additional fee may be charged to the cost of your room. There are a limited number of rooms that have been designated as being pet friendly rooms and they do book up fast. Due to the limited number of rooms that do permit pets you will be limited to the size of the room and the view that you will receive.\nThere is no restaurant located inside the hotel but there are number of great restaurants within walking distance of the hotel. If you are unsure of where to eat the hotel staff will be happy to advise you on the best locations for both formal and casual dining. If you have reserved a kitchenette room you will be able to purchase groceries at the same market that is located near the hotel. At the market you will find only fresh produce from the surrounding area. Within walking distance of the hotel are a number of great attractions that will keep you busy all day. While out sight-seeing you can stop at the restaurants, bistros and cafes in the surrounding area where you will receive some of the best food you will ever eat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/supplier-news/majority-of-brits-would-be-more-likely-to-apply-to-a-company-with-a-cool-workspace/111439", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:48Z", "digest": "sha1:PZZHGVU7FFFSPDXPKMPVNKQKWP5XJ3DR", "length": 3732, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.hrreview.co.uk", "title": "Majority of Brits would be more likely to apply to a company with a cool workspace | HRreview", "raw_content": "You Are Here: Home \u2192 News \u2192 Supplier News \u2192 Majority of Brits would be more likely to apply to a company with a cool workspace\nMajority of Brits would be more likely to apply to a company with a cool workspace\nNot all of us are lucky enough to have the luxury of nap rooms and slides in our office. However, CV-Library has found that over half (56%) of professionals would be more likely to apply for a job that had a unique or cool workspace.\nThe survey of 1,200 workers found that the younger generation were the most likely to look for work in companies with \u2018funky\u2019 workplaces, with 81.2% of millennials and generation Z workers agreeing to this statement.\nSo what is it about cool workspaces that interests today\u2019s workers? We\u2019ll discuss in more detail below.\nWhat features make up a cool workspace?\nThe study explored how UK professionals felt about working in a cool environment and the effect it has on their outputs at work. It also asked respondents to reveal what cool features their current workplace had. Some of the key findings include:\n3% of Brits think that the design of their workplace influence how productive they are\nCurrently, one in 10 (8.7%) Brits work somewhere with cool features\nTop features include: A games room (49.5%), a bar (35.5%), a pool table (32.7%), table tennis (25.2%) and a cinema (14%)\nLee Biggins, founder and managing director of CV-Library shares his thoughts on these findings:\n\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see that while these \u2018cool\u2019 or unique workplaces are desirable, only one in 10 professionals currently work in one. Consider whether you could implement some interesting features at your workplace. For some companies, an interesting workspace is a top priority and for others it simply isn\u2019t.\u201d\nBiggins provides advice to companies that want to attract talented candidates into their workplace:\n\u201cIt\u2019s understandable if this isn\u2019t feasible at your company and in some instances, it could be considered distracting. If you\u2019re not able to offer these types of cool features, think about other perks which may be considered unique, such as a day off on your birthday or free team lunches.\u201d\nWhy do candidates look for \u2018cool\u2019 or different workplaces?\nAccording to the study, just over half (50.3%) of professionals said that they would like to work in a quirky or different workplace because it would be fun. While 18.9% said they have a desire to work for innovative companies.\nAlongside this, 13.7% even felt it would keep them motivated. While 10.8% said that the interesting features would give them an opportunity to bond with colleagues.\nDespite these results, a further 50.2% of professionals do agree that these types of features are very much a fad, suggesting that the hype around them may wear off in the future.\nBiggins continues:\n\u201cIt\u2019s clear that workers don\u2019t want to feel bored at work and want to be motivated by their environment. Therefore, incorporating different features could give staff a chance to have fun at work.\u201d\n\u201cAfter all, we spend the majority of our time in the workplace and it\u2019s important that it\u2019s enjoyable. If an employee feels unfulfilled at your workplace, they may choose to search for a company with an environment more suitable to their needs.\u201d\nIt appears that these \u2018cool\u2019 or unique workspaces do appeal to professionals. But whether this is a temporary fad or a new direction for businesses remains uncertain. However, it\u2019s clear that candidates are keen on companies that do stand out from the crowd. So consider what works for your business and don\u2019t be pressured to jump on a trend that isn\u2019t going to suit your company or culture.\nFor more information on work trends why don\u2019t you check out our research on UK professional\u2019s top career priorities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ibmring62.com/store/p43/High-Caliber_Card_Throwing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2JMQUT2GWZD6RGF5VKBXEMQJ2EUKC6JR", "length": 423, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ibmring62.com", "title": "High-Caliber Card Throwing", "raw_content": "High-Caliber Card Throwing\nYou don't have to be Rick Smith Jr. in order to throw like him. Just a few secret techniques and styles, taught in this video, will bring you from zero to Pro in no time. Rick Smith Jr. is THE card throwing champion for speed, distance and accuracy. Not only that, he is a WORLD RECORD HOLDER for throwing a playing card 216 feet and 4 inches at a top speed of 92 miles per hour. 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Mandated by the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established the new program to provide support for the local distribution of a wide array of accessible communications technology.\nThe FCC is also funding a national outreach campaign to educate the public about this new program. The iCanConnect campaign will be conducted jointly by Perkins School for the Blind, the Helen Keller National Center, and FableVision.\niCanConnect will seek to ensure that everyone knows about the free communications technology and training that are now available to low-income individuals with combined hearing and vision loss. From screen enlargement software and video phones, to off-the-shelf products that are accessible or adaptable, this technology can vastly improve their quality of life.\niCanConnect aims to educate people about the availability of communications technology for this underserved population so they can remain safe and healthy, hold a job, manage a household, and contribute to the economy and the community.\n\u201cWith the right technology, people with disabilities can link to information and ideas, be productive, and move ahead,\u201d said Steven Rothstein, president of Perkins. \u201cPerkins\u2019 most famous student, Helen Keller, exemplified the potential of a person who is deaf-blind. We are proud to have a role in this transformational program.\u201d\nPerkins School for the Blind, the first school in the U.S. for students with visual impairments, offers education and services to more than 200,000 children and adults in the U.S. and more than 60 countries worldwide.\nThe CVAA, championed in Washington, D.C., by Congressman Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, acknowledges that advances in technology can revolutionize lives. Nearly 1 million people in the United States have some combination of vision and hearing loss. Persons with combined loss of vision and hearing as defined by the Helen Keller National Center Act, whose income does not exceed 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, are eligible to participate in the new program.\n\u201cThe mission of the Helen Keller National Center is to enable each person who is deaf-blind to live and work in his or her community of choice,\u201d explains Executive Director Joe McNulty. \u201cThis critical technology access program accelerates those efforts, but only if people know about the resources. iCanConnect is poised to get the word out, coast to coast.\u201d\n\u201cFableVision\u2019s mission is to help ALL learners reach their full potential,\u201d said Paul Reynolds, CEO of the multimedia design and development studio. \u201cWith this program we advance that mission \u2013 helping spread the word about equal access to tools that offer those with hearing and vision loss the transformational power of technology. Now everyone is invited to the technology promise powering the human network.\u201d\nhttp://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/08/15/groups-launch-joint-accessibility-...\nhttp://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/08/15/groups-launch-joint-accessibility-campaign...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 178.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iipr.in/Human.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VH2VGYSGYA5ZFQO6V5X7V7MIUKI57QD5", "length": 935, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.iipr.in", "title": "IIPR College", "raw_content": "Course Title\t Human Resource Development\nCourse Description\t Human resource Management is talentmanagement and can be simply described as the art and science of attracting, developing and Organizations that adopt people best practices are able to meet the challenges of the Information age and capitalize on opportunities that arise from the talent pool that is the This course includes a theoretical framework of Human Resource Development (HRD) and is backed by the latest developments in the areas within HRD along with various HRD practices prevailing in the corporate sector. The course provides in-depth overview of HR functions and processes, employee laws, organizational development, all in today's context.\nCourse Contents Introduction to Human Resources in the context of business, HR information, Talent and Reward Management, Employee Engagement and Employee relations, Employment Law, Organization Design and Development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.impactstudy.org/peanut-allergy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:27:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ONBE4UAUKBEAEBVEPM5MW6EFEFVWICPG", "length": 1093, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.impactstudy.org", "title": "Peanut Allergy | IMPACT", "raw_content": "Peanut Allergy - in a Nutshell\nPeanut allergy is often diagnosed in children less than 2 years old. In the past 1-2 decades, the number of children with peanut allergies is thought to have nearly doubled. The prevalence of peanut allergy in the US is estimated to be about 1% of children. Symptoms of food allergy can be mild to severe, with peanut being the leading cause of life threatening or fatal reactions. Peanut allergy tends to persist, and only 20% of children outgrow their disease.\nA peanut allergy is a reaction that occurs when your body incorrectly identifies peanuts as an unsafe substance. When you eat peanuts or food containing peanuts, your immune system - the body's natural defense system that fights infections and diseases - overreact and can cause a serious, even life-threatening reaction. The burden of avoidance and constant fear of accidental exposure negatively impact the health-related quality of life for both patients and their families.\nTo learn more about Peanut Allergy, click on the link for National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 214.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.impositive.org/home/world-aids-day-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PZHFDJOSWXD737DN4EMFJ7L22O63CFWG", "length": 1400, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.impositive.org", "title": "World AIDS Day 2015 - I'm Positive, Inc.", "raw_content": "+ Please share this page +\nMake a tax-deductible donation to our cause.\nDonate your skills to our charity.\nAbout World AIDS Day:\nWhat is World AIDS Day? Every December 1st, people worldwide unite in the fight against HIV, support people living with HIV, and pay honor to our friends and family that we have lost to HIV or AIDS. Click here for more information.\nWatch this incredible video made by Ricki Lake and multiple Social Media stars that asks this question: \"If you could help end HIV/AIDS, would you?\"\n#TreatmentForAll\nIf you could help end HIV/AIDS, would you?Watch & Share #TreatmentForAll\nPosted by UN Assistant Secretary-General Ray Chambers on Monday, November 30, 2015\nAbout #GivingTuesday:\nWhat is #GivingTuesday? Now in its 4th year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. Observed on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season. Since its inaugural year in 2012, #GivingTuesday has become a movement that celebrates and supports giving and philanthropy with events throughout the year.\nAbout The Million Dollar Challenge:\nGoodWorld wants to #donate up to $1 Million to Nonprofits this Giving Season. Click here for details.\nFrom all of us at I'm Positive, we thank you for supporting our organization!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indymedia.org.nz/articles/20753", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:NNPSAVXXQLLDOCBCLI6CKVGEEXF224VY", "length": 3583, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.indymedia.org.nz", "title": "Small Molecule API Market to See Incredible Growth By 2026 | Aotearoa Indymedia", "raw_content": "Small Molecule API Market to See Incredible Growth By 2026\nsmall molecule api outlook, small molecule api insights, small molecule api growth, small molecule api trends, small molecule api market\nA Small molecule Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is a low molecular weight organic compound, which may help to control biological process, with a size on the order of 1 nm.\nA Small molecule Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is a low molecular weight organic compound, which may help to control biological process, with a size on the order of 1 nm. Most of the small molecule can be administered orally and are most likely to be absorbed by the body. Owing to its small size it has properties of rapid diffusibility to reach at intracellular site of action.\nSmall Molecule API Market \u2013 Dynamics\nThe small molecule API market is witnessing rapid growth due to increasing number of corporate agreements. For instance, BASF Pharma will sell its OMEGA 3 manufacturing facility in Norway to Marine Ingredients. The Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (HPAPI) is projected to witness high growth rate, owing to easy access to the people for medication in emerging economies. The rising prevalence of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases is expected to propel demand for manufacturing of small molecule APIs. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) report, in 2014, out of 570,341 deaths 29.4% were due to cancer and 27.1% were due to cardiovascular disease. Increasing consumer awareness, benefits of small molecule API, expiry of patents covering the top-selling pharmaceuticals, and technological advancement in manufacturing sector are expected to drive the market growth over the forecast period. Increasing adoption of generic drugs has resulted into affordable healthcare expenditure, which is expected to increase production of small molecule API\u2019s, in turn driving the global small molecule API market growth. According to the Indian Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), in 2018, India is largest producer of generic medicines, which supplies 50% of vaccines and 40% of drugs to the U.S. and 25% of drugs to the U.K.\nSmall Molecule API Market \u2013 Regional insights\nNorth America held the largest market share for small molecule API registering for 38.84% in 2017, due to high adoption rate of accelerated regulatory review of innovative medicines. Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) market is estimated to witness rapid growth in market, owing to high adoption of over the counter (OTC) drugs by large patient population coupled with growing healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and strong research and development in API. According to IBEF, investment in research and development by Indian pharmaceutical companies increased (in term of sales) from 5.3% to 8.5% from 2012 to 2018.\nSmall Molecule API Market \u2013 Competitive landscape\nThe major player operating in global small molecule API market include ALLERGAN, Aurobindo Pharma, Cambrex Corporation, Albemarle Corporation, D.r. Reddy\u2019s Laboratories Ltd. The other key players in market are Johnson Matthey, Siegfried Holding AG, Pfizer, Sanofi S.A., Novartis AG, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bachem Holding AG, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, GILEAD Science Inc., Albany Molecular Research Inc., Sun Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Merck & Co, Inc., BASF SE, and Teva Pharmaceuticals. 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This is why any new effective treatment is welcome. Never have Czech scientists been as close to this as they are now. They have developed a substance MitoTam that forces cancer cells into demise in triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.\nIn the Czech Republic, triple-negative breast cancer is diagnosed in up to 20 percent of all breast cancer patients. A new compound with anti-cancer activity called MitoTam has been successfully tested in laboratories in the Czech Republic and in Australia and has undergone independent pre-clinical trials in a specialized lab. But now it has started to be tested on patients.\nDestroy mitochondria. Kill cancer cells\nEliminating cancer cells by destroying their mitochondria is a strategy that has so far rarely been tested. It has, however, been the focus of an international team led by professor Ji\u0159\u00ed Neu\u017eil, who works at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at Griffith University in Australia. Since 2006 he has been studying compounds that could affect mitochondria. And now they have come across a highly promising agent, MitoTam, that effectively disrupts the function of mitochondria in cancer cells.\nKate\u0159ina Rohlenov\u00e1 from the BIOCEV research center in Vestec near Prague (now working as a post-doctoral fellow in the Belgian city of Leuven), who has played an important role in the progress of the project, states:\n\u201cMitochondria are essential for the existence of a cell. They act as the \u2018powerhouse of a cell.\u2019 The advantage of our strategy is that mitochondria, the target of the treatment, cannot adapt to the therapy, while they can bypass a variety of established approaches, including chemotherapy or immunotherapy. Therefore the potential of our substance is much broader.\u201d\nMitoTam has been under development for four years. The first synthesis was rather complicated and took place in Professor Neu\u017eil\u2019s laboratory in Australia. The first experiments on tissue cultures and mice provided very promising results. \u201cAfter that we transferred research to the Institute of Biotechnology as well, and continued the work in both laboratories. For the next four years we\u2019ve been studying the mechanism of action of our substance and why it exclusively eliminates cancer cells,\u201d Rohlenov\u00e1 adds.\nMitochondria are often regarded as \u201cpowerhouses of the cell\u201d. They are a vital organelle as they keep the cell alive and to allow it to divide. This is especially true for cancer cells, because they need much more energy for their constant growth.\nL: Kate\u0159ina Rohlenov\u00e1, R: Ji\u0159\u00ed Neu\u017eil\ncredits: R: Griffith University\nMitoTam is an abbreviation for mitochondria-targeted analogue of tamoxifen, which is a cure commonly used against breast cancer tumors, but it affects only certain types of breast cancer, as some types of this pathology are resistant to it.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve shown that MitoTam is much more effective, as it suppresses tumors and kills cancer cells at a lower dose, while acting against a broader spectrum of cancer types. Our results suggest that it\u2019s an exceptionally efficient agent that can potentially be used against other types of cancer,\u201d says Rohlenov\u00e1.\nThe research phase finished a year ago. Official pre-clinical tests, which are necessary prior to any clinical testing, were carried out on healthy rats and dogs to evaluate any side effects in mammals. MitoTam successfully passed these tests, so that scientists could move on. Further tests had to be executed by a specialized and certified laboratory and validated by the Czech State Institute for Drug Control (the equivalent of the FDA in the USA). In June the agency granted permission to launch clinical testing of MitoTam.\nCollaboration between BIOCEV and Smart Brain\nIn order for basic research to be translated into a clinical setting, it is necessary to find an investor. The team from the Institute of Biotechnology, part of the BIOCEV Centre, has succeeded in this: they received support from the Czech investor Karel Kom\u00e1rek and his Smart Brain company.\nThe involvement of Karel Kom\u00e1rek was crucial to allowing MitoTam to progress towards its clinical application. \u201cWithout the financial support and incredible amount of energy and persistence in coordination of the project, it wouldn\u2019t be possible to get it through the procedure of patenting and to reach clinical testing,\u201d the director of the Institute of Biotechnology Jana P\u011bknicov\u00e1 states.\nKarel Kom\u00e1rek comments on his involvement in this research: \u201cEvery year tens of thousands of patients are diagnosed with cancer in the Czech Republic alone. We are proud that we can take part in developing something that could be beneficial and unique\u201d. His Smart Brain company has been supporting interesting science projects in the Czech Republic for 8 years.\nMitoTam is tested in patients\nIn the first phase of clinical testing oncologists have to verify that MitoTam is not toxic to the human body. The length of a phase cannot be easily predicted \u2013 patients will be included one by one and everything depends on their responses to the treatment, how fit the patients are during the treatment, and whether there will be any severe side effects. If the first phase is successful, then phase II will include dozens of patients. According to the regulations, there have to be two more phases with an increased number of patients in multiple institutions in several countries. \u201cThe first patient diagnosed with a neuroendocrine lung tumor received MitoTam on the 12th of June. So far we\u2019ve received no reports of toxicity,\u201d Ji\u0159\u00ed Neu\u017eil informs.\nMORE ABOUT CANCER AND INNOVATIONS FROM CENTRAL EUROPE\nMultiplexDX: Diagnostic tests that lead to personalized treatment\n\u201cSlovak scientists can create a specific \u201cbarcode\u201d of each cancer. The barcode can suggest to the doctor what kind of personalized treatment and medicines can be used for a specific patient. It can also suggest the length of cancer therapy or combination of medicines\u201d\n\u201cResearchers from the University of Gda\u0144sk have developed an innovative, quick bladder cancer test. Just one millilitre of urine is sufficient to carry out the test and that colour change indicated the presence of cancer cells in the patient\u2019s urinary epithelium\u201d\ntechnology Czech urologists and Tesla Medica bring new hope for incontinence treatment\nbusiness A small company Cloud Ferro gives the world access to data from space\nbusiness A rapid and cheap diagnostic test can reduce antibiotics use", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 7065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.internetnews.com/security/pci-council-chief-testifies-before-congress.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:01:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HE37H2IUNXU774BYLVPDQAZ27YYR5CHI", "length": 931, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.internetnews.com", "title": "PCI Council Chief Testifies before Congress - InternetNews.", "raw_content": "Home Security PCI Council Chief Testifies before Congress\nPCI Council Chief Testifies before Congress\nThe recent data breach at retailer Target\u2014which left 70 million Americans and their personal information at risk\u2014is receiving Congress' attention this week in a number of hearings on data security.\nOne of the participants in those hearings is Bob Russo, general manager of the Payment Council Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), which oversees the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for retailers and payment systems.\nDoes PCI-DSS Matter?\nWhat the PCI-DSS 2.0 Security Standard Means\nDoes PCI Compliance Equal Security?\nManaging PCI DSS Requirements with a WLAN\n\"Security is about people, process and technology,\" Russo said. \"We think that PCI is best positioned to drive this message, and we have a global body that has been doing this for the last seven and a half years.\"\nPCI Set to Testify on Security Standards", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.investorguide.com/article/12997/make-sure-to-do-broker-dealer-due-diligence-wc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:06:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IEHJE6VA2H4MXHDOAFHKRMNV563TXYIG", "length": 1592, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.investorguide.com", "title": "Make Sure to Do Broker-Dealer Due Diligence - InvestorGuide.com", "raw_content": "Selecting a FOREX Broker\tIs It Worth Creating a FOREX Demo Account?\nArticles > Investing > Make Sure to Do Broker-Dealer Due Diligence\nMake Sure to Do Broker-Dealer Due Diligence\nRetail brokers can be divided into market makers (dealers) and ECNs (electronic communications networks). ECN is the way the true Interbank market operates. ECN brokers can have from one to a dozen liquidity providers. Market makers now also speak in terms of liquidity providers to avoid the stigma of the market-maker moniker. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. Most retailers are still market makers, but more and more are venturing into the ECN world. The Big Three (see further on) now offer a market-maker venue to small traders and an ECN venue for their larger and institutional clients.\nMarket makers are going to be better at providing liquidity in slow or fast markets; ECNs are perceived as more legitimate in not engaging in activities market makers have at least been accused of\u00e2\nHow to Select a Checking Account\nWhat Is a Capital Gain and What Does It Mean For My Taxes?\nMake Sure to Do Broker-Dealer Due Diligence. InvestorGuide.com. Retrieved February 15, 2019, from InvestorGuide.com website: http://www.investorguide.com/article/12997/make-sure-to-do-broker-dealer-due-diligence-wc/\nMake Sure to Do Broker-Dealer Due Diligence. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. http://www.investorguide.com/article/12997/make-sure-to-do-broker-dealer-due-diligence-wc/ (access:February 15, 2019).\nMake Sure to Do Broker-Dealer Due Diligence. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. February 15, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.investorguide.com/definition/auction.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:59Z", "digest": "sha1:W2LBAVLMHNT3IX2W4L7BBDMY7WJKPM62", "length": 870, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.investorguide.com", "title": "What is auction? Definition and meaning - InvestorGuide.com", "raw_content": "after-hours ... automated bond ...\nGlossary > Trading > auction\nA market system in which buyers bid against each other to establish the selling price of the item offered for sale. Some stock exchanges conduct live open outcry auctions on the floor of the exchange. Participants in these auctions include a specialist, who serves as the auctioneer, floor brokers who represent their clients, and registered traders who trade their own accounts. Live auctions are employed at some commodity and futures exchanges also.\nelectronic trading system\nauction. InvestorGuide.com. Retrieved February 8, 2019, from InvestorGuide.com website: http://www.investorguide.com/definition/auction.html\nauction. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. http://www.investorguide.com/definition/auction.html (access:February 8, 2019).\nauction. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. February 8, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.investorwords.com/1468/disclaimer_of_opinion.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FJUW3IYQNA4NQ3WOMRHREALKGGXEDGCO", "length": 665, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.investorwords.com", "title": "What is Disclaimer Of Opinion? definition and meaning", "raw_content": "An auditor's statement disclaiming any opinion regarding the company's financial condition due to an inability to gather certain relevant facts.\n\u201c I read the disclaimer of opinion and did not like what it said at all, because it made no sense to me. \u201d\n\u201c The writers new they had to be careful with their wording so they added a disclaimer of opinion to save them any sort of headache down the road. \u201d\n\u201c Careful Auditors, Inc finished with the disclaimer of opinion that they had been unable to verify the quarries would be exempt from the EPA restrictions. \u201d\nURL to this page: http://www.investorwords.com/1468/disclaimer_of_opinion.html\ndisclaimer disclaimer trust", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.involvemarketing.co.uk/why-is-seo-worthwhile/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:6HVUYI6O65SJTDWW7LIROPGPK5RKGTKU", "length": 3595, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.involvemarketing.co.uk", "title": "Why is SEO Worthwhile? | Involve Marketing", "raw_content": "Generally speaking, the main source of visits to any website on the internet will be directed from search engines, such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckgo, and many more. SEO, or search engine optimisation, is the practice which optimises your website with the aim of making it more search engine friendly.\nIf you want to make sure that your website receives a larger number of visitors than it is getting currently, then the better options are to look for information on SEO, or to find somebody \u2013 or perhaps an agency if you want a particularly rigorous campaign \u2013 who can provide advice and do most of the work.\nSEO has in recent years had more and more to do with content marketing. Most SEO\u2019s will argue that this is a good thing, as it returns the competition online back to creating quality content. The main focus of any campaign should be on creating content on your website which can attract visitors, while also maintaining a high level of relevance so that when robots spider your web-pages (like search engines do), it is easy to determine that the content is relevant to their users\u2019 queries. Providing useful information is a big part of this, and can give your website some authority, which helps you in a number of ways; such as increasing the chance of the information being shared on other websites. These are things which you can either do yourself, or by acquiring the services of a professional content marketer. You can see examples of this activity on almost every website, with the massive rise of the landing pages within the last five years. These pages seek to add content to your website, which can help make the site more relevant for things which don\u2019t receive as much focus on the homepage, or within category pages, and can also be of help in making the website appear in local search listings, so that you can target locations with your website, as opposed to just targeting one area, or trying to compete solely on generic terms. Keeping up a constant flow of fresh content is also an increasingly important factor in a website\u2019s success. Many websites and SEO\u2019s have accomplished this by placing a news feed on their website, or by placing a blog on the website.\nIf you do decide to hire a team or individual to help you with your site\u2019s optimisation, then you need to keep a few things in mind. Much of the SEO community will focus solely upon improving the number of visitors you receive, but this can often miss the point entirely. With any business, the most important thing for their website to be doing is helping to convert visitors into sales, so if you sacrifice the quality of service and content on the website in order to further optimise it, then the rate of conversions could drop significantly, thereby reducing the overall value of the website.\nWhile on-site optimisation plays a big role in SEO, there are other things as well which are important in an internet marketing campaign. With this, I\u2019m referring to the need for social media campaigns, and to providing other websites with useful content in return for additional exposure for yours. Not only does this bring real value for real people who follow your social media updates and read your off-site content, (like as a branding exercise), they can both work as indicators of your business\u2019s high level of activity (like fresh content), and serve as evidence of additional authority on subjects relevant to your services. These tasks really shouldn\u2019t involve too much salesmanship; mainly they should work as a service to those looking for valuable information, particularly with the blogging.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 4191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/israeli-film-database/distributors/pyramide-international", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OQEBZT6NFPAOGVBXBNQ2MD2C6LGWFTJM", "length": 217, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.israelfilmcenter.org", "title": "Pyramide International | Israel Film Center", "raw_content": "Pyramide International is part of Pyramide group which is also a domestic distribution company in France (Pyramide Distribution) and a French production company (Pyramide Productions). The company was founded in 1989.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 146.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.izw-berlin.de/pr/first-evidence-of-fatal-infection-of-white-tailed-sea-eagles-with-avian-influenza.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BALQE2KFE4EJSCFACTYY7F7AJYVOLV6R", "length": 5882, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.izw-berlin.de", "title": "First evidence of fatal infection of white-tailed sea eagles with avian influenza - IZW Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in the Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V.", "raw_content": "First evidence of fatal infection of white-tailed sea eagles with avian influenza\nLanding white-tailed sea eagle; (c) Oliver Krone\nThe most common unnatural causes of death in white-tailed sea eagles are lead poisoning and collisions with trains. During the winter of 2016/2017, however, many white-tailed eagles died in Northern Germany in circumstances unrelated to either cause. Instead, at least 17 white-tailed sea eagles were killed by avian influenza of the highly pathogenic virus subtype H5N8, as a team of scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, FLI) demonstrated. Avian influenza may become a new threat for this highly protected wild species. The study was published in the scientific journal \u201cViruses\u201d.\nThe avian flu has been a threat to wild birds and poultry for decades. Especially chicken, ducks and geese as well as several species of waterfowl have been shown to be infected with different types of the influenza virus. This lead to epidemic outbreaks, for example in Mexico in 1992, in central Europe in 2006, in the USA in 2015 and in Europe again in 2016/2017. Amongst raptors, peregrine falcons and common buzzards had been previously found to be infected but until now there was no such evidence regarding the largest bird in Europe, the white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). The investigation of 17 white-tailed sea eagles collected in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxonia during the winter of 2016/17 (14 of them being already dead and another 3 showing symptoms such as being overexcited and finding it difficult to move in a coordinated fashion) now demonstrated that white-tailed sea eagles can be killed by the avian influenza virus. The analysis of the entire genome of the virus isolated from the collected birds revealed that it was not the widespread influenza subtype H5N1 but the subtype H5N8 which was responsible. More precisely, the analysis revealed that it the virus belonged to the clade 2.3.4.4b, considered to be highly aggressive for birds. It causes a lethal inflammation of the brain (polioencephalitis). Lead poisoning could be ruled out as a possible cause of death for the birds, as the analysis of liver and kidney tissue demonstrated.\nThe northern German flat plains and the Baltic Sea coast are the main habitat for white-tailed sea eagles in Germany. Their worldwide distribution ranges from Greenland in the west to Japan in the east. Currently, there are about 750 breeding pairs in Germany. The species had been brought close to extinction during the second half of the 20th century because of excessive hunting and persecution, and the detrimental effects of the insecticide dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan (DDT). Since the 1980s populations are recovering because DDT was prohibited and persecution declined, but threats such as lead-containing ammunition continue to hamper conservation efforts until today. Furthermore, there is the potential threat of infectious diseases. \u201cWhite-tailed sea eagles feed on carrion, especially during autumn and winter, and fancy waterfowl as part of their diet if available\u201d, says Oliver Krone (Leibniz-IZW). \u201cDiseased or handicapped waterfowl are an attractive prey for the eagles. This potentially exposes these birds to a variety of pathogens, including avian influenza viruses.\u201d\nFor the scientists several questions remain unanswered and will therefore be the subject of further research. For example, it is still unclear why white-tailed sea eagles apparently showed no infections during the H5N1 epidemic of 2006, yet were highly affected during the winter of 2016/2017. \u201cThere might be species-specific differences regarding the susceptibility and vulnerability to highly pathogenic avian influenza infection\u201d, Franz Conraths and Martin Beer (FLI) comment. \u201cThere is also the possibility that differences in the virulence of virus clades are important. The 2.3.4.4b clade seems to be highly aggressive for many species of birds, much more so than previous clades, which may a reason why even the large eagles are now affected.\u201d\nIn addition, it is unclear whether H5N8 2.3.4.4b infections are invariably lethal or whether eagles can overcome the disease and acquire immunity. \u201cThe fact that the majority of the 17 eagles were young animals could suggest one of two things: Either young birds were particularly affected because they are generally a vulnerable age class, as is the case with many other infections. Alternatively, there is the possibility that this is evidence for an immunisation process\u201d, Krone adds. \u201cIf juvenile birds are usually the age class that are infected for the first time and they survive the exposure, then older animals might become \u2018immunologically experienced\u2019 and make them more resilient also towards new varieties of pathogens.\u201d\nFor people, influenza type H5N8 seems to be less threatening than H5N1. The latter was responsible for the infection of several hundred people after epidemics amongst birds, because of human to human transmission. \u201cUntil now, not a single case of animal-human transmission has been recorded for H5N8\u201d, the FLI scientists say.\nKrone O, Globig A, Ulrich R, Harder T, Schink\u00f6the J, Herrmann C, Gerst S, Conraths FJ, Beer M (2018): White-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) die-off due to infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, subtype H5N8, in Germany. Viruses 10: 478 (2018).\nResearch Associate in the department \u201eWildlife Diseases\u201c\nProf Dr Franz J Conraths\nHead of the Institute of Epidemiology and Vice-President of the\nFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI)\nProf Dr Martin Beer\nHead of the Institute of Diagnostic Virology of the\nPhone: +49 (0)38351 71244/-1894", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 7723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.janadambrogio.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6XJYKZYDID4T7CBWNFAD4NJ6QGALKBOE", "length": 1228, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.janadambrogio.com", "title": "About \u2014 Jana Dambrogio", "raw_content": "Jana Dambrogio is an emerging expert on letterlocking, the technology of folding & securing an epistolary writing substrate to function as its own envelope, often its own sending device. She coined the term letterlocking in 2009 to describe the systems of deliberate folds, slits, tucks, flaps, locks, cuts, or seals that build security, privacy, and authentication enhancements into letters.\nLetterlocking is part of a 10,000-year-old information security tradition ranging from Mesopotamian clay bullae to Bitcoin paper wallets. Letterlocked paper documents have been used from the late Middle Ages to the present by regents, soldiers, spymasters, and the general population.\nDambrogio has studied and conserved library collections and archival holdings for the National Archives and Records Administration, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Vatican Secret Archives.\nA recipient of the Booth Family Rome Prize in historic preservation and conservation at the American Academy in Rome, she is currently the Thomas F. 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Must be able to lift and carry young children.\nKaplen JCC On The Palisades is a welcoming home away from home for all who pass through its front doors. Our 185,000 square foot building plus acres of outside grounds feature 2 fitness centers, an indoor and outdoor aquatics center, group exercise, spin and pilates studios, 2 gymnasiums, tennis and racquet courts, indoor track, a luxurious spa, multiple playgrounds and fields and so much more. The JCC is home to the renowned Thurnauer School of Music, Leonard and Syril Rubin Nursery School, Neil Klatskin Day Camp, and the JCC Dance and Drama Schools. The JCC is also proud to offer extensive, high quality programs and services to adults of all ages, as well as to seniors and individuals with special needs.\nOur vision is to be the center point of Jewish life in our community and to engage all generations in our mission and values.\nDeeply rooted in Jewish values and tradition, the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades is a vibrant home for the Jewish People that welcomes all and cultivates the social, intellectual, physical and spiritual well-being of the entire community.\nWe are committed to demonstrating the following values and ask respect for these values from those with whom we interact:\nCONNECTION TO JUDAISM AND ISRAEL\nTIKKUN OLAM (repairing the world)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jddisplays.com/free_personals_2369a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BDBHZQX4DMQLEKHGX47M5RWMXZJHIYWP", "length": 2597, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jddisplays.com", "title": "Free Personals", "raw_content": "Free personals are pleasurable chiefly when you have some on line dating hints to escort it. These dating tips are designed to help couples create a stable, comfortable, and strong relationship from the very first date. Dating tips for men are best if you want to learn about meeting, talking to and seducing women.You'll find more people who say they love a walk on the beach and a glass of wine. If the relationship is truly meant to be, the extra time spent getting to know one another will be well worth it.\nOnline dating is a great way to find a date and how in the world are you going to find your soul mate if you do not try.It takes an enormous amount of strength and personal integrity to bail out of a relationship that you know may not be healthy for you, but one that you know you must get out of for you health or your sanity. When it comes to your first dating experiences, why worry about something you can do nothing about, you will either get on and the relationship will develop or it won't, in which case there are many more fish in the sea.\nOnline dating tips have to be current to be useful and our online dating tips professionals are well versed in current trends and in the psychology of online dating. Meeting prospective partners is difficult and almost everyone can use some reliable dating tips. These ideas for free personals may come in handy when you make the decision to forge forward and start dating a person. Here are added issues to consider.And when you add the lack of dating tips for men that are available and the fact that most of us are pretty clueless when it comes to attracting the opposite sex, it can seem hopeless. Dating tips for men are hard to come by.\nEven men already in a relationship can benefit from the human psychology behind most dating tips. The closer you get to similar thought patterns the fewer dating tips you will need. There is never going to be an easy way for anyone to be a perfect date because the only way to be it is to get to do it a lot.Most online dating sites offer some feature or other meant to make contacting people easier. It is not uncommon for users to get frustrated when they join a free dating site only to find that they have to pay to contact another member within the site after they took the time to setup their profile.\nFor paying members, it is often unclear whether a potential contact has a full subscription and whether he or she will be able to reply at all. In some cases, trial memberships that were canceled within the trial period were automatically re-billed even after canceling.Free Personals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jessicaceballos.com/blog/untitled1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EU6AERYJXPVCTJPAYSFX7MMS3S7VGQ26", "length": 430, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jessicaceballos.com", "title": "notations - jessica ceballos (y campbell)", "raw_content": "i usually take the same road, to the same house, knowing that i'll find the same door. it's the door that my key doesn't open. over the weekend i took a different road, one i didn't know. i slammed my soul into a dark wall. my soul crumbled, with the wall. the key was useless. i discovered that the house i live in is open, with walls made of delicate but fierce love that catches fire when my heart pines for what my soul needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 1999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.journalgazette.net/blog/full-count/20180517/pregame-tincaps-16-22-vs-west-michigan-20-18", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:34:53Z", "digest": "sha1:67CVT4FLOS52UAR6QDAIVKFROLRENHKI", "length": 2229, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.journalgazette.net", "title": "Pregame: TinCaps (16-22) vs. West Michigan (20-18) | Full Count | The Journal Gazette", "raw_content": "Pregame: TinCaps (16-22) vs. West Michigan (20-18)\nThe TinCaps have a chance to win their first series in two weeks when they take the field tonight. They've won two out of the first three in this four-game set thanks to solid pitching and some help from eight Whitecaps errors.\nThey can probably count on at least the good pitching continuing tonight with left-hander Aaron Leasher getting the start. Leasher has been excellent on the whole this season, pitching to a 3.31 ERA and holding opponents to a .240 batting average. His last time out was one of the best starts for a Fort Wayne pitcher all season. The 22-year-old went seven innings against Kane County, giving up a single unearned run and only four hits. Unfortunately for him, the TinCaps blew a late lead and lost 6-5 in 12 innings, so he ended up with nothing to show for his effort.\nOne of the most positive signs for Leasher of late has been his walk rate, which has plummeted in his last three outings. After he handed out seven free passes in 8 1/3 innings over his first two starts, the 2017 sixth-round pick has walked just two in his last 15 innings. If that holds tonight, he'll be in position to continue the TinCaps' string of effective starts.\nThe Whitecaps will start 20-year-old right-hander Jesus Rodriguez and if his season to this point is any indication, they'll need to be better in the field than they've been the last few games. Rodriguez is pitch-to-contact hurler, striking out fewer than 4.2 hitters per nine innings in each of the last two seasons, meaning there will be plenty of balls in play. Rodriguez has a decent 4.05 ERA so far this season, but he's walked more hitters than he's struck out and had help from a lucky .218 opponents batting average on balls in play. The TinCaps should have some opportunities to score before they get to the vaunted West Michigan bullpen.\nIn addition to the game, tonight is \"Colts At-Bat\" night at Parkview Field. Quarterback Jacoby Brissett and tight end Jack Doyle will be signing autographs before the game and throwing out first pitches. Blue the Mascot will be signing too.\nYou can read about the Colts' visit to Parkview Field, as well as their offseason progress, in Friday's Journal Gazette.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jpsmusicblog.com/2014/02/cd-review-just-having-one-of-these-days.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:49Z", "digest": "sha1:T26O2FNQCJSVAG7FFNE2IECVGS5AZYQW", "length": 1267, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.jpsmusicblog.com", "title": "JP's Music Blog: CD Review: Just Having \"One Of These Days\" From Marshall Dane", "raw_content": "CD Review: Just Having \"One Of These Days\" From Marshall Dane\nFrom Canada comes the latest release from Marshall Dane, one of the top country artist north of the border. His new album \"One Of These Days\" received several nominations at the 2013 Country Music Awards of Ontario (CMAO) including artist and album of the year. It will be released in the U.S. and worldwide in February of 2014 on Gold Lake Records.\nThe twelve song release has blockbuster written all over it, beginning with the smooth country sway of \"Take You Home To Mama.\" Marshall finds his way to your heart with \"I'll Be Your Whiskey,\" then gets his country rock groove on the feel good lyrics of \"Stay Up Late.\" The title song gets you up on your feet with the pounding rhythm to dance and then he blazes a trail with the up-tempo rocker \"Living It Up.\" The album's current single, \"Alcohol Abuse\" is a sure-fire hit as Marshall's play on drink names makes for a good time. The album closes with some great harmonizing on a another possible hit single, \"Forever Girl.\"\nMarshall Dane has just wrapped up a tour of Canada, but look for him to venture south of the border once his album is officially released. To find out more about his new album \"One Of These Days,\" please visit marshalldane.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 5053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jpsmusicblog.com/2015/06/cd-review-kyrbgrinder-take-on-dark.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:26Z", "digest": "sha1:I62J56L5J6EYIAMRHILQZLUR7F7ZKJEF", "length": 970, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jpsmusicblog.com", "title": "JP's Music Blog: CD Review: Kyrbgrinder Take On The \"Dark Machine\" With Latest Release", "raw_content": "CD Review: Kyrbgrinder Take On The \"Dark Machine\" With Latest Release\nThe U.K. metal trio Kyrbgrinder released their third album, \"Chronicles Of A Dark Machine\" earlier this year. Led by drummer Johanne Hames (Threshold), the band continues to grow with each release as this one is finding new fans on the U.S. shores.\nThe new ten-song album begins with the progressive/trash metal mix of \"Slipping Away,\" as their sound definitely grabs you attention. Kyrbgrinder mixes in a more mainstream metal sound with their opinion on the U.S. in \"Captain America,\" while their musicianship is a top priority in \"Kill Them All.\" The music and vocals come together perfectly for the hard rock groove of \"Oxygen\" and \"I Feel Blue,\" before finishing up with the 95-second atmospheric instrumental \"Chronicles Of A Dark Machine.\" To find out more about Kyrbgrinder and their latest release \"Chronicles Of A Dark Machine,\" please visit their Facebook page at facebook.com/Kyrbgrinder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 5306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.justmuddlingthroughlife.com/2018/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:53:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ATGST6TC4TV4QQ4CK4HFM72DLJGOYLOD", "length": 1560, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.justmuddlingthroughlife.com", "title": "November 2018 | Just Muddling Through Life", "raw_content": "You will never know exactly where each path will take you, you just have to pick one, and keep moving forward.\n(Today's post is a guest entry, from an aspiring writer, Astrid Halliday, who reached out to me recently, asking to contribute to my blog. As an aspiring writer myself, I'm always open to guest pitches (my contact details are here for anyone else interested!). This post is based on her experiences and opinions, not my own, but I was happy to publish it, since I regularly feature travel posts on here. Her author bio can be found below as well!)\nIf you're looking to get more out of your next visit to a foreign country, volunteering is a great way to inject culture, language, and fun into any trip! From projects lasting a week, to long term projects lasting months, there is something for everyone!\nDuring the 19th century, the University of Edinburgh's medical school (first established in 1726) became known as one of the best in the world, and around that time many great pioneering doctors lived and worked in the city, and made many great advancements in the medical field. Their legacy is remembered in the city's medical related museums, both of which I visited for the first time this year. Surgeons' Hall was initially a teaching resource, and is now open to the public as a paid entrance museum, housing an exhibition of the history of surgery, and hundreds of pathology specimens, while the Anatomical Museum is still used by current students in the Old Medical School building, and is only open to the public once a month, for free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 12183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 164.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.justsewpretty.com/item_1658/Rope-Numbers.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:SCZIUT6C3XZXAVM6AFS7JVFO5EPH2PLF", "length": 322, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.justsewpretty.com", "title": "Rope Block Numbers Machine Embroidery Applique Design", "raw_content": "These numbers are perfect for merging with your birthday themes! They feature a rope border and are block in nature. This design comes sized 4x4, 5x7, 6x10, and 8x8 in all standard formats. ART is not included but can be converted using the free software available on the Bernina website if your machine does not read VP3.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kayeholland.com/biography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:20Z", "digest": "sha1:23BXRPNU5WFUYTRR3M2KV4OMT6QLD5PT", "length": 3176, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.kayeholland.com", "title": "Biography \u2014 Kaye Holland", "raw_content": "I was born and bred in Watford, a town labelled by Lonely Planet as \u201cthe kind of place that makes you want to travel.\u201d\nThey weren\u2019t wrong. After my A levels, I strapped on my backpack and headed Down Under for a year. I returned to read English at King\u2019s College London - although I probably spent more time working on the student newspaper and presenting a request show on a local hospital radio station - than I ever did studying Shakespeare. Meanwhile my university summers were spent au-pairing in Switzerland.\nAfter graduating from King\u2019s, I embarked on City\u2019s postgraduate journalism course. Post City, the BBC beckoned and I worked for BBC Sport Online, BBC News Online and the legendary children\u2019s TV programme, Newsround, before leaving to take up the role of features editor at lifestyle magazine, Fresh Direction.\nIn 2006, fed up of Britain\u2019s porridge like sky and dark, damp miserable weather, I made my way to the Middle East \u2013 with its promise of year round sunshine \u2013 where I worked as the Assistant editor of Time Out for two and a half years before heading to the Caribbean to help re-launch a lifestyle magazine.\nChina came calling in 2010 and I spent a year based in Beijing as Time Out\u2019s Special project editor before returning to London in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games.\nI now work as Special Projects Editor at World Travel Events and Media - creating and commissioning travel content for various publications and digital communications - in addition to freelancing for MailOnline, The Telegraph, TNT, The Sybaraite and ABTA among others.\nI am also available for freelance copywriting and journalism work, so do get in touch if you have any suitable projects!\nWhen I\u2019m not working, I am out and about exploring London, leading walking tours that aim to provide the inside track on the London scene for locals and visitors alike. As a life long Londoner, Ie know where the buzz is coming from - and can share my knowledge in an entertaining manner with our clients, before most people hear or read about it.\nI\u2019m also interested in fashion, food and the arts (I serve on One New Change\u2019s Style council), socialising and sports. I am currently trying to get to grips with the game of golf and follow the footballing fortunes of my home team, Watford, where I work as a Vicarage Roadie - a team of Watford supporters who work to enhance the match-day experience for home and away fans at Vicarage Road. We offer advice, provide assistance to those needing extra support to access the stadium, manage away match ticket collection and help with any other issues or queries that arise. In addition I serve as a Coach steward for away games, helping Watford fans travel safely to ground around the country.\nCommunity Radio (where I visit patients, before co-presenting a request show on Wednesday), Women's Radio Station (where I present a weekly show called 'Talking Travel') the theatre and politics (I\u2019m an active member of my local Liberal Democrats group) are other interests.\nHowever my biggest passion is international travel: free time and disposable cash is spent abroad, because I truly believe that travel is the best education anyone can have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kcwebguides.com/kcwebguides/living/education/thanksgiving-facts-and-history.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SEJ463ZGP5JE3PHNO3VZYJKF7TYM3XUU", "length": 2709, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.kcwebguides.com", "title": "Thanksgiving Facts and History (InfoKwik Kansas City Area News)", "raw_content": "Published Nov 23, 2010, 9:50am\nThanksgiving Day is one of those joyous events we celebrate with lots of love and gratitude. Its a very significant day in United States and the world over. Happy Thanksgiving!.\n1. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.\n2. By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast.\n3. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada.\n4. The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate the Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving\n5. The pilgrims arrived in North America in December 1620.\n6. The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean\nto reach North America.\n7. The pilgrims sailed on the ship, which was known by the name of 'Mayflower'.\n8. They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in the fall of 1621.\n9. They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day at Plymouth, Massachusetts.\n10. The drink that the Puritans brought with them in the Mayflower was the beer.\n11. The Wampanoag Indians were the people who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land.\n12. The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621 and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also to the feast.\n13. The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag Indians and the Wampanoag chief, Massasoit, was also invited there.\n14. The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.\n15. President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in the year 1789 and again in 1795.\n16. The state of New York officially made Thanksgiving Day an annual custom in 1817.\n17. Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor with a magazine, started a Thanksgiving campaign in 1827 and it was result of her efforts that in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer.\n18. Abraham Lincoln issued a 'Thanksgiving Proclamation' on third October 1863 and officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving. Whereas earlier the presidents used to make an annual proclamation to specify the day when Thanksgiving was to be held.\n19. President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored Thursday before last of November as Thanksgiving Day in the year 1939. He did so to make the Christmas shopping season longer and thus stimulate the economy of the state.\n20. Congress passed an official proclamation in 1941 and declared that now onwards Thanksgiving will be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November every year.\nMore Thanksgiving History\nTags: america, thanksgiving history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kenoragreatwarproject.ca/canadian-field-artillery/sweet-samuel-rayburn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:12:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YSDTJCG2JM6CZVCB4MSEBEYB2JD4HTAB", "length": 2955, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.kenoragreatwarproject.ca", "title": "Biography for WW1 Veteran Samuel Rayburn Sweet, Canadian Expeditionary Force | The Kenora Great War Project", "raw_content": "Next of Kin father, Samuel C. Sweet of Keewatin, Ontario\nTrade / Calling Drug Clerk\nBuried At Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery, Kelowna, British Columbia\nSweet, Samuel Rayburn\nSamuel Rayburn Sweet was born on 01 October 1897 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were Samuel Charles Sweet and Margaret Anne Christie. His siblings included Margaret (1890-1890), Sarah Jane (1901-1901), Francis Lloyd, Alexander Charles, Mary Beatrice, Helen, Marjorie Elizabeth, Robert, Fred, Thomas Edwin and James Christie.\n\u2018Ray\u2019 grew up in Keewatin and in 1917 was working as a drug clerk.\nHe enlisted on 08 May 1917 in Winnipeg and was assigned to the 76th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery. On the 30 May 1917 his unit passed through Kenora on the train heading for Camp Petawawa for artillery instruction before going overseas. He embarked from Canada on the S.S. Scandinavian on 22 October 1917 and arrived in England 10 days later. Ray went to France with the Canadian Field Artillery on 27 December 1917. Shortly after his arrival he contracted influenza and was hospitalized in Etaples until being sent to the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp on 22 January 1918. In June of 1918 he was posted to the Canadian Divisional Ammunition Column and served with them until a two week leave to the UK in January of 1919. He rejoined his unit in France on 5 February. Ray returned to England in May and was struck off strength to Canada in June 1919. He received his official discharge due to demobilization on 23 June 1919 in Toronto, Ontario.\nAfter the war \u2018Ray\u2019 returned to Keewatin and was honoured, along with other veterans, by the town in a ceremony in August 1919. His service is commemorated on the Town of Keewatin Plaque which hangs in the Keewatin Legion.\nThe 1921 Canadian Census shows Ray residing as a lodger in the Donald Murdoch residence in Winnipeg. Donald was another Keewatin lad who had served with the Canadian Field Artillery in WW1. Ray\u2019s sister, Beatrice, was also a lodger in the Murdoch residence. She later married Donald who was in the laundry business. In 1921 Ray worked as a shipper in the laundry.\nOn 08 November 1927 Ray married a nurse, Anne McBain Smart in Fort William, Ontario. His occupation at this time was \u2018laundryman\u2019. The young couple took up residence in Winnipeg and had two daughters \u2013 Shirley (who married Alexander Rennie) and Rhoda (who married Stuart Spear).\nRay went into business with his brother-in-law, Donald Murdoch, and together they owned and operated New Method Cleaners and Launderers. Ray retired in 1949 and he and Ann moved first to Vancouver and then to Kelowna where daughter Shirley lived.\nRay died in Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, BC on 31 October 1956. His Veteran Death Card lists his wife Anne Sweet of Vancouver as his next of kin. He is buried in Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery, Kelowna, B.C. next to Anne who passed away in 1988.\nRay\u2019s brother, Francis Lloyd Sweet, #2000195 also served in WW1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kfvs12.com/story/14234024/live-video-alert-president-obama-speaks-about-tsunami/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:K5NEFYS22EYFGBGR5JDHBX4ZEN6ZKIR6", "length": 655, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.kfvs12.com", "title": "LIVE VIDEO ALERT: President Obama to speak about tsunami", "raw_content": "LIVE VIDEO ALERT: President Obama to speak about tsunami\nA tsunami enveloped Japan's coast. (Source: CNN)\nThis camera shows live footage from Hawaii's coast. (Source: HNN)\nPresident Obama is scheduled to make a statement about the tsunami that has killed hundreds of people in Japan after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake.\nThe tsunami hit Hawaii's Oahu coast at about 3:30 a.m. PST, exposing reef but causing little serious damage.\nWaves are surging slightly along California's northern coast from the tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan.\nWatch Obama's statement live at 11:30 a.m. Central time and get the latest on the tsunami at kfvs12.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kingstoncleaners.co.uk/your-office-needs-to-look-clean/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IQF4JL3KFWWUN6NVA7657XORZDZHSGRF", "length": 1998, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kingstoncleaners.co.uk", "title": "Cleaning Kingston | Office Cleaning Wimbledon | End Of Tenancy Cleaning Teddington", "raw_content": "Nowadays, there are many company buildings that have been established in the city and surrounding areas. These buildings are the perfect place to work especially when they are well maintained and clean. It will be great if these are also in good condition and features things that make employees and visitors feel comfortable.\nUnfortunately, there are several buildings in the city that are untidy and have a very bad ambiance. These companies need to have the office cleaning services of Kingston. The presence of Kingston Cleaners really helps companies in maintaining their offices and working place neat and clean.\nKingston office cleaners have a number of services to offer and this is just one of their services that usually asked for by most companies. This kind of service is always available and accessible. That is why companies can easily ask for it any time they want. Kingston has their knowledgeable workers who make use of safe and efficient cleaning materials. The presence of these two really makes them in demand and popular not just in Kingston but in its surrounding areas. Their cleaners can do their services with ease when they make use of these cleaning materials. Having been established locally since 2001, the company have a wide range of experts who know how to work with a wide range of different materials and cleaning surfaces.\nAside from commercial cleaning Kingston, they also offer house cleaning that is really needed by a lot of people who like to have a party at home. With the presence of Kingston, many company and homeowners will no longer have difficulties in cleaning their premises. They will also not have problems in the rate of service that is offered by Kingston because they offer it for a manageable price. So, contract cleaners of the Kingston to maintain the cleanliness of your office or house.\nTags: Business and Economy, cleaning, commercial cleaning, Company, Housekeeping, Kingston, Kingston Cleaners, Office, office cleaners, office cleaning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kirkleesimages.org.uk/terms.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KV37I4LRTZ7LEEXBVADOORU2G5KKATWU", "length": 1106, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kirkleesimages.org.uk", "title": "Kirklees:Terms and Conditons", "raw_content": "\u00a9 Copyright. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright, database rights and similar rights in all material published on this site are owned by Museums and Galleries, Kirklees Borough Council.\nEvery care has been taken to identify copyright owners and every effort has been made to ensure copyright information is accurate. If you have any queries please [ contact us ]\nThe Kirklees Image Archive assumes no responsibility or liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred as a result of any use or reliance upon the information and material contained within or downloaded from this website.\nLinks to external pages are provided for the convenience of users and no responsibility is assumed by Kirklees Museums and Galleries for content provided by these external linked websites.\nPersonal details added to the site will never be published through the site or passed on to a third party. When adding a comment please enter your e-mail address in case we need to contact you. This will not be published on the site unless you give us permission to do so by ticking the relevant box when submitting a comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kissandmakeupny.com/brand/l-artisan-parfumeur", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:23Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4WTXKN5QJCQAMUNVVJ5H3ULEBGIWNVL", "length": 685, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kissandmakeupny.com", "title": "All Brands: L'Artisan Parfumeur Products | Kiss And Make Up", "raw_content": "L'Artisan Parfumeur is a pioneering French perfume house at the forefront of the niche fragrance movement. Inspired by nature and a desire to break the mould, L'Artisan Parfumeur was founded in Paris in 1976 by perfumer and chemist Jean Laporte. The classic fragrances remain unchanged throughout its 40-year history. Made with passion and artisanal finesse to symbolize a different olfactory journey, each fragrance carries with it creative freedom and artistic flair. In homage to its founding philosophy, the fragrances take you on a journey of exploration, one that fuses the careful craft of man with the beauty of nature.\nL'Artisan Parfumeur Eau de Toilette - Mure Et Musc 100 ml", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 3789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 203.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=51016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:SZWZYXPKUZV3XQ4Y2HYLLQCGUNWCJLYQ", "length": 1733, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.koreaittimes.com", "title": "SISTAR Comes Back \u201cThe Battle of K-pop Girl Group\" - Korea IT Times", "raw_content": "SISTAR Comes Back \u201cThe Battle of K-pop Girl Group\"\nK-pop girl group SISTAR revealed their feelings about joining the battle of K-pop girl groups.\nSISTAR held a showcase at COEX ARTIUM located in Samsung-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul in the morning on June 22 to celebrate the release of their third mini-album. It is their first comeback as a whole group after ten months of break.\nDuring the showcase, SISTAR said, \u201cI feel thankful for many people who think of SISTAR when it comes to summer. We promoted new albums regardless of seasons, but we try to release a new album in summer to meet people\u2019s expectations.\u201d\nHyolin revealed, \u201cTo say it humorously, I think people began to seek us even more after I got tanned.\u201d She said, \u201cI\u2019ll make sure that summer does become the season of SISTAR by presenting our good features.\u201d\nHowever, it looks like SISTAR is on a tough luck. Many distinguished K-pop girl groups anticipate a comeback including Girl\u2019s Generation, Wonder Girls, A Pink, Girl\u2019s Day, AOA, Mama Moo and Nine Muses.\nRegarding this matter, the group explained, \u201cAll of us have different musical styles and fans will enjoy listening to a variety of music. So, we think that this season will be the carnival of K-pop girl groups rather than being a battle.\u201d\nSoyou stated, \u201cI\u2019ve never thought of someone else as a rival. I just ponder more deeply on making SISTER\u2019s unique characteristics and concepts even more unique to us that none of other groups can imitate.\u201d\nMeanwhile, SISTAR\u2019s new track \u2018SHAKE IT\u2019 has the group\u2019s signature summer vibe with funky rhythms and melody that makes you bounce. SISTAR\u2019s healthy and sexy image will make great harmony with the heat of summer to bring some freshness.\nBy Yang Ja-young / WIKIKPOP.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 4593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kpchan.com/?p=1356", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CJ6GGYNSBLAFI6VRXXUFQKINT2FVT24B", "length": 6350, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.kpchan.com", "title": "Courses for Insurance Industry under the Skills Upgrading Scheme Plus | KP Chan, Legco Member", "raw_content": "Courses for Insurance Industry under the Skills Upgrading Scheme Plus\nQuestion by KP Chan on Courses for the Insurance Industry under the Skills Upgrading Scheme Plus at the Legco Meeting on January 12\nSince December 2009, the insurance courses in the Government\u2019s Skills Upgrading Scheme have been taken over by the Employees Retraining Board (ERB). There is information indicating that before ERB took over the courses, the number of classes for insurance courses had to be reduced because of the imminent exhaustion of the resources allocated for organising such courses, thus causing enrolment to drop from some 1 800 for the period between April and September 2008 to 148 for the period between October 2009 and March 2010. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:\n(a) Of the situation of classes convened for insurance courses since ERB has taken over them, whether enrolment has rebounded and whether the authorities can ensure sufficient places for insurance practitioners and members of the public who are interested in joining the industry to enrol;\n(b) Whether the authorities have assessed the effectiveness and benefits of the aforesaid courses (including whether such courses could achieve the objective of enhancing incumbent insurance practitioners\u2019 actual working skills apart from allowing them to apply for Continuing Professional Development credits after completing the courses); and\n(c) Whether the authorities have assessed how many trainees, who are interested in developing a career in the insurance industry, had joined the insurance industry after completing the aforesaid courses in the past three years, and whether the authorities have offered them assistance?\n(a) The Employees Retraining Board (ERB) started taking over \u201cSkills Upgrading Scheme\u201d (SUS) courses in phases since December 2009 by launching its \u201cSkills Upgrading Scheme Plus\u201d (SUS Plus). The first batch of courses taken over by ERB included 16 courses for the insurance industry. ERB set up the Industry Consultative Network (ICN) for the insurance industry in August 2009. The ICN comprises representatives of trade organisations, labour unions and professional associations and advises ERB with a view to ensuring that the courses will meet market demand. In accordance with the recommendation of the ICN for the insurance industry, ERB relaxed the entry requirements for 13 of the migrated courses by accepting non-trade practitioners so as to facilitate them to join the insurance industry.\nAfter going through the application and bidding processes of ERB, six training bodies have gradually rolled out the 16 insurance courses under SUS Plus since March 2010. As at December 2010, 1 163 trainees had been admitted to these courses. Depending on market demand for classes, training bodies may apply to ERB for additional training places under the existing allocation mechanism.\n(b) The Government conducts evaluation of SUS from time to time. The views of trainees from various industries (including insurance) and their employers are collected. The results have shown that the trainees and employers were generally content with the effectiveness of SUS courses in improving the skills and employability of trainees.\nERB also places a lot of emphasis on the quality and effectiveness of its courses. The ICNs of various industries advise ERB on manpower demand, training needs, as well as the design of and entry requirements for training courses. Taking the insurance courses of SUS Plus as an example, prior to the commencement of a training course, the training body concerned has to vet the qualifications of its trainers and seek accreditation of the related Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. All courses have their respective class assessments and course-end examinations. A trainee is required to pass the examinations and attain an attendance of at least 80% before he may be awarded a certificate. Trade practitioners in the insurance industry can obtain CPD credits after completing SUS Plus courses.\nERB undertakes course evaluation to collect feedback from trainees from time to time. As far as the training courses of the insurance industry under SUS Plus are concerned, 98% of trainees rated the courses as \u201csatisfactory\u201d or \u201cvery satisfactory\u201d, indicating their general appreciation of the overall arrangements and benefits of the courses. ERB also plans to review the courses in conjunction with the ICN of the insurance industry in the second quarter of 2011, i.e. about one year after the launching of insurance courses under SUS Plus. The review will cover enrolment situation, course design, training mode and overall effectiveness. Existing courses will be revamped and new courses will be developed as necessary in light of the review findings.\n(c) As SUS Plus courses, including those of the insurance industry, are part-time courses which target at those in employment, no placement service is offered to trainees. As such, ERB does not keep any statistics on the number of trainees who have joined the insurance industry.\nTo benefit more trainees with different employment needs, ERB also offers full-time placement-tied courses for the unemployed and those who wish to change jobs. Trainees of these courses receive pre-employment training and placement services. At present, ERB offers a full-time placement-tied course entitled \u201cCertificate in Insurance Agent Training\u201d which seeks to equip trainees with the knowledge and skills for employment as insurance agents. The course was first launched in 2009-10. Altogether 59 trainees were admitted to the course in that year. Of these, 46 successfully secured a job upon completion of training, with 19 working for the insurance industry. In 2010-11, ERB launched two new full-time placement-tied courses entitled \u201cCertificate in Insurance Administration Assistant Training\u201d and \u201cDiploma in Insurance Management\u201d which aim to help trainees to seek employment as supporting personnel or managerial staff in the industry. As both new courses are still at the enrolment stage, statistics on employment situation of the graduates are not yet available.\nThis entry was posted in Oral Question and tagged Employment, Insurance, Labour Protection on 12/01/2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 6946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.krystlehockley.com/about-me.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KVQ45R7YJP7ZF6Q6EBYBJOT2TCZFPUD5", "length": 2319, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.krystlehockley.com", "title": "About Me - KRYSTLE HOCKLEY", "raw_content": "I began competing in triathlon in mid 2013 and by the end of that year had completed one Olympic distance race and four 70.3\u2019s and had well and truly been bitten by the triathlon bug.\nIn 2014 my love for long distance triathlon continued to grow and I completed another three 70.3\u2019s and decided it was time to step up and tackle the Ironman so I entered Ironman Australia. Unfortunately this race ended in a DNF for me due to a mechanical on the bike which made me hungry to go back again the next year.\nIn May 2015 I finished my first Ironman at Ironman Australia in just over 12 hours and discovered my real passion which was Ironman racing. I finished off 2015 by achieving one of my big goals for that year which was to go sub 5hrs in a 70.3 at Western Sydney 70.3 and completed this race in 4hr and 59mins.\n2016 was a big year for me firstly I achieved my first overall win at the local Sparke Helmore Olympic Distance triathlon. I also competed at my first 70.3 Ironman World Championship event at Sunshine Coast Australia and finally raced my second Ironman at Busselton Western Australia in a time of 10hours and 12mins. My result at Ironman Western Australia was a second in my age group which also resulted in a qualification for the Ironman World Championships in Kona in 2017.\nAt the beginning of 2017 I began to take triathlon a little more seriously and started working with my coach Bevan McKinnon from Fitter with my main focus for this year being the Ironman World Championships. This year saw me continue to improve with a 7th place at the Ironman World Championships and also the fastest bike split in my age group.\n2018 started off with Geelong 70.3 which resulted in a second in my age group and also second fastest female age grouper and 7th overall female. This race was another big step forward for me and evidence that things were moving in the right direction. I then made the decision that I wanted to get back to the Ironman World Championships and better my performance from 2017. Ironman Australia was the race I choose to make the qualification at and was stoked to come away with the age group win together with fastest female age grouper and 7th overall female.\nMy main focus for 2018 will now be the Ironman World Championships on 13 October 2018 with a goal on being on that top step.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kten.com/story/10746876/a-taco-bus-becomes-the-american-dream", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:26Z", "digest": "sha1:RDCSHXRUV4GR2MLQZFJJNAYFR3LMJRJB", "length": 1999, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.kten.com", "title": "A Taco Bus Becomes The American Dream - KTEN.com - Texoma news, weather and sports", "raw_content": "A Taco Bus Becomes The American Dream - KTEN.com - Texoma news, weather and sports\nA Taco Bus Becomes The American Dream\nRemember when you were in school and bus driver's always said \"no eating on the bus?\" Well, there's a bus in Denison that is all about cooking and serving. It's a taco bus and already, their looking to expand. Deeda Payton was out there today and has more on how it all began.\nIt all started with a man, a school bus and dream. Now, he's living the American dream with an innovative Mexican restaurant.\nWith tacos costing a dollar-fifty and grande burritos costing six-bucks, this authentic Mexican restaurant off highway 691 in Denison proves you can make a business out of anything, even a bus. \"Everybody say who has this idea of making business on one big bus and I tell them I had the idea a long, long time ago when I was a kid. I came, practiced and I made it.\"\nMartin Carpio started his business about 14 years ago in Houston. Originally, from Mexico, Carpio dreamed of owning his very own restaurant in America. Now, he and his wife, who was born in Honduras, own and operate \"Taco Hondumex.\" \"I have the American dream right now you know.\"\nMore than 150 meals are cranked out of the bus every day, he says, and customers just can't seem to get enough. \"It's always been fast and cheap and it's the best Mexican food I've found here.\" \"I love his Pico de Gallo it's fresh everyday he makes everything fresh...it's really good.\"\nRobert Black isn't just a customer, though, he's the owner of the liquor store next door and Carpio's landlord, so to speak. \"Do you give him a deal? oh sure!\"\nAnd, Taco Hondumex plans to expand. \"I have another permit not for Mexican food, but the Mexican snow cones a little different than the American snow cone I use 100% fruit you know what I mean.\"\nAs for advice for his fellow immigrants, Carpio says all you have to do is try. \"The first thing is hard but when you start rolling it's easy. You can make it, you can make it, I'm sure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 7887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lanermuchin.com/newsroom-fastlaner-Immigration-Procedures-Individuals-Green-Cards", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GPCKDONYMZFUTQMB7YAQSQSMUKCUPH3U", "length": 1120, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lanermuchin.com", "title": "Laner Muchin Employment Law Firm | Attorneys | Lawyers", "raw_content": "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Announces New Procedures Which Will Allow a Significant Number of Individuals to File Final Green Card Applications\nOn September 9, 2015, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in coordination with the U.S. Department of State (DOS), announced that it is revising its procedures for applicants waiting to file their third and final stage of the green card process, known as the employment-based or family-sponsored preference adjustment of status application. According to the USCIS, the revised process will enhance the DOS's ability to more accurately predict the overall immigrant visa demand and determine the cut-off dates for visa issuance published in the DOS monthly Visa Bulletin. These changes implement November 2014 executive actions on immigration announced by President Obama. This announcement will have the impact of allowing a significant number of applicants, some of whom may have been waiting for years due to U.S. government visa backlogs, to file their final stage of the green card process starting in October 2015 for up to several years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 99.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leapfrogma2.com/love-and-ruin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PQOIIEN5Y7UOSJQD2WGN66S667VRHKD2", "length": 1039, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.leapfrogma2.com", "title": "Love and Ruin | Books", "raw_content": "This is a remarkable story of a very 20th century woman. She was a true original and a woman ahead of her times. This woman is Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. She was born in 1908 and died in 1998. Heralded as one of the finest women journalists of her time, she was tireless in her coverage of the Spanish Civil War and from many areas of Europe during World War II. She sent reports from D-Day and the beaches of Normandy. Her spirit, courage and compassion was limitless.\nShe fell in love with Ernest Heminingway and he with her. Their love affair was monumental but doomed to failure. Their marriage lasted four years, much of it in Cuba.\nThis book by acclaimed author Paula McLain, gives a vivid picture of both of the main characters. Her research was impeccable and the story flows. I could barely stop likstening to it. I learned so much. I loved the way the author was honest in her portrayal of Martha and Ernest\u2026.both very capable and driven. She showed their strengths and weaknesses. The title is perfect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 139.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0200-0299/0215/Sections/0215.62.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UVPAGBUOTAP6FEFH52NL3ARW5GRDJKVW", "length": 1662, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.leg.state.fl.us", "title": "Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine", "raw_content": "215.62\u2003Division of Bond Finance.\u2014\n(1)\u2003There is created a division of the State Board of Administration of the state to be known as the Division of Bond Finance. The Governor shall be the chair of the governing board of the division, the Attorney General shall be the secretary of the board, and the Chief Financial Officer shall be the treasurer of the board for the purposes of this act. The division shall be a public body corporate for the purposes of this act.\n(2)\u2003Any action of the division shall be taken pursuant to resolution which shall be in effect upon passage by a majority of the members of the board and need not be posted or published, and a majority of the board shall be and constitute a quorum for all meetings.\n(3)\u2003The employees of the division shall be required to give such bond as the board may require, but the board may provide for payment of such employee bond premiums from moneys available for administrative expenses of the division.\n(4)\u2003The members of said board shall not receive any additional salary for services in such capacity, but shall be entitled to their necessary travel and other expenses in the performance of their duties and obligations as members of the board.\n(5)\u2003The board has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement provisions of law conferring duties on it. The board shall hold regular and special meetings at such places and times, in such manner, and after such notice as may be provided by resolution adopted by the board or upon call of the chair.\nHistory.\u2014s. 7, ch. 69-230; s. 152, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 1153, ch. 95-147; s. 23, ch. 98-200; s. 10, ch. 2003-6.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 189.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leoflowers.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HIWBSIHW7PLZEIZGKROLKL7FFG5VV2QI", "length": 783, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.leoflowers.com", "title": "LEO FLOWERS", "raw_content": "Comedian, Public Speaker, Life Coach\nA Chicago native, Leo Flowers quickly worked his way into major comedy clubs and colleges across the country. His delivery has been described as \u201csmooth and deliberate.\u201d No two shows are ever alike, as he\u2019s always attacking the issues of the day and revealing personal anecdotes. Infusing stand up with storytelling, Flowers captivates audiences of all demographics.\nRecently, Flowers appeared on Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, was a runner-up in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, and was a finalist in the 2011 Stand Up for Diversity competition. He has toured on the Shaved and Depraved Comedy Tour, and hosted both MTV\u2019s \u201cSports Blender\u201d and Starz \u201cStaan\u2019 \u2018Dup,\" and was featured on \"Last Call from Carson Daly,\" on NBC!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.letgoletsgo.ca/2016/07/19/underneaththesun-lisboa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:36Z", "digest": "sha1:RTPIOIEBONRT5TIYKV5F5R7R7PJ4BGCB", "length": 3706, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.letgoletsgo.ca", "title": "Let Go, Lets Go! | Underneath the Sun: Lisboa", "raw_content": "July 19, 2016 In Portugal, Stories By Vicki\nOur first destination \u2013 Lisbon, actually Lisboa (I will never call it Lisbon again and I will tell you why later). From a North American standpoint, little is known about Portugal (Churresquira and tarts anyone?) It is not a destination high on many North American\u2019s lists. Of the many foreign languages heard on the tourist streets, only a handful seemed to have an American/Canadian accent. I find that to be kind of a good thing although the destination is very popular with Europeans, so it is still a busy place.\nFrom our initial impression, Lisboa is a place you could easily fall in love with. It has an easy vibe, full of colour and exuberance. If you don\u2019t look too closely the summertime feels like a paradise of alcohol, great weather, and city life. You won\u2019t struggle much here. Most people speak English, people are friendly, and nothing seems overly complicated to figure out.\nUnderneath the surface though, lies a cloud hanging over a great city and its people. If you dig a little deeper, you may see a shadow dampening the seemingly endless sun and colourfully tiled buildings of Lisboa. You notice a bit of darkness reflected in the d\u00e9cor of a metro stop or two, of the melancholy in their national music of Fado. Heck, we were there in Lisboa THE day after they won the Eurocup (2016) and besides one or two random bursts of song on the metro, and some late night yelling, the city itself seemed eerily calm. NOT what you would expect in any other EU nation. This is something you may not notice right away, or even give it a moments thought, but for me, it was just something I had in the back of my mind. Odd.\nLuckily it all began to make sense after we took an amazing (and I say AMAZING) free walking tour with Chill Out. Rafa was a different type of guide; passionate about his city, the history, and about opening our minds. I will let you take the tour for yourself but he left us with a lot to think about in the 3 hours (It felt short \u2013 we wanted more). He gave you an understanding of why the people are the way they are using history, imagination, and descriptive imagery. A historian, storyteller, free-spirit, and guide all in one, his description of \u201csaudade \u201d is a thing of beauty. Weaving emotion, longing, sadness and passion into a word that he summarized as the soul of the Portuguese people \u2013 saudade \u2013 the presence of absence. You will have to listen to it yourself. This explains the underlying facade that while things might be fine and dandy on the surface, there is always that feeling of emptiness underneath (whether it is saudade for a person, place, item, or time). Portugal once was at the peak of the world and is waiting to regain it\u2019s greatness again.\nAt times, Rafa can make the group uncomfortable by asking tough questions, but it is only because he wants to break down barriers and use the diversity of the group to start a discussion. While some may not appreciate it, I applaud it. As a tourist, I am there to get to know a country and it\u2019s people, despite my own shyness and personal barriers. It is difficult to really experience a place by staying in your bubble. Luckily, Mike and I have the fortunate luxury of time during our year and want to gain a deeper understanding from all our travels. Rafa\u2019s pride in his city is why I will not call Lisboa, Lisbon anymore. It is Lisboa, so Lisboa it shall be.\nLisboa is only the first stop in our long journey and while it\u2019s been difficult to get out of our comfort zone, it has already awoken a new perspective on travel that will hopefully continue to grow.\nMore about Lisboa, the sites, and our experiences to come!\nLisboa in Pictures\nlisbonportugalrtw", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.libertiespress.com/shop/baby-ava-an-irish-surrogacy-story", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PVN2TUAGRBJJBPETUQCOLVE2KF4NR3V5", "length": 3100, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.libertiespress.com", "title": "Baby Ava: An Irish Surrogacy Story \u2014 Liberties Press", "raw_content": "Baby Ava: An Irish Surrogacy Story\nBaby Ava tells the story of two parents\u2019 struggle to conceive, beginning with Caroline\u2019s life-threatening illness and covering their journey to a surrogacy clinic in India, the birth of their daughter by a surrogate mother, and their subsequent battle with the authorities to get an Irish passport for little Ava.\nAny couple\u2019s decision to have a baby is a momentous occasion, but for Caroline and Niall O\u2019Flaherty, this decision brought them down a road of emotional and physical stress and heartache. As Caroline was unable to carry a baby to full term, the pair unsuccessfully explored IVF treatment and adoption, before finding a glimmer of hope through Dr Patel\u2019s Infertility Clinic in India. To great celebration, they met the surrogate mother in August 2010 and following a successful embryo transfer, Ava was born in April 2011. However, when their heartache should have turned to joy, they met another battle\u2026\nOn the basis that Ava was a surrogacy baby, the Irish Government refused to issue her a passport or emergency travel documents. The deficit of legislation governing surrogacy in Ireland, combined with the surrogate mother being considered the legal mother, left Caroline and Ava stranded in India in a legal limbo, with terrorism threats ripe in the wake of bin Laden\u2019s death. TV crews from CNN and BBC World in Anand soon dubbed little Ava \u2018the baby without a passport\u2019 as Caroline was interviewed by numerous news shows, including a Japanese network. Back in Dublin, Niall and his legal team battled to bring Ava; they were met with numerous legal obstacles and negativity, and were even advised by one official to \u2018look into good orphanages in India\u2019. Ava finally received one of the first passports granted to an Irish surrogacy baby and made history by suing the Irish State at just three weeks old.\nThe issuing of Ava\u2019s passport ultimately affected the status of surrogacy in Ireland: in February 2012, new guidelines were used by the Department of Justice to assist parents planning to have children via surrogate mothers abroad that allowed for the granting of travel documents. Caroline and Niall\u2019s tale of surrogacy is brave and bitter-sweet, embracing the richness and diversity of Indian culture and the generosity of its people.\nCaroline and Niall O\u2019Flaherty met through work in 1995. After dating for only three months they went out for a drive, spotted their ideal house, and spontaneously bought it! So began their lives together. They married in 2002 and dreamed of starting a family. Caroline\u2019s sister-in-law is Indian and she has always had an affinity with that country, feeling drawn to Indian culture. It is somewhat fitting that that is where Baby Ava\u2019s life began and Caroline and Niall plan on taking her back to India when she is older. The O'Flahertys decided to tell their story because it is Ava\u2019s legacy but also as a way of helping other parents who find themselves fighting similar legal battles. Niall is also enrolled in an LLB degree beginning in September. Niall, Caroline and Baby Ava currently live in Dublin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lighthousesrus.org/mobile/aLight.php?page=Med/ItalySW/it108", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YBQAWEYTZQOCUOVOMYAFPQSZ6GTEDMZL", "length": 365, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lighthousesrus.org", "title": "it108 on ItalySW Lighthouse Is us", "raw_content": "it 108 Civitavecchia (replica)\nThe replica does not have the proportions of the original, it is much more slender and does not have the stepped form of the historic lighthouse. It is at best a faux lighthouse, but we include it here because of its historic associations. Located on the old waterfront of Civitavecchia, about 50 km northwest of Rome. ARLHS # ITA-293", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lightray.it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YKYV7HZOCHILS57V4TEM3JDLIHNMWAQM", "length": 845, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.lightray.it", "title": "LightRay.it", "raw_content": "Simone Cicinelli a.k.a. LightRay\nI'm a student with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering.\nIn my free time I compose music and I work on many small projects.\nI made this webpage to showcase a little bit of my portfolio.\nMy name is Simone, I live in Rome, Italy, and I'm a student for the master's degree in computer engineering, with a lot of hobbies. If you want to learn a little more you can check the about me page.\nI make a lot of stuff. And I'm always doing something.\nProjects, videogames, web-sites, small ideas. Projects I made or projects I took part into. If you feel curious about all of that, you can find everything in the works page.\nI also love every kind of music, and I also try and make my own. Since music is a big part of my life, I decided to make a page on its own for everything I compose: check out the music page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lilithpress.ca/Population-Growth-Consumption-Womens-Rights.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RIVC62GHYDRBTRC74EEBBOQJI3LX7R75", "length": 6544, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.lilithpress.ca", "title": "Population Growth, Consumption and Women's Rights - Lilith Press Magazine - eZine Articles for Fitness and Health Buffs", "raw_content": "Population Growth, Consumption and Women's Rights\nSubmitted by Population Matters (www.populationmatters.org)\nThere is a long-standing case made for the benefits of a steady-state economy. With climate change, collapsing biodiversity and increasing pressure on key resources, that has to be the way to go. As the WWF Living Planet report says, humanity is consuming one-and- a-half times what the planet can produce sustainably, even though billions still have very low standards of living (www.wwf.eu/media_centre/publications/living_planet_report).\nFurthermore, according to the United Nations, the global population is \"likely to continue to rise\"; throughout the 21st century, reaching between 9.5 and 13.3 billion in 2100 (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/).\nEncouraging people to live sustainable, low-impact lifestyles must be part of the answer, as must reducing inequality between men and women. Re-engineering industry, government and society to reduce wasteful consumption and inappropriate incentives is necessary. A considered use of technology is also important \u2013 achieving the same results with a reduced use of resources and energy.\nYet the one factor that we should have the most control over is the one we address the least \u2013 ourselves. In the last fifty years, populations of vertebrates around the world have dropped by half. All except one \u2013 humans. Our numbers have doubled in that time, from 3.5 to 7 billion. We are still growing, by 80 million a year. We are living longer and, while birth rates are falling, the number of mothers is rising and more children are surviving to adulthood. Official projections are that the global population by 2100 will probably be half as much again as today, and could be much higher.\nSome people argue that this isn\u2019t so important, because the greatest population growth is in the poorest countries and communities, which consume the least. Even if we ignore the devastating impact even the poorest communities can have on wildlife and habitat, such an argument relies on these communities staying poor. With industrialisation and rising aspirations, continuing poverty cannot be taken for granted, and it is hardly a moral position to rely on it. In practice, the rising numbers fuel the trend towards ever more development and industrialisation. We are not managing the resources we have, particularly non-renewables, with any sense of future requirements. Instead, individual interests selfishly compete to extract the remaining resources as quickly as possible. When they are exhausted, the world will be a much less hospitable place to live.\nImagine instead a world where human numbers were falling rather than rising. Nature would be reclaiming towns, instead of towns inexorably consuming the countryside.\nEndangered species would be recovering instead of being extinguished. There would be more green spaces and access to amenities, instead of fewer. House and room sizes would be rising, instead of falling. Falling prices of resources (e.g. food, water, energy) would enable rising living standards for the poorest, instead of the current position where rising competition for resources puts increasing pressure on the poor and other species. Even climate change would be a thing of the past, eventually.\nOf course, family size is a very personal issue, but then so is lifestyle. It varies widely; in the UK, only 40% of people have the average of two children; large proportions have none, one, three or even more. Some say that their larger family is environmentally efficient \u2013 lots of people in one house \u2013 or that they are being brought up to live in an environmentally efficient way. These arguments are hardly convincing. More people consume more than fewer people on average. Having one child fewer typically reduces one\u2019s impact much more than everything else one can do put together, particularly when you take into account the impact of that child\u2019s descendants.\nIn surveys, most people recognise that populations are too high, but don\u2019t know what to do about it. No-one wants the swingeing fines China imposes on families exceeding state guidelines or the excesses of local officials working to sterilization targets. In the absence of compulsion, won\u2019t everyone have large families? In fact, the real answer, like encouraging people to be more environmentally conscious in other ways, is not compulsion but freedom.\nAfter all, where people have a choice, families are typically low.\nWe need to give women, particularly young women, the freedom to say \"no\" to sex when they do not want it, to say 'no' to forced and child marriage, and to say \"no\" to pregnancy where it is unintended. We were engineered to enjoy sex and to have children as a consequence; that is why we are all here. However, we know how to manage our fertility and, as a consequence, many countries today have very low birth rates. It involves good quality sex and relationships education, respect for women and good access to a range of affordable and appropriate family planning methods.\nWe also know how to create the circumstances where women can develop their full potential in other ways than simply having a large family. This requires equal access to education and employment at all levels and the provision of good quality health care, particularly sexual and reproductive health.\nFor poorer countries, some commentators suggest we have to wait before encouraging people to have smaller families. Wait until they are developed. Wait until women are educated. In fact, the poorest communities benefit from access to family planning and smaller families (Bangladesh is a prime example of how a developing country has benefited from family planning services.) Women who can decide whether and when to have children are more likely to have safe and healthy deliveries and to have healthy children. They are more likely to complete education and to develop independent employment. Households and communities without the economic burden of a high birth rate can invest in the development required to improve people\u2019s lives.\nThis topic is absolutely not about first world vs. third world, black vs. white, natives vs. immigrants, secularists vs. faith groups or men vs. women. Richer countries and communities, with their much higher per capita consumption, have even more cause to limit their family size in order to reduce the degree to which they exploit the resources which are needed by the poor to improve their living standards.\nOur case is simple: a smaller family is a sustainable family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 6937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lilybartenstein.com/alice-in-wonderland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:TMKSYTNF6VQOXM4T7GJJBHIYJYB6LK7X", "length": 153, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lilybartenstein.com", "title": "Alice in Wonderland \u2014 Lily Bartenstein", "raw_content": "Walden Theater summer show, 2010. Adapted from the novel by lewis carroll by diana grisanti. Directed by Alec Volz (and others). Photos by Harlan Taylor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lincolncottage.org/category/media-coverage/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:38:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RVYMIHAVQB5RQ5QYKNA2SSQTHVT6FTDJ", "length": 3428, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lincolncottage.org", "title": "Archive | Page 3", "raw_content": "When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 150 years ago, he was watching a comedy. Did Lincoln die laughing? How funny was the president? Was he ever able to relax? All this and more in the Lincoln Death 150th Spectacular! Guests: Erin Mast (5:00) is the Executive Director of President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage in Washington, one of Abe\u2019s favorite locations for getting away from \u2026\nThis article was originally published on MSN Travel. \u201cAbout six million tourists visit the Lincoln Memorial annually, making it the most visited spot in Washington, D.C. Sitting across the mall from the Washington Monument and housed in a Greek Doric-style temple, it is certainly a beautiful thing to behold. The national monument was dedicated in 1922 and has been the \u2026\n\u201cWith its proximity to Rock Creek Park, rich history, and revitalized business district, Petworth has something for everyone from preschoolers to the POTUS himself. Here\u2019s a list of our favorite places to eat, play, dance, and explore with kiddos in this growing nabe.\u201d \u2013 Sarah Vogel \u201cStep Back in Time at President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage When Honest Abe needed a break, he \u2026\nTheir Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage during their 2015 trip to the United States. Numerous news outlets, including USA Today, NPR, New Delhi TV, Fox 5 News, E! Online, The Washington Post, WJLA, People Magazine, the Associated Press, VAntage Point, Current Newspapers, PoPville, and others, covered their visit. Photo: Associated \u2026\n\u201cPresident Lincoln\u2019s Cottage may be the single most fascinating look at a President\u2019s life in Washington.\u201d Washingtonian magazine compiled a list of the top 50 things every local should experience \u2013 and #8 on the list was a visit to President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage! Pick up your copy of the March 2015 issue on newsstands now, and discover the rest of \u2026\nFox 5 and other local, national, and international news outlets are reporting this breaking news story. \u201cBritish royalty will visit D.C. next month. Prince Charles and Camilla will come to the nation\u2019s capital on March 17th, 18th and 19th. They will visit Lincoln\u2019s Cottage and the Armed Forces Retirement Home which sit on the same grounds in northwest. Charles and \u2026\n\u201cOn a recent tour of President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage, historical interpreter Curtis Harris announced it would be his last. He pointed out that the date, Jan.\u200931, marked the 150-year anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery. \u201cThere were 56 congressmen who voted against it,\u201d he noted wryly, \u201cand they were all from the North.\u201d At the cottage, \u2026\n\u201cUsing an award-winning app to combine audio recordings of Lincoln\u2019s comments with period illustrations and photographs flashed on computer screens, the guides emphasize the history that happened in the house. Lincoln wrote much of the Emancipation Proclamation at the cottage and from its windows he watched soldiers\u2019 burials (each week 30 plus were interred at the site\u2019s cemetery). When you \u2026\nErin Carlson Mast, Executive Director of President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage, appeared on News Channel 8\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Live\u201d with The Grateful American Foundation\u2018s David Bruce Smith! With a dynamic website full of interactive interviews, public program announcements, fascinating facts, and more, the Grateful American Foundation is dedicated to restoring enthusiasm in American history for children and adults. 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Hwy 56 / P.O. Box W\nSomeone will be in contact with you soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.locoloboevents.com/listing/free_detail.php?listing_id=5899", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HISREHBW27O2ULNBTSQVKHK2ZVHIH4WN", "length": 3020, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.locoloboevents.com", "title": "Loretta Soqui available for Corporate Events, clubs, fundraisers and parties.", "raw_content": "Loretta Soqui has been performing since the tender age of five years old. Performing has always been second nature for Loretta. Some of her most influential performers are Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Roberto Carlos, Rocio Durcal, Mariah Carey, Gladys Knight and Lauryn Hill. One of Loretta\u2019s first experiences with performing was at a night club with her father, the drummer of the famous regional Mexican music band, Los Aragon. By the age of eight she was vocally arranging her own songs and choreographing dance moves for the various neighborhood singing groups she had created.\nIn 1991 at age Fifteen, Loretta joined the teen girl group, First Faze. With the group, Loretta began touring the United States, performing at a variety of schools, dance clubs, festivals and showcases. While performing with First Faze, Loretta was approached by Bob Keane, who has worked with legendary artists such as, Sam Cooke and Richie Valens. Mr. Keane offered her a solo record deal with Delphi Records; however, her loyalty to First Faze was ultimately the reason she did not sign with Delphi. In 1992 First Faze signed a management deal with renowned music industry executive Steven Machat and a recording contract with ID Records. Loretta was able to put her vast music experience to use while in the recording studio. During recording, she was one of the lead singers, vocal coach, and major contributor. After the release of their first album First Faze toured the United States promoting their creation. The band was featured in The Los Angeles Times, Daily News, La Opinion, T.V. Y Novelas as well as various television shows. After the disbanding of First Faze in 1994, Loretta decided to dedicate her musical efforts to her career as a solo artist. She also enrolled at Glendale Community College as a music major. At this time Loretta beniffited from the formal music training and grew as an artist.\nAfter hearing Loretta sing in Los Angeles, German club owner, Karl Krause, asked her to perform at his establishments. Loretta accepted the challenge and flew to Dusseldorf, Germany, where she spent 2 years performing and fine-tuning her solo career. Loretta returned from Germany in 2006 and immediately began working with several artists, assisting in harmonizing and vocally arranging songs. She was introduced to producer, Robert Riekeberg, who immediately asked her to come back to the studios and record her own original material. The duo devoted every waking hour to writing and producing her first solo album. In 2008 Loretta wrote, vocally arranged, co-produced and released her first solo album titled \u201cI Believe\", which is available online at iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody & Napster.\nToday Loretta splits her time between Los Angeles and Germany, performing at night clubs such as Whisky a Go-Go and The Rainbow Room as well as busking on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. She is working on a new album, titled \"The Acoustic Sessions\", to be released November, 2016.\nTo book Loretta Soqui, Please contact us", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 50497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 149.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.london-fossils-crystals.co.uk/plesiosaur-bone-marine-reptile-from-weymouth-dorset-england-no37-c2x22140348?PGFLngID=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:S2YVRAARST2GHGMMZN337B2OZYZHODWV", "length": 1921, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.london-fossils-crystals.co.uk", "title": "Plesiosaur Bone, Marine Reptile, from Weymouth, Dorset, England (No.37)", "raw_content": "Plesiosaur Bone, Marine Reptile, from Weymouth, Dorset, England (No.37)\nPlesiosaur Bone, Marine Reptile, from Weymouth, Dorset, England\nJurassic Period, 155 Million Years Old\nPlesiosaurs were among the first fossil reptiles discovered, the eponymous Plesiosaurs, was named in 1821.\nPlesiosaurus was one of the first of the marine reptiles to be discovered and excited great interest in Victorian England. It was so-named (\"near lizard\") by William Conybeare (7 June 1787 - 12 August 1857 and Henry De la Beche (10 February 1796 - 13 April 1855), to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurs, which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier.\nPlesiosaurs had a broad flat body and short tail. Their limbs had evolved into four long flippers, which were powered by strong muscles attached to wide bony plates formed by the shoulder girdle and the pelvis. The flippers made a flying movement through water. Plesiosaurs breathed air, and bore live young; there are indications that they were warm-blooded.\nSince the Plesiosaur discovery, the first in in the Plesiosaurian genus there has\nbeen more than a hundred valid species have been described. In the early twenty-first century, the number of discoveries has increased, leading to an improved understanding of their anatomy, relationships and way of life.\nPlesiosaurs showed two main morphological types. Some species, with the \"plesiosauromorph\" build, had (sometimes extremely) long necks and small heads; these were relatively slow and caught small sea animals. Other species, some of them reaching a length of up to seventeen metres, had the \"pliosauromorph\" build with a short neck and a large head; these were apex predators, fast hunters of large prey. The two types are related to the traditional strict division of the Plesiosauria into two suborders, the long-necked Plesiosauroidea and the short-neck Pliosauroidea.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 5994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 178.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lotuscortinainfo.com/?page_id=3704", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:29Z", "digest": "sha1:PZ2UO5KPMIMY2HYQYL7DSKMKX7S73HFR", "length": 14432, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "www.lotuscortinainfo.com", "title": "Lotus Cortina Information \u2013 1600E 2 Door", "raw_content": "This section describes the 2 door 1600E Cortina. This has been separated out from the 4 door 1600E due to it\u2019s rarety, and due to the similarity between the 2 door shell used for this car and the Lotus.\nIntroduction to the 1600E 2 door\nThe 2 door 1600E was produced for export only to European countries, and consequently was only made (as standard) in left hand drive form. However, a \u2018small handful\u2019 of right hand drive cars are known to have been made, mainly for Ford executives and as special commissions. More on these at the end of the section.\nThe 2 door 1600E was based on the 2 door GT, using a heavy duty shell, with all the 1600E enhancements.\nIt was introduced shortly after Series 2 production began, sometime around October 1968. It has the same chassis number identification as the GT, being 96 for the 2 door GT.\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the 4 door 1600E was based on the 4 door GT, with body code 97.\nThe 2 door 1600E was sold as the \u2018luxury\u2019 performance Cortina, alongside the GT, in a specially produced catalogue for Europe. This catalogue was printed for each country is it\u2019s appropriate language. See below, the centrefold of the French catalogue.\nThe Lotus Cortina was primarily aimed at the UK market, where Lotus and the competition successes of both the Mk1 and Mk2 Lotus were most recognised. In other markets, the marque of Lotus was less well recognised, and the Lotus Cortina sales fared less well. Hence the 2 door 1600E was created to fill a niche in European markets created by lack of Lotus Cortina sales, and of course, the reason it wasn\u2019t sold in the UK as it could have reduced the sales of Lotus Cortinas.\nThe cars all started life at Dagenham, but in two different forms. Firstly, CKD (Completely Knocked Down) kits were made early in the production of the Series 2 Cortina, and sent to European plants for building. Fully built cars were made at Dagenham from January 1969, well into Series 2 production, until July 1970, one month before the end of Mk2 Cortina production.\nThe earliest CKD car I\u2019ve seen so far was a project car I had, and that had chassis number starting with CN96HS, which is CKD, 2 door GT, built in November 1968. I\u2019m not sure yet if the November applies to when the kit left Dagenham, or when it left the Netherlands factory, fully built.\n2749 2 door cars were made, with 1083 of those being fully built at Dagenham, and presumably this number includes the small number of RHD cars made. The other 1666 were made in component form (CKD) at Dagenham.\nParis Motorshow, 1969. Note the name (Tudor) and the black grille and pinstripe.\nMechanically, the 2 door used the same components as the 4 door, with the 1600GT engine, the 2000E ratio single rail gearbox, the lowered Lotus suspension and the Lotus brakes.\nThe 2 door employed the dual braking system (as per LHD 4 door 1600E), with integral master cylinder and servo unit.\nThe trim was also the same as the 4 door (Code D234 for the black trim). The carpet was the same deep pile as the 4 door car, and the seats were the familiar Series 2 1600E versions, with tilt / recline front seats and split rear seats with fold down arm rest.\nThe door and rear panel wood capping was made specifically for the 2 door 1600E.\nThe \u2018safety\u2019 steering wheel was used for most of the cars.\nThe bodyshell is based on the heavy duty 2 door GT shell, as per the Lotus. This has the re-enforcement panels around the front struts, and the double skinned rear chassis rails at the rear. As for the Lotus, the 4 door 1600E and the earlier GT, the shell had the brackets for the anti-tramp bars. As for the Lotus and 4 door 1600E only, the front wing arches are rolled. The main difference between the 2 door 1600E shell and the Lotus Cortina shell is that the battery tray is mounted under the bonnet in the 1600E, and in the boot in the Lotus. There are a couple of other minor differences such as the water washer bottle (in a cage) on the Lotus replaces the washer \u2018bladder\u2019 on hooks on the 1600E. However, the RHD 2 door 1600E also has the Lotus washer bottle!\nChanges to Specification\nThe car was only available in Series 2 form. When launched, the 2 door car had full-chrome Rostyle wheels (of the Series 1 1600E), a black grille, a pin stripe down the side, and a black rear panel.\nThe full chrome wheels were soon dropped (latest March 1969) replaced by the standard Series 2 1600E Rostyles with chrome centre and painted rim.\nFor some markets, the pinstripe and black rear panel were deleted, and the black grill replaced by the standard back and silver grill for 1969. The pinstripe and black grill, and presumably the black rear panel certainly carried on in some markets until the end of production. See the photographs for the \u20181,000,000th export Cortina\u2019, taken in July 1970, showing a 2 door 1600E in white being taken to Europe below a helicopter. It has the black grille and pinstripe, and presumably, the black rear panel.\nThe late models from March 1970 had the all-painted Rostyles, and reversing lights mounted on brackets further in on the rear valance (between the over-riders), as per the 4 door 1600E.\nThe millionth export Cortina in July 1970 just happened to be a 2 door 1600E.\nFor publicity of this export achievement, the 2 door 1600E was taken to it\u2019s new owner in Ostend, Belgium, by helicopter. I wonder if this car still exists.\nAt 2749 units made, the 2 door 1600E was the most rare of all the Mk2 Cortinas out of the 1,013, 391 Mk2 Cortinas made. With 57,524 4 door 1600Es, and 4032 Lotus models made, the 2 door 1600E was a very small niche market for Ford UK.\nPress photos of the 2 door 1600E, this time showing it with the standard GT grill and no pinstripe. It is believed that this was one of the cars built by a local Ford plant in Europe from a CKD kit, and that some markets, perhaps towards the end of production, dropped the extra cost of the black grill, black panel and pinstripe, as well as adopting painted Rostyle wheels.\nMy 2 2 door cars, the 1600E and Lotus. The similarities are remarkable, with virtually identical heavy duty shells with rolled arches, Lotus suspension and brakes. The 1600E was delivered new to France, and kept by the same family in their holiday home in Spain for many years. Luckily it was kept in an underground car park out of the Spanish heat, and has survived with all of it\u2019s original panels, chrome, rubbers trim and paint.\nThe interior is all original with the exception of the 1600E steering wheel. All left hand drive cars had the plastic \u2018safety\u2019 wheel, which I quickly replaced with the proper wheel. Note the ignition switch / steering lock, which was standard on many export cars.\nThe Right Hand Drive 1600E\nAs mentioned above, very few of the 2 door 1600E cars were made in RHD form, and it seems likely that there were less than 30 made.\nThe cars that have come to light over the past 25 years are just these 7, and only 2 of them are known to survive. A third car is still on the DVLA website, although it is unknown whether or not it survives.\nThe cars are:\nTLF 794G, CML 30H, CML 238H, CML 620H, CML 627H, DHD 525J and 93-981C (from Zimbabwe).\nTLF 794G has it\u2019s origins well documented by it\u2019s original owner who contacted me in 2018. That story is below. It is recorded on DVLA, but it hasn\u2019t been on the road since 1983.\nCML 238H was an Aubergine coloured car, and was on the road until 2004, but has now disappeared, hopefully tucked away.\nCML 627H was a Fern Green car that had been re-painted Black. In around 2005 it was scrapped, but a 2 door left hand drive 1600E was converted to right hand drive, and the identity of CML 627H was going to be put on that. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) it became public knowledge that the original car had been scrapped, and the converted car could therefor not be registered.\nDHD 525J is a Blue Mink car, and is alive and well and currently undergoing a restoration.\n93-981C is also a Blue Mink car, and is also undergoing a full restoration, hopefully completed by the end of 2019. I say hopefully, as this is my car that I brought over from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in 2018. It needed a lot of TLC!\nNothing is known of CML 30H or CML 620H.\nWhy were there so many CML registered cars? CML is a central London registration number, and it seems likely that these special order cars were processed through the Ford Export office and showroom in Oxford Street, London. The 2 door 1600E was really for export only, so it seems quite likely that the Right Hand Drive cars had to be processed via this route.\nRight Hand Drive 1600E Specification.\nWith only two known survivors, identifying the specification from such a small sample may not be correct for all the RHD cars made! But those two are almost identical, being \u2018export specification\u2019 right hand drive cars. Both were fully built at Dagenham, both are Blue Mink with Black trim, and the Body Tag plate for the cars is just 1 digit different, despite them being built 3 months apart.\nThe \u2018Export Specification\u2019 is essentially dual circuit brakes, but that has quite an impact in the engine bay. A few territories had the same RHD export specification, including Ireland, Malta and when exported fully built to Rhodesia, New Zealand and Australia (rather than being exported as a kit and built locally).\nThe dual circuit brakes are fitted with an integral servo, and on a right hand drive car, that is too close to the inlet manifold and carburettor, so the servo and master cylinder have to be mounted on a \u2018tower\u2019 (similar to the later Escorts) in order to clear the carburettor.\nThis in turn which has meant that the battery tray is moved and is now on the left hand side, which in turn displaces the bladder type washer bag on hooks which has has been deleted. It is replaced by a Tudor washer bottle set much further back on the left side inner wing towards the bulkhead. That bottle is the same one as fitted to the Mk2 Lotus Cortina.\nBoth cars also have the opening quarter-lights, and whilst the Zimbabwe car has the standard ignition switch in the dash, DHD 525J has the same steering lock arrangement of many of the LHD 2 door 1600E cars.\nTLF 794G Story\nI was contacted in 2018 by the original owner of TLF 794G, Mr Mike Young, and he kindly told me the story of his car, and sent a couple of photos of the car when it was new. These are the only photographs of a right hand drive 2 door 1600E I have seen when the car was new.\nMike was in the RAF stationed in Germany, and being interested in cars (having an Escort GT at the time) visited a nearby Ford dealership in Holland, and tried out a 2 door 1600E (in left hand drive). He liked it! Interestingly, the car had a black headlining.\nAs he was returning to the UK within a couple of years, he wanted the car in RHD form. He made enquiries at Weilers, the German UK Forces agent, and they processed his order for the car, finished in Anchor Blue with a red pin stripe.\nHe had to go to London to pick the car up at the Ford Export showroom in Oxford Street, where it had been registered as TLF 794G. Mike paid \u00a3850 for the car as it was tax free, saving nearly \u00a3250 on the new car price.\nMike then drove the car back over to Germany, and took this photograph as he was crossing the Alps on his way to Italy when the odometer went over 1000 miles:\nThe car was registered in Germany where it was used daily. He decided to give the car a good clean one day and took the back seat out, and found a build sheet for the car with his name on it. The RHD 2 door 1600E was only built to special order. Mike returned to the UK as planned, running the car for a while, and sold it on to another RAF man in 1972 / 73. The car registration number is still on the DVLA site, but has not been on the road for more than 30 years, so has probably now gone.\nThis photo was taken on a ferry in Germany\n93-981C (Zimbabwe) Story\nIn November 2017 a rather tatty looking Cortina came up for sale on one of the Facebook forums, looking very unloved. To make matters worse, the car was in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, not the easiest place to get a car exported from! I glossed over it thinking it was going to stay there indefinitely, until I noticed the small 1600E badges on the rear roof pillars.\nI asked to see more photos and a photo of the chassis plate, and sure enough, it had all the attributes of a real 1600E. And it had 2 doors, and it was right hand drive! For me, this was finding the Holy Grail, so I had to try and buy it and get it shipped back to the UK.\nIt took 5 months with a lot of help from a chap in the UK who imports cars from South Africa, and his agent in Johannesburg. And a few \u00a3\u00a3\u00a3s !! But in April 2018 the car was back in the UK for the first time since 1970, and is now completely stripped down, with all components and sub-assemblies being restored, and the shell having an exacting restoration back to factory standard.\nThe car was built at Dagenham in April 1970, and was painted in Blue Mink. At some time, quite a long time by the looks of things, it was re-painted in a light Blue colour. It is of course being re-finished in it\u2019s original Blue Mink colour. Both the chassis plate and the oblong body tag confirm that this is an original RHD 2 door 1600E, and in fact was the 18th one built.\nThe car was remarkably original and complete, although much of the trim and wiring had been eaten by rats and monkeys, and the chrome trim was mainly wrecked! It still had it\u2019s original engine and running gear, and the body shell was in very good condition (considering it\u2019s background) with none of the rot that an original UK car of this age would have. On the downside, it did have a fair bit of rock damage behind the front wheels, and the front floors were pretty rotten where the rain had got in over the years.\nWhen the car is restored I will take a good set of photos and load them up here to record what an original RHD 2 door 1600E looks like. But this is what it looked like in Bulawayo\u2026\nThe engine bay was full of dust and sand, but underneath all that was the original Blue Mink paint, and even the original stickers!\nThe car had to be put on a trailer to be brought down from Bulawayo to Johannesburg. Once there (which was a big relief!) it was put into a sealed container, driven to the port in Durban and then shipped to the UK.\nBack in the UK in the summer of 2018, fully stripped out and waiting to go off to the bodyshop to be restored.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 15279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.loudread.com/cat-s60-first-look-at-the-indestructible-smartphone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:50Z", "digest": "sha1:CY3HH7XC7YXUS7EVZMCD2AZBLL2S4TXO", "length": 4844, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.loudread.com", "title": "Cat S60: First look at the indestructible smartphone - Loud Read", "raw_content": "Cat S60: First look at the indestructible smartphone\nCaterpillar Inc., or rather Cat as many know it, is a popular brand synonymous with hardy work boots that are indestructible enough to be passed down generations. However, not many know that the company\u2019s primary endeavour involves making all sort of heavy machinery used in the construction and mining business, in addition to supplying crucial engine and transmission parts for everything ranging from armoured personnel carriers to freakin\u2019 nuclear submarines. It should be amply clear by now that Caterpillar Inc. is into making all sorts of things that are pretty damn hard to kill. The Cat S60 smartphone is one such beast.\nWith a 4.7-inch IPS panel surrounded by a bezel that\u2019s larger than the Pakistani mechanised infantry force surrounding Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri at the Battle of Longewala, you\u2019d say that it\u2019s ridiculous to have a measly screen-to-body ratio of 56 percent in the current year. But that would be akin to claiming that a Maruti Omni is better than the Israeli Merkava main battle tank because it has large, airy windows and that convenient sliding kidnap door.\nThat\u2019s ridiculous because, although they both happen to be vehicles meant for carrying six passengers in relative comfort, each vehicle takes a wee bit different approach to passenger safety. In true Maruti fashion, your legs pretty much form the integral part of the crumple zone in the Omni. The Merkava, on the other hand, puts the 1500 horsepower turbocharged diesel engine in front of the tank crew cabin to absorb enemy fire. This is in addition to some pretty serious composite armour meant to improve passenger survivability against anti-tank mines and man-portable anti-tank weapons such as the RPG-7.\nThe Merkava MBT might not be practical, like the Cat S60, but it\u2019s just as sturdy. Just like the S60\nWhile the Maruti Omni starts at Rs 2.37 lakhs, the Merkava costs a whopping 29 crores and some spare change. Military spec durability, you see, doesn\u2019t come cheap. Well, neither does the Cat S60, which retails for a sticker price of Rs 65,000. But unlike the Merkava, which comes with a host of goodies such as the Trophy active protection system, the Cat S60 could very well be upstaged both in performance and features by the Xiaomi Redmi 4. And that costs almost one-tenth of the list price of the S60. However, for your money, the Cat S60 delivers the uber-cool FLIR thermal imaging camera, which otherwise costs $200 as a USB-powered attachment for Android phones.\nAnd that\u2019s a great deal of fun and, not to mention, pretty damn useful for engineering applications to boot. But we will get to that fun little addition in a separate standalone feature. Coming back to the S60, engineering is the operative word here. This phone is essentially meant for professionals in the engineering and construction field, where durability and reliability are valued more than raw power and other bells and whistles.\nMIL STD 810 and IP68 certifications ensure that this phone can endure the worst\nThe Cat S60, therefore, is ensconced within a steel and carbon fibre frame that\u2019s further strengthened by a tough aluminium chassis. This allows the phone to be dropped from a height of up to 1.8m without worrying about damage. It can also withstand water immersion for up to 2m, which can be further extended to 5m by flicking two cool mechanical toggles to switch off the earpiece and loudspeaker. Needless to say, it definitely exceeds the parameters necessary for procuring IP68 as well as military standard 810G specifications. Like I said, the Cat S60 is one tough mothertrucker.\nJust like the famous Cat shoes aren\u2019t made by the parent company, but instead licenced to be produced by one with an infinitely cooler name \u2013 Wolverine World Wide, the Cat S60 smartphone is also manufactured by the lesser known Bullit Mobile under license. But you\u2019ll have to wait until the weekend to find out whether it lives up to its price or its rugged credentials in our full review of the tough smartphone. In the interim, you can feast your eyes on the hard-as-nails exteriors of the phone.\nThe built in FLIR thermal imaging camera opens up a world of engineering applications\nThis phone is designed for rugged professionals in the engineering and construction fields\nThe carbon fibre back panel paired with a sturdy steel chassis and aluminium exoskeleton renders the phone indestructible\nIt\u2019s not slim, but it makes up for that with bulletproof protection\nYes, there\u2019s a dedicated panic button\nAll ports are hidden under flaps to achieve waterproofing up to 5m\nThe SIMs and MicroSD cards are hidden away under a cool looking hatch\nForget capacitive soft keys, the android buttons are made of physical keys\nThe post Cat S60: First look at the indestructible smartphone appeared first on Android News.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lubricantsdealer.com/lubedealer/equipment-technology-services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:35:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HBB5XE3PUB7QMMMNSRJHFCO5E4TVZBOG", "length": 1274, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lubricantsdealer.com", "title": "Lubricants Dealer \u2013 Largest Dealer Directory \u2013 LubricantsDealer.com", "raw_content": "5 Lawson Street Discovery Industrial Estate Parkhurst North Rockhampton QLD 4702\nRockhampton | Queensland | Australia\nETS Equipment Technology Services was established in 1982 and has developed into a reliable niche supplier of lubricants used in mining processing, engineering, transport and manufacturing industries in the Australian market. 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Because the handling, keeping, storing, or maintenance of fireworks is a potentially hazardous activity, it is hereby required of every wholesaler, dealer or jobber who keeps stores or handles fireworks of any description in the City of Eagle River that prior to the receipt of such fireworks or their removal from one location to another a permit shall be obtained from the Joint Municipal Fire Commission located at 820 East Pine Street, Eagle River, Wisconsin. Said permit will have a $10.00 fee and there shall be an inspection of the area where the fireworks are stored to ensure that their storage is proper and appropriate for the safe storage of fireworks.\n2. 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LED rope lighting, which we offer, tends to be popular with the outdoor tent weddings. The LED rope would be wrapped around the poles of the tent after it is installed by our staff. Power supply for the lighting however will not be provided. Depending on where the tent is placed, just be sure to have an extension cord in case an electrical outlet is farther than anticipated. LED globe lighting is also available as an alternative to the LED rope lighting (although we can set up both if you\u2019d like.) Either one provides a really nice, elegant touch to the setting. 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Daphne Caruana Galizia is the winner of the 2018 edition, the twenty-first edition of the national journalism award Mario and Giuseppe Francese, organized by the Order of Journalists of Sicily. The delivery ceremony will be held on Wednesday 2 May, in the main hall of the \u2018Vittorio Emanuele II\u2019 high school in Palermo. The title of the event will be \u2018Freedom of press under attack\u2019. Daphne Caruana Galicia is the Maltese journalist who was killed at the age of 53, last October 16, in the explosion of a car bomb. Two weeks before his murder she had filed a police report because she had received threats.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marcapolitica.org/2017/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:G3YGLVITBEPJ3NXAN2OBBOLPL4KS65IP", "length": 111094, "nlines": 293, "source_domain": "www.marcapolitica.org", "title": "Youth Vote: agosto 2017", "raw_content": "The word has become a rhetorical weapon, but it properly names the reigning ideology of our era \u2013 one that venerates the logic of the market and strips away the things that make us human.\nLast summer, researchers at the International Monetary Fund settled a long and bitter debate over \u201cneoliberalism\u201d: they admitted it exists. Three senior economists at the IMF, an organisation not known for its incaution, published a paper questioning the benefits of neoliberalism. In so doing, they helped put to rest the idea that the word is nothing more than a political slur, or a term without any analytic power. The paper gently called out a \u201cneoliberal agenda\u201d for pushing deregulation on economies around the world, for forcing open national markets to trade and capital, and for demanding that governments shrink themselves via austerity or privatisation. The authors cited statistical evidence for the spread of neoliberal policies since 1980, and their correlation with anaemic growth, boom-and-bust cycles and inequality.\nNeoliberalism is an old term, dating back to the 1930s, but it has been revived as a way of describing our current politics \u2013 or more precisely, the range of thought allowed by our politics. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, it was a way of assigning responsibility for the debacle, not to a political party per se, but to an establishment that had conceded its authority to the market. For the Democrats in the US and Labour in the UK, this concession was depicted as a grotesque betrayal of principle. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, it was said, had abandoned the left\u2019s traditional commitments, especially to workers, in favour of a global financial elite and the self-serving policies that enriched them; and in doing so, had enabled a sickening rise in inequality.\nOver the past few years, as debates have turned uglier, the word has become a rhetorical weapon, a way for anyone left of centre to incriminate those even an inch to their right. (No wonder centrists say it\u2019s a meaningless insult: they\u2019re the ones most meaningfully insulted by it.) But \u201cneoliberalism\u201d is more than a gratifyingly righteous jibe. It is also, in its way, a pair of eyeglasses.\nPeer through the lens of neoliberalism and you see more clearly how the political thinkers most admired by Thatcher and Reagan helped shape the ideal of society as a kind of universal market (and not, for example, a polis, a civil sphere or a kind of family) and of human beings as profit-and-loss calculators (and not bearers of grace, or of inalienable rights and duties). Of course the goal was to weaken the welfare state and any commitment to full employment, and \u2013 always \u2013 to cut taxes and deregulate. But \u201cneoliberalism\u201d indicates something more than a standard rightwing wish list. It was a way of reordering social reality, and of rethinking our status as individuals.\nStill peering through the lens, you see how, no less than the welfare state, the free market is a human invention. You see how pervasively we are now urged to think of ourselves as proprietors of our own talents and initiative, how glibly we are told to compete and adapt. You see the extent to which a language formerly confined to chalkboard simplifications describing commodity markets (competition, perfect information, rational behaviour) has been applied to all of society, until it has invaded the grit of our personal lives, and how the attitude of the salesman has become enmeshed in all modes of self-expression.\nIn short, \u201cneoliberalism\u201d is not simply a name for pro-market policies, or for the compromises with finance capitalism made by failing social democratic parties. It is a name for a premise that, quietly, has come to regulate all we practise and believe: that competition is the only legitimate organising principle for human activity.\nNo sooner had neoliberalism been certified as real, and no sooner had it made clear the universal hypocrisy of the market, than the populists and authoritarians came to power. In the US, Hillary Clinton, the neoliberal arch-villain, lost \u2013 and to a man who knew just enough to pretend he hated free trade. So are the eyeglasses now useless? Can they do anything to help us understand what is broken about British and American politics? Against the forces of global integration, national identity is being reasserted, and in the crudest possible terms. What could the militant parochialism of Brexit Britain and Trumpist America have to do with neoliberal rationality? What possible connection is there between the president \u2013 a freewheeling boob \u2013 and the bloodless paragon of efficiency known as the free market?\nIt isn\u2019t only that the free market produces a tiny cadre of winners and an enormous army of losers \u2013 and the losers, looking for revenge, have turned to Brexit and Trump. There was, from the beginning, an inevitable relationship between the utopian ideal of the free market and the dystopian present in which we find ourselves; between the market as unique discloser of value and guardian of liberty, and our current descent into post-truth and illiberalism.\nMoving the stale debate about neoliberalism forward begins, I think, with taking seriously the measure of its cumulative effect on all of us, regardless of affiliation. And this requires returning to its origins, which have nothing to do with Bill or Hillary Clinton. There once was a group of people who did call themselves neoliberals, and did so proudly, and their ambition was a total revolution in thought. The most prominent among them, Friedrich Hayek, did not think he was staking out a position on the political spectrum, or making excuses for the fatuous rich, or tinkering along the edges of microeconomics.\nHe thought he was solving the problem of modernity: the problem of objective knowledge. For Hayek, the market didn\u2019t just facilitate trade in goods and services; it revealed truth. How did his ambition collapse into its opposite \u2013 the mind-bending possibility that, thanks to our thoughtless veneration of the free market, truth might be driven from public life altogether?\nWhen the idea occurred to Friedrich Hayek in 1936, he knew, with the conviction of a \u201csudden illumination\u201d, that he had struck upon something new. \u201cHow can the combination of fragments of knowledge existing in different minds,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbring about results which, if they were to be brought about deliberately, would require a knowledge on the part of the directing mind which no single person can possess?\u201d\nThis was not a technical point about interest rates or deflationary slumps. This was not a reactionary polemic against collectivism or the welfare state. This was a way of birthing a new world. To his mounting excitement, Hayek understood that the market could be thought of as a kind of mind.\nAdam Smith\u2019s \u201cinvisible hand\u201d had already given us the modern conception of the market: as an autonomous sphere of human activity and therefore, potentially, a valid object of scientific knowledge. But Smith was, until the end of his life, an 18th-century moralist. He thought the market could be justified only in light of individual virtue, and he was anxious that a society governed by nothing but transactional self-interest was no society at all. Neoliberalism is Adam Smith without the anxiety.\nThat Hayek is considered the grandfather of neoliberalism \u2013 a style of thought that reduces everything to economics \u2013 is a little ironic given that he was such a mediocre economist. He was just a young, obscure Viennese technocrat when he was recruited to the London School of Economics to compete with, or possibly even dim, the rising star of John Maynard Keynes at Cambridge.\nThe plan backfired, and Hayek lost out to Keynes in a rout. Keynes\u2019s General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936, was greeted as a masterpiece. It dominated the public discussion, especially among young English economists in training, for whom the brilliant, dashing, socially connected Keynes was a beau id\u00e9al. By the end of the second world war, many prominent free-marketers had come around to Keynes\u2019s way of thinking, conceding that government might play a role in managing a modern economy. The initial excitement over Hayek had dissipated. His peculiar notion that doing nothing could cure an economic depression had been discredited in theory and practice. He later admitted that he wished his work criticising Keynes would simply be forgotten.\nHayek cut a silly figure: a tall, erect, thickly accented professor in high-cut tweed, insisting on the formal \u201cVon Hayek\u201d but cruelly nicknamed \u201cMr Fluctooations\u201d behind his back. In 1936, he was an academic without a portfolio and with no obvious future. Yet we now live in Hayek\u2019s world, as we once lived in Keynes\u2019s. Lawrence Summers, the Clinton adviser and former president of Harvard University, has said that Hayek\u2019s conception of the price system as a mind is \u201cas penetrating and original an idea as microeconomics produced in the 20th century\u201d and \u201cthe single most important thing to learn from an economics course today\u201d. This undersells it. Keynes did not make or predict the cold war, but his thinking wended its way into every aspect of the cold-war world; so too has Hayek\u2019s thinking woven itself into every aspect of the post-1989 world.\nFriedrich Hayek teaching at the London School of Economics in 1948. Photograph: Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty\nHayek\u2019s was a total worldview: a way of structuring all reality on the model of economic competition. He begins by assuming that nearly all (if not all) human activity is a form of economic calculation, and so can be assimilated to the master concepts of wealth, value, exchange, cost \u2013 and especially price. Prices are a means of allocating scarce resources efficiently, according to need and utility, as governed by supply and demand. For the price system to function efficiently, markets must be free and competitive. Ever since Smith imagined the economy as an autonomous sphere, the possibility existed that the market might not just be one piece of society, but society as a whole. Within such a society, men and women need only follow their own self-interest and compete for scarce rewards. Through competition, \u201cit becomes possible\u201d, as the sociologist Will Davies has written, \u201cto discern who and what is valuable\u201d.\nWhat any person acquainted with history sees as the necessary bulwarks against tyranny and exploitation \u2013 a thriving middle class and civil sphere; free institutions; universal suffrage; freedom of conscience, congregation, religion and press; a basic recognition that the individual is a bearer of dignity \u2013 held no special place in Hayek\u2019s thought. Hayek built into neoliberalism the assumption that the market provides all necessary protection against the one real political danger: totalitarianism. To prevent this, the state need only keep the market free.\nThis last is what makes neoliberalism \u201cneo\u201d. It is a crucial modification of the older belief in a free market and a minimal state, known as \u201cclassical liberalism\u201d. In classical liberalism, merchants simply asked the state to \u201cleave us alone\u201d \u2013 to laissez-nous faire. Neoliberalism recognised that the state must be active in the organisation of a market economy. The conditions allowing for a free market must be won politically, and the state must be re-engineered to support the free market on an ongoing basis.\nThat isn\u2019t all: every aspect of democratic politics, from the choices of voters to the decisions of politicians, must be submitted to a purely economic analysis. The lawmaker is obliged to leave well enough alone \u2013 to not distort the natural actions of the marketplace \u2013 and so, ideally, the state provides a fixed, neutral, universal legal framework within which market forces operate spontaneously. The conscious direction of government is never preferable to the \u201cautomatic mechanism of adjustment\u201d \u2013 ie the price system, which is not only efficient but maximises liberty, or the opportunity for men and women to make free choices about their own lives.\nAs Keynes jetted between London and Washington, creating the postwar order, Hayek sat pouting in Cambridge. He had been sent there during the wartime evacuations; and he complained that he was surrounded by \u201cforeigners\u201d and \u201cno lack of orientals of all kinds\u201d and \u201cEuropeans of practically all nationalities, but very few of real intelligence\u201d.\nStuck in England, without influence or respect, Hayek had only his idea to console him; an idea so grand it would one day dissolve the ground beneath the feet of Keynes and every other intellectual. Left to its own devices, the price system functions as a kind of mind. And not just any mind, but an omniscient one: the market computes what individuals cannot grasp. Reaching out to him as an intellectual comrade-in-arms, the American journalist Walter Lippmann wrote to Hayek, saying: \u201cNo human mind has ever understood the whole scheme of a society \u2026 At best a mind can understand its own version of the scheme, something much thinner, which bears to reality some such relation as a silhouette to a man.\u201d\nIt is a grand epistemological claim \u2013 that the market is a way of knowing, one that radically exceeds the capacity of any individual mind. Such a market is less a human contrivance, to be manipulated like any other, than a force to be studied and placated. Economics ceases to be a technique \u2013 as Keynes believed it to be \u2013 for achieving desirable social ends, such as growth or stable money. The only social end is the maintenance of the market itself. In its omniscience, the market constitutes the only legitimate form of knowledge, next to which all other modes of reflection are partial, in both senses of the word: they comprehend only a fragment of a whole and they plead on behalf of a special interest. Individually, our values are personal ones, or mere opinions; collectively, the market converts them into prices, or objective facts.\nAfter washing out at LSE, Hayek never held a permanent appointment that was not paid for by corporate sponsors. Even his conservative colleagues at the University of Chicago \u2013 the global epicentre of libertarian dissent in the 1950s \u2013 regarded Hayek as a reactionary mouthpiece, a \u201cstock rightwing man\u201d with a \u201cstock rightwing sponsor\u201d, as one put it. As late as 1972, a friend could visit Hayek, now in Salzburg, only to find an elderly man prostrate with self-pity, believing his life\u2019s work was in vain. No one cared what he had written!\nThere had, however, been hopeful signs: Hayek was Barry Goldwater\u2019s favourite political philosopher and was said to be Ronald Reagan\u2019s, too. Then there was Margaret Thatcher. To anyone who would listen, Thatcher lionised Hayek, promising to bring together his free-market philosophy with a revival of Victorian values: family, community, hard work.\nHayek met privately with Thatcher in 1975, at the very moment that she, having been named leader of the opposition in the UK, was preparing to bring his Big Idea off the shelf and into history. They huddled for 30 minutes on Lord North Street in London, at the Institute for Economic Affairs. Afterwards, Thatcher\u2019s staff anxiously asked Hayek what he had thought. What could he say? For the first time in 40 years, power was mirroring back to Friedrich von Hayek his own cherished self-image, a man who might vanquish Keynes and remake the world.\nHe replied: \u201cShe\u2019s so beautiful.\u201d\nHayek\u2019s Big Idea isn\u2019t much of an idea \u2013 until you supersize it. Organic, spontaneous, elegant processes that, like a million fingers on a Ouija board, coordinate to create outcomes that are otherwise unplanned. Applied to an actual market \u2013 one for pork bellies or corn futures \u2013 this description is little more than a truism. It can be expanded to describe how various markets, in commodities and labour and even money itself, form that part of a society known as \u201cthe economy\u201d. This is less banal, but still inconsequential; a Keynesian accepts this description happily. But what if we bump it up one more step? What if we reconceive all of society as a kind of market?\nThe more Hayek\u2019s idea expands, the more reactionary it gets, the more it hides behind its pretence of scientific neutrality \u2013 and the more it allows economics to link up with the major intellectual trend of the west since the 17th century. The rise of modern science generated a problem: if the world is universally obedient to natural laws, what does it mean to be human? Is a human being simply an object in the world, like any other? There appears to be no way to assimilate the subjective, interior human experience into nature as science conceives it \u2013 as something objective whose rules we discover by observation.\nEverything about the postwar political culture lay in favour of John Maynard Keynes, and an expanded role for the state in managing the economy. But everything about the postwar academic culture lay in favour of Hayek\u2019s Big Idea. Before the war, even the most rightwing economist thought of the market as a means to a limited end, to the efficient allocation of scarce resources. From the time of Adam Smith in the mid-1700s, and up to that of the founding members of the Chicago school in the postwar years, it was commonplace to believe that the ultimate ends of society and of life, were established in the non-economic sphere.\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest John Maynard Keynes, circa 1940. Photograph: Tim Gidal/Getty\nOn this view, questions of value are resolved politically and democratically, not economically \u2013 through moral reflection and public deliberation. The classic modern expression of this belief is found in a 1922 essay called Ethics and the Economic Interpretation by Frank Knight, who arrived at Chicago two decades before Hayek. \u201cThe rational economic criticism of values gives results repugnant to common sense,\u201d Knight wrote. \u201cEconomic man is the selfish, ruthless object of moral condemnation.\u201d\nEconomists had struggled for 200 years with the question of how to place the values on which an otherwise commercial society is organised beyond mere self-interest and calculation. Knight, along with his colleagues Henry Simons and Jacob Viner, were holdouts against Franklin D Roosevelt and the market interventions of the New Deal, and they established the University of Chicago as the intellectually rigorous home of free-market economics that it remains to this day. However, Simons, Viner and Knight all started their careers before the unrivalled prestige of atomic physicists drew enormous sums of money into the university system and kicked off a postwar vogue for \u201chard\u201d science. They did not worship equations or models, and they worried about non-scientific questions. Most explicitly, they worried about questions of value, where value was absolutely distinct from price.\nIt is not just that Simons, Viner and Knight were less dogmatic than Hayek, or more willing to pardon the state for taxing and spending. It is not the case that Hayek was their intellectual superior. But they acknowledged as a first principle that society was not the same thing as the market, and that price was not the same thing as value. This set them up to be swallowed whole by history.\nIt was Hayek who showed us how to get from the hopeless condition of human partiality to the majestic objectivity of science. Hayek\u2019s Big Idea acts as the missing link between our subjective human nature, and nature itself. In so doing, it puts any value that cannot be expressed as a price \u2013 as the verdict of a market \u2013 on an equally unsure footing, as nothing more than opinion, preference, folklore or superstition.\nMore than anyone, even Hayek himself, it was the great postwar Chicago economist Milton Friedman who helped convert governments and politicians to the power of Hayek\u2019s Big Idea. But first he broke with two centuries of precedent and declared that economics is \u201cin principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgments\u201d and is \u201can \u2018objective\u2019 science, in precisely the same sense as any of the physical sciences\u201d. Values of the old, mental, normative kind were defective, they were \u201cdifferences about which men can ultimately only fight\u201d. There is the market, in other words, and there is relativism.\nMarkets may be human facsimiles of natural systems, and like the universe itself, they may be authorless and valueless. But the application of Hayek\u2019s Big Idea to every aspect of our lives negates what is most distinctive about us. That is, it assigns what is most human about human beings \u2013 our minds and our volition \u2013 to algorithms and markets, leaving us to mimic, zombie-like, the shrunken idealisations of economic models. Supersizing Hayek\u2019s idea and radically upgrading the price system into a kind of social omniscience means radically downgrading the importance of our individual capacity to reason \u2013 our ability to provide and evaluate justifications for our actions and beliefs.\nAs a result, the public sphere \u2013 the space where we offer up reasons, and contest the reasons of others \u2013 ceases to be a space for deliberation, and becomes a market in clicks, likes and retweets. The internet is personal preference magnified by algorithm; a pseudo-public space that echoes the voice already inside our head. Rather than a space of debate in which we make our way, as a society, toward consensus, now there is a mutual-affirmation apparatus banally referred to as a \u201cmarketplace of ideas\u201d. What looks like something public and lucid is only an extension of our own pre-existing opinions, prejudices and beliefs, while the authority of institutions and experts has been displaced by the aggregative logic of big data. When we access the world through a search engine, its results are ranked, as the founder of Google puts it, \u201crecursively\u201d \u2013 by an infinity of individual users functioning as a market, continuously and in real time.\nThe awesome utilities of digital technology aside, an earlier and more humanist tradition, which was dominant for centuries, had always distinguished between our tastes and preferences \u2013 the desires that find expression in the market \u2013 and our capacity for reflection on those preferences, which allows us to form and express values.\n\u201cA taste is almost defined as a preference about which you do not argue,\u201d the philosopher and economist Albert O Hirschman once wrote. \u201cA taste about which you argue, with others or yourself, ceases ipso facto being a taste \u2013 it turns into a value.\u201d\nHirschman drew a distinction between that part of one\u2019s self that is a consumer, and that part of one\u2019s self that is a supplier of reasons. The market reflects what Hirschman called the preferences that are \u201crevealed by agents as they buy goods and services\u201d. But, as he puts it, men and women also \u201chave the ability to step back from their \u2018revealed\u2019 wants, volition and preferences, to ask themselves whether they really want these wants and prefer these preferences\u201d. We fashion our selves and identities on the basis of this capacity for reflection. The use of one\u2019s individual reflective powers is reason; the collective use of these reflective powers is public reason; the use of public reason to make law and policy is democracy. When we provide reasons for our actions and beliefs, we bring ourselves into being: individually and collectively, we decide who and what we are.\nAccording to the logic of Hayek\u2019s Big Idea, these expressions of human subjectivity are meaningless without ratification by the market \u2013 as Friedman said, they are nothing but relativism, each as good as any other. When the only objective truth is determined by the market, all other values have the status of mere opinions; everything else is relativist hot air. But Friedman\u2019s \u201crelativism\u201d is a charge that can be thrown at any claim based on human reason. It is a nonsense insult, as all humanistic pursuits are \u201crelative\u201d in a way the sciences are not. They are relative to the (private) condition of having a mind, and the (public) need to reason and understand even when we can\u2019t expect scientific proof. When our debates are no longer resolved by deliberation over reasons, then the whimsies of power will determine the outcome.\nThis is where the triumph of neoliberalism meets the political nightmare we are living through now. \u201cYou had one job,\u201d the old joke goes, and Hayek\u2019s grand project, as originally conceived in 30s and 40s, was explicitly designed to prevent a backslide into political chaos and fascism. But the Big Idea was always this abomination waiting to happen. It was, from the beginning, pregnant with the thing it was said to protect against. Society reconceived as a giant market leads to a public life lost to bickering over mere opinions; until the public turns, finally, in frustration to a strongman as a last resort for solving its otherwise intractable problems.\nIn 1989, an American reporter knocked on the 90-year-old Hayek\u2019s door. He was living in Freiburg, West Germany, in a third-floor apartment in a stucco house on Urachstrasse. The two men sat in a sunroom whose windows looked out on the mountains, and Hayek, who was recovering from pneumonia, pulled a blanket over his legs as they spoke.\nThis was no longer the man who had once wallowed in his own defeat at the hands of Keynes. Thatcher had just written to Hayek in a tone of millennial triumph. None of what she and Reagan had accomplished \u201cwould have been possible without the values and beliefs to set us on the right road and provide the right sense of direction\u201d. Hayek was now cheerful on his own account, and optimistic about the future of capitalism. As the journalist wrote, \u201cIn particular, Hayek sees a greater appreciation for the market among the younger generation. Today unemployed youth in Algiers and Rangoon riot not for centrally planned welfare state but for opportunity: the freedom to buy and sell \u2013 jeans, cars, whatever \u2013 at whatever prices the market will bear.\u201d\nThirty years on, and it can fairly be said that Hayek\u2019s victory is unrivalled. We live in a paradise built by his Big Idea. The more closely the world can be made to resemble an ideal market governed only by perfect competition, the more law-like and \u201cscientific\u201d human behaviour, in the aggregate, becomes. Every day we ourselves \u2013 no one has to tell us to anymore! \u2013 strive to become more perfectly like scattered, discrete, anonymous buyers and sellers; and every day we treat the residual desire to be something more than a consumer as nostalgia, or elitism.\nHow statistics lost their power \u2013 and why we should fear what comes next\nWhat began as a new form of intellectual authority, rooted in a devoutly apolitical worldview, nudged easily into an ultra-reactionary politics. What can\u2019t be quantified must not be real, says the economist, and how do you measure the benefits of the core faiths of the enlightenment \u2013 namely, critical reasoning, personal autonomy and democratic self-government? When we abandoned, for its embarrassing residue of subjectivity, reason as a form of truth, and made science the sole arbiter of both the real and the true, we created a void that pseudo-science was happy to fill.\nThe authority of the professor, the reformer, the legislator or the jurist does not derive from the market, but from humanistic values such as public spiritedness, conscience or the longing for justice. Long before the Trump administration started demeaning them, such figures had been drained of salience by an explanatory scheme that can\u2019t explain them. Surely there is a connection between their growing irrelevance and the election of Trump, a creature of pure whim, a man without the principles or conviction to make for a coherent self. A man without a mind, who represents the total absence of reason, is running the world; or at least ruining it. As a Manhattan real estate wiseguy, though, Trump, hey \u2013 he knows what he knows: that his sins have yet to be punished in the marketplace.\nHungary: Life after communism for a communist party\nHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, of the right-wing FIDESZ party, delivers his address as pictured through a hole on the national flag during the commemoration of the 1956\nHungarian revolution against Stalinism, Oct. 23, 2016. During the revolution, the symbol of the hardline R\u00e1kosi regime had been cut out of the flag to symbolize opposition to his rule. Today, under Orban, nostalgia for the 1956-89 socialist era is growing. | Szilard Koszticsak / MTI via AP\nIn mid-July, I found myself in a part of Budapest I had never visited, \u00dajpest (\u201cNew Pest\u201d), a village on the outskirts of Budapest until the late 1950s. During that time, the government led by J\u00e1nos K\u00e1d\u00e1r began erecting massive apartment blocks as a means to eradicate homelessness in the city of Budapest. Those towers, made of pure concrete panels, were never meant to last more than 50 years.\nToday, Hungary\u2019s governing right-wing and neoliberal FIDESZ party has no interest in replacing or modernizing those buildings. It is fitting then that \u00dajpest is where most of, if not all, the workers of Budapest live and raise their families, and where the Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt (Hungarian Workers Party) recently moved its headquarters. The party was founded after the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, which had governed Hungary from 1956, split in 1989 after falling from power.\nA little historical background is perhaps needed. Hungarians recognize three different periods of workers\u2019 rule in their history: The Hungarian Soviet Republic, which existed for 133 days in 1919; The hardline era (1949-1956) under M\u00e1ty\u00e1s R\u00e1kosi, an authoritarian and close friend of Joseph Stalin; and the socialist period (1956-1989) under former WWII partisan J\u00e1nos K\u00e1d\u00e1r, who became communist leader in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Over those more than 30 years, the living standards of Hungary soared while inequality crashed and burned. The author, Nicholas James, left, with Th\u00fcrmer Gyula, leader of the Hungarian Workers Party. | PW / Nicholas James\nIf you ever have the chance to speak with a Hungarian, you\u2019ll likely find that their dislike of the era of communist rule is not due to their opposition to socialism, but rather because of the loss of national autonomy that was experienced under Soviet domination.\nAs I and my partner in travels, Hellenbort Richard, walked from the tram station towards the Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt headquarters, I couldn\u2019t help but notice that right-wing political parties had also set up offices in the village. The FIDESZ (right wing moderate/conservative) and JOBBIK (extreme right) parties were the most notable.\nOutside the building we were met by the Workers Party chairman, Th\u00fcrmer Gyula, and Central Committee member Marina Pilajeva. Pilajeva and I had met three years prior at the party\u2019s former headquarters in Budapest\u2019s 8th District.\nThis new site was quite the upgrade in modern style and much more inviting. The memories of past socialist accomplishments were proudly displayed along the walls, but the focus today was discussing 21st century socialism, the Workers Party, and its path forward.\nWith the complicated political stage back home in the U.S., I couldn\u2019t help but ask Th\u00fcrmer why he thought new extreme political parties had such a draw on voters.\n\u201cPerhaps this is the same in most capitalist countries. The Hungarian youth is disorientated to a very great degree. Get the money. Spend the money. But to deal with policy, they are looking for some values, and they try to find these values among the radical right organizations. They have come to our party in recent years. Why? Because they have come to understand that if I am born into a poor family, I have all the possibility to remain poor all my life.\u201d\nI told Th\u00fcrmer of how socialism was gaining in appeal among younger American voters, and asked whether there had been interest in organizing the youth into Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt.\nHe said, \u201cAt first, we only had comrades as members who were old enough to be on a pension. They had more time. They had more possibilities and more courage and political experience. We started at the bottom with the older generation.\u201d\nBut that situation is beginning to turn around. The membership now, he said, is mostly people who are 40-something. These are people who were born under the old socialist system and still remember it. \u201cThey say \u2018we understand that our parents lived better than we do now.\u2019 Some of them say that \u2018we understand now that we will never live as well as our parents did live.\u2019\u201d\nThinking back to when I first met Pilajeva, I remember she explained that Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt was a grassroots organization. Transitioning from a ruling party to a grassroots party has proven successful for some communist political organizations after the collapse of the socialist governments of eastern Europe: the Communist Party of Moldova, Die Linke (The Left) in Germany, and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech Republic.\nSo, I asked Th\u00fcrmer, how does a former ruling party maintain relevance after it is no longer in power?\n\u201cWe do not receive any financial support from the state. The younger members pay their dues electronically, but a vast majority of members pay their monthly fees in cash. They are not accustomed to the electronic system. Also, a majority of parties recommend that we do not use electronic methods, because capitalists control our money.\u201d\nHe says Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt also concentrates on special elections between the major national elections. \u201cOf course, it is very difficult to win an election when you do not live in a village; but we show up, we collect signatures, we give our propaganda, and they get to know us.\u201d\nOn-the-ground contact is key. \u201cWe meet the people where they live: in the markets and in the streets. One of the first laws the capitalist government passed forbids us to organize in the workplace. For decades in the socialist system, organizing for the party was only in the workplace.\u201d\nFor Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt members, practical political work is the focus. \u201cWe believe that the party should be like an army,\u201d according to Th\u00fcrmer. \u201cIf the soldiers are not given concrete work, they will lose discipline. On the internet, everyone is a great communist revolutionary. However, taking the time to do the real work is a sacrifice.\u201d\nMy eyes looked down at the table and saw one of the new literature pieces of the Workers Party: Harvesting combines moving in formation, exposing the Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt emblem as they reaped their crops\u2014quite a stunning image paying respect to agricultural workers. It reminded me of our own political challenges in the U.S.\nDuring the early 1990s it was common for the newly-elected governments of eastern Europe to pass laws making it harder\u2014impossible even\u2014for the communist parties that found themselves now in the opposition to participate. Those laws were passed to keep socialist and communist parties from ever again gaining a political majority in government once people realized the difficult truths of living in a market economy. Is that still the case now?\nTh\u00fcrmer says that his party still faces hurdles. \u201cTo be allowed to take part in the Hungarian parliament, a party had previously needed 4 percent of the national vote. When we (Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt) got close to this amount, the government then raised the bar to 5 percent.\u201d\nLabels also present a challenge in post-socialist Hungary, but Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt persists.\n\u201cIt is not legal to use the name \u2018Communist\u2019 in the name of the party. Our hearts are Communist, but the name itself is less important. Naturally, we would like to use the red star and such, but you can exist without it.\u201d\nThe promise of higher living standards under liberal policies has fallen flat and created a major population crisis for Hungary. Skilled workers are leaving the country in droves, especially in rural areas.\nMany employers in the smaller cities and villages are demanding twelve-hour shifts from the remaining workers as the labor pool has critically shrunk. The housing market is backed by the Swiss franc, the most valuable currency in the world, causing home ownership to be nearly impossible. And a nationalistic rebuke of the euro has caused the national currency (the forint) to decline in value.\nWhile discussing how public sentiment seems to be tiring of capitalism, Mr. Th\u00fcrmer made a statement that struck me to the core.\n\u201cThe future of capitalism in Hungary will not be decided in Hungary,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have a saying: \u2018when it rains in Germany, we open our umbrellas in Hungary.\u2019\u201d The cover of a new piece of Workers Party literature. | PW / Nicholas James\nHungary, a nation of ten million, has been reliant on the larger economies of other nations since the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. In 1919, the budding Hungarian Soviet Republic depended on support from Russia\u2019s Bolsheviks. In the interwar period, it was Germany\u2019s support that was needed.\nAfter WWII, of course, Hungary was reliant on the Soviet Union and trade with the other socialist countries of eastern Europe. After 1989, all hopes were put into the European Union\u2014essentially Germany, England, and France.\nIn other respects, though, the workers\u2019 struggle in Hungary is similar to that in the USA, and both nations have experienced a tremendous backsliding of workers\u2019 rights since the end of the Cold War.\nI recognized, at that moment, how privileged I was to sit, drink coffee, and discuss political activism with comrades 5,100 miles away from home. After a few photos with Comrades Th\u00fcrmer and Pilajeva, it was time to head out.\nAs a parting gift, Th\u00fcrmer handed us autographed copies of his most recent published work. My abilities at speaking Magyar (Hungarian) are laughable at best, but I understood when Richard explained how much the book meant to us.\nOn the tram home, Richard, who has voted for the extreme right-wing party JOBBIK in the past and also (seemingly paradoxically) spoken of the superiority of socialism, held up the book with a serious face, turned to me, and said:\n\u201cI am going to read this book. I like what Th\u00fcrmer Gyula had to say. Plus, would Orb\u00e1n Viktor [current prime minister and head of FIDESZ] take the time to speak with us? No, this guy has proven that they (Munk\u00e1sp\u00e1rt) are the party of workers.\u201d\nTrump\u2019s next chance to undercut Obamacare is almost here\n\"I don\u2019t think we can force people to sign up for a program.\"\nI attended a briefing yesterday with a Trump administration official (one condition was we had to quote the person this way), and the big topic of discussion was what the administration was willing to do to help people sign up for health coverage under Obamacare in 2018.\nThat answer stuck out to me. Even as the nation's uninsured rate hits an all-time low, the administration still portrays the law as failing and waves away accusations that it is helping foster uncertainty by, for example, refusing to commit to making key payments to insurers.\n\"We want people to have health care,\" the official said toward the end, answering a basic question about whether they wanted the Obamacare markets to work. \"We want the individual marketplace to function, and it\u2019s not functioning today.\"\nWe didn't get a lot of specifics about open enrollment. But there was little indication that the administration was preparing a robust outreach program. Experts have told me that a muted enrollment campaign could have serious consequences for the law's markets.\nWould the administration advertise Obamacare open enrollment? \"You'll hear more from us soon.\"\nWhat about the navigator program, which trains individuals and organizations to provide people with unbiased information and help them sign up? \"I'm not a business-as-usual person.\"\n(Reports from conservative outlets have cast doubt on the value of enrollment outreach programs, and HHS has highlighted those stories to other reporters.)\nThe official did say they wanted customers to have a good shopping experience. \"One of the things people really struggled with in the past is they would call and be on hold for a long time.\"\n\"I look at it as: Our role is good government,\" the official said. \"Our job is to uphold the law.\"\nBut we didn't learn what exactly that meant.\nSo I asked Tim Jost, a Washington and Lee law professor who is generally supportive of Obamacare but also probably knows the legal issues around it better than anyone. What is the administration required by law to do?\nGoing by the letter of the Affordable Care Act, the administration must:\nPerform outreach and education\nHave a call center for people to sign up for insurance or ask questions by phone\nHave a website for people to shop and enroll in coverage\nRun a navigator program\nBut that's about it. There aren't many requirements when it comes to scale: How much money must be spent on outreach, how many navigators must be funded, how many calls the centers can handle, etc.\nThe administration has done a few things to smooth enrollment for 2018, Jost said. They've said they will continue to automatically reenroll people in their existing coverage, unless they choose to shop around. They have held webinars for navigators and promised to spend a percentage of the fees that insurers pay to help fund the marketplaces on outreach.\n\"I don\u2019t know about President Trump, but as far as the 80,000 employees of HHS are concerned, this is a program that continues to operate,\" Jost told me.\nBut the administration has also taken steps to restrict enrollment, like shortening the open enrollment period. TPM has also reported that Latino groups that had working relationships with the Obama White House to help sign that population up for coverage have been cut off by the new regime.\nThen, as we heard Wednesday, the administration isn't exactly committing to a major outreach campaign.\n\"The surest way to kill the exchanges is to keep them a secret,\" Jost said. \"Sick people will find them, but getting younger and healthier people enrolled is the problem.\"\nExperts believe the Trump administration has already demonstrated it could have a real impact on Obamacare sign-ups.\nEnrollment for 2017 was tracking ahead of 2016, Larry Levitt at the Kaiser Family Foundation told me, until President Trump was sworn in with a little more than a week left for sign-ups. Enrollment trailed off at the end, which is doubly strange because there is usually a surge of enrollees around the deadline.\nTrump might have complicated issues by signing an executive order on his first day, which, while lacking many details, sent a message that the new administration would look for ways to scale back enforcement of the ACA.\n\"Something definitely happened,\" Levitt said. \"It's hard to say for sure exactly what caused the drop-off, but prime candidates are the scaling back of outreach and confusion among potential enrollees following the president's executive order.\"\n\"There may have been a sense that the individual mandate was no longer in force following the executive order and that the law was going to end imminently,\" he added, \"so it didn't make sense to enroll.\"\nObamacare averted one crisis when the last of its bare counties were filled in last week. Open enrollment is the next test. The Trump administration might not love the health care law, but coverage for millions of people will hinge in part on how good of a show they run. We'll see how they handle it.\nObesity in America in 2016. Obesity remains one of the paramount public health challenges for our country. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health have pulled together some new data. While rates remain high, if there is some good news, it appears they are starting to level off. There is a lot of data and info on the new report's website.\n\u201cTrump Administration Wants to Stabilize Health Markets but Won\u2019t Say How\u201d: \u201cA Trump administration official said Wednesday that the administration wanted to stabilize health insurance markets, but refused to say if the government would promote enrollment this fall under the Affordable Care Act or pay for the activities of counselors who help people sign up for coverage.\u201d \u2014Robert Pear, New York Times\n\u201cSen. Kamala Harris announces support for \u2018Medicare-for-All\u2019 bill\u201d: \u201c\u201cI intend to co-sponsor the Medicaid-for-All bill,\u201d California\u2019s junior senator told several hundred people at a town hall at Oakland\u2019s Beebe Memorial Cathedral, referring to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 Medicare-for-All proposal.\u201d \u2014Casey Tolan, San Jose Mercury News\n\u201cSt. Kitts Launches Probe Of Herpes Vaccine Tests On U.S. Patients\u201d: \u201cThe vaccine research has sparked controversy because the lead investigator, a professor with Southern Illinois University, and the U.S. company he co-founded did not rely on traditional U.S. safety oversight while testing the vaccine last year on mostly American participants on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.\u201d \u2014Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News\nAnalysis and longer reads\n\u201cWhile Congress is away, this bipartisan group of governors is trying to fix Obamacare\u201d: \u201cWritten by Govs. John Kasich (R-Ohio) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) with six other governors signing on, the plan makes adjustments to the ACA around the edges, as opposed to the large upheavals that Republican lawmakers have been trying to move through Congress.\u201d \u2014Kim Soffen, Reuben Fischer-Baum, and Kevin Uhrmacher, Washington Post\n\u201cAre Short-Term Limited Duration Plans Bad For The Individual Market?\u201d: \u201cWith the impasse in the congressional GOP\u2019s attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Trump administration has sought regulatory reforms that could improve health care choices and reduce costs for consumers. Among their options is the reversal of a recent regulation that sought to restrict the availability of short-term limited duration plans.\u201c \u2014Christopher Pope, Health Affairs\n\u201cIn mega-shelter for Harvey evacuees, telemedicine plans to help doctors keep up\u201d: \u201cChildren\u2019s Health has set up a telemedicine station from which ER physicians at the hospital can remotely see children at the shelter, via a computer monitor and specially designed equipment for measuring vital signs. The telemedicine station has been in use since Monday.\u201d \u2014Leah Samuel, STAT\nThe Bernie voters who defected to Trump, explained by a political scientist\nSen. Sanders holds a rally in Ohio on Tuesday\nAbout 12 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters from the Democratic primary crossed party lines and voted for Donald Trump in the general election, a new analysis says.\nIn several key states \u2014 Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan \u2014 the number of Sanders to Trump defectors were greater than Trump\u2019s margin of victory, according to new numbers released Wednesday by UMass professor Brian Schaffner.\nIn an interview, Schaffner noted that in an election this close, any number of voting blocs could have proved decisive. And the analysis certainly doesn\u2019t necessarily prove Sanders would have won \u2014 Schaffner also found that 34 percent of John Kasich\u2019s GOP primary supporters backed Clinton in the general; perhaps more would have stayed in the Republican camp had Sanders been the Democrats\u2019 nominee, or perhaps fewer of Hillary Clinton\u2019s voters would have voted for Sanders. Then again, it also suggests some voters were in Sanders\u2019s reach that were out of Clinton\u2019s.\nMoreover, defections from a primary to general election are common. More voters went from Hillary Clinton to John McCain in 2008 than went from Sanders to Trump in 2016; about 13 percent of Trump\u2019s 2016 voters also voted for Barack Obama in 2012.\n\u201cThe way to think about this is, as several people have noted, that this election was so close that any number of things could have proved the decisive difference,\u201d Schaffner said in an interview. \u201cThis is yet another one of those anythings.\u201d\nBut given Democrats\u2019 interest in winning back the Rust Belt, it\u2019s worth digging into exactly who this population of voters is. Schaffner found some demographic characteristics that might align with what you\u2019d expect \u2014 Bernie-Trump voters were older and whiter than the average Democratic primary voter, for instance.\nPerhaps surprisingly, however, these defectors did not turn out to have views on trade policy that marked them as significantly more opposed to free trade than the average Democrat. That may fly against the expectation that Sanders\u2019 views on trade were unique to his appeal, but some political scientists were making that case as early as April 2016.\nAlso of note: the Bernie-Trump voter also proved much more likely to consider himself or herself \u201csomewhat conservative\u201d or \u201cvery conservative\u201d than the average Democrat. Sanders, of course, ran on a policy platform well to Clinton\u2019s left \u2014 but was able to do so in a way that allowed him to win over voters that disdain the \u201cliberal\u201d label.\nA transcript of my conversation with Schaffner on Wednesday follows.\nI\u2019ve seen some people who are using your new finding to trumpet that \u201cBernie Would Have Won,\u201d because the number of Bernie-Trump voters is greater than the margin of difference between Clinton and Trump. And then there are others who say that this poll proves that Bernie voters cost Hillary the election, because his supporters stubbornly flipped to Trump in the end.\nAnd it seems like for one claim to be correct, so does the other one.\nBrian Schaffner\nOne piece of this that\u2019s important to keep in context is that you always see this kind of defection between a primary and a general election. In 2008, you saw a lot of Hillary Clinton voters who ended up backing John McCain \u2014 so it's not abnormal to see this kind of thing. And more of them did so in 2008 than this time. [15 percent of Clinton\u2019s 2008 voters in the primary supported McCain in that year\u2019s general election.] Although given the candidates this time versus in 2008, it may have been surprising to see even this rate of defection.\nThe thing that really stood out to me is that a lot of these people who voted for Sanders \u2014 and then Trump \u2014 don't look like modern day Democrats. So you saw a lot fewer of them actually identify as Democrats than your normal Sanders voter; and, even more striking, they seem to have views on racial issues that are far more conservative than your typical Democrat.\nIt's not clear to me this necessarily if this is a Hillary Clinton problem specifically, or if this was Bernie Sanders having a special appeal to bring people into Democratic Party primaries, who would otherwise be inclined to be Republicans.\nSo who are these Bernie-Trump defectors?\nI assume they\u2019re not the young voters who made up the core of Bernie\u2019s base in the primary? This is the other major part of his coalition \u2014 the white union \u201cReagan Democrat\u201d voters.\nBut then again, you have a chart showing that these Bernie-Trump defectors weren\u2019t particularly opposed to free trade deals:\nThat\u2019s a good question. I\u2019ll just say I haven\u2019t gone down every rabbit hole yet. But they were also older and whiter [than the average Bernie voter in the primary], and also less liberal.\nOf the ones that switched to Trump, only about 25 percent also voted for a Democratic candidate for Congress. And we do have a little bit about what they did in 2012 \u2014 it looks like they were split roughly evenly, 50-50, between Obama and Romney. So these appear to be people who are trending out of the Democratic Party.\nOf those Bernie voters who supported Trump in the general election, the average age was 52. Those who stuck with Clinton were an average age of 45, and of those who broke for a third party, the average age was 44. Of those that didn\u2019t vote, their average age was 35 \u2014 these were the ones that got activated by Bernie, and then dropped back out when he didn't win. It\u2019s worth noting that very few of the primary voters stayed home. People who vote in primaries are highly engaged in politics \u2014 they\u2019re not people who come in and out of the electorate.\nI also looked at how the Bernie-Trump voters identify themselves on the ideological scale, and very few say that they're liberal. Only about 17 to 18 percent say that they're liberal, in any kind of way, shape, or form, though they voted for Sanders.\nBy contrast, about 45 percent of these Bernie-Trump voters say they're \u2018middle of the road\u2019 \u2014 basically, a lot of them see themselves as \u201cmoderates.\u201d Meanwhile, another 35 percent of them are claiming to be either somewhat conservative or very conservative.\nI think what this starts to suggest to me is that these are old holdovers from the Democratic Party that are conservative on race issues. And while Bernie wasn't campaigning on that kind of thing, Clinton was much more forthright about courting the votes of minorities \u2014 and maybe that offended them, and then eventually pushed them out and toward Trump.\nHow big or decisive was this population?\nThe way to think about this is, as several people have noted, that this election was so close that any number of things could have proved the decisive difference. This is yet another one of those anythings.\nAn 8 to 10 percent defection rate among Sanders voters changes the outcome in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan \u2014 even maybe some other states.\nBut at the same time you have to remember how many Republican primary voters didn\u2019t end up voting for Trump. It\u2019s probably not quite as many, but it\u2019s more of a wash in that respect.\nIt\u2019s been months since the election \u2014 why is this data coming out now?\nThis is the Cooperative Congressional Elections Study data, and we\u2019ve had the survey data itself since February. And I saw this pattern back in February, but I was a little skeptical.\nWhat we do with this survey is go back and match respondents to voter files because people lie about having voted, and especially lie about having voted in the primaries. What I was worried about is people who claimed to have voted in a primary for Bernie but didn\u2019t.\nSo I waited until I had the data that matched the respondents to their voter file record, which allowed us to see \u2014 these are the people we know voted for a primary. And we\u2019re still getting this defection rate.\nReport: Brexit strategist to help GOP with 2018 midterm election strategy\nOne of the minds behind the Brexit campaign is reportedly helping Republicans strategize for the 2018 midterm elections.\nBack in 2015, the pro-Brexit group Leave.EU hired American PR strategist Gerry Gunster to help lead the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union.\nNow, per Politico\u2019s reporting, Gunster is \u201cin discussions\u201d with GOP leaders on how to tackle the 2018 midterm elections:\nSpearheading the discussions is Republican strategist Gerry Gunster, a referendum expert who helped to lead the successful 2016, populist-infused campaign for Britain's exit from the European Union. Gunster \u2014 who visited then-president-elect Trump in New York City along with Brexit leader Nigel Farage after the November election \u2014 has spoken about the ballot initiative concept with top administration aides, including political director Bill Stepien and Nick Ayers, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence and a veteran GOP operative.\nGerry Gunster, who runs the US advocacy firm Goddard Gunster, was a top strategist in the campaign to convince British voters to approve leaving the European Union. Ultimately, 51.9 percent of British voters voted to leave the EU.\nThe Brexit campaign has been criticized for its use of false statistics about the financial cost of Britain staying in the EU, which many say helped its victory. An article by the Telegraph identified several of the statistics pushed by the Brexit campaign as misleading and downright false.\nFor example, the \u201cLeave\u201d camp claimed that the UK lost 350 million pounds (about $450 million) per week as a result of being in the EU, and pledged to invest that money in Britain\u2019s health care system if the UK left. This was doubly wrong: The 350 million figure didn\u2019t take into account money the EU paid back to Britain in subsidies, and the Brexit side quickly abandoned its promise to spend the 350 million on health care after they won the vote.\nNonetheless, the GOP seems keen to draw on Gunster\u2019s insights. Despite extensive gerrymandering that favors Republican victories around the country in 2018, the GOP has cause for concern for its incumbents\u2019 and candidates\u2019 prospects, including: Trump\u2019s recent attacks on GOP leaders, the failed recent attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare that have reflected poorly on the party, and 2017 special elections results showing the Democratic Party closing its gap behind the GOP.\nGame of Thrones season 7: each character's strategy, ranked by political science\nThese guys did pretty well. (HBO)\nGame of Thrones\u2019 seventh season, one defined by the show\u2019s most central characters all coming into conflict for the first time, is over. Daenerys, Jon, Cersei, Tyrion, Sansa, and all the rest spent the entire season struggling with one another for power and control over Westeros, each employing different strategies to strengthen their faction and accomplish their objectives.\nWhich makes the season\u2019s end a perfect time to take stock: to assess each player\u2019s strategy, and judge which character did the best with the tools they had available. Who played the Game of Thrones best?\nTo make this judgment, I looked to science \u2014 political science, specifically. The subfield of international relations has spent decades accumulating knowledge on what causes different countries to rise and fall, to succeed at getting what they want or to fail miserably. A lot of this work applies just as well to Westeros, with a little bit of tweaking, as it does to Earth.\nSo as the season ended, I sat down and thought about which characters were most successful and why. I also consulted with a bona fide expert \u2014 Dan Drezner, author of Theories of International Politics and Zombies and a professor of international relations at Tufts University\u2019s Fletcher School \u2014 to help figure out how political science helped explain who won and who lost on Game of Thrones this season.\nWhat follows, then, is a definitive ranking of whose strategies were best in season seven, from worst to best, focusing only on players who had a major role in the global conflict this season (sorry, Bran, Sam, and Jaime).\nSo here\u2019s the ranking. And remember, you can\u2019t argue with it \u2014 it\u2019s science.\n12) Daenerys Targaryen (HBO)\nAt the beginning of the season, Daenerys had every piece in place to succeed. She had the world\u2019s most powerful army, three strong allies, a compelling objective of \u201cbreaking\u201d the wheel that had hurt ordinary people, and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 she was the sole possessor of the world\u2019s most powerful military technology, dragons. By all rights, she should have ended this season atop the Iron Throne and ready to confront the White Walker threat in the North.\nShe failed, miserably.\nDaenerys lost two of her three allies \u2014 Dorne and Highgarden \u2014 and the leader of her third, Yara Greyjoy, was captured. She gained a new ally, Jon Snow, but he didn\u2019t make up for the losses. And she idiotically delivered a dragon right into the hands of the Night King, her most serious rival for military hegemony. Her incompetent strategy literally endangered the entire planet, and for that she deserves the lowest spot in this ranking.\nWhy did Dany fail so epically? Her nation was what\u2019s called a \u201crevisionist\u201d power in international relations parlance, meaning a country that is attempting to upend the political status quo and create a new international order whose terms they dictate. Think Napoleon\u2019s France, World War II-era Japan, or modern-day Russia.\nIn a statistical study of revisionist powers, Yale University\u2019s Jason Lyall found that revisionist powers often fail by adopting disastrous strategies. They do so, Lyall argues, because leaders build support by winning a military victory of a certain kind. These leaders make grandiose promises of a new world, and need to show that they are delivering. As a result, they build strategy around fulfilling their promises, and often adopt risky approaches that seem appealing, rather than smarter ones that less obviously fit they way they sold themselves.\nThis is the precise issue that affected Daenerys this season. Early on, she pledged to be a benevolent conqueror, not to burn King\u2019s Landing to the ground or occupy cities with foreign troops. This led her to keep her dragons at home entirely, rather than think more creatively about using them. Why not burn the Red Keep and kill Cersei \u2014 but leave the civilian centers of King\u2019s Landing alone? Why not send the dragons to burn Euron\u2019s navy? Why not use the Dothraki cavalry to harry Cersei\u2019s military, staying out of sight of King\u2019s Landing but ambushing any Lannister forces that dared leave the capital?\nLater in the season, after losing most of her main allies, she became obsessed with winning Jon\u2019s loyalty \u2014 leading to the precise opposite problem. She put her dragons at too much risk, sending them to rescue Jon in a situation where the enemy\u2019s military capability was not well known. She managed to save Jon and win his loyalty, just as Lyall\u2019s theory would predict \u2014 but also handed a weapon of mass destruction to a power bent on literally extinguishing all human life.\nThis was revisionism at its most incompetent.\n11) Petyr \u201cLittlefinger\u201d Baelish (HBO)\nLittlefinger, of course, is dead. All of his scheming amounted to nothing in the end, his throat cut at Arya Stark\u2019s hand while the Knights of the Vale \u2014 ostensibly his soldiers \u2014 sat and watched. His failure is second to Daenerys\u2019s only because he had a lot less to work with, and the consequences mostly rebound on him rather than the entire world.\nThe issue here was overreach. Littlefinger wanted to marry Sansa and secure his claim to the North, but felt he couldn\u2019t do that while Arya \u2014 who didn\u2019t trust him \u2014 was around. So he plotted to turn Sansa against Arya, which led the two of them to instead decide to eliminate him. With no truly loyal allies, Littlefinger was defenseless when the Lady of Winterfell turned on him.\nThis is a problem with Littlefinger\u2019s entire approach to gaining power. He believed the only thing that mattered was the power of the forces you command. But Westeros is a society defined not only by pure power politics, but rather by a series of ethical beliefs and rules of etiquette. There\u2019s an entire school of international relations theory, called constructivism, devoted to explaining the importance of these ideas \u2014 and scholars think it applies fairly well to Westeros.\n\u201cSocial relations in Westeros are sustained as much through bread-breaking rituals, arranged marriages, and promise-keeping as through backstabbing and treachery,\u201d Charli Carpenter, a professor of international relations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes at Foreign Affairs. \u201cThe power of such rules is only highlighted by their occasional breach.\u201d\nThe first of these rules among the Westerosi nobility is loyalty to family. The Starks, a family famous for their commitment to ethical rules, would never turn on each other. Littlefinger did not understand the nature of this belief, and believed he could turn Sansa to his way of thinking. By overestimating the power of fear and power lust, and underestimating the force of Westeros\u2019s moral rules, Littlefinger sealed his fate.\n10\u20138) Olenna Tyrell, Ellaria Sand, and the Greyjoy siblings [TIED] (HBO)\nDaenerys\u2019s initial three allies all kicked off season seven as leading members of the world\u2019s most powerful alliance \u2014 and ended in disaster. Olenna is dead. Ellaria was forced to watch her daughter die in front of her eyes. And Yara Greyjoy is a prisoner of her uncle Euron, with her brother Theon is on a dangerous mission to rescue her.\nWhat happened here was very simple. These leaders all attempted a strategy called \u201cbandwagoning\u201d \u2014 aligning yourself with a stronger power. Ohio State University\u2019s Randall Schweller argues that countries tend to bandwagon with revisionist powers like the Targaryen alliance when they want to strengthen their position in the international system.\nThis all made sense at the beginning: Cersei murdered Olenna\u2019s family and destroyed their chance to take over the throne, Ellaria hated the Lannisters, and Yara/Theon needed someone\u2019s help in overthrowing Euron.\nBut the problem with bandwagoning is that your fortune rises and falls with those of the great power you\u2019ve aligned with. When Daenerys proved too timid and uncreative to win an early victory against Cersei, her allies were the first casualties. Daenerys\u2019s allies overestimated her chances, and paid the price.\n7) Tyrion Lannister (HBO)\nTyrion\u2019s situation was a little different from that of the other leaders we\u2019ve talked about so far. His situation wasn\u2019t just about developing a strategy to beat his sister \u2014 though he clearly didn\u2019t perform very well on that front. It was, first and foremost, about maintaining his own position as Dany\u2019s Hand and using it to steer her toward the right course of action.\nHe did all right: He still had his job by the end of the season, and Daenerys clearly trusted him to lead the negotiations with Cersei. But at several times throughout the season, he managed to unnecessarily marginalize himself and weaken his influence with his queen. Tyrion consistently advised Daenerys against deploying her dragons, even after it became clear in the fourth episode that Daenerys wanted to do so. After the success of that episode\u2019s raid on Jaime Lannister\u2019s army, Tyrion had very little credibility to counsel against the dragon raid to rescue Jon, the season\u2019s most epic disaster.\nThis is a point that Harvard\u2019s Graham Allison emphasizes in his famous book on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, The Essence of Decision. Allison argues that when leaders have decided on a course of action, they want their advisers\u2019 approval rather than advice. Advisers who want influence over future decisions need to provide that approval, and try to shape the decision, rather than openly challenge their leader. Doing so will only marginalize them and lessen their influence.\nBy counseling against dragon raids all season long, Tyrion burned his own credibility on the subject of dragon raids. The reason he felt so ineffectual for much of the season \u2014 and indeed, moped about it on a few occasions \u2014 is that he did a bad job reading Daenerys\u2019s opinions and maximizing his influence over her. He\u2019s a very smart man, but he\u2019s still learning how to handle his queen.\n6) Arya Stark (HBO)\nArya is the first character we\u2019ve looked at who succeeded at her objectives more than she failed.\nHer strategy throughout season seven was simple and consistent: kill her house\u2019s enemies. She began the season by assassinating Walder Frey and all of his male heirs in retaliation for the Red Wedding, and ended it by executing Littlefinger for his (many) crimes against the Starks.\nThis actually worked out pretty well. The Freys seem to have been eliminated as a major force in Westerosi politics, and Littlefinger\u2019s death actually seems to have solidified Stark control over the Knights of the Vale, a vital part of their military force.\nThis tracks with real-world statistical evidence that decapitation \u2014 meaning killing an opponent\u2019s leader \u2014 can effectively weaken its entire force under certain circumstances. One such situation, Georgia Tech\u2019s Jenna Jordan argues, is when the enemy has a \u201ccharismatic\u201d leadership structure. This means that the enemy is held together by one or a handful of powerful leaders, and functions because of that person\u2019s leadership rather than any kind of bureaucratic structure or ideological bonds.\nThis condition applies to both of the enemies Arya took on. House Frey was a family business, led by its men; killing the entire male line ended the threat. Littlefinger held his forces together through sheer force of will; when he was exposed and eliminated, there was no organization that would continue his shadow campaign to undermine Arya in his wake. Arya chose the right targets and killed the right people.\n5) Euron Greyjoy (HBO)\nEuron is a weird one, since his most important move \u2014 building up a massive fleet after Yara and Theon stole the core of the Greyjoy navy \u2014 happened offscreen. But it\u2019s hard to deny that he played his poor hand brilliantly: He started out the season a weak ruler of a divided island kingdom, and ended it with a real shot at becoming the king of Westeros via a promised marriage to Cersei.\nThe key move here was leveraging industrial capacity (the ability to build up such a large navy so quickly) to make smart moves in power politics. Euron identified that Pyke had a resource that a powerful player needed \u2014 a fleet \u2014 and provided that capacity in exchange for promises of a permanent alliance.\nThis calls to mind the rise of the US as a global power. As Fareed Zakaria documents in his book From Wealth to Power, the United States had the economic capacity to play a major role in global politics \u2014 to build up a powerful military and wield major diplomatic influence \u2014 far before it actually did so. What it took, Zakaria argued, was a concentration of power in the executive branch, and presidents willing to use that power to exercise influence abroad. This happened in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, starting (more or less) with the Spanish-American War.\nThat\u2019s exactly what Euron did for Pyke. Think of him as the Iron Islands\u2019 Teddy Roosevelt, a swashbuckler who became his country\u2019s leader and helped shape it into one of the world\u2019s great powers.\n4) Sansa Stark (HBO)\nSansa had a lot of responsibility this season. She had to maintain the North\u2019s loyalty as Jon was off trying to negotiate with Daenerys, while simultaneously fending off Littlefinger\u2019s scheming. She succeeded brilliantly at both.\nSansa was perhaps the only character who spent time onscreen preparing for the long upcoming winter, managing problems like how people would feed themselves when crops might not grow for years. Her effective stewardship won her the loyalty of the Stark bannermen \u2014 an impressive feat for a young woman in a patriarchal society.\nPlaying off gendered expectations, actually, was vital to her success in the struggle against Lord Baelish. Feminist international relations scholars, like Clark University\u2019s Cynthia Enloe, argue that the international system functions on the invisible, less prestigious work often assigned to women. This is even more true in Westeros, a place where men literally inherit power and alliances are formed through marriage, than it is on modern Earth.\nSansa understood this gendered system, and how it shapes everyone\u2019s expectations, better than anyone. She repeatedly said that she knew what Littlefinger wanted \u2014 her body and her hand in marriage \u2014 and she was right. She played off Littlefinger\u2019s expectations, letting him believe that she might actually consider allying with him, lulling him into a false sense of security while she quietly schemed against him. By playing off the male belief that a man\u2019s pathway to power was through controlling women, she out-manipulated the show\u2019s most effective manipulator.\nThat she did it in conjunction with her sister, in defiance of the catfighting trope that Game of Thrones appeared to be setting up, was the cherry on top.\nHow Game of Thrones\u2019 Arya and Sansa played the game of gender politics and won\n3) Jon Snow (HBO)\nI\u2019ve argued before that the best way to think about the White Walkers, from the human point of view, is as a threat akin to climate change \u2014 a massive collective threat that humans were ignoring in favor of petty internal squabbling. Jon, to his immense credit, is the only leader who recognized the enormity of the threat early enough to try to rally others to stop it. He\u2019s kind of a Westerosi Al Gore, only he succeeded in getting to run a country.\nSo the best way to think about Jon\u2019s mission is through the lens of environmental diplomacy: He needed to convince the world\u2019s leading powers to abandon the internecine struggle over the throne and refocus on the White Walker threat. He didn\u2019t have a ton to work with: The North is a distinctly third-tier power, weaker militarily than both the Targaryen and Lannister alliances and the country most vulnerable to the White Walkers.\nJon may have failed to rally Cersei to his cause, but he succeeded in bringing on Daenerys. And that\u2019s by far the most important, mostly because her dragons and cache of dragonglass represent the only chance humanity has at fending off the White Walker threat. If it weren\u2019t for Jon, humanity would be fundamentally doomed.\nThe London School of Economics\u2019 Robert Falkner argues that in our world, global environmental agreements only succeed when they have some American buy-in. Because the United States is so dominant in the international realm, controlling so much of the world\u2019s resources, it effectively has veto power over whether an agreement can work.\nDaenerys is the American equivalent here, and Jon convinced her to commit 100 percent to the battle in the North. He actually went further than that: By getting Dany to fall for him, he raised the possibility of marriage. Icky incest aside, this gives the North a chance to sit one of its own on the Iron Throne for the first time in Westerosi history. Jon not only built a dominant anti-White Walker coalition but laid the groundwork for a permanent alliance with Westeros\u2019s greatest power.\n2) The Night King (HBO)\nAll of the White Walkers\u2019 seemingly aimless wandering paid off the moment undead Viserion punched a hole in the Wall itself. Now the Night King\u2019s forces are streaming into Westeros proper, where they have access to huge human population centers that they can kill and then raise as wights. The army of the dead is the scariest it\u2019s ever been.\nThis is all thanks to the Night King\u2019s patient strategy.\nThe conflict in the North was defined by what scholars call the offense/defense balance. The term, coined by Columbia University\u2019s Robert Jervis, refers to the idea that technology can fundamentally shape whether states are likely to go to war. The Wall was a dominant defensive technology \u2014 it made it difficult, if not impossible, for the White Walkers to actually mount a successful assault on the Seven Kingdoms. The Night King correctly identified this challenge, and focused his energies on killing humans and giants and bears north of the Wall that could then be raised to make his army stronger. In essence, he engaged in a massive military buildup while waiting for a time when technological developments would shift the offense/defense balance.\nAnd it did, the minute Daenerys sent dragons into his grasp. When the Night King killed Viserion and took control of him, he gained control of a technology that trumped the human\u2019s chief defensive technology. He then attacked essentially immediately, busting through the Wall and into the North while the bulk of the human forces were deployed down south.\nWith undead Viserion in his grasp, the Night King is arguably the most powerful military force in Westeros. And he\u2019s in a prime position to make his army stronger by sweeping across the North.\n1) Cersei Lannister (HBO)\nAt the beginning of the season, Cersei was isolated and friendless. She was surrounded by enemies, her kingdom was deeply in debt to the Iron Bank, and she was facing a kind of military threat \u2014 dragons \u2014 that she simply had no answer to. It seemed like most people, as my colleague Andrew Prokop writes, expected her to die this season.\nShe didn\u2019t \u2014 and, in fact, she ended up in a position where she could plausibly win a war that once seemed impossible. She had neutralized a number of opponents, recruited Euron and the all-powerful Iron Bank to her side, used the Iron Bank to finance the purchase of a powerful mercenary force, and pitted her two most dangerous enemies (Daenerys and the Night King) against each other.\nTo understand Cersei\u2019s success, we need to reach back to the classic work of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz.\nClausewitz is most famous for his book On War, specifically the phrase \u201cwar is simply a continuation of politics with other means.\u201d This is a commonly (mis)quoted phrase, but its meaning is actually quite subtle. Clausewitz is arguing that war is one tool of statecraft and nothing more. The goal of fighting is the same as the goal of economic sanctions or diplomatic negotiations: to accomplish a desired political end. Just because it\u2019s bloodier doesn\u2019t make it fundamentally different.\nCersei, to her credit, internalized this lesson more than anyone else. She dedicated herself to one objective \u2014 protecting the survival of the Lannister dynasty and the life of her unborn child \u2014 and centered every tool of statecraft on accomplishing that goal.\nShe pledged to marry an unpleasant pirate, exposed a large chunk of her army to dragon fire in the name of acquiring vital gold to pay back the Iron Bank, and even let her ancestral home of Casterly Rock fall to put her enemy in a strategically vulnerable situation. No other Westerosi power thought as creatively about how to link the major aspects of state power \u2014 military, economic, and diplomatic \u2014 in order to accomplish a particular political end.\nMy guess is that Cersei\u2019s approach will all come crashing down on her head next season, owing to her alienation of her brother and paranoid, backstabby ways. But that\u2019s a guess. Just looking at the arc of season seven, it\u2019s clear that no one played the Game of Thrones better than Cersei Lannister.\nFauda:How Do You Make a TV Show Set in the West Bank?\nWhat the thriller \u201cFauda\u201d reveals about what Israelis will watch\u2014and what they won\u2019t.\n\u201cFauda\u201d follows an undercover Israeli unit trying to ensnare a terrorist mastermind.Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson\nIn 1949, Yizhar Smilansky, a young Israeli veteran, national legislator, and novelist writing under the pen name S. Yizhar, published \u201cKhirbet Khizeh,\u201d a novella about the destruction of a lightly fictionalized Palestinian village near Ashkelon, some thirty miles south of Tel Aviv. Writing from the point of view of a disillusioned Israeli soldier, Yizhar describes the Army\u2019s capture of the village and the expulsion of its remaining inhabitants. The time is 1948, the moment of Israel\u2019s independence and its subsequent victory over five invading Arab armies that had hoped to erase the fledgling Jewish state from the map. It would be forty years before the New Historians\u2014Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, and Simha Flapan among them\u2014marshalled the nerve and the documentary evidence required to shatter the myth that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs had all voluntarily \u201cabandoned\u201d their cities and villages. Yizhar was there to bear witness in real time. He wrote from personal experience; he had been an intelligence officer in the war. In \u201cKhirbet Khizeh,\u201d Yizhar\u2019s protagonist is sickened as he comes across an Arab woman who watches as her home is levelled: \u201cShe had suddenly understood, it seemed, that it wasn\u2019t just about waiting under the sycamore tree to hear what the Jews wanted and then to go home, but that her home and her world had come to a full stop, and everything had turned dark and was collapsing; suddenly she had grasped something inconceivable, terrible, incredible, standing directly before her, real and cruel, body to body, and there was no going back.\u201d Just a few years after the destruction of European Jewry, the soldier wonders, have we now become oppressors? Have the Arabs now been sent into exile? And why can\u2019t I bring myself to protest? \u201cKhirbet Khizeh\u201d eventually became part of the Israeli public-school curriculum.\nIn the late nineteen-seventies, a decade after the Six-Day War and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, a young filmmaker named Ram Loevy proposed adapting \u201cKhirbet Khizeh\u201d for Israeli television. Loevy\u2019s father had edited a Jewish newspaper in Danzig and escaped Europe on one of the last ships to leave Occupied France for Palestine. As a teen-ager, in the fifties, Loevy was an ardent Zionist. He was radiantly proud of the country that his people were building and unquestioning of its official history. And so he listened with \u201camazement\u201d when his Scoutmaster read Yizhar\u2019s novella aloud to him and a group of other boys. \u201cI knew things hadn\u2019t happened exactly as Zionist propaganda had said,\u201d Loevy, who is seventy-seven, told me. \u201cThis story really opened my mind.\u201d\nThe state broadcasting authorities initially rejected Loevy\u2019s proposal, but, after a prolonged bureaucratic battle, he finally gained permission and an adequate budget, and completed the film. It was scheduled to air after the evening news on February 6, 1978. On the morning of the broadcast, however, state officials, led by the Minister of Education, declared that it could not be shown.\nTurmoil ensued. Yossi Sarid, a left-leaning Knesset member, declared, \u201cThe flag of freedom of speech in Israel has been lowered to half-mast.\u201d To protest the government censorship, Israel\u2019s television station\u2014there was only one in those days\u2014decided to show nothing at all in the time slot: forty-eight minutes of a black screen.\nGovernment ministers \u201cviewed the directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority as traitors,\u201d Rogel Alpher, a television critic for Haaretz, told me. The film made plain that the War of Independence, for all its heroism, involved a crime\u2014and, for many people, that implicit acknowledgment was impermissible for the public airwaves. Tommy Lapid, a journalist and a rising political figure, did not deny the events of 1948, but he argued that the film would inflame anti-Semitism among the Arabs. In the end, the right lost the battle: the Minister of Education lacked the authority to quash the film. A week later, on February 13th, the authorities agreed to show \u201cKhirbet Khizeh.\u201d But just once.\nThe evening of the broadcast, there was little traffic in the streets. Everyone watched it, and everyone discussed it. \u201cOf course, some people on the right said that the expulsion of the Palestinians was what should happen with the rest of the Arabs in Israel!\u201d Loevy recalled. \u201cAnd there were some on the left who thought the film was disappointing because it didn\u2019t show our soldiers being even more brutal.\u201d\nIt was not shown again for fourteen years. \u201cToday, a film like \u2018Khirbet Khizeh\u2019 would be impossible,\u201d Alpher said. \u201cYou won\u2019t be jailed for it, but the subject of the Nakba\u201d\u2014the Arabic term for the \u201ccatastrophe\u201d of Palestinian expulsion and exile, in 1948\u2014\u201ccannot be mentioned unless you want to be branded a \u2018leftist.\u2019 \u201d As Israel has become more and more nationalist, as the left has receded since the failure of the Oslo Accords and the violence of the second intifada, more than a decade ago, the term \u201coccupation,\u201d kiboosh, marks its user as being outside the mainstream, and, for broadcasters, in journalism or in entertainment, it invites not only marginalization but hate mail, threats, and even angry phone calls from government offices. Many leading journalists, including a liberal like Ilana Dayan, the host of \u201cUvda\u201d (\u201cFact\u201d), an edgier version of \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d have told me that they think twice before using the word.\nPerhaps the most daring moment on television came in 1998, the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel, with the airing of \u201cTekuma,\u201d or \u201cRebirth,\u201d a twenty-two-part documentary series that provoked criticism on the right for providing the Palestinian view of history alongside the Zionist narrative. The series included reporting on massacres, discrimination, expulsions. Ariel Sharon, in a letter of protest to the Minister of Education, called for the series to be banned from state schools, complaining that it \u201cdistorts the history of the rebirth and undermines any moral basis for the establishment of the State of Israel and its continued existence.\u201d\nTwo decades later, the Israeli public is generally less welcoming of such self-examination. In the past several years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been portrayed in features such as \u201cBethlehem\u201d and \u201cRock the Casbah\u201d and in documentaries such as \u201c5 Broken Cameras,\u201d \u201cThe Gatekeepers,\u201d \u201cThe Settlers,\u201d and \u201cMegiddo,\u201d but these films seem to have more resonance abroad than they do in Israel. There is little daily discussion of the occupation, or of the mass displacement that preceded it. The economy is good, technology thrives, relatively stable alliances have been formed with Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf states\u2013\u2013and life \u201con the other side of the wall\u201d is of only episodic concern. The politics of the late Netanyahu era is the politics of one week to the next. The government\u2019s various financial scandals far eclipse the Palestinian question in the news. Stability might be an illusion, but it is an illusion that, day to day, defeats most attempts to penetrate it.\n\u201cThe problem of the Nakba has not been tackled much onscreen after \u2018Khirbet Khizeh,\u2019 \u201d Loevy said. \u201cIt\u2019s a raw subject. The problem is this: if we are responsible, at least partly, for the flight of the Palestinian refugees, then we have to do something about it.\u201d He went on, \u201cGuilt and denial are twins. We know that what has happened to those old-time inhabitants, the Palestinians, may happen to us, and that counting on His promises may be walking on thin ice.\u201d\n\u201cFauda,\u201d an Israeli series in Hebrew and Arabic that premi\u00e8red in 2015 and streams in subtitled translation on Netflix, takes its title from the Arabic word for chaos; it\u2019s also the Mayday code word used by the Israeli special forces when a mission goes belly up. A disguise has been seen through? Fauda! The getaway van stalls? Fauda! The story centers on Doron Kabilyo, a saturnine special-forces soldier who, as the series begins, has retired and gone off to live on a small vineyard, where he plays with his two kids, scowls at his wife, and, sometimes, makes wine. When his former commander visits and tells him that a notorious Hamas terrorist whom Kabilyo thought he had killed is, in fact, alive and planning more operations, Kabilyo rejoins his old unit. It\u2019s an unfinished-business, one-last-mission plot. Set in the West Bank, \u201cFauda\u201d makes a promise to go beyond the usual ingredients of the thriller series\u2014intelligence gathering, interludes of violent action, and bouts of lugubrious reflection and splenetic recrimination. The setting is the flashpoint of a fifty-year-long occupation, and the show\u2019s creators believe that they have made not only a deft work of entertainment but also a drama that gets at the political dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\nLior Raz, a former soldier in the special forces, conceived and wrote the series with an old friend, Avi Issacharoff, a combat veteran and a well-known journalist. Raz, who is forty-five, also plays Doron Kabilyo, although he is hardly a dashing Sabra or a natural leading man. Like many Israeli men, he shaves his head rather than suffer the encroaching indignity of male-pattern baldness, and his visage has a stubbly, moonfaced aspect. A three-inch scar, a souvenir from a car crash, slashes down across his forehead and lends him a man-with-a-past air. He is built as solidly as a trash compactor, and his resting expression is one of irritable disappointment.\nRaz lives with his wife and children in a suburb just north of Tel Aviv, but he grew up mainly in Jerusalem and Ma\u2019ale Adumim, one of the largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank\u2014a city of about forty thousand that Israelis generally consider a bedroom community of Jerusalem rather than some sort of fanatical hilltop outpost. (Not all Palestinians make the distinction.) He is from a Mizrahi, or Middle Eastern, background; his father was born in Iraq, his mother in Algeria. His father was a career officer in the Israeli equivalent of the Navy Seals and in the Shin Bet, the intelligence services; when the family entertained, they did so in a way that would have struck most Ashkenazim as alien. People frequently spoke Arabic in the house and played music from across the Middle East. Later, his father ran a plant nursery, and Lior\u2019s friends were Arab kids from Azaria and Jericho who worked there.\nWhen Raz was eighteen, he joined Duvdevan, an \u00e9lite counterterrorism unit that was conceived in 1986 and began operations not long before the first intifada erupted in the occupied territories. Duvdevan means \u201ccherry\u201d in Hebrew\u2014a reflection of its cherry-on-top status in the military. It\u2019s the model for the unnamed unit on \u201cFauda.\u201d\nNot long ago, I met Raz in the town of Giv\u2019at Shmuel, near Tel Aviv, where his martial-arts instructor, an Army buddy named Nimrod Astel, has a studio. Their unit was stationed just outside Ramallah, the de-facto capital of the West Bank and the base for the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The ethos and the training resembled that of the Navy Seals\u2014ruthless, brutal, and constant. Ignoring pain was no small part of the regimen. \u201cWe spent fifteen months getting punched over and over in the abdomen before we went to bed every night,\u201d Raz said.\n\u201cWe were eighteen, and you just don\u2019t know what you are doing,\u201d Astel said. \u201cI thought we were going to be like James Bond, wearing black tie and drinking a Martini and getting the bad guys.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m between reasons right now.\u201d\n\u201cInstead, we got fatigues and a falafel in Ramallah,\u201d Raz said. Military service is compulsory in Israel, and he and his friends aspired to Duvdevan, he said, not for any ideological reasons but because \u201cyou want to be part of the best people in the country, to test yourself. You want to be true to your friends, to protect them and be part of a team that works together.\u201d\nThe squad at the center of \u201cFauda\u201d works much as Raz and Astel\u2019s did. Its operations are performed as quick \u201cin-and-out jobs,\u201d to arrest a suspected terrorist or to disrupt a terror operation. Duvdevan\u2019s members adhered to the maxim \u201cIn any shape, in any place, at any time.\u201d Uri Bar-Lev, the first commander of the unit, told me, \u201cSometimes you look like a stone, sometimes like a tourist, sometimes like an Arab.\u201d The series opens with members of the unit driving up to a mosque near Ramallah and, dressed as Palestinians, kidnapping a Hamas militant agent at prayer. In a later episode, Kabilyo seduces a Palestinian doctor, played by La\u00ebtitia E\u00efdo, in order to get closer to a terrorist who is recovering from a gunshot wound in the hospital where she works. That sort of stratagem is pure hokum, but other operational details stick close to the real thing.\nMembers of Duvdevan do not recount past missions\u2013\u2013those \u201chave to remain dark,\u201d Raz said\u2013\u2013but they speak in highly moralistic terms about the unit, how they were selected for their sense of probity and poise. \u201cWe were chosen because we were meant to be calm, moral, not to lose our minds in the midst of trouble, to think, not to behave like an animal,\u201d Raz told me. Duvdevan prided itself on the efficiency of its maneuvers, the avoidance of mass casualties. Astel said that when he hears of American forces dropping a bomb on a wedding in Afghanistan or a Russian aircraft destroying a hospital in Syria he has a hard time taking seriously the moral criticism directed at Israeli behavior in the West Bank.\n\u201cThe job was to capture the bad guy as quietly as possible, to avoid killing or hurting anyone else,\u201d Astel said. \u201cAt the end of every operation, there was a debriefing about what had happened, and you have to assess whether you have done a dirty job in the cleanest way possible.\u201d\nThree days after leaving the Army, Raz headed to Los Angeles with a hundred and twenty-five dollars in his pocket. He worked as a guard for Nastassja Kinski and then for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. This life proved numbingly uneventful. \u201cAfter the Army, guarding a house was pretty boring,\u201d he says. Back in Israel, Raz worked as a drummer in a disco and as a creative director at an ad agency; prodded by a girlfriend to pursue his artistic ambitions, he started taking acting lessons and getting roles in various theatre and TV productions. And he began thinking of a project that would draw on the most dangerous years of his life.\nFor some two decades, Raz and his first comrades in the unit didn\u2019t talk about the uglier side of their work, the price exacted on Palestinians, and the price exacted on them. \u201cIt all stayed there and deep inside of us,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a person, you wake up eventually and discover that you have post-traumatic stress disorder. You realize you are tense all the time, stressed, you aren\u2019t sleeping, you\u2019re on edge, always on alert. I was giving a lecture the other day at some high-tech firm and I clicked the clicker for a snippet of film about \u2018Fauda\u2019 and just the sound of the show\u2014the gunfire\u2014set me off. I was suddenly so stressed. I was immediately looking for the door.\u201d He went on, \u201cWe live in a post-traumatic society, all of us.\u201d\nIt was only when Raz was in his mid-thirties that he began to grasp why he kept having the same dream, the battle in which his gun would jam or he would fire and the bullet would just dribble out of the barrel and plink on the ground. \u201cYou don\u2019t feel the stress when you are in the unit. You are in fighting mode all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s only later, when you are back home, much later, that you feel it in your neck, in your back, in your mind. It takes years to understand the situation. I went to a therapist nine years ago. I was about to get married. I was stressed. I just wanted to be a good husband. After about five minutes of the therapy, he said, \u2018You have P.T.S.D., let\u2019s talk about it.\u2019 \u201d\nWhat really put Raz\u2019s mind at ease, however, was setting out to work with Issacharoff writing \u201cFauda.\u201d \u201cThat was my real therapy,\u201d he said.\nThe Israeli television business begins with an obvious disadvantage: the audience is roughly the size of Queens County. Ultra-Orthodox Jews tend not to watch commercial television, and many Palestinian Israelis, who live in Nazareth, Umm al-Fahm, Acre, Haifa, and other cities and towns, watch Arabic-language stations on satellite. The major production companies, Keshet and Reshet, which create programs for the biggest broadcast channel, Channel 2, struggle to break even; they hope to tumble into profit by selling properties abroad. The most successful example of that is \u201cHatufim\u201d (\u201cPrisoners of War\u201d), an excellent series about two Israeli soldiers, abducted in Lebanon, who come home after seventeen years in captivity. \u201cHomeland,\u201d its American progeny, won eight Emmys for Showtime and big earnings for Keshet. HBO\u2019s \u201cIn Treatment\u201d also began with an Israeli version. HBO and Keshet will make a scripted series about the fateful events in the summer of 2014 when a Palestinian teen-ager was kidnapped and burned alive by three Israelis as retribution for the deaths of three Israelis three days earlier.\nWhen Keshet and Reshet passed on \u201cFauda,\u201d Raz and Issacharoff went to Yes, a satellite television provider that claims six hundred thousand subscribers. During the pitch meeting, they were told, not for the first time, that the script was too macho; women wouldn\u2019t go for it. But, in the end, Yes took a chance. A glitch for Raz was that he had to audition for the lead role, a circumstance that he found \u201cupsetting\u201d\u2014it reminded him of Sylvester Stallone being forced to negotiate to play the title role in his own script for \u201cRocky.\u201d But that was hardly the main worry.\n\u201cBefore we aired \u2018Fauda,\u2019 we were petrified,\u201d Danna Stern, the executive in charge of Yes acquisitions and sales, said. \u201cThe title is in Arabic and practically all the dialogue is in Arabic and the picture of the main terrorist is not done in black-and-white. It\u2019s painted in shades in between. We had a war room set up because we expected a shit storm.\u201d\nRaz and Issacharoff shared these anxieties. They feared that the right wing in Israel would say that the show had \u201chumanized the terrorists\u201d; they feared that the left, along with Arab viewers, would say that its portrayal of humane soldiers was a romantic farce and that it portrayed Palestinians only as terrorists.\n\u201c \u2018Fauda\u2019 was an eyeopener to a lot of people in Israel in that it showed compassion, in a way, to a Palestinian terrorist, or at least you get a sense of why he would do what he does,\u201d Issacharoff said. \u201cYou see people involved in terror as humans, as people who love, who have kids, who are not just flat bad guys in an action picture.\u201d He was concerned that the subject was off-putting. \u201cNo one wants to talk about or see the conflict. It\u2019s boring.\u201d\n\u201cFauda\u201d aims to provide a complex portrait of both the unit and life in the occupied territories. The viewer is introduced to the extended family of the central terrorist: a wife who loves him but must pretend that he is dead; a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 who reveres him but grows disillusioned with his ruthlessness; a young woman whose husband-to-be is shot to death at their wedding, and who, in her fury and despair, volunteers to be a shaheeda, a martyr, and strap on a suicide vest. All around are ordinary Palestinians who suffer under the detested occupation but go about their daily lives as best they can. The West Bank scenes were filmed mainly in Kfar Qasim, an Arab city just west of the West Bank. The city has a charged history: in 1956, during the Suez Crisis, it was the scene of a massacre of several dozen Arabs by Israeli police. In recent years, Israeli politicians, including Shimon Peres and Reuven Rivlin, have apologized for the crime.\nBoth Raz and Issacharoff consider themselves \u201cpro-peace,\u201d pro-two-state-solution. But they are not far from the Israeli mainstream. One morning, over breakfast, they debated some of the daily headlines, and it was clear that Issacharoff\u2019s rhetoric on the subject is a shade to the left of Raz\u2019s. He was once a staff writer at the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, although he\u2019s neither as analytical nor as ideological as some of his old colleagues there. Raz and Issacharoff both said that Israel made a mistake when it agreed to a huge prisoner release in order to gain the freedom of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was held captive by Hamas for five years. A familiar strain of fatalism joins Raz and Issacharoff, too. Raz, in particular, recites the litany of political resignation that is so common now: \u201cWe have no one to talk to\u201d; \u201cWhen we pulled out of Gaza, they started firing missiles.\u201d\nIssacharoff, who is forty-four, is better versed in Palestinian politics and the history of the conflict. First at Haaretz, and now at the Times of Israel and the Web site Walla! News, he has covered the occupied territories for many years. Like Raz, he comes from a Mizrahi family, and he is proficient in Arabic. He is gleamingly bald and wears an earring. After finishing his military service and his university studies, he worked for a while as a bouncer at a bar in Jerusalem and then as an apprentice radio reporter. He has a wire-service reporter\u2019s metabolism, and a relish for action and high-profile scoops. While living in Jerusalem, he covered the West Bank and Gaza during the second intifada. At the time, there was no wall, no separation fence; the commute to Ramallah was fifteen minutes and he spent many hours there talking with Palestinian officials, activists, and terrorists. \u201cI owe my career to Yasir Arafat and Marwan Barghouti,\u201d he told me, referring to the two Palestinian leaders. Covering the intifada, he said, \u201cwas fabulous, it was crazy, so unexpected, so full of adventure.\u201d The violence lasted from 2000 to 2005; around a thousand Israelis and more than three thousand Palestinians were killed. (With Amos Harel, the longtime military reporter for Haaretz, Issacharoff has written books on the second intifada and on the war with Hezbollah, in 2006.)\nIssacharoff\u2019s biggest scoop for Haaretz came in 2010, when he published a long report on Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the leader of Hamas in the West Bank. Known to the Shin Bet as the Green Prince, a reference to the color of the Hamas flag, Mosab Yousef was an Israeli intelligence asset for a decade beginning in 1996, feeding the Shin Bet information that is said to have prevented many suicide-bombing attacks and led to the arrests of his father and Barghouti, who was a founder of Fatah\u2019s Tanzim militia and has been in an Israeli jail since 2002. One of Yousef\u2019s handlers in the Shin Bet told Issacharoff, \u201cSo many people owe him their lives and don\u2019t even know it. . . . People who did a lot less were awarded the Israel Security Prize. He certainly deserves it.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s an internship\u2014crime doesn\u2019t pay.\u201d\nYousef renounced Islam, and is in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. He had nothing but praise for Issacharoff, telling me that he decided to talk with him because \u201cAvi takes risks, a very important quality for a successful journalist.\u201d He trusted him because he spoke decent Arabic and was deeply connected with Palestinian sources on all sides. The first contact he had from him, he said, was \u201cwhen he called me to forward regards to me from my father, who was in an Israeli prison at that time.\u201d What Issacharoff did not know, Yousef added, was that \u201cI arranged for my father\u2019s arrest to save his life.\u201d\nIssacharoff met Raz when they were both young and hanging out in the same bars in Jerusalem. In an early episode of \u201cFauda,\u201d one of the soldiers in the unit has a love affair with a bartender, who is later killed in a suicide-bombing attack. The episode is dedicated to Iris Azulai, who was Raz\u2019s girlfriend when he was in the Army. \u201cShe was my first love,\u201d Raz said. \u201cShe was one of the most beautiful women in Jerusalem, an amazing person. I\u2019d been so insecure. I couldn\u2019t believe she\u2019d date me. All my self-confidence in life came from her.\u201d One October morning in 1990, in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem, a young Palestinian, Amir Abu Sarhan, a resident of a village near Bethlehem, attacked Azulai, yelling \u201cAllahu akbar!\u202f\u201d as he stabbed her to death with a fifteen-inch knife. She was eighteen. An off-duty police officer heard the screaming, drew his gun, and shot the Palestinian to wound him. He hit him in both legs. But, when the officer came over to arrest him, Sarhan had the strength to pull another knife and stab him to death.\n\u201cThis was a Sunday morning, and I was in Ein Kerem Hospital getting my leg looked at for stress fractures,\u201d Raz said. \u201cI heard from someone there that there had been this attack. Iris\u2019s brother called me and said she had been wounded. I just started to walk in a daze until my mother picked me up on the road.\u201d\nSarhan was imprisoned until 2011, when he was freed, along with more than a thousand other Palestinians, in exchange for Gilad Shalit. More than two hundred of the released prisoners were serving life sentences for terror-related crimes. Raz has heard that Sarhan now works for Hamas television in the Gaza Strip. While Raz and Issacharoff were working on the script for \u201cFauda,\u201d the Green Prince wrote to say that his sister was marrying Amir Abu Sarhan. \u201cI met Mosab at the premi\u00e8re of \u2018Fauda\u2019 in Los Angeles,\u201d Raz said. \u201cWe hugged, but I didn\u2019t know what to say to him or him to me.\u201d\nThe intimacy, the proximity, of rivals and enemies is among the most striking aspects of the conflict. But it hasn\u2019t prevented Israelis from registering a series of knife attacks or a confrontation around the holiest places of the Old City in Jerusalem, say, without ever dwelling on the larger source of tensions. \u201cThey put it out of their minds,\u201d Issacharoff said. \u201cThey have a hard time waking up every morning knowing they have done something wrong, that they are responsible for this. It is also the result of the second intifada. The majority of Israelis lost hope in peace. The average Israeli says that the Palestinians are no partner for peace. The second intifada was a deep wound that you cannot heal. You think about it every time you go into a mall or a bus. There are still guards everywhere because of the suicide attacks. And the Palestinians work at forcing us to realize their presence. We left Gaza and they won\u2019t let us leave it behind. The Israeli public just wants to bury the Palestinians beyond the wall, to be on defense and to live their lives on their own. But how long can that last? I don\u2019t know. But I know that we are heading toward a catastrophe. Either we\u2019re ending the Zionist dream\u2014ending our status as a Jewish democratic state\u2014or we will become one state for two peoples. Sooner or later, the status quo will explode. It won\u2019t hold. Either the Palestinians will explode or the international community will explode and say \u2018No more apartheid\u2019 and they will sit on our necks.\u201d\nIn the meantime, the creators of \u201cFauda\u201d are enjoying their success. When Raz and Issacharoff were interviewed by Dan Senor, a former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, at an AIPAC convention in Washington, D.C., they were cheered like rock stars on a triumphant tour. A second season is on the way and the people at Netflix hope for a third. In August, Raz and Issacharoff signed a deal with Netflix, which ordered a season of a show about a joint C.I.A.-Mossad operation and is developing a second, \u201cHit and Run,\u201d about a man who loses his wife in a mysterious car accident that leads to a political-espionage story. Raz is taking one meeting after another in Hollywood, and Yes has received a stack of offers from abroad to remake \u201cFauda\u201d in different languages and settings: in Afghanistan, on the front lines of the Mexican drug trade, in operations against an American white-pride group. Raz is counting on moving his family to Hollywood soon.\nThe \u201cFauda\u201d cast, too, is relishing its emergence from obscurity. Hisham Suleiman, who plays the lead terrorist in \u201cFauda,\u201d has become a celebrity at home and beyond. He is an Arab resident of Nazareth Illit, a predominantly Jewish suburb of a predominantly Arab city in northern Israel. When I was in Tel Aviv, he visited the city market and the evening news showed footage of him being applauded, complimented, kissed. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d he told me. \u201cThis happens wherever I go!\u201d\nSuleiman avoids talking about the occupation. \u201cUsually, when I speak about myself, I try to talk only about my artist\u2019s life, not politics,\u201d he told me. \u201cJournalists are looking for a boom, a sensation. I am very careful. But I am a human being and I care about all of this. Why, after a hundred years, are we still killing each other here? This is a beautiful land and the conflict has to end. There has to be a real peace, a finish to the kiboosh. It\u2019s a lovely country where we can all find room to live together.\u201d\nAnd yet, for all the series\u2019 success, the question remains whether \u201cFauda\u201d is really all that daring or consequential. Gadi Shamni, a retired general in the Israeli Defense Forces who was once in charge of Central Command in the West Bank, caused an uproar last year when he said in a speech that Israel had \u201celevated the occupation to the level of art.\u201d This was a complicated argument: in part, he meant that the Israeli military and security apparatus had learned to keep casualties and abuse to a minimum. But he told me that a show like \u201cFauda\u201d had its virtues because so many Israelis were intent on ignoring the moral reality of occupation. \u201cThere is a generation in Israel who never had any kind of positive interaction with Palestinians,\u201d Shamni said. \u201cThey see them coming to work in Israel or on TV when there is a stabbing or a suicide bomber. For children at the age of twenty in Israel, most of what they know about Palestinians is what they see on TV. The first time they meet Palestinians is while they are serving in the I.D.F., if they serve in the West Bank, in Judea and Samaria. So \u2018Fauda\u2019 is another way to bring into the Israeli living room something about what is happening on the ground. Does it reflect a hundred per cent what is happening, or the complexity? Some. It\u2019s a nice show. On the one hand, the professionalism is good, it minimizes the damage. On the other hand, is this the kind of expertise we want? We do it so well, with minimal friction and casualties, the soldiers are very well trained, they are not only professionally trained for combat but also mentally trained for occupation; they understand the complexity they are within. But you have assigned yourself issues that are not the core business of a military. In the end, it corrupts our moral values.\u201d\nDiana Buttu, a lawyer who has worked as a legal adviser to the P.L.O., watched the series recently and told me that she found the experience disturbing. She did not share Shamni\u2019s ambivalence, and when we spoke she made a compelling critique of \u201cFauda.\u201d \u201cIn \u2018Fauda,\u2019 we do not see the occupation,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is invisible, just as it is in the minds of Israelis. In fact, we never even hear the word. We don\u2019t see a single checkpoint, settlement, settlers, or home demolitions. We don\u2019t see any homes being taken over, or land being expropriated or anything of the sort. We see a nice brick wall, not the ugly eight-metre-high one, as the only sign that we are in the West Bank.\n\u201cWorse than all of this, assassinations\u2014extrajudicial killings\u2014appear normalized,\u201d Buttu continued. \u201cIf you are not careful, you find yourself sympathizing with a group of assassins and thinking that their actions are fine, rather than illegal. You find yourself accepting that it is all right to hunt down Palestinians, killing a number of others in the process. For the writers, this is a fair fight\u2014no occupation, just a game of who has better technology and more wits. And that, of course, is not the reality in which we live.\u201d\nRaz and Issacharoff told me repeatedly that they had received lots of compliments, by text and e-mail, from Arabs in the West Bank, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Gulf. But, unlike Yizhar\u2019s novella \u201cKhirbet Khizeh\u201d and Ram Loevy\u2019s television version, \u201cFauda\u201d is ultimately content to entertain.\n\u201cWhen my father first published, he was considered a hero,\u201d Yizhar\u2019s son, Zeev Smilansky, told me. \u201cThe feeling of self-confidence in Israel then was so strong that it could absorb criticism and the things he wrote about. His books were read. My father was a devout Zionist in love with the drama of the country that was being built, but he was honest about what was so deeply wrong and what was so visible. Now we are divided, and our ability to see things clearly is gone. Hardly any young people know my father\u2019s name. His books are no longer a part of the curriculum. The only people that remember him are the old-timers.\u201d\nYizhar Smilansky died in 2006. The year before his death, he told an interviewer, \u201cI looked out at the landscape. The landscape was a key part of my personality, so I saw the Arabs.\u201d\nBut Yizhar\u2019s daughter-in-law Nitza Ben-Ari, a literary scholar, told me, \u201cWe no longer see them. If you asked me what the West Bank or Gaza looks like today, I wouldn\u2019t know, and it\u2019s next door, really.\u201d \u2666This article appears in other versions of the September 4, 2017, issue, with the headline \u201cOccupational Hazards.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 449, "original_length": 118939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marcapolitica.org/2018/05/teens-social-media-technology-2018.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NUILORF7AQCDTDCPISGLO6Q64NT5P24K", "length": 10975, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.marcapolitica.org", "title": "Youth Vote: Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018", "raw_content": "YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online 'almost constantly'\nUntil recently, Facebook had dominated the social media landscape among America\u2019s youth \u2013 but it is no longer the most popular online platform among teens, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Today, roughly half (51%) of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 say they use Facebook, notably lower than the shares who use YouTube, Instagram or Snapchat.\nThis shift in teens\u2019 social media use is just one example of how the technology landscape for young people has evolved since the Center\u2019s last survey of teens and technology use in 2014-2015. Most notably, smartphone ownership has become a nearly ubiquitous element of teen life: 95% of teens now report they have a smartphone or access to one. These mobile connections are in turn fueling more-persistent online activities: 45% of teens now say they are online on a near-constant basis.\nThese are some of the main findings from the Center\u2019s survey of U.S. teens conducted March 7-April 10, 2018. Throughout the report, \u201cteens\u201d refers to those ages 13 to 17.\nThe social media landscape in which teens reside looks markedly different than it did as recently as three years ago. In the Center\u2019s 2014-2015 survey of teen social media use, 71% of teens reported being Facebook users. No other platform was used by a clear majority of teens at the time: Around half (52%) of teens said they used Instagram, while 41% reported using Snapchat.\nIn 2018, three online platforms other than Facebook \u2013 YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat \u2013 are used by sizable majorities of this age group. Meanwhile, 51% of teens now say they use Facebook. The shares of teens who use Twitter and Tumblr are largely comparable to the shares who did so in the 2014-2015 survey.\nFor the most part, teens tend to use similar platforms regardless of their demographic characteristics, but there are exceptions. Notably, lower-income teens are more likely to gravitate toward Facebook than those from higher-income households \u2013 a trend consistent with previous Center surveys. Seven-in-ten teens living in households earning less than $30,000 a year say they use Facebook, compared with 36% whose annual family income is $75,000 or more. (For details on social media platform use by different demographic groups, see Appendix A.)\nIt is important to note there were some changes in question wording between Pew Research Center\u2019s 2014-2015 and 2018 surveys of teen social media use. YouTube and Reddit were not included as options in the 2014-2015 survey but were included in the current survey. In addition, the 2014-2015 survey required respondents to provide an explicit response for whether or not they used each platform, while the 2018 survey presented respondents with a list of sites and allowed them to select the ones they use.1 Even so, it is clear the social media environment today revolves less around a single platform than it did three years ago.2\nWhen it comes to which one of these online platforms teens use the most, roughly one-third say they visit Snapchat (35%) or YouTube (32%) most often, while 15% say the same of Instagram. By comparison, 10% of teens say Facebook is their most-used online platform, and even fewer cite Twitter, Reddit or Tumblr as the site they visit most often.\nAgain, lower-income teens are far more likely than those from higher income households to say Facebook is the online platform they use most often (22% vs. 4%). There are also some differences related to gender and to race and ethnicity when it comes to teens\u2019 most-used sites. Girls are more likely than boys to say Snapchat is the site they use most often (42% vs. 29%), while boys are more inclined than girls to identify YouTube as their go-to platform (39% vs. 25%). Additionally, white teens (41%) are more likely than Hispanic (29%) or black (23%) teens to say Snapchat is the online platform they use most often, while black teens are more likely than whites to identify Facebook as their most used site (26% vs. 7%).\nTeens have mixed views on the impact of social media on their lives\nDespite the nearly ubiquitous presence of social media in their lives, there is no clear consensus among teens about these platforms\u2019 ultimate impact on people their age. A plurality of teens (45%) believe social media has a neither positive nor negative effect on people their age. Meanwhile, roughly three-in-ten teens (31%) say social media has had a mostly positive impact, while 24% describe its effect as mostly negative.\nGiven the opportunity to explain their views in their own words, teens who say social media has had a mostly positive effect tended to stress issues related to connectivity and connection with others. Some 40% of these respondents said that social media has had a positive impact because it helps them keep in touch and interact with others. Many of these responses emphasize how social media has made it easier to communicate with family and friends and to connect with new people:\n\u201cI think social media have a positive effect because it lets you talk to family members far away.\u201d (Girl, age 14)\n\u201cI feel that social media can make people my age feel less lonely or alone. It creates a space where you can interact with people.\u201d (Girl, age 15)\n\u201cIt enables people to connect with friends easily and be able to make new friends as well.\u201d (Boy, age 15)\nOthers in this group cite the greater access to news and information that social media facilitates (16%), or being able to connect with people who share similar interests (15%):\n\u201cMy mom had to get a ride to the library to get what I have in my hand all the time. She reminds me of that a lot.\u201d (Girl, age 14)\n\u201cIt has given many kids my age an outlet to express their opinions and emotions, and connect with people who feel the same way.\u201d (Girl, age 15)\nSmaller shares argue that social media is a good venue for entertainment (9%), that it offers a space for self-expression (7%) or that it allows teens to get support from others (5%) or to learn new things in general (4%).\n\u201cBecause a lot of things created or made can spread joy.\u201d (Boy, age 17)\n\u201c[Social media] allows us to communicate freely and see what everyone else is doing. [It] gives us a voice that can reach many people.\u201d (Boy, age 15)\n\u201cWe can connect easier with people from different places and we are more likely to ask for help through social media which can save people.\u201d (Girl, age 15)\nThere is slightly less consensus among teens who say social media has had a mostly negative effect on people their age. The top response (mentioned by 27% of these teens) is that social media has led to more bullying and the overall spread of rumors.\n\u201cGives people a bigger audience to speak and teach hate and belittle each other.\u201d (Boy, age 13)\n\u201cPeople can say whatever they want with anonymity and I think that has a negative impact.\u201d (Boy, age 15)\n\u201cBecause teens are killing people all because of the things they see on social media or because of the things that happened on social media.\u201d (Girl, age 14)\nMeanwhile, 17% of these respondents feel these platforms harm relationships and result in less meaningful human interactions. Similar shares think social media distorts reality and gives teens an unrealistic view of other people\u2019s lives (15%), or that teens spend too much time on social media (14%).\n\u201cIt has a negative impact on social (in-person) interactions.\u201d (Boy, age 17)\n\u201cIt makes it harder for people to socialize in real life, because they become accustomed to not interacting with people in person.\u201d (Girl, age 15)\n\u201cIt provides a fake image of someone\u2019s life. It sometimes makes me feel that their life is perfect when it is not.\u201d (Girl, age 15)\n\u201c[Teens] would rather go scrolling on their phones instead of doing their homework, and it\u2019s so easy to do so. It\u2019s just a huge distraction.\u201d (Boy, age 17)\nAnother 12% criticize social media for influencing teens to give in to peer pressure, while smaller shares express concerns that these sites could lead to psychological issues or drama.\nVast majority of teens have access to a home computer or smartphone\nSome 95% of teens now say they have or have access to a smartphone, which represents a 22-percentage-point increase from the 73% of teens who said this in 2014-2015. Smartphone ownership is nearly universal among teens of different genders, races and ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.\nA more nuanced story emerges when it comes to teens\u2019 access to computers. While 88% of teens report having access to a desktop or laptop computer at home, access varies greatly by income level. Fully 96% of teens from households with an annual income of $75,000 or more per year say they have access to a computer at home, but that share falls to 75% among those from households earning less than $30,000 a year.\nComputer access also varies by the level of education among parents. Teens who have a parent with a bachelor\u2019s degree or more are more likely to say they have access to a computer than teens whose parents have a high school diploma or less (94% vs. 78%).\nA growing share of teens describe their internet use as near-constant\nAs smartphone access has become more prevalent, a growing share of teens now report using the internet on a near-constant basis. Some 45% of teens say they use the internet \u201calmost constantly,\u201d a figure that has nearly doubled from the 24% who said this in the 2014-2015 survey. Another 44% say they go online several times a day, meaning roughly nine-in-ten teens go online at least multiple times per day.\nThere are some differences in teens\u2019 frequency of internet use by gender, as well as race and ethnicity. Half of teenage girls (50%) are near-constant online users, compared with 39% of teenage boys. And Hispanic teens are more likely than whites to report using the internet almost constantly (54% vs. 41%).\nA majority of both boys and girls play video games, but gaming is nearly universal for boys\nOverall, 84% of teens say they have or have access to a game console at home, and 90% say they play video games of any kind (whether on a computer, game console or cellphone). While a substantial majority of girls report having access to a game console at home (75%) or playing video games in general (83%), those shares are even higher among boys. Roughly nine-in-ten boys (92%) have or have access to a game console at home, and 97% say they play video games in some form or fashion.\nThere has been growth in game console ownership among Hispanic teens and teens from lower-income families since the Center\u2019s previous study of the teen technology landscape in 2014-2015. The share of Hispanics who say they have access to a game console at home grew by 10 percentage points during this time period. And 85% of teens from households earning less than $30,000 a year now say they have a game console at home, up from 67% in 2014-2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 14298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mariadompe.com/en/opere/36/don-t-forget-mururoa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HV6U2MEDKAC6BTCMEB7LX4GXYZ3ZWMUW", "length": 1683, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mariadompe.com", "title": "Maria Domp\u00e8", "raw_content": "1997 - Rome, Universit\u00e0 'La Sapienza', Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea\nMaterials: slate, sand, rope, lemon essence, sound.\nDimensions: m 3 x 13 x h 3.\nIn the difficult space of the University museum, a curved, cold and rhetorical space, Maria Domp\u00e8 forced attention on the tragic resumption of nuclear testing on the atoll of Mururoa.\nIncluding the two columns of the room, she created an oval form with the slate panels that contained six cubic squares of sand placed on the ground, and then another layer of slate but with cracked and fragmented pieces, as though they had been thrown down on the ground. Resembling a ship by means of the shape and the two central columns that look like a ship\u2019s masts, the incursion includes the entire space and in every dimension, with thirty-three square slate panels that hang by ropes from the ceiling and are intended to allow visitors to add their own testimony to the work. The visitors were immersed in a interior dimension, emphasized by the sound of a primordial \u2018om\u2019 heard throughout the room (and performed live at the inauguration and at the conclusion of the exhibition), by the absolute white of the museum space in chromatic contrast with the yellow of the sand, by the black of the slate interrupted only by the repeated inscription, \u2018Don\u2019t Forget Mururoa\u2019, by the combination of the sounds and the odour of lemon essence. These aspects of the work involved the spectators in a fulfilment of the work that calls into use all of the senses and creates a moment of reflection on the nuclear tragedy that serves as warning to not repeat such catastrophic errors and to oppose death with a strong current of positive energy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.markedbyteachers.com/as-and-a-level/religious-studies-and-philosophy/a-a-we-do-not-possess-any-genuine-freedom-to-act-ethically-a-a-discuss.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CD3FGIGEMAXRPIEPZMSYOYKANFKK2CFL", "length": 6605, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.markedbyteachers.com", "title": "We do not possess any genuine freedom to act ethically Discuss - A-Level Religious Studies & Philosophy - Marked by Teachers.com", "raw_content": "\"We do not possess any genuine freedom to act ethically\" Discuss A person who acts ethically is one who will choose to make good decisions, those that are deemed right and good avoiding the wrong decisions which may have negative consequences. We can link the idea of acting ethically with morals, as an ethical person will have a good set of morals, this is because it is our morals that help is to freely decide which decisions to make, and encourage us to act selflessly and ethically. Believers in the Free Will or incompatiblism, would argue that the choices we make in life are entirely our own, and that if we live a moral life and make good decisions, that is something that we have chosen to do. They believe that Free Will itself is having the ability to choose to do whatever you like; to choose between right and wrong actions, we do however need to understand that we hold the responsibility for the outcome of those choices and have to deal with the consequences. This argument therefore supports the idea that we have the genuine freedom to act ethically, their belief that each person is born with Free Will and therefore the right to make their own decisions whether they be good or bad means they can choose to act ethically or not, making us morally responsible for our actions. ...read more.\nAn alternative point of view is that of determinism. Whilst followers of Free Will believe that we are morally responsible for the actions that we carry out freely and deliberately, determinism holds the belief that there are laws of nature acting upon us, and it is these laws which govern everything which happens and that all out actions are a result of these laws. They believe that each of our actions and choices we make are determined by the situation immediately before it, and the one before that and so on. They believe that because of this, freedom of choice, freedom to act ethically is just an illusion, rendering personal responsibility a meaningless concept, along with the idea of blame and punishment. This however raises questions of guilt and why we still feel a sense of responsibility, for example if a man inevitably hit a girl who ran out in front of his car, whilst this is not his fault as it couldn't have been avoided, he will still feel responsible for the incident. This criticism is answered in different ways; the idea of hard and soft determinism. Firstly Hard determinism is the stricter of the two, it argues that all our actions had prior causes and that we are neither free nor responsible. It believes that we do not possess any free will at all and that it is in fact just an illusion; that if we are to commit a crime ...read more.\nThis argument also includes God, it believes that the force that determines your life is God and that from the moment you are born your life is planned out. However it believes that your life consists of major decisions, and for each of these decisions there is several choices, God knows all of these choices and the outcome of each one, however he doesn't know which choice we are going to make, and therefore we still have the ability to choose freely. In conclusion, there are many different idea concerning ethics and our ability to live ethically. Whilst it is possible as hard determinists would believe that freedom to choose is in fact an illusion and that the way in which we act has nothing to do with us, this argument seems cold and raises many questions about why we are alive in the first place, as well as raising problems with the idea of heaven and hell, because if we are not judged for our actions why should people who have done bad go to heaven just because it was determined they would when they were born. It seems that it is more likely that free will does exist whether we have total free will and ability to do whatever we choose or whether it is in some ways restricted in that we have limited choices such as that in soft determinism, it appears as though out ability to choose between right and wrong is out choice, and there for our responsibility. ?? ?? ?? ?? ...read more.\n"Religious Language is meaningless." Discuss.\nit does not tell us much about what it really is, and how do we go from statements about the everyday world to statements about God? Aquinas rejected two ways of understanding language about God. The first being univocal, where there is a very direct association between the way words\nHowever many Christians reject deterministic ideas and believe that we do have free will and God has not chosen the elect, such as Pelagius. They state that why bother evangelizing if God has already chosen who he will save and those who will not.\ndoes maximise utility (as well as whether it provides the same degree of opportunity for self-development to everyone). Social liberalism which places an emphasis on equality of opportunity and positive freedoms is more difficult to criticise for its neglect of other values.\nAll of our Choices are Predetermined\nus to choose, this initial personality would determine the personality we chose. We could attempt to argue that this initial personality was chosen, but very soon we would have to give way to infinite regression. With this in mind, Libertarianism and the suggestion that our choices are anything but pre-determined\nFathers and Sons - The Quarrel &#150; Chapter 10 .\nThen he states that although Pavel may be right it still proves nothing. His next argument is basic, but effective, Pavel says that in that case Bazarov must be going against his own people and Bazarov replies with an analogy that implies that according to Pavel if the majority of\nFree-will, or Libertarianism, by contrast, is the idea that we have complete moral responsibility and we are not compelled to act by outside forces as we follow our intuitions. Scientifically talking, the idea of freedom relates to the casualty of randomness.\nAn embodied life in heaven is entirely possible. Discuss.\nWhen a person dies they remain in the grave until the Day of Judgement. Allah judges and decides what happens to all believers, not only Muslims and his decision is ultimate. People who have pursued the teachings of Allah will live eternally in Paradise, a perfect world of rest and pleasure.\nThis was also developed by Stevenson who questions why someone?s feelings can be better than someone else?s. What emotivism does is draw attention to the reasons why people have different views and then let others decided. But it has been shown in history that getting people to act using emotive speeches may have unfortunate results i.e.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 12370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.medleyofworship.com/2016/05/opus-2016-132-on-street-federal-mandates.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LZQQY7LWKXGOCMJRHUPXZO6O2BXOLB26", "length": 2145, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.medleyofworship.com", "title": "Medley of Worship: Opus 2016-132: On the Street: Federal Mandates", "raw_content": "By now you are aware of the Obama administration coercing public schools into allowing the Daily Pervert to hang out in the girls shower room. He is serious. Ms. Lynch is serious. And the department of Education is serious. You can read about it at the World website.\nTheir timing is perfect. In my classes we have been discussing the issue of slavery and how it divided the country. The specific examples were the fugitive slave laws and the response of northern states. The federal government said that the owners of the slaves had the right to recover their property and the states could not stand in the way. Many northern states passed laws threatening to put people in jail if they obeyed the federal law. In 1850 Wisconsin\u2019s supreme court declared the law unconstitutional and the legislature declared it could lead to succession. The same year Massachusetts gave a five year prison term to anyone who enforced the federal law. Does it sound like what is going on in North Carolina today?\nUnder President Obama the federal government is involved in an unprecedented expansion of its power. Today in the headlines we have a frontal assault by the people who brought you gay marriage. Other issues on the front burner are land use, abortion (still), other areas of education, the Second Amendment, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment... you get the idea.\nThe issue of states rights vs federal mandates blew up in a civil war 150 years ago. Let us hope that the federal government will back down instead of forcing the issue. Those of us that believe in the rule of law will continue to vote and use the courts. Others may not be so patient.\nLabels: Constitutional Rights, On the Street\nPersonally, I think America is a lost cause. When the voters are stupid enough to knowingly vote a member of the enemy army into the White House, where can we go but down?\nThat is the bad news. The good news is that as Christians we can remember that the church was established and thrived under the emperors of Rome which included Nero.\nI don't want to live in interesting times but it looks like it might be heading that way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 562, "original_length": 13564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.megalithicireland.com/Mountgarret,%20Tower%20House,%20Wexford.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZD2HVJPC5NFDSGCQCASKNTRBD77J3VAG", "length": 734, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.megalithicireland.com", "title": "Mountgarret, Tower House, Wexford", "raw_content": "The earliest tower house at Mountgarret was built by Patrick Barret, the Bishop of Ferns, in 1408. This castle was substantially re-built by Sir Richard Butler, the second son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, in the mid-16th century. Sir Richard became the first Lord of Mountgarret in 1550. Sadly the 5 storey tower house was poorly maintained and during the winter of 2009/10 the south wall and part of the west wall collapsed. Some conservation work has been carried out on the remaining structure, but during the time of my visit there was no public access.\nSituated: Mountgarret Castle is located about 2 kilometres north of New Ross on the west side of the N30 ring road.\nDiscovery Map 76. S 7245 2946. Last visit Sept 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 101.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.melroserunningclub.com/sundayrun/2010/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YJ5XORXGKKHDEHUCE6NDUENYYD6DPZPM", "length": 1205, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.melroserunningclub.com", "title": "December 2010 \u00b7 Sunday Run Sunday Run", "raw_content": "Week 0 \u2013 2011 Training begins\nWelcome to the 2011 winter training season. With some snow on the ground, some goals ahead of us, its time to get serious again. If you\u2019re new to marathon training, or at least new to training with us, look over the ABOUT link on the upper right of this page. It\u2019ll tell you the basics to our training program. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll have more questions as we progress, like why is there a week 0, but we\u2019ll save those answers for when we hit the streets.\nThis week\u2019s water stops\u2026 well I\u2019m still not back in the groove of long distance running so I plan on manning water stops for a while, and Barry has offered to help out too. Between the two of us we\u2019ll be able to serve you adequately through the first few weeks of training so don\u2019t worry about a thing, just lace up your sneakers, hand over your dollar bills, and concentrate on running.\nNow its time for the roll call. Let us know if you\u2019re joining us, how far you want to go, and vocalize (in print) your goal race(s) for the winter/spring. I won\u2019t hold you to it, but its good to know what your plans are so we can plan for your training schedule correctly. So who\u2019s in and for what?\nSee you at Brueggers, 8AM, this Sunday!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mentalis.co.uk/william-hartnell/video", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MOHQ6WFTQWKZ6CWS4BEADKLZH7I4N2R6", "length": 1256, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mentalis.co.uk", "title": "First Doctor - William Hartnell - Videos : Doctor Who In Detail", "raw_content": "Twin video pack\nThe Edge Of Destruction And Dr Who: The Pilot Episode\nContains the pilot episode of Doctor Who\nThis video, along with the Time Meddler and the Gunfighters, was released in a special First Doctor box set to mark the release of the final three complete William Hartnell stories on video.\nPart of a double video set with the Romans\nPart of a double video set with the Rescue\nThe Crusade And The Space Museum\nAlso included is the Crusade (episodes 1 & 3), CD soundtrack to the Crusade (episodes 2 & 4) and limited edition postcards and TARDIS keyring.\nPart of The Daleks - Limited Edition Boxed Set along with Remembrance of the Daleks and booklet: 'The History of the Daleks.'\nThis video, along with the Sensorites and the Gunfighters, was released in a special First Doctor box set to mark the release of the final three complete William Hartnell stories on video.\nThis video, along with the Sensorites and the Time Meddler, was released in a special First Doctor box set to mark the release of the final three complete William Hartnell stories on video.\nSpecial introduction - The War Machines on Blue Peter\nAvailable as part of the Cybermen boxed set along with Attack of the Cybermen; also features Saturday Superstore interview from 1985.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/them-adventures-extremists", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:16Z", "digest": "sha1:TDG65JXCCDYM25Z6V3BYEBWE6DEMMXGC", "length": 1243, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.metamute.org", "title": "Them: Adventures with Extremists | Mute", "raw_content": "By JF, 10 July 2001\nJF reviews Them: Adventures with Extremists\nJon Ronson\u2019s done something really, really cool. In the on-going battle between him and Louis Theroux \u2013 the one for best faux-naif TV journalist \u2013 he\u2019s just pulled ahead. You\u2019ve probably seen evidence of this on TV; by the time you read this article the series accompanying his new book Them: Adventures with Extremists, a series entitled \u2018The Secret Rulers of the World\u2019, will have come and gone. But if it passed you by, fret not, for the book is better. In it Ronson presents his despatches from five years\u2019 worth of hanging out with nutters of one flavour or another, nutters that include David Icke, the Rev. Ian Paisley, the victims of Ruby Ridge and acquaintances of Timothy McVeigh\u2019s. What\u2019s wonderful about Them is that it doesn\u2019t try \u2013 or even pretend to try \u2013 to ridicule these people; rather, by encouraging them to speak clearly, and for themselves, Ronson draws some kind of sense out of the bucket of justified paranoias that is the world of the conspiracy theory. A clearer picture of this increasingly crucial cultural force I\u2019ve yet to see.\nThem: Adventures with Extremists // Jon Ronson // Picador // May 2001 // 352 pages (hbk) // ISBN 0-330-37545-8 // \u00a316.99", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=77815&thispage=/home/WWW_pages/meyerbo2/meyerbos.com/titleC.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HBEZRC4BFSZYOFHEVK2CI6FQOBWI4QVY", "length": 708, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.meyerbos.com", "title": "Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. Book Detail Page", "raw_content": "Spilsbury, William H. (comp.)\nThe Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn [with] John Nicholson (comp.), Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library . . . of Lincoln's Inn. Supplementary Volume, Containing the Additions from 1859-1890\nPrinted for the Society [etc.], London, 1859 & 1890.\nThe last two major catalogues of the library's holdings of printed books (excluding its pamphlets collection) when \"it was the largest law library in the English-speaking world\", its foundation in 1497 earlier than any other library in London\nOriginal brown pebbled cloth, gilt, occasional light foxing and pencil checkmarks, else very good copies\nBibliography, Inns of Court", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 202.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.miamidadedems.org/republicans_representing_miami-dade_in_congress", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:06Z", "digest": "sha1:NHOD2NREUYMZ5TFODMVPI3WQRNY2XRI2", "length": 2320, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.miamidadedems.org", "title": "Republicans representing Miami-Dade in Congress? - Miami-Dade Democratic Party", "raw_content": "Republicans representing Miami-Dade in Congress?\nWe are a community primarily of immigrants who came here for better opportunities for our families. We understand the importance of investing in education and health care. We have the chance to flip three congressional districts from Republican to Democrat in 2018. Do you want to have a say in who is going to be the Democrat candidate? Make sure your information is updated by July 30th.\nFewer than 50% of voters in each district voted for Donald Trump in 2016, yet they are represented by Republicans. The elections will ultimately come down to turn out. Please talk about this election and the voter registration deadlines with your friends, colleagues, and neighbors.\nYou can find out your district here\nCurrent Republican representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is retiring. The district contains a large part of the city of Miami, as well as all of Miami Beach, Coral Gables, West Miami, South Miami, Pinecrest, Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay, Key Biscayne, and North Bay Village. Hillary Clinton won 59% of the vote in 2016.\nDemocrat candidates:\nMichael A. Hepburn\nRepublican Carlos Curbelo has been the representative of this district since 2014, in a district that voted 56% for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Can a Republican really represent the Democrat values of the people in the district? The district includes Kendall, Kendale Lakes, Richmond Heights, West Perrine, Homestead, Florida City, and other parts of southwest unincorporated Miami-Dade, in addition to all of Monroe County.\nDemetries Grimes\nAfter 16 years in office, it's time for Mario Diaz-Balart to be replaced. Hillary Clinton had won 48% of the vote in this district in 2016, so it is clearly a swing district. If you are frustrated with how Republicans are leading our government, you have the power to make a major change. 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Sukhai, Ph.D.\nScience Background: Molecular Biology; Genetics; Cancer Research\nFeatures & Press Profiles\nPh.D., Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 2007\nThesis: Characterization of the Transcriptional and Sequestration Effects of the Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Variant Fusion Protein NuMA-RARalpha using the hCG-NuMA-RARalpha Transgenic Mouse Model\nAdvisor: Dr. Suzanne Kamel-Reid\nM.Sc., Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto, 2001\nB.S. (Honours), Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 1998\nPostdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada, 2007 to present\nAssociate Researcher, Centre for the Study of Students in Post-Secondary Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2008 to present\nSelected Fellowships, Honors, and Awards\nCanadian Hematology Society Research Award for Trainees, 2010\nCanadian Institutes of Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2009 - 2012\nOntario Ministry of Research and Innovation Post-Doctoral Award, 2009 - 2011\nHelena Lam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2007 - 2009\nUniversity of Toronto Accessibility Award (Student Leadership), 2007\nGordon Cressy Student Leadership Award, University of Toronto, 2006\nLions Clubs International President Certificate of Appreciation, 2002-2003\n(from a total of 20+ publications)\nSukhai MA, et al (2013) Lysosomal disruption preferentially targets acute myeloid leukemia cells and progenitors.\nJ Clin Invest 123: 315-328\nSukhai MA, Spagnuolo PA, Weir S, Kasper J, Patton L, Schimmer AD (2011) New sources of drugs for hematologic malignancies.\nSukhai MA, Thomas M, Hamadanizadeh SA, Xuan Y, Wells RA, Kamel-Reid S (2011) Correlation among nuclear localization of NuMA-RARalpha, deregulation of gene expression and leukemic phenotype of hCG-NuMA-RARalpha transgenic mice.\nLeukemia Research 35: 670-6\nSukhai MA, Thomas M, Xuan Y, Chan LS, Hamadanizadeh SA, Zhang T, Bharadwaj RR, Schuh AC, Wells RA, Kamel-Reid S (2008) Evidence of functional interaction between NuMA-RARalpha and RXRalpha in an in vivo model of acute promyelocytic leukemia.\nOncogene 27: 4666-77\nSelected Affiliations & Memberships\nBoard Member; Meetings Chair; National Postdoctoral Association, 2010 - 2011\nPast President and Senior Advisor (Governance and Leadership Development),\nNational Educational Association of Disabled Students, 2004 to present\nSelected Features and Press Profiles\nSuccess in STEM: Dr. Mahadeo Sukhai. National Educational Association of Disabled Students, 2010\nN. Faba. Profile: Mahadeo Sukhai, Medical Researcher and Student. National Educational Association of Disabled Students, 2004\nL. McKarney. Biologist With a Vision. ScienceCareers, 2003\nMA Sukhai. A Life Worth Living. Able Ezine, 2000\nDr. Mahadeo Sukhai, Ph.D., is a senior postdoctoral fellow in translational leukemia biology at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto and an associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Students (CSS) in post-secondary education at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His primary academic interests are hematopoiesis, leukemia biology and drug development, and he is secondarily interested in the quality of the student and trainee experience, particularly as it relates to mentorship and professional development. His postdoctoral research is funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ministry of Research and Innovation in the province of Ontario, and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. He has substantial leadership and governance experience from his days as a student leader at the University of Toronto, and has served in several executive capacities, including President, with the National Educational Association of Disabled Students, a Canadian NGO that supports the access and participation of students with disabilities in post-secondary education. Dr. Sukhai has received numerous awards for his scientific, community, and leadership achievements, and has multiple publications to his credit.\nExcerpt of a 2010 interview from\nAccessibility in the Workplace: Support, Advocacy, and Empowerment\nHow do you see a disability as a strength/asset to a workplace?:\nIn an ideal world, disability doesn\u2019t matter. In an ideal world, a disabled person wouldn\u2019t have to put him or herself out there, campaign for, and sometimes actively fight for, something that others, at least in the developed world, take for granted. Unfortunately (or, maybe, fortunately!), we don\u2019t live in an ideal world. Disability does matter \u2013 people have their own preconceptions about what a disabled person can or can\u2019t do, and in order to succeed, a disabled individual has to often overcome those preconceptions and the barriers people put in place as a result. We do have to put ourselves out there, we do have to campaign and fight for things that others take for granted. The best of us do so without coming across as strident or as having a sense of entitlement. The best of us, in fact, use those experiences to our advantage \u2013 because we have to do things that others don\u2019t usually think about, we can develop skills and characteristics that will make us stand out from the crowd, and will enable us to work better and be assets to our employers. 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This fish is traditionally known for its bright red lips, yeah, really red. Batfish are bad swimmers; they use their pectoral fins to \"walk\" on the ocean floor. When the batfish reaches maturity, its dorsal fin becomes a single spine-like projection. Like other anglerfish, the red-lipped batfish has a structure on its head known as illicium. This structure is employed for attracting prey.\nThe batfish feeds on other small fish and small crustaceans like shrimps and mollusks.\nThe body color of the red-lipped batfish is light brown and a greyish colour on its back, with a white stomach. On the top side of the batfish there is usually a dark brown stripe starting at the head and going all the way down the back to the tail. The snout and horn of the red-lipped batfish is a brownish color. As the name of the fish states, the batfish has bright, almost fluorescent, red lips. The color of the squamation of the red-lipped batfish is shagreen-like with a relatively smooth texture. 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Courtesy photo\nThe Grand County boys tennis team came in ninth out of 21 teams in the 3A state tournament May 11 in Salt Lake City.\n\u201cWe earned three points for the state tournament which is the most we\u2019ve done in three years,\u201d coach Skylar Johnson said. \u201cWe had three positions move on to the quarter final.\u201d\nRed Devil juniors Kasey Kemp and Kai Wainer both won their first rounds of singles to move on to the second rounds but were later defeated. Three-year varsity players Braxten Pierce and Tanner Mascaro also won their match in the first round of doubles, moving into the second round, but did not advance to the semifinal.\n\u201cWe got rained out so we had to play indoors so that kind threw everyone off but they stepped up and played well,\u201d Johnson said of the tournament. \u201cThey had lots of improvement,\u201d he said of the team\u2019s season. \u201cWe only have one senior, so we have a lot to look forward to next year.\u201d\nNow that the state tournament has ended, the team will begin preparing for next season, according to Johnson. \u201cWe\u2019ll be doing off-season open court for the boys\u2019 and the girls\u2019 teams during the summer.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montres-catena.com/en/core.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4H6ITRJNRBM6KKELM3KG26AYQNJJ6XKQ", "length": 493, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.montres-catena.com", "title": "Catena", "raw_content": "During the early 21st century, Catena had been spending several years developing its in-house automatic movement, which was then launched in 2013. Since its launch, the automatic movement has been adapted to various models, specifically designed to accommodate more features and functions. The collection marks new era with technology and splendidness, providing watch enthusiasts refined Catena timepieces.\nFor more details, please visit the CATENA movement website: www.mouvements-catena.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moorefamilywinery.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:09Z", "digest": "sha1:K2B64TUXQCE5VD2NOO6WN3R4ZJQOKFHP", "length": 3146, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.moorefamilywinery.com", "title": "Moore Family Winery - Welcome", "raw_content": "Moore Family Winery is located in the Red Hills District of the Lake County AVA. It is a family owned and operated estate created to celebrate the terroir of Lake County, California. Steve and Robin Moore purchased 70 continuous acres to establish an organically farmed vineyard which yields intensely flavored fruit to its finely crafted \u201cnew world\u201d wines. Steve spent his childhood summers in Lake County, a tradition he has passed on to his grandchildren. Moore Family Winery reflects of the love and devotion within a family that created a vineyard and winery from the ground up.\nMoore Family Winery\u2019s tasting room opened to the public in 2007. With its 360 degree views of Cobb Mountain, from almost 3,000 feet in elevation, it offers not only a welcoming place to taste world class wines, but a landscape utilized for concerts, weddings and picnics. The picturesque views offer guests a bit of Lake County serenity as they take in the pristine forestland that surrounds the property.\nMoore Family Wines, The Label\nEach bottle of Moore Family wine tells a story. The label is a symbol of the Moore\u2019s determination in creating an organically farmed estate and world class wines. Having survived a forest fire over a decade ago, the Lone Pine symbolizes strength and perseverance. In the light of the full moon, it stands tall, like a silent guardian over the vineyard. On the back label you will find a constellation of stars, each star symbolizing a family member\u2026each year, there seems to be more stars in the sky above Moore Family!\nFor proprietors Steve and Robin Moore, wine making has always been a pasion. For years they produced wine in their garage for family and friends. Steve has also spent decades building wine caves for some of the most esteemed Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley wineries. Needless to say, the wine business was a natural progression for the family. Having dreams of a mountain top\nvineyard and winery, Steve and Robin purchased the 70 acre property in 1995. Since then, it\u2019s been a labor of love for the entire family. Son Beau Moore, acts as Vineyard Manager, as daughter Stepheny Moore Johnson takes her place as Hospitality Manager and Wedding Coordinator for the estate. With years of hard work behind them (and many more ahead) the family has grown making Steve and Robin\u2019s grandchildren the 6th generation of Moore\u2019s in Lake County.\nSaying that the Moore Family Winery is a \u201cfamily owned operation\u201d is not saying nearly enough. Steve and Beau along with a few helpful friends built the Mediterranean style tasting room. Robin acts as \u201cMoore family child care,\u201d which has been found to be the most important job on the estate! Every family member has his role. With Uncle Huck BBQing his famed good eats for the concerts, Gabriella Moore (Beau\u2019s wife) digs her hands in daily to the landscape, and Gary Johnson (Stepheny\u2019s husband) educating the trade on Moore Family wines, no detail is left unnoticed. Stop in any given weekend and introduce yourself to Steve, Robin, Beau and Stepheny; without a doubt they\u2019ll be there, and they are more than happy to have you! \u201cWhen your glass is empty, get some Moore!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.motivationalwordsofwisdom.com/2014/02/my-prayer-for-you-today.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CJRFMICKCQ7NM52AKCVIZJCD4BX34PPA", "length": 236, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.motivationalwordsofwisdom.com", "title": "Motivational Words of Wisdom: MY PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY", "raw_content": "2/17/2014 10:30:00 AM Labels: Godly Messages, Godly Quotes, Godly SMS, Love of God, Power of Prayer, Pray Today, Prayer and Peace\nI pray that the Love of God and the Peace that surpasses all understanding fill your heart and mind today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 12786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mountainislandweekly.com/news/2011/06/mountain-island-man-cares-for-40-year-old-fern/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:43Z", "digest": "sha1:SYLGFQCBOHOIGPAX4CPARPFZH2RWY4C3", "length": 2327, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.mountainislandweekly.com", "title": "Mountain Island man cares for 40-year-old fern | Mountain Island Monitor", "raw_content": "February 15, 2019 2:05 pm You are here:Home News Mountain Island man cares for 40-year-old fern\nStan Davis stands next to his massive staghorn fern. Alan Hodge/MIM photo\nThere\u2019s huge green monster chained in Stan Davis\u2019 front yard at 9911 Harwood Lane in the Mountain Island area.\nActually, the green monster is a staghorn fern about the size of a refrigerator. The plant is at least five feet in diameter and four feet tall. It\u2019s heavy too.\n\u201cI guess it weighs a couple hundred pounds,\u201d Davis said.\nHe estimates it\u2019s about 40 years old. Staghorn ferns have been known to live twice that long.\n\u201cWhen my mother got it 35 or 40 years ago the fern was about the size of a baseball,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIt hung over her sink. Later, she moved it to her beauty shop in Matthews.\u201d\nDavis acquired the fern in 1999 and it hasn\u2019t stopped growing. He isn\u2019t sure exactly how large the fern will get, but it doesn\u2019t look like slowing down any time soon.\n\u201cThere is new growth all over it,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThe new leaves start off looking like lily pads.\u201d\nRight now, the colossal fern is hanging by logging chains from a stout oak tree in his front yard.\nA member of the platycerium genus, staghorn ferns are similar to Spanish moss in that they attach themselves to another object, such as a tree, and take moisture and nutrients directly from the air. Staghorn ferns are native to tropical regions including continental Africa, Madagascar, and southeast Asia.\nBeing native to hot climates, a staghorn fern can\u2019t survive in the outdoors during cold weather. Davis has solved this problem by moving the plant into an outbuilding each autumn.\n\u201cI keep industrial lights on it so it won\u2019t freeze,\u201d Davis said. \u201cMy power bill jumps from one hundred to two hundred fifty dollars a month.\u201d\nThe logistics of moving the behemoth indoor for the winter sounds like the method used by the ancient Egyptians to move the pyramid stones.\n\u201cTo get it out of the tree, I lower it into the bed of my pickup truck.\u201d Davis said. \u201cThen I have to move it on rollers to get it into the building,\u201d\nDavis doesn\u2019t want to keep the experience of seeing the humongous staghorn fern all to himself, but it is a look and don\u2019t touch deal.\n\u201cGarden clubs or anyone else who wants to come up in the yard is welcome to look at it,\u201d Davis said. \u201cBut please don\u2019t break any shoots off.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mountpleasantprimary.co.uk/governors-annual-report-to-parents", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JKYSO3WR2AEE7SF665BBSMEOVXQEPSBA", "length": 105, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mountpleasantprimary.co.uk", "title": "Governors Annual Report to Parents", "raw_content": "Please use the tabs on the left hand side of this page to access current and previous reports to parents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 4052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 125.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.movienews.me/2017/02/ice-cube-teacher-from-hell-in-fist-fight.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HVVS3HVQAASF6OK7PENNUEJMFRA3MIY2", "length": 464, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.movienews.me", "title": "Ice Cube, the Teacher-From-Hell in \"Fist Fight\" - Movie News + More Entertainment", "raw_content": "Home / CELEBRITY NEWS / Ice Cube, the Teacher-From-Hell in \"Fist Fight\"\nIn 1991, Cube made his acting debut with a lead role in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated feature Boyz n the Hood. Since then, he has become one of the most bankable actors in Hollywood with film credits that include Friday, Three Kings, and xXx: State of the Union, as well as theBarbershop, Are We There Yet?, Ride Along and 21 Jump Street franchises, to name just a few.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 94.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mpac.gov.tt/node/463", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7K6QGJ5POAMZMUU6JL5XFIE43E5MHOTQ", "length": 365, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mpac.gov.tt", "title": "Payment of Salaries and Pensions for the month of September 2018 | Ministry of Public Administration Offline", "raw_content": "Payment of Salaries and Pensions for the month of September 2018\nAccounting Officers, Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Departments are hereby advised that the payment of Salaries and Pensions for the month of September 2018 will be made on the undermentioned dates:\nSalaries Friday September 21St, 2018\nPensions Tuesday September 25th, 2018\nCOMPTROLLER OF ACOUNTS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.msnbc.com/maddowblog?field_issues_target_id=&field_publish_date_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_publish_date_value%5Bmax%5D=&field_publish_date_value%5Btimezone%5D=dates_timezone&field_publish_date_value%5Bdate_selector%5D=&page=26&date=2011/8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FDKQRUUFUNJE676FAF3T76QJNQR5MLZY", "length": 20952, "nlines": 108, "source_domain": "www.msnbc.com", "title": "The MaddowBlog on msnbc \u2013 Latest News,Video, & Analysis", "raw_content": "Trump pretends 'many' Dems secretly agree with him about wall, shutdown\nDonald Trump declared publicly last week that he'd spoken privately to some of his presidential predecessors who'd made a secret confession to him: they admitted that they should've built a giant wall along the U.S./Mexico border. This immediately became problematic, not only because it was an absurd claim, but because reporters can call every living president.\nAnd last week, each of Trump's predecessors made clear that the Republican was lying about the conversations that only occurred in his imagination.\nThis morning, the president approached this in a way that's harder to disprove:\n\"We have a very big crisis, a humanitarian crisis on the border. Everybody knows it, [congressional Democrats] know it. And many of them are saying, 'We agree with you.' Many of them are calling and many of them are breaking. The Republicans are rock-solid.\"\nFor now, let's put aside the fact that Republicans are not unified, Trump's efforts to pretend otherwise notwithstanding. Similarly, we can look past the fact that literally zero congressional Democrats, at least publicly, have broken with their party and endorsed the idea of paying the president his ransom.\nWhat I find interesting is the idea that Trump wants us to believe that Dems have secretly called the White House to say how correct they think he is.\nUnlike last week's incident with the former presidents, this is practically impossible to definitively disprove. There are, after all, nearly 300 Democrats in Congress (between both chambers). Is it possible two or three of them reached out to the White House to signal sympathy for the president's position? I seriously doubt it, but sure.\nThe trouble is, it'd be easier to believe Trump's fanciful boast if he weren't frequently describing imagined conversations with people whom he insists have secretly told him how right he is.\nTrump picks a curious time to praise his favorite supermarket tabloid\nEven before taking office, Donald Trump made no secret of his affection for the National Enquirer. The Republican insisted that the supermarket tabloid \"should be very respected\" and deserves \"Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting.\"\nAs president, his support hasn't faded. Take yesterday, for example.\nFour days after Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos announced a divorce with his wife MacKenzie, a prominent figure took to Twitter to comment on the matter: Donald Trump.\nThe president appeared to mock the business giant and Washington Post owner in a tweet Sunday night, referring to Bezos as \"Jeff Bozo.\"\n\"So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post,\" Trump wrote. \"Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!\"\nThe confluence of events was apparently too much for the president. Trump hates the Washington Post because of its coverage of his White House, which leads Trump to also hate Jeff Bezos, because he publishes the newspaper, and Amazon, because Bezos owns the online retailer.\nThe Republican also, of course, loves the National Enquirer, which has helped Trump with glowing coverage, and which reportedly uncovered damaging information about Bezos, contributing to the breakup of his marriage.\nTrump thought it'd be a good idea to tie all of this together, declaring that the supermarket tabloid is \"far more accurate\" than one of the nation's premier news organizations -- all while demonstrating the maturity of an ill-tempered child. (\"Jeff Bozo\"? Seriously?)\nBut what makes this of particular note is the timing of the developments.\nToday's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.\n* Juli\u00e1n Castro, a former member of Barack Obama's cabinet, kicked off his Democratic presidential campaign over the weekend. He made the announcement from his hometown of San Antonio, where he formerly served as mayor.\n* In the latest CNN poll, Donald Trump's approval rating is just 37%, but of likely interest to the White House is this: among whites without college degrees -- the heart of the president's base -- Trump has a 45% approval rating and a 47% disapproval rating. It's the first time in Trump's presidency that he's been \"underwater\" with this constituency.\n* Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has hired a series of prominent Democratic staffers, leaving no doubt about her plans to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.\n* On a related noted, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has scheduled a trip to South Carolina on Jan. 25, which also leaves little doubt about her 2020 plans.\n* Just two weeks into his new term on Capitol Hill, Sen. Joe Manchin (D) isn't denying his interest in returning to West Virginia and running for governor next year. If the conservative Democrat is serious about this, his seat will likely flip from \"blue\" to \"red\" soon after.\n* Trying to clarify his electoral plans, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) said late last week that he will, in fact, seek a second term later this year. Asked why he still hadn't filed the necessary campaign materials, the Republican said, \"I'm the governor of Kentucky, that's my focus, not paperwork.\"\n* Georgia's Stacey Abrams (D), who very nearly won a gubernatorial race last year, was in D.C. last week, where she met with Democratic leaders about a possible 2020 campaign against incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R).\nPresident seeks credit for spending time in the White House\nOf all the Republican arguments related to the shutdown, my personal favorite is the talking point that says Donald Trump deserves enormous credit for spending time in the White House. This came up briefly during the president's latest interview with Fox News' Jeanine Pirro over the weekend.\nPIRRO: You're sitting there waiting for a deal, the Democrats are not sitting with you. If this isn't an emergency, I don't know what is.\nTRUMP: Well, I haven't actually left the White House in months.... I've been here virtually every night, I guess every night other than one day I flew to Iraq and then to Germany to see our troops.\nThat's not even close to being true. During the seven days preceding the interview, Trump visited Camp David, Capitol Hill, and McAllen, Texas. He'll be in New Orleans today (though he told the public he'd be in Tennessee.) In the weeks leading up to his shutdown, the president also traveled to Philadelphia, Kansas City, Mississippi, and Argentina.\nBut while I don't much care about Trump's travels, I do care about the underlying point he wants the public to believe: it's impressive, the argument goes, just how much time the president has been willing to spend inside the White House during the government shutdown.\nTrump has stressed this point during cabinet meetings, during multiple television interviews, and in a series of tweets. Some of his prominent cheerleaders, including acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney have parroted the same line.\nThe Associated Press reported this morning that the president \"has expressed bafflement that he is not getting more credit for largely staying put during the shutdown.\"\nPerhaps I can help explain the dynamic that has left Trump so confused.\nAs shutdown persists, McConnell and Senate GOP remain on the sidelines\nDonald Trump argued over the weekend that congressional Democrats should return to Capitol Hill \"and work to end the Shutdown.\" It followed related remarks the president made on Friday, in which he said Democratic lawmakers should \"come back and vote.\"\nI suppose the message that the public is supposed to believe -- after this and a series of related missives Trump either published or re-tweeted -- is that the Democratic-led House just isn't doing enough work to resolve the shutdown the president created more than three weeks ago.\nIt's an odd argument for a couple of reasons. The first is that House Dems, immediately after taking the reins in the chamber, started passing measures that would re-open the government and end the shutdown. So far, each of the bills has passed with at least some bipartisan support, and the measures mirror the proposals Republicans -- including the president -- supported as recently as Dec. 19, which is less than a month ago.\nThe idea that Democrats are just sitting passively, uninterested in resolving the problem, is belied by their obvious legislative record. Trump wants Dems to \"come back and vote,\" despite the fact that they've already done this.\nThe second angle dovetails nicely with the first: it's the Republican-led Senate that's sitting on its hands. The Washington Post's Colby Itkowitz explained the other day:\nPresident Trump is not the only person in Washington who could end this government shutdown now.\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could bring a \"clean\" funding bill to the floor, free up his GOP caucus to support it and could quite possibly secure enough votes to override a presidential veto.\nSince the start of the new Congress, the Democratic-led House has voted four times on measures that would re-open all or some of the federal government. The number of votes in the Republican-led Senate, at least so far, is zero -- and that's not because of filibusters, but rather, because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn't brought any bills related to the shutdown to the floor.\nTrump insists he has a shutdown 'plan' (which no one else has seen)\nIt seems painfully obvious at this point that Donald Trump stumbled into a government shutdown with no idea how to resolve it. That, alas, was 24 days ago -- at the start of the longest shutdown in American history.\nFor his part, the president has heard the chatter about his non-existent strategy, and over the weekend, he pushed back against the charge in a notable way. In a pair of tweets, Trump wrote:\n\"I just watched a Fake reporter from the Amazon Washington Post say the White House is 'chaotic, there does not seem to be a strategy for this Shutdown. There is no plan.' The Fakes always like talking Chaos, there is NONE. In fact, there's almost nobody in the W.H. but me, and I do have a plan on the Shutdown.\n\"But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact that I won the election, and I promised safety and security for the American people. Part of that promise was a Wall at the Southern Border. Elections have consequences!\"\nFirst, the idea that Trump believes there's no \"chaos\" in the White House because there's no one there working is kind of hilarious.\nSecond, while it's true that the president ran on a platform of building a wall, it's also true that he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, which makes it awfully difficult to claim the American electorate endorsed his sparse platform. For that matter, if the president agrees that elections have consequences, he might want to take a fresh look at the results from the national congressional elections from two months ago -- the one in which House Democrats won their biggest victory since the Watergate era.\nBut I'm especially interested in the idea that Trump really does, all evidence to the contrary, \"have a plan on the shutdown.\" Evidently, it's a secret plan, because the president hasn't told anyone -- including his own White House staff -- what it is.\nOn the shutdown, Americans aren't buying what the GOP is selling\nThe day before Donald Trump delivered an Oval Office address on immigration, Jared Kushner called Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), by most measures Congress' most conservative Democrat, and a lawmaker who's generally eager to work on bipartisan agreements. Did the White House reach out to the West Virginian about a possible compromise?\nNot exactly. The New York Times reported late last week that Kushner explained to Manchin that Trump would not budge: unless Democrats wanted the shutdown to continue, they'd have to approve funding for a border wall. As part of the same conversation, the article added, Kushner \"left the senator with the impression that the White House believed public opinion would be on the president's side after the speech, and that Democrats would simply have to relent.\"\nThere's fresh evidence that those assumptions were backwards.\nBy a wide margin, more Americans blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress than congressional Democrats for the now record-breaking government shutdown, and most reject the president's assertion that there is an illegal-immigration crisis on the southern border, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.\nA majority of Americans (54%) oppose the president's dream of a giant border wall. A nearly identical number (53%) blame Trump and his party for the ongoing government shutdown, which is now the longest in the nation's history.\nAs for White House plans for a national-emergency declaration, in which Trump would grant himself the power to spend money on a wall in defiance of Congress' wishes, Americans are opposed to the idea by more than a 2-to-1 margin (66% to 31%).\nMaking matters worse for the GOP, despite Trump's incessant talk about the \"crisis\" at the border, just under a fourth of the country (24%) endorses the president's characterization of the status quo.\nThe results from a new CNN poll are no better for Trump: it found 56% of Americans oppose a wall and 55% blame Republicans for their shutdown.\nThe practical implications of results like these matter.\nTrump went to 'extraordinary lengths' to conceal Putin chat details\nAhead of his July 2018 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump insisted that the meeting be limited to a one-on-one discussion, with no other U.S. officials, even members of the Trump cabinet, participating. The White House never exactly explained why, but the assumption throughout the government was that the American leader would brief U.S. officials on the details of the meeting afterwards.\nThat didn't happen. White House officials, military leaders, and even Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats all conceded in the days following the summit that they didn't fully know what transpired behind closed doors.\nIt wasn't an isolated incident. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the Republican has \"gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations\" with the Russian autocrat who attacked our elections in 2016 in order to put Trump in power.\n[Trump has established a pattern] of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States' main adversaries.\nAs a result, U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump's face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years. Such a gap would be unusual in any presidency, let alone one that Russia sought to install through what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as an unprecedented campaign of election interference. [...]\nFormer U.S. officials said that Trump's behavior is at odds with the known practices of previous presidents, who have relied on senior aides to witness meetings and take comprehensive notes then shared with other officials and departments.\nIn one instance, according to the Post's reporting, Trump \"took possession\" of his own interpreter's notes after a conversation with Putin.\nThe publication of the report represented a one-two punch of sorts: over the course of 24 hours, the New York Times reported on the FBI's investigation into whether Trump was working on behalf of Russia against American interests, while the Washington Post reported that Trump hid details of his conversations with the Russian president.\nAsked whether he's worked for Russia, Trump doesn't answer directly\nIn late October 2016, about a week before Election Day, Kellyanne Conway thought she'd come up with a line that would help Donald Trump's candidacy. Targeting Hillary Clinton, Conway told Fox News, \"If you're under your second FBI investigation in the same year, then you do have a ... corruption and an ethics problem.\"\nIn hindsight, that might not have been the ideal standard for Conway to have set.\nThroughout much of his presidency, Trump has repeatedly responded to the Russia scandal with the same four-word phrase: \"I'm not under investigation.\" We've known for quite a while that the assertion was wrong: Trump is the subject of an ongoing counter-espionage probe, which has explored, among other things, whether the president obstructed justice.\nWhat we didn't know until Friday night, however, was that the FBI had another line of inquiry that pre-dated Special Counsel Robert Mueller's efforts.\nIn the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president's behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.\nThe inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president's own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow's influence.\nAccording to the Times' reporting, which hasn't been independently confirmed by MSNBC or NBC News, officials at the bureau had long been concerned about Trump's Russian ties, but it was the circumstances surrounding Comey's ouster -- which the president admitted to NBC News' Lester Holt was related to Trump's concerns about the Russia investigation -- that \"helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry.\"\nThe historic nature of this is quite breathtaking. Throughout much of the Cold War, the FBI launched plenty of investigations into Americans thought to be possibly working on behalf of a foreign adversary.\nNone of them was a sitting president of the United States.\nFor those inclined to support Trump and give him the benefit of the doubt, I suppose the obvious response to revelations like these is to argue that the president only appeared to be a Russian asset when the FBI opened its inquiry. That's not, however, the White House's argument.\nRep. Steve King's racism begins to catch up with him among GOP\nJason Johnson, politics editor for The Root, talks with Joy Reid about the well establish history of racist statements from Iowa's congressman Steve King, and why his latest remarks are suddenly drawing condemnation from other Republicans. watch\nAmericans suffer shutdown consequences; Trump stuck on wall hype\nRep. Jennifer Wexton talks with Joy Reid about how Americans are struggling to cope with the federal government shutdown and its mounting consequences as Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell hold out for a multi-billion dollar installment on a border wall Trump hyped during his campaign. watch\nNYT's report of FBI concerns about Trump suggests further intel\nFrank Figliuzzi, former assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence department, talks with Joy Reid about the part of the Trump-Russia \"iceberg\" the public can't see that likely formed the basis of the FBI's concerns about whether Donald Trump was working for Russia. watch\nHimes: FBI concerns about Trump as Russian agent unsurprising\nRep. Jim Himes talks with Joy Reid about a new New York Times report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether Donald Trump was working for Russia in the days after James Comey's firing, and notes that while the report is shocking, the revelations in the Trump-Russia investigation so far make the FBI's concerns unsurprising. watch\nNYT report casts Trump obstruction case in new relation to Russia\nBarbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Joy Reid about a new New York Times report that makes the Russia investigation and the Trump obstruction case appear more intertwined than first realized as the FBI reportedly considered that Trump was acting on Russia's behalf in firing Comey. watch\nNYT: FBI worried Trump was in Russian employ after Comey firing\nMichael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Joy Reid about new reporting that Donald Trump was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation after an inquiry was opened out of concern that Trump was a threat to national security, working for Russia to hinder the investigation of 2016 meddling. watch\nMaddow Links\nSendItToRachel.com\nMeme check: Did Rachel really say that?\nHOW TO HELP FLINT, MICHIGAN\nE-mail us at Rachel@msnbc.com\nPast Show Transcripts\nRSS Feed - Maddow Show\nRSS Feed - Steve Benen\nMaddow Podcast\nDecryptomaddowlogical\nWhere can you get one of those TRMS mugs?\nSend it to Rachel!\nAmazon AbeBooks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 24018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/1717577/nirvana-unplugged-20-anniversary-behind-the-scenes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:27:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3A6QH46IDAFAD6Y34ESCNYXSTYOXEBC", "length": 3045, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "'Nirvana: Unplugged' Turns 20 -- Go Behind The Scenes Of The Performance That Changed Everything - MTV", "raw_content": "'Nirvana: Unplugged' Turns 20 -- Go Behind The Scenes Of The Performance That Changed Everything\nTwenty years ago today, Nirvana shot their iconic 'Unplugged' performance, and made music history.\nOn November 18, 1993, after months of negotiations and two days of rather tense rehearsals, Nirvana headed to Sony Studios in New York to record their episode of \"MTV Unplugged.\"\nAt the time of the taping, the series had already played host to legends like Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John, and experienced unprecedented success with the release of Eric Clapton Unplugged, an album that sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and won six Grammys, including Record, Album and Song of the Year. \"Unplugged\" had also served as a showcase for the era's highest-profile acts \u2014 R.E.M., Boyz II Men, Pearl Jam, etc. \u2014 and proven to be a safe space for established artists like Mariah Carey and L.L. Cool J to shake things up.\nIn short, by 1993, \"Unplugged's\" legacy was already secure. But when Nirvana's episode aired that December, it was clear to everyone that the show's history needed to be re-written immediately. With their stripped down, steely set, staunch refusal to play hits like \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\" and sonorous covers of songs most had never heard (quick show of hands: how many Vaselines fans we got out there?), Nirvana had turned what many considered to be the defining performance of the \"Unplugged\" era. And twenty years later, that assessment still holds.\nOf course, in the months following that initial broadcast, the legend of \"Nirvana: Unplugged\" only continued to grow. Kurt Cobain took his life in April 1994, making the show one of Nirvana's final televised appearances, and his death fundamentally changed the way the performance was viewed. From the funereal floral arrangements (stargazer lilies) Cobain himself picked out to adorn the stage, to the staggering final stanza of Leadbelly's \"Where Did You Sleep Last Night\" \u2014 where he yowls, gasps and all but gives up the ghost \u2014 it was impossible to view the show as anything less than otherworldly; more than just a final performance, it seemed to be a final farewell.\nNearly seven months after Cobain's death, DGC would release Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York, an album that not only sold more than 6 million copies in the U.S. (making it the band's most successful posthumous effort) and won a Grammy, but was named one of \"the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\" by Rolling Stone and one of \"The 50 Greatest Live Albums\" by NME. It's legacy, much like the performance itself, is now set in stone.\nAnd in honor of that performance's twentieth anniversary, MTV News spoke to the people who made \"Nirvana: Unplugged\" possible: Director Beth McCarthy Miller and producer Alex Coletti, both of whom were present in Sony Studios the day Nirvana changed everything. All week, we'll be unveiling their behind-the-scenes stories of the \"Unplugged\" taping, and today, we're taking you back to the beginning ... when the cameras rolled, and history was made.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 144.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/2549789/wu-tang-clan-shaolin-album-millions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LXMYLGGM6ZMCMP6O3S3VJCX75HC3SRDE", "length": 1499, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "Wu-Tang Clan's \"Once Upon A Time In Shaolin\" Sold For Millions Of Dollars - MTV", "raw_content": "Someone Copped A Wu-Tang Clan Album For Millions Of Dollars\nYes. One copy of one album for millions of dollars.\nYou can stream most of your favorite albums online for free (or close to it), so why would anyone buy one copy of one LP for millions of dollars?\nI ask that because Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin was just sold for a price \u201cin the millions,\" according to Forbes.\n\"The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years,\" RZA told Forbes last year. \"And yet it doesn\u2019t receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it\u2019s been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.\"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0e0GZ3aD_M\nIt might be a good thing that the owner\u2019s identity is being kept under wraps. Whoever has the album reportedly can\u2019t release it for 88 years. That means, some hardcore Wu fans might be bothering that person for nearly a century just to get a listen. Can you imagine that type of ruckus in your life?\nYou may still get a chance to hear the project. There are talks of a possible tour where listening sessions could be organized in galleries or museums. It\u2019s unclear if that will actually happen, but it could be good news for every Wu fan who didn\u2019t cough up the mills for this LP.\nLast year, Wu-Tang also dropped A Better Tomorrow and you can hear that project below for nowhere near a million dollars.\nhttps://open.spotify.com/album/1eFLCXEcuThN3QpMffhfvy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/ColumnaMusica_1CM0208.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2GYNWS2YGJU55MTYPPXDX6RIBGIB722Y", "length": 6050, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.musica-dei-donum.org", "title": "CD reviews", "raw_content": "\"Corpus Christi en Toledo, 1751\"\nSphera AntiQua, Memoria de los Sentidos\nJuan Jos\u00e9 Montero, organ\nDir: Carlos Mart\u00ednez Gil\nrec: Toledo, S.I. Catedral Primado (Capilla de Reyes)\nColumna M\u00fasica - 1 CM0208 (\u00a9 2008) (50'00\")\nJuan Bautista CABANILLES (1644-1712): Tiento lleno, punto alto sobre el Pange lingua, tono 5\u00b0; Jaime CASELLAS (1690-1764): \u00a1Alarma, alarma, sentidos!, villancico al Santisimo Sacramento; Missa Pange lingua/Sacris Solemnis\nMercedes Pulgar, Carolina Clemente, soprano; Paz Mart\u00ednez Gil, Sara L\u00f3pez de la Torre, contralto; Miguel Bernal, Daniel Bernaza, tenor; Elier Mu\u00f1oz, Sim\u00f3n Drago, bass; Rodrigo Guti\u00e9rrez, Mathieu Loux, oboe; G\u00e1bor Heghy, Andreas Kalthoff, trumpet; T\u00f3masz Wesolowsky, bassoon; Javier Ill\u00e1n, Pablo Guti\u00e9rrez, Javier Alfonso, Sergio Gil, Lika Laloum, Maite Larburu, \u00darsula Ros, violin; Alejandro Mar\u00edas, cello; Michelle Wenderlich, double bass; David Vald\u00e9s, timpani; Daniel Zapico, theorbo; Aar\u00f3n Zapico, harpsichord; Juan Jos\u00e9 Montero, organ\nThis disc pays attention to one of the main religious feasts in Spain, Corpus Christi, which commemorates the institution of the Holy Eucharist by Jesus Christ. Elements of the celebrations were considered vulgar or profane and over the centuries attempts were made to eliminate them. But in Toledo in the 18th century the feast still contained the elements which lent it its specific profile. Part of the celebrations which lasted several days was a procession, and it was in particular here that sacred and popular elements were intermingled. The whole proceedings are described in detail in the booklet, which allows the listener to put the music in its context.\nHere music is performed which was written for the feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday, 29 May 1751. Jaime Casellas is not a household name, although he was one of the most prolific composers of his time. This is an indication of how little we still know about Spanish music of the 18th century. In 1715 he was elected maestro de capilla of San Mar\u00eda del Mar in Barcelona and in 1733 he was appointed in the same position in Toledo Cathedral. Hardly anything of the music he composed while working in Barcelona has survived, but a large corpus of music written in Toledo has been preserved. It comprises Latin liturgical music as well as villancicos, tonos and tonadillas on Spanish text. In his compositions he usually supports the vocal forces with orchestra, as in the music which is performed on this disc.\nThe main work is the Missa Pange lingua/Sacris solemnis. It is based on two of the hymns for Corpus Christi, which are also sung in plainchant during the Mass. 'Pange lingua' is sung before the Kyrie, 'Sacris solemnis' after the Gloria. It is mainly the musical material of the hymn Pange lingua which is used in the Mass. Material from this hymn is also used by Cabanilles whose Tiento lleno, punto alto sobre el Pange lingua, tono 5\u00b0 is played after the Credo of the Mass. The scoring of the Mass, with 8 voices in two choirs and an orchestra of two violins, two oboes, two trumpets, bassoon and bc reflects the importance of this feast and the exuberance of the celebrations in Toledo. Casellas could count on a number of excellent musicians. Around the time this Mass was composed new singers were brought in, among them young castrati from Spain and Italy. The orchestra was enforced by experienced musicians. Both this Mass and the villancico which closes this recording must have taken profit from these circumstances.\nCarlos Mart\u00ednez Gil writes about the programme: \"It would be fruitless to search for traces of intimacy in this recording. Everything here is advertisement for an institution [the Cathedral] that insisted on being the determining factor of the destiny of a city in undeniable decadence and which utilized, in this case, the art of music to manifest its grandeur\". This and the information about the character of the celebrations on Corpus Christi in Toledo are to be kept in mind while listening to this music. It is mostly extraverted and often a bit loud. Even in the traditionally most introverted part of the Mass, the passage about Jesus' incarnation, the trumpets don't keep silent. But I am sure you will be able to appreciate this disc if you like Spanish music.\nJaume Casella's music is certainly worth listening to, not only the Mass but also the villancico, a uniquely Spanish genre. Although the content is sacred the style is very much alike the secular music of the time, and shows how sacred and popular elements are mixed. It is given a very energetic performance here with an expecialy good contribution of the tenor, whose name is not given. I assume it is the tenor from the first choir, Miguel Bernal.\nTo what extent the performance practice of the Mass reflects what is known about how the music was performed in Toledo in 1751 I do not know. There are several moments when bells are ringing and that is certainly historically justified. Whether the soft drumbeat which accompanies the singing of the hymn 'Sacris solemnis' reflects historical practices as well I can't tell. I am also not sure whether the pomp and circumstance of the Corpus Christi celebrations are fully explored with a performance of one voice per part as on this disc. Although the Mass is nice to listen to, the singing isn't always top-notch. In particular the sopranos are using too much vibrato, which is especially notable in the passages with a more modest scoring.\nLike I said the booklet contains ample information about the Corpus Christi celebrations as well as about the music by Casellas. Unfortunately only the original Spanish text of the villancico is given. If a disc is released for the international market an English translation of uncommon lyrics is indispensable.\nAll in all, I recommend this disc mostly to those who have a special interest in Spanish music and Spanish culture. 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His films include Chasing Liberty (2004), Match Point (2005), Imagine Me and You (2005), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Watchmen (2009), A Single Man (2009), Leap Year (2010), Stoker (2013) and The Imitation Game (2014). In 2014, he joined the cast of the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as Finley \"Finn\" Polmar.\nGoode has been in a relationship with Sophie Dymoke since 2007. They have two daughters, Matilda Eve (b. March 2009) and Teddie Eleanor Rose Goode (b. September 2013).\nFilmography of Matthew Goode (21 films)\nActors Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode\nRoles Sidney Stark\nLondres, 1946. A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Juliet Ashton, une jeune \u00e9crivaine britannique en manque d'inspiration, re\u00e7oit une lettre d'un myst\u00e9rieux membre du Club de Litt\u00e9rature de Guernesey cr\u00e9\u00e9 durant l'Occupation allemande. Intrigu\u00e9e et curieuse d'en savoir plus, elle se rend sur l'\u00eele et rencontre alors les excentriques et attachants membres du Cercle litt\u00e9raire des amateurs d'\u00e9pluchures de patates dont Dawsey Adams, le charmant fermier \u00e0 l'origine de la lettre. Leurs confidences, son attachement \u00e0 l'\u00eele et \u00e0 ses habitants ou encore son affection pour Dawsey et pour les autres f\u00e9rus de litt\u00e9rature changeront \u00e0 jamais le cours de sa vie ainsi que sa carri\u00e8re d'\u00e9crivaine.\nActors Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Goode, Jim Broadbent, Samantha Morton, Dominique Swain, Tom Riley\nRoles Talon\nLewis Clark (Benedict Cumberbatch) is an author who stumbles upon a world of magic after his two young children go missing. He starts a quest to try to stop the evil that threatens to destroy both his worlds of reality and magic.\nRoles Guy Sangster\nRoles Professor Albright\nGenres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Historical\nThemes Films about computing, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film\nActors Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Allen Leech\nRoles Hugh Alexander\nIn 1951, two policemen, Nock and Staehl, investigate mathematician Alan Turing after an apparent break-in at his home. Turing's suspicious behaviour and lack of war records triggers Nock's suspicion that he might be a Soviet spy. During his interrogation by Nock, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park.\nThemes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals\nActors Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Lucas Till, Jacki Weaver\nRoles Charlie Stoker\nOn her 18th birthday, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska)\u2014a girl with a strong acuteness of the senses\u2014has her life turned upside down after her loving father Richard (Dermot Mulroney) dies in a horrific car accident. India is then left with her unstable mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). At Richard's funeral, Evelyn and India are introduced to Richard's charming and charismatic brother Charlie (Matthew Goode), who has spent his life traveling the world. He then announces that he is staying indefinitely to help support India and Evelyn, much to Evelyn's delight and India's chagrin.\nActors Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Susan Brown, Miranda Richardson\nRoles Captain Sir John Lindsay\nDido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay was born in 1761, the natural daughter of Maria Belle, an enslaved African woman in the West Indies, and Captain Sir John Lindsay, a British Royal Navy officer. After the death of Dido's mother, Captain Lindsay takes Dido from the slums of the West Indies in 1765 and entrusts her to his uncle William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice, and his wife, Elizabeth, who live at Kenwood House, an estate in Hampstead outside London. Lord and Lady Mansfield raise Dido as a free gentlewoman, together with their niece Lady Elizabeth Murray, who came to live with them after her mother died and her father remarried. When the two cousins reach adulthood, the Mansfields commission an oil portrait of their two great-nieces, but Dido is unhappy about sitting for it as she is worried that it will portray her as a subordinate, like other portraits she has seen depicting aristocrats with black servants. Dido's father dies and leaves her the generous sum of \u00a32,000 a year, enough to make her an heiress. Lady Elizabeth, by contrast, will have no income from her father, whose son from his new wife has been named his sole heir. Arrangements are made for Elizabeth to have her coming out to society, but Lord and Lady Mansfield believe no gentleman will agree to marry Dido because of her mixed-race status, so while she will travel to London with her cousin, she will not be \"out\" to society.\nActors Matthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis, Rachel Griffiths, Elizabeth Blackmore, Kerry Fox\nBurning Man tells the story of Tom (Matthew Goode), a British chef in a Bondi restaurant, who seems to have chosen to disobey his boss, and his actions are tolerated by everyone around him. As Tom descends into darkness from a car crash in his Volkswagen, pieces of a different story start to emerge. Every woman around him tries, in different ways, to help Tom put himself back together.\nDirected by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant\nActors Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode\nRoles Mike Ramsay\nIn early 1970s England, three friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to escape their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door insurance salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives forever.\nDirected by Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Anand Tucker, Gary Barber\nThemes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films\nActors Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow, Kaitlin Olson, Ian McElhinney\nRoles Declan O'Callaghan\nFrustrated that her boyfriend of four years, Jeremy, still has not proposed to her, Anna Brady, from Boston, travels to Dublin, Ireland to propose to him on February 29, leap day, while he is there at an international cardiologists' conference. According to Irish tradition, a man who is proposed to on leap day must accept the proposal. During the flight, a storm diverts the plane to Cardiff in Wales. Anna hires a boat to take her to Cork, but the severity of the storm forces her to be put ashore on the Dingle Peninsula. She enlists the help of a surly Irish innkeeper, Declan O'Callaghan, to taxi her across the country to Dublin to pull off the proposal in time. Meanwhile, her clumsiness in her room at the inn accidentally causes a power failure to the local village but also opens up the plot of Declans backstory and introduces the idea of a lost love from the picture that Anna finds in the armor, causing distress from Declan and making it become more intriquing. This causes Anna to later bring up his past relationships as insult.\nThemes Films about education, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film\nActors Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Kortajarena, Ryan Simpkins\nRoles Jim\nTaking place over the course of a single day, November 30, 1962, a month after the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a middle-aged English college professor living in Los Angeles. George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim (Matthew Goode), at the scene of the car accident that took Jim's life eight months earlier. After awakening, George delivers a voiceover discussing the pain and depression he has endured since Jim's death and his intention to commit suicide that evening.\nDirected by Stephen Belber\nActors Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Fred Ward, Margo Martindale, James Hiroyuki Liao\nMike Flux (Steve Zahn) works at his parents' motel as the night manager. One day he sees Sue (Jennifer Aniston), who is staying at the motel for the weekend. He develops a crush on her and surprises her at her door with a bottle of wine. She doesn't quite know what to make of his approach, shares some wine to be polite, then asks him to leave. He returns the next day, trying the same trick with champagne, and this time she allows him to touch her butt momentarily. As she heads back home the next day she decides to go back and have sex with Mike in the laundry room.\nGenres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Biography, Fantasy, Action, Adventure\nThemes Space adventure films, Politique, Mars in film, Superhero films, Political films, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Super-h\u00e9ros inspir\u00e9 de comics, Space opera, White House in fiction\nActors Malin \u00c5kerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan\nRoles Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: A retired superhero who has since made his identity public. At first Snyder wanted Jude Law (a big fan of the character) for the part, but said that Goode was \"big and tall and lean,\" which aided in bringing \"this beautiful agel\nThe \"Minutemen\", a team of costumed crime fighters, was formed in 1939 in response to a rise in costumed gangs and criminals; the \"Watchmen\" was similarly formed decades later. Their existence has dramatically affected world events: in particular, Doctor Manhattan's superpowers help the United States win the Vietnam War, resulting in President Richard Nixon being reelected. Doctor Manhattan gives the West a strategic advantage over the Soviet Union, which by the 1980s threatens to escalate the Cold War into a nuclear war. During that time, growing anti-vigilante sentiment in the country leads to masked crime-fighters being outlawed. While many of the heroes retire, Doctor Manhattan and the Comedian operate as government-sanctioned agents, and Rorschach continues to operate outside the law.\nRoles Charles Ryder\nThemes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Heist films\nActors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Bruce McGill, Carla Gugino\nRoles Gary Spargo\nWhile driving his car with the lights off, high school sports star Chris Pratt crashes into a combine stalled on the road. Two occupants of the car are killed while Chris and his girlfriend Kelly survive. However, the crash leaves Chris with lasting mental impairments, including anterograde amnesia, along with some anger management issues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 18168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.namibweb.com/hiskat.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6UMSP6LNO6JICCPE3K775W7CZFLUK2BS", "length": 13551, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.namibweb.com", "title": "History of Old Location and Katutura | Namibia", "raw_content": "History of Old Location and Katutura\nWindhoek, the capital of Namibia, was at one stage first occupied by Germany and than by South Africa. Throughout the years of being a German protectorate, many Namibians lost their lives in fight against the colonisers. Samuel Maharero, the chief of Hereros, declared war on the Germans in 1904:\nIn my capacity as Supreme Chief of the Herero I hereby decree and resolve that none of my people lay their hands upon the English, the Bastards, the Berg Damara, the Nama and the Boers. We shall not lay violent hands on any of these. I have made a solemn pledge not to make this known to anyone, including the missionaries. (Drechsler H., \"Let us die fighting\", Berlin: 1966; 143.).\nThe Germans won all wars with the loss of only 1 626 men (Hintrager O., \"S\u00fcdwestafrika in der deutschen Zeit\", M\u00fcnchen: 1955; 73. Bley H., \"South West Africa under German rule 1884-1914\", London: 1971.). The losses of and consequences for the black people, on the other hand, devastating. Bley estimates that about 50 000 or 75%-80% of the Herero population perished, while about 7 000 or 35% of the Nama population died. The Damara, who were often caught in the middle, may have lost as many as 17 000 people (Bley H., \"South West Africa under German rule 1884-1914\", London: 1971; 150-151).\nJakob Marengo, Simon Kooper and Mandume Ndemufayo who became king of the Kwanyama in 1911as a teenager and died in 1917 were other freedom fighters. Hendrik Witbooi's image is printed on country's currency in recognition of his historical importance to Namibian people.\nWindhoek in the language of the Namas and Damaras, means Aie//gams (hot springs) and in the language of the Herero Otjomuise (place of steam). Unlike always historically presumed, Windhoek was not founded by Curt von Francois, as many people would like to think and the monument suggests. Windhoek was in habitat first by the Damaras then by the Hereros, then by the Namas who came to Windhoek about 1840 under the leadership of Jonker Afrikaner, the son of the great Jan Jonker Afrikaner, who came from South Africa and because of their knowledge of how to use the gun and their possession of horses, ruled parts of modern Namibia for many years.\nIn 1842, about 2000 people were living in the Windhoek area under Oorlam leader Jonker Afrikaner (Lau: 1987; 33).\nThis was however, at a time were Namibia was not yet a German colony. The only Europeans living at that time in Namibia were missionaries, traders, travellers and game hunters. Jonker Afrikaner named the place Winterhoek, because it allegedly reminded him of his home in the Cape Colony.\nJonker Afrikaner chose Windhoek for a settlement so that he could be near the large Herero cattle herds, which he regularly raided (Kotze: 1990; 3).\nJonker Afrikaner left the Windhoek area in 1852, but the area remained occupied by Herero and Damara who planted maize and other crops near the hot springs (Pendleton: 1994; 10).\nJonker and his followers stayed in Windhoek from 1840 until 1880, when settlement was destroyed after war between the Hereros and Namas broke out. The 19th century was a time where Namas and Hereros fought over the hegemony of central Namibia. Windhoek was destroyed by the Herero, after the war of 1880 and after the remaining Namas and the missionary J.G. Schr\u00f6der had fled.\nIn 1885, after Germany had now declared Namibia a protectorate, on the 21 October did Reichskommissar G\u00f6ring and Maharero, who resided at Okahandja and who was the Paramount Chief of the Herero sign a so-called protection treaty. Some years later however the protection treaty was annulled and G\u00f6ring had to flee back to Walvis Bay because he did not have any troops to protect him. German military presence was almost non-existent at that time. After that incident, German Chancellor Bismark decided to sent a 21-man contingent to Namibia under the command of Curt von Francois. They landed at Walfish Bay in 1889.\nCurt von Francois and his troops arrived, at that time, at the unoccupied Windhoek on October the 18th 1890. Windhoek was an ideal place situated in the center of the country, directly between the Namas and the Herero and it provided a source of hot and cold water. This was the new capital to be for the new colony, with a Municipality, a post office and the Alte Feste (Old Fort). The first traders came in 1891-93 to Windhoek, soon followed by the first settlers.\nIn 1894, Windhoek had 85 white civilians (including five women), about 500 members of the Schutztruppe, and 300-400 blacks, which were mostly Damara (Mossolow: 1965; 139).\nThe town was never really threatened during the 1904-08 Nama and Herero uprisings, although trade was interrupted for a short while.\nDuring the First World War, Windhoek was occupied on 12 May 1915 by the South African Union troops under the command of general Louis Botha. The Municipality was closed down on the 31 December 1918 and was replaced by a military magistrate and an advisory council. The town was hit by depressions at the end of the 1920 and than again in the year 1929.\nWindhoek was again affected heavily by the Second World War and life was affected socially, economically and culturally. However the town soon recuperated after the war and things quickly got back to being normal. This is however only a part of Windhoek's history. The towns history would not be complete without mentioning the Old Location, the Klein Windhoek Location, the shooting in 1959, which than led to the final removal of the people in September 1968.\nIn 1912, the Windhoek Town Council established the Main Location where blacks could live, west of town, (The place where the Old Location was situated has now been developed into middle to upper class residential suburb, known as Hochland Park), and a location in Klein Windhoek, a suburb east of the center of town. In 1913, blacks living in various parts of the Windhoek area were moved to these new locations.\nIn 1932, the Main Location was reorganized, straight streets were laid out, and the Ethnic group section formally established. The Damara, Nama and Owambo referred to their sections by the municipal administrative designations such as Damara Two or Owambo One. The Herero had already adopted the practice of dividing their section of the Main Location into smaller subdivisions of their own, naming them either after a place or an important person. One of these divisions was called Otjikatjamuaha, the place of Chief Tjamuaha's people, while another was called Otjimaruru, the place of the people from Omaruru.\nControl of the locations was the responsibility of the municipality, but efforts were made to involve residents in the administration of the locations. An Advisory Board, consisting of twelve non-white members under the chairmanship of the white location superintendent, was established in the Main Location in 1927. Half the members of the Board were elected by the residents, while the remaining members were appointed by the location superintendent; elections were held when a vacancy occurred.\nThe most frequently discussed topics at Board meetings were health, sanitation, education and the operation of the Board (Wagner: 1951; 115). A subject that was periodically discussed was heavy drinking, illegal brewing and illegal selling of alcoholic beverages.\nIn 1947, the municipality decided to increase the number of migrant Owambo contract Workers (Owambo men on a work contract for a specified period of time) in Windhoek and built a 'compound' for them. This location was called the Pokkiesdraai Contract Owambo Compound. By 1955, there were as many contract Owambo workers as residents Owambo, who now numbered more than 1 700 people.\nDuring the 1950s the Windhoek municipality, in consultation with the South West Africa Administration and the South African government, decided to build a new location North-West of Windhoek and to move all location residents there. Most Main Location residents opposed the planned closure of the Main Location and refused to consider moving to the proposed new location. Opposition to the move reached a climax in December 1959.\nA group of Herero women made a protest march to the Administrator's residence on 3 December. Five days later saw an effective boycott against municipally operated facilities such as buses, the beer hall and the cinema. On the night of 10 December, a protest meeting held in the Main Location developed into a confrontation with the police. The police shot and killed 11 people and some 44 required medical attention (Goldblatt: 1971; 262, Hall: 1961; 3). Immediately after the confrontation, between 3 000 and 4 000 people fled the location and refused to return because they were afraid of further trouble.\nThe Old Location was officially closed on 31 August 1968. Eventually all people in the Old Location, with the exception of about 300 people who decided to go to their reserves (communal areas), moved to the new location without further incident. The people named the new location, Katutura, which if literally translated, means: we do not have a permanent habitat.\nIn 1961 the residents of the Klein Windhoek location were also moved to Katutura, and in 1963 Pokkiesdraai was closed and Owambo contract workers were moved to Katutura. A modern shopping complex now occupies the place where the Compound for migrant workers was erected.\nAs a result of the closing down of the Old Location many activities came to an end. Activities such as the Bunga Club, which was a burial, mutual aid and social club. The African Improvement Society' which was established for educational and social improvement purposes, the non-white Railway Staff Association which might have been a forerunner of a railway workers trade union, the 'Hakahana Turf Club', which sponsored popular horse races, a Boy Scout troop, the tribal court' and the brass bands which each ethnic group used to have, were other activities which seized to exist with the closing of the locations (Wagner: 1951; 125-131, 273, 275).\nAn account of life in the Old Location by John Ya-Otto, a former resident of the location:\nIt was easy to be mistaken about the Old Location. Vast crowded, the shantytown wrapped itself around the scrubby hills of Windhoek's northern fringe, on the opposite side of the city from the white suburbs. Everyone knew one another and strangers did not remain so for long. You knew the streets, unmarked and unnamed, only after you have lived in the Old Location for a long time. In spite of the hardship, there was a strange contentment with Old Location life; in the midst of so much noise, serenity. In the mornings women sang as they did the laundry by the water post and children played in the puddles left after the night's rain. Later came the noise of clattering plates and cutlery and of conversations as shadows moved back and forth behind the kerosene lamp in each doorway. Then, as the mist crept along the hillsides, the shadows became fewer; the lamps were brought inside, and quiet settled over the maze of dark shanties. This was the Old Location, as I became to know it.\nKatutura:\nCouncillors Alfred Mungunda and Joshua Kamberipa called the township Katutura, which means, \"We do not have a permanent habitation\". This name derives from the fact that since the whites came to our land, Katutura is the fifth location we have had to live in Windhoek.\nLife in Katutura under apartheid:\nThe Katutura of 1968 consisted of about 4 000 rental houses organized into five ethnic group section. People were required to live in Katutura in their 'own' ethnic group section. In addition to the rental houses there was a 'single quarter' area of dormitory-type housing estimated to accommodate about 1 000 people, and a walled 'compound' located at the entrance to Katutura where Owambo men on migrating labour were fed and housed. Apartheid in South West Africa was enforced more rigidly than in South Africa. Apartheid created heavy constraints on interaction between members of different racial groups. Law forbade marriage and sexual intercourse between whites and 'non-whites'. Separate entrances and service facilities for members of different 'racial' groups were found at most government, administration and municipal offices as well as at many privately owned businesses. Apartheid in South West Africa defined geographical, economic and social boundaries between people.\nIn 1968, the Windhoek urban area was composed of three separate townships, each set aside for the exclusive use of one of the three racial groups: Katutura for blacks, Khomasdal for coloureds, and Windhoek for whites (Pendleton: 1994; 12-16, 18-19, 22-23).\nKotze C., \"A Social History of Windhoek\", Ph.D., Pretoria: University of South Africa; 1990\nPendleton C. W., \"Katutura A Place Where We Stay\", Windhoek: 1994.\nMossolow N., \"This Was Old Windhoek\", Windhoek: 1965.\nWagner G., \"Ethnographic Survey of South West Africa\", unpublished manuscript found in the Offices of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, Ethnological Section, Windhoek. A copy of this manuscript has been placed in the National Archives by the author; 1951.\nGoldblatt I., \"History of South West Africa\", Cape Town; 1991.\nHall .C, \"Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Occurrences in the Windhoek Location on the Night of the 10th and 11th December, 1959, and into the Direct Causes which Led (sic!) to those Occurrences\", Windhoek; 1961.\n\"Battlefront Namibia by John Ya-Otto\"\nRelated: Windhoek Windhoek city tours Katutura Face to Face tours", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 14143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nancola.com/2008/05/no-going-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GX7Z4TWM3P73QSGUD6263EFT4GZVED6G", "length": 578, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nancola.com", "title": "No going back | Nancy Colasurdo | Writer - Columnist - Life Coach", "raw_content": "Joyfully completed the webinar series on A New Earth today. What a privilege.\nThe awakening process has accelerated in me. But author Eckhart Tolle touched on something with regard to that that has come up in daily life.\n\u201cOnce this comes into your life, there\u2019s no going back,\u201d he said.\nAn \u201cawakened\u201d friend and I have been having discussions on this very topic lately. I talk of straddling two worlds, being able to exist in both. He shakes his head. No, not possible.\nI will, as Tolle suggested at the end of class, choose presence in my daily life. And we\u2019ll see how it goes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nbs.rs/internet/english/scripts/showContent.html?id=12942&konverzija=no", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VPA7UVG2AQM5R4H26D6RKDXCYO5NDDZU", "length": 1302, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nbs.rs", "title": "- NBS", "raw_content": "Decision on Establishing a List of Systemically Important Banks in the Republic of Serbia and Capital Buffer Rates for Those Banks Adopted\nAt its meeting on 14 June 2018, the NBS Executive Board adopted the Decision on Establishing a List of Systemically Important Banks in the Republic of Serbia and Capital Buffer Rates for Those Banks expressed as a percentage of the bank\u2019s risk assets.\nAs part of its responsibility to set measures and activities aimed at maintaining and strengthening financial stability, and based on the Decision on Capital Adequacy of Banks (RS Official Gazette, No 103/2016), the NBS reviews the capital buffer rates for systemically important banks at least annually.\nThe capital buffer for a systemically important bank is a macroprudential instrument which imposes an obligation on banks identified as systemically important for a given country to maintain additional Common Equity Tier 1 capital at the level of 0% to 2% of the bank\u2019s risk-weighted assets.\nThe Decision will come into force on 30 June 2018.\nAdditional information about the capital buffer rates for systemically important banks, as well as the list of systemically important banks and capital buffer rates for those banks can be found on the NBS website, in the part Financial Stability, Capital Buffers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 166.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nerdbite.com/castlevania-requiem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:77UR4VVFTII534BEK7I5YFVO5HJQCDRL", "length": 4474, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nerdbite.com", "title": "First Bite - Castlevania Requiem preview for PlayStation 4.", "raw_content": "Castlevania Requiem preview\nWith the recent release of Castlevania Requiem, Konami has unearthed two classics from the legendary side-scrolling series. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood features a 2D side-scrolling platforming adventure, while Castlevania: Symphony of the Night helped innovate of the Metroidvania genre. While Metroid games started the revolution of exploration in a 2D environment, Symphony of the Night brought the genre to life with its RPG elements.\nThe elusive Castlevania: Rondo of Blood has only seen a limited release in America. While the original TurboDuo version was never released outside of Japan, it was remade on the PSP in the form of Dracula X Chronicles. In addition, the PSP title included a translated port of the original game. Shortly after, Konami released the title on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console. Unfortunately, to include the end of the Wii\u2019s VC service, it was no longer downloadable. Castlevania Requiem is the first time Rondo of Blood has been released in nearly a decade in America.\nThis version of Rondo of Blood is an identical port of the translated version of the TurboDuo version. It has the voice acting featured in the PSP version, while the entire game itself is straight from the TurboDuo version. This comes with all of its pretty, brightly colored visuals, high sound quality, and even the not-so-graceful music loops that occur once a background song ends. With that said, Rondo of Blood is considered a holy grail among the Castlevania fanbase. The ability to unlock alternate paths, play as Maria, and witness cutscenes from a game in the early 90s gave it a majestic feel not seen in other games in the series. It truly feels like a one-of-a-kind game, considered great outside of its novelty and rare release.\nAlso, fun fact. The art used for this release of Rondo of Blood is from Dracula X Chronicles. Compare the regal designs from Ayami Kojima and then watch the cutscenes from the game. Richter and Maria\u2019s outfits are completely different. You\u2019ll notice the contrast right from the main menu screen.\nCastlevania Requiem\u2019s version of Symphony of the Night is also a port of the PSP version from Dracula X Chronicles. This version includes the voice acting featured within the game\u2019s re-dub. \u201cDie monster, you don\u2019t belong in this world,\u201d has been replaced with the updated voice cast. Nostalgic fans who enjoy this piece of history may be miffed to see it removed. However, it otherwise plays like a solid version of the game.\nUnfortunately, it comes with its own flaws. Namely, the audio skipping. Just from playing through the Castle Entrance area, I noticed the music and sound would skip at times. Unless Konami can patch this out, it isn\u2019t the optimal version of the game to play. If this is your first time playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and this isn\u2019t a major factor for you, however, then this version is fine.\nSymphony of the Night is arguably one of the greatest games of all time. Its level of exploration, beautiful soundtrack, variety of abilities, boss battles, and stage design still hold the standard for Metroidvania titles released even today. However, if you own a PlayStation 3, the best version of the game will either be the disc version or the one you can download from the PlayStation Store.\nFor those seeking to return to the Castlevania classics, Requiem features a perfect port of Rondo and a less-than-perfect, but still serviceable, port of Symphony of the Night. If you\u2019re a new fan to Castlevania, this is an ideal place to start. Also, any players who want to know more about Castlevania in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will certainly learn all they need to from Castlevania Requiem.\nThe game will unfortunately not release for Nintendo Switch anytime soon. However, PlayStation 4 owners have another classic title to download and enjoy. You can purchase it from the PlayStation Store now.\nIf you\u2019re looking for the perfect port of Symphony of the Night, or you already own Rondo of Blood, you may as well skip this version however. It\u2019s all much of the same. Also, the filters don\u2019t add to any of the game\u2019s quality for visuals. You have filters for CRT and scan-lines, and you cannot play the game in widescreen. But if you\u2019re simply looking for a throwback to Castlevania, I recommend it.\nThanks for reading our Castlevania Requiem preview! Are you new to the series or a series veteran? Let us know in the comments below!\nRelated Topics:CastlevaniaPlayStation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 7586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.neumu.net/datastream/2006/2006-00009/2006-00009_datastream.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:GOA6GMBDXOID76IHHILQZ4XG2SMIDMH5", "length": 4264, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.neumu.net", "title": "+++ neumu [ datastream ]", "raw_content": "Brooklyn's French Kicks have always been about exploring the limits of sound. But their upcoming album, Two Thousand, due out July 18 on Vagrant/Star Time International, finds the melodic post-punk group even closer to the edge.\n\"We went really deep into trying new sounds,\" vocalist/drummer/keyboardist Nick Stumpf said during a phone interview Monday (April 3). \"We tried new ways of structuring songs and new combinations of sounds. We've always shied away from trying things that were too obvious. The idea has always been that you can have pop music and it can be catchy and fun, but it doesn't have to be dumbed down.\"\nThe foursome \u0097 Nick Stumpf, Josh Wise (guitar, vocals), Lawrence Stumpf (bass) and Aaron Thurston (drums) \u0097 wrapped up recording sessions for Two Thousand, their third longplayer, in mid-March at Los Angeles' Bomb Shelter and Steak House studios. They recorded the album with producer Doug Boehm, with whom they also worked on 2004's The Trial of the Century. The French Kicks' debut album, One Time Bells, was released in 2002; they released an EP, The French Kicks, in 1999, and a second EP, Young Lawyer, in 2001.\nThe band, which formed in Brooklyn in 1998, spent 25 days laying down tracks for Two Thousand. And while this was the most time they've ever had to work on an album, they say it still seemed like barely enough. \"It was pretty crazy, really hard,\" Nick Stumpf said of the sessions. \"There were a lot of moments of desperation.\"\n\"We arrived with a lot of material,\" Wise said during a separate phone interview. \"So we had to cut things down, and there was a lot of rethinking, moving things around [and] experimenting with new ways to record things. We finally arrived at a group [of songs] that hung well together and [provided the album with] different sounds and different moods.\"\nBoth Stumpf and Wise agreed that fans won't find Two Thousand a drastic shift in approach, noting that it's unmistakably a French Kicks album (quivering vocals, jittery riffs and strong melodies). That said, they both noted that the group brought a fresh approach to recording this album, and incorporated plenty of new sounds.\nThey included acoustic guitar in the mix for the first time in \"No Mean Time,\" a track Wise describes as \"a fun, middle up-tempo song with a thumping little beat, loud synth that bends a lot\" \u0097 and one that's dominated by the sound of an acoustic guitar.\nStumpf used a homemade keyboard synth for the new album and \"geeked out on it,\" he admitted, laughing. \"I spent a lot of time learning how to use it and got in this wonky territory. I learned how to make weird drum sounds, percussion vocals and combinations of vocals and weird keyboard sounds.\"\nHe later added, \"I'm really into the combination of sounds in each song.\"\nOverall, the rhythms are much heavier on Two Thousand than on the group's previous albums. \"It isn't always a full drum kit being played,\" Wise said. \"Sometimes it's built-up acoustic percussion-type stuff.\" \"Also Ran,\" for instance, opens with inviting layers of mechanized-sounding beats, building into a thunderous collection of drum rolls and emotive, pleading vocals atop subtle, warm bass.\n\"England Just Will Not Let You Recover\" falls on the stranger side of the album's 10 tracks, with tinkering, light-hearted keys, quirky layers of synth effects and ethereal back-up oohs. \"So Far We Are\" is more minimal and, again, heavy with the pounding intensity of percussion, heartfelt emotion and off-kilter intention.\nAlso on the album: \"Cloche,\" \"Knee High,\" \"Keep It Amazed,\" \"Basement: D.C.,\" \"Hey I Wait I\" and \"Go On.\"\n\"It's a pretty strange collection of stuff,\" Stumpf said. \"The way it came out proves to me that no matter what we try, we end up with the same weird collection of stuff.\"\nBut Wise believes the French Kicks have successfully managed to maintain a distinct sound without repeating themselves. \"That desire to try new things is built into the band,\" he said. \"That's what keeps us interested in doing this. It gives you the chance to evolve. To try different things is the great thing about being a musician. You want to set yourself on a path where you're reinventing what you do, while maintaining some sort of thread.\" \u0097 Jenny Tatone [Wednesday, April 5, 2006]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 11601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.neumu.net/datastream/2006/2006-00012/2006-00012_datastream.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KQQZRO4GLMVGN5GDFZ35FPSK3ZRUMXXG", "length": 5335, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.neumu.net", "title": "+++ neumu [ datastream ]", "raw_content": "John Vanderslice gives the singer/songwriter genre a huge kick in the ass.\nYou go to his show expecting a little sensitive strumming, some smart cultural allusions, a heartbreaking clarity about love and loss. You get all that, don't worry, but set to the biggest, baddest-ass drum lines you've ever heard. You knew JV liked hip-hop, didn't you? And Robert Lowell? Well, he likes them together, and you will, too, so get over it.\nFor this low-key 10 o'clock show in Western Massachusetts' college country, Vanderslice has brought along Page France, a five-piece indie-pop band out of Delaware formed around songwriter Michael Nau. Page France's music is earnestly joyful, punctuated by big, thumping bass-drum thuds and hand claps, but mostly it takes a back seat to Nau's lyrics and delivery. The songs are engaging, apparently simple, but exuberantly sung in Nau's breathy, interval-jumping style, guitars strummed in 4/4 patterns and bass booming up from the bottom. The band performs the best songs from last year's Hello Dear Wind: the wide-eyed Sunday school oddity \"Jesus\" (\"Jesus will come through the ground so dirty\"), which has, more than anything, earned Page France the Christian tag; \"Chariot,\" with its hand-clapped celebratory air; and the two-chord surrealism of \"Elephant.\" There's an eccentric sweetness to these songs, with their images of cherubim and trampolines, windy days and junkyards, set against a steady thrum of folk-rock chords. Like the singer's voice, the band's songs are all poised between vulnerability and playfulness, a delicate sweet-sour balance that is charming enough, but never mesmerizing.\nVanderslice takes the stage after a short break, a full rock 'n' roll band in tow \u0097 David Boecker on bass, David Douglas on drums, and Ian Bjornstad on a finicky but wonderful Wurlitzer keyboard (more on this later). Last year's Pixel Revolt was a relatively restrained affair, setting Vanderslice's personal turmoil and doubts about the war against a minimally limned musical background. These were not the kind of songs that made you want to dance. The live show is intended, from the beginning, to be a whole different animal, drawing from all of Vanderslice's solo albums, and infusing his songs with an aggressively rock, goofily exuberant sense of fun.\nThis is a band that splices flamenco-style handclaps and groove-heavy bass lines into \"Plymouth Rock,\" a roaring Apes-like organ blast into biting love-gone-wrong songs. There's a huge, block-rocking hip-hop beat behind \"Up Above the Sea\" from Cellar Door, and even \"Exodus Damage\" has an outsized Western-swing flavor that wasn't there on the record.\nWith \"Exodus Damage,\" Vanderslice announces that the regular set has ended, and if the audience wants the band to play more, we'll have to yell for encores from now on. He's kidding, of course, but for the next couple of songs, some guy in the front yells \"encore\" every time, which seems to tickle the band. These following songs hopscotch through the Vanderslice discography, the jangly \"Keep the Dream Alive\" from Time Travel Is Lonely, \"Cool Purple Mist\" from Life and Death of an American Four-Tracker, and the tom-tom-battering \"Heated Pool and Bar,\" from Cellar Door, which establishes Douglas as the hardest-working drummer in the singer/songwriter genre. There's some band chit-chat about whether Vanderslice looks more like \"a young Homer Simpson\" (don't see it) or a Christmas elf (um, yeah, sometimes), and then Vanderslice introduces his band.\nThe Wurlitzer has, by this time, ruptured a reed and lost a note, causing Vanderslice to launch into a somewhat sordid story about the assault and abandonment of a used Wurlitzer the previous night at Middle East. Bjornstad's instrument, it turns out, is always breaking down, and replacement parts are expensive. A fan in Boston had approached the band and said he had a used Wurlitzer he'd sell them for $50. They could take the reeds out and use them for replacements. They had hastily removed what they needed and left the shell of the instrument at Middle East. The story ends \u0097 with some description of Bjornstad having to return to the club and ducking abuse from people who could not believe someone had left a broken Wurlitzer there \u0097 just as the instrument is fixed, and the show goes on with a hard-rocking, percussive version of \"Pale Horse.\"\nVanderslice briefly mentions the tour-only Suddenly It All Went Dark, a collection of acoustic versions of Pixel Revolt songs, before launching into a mini-set from this album, luminously beautiful versions of \"New Zealand Pines,\" \"Trance Manual,\" and, saving best for last, a thunderously dramatic take on \"Radiant With Terror,\" the Robert Lowell adaptation.\nThe set closes with the jangly-sweet \"Time Travel Is Lonely\" and a far more jagged version of \"Angela,\" from Pixel Revolt. I never noticed on the record that Vanderslice borrows the signature girl-group drum beat from \"My Boyfriend's Back\" for this song. It makes perfect sense, though, in the context of the perils of pet-sitting, the opposing attractions of freedom and safety, and the siren call of the road.\nJohn Vanderslice is on tour again, bringing a full band to put meat on his intelligent and fragile songs. If your cage door opens, even for a minute, you should go. \u0097 Jennifer Kelly [Wednesday, May 3, 2006]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 12664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.neuquaxctf.com/home/previous/2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LG5JJO64WPTMC6HAO4WHEXIPKNNYGTVH", "length": 40428, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.neuquaxctf.com", "title": "Blog Posts", "raw_content": "IHSA State Championship (5-25-2018 & 5-26-2018)\nWe have had great teams in the past. In fact, we have had great teams that won State trophies and others that came very close. But this season, we took a step that we knew that we were ready to take. After the Sectional Meet, I reminded the team that we had won the Indoor and Outdoor Conference Titles, the Sectional Title and remarked that we only had one meet left to win.\nA Track and Field Brotherhood\nBefore we left for the State Meet, we had our traditional send off breakfast and right away, I could tell that this meet was going to be different. I was unable to put my finger on it at the time, but I would later realize that our athletes were all intermingled and were not separated by their normal training groups. This pattern would continue during the entire weekend. When the athletes were having a meal, they sat together, talked, laughed and gelled as a team. When there was downtime, they played video games together, helped each other prepare for their events and supported each other in a way that only a group on a mission can have.\nI told the team that I did not know what the outcome of the meet would be. All I asked of them was that we would put up a \"good fight\". If we did this, we could be proud of what we had accomplished regardless of the scores and marks.\nBelief in something bigger than an individual unites people. When we planned for the State Meet back in April, we never mentioned individual event titles. We hoped that some would happen, but we placed our focus on the team title that we were striving for. This hope started a mission that would link a group of 22 athletes into a group of brothers that they will never forget.\nTrust the Process and Compete!\nOne of the hardest things about a sport like Track and Field is that you must be patient while you work hard and develop your skills. The benefits of training will not come overnight and must trust that when the time comes that you and your team will be in the position to compete to the best of your ability.\nAs we stepped out onto the track for the preliminaries, it was obvious that the process had made us strong and ready. Norman Dong (Sr.) got us started and jumped 20' 11.5\" in the Long Jump. For his first time ever in the State Meet, Norman hit the board all three time and competed. While Norman did not make finals, he began to set the tone that this meet was just like any other. Ife Oketona (Sr.) would show the State that his marks at the Sectional Meet were no fluke and jumped 23' 6.25\" to lead all long jumpers going into Day 2. This mark would now replace his own school record from the Sectional Meet. Things were starting to look even better.\nIn the Pole Vault, Alex Kiefer (Jr.) was suffering from an injured back from an incident last week during the Sectional Meet, but still was able to jump 13' 6\" and just missed qualifying for Day 2 by one bar. Despite not making finals, Alex showed he was willing to suffer through anything to advance the team. Many athletes would simply give up when they are in pain, but Alex saw it through to the end. Alex is already thinking about next season.\nMatt Appel (So.) came to the State Meet for the first time and won his flight of the Shot Put with a mark of 54' 7.5\", unfortunately, missing the finals by one place. Undeterred, Matt returned to the discus for some solid throws, marking 152' 2\" as his best. While it was again not good enough for finals, Matt had stepped into the ring each time and was not intimidated by the competition. Athletes often need a trip to State before they figure out that they can compete, but Matt showed that he was ready to compete with the best.\nThe Triple Jump saw Danny Osafo (Sr.) put up a mark of 44' 1.5\". This was the second best mark that Danny has ever had. While it was not enough to make the finals, Danny would embody the enthusiasm of this team through the next day. Mac Mitchell (Sr.) would jump 46' 0.75\" in a later flight to position himself as one of the top triple jumpers and qualify for the Day 2. Mac had a determination to him that let us know that he was ready to put up some points. During this weekend, Mac emerged as a leader and guide to his fellow teammates. To him, this was as important as anyone. As we moved to the running events, it was clear that we could score in two horizontal jumps and that our athletes were ready.\nMoving the track, the 4 x 800 m relay team of distance runners Tyler Bombacino (Sr.), Ryan Kennedy (Sr.), Danny Winek (Sr.), and Dakota Getty (Sr.) showed that we could do something special again. Tyler ran a solid opening leg, something that we knew that we could count on given his experience on this relay last season. As he passed the baton to Ryan, we were in good position and Ryan took over the race in the last 300 m and began to pull away. Danny took over and held back slightly, knowing that he still needed to run the 1600 m later in the day. Finally, Dakota ran a season best time for his leg and held off an advancing Batavia team to take the section win and an automatic qualification to Day 2. The team's time of 7:48.28 was over 9 seconds faster than their Sectional Meet time and was the best of the day.\nDonovan Turner (Jr.) would keep the qualifications for Day 2 moving as he ran away with his preliminary heat of the 110 m High Hurdles. His time of 14.04 breaks his own school record. Donovan showed great purpose and composure as he kept pulling away during the race and remarked later that he could have gone faster. Later in the meet, Donovan would also qualify in the 300 m Intermediate Hurdles despite losing his rhythm over the seventh hurdle and nearly falling. Donovan's ability to press on even when things do not go perfectly helped us advance another event to the finals with a time of 39.29.\nWhen Myles Gascon (Sr.) got into the blocks for the 100 m Dash, he knew that he had a job to do. His job was simply to make finals so that he could score points the next day. Myles showed that he was ready and despite two other runners in his heat pulling away from him, he pushed through to the end and captured the last spot in the finals with a time of 10.89. At this point, Myles would simply need to complete the race to score a point, but we knew that he was ready for more.\nIn the 1600 m, Danny Winek (Sr.) ran another smart race like he did at the Sectional Meet with a hard kick and finished in a pack that the camera needed to sort out. When the dust settled, Danny took 3rd in his heat to qualify for Day 2 and was able to beat many of the best runners in the State. Danny was now in a great position to put up more points in the finals.\nIn the final event of Day 1, the 4 x 400 m relay team of Kel Foley (Jr.), Kai Larson (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.), and Donovan Turner (Jr.) were ready to show the State that they belonged. Our Sectional Meet seed time was not even close to the top 9 needed to make it to the finals. However, Kel got us started with an early charge from lane 9 and then Kai put us right into the top grouping, only a short distance back from the lead. Patrick ran his fastest 400 m ever to keep us in great position and then Donovan closed us out in a time of 3:20.85, easily making finals and living to race another day. This group showed that rankings do not matter and were willing to go for it on each leg.\nAs we entered Day 2, we were tired after a full day of competing hard. but we knew that were not finished doing the job that we set out to do. We had qualified 9 events to Day 2, Homewood-Flossmoor had qualified 11 and Plainfield North had the potential to score over 40 points with Marcellus Moore and the rest of their team. Three teams were in the hunt for the title.\nIn the field events, we knew that if we scored big, we would be in a position to take home a trophy. Ife Oketona (Sr.) managed score 8 points with a 2nd place in the Long Jump, only losing one place in the finals. Ife went from an athlete that was near to the State Qualifying Mark to All-State in a matter of a week and put us on the scoreboard. His final jump of 23' 8.5\" would again break his own school record!\nMac Mitchell (Sr.) kept us scoring in the Triple Jump with a 6th place and another 4 points for the team. While Mac lost one place in the finals, we now had scored 12 points in the field events and the job was getting done. Unfortunately, Mac scratched a jump that would have been over 47', showing that he has the ability to do some amazing things at the next level. In the past week, Mac has improved his marks by over 2 feet!\nThe 4 x 800 m relay team of Tyler Bombacino (Sr.), Ryan Kennedy (Sr.), Danny Winek (Sr.), and Dakota Getty (Sr.) took to the track to defend their number one position. Tyler was running another solid leg when in the final turn, someone tripped up a whole pack of runners, including Tyler. Tyler's great athleticism kept himself upright and charged to the finish. Unfortunately, this stumble had cost us quite a few places. Ryan took the baton and ran one of the most perfect 800 m legs that we have seen. With great patience, he caught up to the pack and then kicked in hard to put us back in the mix. Danny took the baton and continued the move up and got us right up into the lead. Even though this was now his third race, Danny was still racing hard. As Dakota took over, Sandburg had Dylan Jacobs, one of the top distance runners in the country, on the end of their relay. Dakota ran a smart and strong race with the fastest 800 m mark of the season and closed out a second place finish and 8 more points for the team. We were up to 20 and a pattern seemed to be emerging.\nZach Kinne (Jr.) would be next in the 3200 m. In what was a completely loaded field, Zach was ready to show us how strong that he had become this spring. The race began to separate and Zach pushed to the lead, even passing State Cross Country Champion Danny Kilrea from Lyons in the last 800 m. Zach charged hard for the finish but Kilrea's kick got him right before the finish line. As Zach collapsed at the end of his race, he became a symbol of how much effort our athletes were putting in to make this happen for the team. Zach risked places by trying to take the championship and garner more points for the team. So far, we did not have a single State Champion, but we did have 28 points.\nThe 110 m High Hurdles would see a similar result. Donovan Turner (Jr.) was tired from racing three events the day before, but kept pushing through. Despite a rough start, he charged through the crowd to take 2nd with a time of 14.20 and secured another 8 points. The pattern continued and we now had 36 points. Again we saw athletes willing to sacrifice for the greater good.\nThe 100 m Dash final was what Myles Gascon (Sr.) had prepared for years to do and now was his chance. With an incredible start, he surged forward and found a rhythm that would having him passing runners as the finish line drew closer. In the end, Myles would take 6th in a time of 10.82 and add another 4 points to the total. At this point, we had 40 points, our highest total ever, which meant that we were certain that a trophy would come back to Neuqua Valley. The only question was, which one?\nA tired Donovan Turner (Jr.) returned only about an hour after running his 1st race of the day but 4th race overall to run his 5th, the 300 m Intermediate Hurdles. Donovan powered through one of the toughest races in Track and Field to take 6th in a time of 39.80, adding 4 more points to the mix for a total of 44.\nFor his 4th race of the two day meet, Danny Winek (Sr.) returned in the 1600 m, and another loaded field. Danny ran smart and did not get caught up in a race that went out hard, but kept working through the ranks of runners until he got to a 9th place finish and added 1 more point for a total of 45. Danny finished up a career full of unfortunate injuries as a two time All-State athlete.\nAt this point, there were three events left in the meet, the High Jump, the 200 m dash and the 4 x 400 m relay. We were only in one of these races and Homewood-Flossmoor and Plainfield North were in two. Homewood-Flossmoor was leading with 47 points, and Plainfield North had 30. In the High Jump, Homewood-Floosmoor did not score and Plainfield North took 7th, making their total 33. As we watched the 200 m, Marcellus Moore from Plainfield North won the event bringing their total to 43. Grant Floyd from Homewood-Flossmoor would take 9th, making their total 48. Now, we knew that we were going to take 2nd at the very least. Homewood-Flossmoor would have the painful experience of watching an event that they were not in decide the meet. If we took worse than 7th place in the last event, the meet was lost. However, we had a mostly fresh team ready to go.\nAs the 4 x 400 m relay began, they knew what was on the line. Kel Foley (Jr.) charged out hard and in the last stretch, went to his arms to put us right into the mix. Kai Larson (Sr.) sprinted out the first curve and chased like he always does to bring us within reach of the lead. Patrick Hoffman (So.) took the baton and moved hard along the back stretch, taking the lead and then giving everything he had to finish his leg in the top 3. Donovan Turner (Jr.) racing with a fury inspired by earlier disappointments, finished off the relay in 3rd place in a time of 3:21.04 adding 7 points to the total and capturing the team title!\nThe moment felt surreal and our team erupted. Parents, coaches, athletes, and fans joined in high fives, hugs and shared tears that our good fight had paid off. All of the preparation came down to this moment when the Neuqua Valley 4 x 400 m, one of the most certain things in life, brought the final act to a close. Dr. McBride had many other duties to see to on this weekend, with graduation and other happenings, but felt compelled to be there as he sensed something special was going to happen. It did. And with it came the validation that our program was the best this season and the legacy of a special team.\nThe feelings of winning the State Title are confusing. There was elation, there was a rush of energy and there were tears. It might be strange to cry at such a happy event, but it was a common experience for athletes and coaches on this night. For myself, winning a State Championship was amazing, but winning it with my sons on the team was one of the best experiences of my life. All I ever wanted to so was share my passion for this sport with them.\nAs we talked with the other coaches from Homewood-Floosmoor and Plainfield North, I saw in their faces the feeling of disappointment that we felt when we had fallen short in the past. I truly know their pain. Even if it is just high school sports, when you care about something, it hurts when it does not go as hoped. However, it was an honor to compete against these teams with such amazing coaches and athletes. These are programs we admire and both of these programs competed with class and we look forward to competing against them and the rest of the State next season.\nFinally, I hope that there is a young athlete on our team that felt the inspiration that such a moment could bring. I hope that they said to themselves that they could do it too. If so, make the commitment to be there in one year when you can make your own legacy.\nwww.ihsa.org/SportsActivities/BoysTrackField.aspx\nDVC Outdoor Championship (5-11-2018)\nWe knew that it would be cold and windy on Friday at the DVC Outdoor Championships. We knew that the marks would not matter, only places. All that we needed to do was compete. And compete we did. For the third year in a row, our Varsity team captured the DVC Outdoor Championship title! For as long as we have been in the DVC, we have not lost an indoor or outdoor championship at the Varsity level. Our Varsity team scored a whopping 192 points in 17 out of the 18 events to better Wheaton North's second place score of 149.5. Our Frosh-Soph team took 5th place and with some hard work, they will be ready to take their place next year at the Varsity level.\nIn the field events, we started to score large numbers of points right away. The Long Jump saw Ife Oketona (Sr.) and Norman Dong (Sr.) take 1st and 2nd places with jumps 21' 7\" and 20' 3\" respectively. This quickly put 18 points on the board. On the Frosh-Soph level, Prakash Tata (So.) took 8th place with a jump of 17' 4.25\". The Triple Jump saw nearly a repeat in the scoring with Mac Mitchell (Sr.) and Alex Xiong (Sr.) taking 1st and 3rd place with jumps of 43' 11.75\" and 41' 9.75\" and another 17 points. The Pole Vault had us double score at both levels. Alex Kiefer (Jr.) and Matt Dziekan (Sr.) took 4th place and 6th place with vaults of 13' 6\" and 12' 0\". Alex's jump of 13' 6\" equals the State Qualifying Mark in the Pole Vault which is impressive considering the conditions. At the Frosh-Soph level, Paul Kiefer (So.) took 5th place with a vault of 9' 0\". In the Frosh-Soph High Jump, Kalon Hale (So.) and Jailen Poole (Fr.) both scored with jumps of 5' 4\" and 5' 2\", good enough for 3rd and 5th place in slick conditions.\nIn the Throwing events, we continued to put points up and even had some impressive marks when you consider that a strong wind and wet implements do not help throwers. Matt Appel (So.) took 2nd place in both the Varsity Shot Put and Discus with throws of 53' 4\" and 157' 2\". Both of these marks are past the State Qualifying Mark. In the Frosh-Soph throws, a trio of young throwers scored points. Hunter Danton (Fr.) took 5th place in the Frosh-Soph Shot Put with a throw of 39' 10\" and Elijah Darden (Fr.) and Sam Jourdan (So.) took 3rd and 5th in the Frosh-Soph Discus with throws of 118' 9\" ans 103' 6\". If we only scored in the field events, our Varsity team would have beaten three teams in the conference and been within a few points of two other teams. Clearly, we were on a roll.\n\u200bConsidering that we only had one conference champion at the DVC Indoor Championships, it was a good start to already have two conference champions in the field events alone. The momentum would continue in the running events as we quickly added more champions to the list as well as many points. The Frosh-Soph 4 x 800 m relay team of Leif Anderson (Fr.), Luke Mennecke (Fr.), William Fu (Fr.) and Quinn Kennedy (So.) took 5th place in a time of 9:19.64. The Varsity team of Jordan Matthews (Jr.), Danny Winek (Sr.), Tyler Bombacino (Sr.) and Kel Foley (Jr.) were conference champions in a time of 8:12.43. The 4 x 100 m would see similar results at the Varsity level with the team of Donovan Turner (Jr.), Kai Larson (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.) and Myles Gascon capturing the DVC title with a time of 43.21.\nThe 3200 m saw some courageous racing with Vasant Fong (Fr.) pulling away from the field to a 10:01.10 time for the conference win. Ryan Horn (Fr.) charged hard during the entire race and took 4th in a time of 10:14.87. In the Varsity 3200 m, Alex Johnson (Sr.) and Chris Keeley (Jr.) stuck with the top pack and then late in the race, Alex took the lead in a bold move. Alex and Chris would finish 3rd and 5th both with season best times of 9:33.66 and 9:36.16. It was this bold take charge attitude that kept propelling our team forward throughout the night.\nThe 110 m High Hurdles saw another double score at the Varsity level as Donovan Turner (Jr.) took the win in an time of 14.52 and Jacob Guthrie (Jr.) took 7th with a mark of 17.41. Myles Gascon (Sr.) followed this up with a time of 11.25 in the Varsity 100 m, placing 4th in a tight group.\nThe 800 m showed another event where we could double score at both levels. At the Frosh-Soph level, David Tassone (So.) and Brandon Do (Fr.) placed 6th and 8th with marks of 2:14.18 and 2:16.74. The Varsity 800 m was one of the most loaded events and featured Dakota Getty (Sr.) and Ryan Kennedy (Sr.) running with some of the top 800 m returners in the State. Dakota took 3rd in a time of 1:58.98 while Ryan took 5th in a time of 2:00.03.\nThe temperature began to drop as the night went on, but our team kept powering through, competing and scoring. Joe Hanneman (Sr.), Ife Oketona (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.) and Myles Gascon (Sr.) overcame some tough winds and were conference champions in a time of 1:32.74. The Frosh-Soph 400 m saw EJ Oketona (Fr.) back to his form in this event with a time of 56.69 seconds and a 7th place finish. The Varsity 400 m would have another double score with a Kai Larson (Sr.) and Michael Dy (Sr.) taking 2nd and 7th places. Michael ran 53.29 and Kai ran a season best 51.30 and both of these marks were in high wind. In the 300 m Intermediate Hurdles, Enoch Kim (Fr.) took 8th in a time of 47.87. However, even though he did not score, special mention has to be made of Ethan Briones (Fr.) who ran the 300 m Intermediate Hurdles for the first time and did so with an injured wrist. Ethan would later fill in for another athlete in the 4 x 400 m relay as well. Obviously, Ethan is a tough competitor. On the Varsity side, we captured another conference title for team and for Donovan Turner (Jr.) as he ran away from the competition in the last 50 m to win in a time of 38.79. Mitch Donahue (Sr.) has been wondering about his place on this team and has found it with a solid 4th place finish of 41.47 in high wind.\nThe 1600 m had another double conference champion with Freshman phenom Nicolas Dovalovsky (Fr.) taking the win at the Frosh-Soph level with a time of 4:42.25 and Zach Kinne (Jr.) pulling far from the pack early and running 4:18.78. Zach was nearly 8 seconds ahead of second place by the end of the race. Keeping with DVC tradition, Zach was awarded the travelling Gill Dodds trophy for winning the Varsity 1600 m. Since Neuqua Valley has been in the DVC, we have kept this trophy in the hands of the Neuqua Valley athlete.\nBy the last two events of the evening, our team was safely ahead in terms of points, but we were still on a mission to compete. In the Varsity 200 m, Myles Gascon (Sr.) and Patrick Hoffman (So.) double scored with 2nd and 4th places and marks of 22.91 and 23.01. Patrick\u2019s strength in this event continues to grow as he was closing on the leaders for the last 50 meters. The Varsity 4 x 400 m relay of Ife Oketona (Sr.), Dakota Getty (Sr.) Kai Larson (Sr.) and Donovan Turner (Jr.) would round out the night with 3rd place in a time of 3:32.99.\nWhen you consider how we scored as a team and how many events we scored in, it is safe to say that we would be a tough team to beat if any team in the state faced us in a dual meet. In fact, this is the most complete team that we have ever had. We are hard-working, talented and deep. As we move to the Sectional Championship this week, we will do our best to put ourselves in the best possible position to score well at the State Meet. This could be an exciting post season and we hope that you will join us at our last two meets! Come join us at Plainfield South on Thursday for the Sectional Championship!\nComplete results from the DVC Outdoor Championship can be found at the website below.\nRED ribbon Invitational (4-28-2018)\nThe Red Ribbon Invitational at Waubonsie Valley has a long and storied history of great performances and bad weather. As a team, we have witnessed heavy rains, cold temperatures, high winds, a microburst that lifted the pole vault pit and dropped it into the middle of the field and even this year, when straw rained down from the heavens for no particular reason. However, it is also a time when our team seems to weather the storms well and actually take a step forward. This year was no different. With a final score of 135, our Varsity team captured its second invitational win in as many meets. For the first time this season, we beat Homewood-Floosmoor, who took second place. Please keep in mind that our regular season record does not matter and we need to be ready for every team in the post season when everything really matters. We know that Homewood-Flossmoor will be back to full strength soon and we look forward to competing against them at the State Meet.\nThe meet began as usual with the field events and in the throws, Matt Appel (So) took 2nd place in the discus with a throw of 157\u2019 4\u201d. Matt has now thrown past the State Qualifying mark in both the Shot Put and the Discus. On the Frosh-Soph level, Elijah Darden (Fr.) and Sam Jourdan (So.) took 4th and 5th place respectively with throws of 113\u2019 0\u201d and 103\u2019 9\u2019. The pair would also take 7th and 9th place in the Shot Put with throws of 35\u2019 6\u201d and 34\u2019 4\u201d.\nIn the vertical jumping events, Jailen Poole (Fr.) took 5th place in the High Jump with a jump of 5\u2019 2\u201d at the Frosh-Soph level and Matt Dziekan (Sr.) took 3rd place in the Pole Vault at the Varsity level with a jump of 12\u2019 8\u201d. In the Long Jump, Ife Oketona (Sr.) and Norman Dong (Sr.) double scored with jumps of 22\u2019 2.5\u201d and 2nd place for Ife and 20\u2019 9\u201d and 4th place for Norman. Ife held the meet record for about 10 minutes before Jalen Hunter from Homewood-Flossmoor jumped 1.25 inches further. Abood Armouti (So.) took 5th place in the Frosh-Soph Triple Jump with a leap of 37\u2019 9\u201d, which is an outdoor personal best. At the Varsity level, Mac Mitchell (Sr.) set another personal best with a jump of 44\u2019 5\u201d, taking 4th place.\nMoving to the track with our first two relays, the Frosh-Soph relay of Dylan Bushelle (So.), Brian Jett (Fr.), William Fu (Fr.???) and Brandon Do (Fr.) took 5th place with a time of 9:15.43. Brandon ran a solid anchor leg of 2:14.??? In high wind. At the Varsity level, the team of Danny Winek (Sr.), Zach Kinne (Jr.), Alex Johnson (Sr.) and Tyler Bombacino (Sr.) took the invitational title with a time of 8:08.53. In the 4 x 100 m, the Varsity team of Donovan Turner (Jr.), Kai Lason (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.) and Myles Gascon (Sr.) took 2nd place with a time of 42.92. This team keeps improving its exchanges every meet and they were able to run nearly the same time as last week despite an even stronger wind.\nIn the 3200 m, Nicolas Dovalovsky (Fr.) had an incredible debut in this event, breaking the 10 minute barrier in his first ever attempt with an invitational win in a time of 9:55.32. Vasant Fong (Fr.) would just miss the same barrier with a still impressive time of 10:00.99 and 5th place. The Varsity 3200 m saw a big surge from Chris Keeley (Jr.) in the last half of the race to take 2nd place with a personal best time of 9:41.78 and 2nd place. DJ Sauer would take 7th in 9:58.72 as he crossed the 10 minute barrier.\nThe short sprints unfortunately were run into the wind, but our athletes fought for place, knowing that the times would be slow. In the Varsity 110 m High Hurldes, Donovan Turner (Jr.) took 2nd with a time of 15.13 and unfortunately hit some hurdles late in the race. In the Varsity 100 m Dash, Myles Gascon (Sr.) captured the win in a time of 11.22. The Varsity 4 x 200 m relay team of Ife Oketona (Sr.), Kai Larson (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.) and Myles Gascon (Sr.) posted a season best time of 1:30.21 and took 2nd place. In the final leg of the race, Myles kept pace with last year\u2019s State Champion in the 100 m and 200 m, Declan Rustay from Hoffman Estates. Donovan came back later in the meet to win the Varsity 300 m Intermediate Hurdles in a time of 39.16. Mitch Donahue (Sr.) would complete the double score in this event with a personal best time of 41.17 and 4th place. Enoch Kim (Fr.) took 5th place at the Frosh-Soph level with a personal best time of 47. 61. Myles Gascon completed yet another quadruple event by taking 2nd place in the 200 m with a personal best open time of 22.61. Patrick Hoffman ran 23.27 to take 5th place. Patrick has been displaying incredible sprint speed for a Sophomore!\nIn the later distance events, David Tassone (So.) took 3rd place in the Frosh-Soph 800 m with a time of 2:11.05, which is an open 800 m personal best. Dakota Getty (Sr.) held off a charge from Wheaton-Warrenville South\u2019s Sean Maison in the last 300 m to win the Varsity 800 m in a time of 1:59.76. We saw more personal bests in the Varsity 1600 m, where Michael Madiol (Jr.) took 5th in a time of 4:32.44 and Spencer Teske (Jr.) took 6th in a time of 4:32.57. For Spencer, this is a 10 second personal best!\nIn the last event of the day, our Varsity 4 x 400 m relay team of Michael Dy (Sr.), Kel Foley (Jr.), Donovan Turner (Jr.) and Kai Larson (Sr.), dropped nearly 3 seconds from their previous best to take 3rd overall. Kai ran his fastest split of the season, clocking 49.7 for 400 m. This event also completed another quadruple event day for Donovan.\nThe Red Ribbon Invitational may be in the books and with it, another step forward for the team. We only have two meets left before the championship part of the season where places really matter.\nBOB COHOON INVITATIONAL (4-20-2018)\nIt is hard to believe that the Bob Cohoon Invitational is our first outdoor invitational meet with our full team. Weather forced four meets to be cancelled and you never know how the team will respond to its first taste of intense competition. However, earlier in the week, our team got together to set some exciting and lofty personal and team goals. Quite frankly, our athletes are aiming for the top. And while the Bob Cohoon Invitational lived up to its reputation for having outstanding competition, our team took another big step forward as we captured the invitational title with a score of 120.5 over Minooka\u2019s 2nd place score of 96.5.\nWe started the meet off with success and kept it up throughout the entire night. In fact, out of 18 events, there was only one event in which we did not score. In 8 of the events, we took either 1st or 2nd place and we double scored in 6 events.\nIn the jumping events, Ife Oketona (Sr.) put us on the board early with a huge jump of 22\u2019 4.5\u201d on his first attempt to take 1st place with a mark that is further than the State Qualifying Mark. Norman Dong (Sr.) took 7th place with a jump of 20\u2019 8.5\u201d for our first double score of the night. Later in the meet, we would double score again in a horizontal jump when Mac Mitchell (Sr.) would take 2nd place with season best jump of 44\u2019 4\u201d which equals the State Qualifying Mark. Alex Xiong (Sr.) would complete the double score with a jump of 41\u2019 6\u201d which is an outdoor personal best. The pole vault would continue our set of double scoring events with Alex Kiefer (Jr.) taking 5th with a jump of 13\u2019 0\u201d and Matt Dziekan (Sr.) taking 6th with a jump of 12\u2019 6\u201d.\nThe throwing events would see history made when Matt Appel (So.) threw three consecutive throws in the Shot Put where each was further than the last and all were past the Frosh-Soph School Record. This record has been in place since 1999 and was held by Babatunde \u201cOJ\u201d Oshinowo, an athlete that would be All-State in the Shot Put and Discus several times and would later play professional football for the Bears and the Browns. Matt would take 2nd place in the Shot Put to Lockport\u2019s John Meyer, the current State Record Holder. Matt would return in the discus to score again with a personal best throw of 146\u2019 1\u201d to take 4th place. This was an impressive set of throws for a Sophomore competing at the Varsity level.\nOn the track, we opened up with the 4 x 800 m relay team of Nicolas Dovalovsky (Fr.), Chris Keeley (Jr.), Zach Kinne (Jr.) and Dakota Getty (Sr.) taking 3rd place with a time of 8:04.13. Nicolas split 2:02.2 which is very impressive for a Freshman and both Zach and Dakota both split under 1:59.\nThe 4 x 100 m relay team of Donovan Turner (Jr.), Kai Larson (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.) and Myles Gascon (Sr.) finished in 2nd place with a time of 42.74, which was only .07 seconds out of first place and only .01 seconds away from the State Qualifying Mark. This would be the first event of four for both Myles and Donovan. In their second event of the evening, Donovan and Myles would race in the 110 m High Hurdles and the 100 m Dash respectively. Donovan placed 2nd in the hurdles with a mark of 14.40, which is the second fastest time in school history. In the 100 m, Myles would win the event with a mark of 11.10. However, both of these athletes were only half complete with their events at this point.\nReturning to the distance events, the 3200 m saw another score with Ryan Kennedy (Sr.) taking 5th with an impressive last 800 m to cross the finish line in 9:21.12, which is a personal best and is well under the State Qualifying Mark. The 800 m would see more double scoring and more personal bests with Michael Madiol (Jr.) and Kel Foley (Jr.) taking 5th and 7th place respectively. Michael\u2019s mark of 2:00.33 and Kel\u2019s mark of 2:02.17 both represent big improvements and considering that neither of these athletes was in the 4 x 800 m, it shows how deep we are in this event.\nThe 4 x 200 m relay team of Norman Dong (Sr.), Ife Oketona (Sr.), Patrick Hoffman (So.) and Myles Gascon (Sr.) got off to a rough start as Norman was suffering from a tight back, but Ife, Patrick and Myles charged ahead to a time of 1:32.85 which was good enough for 6th place and a scoring position. This was the third event of the night for Myles, who ran an anchor split of 22.2.\nAfter a week-long illness, Kai Larson (Sr.) was beginning to look a little like his old self in the 400 m where he finished 7th in a time of 51.44. The 300 m Intermediate Hurdles would have the rematch of Donovan Tuner (Jr.) and Batavia\u2019s Sam Conger only this time the places were reversed with Donovan taking 1st place in a school-record setting time of 38.74, making this the second school record that was broken. When we were a younger program, we used to go out for Krispy Kreme doughnuts when three records were broken at this meet. However, our records are much harder to break now. Not to be outdone, Mitch Donahue (Sr.) would complete the double score in the 300 m Intermediate Hurdles with a mark of 41.37, which is a personal best by over 2 seconds! Mitch exclaimed after the race that he is going to state and his attitude is what we are looking for from everyone.\nZach Kinne (Jr.) and Dakota Getty (Sr.) completed their double event with another double score in the 1600 m. In another loaded field, Zach and Dakota were not afraid to mix it up and kicked hard to take 3rd and 5th place respectively. Zach\u2019s time of 4:17.13 and Dakota\u2019s time of 4:22.74 represent personal bests for both runners in the outdoor open 1600 m.\nThe meet drew to a close with two athletes completing a quadruple event meet. In the 200 m, Myles Gascon took 2nd place and would demonstrate that even after three events, he still had fire in his legs. Myles would run 22.88 which is yet another personal best. The 4 x 400 m relay of Kel Foley (Jr.), Donovan Turner (Jr.), Ife Oketona (Sr.) and Michael Dy (Sr.) would complete the quadruple for Donovan where the team ran 3:28.61 and Donovan, Ife, and Michael would post personal bests for their 400 m relay splits. We have not had an athlete even complete a quadruple at this meet since 2004, when Coach Ragusa was an athlete on the team and managed the feat himself.\nThis meet used to represent our Sectional Lineup preview. Even though that is not the case anymore, if we have a night like this at the Sectional Meet, we will have an amazing showing. However, the coaches and athletes know that we did not have a perfect night and there is still good work to be done. Our motto going into the next few weeks is \u201cMake every rep count.\u201d After all, there are only 5 weeks until the State Meet!\n\u200bhttps://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/341102/results\nArcadia invitational (4-6-2018 & 4-7-2018)\nOne of the things that can be very frustrating about Track and Field in Illinois is the unpredictable weather. Your training can be disrupted and meets are sometimes conducted in rain, wind and even snow, or even worse, cancelled. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that we decide to make some of our own luck and make an annual pilgrimage to Arcadia, California for the Arcadia Invitational, considered to be one the most elite high school meets. Seeing some tough competition in your first outdoor meet of the season can be daunting for sure, but it promotes a response from our athletes to rise to the occasion. It may not happen immediately, but we will see the outcome in May when it matters.\nOur six athlete squad started things off on Friday night with the 4 x 1600 m relay, a rarely contested distance relay that gives us a good chance to show the strength of our distance squad. Tyler Bombacino (Sr.) started us off and pushed through the race despite continuing to suffer from a respiratory illness and struggled to maintain position. Dakota Getty (Sr.) would take the baton and run a solid leg as he chased through the pack to improve our position. Dakota's relay split of 4:26 is a personal best for the 1600 m. Next the baton went to Ryan Kennedy (Sr.) who did not seem to have his normal spark and later it was discovered that he was suffering from stomach pains. When Zach Kinne (Jr.) took the baton, there was quite a bit of work to do and Zach ran a smart and fast leg pushing through the line of teams to take us through the finish line in 6th place and a time of 17:46.60. This time is presently the fastest time in Illinois. However, with many meets being cancelled and some of this event being rarely contested, the lists are certainly not very long yet.\nAs moved to the Saturday events, the morning session would see three of the runners from the 4 x 1600 m relay get another chance to race. Tyler Bombacino (Sr.) was still not feeling better from his illness but pushed through his open 1600 m race. After all, he did not come all this way not to race. Ryan Kennedy (Sr.) had recovered from his stomach issues the night before and ran a great first outdoor mile in 4:21.01 with the last 800 m being covered in 2:06. This time equates to a 4:19.5 for 1600 m and is a personal best in both events. In the 800 m, Dakota Getty recovered from getting tripped up early in the race and powered down the backstretch to put himself right back into place. The pace was not as fast as we had hoped but Dakota finished with an outdoor 800 m personal best of 1:59.23.\nAfter a short break, we returned to the track for the 110 m High Hurdles, where Donovan Turner (Jr.) would run for the first time in this event for the season. With a less than perfect start and a less than perfect finish, Donovan would win the seeded heat in 14.27, which is a new personal best by almost 0.4 seconds and a new school record! If Donovan had been in the invitational heat, he would have taken 4th. Donovan's mark is currently the best in Illinois. In the 100 m, Myles Gascon (Sr.) would make Neuqua Valley's first appearance in the invitational heat of a short sprint. Unfortunately, he did not continue his drive phase long enough and was disappointed with his mark of 11.14. However, Myles got up on Sunday, headed over to the track and practiced running his own race. As the wise Stacey Kinne has said \"Sometimes not winning means that you learn something.\" It looks like Myles has.\nSpeaking of the Kinne Family, Zach Kinne would finish out the meet for Neuqua Valley with his appearance in the invitational heat of the 3200 m. This race had a loaded field with sixteen state champions. The race went out fast and with the crowd, Zach was forced to run in lanes two and three and run extra distance to keep with the top pack. Zach came through the 1600 m mark at 4:30 peaking hopes for Zach to run under the 9 minute barrier. Unfortunately, Zach's efforts early on in the race cost him in the latter half and finished in a still very impressive 9:09.66. While Zach may have been disappointed, he ran a competitive race where he stuck himself right in the pack and fought hard. Efforts like this will pay off in the end.\nWith another Arcadia Invitational in the books, we understand that we had some successes and disappointments, but more importantly, we look ahead to May knowing that until then there is still plenty of work to do. As we reunite with the rest of the team this next week, we are ready to begin the push to the State Meet, with us trying to get better every week.\nComplete results from the meet may be found at the website below.\nwww.arcadiainvitational.org\nUp next, we have an open meet with Waubonsie Valley and the Minooka Invitational. Both of these meets are chances to take a step forward in this six week march to the State Meet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 67613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk/2019/02/more-zesa-managers-face-axe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KD4CCT6Q25QD4XUP3J5QOBUUBVKQMH5X", "length": 4709, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk", "title": "MORE ZESA MANAGERS FACE THE AXE newsdzeZimbabweNewsdzeZimbabwe", "raw_content": "MORE ZESA MANAGERS FACE THE AXE\nSeveral Zesa Holdings senior managers face the axe following a damning forensic audit that has unearthed serious allegations of corruption and abuse of office.\nLast week, the national electricity company relieved former chief executive officer Mr Joshua Chifamba of his duties by not renewing his contract.\nMr Chifamaba is currently before the courts on charges that border on abuse of office, while 20 other top Zesa managers are on forced leave to pave way for the audit.\nThe probe report by Price Waterhouse Coopers is now before President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid indications the Head of State has demanded full transparency at the parastatal.\nIt has been gathered that the audit dug a slew of scandals over tender malpractices, abuse of office, and shoddy corporate governance practices among other forms of corruption.\nIn an interview with The Sunday Mail last Friday, Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo confirmed the investigation findings were now in the hands of the highest office in the land.\n\u201cI can confirm that the forensic audit for Zesa is now completed. It is now in the hands of His Excellency, The President after I formally presented the document to him last week,\u201d said the minister.\n\u201cI am now waiting for the comments from His Excellency before I make the document public.\n\u201cIt would be imprudent for me to make the document public before I get the feedback for His Excellency.\u201d\nMinister Gumbo revealed that of the 20 suspended officials, most are set to face the music while some were cleared of any wrongdoing.\n\u201cWithout jeopardising the current process, what I can say is that the audit has exposed some malpractices that need to be corrected,\u201d he said.\nDr Gumbo said some top officials will have to undergo disciplinary action for engaging in activities outside what was expected of them.\n\u201cI was also able to come up with a summary for the President to get a gist of the matter before getting into the full document. It is a thick-volume document with more than 300 pages.\u201d\nMinister Gumbo said with the audit findings, Zesa was now set to undergo massive restructuring to improve service delivery.\nThe minister said, as part of the parastatal\u2019s restructuring, a new board would be announced in the next three months to steer the entity in a new direction and take over from former Cabinet Minister Herbert Murerwa who led the previous board.\n\u201cWe have started the process of looking for new board members. We will be conducting interviews of all the candidates that qualify,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt is going to a thorough and transparent process before we get the best brains to take the company to new heights.\n\u201cZesa is one of the most important parastatals and we have to do the best we can. We are going to be appointing the board within the 90 days at most.\u201d\nMinister Gumbo said the Dr Murerwa-led board was not fired but its term had initially expired in June 2018 before being extended by 6 months to December.\nWith regard Zesa\u2019s operations, the minister said the parastatal planned to acquire 254 vehicles to improve the power utility\u2019s capacity in dealing with faults.\n\u201cWe recently visited Zesa and commissioned 29 brand new vehicles that had been distributed into five regions so that Zesa can readily attend to faults,\u201d said minister Gumbo.\n\u201cWe intend to buy about 254 vehicles, but the problem is foreign currency, so we need foreign currency to buy these cars.\u201d\nThe Minister also revealed that he will soon embark on tour of all Zesa branches countrywide on a fact-finding and needs assessment mission.\nHe also said his vision was to see Zesa depart from the practise of prioritising urban areas ahead of consumers in the rural areas.\nLast week, Cabinet approved the re-bundling of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and resolved to merge all the group\u2019s units into a single integrated company.\nAddressing journalists in a post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said all Zesa companies would be amalgamated into a \u201csingle vertically integrated company.\u201d\nZesa has five companies \u2014Powertel Communications, Zimbabwe Electricity and Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC), Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), Zesa Enterprises (Zent) and Zesa Holdings.\nThe unbundling of the power utility has been blamed for exerting more costs on the company.\nThe reform of Zesa is in sync with the Public Enterprises Reform Framework for 2018-2020 under the auspices of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP).\nThe TSP is the Government\u2019s economic blueprint expected to give oomph to the country\u2019s vision to become an upper middle income economy by 2030. Sunday Mail", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000393288/article/john-harbaugh-weve-been-in-that-football-cocoon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DEPOUIZ5747HESV54QHA4NUEMCG2T6M7", "length": 2019, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nfl.com", "title": "John Harbaugh: 'We've been in that football cocoon' - NFL.com", "raw_content": "John Harbaugh: 'We've been in that football cocoon'\nIn a week flush with off-the-field distractions, the Baltimore Ravens still had a game to play.\nCoach John Harbaugh -- just days after facing the media to discuss the release of Ray Rice -- told reporters after Thursday night's convincing 26-6 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers that his team turned inward to prepare for the task at hand.\n\"We were really isolated from all that,\" Harbaugh said. \"As a football team, we go into our meeting rooms, our locker rooms, our offices and we go to work, especially on a short week like that. So we didn't have much to do with any of that. We were just working on football. We've been in that football cocoon and that carried us right into the game.\"\nThursday's win capped a tumultuous week that included the release of a video that shows Rice punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino elevator. Rice was suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Monday shortly after being released by the Ravens. Rice was previously suspended two games on July 24 for violating the league's personal conduct policy for the same incident.\n\"We care about our families, we care about the Rice family,\" Harbaugh said. \"Our guys do, it's part of our family. We had a tough family situation this week and I thought our guys handled it tremendously well, with class, character and they responded.\"\nAfter the victory, Ravens receiver Steve Smith was asked by Tracy Wolfson of CBS Sports about what it took to stay focused.\n\"You know at the end of the day we're football players,\" Smith said, \"and we're also men and people go through things and you gotta kind of compartmentalize everything and it's tough and the situations are tough but you gotta come to work, feed your family but at the same time, you gotta put things aside. We'll address those things when the time comes but also it's also not all on us, you know?\"\nThe latest \"Around The NFL Podcast\" recaps the Steelers-Ravens game and previews the other 15 games in Week 2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nlgncheapairlinetickets.com/alabama-how-to-make-cheap-travel-a-reality-with-cheap-airline-tickets-for-people-who-live-in-or-around-prattville-alabama-36066-36067-36068/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQT7ZU6BDTYAAPX45FRSYO4APE7CU35B", "length": 327, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nlgncheapairlinetickets.com", "title": "How to make cheap travel a reality with cheap airline tickets for people who live in or around Prattville, Alabama 36066, 36067, 36068 - NLGN Cheap Airline Tickets | Cheap Airfare | Discount Airline Tickets | Buy Airline Tickets | Book Airline Tickets | Cheap Airfare for Last Minute Flights", "raw_content": "How to make cheap travel a reality with cheap airline tickets for people who live in or around Prattville, Alabama 36066, 36067, 36068 by cheap airfare guru\nLet's repeat that. Especially for people who live in or around Prattville http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/20-ways-to-travel-better, Alabama 36066, 36067, 36068", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 14244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nominationgrandpre.ca/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPLKBI4KYO7F3EH32UHK4U7WWVMGXMKC", "length": 2292, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nominationgrandpre.ca", "title": "Nomination Grand Pr\u00e9", "raw_content": "About Nomination Grand Pr\u00e9\nThis project aims to bring those with a connection to Grand Pr\u00e9 together to celebrate and steward the outstanding universal value that makes this place special and worthy of sharing with the world. We submitted a proposal for the nomination of Grand Pr\u00e9 as a World Heritage Site to UNESCO in February 2011.\nOur logo illustrates the important aspects of Grand Pr\u00e9 that we believe are important for the world. The light green landscape lined with a dark green and blue colour represent the fertile farmland and the dykelands first created by the Acadians in the 1680s, and later maintained by the Planters and their descendants after their arrival in 1760. The church and the star represent the Memorial Church and the other Acadian symbols of Grand Pr\u00e9 that are important reminders of the way the Acadians have overcome the tragedy of the Deportation. The colours green, blue, and brown, and the flat land with Cape Blomidon in the distance speak to the human interaction with a distinctive environment made up of wetlands, uplands, and dykelands and illustrate the incredible fertility of the land.\nAll these elements together unmistakably represent Grand Pr\u00e9.\nOur Phrase\n\u201cOne land. Many stories. A shared legacy.\u201d reminds us that Grand Pr\u00e9 is a place that is special for many peoples, from diverse backgrounds. Together, we celebrate and care for the land that unites us.\nAn Advisory Board was set up to lead the project. It is co-chaired by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Promotion Grand-Pr\u00e9 and the Kings Community Economic Development Agency. It includes a number of people representing the local residents, the business community, the tourism association, the Marsh Body, the heritage community, the Acadian community, the Mi\u2019kmaq, the three levels of government.\nThe Steering Committee includes the co-chairs as well as the municipal planner, the project manager, and a representative of the provincial government. Their role is to carry out the day to day operations and make recommendations to the Advisory Board.\nIn addition, Working Groups are set up to assist the project on technical matters. Currently two working groups were set up: one on the Outstanding Universal Value, which completed its work in January 2009, and another on the management of the proposed property.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 192.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.northvancouver.com/harvest-project/993/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BATJYWRG7LZXLGUHX3V5MRBMQR3CXXXY", "length": 1082, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.northvancouver.com", "title": "Harvest Project Organizations - North Vancouver, BC", "raw_content": "www.harvestproject.org\nAbout Harvest Project\nHARVEST PROJECT is a registered charity organization that has served Metro-Vancouver\u2019s North Shore since 1993. Harvest Project is dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome difficult life circumstances so that they can take steps towards a more full participation within the North Shore community. Clients, along with our more than 130 volunteers, staff and board members are all North Shore residents. This past year, HARVEST PROJECT provided one-on-one client coaching to more than 3,000 people, a food recovery program that supplied food valued at $600,000 to individuals and families in-need, as well as thrift clothing for hundreds of clients. HARVEST PROJECT also operates its retail Clothes For Change thrift store on-site. 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Giglio in Cefalu and the University of Padova. Our small stand introducing our latest load distribution measurement technology provided plenty of opportunity for discussion during the various breaks of this course. Thanks to the participants in the course for their great interest!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nspropertysolutions.co.za/template/ArticleDisplay.vm/articleid/1358", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JXSXFUOA5CQNEVG7NI57XFERSHUDYIRR", "length": 2845, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.nspropertysolutions.co.za", "title": "Major concessions for properties trapped in legal entities", "raw_content": "Major concessions for properties trapped in legal entities\nCurrent tax law provides for a concession for the transfer of a residence from a company,\nclose corporation or trust to an individual without incurring tax liabilities, such as secondary tax\non companies (stc), capital gains tax (cgt) and transfer duty. The concession was intended to\nrun until 31 December 2011 but was replaced by a new dispensation from 30 September\n2010. We hope to give more clarity for our readers about the way forward.\nPreviously, an individual (or in conjunction with their spouse) had to directly hold all the shares\nin the company that was transferring the property. Alternatively they must have donated or financed\nthe acquisition of the residence held by a trust.\nThe taxpayer must have personally and ordinarily resided in the residence being transferred.\nThis legal jargon effectively resulted in the requirement that property being transferred must be\nthe primary residence of the individual concerned.\nIn practice, the unnecessary restrictions of the old regime were quickly identified. For example,\nwhere a family trust owned a company, which in turn held the residence, the individual would\nnot be able to make use of this tax concession as it was required that he or she hold the\nshares directly in the company.\nNow, the new rules apply to residents that are \u2018connected persons' in relation to the company\nor trust. In our view this change in wording will facilitate the transfer of a residence in instances\nwhere a family trust holds the shares in the company that in turns holds the property. It provides\na far greater application than the previous regime.\nAn important difference is the reference to a residence that is mainly used for \u2018domestic purposes'.\nIn other words, the residence being transferred no longer has to be the taxpayer's primary\nresidence. The words \u2018domestic purposes' will allow, for example a holiday home\n(provided that it is not rented out more than 50% of the time) to be transferred to the individual.\nIt must be emphasised that in order to achieve the objective of cleaning up the company register,\nthis new relief requires the company transferring the property to be liquidated or deregistered\nSimilarly in the case of a trust, the revocation of that trust must occur within six months. This\nrevocation will require written agreement between the founder, trustees and beneficiaries. Alternatively,\nan application for revocation must be made to a court. The latter instance would for\nexample occur where the founder is already deceased.\nThe overall effect of the concession is that any taxpayers who have not yet taken advantage of\nthe current concession, have now been provided with a new and far more flexible relief against\nthe ordinarily associated consequences of STC, CGT and transfer duty.\nrealestateweb (adapted)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nspropertysolutions.co.za/template/ArticleDisplay.vm/articleid/1556", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QUDVWEAYYY5AEJBTZ5665KKNPX4R5UDD", "length": 3470, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.nspropertysolutions.co.za", "title": "Hold onto your investment property if you can!", "raw_content": "Hold onto your investment property if you can!\nWhile the effects of the recession have influenced investors, particularly in the buy-to-let segment of the property market, owning a property is still a sound investment that will pay dividends over the long term, says Adrian Goslett, CEO of RE/MAX of Southern Africa.\nGoslett notes that while the buy-to-let market has remained weak due to the current economic climate, the rental market has remained strong as many consumers are battling with high debt-to-disposable-income ratios and therefore are unable to save up for a deposit or secure mortgage finance. It is expected that these market conditions will underpin the recovery in the buy-to-let market in the future. In the mean time, he says investors are taking stock of what they have and what they can afford and where they stand with their current investments.\nFor those who have decided to sell their buy-to-let property for whatever reason, Goslett warns that there are a number of considerations that need to be taken into account, especially if there is a lease agreement in place and a tenant occupying the property that the investor plans to sell. This is because legally, the lease agreement takes precedence over a sale agreement.\nThe best course of action in this situation, says Goslett, would be to notify your tenant of your intent to sell the property as soon as you have made the decision. \"The tenant will need to work with you to showcase the property to any prospective buyers and the tenant also has first right of refusal to purchase the property. This means that as the landlord and property owner, you must notify the tenant of any offers on the property and they must be allowed the opportunity to match or better the offer.\"\nHowever, if the tenant does not want to purchase the property, they are entitled to remain in the property until the lease agreement expires, despite the sale of the property. In essence, Goslett explains that when a rental property is sold and transferred into the new owner's name, the new owner is not permitted to move into the property until the tenant's lease has expired and they have moved out.\n\"But,\" he says, \"should the new owner have bought the property as an investment and not as a primary residence, the purchaser will then have the option to take over the role of landlord from the seller as soon as the transfer of the property has been registered.\"\nAt the end of the day, Goslett says that if investors are in the position to hold onto their buy-to-let property, they should do so, as the returns from the rental yield and the capital gains over a longer period of time will make holding onto the investment a worthwhile decision in the long run.\nHe explains that even though tenants have enjoyed flat to relatively low rental increases over the last three years due to an oversupply of stock, the rental market is shifting to favour landlords more than tenants. According to TPN Credit Bureaux, due to a variety of factors there are now more tenants than stock, especially in the low to mid-priced properties, which allows property managers and landlords to be more choosey when placing tenants at their preferred prices.\n\"This means that you are highly likely to be able to secure a high quality tenant - should you follow sound practice of properly qualifying your tenants - for your buy-to-let investment at a rental return that works for both the tenant and the landlord,\" Goslett concludes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.occupy.com/tags/police-shootings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:22Z", "digest": "sha1:NK7LL3FX7OHGVUHAXJQ2QLAXYAYMDNEY", "length": 519, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.occupy.com", "title": "police shootings | Occupy.com", "raw_content": "One Sign Police Protests Are Working: States are Changing their Laws\nA map of the 79 laws states passed in 2015 and 2016.\nThe Counted: U.S. Police Have Killed 1,000 People In 2015\nA man fatally shot in Oakland over the weekend was also the 183rd death by police recorded this year in California \u2013 by far the greatest total of any state.\nBlack Americans Killed By Police are Twice As Likely To Be Unarmed As Whites\n102 people killed by police so far this year were unarmed - twice the rate calculated by U.S. government.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.officiallyayuppie.com/2015/02/built-to-spill-detail-new-album.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:T6WZYBOSUBLABD3VUPPXBQIOUVIBTPDI", "length": 292, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.officiallyayuppie.com", "title": "Officially A Yuppie: Built To Spill Detail New Album", "raw_content": "Built to Spill will release their first album in six years, Untethered Moon, on April 21. Take a look at the cover, above, and the tracklisting, below, and hear the first single, \"Living Zoo.\"\n01 All Our Songs\n02 Living Zoo\n04 Some Other Song\n06 C.R.E.B.\n08 Horizon to Cliff\n10 When I'm Blind", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 6506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outoforderstudios.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:16Z", "digest": "sha1:YMDNIUOSDK4GATS3HV2YAMHEM6IKO4VK", "length": 1657, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.outoforderstudios.com", "title": "About \u2013 Out Of Order Studios", "raw_content": "Out of Order Studios has created an environment where creativity can thrive but budgets don\u2019t soar. With a focus on animated feature films, VFX driven live action films and episodic animated series, Out of Order Studio will become the new standard in the world of \u201cmake-believe\u201d.\nChris Juen Co-Owner/Producer\nFor the last 20 years Chris Juen has been involved in many studio tent pole films for both Visual Effects and Animation while working at Sony Pictures. He produced Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, Surf\u2019s Up and Arthur Christmas. Chris started Out of Order Studios with Chad Gundersen in 2015. They are currently in production on the studio\u2019s animated feature and in development on numerous animated feature films, live action films and TV shows.\nChad Gundersen Co-Owner/Producer\nChad Gundersen has been an independent producer for over 20 years. In 2006 he formed Gundersen Entertainment and produced such films as Like Dandelion Dust, The Trial and Hoovey. In 2015, along with Chris Juen, Chad started Out of Order Studios to produce animated features films, live action feature films and TV shows. They are currently in production on the studio\u2019s animated feature and in development on numerous animated feature films, live action films and TV shows.\nKeith Alcorn Writer & Director\nFor over 30 years Keith Alcorn has been writing, producing and directing for feature films and television. Some of Keith\u2019s body of work include the Oscar nominated animated feature film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Ant Bully and Planet Sheen. Keith is writing and directing the studio\u2019s upcoming animated feature film which is currently in production.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ows.be/2017/12/?post_type=news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:34:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RALZKTKAQ43GLKULHPT3LB53TREEHVOT", "length": 135, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ows.be", "title": "December | 2017 | OWS", "raw_content": "30 years OWS!\nIn 2018 OWS celebrates its 30th anniversary.\nBelow you will find our \u2018route traveled\u2019 with the most important milestones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pagefield.co.uk/insight/assessing-the-scottish-governments-programme-for-government-201718/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KLICIT4XHBWP5INUGTOY26TVYF5HVCWL", "length": 4908, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pagefield.co.uk", "title": "Assessing the Scottish Government\u2019s Programme for Government 2017/18 | Pagefield", "raw_content": "\u201cFresh, bold and ambitious\u201d, were the words with which First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, launched her Programme for Government for the year 2017/18 on Tuesday. With this phrase, and all the implications that go with it, Ms Sturgeon and her administration announced a plan of 16 bills to be brought before Holyrood which would cover a full range of devolved issues with some notable, headline-grabbing, plans for the country. The question for many observers, as the debate over the document entitled \u201cA Nation with Ambition\u201d continues, is just how fresh, bold, and ambitious are the Scottish Government\u2019s plans?\nIn content terms, \u201cA Nation with Ambition\u201d is a fairly full and robust programme for the next 12 months of government in Scotland. As far as headline policies are concerned, Scotland can expect the establishment of a national investment bank, policies aimed at tackling obesity and plastic bottle waste, moves to prevent the handing down of sentences of less than a year, and the opening up of a debate on the Scottish Parliament\u2019s income tax varying powers.\nFrom what the First Minister said in her speech, which was delivered with the determination of someone answering charges of not \u201cgetting on with the day job\u201d, her commitment is to education as her priority. With more powers to be given to headteachers, free feminine hygiene products in educational institutions, and a \u00a3100million fund aimed at reaching the Scottish Government\u2019s target of 30,000 apprenticeships, it would be hard to deny that education has been treated as a priority in the Programme for Government.\nOnce the FM had finished her speech and the document itself was available for public viewing, the reactions began to pour in. As is normal on such occasions, social media was starkly divided between Ms Sturgeon\u2019s supporters and her detractors with commentators lauding aspects such as the National Investment Bank and free provision of women\u2019s sanitary products, while those who voiced opposition tended to focus more on the looming prospect of higher taxes and bemoaning the future loss of their petrol and diesel vehicles, scheduled for 2032.\nThe leaders of the other political parties also gave their thoughts on the Programme for Government to the chamber. The leader of the opposition and of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, opened in what has become her trademark witty and irreverent tone, in particular praising the Scottish Government\u2019s commitment to \u2018Frank\u2019s Law\u2019 on personal care before launching into a series of stern criticisms with a particular focus on justice. Labour\u2019s Alex Rowley then weighed in on education, housing, and skills while the Lib Dem\u2019s Willie Rennie stressed the importance of the European context and the Greens claimed that their influence had had a positive impact on the programme. In short, the discussion of the programme was indicative of the difficult, stringent, and tense debate ahead for \u201cA Nation with Ambition.\u201d\nHowever, it\u2019s not just the difficult debate ahead or Nicola Sturgeon\u2019s position as First Minister of a minority SNP government that will pose a problem for the programme; there\u2019s also the issue of the other items in the government\u2019s in tray.\nA total of 11 bills remain outstanding from the Scottish government\u2019s previous programme, meaning that a total of 26 proposed bills need attended to. While the Scottish Government is, by its own attestation, \u201cambitious\u201d, aiming to deal with that much work in the life of a parliamentary session is ambitious to the point of unrealistic \u2013 one of the real tests for Nicola Sturgeon and her team will be to prioritise what they want, while also keeping in mind what the other parties will require to give assent to the bills. There will need to be a programme for the programme for government, which will require much thought.\nTo return to the original question; is \u201cA Nation with Ambition\u201d the \u201cfresh, bold and ambitious\u201d programme for government that the First Minister believes it to be? In terms of freshness and ambition, it very much depends on how you look at it, some in Labour and Green Party circles have even suggested that the \u201cfresh\u201d claim is invalidated by the Scottish Government lifting policies from other parties and sources, although presumably Nicola Sturgeon\u2019s team rejects this.\nHowever, in terms of \u2018boldness\u2019, very much a matter of style, tone, and clarity, there can be very little doubt that \u201cA Nation with Ambition\u201d is not left wanting. The programme presented to Scotland this week varies starkly from those proposed by other parts of the UK\u2019s legislative framework. The ideas are different and unmistakably clear. To its credit, the Scottish Government has made it very clear what it wants to do through the boldness of the programme it has put forward; now all that remains is to see whether or not it has the skill and ability to achieve it. Over the next Parliament, we\u2019ll find out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 7367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paulmaurer.com/meet-our-staff.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6IJIYESQD64EKJ64CLQPFKYA2EALL33", "length": 5888, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.paulmaurer.com", "title": "Meet Our Staff", "raw_content": "Paul Maurer General Contracting Staff\nPaul, a Michigan State graduate, started his company in 1979 and is still active in all aspects of the business today. He is currently a Board Member with MCIM, Michigan Construction Industry Mutual, Insurance of Michigan, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Paul is also a past President and Board Member of the local Traverse City Home Builders Association. He is the father of three wonderful children, two of whom work in the company, Brian and Ben.\nBen, like his brother Brian, has been involved with Paul Maurer from a very young age. Laying a brick patio earned Ben enough money to buy his first tee-ball bat, which he still has to this day. Ben studied Philosophy and English in college and finally transitioned to a Business degree for its applicable purposes. After college, Ben worked in the field at PMGC on framing crews, trim crews and flooring crews. After years in the field, he has transitioned into the managerial role which he holds today.\nBrian is a lifelong Leelanau County native. He graduated from Albion College in 2003 with a degree in Communications. Brian started working for his Dad when he was 14 and was promoted to management in 2005.\nKim Weese\nSenior Job Superintendent\nKim was originally hired onto the Paul Maurer Team as a framing carpenter, who was soon promoted to framing foreman and later promoted to Job Superintendent; which he has been part of for over 25 years. He oversees each project from the design phase to final occupancy and works closely with owners to coordinate job schedules to help ensure that the entire process runs smoothly. Kim believes in making the experience of building a new home as enjoyable and rewarding as possible for the homeowners.\nDave found his passion for construction in high school when he started working with a building trades program. He has been involved in the industry ever since and also became a Licensed Michigan Builder in 1996. Dave joined Paul Maurer a few years after he became licensed and has been with PMGC ever since, working both in the field and in the office. He loves overseeing each project from the design phase to final occupancy and enjoys working closely with homeowners to coordinate job schedules to help ensure that the entire process runs smoothly and timely.\n\u200bJohn Kerridge\nJohn received his Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture from Lawrence Technological University. He is a NAHB Certified Graduate Builder and a licensed and certified LEED AP Architect Professional in the states of Michigan and Florida. John has previously operated his own design build company, architectural consulting firm and worked as a Senior Associate for a mid-sized architectural firm. John works with the Paul Maurer Team as a project marketer, construction consultant, client developer and project estimator. John is President of the Northern Michigan Chapter American Institute of Architects and also a State Director of AIA: State of Michigan.\nJim Harmeson\nAssistant Estimator & Job Superintendent\nJim was born and raised in Traverse City and has been in the building industry since 2006. Since entering the industry he has been involved in the distribution side of the construction business; including, Marketing, Procurement, Inventory, Sales and Management. Jim enjoys facilitating homeowners desires with the trades to help formulate projects from dreams onto paper then on through construction and ultimately through the home completion. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his son on the golf course and during the winter months at the hockey rink.\nBill Kluzak\nBill was born and raised in Traverse City and has been the controller at PMGC since 1994. Bill is a graduate of NMC and Ferris State University. Bill has a wife and two sons who in their free time enjoy chasing their two energetic grand-kids at the beach and riding around in the Jeep.\nAnnalee Malmstrom\nAnnalee graduated from Albion College with degrees in Economics & Management and Communication Studies; two days after graduation she packed her car and moved to Traverse City. Four months later she joined the Paul Maurer Team and has since been with the company for a few years. She works at the front desk managing incoming calls while helping coordinate many different aspects of the business from advertising to marketing along with job site visits and prospective client meetings. Annalee has a true passion for horseback riding and loves working in the garden and relaxing with a good book and a cup of tea down by the lake whenever she can.\nBryce Cauchy\nHome Services Field Coordinator\nBryce is a lifelong Traverse City native and has been working in the construction industry for many years. Paul Maurer gave Bryce his first shot at construction while he was still in high school and needed a summer job. Everyone in the field joked he would never want to continue working construction, but Bryce found a passion for it. After working with different construction companies, Bryce came back to Paul Maurer to be a project lead in the field and he excelled to where he worked his way to an office position as the field coordinator managing projects and our field crew. \u200b\nLarry Weese\nCustom Wood Shop Manager\nLarry has been with PMGC for over 25 years. Larry is a superb craftsman with countless works of art in his name. Larry builds custom cabinetry, built-ins, furniture and other unique wood pieces for our clients. Larry is an avid sailor and can regularly be found on his hand built 14'-8\" swift solo racing skiff.\nKobe was born in Kansas but made the move to Traverse City in 2010 in search of greater opportunity. 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Whether your pet dies at home or is euthanized by your vet, you have the right to choose what you would like to do.\nShould you wish your pet to be cremated, this can be organised through your vet. Alternately, you can call Louise yourself.\nLouise has been operating Paw Bearers since 2011. She lives in Canberra and has many furkids. Louise has worked in the animal industry for over 20 years and she understands that your pet is part of your family and deserves to be treated with the same respect and care that our human family does at the end of their days.\nThere wasn't a local pet cremation service available in Canberra, pets were transported to Sydney to be cremated. Many pet owners didn't like the idea of sending their loved companions so far away to be cremated, so Louise imported a state of the art crematorium from America. This crematorium is situated in Queanbeyan, just on the boarder with Canberra.\nIf you choose a private cremation, your pet is the only pet in the cremation chamber. However, a lot of people don't have the budget for this. If you don't choose a private cremation you can be completely assured that your pet's ashes are the ashes that are returned to you. Louise practises strict quality control over the placement of pets in the chamber so you can have peace of mind.\nLouise is available to support you at the vet for that terrible final visit if needed and with as much notice as you can give.\nPaw Bearers Pet Cremations is dedicated to providing the highest level of service in caring for the needs of pet owners and their beloved pets. It is a family owned and operated business and Louise prides herself in providing the attention to detail and quality of care that her clients expect.\nLouise with Ty her beautiful whippet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/8/oklahoma-city-ok/appraisals/georges-carette-limousine-ca-1905--200303A18/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SFZUEHV5IOGIVGPEMJJLIW3PAZQEIVD4", "length": 2417, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.pbs.org", "title": "Georges Carette Limousine, ca. 1905 | Antiques Roadshow | PBS", "raw_content": "Georges Carette Limousine, ca. 1905\nValue (2018) | $400 Auction \u2013 $500 Auction\nMy wife and I was out in western Kansas pheasant hunting, and on the way back, we stopped at this little old dumpy antiques store in Macksville, Kansas. And unbeknownst to me, she purchased it. She gave $12 for it.\nYeah. And she kind of hid it from me...\n...until Christmas, and she gave it to me for my Christmas present in 1965. And I don't know anything about it.\nYou don't know who made it or anything?\nNo, I couldn't see any markings on it.\nIt was made by a company called Georges Carette, they were a German company, even though he has a French name. He was a Frenchman who moved to Germany in the early 20th century-- the late 19th century. He made a whole line of wonderful toys.\nNow, this was made around 1905, and this was a period when cars were for the very rich, and the toys based on them were for the very rich.\nIt's called a Carette Limousine, it has the original painted tin driver, here, and has wonderful features, including opening doors and actually has a brake mechanism. It was quite a deluxe little toy, complete with a glass windshield. But it's kind of rough condition, isn't it?\nWell, it's a good thing you didn't do anything to it. One of the things that we've taught a lot of people on the \"ROADSHOW\" is that, you know, restoring things or cleaning them up, you can really make a big mistake.\nEach case is a separate case. It depends on the object, it depends on what's wrong with it, all this enters into the mix. It's not a case where cleaning it or adding replacement parts would damage the value. I sold an exceptional example of one of these about three years ago at auction for $5,700.\n(muttering) In mint shape?\nExcellent condition-- not mint, excellent.\nExcellent, not mint, but excellent.\nNow, if you were to sell this at auction as it sits, right now, I think it would easily bring $1,000. But this is an eminently restorable and fixable toy. The motor can be repaired, these wheels could be properly repainted, and you can see it has really very good color. I think this thing would clean up very easily. I think you would have to invest about $300 to $400 in restoring it. And then it would easily bring $2,500, $3,500. So here's a case where, if you fix it properly, you've enhanced the value.\n(laughs) Man. 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However, in business, your personal brand is much richer than a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. It's a representation of who you are as a leader and professional in your industry.\nIn this issue of Promotional Consultant Today, we are sharing a few key insights from one of the country's leading experts in personal brand, international speaker and author Michele Wierzgac, who will deliver a keynote presentation on Wednesday, July 29 at the PPAI Women's Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Wierzgac, author of The Talking Stick, was recently interviewed by Travel Market Report. Here's a summary from this interview.\n1. Understand your gift. A gift is what you are born with, while your skills are learned and used to build upon your gift, Wierzgac explains. \"You have to go to basics. My gifts are to teach and to speak,\" she says, noting that one of her skills is educational administration, an area in which she holds a master's degree. \"If we don't know who we are, then how can we tell others who we are and what we do for a living?\"\n2. Know who your brand champions are. Brand champions are your supporters, and you will find them in both formal and informal networks. Formal networks are those with organized cultures, including professional associations and online discussion groups, according to Wierzgac. Informal networks don't have any formal rules and feature a freer exchange of information, such as friends and colleagues who get together away from the office.\n3. Make a good first impression. \"First impressions are lasting impressions, and more than 70 percent of first impressions are accurate,\" Wierzgac says. She suggests creating what she calls a 10-second commercial\u2014an introductory statement that tells people who you are. The introduction must be compelling. \"Show that you're excited about what you do. People want to do business with people who know their stuff,\" she says.\n4. Avoid stereotyping and judging. When people network, they don't know who knows who. Don't prejudge. As the adage goes, you can't judge a book by its cover.\n5. Maintain your reputation. Reputation starts with one's family name and includes one's personal brand\u2014what someone is known for. \"I'm well known for being approachable, being a teacher,\" Wierzgac says. \"If you need a lead, if you need help, I'm always there. Then people do a great job of promoting me. It's the human spirit to help each other out.\" People want a reputation they can be proud of, but it's also important to balance pride with humility, she says. As you gain success, remember the people who helped make you successful.\n\"Take the approach of always managing your reputation, your brand, whether times are good or bad,\" she says. \"Marketing and branding is a daily exercise.\"\nDon't miss Michele Wierzgac live tomorrow\u2014Wednesday, July 29\u2014at the PPAI Women's Leadership Conference when she presents Lighting The Path: Inspirational Leadership Increases Engagement.\nSource: Michele Wierzgac, MSEd, is the founder of Michele & Co, a meeting management company and consulting firm. She is also a well known speaker and author of the business leadership book, The Talking Stick. Mimi Kmet is the author of What Makes You Unique? How to Develop a Personal Brand, an interview with Wierzgac that ran in the September 24, 2014 issue of Travel Market Report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pdcintl.com/pg_markets.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SDBNBECZCYMJP74UU636JRQL4KFX572I", "length": 519, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pdcintl.com", "title": "Precision Die Cutting", "raw_content": "The Precision Die CuttingSM team serves a wide range of market segments including the Medical Disposables, Diagnostics and Consumer markets.\nAll parts are custom engineered to the specific needs of our OEMS partners. Our goal with each project is to find creative ways to reduce cost and add value. This is accomplished though close collaboration and active exchange of information that help to reduce costs through use of innovative converting techniques and alternate materials while maintaining or enhancing product.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pdxteachers.org/tell_our_legislators_no_cuts_to_public_schools", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:05Z", "digest": "sha1:FV4O2NUYYVFFOD5CHHGL6DTH6NWFVVJF", "length": 663, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pdxteachers.org", "title": "Tell Our Legislators: No Cuts to Public Schools! - Portland Association of Teachers", "raw_content": "Tell Our Legislators: No Cuts to Public Schools!\nOregon\u2019s proposed budget would mean more cuts to public schools. These cuts could mean larger classes, fewer electives, and the loss of wrap-around services.\nIt is unacceptable, and our lawmakers need to hear from you what budget cuts would mean for your students. We need to spell out what our schools need in order to ensure every student has the support, tools, and learning time they need to be successful.\nThe Oregon Legislature's Ways & Means Committee is hosting a public hearing Saturday, February 11, at Portland Community College, Sylvania campus, from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Come tell your story! Sign up here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.philippinesboard.com/reasons-to-visit-butuan.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4S4OBHBQ3BHJIZF55H3XQ2HT7TXI245E", "length": 3410, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.philippinesboard.com", "title": "Reasons to Visit Butuan - Philippines", "raw_content": "Reasons to Visit Butuan - Philippines\nPlaces like Manila, Puerto Galera or Boracay are famous for its nightlife, nature spots and events and most of the other cities in the Philippines are usually overlooked by tourists and travel agencies alike. We will introduce you to a city in the Philippines that explodes with history and culture and the name of this city is Butuan City which is located in Mindanao. We created a list of the top 5 reasons to visit Butuan Philippines, to persuade you into travelling to this city on your next Philippines trip.\nEvery city in the Philippines has numerous festivals where everybody can simply join in the games and fun, and it is no different with Butuan city where we have the Abayan Festival which is in the top 5 reasons to visit Butuan Philippines. The Abayan Festival in Butuan is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month of July and this festival honors the patroness of the Agusan River. The festivities include races along the river, fluvial procession, and several games. Where else do you see festivals to honor a river anywhere else in the world?\nThe Mount Mayapay is a mountain that is situated in Butuan and that has made it onto the list of top 5 reasons to visit Butuan - Philippines. This mountain has a special history with the entire city and region, because the Mt. Mayapay was named by a Hindu empire in the early 12th century. The Mount Mayapay is 700 meters tall and is home to many archeological excavations and findings. The mountain also makes a good climb for those who like to go trekking and for those who want to find the archeologist in them.\nIf you are into naval vessels and special rare boats, then Butuan will have the right object for you. Another reason on the list of top 5 reasons to visit Butuan Philippines is the unique pre-historic boat called Balangay boat of Agusan and Butuan that can only be found in the Balangay Shrine Museum. A Balangay is a large boat that is built with wooden planks and is the oldest pre-European watercraft found in Southeast Asia dating back to 4th century and 13th century AD. This unique boat should give you a great memorabilia for pictures, souvenirs that you can get in the museum and for your personal memory.\nThe Golden Statue of Butuan in Agusan is definitely reason enough to visit a place and thus it landed on the top 5 reasons to visit Butuan Philippines. The golden statue is called the Golden Tara also known as the Golden Image of Agusan and it is a statue that weighs 4 pounds with 21 carats. This figurine depicts a female deity sitting cross legged. The Golden Image of Agusan was found in 1917 in the Agusan River and the statue is said to symbolize the culture of the ancient times in the Southeast Asian region.\nThe Mighty River\nA river is seldom a good reason to visit a city such as Butuan, but let us tell you; this river is quite different. The Agusan River deserves a spot on the top 5 reasons to visit Butuan Philippines, because it is the longest, the widest and the deepest navigable river in Mindanao. The Agusan River has a special past and reveals things about Butuan and Agusan that no one would have dreamed in one river cruise. The Agusan River used to be a prime archeological spot where many archeologists and locals found treasures of immeasurable worth such as the Golden Image of Agusan. Find the inner archeologist in you and take the cruise down the river.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.photographsofaustralia.com/Wildflowers/pages_6-10/grevillea_parallela_cream_flowers_of_australian_native_plant_tree_IMG_8946.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4C7WNHONURPRCUWEZ5JEZNTFUJYVPVGX", "length": 175, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.photographsofaustralia.com", "title": "Grevillea Parallela Flowers, Stock Images of Australian Native Plants and Outback Wildflowers a:link { color: #FFFFFF; } a:visited { color: #CCFFFF; }", "raw_content": "Grevillea parallela IMG 8946 - The large flowers of this Australian native tree, which was photographed in outback Queensland, provide nectar from many species of honeyeaters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pickchur.com/2014/04/3d-printing-pen-lix/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:28Z", "digest": "sha1:T3UMTZSR7J3XEXO5AOE44RJX4SC4CIII", "length": 576, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.pickchur.com", "title": "The World's Smallest 3D Printing Pen By LIX - PickChur", "raw_content": "The World's Smallest 3D Printing Pen By LIX - PickChur\nLIX is the latest in the market to launch the handheld 3D-printing design. Opening on Kickstarter, the developers claim the super compact design is smaller than any other pen on the market and it can even be powered by the electricity from a USB port. Barely taking less than a minute to heat up and then it\u2019s good to go for creating vertical illustrations. LIX says about its product:\nThe pen has a much refined design and a finer tip than similar devices, however it is considerably more expensive than its competitors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pocahontaspress.com/brothers-in-war/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:07Z", "digest": "sha1:X6S6UFS577SI3RAEXZYCSIK5QG3Y3JXZ", "length": 692, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.pocahontaspress.com", "title": "Pocahontas Press - Brothers In War", "raw_content": "Nabbe Brothers in World War II\nNon-Fiction, by Robert William Nabbe with Melissa Nabbe Matusevich\nThis book is an account of two very different World War II experiences by brothers, Richard Frederick Nabbe and Robert William Nabbe. Richard was on the front line. He fought on D-Day and The Battle of the Bulge. His story is relayed by letters to his brother, Robert, who kept each one. Robert was a chauffeur of generals and other officers in the Washington, DC, area. While the war is going on Robert marries and has a daughter. Richard, on the other hand, is experiencing other countries, other languages, the Germans up close and personal, and the preferred liquor and beer of each nation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 166.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.polishcastles.eu/castles/katy-wroclawskie/katy-wroclawskie.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:09Z", "digest": "sha1:CMSYT5HJDDRXE6OBLF3XWUINLSZJXPJL", "length": 1390, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.polishcastles.eu", "title": "K\u0105ty Wroc\u0142awskie - castle, no trace", "raw_content": "Admission: The entrance to the pre-castle area is free of charge\nParking: Nearby there is a free parking lot by the community center\nSearching difficulty: Finding this place is very difficult since it is situated far off the main road, deep in the park\nAccess difficulty: Access does not demand any effort\nK\u0105ty Wroc\u0142awskie lies 25km south-west of Wroc\u0142aw. If you enter it from the south down the road no 346 from O\u0142awa for \u015aroda \u015al\u0105ska, you have to turn into the first road to the right beyond the board with the name of the place. Next driving straight ahead you pass the playing field on the right side and at the end of the road there is a community center. Beyond it there is a post-castle area.\nFormer name: Kanth\nThe first mention of the castle in K\u0105ty Wroc\u0142awskie originates from 1297 and informs that the owner of the castle was the duke of \u015awidnica-Jawor, Bolko I. The stronghold was demolished in 1475 and 1497 but it was rebuilt so effectively that it resisted to incursion of the duke of Zi\u0119bice, Bart\u0142omiej in 1512. The fate of the castle was sealed by the fire in 1624 consuming the building which was never reconstructed again. The remainders of the stronghold were dismantled in 1829, and a few dozen years later in its place the brewery was put up (currently not existing), the construction of which effectively deprived us the chance of learning the history of the castle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 6110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.polishcastles.eu/castles/nowy-wisnicz/nowy-wisnicz.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MBFDQKGS2ONCEFHDTJKEM5HPLH4C5G2Z", "length": 2334, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.polishcastles.eu", "title": "Nowy Wi\u015bnicz - castle, complete", "raw_content": "State of preservation: The castle has preserved as the whole\nAdmission: The entrance to the castle is paid, only beyond the defensive walls you may enter for free. Sightseeing of the castle is possible with the guide only.\nParking: By the very castle there is a free parking lot\nSearching difficulty: The signposts lead up to the castle, so there is no possibility of losing your way\nAccess difficulty: Depending on the parking lot, which you leave Your car on, you go down a flat walking avenue or an asphalt road up a quite sizable hill to the castle\nNowy Wi\u015bnicz is a place located 35 km south-east of Cracow. The easiest way to reach there is to drive down the road no 4 from Cracow to Tarn\u00f3w and in Bochnia turn right into the road no 965 towards Limanowa. On the way there is Nowy Wi\u015bnicz, in which the signposts lead to the castle.\nThe castle was probably built in the second half of the XIVth cent. as the defensive mansion of the Kmit family of the Szreniawa coat of arms. There is a hypothesis, however, that existed a fortified building in Wi\u015bnicz before taken over by the Kmits. There is no sufficient evidence for that since the castle appears for the first time in the written documents from the years of 1396-1397. These were the checks of the mines of Bochnia.\nThe stronghold was the Kmits\u2019 property till the year of 1553. In 1554 the castle came into the property of the Barzows and the Stadnickis, from whom in 1593 Sebastian Lubomirski repurchased it. The mansion was rebuilt in the years of 1615-1621 by Stanis\u0142aw Lubomirski, Sebastian\u2019s son. After the completion of the construction work the castle was one the best fortified strongholds in the country. It did not work out however during the raid of the Swedes in the XVIIth cent. when it was destroyed, looted and never regained its former glory.\nTill the middle of the XVIIIth cent. the mansion was under the rule of the Lubomirskis, and then the Sanguszkos, the Potockis and the Zamoyskis. The fire from 1831 made the castle deserted and began changing into ruin. In 1901 the stronghold was bought by the Association of the Princes Lubomirski, which started its renovation. After the World War II the castle was taken over by the state, which in 1949 began the restoration of the stronghold. At the present the castle is the property of the Lubomirskis again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 343, "original_length": 6908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 179.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.polishcastles.eu/castles/zamek-cisy/zamek-cisy.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:08:46Z", "digest": "sha1:P7WNI2SUDOBXWMDOFC6GBDQNKBRQKL7N", "length": 2592, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.polishcastles.eu", "title": "Cisy Castle (of the Cis family) - castle, ruins", "raw_content": "Parking: Within a few kilometers there is a problem with parking a car, not to mention a parking lot\nSearching difficulty: Finding the stronghold is very difficult even though one signpost leads to it\nAccess difficulty: The access to the ruins is difficult and requires overcoming lots of rough terrain, steep climbs and lush brushwood. But after raining the access is even more difficult as you have to struggle through mud.\nThe Cisy castle lies on nobody\u2019s ground, and specifically between the villages Struga, Chwalisz\u00f3w and Ciesz\u00f3w, which are situated 15 km north-west of Wa\u0142brzych. As to reach the castle you have to drive down the road 34 from \u015awiebodzice for Jelenia G\u00f3ra and after covering around 4 km turn left to Kamienna G\u00f3ra. On the way you cross Ciesz\u00f3w, in which you have to turn left acc. to the indication of the signpost \"To the Cisy Castle\" (\"Zamek Cisy\"). Then drive as far as possible down the dirt road (for most of cars it is not far), leave the car in the meadow and go on straight ahead, all the way long down the same dirt road. On no account DO NOT enter the forest, go along its border only. After a few minutes of marching the dirt road turns sharply to the left, and directly opposite the creek flows (an off-road vehicle will reach as far as that place). You must go across the creek and go uphill, following the green trail to the castle.\nA former name: Fr\u00f6chlichsdorf, Zeisburg castle\nThe first reference to the Cisy Castle, also called the castle of Cis family or simply Cisy, originates in 1243. It was then presumably a wooden-earth defensive building, transformed into a brick castle at the turn of the XIIIth and XIVth cent. by a duke of \u015awidnica-Jawor, Bolek I. After the death of a duchess Agnieszka, Bolko I\u2019s successor \u2013 Bolko II\u2019s widow, the stronghold came into hands of the Czech Republic and was the residence of the following families. The castle was destroyed probably during the Hussite wars, next it was quickly rebuilt, and in 1466 was demolished again. It did not discourage, however the then owners who rebuilt it again, and in the XVIth cent. extended a defensive foundation. In 1643 the stronghold was destroyed by the Swedes, as to become again, at the end of the XVIIth cent. a property of the Czetryc family, who were one of the next families ruling over the castle after taking it over by the Czech Republic in the XIVth cent. The last owner of the castle was in 1830 a landgrave of von Zieten family, to whom only ruins already belonged, since at the turn of the XVIIIth and XIXth cent. the authorities ordered to destroy the castle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 7722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.polishcastles.eu/castles/zapusta-rajsko/zapusta-rajsko.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JS5TMZQA4QWYZ3AQNPCR4RGSUUMVEILZ", "length": 1842, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.polishcastles.eu", "title": "Zapusta (Rajsko) - castle, ruins", "raw_content": "State of preservation: The ruins from the XIXth cent.\nAdmission: The entrance to the ruins area is for free\nSearching difficulty: Finding the castle is difficult since it is hidden in the forest far from the main roads\nAccess difficulty: The access to the castle requires overcoming a bumpy road\nDriving down the road no 30 from Jelenia G\u00f3ra to Zgorzelec, after 33 km you cross Biedrzychowice, in which you need to turn left for Le\u015bna. After entering the village Zapusta you have to, on the left side of the main road look for a narrow, field road leading to a small footbridge (in the bush, below the level of the main road). When you find it you have to turn into that road, cross a footbridge and drive on down the concrete slabs until the car suspension allows. Further walk straight ahead, and at the fork of the paths walk to the right, as far as the ruins of the castle.\nThe castle in Zapusta (or as some sources give, in Rajsko) was built by the prince of \u015awidnica-Jawor, Bolko I in the second half of the XIIIth cent. A precise fate of the stronghold is unknown since probably at the start of the XVth cent., in the time of Hussite Wars, was captured and destroyed.\nIn 1863 the remainders of the castle were bought by the count Aleksander von Minutoli, who was famous for his love for art. In the years of 1875-1878 he rebuilt the castle and placed numerous works of art in it. The part of the collection was lost after the World War II, whereas rescued exhibits were moved to the palace in neighboring Biedrzychowice, which also belonged to the count. After the death of Aleksander, the castle was inherited by his daughter, who leased to Luba\u0144 Association of Youth Hostels. After the following reconstruction the castle fulfilled the function of a hostel. Devastated and looted in 1945, a stronghold remains in ruin up to this day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 6539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.polyamory.com/forum/showthread.php?s=0b737efa9d2d7e59d8daf4a11285f9db&p=121315", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SEPUGUOOIDG7MPTRKFH2XWF6INUTXZLB", "length": 26466, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "www.polyamory.com", "title": "Phy's story - As you like it - Page 11 - Polyamory.com Forum", "raw_content": "Phy's story - As you like it\nSome random stuff about games\nThursday uses to be the day we go shopping for the coming week. When we are done and rearranging the goods in our wagon, I had to think of the thread on games and gamers. All three of us grew up with games, consoles, PCs and the like, and one of us usually starts humming the Tetris theme when we are trying to order the groceries in the most effective and fastest way possible while working against the clerk who is always too fast scanning them. I prefer the first level, Lin skips in with the second one after some repetitions on my part. Not all the staff get the connection and some give us really disturbed looks at times\nAs I got started with the game topic for once, there has been something adorable but yet creepy happening over the last weeks. Lin and I met while playing some MMORPG online. It's our most favorite kind of game and we use to play most of them together, single or multiplayer. Sward's taste in games has always been ... well, to put it neutrally: different. I don't know if it rings any bells with anyone, but he played Farming Simulator for years. Driving over virtual fields, gathering in the harvest, sowing new seeds, cultivating the fields, again and again and again. I get sleepy when I watch him drive over these one-colored fields after ten minutes, the most exciting part in this game is when you have to avoid getting stuck in traffic jam on your way from one field to the other\nWhen Lin moved in, Sward saw his chance: He got Lin to start playing Farming Simulator and asked him to design some trucks and farming machines. They are of high detail and there is a whole community designing those vehicles for fun. As Lin is able to draw really well, he is such a great art designer, I love his pictures, those machines came out great. I think that it's good that the two of them found something to do together, I just wished it would have been something different But to each their own, isn't it?\nAnother little anecdote on games:\nWhen we started visiting the fitness center I was doing my workout as my trainer noted it down. But his handwriting was so hard to decipher that I was standing there quite clueless and finally asked him. \u201eWhat is an ADD-machine?\u201c Little pause, looking askant at me and answered: \u201eMy dear, you obviously played too many games.\u201c We didn't know each other well at that point but we had to laugh and the little warrior inside of me broke through. \u201eWell, I would have been ready to stand on court like you do with those tennis machines that shoot the balls to you, fighting off masses of little goblins coming at me. Just hand me my axes.\u201c This resulted in him going to a machine where you have to press the legs together, training the inside of the thighs (the one that gave me this horrible sore muscles at the start of our training) and sticking the plug a bit deeper in again, giving me 10 more kilo to master. \u201eA little furious one here, hm? Feel free to get yourself exhausted with this.\u201c Big smile on his face.\n[For those not having a clue what this little geek is talking about here: add is the short-form for additional, meaning some unplanned attention-grabbing of some creatures in a game, that you didn't wanted to bother you right at that point in time. Resulting in too much to do for you and maybe too much for you to handle, possibly resulting in your virtual death.]\nTo bring this totally off-poly-topic post to a close in the right fashion, one last bit that is game related. Lin and I decided to restart the project that failed last summer this year again. It's such a great MMO-concept and I just know that our ideas are good, that we worked everything out just fine and that the publishers are still interested (it's a money matter on their part), we will see what they are going to say about the possibilities and such this summer. It would be real waste to forget about all the work we put into it.\nFacts: 30, female, bi, v-type relationship with Sward (husband, straight, mono) and Lin (boyfriend, straight, mono), poly-fi and co-primary.\nFind all posts by Phy\nAfter all, something to update again\nLife is getting really quiet and unspectacular, what is great in and of itself. Despite the fact that Sward, Lin and I are at home most of the time, sticking together like glue and doing almost everything together, there is astonishingly not much stress.\nThe study is nearly done, Lin and Sward are putting together the bookshelves for my stuff from university right now and the room looks just great. Really comfy and warm with all the coffee-brown and beige-colored shades on the walls and furniture. The friend who listened to Sward when I visited Lin for the second time came over for coffee to inaugurate the study officially and to tell us about the latest trouble with her boyfriend. Sward and Lin are joking quite frequently about her and I being on the same page in so many things and if she would be a possible match for me in the future. Well, we really get along well, but there is an adamant reason why this will never happen; I can't stand her smell. I love her humor and way with things, attitude towards life and what not, but the first time I 'smelled' her, it was over. This is such a strange phenomena, because Sward and Lin assured me many times that they smell nothing when she is there. She doesn't sweat immensely or isn't into personal hygiene, but if I consult my nose, she stinks. It's the same with my sister, I was never able to stand her body odour, especially when she is ill. Another arbitrary trait of mine\nI told another friend from university about us three when we met at the station and rode home together. It was a great talk, she told me that she is finally pregnant after trying for six years. She and her husband both had a condition that made it necessary to go into hormone therapy for artificial insemination. It worked instantly and really successfully, she is expecting twins She knew about Lin living with us, but wasn't thinking anything about it. When I told her, she was astonished but happy for us that it worked out. I told her a made up story about a v-relationship of a friend to do a cautious check-in what her opinion on the matter was some months ago. There was an instant light-bulb moment when she heard the news.\nSemester is coming to its end and I made a plan for my finals in summer. So much to do before I can get things started on that end. I need to get working finally. I am far too lazy because most exams and surveys are just done without much effort put into them on my part. Don't know why, I can remember most things instantly when I heard it once and had a stimulating discussion on the topic right away. Some revising right before the exams and I am good to go. Putting my thoughts into words was never a hard thing to do as well. I don't think I can continue like that when I do my final tests Kicking my own ass is next up on my agenda as it seems. Really hoping that I will be successful \u2026\nSward and I had an interesting conversation on the latest antecedents of the last weeks. We have always been a really harmonious couple. Hardly any quarreling ever, any surfacing discord was smoothed right away. This changed a bit and Lin was the first one to notice the changed dynamic between us. He has witnessed our way with each other for years and was a bit worried by the regular arising discussions. As there are just the normal teasing and bitching-bits between him and I going on (never seriously, that's our friendly way of ragging each other), he noticed that Sward and I were having some problems.\nSome of those problems between Sward and me stem from his taciturnity. He doesn't speak up when things disturbing him seem to minor to have to be noticed and addressed from his point of view. Lin does handle those trifles in the same manner, but in his case they are really settle then. Sward mostly dwells on them without noticing it and they resurface with the next bit that annoys him. And after eleven years together there are quite a few things that can get on his nerves in regard to me and the same vice versa. This combined with the new poly situation leads to us snarling at each other from time to time. It's still not about something too serious, but he was pondering over the reason for it.\n\u201cI am happy.\u201d he told me yesterday evening.\u201dWhy do we quarrel so much more than before? I don't understand it.\u201d -\u201dWe are still adjusting to the new situation, sharing after eleven years of exclusivity is still no piece of cake, you are triggered more than usual by my quirks as a result.\u201d - \u201cYou may be right, we achieved so much already in such a short time. Even if this is a little downside of things, we shouldn't be discouraged by the developments.\u201d - \u201cAnd it's good that you are starting to talk about your inner workings a bit more than before.\u201d He mumbled that he knows that he needs to work on that. I answered with a little smirk: \u201cIndeed, and imagine what your feelings would be like if I wouldn't be able to push some buttons from time to time, I would be all the same to you all of a sudden. I think that it's all good, that we still are able to be passionate about each other, even if we sometimes express it by giving each other a piece of our mind.\u201d\nAs always, all is well. Lin and I are still getting used to each other on a new level. We are really compatible as it seems, this will be a long-lasting bond. Lin is looking out for Sward and me naturally and Sward is siding with Lin when I am in one of my moods and am over the top with my side remarks. Sward and I are connecting on different levels than before and all of us are curious what the future will bring.\nGood luck with studying and exams! I'm waiting to get my latest exam results next week... Oh noes.\nI wanted to comment on the alone time issue earlier, but I didn't have time, just now came to think of it again. How is it progressing with that?\nI've had one of those instances when I went to Alec to say that \"if you don't mind not coming to the bedroom for some time now\", so I can totally relate to the awkwardness. It was fine, though. I'm a bit surprised that you managed to get by such a long time of living together without it becoming inevitable. I think that if I ever live in a poly-household, there will be designated alone-time for all 'couples' (as well as individuals). I do like to go with the flow, but alone time is such an important need for me in a relationship that it would be harmful to have too little of that. And it's mostly about non-sexual stuff.\nGood luck with studying and exams! I'm waiting to get my last exam results next week... Oh noes.\nGood luck on that front, I will be rooting for you *cheers*\nHm well, is there some progress \u2026 I think so. For instance, the topic of the latest argument between Sward and I was alone time related. It was the birthday of my father-in-law, all of us knew that Sward and I would have to head off around 2 PM to make it on time. It wasn't a good day mood wise, for each of us. All less than chuffed with everything kind of. Sward got up from the sofa we all lied around on and told me: \u201cI will go to bed, sleeping for an hour before we have to go.\u201d And that was literally what hit home in my case. When Lin and I decided that we would like to cuddle a bit half an hour later and go to his room, Sward came back again, resulting in us meeting right at the door. Short silence, Lin proceeding to his room, me telling Sward that I will be gone for some minutes, asking when exactly he wanted to leave. He gets grumpy, I ask what's the matter, he says 'nothing, just go.'\nOf course it wasn't 'nothing'. I misunderstood that he wanted me to join him when he left for the bedroom and now he was not pleased that Lin was able to get his need across in contrast to himself. I am no mind-reader (\u201cI gave you an unambiguous 'look'! How could you have missed that?!\u201d Yeah right \u2026 a look... ). And he knows that I am not even a person you could regard as observant. Only on special occasions \u2026 it's complicated But normally I am as sensible as an elephant (right, I know they are really sensitive and such, but that's a German proverb, don't know how to translate it right now, sorry to all the elephant lovers ) when I am not on the lookout for something. I am that kind of a person who sits in front of you, listening to a heartwarming story, you keep on pouring your heart out and feel vulnerable as hell, and I make honest but blunt comments on the issues I see, if I don't mind the outcome well enough in advance. A bull in a china shop at times And Sward knows that.\nHe would have loved to get his share of kindness and affection without having to ask for it and I failed to do so on my own. Lin on the other hand just told me 'Let's go.' and all was well. *sigh* It's really just that much, but we need to discuss those little things again sometimes.\nImprovement 1: He spoke up immediately, though I had to worm it out of him, but he didn't thrust it aside.\nImprovement 2: His reaction triggered my fear of 'is it OK to ask for alone time' and I immediately thought, 'oh no, he isn't comfortable with it after all.' Well, seems as if that is my problem mainly, his issue wasn't me being with Lin. It seems he even overheard us a considerable amount of the times we were intimate during the last weeks by chance and it really doesn't matter to him. (I still can't be comfortable with the thought, don't know how long that will take or if it ever changes.) Well his issue was that he wanted me to be more attentive to his needs but had unrealistic expectations in the process. Cleared that misunderstanding immediately and the conversation I reported in the last post ensued afterwards when we went to bed in the evening.\nI'm a bit surprised that you managed to get by such a long time of living together without it becoming inevitable. I think that if I ever live in a poly-household, there will be designated alone-time for all 'couples' (as well as individuals). I do like to go with the flow, but alone time is such an important need for me in a relationship that it would be harmful to have too little of that. And it's mostly about non-sexual stuff.\nYeah, it is surprising that it didn't came up earlier. But we dived right into everyday life. Our 'alone time' consisted of unspectacular things like shopping, one of them and I for groceries, both of them to the do-it-yourself store, mixed setup when going to the studio and so on. Because of the different sleeping habits, I always have my alone time when it's my evening with Lin, we stay up way longer than Sward ever would and when it's Sward's evening, I tend to go to bed earlier with him, watching some series or talking. That is enough most of the time.\nThe other factor is that we love to do things together. They don't feel that the time they spent together with me isn't enough to keep them satisfied. It's mostly just fun for everyone. As we don't have much money to spend at the moment (the renovation will consume the extra money we got the next two months onwards) we cook in pairs (all three possible pairings in this case), go for a walk with the dog, or visit some friends (mostly Sward and I, Lin doesn't know that many people around here, yet).\nAnd another supportive factor: They constantly look out for each other. When I am lying on the sofa, watching some TV (yeah, sometimes I actually watch some, but mostly I lie there to get some kind of massage ) and one is already there with me, the other will do something at his PC (mostly Lin) or leave for something he needs to do (mostly Sward's solution). Considering how often he himself has been with me during the last days, who mentioned missing something or however they communicate it; that is something I leave to them to manage. And it works. I got some cuddle time with one and the other joins us half an hour or an hour later.\nIf I need time for myself I go sit in front of my PC (I LOVE the little corner here, next to me is the door to the living room, when it is open it's like a small cave on my comfy chair <3 ), headphones on, reading, writing or playing something. That's all I need. I just love to have them around me and I mostly have 24/7. I have to say, going with the flow satisfies most of our needs.\nThanks for the wishes. I was ill just before exams, which affected my studying, but I do hope/believe I passed, at least. *fingers crossed*\nOh yeah, I had a suggestion, too. Maybe you could establish together that all of you want to become more comfortable with asking for/ having alone time; and maybe you could have an agreement that you try to do it more often and not only when you want to be intimate. That way it would become a habit, and it wouldn't be the situation where the person asked knows that's what you are up to, since it would be expressedly agreed that it wouldn't be only/primarily for sex.\nOriginally Posted by Phy\nThis is cool, you seem to be pretty low-maintenance and naturally compatible. I like to think of myself as low-maintenance, mind you, but I've become more aware with my needs of time and space, so I do think I would need a bit more discussion and adjustment for multi-partner co-habitating to be comfortable for me. I like thinking about it hypothetically even though we aren't planning for it.\nAnother week gone by, I decided that I could update again\nNever seen it that way rory, but 'low-maintenance' makes sense somehow, at least from my point of view. I liked the term, but Sward and Lin just looked at me with utter surprise. \u201cHow did she get THAT idea?!\u201d was their first comment. I think they regard my quirks, wishes, spleens and idiosyncrasies as highly demanding and difficult to please. When I explained under which topic the term came up, I got: \u201cYeah, right. As long as one of us brings you coffee every hour and prepares some food and regulates the temperature in the room and fetches you some sweets from time to time \u2026 sure, 'low-maintenance' what else.\u201d So mean \u2026 *pouts*\nThe week has been busy, so there wasn't really much time left for trying out your suggestion, but I discussed it with them and we all think that it makes sense. Will keep you updated if it actually helped, as soon as we got time to test it out.\nAs I got real bad tooth pain during the weekend, I went to see the dentist on Monday. One of my premolars/back teeth had a radiculitis and he needed to do a root canal treatment. I HATE dentists, I got some kind of phobia in that regard. It was really hard on me. But I survived and it got better the next day. To lessen the pain I took some aspirins, but I mixed them up with Sward's painkillers, which he got to treat his slipped disk. Hard stuff \u2026 I couldn't look straight any more and was kind of high till noon of the next day. Now I got a slight idea how Lin feels when he takes some of his 'big blue pills'. He needs those to lessen extreme heart pains that come from time to time and he behaves as if he is drunk and canned at the same time as soon as they are kicking in. Didn't feel great at all.\nLin and Sward finished the second set of bookshelves. Now the whole study is done, the only thing still missing are the four pictures that I am about to paint. The motives are coffee related, they fit the overall theme of the room quite well\nWe were so busy over the week, that I asked for sandwich-cuddle-time on the sofa with them yesterday evening. I really needed that, if feels so relaxing and .. well, just cuddly\nUnfortunately Lin isn't feeling well, his doctor called and told him that some of his results don't look good and that they need to keep an eye on them. That's most likely the reason why he is so tired and worn out right now. I hope this will get better without him needing his tube-therapy (don't ask me how the right name for it is) again, it would cost us 200 \u20ac. A bit much at the moment, as we used everything for the renovation. We will see.\nChildren in a poly-family \u2013 question of fatherhood\nAs I got to know a nice Italian lady who lives together with her three husbands and six children under one roof, we got to discuss the topic of children and how they handled theirs with three men being present. The advice she gave me was: Try to not determine the father beforehand, if they don't know issues like jealousy or insecurity don't come up as often as when it is planned. I didn't quite understand her point and asked Sward and Lin what they thought of that.\nLin said he absolutely understood why it would be easier to not know who the father is. He repeated the argument we discussed some months ago. He would feel hurt if the child, of whom he knew that it was his biological child, attached itself more to Sward than to him. If he knew that it is his biological child, he would want this child to turn to him if it was having trouble or pain to be comforted. Meaning: Tripping, falling and getting a sore knee, he would want his child to come running to him for support. If he wouldn't be able to know, he wouldn't be bothered as a result. He argued that this could be caused by his childhood where his father was seldom there (due to work) and he would have loved to spend more time with him. He wants to be important for his child, the number one person for support.\n\u201cWould you be more happy about proof or gestures of love and affection from your 'own' child as well? Regarding it as more important as the non-biological one?\u201d was my concerned question. \u201cNo there is a difference. This doesn't apply to the positive sides, I wouldn't love my biological child more, I suppose. Just the 'negative side' would bother me.\u201d I didn't get his point. We talked about it some more, but the end result was, that I am not able to believe him, that he wouldn't make some kind of distinction in value or importance in regard to the children.\nWhen I asked Sward, he said that he would understand if one chooses the non planned and undistinguished fatherhood to ease the situation in a relationship like ours. But that he would love to stick to our system nevertheless. As this wasn't up for discussion, we skipped that point. He said that he doesn't believe that any of them would make a distinction between the children, that maybe the thought would be there now, but as soon as the children would be there, it would be all the same. He doesn't have the biological reflections going on, but I think that is due to the fact, that we already said that the first will be 'his'.\nI am REALLY curious how things will be in late autumn. We set November as the latest date to start trying for a child. This will be an interesting period in our lifes, maybe the notions will change again until then.\nThat is very interesting Phy. I think in some cases, that not knowing might be beneficial. Maybe in cases where there was a lot of insecurity, this helped people.\nIn a way, it almost seems like a DADT policy, with children involved.\nI wonder though, about the 'reality' aspect. Odds are, children will inherit physical features of their parents, and then there is always that 'sneaking suspicion'. I wonder if that would create problems, with an 'elephant in the room' type of scenario ?\nMy husband is the biological father of 2 out of my 4. He has been in the lives of the older 2 since they were very young. There is no difference in his love for biological vs. 'step'-children. There are plenty of step and co-parents who love the child equally.\nInteresting thoughts for you guys to ponder, that is for sure.\nWelcome to you as well, SourGirl. There is a pun involving your screen name and the manner in which you like to answer that crosses my mind each time I read some of your straight to the point, sharped-tongued posts, unfortunately it doesn't work in English But let's skip the small-talk and get back to topic.\nIndeed, this hits the nail right on the head. And I don't get it. I am really worried that this will cause complications. Not in the sense that we would re-discuss if we should change our approach to children, but in regard to the actual situation getting real, meaning a biological and an 'adopted' child and Lin having problems because the kid may prefer Sward in certain situation over him.\nAnother aspect I put up for discussion. Because from my point of view this will likely be the case. It would be distinguishable who is the biological father for sure after some time. The main point for Lin seems to be the possibility to say something like: \u201cAh, look, behavior x/y is so typically me!\u201d or \u201cHave you seen these little dimples? She got that from her father.\u201d My answer to the first part was: \u201cYeah, but that isn't a question of genes, the kids will adopt some gestures or manners from all of us. That's the main reason why children start to take after their parents.\u201d\nConcerning the second point: Yes, there could be some recognizable features, but as soon as the elephant is standing in the room (I love the metaphor btw <3) the initially (meant to be) more comfortable situation would be made void after all. *sigh* I really don't get it, as it seems.\nThat was my experience as well. My father isn't my biological one and it never mattered to me or him. I kind of assume that this whole discussion will be null and void as soon as the little ones are there and smile at them for the first time. But I fear that there will be something in the back of Lin's mind that could cause some problems from time to time for himself. I don't think that this will affect the children directly, this seems to be more on the personal, private level for him. If anyone knows someone who thinks alike and can offer a different explanation why he would prefer knowing/not knowing, feel free to chime in.\nThere is always little insecurities and jealousies when the kid decides to cling to the other parent. The first time the baby rejects mom and will only be happy being held by dad is very hard, especially when for the last 9 months or so, only mom would do (the times when you would gladly hand said child off to anyone who would take him/her so you can run and hide doesn't count ). The little monsters can be fickle and random about their preferences, but in truth, they will cling to anyone that continually shows them love and affection.\nchildren, cohabitation, coming out, communication, couple, family, kids, ldr, lessons, living together, marriage, metamours, mono/poly, moving in, opening a relationship, primary, time management, vee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 31728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.projekt-u5.de/en/red-city-hall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4AOFGUDZD4GMTG7QLH2F63QPDQTCHWGB", "length": 4488, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.projekt-u5.de", "title": "Rotes Rathaus | Projekt U5", "raw_content": "Underground station Rotes Rathaus is directly adjacent to the reversing loop at Alexanderplatz that has existed since the 1930s. The latter runs below Rathausstra\u00dfe and ends approximately level with J\u00fcdenstra\u00dfe.\nThe three entrance stairways of underground station Rotes Rathaus are directly in front of Berlin\u2019s seat of government, while the station itself is located underneath Rathausstra\u00dfe, between Spandauer Stra\u00dfe and J\u00fcdenstra\u00dfe.\nBecause the Alexanderplatz reversing loop will become a normal line section in the course of work, a new track-switching system will be linked to underground station Rotes Rathaus to the west of Spandauer Stra\u00dfe.\n\u00a9 Collignon Architektur\nUnderground station Rotes Rathaus was designed by the Berlin-based architectural practice Collignon Architektur.\nThe idea was inspired by the roof vaulting of the medieval town hall in Berlin that was rediscovered during archaeological excavations. Seven centre columns support the majority of the roof load, their flared heads taking on the appearance of mushrooms reminiscent of the old vaulting. Combined with the single island platform, the concourse has a spacious, airy feel. In terms of colour, the station features a modern black and white design.\nUnderground station Rotes Rathaus is arranged over two levels: the platforms for the new U5 are found on the upper level, while the lower one will feature a storage siding as a replacement for the reversing loop at Alexanderplatz.\nThe excavation pit for underground station Rotes Rathaus is built using the cut-and-cover top-down method. Diaphragm walls made of reinforced concrete initially provide support for the sides of the pit. Following this, a waterproof floor is constructed in the soil using jet grouting to form the bottom boundary of the pit. A cover is then concreted over the structure, minimising noise and dust pollution.\nInside the pit, the soil is excavated and the reinforced concrete floor and walls of the structure are built. A particular feature of underground station Rotes Rathaus is the fact that the pit cover is also the station roof. During its construction, the flared support heads will be concreted in at the same time. The heads of the supporting columns are thus structurally complete; the column sections will be built from below at a later point.\nDuring preliminary works, the connection to the existing reversing loop at Alexanderplatz is also prepared, requiring the old, existing wall to be demolished. The surrounding soil will be frozen beforehand to ensure the necessary stability.\nFrom early October 2009 to November 2011, 22 archaeology experts under the direction of archaeologists from the Berlin Monument Authority set to work in the area of the future construction sites for the U5 gap closure. Particularly extensive finds were unearthed around underground station Rotes Rathaus.\nActing with great care to uncover past treasures, the foundations and basement walls of the medieval town hall found by the archaeologists was just the start. Coins originating in East Prussia, Pomerania and Bohemia reveal a great deal about the city\u2019s earlier economic life. The cellars of the silk factory in which the Jewish theologian and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn worked from the mid-18th century were discovered in J\u00fcdenstra\u00dfe. The most spectacular find was made during digs in the rubble of a house destroyed during the war, located on K\u00f6nigstra\u00dfe (now Rathausstra\u00dfe): eleven modernist sculptures previously thought to be lost.\nEven though not every interesting discovery dates back to the Middle Ages, the archaeological excavations brought a great many valuable objects to light. Alongside a safe that was probably \u2018buried\u2019 in the final days of the war and still even contained half-burnt banknotes and documents, many coins and everyday items were uncovered.\nOf the remains of the former town hall, which was structured in aisles like a church, two aisles were completely preserved. As a result, the position of underground station Rotes Rathaus and its entrances was redesigned, because one entrance would have been located directly in the area of the archaeological finds.\nPlatform depth: 7 metres\nSize of the flared column heads: 7 by 9 metres\nPreliminary works contractor: Porr\nFinishing works continue. This means that plastering, painting and electrical lines are getting done. The walls are being covered and the fitting of the terrazzo tiles takes place.\nPosition of the new underground station Rotes Rathaus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 7339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb934834.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:16:19Z", "digest": "sha1:EHZJMF64TX3O665FZ46GBDTHLNMEJTSB", "length": 3652, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.prweb.com", "title": "Saffron Technology Adds Retired General Mark Phelan to National Security Team", "raw_content": "Saffron Technology Adds Retired General Mark Phelan to National Security Team\nReflecting its continued growth, North Carolina-based intelligent analytics firm Saffron Technology today announced the expansion of its National Security and Defense Programs Team with the addition of retired Brigadier General Mark V. Phelan as Vice President of Sales.\nAssociative Memory Technology: The Potential Effect on Intelligence in Support of Special Operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan - An interview with BGen (USA, Ret) Mark V. Phelan\nSaffron Technology, Inc., the leader in intelligent analytic solutions, today announced its continued expansion with the addition of a new Vice President of Sales for its National Security and Defense Programs operations. Reflecting Saffron's growing success, U.S. Army Brigadier General (Ret.) Mark V. Phelan joins the company to increase the number of customers and grow revenues for the company's suite of software and service solutions. He brings his extensive \"boots-on-the-ground\" experience to bear on one of Saffron's target markets: non-DoD Federal agencies responsible for fighting the war on terror.\nIn addition, the company announced the release of a new whitepaper entitled, \"Associative Memory Technology: The Potential Effect on Intelligence in Support of Special Operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan - An interview with BGen (USA, Ret) Mark V. Phelan\".\nThe 10-page white paper, filled with General Phelan's experience and insight, can be easily downloaded at Free White Paper.\nBrigadier General Mark V. Phelan retired from the United States Army after 30 years of commendable service; 28 of them as a special operations commander in Western Africa and Southwest Asia. He most recently led combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where his mission was uncovering and eliminating terrorist networks. Before entering the military he graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts with a degree in Criminal Justice in 1977. In 1998 he was granted a Masters Degree in Strategy and Policy from the Naval War College.\nReaders can find a current photo of Phelan, and a more detailed biography at Phelan Bio.\nDr. Manuel Aparicio, CEO, Saffron Technology, Inc., said, \"Mark's extensive leadership and operational experience adds depth and breadth to the team. His years of service identifying terrorist networks in Afghanistan and Iraq along with his expertise in managing large analytical operations provide a unique perspective on how we apply our technology to meet our customers' needs. We're very honored and proud to have him join Saffron Technology.\"\nGeneral Phelan added, \"There's a synergy. I've got the experience, Saffron's got the tools, and I know how they work and what they can do. I think I add credibility to their product line. I can interact or engage U.S. government agencies with some experience behind me to assist Saffron in selling its product. Saffron has the potential to change the intelligence game.\"\nAbout Saffron Technology, Inc.\nSaffron Technology, Inc.'s Intelligent Analytic solutions, for both government and business organizations, dramatically reduce the time to conduct comprehensive, unified analysis and discovery of entities and their associations across massive, multiple data sources. End users can quickly explore all relevant associations in order to identify the unknown unknowns and to enable new decision scenarios and analysis. With Saffron, end users can find the most pertinent segments of information in context to the business question. Saffron helps you ask the question, not just answer it.\nToby Younis\nSaffron Technology, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.psychologymatters.asia/psychology_news/1378/seniors-who-play-video-games-report-better-sense-of-emotional-wellbeing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:23Z", "digest": "sha1:N77E26EQB4YGDNQDBITCRAJ36APAV3JE", "length": 1906, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.psychologymatters.asia", "title": "Seniors Who Play Video Games Report Better Sense of Emotional Well-Being -Psychology Matters Asia", "raw_content": "Seniors Who Play Video Games Report Better Sense of Emotional Well-Being\nThe study found that participants who played video games reported higher levels of well-being. (flickr)\nNew research from North Carolina State University finds that older adults who play video games report higher levels of emotional well-being.\nResearchers asked 140 people aged 63 and older how often they played video games, if at all. The study participants then took a battery of tests to assess their emotional and social well-being. 61 percent of study participants played video games at least occasionally, with 35 percent of participants saying they played at least once per week.\nThe study found that participants who played video games, including those who only played occasionally, reported higher levels of well-being. Those who did not play video games reported more negative emotions and a tendency toward higher levels of depression.\n\u201cThe research published here suggests that there a link between gaming and better well-being and emotional functioning,\u201d says Dr. Jason Allaire, lead author of a paper describing the study and an associate professor of psychology at NC State. \u201cWe are currently planning studies to determine whether playing digital games actually improves mental health in older adults. \u201d\nThe paper, \u201cSuccessful aging through digital games: Socioemotional differences between older adult gamers and non-gamers,\u201d was published online this week in Computers in Human Behavior. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Anne McLaughlin, an assistant professor of psychology at NC State; NC State Ph.D. students Amanda Trujillo, Laura Whitlock and Landon LaPorte; and Dr. Maribeth Gandy of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation.\nCategory(s):Aging & Geriatric Issues, Health / Illness / Medical Issues\nSource material from North Carolina State University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 6119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.psyk.uu.se/news/?tarContentId=660810", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SFAZ7BUDAHFLDWPLTMKNEVWJ5A63PPRP", "length": 1081, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.psyk.uu.se", "title": "News - Department of Psychology - Uppsala University, Sweden", "raw_content": "Jo Anne Dahl is co-author and Dahl's PhD students are main authors for four new articles, see below. Main author for the two first is Jenny Thorsell Cederberg, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University. Thorsell Cederberg defends her PhD dissertation 9/8 2017. Main author for the two last is Anna Finnes, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska institutet.\n\"Children's and adolescents' relationship to pain during cancer treatment: a preliminary validation of the Pain Flexibility Scale for Children\", Journal of Pain Research\n\"An acceptance-based intervention for children and adolescents with cancer experiencing pain \u2013 a single subject study\", Journal of Pain Research\n\"Randomized Controlled Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a Workplace Intervention for Sickness Absence due to Mental Disorders\", Journal of Occupational Health Psychology\n\"Cost-effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a Workplace Intervention for Employees on Sickness Absence due to Mental Disorders\". Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 529, "original_length": 25065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.publicbookshelf.com/spirituality/spirit-angel/caught-duc-my", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:38:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YY7LBFNAQVKABCEYZVVZ6QVOMC6D6YTE", "length": 2695, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.publicbookshelf.com", "title": "Chapter 3 - Caught in Duc My - \"There is a connection with all we do and with whom all we...", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Spirituality \u00bb \u00bb Chapter 3 - Caught in Duc My\nThe Spirit of an Angel (Chapter 3 - Caught in Duc My, page 1 of 4)\n\"There is a connection with all we do and with whom all we meet\"\nSomehow we made it back from our first night patrol. I was bewildered by my first day in Vietnam. Before arriving I had no idea what to expect, but this was beyond anything I could have imagined or even made up. As time went on I became acclimated to the hot weather and somewhat accustomed to my new home on PF Hill.\nDuring normal life on the Hill, our squad rotated among day patrols, going out on night ambushes-which sometimes ended up being a night in Duc My-and the third day was what our leaders called a day of rest. The day of rest really ended up being a day of doing odd jobs on the Hill like filling sandbags for the bunkers, cutting the brush away, cleaning and burning the crap in the head, and other work details.\nI followed Chuck's advice and kept my mouth shut, followed orders and did what I was told.\nIt was difficult to make friends considering the rotations of Marines going back to the states or being killed or injured, never to be seen again. The friendships that were made lasted a lifetime.\nChuck and I hit it off very well. His cot was next to mine and at night we would spend time talking about back home.\nHe had a girlfriend named Nicole who he always loved talking about. He was always showing her picture. She's the one he spent so much time writing letters to.\nOnce I asked, \"Did you go to High School with her?\"\n\"Uh-huh, it's kind of weird the way we started going together. We were in our junior year and doubled to the prom together, but she was my best friend's date. She and I had such a great time, we really hit it off, and that's how it started. She's been my girl ever since.\" Adding a little chuckle.\n\"Wow, was your buddy mad?\"\nHe gave me that grand laugh, \"Nah, he didn't care. We're still best friends.\"\nWe both enjoyed the scrape basketball games we would play in the evenings. There were about ten of us that would choose sides to play three-on-three. The court was of dirt, and the backboard was bolted to a telephone pole. Sometimes the ball would go over the side and down to the bottom of the Hill; we wouldn't get the ball back until a patrol would go out.\nLittle Charley, from Duc My, spent a lot of time on the Hill. He liked hanging with us. We taught him how to play h-o-r-s-e. It was interesting to talk to him even with his poor English and my terrible Vietnamese. I learned a lot about life from his perspective and we tried to described our lives and teach him what it was like in the states. I remember trying to tell him what a Corvette looked like.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pueblovidabrewing.com/new-events/5/12/2018/mothers-day-bouquet-class", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6ZXMRVGJPQQVW4VBUNK4VAQ5CTHSI4M", "length": 259, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pueblovidabrewing.com", "title": "Pueblo Vida Brewing Company, Tucson, Arizona \u2014 Mother's Day Bouquet Class", "raw_content": "Join us on Saturday, May 12th for a special Mother's Day bouquet class with the Soiree Girls! This class will take place in our taproom from 10:30AM-12:00PM. Tickets are $35/person - includes the bouquet, a tin vase and your first beer! See you there, Cheers!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quantumday.com/2014/03/health-mechanics-of-flavanols-in-dark.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RKKT7GYNMVIH6NVMAWFSZT5QPPDHTJCW", "length": 4593, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.quantumday.com", "title": "Health Mechanics of Flavanols in Dark Chocolate Discovered", "raw_content": "Health Mechanics of Flavanols in Dark Chocolate Discovered\nChocolate, specifically its main ingredient cocao, is known to have health benefits. It is one of the most popular food today. On average, a person would consume ten pounds of it annually.\nAlthough, scientists look at a category of flavonoids called flavonols as the reason for its healthy properties, the exact reason why has been unknown for years. Scientists now believe they have pinpointed the reason for this in findings that. were unveiled at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).\nThey explain that the abundant flavanols in cocoa such as catechin, epicatechin and polymers are consumed by certain bacteria in the stomach and convert it into anti-inflammatory compounds that are good for the heart.\nFlavonoids (the main category of flavanols) can be found naturally in fruits, vegetables and beverages (tea, coffee, dark chocolate, beer, wine and fruit drinks). Flavonoids possess beneficial effects on human health as they are said to have antiviral, anti-allergic, antiplatelet, anti-inflammatory, antitumor and perform antioxidant activities.\nThe health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for centuries, but the exact reason has remained a mystery \u2013\u2013 until now. Researchers reported here today that certain bacteria in the stomach gobble the chocolate and ferment it into anti-inflammatory compounds that are good for the heart.\nTheir findings were unveiled at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. The meeting, attended by thousands of scientists, features more than 10,000 reports on new advances in science and other topics. It is being held at the Dallas Convention Center and area hotels through Thursday.\n\"We found that there are two kinds of microbes in the gut: the 'good' ones and the 'bad' ones,\" explained Maria Moore, an undergraduate student and one of the study's researchers.\n\"The good microbes, such as Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria, feast on chocolate,\" she said. \"When you eat dark chocolate, they grow and ferment it, producing compounds that are anti-inflammatory.\" The other bacteria in the gut are associated with inflammation and can cause gas, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. These include some Clostridia and some E. coli.\nVideo: The Health Benefits of Chocolate\n\"When these compounds are absorbed by the body, they lessen the inflammation of cardiovascular tissue, reducing the long-term risk of stroke,\" said John Finley, Ph.D., who led the work. He said that this study is the first to look at the effects of dark chocolate on the various types of bacteria in the stomach. The researchers are with Louisiana State University.\nThe team tested three cocoa powders using a model digestive tract, comprised of a series of modified test tubes, to simulate normal digestion. They then subjected the non-digestible materials to anaerobic fermentation using human fecal bacteria, according to Finley.\nHe explained that cocoa powder, an ingredient in chocolate, contains several polyphenolic, or antioxidant, compounds such as catechin and epicatechin, and a small amount of dietary fiber. Both components are poorly digested and absorbed, but when they reach the colon, the desirable microbes take over. \"In our study we found that the fiber is fermented and the large polyphenolic polymers are metabolized to smaller molecules, which are more easily absorbed. These smaller polymers exhibit anti-inflammatory activity,\" he said.\nFinley also noted that combining the fiber in cocoa with prebiotics is likely to improve a person\u2019s overall health and help convert polyphenolics in the stomach into anti-inflammatory compounds. \u201cWhen you ingest prebiotics, the beneficial gut microbial population increases and outcompetes any undesirable microbes in the gut, like those that cause stomach problems,\u201d he added. Prebiotics are carbohydrates found in foods like raw garlic and cooked whole wheat flour that humans can\u2019t digest but that good bacteria like to eat. This food for your gut\u2019s helpful inhabitants also comes in dietary supplements.\nFinley said that people could experience even more health benefits when dark chocolate is combined with solid fruits like pomegranates and acai. Looking to the future, he said that the next step would be for industry to do just that.\nLouisiana State College of Agriculture\nLouisiana AgCenter Undergraduate Research Grant\nLabels: biology, chocolate, diet, flavanol, flavonoid, health, medical science, science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 7415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ramahomestay.com/en/disclaimer.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:39Z", "digest": "sha1:PCRKDHLYOU4D5QH63UVQB36XTRMAQCQX", "length": 2043, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ramahomestay.com", "title": "Rama Homestay", "raw_content": "The information contained in this website is for personal purposes only. 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Clearwater Paper is the country\u2019s largest provider of private label tissue to retail grocery chains and a major bleached paperboard manufacturer.\nToday, the USDOJ, acting on behalf of EPA, filed both a Complaint alleging claims under the Clean Air Act and a proposed Consent Decree resolving those claims in the federal district court in Idaho. The Complaint alleged that Clearwater violated the Clean Air Act by failing to control emissions of total reduced sulfur (TRS) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) as required by applicable regulations.\n\u201cCommunities like Lewiston depend on Clearwater Paper to comply with their permits and minimize air pollution wherever possible,\u201d said Ed Kowalski, director of EPA\u2019s Office of Compliance and Enforcement in Seattle. \u201cInspecting facilities like Clearwater Paper is also key to our National Air Toxics Enforcement Initiative, where EPA is focused on reducing illegal emissions of hazardous air pollutants that can harm air quality and community health.\u201d\nAs part of the settlement, Clearwater Paper will invest approximately $800,000 in re-routing sawdust digester gases containing TRS and HAPs to pollution control equipment at the plant. Prior to reaching final settlement, Clearwater spent an additional $43,000 on repairs to its pulp washers which reduced emissions. The settlement terms also require that Clearwater Paper pay a $300,000 civil penalty.\nEPA\u2019s National Air Toxics Enforcement Initiative prioritizes cutting HAPs, or air toxics, that are known or suspected to cause cancer, birth defects and seriously harm the environment. Actions required by this settlement will reduce both TRS and HAPs emissions.\nThe Consent Decree is now subject to a 30-day public comment period prior to entry. Comments on the document may be sent to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and should refer to United States v. Clearwater Paper Corporation, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-10620. Comments may be submitted either by email or by mail:\nBy mail: Assistant Attorney General, U.S.DOJ\u2013ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611.\nFor a copy of the consent decree: http://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees\nFor more about the National Enforcement Initiative to cut Hazardous Air Pollutants: http://www2.epa.gov/enforcement/national-enforcement-initiative-cutting-hazardous-air-pollutants\nPrevious articleEPA Takes First Steps to Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aircraft\nNext articleHUD ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF INNOVATION OF THE DAY", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 9714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reformingculture.com/v2/?m=201008", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:31:57Z", "digest": "sha1:SZWV6ZXOFLH6NFXKG5LLYBMWICTXDFNE", "length": 4964, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.reformingculture.com", "title": "Transformnation | | Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr. | | ReformingCulture.com \u00bb 2010 \u00bb August", "raw_content": "What\u2019s Your Sell-Out Price?\nIn December 2009, President Barack Obama delivered his much anticipated policy decision on the way forward in the War in Afghanistan. To the delight of those who are serious about actually defeating the violent Taliban regime, he announced we would be sending an additional 30,000 troops. However the troops came with a price tag: a deadline for withdrawal. More troops in exchange to an 18 month withdrawal timeline.\nWhile we all want this war to end so our sons and daughters can return home safely to us, military leadership correctly blasted the president\u2019s plan, arguing that it would undermine our allies and embolden our enemies.\nThe Heritage Foundation reported last week that the President\u2019s policy met with another high profile critic, retiring U.S. Marine Gen. James Conway, who told reporters that the July 2011 withdrawal date has given a morale boost to Taliban insurgents who now believe they can simply wait out NATO forces. According to the General, this artificial deadline is \u201cgiving our enemy sustenance.\u201d It seems that our intelligence forces have intercepted the communication of Taliban insurgents telling each other that they only needed to hold out for so long.\nAs I read about the power of limited commitment and weakening resolve in actually providing emotional, physical and spiritual \u201csustenance\u201d to our beleaguered enemies, I could not help but apply the same principles to our spiritual condition. How committed are we to seeing the realization of our Kingdom dreams? Will we fight until we win or have we given our enemy a withdrawal deadline? Have we empowered our enemy with political declarations based on comfort and convenience or are we making prophetic declarations based upon the conviction in our hearts that God and His promises are true. We are promised victory. The question remains, do we have the spiritual resolve to fight for it?\nCategories: Uncategorized\tTags: compromise, victory, war\nWatch Out for the Christian Paparazzi\nI sometimes receive e-mails from Christian busy-bodies, Jude calls them \u201cclouds without water and trees without fruit\u201d (v. 12), who are sending me the latest revelation on who is the leading candidate for \u201cantichrist\u201d or exposing how false spirits are entering the church. The message usually contains an urgent plea to send this SHOCKING REVELATION to as many people as you can. What is especially troubling is when fellow believers are mentioned by name as \u201cthe deceived\u201d and anyone who has ever read their books, been to one of their conferences or bought the T-shirt is now guilty by association. In case you didn\u2019t know, you are now an accomplice in a sinister, demonic scheme to deceive and destroy the Church!\nWhat we have here is the spiritual equivalent to a \u201cChristian\u201d drive by shooting. These self-appointed prophets act like religious paparazzi, running to and fro with their noses in everyone else\u2019s business. They are super-Christians, with tongues faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap over the giant log in their own eye to gouge out the speck in the ministry of another. Of course it\u2019s all done in Jesus\u2019 name out of great concern for doctrinal purity. With friends like these, who needs to worry about the devil!\nLet me be really clear: GOD HATES THOSE WHO SOW DISCORD AMONG HIS FAMILY (Proverbs 6:19).\nTo accuse another brother or sister of being deceived by a demon is a strong and serious accusation. Equally frightening is the attributing of a work of the Holy Spirit to Satan (Wow! You better really be sure about this one because the Holy Spirit does not appreciate being called Satan).\nThese accusations are especially disturbing when the person being pursued by the Christian paparazzi have a long track record of love and good fruit (Matthew 7:16). God specifically forbids speaking recklessly and irresponsibly about those who are in an office of spiritual authority. In fact, Paul tells us, \u201cDo not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses (I Timothy 5:19). Paul adds, \u201cWho are you to judge another\u2019s servant?\u201d (Romans 14:4) The Lord, Himself, is able to discipline and correct his sons and daughters. That\u2019s never been our job. We are to pray for our leaders (Hebrews 13:17-18) and, when there is reason to believe they are immoral, heretical or demonized, they should be approached by elders in their local church and not spiritual gossipers on the world-wide web!\nPaul offers a better approach. \u201cIf it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.\u201d (Romans 12:18). We are to serve our brothers and sisters with \u201call lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace\u201d (Ephesians 4:2-4). Let\u2019s do what we can to love, encourage and strengthen Christ\u2019s family instead of trying to throw our flesh and blood under the bus!\nCategories: Uncategorized\tTags: body of christ, gossip", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 9937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reformingculture.com/v2/?m=201206", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:47:52Z", "digest": "sha1:V2LETUDOB6KJNXH7HQCIQU5ZCNQQU2MA", "length": 2902, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.reformingculture.com", "title": "Transformnation | | Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr. | | ReformingCulture.com \u00bb 2012 \u00bb June", "raw_content": "Ten Reasons Why the Church Must Be Involved in Politics (8)\nIn this blog series, I am responding point by point to a column written by Greg Stier, the President and Founder of Dare 2 Share Ministries entitled, \u201cTen Reasons Why Pastors Should Focus More on the Gospel than on Politics.\u201d Here\u2019s Greg\u2019s eighth point and my response.\n#8. The gospel calls us to pray for politicians we disagree with, not to hate them. (I Timothy 2:1-4)\nGreg is right in that Christians must never \u201chate\u201d those who are in positions of delegated authority. While we may stridently disagree with their philosophy of government or specific policy positions, we must still treat our leaders with kindness, civility and respect. In fact, Jesus commands us to love even our enemies.\nBut Stier, once again, is guilty of emphasizing the wrong message at the wrong time. In the passage he mentions, we are instructed to pray for \u201ckings [presidents] and all those in authority\u201d so that we may live quiet, peaceable and godly lives. But this is not the end goal. We see the reason for the call to pray in verse four. God\u2019s desire is that people would come to know Him as Savior and Lord. God\u2019s end goal in praying for those in authority is that these leaders would govern in wisdom and justice. Civil leaders are \u201cGod\u2019s ministers\u201d for the purpose of punishing evil (Romans 13:4). When leaders are godly, they govern in such a way that an atmosphere of religious liberty is promoted and protected. This allows us to freely share the gospel with others.\nIt\u2019s obvious from this commandment that government [\u201cpolitics\u201d] is important to God or else He wouldn\u2019t be encouraging us to pray for civil authorities. Since all delegated authority comes from God, it is the duty of all leaders to recognize God\u2019s authority and to lead in a way that is consistent with His character and commands. When the righteous lead, the nation experiences peace and prosperity and the gospel can be shared freely and openly.\nWhile we must begin the process of cultural transformation on our knees, prayer by itself is not enough. We must pray for those in authority while we work as hard as we possibly can to make sure poor leaders are not re-elected!\nMy civic responsibility in a constitutional republic is to make sure our civil authorities understand the difference between \u201cgood and evil.\u201d After all, their God-given responsibility is to promote good and punish evil. When leaders promote what God considers evil, while punishing what He calls \u201cgood\u201d we create a climate for tyranny and injustice. We have a moral responsibility to both pray and to act before those liberties are gone.\nNow is not the time to retreat to the prayer closet. It is a time for prayerful action. Pray and then become the answer to your prayers. As Christians, we must be involved in the selection of our civil leaders. After all, the freedom to preach the gospel depends on it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 11982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reformingculture.com/v2/?m=201404", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HUD73Q74IIBBWH7FVFDC43DEA2Q6AKIH", "length": 2589, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.reformingculture.com", "title": "Transformnation | | Dr. Ron Johnson, Jr. | | ReformingCulture.com \u00bb 2014 \u00bb April", "raw_content": "Keeping Our Rights From Becoming Wrongs\nApril 2nd, 2014 Johnson, Jr.\t7 comments\nEvery election cycle we hear hear politicians, especially those on the Left, inventing a new list of \u201crights\u201d for each and every citizen. Following in the political tradition of FDR, they declare\nthe right to healthcare (Obamacare)\u2026\nIf a \u201cright\u201d depends upon someone else\u2019s money, service or work it\u2019s not a right. It is properly a \u201cgood.\u201d Take education for an example. People have the God-given right NOT to be prevented from pursuing a good education; however, they do not have the right to that education. Why? Because an education is dependent upon the labor or others to provide that training.\nYou have the God-given right to your own goods, however, you do not have the right to someone else\u2019s goods. Claiming the \u201cright\u201d to the property of another is called stealing!\nLet\u2019s look at the current \u201cright\u201d to healthcare. While this remains a noble goal, you\u2019ll eventually have to rob or enslave some citizens (e.g. the individual mandate) to secure this \u201cright\u201d for others. Rights are not entitlements.\nWhen goods are required from someone else to secure your \u201crights\u201d you can be sure that someone else\u2019s inalienable rights are being violated. As author Neil Mammon rightly observes, \u201cGoods that are granted as rights require you to enslave\u2026some men fiscally or physically to ensure a continuous supply of the goods you have promised to other men.\u201d\nConsider the right to bear arms found in the 2nd Amendment. Do people have the God-given right to protect themselves and their loved ones? Absolutely. To secure this right we must be able to arm ourselves. However the right to bear arms is not the same as a free government provided gun for every American!\nThis right to bear arms must never be subjected to the approval of a government or allowed to be restricted in any way. Technically speaking, this right, and all God-given rights for that matter, can never be taken away from us, but governments continually work to keep us from the free exercise of those rights.\nPolitics is concerned with protecting the rights of its citizens\u2026\nOur inalienable rights come from God\u2026\nTherefore, politics must be concerned with knowing the One, True God.\nAny suggestion of a total separation of Church and State, as opposed to the institutional separation conceived by our Founders, results in the loss of our sacred liberties. Politicians who either don\u2019t know or altogether reject God are the greatest threats to our liberties.\nCategories: Uncategorized\tTags: 2nd Amendment, FDR, inalienable rights, rights vs goods", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rememberradio.net/2017/01/happy-birthday-elvis-presleyhis-last.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:31Z", "digest": "sha1:UW2G2H7L5HSBSGKHSI6EAHWIC3TLKX2D", "length": 1861, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.rememberradio.net", "title": "Remember Radio: \"Happy Birthday Elvis Presley\"...His Last Song Publicly Ever (video) + Link to Our Tribute To 'The King of Rock & Roll'", "raw_content": "\"Happy Birthday Elvis Presley\"...His Last Song Publicly Ever (video) + Link to Our Tribute To 'The King of Rock & Roll'\nElvis Presley's last concert was held at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, IN on June 26, 1977 for a crowd of 18,000.\nFor More in Memory of Elvis Presley\nhttp://www.rememberradio.net/search?q=elvis+presley\nAlso Spake Zarathustra (opening)\nO Sole Mio/It's Now Or Never\n(band introductions)\n(solos by band members Larrie Londin: drums, Jerry Scheff: bass, Tony Brown: piano)\n(solo by the backing Joe Guercio Orchestra)\n(Elvis introduces various people from the stage)\n(closing vamp)\nAlthough Elvis appeared pale, weak, and overweight, as he had with increasing regularity, there was nothing to suggest his impending death -- indeed, there was nothing unusual about this show on the tour, except that Elvis for some reason introduced practically everyone from his life on stage that night.\nSome take this as \"proof\" Elvis knew he was in his final days; others maintain that he was worried about the imminent publication of Elvis: What Happened?, a tell-all biography by former bodyguards Sonny and Red West that publicly broke the story of his drug abuse, and what those revelations might do to his image.\nFootage of the final concert was taken but has not been widely seen; the audio portion can be heard on the LP \"The Last Farewell\" (released on CD as Adios: The Final Performance, A.J. Records CD 92-2002).\nThe last recording Elvis made was a vocal overdub on \"He'll Have To Go\" done on October 31st, 1976 in the \"Jungle Room\" at his home at Graceland.\nThe last song Elvis performed in private was a rendition of \"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain,\" done on his piano in Graceland hours before his death.\nLabels: elvis presley, King of Rock & Roll, Last Concert, Last Song Ever in Public, Market Square Arena, remember radio, Singer-Actor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 7653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.richchristianpoorchristian.com/2009/10/importance-of-insurance-in-healthy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TM35JQDQHNMKXKJQGDDCHI22N2WZM2WK", "length": 4529, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.richchristianpoorchristian.com", "title": "Rich Christian, Poor Christian: The importance of insurance in a healthy financial plan", "raw_content": "The importance of insurance in a healthy financial plan\nLast week in my post on the 14 Major Components of a Health Financial Plan, five of the fourteen components deal with important insurance products to have in place.\nThese various insurance products are important to protect your family finances against unexpected catastrophes such as death, medical problems, disability, car accidents, natural disasters, ID theft, and the need for long-term care. It's all about putting a hedge of protection around your money, major assets, and ability to earn money.\nIn review, here are the five insurance products to have in place as an important part to a healthy financial plan:\nLife Insurance. This is critically important for young families in case of the accidental death of the primary income earner. The primary income earner of the family should carry a term life policy equal to at least 8-10 times their annual income for 15-20 years. A stay at home mom should carry a term policy as well in case of her own accidental death. The father will need the money in order to provide childcare resources so that he can keep working and providing for his children.\nHealth Insurance. If you don't have health insurance through your workplace, you need to seek out a good plan that you can purchase, independently. Yes, health insurance is expensive, but if you have a major medical emergency in your family, you will end up financially bankrupt! Unpaid medical bills are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States. Don't become a statistic.\nDisability Insurance. According to the May 2000 Norton Bankruptcy Adviser, 326,441 families that filed for bankruptcy protection in 1999 identified an illness or injury in their family as the major reason for the bankruptcy. That means 1 in 4 debtors in 1999 were attributed to a disability. Still not concerned? According to the US Housing and Home Finance Agency only 3% of home mortgage foreclosures are due to a death of the breadwinner. 48% of all foreclosures are due to a disability. So what do you think is more important during your working years, life or disability insurance? Disability insurance truly is a foundation product, it is the foundation of any solid financial plan [Source: About-disability-insurance.com].\nAuto Insurance. If you own a vehicle, you must have auto insurance in order to legally operate it. Take this week to review your policy and make sure that you have the proper coverage. Also, if you're not happy with your current rates, go online and make a few phone calls to see if you can get a better deal.\nHomeowner's or Renter's Insurance. Fires, tornadoes, floods, and theft strike without warning. Be sure you have the proper coverage to replace your home and belongings.\nHere are a few more important insurance considerations:\nEmergency Funds. Having 3 - 6 months of expense money in savings is not for investing. Having this liquid cash is self-insurance. When a major emergency comes along, you have the cash reserve to pull you through instead of going into debt.\nID Theft Protection. Identification theft is a major, growing problem, that can cause you long term financial problems. A number of companies have developed over the last few years that offer excellent services at a very low cost. Dave Ramsey recommends Identity Theft Protection through Zander Insurance. The family plan is only $12.50/month. This is a no-brainer for me.\nLong-term Care Insurance. The life-expectancy rate continues to climb. People are living longer. Major medical advancements can keep people alive for long periods of time. The only problem is that many times, quality of life is called into question because these people need to enter long term care and pay thousands of dollars a month or be cared for at home by family members. Long-term insurance will help protect your finances at the end of your life. Because of cost analysis, it's not worth purchasing this insurance until age 60.\nI really enjoyed your helpful information. I have been researching id theft protection options for a few weeks, and have found some great ideas. However, as a Christian I recently ran across G5 Marketing and its new product call ID Credit Lock www.g5-marketing.com/ The difference with this company and product is that a portion of all profits goes to help ministries around the world. It also is reasonably priced and offers great deals for couples and even families. I just wanted to pass along this unique product for your readers. Thanks for all you share!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 8974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.richchristianpoorchristian.com/2011/08/there-can-only-be-one-president-and-one_16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XIJADAT65LXDJFKB2B5N2UUKL6IST37M", "length": 4931, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.richchristianpoorchristian.com", "title": "Rich Christian, Poor Christian: There Can Only Be One President, And One Vice President (Part 2)", "raw_content": "Photo by cliff1066\nOne Leader To Lead Them\nIn my last post, There Can Only Be One President, And One Vice President (Part 1), we looked at the Biblical leadership of a home. According to God's Word as seen in Ephesians 5, Christ is the ultimate head of the home. In a perfect scenario, the husband should be in submission to Christ's leadership, and the wife should be in submission to her husband's leadership as he follows the Lord.\nOur families get into trouble, though, when at any time this leadership hierarchy is altered. For example, if the husband attempts to lead his family in direct disobedience to the leadership of Jesus, then there are going to be problems. Or, even if the wife is following the leadership of Christ but moves ahead of her husband in the chain of command, there are going to be problems.\nMutual Submission, Love, and Respect\nThere are a couple of other marriage and family issues in this Ephesians 5 passage that I need to address. If we were to just talk about the submission of the husband to Christ and the wife to the husband, then we really are only addressing part of the problem. In this passage, the Apostle Paul also discusses the concepts of mutual submission, love, and respect.\nFirst, let's look at mutual submission. In Ephesians 5:21 we read, Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Before Paul talks about the wife submitting to the husbands leadership, He mentions that there should be mutual submission. Hmmm, how in the world does that work? What would and should that look in a Christian home? My best guess and interpretation of that verse in the context of the entire chapter would be that husbands and wives listen to each other. They converse and do their very best to make decisions as a team, after all the two have become \"one flesh\" (Ephesians 5:31). If the husband and wife reach an impasse and can't move forward with a decision, then we see that we follow a \"chain of command\" where the wife submits to the husband as the husband is (hopefully) submitting himself to the Lord.\nSecond, the husband is called to love his wife. In the Middle Eastern world, the majority of women are treated horribly. This is putting it mildly. They are typically treated like property, with the husband ruling his home with an iron fist. This is not what God intended for the family unit. In Ephesians 5:25-33a we read,\nHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church\u2014 for we are members of his body. \u201cFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.\u201d This is a profound mystery\u2014but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself\u2026\nHusbands should love their wives with the same self-sacrificing, agape love as Christ displayed when He hung on a cross and sacrificed everything for us. Husbands should place the needs of their wives over those of their own needs. The greatest need a wife has is to know that she is loved and cared for by her husband.\nAnd third, the wife is called to respect her husband. After the command is given for husbands to love their wives, then the wives are called upon to respect their husbands. The greatest need a man has is to know that he is respected by those around him, whether it be his wife, children, boss, co-workers, and so on. When the wife respects her husband, then she is displaying an attitude of consideration and holding her husband in high regard. She honors him in the God-given role of leader in the home.\nThe marriage dynamic and the Christian home is a fluid, dynamic organism. There's never a simple \"one and done\" kind of approach to fixing problems. It's a lifetime process of doing all of the things from these last two posts. There's a learning curve. It takes years of learning and practice to figure out one another because men and women are so different in the first place. Unfortunately, though, a lot of husbands and wives (even in the Christian community) give up and throw in the towel because they fail to work through these issues of mutual submission, agape love, respect, and roles of Biblical leadership.\nFor those of you who are married and reading these posts on marriage, I would encourage you to hang in there. Work through your problems as husbands and wives. Submit to one another, and at the same time follow the leadership structure of first Christ, then husband, and then wife. 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The decision was taken to draw up a questionnaire and carry out the same survey in several countries. The SSE overview also incorporates work on the social audit (XES, ADEPES, REAS). The idea is to gather together the different existing approaches and identify common foundations (\u201cBalan\u00e7e sociale\u201d, \u201cEVALUMIP\u201d). This work also served to bring together actors within an emerging participative process that needs to be consolidated in 2016 and to open up to other members, including members of the organisations that make up RIPESS EUROPE. Various SSE actors and researchers worked on drawing up the questionnaire. This approach, encompassing both research and field work, is certainly the most efficient and dynamic solution.\nThe questionnaire learning process was an opportunity to meet other partners (Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Germany). It is used as a tool in the process of broadening the network and opens the path to the creation of a shared identity. The work is scheduled to take three years, with an initial result in September 2015. The goal is to produce a sample of 1,000 answers.\nThe questionnaire exists in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Greek, German and Italian). Ties will be established with other countries (the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries to start with). This could be an opportunity to publicise innovations in the field and develop a better understanding of the different contexts and evolution of SSE in each country, what kind of SSE identified practices and initiatives exists and are more present, laws and public policies adopted, etc.\nThe meeting which took place during the Solikon 2015 \u2013 RIPESS EU Congress in Berlin (7-9 September 2015) was organized to share the work and the objectives of the Panorama of the SSE in Europe with the participants and involve new people / organizations in the work. Although several countries have participated since the beginning (with nearly 500 survey replies received, only a few have really started to work on it \u2013 Greece and France primarily), in other countries there are projects or research initiatives that were contacted and with which we are sharing methodologies (such as Catalise the Portugal and other initiatives in Spain and Italy \u2013 eg. L\u2019Italia che cambia, or in Germany and with the Urgenci network).\nThere are also several mapping projects, which can be complementary to the Panorama: Transformap (mainly Austria-Germany) and the development of standards for interoperability ESSGlobal with technologies of the semantic web (Open Linked Data), which were illustrated by Mariana Maltas of Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal.\nAnother important tool to improve the research and analysis work is the collection and organization of documents on the ESS, which is currently carried out by Socioeco.org, as explained by Fran\u00e7oise Wautiez, with thematic axes and a collection of 4000 documents now in 6 languages.\nFinally, we have started working with the European project SSEDAS, which covers almost all of Europe (23 countries in the Union and 8 extra European, including Brazil) and whose objective is to research in 46 European territories initiatives that best represent the SSE, as well as training and outreach activities. This project has adopted the Panorama frame for their work and will also share the results with RIPESS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 13828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roguecc.edu/Schedule/mobile/info.asp?crn=1306186", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:7HOYECAKUA4K7EREBZELCGNT26TYC5XI", "length": 445, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.roguecc.edu", "title": "Mobile Schedule: History of Rock II: Rock's Golden Age (Winter 2019)", "raw_content": "History of Rock II: Rock's Golden Age (Winter 2019)\nTu Th 1:00PM-2:20PM RVC-C105 B. Jeffs\nProvides students with an opportunity to explore the musical, social and cultural aspects of rock music from its pre-rock influences and its development from 1964-1975. Emphasis is placed on building listening and comprehension skills through listening to rock music, in-class discussion of the music, class assignments, research, and reading of the text.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 175.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rolandperrin.com/events/?ytd=2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:16Z", "digest": "sha1:N7DRMKWDVSQQYDKZX7GX7D4PG5HAAG3O", "length": 225, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rolandperrin.com", "title": "GIGS \u2013 Roland Perrin", "raw_content": "79 Westow Hill, SE19 1TX.\nI'll be playing my Afro-Latin rhythm section: with Rey Crespo on bass and Helder Pack on drums.\nThe venue is a big family friendly pub. It's free entry. Good food available but you don't have to eat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roovii.com/blog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EKK5EVRKFJ45FS3A5PZEAJJNJYFFEE3M", "length": 1871, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.roovii.com", "title": "Blog \u2014 ROOVII", "raw_content": "1 Queen, 27 Kings, 2 Emperors, 41 Dictators\nWelcome to our newest Emperor, Xi Jinping of China. He's had term limits removed, and so, he can serve as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China for as long as he wants. He's pretty much Emperor of China now.\nQueens, Kings, Sultans, Monarchs: Andorra, Britain, Bahrain, Belgium, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Denmark, Jordan, Kuwait, Lesotho, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand, Tonga, UAE, Vatican City.\nThough your monarch may appear benign, they still receive support from the state. And that should just not be.\nEmperors: Japan, China\nDictators: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Mauritania, Myanmar, North Korea, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe.\nWhen I first counted, there were 41 Dictators, but that list is only 40 dictators. I'll do a version of this print that has a correction. Somewhere, we lost a dictator. Win.\ntags: queens, kings, dictators, emperors, freedom, rule by the people\nPhilosophy is a lifelong pursuit. Which means, it is followed by Death.\nGives it a certain perspective.\ntags: Philosophy, Death, t-shirt, tee\nYour life your fault\nA little harsh, I do accept\nYour future your fault\nmore constructive perhaps\nConform by choice\nYou decide when you conform\nConform when required\nThis is on repeat in the studio today:\nPlay it loud. And over and over.\nDespite having a way with words, I will do what I can to write a thought in two lines.\nIts Resurrection Sunday, 2016. Time to resurrect this ROOVII beast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rotarycapetown2016.com/latest-news/announcements-links/newsletters", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:B72BEDK4QN4TMHDGR2QJ5RQX46RRETX2", "length": 1436, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.rotarycapetown2016.com", "title": "Newsletters", "raw_content": "Newsletter 3 : December 2015\nOur Vital Role in Economic Development\nThe Rotary Districts of Southern Africa are fortunate to have been chosen to host one of Rotary International's five 2015-16 Presidential Conferences in this case, that on Economic Development.\nEntrepreneurial development will be the particular focus of the Conference with the aim of encouraging Rotarians and their organisational partners to invest in people to create sustainable, measurable and long term economic advances in their communities.\nThere are compelling reasons to do so, not least that the improved livelihood and success generated by skilled entrepreneurs is of immeasurable value. Here are some of the beneftis of entrepreneurial development for communities:\nClem is best known for his 'high road/ low road' scenario planning and is a sought after guest speaker. He is also the bestselling author of 17 books.\nNewsletter 1 : October 2015\nInvitation to the Economic Development Conference\nRotary Districts of Southern Africa invite you to join the dialogue on economic development on Saturday, 27 February in Cape Town, South Africa, where the 2016 Rotary International Presidential Conference on Economic Development will be hosted.\nA primary goal of the 2016 Rotary Economic Development Conference is to provide solution driven guidelines that can be piloted and implemented after the conference, initially in Southern Africa, then internationally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rvforum.net/SMF_forum/index.php/topic,65389.msg679630.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2SOLZ42RTWBERDO4ADD2XGBYSR6HUZ6F", "length": 1461, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.rvforum.net", "title": "Throwing Caution to the Wind", "raw_content": "Author Topic: Throwing Caution to the Wind (Read 2367 times)\nHello,,, we are new here but thought we would share our running journal. We left Oregon Nov. 2012 and have finally made it to Tn. We don't tend to travel very fast LOL!! But we are having a great time on the road. We don't really know how long we will stay out but plan to as long as it's fun.\nhttp://daveanddiane.wordpress.com/2012/07/\n2014 Tiffin 42LH\nhttp://daveanddiane.wordpress.com/\nRe: Throwing Caution to the Wind\nQuote from: hdrider on June 30, 2013, 06:46:05 AM\nThe General Contractor in me made me do the math...approximately 2,300 miles in approximately 210 days equates to an average of 10.96 miles per day...WAY-TO-GO...now that's RVing...IMHO.\nLOL!! Well John,, I will admit that we had a catch in our get-a-long that held us in Florida a little longer than expected but taking that into consideration our daily average after just under 19 months on the road is just over 14 miles per day LOL!!. We have really kicked it up a notch\nlucierenee\nThanks for the birthday wishes Michelle.\nYour Grand Alaska Adventure truly is AN ADVENTURE!!!!\nI'm enjoying the extra comments from the RV Forum Community, especially the plexiglass over the missile silos...who knew?\nIf you are posting pictures, I'm not seeing them.\nMaybe you don't have enough posts under your belt yet for posting photos like on other forums. I think that was the case on DISBoards or CruiseCritic.\nBe careful and have fun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sacraliturgia.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:50Z", "digest": "sha1:5H5SXYYZNBEICAPSWKGDLTJHGM6CKHMF", "length": 12496, "nlines": 110, "source_domain": "www.sacraliturgia.org", "title": "SACRA LITURGIA", "raw_content": "SACRA LITURGIA\nCULMEN ET FONS VIT\u00c6 ET MISSIONIS ECCLESI\u00c6\nSixth International Sacra Liturgia Summer School: 3-16 August 2019\nSacra Liturgia Summer School\n(Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur)\nAn English-language liturgical summer school following on from the international Sacra Liturgia conferences in Rome, New York, London and Milan and the 2014-2018 summer schools organised by the Monast\u00e8re Saint-Beno\u00eet of the Diocese of Fr\u00e9jus-Toulon, France.\nParticipants in the 2018 Summer School\nfollowing Pontifical Mass at the throne with Bishop Rey\nat the Royal Basilica of St Mary Magdalene\nDesigned for families, individuals and groups of clergy and laity who wish to holiday in Provence in the South of France whilst having the opportunity to be formed in the Sacred Liturgy and to participate in liturgical celebrations according to the usus antiquior of the Roman rite.\nThe programme includes pilgrimages to and the celebration of solemn Mass in the Royal Basilica housing the relics of St Mary Magdalen at St Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume on the afternoon of Thursday, August 8th, and a pilgrimage to the chapel housing the relics of St Roseline of Villeneuve (\u20201329) - date to be confirmed. A visit to the ancient Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet is also possible.\nArchbishop Gullickson celebrating pontifical Vespers at the 2014 Summer School.\nThis year we are delighted to welcome back His Excellency, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and Leichtenstein, who will celebrate pontifical Mass and Vespers for the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 6th) and who will give an address on the Sacred Liturgy.\nSolemn Mass in the Chapel of Saint Rosealine of Villeneuve\nduring the 2018 Summer School\nThe summer school includes practical formation in Gregorian chant (for beginners and for those more advanced), and in the ceremonies of the usus antiquior for priests and seminarians wishing to learn how to celebrate Low Mass, how to serve as deacon and subdeacon, and for seminarians and servers who wish to learn more about the rites and how to serve as a Master of Ceremonies.\nThe daily schedule gives over the mornings to practical training (approximately 14 hours of tuition in total), with presentations and discussions taking place in the evenings after vespers. Afternoons are free for relaxation and exploring the region.\nA village scene during the 2017 Summer School\nThe mountain village of La Garde-Freinet, situated in a wine growing region some 20 km from Saint-Tropez and approximately 15 km from the Mediterranean sea, is an ideal holiday location with mountain walks, a Provencal market, shops and restaurants. English is widely spoken in the village. Participants will arrange their own accommodation, meals and transport. For further information on the village, including local accommodation available for rent, see here. The secretariat may be able to help individuals in finding accommodation in the village if necessary.\nThe nearest airports are Toulon/Hyeres, Nice and Marseille from which one can hire a car to use in getting to and from the village, for use whilst there, and for the pilgrimages. The nearest railway station is Les Arcs/Draguinan from which in August there are buses to La Garde-Freinet. French railway information can be found here and bus timetables here.\nPractical training options:\nLow Mass practice (for clergy and seminarians)\n- Textbook: J.B. O\u2019Connell, The Celebration of Mass; a Study of the Rubrics of the Roman Missal.. (1964; reprinted by Preserving Christian Publications)\nThe Sacred Ministers at Solemn Mass including chants (for clergy and seminarians)\n- Textbook: Fortescue, O\u2019Connell, Reid, The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, 15th ed., Burns & Oates 2009.\nSung Mass (missa cantata) including chants (for clergy and seminarians)\n- Textbook: Fortescue, O\u2019Connell, Reid, The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, 15th ed., Burns & Oates 2009\nServing low, sung and solemn Mass (men and boys)\n- No textbook is required, but those who wish may bring: Fortescue, O\u2019Connell, Reid, The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, 15th ed., Burns & Oates 2009\nThe chant of the Mass and Office (any participants - beginners, intermediate & advanced)\n- Tutors will be in touch regarding materials to bring. Most music will be provided.\nA \"masterclass\" for Masters of Ceremonies (experienced servers, seminarians and clergy)\n- Participants in this masterclass should have access to at least the ceremonial books mentioned above.\nRegistration is possible for the whole Summer School\nor for individual days.\nRegistrants are responsible for their own accommodation, transport and meals. Where possible the secretariat will try to help individuals, particularly students and seminarians, who need to share accommodation or transport.\nIn addition to the daily schedule below, the programme includes the following:\nTuesday, 6th August, Pontifical Mass and Vespers at the Faldstool celebrated by His Excellency, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and Leichtenstein. Address by Archbishop Gullickson on the Sacred Liturgy.\nThursday, 8th August, 15h00: Solemn Mass in the Royal Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalen, St Maximin la Sainte-Baume, followed by veneration of the relics and vespers. A private visit to the sanctuary of St Mary Magdalene in the mountains of La Sainte-Baume is possible beforehand.\nMonday, 12th August, Solemn Requiem Mass at 09h00.\nDate to be announced: Solemn Mass in the Chapel of Saint Rosaline of Villeneuve, Les Arcs, preceded by Terce and followed by the veneration of the relics. A private visit to the historic Abbey of Le Thoronet is possible in the afternoon.\nSacra Liturgia is profoundly grateful to the Very Reverend and Reverend Cur\u00e9\u2019s of St Maximin la Sainte-Baume and Les Arcs for their kind welcome.\nThe Divine Office celebrated solemnly\nforms an integral part of each day of the Summer School.\nNormal Daily Schedule\n[Although it does not form part of the summer school programme,\nparticipants may participate in the Office of Matins\nwith the monks at 03h30 if they wish.]\nLauds: 06h00 (followed by private Masses)\nPrime: 07h30\nConfessions: 08h30\nTerce: 08h45\nSung Mass: 09h00\nPractical training: Chant/Ceremonies: 10h15\nBreak: 11h15\nSext: 12h45\nNone: 14h00\nVespers: 18h00\nAperitif & social time/Evening discussion: 18h30\nCompline: 19h30\nPubli\u00e9 par Sacra Liturgia \u00e0 11:24\nSacra Liturgia Toronto 2019\nWith much regret we have to announce the cancellation of Sacra Liturgia Toronto scheduled for June 2019. This is due to organisational difficulties on the part of the venue booked some time ago and due to a lack of sufficient benefactions to make a conference viable.\nWe hope that the cancellation of the conference before the scheduled opening of registrations will minimise any inconvenience caused, for which we apologise.\nSacra Liturgia wishes to take this opportunity once again to thank His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Collins, for his encouragement and welcome throughout the past year.\nDetails of a future Sacra Liturgia conference in North America will be announced in due course.\nThe annual International Sacra Liturgia Summer School in Provence, France, will be held as usual this year from 3-16 August. Further details and registration will be available by the end of January.\nSummer School Liturgical Programme - 27 July - 8 August\nThe full liturgical programme for the Fifth International Sacra Liturgia Summer School has now been published and may be viewed and downloaded on line here. All liturgical events are open to the public.\nFurther information on the Summer School may be found here. Late registration and day participation is possible.\nSpecial offer on Sacra Liturgia New York and London Proceedings\nA special offer from Bloomsbury Publishing which includes the two most recent volumes of Sacra Liturgia conference proceedings (New York 2015 & London 2016):\nTo get 35% off The T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy, Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century, Authentic Liturgical Renewal in Contemporary Perspective and Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, enter the code LITURGY35 at the checkout on www.bloomsbury.com\nThis offer is valid globally, and includes print and eBooks. It expires 30th September 2018.\nLa Garde-Freinet, 13 June 2018\nHis Eminence, Cardinal Sarah, has communicated to me that, with very much regret, he must postpone his visit to the Monastery previously scheduled for the end of July until a later date due to unforeseen personal reasons which require his presence elsewhere.\nUnfortunately this means that he will not be able to participate in the Fifth International Sacra Liturgia Summer School to be hosted by the Monastery from 27 July\u20138 August.\nHis Excellency, Mgr Dominique Rey, Bishop of Fr\u00e9jus-Toulon, has kindly agreed to celebrate a votive Pontifical Mass at the Throne of Saint Mary Magdalene in the usus antiquior for the Summer School during its pilgrimage to the Royal Basilica of St Mary Magdalene in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 1st.\nWhilst regretting that His Eminence will not be with us in July, we look forward to his future visit and are profoundly grateful to Mgr Rey for so readily agreeing to celebrate pontifical Mass for the Sacra Liturgia Summer School.\nDom Alcuin Reid.\nPrior, Monast\u00e8re Saint-Beno\u00eet\nInternational Coordinator, Sacra Liturgia\ncelebrates Pontifical Mass at the Throne:\nFeast of the Assumption, Summer School 2017\nThe programme includes pilgrimages to and the celebration of solemn Mass in the Royal Basilica housing the relics of St Mary Magdalen at St Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume where Bishop Dominique Rey, Bishop of Fr\u00e9jus-Toulon, will celebrate pontifical Mass at the throne (in the usus antiquior) for the Summer School on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 1st, and a pilgrimage to the chapel housing the relics of St Roseline of Villeneuve (\u20201329) - details below. A visit to the ancient Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet is also possible.\nSolemn Mass in the Royal Basilica of St Mary Magdalene,\nSt-Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume, Summer School 2017\nWednesday, 1st August, 16h00: Pontifical Mass in the Royal Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalen, St Maximin la Sainte-Baume, followed by veneration of the relics and vespers. A private visit to the sanctuary of St Mary Magdalene in the mountains of La Sainte-Baume is possible beforehand.\nSolemn Requiem Mass on Thursday, August 2nd at 09h00.\nIncensing the incorrupt remains of Saint Rosaline of Villeneuve\nduring the pilgrimage to her chapel in 2017.\nSaturday, 4st August, 11h30: Solemn Mass in the Chapel of Saint Rosaline of Villeneuve, Les Arcs, preceded by Terce and followed by the veneration of the relics. A private visit to the historic Abbey of Le Thoronet is possible in the afternoon.\nSummer School participants.\nparticipants may participate in the Monastic Office of Matins\nat 04h00 if they wish.]\nSacra Liturgia Forthcoming Events\nWe are pleased to announce the following forthcoming Sacra Liturgia events.\nSacra Liturgia Fifth International Summer School, Monast\u00e8re Saint-Beno\u00eet, La Garde-Freinet, Provence, France, 27 July - 8 August 2018\nPractical training in Gregorian chant and liturgical ceremonies for laity, clergy, religious and seminarians in the Provencal village of La Garde-Freinet. The programme includes the daily singing of both the Mass according to the 'usus antiquior' and the full Monastic Office, as well as pilgrimages to local shrines. Further details and registration details will be published here and on Sacra Liturgia social media in February.\nHis Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, addresses the 2017 Summer School\nSacra Liturgia Toronto, 17 - 20 June 2019\nThe fifth Sacra Liturgia international academic conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, in June 2019, with the blessing of His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto. The conference will be English language and will feature the participation of their Eminences Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith and Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Bishop Peter Elliott and leading liturgical scholars. Further details will be announced here and on Sacra Liturgia social media throughout 2018.\nSicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum... (ps. 42:1)\nSupport Sacra Liturgia\nSacra Liturgia 2016 Proceedings USA\nSacra Liturgia 2016 Proceedings UK\nRatzinger's Collected Works on the Liturgy\nSacra Liturgia Medal Key Ring\nClick on the image for ordering information\nSixth International Sacra Liturgia Summer School: ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 19275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=381", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CYI57T6JXVRMDB635BCJEURQKFROLZ5H", "length": 696, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sacramentohistory.org", "title": "Sacramento History Online", "raw_content": "Title Photographic print of streetcar on M Street\nSubject(s) McCurry Photo Co. (11), Crane Co. (1), Street Railroads--California--Sacramento (47), Capitols--California--Sacramento (12), Transportation--California--Sacramento County (202), Yolo County (Calif.) (73), Sacramento (Calif.) (782), Sacramento County (Calif.) (130)\nSummary An electric streetcar heads east from the City Wharf down M Street (now Capitol Ave.) towards the Capitol, ca. 1900. Crane Co. Plumber's Supplies on left. Street is unpaved. This line ran by a circular route from the waterfront (now the Tower Bridge) to the Western Pacific Depot at 19th and K Streets. Copy print.\nFormats 8 x 10 in. duplicate photographic print", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 226.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sandiegocountyrecordersociety.org/calendar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MNZPVGC57J6TN6RGHTBMBXVNW7XEOFAZ", "length": 1337, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sandiegocountyrecordersociety.org", "title": "Calendar - San Diego County Recorder Society", "raw_content": "September 15 - Stephen Stark\nOctober 27 - Annual Workshop\nNovember 17 - Dr. Virginia Sublett\nDecember 15 - potluck\nJanuary 19 - Ulla Sintz\nFebruary 16 - Marianne Pfau\nMarch 16 - Cathy Sobke\nApril 20 - Dan Ratelle\nMay 18 - Ramon Negron\nUnless otherwise indicated, monthly meetings are the third Saturday of each month from September through June. Recorder players of all skill levels are invited to attend. We start with a warm-up session from 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm, followed by a fun and educational session with our guest conductor from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm.\nDr. Marianne Pfau will be the guest conductor at our regular meeting on February 16. Dr. Pfau serves as Professor of Music History and director of the Angelus Sacred Early Music Series at USD. A native of Germany, she holds degrees in recorder and early music performance from Musikhochschule Hamburg, in music therapy from London\u2019s Guildhall School of Music, and the PhD in musicology from SUNY-Stony. She has published extensively on Hildegard of Bingen, edits 18th-century music for baroque oboe found in European archives, and records with Toutes Suites. Dr. Pfau travels widely in the US and Europe as baroque oboist and recorder soloist. Her interests as scholar-artist lie at the intersections of historical study, performance, and explorations of music for healing purposes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sandrinedandrea.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:01:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KM2WTBDMTOCLCZQYYJLEFF6TG6MLQHND", "length": 596, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sandrinedandrea.com", "title": "About / Contact \u2014 Sandrine D'Andrea", "raw_content": "Sandrine started to work as a set decorator in NYC in the film/tv indistry. Her desire to lear more about the design field pushed her to go work as an interior stylist assistant for a well known interior designer. Her time in that firm taught her how to tackle projects in both commercial and residential areas. Today Sandrine offers design consultations with decorating tips and how to advice. She has worked with many people and families and helped them find solutions for better living. Now located in Rome, Italy, you can email Sandrine to schedule an appointment at sandrinedandrea@yahoo.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sanjuanjournal.com/letters/medicare-info-letter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:J3RXKQCZLETO5MLJ5SGKBLJRPUXIH7V4", "length": 829, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sanjuanjournal.com", "title": "Medicare info | Letter | The Journal of the San Juan Islands", "raw_content": "Medicare info | Letter\nAt present, Medicare benefits for rehabilitation for occupational therapy will be capped at $2,010, physical therapy and speech therapy combined will be capped at $2010 unless Congress acts to actively change this. In years past there was a cap exception process that allowed additional funding for many diagnoses. That additional funding has expired and has not been renewed by this Congress. Now is the time to write your Senators and Representatives to ask them to make sure that you don\u2019t lose benefits. We never plan to have rotator cuff tear or stroke, but stuff like that happens and afterwards, there is a great need for therapy intervention. Essentially your benefits for outpatient therapy have been cut in half. Write, call, tell your friends\u2026 Don\u2019t let them whittle down your Medicare benefits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sanjuanjournal.com/sports/winter-sports-preview-new-season-lofty-goals-rugged-rivals-girls-basketball/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMRJAM5UQPIXWU7JEXTIHSKHD7XESJ45", "length": 3095, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sanjuanjournal.com", "title": "Winter sports preview: New season, lofty goals, rugged rivals | Girls basketball | The Journal of the San Juan Islands", "raw_content": "Winter sports preview: New season, lofty goals, rugged rivals | Girls basketball\nWolverines 2014-15 girls basketball team: From left; Hannah Hopkins\nA walk in the park? Far from it.\nFor the Friday Harbor girls basketball team, competition at the 2B level means going toe-to-toe with some of the state\u2019s toughest teams in both the 2B and 1B divisions, and with the outcome of each and every game having impact on its position in the Northwest 2B/1B League standings and on its prospects of post-season play.\nMount Vernon Christian lost only one starter from a team that finished last season as runner-up in the 1B state tournament. La Conner\u2019s Anna Cook, league MVP a year ago, returns for a senior season, as does Shoreline Christian senior Sarah Ott, a prolific scorer since her freshman year. Orcas and Darrington promise to be no pushover as well.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a really strong league,\u201d Head Coach Eric Jangard said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough road.\u201d\nAnd, that\u2019s a rough road ahead even when\u2013or if\u2013the Wolverines get to full strength. Friday Harbor enters the season with two of its top players, 6-foot junior Allie Galt (ankle) and 5-foot 11-inch sophomore Hayden Mayer (hip), either sidelined or playing limited minutes because of respective injuries.\nStill, once the two are both on the court, joining junior Madie Kincaid on the front line, Friday Harbor will have one the tallest, athletic and more battle-tested lineups of all seven teams gunning for 2014-15 league title. Coming off last year\u2019s up and down performance (the Wolverines were 8-14 a year ago) Jangard, now in his 9th year at the helm, is eager to have all the pieces of that would-be starting lineup in place.\n\u201cIf we can get the two of those girls healthy we can put some of our length to work,\u201d he said.\nIn addition to height and experience in the paint, Friday Harbor should benefit from having a pair of savvy ball-handlers and proven scorers in the backcourt. The team\u2019s only senior, Madden Shanks, is an offensive threat off the dribble and from beyond the 3-point arc, and junior Taylor Turnbull, steeled by extensive playing time last year, inherits the point-guard position and will run the show.\nWith sophomore Lili Wood in the starting rotation, the Wolverines will also have synchronicity on their side, as 4-of-5 starters (Galt included) played together on the volleyball team.\nWhat the Wolverines don\u2019t have a great deal of, however, is depth. Sophomores Alexa Mora and Hannah Hopkins will be first off the bench and into the game in backup roles, and after that, the duty falls into the hands of three freshmen making a debut on the varsity squad this season, Savannah Hoffman, Ella Hu and Kiana Woods.\nThe Wolverines opened the season with back-to-back games in the Friday Harbor Tip-off Classic, Dec. 5-6. After that, it\u2019s a two-game season series, 12 league games in all, one home and one on the road, against each of the team\u2019s six league rivals in just two months time, beginning with the Ott-led Crusaders at home, Dec. 9, followed by a road trip to Concrete, and then back home to battle the Loggers, Dec. 16.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sarah-org.com/apane.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4A4EIHAZ7DIWXKOJ7BXIYCT7B5CVD553", "length": 1027, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sarah-org.com", "title": "Thai Spa - Apane", "raw_content": "Senate Sub-Committee for Health Tourism, Long stay, Home Stay and Entertainment Business\n\u0e2d\u0e19\u0e38\u0e01\u0e23\u0e23\u0e21\u0e32\u0e18\u0e34\u0e01\u0e32\u0e23 \u0e01\u0e32\u0e23\u0e17\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e40\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e27\u0e2a\u0e38\u0e02\u0e20\u0e32\u0e1e \u0e25\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e2a\u0e40\u0e15\u0e22\u0e4c \u0e42\u0e2e\u0e21\u0e2a\u0e40\u0e15\u0e22\u0e4c\u0e41\u0e25\u0e30\u0e2a\u0e16\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1a\u0e31\u0e19\u0e40\u0e17\u0e34\u0e07 \u0e23\u0e31\u0e10\u0e2a\u0e20\u0e32\nAs member of the committee of the Association of Private School Administrator for Non-Formal Education (APANE), the School of Thai Heritage Spa is fully is fully in charge of assisting in the creation and revision of the spa curriculum for member schools. The ceremony that marks Thai Heritage Spa School\u2019s appointment as curriculum\u2019s reviser took place at the Chaophya Park Hotel on 17 October 2006. The School of Thai Heritage Spa is one of the very few spa schools in Thailand whose standards have been certified by the Ministry of Education. It evolved from a humble training center to a school with international recognition whose graduate students currently work in countries as diverse as Italy, Turkey, India, Qatar and Egypt. It also has a branch in Chiang Mai since January 2007. For more information please visit APANE\u2019s website at http://www.apane.or.th", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sarawiseman.com/blog/daily-divine-breaking-branches", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:54:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7XNS2F2HIOY3AGOAPCJH5ZW6IJM2VYPJ", "length": 1295, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sarawiseman.com", "title": "Daily Divine: Breaking branches. - SARA WISEMAN", "raw_content": "I must comment ~ I so, so agree with you Sara ~ We are each a thread in the unified field. I understand and have also experienced the connectivity of trees and their life force on so many levels. I live in the suburbs, and where I chose to purchase a home was largely based on the presence of all of the trees on the circle where my home is located, huge old growth Eucalyptus and Pines. Their energy enveloped me - I hugged them. Then one day the owner of the majority of the properties decided to cut them down. I could feel the distress of life...the trees, the birds, the wildlife over the destruction.....my soul ached and my heart cried......we are so living in a unified field.....I know because I feel it.......\nYes... we know it because we feel it, and there is no \"science\" or \"fact\" or \"rational\" thought that can tell us differently. We know we can sense the trees and feel them, because we can. Thank you for sharing that beautiful post.\nCherie Lee link\nI definitely got this was a wake up call for you to warn everyone, the big quake is just around the bend and all as we know it will soon change.\nI don't feel this was about an earthquake, Cherie. It was a message about all of us being interconnected: not just people, but nature, animals, plants, the entire planet and Universe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.savannahcatsandkittens.com/savannah-registration-codes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AMTUMNA7NCMWT373FO7PTDYRXYL4J3TA", "length": 12347, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.savannahcatsandkittens.com", "title": "Savannah Cat Registration Codes | TICA Registration Codes | Savannah Cat Breeder | Agato Savannahs \u2014 Agato Savannah Cats", "raw_content": "The TICA Registration Number is made up of three parts: the first three letters/numbers (which is what we shall discuss here), followed by a six-numeral code representing the date of birth of the cat, then the last three digits representing the order in which the registration was processed. If the last three digits are \u201c001\u201d then it was the first registration processed on that date, etc. See below for a copy of a Registration Certificate for a Foundation Savannah.\nTICA has three Registries: the Stud Book registry, the Foundation Registry (where our Savannahs are mainly registered at this time) and an Experimental Registry (for cats of breeds that have not yet been accepted or whose background is unknown).\nFor most registered cats, you never have to worry about their registration code, they will simply be registered as \u201cSBT\u201d which stands for Stud Book Traditional. The Stud Book designation is reserved for cats that have \u201cno cats which are unknown, unregistered, or of another breed or breed group within a standard three-generation pedigree\u201d and these cats are considered \u201cpurebred\u201d cats. The \u201cT\u201d in the \u201cSBT\u201d stands for \u201ctraditional\u201d meaning \u201conly the breed in question within a three-generation pedigree\u201d. In the case of Savannahs, this would mean that every cat in the last three generations of both the queen and stud pedigree would be a Savannah (SV), with no outcrosses at all. It is also possible to have a \u201cV\u201d in the last position of the three letter registration code (i.e., SBV instead of SBT), this stands for \u201cVariant\u201d and means \u201cCrosses outside the breed but within the group with a three-generation pedigree.\u201d This might come up in a breed group such as the Siamese Breed Group, which contains related breeds such as the Oriental Shorthair, the Siamese, the Balinese and the Oriental Longhair, but does not occur (as yet) in the Savannah Breed.\nThings get more complicated when developing a Breed. TICA has a coding system to cover Registration Codes for cats until they reach the level where three generation pedigrees only have the breed of choice (i.e., SBT). This is of great interest and importance to the Savannah Breed Section members because our Breed is derived from a cross between a wild cat and the domestic cat. Additionally, we have the issue whereby the males of such crosses are not fertile; therefore we cannot immediately breed Savannahs to Savannahs and need to outcross for approximately five generations to obtain fertile Male Savannahs. So we need to understand the various codes our cats will have on the way to achieving SBT status for our Breed.\nWhat do the N and P stand for?\nThe first thing to understand about codes, especially for Category V breeds, which includes Savannahs, is the P and N coding. P and N will appear in the third position of the three letter registration code if the cat is not SBT (or SBV) and if the wild cat (the Serval) is not within the three generation pedigree. P is for \u201cPermissible\u201d which means \u201ccrosses outside the breed or breed group which are permitted by the breeding program which has been established for the breed.\u201d For the SV breed the Permissible Outcrosses are: Oriental Shorthair, Egyptian Mau, Ocicat and Domestic Shorthair. N is for \u201cNonPermissible\u201d which means \u201ccrosses outside the breed or breed group which are not among those which are specifically allowed by the breeding program which has been established for the breed.\u201d This may include breeds such as the Bengal and Maine Coon.\nSavannahs descend from an original cross with another species, the African Serval. TICA denotes heritage containing another species with the letter \u201cS\u201d. This appears in the third position of the code and supersedes the N or P in this position. Therefore any Savannah from first generation (F1) through to third generation (F3) will have S in the code. For example, in the certificate below you can see that Mandisa has the code B3S, telling us that she has another species (in this case the Serval) in the last three generations. As I know that her sire has a NonPermissible parent (in this case, Bengal) then I also know that her progeny will have N in the third position of her code, as that Bengal will still be in the three generation pedigree.\nFor Category V breeds, which is for Hybrid Breeds that descend from an original cross with a wild cat, the N and P also appear at the front of the Breed Name, as NFoundation Savannah or PFoundation Savannah. For the certificate above, the Registration was processed before this Rule came into being, so the NFoundation that Mandisa would have had before \u201cSavannah\u201d is missing (\u201cDescription:\u201d line). A cat will be NFoundation as long as there is a NonPermissible outcross in the three generation pedigree. When only the Breed or a Permissible outcross is in the three generation pedigree, then the cat is PFoundation. So in the case of Mandisa above, not only she but her progeny will be termed \u201cNFoundation Savannahs\u201d due to her Bengal grandmother.How do I determine what code my kittens will be?There are two tables to use to determine the first two letters/numbers, depending on whether an Outcross (Permissible or NonPermissible) or the same Breed was used. If you used an Egyptian Mau stud with your Savannah queen, then you would consult the \u201cDifferent Breed Chart\u201d to determine the codes for the resultant progeny, while you would use the \u201cSame Breed Chart\u201d if you had used a Savannah stud.\nTo read these charts, simply run your finger across the top until you reach the code of one of the parents, then down the chart to the other parent. Where the two meet is the code of their progeny. For example, using the registration certificate for Kirembo Mandisa Abebi (above), her father is A0 while her mother is A2. So on the Same Breed chart look across to A0 then down to A2, and you can see that B3 is the result (circled). Add the \u201cS\u201d because her great grandfather was a Serval and you have her code, B3S.\nSo what do A, B and C mean? 1, 2, 3 and 0?\n\u201cA\u201d represents a cat that \u201cis the product of two cats of different breeds\u201d. For example, if you cross an F1 to an Egyptian Mau, the progeny will have \u201cA\u201d in the first part of the code.\n\u201cB\u201d represents a cat that \u201chas at least one grandparent of a different breed\u201d and \u201cC\u201d represents when a cat \u201chas at least one great grandparent of a different breed.\u201d\nPut very simply, cross two \u201cA\u201d registered SVs and you get a \u201cB\u201d registered SV, cross two B SVs and you get a C SV\u2026and then cross two C registered SVs and you have an SBT SV which is what we will need to show in Championship Class! Of course it can be more complicated than that, you can cross an A to a C SV, then you will get a B\u2026and that can be confusing so that is why the tables were created.\nNow, the 1, 2, 3 and 0 represent the number of generations from a cat of another species or from an unknown or unregistered cat. So an F1 Savannah will always be A1S because of the Serval parentage. 0 in the second position (e.g., A0N) means that there are no unknown or unregistered cats in the three generation pedigree, nor another species, so will be a SV of F4 or further generation.\nWhat happens when you use a Domestic Shorthair with 01T coding?\nThis in effect \u201cfreezes\u201d the code at the A2 level, because a cat is registered as 01T if the background of the cat is not known. Therefore the code reflects the unknown parentage. If you refer to the different breed table above you can see that whenever you have one parent as 01 then the code of the progeny is A2 (unless the 01 is crossed to 00 which is the coding used for the wild cat, the Serval in this case). For example, if you cross your F2 SV queen with A2S code to a DSH stud with 01T coding, the progeny will also be A2S. I mention this as some breeders have been confused by the code of the progeny coming back the same as the parent cat.\nNow you may notice that the code \u201c01\u201d appears in the same breed chart also, this does not mean that if you crossed a DSH (01T) with another DSH that you would get a registered Foundation Savannah! The 01 coding can also be given in certain circumstances to a cat of a Breed, remember that the 01T DSH is not strictly speaking considered a \u201cBreed\u201d. In some breeds, at certain times, cats with unknown parentage but conforming to the Breed Standard of that breed (for example the PixieBob) were eligible to be registered as that Breed, if three judges at a show examined the cat and were convinced that the cat was of that Breed. The cat would then be given the 01T designation (unknown parentage) but also the Breed name. Therefore, conceivably two 01T of the Breed could be bred together therefore 01 (and 02 and 03) coding appears in the Same Breed chart as well. I do not believe that any Savannah has been given an 01T code to date, so this is not relevant to our Breed.\nWhat does the \u201cF\u201d stand for when breeders are talking about their cats?\nThis is the first thing you will notice when people talk about their Savannahs (SVs), before they will even talk about registration codes, they will term their SV an F1 or F2 etc. The \u201cF\u201d stands for \u201cfilial\u201d and refers to the number of generations away from the wild cat, in the SV case it is the number of generations away from the Serval. So an F1 is one generation away, the Serval is the parent. For an F2, it is two generations away and the Serval is a grandparent\u2026and so on.\nNow the \u201cF-number\u201d is important when we talk about SVs, particularly when we consider our males. The Savannah has the complication of needing to get to approximately F5 (five generations away from the Serval) for our males to have some expectation of fertility.\nThis can get complicated, it seems easy when you consider crossing an F1 to an outcross, then you would get F2 kittens as you can easily see that you have moved one further generation away from the Serval. But what if you cross an F1 to an F5? Does it still move to F2 or do you average the number or what? Many people have gotten confused at this point! It does indeed go to F2 as it goes one generation further than the parent closest to the Serval (lowest in generation number). So then when crossing an F4 to an F5, the progeny are F5\u2026 and when crossing F5 to F5 you would get F6 kittens, which confuses people as the kittens would have the exact same Serval % as their F5 parents. It is important to remember that the F-number does not represent the Serval % but the number of generations from the Serval.\nIt is also important to note that the Breed of the offspring can be determined by either parent, therefore a Savannah can be produced by a cross between a female SV and male outcross as well as by a female outcross and male SV. Therefore an F5 SV stud bred to a DSH queen will produce F6 Savannah kittens. It can be even more confusing for other hybrid breeds, for example if a SBT Bengal was crossed with an SBT Oriental Shorthair, the progeny could be registered as a Serengetti, but additionally a breeder might decide to register the offspring as a Bengal with NonPermissible outcross (likely to be A0N Bengal) or even as an Oriental Shorthair with NonPermissible outcross (likely to be A0N Oriental Shorthair). Outcrossing to NonPermissible breeds is not limited to Savannahs; it is an accepted way for breeders to bring in new traits such as color. With Championship breeds, it also sets the progeny back at the A registration level and they have to breed back to their Breed until the outcross falls off the 3-generation pedigree.\nDon\u2019t be afraid to admit that you are confused by all this. Not only new breeders or owners are confused by the coding system, it\u2019s not simple. Cat pedigrees are not simple and remember that the code is supposed to represent the background of the cat. You want to be able to look at the code and have some idea of the pedigree of the cat. For example, take a SV that has the code B0P. This cat is the progeny of a SV to SV cross because of the \u201cB\u201d, at least one of those parents was an \u201cA\u201d registered SV. The \u201c0\u201d indicates that there are no unregistered or unknown cats in the three generation pedigree. The lack of an \u201cS\u201d at the end tells us that the cat is at least three generations from the Serval and the \u201cP\u201d tells us that all Permissible outcrosses were used in the last three generations. So you see, the code can tell you a lot!\n~ written by Brigitte Cowell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 20136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/24/1443/Sheriff-Appeal-Court-appointments-confirmed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:19:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WN3KEDOJXNXA4HPZEGQFGEJ5CVTCWXXL", "length": 1775, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk", "title": "Sheriff Appeal Court appointments confirmed - Media and Publications - Judiciary of Scotland", "raw_content": "It has also been confirmed that retired Sheriffs Principal Alastair Dunlop QC and Brian Lockhart are among those to be appointed by the Lord President to the new judicial office of Appeal Sheriff created by Court Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.\nThe other appointments to the office of Appeal Sheriff are Sheriff Paul Arthurson QC, Sheriff John Beckett QC, Sheriff Peter Braid, Sheriff Alasdair MacFadyen, Sheriff Kenneth Maciver, Sheriff John Morris QC, Sheriff Nigel Morrison QC, Sheriff Sean Murphy QC, Sheriff Michael O\u2019Grady QC and Sheriff Nikola Stewart.\nThe appointments are effective for a period of five years.\nThe Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, which broadly implements the recommendations of the Scottish Civil Courts Review led by Lord Gill, received Royal Assent on 10 November 2014.\nThe changes include an increase to the privative limit of the sheriff court, the creation of new judicial offices of summary sheriff and appeal sheriff, the creation of a Sheriff Appeal Court, and the establishment of a specialist Personal Injury Court.\nThe Sheriff Appeal Court will be established at the start of the new legal year in September 2015, at first with jurisdiction for criminal cases and after January 2016 with jurisdiction in civil cases.\nThe Sheriff Appeal Court will predominantly sit in Edinburgh but sittings may also be held elsewhere in Scotland.\nA number of other key reforms will also take effect at the start of the new legal year in September 2015, namely:\nthe establishment in Edinburgh of a sheriff court with a Scotland-wide jurisdiction for personal injury cases;\nthe extension of the exclusive jurisdiction of the sheriff court to actions with a value of up to \u00a3100,000;\nand the introduction of the permission stage to judicial review proceedings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/news/really-long-news-headline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:09Z", "digest": "sha1:KHX52RVOTBPU5DV5NELBVKXOEPSBCCRX", "length": 887, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.scottsboromusicallondon.com", "title": "Cast Announcement - The Scottsboro Boys", "raw_content": "Initial casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Kander and Ebb\u2019s award-winning and final musical The Scottsboro Boys.\nBrandon Victor Dixon, who originated the role of Haywood Patterson in the first US production of The Scottsboro Boys and is currently starring as Berry Gordy in Motown The Musical on Broadway, will make his West End debut this autumn.\nReturning after their triumphant performances at The Young Vic are the American cast members Colman Domingo (Olivier Award nominated) as Mr Bones, Forrest McClendon as Mr Tambo and James T Lane as Ozie Powell. British cast members include Game of Thrones star Julian Glover, reprising his role as The Interlocutor. They will appear alongside Dawn Hope, Dex Lee, Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton, Richard Pitt, Emile Ruddock and Carl Spencer (with further casting to be announced), at the Garrick Theatre from Saturday 4 October.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sdewes.org/jsdewes/pi2013.01.0006", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:23Z", "digest": "sha1:XVE4E76EP4EDT5JGTF7GYLCGTHQGVO5P", "length": 1420, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sdewes.org", "title": "JSDEWES: How Sustainable are Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands?", "raw_content": "Jurgen Schmandt1 , Gerald R. North2, George H. Ward3\n1 Houston Advanced Research Center, The Woodlands, and University of Texas, Austin, United States\n2 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States\n3 Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas, Austin, United States\nEngineered rivers in arid lands play an important role in feeding the world\u2019s growing population. Each continent has rivers that carry water from distant mountain sources to fertile soil downstream where rainfall is scarce. Over the course of the last century most rivers in arid lands have been equipped with large engineering structures that generate electric power and store water for agriculture and cities. This has changed the hydrology of the rivers. In this paper we discuss how climate variation, climate change, reservoir siltation, changes in land use and population growth will challenge the sustainability of engineered river systems over the course of the next few decades. We use the Rio Grande in North America, where we have worked with Mexican and American colleagues, to describe our methodology and results. Similar work is needed to study future water supply and demand in engineered rivers around the world.\nKeywords: Hydraulic Engineering, Climate Variation, Climate Change, Reservoir Sedimentation, Irrigated Agriculture, Food Security, River Sustainability, Rio Grande", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 216.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sdpsychoanalyticcenter.org/about-sdpc/our-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:2HADHXIUIHIM6REPTOGEUYUKPPLIA2PJ", "length": 1804, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sdpsychoanalyticcenter.org", "title": "Our History | San Diego Psychoanalytic Center", "raw_content": "In 1973, the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute was accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association as one of thirty-one constituent societies. The Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association granted full accreditation to the Institute, as a center to conduct psychoanalytic training, in December 1977.\nSubsequently, the Society and Institute merged in 1989, bringing together in one organization psychoanalytic training programs, scientific programs and collegial activities for its members, as well as educational meetings and activities for the larger mental health and lay community.\nThe name was changed to San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) in 2014. (See Organizational Chart.)\nSDPC currently has graduate members and members-in-training from diverse backgrounds and is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and FIPAS, the organization of southern California psychoanalytic institutes and societies.\nThe San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) is a nonprofit corporation and is accredited by the California Medical Association, the California Psychological Association, the Board of Behavioral Sciences, and the Board of Registered Nurses as an approved provider of continuing education credits.\nThe International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) is an organization of over 100 psychoanalytic training centers around the world. The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center is a member of the IPA. Below you will find a link to a short film about Freud and the history of the IPA, including some footage with Freud himself speaking in English. We are especially proud to present this film as it was created and produced by two of our own local members: Drs. Lee Jaffe and Nadine Levinson. Enjoy!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 131.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sellke.com/i-am-loved/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:24Z", "digest": "sha1:CRJPXCOXFH3B6JHZJLFISUJCX4XXJIFJ", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sellke.com", "title": "I AM LOVED. \u2013 sellke.com", "raw_content": "On a hunt for \u201cUnlikely Japan\u201d\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 117.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.selltodayhomebuyers.com/blog/costs-to-sell-your-home-in-chicago/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:20Z", "digest": "sha1:L7ROAB52X3H2B5LJJADW7W66BJWDECTI", "length": 594, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.selltodayhomebuyers.com", "title": "What It REALLY Costs To Sell Your Home in Chicago", "raw_content": "What It REALLY Costs To Sell Your Home in Chicago\nListing your home isn\u2019t free. There are costs, chores and a lot of work that goes into getting your home ready for the market. Before you list your home, think about the time, energy and money that go into it. If you have a direct buyer, with a great offer, it is often preferred to the hassle and out of pocket costs of listing. What it REALLY costs to sell your home in Chicago.\nThere is an alternative way to sell your Chicago home for a great price! Send us a message and we will be in touch! Or give our office a call today! (630) 984-0000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 9145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.seniorcareheroawards.org/about/2017-scha/nominees?view=profile&id=1228", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VPQRSYS74VNVCP6NEDQFULPWT44PHN3S", "length": 3711, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.seniorcareheroawards.org", "title": "2017 ALL NOMINEES - Senior Care Hero Awards", "raw_content": "Jennifer Funez\nPosition: Healthcare Outreach Specialist\nThere are so many caring individuals in the Senior Care Industry who really care about seniors and there is this young lady. Not many of us go back to our previous place of employment and spent our days off with our past clients. Well, she does. She goes back to Alamitos Belmont Rehab and spends her days off and weekends visiting her seniors, many of whom she's cared/known for close to 8 years.\nI interview some of them and they all had amazing things to say about her, but there was one lady in particular. I wish you could see her smile and expression when she was talking about her hero. This is what she said;\"I love when Jennifer comes and visits me. even though she goes down the hall visiting other people, she makes me feel like I'm her only friend. I don't have that many friends, or people that visit me. She makes me feel special, I hope she wins\"\nLet me introduce you to Jennifer Funez, a brilliant young lady who has been making a difference in senior's lives since she was 16 years old. She is an example for every one of us and to every young teenager trying to figure out his or her life.\nShe comes from very humble beginnings, a daughter of immigrants, first generation American and first one in her family to attend and graduate from college. At 16 she started to volunteer with seniors in a skilled nursing facility in the activities department and she was so loving and caring that the Activities Director decided to hire her at the age of 17. She worked full time while she finished up her senior year in high school then went on to Cal State Long Beach for her undergrad where she had to work hard to pay for school, there was no other help so she had to stay focus and she did.\nIn her role as the activities assistant she quickly blossomed and the seniors there adored her. She presented such good work ethics that the Social Services department hired her as well where she made a bigger impact in her seniors, it was amazing to see her interact with every single one of them. So real, so genuine in her care that in her days off seniors were sad because she wasn't there. Her caring didn't stop there, when one of her seniors needed her support she even visited them on her days off. Who does that? Not many of us do!\nHer dedication didn't stop there, she started volunteering at other locations and going to school. She graduated with a Bachelor in Human Development, Minor in Sociology and Certificate in Gerontology from Cal State Long Beach and her hard work ethic and passion for seniors got her a promotion to full time Social Services Assistant. As her passion grew she continued to pursue her education by going into the Master's Degree program in Gerontology at Cal State Long Beach and growing her volunteering opportunities.\nShe started to intern with Alzheimer's Orange County two to three days per week while working full time, volunteering and going to school full time to pursue her passion. So Alzheimer's OC hired her in the Outreach & Advocacy Department and this opened more opportunities for her to do what she does best ,helping and making a bigger impact not only in the seniors lives but their families and caregivers. With Jennifer it doesn't stop there she hasn't forgotten her seniors at the skill nursing facility so she makes time off her busy schedule to visit them every other week.\nShe is currently working on her thesis and working full time and yet still makes time to help her family and friends without forgetting her beloved seniors. Jennifer is a hero. A hero to many people, not only the ones she helps, but she is a hero to us. She is a hero to me and she is destined to do amazing things.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sewa.news/2012/12/presidential-address-delivered-by-his.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:10Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6PEG4NMHTRRD7IGHAWNYXH5MZ3E5Q3N", "length": 59881, "nlines": 122, "source_domain": "www.sewa.news", "title": "Presidential Address Delivered by His Excellency the President Ernest Bai Koroma on the Occasion of the State Opening of the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone", "raw_content": "Presidential Address Delivered by His Excellency the President Ernest Bai Koroma on the Occasion of the State Opening of the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone\nToday, before the esteemed representatives of the people, I once again, with faith in God, loyalty to the constitution, and firm commitment to the achievement of our national aspirations, accept the honour bestowed upon me by the people of this country to serve them as President for the second and last term. I glorify God Almighty for making this happen. I thank every citizen of this nation for the confidence reposed in me and my party, the All Peoples Congress to take the country to another level.\n2. I am here to reiterate my campaign promises before God, before the representatives of the people, and before all the people of this country. I am here to reiterate my vow to honour the trust you have placed in me; to proclaim my fidelity to your hopes and aspirations, and to commit my administration to fulfilling the pledges we made during the campaign. Let all present here today be witnesses unto this proclamation: this new social contract; this new economic imperative, this Agenda for Prosperity: we will equitably distribute the fruits of prosperity to all; we will respect the rights of all; we will focus on the training and employment of youths; and we will continue the restoration of discipline, law and order in society.\n3. In our Agenda for Prosperity we will act to diversify the economy, induce growth, and empower human capital with appropriate education to be part of programme implementation. The gains of the Agenda for Change have brought to our shores huge foreign investments in mining, petroleum industry, agriculture and tourism. In the Agenda for Prosperity we will act to enhance the capacity of our people to make them an integral part of this new dawn.\n4. Mr. Speaker, in my last address here I told parliamentarians in the habit of walking out and boycotting parliament that they might be boycotted by the people. Well, I have looked around for some of my friends, but I have not been able to set eyes on them. Is it true that the people boycotted them? How many were boycotted? This just shows that dialogue is better than boycott. I hope my good friends will take note of this and acknowledge that the days of walkouts and boycotts are over, as they do not serve any useful purpose.\n5. Mr. Speaker, we have conducted elections monitored by over ten thousand national and international observers, making our 2012 polls the most transparent in our country\u2019s history. Four elections were conducted on the same day, making the process the most complex electoral exercise in our nation since independence; we paid for most of it ourselves; we organized it ourselves; and we did it peacefully, fairly and transparently. And the process, from registration to announcement of results, has been acclaimed as meeting international standards of free and fair elections. We must claim these achievements; we must congratulate ourselves; we must applaud the state institutions, from the National Electoral Commission and other democratic institutions to the Police, RSLAF, and other security agencies for their immense contribution to this achievement. This is a national victory; another great addition to the achievements of the people of this country.\n6. We are at peace and our country remains stable. We are no longer a country of blood diamonds; we are an example of a consolidating democracy, and one of the safest and most peaceful societies in the world. Our economy continues to show positive signs of growth. We have moved away from being the least developed country in the world five years ago to being the second hottest economy this year, with a 21 % projected growth. We have built roads; provided electricity and free health care for our pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five; we have built schools and relocated Njala University. Our human rights record is exemplary. We have enhanced public service delivery and brought Government, decision-making and participatory politics closer to our people. We must claim these achievements; we must congratulate ourselves; and applaud the international partners who have sustained their faith in the collective ability of Sierra Leoneans to move forward.\n7. But let it be known to all that this nation can only move forward when its youth step forward. During the elections we saw the youths step forward; during the campaign we saw the youths step forward; and the youths have continued to step forward with great hopes for the positive transformation of this country. The youths have spoken and all must listen. I have listened to the youths; I am this day re-affirming the covenant I made with the youths during the campaign: I dedicate my life to your service; I submit my administration to your participation, I commit our economy to your employment; I pledge the resources of this country to your education, your acquisition of appropriate skills, and your advancement.\n8. But government alone cannot bring prosperity; the private sector alone cannot bring prosperity. The Agenda for Prosperity needs commitment, cooperation, and discipline from youths, middle age and older persons. The Agenda for Prosperity requires the youths to render their creativity, their energy and their zeal unto the service of their nation, their community, and for their own progress. The Agenda warrants progressive action for bringing about prosperity. The Agenda needs discipline, it needs hard work; it needs initiative and drive. Help the country to help you; help the government to help you, help your community to help you. I know many youths are involved in a lot of good activities; I know many youths want more. But to get more, you have to do more, you have to be more disciplined than your colleague; you have to respect the law, you have to respect your teacher, you have to respect your boss, you have to be ready to get new skills; you have to be honest. It will be easier for government and the private sector to create more opportunities for you when you pay greater attention to your behaviour, when you are more than ready to seize opportunities and be part of the transformation. The job of transforming this country is as much in your hands, as it is in our hands; and I believe that together, with discipline in our relations, commitment to our endeavours, and respect for laws and regulations we will definitely bring prosperity to this nation.\n9. The process has started. We have established the National Youth Commission (NAYCOM); we are attracting investments that create jobs; we are building, equipping and supporting technical and vocational centres everywhere, we are appointing younger people to positions of authority in government. We will do more. With youths we will move this country forward, and the transformation will be unstoppable.\n10. We recognize the imperative of promoting the rights of women and have taken positive steps in this regard. We are increasing efforts in scaling up social protection interventions to ensure that we take along the weak and vulnerable members of our society in the country\u2019s march to prosperity. We will act to intensify these efforts in the next five years.\n11. Our ambition, in this Agenda for Prosperity, is to ensure that all people, every Sierra Leonean, in every region, district, city, town and village, benefit from the endowments that God gave us. Our goal for the next five years is to develop a healthier nation; build better schools, better hospitals, and better roads; provide greater prosperity; and give power to the people. We remain committed to our pledge.\n12. In our second term, we will act to revamp the constitutional review process, open up the constitutional debate to many more people and a wider range of issues. Of great importance will be putting in place constitutional guarantees for overcoming the challenges of ethnic divide in the political life of the country. We will put the resulting draft constitution to a national referendum. We will conclude the on-going civil service reforms, ensuring that we have a dedicated well-resourced public service with the appropriate capacities for delivering on our Agenda for Prosperity.\n13. We will emphasize law-enforcement; ensure that the law and its agents uphold the dignity of all, and deal stringently with the undisciplined, the irresponsible, and the corrupt. We will combat recklessness and disorderly behaviour with great resolve.\n14. Today I call on every Sierra Leonean, every political party, and every ethnic group to be part of this journey for national prosperity. Everybody has a role; we must play out our roles constructively. I dedicate my administration to meeting the goals we have set ourselves. We shall not waiver, we shall not relent and, by the Grace of God Almighty, we will succeed.\n15. Permit me now, Mr. Speaker to move on to some of the specifics of the Agenda for Prosperity\n16. Our economy continues to show positive signs of growth. Our GDP looks set to grow significantly in 2012, projected at 21%. Our growth has been driven by investments and expansion in agriculture, mining, construction and services as well as by the enhanced unprecedented government investment in infrastructure and electricity.\n17. In the next five years my government will continue to act to attract investments, improve the business climate, and promote a multi-pronged diversification of economic activities. From over-reliance on mining diamonds, we are promoting diversification in the mineral sector to include iron ore, bauxite, and gold. From mere mining and export of these minerals without value addition, we will encourage their processing in order to create jobs and increase revenues. We will also focus on the non-mining sector and diversification of these sectors. In agriculture we are moving away from mainly subsistence production of rice, to commercialized production of diverse produce. Value addition will also be key in our transformation of the agricultural sector. We will also act to put tourism at the centre of economic activities. Whilst mass tourism will still be given attention, we will also encourage heritage and eco-tourism and facilitate training and job placements for youths in the sector. Whilst we will support artisanal fishing; we will also promote semi-industrial and industrial fishing, and build fisheries infrastructure to facilitate export.\n18. We will ensure the continuation of progress made in Public Financial Management. We will provide greater and more effective control over expenditure and revenue collection. We will institute more measures to control inflation and ensure that public borrowing from the Bank of Sierra Leone allows money to flow and bolster the private sector.\n19. We will continue to act on diminishing reliance on food imports. We will act to create, adopt and implement progressive development of an agro-based production economy. My Government will invest more in agriculture and boost investment in productive sectors. We will continue to act to attract more investment that create thousands of jobs for youths; improve basic facilities and services for host communities of private investments; and put more money into the hands of rural communities through rural and community banks and land lease payments to landowners.\n20. We will improve on procurement activities and contract management and continue pursuing policies that enhance peace and stability as well as those that promote the confidence of our international partners. As a demonstration of our government\u2019s commitment to transparency, a Performance Audit Unit has been established in the Office of the Auditor General to go beyond traditional financial audit and appraise and measure the impact of public service delivery on citizens. We will ensure that the unit robustly carries out its responsibilities.\nInfrastructure for Inclusive Growth\n21. My Government is transforming the national transportation landscape by undertaking the most extensive road rehabilitation and reconstruction yet in the history of Sierra Leone. We will do more in the next five years. We will continue to expand the paved road network to connect chiefdoms to districts and districts to provincial headquarter towns. We will encourage public-private partnership in funding road network development.\n22. We continue to act on enhancing the quality of streets in district headquarter towns and urban centres across the country. To enable us to quickly address road maintenance, we will continue to build and sustain the Road Maintenance Fund. We will look into the propriety of introducing a toll system along some of the roads as an additional revenue source for meeting costs of maintenance.\n23. As I have often stated, our visionary approach to infrastructural development caters for other facilities. I am pleased to inform the nation that we have as recently as yesterday 13th December 2012 signed an agreement with China Railway International Limited for the construction of a new mainland airport at Mamamah with supervision from the International Civil Aviation Organisation. This new airport will be part of the new city planned in that part of the country.\n24. We are determined to increase power generation. We will also continue with the identification and exploration of additional hydro electricity power potentials across the country. Additionally, we will increase investment in clean energy sources by harnessing solar power. My administration will work to sustain the functioning of the Bumbuna and Dodo Hydro Dams and all others.\n25. The transformation of the energy landscape is improving the quality of life of our people. We are not yet fully there, we still have more to do, but many more Sierra Leoneans, from the ginger beer seller to the welder and the electrician are all registering improved business activities. These actions for enhancing business growth and job creation will continue; for that is how we will transform the Agenda for Change to the Agenda for Prosperity.\n26. As we progress over the next five years, we will act to improve on the distribution network, reduce dependence on thermal plants as they can be cost-prohibitive, and give greater access to power supply in cities, towns and communities with greater predictability.\n27. My Government will encourage public-private-partnerships in the provision of energy. We will work hard to increase coverage and regularity of power supply within the cities and install prepaid meters for all consumers to ensure payment of bills.\nCreating Jobs for Growth and Prosperity\n28. My main job in the next five years is the creation of jobs for youths all over the country. As we continue to attract investment in the economy from the private sector, we will take specific actions to offer opportunities to our people, especially the youth, to access both self and waged employment.\n29. We will also work to reduce over dependence on the State for employment. We will establish a reliable unemployment tracking mechanism. We will identify and set up well targeted special schemes for employment creation at Regional and District levels.\n30. We will set up effective career and employment advisory units to provide valuable career advice to the youth of Sierra Leone. We will put greater emphasis on training in employable skills, raise awareness and increase focus on service industry skills acquisition. We will encourage acquisition of skills in technology including modern auto mechanics, assembling and maintenance of mobile phones, computers, solar panels and cooling systems.\n31. To enable the youth of Sierra Leone quickly develop requisite skills that the job market requires, we will have to increase the spread of well resourced Vocational and Technical Training centres across the country. This will help alleviate the problem of unskilled and untrained youth and encourage re-training of job seekers to make them relevant to the job market and relative demands.\n32. We will negotiate a progressive scale-up of \u201clocal content\u201d in existing and new companies; review and strengthen existing interventions that offer internship opportunities to University and Technical/Vocational graduates; work with partners to support training in employable skills for the hard core unemployed; and work with the Private Sector and appropriate Government Agencies to design and set up well targeted micro-enterprise schemes for women and young people. Micro-enterprise schemes will include scaling up of opportunities for entrepreneurship and self-employment.\n33. We will also create an environment for smoother transition from University and Training Institutions to the job market, while providing progressive skills development for hardcore unemployed and new entrants into the job market. Through the National Youth Commission, NaCSA and other Partners, we will establish and resource a National Youth Service Scheme to facilitate the acquisition of work experience and address the difficulty of transitioning from training to the job market.\n34. Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, I hereby pledge the greatest amount of attention of my second term to the youths of the country. Youths want jobs, they want training, and they want to continue to be creative, energetic and patriotic. Youth stood by me, campaigned with me and voted for me because they think I am the best person to deliver on their aspirations. I dedicate the Agenda for Prosperity to honouring the faith that youths have placed in me. My main job now is to provide jobs for the youths. We will emphasize the relevance and quality of training for youths and formulate a curriculum that will meet local market demands. In collaboration with the private sector, a standardized and relevant curriculum will be designed to reflect the market needs of the economy. We will inaugurate entrepreneurship training to enhance youth capacity to participate in the economy. We will collaborate with national players to design training programmes that are specifically tailored for local consumption, including mining companies facilitating the training of mining engineers and oil companies doing the same for petroleum engineers. This is why we will diversify the educational system to accommodate the new change. In addition, we will scale up on internship programmes introduced by NAYCOM to give youth desired experience in the private sector.\n35. We will process and package public work schemes into a manageable proportion so as to enhance the participation of small businesses run by youth. Agriculture employs over 70% of the population. It therefore presents a formidable opportunity for youth empowerment. We will scale up and design youth specific programmes to increase youth participation in agriculture and we will emphasize diversity in value addition in agricultural products. We will initiate land reform that will increase access to land for young people. This will be complemented with modern farming techniques. We will encourage chiefdom youth councils and district youth councils to engage in cooperative farms. We will initiate cottage industries in each district to be owned and operated by youth. This scheme will be made gender - sensitive and pivot on youth social networking. Most of Sierra Leone youth on their own volition have charted the way to progress. Making them an integral part of the decision making process will therefore be the key to empowering them for sustainable growth.\n36. We will establish youth centres all over the country to serve as meeting places for youths, providing space for a variety of youth-friendly activities. The youth centres will also serve as forums for information sharing on training and employment opportunities.\n37. Mr. Speaker, since 2007 our Government identified agriculture as a top development priority and increased investment in the sector from 1.6% in 2007 to almost 10% of GDP in 2011. The National Sustainable Agricultural Development Programme is Government\u2019s platform to make agriculture the \u2018engine\u2019 for socio-economic growth and development by promoting \u201cfarming as a business.\u201d\n38. My government will act to phase out subsistence agriculture, provide cash reserves in order to help cope with food emergencies and natural disasters, stabilize grain prices during price hikes, and promote cash/export crop plantations in appropriate areas.\n39. We will continue to attract private sector investment in large scale commercial agriculture. My government will act to introduce enhanced year-round cultivation of rice and vegetables through inland valley swamp development and irrigation. We will also provide expanded support for mechanization, expand the tractor purchase scheme and complement that with an effective hire scheme for poor farmers who cannot afford hire purchase.\n40. My Government will promote the agricultural value chain. We will also motivate higher indigenous private sector investment in value addition, large scale agriculture and agro-marketing. We will work hard to expand research institutions to cater for all the sub-sectors and specialized thematic issues of the agricultural sector of Sierra Leone.\n41. We will put in place measures to ensure increased transfer of innovative skills and knowledge to farmers and help change farmers\u2019 attitudes and perceptions towards farming as a business by adopting new skills and strategies to increase economic returns. We will strive to expand farmer services especially research and extension delivery systems, continue promoting efficient and effective resource management both human and material in the sector and promote capacity building in the Ministry of Agriculture, Districts, Chiefdoms/Wards, the ABC, farmers as well as civil society.\n42. We will focus on building a comprehensive agricultural database and an early warning system for forecasting climatic conditions, pests and diseases, and food security situation in the country. We will establish more Village and Community Banks country-wide and rehabilitate and construct more feeder roads to link production areas to markets.\nStrengthening Industry and Diversifying Trade\n43. Following the adoption of the Local Content Policy earlier this year, we have demonstrated that we want to see a greater participation of indigenes in industrial activities. My government will also continue to act to transform the largely informal sector into formal operations. Government will strengthen the business climate for indigenous participation and encourage public-private partnerships with indigenes as a means of addressing the issues.\n44. We will act to increase access to business financing by entrepreneurs. We will encourage banks to provide more favourable financing for businesses and entrepreneurs.\n45. Countries are built by the strength of their Small and Medium Size Enterprises. SMEs are effective creators of employment, innovation and growth. This potential exists in our country. That is why we will establish a Commission for Small and Medium Size Enterprises to coordinate our policies and actions for the growth of Small and Medium\u2013Size Enterprises. We will ensure better accommodation for small business operators. We will look into the option of creating business centres to accommodate small business operators. Establishing better market and business centres, especially in urban centres, will become a major focus.\n46. Mr. Speaker, God has blessed this country with immense natural resources. We have iron ore in our mountains, diamonds in our valleys, oil in our coasts, fertile soils everywhere, and our rivers and seas teem with unimaginable marine resources. This generation must claim these blessings; this generation must get the necessary training to make the resources beneficial to every citizen, this generation must move away from just talking about the resources and act productively to bring home the bounties of our natural endowment. The process has already started. There has never been as much interest in our natural resources as at this time, there has never been as much investments as at this time, there has never been as much possibilities of positive transformation as at this time. My second term will be dedicated towards enhancing the capacity of the Sierra Leonean to become the biggest drivers and beneficiaries of the transformation.\nOptimizing returns from our Minerals\n47. My Government will step up efforts to ensure optimum revenue inflows into the national treasury from mining operations, revenue that would be used for the benefit of all Sierra Leoneans. We will also continue to promote employment and skills training opportunities in the mining sector especially for the youth of the country. We will increase the campaign for transparency, public awareness and consultations in the design and granting of concessions and licenses. With significant increases in revenue, we will act towards creating a Transformation Fund to support economic infrastructure, agricultural productivity, human capacity development and social protection.\n48. In the next five years, my Government will continue to promote policies and programmes to ensure the use of increased revenue from the sector to promote pro-poor expenditure by earmarking some of the revenues for improved fishery management through enhancing monitoring, control and surveillance. We will also continue to raise productivity through investment in more productive fishing techniques, processing and promoting competition. Efforts will be directed towards combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through a more stringent surveillance system. Artisanal fishermen will also be protected against the hazards of industrial fishing companies. Additionally, opportunities will be created for small-scale fishermen by encouraging them to form associations to negotiate better terms and benefits from a system of devolved rent. We will also scale up the provision of cold storage facilities at landing sites and during transport.\n49. My Government will embark on an aggressive advertising and positive imaging of the country. Efforts will also be made to promote supportive policy, regulatory framework and long-term planning for tourism. Local content in employment amongst tourist businesses will also be promoted. We will invest in both vocational training and the promotion of mentoring to build a critical mass of human capital in the industry. We will also support local spin-off businesses such as tour guiding, community campsites, craft markets and small and medium enterprises. We will invest in tourism infrastructure such as roads, communications and healthcare facilities that will make the industry more attractive and provide more benefits to the people.\n50. My Government will continue to tap the full potential of our surface and underground water resources with a view to contributing to increased national revenue and promoting the livelihoods of the people. We will invest in the improvement of potable water supply systems across the country. We will promote affordable water technologies to ensure that the poor benefit from improved access. We will promote greater investment in water for hydro-power and growth to increase electricity supply. Additionally, steps would be taken to ensure responsible water management in order to sustain the range of economic services provided by water (irrigation, energy production etc.) as well as the livelihoods and well-being of the poorest populations. We will promote conservation and enhancement of \u201cnatural infrastructure\u201d -aquifers, watersheds, lakes and wetlands - as a sound investment to complement and, in some cases, substitute for artificial storage.\n51. Mr. Speaker, we will develop a comprehensive national land use planning and mapping system based on agro-ecological and economic potentials and social requirements. We will also build capacity for land use and country planning for sustainable development in both urban and rural areas and discourage land grabbing and hoarding. We will set aside land for allocation to the development of social services especially in urban areas and especially for youth development and empowerment. We will also identify and map areas which are prone to natural calamities like floods, landslides and drought for national preparedness. We will ensure the sustainability of land for agricultural development programmes to contribute to national revenue and employment creation and develop specific agricultural land use plans for every district. We will work towards ensuring a more equitable, non-discriminatory and fairer land tenure system in the country.\n52. My Government will continue with serious efforts to promote the realization of the Millennium Development Goal of ensuring environmental sustainability. We will work with all the municipalities to divide cities into several zones and quadrants and institute effective waste management systems. Our administration will use Garbage Disposals as a Revenue Source by encouraging the use of landfill sites to extract methane gas which will be used as another source of energy. This particular intervention will provide employment opportunities for the youth. We will provide necessary support to our forest rangers to actively patrol and protect our forests. We will collaborate with civil society groups, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, local television, local radio and print media to promote awareness raising programmes on the environment. We will enforce all statutes contained in the laws of Sierra Leone designed to protect the environment. We will also enhance early warning and response systems for disaster management.\n53. My Government will continue to promote policies and programmes for the prudent management of our forest resources with stronger emphasis on production and protection. A ban will be placed on the export of round logs in favour of setting up processing facilities to add value before export and to also provide job opportunities for our youth.\nStrengthening the Public Service\n54. Reforming the Public Service was a key area of focus in the last five years. We initiated performance contracts with Ministers and these are also being cascaded to senior cadres of the public service, local councils, and the universities.\n55. In 2007, less than 35% of the 17,560 Civil Servants had records at the then Establishment Secretary\u2019s Office (now Human Resources Management Office). Now, every Civil servant has a file that meets the new standards required for personnel file management.\n56. We re-established the Civil Service Training College (CSTC) with appropriate training modules targeting the special needs of the Public Service. My Government will commence the construction of a Public Service Academy that will operate as a full-time Management Development Institute. We have also designed a multi-year pay reform plan (2011-2015) aimed at improving conditions of service of public servants to realistic and competitive levels. The conditions of service of teachers and civil servants were also improved in 2011.The outdated General Orders have been replaced by a new Civil Service Code of Conduct, Rules and Regulations.\nIn spite of the reforms already undertaken, there are remaining challenges that will compel my Government to further address the situation through a step-wise modernization of the systems, processes and structures of service delivery to make them more effectively and efficiently responsive to the needs of our people.\n57. In the next five years, we would ensure more efficient and higher quality of service delivery across MDAs and establish functioning and predictable administrative and management systems, structures and procedures across MDAs. To support inclusive growth and prosperity, we would focus on improved human resources management and discipline across MDAs; a progressive improvement in the female-male-youth ratio within the Public Service workforce; continue to improve the conditions of service and work environment for public servants; and continue to maintain the neutrality of the Civil Service. To help create jobs and achieve prosperity for all, there will be need to nurture a productivity mindset and improve professional standards within the public service. We will do this in collaboration with MDAs, HRMO and development partners.\nRe-orienting and diversifying education and training for national development\n58. We will act to ensure a wholesome transformation of the Education Sector; for without this transformation our people will benefit very little from the economic boom this country is witnessing. Our people need to be more entrepreneurial, more innovative, and with appropriate skills set to be integral players in the new economy. Our people need competencies in the new information technologies to be competitive and resilient. Our education policies will therefore be guided by this overarching vision: an appropriately educated, entrepreneurial and innovative citizenry, tolerant, productive and internationally competitive. I will establish a Special Presidential Education Initiative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation through which I will personally leverage the wholesome transformation of the Education Sector. More than ever before, this is the time for rethinking the current system from pre-school through tertiary and taking the bold steps to refine it for more productive results.\n59. The Tertiary Education Commission will be strengthened to better lead, coordinate and promote university, vocational and technical education and the relevance of higher education to the transformation of the country.\n60. In the next five years, we will get more youth into vocational and technical institutions to give them appropriate skills for jobs in our growing economy. We will facilitate partnerships between these vocational centres and businesses in the mining, agricultural and tourism sectors to enhance job placements, appropriate skills acquisition, and the work ethic necessary for gainful employment.\n61. We will review and re-orient the national curriculum with a view to providing skills appropriate for the diversified economy we are creating and to addressing issues relating to the environment, needs, rights and values. The training of teachers and workers will be diversified and strengthened. There will be zero-tolerance for underperformance, low standards and poor conduct in schools. We will ensure a realization of the potential for Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in schools and colleges. My Government will encourage the formation of partnerships in educational management processes by involving teachers, parents and governors, as well as community-based organizations, local councils, civil society groups, faith-based organizations and the private sector.\n62. Mr. Speaker, to achieve diversified and sustainable growth and prosperity, we will need a healthy population. We will therefore ensure increased access to health and nutrition services for everybody in terms of availability, utilization and timeliness of delivery. To that end, we will provide more and better functioning hospitals and clinics across the country and ensure better quality of medical and nutrition products and technologies in use within the sector. There will be particular emphasis on equity in health services in terms of meeting the needs of disadvantaged groups. We will continue to provide free health care for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five. We will look into the possibilities of expanding the free healthcare scheme to include other social groups.\nThe high prevalence of teenage pregnancy is an emerging issue of national concern; one of the more pervasive problems affecting the health, social, economic and political progress, and empowerment of women and girls in Sierra Leone. We will work with our partners and engage all sectors of the population in a nationwide effort to tackle this problem.\n63. We will encourage greater inclusiveness in terms of the involvement of well meaning partners in the delivery of health and nutrition services and ensure collaboration and coordination of programmes and partners for synergy. My Government will continue to implement the free healthcare programme and act robustly to increase its effectiveness and efficiency.\n64. My Government will also continue with the on-going reform of the sector and strengthen the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to focus on the core functions of policy formulation and implementation. At the same time, we will continue to push ahead with the devolution of services to the 19 local councils in terms of shifting responsibilities and associated budgets to these Councils for managing the delivery of both primary and secondary health care services.\n65. While efforts in improving interventions in health continue, comparable effort will be directed at achieving improvement in the nutritional status of the population. My Government thus commits itself to addressing the issue of malnutrition especially amongst women and children. We will strive to achieve an optimum number of well qualified and better motivated human resources serving the sector and put in place improved systems and structures for the delivery of better quality health and nutrition services in terms of safety, efficacy, value for money and integration.\nImprove Water and Sanitation Services\n66. My Government will ensure that there are effective and proactive management teams in place within the water and waste management agencies to oversee the effective and efficient delivery of clean drinking water to the general population. We will improve and expand the distribution system for pipe borne water in urban centres, enforce a robust water bill collection system with effective sanctions for defaulters, and put in place effective sanctions for unauthorized tampering of the water distribution system. We will also ensure proactive and effective monitoring and timely correction of wastage and faults. My Government will enhance our current efforts in the area of sensitization on proper hygiene and sanitation practices, and improve and expand the sewage network and disposal system. More resources will be dedicated to ensure that effective solid waste disposal systems are put in place within municipalities. We will encourage greater participation of the private sector in water and waste management. We will reintroduce the Sanitary Inspectors and review and modernize our sanitation laws.\n67. My Government will increase access to housing especially for low income earners and the poor. We will ensure better planned settlements with basic services in both existing and emerging settlements through enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment. We will encourage banks and pension funds to invigorate the mortgage market to address the housing situation. We will continue to encourage private sector interventions in affordable housing.\nImproving and Diversifying Transport, Communication and Information Services\n68. As we aspire towards diversified economic growth and a more prosperous society, we commit ourselves to providing improved transport, communication and information services for our people. We will continue to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the public transport system, providing greater access to faster communication and information dissemination systems throughout the country, and putting more effective regulatory and monitoring systems in place. We will ensure greater safety and dignity of passengers as well as security of goods and services by conducting mass sensitisation on and enforcing adherence to air, sea and land transportation safety regulations.\n69. We will conclude the undersea fibre cable project to provide high speed internet connectivity, expand the penetration of landline and mobile phone communication, and continue to increase the number of public buses for all major towns with appropriate bus stops along the way. We will continue to improve airport transfer by boosting investment in the sector, promote the development of a sub-regional airline. We will further enhance government\u2019s financial support to the Sierra Leone Postal Services to ensure the gradual reactivation of especially its parcel post functions.\nSports and Recreation for a Healthy Society\n70. Engaging Youths in sporting activities would instill discipline and a level of tolerance that would enhance our peace and democracy. We will continue to work for the continuous improvement of the health and fitness of its citizens. We will provide support geared towards achieving higher degrees of sportsmanship, soundness of mind and tolerance among youth. Through the National Youth Commission, we will ensure more meaningful and gainful engagement of young people, which will enable them make a more meaningful contribution to the consolidation of peace and stability. We will use new and available information networks to sensitize the youth on tolerance, peace and reconciliation.\n71. In the next five years, we commit ourselves to improving the levels of financing for sports and recreation. Through this, we will develop the necessary sporting facilities and opportunities in educational institutions. We will continue to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Youth Employment and Sports, other sporting bodies and the National Youth Commission to provide the necessary support for effective youth participation in sporting and recreational activities. In the more inclusive society we envision, private sector participation is vital in all spheres. We will therefore encourage public/private partnership in financing sports and recreation.\n72. Mr. Speaker, we will expand the social insurance coverage of NASSIT to cover informal sector operators including petty traders, artisans and bike riders. To that end, NASSIT is designing a scheme with benefits that will be particularly attractive to the informal sector.\n73. We will take steps to improve and intensify public works schemes for off-farm workers and the urban / peri-urban unemployed. As such we will scale up Workfare Schemes by improving on systems of delivery, expanding coverage and increasing the duration of interventions and linking them up with the building of entrepreneurship skills and creation of productive assets. Strides will also be made to harness the potentials of the physically challenged. In this regard, we will implement the Disability Act 2011. We will also provide innovative training and re-training opportunities in areas including ICT, Creative Arts and entrepreneurship as well as introduce Affirmative Action for the recruitment of the physically challenged within MDAs and through discharge of Corporate Social Responsibility.\n74. We will review and intensify supplementary feeding for lactating mothers and school children. Furthermore, steps will be taken to review and improve enforcement of the Free Primary Schooling Programme and pilot Subsidized Bussing for Pupils and Students in the Municipalities of Koidu, Kenema, Bo, Makeni and Freetown.\nEnhancing National Integrity and Security\n75. Mr. Speaker, peace, security and defence are the foundation stones for a nation to become a prosperous society. We will continue to strengthen our armed forces, the Police and other security sector institutions to protect us as we march towards a prosperous destination in the next five years.\n76. My Government will sustain peace and stability. To that end we will continue the sensitization efforts on political tolerance and peaceful co-existence. We will also continue the propagation of the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change agenda because we believe it has great potential to help us transform our country as a whole, particularly in the way we interact and co-exist with each other.\n77. My Government will improve conditions of service for the Security Forces and intensify their reform.\n78. My Government will continue to rise to the challenges of both urban and rural combat against street crime and terrorism. We realize that Law Reform is critical to the judicial system and the observance of the Rule of Law. In that respect, the Law Reform Commission has recommended modernization of the laws of Sierra Leone in many areas and my Government intends to act upon these within the next five years. We will continue to ensure that all Sierra Leoneans enjoy their fundamental and constitutional rights much more than they have done under previous administrations.\nSustaining the fight against Corruption\n79. Combating corruption has been a major priority of my administration. We will enhance national budgetary allocation to boost the capacity of the Anti-Corruption Commission; build and maintain the Integrity of the Commission\u2019s officials; and effectively extend the fight to the non-public sectors. We will enhance coordination between such institutions and mechanisms for integrity as the Public Accounts Committee, the Audit Service and the Anti-Corruption Commission. We will also intensify the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change campaign targeted at addressing the widespread public ambivalence towards corruption through public education and awareness raising.\n80. Mr. Speaker, even though our democracy has become the envy of many nations, more needs to be done to consolidate our system of governance. Consequently my Government will continue to strengthen the institutions of democracy, creating awareness and acceptance of the basic principles that guide the proper functioning of a democratic process and ensure the continued independence of institutions that promote real democracy. We will ensure a review of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone to ensure that it truly supports a true democracy thriving on a multi-party but inclusive system of government.\n81. We will continue to observe universal human values such as justice, human rights and human dignity, bring government closer to the people through innovative platforms, scale up the prominence of women in elective and appointive positions, deepen the decentralization process, nurture the culture of the separation of powers, encourage a regionally representative Government, an even spread of national development, and encourage collaboration with the Opposition, our Development Partners and civil society in resolving problems through dialogue.\n82. We will ensure that the police uphold a democratic system based on the observance of human rights, facilitate access to justice to all without discrimination, and secure the rule of law based on the norms of accountability, transparency, equality, non-government interference and community participation.\n82. While ensuring the continued autonomy and independence of the judiciary and improving on its efficiency and effectiveness especially in dispensing justice in a corrupt-free fashion, we will also be occupied with the modernization of law enforcement through a review or development of policies and laws that will favour the proper tackling of crime and lawlessness in the country.\nDeepening Decentralization\n84. Mr. Speaker, my Agenda for Prosperity will treat decentralization as an important strategic intervention for the promotion of inclusive and diversified growth, reducing poverty, building local economy and delivering effective services needed for improved wellbeing of the people and prosperity of the nation.\n85. We will roll out the new decentralization policy and conclude the review of the necessary legislation especially the Local Government Act 2004. We will continue to facilitate timely, predictable and increased performance-based transfers to local councils. We will provide direct financial incentives for Local Councils to fully enhance local revenue potentials, and ensure that local revenue contributes meaningfully to local development. We will introduce legislation on local government finance and property taxation that clearly establish procedures for revenue collection and sharing between local and chiefdom councils and the administration of property rates, respectively. Local councils shall be empowered through legislation and policy frameworks to create conducive environments to maximize local economic development.\n86. My Government will continue to promote transparency and accountability in local governance by making local councils directly accountable for their actions to their citizens and nationally while adhering to the best practices of open government.\n87. We will continue to build local ownership and operational efficiency of the decentralization process through effective development planning and budgeting, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, and other managerial functions and to provide an effective link between national development priorities and local level development initiatives.\n88. We shall reform the structure of municipal governance by the creation of new area councils within the City of Freetown, with appropriate functional assignments, and revenue assignment between the area councils and the greater Freetown City Council. Similarly, growing peri-urban towns exhibiting incoherent growth will be upgraded to town councils to prepare them for city status in the medium term. Consequently, all existing Local Council boundaries shall be reviewed and criteria will be set for the establishment of new Town Councils.\n89. We will strengthen Local Councils to coordinate service delivery and development in their localities. Local Government Organizations, such as the Local Councils Association of Sierra Leone (LoCASL) shall be recognized and supported in their role of representing their members. A Coordinating Committee for the Western Area shall be established to coordinate public service delivery, with the same mandate as the existing Provincial Coordinating Committees in the other Provinces.\nStrengthening Chiefdom Governance\n90. Mr. Speaker, my Government recognizes and upholds the principle that Chiefdom and Traditional Administration are important components in the governance and development of Sierra Leone. We will continue to maintain the relevance of the institution of Paramount Chieftaincy; ensure timely filling of chieftaincy and sub-chief vacancies in accordance with the provisions in the Chieftaincy Act; amend the Chieftaincy Act 2009 to ensure its consistency with the Chiefdom Governance and Tribal Administration Policy and the revised Local Government Act 2004 and other relevant legislation; and introduce the Chiefdom Finance Bill for enactment to address the fiscal challenges confronting chiefdom and tribal administration.\n91. We will build the capacities of key functionaries of the Chiefdom Administrative Units to effectively perform their sacred functions of ensuring the people of Sierra Leone live in an environment of peace, stability and development, and one in which respect for customs and tradition is maintained as the foundation for social harmony and peaceful co-existence. Further, we will improve the functional relationship between the Chiefdom and the Local Councils to build synergies and collective responsibility for the overall development of their localities.\n92. We will restate customary laws and usages to inform the formal as well as the local court systems to assist the various actors and the courts in arriving at consistent conclusions to disputes and to generate more coherent understanding of the social context in which they are applicable. Proper sensitization will be undertaken so that people are properly informed and advised on the laws relating to their customs and traditions, and on matters affecting their access to justice.\n93. Deeply embedded socio-cultural practices have over the years skewed the development of women in Sierra Leone and tilted the gender equality scale to the detriment of the nation. In our Agenda for Change, we passed gender equity legislations, appointed women to higher positions more than any government, and ensured the provision of free healthcare to pregnant women, lactating mothers and children.\n94. In our Agenda for Prosperity, we commit ourselves to the delivery of more initiatives with a view to further narrowing the gender inequality and hence facilitate growth. We will scale up all our interventions with a view to facilitating the participation of women in the economy and politics; we will enact legislation on the 30% quota for women in politics; we will encourage women to enter into sectors hitherto traditionally the exclusive reserve of men.\n95. Mr. Speaker, my Government will continue the impressive strides in marketing the country as a destination for international business and investment. We will continue to maintain those relationships we have known, continue to strengthen the emerging ones and build new rewarding ones. My Government will continue making positive contributions to sub-regional, regional and international initiatives which seek to promote democracy and stability, and will always condemn coups and undemocratic assent to power. We will seek to gain prominence and provide leadership where necessary within the various international bodies of which Sierra Leone is a member.\n96. As we continue to conduct our international relations with emphasis on economic diplomacy and a focus on trade and investment promotion, the status of our diplomatic missions and the capacity of our Foreign Service personnel to deliver our foreign policy objectives will be become critical. Additionally, a reassessment of our diplomatic representation shall be undertaken with a view to increasing representation where our strategic interests will be better served by such an increase and a reduction, closure or merger of missions for efficiency in the use of taxpayers monies where this becomes absolutely necessary. We are committed to nurturing a cadre of diplomats well-seasoned in the art of diplomacy and therefore more able to effectively implement our foreign policy objectives.\n97. We shall continue to meet our international obligations in the fight against transnational organized crime including drugs trafficking, child trafficking, money laundering and terrorism; work with other member states to realize the goals of the United Nations, ECOWAS and the MRU with emphasis on the community interest. We shall continue to participate in peacekeeping operations at sub-regional, regional and international levels in furtherance of our national interests and in meeting our international commitments. We shall become a force for peace as well as a force for reform through our efforts within the UN system and manifest renewed faith in the peaceful resolution of international conflicts.\n98. We shall work towards the attainment of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We will ensure the human treatment of refugees at all times.\n99. We remain relentless in maintaining a progressive and unified nation and we will continue to stress our similarities, not our differences. We will take development to every corner of this country because this is right and it is what this nation deserves. We have always believed in gender equality and continue to promote and protect the rights of every citizen irrespective of gender, ethnic group and region. We will harness the capacity of the youth and physically challenged. Everyone deserves attention and fair treatment; and everyone has a role to play in the political and economic development of the country.\n100. Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, on November 17, Sierra Leoneans asserted their rights to choose their leaders. For the presidency they chose me, for members of parliament, they elected persons from the APC and SLPP, and for mayors, chairpersons and councils they again chose the APC and SLPP. They affirmed their faith in the ability of my party, the All People\u2019s Congress, to provide overall leadership for this country, to preside over the transformation and meet the hopes and aspirations of all of the people in the country. I vow to live up to this expectation. I also challenge MPs here present, from both the APC and SLPP, to live up to the faith placed in you by your constituents. I call upon you all, from both the APC and SLPP to be faithful to the aspirations of our people for good laws, fair representation, peace, development, and for dialogue with the holders of executive power. No MP succeeds without dialogue with the Executive, and I know my success as President depends on collaboration and dialogue with the esteemed representatives of the people. I am here today to inaugurate this dialogue, and to ask for your support for the actions I have been elected to take. Our two great political parties have been put together in this house by the people of this country so that we can work together as mandated by the constitutional and legal distinction of the roles of President and Parliament; Government and Opposition, Central Government and Local Council.\n101. The two great parties are in parliament; the two great parties have been mandated to run local governments in the country. In essence the two great parties are in government. As leader of the Government, I hereby vow to respect this inclusion, as regulated by law and as mandated by the assertions of our people. The time for action has come; the time for working together is upon us. The bonds that unite us are stronger than the issues that divide us. We all have relatives, friends, schoolmates and good neighbours in the other political parties, or the other religion and ethnic group. These deep ties are the sources of our unity, the mainstay of our nation; and a cause for thanksgiving.\n102. Let us applaud the beauty of our country, and the friendliness of our people. Let us take pride in our achievements, but let also commit ourselves to building on these achievements. It is not enough for us to rest on these achievements; rather we must work harder on the challenges that we still face. We need to transform our great social friendships into greater political friendships; we need to utilize our religious tolerance to fashion greater political understanding; we need to utilize our ties of daemia and komeneh to transcend the ethnic divisions in our politics.\n103. We need to utilize our heritage of great scholarship to truly commit ourselves to acquiring the skills and discipline required to pick up the blessings God has bestowed upon our country. We need to utilize the best in the traditions and achievements of SLPP and APC to deliver a destiny of peace, development and prosperity for our people. We cannot afford to lose time on bickering, on playing up our bitterness and anger when what is needed by our people is leadership, service delivery, and urgent actions for creating more jobs; more hospitals, more schools, electricity and roads.\n104. My dear compatriots, I have an abiding faith in the desire of every Sierra Leonean to see our country progress. I believe that we all collectively aspire to improved agricultural productivity, increased electricity generation, and the completion of our road building programmes.\n105. Progress on all these fronts is a national necessity. It is Sierra Leone that wins when we progress on creating jobs for the youths; it is Sierra Leone that wins when we promote gender equity; it is Sierra Leone that wins when we collectively bring home the fruits of the Agenda for Prosperity. I want Sierra Leone to win; and the time is now.\n106. God Bless Sierra Leone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 391, "original_length": 66196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sewyouquilt2.com/2013/08/this-is-why.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5VNE5BQRRGQUPWM5E7MY3HKNMRCXLNDW", "length": 534, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sewyouquilt2.com", "title": "sewyouquilt2: this is why", "raw_content": "Dunkin you can wait a little longer buddy........... this is why..\nthere are too many dangers still in the sewing room.........\nbut Mommy will make it nice and let you in soon.\npoor Janome is crying. that must be why Dunkin is always at the door.....\nits lonely in there......\nDunkin will be in there soon enough! Your Janome will be humming away as you set up your sewing room and dive into your sewing!!\nI'll bet you can't wait to get into that room and set Ms. Janome humming! Hugs, Julierose\nHe'll get there soon enough, I'm sure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sfshakes.org/programs/free-shakespeare-in-the-park/free-shakespeare-in-the-park-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:01:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PQZBEJZQGNEXOIGGOIILVVNZR7RQN5H6", "length": 2039, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.sfshakes.org", "title": "Programs - Free Shakespeare in the Park - Free Shakespeare in the Park 2018 - SF Shakespeare Festival", "raw_content": "Thank you to all who attended our2018 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream. We're looking forward to seeing you in 2019 with our musical production of As You Like It .\nThe information below references our 2018 season for Free Shakespeare in the Park.\nAfter producing Hamlet in 2017 to celebrate our 35th Anniversary Season, the company is turning to funnier fare with one of Shakespeare\u2019s most beloved comedies. Free Shakespeare in the Park will also have an earlier start time of 7:00 pm for its evening performances this year, making it easier for families with younger children to enjoy the entire family-friendly production.\nA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream follows the misadventures of four young lovers, a group of aspiring actors, and a team of mischievous fairies as they all enter the woods outside Athens on a summer night. The ensuing hilarity and chaos create an evening filled with love and laughter. Bring your family and friends, a blanket, and a picnic to enjoy professional theater at no charge in a beautiful park setting near you!\n2018 Performance schedule for A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream:\nPleasanton\u2019s Amador Valley Community Park (Santa Rita Road and Black Avenue)\n- Saturday, June 30 at 7:00 pm\n- Sunday, July 1 at 7:00 pm\n- Saturday, July 7 at 7:00 pm\n- Saturday, July 14 at 7:00 pm\n- Sunday, July 15 at 7:00 pm\n- Thursday, July 26 at 7:00 pm (Newly added Thursday show!)\n- Friday, July 27 at 7:00 pm\n- Thursday, August 2 at 7:00 pm (Newly added Thursday show!)\n- Friday, August 3 at 7:00 pm\n- Saturday, August 4 at 7:00 pm\n- Sunday, August 5 at 7:00 pm\n- Saturday, August 11 at 7:00 pm\n- Sunday, August 12 at 4:00 pm\n- Saturday, September 1 at 2:00 pm\n- Sunday, September 2 at 2:00 pm\n- Monday, September 3 at 2:00 pm (Labor Day)\nSan Francisco\u2019s McLaren Park (Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, 40 John F. Shelley Drive)\n- Saturday, September 15 at 2:00 pm\n- Sunday, September 16 at 2:00 pm\n- Friday, September 21 at 10:00 am\nPhil Lowery+ Assistant Director\nAmelia Adams+ Mask and Movement Specialist", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 174.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.silverstreams.com/albums/album_image/1962167/560826.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:40Z", "digest": "sha1:ARHTI7Q4SUU2ZWXNX5Z7XR6XLIEHHBQJ", "length": 23, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.silverstreams.com", "title": "Image", "raw_content": "The Owyhee River Canyon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 77.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.slaw.ca/2018/06/20/wednesday-whats-hot-on-canlii-272/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SZB7377AV3FERTSLONCWFKZAQZVWGVIX", "length": 3474, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.slaw.ca", "title": "\ufeff Wednesday: What\u2019s Hot on CanLII \u2013 Slaw", "raw_content": "1. Abramovitz v. Lee, 2018 ONSC 3684\n[27] I accept and find that Mr Abramovitz lost a unique and prestigious educational opportunity, one that would have advanced his career as a professional clarinetist. It is difficult to quantify such a loss. Mr Abramovitz\u2019s life and career have continued. Imagining how his life would have been different if he had studied for two years under Mr Gilad, and earned his teacher\u2019s respect and support, requires more speculation than the law permits, One hears, particularly in the arts, of the \u201cbig breaks\u201d that can launch a promising artist to a stratospheric career. I cannot speculate as too high and how quickly Mr Abramovitz\u2019s career might have soared, but for the interference by Ms Lee. But the law does recognize that the loss of a chance is a very real and compensable loss.[7]\n2. Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Western University, 2018 SCC 32\n[1] Trinity Western University (TWU), an evangelical Christian postsecondary institution, seeks to open a law school that requires its students and faculty to adhere to a religiously based code of conduct prohibiting \u201csexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman\u201d.\n[2] At issue in this appeal is a decision of the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) not to recognize TWU\u2019s proposed law school. TWU and Brayden Volkenant, a graduate of TWU\u2019s undergraduate program who would have chosen to attend TWU\u2019s proposed law school, successfully brought judicial review proceedings to the Supreme Court of British Columbia, arguing that the LSBC\u2019s decision violated religious rights protected by s. 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Court of Appeal for British Columbia found that the LSBC should have approved the law school.\n3. Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2018 SCC 33\n[2] This appeal concerns the decision of the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), made through a resolution of its Benchers, to deny accreditation to TWU\u2019s proposed law school. TWU and Brayden Volkenant, a graduate of TWU\u2019s undergraduate program who would have chosen to attend TWU\u2019s proposed law school, sought judicial review of the LSUC\u2019s decision on the basis that it violated religious rights protected by s. 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. TWU and Mr. Volkenant were unsuccessful in their application for judicial review in the Ontario Divisional Court and in their subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. They now appeal to this Court.\nThe most-consulted French-language decision was R. c. Piazza, 2018 QCCA 948\n[24] L\u2019unique question en litige est donc de savoir si les policiers ont enfreint le droit \u00e0 l\u2019assistance d\u2019un avocat vis\u00e9 par l\u2019alin\u00e9a 10b) de la Charte qui prot\u00e8ge toute personne d\u00e9tenue ou arr\u00eat\u00e9e. Elle met en cause la tension qui existe entre le droit \u00e0 l\u2019avocat et l\u2019ordre de fournir imm\u00e9diatement un \u00e9chantillon d\u2019haleine : R. v. George, 2004 CanLII 6210 (ON CA), 2004 CanLII 6210, par. 1 (C.A.O.). Dans l\u2019arr\u00eat R. v. Quansah, 2012 ONCA 123 (CanLII), la Cour \u00e9crit au par. 14 \u00ab we are yet again asked to consider what the \u201cforthwith\u201d requirement in s. 254(2) means \u00bb. Pourtant, la Cour supr\u00eame s\u2019est prononc\u00e9e \u00e0 plusieurs reprises sur la question. Manifestement, la situation ne semble pas claire.\n\u00ab Previous: From Lexis, \u201cCanada at 150: Building a Free and Democratic Society\u201d and a New \u201cRule of Law Report\u201d Next: Preliminary Thoughts on Green, Groia and TWU \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 10531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smyyth.com/Terms-Of-Use/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:55:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ES4IQPZGGY276ZHDJLED5ROKGEMHSN37", "length": 3884, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.smyyth.com", "title": "Terms Of Use", "raw_content": "TERMS OF USE REVISED June 27, 2016\nPlease read the following information carefully before using this website.\nBy using this site, the customer, subscriber, or user (collectively \u201cyou\u201d), is agreeing to these Terms of Use. 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You agree irrevocably to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.\nInformation requests may be directed to info@smyyth.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 6812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.solzyatthemovies.com/tag/the-ballad-of-lefty-brown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TSI6CO4JWJZAPTMGSL2GXZENBUCZODDJ", "length": 590, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.solzyatthemovies.com", "title": "The Ballad of Lefty Brown Archives - Solzy at the Movies", "raw_content": "Tag: The Ballad of Lefty Brown\nChicago Film Festival: The Ballad of Lefty Brown\nThe Ballad of Lefty Brown shows that the western isn\u2019t dead and gives actor Bill Pullman a showcase role in the thriller. Written and directed by Jared Mosh\u00e9, Pullman leads a cast that includes Bill Pullman, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel, Joe Anderson, Diego Josef, Tommy Flanagan and Peter Fonda. Edward Johnson (Fonda) gets elected as a senator of Montana and Lefty Brown (Pullman) is by his side when he\u2019s shot to death. Nobody ever takes Brown\u2013a sidekick for\u2026\n\"Chicago Film Festival: The Ballad of Lefty Brown\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.somethinggoodtoread.com/2015/07/sequel-of-classic-novel-to-kill.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:13:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VOKZS7XL74XSRXSKYVF4E2GT55R4SKPS", "length": 668, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.somethinggoodtoread.com", "title": "Something Good to Read: Sequel of the Classic Novel \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" Will Appear Next Week (July 14)", "raw_content": "Sequel of the Classic Novel \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" Will Appear Next Week (July 14)\nGo Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee and a sequel to her classic To Kill a Mockingbird, will become available next week. Will you be reading it? If so, let us know on our Facebook page!\nWhile you are waiting for Go Set a Watchman, check out Stephen Witt's book How Music Got Free, the story of how mp3 technology and music piracy transformed the music industry. It is an interesting and highly entertaining read. Even if you think you aren't interested in the music business, you will nonetheless definitely like reading How Music Got Free.\nHighly recommended: How Music Got Free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?cat=7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:11Z", "digest": "sha1:GOLHDT3USPEDHXM32XRVIEGZSLHCTQGB", "length": 16193, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "www.sparselysageandtimely.com", "title": "History \u00ab Sparsely Sage and Timely", "raw_content": "\u2018To be a junkie is to live in a madhouse\u2019\nA friend I met in Sausalito\u2019s No Name Bar where I go Friday evenings to listen to jazz, poet Paul LeClerc, has again recommended a fascinating book I would not know about otherwise. It\u2019s Cain\u2019s Book by Alexander Trocchi. As The New Yorker once commented, \u201cMr. Trocchi\u2019s ideas\u2026are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry.\u201d\nPoet Paul LeClerc in Sausalito\u2019s No Name Bar.\nThis is the third book LeClerc has recommended that is set in a low-rent, mostly industrial area along the docks of Manhattan Island. The first two were Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell and Joe Gould\u2019s Teeth by Jill Lepore, which I wrote about in the postings linked above. Much of LeClerc\u2019s interest in that setting stems from his having driven taxis in New York City, where he also worked in bookstores. (He later did the same in San Francisco.)\nAlexander Trocchi as a young man with his typewriter .\nBorn in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1925, Alexander Trocchi in his 20s moved to Paris where he became a life-long heroin addict. He wrote six pornographic novels and edited an avant-garde literary magazine, Merlin. The magazine lasted from 1952 to 1954 when the US State Department canceled its many subscriptions because, according to Trocchi, of an article by Jean Paul Sartre that praised the homoeroticism of writer Jean Genet.\nTrocchi then moved to the US, first to Taos and later settling in New York City, where he became a bargeman on a Hudson River scow. The character Joe Necchi in Cain\u2019s Book is a stand-in for Trocchi. Often Joe spends days alone moored on a scow, at night sleeping in a shack atop the deck. Inside the shack he fixes himself with heroin, smokes marijuana and cigarettes, and types manuscripts by the light of kerosene lamps.\nOn the scow, \u201cI became fascinated by the minute-to-minute sensations, and when I reflected, I did so repetitively and exhaustingly (often under marijuana) on the meaninglessness of the texture of the moment, the cries of gulls, a floating spar, a shaft of sunlight, and it wasn\u2019t long before the sense of being alone overtook me and drained me of all hope of ever entering the city with its complicated relations.\u201d\nAlexander Trocchi with his wife Lyn Hicks.\nTrocchi neither condemns nor romanticizes heroin addition. He simply shows what it is like. His character Joe lives in an unmoral world where junkies rip off their friends. Joe seduces men and other men\u2019s wives. Women resort to prostitution to pay for their drugs.\nAnd it was all real. When Cain\u2019s Book was published in 1960, notes Wikipedia, \u201cTrocchi was deep in the throes of heroin addiction; he even failed to attend his own launch party for [the book]. His wife prostituted herself on the streets of the Lower East Side.\u201d\nTrocchi playing chess with pieces made from used heroin syringes.\n\u201cTo be a junkie is to live in a madhouse,\u201d Joe muses. \u201cLaws, police forces, armies, mobs of indignant citizenry crying mad dog. We are perhaps the weakest minority which ever existed; forced into poverty, filth, squalor, without even the protection of a legitimate ghetto.\u201d\nGrowing up, Joe had also been in poverty \u2014 but not because of drugs. His mother took care of the house, but his father became a total shirker and stopped contributing anything, he recalls. \u201cWhenever I contemplated our poverty and how it situated me at the edge of an uncrossable gulf at whose far side strolled those fortunate few who had lived their lives in well-mannered leisure, I felt like a tent pegged down in a high wind.\u201d\nYet for all this, Cain\u2019s Book is not a downer. Rather it\u2019s enlightening, making it understandable how some people get hooked on heroin and what then happens to them. Norman Mailer called the book \u201cdifferent from other books: it is true, it has art, it is brave.\u201d In a time when this country is in what\u2019s called \u201can opiod crisis,\u201d Cain\u2019s Book makes clear that it is possible to become addicted and yet examine oneself through art.\nTrocchi died of pneumonia in 1984 at the age of 59.\nThere goes Fall\u2026 or Autumn?\nMy appointment book says Sunday, Sept. 23, will be the \u201cfirst day of fall.\u201d My Humane Society calendar says it will be the day \u201cautumn begins.\u201d Which is it? Or both? And if so, why does the season have two names. Both originate in the British Isles, but \u201cautumn\u201d is the more-common term there while fall is preferred here in the US.\nFrom what I read, \u201cfall\u201d came into use around the 1500s in such terms as \u201cfall of the year\u201d or \u201cfall of the leaf.\u201d Within a century it was contracted to simply \u201cfall.\u201d Autumn, which comes from the Latin autumnus by way of the French automne, means the same thing but didn\u2019t become popular in the British Isles until the 1600s.\nEvery year in West Marin, leaves with fall colors \u2014 poison oak\u2019s red leaves in particular \u2014 decorate the countryside. Which reminds me of my itchy youth in Berkeley. When I was learning to read and write at Hillside Elementary School, one teacher at the start of a school year told our class to write poems about autumn. Expressing my chagrin at the end of vacation, I wrote:\n\u201cAutumn, it comes in the fall./ Autumn should not come at all./ For when it\u2019s fall, it is a rule/ All of us go back to school.\u201d I can\u2019t remember the teacher\u2019s reaction to my rhyme, but I know she didn\u2019t always understand what I wrote. When I once used \u201cmise\u201d in a paper, she drew a circle around it. \u201cWhat\u2019s that word?\u201d she asked. I was astounded that she didn\u2019t know. My parents were always saying, \u201cWe mise well do this\u201d or, \u201cWe mise well do that.\u201d\nThe summer was so dry that the horses grazing on the hill next to Mitchell cabin ate down all the grass and are now living off bales of hay distributed by their owners.\nA hillside in the Murray Buttes region of Mars. (NASA photo)\nMars or mythology? Recently while looking into the origins of words, I became curious as to the origin of \u201cHesperian.\u201d There\u2019s a city called Hesperia in San Bernardino County and an Elementary School called Hesperian in San Lorenzo. Hesperian is also the name of a major boulevard which parallels the Nimitz freeway in Hayward.\nBut when I looked up Hesperian in Wikipedia, the first definition listed said, \u201cThe Hesperian is a geologic system and time period on the planet Mars characterized by widespread volcanic activity and catastrophic flooding that carved immense outflow channels across the surface.\u201d The Hesperian probably began about 3700 million years ago. Why would anyone name a city, or a school, or a boulevard after that?\nApparently as it\u2019s being used, however, Hesperian suggests \u201cwestern.\u201d In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Hesperides referred to both a garden producing golden apples at the western edge of the world and to nymphs who guarded the garden with the aid of a dragon. Again I ask: why would anyone name a city, or a school, or a boulevard \u2014 even in the West \u2014 after nymphs with a dragon or their garden?\nIn keeping with the western garden myth of Hesperides, the Greeks called the Evening Star (which rises in the west) \u201cHesperus.\u201d Even if this were the reference, I would similarly ask: why anyone would name a city, a school, or a boulevard after the evening star?\nTomales Founders Day\u2019s short parade and big festival\nTomales celebrated its annual Founders\u2019 Day Sunday with its traditional parade down the main street and festival in the town park. Tomales artist and cartoonist Kathryn LeMieux incorporated her California Mermaids characters into this scene, which she painted for the festival poster.\nA Coast Guard honor guard marched at the head of the parade.\nThe parade was more spread out than in years past. Fewer floats took part. Tomales High did not send cheerleaders as it often does. Nor was there the usual contingent of antique cars, farm tractors, etc. but the crowd was still enthusuastic.\nAs is common at parades in West Marin, more than a few participants threw wrapped candies to kids along their route. Meanwhile the festival, which included a variety of food booths, art offerings, and music, was packed and convivial.\nThe Boy Scouts provided their own color guard. Tomales\u2019 main street is Highway 1, which had to be closed through town during the parade.\nThe parade marshals turned out to be sisters, Mary Zimmerman and Kathleen Sartori.\nTomales rancher Al Poncia and his wife Cathie rode a three-wheeled motorcycle that was pulling a trailer with a keg labeled \u201cPapa\u2019s Grappa.\u201d\nThe Hubbub Club from the Graton-Sebastopol area of Sonoma County.\nTomales sheepman Dan Erickson drove a truck marked \u201cZOOMALES,\u201d which was loaded with plants and scary-looking creatures.\nA \u201cTomales Baby Boom\u201d entry celebrated the \u201cfuture\u201d Future Farmers of America.\nE Clampus Vitus is annually a colorful participant in the parade. The Clampers are a boisterous club which pulls pranks but also puts up memorials for events in local history considered too small for the State Historical Society to commemorate. The Los Angeles Times once mused whether the group should be considered an \u201chistorical drinking society or a drinking historical society.\u201d\nThe 1877 William Tell House bar and restaurant, the oldest saloon in the county (the building on the left), reopened last month under new ownership.\nMexican dancers, who pull their own drums with them, add excitement to many parades around here.\nNot so excited was this participant who appeared to doze off while riding in a parade entry.\nFar more excited was this canine passenger, Rylo, riding with Karen Lawson in Curtis McBurney\u2019s parade entry.\nProviding music for the festival in Tomales Town Park was a group called Foxes in the Henhouse.\nAlong with all the food, music, and crafts in the park, townspeople could sign up to become volunteer firefighters or to take Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training. Kids could climb, swing, and take slides in the park\u2019s small playground. In short, there was something for everyone.\nTurning up a grim bit of medical history\nThis week\u2019s journey started out when Sausalito poet Paul LeClerc and I got to talking during a break in the jazz one Friday evening at the No Name Bar. As noted in my July 8 posting, he recommended I read Joseph Mitchell\u2019s 1938 book Joe Gould\u2019s Secret, so I did. Not surprisingly, the author\u2019s style turned out to be extremely engaging, for Mitchell was a longtime writer for The New Yorker. Much of the book had already appeared in that magazine. Whenever that had happened, Gould received some much-desired publicity.\n\u2014 Poet Paul LeClerc (in white hat) at the No Name Bar\nAs I wrote last time, Gould was an unemployable eccentric who frequented the dive bars of New York City. Sometimes he called himself Professor Seagull. He claimed he\u2019d learned the language of seagulls and had translated various poems into \u201cseagull language.\u201d He survived on donations of money, food, and clothing.\nTo justify his having no job and no money, Gould told people he was busy writing \u201cthe longest book in the history of the world.\u201d He called it An Oral History of Our Time and was constantly recording in composition books conversations he was overhearing. The \u201csecret\u201d was that there was no such book, only a bunch of his notebooks, as Mitchell (below right) would discover. Gould was eventually hospitalized with a variety of physical and mental problems and died with people still looking for a copy of his Oral History.\n\u2014 Los Angeles Times illustration\nThe story fascinated a college student named Jill Lepore (left), and one semester she joined the hunt for Gould\u2019s missing Oral History as part of a thesis. Her paper became the genesis of her 2015 book titled Joe Gould\u2019s Teeth. With its 77 pages of footnotes, it\u2019s probably better researched then any other book I\u2019ve read. Appropriately, Lepore, now 52, has become a professor of American History at Harvard as well as a staff writer for The New Yorker.\nLepore depicts Gould in far less flattering terms than Mitchell did. \u201cJoe Gould was a toothless mad man who slept in the street,\u201d Lepore writes, also noting that he sometimes \u201cbunked in flophouses.\u201d She also describes Gould\u2019s obsession with sculptor Augusta Savage and his behavior toward her after she rejected his marriage proposal. Gould became so distraught he had to be hospitalized, and upon his release, he began stalking her.\nThis gets us to a stunning revelation that explains the title Joe Gould\u2019s Teeth. Gould over time was admitted to several psychiatric hospitals, and \u201cit was likely at Central Islip [hospital in New York] that Gould (above) lost his teeth,\u201d Lepore concludes. \u201c\u2018The first thing they did with all patients was take out all their teeth,\u2019 wrote the psychiatrist Muriel Gardiner recalling her residency at a mental hospital in New Jersey at the time. This was on the theory, she explained, \u2018that mental illness of any sort was always the result of a physical infection.'\u201d\nLepore subsequently notes: \u201cIn New Jersey, Gardiner found the care of patients in the state mental hospital appalling. What most distressed her was the removal of their teeth. \u2018I read their charts,\u2019 she later said, \u2018and some of them literally had had teeth, tonsils, appendix, uterus, every organ that you can live without removed for no apparent reason except they were schizophrenic\u2026. None of them had ever got better.'\u201d\nThat medical quackery explains the title Joe Gould\u2019s Teeth. Oddly enough, Lepore merely refers to it only twice briefly and well before the conclusion. It\u2019s almost as if that cruelty were incidental to her account and not the focus of the book\u2019s title. But since Lepore writes for The New Yorker, I won\u2019t second-guess her style.\nSeeing coyotes can be fascinating \u2014 unless you\u2019re a sheep rancher (or a sheep)\nThere were no coyotes in West Marin for 40 years because of poisoning by sheep ranchers in northwest Marin and southern Sonoma counties. However, coyotes never disappeared from northern Sonoma County, and after the Nixon Administration banned the poison 10-80, they started spreading south and showed up here again in 1983.\nA lean coyote on my driveway last week. (Photo by my neighbor Dan Huntsman)\nIn the years since then, coyotes put an end to more than half of the sheep ranching around Marshall, Tomales, Dillon Beach, and Valley Ford.\nA coyote eyes my car as I park at Mitchell cabin.\nRanchers initially proposed outfitting their sheep with poison collars since coyotes typically go for the throat. The collars would not save the sheep that was bitten but would prevent the attacker from killing more sheep. The collars were not allowed, however, on grounds that a coyote which died from poisoning could, in turn, poison buzzards and other carrion eaters that came upon it.\nA coyote runs past my kitchen door.\nIn 1995, Tomales sheep rancher Roy Erickson told The Point Reyes Light he had lost six ewes \u2014 most of them pregnant \u2014 to coyotes in the previous two weeks. Back then, each ewe sold for $85, and the unborn lambs would have been worth the same amount the following year. Financially, \u201cit\u2019s like someone slashing a pair of new tires every few days,\u201d Erickson said.\nUnless the state loosened its ban on toxic collars, the sheep rancher sarcastically remarked, \u201cthey\u2019ll have to rename our place Fat Buzzard Ranch.\u201d Fortunately, the ranch was able to survive.\nCoyotes can walk at more than 20 mph and run considerably faster than 30 mph.\nTomales sheepman Dan Erickson today told me that thanks to special fencing, guard dogs, and hunting, there are still 10 or more sheep ranches in the Marshall, Tomales, Dillon Beach, and Valley Ford region. Coyotes continue to kill a few sheep, but they haven\u2019t won yet. I\u2019m happy to report we\u2019re not hearing the ranchers howling, as the coyotes do almost every evening.\nA sad afterward: Friday evening, July 20, Lynn and I were on Lucas Valley Road when we saw a young coyote walking in the grass beside the road. This was on the flats about a mile and a half east of Big Rock, and since there are no sheep ranches in the area, seeing it was a treat. Alas, later that evening when we passed the same spot while driving home to Point Reyes Station, we came upon a flattened coyote in the roadway. What a shock! Dammit, we all need to slow down at night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 42698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.speedmonkey.co.uk/2012/08/formula-e-electric-racing-cars.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DFU2CIIOJSKEXB2WPS2W6PBLBGMKGG32", "length": 3169, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.speedmonkey.co.uk", "title": "Speedmonkey: Formula E - New Formula for electric race cars", "raw_content": "Formula E - New Formula for electric race cars\nFondtech\nA new 'Formula E' race series has been sanctioned by the FIA and launched by a group of businessmen including Paul Drayson who runs Drayson racing Technologies.\nThe series will cost about \u20ac50million to launch and will involve 10 teams each running two cars\nThe promoters aim for ten different street races in city centre locations such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai, Sydney, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Miami and Los Angeles - although we note London, nor anywhere in the UK, is included in the list.\nThe series aims to launch in 2014 with 10 teams, expanding to 14 in 2015. The races themselves are scheduled to be one hour long but, with the batteries only forecast to last 15-20 minutes, pitstops will actually involve drivers hopping out of one car and into another with a freshly charged battery.\nJean Todt, FIA president, said in statement, \"This new competition at the heart of major cities is certain to attract a new audience. The new events will provide a great way to engage the younger generation. This spectacular series will offer both entertainment and a new opportunity to share FIA values with a wide audience as clean energy, mobility and sustainability.\"\nThe season-winning team will get \u20ac2 million euros and race winning drivers will share a \u20ac4 million euro prize fund.\nOwner of the Addax team, Alejandro Agag, said, \"We see this as a great opportunity to create a new and exciting spectacle mixing racing, clean energy and sustainability, looking to the future. We expect this Championship to become the framework for research and development around the electric car, a key element for the future of our cities.\"\nSo that's the PR fluff out of the way.\nThe cars themselves will vary in terms of looks. This article carries pictures of three concepts. The Bluebird car looks fantastic whilst the Fondtech car looks very odd. The designed issued by the Formula E organisers with their press release looks like a Formula 3 car.\nWhatever the looks we already have an idea of the noise they will make. They won't be silent - more like a woosh. Definitely quiet enough for the city locations proposed.\nBut will it actually happen? Many race series have been proposed before and then slowly bitten the dust with unpaid manufacturers, angry promoters and bemused fans.\nFormula E concept\nThe finances proposed to run all of Formula E for the first year would keep a Formula 1 team going for about six months. And these are wildly ambitious concepts. But then again small, independent teams manage to run cars at Le Mans to a budget.\nWhat is obvious is that there is a huge amount of goodwill attached to Formula E. The organisers talk about the series acting as an accelerated R&D programme for the teams involved. Maybe the likes of Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Toyota et al will be interested.\nAs long as the races can be properly organised, enough teams can be attracted and the rules written clearly enough that teams are not accused of cheating then it looks as if Formula E may well have a future.\nWe wish the organisers well. But surely there must be room for a UK race on the calendar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spiritexchange.com/blog/meet-alumni-award-finalist-tugba", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:29:51Z", "digest": "sha1:SNCSSCUA774XFZHMBSRW2PGJA33LZRD4", "length": 7291, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.spiritexchange.com", "title": "Meet Alumni Award Finalist Tugba | Spirit Exchange", "raw_content": "Meet Alumni Award Finalist Tugba\nIn honor of our 15th anniversary in 2017, Spirit Cultural Exchange launched its first Alumni Awards contest in August. Our goal was to identify and publicize former participants who have gone on to do significant things in their home countries and are/were particularly motivated by their SWT experience.\nWe received over 90 applications from past participants that have done great things since returning to their home countries. We got a variety of applicants\u2026 we heard from participants that now work for the government in their home country, some who became entrepreneurs and others who use their language skills to teach others English. But the one thing they all had in common was the impact the Summer Work and Travel experience had on their future.\nAfter much consideration, we narrowed down our search and selected 11 finalists that we thought best exemplified the impact that the SWT program could have on an individual.\nFinalist, Tugba Bademci, came from Turkey to participate in the Summer Work Travel program in 2008. She now uses the English language skills she gained from her program in her work as an English teacher and as a volunteer at the Turkish Lady Bug project. Learn more about her story below!\nCan you tell us about your experience in Wyoming at Grand Teton Lodge Company?\nIn 2008, when I was studying at university, I worked as a busser and lived there for 3 months. It was a great experience because I met lots of people from Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Jamaica. We are still friends today.\nThe first week, I couldn\u2019t speak English or understand what I was saying. In Turkey, I was studying English language and literature. It\u2019s my job but I had never been exposed to any native speakers. After one week I started speaking and understanding English. You can see now that I can speak English thanks to that program!\nCan you tell us about an experience you had or a person you met in the US that made an impression on you?\nOn September 11th, we were in New York and were searching for hotels. I was with two of my friends and all the hotels were full. We were afraid. A woman came to us and asked \u201cWhat\u2019s your problem?\u201d We explained we were going back to our country but had three days in New York and all hotels were full. She found a hotel for us, made reservations, and then she explained she was pregnant and expecting three girls. It was great for me and I have never forgotten her.\nCan you tell us how you think your J1 experience changed your perspective on the US and its people?\nBefore going there I just lived in two cities in Turkey. I had never been to any foreign country. America is a dream country for us. Going there was perfect for me. Before going I couldn\u2019t believe that American people are hospitable. Everyone was cheerful, they want to help you, and they want to speak with you. The people always encourage me and teach me English.\nBefore I left, I just knew Turkish people. But during my program I met American, Jamaican, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian people and we are still friends. This experience enhanced my perspective and changed my lifestyle! Today I am a good teacher, good mother, and a qualified person thanks to the Work and Travel program.\nYou mentioned on your application how it\u2019s not likely for Turkish people to get jobs when they\u2019re 19 years old, but you got a job and made sure your grades were okay to go on the program. Can you tell us what made you want to work so hard to come to the US?\nIn Turkey, an 18 year old girl cannot go abroad. One day I went to my father and said I want to go to the US. He told me if I had money I can go so then I started working. I collected money and then went to my father with the money. My mom got angry and said to my father to say no. My father said I promise her if she had money, she could go. So then they let me.\nIn USA, a lot of Turkish guys were shocked when they saw me and wondered how my family let me go. But they encouraged me and I felt their support.\nCan you tell us the impact that the program had on your professional career?\nThere is a school here, which is run by the government that can choose their own teachers. The headmaster called me and asked me, \u201cCan you speak English?\u201d I am an English teacher but in Turkey, English teachers can\u2019t speak English fluently as they don\u2019t have any abroad experience. I said I lived in US, I joined the Work and Travel program and can speak English like my mother tongue. He accepted me and I was chosen for the Project School.\nEnglish is the love of my life! I really love my job and want to share my abroad experience with my students. I went to the US and it still has impact on my life. I wanted my students to go abroad and I applied for a program and we won. In March I am going abroad with ten of my students.\nI volunteer for the Turkish Lady Bug project, an assembly composed of volunteer young people who give free personal development seminars to children in need. The students are 10-20 years old and live in different regions in Turkey. I have given personal development seminars to more than 7,000 people sharing my Work and Travel and life experiences. I think different from most of the Turkish people because I had a different experience from them.\nAre there specific skills that you learned on the program that you bring to your everyday life?\nTraveling. Before going there, traveling is just a hobby. Now I want to travel everywhere. Traveling doesn\u2019t mean just visiting attractions. Now I wonder in the streets, I meet the people, and I speak to them. Traveling is different after the Work and Travel program.\nWhy are cross-cultural exchange programs important to you?\nI\u2019m a teacher and I want to share everything with my students. I teach not just English, but I teach American and British culture to them. They are living in a small city and if I don\u2019t share everything with them, they will die in that small city. I enhance their perspective and encourage them to go to university. I\u2019m model of that \u2013 everyone in my school wants my experience.\nWhy do you think the White House should reconsider canceling the J-1 program?\nFor students living in Turkey, America is a dream country. Without J-1 programs we couldn\u2019t go there. It\u2019s impossible! Getting a visa is really difficult, the currency is really high here, and America is a very expensive country. So if they don\u2019t keep the J-1 program, no students can come to America and have an experience like that.\nWhat advice do you have for people considering coming on the J-1 program?\nFor eight years I have advised lots of students about this program. So I would say every student needs to go there to work and experience new cultures. Working conditions in Turkey and in America is very different, the education system is different, tolerance in America is very high and tolerance in Turkey is not so high. So it is good for them to be able to see these differences.\nI believe that I\u2019m leader and I\u2019ll touch lots of students and teachers. In my city I founded a project and I have 600 volunteer teachers that I communicate with. I want to go the International Youth Conference and be able to share my experience with my students, colleagues, and my Turkish Lady Bug volunteers.\nClick here to learn more about Tugba and her experiences!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 10942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ssusc.org/october-7-2015-the-new-york-times/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BOY237DCBX3NRG4N7XF5QV4LDFNY42KS", "length": 317, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ssusc.org", "title": "October 7, 2015 \u2013 The New York Times | SS United States Conservancy", "raw_content": "Friends of the S.S. United States Send Out a Last S.O.S. October 7.2015 \u2013 The New York Times\nThe SS United States Conservancy was recently featured in The New York Times. 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After yesterday's post, which ended rather abruptly, I talked to Hubby about the trail running and he brought up a good point that I had forgotten. Last time I did any serious trail running I began a cycle of sprained ankles that lead to where I am now. I was in really good shape running, biking, swimming, doing road races and triathlons, and basically feeling like a million bucks. Then I decided to try trail running. I did it a few times and really liked it so made it a regular part of my routine. Then I twisted my ankle and was out of everything for a few days. When I got back into it I quickly twisted the other ankle and was out again. This went on for about 4 months. I would twist one then the other then the first. Now I believe that my right ankle is weak because of this. I can twist it walking on flat ground if I don't have good, solid shoes on. After talking to him I realized that that may have been what was tickling the back of my mind and why I was a little anxious about it. Once I thought about it I decided that was not a good option at this time. I'm heavier then I was then. I'm not as athletic/muscular as I was then. I'm not as agile as I was then. So I'm not going to do it. What I am going to do is get the workout room in some semblance of order so that I have room to do more than my elliptical. I don't have the money to get the shelving I need to put everything away but I can move things to a corner and out of my way until we do get the shelves we want. Once the workout room is in order I'll be able to do my DVD's again which is truly what I love anyway. I may even get a treadmill. 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All 39 episodes from the debut season--including \"Matt Gets It,\" \"Smoking Out... more info $13.75was $22.98 Buy Now\nRobert Gist was a prolific actor who created a name for himself largely on the big screen. Gist kickstarted his acting career in various films such as \"Miracle on 34th Street\" (1947), \"A Dangerous Profession\" (1949) and the James Stewart dramatic biopic \"The Stratton Story\" (1949). He also appeared in \"Scene of the Crime\" (1949), the Scott Brady drama \"I Was a Shoplifter\" (1950) and the comedy \"The Jackpot\" (1950) with James Stewart. He kept working in film throughout the fifties, starring in the Fred Astaire adaptation \"The Band Wagon\" (1953), \"D-Day the Sixth of June\" (1956) and the dramatic adaptation \"The Naked and the Dead\" (1958) with Aldo Ray. He also appeared in \"The F.B.I. Story\" (1959). 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Prof. Desislava Petrova-Antonova, Ph.D.\nSU, FMI - Block 2, 125 \"Tsarigradsko shose\" Blvd., floor 3, room 305, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria\nE-mail: d.petrova@fmi.uni-sofia.bg\nProgram Vice-Manager:\nAssist. Prof. Sia Tsolova, Ph.D.\nE-mail: siyat@fmi.uni-sofia.bg, s.valentinova@gmail.com\nImportant indicator of economic growth in the 80s was the quality of products and services, and in the 90s - reengineering of business processes. In recent years the main advantage comes from creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship based on the mobility of intellectual capital, financial capital and technology is one of the main factors in achieving competitive economic advantage. The growing economy is characterized by innovative businesses and the need to develop markets, bringing together public and private sectors in harmony. Established global competitive companies create value based on economics of knowledge and innovation, not based on low cost resources.\nMaster's program in \u201cTechnology Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Information Technology\u201d delivers students the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively, efficiently and actively participate in innovative business processes and entrepreneurial companies. It is designed for people looking for education and training in the field of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and the creation of new companies, such as undergraduates and graduates in science and engineering fields; entrepreneurs, who need additional expertise and resources; working engineers and specialists, who want to start their own business.\nProgram curricula (in Bulgarian), Program presentation (in Bulgarian) at official Faculty web site\nThe main advantage of the program lies in combining the talents of teachers, mentors, experts and students, the wide variety of available resources and innovative teaching methods and management.\nThe vision is to support the development of a critical mass of society in Bulgaria with innovative mindset and educated in technology entrepreneurship.\nThe mission is to facilitate and mentor entrepreneurs, who think creatively and innovatively, and who can thrive in today's dynamic and turbulent environment, entrepreneurs who jointly add value for all stakeholders.\nThe main objectives are to educate and train students for a successful career in both new startups and intrapreneurship in innovative established companies; to ensure conditions for practical innovative training and participation in national and international entrepreneurial competitions.\nThe program is focused on strategic objectives and strategies for development of human and financial capital, as well as the processes and stakeholder groups of participants. The program team performs the life cycle stages of the leading entrepreneurial graduate programs in the world - strategic research, analysis and planning, implementation, performance measurement and improvement processes.\nApplication and enrollment of the program are implemented in accordance with the conditions for admission to the University. It is eligible for undergraduates or graduates in mathematics, computer sciences, engineering and natural sciences. The program accepts applicants who have completed also other specialties, and depending on their specialty of education they have to take additional exams in order to acquire the necessary basic knowledge in informatics. Admission to the program is implemented according the exam procedure, which is the same for all specialties in the master programs at the Faculty. Applicants for places of both types: \u201cstate funded\u201d and \u201cstudent paid education\u201d are required to pass the admittance exam. If there are places left unoccupied, exceptional enrollment is allowed based solely on results from higher education diploma.\nThe program extends the knowledge and skills of the students in the field of creativity, general good governance, innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines high-quality, intensive processes in education and practical work with real participation in company trainings and world-recognized entrepreneurship competitions. This innovative approach enables the commercialization of research and the creation of start-ups.\nIn the process of learning we appreciate and promote academic honesty, teamwork and cooperation. The evaluation includes theory and practice; individual and team contributions; work projects, participation in real events and other innovative activities.\nThere are several reasons that make that program different from the classical ones:\n1. The program is oriented mainly towards teamwork and actions, essential for successful entrepreneurs.\n2. The team of teachers is trying to make theory and practice easy to learn and use.\n3. The program is designed to develop further together with the students.\n4. Emotional intelligence and serious games are used in the educational process.\nStudents\u2019 perspectives for further career development\nStudents graduating the program will acquire the following core competences: knowledge, skills and attitudes:\nRecognizing the needs of consumers and opportunities for technological innovation and entrepreneurship;\nAdding value to technology, markets and management;\nImplementing key factors for successful innovation;\nDevelop value adding business or social oriented activity (entrepreneurial thinking, knowledge, tactics);\nDeveloping and presenting a business plan;\nFocus on reengineering customer processes and offering new dynamic and competitive adequate services;\nCommercialization of research and innovative technologies;\nPlanning, development and implementation of innovative strategies;\nSince its launch in 2007, the program trained more than 300 masters and 9 PhD students. Graduates of the program have created more than 50 doctoral and student startups. Practical students\u2019 team work in these companies gives the students valuable experience that contributes much additional value to the academic training which students receive. Ten from these students\u2019 startups are very active and have created more than 100 high-tech jobs in the country.\nKomfo - http://www.komfo.com\nImagga - http://www.imagga.com\nGymzap - http://www.entrepreneurship-center.uni-muenchen.de/lab/alumni-teams/gymzap/index.html\nWebMotion - http://www.webmotion.bg\nThreeChess - http://www.threechess.com\nRobopartans - http://www.robopartans.com\nEssenceWorks - http://www.essenceworks.com\nDreamix - http://www.dreamix.eu\nThe master program was established in 2007 in collaboration and valuable support of the University of Berkeley, USA, with global IT company Intel, as well as in terms of cooperation with clusters of teachers of entrepreneurship in Europe and Asia. The program attracted leading Bulgarian and foreign professors and experts in various fields of business.\nCourses' annotations\nInformation about the program courses abstracts you can find here. Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 7793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theandrewgreen.com/articles/2016/7/1/the-olympic-team-with-no-flag", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OCVIJBYABCVVRBCVXRYOKOLWI47ZAV7Q", "length": 633, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.theandrewgreen.com", "title": "The Olympic team with no flag \u2014 Andrew Green", "raw_content": "The Olympic team with no flag \u2192\nJuly 01, 2016 by Andrew Green in Foreign Policy\nThe first time Yiech Pur Biel boarded a plane, in 2005, it was to escape the war-torn corner of southern Sudan where he grew up. He has lived in a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya ever since. If all goes as planned, the second time he boards a plane, in just a few weeks, it will be to make history. Biel is slated to compete in the 800-meter track and field event at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a member of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team.\nUpdate: I spoke to WBEZ Chicago's Worldview program about this story on July 13. Listen here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 138.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebookrat.com/2012/04/giveaway-kill-me-softly.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:45QCJKWRYFZBFJZTRJ4JCY42OO4FCMVG", "length": 12471, "nlines": 139, "source_domain": "www.thebookrat.com", "title": "The Book Rat: CLOSED Giveaway: Kill Me Softly", "raw_content": "April 10th 2012 by EgmontUSA\nMirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday\u2014and discovers a world she never could have imagined.\nIn Beau Rivage, nothing is what it seems\u2014the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the obnoxious playboy who's a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy who has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life, curses are awakened, and ancient stories are played out again and again.\nBut fairy tales aren't pretty things, and they don't always end in happily ever after. Mira has a role to play, a fairy tale destiny to embrace or resist. As she struggles to take control of her fate, Mira is drawn into the lives of two brothers with fairy tale curses of their own . . . brothers who share a dark secret. And she'll find that love, just like fairy tales, can have sharp edges and hidden thorns.\nTo go along with her guest post (which also went up today), Sarah has graciously offered up one signed hardcover of Kill Me Softly! I cannot wait to read this one myself (I so very much wish I could have read it for this year's FTF!), so I'm super happy to be sharing the chance to read it with you lovely folks.\nTo enter*, leave a comment with the your favorite fairy tale.\n+1 for spreading the word (leave the links in the comments!)\nAnd it would be awesome if you left Sarah some love on her guest post!\n*To enter this giveaway, you have to be registered on the Fairy Tale Fortnight giveaway form. Please make sure you have registered, and please do not leave any personal info (like your email) in the comments. Thanks, and good luck!\nLabels: Fairy Tale Fortnight, fairy tales, giveaway, Kill Me Softly, Sarah Cross\nEnna Isilee April 18, 2012 at 12:23 AM\nI HAVE BEEN LUSTING AFTER THIS BOOK SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!! Seriously. I stare at it every day on Amazon and think to myself \"Surely your savings plan wouldn't be too hurt if you just bought this one little book...\" *looks at savings plan which is already $200 behind schedule* \"Surely not...\" And alas. I have not bought it. So I REALLY hope I win.\nAnyway. Favorite fairy tale? Hm... tough choice... I'm a big fan of Maid Maleen and Goose Girl. Especially Goose Girl because it actually has a happy ending (well, if you arent the evil servant).\nNatalie (Mindful Musings) April 18, 2012 at 12:31 AM\nFavorite fairy tale? SOOOOO hard to pick!!! Hmm...I really loved Little Red Riding hood as a kid, so I'm going with that one for now.\nI'm looking forward to reading this book! Fairy tales? I've always adored Little red riding hood and little mermaid. :)\ntweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/readerhappy/status/192534104863014912\nGoogled+ (https://plus.google.com/103011347959271039476/plusones?hl=en)\nleft comment at Sarah's guest post.\nthanks for the chance to win. :)\nI can't just pick a favorite fairy tale! Well...I guess...if I have to...Beauty and the Beast!\nThanks for the giveaway! I've been lusting after this one for a while.\nmargie c {the bumble girl} April 18, 2012 at 9:20 AM\nI. Need. To. Read. This. NOW!!!\nSeriously! Cannot wait for this book to be released! Everything about it just screams to me!\nMy favorite fairy tale... Snow White, Little Red, Goose Girl... and not the Disney version to them, lol!\nThanks for a great giveaway! I am really enjoying your posts for Fairy Tale Fortnight :)\nFavorite fairy tale: The Goose Girl.\nMost amused by: Cinderella, the Grimm version. Seriously, I laugh hysterically when I read the end of the story, which makes me feel like a psychopath, but oh well. How is it not funny that the evil stepsisters get their eyes pecked out by Cinderella's bird friends on the way up and down the aisle at her wedding! What is that?\nKill Me Softly sounds so good!\nSecretly_Samus April 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM\nI've really want to read this book!\nI don't know if I could pick a favorite tale as an adult, but my favorite tale as a child was....\nThe Breman Musicians.\nYeah, that's a strange one, right?\nChrystal April 18, 2012 at 12:04 PM\nOMG! I am dying to read this book. The cover is gorgeous and I've read so many reviews for this book. I'm off to comment on the other post.\nMy fave fairy tale is Sleeping Beauty or Snow White... both are in the running for fave.\n+1 Tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/snowdropdreams/status/192644349228617729\nMy favorite fairy tale as a child was Hansel and Gretel, although I'm not sure what my favorite is now.\nI think I'll have to go with Beauty and the Beast (especially as it is portrayed in Robin McKinley's version, which I love.)\nAlthough if Rapunzel's story was actually anything like the movie Tangled, then I might choose that, as Tangled is awesome. But the original is pretty different!\nI'm really looking forward to this one, glad you're promoting it here.\nMy favorite fairy tale is East of the Sun, West of the Moon.\nAnd tweeted here: https://twitter.com/#!/Word_Tapestry/status/192676170947506176\nI love little red riding hood. Even more after seeing ONce Upon A time's take on Red! Thanks so much for the giveaway!!\nCarol M April 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM\nMy favorite fairytale is Peter Pan!\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/CarolAnnM/status/192679262942269441\nThanks for the great giveaway. I've always loved Beauty and the Beast.\nCrystalGB April 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM\nMy favorite faerytale is Cinderella. Thanks for the awesome giveaway. This book sounds amazing.\nMiranda @ The Lonely Bookshelf April 18, 2012 at 2:49 PM\nLooking at this book makes me want to pee my self with excitement!\nMy favorite fairy tale is Snow White.\nWolfluvr420 April 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM\nThis book sounds great! My favorite fairy tale since I was a little girl is Snow White & Rose Red. Thank you for the great giveaway!\nI always like 12 dancing Princesses and Princess and the pea. Can't pick a favorite between the two.\nMy favorite fairy tale might be Rumpelstiltskin, or maybe I just like the name.\nI tweeted about the giveaway: https://twitter.com/#!/carlrscott/status/192708207469281280\nMy favorite fairytale is The Maiden Without Hands. It's the same archetype as East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon and other heroin quest tales.\nSo hard to choose! I'm going to come out and admit something though...I'm more of a Hans Christian Andersen girl than a Grimm girl. I do love so much of the Grimm's fairy tales, but something about Andersen's are just more heartwrenching and sad in a way that I love. Like The Little Match Girl, or the The Little Mermaid. For a favorite though, today I'm leaning toward The Snow Queen. I was afraid to look out of the window in the winter at night for years as a child for fear that the Snow Queen would be hovering just outside...\nMy favorite fairytale would have to be Hanzle and Gretel! It is my all time favorite!\nI also tweeted the giveaway:\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/DylansGirl202/status/192738722171719680\n~Paige @ Comfort Booka\nI just read this book from NetGalley and totally enjoyed it!!! I would love to have it on my shelf!! My favorite fairytale is The Twelve Dancing Princesses :D\nI'm just dying to get my hands on this book!!! My favorite fairy tale is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.\nSusieBookworm (Susanna) April 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM\nThanks for the giveaway! I'd seen this book around, but I can't believe I didn't realize it had to do with fairy tales! My favorite fairytale is the Seven Swans.\nMy favorite fairytale is Sleeping Beauty. I love that the prince fights a dragon for her!\n+1 Tweet: https://twitter.com/bookishinabox/statuses/192769783593320451\nMy favorite fairy tale is Little Red Riding Hood, the original one not the disney-fied one.\nI love Beauty and the Beast. Please enter me in contest. I really want to read this book.\nValia Lind April 19, 2012 at 12:29 AM\nI love Little Mermaid (even the original one) :-) Thanks!\n.Ambur. April 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM\nI don't know if I can pick a favourite! I always kind of waver between a few, but recently, I've been totally obsessed with Little Red Riding Hood, probably because I think Ruby on Once Upon a Time is bad@ss! haha\nAlthough it's hard to narrow down to just one, my favorite fairy tale would have to be The Twelve Dancing Princesses!\nroro April 19, 2012 at 11:32 AM\nfavorite fairy tale; the frog prince\nKrispy April 19, 2012 at 2:15 PM\nMy favorite fairy tale growing up was Sleeping Beauty, the Disney version - probably because there was a horse and a dragon involved. Now, I'm not so sure, especially since I know how dark most fairy tales actually are! I am weirdly fond of The Juniper Tree though, even though it's pretty messed up. Haha.\nTweet: https://twitter.com/#!/kangaru/status/193039493446643713\nMy favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast!\nMargay April 19, 2012 at 7:07 PM\nI'm still a sucker for Cinderella!\nJenny N. April 19, 2012 at 11:09 PM\nI've always loved Beauty and the Beast growing up and don't think I'll ever tire of it.\nJessy April 20, 2012 at 2:22 PM\nMy favorite fairy tale is Cinderella.\nTweet: https://twitter.com/#!/Emma015/status/193404064531353601\nMy favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast :)\n321gemstar (at) gmail (dot) com\nmy favorite fairytale has to be Cinderella........why not?? she gets her PrinceCharming at the end!! LOL!!!\nSarah: many congrats & continued success!!\nsharing giveaway on FB: www.facebook.com/cyn209\nJasmine Rose April 21, 2012 at 12:29 AM\nI think I'll have to go with Hansel & Gretel for my favorite fairy tale for a variety of reasons.\n1) The original book has the word cooky in it. No, I didn't misspell it.\n2) It doesn't get the attention it deserves.\n3) That is one heckofa morbid kid story :P\ndonnas April 21, 2012 at 1:34 AM\nI have been reading a lot of good things about this. Looking forward to reading it. My favorite is Cinderella.\ntweet - https://twitter.com/#!/DonnaS1/status/193573116608393216\nJill The OWL April 21, 2012 at 9:15 AM\nCinderella!!! I've always loved it :)\nKare April 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM\nNot sure if this is a fairy tale but I've always LOVED Sword in the Stone. :) Thanks for the giveaway!!\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/epicbooknerd/status/193740738528411648\nTiffany Drew April 21, 2012 at 2:14 PM\nMy favorite has always been Cinderella. The happily ever after always appeals to me, especially when someone finally gets there after such a horrific childhood. Don't we all wish for that one moment that completely changes our lives in the best possible way?\nThank you for the fun giveaway, I've had my eye on this book. It looks awesome!\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/enterthedrew/status/193764402397323264\nmiaka_yuki70 April 21, 2012 at 11:00 PM\nI am dying to read this book :) My favorite tale is Cinderella!\nStill in love with Beauty & the Beast\nMy favorite fairytale is probably The Little Mermaid! Probably because I've always wanted to be a mermaid, haha.\nMy favorite fairy tale is the little mermaid. Mostly because I wanted to be her and now as a adult I'm more interested in the darker side of the mermaid!\nMy favorite fairy tale is the 12 dancing princesses. There have been so many wonderful retelling of this story and I love all of them!!!\nMy favorite fairy tale is the Little Mermaid. I can remember reading Grimm's Fairytales and being sooo creeped out reading the Little Mermaid, but I couldn't help myself so I read it constantly.\nclairedelune April 27, 2012 at 12:43 AM\nMy favourite fairy tale is East of the Sun, West of the Moon.\nI'm excited about this book :)\nI think it would have to be Cinderella. The disney and grimm one.\nLori M. Lee April 27, 2012 at 3:40 PM\nMy favorite fairy tale as a child was the Princess and the Pea. Nowadays, I can't decide lol.\nMy favorite fairytale is hard to say since I like so many, but I'll go with Rumpelstiltskin.\nEly C. April 29, 2012 at 11:38 PM\nRUMELSTILTSKIN for sure :-)\nBeauty and the Beast hands down and it is still one of my favorite fairytales and all around love stories ^^\nBluerose May 1, 2012 at 8:06 AM\nThe 12 Dancing Princesses is my favorite. Wildwood Dancing and Entwined are my favorite re-tellings.\nSarah E. Cruz May 1, 2012 at 12:49 PM\nMy favorite fairy tale is Beauty and The Beast! Thanks for the giveaway!\nTweet; https://twitter.com/#!/Saii15/status/197367049868148736\nitzmeeeliln96 July 5, 2012 at 5:49 PM\nMy favorite would have to be the Princess and the Pea!\nishared https://twitter.com/triangle632/status/220997212883271683", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 664, "original_length": 24155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedebutanteball.com/the-second-time-around-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ARUJJJODQMM5TCLCX6AOVEJZO6YYA3UE", "length": 5581, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thedebutanteball.com", "title": "The Second Time Around \u2013 The Debutante Ball", "raw_content": "Posted By Crystal King on Monday, August 7, 2017\nThis week the Debs are talking about what\u2019s ahead\u2013second books.\nA few days ago I wrote the last word on the first draft of a book called THE SECRET CHEF, about Bartolomeo Scappi, the cuoco segreto (literally secret chef but meaning private chef) to several Renaissance cardinals and a few Popes. It\u2019s a different era than FEAST OF SORROW, which is set in ancient Rome, so it meant that I had a lot of research to do before I could start writing. I didn\u2019t just whip this out of my hat and effortlessly breeze through it as soon as FEAST was published. I began the research years ago, when I had finished the drafts of FEAST and was looking for an agent. As a test, I wrote the first chapter of the second book in the fall of 2012.\nOuch. That was five years ago. To be fair, it didn\u2019t take me five years to write it. I was sidetracked regularly by work I needed to do on FEAST. I also continued researching the Renaissance including translating a book on Scappi that was written entirely in Italian and has no English translation. It was a crucial text for me and it was worth the struggle to understand the details. The other crucial thing to keep in mind is that I have a day job which relegates me to writing only in the evenings (hard after I\u2019ve been working all day) or on the weekends. So it means the time and energy that I have to write is truncated. I\u2019m also someone who needs deadlines. If I don\u2019t have any it is far too easy for me to fritter away my time in less important activities (I have a penchant for video games).\nWhen I began working on THE SECRET CHEF a little more earnestly it was 2015. I wrote the first nine chapters in 2015, chapters 12-21 in 2016 and 22-27 in June/July of 2017. For the last few months I\u2019ve also been revising the first twelve chapters over and over so we can pitch it back to my publisher. I want the core of the manuscript to be solid and ready, not just a vague idea that I\u2019m going to feel rushed/panicked to complete, which is what I\u2019m seeing in a lot of my fellow debut authors who already have second book contracts without a written book in hand. I also learned that if you pitch a second book before your first book is out that your advances will be the same\u2013if there is some success under your belt, then you have a shot at a bit more cash than you might have had with the first book.\nI\u2019ve been between day jobs for the last couple months which has turned out to be an incredible opportunity. I was able to promote FEAST OF SORROW, which was a lot more time and work than I anticipated, but I was also able to spend true dedicated time on working on the second book. I have kept a good schedule, meeting regularly at a local cafe with my writing partner, Anjali Mitter Duva. Wow, what a difference it makes to be able to be truly dedicated to writing! I estimate that when I have that kind of time, I can write, on average, a chapter every 1-3 days. So if I have my research mostly done and I have my book well plotted I could, in theory, churn out a draft every three to four months. Research and editing time is a completely different story, but it gives me hope for my viability as a future career writer. It means a book a year is not impossible. I estimate that with a day job that time is more likely to be every 2-3 years but if I\u2019m staggering how I manage the writing I may be able to get into a schedule of a new book one year, paperback the following year, next book in the third year with that paperback in the fourth. We\u2019ll see!\nThere are a few things I\u2019ve learned about working on book 2:\nIt\u2019s easier than the first book. I feel like I sort of know what I\u2019m doing. I have a better sense of how to plot, how to manage tension, what types of things to watch for when self-editing. I\u2019m keeping track of ages and character visuals better. I\u2019m aware of chapter transitions. And it just feels easier all around.\nWhen you are inbetween edits, or waiting for more details from your editor about the first book, be working on book two. And rinse and repeat. I\u2019m beginning research and planning now for book 3, even though I\u2019m still actively editing book 2. Use your time wisely, don\u2019t rest too much on your laurels.\nScheduling writing time is very helpful. And adhere to it. Ass in chair is the only way that book is going to be written.\nDon\u2019t compare yourself with your fellow writers. This industry is so weird and confusing\u2013their experience is not going to be anything like yours. They may have a great second contract but an impossible deadline to write their next book. Advances are all over the place and probably more so for book two. Their process for writing is going to be different. Their relationships with their editors and publishers are different. Comparing oneself is not worth the emotional energy.\nIf you think your audience may differ a bit from book to book make sure you are adjusting your strategies for follower acquisition in social channels. For example, I share information and talk about topics that may appeal to both the ancient Rome audience but also those more interested in the Renaissance era.\nBut I think the best part about writing book two is just that. I\u2019ve written another freaking book! How cool is that? I can barely still believe I wrote one, much less two!\nThis post was originally shared on the GrubStreet blog.\nPosted in 2017 Debs, Crystal King, Feast of Sorrow Tagged am writing, bartolomeo scappi, second books, the writing life, writing\n\u2190 News Flash: Announcing the 2018 Debs!\nThe LIMELIGHT Timeline: Piece of cake? Not exactly. \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 8891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedolphinsmakemecry.com/forums/index.php?topic=19877.0;prev_next=next", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UMU56W6ODGLXNT5RHVSGTE3T3NRETAY2", "length": 4339, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.thedolphinsmakemecry.com", "title": "If you were Manning, what would you do?", "raw_content": "If you were Manning, what would you do? \u00ab previous next \u00bb\nAuthor Topic: If you were Manning, what would you do? (Read 9327 times)\nRe: If you were Manning, what would you do?\nI think you DO have a legitimate reason. The guy went from reportedly going to decide before free agency, to now heading into a second week of not making a decision. And sorry, but guess what? None of the teams he is flirting with is going to make the SuperBowl, so what's the freaking difference at this point? Decide, choose, pick, move on with your life, so the rest of the football world can too. -EK\nNot true. They scare Dolphin fans.\nIsn't that the truth......lol\nI'd go to the 49ers.....I like that over most of the options,even if I have to face Eli in the playoffs...\nHey it's being reported he threw for Harbaugh,and the O-coordinator (and took physical)..(twitter Mort and Schef)\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/AdamSchefter/status/180718178157068288\nI agree. After that I would choose 10-I-see. He may not win int all there but it gives him a great place to retire to hero status.\nMike Klis of Denver Post Saturday morning reporting the Broncos have \"diminished expectations\" they will sign Peyton\nEither his workout for them sucked or they ain't paying a 36 year old $90+ mill.\nBut this makes me happy because it means Tebow is staying in Denver and NO chance they cut him or trade him and our crazy owner Stephen Ross does something stupid!\nHis workout for them was a week ago.\nThe last week has consisted entirely of reporters throwing crap against the wall.\nbsmooth\nhttp://blogs.nfl.com/2012/03/14/trading-cards-give-glimpse-of-peyton-mannings-future/\nThere were reports that one of the advantages Tennessee had was that they could provide a position within the organization after Manning stopped playing.\nI gotta ask... how does the league handle this? Seems like an obvious way to skirt salary restrictions.\nQuote from: fyo on March 17, 2012, 09:22:54 pm\nThey can't. There is no salary restrictions on coaches and front office personnel. The Titans would have to void the contract he signed as a player and re-do it for him as a front office employee.\nHasn't that been true for the last 13 or so years as well? I think you seriously underestimate the competitive desire in these guys. Marino had surgery on his knees just about every year so that he could continue to play. Manning strikes me as that type of guy too. I don't think he's even thinking about retiring in a few years right now, I think he's thinking about being one of the few guys to lift the Lombardi Trophy for 2 different teams and perhaps how long that might take.\nThe question is what would I do if I was in Manning's position, not what I think Manning would do. If I was in Manning's postion I would take the money and run.\nAs for the risk for the last 13 years. Its different. He is much more prone to get permantly injured now than was the case 13 years ago. Plus 13 years ago he didn't have millions of dollars. So not playing football means being an ordinary Joe. Now retiring means that he gets into the HOF sooner and he ha more than enough money to enjoy the rest of his life.\nAs for the risk for the last 13 years. Its different. He is much more prone to get permantly injured now than was the case 13 years ago.\nNo, he's not. Injured maybe, permanently injured, no.\nPlus 13 years ago he didn't have millions of dollars.\nHe was the number 1 pick. His rookie contract was for 48 million over 6 years, with an 11 million signing bonus. He's always had millions of dollars.\nSo not playing football means being an ordinary Joe. Now retiring means that he gets into the HOF sooner and he ha more than enough money to enjoy the rest of his life.\nSeriously? He's gonna be in the hall no matter what happens. Who cares whether it's in 5 years or 10, it's gonna happen. He only has a few years left to win another Lombardi trophy. Manning doesn't do what he does because he likes football. He does what he does because football is his life.\nReports are his much more likely to become paralyzed b/c of the injury.\nHe didn't always have the millions. He needed to at min play his rookie year to be a millionare.\nBut if after one year he said -- I am set for life, time to retire, that would not have been a horible plan from a finacial/injury risk standpoint. (And what I would have done)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 8213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theeliminator.net/ants/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:4YPA4NDNHJXX4NZD5KNDWO6P7ADMZ24I", "length": 4558, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theeliminator.net", "title": "Eliminate Ants | Ant Problems - The Eliminator Pest Control", "raw_content": "Ants can be a nuisance in any home. A piece of candy left on a table will soon have a trail of ants leading to it. Although ants discard wood debris and sawdust as they clean their nests, they do not damage sound timber. Any damage to wood is almost certainly due to termites not ants.\nIn parts of Australia, ants have become more than a nuisance. After being discovered in Cairns in 2001, the Yellow Crazy ant has spread rapidly northwards, causing mayhem where ever it appears. In Edmonton, one resident says he has been awoken three times at night by acid from the ants hurting his eyes. In some areas, residents have given up tending their gardens as they themselves get covered in the ants.\nThese same ants have adversely affected the Robber crab population in the Christmas Islands and as a consequence altered the type of plants that grow in that area. There is a fear that a similar effect could soon be seen in the Queensland wildlife. Agriculture in the region is being damaged to the tune of millions of dollars each year, an amount which is expected to grow dramatically unless the ants can be controlled. One report suggested that the cost could eventually be as high as A$3 billion.\nThe sting of the Jack Jumper ant (Myrmecia pilosula) can be fatal to sensitive people and an anti-venom is now available. Four deaths due to anaphylaxis caused by Jack Jumper ant stings were reported from Tasmania between 1980 and 2000. It is classed as one of the most dangerous ants in the world.\nAlthough there are over 1,300 known species of ant in Australia, only a few are pests. Pest species include the following:\nArgentine ants (Linepithema humile) - a small species between 1.5 and 3mm long, light brown in color.\nCoastal Brown ants (Pheidole megacephala) \u2013 light brown in color, between 1.5 to 2.5mm long.\nPharoah ants (Monomorium pharaonis) \u2013 variable in color from yellowish brown to darker brown. 1.5 to 2mm long.\nOdorous ants (Tapinoma sessile) \u2013 another small species between 2 and 3mm, which like its name suggests gives off a rancid smell if crushed.\nCarpenter ants (Camponotus species) \u2013 a larger species from 7 to 12mm in length and variable in color.\nMeat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) \u2013 an even larger red and black species up to 15mm long.\nBull Dog ants (Myrmecia species) \u2013 an aggressive ant which can be 20mm long, red or black in color and has long jaws. These are primarily garden pests that can sting repeatedly.\nJack Jumper ants (Myrmecia pilosula) \u2013 a close relative of the Bull Dog ant, these 14mm long ants are black with orange jaws and legs. They are also known as Skipper ants or Hopper ants. They are a dangerous ant, responsible for deaths every few years due to anaphylactic shock caused by their sting.\nFire ants (Solenopsis species) \u2013 a small species, about 6mm long, that will normally build a mound in the garden but may invade a home. If disturbed they sting aggressively.\nYellow Crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) \u2013 only about 5mm long but listed in the top 100 worst invasive species of any plant or animal in the world. These ants don\u2019t sting, but they may spray formic acid.\nThe first step in controlling ants is to find their nest, which is not always easy. Spraying individuals or even lines of ants will not harm the colony, where thousands of others are available to take their place.\nIt is important to identify the species to be eradicated. Single queen colonies are easier to destroy than those with more than one queen. Incomplete extermination of a colony with more than one queen might cause the survivors to abandon the original site and split into several colonies.\nIn the garden or yard, colonies may build small mounds or nest next to or under boulders. Outdoors, their nests are invariably underground, so follow the lines of ants. Even if the entrance to the nest is small, soldier ants can normally be seen on guard outside. If a nest is found in the soil, it can be treated with various types of insecticide, such as a Pyrethoid or Bifenthrin liquid. The insecticides are pumped into the nest area, often under pressure.\nIndoors, ants may build their nest in walls, under foundations or between bricks. Baits are normally used against an indoor ant invasion, placed in containers to avoid risk to children and pets. Like termites, ants are trophallaxic so the workers will take the insecticide bait back to the nest and share it among the other ants, leading to the death of the colony.\nThe bait will normally kill the ants within about three days. It should be placed near to or on the ant runs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 7832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theenvironmentalist.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=445&Itemid=59", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RBPUJDCTE3SB5EEKYDTUIUFPQYVTMCXM", "length": 3380, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.theenvironmentalist.com", "title": "The Environmentalist", "raw_content": "Home Nuclear Nuclear Engineering UK to press ahead with Nuclear\nUK to press ahead with Nuclear\nThe UK Government is to press ahead with the biggest nuclear programme for a generation, announcing yesterday eight sites where new reactors are planned. Environmentalists denounced the move, but a review of the proposals after the Fukushima disaster in Japan concluded there was no risk of a similar accident occurring in Britain.\nThe eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey. The plans were announced by Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, despite his own opposition to nuclear energy. He has insisted that the new plants should not be subsidised by the taxpayer.\nMinisters say the new reactors will maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions as the old ones are shut down. The future of nuclear power was called into question earlier this year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, causing radioactivity to leak from the plant.\nMr Huhne signalled last month that plans for new reactors were on track after an initial report on Fukushima from the nuclear chief inspector, Mike Weightman, concluded that the crisis in Japan had no implications for Britain. The plans are part of a series of national policy statements on energy published yesterday. These say billions of pounds must be invested in new energy sources, including 33 gigawatts of renewable power \u2013 equivalent to thousands of offshore wind turbines \u2013 to meet the UK's future needs.\nCharles Hendry, the Energy Minister, said: \"Around a quarter of the UK's generating capacity is due to close by the end of this decade. We need to replace this with secure, low carbon, affordable energy. This will require over \u00a3100bn of investment in electricity generation alone, twice what was invested last decade. Industry needs as much certainty as possible to make such big investments.\"\nBut Louise Hutchins, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace, said: \"It's illogical, and possibly illegal, for the Government to keep pushing for a fleet of new nuclear reactors before we've even learned the lessons from the Fukushima meltdown.\n\"Countries around the world are dropping their nuclear programmes as costs soar. And a growing number of our European competitors have turned their backs on nuclear power after calculating that it's just not worth the risk. Naming sites won't give a solution to radioactive waste. And it won't stop nuclear power being eye-wateringly expensive.\"\nSimon Bullock, who campaigns on energy for Friends of the Earth, said: \"The Government is obsessed with putting a new nuclear millstone around Britain's neck. But nuclear is a gamble we don't need to take \u2013 we can meet our energy needs by investing in energy efficiency and developing the UK's vast potential for clean renewable power.\"\nNuclear power is one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats when they entered Government together. The deal struck by the Coalition allowed Liberal Democrats to speak out against any new nuclear plants and the party's MPs to abstain on the issue.\nHowever, there is a substantial majority in the Commons in favour of nuclear energy, so the plans look set to be approved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theforecaster.net/plywood-and-mdf-whats-the-difference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7BGXJUTFXE2ZKKDVE53LMUWS4I7ZUVEK", "length": 2031, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.theforecaster.net", "title": "Plywood and MDF: What's the difference? \u2013 The Forecaster", "raw_content": "Home / Approved / Plywood and MDF: What's the difference?\nPlywood and MDF: What's the difference?\nFor decades plywood was the go-to inexpensive wood of choice for many home-repair projects. In fact, it was actually the first manufactured wood product available. Then the term MDF, or medium-density fiberboard, started making its way onto home-improvement shows and among do-it-yourselfers, making it a popular material in recent years. Still, many people do not know the differences between these types of wood products.\nPlywood is constructed by gluing several layers of thin wood veneers between two pieces of wood to create a solid sheet. Experts say there is an odd number of veneer layers, and each one is attached at a right angle to the one below to add strength to the plywood. There may be knots or irregularities in the plywood because it is made of actual slices of wood. It comes in a variety of strengths, depending on the thickness of the plywood. Thickness can vary by sheet depending on the manufacturer, so each sheet may not be consistent.\nMDF is formed with wood fibers or shavings mixed with glue or resin. Under heat or pressure, the MDF is made into a solid material. Because MDF is not made from slices of wood to form veneers, it will not have the traditional graining or knots associated with wood. This can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on how it is ultimately used. MDF is often easy to cut, drill and manipulate because users will not have to work around grain or knots. But users should be careful to drill pilot holes before attaching MDF because it can split. Due to machine creation, MDF is generally uniform in thickness, which makes it consistent for many uses. It is important to note that sanding and cutting of MDF can cause the release of formaldehyde. Safety goggles and a mask are a must when using this product.\nPlywood is more readily used for walls, ceilings and subfloors because of its strength. MDF is widely relied on for building cabinets, crafts, shelving and trimwork.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thegranolachronicles.com/2012/05/oh-hey.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:30Z", "digest": "sha1:GNBHPHFOSP2USGPDLFVFAIRO7LOLZ2K3", "length": 697, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thegranolachronicles.com", "title": "The Granola Chronicles: Oh, hey.", "raw_content": "When I look at the calendar, I honestly can't believe June is next month. How is that even possible? Evan graduates in three and a half weeks, and we're so excited to have our parents out here for a wonderful celebration!\nLife has been freakin' crazy lately, but we're enjoying it. With everything going on, I've neglected this little ol' blog - and that makes me sad. I truly enjoy sharing recipes and writing about food, so I'm looking forward to settling into a normal routine over the next couple of months.\nFor now I'll just share some food (and bloody mary's!) that we've thoroughly enjoyed over the last few weeks (via Instragram because I'm seriously addicted...username: granolacourtney)!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/news.asp?ID=4634&m=print", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NSG5B7IJWTYCKQB7HZEUPMAGPOEEUQ3L", "length": 2910, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thenewspaper.com", "title": ": Indiana: Traffic Cops May Not Open Pill BottlesArticle from: www.thenewspaper.com/news/46/4634.asp", "raw_content": "Indiana: Traffic Cops May Not Open Pill Bottles\nIndiana Court of Appeals rules that traffic cops may not look through the pill bottles of motorists without legitimate suspicion.\nPolice have no business looking through the pill bottles belonging to a motorist stopped for a routine traffic violation. That was the conclusion of a three-judge panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals, which last month reversed Antonio Garcia's conviction on drug charges because an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer violated the state constitution.\nAt around 9pm on August 6, 2012, Officer Philip Robinett saw a white Chevrolet Trailblazer that did not have its headlights on. The SUV pulled over and parked on the side of the street without signaling. Officer Robinett hit his lights and ordered Garcia to get back in the car. Garcia is not a US citizen, so he was arrested for driving without a license. A frisk revealed that Garcia had a pill bottle in his pocket, and the officer could not resist taking a look inside.\n\"Every time I've either -- I've located either some type of illegal substance or -- unless it is a pill that is properly prescribed,\" Officer Robinett testified. \"That's the only time I've seen it to where the substance inside this cylinder is a legal substance.\"\nThe container held half a pill with markings indicating it was hydrocodone, a painkiller for which Garcia had no prescription -- a class D felony. Under federal case law, Officer Robinett's search would be considered valid, but Indiana offers greater protection to its residents.\n\"The degree of concern, knowledge, or suspicion that a criminal violation had occurred with respect to the pill vial was low prior to opening the container,\" Judge Terry A. Crone wrote for the three-judge panel. \"Although there could be situations in which the police find an unfamiliar object on a person through a search incident to arrest that may justify further investigation, that situation did not occur here. There is no evidence in the record that Officer Robinett had any concern or suspicion that the container held anything that threatened his or the public's safety.\"\nProsecutors admit that they would not have had enough evidence to go to a judge and seek a warrant to open the container, as there was no reason to suspect Garcia had illegal drugs.\n\"There was no need for law enforcement to preserve evidence relating to the offense for which Garcia was arrested,\" Judge Crone wrote. \"Also, there were no circumstances unrelated to the reason for the arrest that led Officer Robinett to suspect that Garcia was impaired, had engaged in any illegal drug use, or was involved in any illegal drug dealing.\"\nBecause the search was unreasonable, the court dismissed the drug possession charge. A copy of the decision is available in a 180k PDF file at the source link below.\nSource: Garcia v. Indiana (Court of Appeals, State of Indiana, 1/30/2015)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theoneloveproject.org.uk/sponsor-a-child", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AI6YRRGEZXHXXVWNFHTANGGOTSRI2O6X", "length": 1045, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theoneloveproject.org.uk", "title": "Sponsor a Child \u2014 The One Love Project", "raw_content": "Sponsoring a child is simple.\nYour support can give a child the opportunity to change the world and have a brighter future.\nTogether, we can fight the facts and shape a new future of these children.\nAccording to the World Health Organisation, it is estimated that 98,000 people in India die from diarrhea each year. The lack of adequate sanitation, nutrition and safe water has significant negative health impacts.\nBy sponsoring a child, you are not only changing the\nfuture for children in India, you are changing the facts.\nIndia has the highest rate of child marriage in the world, where one in three girls become child brides. Many girls are married off at an early age, become servants or even prostitutes just to survive.\nA third of the world\u2019s malnourished children live in India according to UNICEF, where \u201c46 percent of all children below the age of three are too small for their age, 47 percent are underweight and at least 16 percent are wasted.\u201d\n\"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world\" - Nelson Mandala", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theprintstudio.co.uk/about-the-studio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:22Z", "digest": "sha1:NU2QHVZ4ESFYGYOFICQOF4EMKVCMKL4O", "length": 1728, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.theprintstudio.co.uk", "title": "About Us \u2014 The Print Studio, Cambridge Ltd.", "raw_content": "The Print Studio is a professional collaborative printmaking studio and publisher of artists' original prints. Kip Gresham has been working with artists for over 40 years.\nWe work with individual artists, publishers and galleries from many parts of the world; the outreach is truly international. The staff are passionate about the potential of the printed mark. The work is the product of a collaborative relationship in which an artist works in tandem with the printers. The proofing is an exploratory process without frontiers; experimentation and invention are the name of the game. Combinations of media, additional hand-applied elements and innovative techniques are encouraged. Only the very best materials, papers and inks are used.\nThe Studio staff, Kip Gresham and Alan Grabham, are often complemented by other specialists for large projects, ensuring that the best hands are available to deliver an excellent result. When the scale of an undertaking demands it, the publishing programme is developed in tandem with other companies.\nTo see our Services click here\nThe combined skills, experience and inventiveness of the team make the studio a very exciting place in which to work and a remarkable resource for artists. It is devoted to the creation of very close working relationships with its artists.\nIt is a very clean, orderly and tranquil place in which to work, a blank canvas. Whilst there is a weight of history behind the place each new relationship is approached on its own terms; there is no house-style.\nAlan Grabham & Kip Gresham\nto view past projects click here\nto view kip's studio history click here\nWe have some short films of the some of the projects we have made in the studio. View the films here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thewriteassistantllc.com/2016/12/19/shop-critique-bath-body-products/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CLJQL34VFXREBBJ52UZQUTJLRS3BPVGM", "length": 846, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thewriteassistantllc.com", "title": "Shop Critique: Bath & Body Products \u2013 The Write Assistant", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Copywriting \u00bb Shop Critique: Bath & Body Products\nToday we are focusing on how to improve bath and body products and we are doing it with another screencast video! Amenta\u2019s Key LLC offers affordable vegan and vegetarian bath and body products for people that want pampering on a budget. I had the pleasure of reviewing their current Etsy shop and put together a screencast critique for your viewing pleasure. If you\u2019d like to purchase from these lovely people, you can do so here: SHOP AT AMENTA\u2019S KEY. Enjoy!\nhttp://www.thewriteassistantllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AmentasKey.mp4\nGreat critique, Kateland!\nIt highlights the importance of polishing all the details. It\u2019s only natural that not every business owner will be gifted in every area, so it can be worth getting the advice of a professional, even if you have to pay for it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thrivemovement.com/pioneer/daniel-sheehan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ZV6NINVLHUC5FELLDU2NTPWEGIMNT2CT", "length": 2089, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thrivemovement.com", "title": "Daniel Sheehan | Thrive", "raw_content": "Social justice lawyer and investigator of illegal government and corporate operations.\n\u201cWe have to go back to the most fundamental acts of injustice upon which the country was founded. The seizure of the lands of the people, the slaughter of their women and children, and the rendering destitute most of the remnants of these people is such an egregious wrong that we believe that we have to deal with that to come to grips with that in a fundamental way. Understanding they are not wrongs that were done and completed 150 years ago. They are wrongs that are continued every single day.\u201d\n- Danny Sheehan\nDanny Sheehan, J.D. is an attorney, activist, and defender of social justice. With his wife, Sara Nelson, Sheehan co-founded and co-directed the Christic Institute, a public interest law firm that surfaced and prosecuted George Bush Sr. and his administration for unconstitutional conduct in the Iran/Contra scandal during the 1980\u2019s. Sheehan was also the Chief Counsel in the famous Karen Silkwood case, which stopped the construction of private nuclear power plants in 1979 and raised public awareness of the hazards of nuclear energy and the need for corporate accountability.\nSheehan is currently preparing a Federal Civil Lawsuit against the State of South Dakota for illegally taking thousands of Lakota children and putting them in white institutions and homes. He is the President of the Romero Institute, a non-profit law and policy center that legally challenges systemic injustice, formulates and advocates structural solutions, and maintains the Christic institute Archives. Sheehan is the author of Assault on Nicaragua: the Untold Story of the U.S. \u2018Secret War\u2019 and Inside the Shadow of Government: Declaration of Plaintiff\u2019s Counsel Filed by the Christic Institute.\nWe Have to Look to Ourselves for Change - Daniel Sheehan\nGlobal Domination Agenda - Daniel Sheehan\nETs Represent a Paradigm Shift for Humanity - Daniel Sheehan\nFear Drives the Domination Plan - Daniel Sheehan\nOctave of Worldviews - Daniel Sheehan\nWe Have to Look to Ourselves for Changes - Daniel Sheehan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tinaaumontseyes.com/rediscovering-welcome-to-arrow-beach-us-1974-85-mins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FTZQHOQT7UAX5F7CEMM7NZOBSL72UCJA", "length": 2193, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tinaaumontseyes.com", "title": "\u201cHe couldn\u2019t help himself\u201d \u2013 Rediscovering \u2018Welcome to Arrow Beach\u2019 (US 1974 \u2013 85 mins) | Rediscovering Cult Movies & Forgotten Films | Tina Aumonts Eyes", "raw_content": "After a near fatal traffic accident, hippie hitch-hiker Robbin Stanley (Meg Foster) decides to take shelter in the beachfront home of Korean War veteran Jason Henry (Laurence Harvey) and his sister Grace (Joanna Pettet). Unbeknownst to Robbin, Jason is a former Air Force pilot who once resorted to cannibalism after he and his crew were brought down in the desert. When she learns of this, Robbin goes to the local sheriff (John Ireland) who dismisses her claims, believing that she\u2019s been using drugs. After befriending medical technician Alex Heath (David Macklin), the two decide to do their own investigating, and return to Jason\u2019s home where they stumble upon a meat locker full of human remains. As they do so, a disturbed Jason appears with his cleaver\u2026\nAlso known as \u2018Tender Flesh\u2019, this was hardly a fitting swansong to Laurence Harvey\u2019s interesting career, and a strange choice for his only directing effort. Though not a great actor, he was perfect as the ambitious Joe Lampton in \u2018Room at the Top\u2019 (\u201958) and as a brainwashed POW in \u2018The Manchurian Candidate\u2019 (\u201962). 25 year old Meg Foster had earlier played a young hitchhiker in the cult drama \u2018Thumb Tripping\u2019 (\u201972), though I remember her most as Rutger Hauer\u2019s crossbow-wielding wife in Sam Peckinpah\u2019s final film \u2018The Osterman Weekend\u2019 (\u201983). As the sheriff and his deputy, reliable veterans John Ireland and Stuart Whitman slum it throughout, while the lovely Joanna Pettet has little to do as Harvey\u2019s sympathetic sister.\nWhile there are some mildly gory moments, it\u2019s static feel and lack of excitement will ultimately put many off. It didn\u2019t help matters that Laurence Harvey was so ill at the time that he had to do the editing from his deathbed (he died that year from stomach cancer aged just 45). Also, any anti-drug message here will be lost on most, who will probably be bored by the lack of action in the proceedings.\nA sloppy but occasionally interesting sleeper, \u2018Welcome to Arrow Beach\u2019 is not for all tastes (no pun intended!), but with its professional cast and intriguing storyline, it almost manages to rise above a lot of other horror fair of its day.\nTags: American, Cannibalism, Horror, Seventies, Sleeper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.toryrichards.com/2009/05/i-felt-bad-for-lady-waiting-on-me-at.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FZZEO452XFC72TCCMW5TVZ7GQIVTPKAO", "length": 1028, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.toryrichards.com", "title": "TORY RICHARDS", "raw_content": "I felt bad for the lady waiting on me at the register this morning, at Walmart. She had a mustache. I don't mean a few hairs or the shadow of one, I mean a full man's mustache. She had to know she had one. We all do. I do. But most of us bleach it, pluck it, wax it or use that Sally Hansen's hair remover on it. There's even a prescription that takes care of unwanted facial hair. I have a friend who does that. It's expensive and don't ask me the name because I don't remember what it is. I'm sure the stars know about it.\nSomeone, one of her co-workers or at the very least her manager, should gently coach this woman on her appearance. When you look at her your eyes are instantly drawn to her mustache, you can't help it. I can't help but wonder if she was educated that there are products out there to take care of facial hair she would be grateful.\nI have a friend who refuses to wear her teeth. No amount of prodding has changed that.\nAre you kidding? LOL That must be a sight! I guess she doesn't eat steak very often:)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tos50.com/story/why-do-i-need-last-will-and-testament", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HT2FEDQO7O35DWLV3QAID47IV6YJPEZA", "length": 1691, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tos50.com", "title": "Financial Fitness & Life Planning | TOS50.com", "raw_content": "Posted by Kim Smith on February 17, 2010 - 3:55pm\nTags: will, money\nWhen you die without a Will, you are said to have died in \u201cintestacy.\u201d The person who administers your estate, (i.e \u201cAdministrator\u201d) is appointed by the court. In the case where you are survived by a spouse and children, your spouse has priority to act. If your spouse predeceased you, then all of your children are eligible to serve as the Administrator. Since you have not designated anyone in a Will, it can set the family up for a power struggle, both inside and outside of the Court.\nThe better solution is to name an Executor in your Will. Give some careful thought to the person you appoint. They should exhibit honesty, integrity and have the ability and wherewithal to get the job done. The oldest child is not necessarily the best choice. If all of your assets are jointly owned, there will be no need to administer an estate. The joint owner will inherit by virtue of the joint tenancy. This is not the case where you may own some assets in your name alone. For instance, if you own assets in your own name with no named beneficiaries, such assets will not pass directly to your spouse. Your wife is entitled to the first fifty thousand ($50,000.00) dollars and then \u00bd of the balance of the estate. The other \u00bd of the estate would go to your children in equal shares. This can cause a problem in a second marriage where the children from the first marriage are not on good terms with your spouse. You must give thought to what assets you have, in whose name they are titled, and who will inherit if you die without a will.\nKim Smith can be reached at (631)941-3434 or by writing to her at: Ksmith@burnersmith.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tourism.com.sv/hotels/hostal-miramundo.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TBW7UVSNULH5MFN5V45HIMUXQZQPSASU", "length": 251, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tourism.com.sv", "title": "Hostal Miramundo | Hotel in La Palma, El Salvador", "raw_content": "Hostal Miramundo is a mountain hotel in Cerro Miramundo; with a height of 2400 meters it is the highest mountain in El Salvador. The pines and cypresses gives a freshness, with a temperature between 12 and 17 Celsius, November and December even lower.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trb.wa.gov.au/teacher_registrations/Becoming_registered/Early_Childhood/Pages/default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6UNV3QQ4OM7T6FMZVIMY6L6ZYGRJXGHR", "length": 2469, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.trb.wa.gov.au", "title": "TRB - Teaching in a centre-based education and care service", "raw_content": "TRBWA Teacher registration Becoming registered Early childhood\nTeaching in a centre-based education and care service\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bThe Teacher Registration Act 2012 requires that all teachers who teach from early childhood to Year 12, in an educational venue in Western Australia, must hold teacher registration with the TRBWA.\nThis includes those who are teaching in centre-based education and care services such as long day care and child care centres.\nFor those early childhood teachers intending to teach in a school, please refer to the 'Becoming Registered' section of the TRBWA website.\nDo I need to be registered as a teacher?\nYou will require to be registered as a teacher if you:\nhold an approved early childhood teaching qualification, or are actively working towards an approved early childhood teaching qualification; and\nare teaching as defined by the Teacher Registration Act (2012).\nNote that for the purposes of teacher registration with the TRBWA you are considered to be teaching if in your role you:\nundertake duties that include the delivery of an educational programme as part of the Early Years Learning Framework, or another prescribed early years curriculum, and the assessment of student participation in that educational programme in a centre; or\nhave responsibility/oversight for the development and implementation (the administration) of the educational programme delivered in a centre.\nNote also that, in an early childhood context, you are not considered to be teaching and therefore do not need to be registered as a teacher if:\nyour role only involves assisting in the delivery of a program but not assessment; or\nyour sole responsibility is to provide care and support to the children.\nTeacher registration requirements\nThere are four categories of registration:\nIf you require to be registered as a teacher , but have not yet completed your early childhood teaching qualification, it is unlikely that you will be able to meet the registration requirements for Full, Provisional or Non-Practising Registration at this time.\nYour employer, therefore, will need to apply to the TRBWA on your behalf for Limited Registration. On completion of your early childhood teaching qualification you may be eligible to apply for Provisional Registration.\nMore information about the requirements for teacher registration, the different registration categories and how to apply may be found on the TRBWA website through the requirements for registration page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.treblemaker.com/2006/10/sling-media-slingbox-pro-sb200-100.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HFLDXXJ7APUH7OJIHP442Z2JB2PIU5MI", "length": 2698, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.treblemaker.com", "title": "Treblemaker: Sling Media Slingbox PRO ( SB200-100 )", "raw_content": "Most of us simply accept that when we go on vacation, the TV programming we watch in our living room is inaccessible. Most of us understand that when we're not at home, we can't watch the premium channels we pay for. Apparently, most of us are lacking in imagination.\nIt's not a new concept, but Sling Media has packaged it up real nice, simplified it and given it a name: \"Placeshifting\" technology grabs your television signal and sends it anywhere in the world. Find out how the Slingbox lets you \"take your TV with you.\"\nSlingbox is a set-top box that connects to your TV (or any other video-output device) and streams the signal to another machine in real-time -- there's no recording involved. This machine might be your computer in your home, in which case Slingbox streams the signal via your home network. It might be your Web-connected laptop or cell phone located anywhere in the world, in which case Slingbox streams the data via the Web. You can control the video that appears on your screen just like you were watching from home.\nSlingbox works in conjunction with the SlingPlayer software you install on your computer. Together, they \"sling\" NTSC video data to another location. It works with regular TV, satellite TV, cable TV, a DVD player, DVR or camcorder. If it's NTSC (the video broadcast standard in the United States), you can sling it. Sling Media will release a PAL/SECAM-standard Slingbox in 2006 (PAL and SECAM are the dominant standards outside the United States). See How Video Formatting Works to learn about NTSC, PAL and SECAM formats.\nThe coolest part of the Slingbox setup is that you can fully control the video source from your computer. The SlingPlayer has thousands of remote-control codes built in, and you can chose a virtual remote that looks just like the remote sitting on your coffee table.\nSitting in your office or in a WiFi coffee shop on the other side of the world, you can change the channel on your TV, fast forward through programs on your TiVo and adjust the contrast of your TV picture. There are no subscription fees, just a one-time purchase price for the hardware and software. You can install the SlingPlayer software on as many devices as you want, but only one device can access the Slingbox at a time.\nTo sling your TV programming, you need the following equipment in addition to the Slingbox:\nA video source\nA computer running Windows 2000/XP/MCE (no Mac or Linux support yet) or a Web-enabled cell phone running Windows Mobile Platform 4.0 or 5.0\nA broadband router\nA high-speed Internet connection (for watching your TV away from home)\nFor those who just can't get enough TV, this is basically one of the coolest gadgets in the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.triangleassociates.com/profiles/kate-waind/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RUTYFSETPZV37ZPYZRMJEMISCGTW4XAZ", "length": 1411, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.triangleassociates.com", "title": "Kate Waind | Triangle Associates", "raw_content": "Kate Waind\nKate Waind joined Triangle in 2016. Her work includes presenting workshops, providing technical assistance to schools, and creating engaging and interactive program materials.\nHer professional background includes nine years of environmental education and outdoor leadership experience. She has taught environmental science and conservation biology for a variety of organizations including zoological institutions and municipalities. Throughout her career, Kate has focused on creating accessible environmental and outdoor education learning opportunities for all audiences. Kate is an enthusiastic educator who helps students form connections between the environment and individual actions.\nKate holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in Zoology from Miami University. While attaining her degrees, Kate visited foreign countries to learn about how community-based conservation efforts are being implemented around the world. Since her travels, Kate has enjoyed employing her passion for wildlife and environmental justice and has helped others learn about the importance of conservation.\nKate enjoys spending nearly all of her free time in the outdoors. She loves experiencing new places through hiking, backpacking, kayaking, biking, and rock climbing. 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So far, solidarity with front-line nations Greece and Italy, where the refugees land, has been limited. A mandatory quota scheme was opposed mainly by eastern European nations \u2014 the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.\nFor Europe, the political crisis over migrants is existential, despite the fact that migrant arrivals have dropped dramatically this year.\nAs hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees trekked northward from Greece in 2015, some EU nations erected fences, launched police crackdowns and closed borders, forcing migrants onto their neighbors. ID checks were reintroduced in parts of Europe\u2019s passport-free travel area, hampering trade, business and tourism.\nThat fueled anti-immigrant parties and the far-right made significant political inroads.\n\u201cThe migration crisis was a kind of character test for the EU,\u201d Roderick Parkes, senior analyst at the EU\u2019s Institute for Security Studies, wrote Wednesday.\nIt has tested the EU\u2019s \u201ccapacity to lead in the field of refugee reception, to seize the economic opportunities of immigration and to share the burden borne by Turkey, Lebanon or Kenya by resettling refugees. And the EU failed the test, on all counts,\u201d he wrote.\nAt the center of Europe\u2019s migrant malaise are refugee quotas. In response to the arrival of more than 1 million migrants in 2015, EU nations voted by a large majority to share 160,000 of those fleeing conflict or persecution to help ease the burden on overwhelmed Greece and Italy.\nHungary challenged the quotas at Europe\u2019s top court but lost.\nIn an effort to clear the air, EU Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair the two-day summit in Brussels, has put the issue at the top of the agenda. But in branding the scheme ineffective, he has angered Europe\u2019s top migration official and lawmakers involved in drawing it up.\n\u201cThe issue of mandatory quotas has proven to be highly divisive and the approach has received disproportionate attention in light of its impact on the ground; in this sense it has turned out to be ineffective,\u201d Tusk wrote to the EU leaders.\nBut EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos slammed the note as \u201cunacceptable. It is anti-European and it denies, it ignores, all the work we have done during the past years.\u201d\n\u201cThis paper is undermining one of the main pillars of the European project; the principle of solidarity. Europe without solidarity cannot exist,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a duty \u2014 moral and legal \u2014 to protect refugees.\u201d\nGreens lawmaker Ska Keller said \u201cTusk is undermining the prospects of a solidarity-based refugee policy in Europe\u201d and that \u201cwithout a fair redistribution of refugees, European asylum policy will remain vulnerable to crisis.\u201d\nThe European Commission says 32,000 people from the asylum scheme have found homes. But that figure \u2014 less than a quarter of the original target \u2014 masks the legal challenges, abuses and suffering as thousands of migrants and refugees have languished in the Greek islands.\nThe main reason for the drop in migrant numbers is the EU\u2019s agreement with Turkey, which saw the bloc mobilize its financial might to convince Ankara to stop Syrian refugees from crossing the sea to nearby Greece and to take back thousands already there.\nSpurred by that success, the EU is leveraging its considerable development aid as it draws up other outsourcing arrangements, mostly with Libya\u2019s poor neighbors to stop Africans unlikely to qualify for asylum from heading there to take treacherous sea journeys to Italy.\nTusk wants Thursday\u2019s summit discussions to promote mutual understanding about the migration challenges that the EU\u2019s neighbors face. He also wants the leaders to endorse plans to make migration a part of the EU\u2019s long-term budget, rather than rely on ad-hoc contributions.\nNo concrete decisions will be made Thursday. The future of mandatory refugee quotas for nations should be made clearer next June.\n\u201cIt is important to look at what has \u2014 and what has not \u2014 worked over the past two years, and draw the necessary lessons,\u201d Tusk wrote. \u201cThe migration challenge is here to stay.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.uft.org/know-your-rights/special-education", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:11Z", "digest": "sha1:THEMTJEX6CJ6CKEI3WUKGJX4THUTVB32", "length": 5409, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.uft.org", "title": "Special education | United Federation of Teachers", "raw_content": "UFT.org Home > News > New York Teacher > Know your rights > Special education\nNovember 1, 2018 New York Teacher issue\nIn addition to the DOE-UFT contract, there are many rules that affect the education of students with disabilities. These rules are found in federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies. They address many issues related to the day-to-day working conditions of special education staff including class and group size, staffing, class composition and the frequency, duration and location of services. Information about these rules can be found on the UFT website.\nThe UFT assists members in enforcing these rules and ensuring that students receive the supports and services mandated on their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). If you believe your school is violating special education laws and regulations, or if any of the students with disabilities in your school are not receiving the supports and services they are entitled to, please notify the union by filing a confidential special education complaint. Investigations of student-specific complaints can only proceed if the complaint is supported by a staff member who is legally authorized to access the student\u2019s IEP.\nHere are some important things to know if you work with students with special needs:\nIf you teach or provide related services to students with disabilities, you can access their IEPs in the Special Education Student Information System (SESIS). Any teacher, paraprofessional or related service provider who works with a student must be familiar with their IEP implementation responsibilities.\nTo be sure your students are receiving the instructional and related services they are entitled to, look at the sections of the IEP titled \u201cService Recommendations.\u201d If the IEP of one of your students does not match the services the student is receiving, speak to your chapter leader or file a special education complaint.\nSome members have reported that their school only offers a specific service, such as integrated co-teaching (ICT), and/or only offers that service in locally determined \u201ccore subjects\u201d or for a set number of periods each week. Such \u201ctemplate\u201d programs are impermissible. The IEP team has the right to recommend any program or service necessary to meet the student\u2019s needs, whether or not the program or service is available in your building. Staffing, cost, space and administrative considerations should play no part in IEP team decisions.\nWith the exception of students who do not participate in the general education environment, at least one special education teacher and one general education teacher of the student must participate in the IEP team meeting for the full duration of the meeting. The IEP team meeting must include both the general and special education teachers in ICT classes.\nIntegrated co-teaching classes\nICT classes are taught by two teachers, one who is certified and licensed as a special education teacher and one who is certified and licensed as a general education or content-area teacher. ICT classes must always be staffed by two teachers; it is a violation to pull one of the teachers in an ICT class to provide coverage or perform other duties, such as proctoring or scoring exams.\nIn an ICT class, the number of students with IEPs cannot exceed 40 percent of the total class register, with a maximum of 12 students with disabilities, unless the school has a variance. These limits include any student in the class with a disability, regardless of whether the student\u2019s IEP recommends ICT placement. ICT services can be recommended for any class, including cluster classes, electives and labs, for which the student needs additional support from a special education teacher.\nWith the exception of students in special education classes with staffing ratios of 12:1:4, 8:1 and 6:1, and classes with students over age 16, the age range and achievement levels in ELA and math in self-contained classes should not exceed three years.\nThe UFT has recommended to the Department of Education that the classes of most special education teachers \u2014 particularly those in testing grades \u2014 be restricted to just one grade and that bridge classes not combine testing grades with nontesting grades (i.e., grades 2 and 3 should not be bridged).\nSpecial education teachers in middle/junior high schools and high schools who are programmed to have an unreasonable number of different courses, each requiring preparation, or have multiple rooms in which they teach, may use the reorganization grievance process in appropriate circumstances to challenge their assignments.\nReorganization grievances have specific contractual time frames, so please bring any concerns to your chapter leader as soon as you receive your program or a change is made to your program.\nParaprofessionals provide support to special education students in the classroom. However, except for lead teacher assistants in certain circumstances, paraprofessionals cannot be assigned to teach a group of students on their own. Paraprofessionals may also provide individual support to a student with a disability in specific areas such as health, behavior or mobility if recommended on the IEP. 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We have the resources and management planning to meet all our clients? needs and expectations and are committed to providing a comprehensive service, not only to meet your immediate needs but also to establish long term relationships, which are of mutual benefit.\nwww.officefurniturebradford.co.uk\n108 Sunbridge Rd", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.umat.edu.gh/staffinfo/staffDetailed.php?contactID=159", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZEUOSXYHG5XUBPB6ZKKPE22TU3TRH4X", "length": 14566, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "www.umat.edu.gh", "title": "Attachie Joseph Cudjoe, The University of Mines and Technology", "raw_content": "Mr. Joseph Cudjoe Attachie\nEmail Address: jcattachie@umat.edu.gh\nACADEMIC DEGREE EARNED\nMSc, Electrical Engineering, (NTU, Ukraine), (1996)\nMSc, National Technical University (NTU) \"Kharkov State Polytechnic University\u201d, Kharkov, Ukraine, (1989 - 1996)\nMember, Ghana Institution of Engineers, (MGhIE), (2009 to date)\nMember, International Association of Engineers (MIAENG), (2010 to date)\nPower Systems Stability, Modelling and Control\nMine Electrification\nUtilization of Electrical Power I\nPower Generation and Supply\nElectrical Power Distribution and Equipment\nI worked with the Electricity Company of Ghana as a natinal service person from February \u2013 September 1997\nI worked briefly with the Volta River Authority (VRA) at the Kpong and Akosombo Generating Stations from October \u2013 December 2002.\nThe Impact of Power Quality Problems in a Power Distribution System - A Case Study. This research identified and reviewed major power quality events that occur frequently, including; transient\u2019s conditions, waveform distortion, voltage sag, voltage swell and interruptions. The research also monitored power at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) using power quality analyzer through a point of common coupling of a single line supply. The research establishes significant amount of current and voltage harmonics disturbances in both the load and the supply side and confirmed the fact that, the odd harmonic orders are the most damaging. The impact of harmonics in the distribution system and consumer equipment was also discussed. Experimental results showed an alarmingly high level of harmonic distortion of more than nine percent (9.74 %) breaching the recommended IEEE standard practices, in both current and voltage at not only point of common coupling (pcc) but also at the consumer end. (2014 -2014)\nPerformance Analysis of a Hydropower Plant In Ghana - A Case Study- Akosombo Hydropower Plant). Analysis of the effectiveness of the retrofit project at Akosombo hydropower plant and the level of improvement in the efficiency and power output of the plant was carried out by gathering and analyzing data from before and after retrofitting of the plant. Analysis of the data showed that retrofit was carried out on the generators, transformers and motor control center. Tests like hipot, doble, megger and turns ratio were performed to check the integrity of the newly installed equipment. The results of the tests indicated the fitness of some equipment to be put in service, while others were found to have faulty insulations. The performance analysis proved that the retrofit project yielded an increase in the plant's power output, from 912 MW to 1020 MW, which is an increase of 11.84 % and a plant efficiency of 98.21%. (2013 - 2013))\nRenewable Energy Technology in Ghana: Opportunities and Threats.This research carried out a study on renewable energy technologies (RET) in Ghana. The discussion was based on solar photovoltaics (PV) system. Some of the vital factors that have prevented the growth of a viable market for RETs using solar PV as a typical example were addressed. Adverse policy environment and lack of financing were cited as the main barriers to be surmounted. Recommendations were also made for government and all stakeholders to engage the private sector to give the RET industries a boost. The injection of an electrification fund is proposed to support grid extension to areas of proven economic potential using RET. (2012 - 2012)\nCauses, Effects and Mitigation of Voltage Instability in the Distribution Network of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Tarkwa. This research analysed some causes and mitigation of voltage instability in the distribution network of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Tarkwa. Power World Simulator was used to evaluate short circuit Line-to-Line (L-L) faults in the network. The Simulator calculated voltage magnitude at various busbars during L-L faults with and without shunt compensation. The results were compared and analysed. It was realised that, no matter the location of faults in the network, all busbars were affected and with the injection of shunt compensators, very low voltages were increased. (2011 - 2011)\nImproving Power Flow in Transmission Lines Using Unified Power Flow Controller: A Case Study at Ghana Grid Company Limited, GRIDCo. This research investigated the optimal location for the placement of Unified Power Flow Controllers (UPFC) in the Ghana grid network by conducting system analysis with proposed algorithm based on Static Voltage Stability Index (SVSI) and loss sensitivity analysis using Power World Simulator software. The investigation identified fourteen (14) critical transmission lines for the placement of UPFC devices that would enhance power flow in the Ghana grid network. Typically, Akosombo to Kumasi transmission line was observed to be the most optimal location for the installation of UPFC. (2011 -2011)\nAn Alternative Street Lighting for Umat Campus Using Light Emitting Diode (LED) Lamps.This research discussed the sustainable methods of electric energy use at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. It presented a case for the replacement of all mercury vapour lamps for street lighting on campus by LED lamps over a 15-year period. The findings revealed that LED lamps present obvious financial advantages to the University. LED lamps with their low power consumption rate reduce electricity usage, hence the reduction in electric power generation and thereby saving the amount of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. One limitation of LED lamps is their high initial cost. But within the range of other factors, LED lamps seem a superior option for mercury vapour lamp replacement. (2010 - 2010)\nAmuzuvi, C. K. and Attachie, J. C. (2014), \u201cInvestigating a Hypothetical Semiconductor Laser Bar Using a Laser Diode Simulation/Emulation Tool Using Random Levels of Defects\u201d, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Volume 7, No. 6, pp. 1145-1148.\nAttachie, J.C. and Amuzuvi, C.K. (2014), \u201cUsing a Fixed and Switched-Capacitor Bank to Investigate Harmonic Resonance and Capacitor BankSwitching in a Distribution Network\u201d, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Volume 7, No. 9, pp. 1900-1909.\nAttachie, J.C. and Amuzuvi, C.K. (2013), \u201cRenewable Energy Technologies in Ghana: Opportunities and Threats\u201d, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, No. 5, pp. 776-782.\nAmuzuvi, C. K. and Attachie, J. C. (2013). \u201cThe Effect of Facet Heating and the Evolution with Aging\u201d, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, No. 3, pp. 361-365.\nAmuzuvi, C. K. and Attachie, J. C. (2013), \u201cDescribing a Laser Diod Emulation Tool Using Single Emitter Simulation Results\u201d, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Volume 5, No. 4, pp. 1358-1361.\nAmuzuvi, C. K. and Attachie, J. C. (2013). \u201cEffective Power Management in Homes and Premises in Ghana\u201d, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, No. 3, pp. 354-360.\nAmuzuvi, C. K. and Attachie, J. C. (2013). \u201cInvestigating a Hypothetical Semiconductor Laser Bar with a Smiled-Shaped Temperature Profile using a Laser Diode Simulation/Emulation Tool \u201d, Global Journal of Researches in Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Volume 13, No. 16, version 1, pp. 1-6.\nAttachie, J.C. and Amuzuvi, C.K. (2013), \u201cInvestigating Harmonic Resonance and Capacitor Bank Switching at a Power Distribution Substation using a Fixed Capacitor Bank \u201d, Research Journal in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 2, No. 4, pp. 343-348.\nAmuzuvi, C. K., Attachie, J. C. and Asante, K. (2013). \u201cBy-emitter Emulation Enhancement Tool Using a Global Thermal Solver for the Degradation Emulation of a Calibrated 975 nm Tapered Laser Bar\u201d, American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Volume 1, No. 3, pp. 60-63.\nAttachie, J.C. and Amuzuvi, C.K. (2013), \u201cPower Quality Analysis in a Distribution Network of a Quarry Processing Plant\u201d, Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Volume 1, No. 4, pp. 90-94.\nNunoo, S., Attachie, J. C. and Duah, F. N. (2012), \u201cAn Investigation into the Causes and Effects of Voltage Drops on an 11 kV Feeder\u201d, Canadian Journal on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Volume 3, No. 1, pp. 40-47.\nAggrey, G. K., Simon, A., Ayebi-Arthur., K., Essilfie, J. E. and Attachie J.C. (2011), \u201cDistortion Analysis of the Sub-Band Coder\u201d, Journal of The Ghana Institution of Engineers, Volume 7&8 No.1, pp. 33\u201338.\nNunoo, S. and Attachie, J. C. (2011), \u201cA Methodology for the Design of an Electricity Theft Monitoring System\u201d, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Volume 26, No. 2, pp. 112-117.\nNunoo, S., Attachie, J. C. and Abraham, C. K. (2010), \u201cUsing Solar Power as an Alternative Source of Electrical Energy for Street Lighting in Ghana\u201d, 2010 IEEE Conference on Innovative Technologies for an Efficient and Reliable Electricity Supply, The Westin Waltham Boston, Waltham, MA, USA, September 27th \u2013 29th, 2010, pp. 467-471: On CD.\nMember, Committee on Training Co-ordination Fees and Departmental Dues, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2015 - )\nChairman, Committee to Formulate Format for Field Trip and Industrial Attachment Report, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2014 - )\nTraining Officer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2014 - date)\nDepartmental Representative on Faculty of Engineering Board, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2013 - )\nPanel Member, National Accreditation Board (NAB) for the Accreditation of BSc Electrical/Electronics Engineering Programme, KAAF University, Buduburam, Accra. (2012 - )\nChairman, Accomodation Sub-Committee for Second International Conference on Innovations in Mining and Mineral Processing, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2012 - )\nSenior Hall Tutor, Gold Refinery Hall, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2011 - 2013)\nMember, Hall Council, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2011 - )\nChairman, Transport Services Management Committee, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2010 - 2011)\nPanel Member, National Accreditation Board (NAB) for the Accreditation of HND Electrical/Electronics Engineering Programme, Kumasi and Accra Polytechnic respectively. (2010 - )\nChairman, Accomodation Sub-Committee for First International Conference on Innovations in Mining and Mineral Processing, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2010 -)\nMember, Committee of Enquiry in Connection with Examination Misconduct, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2010 - )\nMember, Committee to Draw Programme Structure and Course Syllabuses for Master Programme in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (2010 - )\nMember, Committee to Draw the Postgraduate Programme for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2010 - )\nTraining Officer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2008 - 2010)\nMember, Committee to see to the Sustainable use of Equipment, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2008 - )\nPanel Member, National Accreditation Board (NAB) for the Accreditation of HND Electrical/Electronics Engineering Programme, Koforidua Polytechnic.\nMember, Committee to Evaluate the Electrical & Electronic/Mechanical Specialised Laboratory Equipment, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2007 - )\nMember, Committee to Review the 2007/2008 Academic Calender, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2007 - )\nMember, Committee of Contract Implementation and Acceptance for the Supply, Delivery and Installation of Specialized Laboratory Equipment for the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2007 - )\nHead, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - 2008)\nProject Co-ordinator, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2008 - )\nLecturer-in-Charge of Laboratories, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 - 2006)\nUMaT Representative - A two-day Workshop on Quality Assurance for Universities of Ghana, 29-30, August, 2005, Accra. (2005 - )\nExaminations Officer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2003 - 2006)\nMember, Committee to Review Conduct of Undergraduate Programmes, Policies, Code of Ethics and Regulations, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 - )\nMember, Convocation, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2003 - date)\nMember, Academic Board, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - 2008)\nMember, Board of Postgraduate Studies, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - 2008)\nMember, Faculty of Engineering Budget Committee, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - 2008)\nMember, Faculty Board, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 - date)\nHall Fellow, Gold Refinery Hall, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - date)\nMember, Committee to Review Examination Regulations and Conduct of Undergraduate Programmes, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - )\nMember, Committee to Review Regulations on Conduct of Examinations, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2006 - )\nUniversity Examinations Coordinator, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 - 2006)\nExaminations Officer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005- 2006)\nHall Fellow, Chamber of Mines Hall, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 -2006)\nMember, Committee of Enquiry into the Loss of Hydraulic Hoses at the Diamond Drilling Store, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 - )\nMember, Committee to give Recommendations on Fees for Transcripts, Introductory/Recommendation Letters and Visa Applications for Students, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2005 - )\nHall Fellow, Gold Refinery Hall, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2003 - 2005)\nAcademic Tutor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. (2003 - date)\nReviewer, American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, USA (2013 -2014)\nEmail: jcattachie@umat.edu.gh\nCopyright \u00a9 Joseph Cudjoe Attachie. All rights reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 15954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unprme.org/participation/view-participants.php?partid=4770", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7Y5QJIKKXEPODKUTGQAMHHJBDE37KNZZ", "length": 1749, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.unprme.org", "title": "PRME - Participants - Signatories -", "raw_content": "Details for Universidad CES\nDuring 2016, taking into account the commitment of \u201cCES\u201d to social responsibility, it was decided to transcend and start working on the theme of sustainable development. Therefore, a diagnosis was made in the University keeping in mind its three pillars: environmental, social and economic; Starting from the history of our organization.\nIn August 2016, we adhered to the Global Compact, committing ourselves to the 10 principles on human rights, labor rights, the environment and the fight against corruption. Moreover, work was also started in favor of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDG).\nIn 2017, the chair of sustainability is incorporated in all undergraduates, and the offer of continuing education in social responsibility and sustainable development issues begins.\nIn undergraduate and postgraduate courses we incorporate at least one course on ethics, social responsibility or humanization.\nEvery year we carry out and support, at least, an event on sustainable development issues, articulated with the issues of global compact and sustainable development goals.\nActively participated in the local network of the Global Compact.\nWe have several social programs that impact communities. These involve teachers and students as part of their courses, practices and learning process.\nWe are articulated with the B system, approaching companies committed to corporate social responsibility. We are working on the issue of humanization and programs that impact the SDG from research, innovation, cooperation and development.\nWe currently have research and innovation projects on the subject of sustainable mobility with local companies, as well as work from the biology and ecology programs on the environment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 156.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.uohamdaniya.edu.iq/pages/en/home_page/736", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:41Z", "digest": "sha1:K2CRWF2I2LZ5XEEKPONFJY7FCRCNRLCA", "length": 3935, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.uohamdaniya.edu.iq", "title": "University Of Al-Hamdaniya - \u062c\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0627\u0645\u0639\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u062f\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0629", "raw_content": "University Of Al-Hamdaniya\nUniversity Presidency\nSecretariat of University Board\nHigher Education Fund\nUniversity Follow-Up\nScientific Promotions\nQuality Assurance & Educational Accreditation\nControl & Internal Auditing\nDormitories Affairs\nCitizen Affairs\nAdministrative VP\nVice-President for Administrative and Financial Affairs\nVice-President\u2019s Office\nReconstruction & Schemes\nUniversity Management Services\nScientific VP\nVice-President for Scientific Affairs\nResearch Studies, Planning & Follow-up\nResearch and Development & Higher Education\nRegistration and Student Affairs\nScholarships & Cultural Relations\nCollege of Administration and Economics\nInternationally-Published Research Studies\nNationally-Published Research Studies\nUniversity Organogram\nThe University of Al-Hamdaniya was established on 23/3/2014 in Nineveh Plains, Al-Hamdaniya district, east of Mosul. It started as an affiliate of the University of Mosul in 2011 to book a place later among the Iraqi universities. The University of Al-Hamdaniya consists of two colleges: College of Education including the departments of Arabic Language, History, Geography, Psychology, Physical Education & Sports Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and the College of Administration and Economics including the departments of Business Administration and Accounting.\nIn 2014, the university passed through difficult circumstances, and the students left it as a result, following the evacuation of their area (like Mosul) after the invasion of ISIS. As a result of this invasion, key university premises were destroyed and the students missed a whole academic year of study. However, thanks be to Allah first and then to its distinguished cadres, the university quickly rose again. With unprecedented vigor and determination, it began the new academic year of 2015/2016 in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, specifically in the building of the Chaldean Ankawa Diocese in Erbil, which portrayed a clear national image of all colors of the Iraqi spectrum, Then the university moved back to its main location in the district of Hamdaniya immediately after the liberation and the academic year of 2017 - 2018 was the Year of Glorious Victory, not only in the battlefields, but in the classrooms that have witnessed a huge turnout of students from the Iraqi governorates, especially from southern Iraq.\nFacing all these challenges, we appreciate the efforts of the staff of the university who were able to deal wisely with the challenges and overcome post-war consequences.\nAfter returning to its headquarters in the district, the University of Al-Hamdaniya is working today to raise awareness, promote the positive and serious interaction with the community, direct response to the labor market, and the adoption of the productive university policy as well as the adoption of the concepts of quality and international accreditation. It has also pursued openness to Iraqi universities through the participation of its teaching and administrative staff in festivals, conferences and scientific seminars, and by hosting those cadres to participate in various activities at the university.\nIn accordance with all these principles, the administrative team of the University of Al-Hamdaniya seeks to make the university the best among its peers. The university also adopts the strategy of creating new colleges, departments and graduate studies, and developing curricula, scientific research and opening scientific and research centers that will contribute to sustainable development according to the application of the national classification regulations.\nWe do not forget the great support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to move forward in clear steps.\nProf. Aqil Yahya Al-Araji\nPresident of the University of Al-Hamdaniya\nUniversity Of Al-Hamdaniya is an website fully responsive template with modern and smart design.\nEmail: info@uohamdaniya.edu.iq", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.urbaneconomics.org/meetings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MCUE55FK4HAXZKSR55DP3VK2M2EUJNGB", "length": 280, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.urbaneconomics.org", "title": "Urban Economics Association", "raw_content": "2019 Summer School in Urban Economics\nWe acknowledge the kind support of our Sponsors: Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Kraks Fond \u2013 Institute for Urban Economic Research, as well as real estate research centers at Columbia, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UPenn, USC, and Wisconsin-Madison.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2016/USATF-Indoor-Track---Field-Championships/General-Entry-Declaration-Info.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBETSCH4FNLGRWGP23OMIUILT7AQ5NHL", "length": 2369, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.usatf.org", "title": "USA Track & Field - Entry Form/Declarations", "raw_content": "You must be a 2016 USATF member to enter the Championships. If you do not have a 2016 membership, please complete a membership application first. You must also be a U.S. citizen, be eligible to represent the U.S. in all levels of international competition and meet the eligibility requirements and qualifying standards for the U.S. Championships.\nClick here for an explanation of entry and declaration status categories. Questions about your entry? Contact Glen McMicken at stats@usatf.org.\nTo check the status of your entry, including declarations, visit the Status of Entries page. Athletes who are missing required documents or who need to provide information about their qualifying mark(s) will be listed on the status of entry page as \"info needed\" until such documents/information are received.\nEntry Deadlines and Fees\nEntry Deadlines Entry Fee\nOn-time: before or on Monday, 2/29/16 at 11:59 p.m. ET $30\nLate: before or on Sunday, 3/6/16 at 11:59 p.m. ET $80\nThe entry fee for the Championships is $30 per athlete. Late entries will incur an additional $50 late fee charge per athlete (Total late entry = $80.00). Note that these fees are non-transferable and non-refundable.\nOnline entries must be paid for by credit card or electronic funds transfer (\"electronic check\").\nManage My Registration (update-Marks/Affiliations/Credentials)\nMarks, Credentials, and Affiliations\nSteps to update marks/credentials/affiliations\nOnline entry is the only method of entry. No other form of entry will be accepted.\nA 2016 USATF membership is required to enter (you must join online if you are not a member).\nTo enter online, you will be required to provide your 2016 USATF membership number (click here to retrieve your membership number if you don't know it).\nA Help Line is available for those who need help with the entry process. For assistance call 317-713-4689 during normal business hours, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday.\nPlease enter as early as possible!\nDeclarations Information\nDeclaration Deadlines and Fees\nDeclaration Deadlines: Fee\nOn-time: Sunday, 3/6/16, from 12:01 a.m. \u2013 Monday, 3/7/16 by 11:59 p.m. ET $0\nLate petition ONLY: Tuesday, 3/8/16 from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET $100\nDeclaration Instructions\nDecisions on late declaration petitions will be acted upon by a special committee no later than 5:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 8, 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 5922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 206.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2016/USATF-National-Junior-Olympic-Track---Field-C.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:26Z", "digest": "sha1:R3FBBS5GXVCVDKVGRRWLRUYSZSP4FYKD", "length": 1953, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.usatf.org", "title": "USA Track & Field - USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships", "raw_content": "USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships\nMeet Registration closes July 19th at 11:59pm EST\nALL STEEPLECHASE EVENTS WILL BEGIN AT 7PM TONIGHT, JULY 28, 2016.\nOpening Ceremonies - Staging for the athletes will be on Stadium Drive. On the North side of gate 3 will be odd numbered regions and on the south side of gate 3 will be even numbered regions. Staging begins at 6:30 p.m., ceremony starts at 7:30 p.m.\nThe 50th USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships will be held in Sacramento, California. The USATF Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships is the most visible youth athletic development program in the world. Many of today's Olympic stars began their track and field careers competing in the USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships.\nEntry for this championship is based on athlete performances at preliminary, Association, and Regional levels of the 2016 USATF Junior Olympic Program. Competition takes place in six (6) two-year age divisions, with athletes generally falling between the ages of 7 and 18.\nSince the mid-1960's, the USATF Junior Olympic program has been the most visible youth athlete developmental program in the world. Nearly 70,000 youth athletes compete each year in the Junior Olympic Track & Field and Cross Country programs and many of America's Olympians began as youth athletes. American's next generation of track and field stars will be competing throughout the summer and will take center stage at the national championships in Sacramento.\nSacramento figures prominently in the history of U.S. track and field over the past 50 years, starting with a legend\u2019s historic sprint in 1966 and continuing into 2014 with the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. 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Active Schools and USA Track & Field (USATF) on Friday announced a new alliance that will make USATF\u2019s youth activity program, RunJumpThrow, accessible to millions of American school children. USATF and Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools made the announcement at the 2015 SHAPE America National Convention & Expo, an annual gathering of thousands of physical educators.\nUSATF joins 19 other leading health and education organizations as part of the national Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools, a sub-initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s Let\u2019s Move! campaign aimed at ensuring 60 minutes of physical activity a day is the new norm in schools across the country. Each supporter contributes key expertise, resources, services or financial support to raise awareness of how physical activity improves academic success and commits to help grow the number of schools with physical activity and physical education policies, practices and environments.\n\u201cUSATF brings leadership and deep-rooted youth education experience to our national collaborative,\u201d said Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools Executive Director Charlene Burgeson. \u201cWe are pleased that the group has committed to increasing physical activity opportunities for K-12 students through its RunJumpThrow grant program, which creates active learning environments for school-aged kids.\u201d\nBeginning August 2015, USATF will award a scholarship to one Lets Move! Active Schools enrolled school every week for one year leading into the 2016 Olympic Games, to be used for purchase of a RunJumpThrow equipment kit. Grant applications will be available online starting June 2015. USATF will also host RunJumpThrow Experiences, large-scale community events, specifically for select Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools enrolled schools.\nThrough RunJumpThrow, kids participate in fun, hands-on learning events designed to build basic running, jumping and throwing skills. The RunJumpThrow toolkit for educators includes a turnkey, six-week curriculum and instructional DVD demonstrating as many as 20 physical activities. RunJumpThrow may also be conducted in schools as a single-day event.\n\u201cWe are thrilled to team up with Lets Move! Active Schools in this important initiative,\u201d USATF Chief Executive Officer Max Siegel said. \u201cWith this collaboration we will be able to positively impact millions of youth and the educators who are part of their daily lives. We are excited about expanding the community of schools that benefit from RunJumpThrow and Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools.\u201d\nStudies show that active kids do better: Physical activity not only helps kids stay healthy and strong, but it can also lead to higher test scores, improved attendance, better behavior in class and lower rates of childhood obesity.\nThe Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools national collaborative works together to transform the physical activity and physical education culture in America\u2019s schools. By streamlining the selection of programs, resources, professional development and funding opportunities and delivering each school a customized Action Plan, Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools results in students moving for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended 60 minutes a day.\nSince its March 2013 launch, more than 14,500 schools have enrolled in Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools, and more than 8 million students have been impacted by the initiative. Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools strives to reach 50,000 schools and 25 million students by 2018.\nLet\u2019s Move! Active Schools is a physical activity and physical education solution to ensure 60 minutes of physical activity is the new norm for schools. Powered by a national collaboration of leading health and education organizations, Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools streamlines the selection of programs, resources, professional development and funding opportunities, and delivers a customized action plan \u2013 making it simple for teachers and strategic for administrators. Ultimately, Let\u2019s Move! Active Schools helps schools develop a culture in which physical activity and physical education are foundational to academic success. To learn more, visit www.letsmoveschools.org\nLet\u2019s Move! 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She was wined and dined, so to speak, by Pakistani politicians. But they failed to join her in visiting their distressed countrymen. They also failed to match her own personal cash donation to flood victims. No wonder Ms. Jolie is miffed.\nUnited Nations\u2019 Goodwill Ambassador was shocked to see Pakistan\u2019s rulers interested in private group photos with her when 20 million Pakistanis were in distress!!!\nSPECIAL REPORT | http://beta.paknationalists.com/\nISLAMABAD, Pakistan\u2014Corrupt, inept, dollar-hungers and downright cheesy. This description sums up the personal attributes of the vast majority of Pakistani politicians and generally the closed club of Pakistan\u2019s ruling elite, barring few gentle exceptions.\nNo one discovered this better than Angelina Jolie, who was put off by the antics of the Pakistani ruling elite during her visit to Pakistan last month to rally international support for flood victims.\nAs much as she was touched by meeting ordinary Pakistanis, her meetings with Pakistani elites were awful, to say the least.\nJust read what the editorial of The News International on October 17, 2010 (Not So Jolie):\n\u201cIt will be recalled that Angelina Jolie recently graced us with a visit. She \u2013 apart from being a global megastar \u2013 is also a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. The UN has used high-profile figures from show-business that have a humanitarian string to their bow for many years, and with wildly variable effect. Ms Jolie is one of the more articulate and effective of these glittery ambassadors and she has written a report for the UN on her visit to us \u2013 and it makes uncomfortable reading if you are a member of our bloated and over-indulged government.\nJolie expressed the view that her governmental hosts were more interested in setting up photo opportunities involving her and assorted dignitaries, and somewhat less than concerned about the human tragedy she was visiting Pakistan to observe first hand. She recommends to the UN that it ask the government of Pakistan to cut back on its luxury lifestyle, particularly as it is currently holding a begging bowl in front of all and sundry. She expressed surprise that the prime minister\u2019s family presented her with expensive gifts. Whilst the giving of gifts to guests is a part of our cultural heritage, it would have been more appropriate on this occasion if something more modest, and pertinent to the purpose of the visit, had been presented. Our politicians acted like star-struck children, and once again did nothing to enhance the global reputation of them or us as a nation.\nMs Jolie is right to protest (though we doubt that the UN is going to be telling our government to trim its sails) and if our political classes will listen to nobody else when they are calling for greater austerity then perhaps they will lend an ear to Ms Jolie. And if they don\u2019t she may just return in-role and drop-kick a few of them over the horizon \u2013 which might not be a bad idea.\u201d\nJolie\u2019s horror story began when she saw Pakistani rulers pushing back flood victims to make time for private group photos with her, showering her with gifts, inviting her to sumptuous private dinners, and requesting her for private photo opportunities.\nCommentator Zeenat Rehman reported on the Pakistani website http://www.pkhope.com/ how Jolie informed the UN, where she is a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, about how Pakistan\u2019s ruling elite must be told to be more sensitive to flood victims:\n\u201cThe philanthropist, soft-hearten world\u2019s number one female actress, Angelina Julie is not at all happy with her visit to Pakistan to see the flood victims. She came here, held the hands of the victims, made donations, stood up with the miseries of the people, denied any photo sessions, met with the aid agencies, but then she talks about the darker side of the things.\nShe is not happy with the attitude of the authorities and the government, who were more interested in toeing her line, watching her make movements, trying to please her while pushing the flood victims. She was also perturbed at the Prime Minister\u2019s wish that his family wanted to meet him. Prime Minster\u2019s family was especially flown down all the way from Multan to Islamabad and they presented expensive gifts to Jolie and had a sumptuous meal with her.\nShe said that she was feeling awful at that time to see so much food at the table, suffice for hundreds of flood victims who were fighting like crazy to get a small bag of flour and a small bottle of water. She was ill at ease when she saw the interior of lavish Premier house and some of the government buildings and the chartered planes and other such luxuries, when there was so much misery outside.\nIn her report to the United Nations, she has recommended UN to ask Pakistani government to first cut down on their expenses and to first cut down their luxuries before asking the aid from the world. How true she is.\u201d\nShe is not happy with the attitude of the authorities and the government, who were more interested in toeing her line, watching her make movements, trying to please her while pushing the flood victims. She was also perturbed at the Prime Minister\u2019s wish that his family wanted to meet him. Prime Minister\u2019s family was especially flown down all the way from Multan to Islamabad and they presented expensive gifts to Jolie and had a sumptuous meal with her.\nOne more thing that shocked Jolie during her visit to the flooded areas of Pakistan was to learn that her personal cash donation of $100,000 [approx. Rs. 8.5 million] was more than any Pakistani politician has given to his or her own people.\nPakistani newspaper Dawn has reported that Jolie\u2019s cash donation \u201cbelittled\u201d the contributions of President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and leaders of major Pakistani political parties like MQM, ANP and others.\nUnfortunately, these politicians do not reflect the hospitable and generous nature of Pakistani people.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 7172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vampireworld.com/documentary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:48:42Z", "digest": "sha1:R3TWVZLWUS3ELPCTAOYGPFZUM3MHCO6Y", "length": 686, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vampireworld.com", "title": "Documentary \u2014 VampireWorld.com", "raw_content": "The first Vampire World Documentary will be a feature length 90 minute exploration of the \"truth behind Vampire Mythos\" throughout history. Current plans are to begin production in July 2017 and with a final release in February 2019 during the Los Angeles Vampire Ball weekend. This ambitious project will explore the tribes of the Vampire culture, history and focus on the legends of Dracula, Bathory, HighGate, New Orleans, New England and graveyards of the eastern European countries. 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We have studied the transcriptome-wide distribution of expression levels in mouse T helper cells using RNA-seq technology, and have developed a variety of ways to model the expected background levels. This is critical for definition of a threshold level of expression of a gene in a given cell type. In order to calibrate the RNA-seq expression levels in terms of molecules of mRNA per cell, we have integrated the RNA-seq data with single molecule mRNA-FISH experiments.\nThe results of these analyses and experiments show that many genes are expressed at > ~ 1 molecule per cell and that two major expression levels can be identified which vary by roughly one to two orders of magnitude. This gives rise to bimodal distributions of gene expression levels in cell populations. Analysis of histone modifications by ChIP-seq indicates that activating modifications such as H3K9/14ac and H3K4me3 are involved in this \u2018digital\u2019 expression switch.\nOur findings have broad implications for the analysis RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data and for the understanding of the regulation of gene expression.\nAnthony Fejes, PhD Candidate, Jones Lab, Genome Sciences Centre, BCCA\nHarnessing Diversity: Leveraging a Database of Human Genome Variations to Tackle Genetic Diseases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1952.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NFPBOKX67FXJ2QFOUZRUS6UVESMN6SRK", "length": 7773, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.vancouverhistory.ca", "title": "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1952 Chronology", "raw_content": "Opening night of Earle Birney\u0092s Trial of a City (The Damnation of Vancouver) at the new Frederic Wood Theatre. Left to right: Frederic Wood, Dorothy Somerset, Earle Birney, Art Sager, Allan Ainsworth, Don Erickson, Eric Vale, James Johnston, Blair Baillie, Nancy Woodworth, Philip Keatley, Elizabeth Keatley, Don Withrow, Bill Buckingham.\nPhoto: courtesy University of British Columbia Archives.\nYou can sponsor this year in the book! Click here for details.\nJanuary 25 At 8:30 p.m. CBR 1130 moved to 690 on the dial and changed its call letters to CBU. See this site.\nJanuary The great American bass Paul Robeson had performed at the Orpheum February 7, 1946, and 3,000 fans in the sold-out theatre kept him coming back for more and more. But a hint of troubles ahead could be seen in the Sun\u0092s warm review by Stanley Bligh. Bligh wrote of that 1946 concert: \u0093In addition to his great success in the artistic field, the eminent Negro has won an outstanding place in the world by his firm stand on the question of racial equality, his knowledge of languages, international economics and his wide sympathy for the oppressed peoples of the whole globe.\u0094\nThat sympathy would get him into trouble.\nRobeson\u0092s knowledge of languages was impressive. Besides his native English, he spoke Hebrew, Chinese, Norwegian and Spanish. That came from his extensive travels . . . which included trips to Russia. In an interview, Robeson had told the Sun: \u0093I deeply believe Russia is now the world\u0092s most positive force for good, if we will help her.\u0094\nIt was 1952, and the cold war had the US in a deep freeze. Robeson\u0092s opinions, and his favorable view of the Communist Party (although he was never a member), resulted in a refusal by the U.S. to allow him to return to Vancouver for another concert in January, 1952. He was stopped at Blaine. Local unions organized a free outdoor concert at the Peace Arch, and it attracted 25,000 people on the Canadian side, 5,000 on the U.S. side.\nRobeson is now back in favor. The U.S. has issued a postage stamp to honor him.\nSee this site.\nFebruary 1, 2 Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars appeared in the auditorium of Kitsilano High School.\nFebruary 6 King George VI, aged just 56, died, and his daughter Elizabeth, 25, became Queen. She heard of his death while on a holiday in Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip. Vancouver and the rest of the British Commonwealth mourned the passing of the King. A 21-gun salute was fired at Brockton Point February 7 to mark the succession to the throne of Elizabeth II. Her coronation would occur June 2, 1953.\nJohn Nicholson of the Old Cambrians Society was in Kenya in 1952 and took a candid shot (right) of the Princess as she was driven by. Prince Philip is next to her, but obscured. (The King was still alive when this photo was taken.) Our thanks to Mr. Nicholson for permission to reproduce his photograph. For a charming reminiscence by him, see this site.\nFebruary 11 Alan Twigg, founder of BC Bookworld, was born. See this site.\nFebruary 12 Tolls were removed from Pattullo Bridge.\nMarch 13 Susan Mendelson was born in Toronto. Few kitchens in B.C. lack a cookbook by Susan Mendelson. There are now eight in print. The first, Mama Never Cooked Like This, sold 7,000 copies on its first day. See this site.\nMarch 24 Actor Nicholas Campbell was born in Toronto. He plays (superbly) the title character, coroner Dominic Da Vinci, on CBC-TV\u0092s Da Vinci\u0092s Inquest, the best show to come out of Vancouver television in years. See this site.\nApril 4 Vancouver got its first taste of 3-D movie making with a really bad movie set in Africa and called Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack. Look out for that lion!\nApril 11-19 Duke Ellington played a gig at the Palomar Supper Club in Vancouver. See this site.\nApril 23 In her column in The Vancouver Sun, Penny Wise told of a visiting American who complained he couldn't find any restaurant in Vancouver that served something called a Caesar salad. Penny wrote that she'd never heard of it. But she found a recipe for it and shared it with her readers. So now we can date fairly specifically the arrival on the local scene of the Caesar. The salad had been known in the States for many years, but there is a dispute over when and where it originated and who created it.\nMay 12 Actor/director/producer Christopher Gaze was born in Leatherhead, England. He originated and still heads Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, now an annual and much-loved tradition in Vancouver. Thanks to the efforts of Gaze and his staff, Bard receives less than one per cent of its income from government grants. See this site.\nJuly 15 The present Lumberman\u0092s Arch is installed at Stanley Park.\nJuly 18 The Vancouver Sun noted that the Vancouver Tourist Association had no women on its board.\nAugust 1 New Brunswick-born William Andrew Cecil Bennett became premier of BC. He will serve to September 15, 1972, just over 20 years, making him our longest-serving premier.\nAugust 16 From the Sun \u0093The postman rings four times daily, and statistically one-and-a-half persons per minute come into the over-crowded offices at the corner of Georgia and Seymour which house Vancouver\u0092s Tourist Bureau . . .\u0094\nSeptember 4 The UBC Law Building was opened by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.\nOctober 18-21 Sweet, dithery US movie actress ZaSu Pitts, 58, appeared in Vancouver in The Late Christopher Bean with the Everyman Theatre. During her visit here, ZaSu was startled to learn Canada was not a British Colony. The Internet Movie DataBase lists her in 204 movies.\nOctober 19 The first sod was turned for St Anselm Anglican Church at Cleveland Way and University Boulevard.\nOctober 20 Vancouver had two notable visitors today: Governor General Vincent Massey (our first Canadian-born GG) was in town, and so was singer Jeannette MacDonald, performing at the Georgia Auditorium.\nNovember 1 First H-Bomb.\nNovember 16 James Inglis Reid died today. He was 78. His famous high-ceilinged butcher's shop at 559 Granville, which had opened in 1915, was almost as famous for its signs as for the special meats and haggis it sold. The most celebrated sign read: \u0093We hae meat that ye can eat.\u0094 The meats included Ayrshire bacon, Belfast ham, black pudding and oatmeal-coated sausage. The Scottish-born (Kirkintilloch) Reid had come to Vancouver in 1906, at 32. Another Scot, H. Nelson Menzies, joined him in 1917. Long service was a constant at Reid's. When the shop closed in December 1986\u0097forced out by Pacific Centre expansion\u0097its manager, Gordon Wyness, had been there 41 years.\nDecember 6 The official opening of the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC. A member of Sydney Risk\u0092s company and a former student of Dorothy Somerset\u0092s, Joy Coghill directed Earle Birney\u0092s play Trial of a City (original title: Damnation of Vancouver) for the official opening. See this site.\nFred Amess became Principal of the Vancouver School of Art.\nThe Mau Mau rebellion began in Kenya. One observer: 14-year-old Vancouver-born future B.C. politician Gordon Wilson.\nA Hollywood movie titled Hurricane Smith starred two Vancouver-born actors, Yvonne De Carlo and John Ireland.\nThe West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce was incorporated. See this site.\nThe Greater Vancouver Tourist Association changed its name to the Vancouver Tourist Association.\nFiroz Rasul, Ballard Power Systems chairman emeritus today, was born in Kenya.\nVancouver city council approved the naming of several city streets after famous golf courses. That gave us Seigniory, Leaside, Uplands, Bonnacord, Scarboro, Bonnyvale, Brigadoon and Bobolink.\n1952 Rolls Silver Wraith\n[Photo: www.drwtransmission.com]\nPrincess Elizabeth on her visit\nto Kenya in February 1952.\n(Photo: John Nicholson)\nLumberman's Arch in Stanley Park\nCredit: Vancouver Park Board", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 9606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vegassportsbetting.com/sec-conference-tournament-semifinals-betting-preview-and-odds.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XCZJ7E56BNHTUGKYDYOV6FTUGMOVIALM", "length": 4276, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.vegassportsbetting.com", "title": "Vegas Sports Betting | SEC Conference Tournament Semifinals betting preview and odds", "raw_content": "SEC Conference Tournament Semifinals betting preview and odds\nThe SEC conference tournament in Nashville is on to Saturday\u2019s semifinal matchups. No. 1 Kentucky will take on Alabama in the early game and Vandy (fresh off their upset of Florida) will battle No. 3 Arkansas.\nTournament to be played at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee\nAlabama Crimson Tide vs Kentucky Wildcats (-10.5, 137)\nTwo more wins in the SEC Tournament would earn Alabama an unlikely automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament \u2013 but one more might be enough to make the Crimson Tide an interesting topic for the selection committee. The fifth-seeded Crimson Tide aim for their 20th victory when they face surging No. 1 seed Kentucky in an SEC Tournament semifinal Saturday. Alabama is in the conference semifinals for the first time since 2013 after a 64-53 win over No. 4 South Carolina on Friday. \u201cWe\u2019ve had an up-and-down year in a lot of ways and haven\u2019t been able to put together complete games, especially in back-to-back games, but we did it tonight,\u201d Alabama coach Avery Johnson told reporters. \u201cI\u2019m proud of our guys. They were hard-nosed, they fought and they were scrappy.\u201d\nThe Crimson Tide have a much bigger challenge ahead, as Kentucky has won a season-best nine straight games including a 71-60 victory over No. 8 seed Georgia in the quarterfinals. The Wildcats won the only regular-season meeting, 67-58 at Alabama on Feb. 11 and have won seven straight in the series. The Wildcats proved they are more than a one-man team by beating Georgia despite a season-low two points from leading scorer Malik Monk (20.6 points). Fellow freshman De\u2019Aaron Fox (15.7 points, 5.0 assists) and sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe (13.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists) scored 20 points apiece against the Bulldogs, and freshman Bam Adebayo (13.3 points, 7.7 rebounds) recorded a double-double to carry Kentucky.\n* Crimson Tide are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.\n* Wildcats are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 neutral site games as a favorite.\n* Under is 5-0 in Crimson Tide last 5 neutral site games.\n* Under is 5-0 in Wildcats last 5 games as a favorite.\n* Favorite is 4-0 ATS in the last 4 meetings.\nVanderbilt Commodores vs Arkansas Razorbacks (OFF)\nWith a run to the SEC Tournament semifinals, Vanderbilt might have finally done enough to secure an NCAA Tournament bid, but the Commodores would prefer to win two more games in Nashville and remove all doubt. The surging Commodores\u2019 next shot at padding their resume comes Saturday when they take on Arkansas with a trip to the championship game on the line. The Commodores dominated the extra period in a 72-62 overtime win over No. 2 seed Florida on Friday \u2013 their third win over the Gators this season. That sets up a rubber match with Arkansas, as the teams split the regular-season series with each winning on the other\u2019s home court. The Commodores are one of the SEC\u2019s best 3-point shooting teams, and they knocked down 11 from behind the arc against the Gators. Reserve guard Matthew Fisher-Davis (13.8 points) and Riley LaChance (10.4 points) were hot from outside Friday, and 7-foot-1 forward Luke Kornet (13.4 points, 6.2 rebounds) collected a double-double despite going 0-for-4 from long range.\nThe Razorbacks have won seven of their last eight games since a 72-59 home loss to the Commodores on Feb. 7, and they eked out a 73-72 win over Ole Miss on Friday behind 17 points from Daryl Macon. Arkansas is trying to earn its second trip to the SEC Tournament championship game in the last three years. The Razorbacks have a balanced attack, but it has been sharp-shooting guard Dusty Hannahs (14.6 points) who has lit up the Commodores in the previous two meetings, averaging 20.5 points. Macon (13.3 points) was the man Friday, scoring 17 off the bench including 9-of-10 from the foul line, as the Razorbacks were 20-of-23 from the stripe.\n* Commodores are 12-2 ATS in their last 14 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.\n* Razorbacks are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a ATS loss.\n* Under is 14-2 in Commodores last 16 games following a straight up win.\n* Over is 12-1 in Razorbacks last 13 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.\n* Commodores are 1-4 ATS in the last 5 meetings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 9689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wbrc.com/2018/09/11/suspect-charged-with-murder-woodlawn-high-football-player/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:03Z", "digest": "sha1:3BN4SJSRTFILPZXDFLSKP3XSWBV5FS6W", "length": 791, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wbrc.com", "title": "Suspect charged with murder of Woodlawn High football player", "raw_content": "Suspect charged with murder of Woodlawn High football player\nBirmingham Police have arrested 17-year-old Rodrick Hodges for the murder of 16-year-old William Edwards. (Source: B'ham PD)\nBIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - The Birmingham Police Department says a capital murder warrant has been obtained against a 17-year-old they say murdered a Woodlawn High School football player early Saturday morning, September 1.\n17-year-old Rodrick Hodges has been charged with the murder of 16-year-old William Edwards.\nThe shooting happened in the 300 block of 80th St N early morning Saturday, September 1.\nPolice responded to the scene where they found Edwards suffering gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.\nHodges was in custody at the Jefferson County Jail as of the timestamp on this story.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wdmeyerlaw.com/the-subject/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YJ44NUQW3MRP3POOEDPNBVWRB3WVLRIB", "length": 2161, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wdmeyerlaw.com", "title": "The Subject | W. D. Meyer Law - WD Meyer Law is the company you want", "raw_content": "Observation at dermatological clinics, have been extracted interesting conclusions which describes a characteristic psychological atmosphere, which points out that people with such conditions, present a psychological situation, which has been described as a deseseperacion controlled but anxious, different from a depression but with a particular anxiety, because even though are not threatened with death, the outward appearance of your bodyIt is ill and therefore its social, something very important image in our society is committed. This is a matter of intense concern, which is transformed into a source of anxiety and the feeling of discomfort or pain, joins the mortification that produce them. These circumstances, this subjective frame, distinguishes these people of others. They tend to be, for those reasons, subject of social comment, being able to find cases of rejection, motivated by the idea of a contagion or a picture of little neatness. The skin is a terminal of the body, where the acting equivalent of emotional processes, being what we can call, an organ of expression, determined by defined processes, both when observed through the voluntary nervous system as involuntary. When we think of skin, we must take into account, that it is not perceived as a system of layers, as it is from the histological point of view, but that the subject receives the effects in terms of situations in which is involved. Sometimes, the manifestations of the skin, appear in points of sensitivity to different stimuli, such as cold, burning, itching, or pleasure.And so, as the qualities of the touch system, from the aesthetic point of view and cosmetic, can give rise to feelings of beauty or ugliness, of purity or impurity, pallor, blush, smoothness or roughness.There have been experiments with hypnosis, as with hysteria, in which came to cause skin lesions and heal with the same procedure, in a very short time span, which to led researchers to consider seriously the presence and importance of psychic factors in production and cures for these disorders. Original author and source of the article..\n\u00ab CTR Announcement\nHow To Charge The Battery \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherhourly.php3?s=594098&date=2018-01-19&cityname=Black+Creek%2C+Wisconsin%2C+United+States+of+America&units=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:B7EM5UWQZDOAI5ZXRZVBVOHX7TGME3K4", "length": 194, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.weatherbase.com", "title": "Black Creek, Wisconsin [January 19, 2018] - Weather Records By Hour (Weatherbase)", "raw_content": "We're sorry. There is no daily almanac available for Black Creek, Wisconsin on January 19, 2018.\nWe're sorry. There are no daily records available for Black Creek, Wisconsin on January 19, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 97.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wesltd.com/news/ApprenticeoftheYear.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:30Z", "digest": "sha1:X7P4YA4QDJQZKVEJUIEOQL25HMSZKQYI", "length": 958, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wesltd.com", "title": "Apprentice of the Year", "raw_content": "LATEST NEWS - APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR\nMarc Goodchild, one of the apprentices in Hardmetal Engineering has recently been presented with the prestigous \u2018Apprentice of the Year award\u2019 from Cornwall College.\n\u201cMarc has progressed tremendously since joining the company and is now the main operator of one of our most important machines\u201d commented Daniel Hutchings, Operations Manager, \u201che has a natural ability for engineering and a willingness to learn which really set him apart.\u201d\nDaniel himself won the same award as a Hardmetal apprentice 5 years ago and having come through the ranks has now trained Marc to the same high standard.\n\"I think that has a lot to say about the learning culture within the company and the desire that these young people have to be the best at what they do\", praised Andrew Hosking (MD). \"Marc is now the primary operator on one of our most important machines which is a tremendous achievement at such an early stage in his career.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wildwoodsnj.com/wildwood-shopping-results.cfm?show=8376", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JEPI7FQORSWA6HSWYG43GBHNWICEWXS4", "length": 493, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wildwoodsnj.com", "title": "The Wildwoods - North Wildwood, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest", "raw_content": "IT\u2019SUGAR was created to satisfy a universal sweet tooth and provide a variety of bold merchandise with tongue-and-cheek attitude. As the place where candy-obsessed come to indulge in the sights, smells and tastes of their favorite sweets and get immersed in the brand\u2019s irreverent voice and fun-loving nature, IT\u2019SUGAR is a different kind of specialty store. Dedicated to bringing out the child in every adult, the brand mixes unique product and merchandise with mega-sized humor and attitude.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wingshypnosis.com/whats-the-difference-between-hypnosis-hypnotherapy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:31Z", "digest": "sha1:U4VE3OCMOWDPURRK63GZXGHURVDGODKL", "length": 2201, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.wingshypnosis.com", "title": "What\u2019s The Difference Between Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy? - WingsHypnosis", "raw_content": "According to The Florida Institute of Hypnosis, HYPNOSIS is a natural, yet altered state where communication and responsiveness with the subconscious mind is present. HYPNOTHERAPY is the use of therapeutic techniques or principles in conjunction with hypnosis, treatment utilizing hypnosis.\nTo further explain the difference between the two, let me use this example:\nI have a client who is deathly afraid of needles, but really wants to get a tattoo.\nAfter a quick interview, I determine whether or not the client needs HYPNOSIS or HYPNOTHERAPY. If the client just wants a tattoo and has no \u201cneedle related\u201d trauma, I would do HYPNOSIS, which would include creating suggestions with the client to make his/her next visit to the tattoo artist more pleasant.\nSuggestions might include the following:\nWhen I am getting my tattoo, I feel relaxed and calm.\nI image others admiring my tattoo when I\u2019m done.\nI lovingly welcome this ink into my body.\nThese are calming suggestions, and will often take care of the problem.\nWhen there\u2019s a deep rooted fear or memory that is triggering the client to respond negatively to needles, then HYPNOTHERAPY is often the best way to go.\nPerhaps the client had a vaccination that went bad, or pricked her finger while learning how to sew and her mother scolded her for not being more careful. Perhaps she was assaulted in a past life and held down while someone did awful things to her, and having a body part held down by a tattoo artist is triggering these fears.\nWith hypnotherapy, we go back into the client\u2019s memories and find the cause of the trigger, and work together to heal it.\nWe call this \u201cchildhood regression\u201d or \u201cpast life regression.\u201d In most cases, the client isn\u2019t even aware of the memory triggering the undesired response. I ensure the client is very relaxed and in a deep trance before going back to the memories triggering the reaction. He/she will not experience any more pain than he/she is willing to feel, and we work together to heal whatever the memory is.\nIf you\u2019d like to resolve a fear or phobia that\u2019s affecting your life, or simply want to see what hypnosis feels like, please call Wings Hypnosis at 727-835-6566 to set up a consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wiseman.ealing.sch.uk/news/?pid=3&nid=3&storyid=775", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:47Z", "digest": "sha1:A6FJ5753QGQI3OONIUSIRBSSJRJ6UXSA", "length": 1334, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.wiseman.ealing.sch.uk", "title": "The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School - STEM Potential Programme", "raw_content": "Applications are open for Year 10 students interested in studying Science and Maths post 16\nApplications are open for Year 10 students interested in studying Science and Maths post 16.\n\u2022 This two-year programme aims to support up to 90 students in their Y10 and Y11 studies via lectures, subject specific workshops and a non-residential summer school in Summer 2016\n\u2022 There will be a number of contact days when you are expected to attend scheduled events at Imperial College \u2013 these days will be masterclasses in Science, Engineering and Maths subjects.\n\u2022 In addition, lectures and other university experience taster days will be provided.\n\u2022 Be taking GCSE exams in summer 2017,\n\u2022 Have a keen interest in Science and Maths.\n\u2022 Be considering studying Science and Maths in your post 16 studies.\n\u2022 Be capable of achieving a minimum of 5A and 3B grades in GCSE's including an A in Maths and at least two Sciences and B grade in English Language.\n\u2022 Be willing to travel to Imperial College for the scheduled dates of the programme.\n\u2022 This application will take approximately 15 minutes to fill in and you will also be asked to provide a personal statement of up to 500 words. Students need to speak to their science teacher before application regarding their reference.\n\u2022 DEADLINE \u2013 4th October\n\u2022 www.imperial.ac.uk/schools/stem-potential", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.withoutexcuseministries.com/the-man-minute/archives/10-2011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IVCINVUSIEGFYJMTFRZYYGPJ6LXNLQ6U", "length": 6965, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.withoutexcuseministries.com", "title": "Blog Archives - Without Excuse Ministries", "raw_content": "Old Friends, New Chapters\nOld Friends. New Chapters.\nNot long ago my wife and I attended my 20th high school reunion. I had waited for months for this day to arrive, for I really do miss the crew that I knew in those years. On a side note, there is a point of pain in going to these gigs, because you will inevitably see a small percentage of people who have yet to gain one pound, have seen no wrinkle in the mirror, nor have lost one, single hair from their head, in all these twenty years. Why does God choose to give this sort of blessing to some and withhold it from the vast majority of others? I find no real reason for it, and when I cross over the river, I plan to ask Him about it once we have talked about more important things for a while before turning to the smaller matters.\nFor the most of us, our faces had changed. Our dancing, while pathetic in concept, was at least an attempt to remember how we once could groove to Journey or Tone Loc. Our stories were vastly different from those we were writing twenty years ago. The chapters were filled with victories and defeats, and you could see evidence of both in our eyes. The beauty of it all was that we were together, and this time around, it seemed as if we really did just want to talk. Our 15th reunion had, for some reason, failed to materialize, and so for many of us this was the first time we'd seen one another in a decade. For that reason alone, it was sweet to hug someone and look into their eyes, meet their spouse, and just catch up.\nFor the next few days, I could not help but think of my classmates. Their faces filled my mind's eye. It made me think about Heaven.\nI'm forever bothered about the vast majority of people's view of Heaven, for many make is sound like this great family reunion, when the true star of Heaven will be Jesus and not some uncle or business partner I've not seen in thirty years. That being said, I cannot help but anticipate what Heaven will be like when we are able to share time with one another. What a healing moment it will be to sit down and talk, with stories that have no recollection of pain or disappointment. I eagerly await the timeless feeling that will be ours in Christ when we all can share life that ages not.\nThen I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, \"Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. And He who sits on the throne said, \"Behold, I am making all things new.\"\nLiving as if God Doesn't\nLiving As If God Doesn't.\nIf you've been around Christianity for any length of time, then you have no doubt heard the phrase, \"You just have to trust God.\" Have you ever thought about why God wants your trust? I can promise you that it's not because God wants you to have less stress in your life. Less anxiety may be a derivitive of a trusting faith, but it's not the chief aim of a faith that trusts God with everything.\nJesus gave a simple insight into why trusting the Father is critical to the spiritual journey when He said, \"So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.\" (Matthew 6:31-32)\nDid you spot it? \"For the pagans run after all these things ...\"\nGod is a sovereign God. He set the planets in motion, and He put life in your bones at the moment of conception. He is fully capable, and fully deserving, to manage your life both here and now ... and in the hereafter. When you and I reject the Father's love by rejecting His sovereign reign, we live as if God doesn't exist.\nWorry is going to creep into your mind; it's what you do with it that matters. What is at the heart of this passage is a lifestyle that tends to gravitate to anxiety instead of faith. When worry creeps in, sovereignty must overcome it. It is to the sovereign heart of the Father that you must take your thoughts and plant them deep within your spirit in order to eject worry from the soul. When you live as if you are the one in control of the final outcome, whether you realize it or not, in that moment, there is no evident distinction between a disciple and pagan.\nNot If You Are My Kid\nNot If You're My Kid\nJesus seemed to be in a constant state of trying to drive the point home with His disciples. Sometimes they got it, sometimes not. I like reading about the disciples and how they handled situations, because I feel better about myself. Think about it. When Peter wants to fight, instead of reasonably come to an agreement, doesn't it make you feel a little bit better about yourself?\nWhen teaching them about the heart of His Father, Jesus tells them \"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?\" (Luke 11:11)\n\"Which of you fathers ...\" It's a comical question that Jesus asks if you really think about it. It's a question that only a dad would understand, for every dad knows that there is a love that goes beyond vocabulary when trying to describe how much you love your kids. Would I give my son a copperhead when he wanted food? Not if he's my kid. He's getting food.\nGod takes care of His kids, because that's what a father does. That's what Jesus was trying to say to them, and this time, I think they got it.\nEndurance that Produces\nEndurane that Produces\nI could be the poster child for \"He's Not The Sharpest Tool In The Shed But He's Still Around.\" Maybe that should be a new start up as a non-profit organization that helps kids who struggle academically but have lots of drive. I've always said that I'm living proof that you can go all the way in education if you know how to get your hands on extra-credit! Perseverance is one thing I do know I have; and, to be candid, I'd rather have drive than talent. I'll take heart over talent any day. How many under-achievers do you know who have crazy talent yet refuse to use it? My point exactly.\nJames tells us that when life brings tests our way, we should not scorn the classroom exercise because \"the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.\" (James 1:3-5)\nWalk backward through that verse for a second. If you want to be complete, with an understanding that you are content with life and lacking nothing, you're only going to get it through maturity. The only way you obtain maturity is to learn how to persevere through the years and the experiences they bring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 8737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wmshl.org/about/history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:37Z", "digest": "sha1:5GLJ7IFQP3XONJKRG3KSSRWXFE52N5EU", "length": 543, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wmshl.org", "title": "History | WMSHL", "raw_content": "WMSHL started in 1975 when a group of local West Michigan Hospitals realized the potential efficiencies and pricing advantages of a central healthcare laundry co-operative. The original 13 members wanted to create a way for hospitals to focus on their core mission of providing high quality healthcare, not just laundry and linen processing.\nCurrently, WMSHL serves 40 owning healthcare facilities around Michigan and Northern Indiana. We are also proud to serve 4 non-owning associate members and over 350 clinics and off-sites in the region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 192.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldreviewer.com/travel-guides/sacred-places/jetavanaramaya/61783/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:WBXTCJBMU4C5BUC443CSWFG5UC5K6S7F", "length": 1339, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.worldreviewer.com", "title": "Jetavanaramaya, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka | World Reviewer", "raw_content": "You are here Travel guides Culture Sacred Places Jetavanaramaya\nListed under Sacred Places in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.\nPhoto by flickr user astuecker\nJetavanaramaya is the largest stupa in Anuradhapura at around 400ft high and with a volume of 2.5million square feet. When it was built it was the third tallest structure in the world behind the pyramids. But this proves the architectural ingenuity of the Sri Lankan people. They had to dig deep pits to lay the foundations, and they used elephant labour to stamp down the new floors. It would have taken them about 15 years to build it, but it's an epic building that anyone would have been proud to work on.\n10,000 Buddhist monks would have lived in and around this building when it was full and working.\nWritten by Tom Andrews.\nBegun in 1093, Pisa Cathedral (Duomo di Pisa) is a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture. Despite its proximity to the eye-cat\u2026\nAbhayagiri Dagaba\nAbhayagiri Dagaba was an ancient Buddhist royal capital that now stands in lovely, and expansive, ruins just outside of Anuradh\u2026\nThe lovers carved on a slab here are one of this small stupas most famous treasures, but they're been moved \u2013 there's a plaque \u2026\nThe Ruwanwelisaya is one of Sri Lanka's most impressive stupas, so its significance is architectural as well as religious. Muc\u2026\nAnuradhapura travel guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wowcelebration.com/you-know-what-i-mean-rock-on-2-is-on-with-a-new-song-release/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7BVFM3UTWJ2WYYEWLYCDIIDGI3FUWHYZ", "length": 753, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wowcelebration.com", "title": "'You know What I Mean' Rock on 2 ! is on with a new song release. - WOW Celebration", "raw_content": "Amid all the shaadi songs with a Punjabi flavour and Bollywood\u2019s famous latka-jhatkas, Rock On 2\u2019s new song \u2018You Know What I Mean\u2019 is a wedding song with a jazzy feel. It is just the number you play when you want to give your Indian wedding a western twist. The song, which is sung by Farhan Akhtar, is picturised on the four main members of Magik Band, namely Farhan, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli and Luke Kenny. The lyrics of the song, which have been penned down by Javed Akhtar, gives a throwback to \u2018Picchle Saat Dino\u2019 from the film\u2019s original version.\nWhile that song was pure magic and is still a number we keep on going back to, \u00ddou Know What I Mean\u2019 will make you happy but just for a moment. It doesn\u2019t have that quality which makes it a classic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wsicweb.com/schedule/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TDGL5KMSF5UCCD5QB6VW3VS7SFIKHYPP", "length": 2850, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "www.wsicweb.com", "title": "Schedule - WSIC | Radio, TV, Digital", "raw_content": "WSIC Programming Schedule\n12:00 \u2013 1:00 am Free Talk Live\n1:00 \u2013 5:00 am Coast to Coast AM with George Noory\n5:00 \u2013 6:00 am This Morning, America\u2019s First News with Gordon Deal\n6:00 \u2013 8:00 am The Morning Show with Harold Johnson\n8:00 \u2013 8:30 am Health Talk with Fred Lowry\n8:30 \u2013 9:00 am Around the City\n9:00 \u2013 11:00 am Home Ad with Pat Shannon\n11:00 \u2013 11:30 am This Morning, America\u2019s First News with Gordon Deal\n11:30 am \u2013 12:00 pm Ted Talks Money with Ted DeLisi\n12:00 \u2013 3:00 pm Rush Limbaugh\n3:00 \u2013 6:00 pm Sean Hannity\n6:00 \u2013 6:15 pm Back to Basics with Pastor Randy Mitchell from Temple Baptist Church\n6:15 \u2013 6:30 pm Dig A Little Deeper with Pastor Tim Cove from Statesville\u2019s Seventh Day Adventist Church\n6:30 \u2013 7:00 pm Rick and Bubba\n7:00 \u2013 9:00 pm The Morning Show: Nightside Edition with Harold Johnson\n9:00 pm \u2013 12:00 am Laura Ingraham\n12:00 \u2013 1:00 am Todd Starnes\n6:30 \u2013 7:00 am Your Health with Larry Marlin\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 pm Live Local\n1:00 \u2013 5:00 am Coast to Coast with George Noory\n8:00 \u2013 8:30 am Salt & Light\n8:30 \u2013 9:00 am The Good, The Bad and The Guilty\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 pm The Wisdom Hour\n8:00 \u2013 8:30 am Why Should I Care with Melissa Neader\n11:00 \u2013 11:30 am Salt & Light\n11:30 \u2013 12:00 pm This Morning, America\u2019s First News with Gordon Deal\n8:00 \u2013 9:00 am Local Biz Now!\n6:00 \u2013 7:00 am Everything Old Is New Again\n7:00 \u2013 8:00 am Rush Limbaugh Weekend Review\n9:00 \u2013 10:00 am Rush Limbaugh Weekend Review\n10:00 \u2013 10:30 am At The Track\n10:30 \u2013 11:00 am The Living Church of Our Lord\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 pm Local Biz Now\n12:00 \u2013 12:30 pm North Main Financial with Joshua Dobi\n12:30 \u2013 1:00 pm Serenity Now\n1:00 \u2013 2:00 pm Wisdom Hour\n2:00 \u2013 3:00 pm This Weekend with Gordon Deal\n3:00 \u2013 4:00 pm Bill Gaither\u2019s Homecoming Radio\n4:00 \u2013 5:00 pm Legends of Success\n5:00 \u2013 6:00 pm Ruda Maxa World\n6:00 \u2013 8:00 pm Under the Hood\n8:00 \u2013 11:00 pm Free Talk Live\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 am Darren Streblow\n12:00 \u2013 1:00 am Those Weekend Golf Guys\n1:00 \u2013 6:00 am Coast to Coast AM Weekends with John B. Wells\n6:00 \u2013 12:00 pm WSIC\u2019s Morning Worship, including:\n6:00 \u2013 7:00 am The Wisdom Hour\n7:00 \u2013 7:30 am Dig A Little Deeper\n8:00 \u2013 8:15 am Back to Basics\n8:15 \u2013 8:30 am Fern Hill Baptist Church\n8:30 \u2013 9:00 am Ostwalt Baptist Church\n9:00- 9:30 am Calvary Baptist Church\n9:30 \u2013 10:00 am Morning Star Baptist Church\n10:00 \u2013 10:15 am Houston Road Baptist Church\n10:15 \u2013 10:30 am Zoe Life\n10:30 \u2013 11:00 am The Deep End from Elmwood Baptist Church\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 pm Western Avenue Baptist Church\n12:00 \u2013 1:00 pm The Daren Streblow Comedy Show\n1:00 \u2013 3:00 pm Rudy Maxa\u2019s World with the Careys\n3:00 \u2013 4:00 pm Everything Old is New Again\n4:00 \u2013 5:00 pm Those Weekend Golf Guys\n5:00 \u2013 6:00 pm Local Biz Now\n6:00 \u2013 7:00 pm The Daren Streblow Comedy Show\n7:00 \u2013 7:30 pm Ted Talks Money\n7:30 \u2013 8:00 pm At The Track\n8:00 \u2013 11:00 pm Armed American Radio\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 am Free Talk Live", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 7634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 127.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wwlibdems.org.uk/2009/01/26/wokingham-liberal-democrats-oppose-overview-and-scrutiny-recommendations-on-concessionary-travel-tokens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FOVRDZ6CLKU7QPBZLRUSXF3O5FE2VZSY", "length": 1710, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wwlibdems.org.uk", "title": "Wokingham Liberal Democrats Oppose Overview and Scrutiny Recommendations on Concessionary Travel Tokens \u00ab Woodley & Whitegates Liberal Democrats", "raw_content": "Liberal Democrat councillors are strongly opposing Tory recommendations to restrict the number of people who are eligible to receive free travel tokens from Wokingham Borough Council.\nCouncillor Phil Challis (councillor for Loddon ward) said, \u201cTaking tokens away from the elderly ignores the needs of this potentially vulnerable group. There are many elderly people in the borough who live in areas where there is no bus service, so the alternative of a free bus pass is no use to them. The Tories have the wrong priorities: what happened to the Leader of the Council\u2019s assertion that the needs of the most vulnerable people in the borough were his priority?\u201d\nCouncillor Prue Bray (Leader of the Lib Dem councillor group and councillor for Winnersh ward) said, \u201cThe council committee\u2019s investigation into concessionary travel was rushed through and was a sham. Rob Stanton (Tory Executive member at the time) even told the committee that leaving things as they are was not an option. It is quite clear that the Tories are intent on saving money and are not interested in investigating the whole issue of concessionary travel properly.\u201d\nThe Liberal Democrat opinion expressed in a minority report to the Executive is that the Tories had not allowed enough time or provided enough information for proper consideration of the impact of taking free travel tokens away from people who currently get them.\nPrue Bray went on to say, \u201cThe Tories either can\u2019t listen or won\u2019t listen and as usual it is left to the Lib Dems to speak up for the vulnerable groups in Wokingham. We urge the Executive to retain the free travel tokens for all over-60\u2019s in the borough when they make their decision on Thursday 29th January.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wwlibdems.org.uk/2010/01/29/hands-off-our-borough/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6C6DUUSTU4U27BMG5GR3T573VKDJ6YUA", "length": 827, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wwlibdems.org.uk", "title": "Hands off our Borough \u00ab Woodley & Whitegates Liberal Democrats", "raw_content": "Wokingham Liberal Democrats are calling on Labour and Conservative councillors on Reading Borough Council to drop their plans to bid for city status. In order for the bid to be a success, Reading would need to expand to include Woodley, Earley, Reading University, and the two business areas of Thames Valley Park and Green Park, all of which are currently in Wokingham Borough.\nCouncillor Prue Bray, leader of the Liberal Democrats on Wokingham Borough Council, said, \u201cReading Borough Council should spend more time supporting its residents and existing services, and less on trying to bolster its own importance.\n\u201cWe agree with the Liberal Democrats in Reading that bidding for city status again is bonkers and won\u2019t benefit residents at all. Woodley and Earley are an integral part of Wokingham Borough, and must remain so.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wwlibdems.org.uk/category/social-care/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:URLWEC7LKERY7HOFE2NWHJXHFWI4RSQK", "length": 799, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wwlibdems.org.uk", "title": "Social care \u00ab Woodley & Whitegates Liberal Democrats \u00ab Page 3", "raw_content": "At the Council meeting on Thursday, Cllr Prue Bray (leader of the Liberal Democrat group) will be submitting a motion demanding that Wokingham Borough Council reinstate its basic garden maintenance and interior decorating service for vulnerable tenants in council-owned homes, who are unable to undertake the work or pay for it themselves. Such a service [\u2026]\nAt last Thursday\u2019s Executive meeting Cllr Prue Bray, the leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Wokingham Borough Council, asked a question about the Council\u2019s consultation on the proposed changes to charges for day care, home care and respite care. Cllr Bray said; \u2018The Conservative-led Council is currently undertaking a consultation on the proposed changes [\u2026]\nPosted in Social care | Comments Off on Care Charges Consultation Conundrum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2016/07/t-i-recorded-100-songs-dime-trap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:2W2RDA6PASSBHK5ETTKMCE4MYRRLGAUC", "length": 1768, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.xxlmag.com", "title": "T.I. Has Recorded Over 100 Songs for 'Dime Trap' Album - XXL", "raw_content": "T.I. Has Recorded Over 100 Songs for \u2018Dime Trap\u2019 Album\nT.I. put in some serious work for Dime Trap. The Atlanta rapper revealed that he has recorded over 100 songs for the album during an interview on Big Boy's Neighborhood. T.I. said that the LP is almost done, but he's having trouble selecting what tracks will make the cut.\n\"I think the most difficult thing is figuring out which record to put out,\" T.I. said. \"You know, which records to put in sequence which will actually make the album. Cause you know after making so many records... We probably have 100 and some change.\"\nT.I. explained that he still has to decide what direction to take on Dime Trap, which will be released through Roc Nation.\n\"I have to pick... Let's say 12 to 16 records out of that,\" he said. \"I think that's the most difficult cause you have to figure out what's the tone. What's the tone of the project? What's the message? And how you want to present that energy. And they all like my kids.\"\nThe \"Motivation\" rapper was also asked about his longevity in the rap game. T.I. laid out a few of the factors that have helped him stay around in the evolving hip-hop landscape.\n\"It's sincerity,\" T.I. said. \"It's the ability to relate and like she said, consistency. You have to connect with the people. Continue to connect with the people and realize what it is that allows you to connect with 'em. And beyond that, staying in touch and in tune with what's going on in the community so you can always have a direct line to the appetite for the streets out there.\"\nCheck out the entire interview above as T.I. addresses his support for Hillary Clinton now that Bernie Sanders is out of the presidential race. 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Here is the article to share.\nThe Little Dreamer is a charming fairy tale reminiscent of The Little Prince meets The Arabian Nights, written by Anila Angin, and illustrated and animated by Stick & Balloon\u2018s Sara Chong and Yanyun Chen.\nAnila believes herself to be some specimen of alien on a visit to Earth. She also likes to imagine that she might be a slightly more grownup version of Zayoni, the child whose life is recorded in The Little Dreamer. Her goal is to help people remember who they really are, and thus find themselves again, somewhere in the milky cosmos of the heart \u2026\n\u201cA child, Zayoni, leaves her tribe, her mother and her beloved tree to go in search of the lost City of Dreams, hoping to restore a paradisiacal way of life to her island. Along the way, she meets a host of strange and colourful characters, including a fortune-teller, a talking dog, a wicked princess, and the Old Dreamers of the Earth, Air, Sea and Fire \u2013 beings so ancient, they grow younger with age. The child has only three months to find the City of Dreams. She races against time and the challenges she encounters, only to realise that what she was looking for was within her all this while, and in the hearts of everyone else \u2026\u201d\nThe book is currently free to read -a chapter a week- on this site, and is available for purchase here. Anila also has a rad blog where she posts new fables and flash fiction, accompanied by original illustrations from a loose collective of local artists. The Little Dreamer eBook is free to all blog subscribers.\nOh, and don\u2019t forget to check out the animations for the book here.\n-MICHELE ADRIAENS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yrdyouth.org/equip.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:05Z", "digest": "sha1:NBBSE74ZT6O2EQMYPVJPFMZ7BSGBV3CG", "length": 298, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.yrdyouth.org", "title": "Equip - York River District Youth", "raw_content": "\"His purpose was to equip God\u2019s people for the work of serving and building up the body of Christ until we all reach the unity of faith and knowledge of God\u2019s Son. God\u2019s goal is for us to become mature adults\u2014to be fully grown, measured by the standard of the fullness of Christ.\" Ephesians 4:12-13", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 134.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zen.org/2007/06/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NYK43DKRJATSNGZCI67RP6BARQJKD3FH", "length": 768, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.zen.org", "title": "zen.org Communal Weblog \u00bb 2007 \u00bb June \u00bb 11", "raw_content": "The oddities of human memory\nI\u2019m working away, letting iTunes play what it will. Up comes \u201cIf This Is It\u201d by Huey Lewis, and I\u2019m pulled back in time. I was twelve years old, listening to the Sports album, my mind buried in the depths of Stephen King\u2019s Pet Sematary.\nSince I\u2019ve been reading King\u2019s books from age ten (gasp), I don\u2019t think I was very sensitive to horror novels or movies by then. But it must be a little odd that I remember quite so much detail: the dead cat comes back to visit after being buried in a spooky cemetery, and he needs the bits of green garbage bag picked out of his whiskers\u2014the very same garbage bag used to hold his stiffening corpse only the day before.\nPerfectly normal to remember, right?\nComments Off on The oddities of human memory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www3.gehealthcare.se/sv-se/products/kategorier/magnetic_resonance_imaging/signa_pet-mr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:EJQR4JSWL5IIGK7XREY5SVJ7FG43WDCO", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www3.gehealthcare.se", "title": "SIGNA PET/MR - Magnetresonanstomografi - Kategorier", "raw_content": "Images are courtesy of University of Zurich and University of California, San Francisco", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 418, "original_length": 11799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 86.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ycyf.info/pastor-chris-oyakhilome-higher-life-conference-uk-2017.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GOVNADTVS3HV6NJVKUQAGRNDOR6FS7XO", "length": 4037, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ycyf.info", "title": "Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Higher Life Conference UK 2017 | YCYF", "raw_content": "Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Higher Life Conference UK 2017\n30/08/2017 Felicia\nRenowned evangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome will from September 8th to September 10th hold an international event dubbed, Higher Life Conference UK, at the O2 Arena, London, England. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is an international best-selling author and faith healer with a worldwide recognition having helped millions through his ministry.\nThe Higher Life Conference UK is a three-day event slated to be hosted at London\u2019s famous O2 Arena in the United Kingdom which has a capacity of 20,000 people. This stadium\u2019s capacity is the second highest in terms of sitting capacity in the whole of the United Kingdom for any indoor arena.\nThe main theme of the event will be around creating a deeper understanding of a higher life for children of God. The music festival will be at the center of the conference, and the program will be run similar to a regular church service with opening prayers and praise and worship sessions. Musical performances will be carried out in different sessions regularly throughout the conference with acclaimed and renowned international gospel artists gracing the stage. Healing wonders, miracles, Holy Spirit impartation upon believers as well as interactive videos will be witnessed at the three-day event.\nPublic registration commences Monday, August 7th. The conference will have its sessions each day in the afternoon for the three days. Charges per session are \u00a31.50 which sums up to \u00a34.50 for the three-day session in total. All the sessions will begin at different times as follows; 6 pm sharp for Friday 8th August, 4 pm sharp for Saturday 9th August and 1 pm sharp for Sunday 10th August.\nApart from the presence of the man of God pastor Chris Oyakhilome himself the conference will also be graced by another powerful Believers\u2019 LoveWorld Pastor. There will be healing, worship, miracles, anointing, preaching, speaking and tongues and meditation lessons, Jesus\u2019 meaning to us, walking in love together with lessons and interpretation of the word of God. The sessions conclude with an atmosphere of the presence of the Holy Spirit with hallelujahs of revelations with power.\nPopular known as \u2018Pastor Chris\u2019, Pastor Oyakhilome is a Nigerian evangelist, president and founder of Believers\u2019 LoveWorld Incorporated, known as Christ Embassy Christian Bible-based ministry with a large following across Africa and beyond. The ministry has grown to encompass multitudes in the United Kingdom, and North America in a session of Healing Schools held regularly. Pastor Chris is a worldwide sensation and recognized for his many public services acts like the Inner City Mission programs, his Jesus centered preaching, many miracles across the globe, and the healings. Cripples have walked, blind eyes have opened, infertility and blood diseases healed plus mental illnesses. LoveWorld Ministry has millions of members worldwide with a prayer network reaching to Christians globally.\nRhapsody of Realities is a popular daily devotional authored by Pastor Chris. The devotional is translated into over 900 languages reaching the global audience.\nLoveWorld USA was recently launched by Pastor Chris alongside Pastor Benny Hinn of the USA. It is the first United States Christian TV network that also features Current affairs and news on Olympusat cable TV. The network has been described as a God-Inspired faith venture bringing joy, hope and the power of the Holy Spirit to the USA. It aspires to deliver the word of God to as many people as possible.\nPrevious Higher Life UK conference, 2011, saw the healing of one, Edwin Tillyer of a chronic ankle injury from a 1973 accident. 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It has a heavily settled coast and a positively wild interior, featuring some of the most beautiful and exotic landscapes that you\u2019ll find on the planet. It has a storied history, too, complete with thousands of years of amazing indigenous cultural knowledge, as well as many centuries of tragic colonial impact.\nAll of this has come together to shape a continent that\u2019s both wild and powerful, today. Throughout the following article, the entirety of our aim will be to inform you, our dear reader, on some of the most noteworthy aspects of the continent\u2014as well as point you towards further reading for more specific subjects. We\u2019ll also be working to dispell some of the crazy myths that exist about South America, and many of the stereotypes and \u201crewritten\u201d histories that have developed over the decades and centuries.\nSouth America, the Continent\nHow most are taught to view South America has much to do with where they reside. In most English-speaking countries, South America is recognized as its own continental landmass, independent from North America even though the two are connected. In Romance-language regions, the opposite is true\u2014South America is seen as a subcontinent of \u201cthe Americas,\u201d a single continental landmass that extends far north and far south of the equator.\nFor the sake of ease, we\u2019ll be writing from the perspective of the seven-continent model, but it\u2019s fair to acknowledge that other models taught throughout the world are by no means invalid.\nIn the seven-continent model, South America is the fourth-largest of the planet\u2019s continental landmasses, and also the fourth-largest in terms of population. It\u2019s the home of a hugely diverse number of people and was populated for thousands of years by many indigenous cultures before any European colonists arrived on the continent\u2019s shores. It has a huge national produce export business, featuring some of the most renowned items around the world.\nCoffee, anyone? I know that I am sipping a delicious cup of Columbian as we speak!\nContinental Landmass\nIf you have any knowledge of the continents\u2019 position in relation to one another, you probably already know where South America is. It\u2019s directly below North America, almost entirely within the southern and western hemispheres of Earth. A small portion of the continent extends above the equator, but by and large, it\u2019s referred to as South America for a reason!\nThe continent is mostly known for tropical temperatures and unique landscapes such as the Amazon rainforest, but it actually extends much further south, to subtropical regions that are decidedly different than most of the stereotypes would have you assume. South America also has a massive amount of coastline and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.\nWe\u2019ll talk about population more below, but it suffices to say that South America is the fourth-largest continent both in terms of sheer landmass as well as population. North America is slightly larger in both regards, while Africa and Asia are each significantly larger. It\u2019s approximately 17,840,000 square kilometers in terms of surface area.\nBelow, we\u2019re going to help you to understand some of the geographical diversity present on the continent. From the Andes Mountains to the Amazon and its river basin, and even the hundreds of miles of lush, unique rainforest, there\u2019s much to be understood about South America\u2019s size, the landscape present in it, and how people have come to populate this continent.\nEnvironments & Climates\nNo matter what common attributions might tell you, South America consists of far more diverse environments and climates than rainforests and river basins. It\u2019s also home to a massive mountain range, as well as beautiful coastlines that have very respectable populations.\nBut it is understandable why the Amazon River gets such a hefty reputation. It\u2019s the largest river in the world, and has a volume that\u2019s unmatched by any other similar type of body of water elsewhere in the world. We\u2019re talking about over 1000 separate tributaries, some of which are longer than 1000 miles! And it\u2019s also no surprise that such a massive environmental feature as the Amazon River is going to give rise to a landscape around it\u2014the Amazon Rainforest is also the world\u2019s largest rainforest.\nBut the Amazon isn\u2019t the only remarkable landscape on the continent. The western half of the continent is home to the Andes Mountains, indicative of the tectonic history of this particular landmass. And keeping with the trend of South America\u2019s record-holding environments, the Andes are the world longest continental mountain chain! Because of the Andes\u2019 proximity to the edge of tectonic activity, populated regions close to the mountains\u2014particularly in Chile\u2014are quite vulnerable to frequent earthquakes.\nAs you might imagine, such a diverse landscape is going to give rise to an equally diverse ecosystem, and the unique environments offered on the South American continent are the home to many unique species.\nMost people are familiar with dolphins, but the Amazon is home to the river dolphin, a species of freshwater mammal that can grow up to eight feet in length, and uses echolocation to hunt and navigate through various parts of the Amazon river. They share that aquatic space with the massive pirarucu\u2014a species of fish that can grow up to fifteen feet in length\u2014and several species of the infamous piranha.\nIn addition to that, you\u2019ve almost certainly heard of the legendary anaconda\u2014one of the largest snakes in the world\u2014as well as the caiman, a sharp-snouted relative of crocodiles. Both thrive in the Amazon\u2019s unique ecosystem, and their proliferation speaks to how wild the interior of the continent actually is.\nLooking to the Andes, we can see similarly unique wildlife that flourishes in the mountains. The Andean Condor is a massive, rare bird, and the chinchilla is an endangered rodent species that can frequently be found in exotic pet stores.\nTo be clear from the outset\u2014many indigenous cultures were inhabiting the continent of South America for hundreds of years before European colonists arrived. The 15th and 16th centuries saw a massive influx of conquerors, traders, and slavers from Spain, Portugal, and other European powers. They brought with them many diseases not seen before on the continent, and in a manner that virtually mirrored the effects of colonial powers in North America, the result was disastrous for indigenous people.\nCenturies later, many of the outwardly harmful practices used against the continent\u2019s indigenous people have subsided. Modern civilization is prevalent on the eastern and western coasts of South America. Cities such as S\u00e3o Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and Lima are major population centers, with millions of people living in them.\nAs stated above, the interior of South America is very sparsely populated when compared to the coast. Coastal regions typically have more of the staples necessary for successful human habitation, and the rugged wilderness that the Amazon, its river basin, and the southern highlands are known for are far less ideal for major population centers. Thus, the coasts\u2014as well as the northern region that connects to the \u201cCentral America\u201d region\u2014remain far and away the most inhabited.\nBelow, we\u2019ve arranged a list of South America\u2019s countries and territories, as well as their approximate populations:\nBrazil: 206,440,850 people\nColumbia: 49,034,411 people\nArgentina: 43,417,000 people\nVenezuela: 31,416,930 people\nPeru: 31,151,640 people\nChile: 18,006,407 people\nEcuador: 16,144,000 people\nBolivia: 11,410,651 people\nParaguay: 6,783,272 people\nUruguay: 3,427,000 people\nGuyana: 735,909 people\nSuriname: 573,311 people\nFrench Guiana: 250,109 people\nFalkland Islands: 3,140 people\nSouth Georgia/South Sandwich Islands: 20\nFrom hundreds of millions to only several thousand, this list helps to highlight the population spread of people living in South American territories. And if you use the maps that we\u2019ve included in this article, you can further help to pinpoint where the greatest populations reside.\nThough we\u2019ll certainly be returning to South America in the future\u2014just about every topic we\u2019ve introduced can be expanded upon\u2014there are plenty of places online where you can read more specifically about the continent. National Geographic is a great place to start, and the Encyclopedia Britannia is a fantastic resource, too, full of in-depth knowledge that can be parsed in digestible morsels. After all, it\u2019s hard to learn from an information overload!\nWe hope that the above article has been helpful to you; we\u2019ve aimed to deliver a very broad description of the South American continent, touching on relevant subjects in plenty while not leaving anything out. If you have any further questions about South America, don\u2019t hesitate to give them a voice in the comments selection below. We\u2019ll aim to answer everything that we can. And, as always, thank you for reading! We look forward to the opportunity to write even further about some of the more specific features of this unique part of our planet\u2019s geography.\nPrevious articleAsia Continent\nNext articleHow Many Countries Are In Africa?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 11630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://3blmedia.com/News/Campaign/Corporate-Social-Responsibility-American-Express", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNHDEVBBAJLJ6SN77EHVFCKJALO4EEOA", "length": 2743, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "3blmedia.com", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility at American Express | 3BL Media", "raw_content": "Corporate Social Responsibility at American Express\nAmerican Express | Newsroom\nBringing good citizenship to life around the world\nAt American Express, we believe that serving our communities is not only integral to running a business successfully, it is part of our individual responsibilities as citizens of the world. The mission of our program is to bring to life the American Express value of good corporate citizenship by supporting communities in ways that enhance the company's reputation with employees, customers, business partners and other stakeholders. We do this by supporting visionary nonprofit organizations that are:\nPreserving and sustaining historic places for the future;\nDeveloping new leaders for tomorrow; and\nEncouraging community service where our employees and customers live and work.\nLearn more by visiting about.americanexpress.com/csr.\nCorporate Citizenship: Serving Our Communities, Employees, and Planet\nThe beginning of a new year is always a good time to be reconsidering one's reading list. With apologies to friends who have written terrific books on leadership and corporate social responsibility, the following are the five books (in alphabetical order) that I think leaders should be reading (or in some cases, re-reading) this year. Some of them are new, some are more vintage, but all of...\nAlice Korngold, President and CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC, has recently released the results of her study 2018 Nonprofit Board Leadership Study in partnership with IMPACT2030, a private sector collaboration with the United Nations, corporations and nonprofit...\nNEW YORK, January 18, 2019 /3BL Media/ American Express is committed to the communities where its employees and customers live and work. The company is proud to back global brand ambassador, Lin-Manuel Miranda, as he reprises his role of Alexander Hamilton in a special, limited-run...\n2018 proved to be an active year in Corporate Social Responsibility with issues related to sustainability, globalization, advocacy on social issues and multiple natural disasters in the forefront. Some of these issues and trends will continue into 2019, but leaders should expect to see the following noteworthy changes: Fewer stands, more dialogue. Faced with the...\nLast week included Giving Tuesday, a day when individuals, foundations and corporations are encouraged to support their favorite causes during the holiday season. Designating the Tuesday after Thanksgiving as a day of giving has been a hugely successful way of focusing attention on the wide variety of charitable institutions in the country, and it\u2019s also been a great way of promoting the idea...\nVideos from American Express\nLeaderStories: Ty Jones, Changing the Face of Theater in Harlem", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://512pixels.net/2013/02/appletv-beyond-living-room/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ROJYMEPU6UOHUKK6IZNAPFCHWF3LIYVW", "length": 3327, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "512pixels.net", "title": "Beyond the Living Room: Using the Apple TV in the Real World \u2013 512 Pixels", "raw_content": "Beyond the Living Room: Using the Apple TV in the Real World\nFebruary 28, 2013 November 24, 2017 \u2318 Permalink\nIt\u2019s hard not to like the Apple TV. For just $99, it delivers iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and more, right to your television. It\u2019s simple to setup, simple to use and simple to troubleshoot. There\u2019s really no reason not to have one as part of your home media setup.\nAs Apple\u2019s quarterly numbers always show, the Apple TV continues to grow in success.\nI manage almost 40 of them at work.\nWe use them in classrooms, conference rooms and sound booths for AirPlay from iOS devices and recent Macs. AirPlay works great \u2014 even across VLANs \u2014 if you have your network set up well.\nI think this is a fairly common use of the Apple TV. While setting up a presentation during a meeting used to involve VGA cables, projectors and fiddling with display settings, AirPlay is just about as frictionless as it can be.\nIn addition to AirPlay, we use the Apple TVs to show the occasional movie purchased with the company\u2019s AppleID.\nHowever, I\u2019m using 13 of our Apple TVs in a very different way.\nWe have a large section of our building which houses three floors of obstacle course rooms. These \u201cMission Rooms\u201d are all heavily themed, and a coach takes groups through the sections, using video to explain what the teams must do to advance. Their tasks may include math problems, science experiments or just a conversation, but it\u2019s all driven from the TV in each room.\nWhile in an early design of this space called for a Mac mini each room, thanks to iTunes Home Sharing, we\u2019re able to serve these videos to Apple TVs from a central library.\n(I realized this while in the shower one morning. True story)\nSince we have 13 Apple TVs that can all be used at once, we didn\u2019t want iTunes \u2014 or the computer hosting the library \u2014 to become a bottleneck. To help with this, we installed a pair of Mac minis (with external, Firewire-based RAIDs) to act as the Home Sharing libraries.\n(The Mac minis are housed in this rack-mounted enclosure.)\nThe Mac minis are signed in to different AppleIDs, with half of the Apple TVs signed in to each ID.\nAll a facilitator has to do it select the \u201cComputers\u201d menu on the Apple TV and find the video they need to play. Since we\u2019re using two different IDs, the load is balanced between the two machines and their libraries.\nSadly, this system isn\u2019t perfect, and most of the issues stem from iTunes itself. Occasionally, I\u2019ll have an Apple TV be unable to connect to the library, which will require me to restart iTunes on that Mac mini. The Apple TVs also struggle sometimes to pull up the photos I\u2019ve shared from iTunes and set as their screen savers.\nAdditionally, setting up this many Apple TVs was a pain. There\u2019s no real way to manage them in bulk, so I end up walking around to make network or setting changes manually on them. At least it\u2019s good exercise.\np id=\u201dyui_3_10_1_1_1394497302152_5221\u2033>(Apple\u2019s own Configurator application can do some things with the Apple TV, but on the whole, I found the app to be a mess.)\nAll in all, however, I\u2019m pretty pleased with Apple\u2019s set-top box. It has its limitations, but for my specific purposes, it gets the job done most of the time. Combined with its low cost and ease of use, it\u2019s hard to argue with using them all over the place, despite the headaches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/iphone-made-in-usa-cost/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:35:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BQH5ENOKPSMKUQVJ7WY6Q353XGK7NIIA", "length": 3564, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "9to5mac.com", "title": "How much extra would a US-made iPhone cost? MIT has done the sums ... - 9to5Mac", "raw_content": "How much extra would a US-made iPhone cost? MIT has done the sums \u2026\nWith two Presidential candidates saying that Apple should be making more of its products in the USA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has done the sums to see just how practical it would be for Apple to manufacture iPhones in its home market.\nThe question, of course, isn\u2019t a simple one: you first need to define your terms. Does it just mean assembling iPhones here rather than in China, or does it mean sourcing components from the U.S. too? The MIT analysis considered both scenarios, starting with assembly-only \u2026\nAssembly, says the MIT Technology Review piece, is not a major part component of the cost of an iPhone. Apple doesn\u2019t disclose the numbers, of course, but industry estimates place it in the $4-10 range.\nSyracuse University professor Jason Dedrick has already estimated the additional cost of carrying out the assembly work in the USA, and says that it would add $30-40 to the cost of an iPhone \u2013 but not for the reason you might think.\nThat\u2019s partly because labor costs are higher in the U.S., but mostly it\u2019s because additional transportation and logistics expenses would arise from shipping parts, and not just the finished product, to the U.S. This means that assuming all other costs stayed the same, the final price of an iPhone 6s Plus might rise by about 5 percent.\nWith assembly already partly automated, and getting more so, it\u2019s not likely that it would bring that many jobs to the USA \u2013 especially as any production line created from scratch would take full advantage of the opportunities to maximize the use of robots rather than people.\nThe piece then goes on to examine scenario 2: making the components in the U.S. also.\nAcross iPhone, iPad and Mac, Apple has a total of 766 suppliers, of which 69 are in the USA. Almost half of them are in China, with many of the the rest in Japan and Taiwan. When it comes to chips, there is good news and bad. The good news is that such a shift would be practical.\nAs Alex King, director of the Critical Materials Institute headquartered at the Department of Energy\u2019s Ames Laboratory, points out, semiconductor fabs become obsolete a few years after they are built. This means, he says, that \u201cwith every new generation of semiconductors there is an opportunity to place a semiconductor fab anywhere in the world, including the U.S.\u201d\nBut Duane Boning, an electrical engineer at MIT specializing in semiconductor manufacturing, says that this wouldn\u2019t necessarily generate many jobs.\nLabor costs are a tiny fraction of cost compared to the equipment and facilities that go into a multibillion-dollar fab.\nThere\u2019s in any case a limit to the components that can be manufactured in the USA.\nAccording to King at the Ames Lab, an iPhone has about 75 elements in it\u2014two-thirds of the periodic table. 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Every business needs this! Google My Business puts your business information on Search, [\u2026]\nSecret 1: Practice your vocabulary An estimate is a detailed breakdown of the projected costs for a project, and if [\u2026]\nAttache Software has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner for Best Cloud Product in The Australian Business Awards 2014 for [\u2026]\nDear EXO Payroll User The MYOB EXO Employer Services 2014 compliance release is essential to keep up-to-date with new payroll [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 11463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://advertisinglaw.foxrothschild.com/category/trademarks/trademark-registration/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EDXQ2SQWUQFY5AVYXJ43STALWGN3DAL6", "length": 16518, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "advertisinglaw.foxrothschild.com", "title": "Trademark Registration | Page 2 of 2 | Above the Fold", "raw_content": "Subscribe to Trademark Registration\nUSA Warriors Ice Hockey Registration Refused \u2013 No Consent, No Coexistence\nBy Fox Rothschild LLP on May 19, 2017\nThe Trademark Trial and Appeal Board refused to allow registration of a USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program mark for \u201carranging and conducting ice hockey programs for injured and disabled members and veterans\u201d, finding the mark was too similar to a mark owned by USA Hockey, Inc. (see a comparison of the marks below). The Board rejected USA Warriors\u2019 arguments that USA Warriors owned an existing registration for a similar mark that had co-existed with the USA Hockey mark, and that USA Hockey consented because USA Hockey actually displayed USA Warriors\u2019 registered mark on its website.\nSource: http://thettablog.blogspot.com\nThe Board\u2019s precedential ruling affirmed a Trademark Examining Attorney\u2019s refusal to register the USA Warriors\u2019 mark under Section 2(d) of the Lanham Act, which is the statutory basis for refusing to register a mark due to likelihood of confusion with another mark. USA Warriors never disputed that the marks were similar and that the services were related. USA Warriors\u2019 principal argument on appeal to the Board was that the marks had co-existed and that, under a previous Board decision called Strategic Partners, the Board should overturn the refusal and allow the mark to register. Similar to Strategic Partners, USA Warriors argued for invoking the 13th factor (one of the \u201cdu Pont\u201d factors) in analyzing likelihood of confusion, which \u201caccommodates the need for flexibility in assessing each unique set of facts\u201d.\nIn rejecting USA Warriors\u2019 argument, the Board noted that Strategic Partners involved an applicant\u2019s registered that had co-existed for more than five years. The Board found the five-year period significant because, once the mark was registered for more than five years, it could not be challenged for likelihood of confusion under the Lanham Act. In the USA Warriors case, its existing registration for the mark shown below was issued less than five years ago making it subject to a cancellation action by USA Hockey based on likelihood of confusion. The 3 \u00bd years of coexistence was insufficient to outweigh the other du Pont factors, the Board concluded.\nAs to USA Warriors\u2019 consent argument, the Board determined USA Warriors and USA Hockey never entered into a consent agreement, which would have likely played a \u201ccrucial role\u201d in the Board\u2019s likelihood of confusion analysis. Although USA Hockey did display the USA Warriors\u2019 mark on its website, the Board concluded that such evidence was insufficient for a finding of consent.\nThis case allows us to remind potential applicants that for purposes of obtaining a trademark registration, a third party\u2019s mere permission to use a mark, even on the third party\u2019s website, is insufficient because, from the Board\u2019s perspective (and the Examining Attorney\u2019s perspective), the third party never actually consented to registration of the mark. The best way to show that a third party did consent to registration is a consent agreement.\nThe Devil with Disclaimers for Descriptive Marks\nBy Fox Rothschild LLP on March 10, 2017\nThis week, the Federal Circuit issued a new decision that once again reflects the tricky conundrum facing businesses whose trademarks are a collection of descriptive words.\nIn such circumstances, the Patent & Trademark Office \u2013 as well as the courts that review PTO decisions \u2013 frequently require such a business to \u201cdisclaim\u201d any rights in the words that comprise the business\u2019 mark. This disclaimer requirement is imposed on the grounds that the words in the mark are merely descriptive on their own and that as a result, the business should not be permitted to own trademark rights which would otherwise prevent other businesses from using those words for their own separate businesses.\nIn some cases, as was the situation for DDMB, Inc., the Chicago business involved in the current case, the Trademark Office will require the business to disclaim every word in the business\u2019 name, such that the business is not entitled to any rights in any of the individual words apart from their inclusion in the full mark.\nThis legal doctrine came to bear most recently against a company that operates a pair of Chicago restaurants, in the case In re DDMB, Inc., \u2014 Fed. Appx. \u2014, 2017 WL 915102 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 8, 2017). In its decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a prior ruling in January 2016 by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, denying federal registration for a service mark using the phrase \u201cEMPORIUM ARCADE BAR.\u201d The examining attorney at the Trademark Office had required the applicant to disclaim the word \u201cemporium,\u201d after the business already had disclaimed the words \u201carcade\u201d and \u201cbar,\u201d in its application to register the following mark:\nSource: In re: DDMB, Inc. Opinion, Issued March 6, 2017\nWhen the Chicago business refused to agree to the additional disclaimer of the word \u201cemporium,\u201d the Trademark Office refused to approve the registration, which was being sought in connection with bars, bar services, and providing video and amusement arcade services. The Office\u2019s insistence on a disclaimer of the word \u201cemporium\u201d was approved by the TTAB in a subsequent decision in January 2016. And, that decision has now been affirmed in this week\u2019s ruling by the circuit court.\nIn holding that a disclaimer of the word \u201cemporium\u201d is required because it is merely descriptive of the applicant\u2019s bar and arcade services, the TTAB had ruled that this word describes attributes of a large establishment with a wide variety of merchandise and activity going on within it, and that as a result, the word functions as a description of the applicant\u2019s services rather than as an indicator of the origin or source of the services. The TTAB\u2019s ruling was premised on dictionary definitions and at least seven other trademark registrations where the word \u201cemporium\u201d had been seen to be descriptive and where a disclaimer was required as a result. Specifically, for example, the TTAB cited registrations where disclaimers were imposed for the marks \u201cTHE FLYING SAUCER DRAUGHT EMPORIUM,\u201d \u201cMcDADE\u2019S EMPORIUM,\u201d and \u201cSTAMPEDE MESQUITE GRILL & DANCE EMPORIUM,\u201d each of which involved businesses with similar bar services.\n(The circuit court affirmed the TTAB\u2019s ruling, in a non-precedential, per curiam decision in light of the extremely generous standard of review on appeal for such factual determinations by the TTAB because the circuit court is required to affirm such determinations if there is \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d to support them.)\nThe In re DDMB case stands as a cautionary tale for businesses with names that are otherwise descriptive words, or collections of descriptive words. The trouble for the applicant here is that there is a long history of the Trademark Office requiring applicants to disclaim the word \u201cemporium.\u201d This trouble was accentuated by the fact that the applicant sought to register a composite mark that had other descriptive words in the mark that the applicant already had disclaimed. The specimen that the applicant submitted with its application highlighted this trouble:\nSource: USPTO file-wrapper record, U.S. TM Serial No. 86312296, June 17, 2014.\nIn such circumstances, instead of seeking registration for a mark in which the word \u201cemporium\u201d was displayed with equal visual significance as \u201carcade\u201d and \u201cbar,\u201d the applicant might have considered applying for registration of a different version of the mark, with only the one word \u201cemporium,\u201d such as what is now visible at the applicant\u2019s storefront at its Logan Square restaurant in Chicago, as shown on its website:\nSource: Emporium Arcade Bar Website, March 10, 2017\nUltimately, however, even if the application had focused on only one word, as opposed to three, it is still likely that the Trademark Office would have required a disclaimer of the word \u201cemporium\u201d because of the long history of treating this word as merely descriptive.\nAs a result, and as a lesson for businesses with highly descriptive words in their names, it may be wise to accept a demand from a trademark examiner to disclaim the descriptive word in a business\u2019 mark \u2013 if only as a means of moving forward with the federal trademark registration \u2013and then to invest in building consumer recognition of the business\u2019 mark. Some of the most famous marks today, which have been around for generations, continue to have disclaimers on portions of the mark. Hence, The Coca Cola Co.\u2019s registration of DIET COKE\u00ae continues to carry a disclaimer for the word \u201cdiet,\u201d and KFC Corp.\u2019s registration of KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN\u00ae continues to carry disclaimers for the words \u201cfried\u201d and \u201cchicken.\u201d\nThe moral of this story may be that disclaimers are a necessary evil when a business\u2019 mark is a word that the Trademark Office already has concluded is merely descriptive.\nUS TMs: Use \u2019em or Lose \u2019em\nBy Erika S. Koster on March 7, 2017\nIn the United States, unlike overseas, you get a lot of legal protection right away simply by coming up with a brand name and USING it to sell goods and services. USE is the crucial issue here.\nThis means that we trademark attorneys spend a lot of time thinking about how to prove that our clients\u2019 trademarks have been used. It\u2019s not as easy as it sounds!\nFor example, last month the USPTO\u2019s reviewing board rejected a real estate company\u2019s attempt to prove it was using its name. The company submitted digital photos of the front door of its facility where it provided and managed its real estate services:\nSource: In re Republic National LLC (TTAB Opinion), February 23, 2017\nNot good enough. As experienced trademark attorneys know, the USPTO is persnickety about what proof it will accept to show a trademark is actually in use. In this case, it wanted to see a description of the services being offered, not just a name on a door.\nLIFEPROOF: What\u2019s in a Word?\nBy Megan B. Center on January 27, 2017\nPosted in General Advertising Industry News & Updates, Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration\nWhat comes to mind when you hear the term \u201cLifeProof\u201d? Does it immediately make you think of something that protects from all of life\u2019s hazards or does it merely suggest that something can withstand various accidents? That is what the Ninth Circuit in California is deciding in Seal Shield LLC v. Otter Products LLC, et. al. after hearing oral arguments on the topic in January. The issues central to the case hammer home the importance of using your trademarks in the right way\u2014as a trademark identifying a brand\u2014or a source\u2014and not as term that merely describes the product.\nIn this case, Seal Shield and Otter Products both claim rights to the same term\u2014LIFEPROOF. Seal Shield argues that it was the first to use it, so it should have the rights. Otter Products counters and argues that Seal Shield did not use it in the right way\u2014that Seal Shield only used it to describe the product and not as a trademark.\nCopyright: 91foto / 123RF Stock Photo\nSeal Shield sued Otter Products and TreeFrog Developments (which was acquired by Otter Products) after TreeFrog Developments obtained a federal trademark for LIFEPROOF in 2010. Seal Shield brought a suit in 2013 and argued that it had senior rights to the name LIFEPROOF and requested that the court cancel Otter Products\u2019 trademark as a matter of law. In ruling in favor of Otter Products, the district court held that as a matter of law Seal Shield did not have proprietary rights to the LIFEPROOF name because the way Seal Shield used the name (as a tagline or slogan with its Klear Kase protective cases) was merely descriptive.\nSeal Shield appealed the district court decision arguing that its use of LIFEPROOF is not merely descriptive but is suggestive. Specifically, Seal Shield argued that LIFEPROOF falls short of explicitly describing the various features that are included under the mark LIFEPROOF and it takes a mental leap to associate the word LIFEPROOF with a protective case that protects from all of the elements and human error, meaning the mark is suggestive. Seal Shield also argued the mere fact that the USPTO granted TreeFrog Developments federal registration of LIFEPROOF demonstrates that such mark is protectable.\nFor its part, in addition to a myriad of other arguments, Otter Products contends that Seal Shield\u2019s use of the LIFEPROOF mark is merely descriptive and that it failed to show any consumer evidence of secondary meaning\u2014such as a survey showing that consumers associate their use of LIFEPROOF with the goods of one maker rather than merely describing the product. And to address the seeming inconsistency, Otter Products contends that Seal Shield cannot rely on Otter Products\u2019 federal registration as evidence that the mark LIFEPROOF is distinctive because, as Otter Products argues, it uses the mark as a trademark and not merely to describe the goods.\nThe court will rule on this appeal later this year. You may think it\u2019s counter-intuitive for Otter Products to argue that Seal Shield\u2019s use of the LIFEPROOF mark is merely descriptive while at the same time maintaining a federal registration for that same mark that is inherently distinctive and suggestive; however, this demonstrates that the way you use mark is a key component on whether a mark will obtain trademark protection.\nWhat Happens in Vegas Stays in\u2026Albany, NY? Trademark Office Rejects New NHL Team\u2019s Nickname as a Trademark\nThe newest NHL franchise, set to debut in Las Vegas next year, might be considering other names for the team after the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejected the hockey team\u2019s proposed trademark, \u201cVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS\u201d.\nIn an Office Action issued this week (Dec. 7, 2016), an examining attorney preliminary rejected the mark \u201cVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS\u201d because it was too similar and likely to be confused with the mark used by the College of Saint Rose, \u201cGOLDEN KNIGHTS OF THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE\u201d.\nInterestingly, the College of Saint Rose (Albany, NY) doesn\u2019t even have a sanctioned hockey team!\nIn a statement released following the issue of the Office Action, the franchise said the following:\n\u201cThere are countless examples of college sports teams and professional sports teams with coexisting names, including Vegas Golden Knights and Clarkson Golden Knights, UCLA Bruins and Boston Bruins, U of Miami Hurricanes and Carolina Hurricanes, etc. We will plan on making these arguments and others in our detailed written response to the office action which must be filed by June 7, 2017.\nOffice actions like these are not at all unusual, and we will proceed with the help of outside counsel in preparing a response to this one.\u201d\nThe Office Action also required the franchise to \u201cdisclaim\u201d the word \u201cVEGAS\u201d as being too geographically descriptive. Since the team will be playing in Las Vegas, and \u201cVEGAS\u201d is included in the trademark, that portion of the mark impermissibly describes the services and cannot be protected as part of the mark.\nMany trademark applicants receive office actions (rejection letters) from the USPTO, and this is merely a preliminary refusal to register the mark. The franchise\u2019s response to the USPTO\u2019s Office Action, which is due in six months, will likely set out the franchise\u2019s position on why it should be allowed to register its mark, regardless of the College of Saint Rose\u2019s mark. The arguments could range from arguments regarding dissimilarities in the marks or the consumers of the marks to the existence of a co-existence agreement.\nTeam owner Bill Foley has previously said that Clarkson College and the University of Central Florida \u2013 both of which are also known as the Golden Knights \u2013 consented to his team using the name. Foley has not said whether he attempted to get consent from the College of Saint Rose.\nCo-existence agreements (i.e. agreements that both parties can use the marks) are typical, and submitting evidence of such an agreement to the USPTO often gets a proposed mark registered.\nWhatever the arguments the franchise may have, individuals and companies alike should remember to conduct thorough due diligence before attempting to register a mark\u2014and before spending significant resources promoting a mark. This will help identify potential conflicts to a registration and use of a mark, allowing for, if necessary, the modification of the mark or the development consent co-existence agreements to avoid office actions or infringement claims.\nThis is a developing story, so stay tuned for further updates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 41995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afth.org/support-our-mission/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:13Z", "digest": "sha1:H2YNSYAXB3PTHHG4LOSL4HSDZ3DWL2E7", "length": 1653, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "afth.org", "title": "Alternatives To Abortion Wilmington DE | Adoption Agency Support", "raw_content": "Support Our Missionlaurence2019-01-10T14:27:31+00:00\nThen, please, review us on Adoption Agency Ratings.com.\nClick this picture, register and tell us what we did right!\n60% of Americans have a personal connection to adoption and an estimated 1 out of 10 Americans is an adoptee, adoptive parent, or birth parent. It\u2019s no wonder adoption has become an increasingly popular theme on tv shows, movies, and in news stories. However, stereotypes and misconceptions continue to be presented. Thanks to passionate donors and supporters like you, AFTH is able to provide the community with reliable adoption education and awareness. Together we can share an authentic view of adoption.\nAFTH\u2019s commitment to the adoption community shines through our passion for our work 365 days a year. We want to continue to be a resource for the community, families, children, and women in need.\nDonations may be made in honor or in memory of specific individuals. Enclose a note with your donation along with the honoree\u2019s address so we can notify them that a donation was made in their name.\nWe thank you for graciously extending your hand to partner with AFTH as we continue to advocate for the needs of the adoption community in this changing world. All donations made to AFTH are tax- deductible.\nYour donation today is an investment in promoting a better tomorrow for someone truly in need! All contributions are tax deductible. Please consider a donation of $50, or more to Adoptions From The Heart. Your support can ensure a better future for each member, and future member, of the Adoptions From The Heart community. We thank you for giving as generously as you can.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 8896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://agsci.oregonstate.edu/weather/december-31-2018-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4AONS67K5VNVWCF7MIRBOYW3C2UJA4WO", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "agsci.oregonstate.edu", "title": "December 2018 M. 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The first scheduled service from Dubai by the superjumbo was on December 1, 2008. Since then, the airline says it was carried more than 12.3 million passengers on 14,581 flights, covering a distance of over 49,830,863 miles (80,195,000km).\nCommenting on the milestone, Emirates\u2019 divisional vice president, UK, Richard Jewsbury said: \u201cOver the past decade, the A380 has continued to offer leisure and business customers alike flying from Heathrow a highly desirable travel experience. With its superior standards of inflight comfort and luxury from First Class right through to Economy Class, the Emirates A380 has been the front runner of the industry and we look forward to welcoming even more passengers to experience the A380\u2019s iconic on board offering in the years to come.\u2019\u2019\nEmirates now operates six A380 rotations each day from Heathrow to Dubai carrying over 3,000 passengers to the UAE and beyond. The carrier is also the world\u2019s largest operator of the A380 aircraft and is widely considered to be a key driver behind the type\u2019s longer-term survival.\nSimon Eastburn, airline business development director at Heathrow added: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to celebrate this milestone moment with Emirates.\u201d\nIn addition to Emirates, Heathrow is served by numerous other A380 operators, with airlines including Thai Airways, Qatar Airways and Singapore Airlines using the double-decker aircraft on some or all of their services to and from the west London hub.\n\u2039 Air Astana Reveals Snow Leopard Livery\nRoyal Air Maroc to Join oneworld \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 6312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alchemyandaccident.wordpress.com/tag/sweden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JIW53OONTNLSGFH6WPC6TE5CNAINTQMB", "length": 2950, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "alchemyandaccident.wordpress.com", "title": "Sweden | Alchemy & Accident", "raw_content": "1564 \u2013 Christopher Marlowe born. English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day, and greatly influenced William Shakespeare. Marlowe\u2019s plays are known for the use of blank verse, and their overreaching protagonists.\n1917 \u2013 The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record \u2013 \u201cLivery Stable Blues\u201d \u2013 for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.\nA New Orleans Dixieland jazz band, the group composed and made the first recordings of many jazz standards, the most famous being \u201cTiger Rag\u201d. In late 1917 the spelling of the band\u2019s name was changed to Original Dixieland Jazz Band.\nODJB billed itself as the Creators of Jazz, because it was the first band to record jazz commercially and to have hit recordings in the new genre. Band leader and trumpeter Nick LaRocca argued that ODJB deserved recognition as the first band to record jazz commercially and the first band to establish jazz as a musical idiom or genre.\n1920 \u2013 The first German Expressionist film , Robert Wiene\u2018s The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari premi\u00e8red in Berlin. It was one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era.\nThe film used stylized sets, with abstract, jagged buildings painted on canvas backdrops and flats. To add to this strange style, the actors used an unrealistic technique that exhibited jerky and dancelike movements.\n1932 \u2013 Johnny Cash born. American singer-songwriter, actor, and author who was considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll\u2014especially early in his career\u2014and blues, folk, and gospel.\n1946 \u2013 Finnish observers reported the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets \u2013 rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.\nAbout 2,000 sightings were logged between May and December 1946, with peaks on 9 and 11 August 1946. 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We are an important partner in imperialism, willing to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, up to and including the use of military force, to benefit the perceived self-interest of our elites.\nOver the past two years Canadian officials have campaigned aggressively against President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has repeatedly criticized Caracas\u2019 democratic legitimacy and human rights record. Recently she said, \u201cthe Maduro regime is now fully entrenched as a dictatorship\u201d while in September Ottawa asked (with five South American nations) the International Criminal Court to investigate the Venezuelan government, which is the first time a government has been formally brought before the tribunal by another member.\nIn recent weeks Canadian diplomats have played an important role in uniting large swaths of the Venezuelan opposition behind a US-backed plan to ratchet up tensions by proclaiming the new head of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, Juan Guaido, president. The Canadian Press quoted a Canadian diplomat saying they helped Guaido \u201cfacilitate conversations with people that were out of the country and inside the country\u201d while the Globe and Mail reported that \u201cFreeland spoke with Juan Guaido to congratulate him on unifying opposition forces in Venezuela, two weeks before he declared himself interim president.\u201d Alongside Washington and a number of right-leaning Latin American governments, Ottawa immediately recognized Guaido after he proclaimed himself president on Wednesday. Canadian officials are lobbying European leaders to recognize Guaido as president as well.\nOttawa has long provided various other forms of direct support to an often-violent opposition. In recent years Canada channelled millions of dollars to opposition groups in Venezuela and 18 months ago outgoing Canadian ambassador, Ben Rowswell, told the Ottawa Citizen that \u201cwe became one of the most vocal embassies in speaking out on human rights issues and encouraging Venezuelans to speak out.\u201d\nAlongside its support for the opposition, Ottawa expelled Venezuela\u2019s top diplomat in 2017 and has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Venezuelan officials. In March the United Nations Human Rights Council condemned the economic sanctions the US, Canada and EU have adopted against Venezuela while Caracas called Canada\u2019s move a \u201cblatant violation of the most fundamental rules of International Law.\u201d\nSince its August 2017 founding Canada has been one of the most active members of the \u201cLima Group\u201d of governments opposed to Venezuela\u2019s elected government. Canada is hosting the next meeting of the \u201cLima Group\u201d. Freeland has repeatedly prodded Caribbean and Central American countries to join the Lima Group\u2019s anti-Maduro efforts.\nIn September, 11 of the 14 member states of the \u201cLima Group\u201d backed a statement distancing the anti-Venezuelan alliance from \u201cany type of action or declaration that implies military intervention\u201d after Organization of American States chief Luis Almagro stated: \u201cAs for military intervention to overthrow the Nicolas Maduro regime, I think we should not rule out any option \u2026 diplomacy remains the first option but we can\u2019t exclude any action.\u201d Canada, Guyana and Colombia refused to criticize the head of the OAS\u2019 musings about an invasion of Venezuela.\nAlongside the head of the OAS, US president Donald Trump has publically discussed invading Venezuela. To the best of my knowledge Ottawa has stayed mum on Trump\u2019s threats, which violate international law.\nWhy? Why is Canada so eager to overthrow an elected government? Recent headlines in the Globe and Mail (\u201cVenezuelan crisis buoys prospects for Canadian heavy crude oil producers\u201d) and Wall Street Journal (\u201cBond Prices in Venezuela Jump on Prospect of Regime Change\u201d) suggest some short term reasons. But looking at the situation from a historical perspective confirms Noam Chomsky\u2019s claim that international affairs is run like the Mafia. The godfather cannot accept disobedience.\nThus, while the scope of the Trudeau government\u2019s current campaign against Venezuela is noteworthy, it\u2019s not the first time Ottawa has supported the overthrow of an elected, left leaning, government in the hemisphere. Canada passively supported military coups against Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 and Brazilian President Jo\u00e3o Goulart in 1964 as well as \u2018parliamentary coups\u2019 against Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo in 2012 and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Ottawa played a slightly more active role in the removal of Dominican Republic president Juan Bosch in 1965 and Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. In a more substantial contribution to undermining electoral democracy, Ottawa backed the Honduran military\u2019s removal of Manuel Zelaya in 2009.\nCanada played its most forceful role in the removal of a progressive, elected, president in the hemisphere\u2019s most impoverished nation. Thirteen months before Jean-Bertrand Aristide was, in his words, \u201ckidnapped\u201d by US Marines on February 29, 2004, Jean Chr\u00e9tien\u2019s Liberal government organized an international gathering to discuss overthrowing the Haitian president. JTF2 special forces secured the Port-au-Prince airport the night Aristide was ousted and 500 Canadian troops were part of the US-led invasion to consolidate the coup.\nWith regards to Venezuela it\u2019s unclear just how far Ottawa is prepared to go in its bid to oust Maduro. But, it is hard to imagine that the path Canada and the US have chosen can succeed without Venezuela being plunged into significant violence.\nJanuary 27, 2019 - Posted by\taletho | Aletho News\t| Canada, Latin America, United States, Venezuela\nThe USA overthrew Venezuela\u2019s Mr Chavez about a decade ago, but the Venezuelan people put him back in power. So The CIA\u2019s \u201cJackals\u201d killed him. Now Mr Maduro is undergoing the same treatment by the CIA, to unseat a democratically elected leader. There\u2019s a pattern here, particularly with Sth American countries. \u201cDo as the USA says or else\u201d.\nI\u2019ll bet Canada has been coerced into joining the American \u201cRat Pack\u201d just like we in Australia always answer the call. The problem is, this behaviour has become SO obvious that it\u2019s time to say NO to the American Empire.\n\u201cYanqui Go Home\u201d\u2026.and fix the myriad of problems that you are ignoring in the USA\nHas it occurred to the American people yet, how ridiculous it is for the USA government to be pointing the finger at RUSSIA, for interfering in the internal affairs of the USA, when THAT is exactly what the USA does ALL THE TIME?\nThe rest of the World is sick to death of the American GOVERNMENT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 19239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alexcrouch92.wordpress.com/2014/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:09Z", "digest": "sha1:X76ZVB5IICAFZVUIELXAQQKW7WWIR5OR", "length": 471, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "alexcrouch92.wordpress.com", "title": "October | 2014 | Alex Crouch 92", "raw_content": "England\u2019s run up to the 2015 Cricket World Cup\nHERE is a list of every O.D.I. match England have played and will play in the year running up to the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Tour of West Indies: 28th February \u2013 5th March 2014 1 West Indies 269-6 (50) \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in 2015 Cricket World Cup, Cricket, ICC, Sport\t| Tagged 2015 Cricket World Cup, Australia, Cricket, England, ICC, India, O.D.I. Cricket, Scotland, Sport, Sri Lanka, West Indies\t| Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 7286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alittlebitofpleasure.com/7-healthy-reasons-to-have-sex/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:OFUIT7ZRK7NQUY7XW4NHS2LKTBWK5RD3", "length": 1325, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "alittlebitofpleasure.com", "title": "\"7 Healthy Reasons to Have Sex\" - A Little Bit of Pleasure", "raw_content": "On NBC\u2019s, Today\u2019s Show, they talked about the health benefits of sex. Also, in \u201cEveryday Health\u201d entitled\n\u201c7 Healthy Reasons to Have Sex\u201d\u2026.. \u201cwhether coupled or flying solo\u201d.\nThe article ends with the following. \u201cEnjoying a healthy sex life is one of the great joys in life. Knowing intimacy could be a boon for your long-term health as well makes it that much more pleasurable.\u201d Carole Lieberman, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist in Beverly Hills, California.\nShare with me, how it has healed you. Remember you do not have to have a partner to achieve orgasm.\nEnjoy fulfilling ultimate intimacy daily, keeping a journal, then share it with me your healing experience.\nSomething caring each day. Does not have to be grand and over the top!\nFor sharing it with me your healthy tip, you will receive my E-book, A Little Bit of Pleasure as a thank you. The most interesting share will receive \u201cBOB\u201d, Battery Operated Boyfriend.\nKindness is an Aphrodisiac!\nHere is a quote I really liked on Instagram.\nImagine what sex would be like if instead of asking our partners, \u201cDid you come?\u201d we asked, \u201cAre you enjoying yourself? What do you need?\u201d\nI\u2019m open for one-on-one life mentoring, workshops and seminars. I\u2019m a certified Life Coach and Sex Mentor.\nNewsletter, Sexy Tips on Sex! Toy of the Month, and the Blogs. \u201cRemember, Sex can be fun!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 6173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://all-things-ed.com/tag/mets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YGFCWEUKOQFBJGC7K5TWW65UCKUH5F34", "length": 1125, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "all-things-ed.com", "title": "Mets \u2013 All Things Ed", "raw_content": "\u201cThe eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 6:22 I recently made a trip to New York. No, I made a pilgimage to New York. To meet my baseball hero, and blog name sake, Ed Kranepool. It was the\u2026\n\u201cI wanted it to go a little longer, that way, I could always say that I played in a game that started in May and ended in June.\u201d Ed Kranepool, after playing both ends of a double header in 1964, with the second game going 24 innings. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a couple of kids here named (Ed)\u2026\nLast month I had a chance to experience \u201cTebow Mania\u201d first hand. I had heard the stories, read the articles. But really, could ONE guy, who ended the season hitting a combined .226/.309/.347 really have the effect that everyone said he had? I have to say, emphatically, yes! I decided last minute to see Tim\u2026\nGood evening baseball fans and fellow fans of Ed. In case you didn\u2019t notice the name of this blog, All Things Ed, it\u2019s a tribute to my baseball hero while I was struggling with the Mendoza line in little league: Ed Kranepool. 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He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. Although his career spanned from the 1910s to the 1960s, his meticulousness, dictatorial methods, idiosyncratic shooting style, and stubborn devotion to his art ensured that his output remained low. In spite of this, he produced some of the most enduring classics of international cinema. Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Swedish maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a farmer who was his mother`s employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sr., and his wife, Inger Marie (nee Olsen). His adoptive parents were strict Lutherans and his childhood was largely unhappy. But he was a highly intelligent school student, who left home and formal education at the age of sixteen. He dissociated himself from his adoptive family, but their teachings were to influence the themes of many of his films. As a young man, Dreyer worked as a journalist, but he eventually joined the film industry as a writer of title cards for silent films and subsequently of screenplays. His first attempts at film direction had limited success, and he left Denmark to work in the French film industry. In 1928 he made his first classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Working from the transcripts of Joan`s trial, he created a masterpiece of emotion that drew equally from realism and expressionism. Dreyer used private finance from Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg to make his next film as the Danish film industry was in financial ruin. Vampyr (1932) is a surreal meditation on fear. Logic gave way to mood and atmosphere in this story of a man protecting two sisters from a vampire. The movie contains many indelible images, such as the hero, played by de Gunzburg (under the screen name Julian West), dreaming of his own burial and the animal blood lust on the face of one of the sisters as she suffers under the vampire`s spell. The film was shot as a silent but had dubbed dialogue added later. Both films were box office failures, and Dreyer did not make another movie until 1943. Denmark was by now under Nazi occupation, and his Day of Wrath had as its theme the paranoia surrounding witch hunts in the sixteenth century in a strongly theocratic culture. With this work, Dreyer established the style that would mark his sound films: careful compositions, stark monochrome cinematography, and very long takes. In the more than a decade before his next full-length feature film, Dreyer made two documentaries. In 1955, he made Ordet (The Word) based on the play of the same name by Kaj Munk. The film combines a love story with a conflict of faith. Dreyer`s last film was 1964`s Gertrud. Although seen by some as a lesser film than its predecessors, it is a fitting close to Dreyer`s career, as it deals with a woman who, through the tribulations of her life, never expresses regret for her choices. The great, never finished project of Dreyer\u2019s career was a film about Jesus. Though a manuscript was written (published 1968) the unstable economic conditions and Dreyer\u2019s own demands of realism together with his switching engagement let it remain a dream. In return a manuscript about Medea (1965) was realised by Lars von Trier in 1988. Dreyer died of pneumonia in Copenhagen at age 79. The documentary Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier contains reminiscences from those who knew him\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Th._Dreyer\nCarl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 \u2013 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. His best known films include The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964).\nCarl Theodor Dreyer Picture Gallery\nSee all 6 pics of Carl Theodor Dreyer\nCarl Theodor Dreyer Photo Gallery #1\nCarl Theodor Dreyer Movie and TV Show Credits\nCarl Th. Dreyer: Min metier (1 pics) ... Himself\n/pictures/carl-theodor-dreyer\nCarl Theodor Dreyer Pics\nCarl Theodor Dreyer Links\nCarl Theodor Dreyer Websites\nCarl Th. Dreyer: Min metier Pics (1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://altbluenews.blog/2018/09/09/name-change-in-macedonia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IIQFQUMALOVMVPED4DHHZSNYZWOTHAYK", "length": 2212, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "altbluenews.blog", "title": "Name change in Macedonia \u2013 TheHuski", "raw_content": "Name change in Macedonia\nMacedonia, home of Alexander the Great. What a moment in history that was ae. Times have change though. Yet still see Macedonians fight for their rights of their own country. But hang on. An ancient Macedonia and new Macedonia? Huh, I am confused now. Because of this, I have done some research into why suddenly at this point in time, the call for a name change has come about.\nDuring communist Soviet Union days, no body seemed to mind what Macedonia was called. Even the Greeks, who technically has half of Macedonian land belonging to it had no qualm. \u201cIt was not seen as a national threat\u201d. But with everything, the political Hammer had to rear its ugly head. Over consecutive Greek governments the argument that, with Macedonians being so closely allied to Russia, that there would be the risk that Macedonia could fall back into Russian hands.\nHence now there is a call for the change of names to the Republic of North Macedonia. A step to please the Greeks and a further step to have North Macedonia sworn into NATO and the EU. As with every step though. There has been violence on the streets, tear gas thrown by police and civil unrest. All in the name of democracy. As with both sides, for and against. Each side has its own views on the geopolitical situation. However, you can not always please everyone.\nFrom a view point of the International community. Countries like Germany have welcomed the name change. Alexis Tsipras stated that \u201cThe deal that we have reached for the first time ensures that they do not have, and in the future can never claim, any relationship to the ancient Greek civilization of Macedonia. This was obviously something that the Greek people felt very strongly about. The historical significance of this decision has pleased many Greek, especially in Athens. It stops any future land discrepancies the Republic of North Macedonia may have against the Greek nation.\nAll is not set in stone however. Although both prime ministers have agreed upon the new name. It is now got to be sent to parliament for approval. All this hard work could yet be undone by nationalists that disagree with the decision.\nPrevious Why is the EU blocking corruption cases", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alternativemedicinelifestyle.com/healing-crystals-for-body-and-mind-healing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NWLZS2RYNIOMTHY5WW4W3R3I5SQVKYXE", "length": 7004, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "alternativemedicinelifestyle.com", "title": "Healing Crystals For Body And Mind Healing - Alternative Medicine Lifestyle", "raw_content": "The First 5 Healing Crystals to Buy\nIf you are looking to start using healing crystals for body and mind healing, it starts with the crystals you use. Each crystal promotes its own set of benefits, whether it is a stone that helps with anxiety, to those for more physical conditions. Different crystals also work with different chakras, which is another important aspect of holistic health. When you are new to using the crystals, the following ones are great to start with.\nThis is an excellent crystal to start with, as it is easy to find, beautiful, and has a lot of amazing benefits for you. Lapis lazuli has a deep blue shade, so it is calming and relaxing. It is often used for relieving anxiety and stress, helping with eye or throat problems, and helping to ward off negativity. As with all crystals, there are many potential healing benefits you might not realize you are getting from wearing the crystal.\nYou should also try to get an amethyst if you can, which is known for having many purposes. If can get only one crystal, amethyst is usually going to be the one you go for. Amethyst are purple, but might vary in shades of light, medium, or dark purple with some blue hues as well. They are often used for the third eye chakra and crown chakra. They can promote balance in your body and mind, helping you to sleep better, relieving anxiety, and helping with mood swings.\nNext up is the rose quartz, which also has multiple healing benefits and is easy to find. The rose quarts is a light pink crystal that is calming and symbolizes love. It is naturally often used for your heart chakra. When you have emotional or relationship troubles, rose quartz will provide you with some peace during this time and to help you find clarity.\nThis is a fun healing crystal that actually changes colors. When you see the crystal indoors in its relaxed state, it is usually more of a reddish purple color. However, if you take it outside into the sunlight, it will change color to a blue-green shade. What many people have noticed is that it also changes hues based on your current health. This is why many people like to wear alexandrite to help with circulation and channeling your inner creativity.\nWhen people think of crystals, they often think of the clear quartz as a classic crystal stone. This is also why it is one of the first crystals people will get. It is a well-rounded healer, helping with emotional, mental, and physical wellness all at the same time.\nTips for Buying Healing Crystals\nWhen you are on a mission to be more natural and holistic with your health regimen, the topic of crystals is bound to come up. Once you have done your research and decided on which crystals to purchase, you will then need to find the right place to buy them. Here are some tips for buying the right healing crystals.\nFind a Reputable Seller\nOne of the most important things to know about buying crystals is that it is not uncommon to find sellers who don\u2019t have real, authentic stones. These fake stones are easy to replicate, and might contain some of the natural stone, but often have manmade materials as well. Do your research first to make sure you have found a reputable healing crystal seller. This is why buying them in person is often recommended, because you not only know who you are buying from, but you can see and feel the stones yourself, attempting to feel the pulse of energy that radiates through many of them.\nYou also want to know exactly what you are looking for, and what you are buying. Again, research is paramount when investing your money in healing crystals that you want to have healing powers, and not just use for show. Understand what crystals you are buying and what they will be used for first. Once you have chosen them, look into what they should look and feel like, so that when you go to find them, you can feel confident that is exactly what you are getting. Pay attention to the color and feel of the crystal, as well as the sensations you get when picking them up.\nFeel the Pulse of the Crystals\nYou may also be able to actually feel pulses coming from the crystals, which is their natural rhythm. Don\u2019t worry if you can\u2019t feel it right away or at all. It is not something everyone can experience, but it is worth a try when you are trying to find the right healing crystals. This comes from the energy inside the crystal, which may feel like a light electricity coming from it. Stand still, pick up the crystal and hold it in your hand gently. Try to focus and meditate on it, and see if you can experience this amazing phenomenon.\nWhy You Should Use Healing Crystals\nHave you seen beautiful crystals that people have bowls of in their home, hold in their hand, or wear around their neck? For many people, these are not just due to the look of the crystals, but what they can do for them. Crystals have energy and natural healing powers, which you can benefit from by choosing the right ones. Here are some things to understand about healing crystals and why they might be a good option for you.\nThey Work with Your Chakras\nChakras are known as different points in your body that can be used for healing and meditation, such as your heart chakra and throat chakra. You can get even more healing by using the right healing crystals with the right chakras. Different crystals work better with different chakras, so this just requires a little research to ensure you are using the right ones. For example, in the case of the throat chakra, use amazonite, lapis lazuli, and turquoise.\nYou Get Energy from the Crystals\nAnother reason that healing crystals are great to use for holistic health is that you can get energy from them. Each crystal has a different type of energy to tap into, which you may or may not resonate with. This is why when buying crystals, you should purchase them in person so that you can pick them up and see if you feel their energy pulse. This pulse takes a little time and patience to experience, but with the right meditative practice, you can really get natural energy healing from your crystals.\nThey Connect You with Nature\nWho doesn\u2019t want to be more connected with nature? This is one of the most amazing benefits of using healing crystals. Crystals come directly from the earth\u2019s surface, so of course they will still be closely connected. This is often why you find your crystals in rough form without a lot of altering. When you get it in its natural state, you will feel the most connected to the crystal and the earth itself. If you want to be closer to Mother Nature, using healing crystals is one of the best ways to do that.\nWhether or not you believe in the healing powers of crystals, they are beautiful, inexpensive, and can give you optimism throughout the day. This positive energy is a lot more powerful than you might think.\nThe Mind Body Connection: Positive Affirmations Facilitate Wellness What are Himalayan Salt Lamps? Ayurveda \u2013 Natural Healing for the Whole Body Meditation \u2013 Peace of Mind Brings Health to Life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 9929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alysonkhan.wordpress.com/on-the-web/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DRHVBI6LN7S66S45OD2UYP6GNXO3XZ5E", "length": 244, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "alysonkhan.wordpress.com", "title": "on the web \u2013 ALYSON KHAN [blog]", "raw_content": "These are other places online where you can view my work:\nArtist Website: http://alysonkhan.com/\nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/alysonkhanstudio\nFlickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysonkhan/sets/\nBehance: http://www.behance.net/alysonkhan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 210.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/dreamer-inaction-editorial-boards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DDA5KQXFKVEJ655MKJ4544THEGPWQDHF", "length": 8214, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "americasvoice.org", "title": "On Dreamer Inaction, Editorial Boards Fix Blame on GOP; Criticize Trump Administration for Deleting Reference to America as a \u201cNation of Immigrants\u201d - America's Voice", "raw_content": "On Dreamer Inaction, Editorial Boards Fix Blame on GOP; Criticize Trump Administration for Deleting Reference to America as a \u201cNation of Immigrants\u201d\nTags: DACA, Donald Trump, Dream Act, Dreamers\nPraise Temporary Court Reprieve for Dreamers; Call on Congress and GOP to Deliver Fix\nEditorial boards across the country are weighing in on the implications the U.S. Supreme Court rebuke of the Trump Administration\u2019s attempt to leapfrog the normal appeals process in hopes of ending DACA quickly \u2014 and pointing the finger at the GOP for congressional inaction. Others are weighing in to condemn the news that the Trump Administration\u2019s US Citizenship and Immigration Services office is changing its mission statement to remove reference to America as a \u201cnation of immigrants.\u201d\nDallas Morning News editorial, \u201cIf Congress can\u2019t find the DACA fix it so desperately needs, blame the GOP\u201d:\n\u201cThe Supreme Court did the nation, and especially the Republican Party, a favor Monday by keeping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program established by former President Barack Obama up and running for now, despite a request by the Trump administration to clear the way for it to end Monday. The decision gives the Republicans who control Congress a needed second chance to replace the program before it expires.\n\u2026The Senate attempted earlier this month, but so far Congress has failed to produce a replacement. Had the lower federal courts not intervened to keep the program in place while legal challenges test Trump\u2019s authority to end it, Republicans would have been faced with a Monday deadline that no one now suspects they could have met. That\u2019s why all sides should be grateful that the Supreme Court rejected Trump\u2019s petition.\u201d\nHouston Chronicle editorial, \u201cWe\u2019re a \u201cnation of immigrants\u201d \u2014 whether the Trump administration likes it or not\u201d:\n\u201cThe United States has long taken pride in being a nation of immigrants. Our immigrant heritage has uniquely defined us and made us a better country. The Trump administration has never been comfortable with this simple truth and now has built its xenophobia into the mission statement of the agency that oversees immigration and naturalization efforts.\nA badly worded mission statement will never change the truth that we are a nation of immigrants. But the misguided immigration policies of the administration that underlie the mission statement are a threat to the future of our nation.\n\u2026The agency\u2019s true mission is to help this nation fulfill an essence that goes back to our founding. \u2018The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respected stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment,\u2019 George Washington said. Now that\u2019s a mission statement.\u201d\nWall Street Journal, \u201cThe Dreamers Deferred\u201d:\nThe practical effect of the Court\u2019s deferral is that DACA permits will continue to be renewed for now, despite President Trump\u2019s March deadline for when legal protections would begin to expire. This will be a welcome if temporary relief to tens of thousands of young adults who came out of the shadows in good faith, only to now have to fear deportation to a foreign country they do not know.\nThe unhappy irony is that Congress may never pass a permanent solution without the threat of a time limit. The legal fight is likely to drag into 2019. The Senate this month tried and failed to pass a measure to help Dreamers amid opposition from restrictionists on the right and the anti-Trump \u201cresistance.\u201d Both would rather use the issue to clobber each other politically, and now they will do that through the midterms.\nThe GOP would be wise to continue to try to compromise to defuse this issue for 2018 and preclude a protracted legal fight. Congress rightly objected to President Obama usurping its authority on immigration, and it\u2019d be no less lamentable if Members now ceded the legislature\u2019s constitutional authority over immigration to the judiciary.\nSacramento Bee editorial, \u201cCalifornia\u2019s Dreamers are safe for now, but ICE raids target immigrants\u201d:\n\u201cWhile this delay isn\u2019t a permanent fix \u2013 much less a path to citizenship \u2013 it does keep Dreamers safe from possible deportation until at least the end of 2018, and perhaps longer. Those whose two-year DACA permits expire this year will be allowed to apply for renewals to keep working and going to college here.\nThis legal standoff also frees Democrats in Congress from being held hostage to protect Dreamers. Trump is trying to force through a terrible immigration plan that calls for spending as much as $25 billion for his border wall \u2013 a grotesque waste of money \u2013 and for ending programs that reunify families and diversify immigrants \u2013 a denial of America\u2019s character. And if Democrats can retake control of the House or the Senate, or both, in the November election, they would be in a much stronger negotiating position for fair immigration reform.\u201d\nOrange County Register (CA) editorial, \u201cSupreme Court Decision Doesn\u2019t Change Need for Congressional Action on DACA\u201d:\n\u201cEven with the March 5 deadline removed, Congress should not continue kicking a DACA fix down the road. A permanent, legislative solution is what\u2019s needed, not more politicking and more litigation \u2026 Congress should have the decency to pass a DACA fix now and prove reasonable compromise is possible.\u201d\nNorthJersey.com (printed in The Record of Bergen County, NJ and the Passaic County, NJ Herald News) editorial, \u201cDACA Recipients Given a Bit of Breathing Room\u201d:\n\u201cIn the near term, the Supreme Court\u2019s refusal to fast-track the case takes pressure off current DACA recipients and allows them to renew their status \u2014 including work permits. The ruling also perhaps allows time for cooler heads to prevail in Congress, and hopefully allows for a reasoned, humane consensus on the issue.\nLet us remember that these so-called \u201cDreamers\u201d are people, and deserve to be treated as such. They certainly shouldn\u2019t be used as bargaining chips in a larger debate on immigration. The great majority of DACA recipients have lived in the United States almost all their lives. Their friends are Americans, their classmates are Americans, their colleagues are Americans. In all ways that matter, America is their home.\u201d\nSpringfield Republican (MA) editorial, \u201c\u2018Dreamers\u2019 Get a Break, But Only a Short One\u201d:\n\u201cWhen the Supreme Court on Monday decided against getting involved in a fight over the status of the so-called dreamers, those who were brought here illegally as children, it offered them a sort of a reprieve. But, because Congress now feels no sense of urgency to act, the 700,000 who are protected from deportation by the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals are in limbo while two lower court rulings are allowed to play out. This could take months.\nIf the Congress weren\u2019t so constantly dysfunctional, and if the president weren\u2019t so frequently putting up roadblocks, that would be more than ample time to develop a permanent legislative fix. But Congress is unabashedly dysfunctional, and President Donald Trump can\u2019t get out of the way and accept a reasonable deal that would trade improvements in border security for protections for those who were brought here as kids. Thus, Monday\u2019s non-move by the Supremes must be seen as good news, but with an asterisk.\u201d\nSanta Cruz Sentinel (CA) editorial, \u201cCongress can no longer defer the Dreamers\u201d:\n\u201cThe practical reality of Monday\u2019s decision is that DACA permits will continue to be renewed, despite President Trump\u2019s March 5 deadline, setting a limit on when legal protections would start to expire. All this should come as good news to hundreds of thousands of young people who are living in fear of deportation to a country they don\u2019t know.\n\u2026Public opinion surveys consistently show that most Americans, including most Republicans, support allowing the Dreamers to stay. 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Together with their families, Ampirical (San Diego) team members participated in their eleventh Adopt-a-Beach cleanup event in support of I Love a Clean San Diego.\nThroughout the day, over 2,000 pieces of litter were collected and disposed of correctly. The most common items found along the beach were:\nTiny plastic fragments\nThe oddest item found was a $20 bill.\nAmpirical sends its thanks and appreciation to all who participated in this event.\nAbout I Love a Clean San Diego\nI Love a Clean San Diego leads and inspires our community to actively conserve and enhance the environment through example, outreach, and local involvement. To learn more about I Love a Clean San Diego visit https://www.ilacsd.org/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anadequatemom.wordpress.com/adequate-mom-t-shirts-anyone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RZNUFAA6D2NRX7HA3YEALBISGT4P7VM6", "length": 579, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "anadequatemom.wordpress.com", "title": "Adequate t-shirts, anyone? | Jenn McKee's An Adequate Mom Blog", "raw_content": "Want a shirt that says, \u201cBecause being a perfect mom isn\u2019t a realistic option\u201d? It\u2019s sure to get a response (nothing but positive ones for me so far!). Check it out here!\nAnd for the dads out there, here\u2019s an option for you.\n2 thoughts on \u201cAdequate t-shirts, anyone?\u201d\nMamaTbull says:\nIf only the model was a size bigger and not so perky and perfect. It kind of defeats the message of the shirt to have a perfectly accessorized image!\nI agree, but I didn\u2019t get to choose a model (or have a \u201cno model\u201d option). Maybe it\u2019s time to see where else I might be able to design a shirt. \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://andantemoderato.com/ravel-tzigane-joshua-bell-tobias-koch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SMG3RD7PX2BSLO4GOXWKHPOMCQXQWGN6", "length": 2443, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "andantemoderato.com", "title": "Ravel \u2013 Tzigane (Joshua Bell and Tobias Koch) | andantemoderato.com", "raw_content": "The piece was commissioned by and dedicated to Hungarian violinist Jelly d\u2019Ar\u00e1nyi (30 May 1893 \u2013 30 March 1966), great-niece of the influential violin virtuoso and conductor Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 \u2013 15 August 1907). The first performance took place in London on April 26, 1924 with the dedicatee on violin and with the French pianist and composer Henri Gil-Marchex (1894-1970) at the piano (with luth\u00e9al (1)). Ravel soon orchestrated the piano part.\nThe name of the piece is derived from the generic European term for \u201cgypsy\u201d (in French: gitan, tsigane or tzigane rather than the Hungarian cig\u00e1ny) although it does not use any authentic Gypsy melodies. Note that in Ravel\u2019s days in Paris gypsy/gitan/tsigane/tzigane did not so much refer to the Roma (Gypsy) people in any strict sense: the \u201cgypsy\u201d style of the work was rather a kind of popular musical exoticism, comparable to the Spanish exoticism in Wagner\u2019s day (compare Emmanuel Chabrier\u2019s Espa\u00f1a), or the Janissary exoticism in Mozart\u2019s day (Rondo alla Turca).\nThe composition is in one movement, with an approximate duration of ten minutes. Though the composer is sometimes regarded as following an Impressionist idiom, Tzigane clearly demonstrates Ravel\u2019s ability to imitate the (late) Romantic style of violin showmanship promoted by such composer-virtuosi as Paganini and Sarasate.\nThe luth\u00e9al is a kind of hybrid piano which extended the \u201cregister\u201d possibilities of a piano by producing cimbalon-like sounds in some registers, exploiting harmonics of the strings when pulling other register-stops, and also some registers making other objects, which were lowered just above the strings, resound. The instrument became obsolete partly because most of its mechanics were too sensitive, needing constant adjustment. The only pieces in the general repertoire to feature the luth\u00e9al are L\u2019enfant et les sortil\u00e8ges (1920\u201325) and Tzigane (1924) by Maurice Ravel.\nA Luth\u00e9al. Photo: bestservice.de\nTzigane on wikipedia\nLuth\u00e9al on wikipedia\nRavel \u2013 Sonata for Violin and Piano (Capu\u00e7on, Braley) French classical violinist Renaud Capu\u00e7on and the French pianist Frank Braley perform Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano (Violin\u2026\nMonti \u2013 Cs\u00e1rd\u00e1s (Piano and Violin) Cs\u00e1rd\u00e1s by the Italian composer Vittorio Monti, performed on Violin (Nancy Webb) and piano (Liam Webb). Written around 1904, Monti's\u2026\nPrevious PostVivaldi \u2013 Concerto in D minor, RV 566Next PostMozart \u2013 Symphony No. 16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 224.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anime.cl/azure-reflections-touhou-project-game-launches-for-nintendo-switch-on-august-30/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KEW2B55OCHD2QCCV6YV5KSIRFDQODEG4", "length": 214, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "anime.cl", "title": "Azure Reflections Touhou Project Game Launches for Nintendo Switch on August 30 | AnimeCL", "raw_content": "Azure Reflections Touhou Project Game Launches for Nintendo Switch on August 30\nHome / Azure Reflections Touhou Project Game Launches for Nintendo Switch on August 30\nShooter game launched in West for PS4 on May 15", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 12887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://answers.everydaycalculation.com/compare-fractions/4-3-and-4-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RBQTM2HOCZKFYNSOBQ4OSSUASFL6DQJB", "length": 212, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "answers.everydaycalculation.com", "title": "Compare 4/3 and 4/7, Which fraction is greater?", "raw_content": "Related: 8/3 and 4/7 4/3 and 8/7 4/6 and 4/7 4/3 and 4/14 12/3 and 4/7 4/3 and 12/7 4/9 and 4/7 4/3 and 4/21 20/3 and 4/7 4/3 and 20/7 4/15 and 4/7 4/3 and 4/35 28/3 and 4/7 4/3 and 28/7 4/21 and 4/7 4/3 and 4/49", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 12.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://answers.everydaycalculation.com/compare-fractions/4-5-and-2-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QAXP6HV6L7STFCIXON5MDFVEBWTFELDQ", "length": 213, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "answers.everydaycalculation.com", "title": "Compare 4/5 and 2/7, Which fraction is greater?", "raw_content": "Related: 8/5 and 2/7 4/5 and 4/7 4/10 and 2/7 4/5 and 2/14 12/5 and 2/7 4/5 and 6/7 4/15 and 2/7 4/5 and 2/21 20/5 and 2/7 4/5 and 10/7 4/25 and 2/7 4/5 and 2/35 28/5 and 2/7 4/5 and 14/7 4/35 and 2/7 4/5 and 2/49", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 13.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://answers.everydaycalculation.com/compare-fractions/8-2-and-2-6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:24Z", "digest": "sha1:NVMWV6ERU7ZR5LP5I5TLZVRHAHTZEOM5", "length": 200, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "answers.everydaycalculation.com", "title": "Compare 8/2 and 2/6, Which fraction is greater?", "raw_content": "Related: 16/2 and 2/6 8/2 and 4/6 8/4 and 2/6 8/2 and 2/12 24/2 and 2/6 8/6 and 2/6 8/2 and 2/18 40/2 and 2/6 8/2 and 10/6 8/10 and 2/6 8/2 and 2/30 56/2 and 2/6 8/2 and 14/6 8/14 and 2/6 8/2 and 2/42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 13.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://api.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-histories/england/somerset/the-dragon-inn-westonsupermare", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:13Z", "digest": "sha1:XRA6O3PX5PZ4GWQL4JT4QBKTKQDJGMF4", "length": 5150, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "api.jdwetherspoon.com", "title": "The Dragon Inn WestonsuperMare - J D Wetherspoon", "raw_content": "15 Meadow Street, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 1QG\nAlfred Leete was a local artist who drew the famous World War I recruiting poster \u2018Your Country Needs You\u2019. He later published A Book of Dragons, featuring a popular cartoon character \u2018Dennys the Rouge Dragon\u2019, recalled in the name of this Wetherspoon pub.\nIllustrations and text about Knightstone.\nThe text reads: Between 1811 and 1814 Weston began to develop a reputation among doctors in Bristol and Bath, and among the wealthier general public, as a health resort. The bath house and swimming pool on Knightstone Island were among the first facilities created to help Weston-super-Mare develop as a resort.\nMr Howe from Bristol erected the first medicinal baths here when he bought the island in 1820. Reverend T Pruen brought it in 1824 and built a causeway to link it to the mainland (previously, at high tide, visitors had to be rowed to the island). Then in 1830 Dr Edward Long Fox became the new owner and built a new causeway and buildings. The Bristol Mirror newspaper informed its readers in 1832 that \u201cDr Fox of Brislington is engaged in erecting a special buildings on one Knightstone rock\u2026 for the purpose of introducing fresh and salt water, hot and cold vapour and shower, sulphur and every description of medicated baths\u201d.\nTop: Knightstone, c1845\nAbove: left, Dr Edward Long Fox, right, Knightstone and the bay from Worle Hill.\nIllustrations and text about the Birnbeck.\nThe text reads: The Birnbeck, or Bearn Beck, was a very ancient fishery. However, fishermen had to wait until low tide to cross the causeway to gather their catch from the nets. This meant the upper nets were exposed for some time, and offered the gulls a feast. So the fishermen shared the cost of keeping two men living on the island to frighten the gulls away by yelling.\nThese gull yellers\u2019 needed powerful lungs. The most celebrated yeller, Bill Hurle, could be heard at Congresbury on a good day.\nThere was a famous cow, which took to swimming out to Birnbeck at high tide, spending most of her time there. She would occasionally swim back into Kewstoke Bay, or Anchor Head, and browse \u201cas if it were the usual thing for a cow to swim a quarter of a mile across a tide running like a mill stream\u201d. After three years swimming she fell down a crevice on the north side of the island and died.\nBirnbeck became HMS Birnbeck during World War II. The Admiralty took it over, and filled it with scientists, nicknamed \u2018Wheezers and Dodgers\u2019, to develop new weapons.\nTop: Fishing stakes, 1855\nAbove: Birnbeck Pier, low tide 1880.\nPrints and text about the railways.\nThe text reads: After the sea-bathing mania came the railway mania of the 1830s. Bristol was connected to London by 1841. The line was built by the Great Western Company, whose engineer was the remarkable Isambard Kingdom Brunel.\nThe Bristol and Exeter Company, also employing Brunel, extended the line to Exeter. Landowners here were against the railway entering the resort, so it passed nearby. However, a brand line and station were built by 1841.\nBrunel himself lived in Weston during the line\u2019s construction. He and his family stayed at Swiss Villa, off Locking Road, which is now only remembered in the name of Swiss Road.\nFor the ten years the branch line train consisted of three coaches drawn by horses. The journey was slow, especially into a head wind, and passenger often found it quicker to walk. In 1851 the horses were replaced by a small steam locomotive. Eventually the Bristol and Exeter was absorbed by the GWR, which decided to build a loop line and through station, which opened in 1884.\nWhen the coaching era ended around 1840 some 7,000 visitors came to Weston each year. By 1844 it was 23,000.\nTop: Weston-super-Mare Station, 1896\nAbove: left, IK Brunel, right, Swiss Villa.\nPrints and text about Laurie Lee.\nThe text reads: The writer Laurie Lee was born in Slad in Gloucestershire in 1914. In Cider with Rosie he recalls a choir outing to Weston:\n\u201c\u2026we had never seen such openness\u2026 Canvas booths flapped on the edge of the prom, mouths crammed with shell-fish and vinegar\u2026 bath chairs, carriages and donkeys; and a white pier like a sleeping dragon.\u201d\nOn the pier \u201cone glided secretly to one\u2019s favourite machine, the hot coin stirring one\u2019s hand\u201d. A slot machine which showed Dr Crippen being hanged was his favourite, \u201cthe painted gallows, the nodding priest, the felon with his face of doom\u201d. Back home he goes to bed, \u201cmy ears full of motors and organs, my shut eyes printed with images of the day \u2013 mud, and red rock and hangmen\u2026\u201d\nTop: Laurie Lee\nAbove: The pier slot machine showing Crippen\u2019s execution.\nA photograph of the Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare, c1908.\nCopies of Alfred Leete posters.\nTop: The famous Kitchener poster\nAbove: A more local image.\nA photograph of the bay and promenade, Weston-super-Mare, c1930.\nA photograph of Regent Street, Weston-super-Mare, c1925.\nA photograph of Madeira Cove, Weston-super-Mare, c1910.\nA poster showing the \u2018ladies of Weston-super-Mare\u2019.\nA photograph of The Boulevard, Weston-super-Mare, c1920.\nA photograph of the roof garden and two bays, Weston-super-Mare, c1912.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 8096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apps.northamericancompany.com/public/TermQuote/TermQuote.aspx?url=https://www.northamericancompany.com/free-term-quote&rUser=10158&iUser=10158&companyCode=NAC", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CI26MTMXC4UGMQSSXT4P56ZQUHVCK66L", "length": 2214, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "apps.northamericancompany.com", "title": "Free Term Quote", "raw_content": "North American Company provides a variety of affordable term products designed to fit a wide range of life insurance needs. To get your Instant Term Quote, complete the following questions:\nDate of Birth: January February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944\nState of Residence: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming\n(minimum of $100,000)\n(maximum of $5,000,000) $\nFor amounts below $100,000 or above $5,000,000, please contact your North American sales representative.\nThis Instant Term Quote lists the most economical annual / monthly premiums that we offer based on the information you provided.\nProduct rates shown are based on the age and face amount entered and are subject to change during the application and underwriting process.\nPremiums are effective as of the date quoted and are subject to change. 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Not licensed in New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 2295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 54.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arcade.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/doku.php?id=contact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JX3BQQ2NE2T6WNHAW33LCTI3MSZA6MIU", "length": 3077, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "arcade.embedded.rwth-aachen.de", "title": "contact [Arcade]", "raw_content": "Dimitri Bohlender, M.Sc.\nE-Mail: bohlender[at]embedded[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de\nHendrik Simon, M.Sc.\nE-Mail: simon[at]embedded[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de\nMarcus V\u00f6lker, M.Sc.\nE-Mail: voelker[at]embedded[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de\nAddress: Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany\nOffice: Room 2325 (Building H)\nIf you provide personal data via this website, these will be processed in compliance with the Data Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (DSG NRW).\nOn principle, you can use our website without revealing your identity. 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If any of the terms and conditions is found to be invalid by reason of the relevant laws then the remaining terms and conditions shall remain in full effect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-preparing-for-storm-that-could-bring-snow/Content?oid=2170243", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:G4G6KRXMQGEWTJVLBN4OXF5Z55R2HUQ3", "length": 2025, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "archives.sfexaminer.com", "title": "San Francisco preparing for storm that could bring snow | Other News | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner", "raw_content": "\u00ab Farrellys see \u2018Hall Pass\u2019 as chick\u2026 | Centerpiece of new Bay Bridge span\u2026 \u00bb\nSan Francisco preparing for storm that could bring snow\nA pedestrian holds an umbrella as he waits to cross the street in San Francisco, California. Wet and stormy weather continues to drench the San Francisco Bay Area. (Getty Images file photo)\nJust because San Francisco may or may not see snow Friday doesn\u2019t mean The City isn\u2019t preparing.\nMayor Ed Lee did not anwer a question from The San Francisco Examiner on Thursday morning about the possibility of snow in The City, but the Mayor\u2019s Office issued a statement in the afternoon advising residents and businesses to ready themselves \u201cfor a cold weather system expected to last for the next several days with colder temperatures, precipitation and possible freezing conditions.\u201d\nKeep a stiff upper lip, San Francisco.\nOh, and Lee wants to you to drive slowly and stay off the roads during the peak of the storm, as icy road conditions are possible.\n\u201cCity agencies are working together to ensure that homes and businesses are protected and the public is safe during these severe weather storms,\u201d Lee said.\nThe Department of Emergency Management is coordinating the citywide response to the storm, according to Lee.\nLee said The City is working to clear debris from catch basins and sewers to avoid potential flooding in low-lying areas. Homeless shelters are being monitored and can increase capacity, he said.\nFor non-emergency issues such as clogged or blocked storm drains, street flooding, downed trees and power outages, residents should call The City\u2019s 311 Customer Service Center.\nFor more information on electricity and natural gas issues, contact Pacific Gas & Electric Co. at (800) 743-5002.\nResidents should reserve 911 only for life-threatening emergencies.\nFree sandbags are available from the Department of Public Works at 2323 Cesar Chavez St. Use the entrance at Kansas and Marin streets.\nTags: General News, Local, san francisco, snow, Ed Lee, San Francisco snow, cold weather", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 6423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arrowtomyknee.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/new-pic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKM7YI2OTUOJPJZ5KBBPILHYXSIMWFXA", "length": 80, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "arrowtomyknee.wordpress.com", "title": "New pic :) | Polli", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on February 3, 2013 by Polli. It was filed under Make up .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1147, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 163.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/the-fast-and-the-flexible-graphene-foam-batteries-charge-quickly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GN4KM6TE6YS3YPHQSLMUDA2BNZVM5PIN", "length": 4245, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "arstechnica.com", "title": "The fast and the flexible: Graphene foam batteries charge quickly | Ars Technica", "raw_content": "The fast and the flexible: Graphene foam batteries charge quickly\nCapacity on par with existing lithium batteries, but charges in 15 minutes.\nRPI.edu\nThere are a variety of technologies available for storing energy, each with various tradeoffs in terms of weight, capacity, and performance. For example, capacitors are fast and lightweight but, despite their name, don't have a large capacity. Batteries can hold more charge, but are heavier and take longer to recharge. This diversity is good, in that it provides plenty of options to tailor a device to suit specific needs. But it probably leaves engineers looking longingly at the options they didn't or couldn't choose.\nIn yesterday's edition of PNAS, however, researchers from China describe a battery design based on graphene foam that may nicely bridge the gap. It's based on existing lithium technology, and even in experimental form, it has a similar capacity:weight ratio. But it can charge and discharge nearly as fast as a capacitor, being able to completely discharge in about 20 seconds. As an added bonus, it's flexible and works fine when you bend it.\nGraphene is a single-atom thick sheet of linked carbon atoms, and its remarkable properties made it the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. Chief among those properties are mechanical strength and an ability to conduct electricity with very little resistance.\nThe focus with graphene has generally been to build larger sheets, but the process for creating graphene foam is quite distinct. To produce it, you first start with a metal foam, which is a three-dimensional mesh of metal filaments. This is used to grow graphene on the metal surface through standard techniques (vapor deposition), after which the metal is processed away. The result is a similar three-dimensional mesh, shown above, but this time constructed of graphene. The foam itself is both flexible and mechanically tough.\nThe resulting foam has a number of properties that make it a good battery electrode. These include a large surface area (lots of places for charge carriers to exchange electrons) and excellent conductivity (to get those electrons out of the device). It also happens to be very light-weight.\nSo, the authors prepared an electrode using a lithium-titanium compound (Li4Ti5O12) deposited on the surface of the graphene foam. On its own, LTO with and without graphene foam behaved identically at slow charge/discharge rates. But, as the rate of charging was increased, LTO's performance got dramatically worse, while performance for the LTO/graphene material only declined gradually. Even at a discharge rate that would completely empty the material in 18 seconds, its performance was 80 percent of what it displayed during an hour-long discharge. Plus, performance remained stable through 500 charge/discharge cycles, and the material retained the flexibility of its graphene foam skeleton.\nThat was good enough for the authors to decide to build a battery: with the LTO material as an anode, a cathode made of LiFePO4/graphene foam, and a standard electrolyte. The battery didn't show quite the excellent charge/discharge performance the individual electrodes had, but it still performed very well at a charge rate that could fill it in under 15 minutes. Even in this lab-based form, which undoubtedly left a number of efficiencies on the table, its energy density was about 110Whrs/kg. That's roughly in line with current lithium batteries.\nAnd the graphene foam worked just fine while by being bent with a radius of curvature of just five millimeters. Repeated flexings only had a small impact on the performance of the battery.\nThe authors note they haven't optimized the battery production in any way, and expect they could get a much better energy density by implementing any of a number of things. Even in its current state however, there are plenty of potential uses for a battery that's flexible and can charge fully in 15 minutes. The real concern wouldn't seem to be the battery itself though. The production of graphene foam appears likely to be expensive and energy intensive. If the foam can't be made cheap enough, then we're not likely to see this technology commercialized, regardless of how good its performance is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asiancorrespondent.com/2018/03/what-might-come-of-a-donald-trump-meeting-with-kim-jong-un/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:02Z", "digest": "sha1:3QZJZN3V2RTXFWGIHR7IVNYGP4LMKQJY", "length": 7412, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "asiancorrespondent.com", "title": "What might come of a Donald Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un?\tWhat might come of a Donald Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un?", "raw_content": "What might come of a Donald Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un?\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un greets a member of the special delegation of South Korea's President at a dinner in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 6, 2018. Source: KCNA/via Reuters\nAFTER more than a year of belligerent rhetoric, missile tests and nuclear explosions, North Korea and the US have agreed to talk to each other directly. This dramatic development is the first time that the US has agreed to meet with the North Koreans without any preconditions. So how was the ground laid for this meeting \u2013 and what are the stakes?\nQ: Why has this happened so suddenly?\nThe change in US policy appears to be a direct response to South Korean president Moon Jae-in\u2019s policy of rapprochement with the north.\nAfter Pyongyang sent a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in and the two Koreas fielded a joint team, it was announced by negotiators from Seoul that the North Koreans were willing to open a dialogue with the US. Then, on March 6, the South Koreans announced that the North was willing to discuss giving up its nuclear weapons. Perhaps to avoid a rift with the South \u2013 a close US ally which would bear the brunt of any war with the north \u2013 Washington began to reconsider its position.\nTrump responds to a question about North Korea before holding a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, on March 6, 2018. Source: Reuters/Leah Millis\nSEE ALSO: Trump agrees to talks with Kim Jong Un\nQ: What is the US\u2019s new policy?\nUntil a few weeks ago, the US\u2019s stance was that North Korea would have to take demonstrable steps to denuclearise before the negotiations could begin, even at a low level \u2013 in other words, it would have to give up its chief leverage over the US before the two countries could talk directly at all.\nHowever, US Vice-President Mike Pence, recently announced a new US policy, more in line with the current South Korean position: \u201cAt the outset of any new dialogue or negotiations,\u201d he said, North Korea would have to \u201cput denuclearisation on the table and take concrete steps with the world community to dismantle, permanently and irreversibly, their nuclear and ballistic missile programs.\u201d\nThe message seems to be that Pyongyang only has to agree to discuss denuclearisation, not to actually begin disarming in advance of talks.\nQ: What does North Korea want?\nNorth Korea\u2019s goals have been fairly predictable and consistent since the nuclear stand-off began in the early 1990s. The regime in Pyongyang is morally repugnant and superficially often bizarre, but its fear of becoming a US military target is not without grounds.\nThe US carries out extensive military exercises on and around the Korean Peninsula, and also has 11 military bases and 28,500 troops in South Korea \u2013 a hangover from from the 1950-53 war. In fact, Washington and Pyongyang are still technically at war with each other \u2013 a 1953 ceasefire agreement has frozen the conflict for 65 years, but a formal end to the war and the normalisation of relations between the two countries remains the ultimate objective for Pyongyang. The Kim regime therefore sees its nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantee of security against a superpower that it still considers a direct threat.\nQ: What are the best and worst outcomes?\nThe best outcome would be that Trump uses his purported deal-making skills to agree to a peace treaty with North Korea, a deal that denuclearises the Korean Peninsula, scales back the US military presence there and institutes normal diplomatic relations with Pyongyang. The question is whether Trump has the diplomatic skill to do this.\nKim Jong Un provides guidance with Ri Hong Sop (3rd L) and Hong Sung Mu (L) on a nuclear weapons programme in an undated photo in Pyongyang. Source: KCNA via Reuters\nThe South Koreans have demonstrated that it\u2019s possible to negotiate with the North and come to a mutual understanding. But Trump has very little diplomatic experience of any kind, especially when it comes to sensitive high-stakes negotiations. He is egotistic and often lashes out before thinking. These talks represent a precious and rare opportunity, but Trump is not the person most observers would want to see in the driving seat.\nQ: What happened last time the US and North Korea had productive talks?\nThe closest the two sides came to solving the problem was the 1994 Agreed Framework, signed by the Clinton administration and Kim Jong-un\u2019s grandfather, Kim Il-sung. Under the terms of that agreement, North Korea agreed to freeze and ultimately dismantle its nuclear programme in exchange for \u201cthe full normalisation of political and economic relations with the US\u201d.\nFor a while, things seemed to go well \u2013 but by 1998, it was clear that the US was not living up to its side of the bargain. Little was done to normalise diplomatic relations. The hawkish Republican Congress, which was opposed to the agreement, consistently refused to fund the light-water nuclear reactors the North Koreans had been promised, and heavy fuel shipments \u2013 also part of the agreement \u2013 were usually delivered late.\nIf Trump strikes some sort of deal with Kim, selling it to the Republicans in Congress will be a tall order. Given Trump\u2019s poor record of passing major legislation of any kind, there is little to suggest he would be capable of doing this. That said, things might be very different if the Democrats take control of all or part of Congress in the November 2018 elections.\nSouth Korea\u2019s national security chief Chung Eui-yong briefs Trump at the Oval Office about his visit to North Korea, in Washington, March 8, 2018. Source: The Presidential Blue House/Yonhap via Reuters\nQ: Is unpredictability a good strategy, or a dangerous one?\nAmbiguity and unpredictability are far from ideal in any scenario, especially one where nuclear weapons are involved. If the US\u2019s policy is too unclear or inconsistent, adversaries may miscalculate \u2013 and the possibility of accidental nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula cannot be ruled out entirely.\nUS policy has often been inconsistent and unclear over the past year. Trump\u2019s bellicose rhetoric and insistence that the US military explore multiple options for the deployment of force, including pre-emptive nuclear strikes, may well give the impression that the administration is actually considering such a strike.\nSEE ALSO: Kim Jong Un the Brazilian: NK leader used fraudulent passport to apply for Western visas\nOn the other hand, Trump\u2019s threats have often been undermined by members of his own cabinet who have affirmed that diplomacy is the first choice. The most senior US military official, General Joseph Dunford, went so far as to say military action against North Korea would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d.\nWho speaks for the US? Who should the North Koreans listen to? It\u2019s not always easy to tell. Now that Trump has accepted this invitation to talk, he must remain consistent in his willingness to negotiate.\nMaria Ryan, Lecturer in American History, University of Nottingham. 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The technology is more advanced than pure electric, however, many mainstream manufacturers are just adding it to their model options.\nSurprisingly, it was close between petrol and electric vehicles. 18% believed most Europeans would be driving electric vehicles (EVs) by 2028, with 16% believing that the current market-leading technology, the internal combustion engine powered by petrol, would remain in the top spot by this time. There are concerns that EVs need more major development to achieve any form of parity with traditional engines, including increased range, faster charging times and lower sales prices. The results of this poll suggest that while many do still think it would be a market leader in the next decade, it has much to do to take away from hybrid power.\nPetrol meanwhile, is the safe choice, the current leading technology and one which offers range and good sales cost. Putting it into third in this poll, however, shows how the market could change by 2028. Countries such as France and the UK are banning their sale by 2040, together with diesel, while Norway intends to phase them out by 2025.\nIn fourth place was hydrogen, the youngest technology on the list, with 8% of respondents believing it would lead Europe. Hydrogen offers the benefits of an electric vehicle together with the range of a petrol or diesel car. Yet manufacturers are focusing on electric power, and its development curve is slow, with only Daimler, Hyundai and Toyota championing it, although manufacturers have agreed a plan to bring the fuel to market. 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You can find it at the LinkedIn publisher page.\nGroupon launches 2.0, including merchant stores and giving people the power to follow deals and stores. It is very social, and this is a channel that companies need to pay attention to. Currently only available in Chicago, Dallas, and Seattle. (more about this over at Techcrunch)\nTechcrunch also reported that Chrome is now the dominant browser on their site, but Techcrunch is hardly representative of the general population. IE and Firefox still rules supreme for most other sites. What is interesting is the trend towards webkit powered browsers (Chrome and Safari combined).\nPublishers again find themselves at the mercy at the whims of Apple, raising the question; Can we afford to base our business on a distribution model that cannot be trusted to deliver on time?\nGawker is moving beyond the common blog format to something reminiscent of a news app. Interesting development from a navigation and discovery point of view.\nVery interesting study on how people pay attention to ad units (PDF) by Online Publishers Association. A staggering 96% pay attention to the ads, with 67% going back to look at it within the first 10 seconds. It seems banner blindness is really banner ignorance. 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I've been buying Bebe Bamboo before my baby was born and now he's already 1.5...\"\n\u2013 Dina S., 14/11/2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beebom.com/xbox-games-gold-january-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DG52NG3ITYF27R4JBEVKC5RHIQ4MFLH7", "length": 2034, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "beebom.com", "title": "Xbox Games with Gold for January 2018 Announced | Beebom", "raw_content": "Home News Xbox Games with Gold for January 2018 Announced\nXbox Games with Gold for January 2018 Announced\nXbox, on its official blog has announced the list of games that will be made available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the month of January. Similar to Sony\u2019s PlayStation Plus offering, Xbox also allows subscribers to access some games for free every month. The games range from titles aimed at the latest Xbox One consoles, to the older Xbox 360 consoles.\nThis coming month, Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to access the following awesome games on their consoles:\n1. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III\nVan Helsing III is all set to make its debut on the Xbox One. The game is set post the events of the last Van Helsing title where the civil war had ended. In this game, Van Helsing will be engaged in battle with a number of different beasts, and players will be able to access an expanded arsenal of weapons.\nThe game will be available throughout the month of January, from January 1 to January 31.\nIn Zombi, players will have to survive in a post-apocalyptic London, where the infected are all over the place; on streets, and in the underground canals.\nThe game will be available from January 16 to February 15 on the Xbox One.\nIn this installment of the popular Tomb Raider franchise, Lara Croft travels around the world in order to solve the mystery of Thor\u2019s hammer.\nThe game will be made available for Xbox 360 users from January 1 to January 15.\nArmy of Two is centred around the world of private military enterprises. Players (along with a co-op buddy, or the in-game AI) will be able to earn and spend money in order to improve their weapons.\nThe game will be available for the Xbox 360 from January 16 to January 31.\nWhile there are only two games available for the Xbox 360, people with an Xbox One can play all four games in the list, since the Xbox 360 games are backwards compatible with the Xbox One.\nSo go ahead and bring in the New Year with these great games on your Xbox 360 and Xbox One.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 141.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beebom.com/youtube-no-evidence-russian-interference-brexit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EYOFZAPC26N7A2FPWPH5NF43XD64757F", "length": 1927, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "beebom.com", "title": "YouTube Says No Evidence Found For Russian Interference in Brexit Vote", "raw_content": "Home News YouTube Says No Evidence Found For Russian Interference in Brexit Vote\nYouTube Says No Evidence Found For Russian Interference in Brexit Vote\nBack in October last year, the members of UK parliament called upon Facebook and Twitter to report back with any evidence of Russian interference during the UK\u2019s Brexit vote in 2016. While the extent of Russian propaganda to influence Brexit vote is not clear, what\u2019s certain is the members of parliament are not satisfied with YouTube\u2019s effort.\nAccording to a report by The Guardian, YouTube said that it hasn\u2019t found any evidence to justify a Russian interference. But MPs have criticised YouTube for spending only an estimated 0.1% of its annual UK revenue, which is expected to be around $10 billion, on the investigation.\nYouTube\u2019s global policy chief, Juniper Downs said that they are more than willing to extend their cooperation with any further British investigation into political misinformation. She said, \u201cWe\u2019re happy to cooperate with a UK government investigation in any interference in elections. We have conducted [research] around the Brexit referendum and found no evidence of interference. We looked at all ads with any connection to Russia, and there is no evidence of our services being used.\u201d\nThe response from MPs comes on the heels of an unusual move when a group of 11 politicians traveled to the US to gather evidence in Washington and New York. Reportedly, Downs was summoned along with Google\u2019s news chief Richard Gringras, plus executives from Facebook and Twitter to give evidence.\nDowns emphasized that YouTube cannot insert random video clips on a user\u2019s feed which they don\u2019t want to watch. She said, \u201cpeople watch what they want to, and it\u2019s hard to insert something they don\u2019t want.\u201d In case you are wondering, this report also comes just a day after Twitter\u2019s report according to which 49 Russian accounts tried to affect the Brexit votes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://believersbailout.org/learn", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:37Z", "digest": "sha1:B4UIAZWCRUAT72J2B3W4RYNTVV2GWSEA", "length": 2131, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "believersbailout.org", "title": "What is Money Bail? \u2014 Believers Bail Out", "raw_content": "Bond, also known as bail, is money charged by the state to release a person charged with a crime from custody while their case proceeds. For example, in Illinois people charged with crimes are required to pay 10% of the bond amount set by a judge as a \u201cdeposit.\u201d For example, if you are given a $1,000 bond, you have to pay $100 cash in order to be released from police or county custody.\nBond is essentially unfair and unjust. Black people are twice as likely to be held pre-trial as white people and in 2015 the median bail set nationwide was $10,000, while the median pre-incarceration annual income of people incarcerated was $15,000. High bonds are justified by the idea that they keep us safe, but setting monetary bond undermines this very idea--someone who is not a threat to others should be released regardless of their access to money; likewise, someone who is truly a threat should not be released simply because they can pay bond. Our current system makes wealth, not safety, the primary determinant of whether someone is released while awaiting trial.\nThere is also no proven correlation between payment of bond and someone returning to court. Under Washington D.C.\u2019s much-lauded Pretrial Services Agency, 85% of all defendants are released, no money bond is used, and 88% of all released defendants remain arrest-free and attend all court dates. In New York, 96% of the Bronx Freedom Fund\u2019s clients attended every one of their court dates\u2013a rate higher than that of people who paid their own bond!\nWhy is making bond so important?\nThe simple inability to pay bond often has severe negative consequences on the very things that help someone charged with a crime succeed: employment, stable housing, and strong family and community connections. Pre-trial detention can cause loss of housing and/or jobs, separation of families, and lost custody of children. It also results in higher rates of conviction, as people are forced to plead guilty in order to go home rather than fight their charges. With the stakes so high, BBO hopes to alleviate the harm for as many people as possible because people need care not cages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bellona.org/news/climate-change/international-climate-conferences/2010-04-comment-state-oppression-machine-vs-environmentalists-next-stop-samara", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2HWIZDVSKPPK3QTNELORCXJ2GQRAHWIZ", "length": 12863, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "bellona.org", "title": "Comment: State oppression machine vs. environmentalists \u2013 next stop, Samara? - Bellona.org", "raw_content": "Bellona.org > Latest News > Russian human rights issues > Access to information > Comment: State oppression machine vs. environmentalists \u2013 next stop, Samara?\nComment: State oppression machine vs. environmentalists \u2013 next stop, Samara?\nMOSCOW \u2013 Police in the Southwest Russian city of Samara raided the office of Sergei Simak, head of the Samara regional branch of the International Socio-Ecological Union (SEU) earlier this month, confiscating documents and Simak\u2019s computer on uncorroborated, on-the-spot suspicions of using unlicensed software.\nPublished on April 25, 2010 by Andrey Ozharovsky, translated by Maria Kaminskaya\nThe April 13 raid\u2019s puzzling circumstances raise the question of whether the search was an isolated incident or another episode in an ongoing chronicle of state authorities using harassment and intimidation attempts to stifle the country\u2019s environmental movement.\nSergei Simak, SEU co-chairman and head of the union\u2019s Samara regional branch, is well-known and well-respected in this city on the River Volga. He serves in the Public Chamber of Samara Region \u2013 a local analogue of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, a questionable state body that was created with a proclaimed goal of ensuring public oversight over the executive and legislative branches and public participation in government, but has been widely criticised as a see-through attempt by the Kremlin to housebreak the developing civil society \u2013 and heads the Public Chamber\u2019s environmental protection committee.\nSEU in Samara is engaged in a broad spectre of ecological activities of both local and national significance, with the organisation\u2019s main operations focussed on public monitoring and control of ecological developments, protection of environmental rights of the citizens and defending these rights when they are violated, fostering an awareness of environmental problems and educating the public on ecological issues.\nFor Simak, who has a Ph.D. in biology and a teaching job as an assistant professor in Samara State University, where he is also vice chancellor in charge of academic affairs, co-chairmanship in SEU is what he has to do outside his working hours, his involvement in the environmental movement being a classic case of public advocacy \u2013 dedicating one\u2019s free time to work for the benefit of the public.\nThe search and document withdrawal\nSimak recounted the events of April 13 in a telephone conversation with Bellona. Around 2:00 PM that day, he said, two policemen entered his office at the university. They had brought two attesting witnesses along to oversee the legitimacy of the search procedure. The IDs that the officers showed were those of members of the Samara Regional Police Department\u2019s Economic Crimes Unit and so-called Directorate \u201cE,\u201d for counter-extremism.\n\u201cThey showed me a Xerox copy of an unintelligible report regarding a suspected economic offence. On the basis of this, they started to search my office, preparing for temporary confiscation documents that have to do with SEU operations,\u201d Simak said.\nSimak kept some of the organisation\u2019s documents and his personal computer in his university office. This had no bearing on his primary job and was a simple device to facilitate the task of managing his time between the responsibilities at the university and his public activities.\nHaving inspected the scene of the alleged crime, the policemen proceeded to draw up an inspection report. Two hours later, they were joined by two more policemen who became interested in Simak\u2019s computer. According to Simak, one of the officers said: \u201cWhat if there are pirated programmes there? I have this assumption. We will confiscate the computer for an examination.\u201d\nSimak tried to explain that since he used his computer for university-related work as well as SEU files, all the software on it was licensed software installed by the university\u2019s system administrator. His argumentation had no effect. The computer was confiscated.\nDoes the state equal environmentalists to extremists?\nThere are still quite a number of blank spots in this story. For one thing, why, if Simak was suspected of committing an economic offence, would the police who came to search his office include members of the counter-extremism unit? The newspaper Samarskaya Gazeta, citing sources in the regional police department, says a criminal case has already been opened based on Russian Criminal Code Article 282, Part 2, \u201cExtremism\u201d:\n\u201cA case has been initiated on the basis of an anonymous tip received by the Centre for Counteraction against Extremism. In particular, it said that certain slogans of an extremist nature were heard during [a protest] action [where Simak was taking part]. A case has been initiated based on the [alleged] fact, no suspects have been identified or charges brought, and at the moment, the information is being verified.\u201d\n\u201cNotably, it was on April 12 that Samara environmentalists held a picket at the corner of Molodogvardeiskaya Ulitsa and Leningradskaya Ulitsa, demanding that the authorities cease the felling of the unique relict pistache and cedar forest [called Utrish] on the Russian coast of the Black Sea. In an interview given already after the picket, Simak called immoral the destruction of \u2018indigenous Mediterranean woodlands for the sake of yet another fitness spa for the Russian president,\u2019\u201d the paper said.\n\u201cSamara environmentalists were also protesting the re-launch of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill that had recently been announced by Russian Premier Vladimir Putin.\u201d\nThe threat of a pending extremism charge against the well-known environmentalist sparked a wave of indignant comments on the Samarskaya Gazeta website, with postings such as these:\n\u201cThis is no fight against extremism, but simply a machine for the oppression of the civil society. In [the Samara Region city of] Togliatti, they\u2019re not letting us hold a picket in defence of Utrish and Lake Baikal, we were, too, summoned to this Department \u201cE,\u201d consisting of three people. They\u2019re like pawns who run around rounding up activists instead of catching terrorists. All they want is to put a tick against a name. And this case, it\u2019s just a sleazy frame-up!\u201d\nAnother commenter said: \u201cThis is horrible, this so-called Centre \u201cE\u201d is turning into what it was bound to become anyway \u2013 a dangerous repression machine used to quash any activity deemed undesirable by the state.\u201d\nIt is hard to believe, still, that the situation would be so dire as to see everyone and anyone protesting the government\u2019s decisions with regard to the Utrish forest or Lake Baikal get stamped with the \u201cE\u201d label by the state. The underhanded methods used against a well-respected environmentalist could be the result of a conflict between city-based and regional law enforcement. Or a frame-up-for-hire done for some well-connected businessmen whose paths Simak, a man of an unyielding activist stance, may have crossed.\n\u201cWe are currently pursuing five lawsuits. Four [have been filed to stop] infill construction, and one regarding the illegal lease and clearing of a plot of woodland,\u201d Simak says. SEU\u2019s Samara branch does not only file lawsuits \u2013 it wins them. Last year, for instance, it won a three-year-long court battle for the preservation of a city park: The Cassation Board of the Samara Regional Court upheld on February 25, 2009, the ruling of a lower court of the city\u2019s Leninsky District that prohibited building a shopping mall on the territory of Molodyozhny Park. Hell hath no fury like a business interest scorned \u2013 could there be a connection with the recent police raid?\nThen again, it looks like Simak\u2019s personal computer was one of the things the police may have been after to begin with. A computer is often the first place to try to find personal information that could be used if not for outright blackmail then at least to make a person more receptive to various means of pressure. Correspondence, work-related and private, a personal photo archive, documents and the like \u2013 once at someone\u2019s disposal, these could be a powerful tool in a pair of unscrupulous hands. At the very least, as an instrument of psychological intimidation, or worse, as a scare tactic to threaten with some serious trumped-up criminal charge.\nThey have come before\u2026\nIn a bigger scheme of things, it is not uncommon in Russia to see law enforcement agencies show an active interest in environmentalists. More often than not, a police visit to an environmental organisation\u2019s office ends with confiscation of the organisation\u2019s computers. Here are some of the better known cases:\nIrkutsk, January 28, 2010. Irkutsk Police Department and city prosecutors search the offices of Baikal Ecological Wave, seize twelve computers. Basis: Suspicion of use of unlicensed software.\nNizhny Novgorod, September 16, 2008. Nizhny Novgorod Economic Crimes Unit and Federal Security Service search the offices of Ecocentre Dront, seize accounting records, three computers from Dront\u2019s Biodiversity Protection Laboratory.\nIrkutsk, November 22, 2002. Federal Security Service search and seize office equipment from the offices of Baikal Ecological Wave, charge organisation employees with divulging state secrets. All charges were subsequently dropped, and computers returned.\nOne apparent trend, however, is the change in scare tactic: The erstwhile ubiquitous charge of divulging state secrets or drawing up \u201csecret maps\u201d \u2013 Baikal Ecological Wave was researching the scale of radioactive contamination of water and soil in the vicinity of the Angarsk Chemical Electrolysis Combine, which is a uranium-enrichment facility \u2013 has, as a tool of harassment, now ceded its role to a new method: Suspicion of use of counterfeit software. It has been tried this year in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, now in Samara.\nCharges are commonly brought on the basis of Article 7-12, Part 1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, \u201cInfringement of Copyright and Related Rights.\u201d Part 1 of this article provides for penalties for the \u201cimportation, sale, lease or other illegal use of copies of copyrighted works or phonograms for the purpose of deriving revenues\u2026 as well as other infringement of copyright or related rights for the purpose of deriving revenues.\u201d Possible penalties include fines ranging from RUR 1,500 to RUR 2,000 ($50 to $70) for private persons, RUR 10,000 to RUR 20,000 ($345 to $685) for civil servants or government office-holders, and RUR 30,000 to RUR 40,000 ($1,000 to $1,370) for legal entities, and confiscation of \u201ccounterfeit copies of copyrighted works or phonograms, as well as materials and equipment used for their reproduction and other implements of perpetration of this administrative offence.\nIt is, in fact, the law that if an unlicensed audio track or video is found on a computer, the computer may be confiscated as an instrument with which the offence is alleged to have been committed.\n\u201cThis is pure rubbish,\u201d Simak said in an interview he gave to Samarskaya Gazeta. \u201cI cannot understand at all the claims made by the police, I have in fact no idea what is going on.\u201d\nSimak is simply awaiting explanations from the regional police department, an official charge to be brought against him or, conversely, for the confiscated materials to be returned. It is impossible to counter accusations when the nature of these accusations is unknown. What are they \u2013 extremism, economic crimes, use of unlicensed software, or everything all at once?\nWhile Simak is cautious not to give any assessment of the raid, both Russian and international non-governmental organisations have already started a campaign in defence of the Samara environmentalist and the Socio-Ecological Union, clearly identifying a political motive behind the incident and calling it part of an aggravating trend to persecute, harass, and intimidate ecological activists for political reasons.\nThe international human rights advocacy group CIVICUS has issued a press-release saying it is \u201cdeeply concerned that attacks on the environmental movement in Russia are becoming common and systematic. A member of SEU has expressed fears to CIVICUS that, as SEU is currently headquartered out of Samara, the whole organisation may be jeopardized by this latest attack.\u201d\nCIVICUS urges President Medvedev to \u201cprotect freedoms of association and expression in the country, and ensure that peaceful environmentalism is not regarded as extremism in Russia.\u201d\nA similar appeal is being prepared by human rights groups and environmental NGOs based in Russia.\nfil_Open_Letter2.pdf (PDF)\nEastern Siberian community demands that its referendum against uranium extraction stand\nEnvironmentalists\u2019 tour of prospective site for international uranium bank bankrupt of information\nPutin orders to move oil pipeline\nRussian Public Chamber worried about oil pipeline construction near Baikal Lake", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 15189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2018-02-chernobyl-starts-tackling-its-liquid-radioactive-waste", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7PEF6TJZHK34JVSBWB3RIXAZF7APDDBQ", "length": 3749, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "bellona.org", "title": "Chernobyl starts tackling its liquid radioactive waste - Bellona.org", "raw_content": "Bellona.org > Latest News > Nuclear issues > Accidents and incidents > Chernobyl starts tackling its liquid radioactive waste\nChernobyl starts tackling its liquid radioactive waste\nIn a major step toward cleaning up the world\u2019s worst nuclear disaster, workers at Chernobyl have begun moving much of the stricken facility\u2019s liquid nuclear waste into long term storage.\nThe road barrier at the checkpoint into the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Photo: Nils B\u00f8hmer\nThe commissioning of Chernobyl\u2019s liquid radioactive treatment plant is meant to tackle the 22,000 tons of irradiated water gathered not only since the plant\u2019s number 4 reactor exploded in 1986, but from continued operation of the plant\u2019s other three reactors, which continued producing electricity for 14 years after the disaster.\nSurprisingly, these reactors were not decommissioned until 2000, nine years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Chernobyl plant became the newly-independent Ukraine\u2019s inheritance from Moscow.\nThat the rest of the plant\u2019s reactors continued to operate in the middle of a irradiated disaster zone serves shows how heavily Ukraine has depended on nuclear power since it struck out on its own. That dependence \u2013 despite atomic energy\u2019s domestic unpopularity \u2013 hasn\u2019t dropped with time: Kiev still relies on its other 15 reactors to produce a little over half the country\u2019s electricity.\nThat dependence has come at a high cost. It will take another 28 years before radiation at Chernobyl notches down acceptable levels, and it won\u2019t be until 2065 that all facilities and debris at the site will be dismantled and safely bunkered.\nChernobyl\u2019s wastewater treatment plant, which went into operation last month, is expected to guzzle away at the radioactive water and other liquids accrued at the site at the rate of about 2,000 tons a year for the next 20 years.\nWhile that\u2019s going on, treated water will be moved to Chernobyl\u2019s on-site long term radioactive waste storage facility, called the Vektor Complex, which will be the main workhorse in storing both the waste that came of the plant\u2019s operation and the radioactive debris resulting from the disaster itself.\nThe \u20ac27 million complex, which was financed by the European Commission, went into operation in 2008. It will eventually be responsible for holding some 21,000 spent nuclear fuel rods, many of them damaged.\nBut its most pressing chore will be to handled the irradiated debris that constitutes what\u2019s left of the exploded reactor number 4.\nIn 2016, the New Safe Confinement, the world\u2019s larges moving structure, was put into place over the rubble of the reactor. It replaced the makeshift sarcophagus, a cracking concrete structure that was poured in haste over the radioactive flames that burned in the accident\u2019s aftermath.\nWithin the new structure \u2013 which is big enough completely enclose London\u2019 St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral Norte Dame in Paris \u2013 are an estimated 200 tons of uranium fuel, which will be sorted out from other debris by cranes and remotely operated robotic tools. It was built by the financial contributions of 40 countries, which were coordinated by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. The final price tag was \u20ac1.5 billion.\nWhile it will be decades before the zone surrounding Chernobyl will be habitable again, the Ukrainian government is trying to make the best of it by building a solar park on the site.\nThe effort is taking off. With the electricity infrastructure still intact, French and Chinese investors have flocked to the disaster zone with solar panels, taking advantage of Kiev\u2019s cheap land leases and lavish incentives.\nMore of Ukraine\u2019s efforts to rehabilitate the Chernobyl site can be found in Bellona\u2019s new report on Ukraine\u2019s nuclear industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bendedreality.com/with-claims-of-c-i-a-hacking-how-to-protect-your-devices/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:6RW2P53BPXUQLHPSK6U5LZJOMY3ME6IX", "length": 7306, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "bendedreality.com", "title": "With Claims of C.I.A. Hacking, How to Protect Your Devices | BENDED REALITY.COM", "raw_content": "With Claims of C.I.A. Hacking, How to Protect Your Devices\nWant to protect against surveillance through your iPhones, Android devices, Wi-Fi routers and Samsung televisions? Update, update, update.\nWikiLeaks this week published a trove of documents that appears to detail how the Central Intelligence Agency successfully hacked a wide variety of tech products, including iPhones, Android devices, Wi-Fi routers and Samsung televisions.\nThat\u2019s just about every major category of consumer electronics. So what does that mean for you if you own one \u2014 or several \u2014 of these gadgets?\nFor many people, it may mean nothing at all. The thousands of pages of documents refer to programs that attacked outdated versions of the software systems running on devices, and many security vulnerabilities have since been patched.\nOn the other hand, many people may still use outdated software on their devices. And although the C.I.A. designed these tools to spy on terrorists in the interest of national security, the hacking tools may have ended up in the hands of a whole range of entities.\nThe fallout may also end up being broader. WikiLeaks, which released documents covering 2013 to 2016, has said its initial publication was just the first installment in a bigger cache of secret C.I.A. material.\nSo even if you aren\u2019t worried about what WikiLeaks revealed about the C.I.A. right now for yourself, here are some tips for protecting your cellphones, televisions and internet routers.\nWhat you can do if you\u2019re on Android\nHundreds of millions of Android users still use devices based on older versions of the Google-made mobile operating system. The WikiLeaks document collection, which includes 7,818 web pages and 943 attachments, showed that the Android devices targeted by the hacking programs were mostly running a version of Android 4.0.\nToday, about 30 percent of Android users, or at least 420 million people, are on a variant of Android 4.0, according to Google. The company said it was investigating reports of the security issues described in the WikiLeaks documents.\nWith the limited information we have now, the best thing people can do is to stop procrastinating on updating their software.\n\u201cThe one thing that people can and should be doing is keeping their apps and phones as up-to-date as possible,\u201d said Kurt Opsahl, deputy executive director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights nonprofit.\nFor owners of older devices, getting the latest software updates may not be easy. Many older Android handsets, like the Samsung Galaxy S3, are unable to download the latest version of the Android software. If you are in that boat, it\u2019s a good time to purchase a new smartphone \u2014 such as the Google Pixel \u2014 which is running the latest Android software.\nOther than ensuring that you have the latest operating system, Google recommends that Android users protect their devices with lock screens and PIN codes, and to enable a setting called Verify Apps, which scans apps downloaded from outside of Google\u2019s app store for malware.\nWhat you can do on an iPhone\nMany iPhone owners are far more up-to-date with their mobile software than Android device owners. So only a minority of iPhone users have devices with the versions of the Apple iOS operating system that the WikiLeaks documents mention.\nSpecifically, the WikiLeaks documents referred to exploits working on versions of iOS up to 8.2. About 79 percent of Apple users are running iOS 10, the latest version of the system, and only 5 percent are running a version older than iOS 9, according to Apple.\nIn raw numbers, with more than one billion iOS devices sold worldwide, that amounts to at least 50 million people running the outdated software.\nFor those worried about their iPhone security, the advice is generally the same here as for Android owners: iPhone and iPad users should make sure to be running the latest operating system, iOS 10. Apple said on Tuesday that many of the security issues described in the WikiLeaks documents had already been patched in the latest version of its software and that it was working to address remaining vulnerabilities.\nNot all Apple devices can get the latest operating system. Apple\u2019s iOS 10 is compatible with iPhones as far back as the iPhone 5 released in 2012, and with iPads as old as the iPad Air and iPad Mini 2 released in 2013. If you are using anything older than those, it\u2019s a good time to buy a new device for the stronger security.\nWhat you can do with your Samsung TV\nWith Samsung televisions, the situation is less clear. The documents mentioned programs attacking smart TVs in Samsung\u2019s F8000 series, which include microphones for voice controls. Samsung said it was looking into the WikiLeaks reports, and noted that software updates with the latest security enhancements are automatically downloaded on its televisions. The company did not immediately comment on whether any vulnerabilities had been patched.\nThe documents published by WikiLeaks disclosed that a tool called Weeping Angel puts the target TV in a \u201cfake off\u201d mode. Then, with the owner believing the TV is turned off, the set secretly records conversations in the room and sends them over the internet to a C.I.A. server computer.\nSmart TVs are part of a proliferating category of \u201cinternet of things\u201d devices that have raised security concerns because many of the companies that make them do not have strong backgrounds in information security. In a recent column I wrote about defending a smart home from cyberattacks, experts recommended strengthening Wi-Fi settings and regularly auditing smart home devices for software updates, among other tips.\nThat advice might not be sufficient for addressing privacy concerns around Samsung\u2019s smart TVs, because the Weeping Angel hack continues to control the television even when it appears to be turned off.\nCraig Spiezle, executive director of the Online Trust Alliance, a nonprofit privacy group, said the WikiLeaks revelations could spur action that he sees as lacking from makers of connected devices.\n\u201cI see this as a wake-up call for the industry to build better security and for consumers of these devices to rethink what they have and, in some cases, disconnect their connectivity,\u201d Mr. Spiezle said.\nWhat to do with your router\nThe WikiLeaks documents also described methods of injecting malware into routers offered by Asian manufacturers like Huawei, ZTE and Mercury.\nIn general, it is wise for everyone to regularly check routers for so-called firmware updates to make sure they get the latest security enhancements.\nDepending on which router you own, downloading the latest firmware update isn\u2019t very intuitive because it usually requires logging into the router. More modern routers like Eero and Google Wifi include mobile apps that help you download the latest updates automatically, so consider one of those if you are worried.\nWhat to do with your computer\nThe WikiLeaks documents mentioned attacks on Linux, Windows and Apple computers. Personal computers have always been the most vulnerable devices we own, so this tip is fairly obvious: Make sure to install the latest operating system updates and use antivirus software. And as always, stay on guard for suspicious websites that may be serving malware.\nNick Wingfield contributed reporting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 11616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://besomethingamazing.com/careers/registered-nurse", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:01:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDMSHAUNCRCBZ6GQGJ44WRZ2QQQQ6BC7", "length": 1599, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "besomethingamazing.com", "title": "Registered Nurse | Be Something Amazing", "raw_content": "Individuals who enjoy providing patients with medical care while offering emotional support and advice.\nRenders professional nursing services in the treatment and care of assigned patients in accordance with physicians' orders. Provides for the comfort and well-being of patients by assessing condition, providing treatments and administering prescribed drugs and documenting progress and other observations. Coordinates nursing care for patients and participates in patient and family teaching. Provides leadership by working cooperatively with ancillary nursing and other patient team personnel in maintaining standards for professional nursing practice in the clinical setting. For home services, may travel to patient home to render services. Must hold current licensure by the State Board of Nursing Licensure and Registration.\nEmployment of registered nurses is expected to grow 26% from 2010 to 2020. Growth will occur primarily due to technological advancements, permitting a greater number of health problems to be treated; an increased emphasis on preventive care; and the large, aging baby-boomer population who live longer, more active lives. Faster than average growth is expected in traditional hospital settings, as well as in non-hospital settings, such as physician\u2019s offices and home health care services.\nBachelor Degree \u2013 3 - 5 Years\nADN Programs:\nAiken Tech\nPiedmont Tech\nCentral Carolina Tech\nYork Tech\nHorry-Georgetown Tech\nTri-County Tech\nOrangeburg-Calhoun Tech\nBSN Programs:\nUSC-Aiken\nUSC-Beaufort\nhttps://www.che.sc.gov/Students,FamiliesMilitary/LearningAboutCollege/SC...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestfriends.org/events/best-friends-national-conference/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:N4C6JXTA2RJUMTGB5PFAQHO4KYNYZQXW", "length": 2126, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "bestfriends.org", "title": "Pet Conference | Best Friends Animal Society", "raw_content": "Home / Events / Best Friends National Conference / About\nEmail us at conferences@bestfriends.org\nAbout the Best Friends National Conference\nImagine being in a room surrounded by people who love animals as much as you do. Some work for animal welfare organizations, some are veterinarians or vet techs, some are board members of animal shelters and others volunteer for rescue groups. Each and every one of them is deeply committed to saving the lives of homeless pets \u2014 and each has something valuable to teach and share with others.\nSounds pretty amazing, right? Well, that\u2019s reality at the Best Friends National Conference.\nThe conference brings like-minded people together, including some of the nation\u2019s leading and cutting-edge authorities in animal welfare, to share strategies and exchange ideas. It\u2019s a great place to learn how we can all work together to bring the country to no-kill by 2025. And it\u2019s an amazing opportunity to be a part of something groundbreaking.\nLast year, more than 1,500 people participated in the conference, eager to hobnob with some of the most notable names in animal welfare. And 2019 will feature even more lifesaving sessions. Wondering how you can ramp up your foster program, increase adoptions, save the most at-risk animals or develop lifesaving partnerships? At the Best Friends National Conference, you\u2019ll find out, while learning new skills to improve your fundraising efforts, hone your marketing techniques, and excel at digital marketing and fundraising.\nWe hope you'll join us for the 2019 Best Friends National Conference in Dallas, Texas. Sign up below for alerts and you'll be the first to receive information on registration, hotels, sessions, and more!\nSign up for 2019 conference updates\nRead past blog posts about the conference\nInspiring and empowering\nAfter an uplifting time learning and networking, conference attendees are ready to Save Them All.\nEight motivating reasons\nBest Friends' 2015 National Conference in Atlanta, expected to be the biggest and best ever.\nCelebrating Best Friends' 30th anniversary, our 2014 conference was a mission-affirming experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 460, "original_length": 10844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bifmo.data.history.ac.uk/index.php/entry/abbott-henry-1690", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LT2GDREU3USFS2UFNHWKMEXZAD4JWO24", "length": 155, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bifmo.data.history.ac.uk", "title": "Abbott, Henry (1690) | British and Irish Furniture Makers Online", "raw_content": "Oldbury, Warwickshire;\t(1690)\nSon of Edward Abbott, Husbandman, of Oldbury, Warwickshire. Apprenticed to Bartholomew Hammond for 7 years, from 30 Dec 1690.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bifrostphotography.com/the-teleidoscope-year-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OGKWZPKYTBRFJXCV2TVMJTJWLKX6VICT", "length": 467, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bifrostphotography.com", "title": "The Teleidoscope \u2013 Year 2", "raw_content": "Here are some of my favourite submissions to the second year of The Teleidoscope. To see my favourites from the first year, click here!\n\u201cWith Mozart on her lap.\u201d\n\u201cMake this house a home.\u201d\nThe first image is \u201cJust A Little Louder\u201d, and you can see my full second year here. If you\u2019re interested in participating in the third year then visit The Teleidoscope group on Flickr, or if you\u2019d like to see my progress through the themes then visit my The Teleidoscope #3 set.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blerd.blog/oprah-strikes-exclusive-multi-year-partnership-with-tyler-perry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:41:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3MP2TU6XSG7PUGGFK4AOHYAJLJE4EW3U", "length": 4828, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blerd.blog", "title": "Oprah Strikes Exclusive Multi-Year Partnership with Tyler Perry | The Blerd Blog", "raw_content": "Home Media Press Releases Oprah Strikes Exclusive Multi-Year Partnership with Tyler Perry\nOprah Strikes Exclusive Multi-Year Partnership with Tyler Perry\nLos Angeles, CA \u2013 OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today an exclusive partnership with Tyler Perry, the award winning actor, director, screenwriter, playwright and producer, to become his singular destination for all new television series and projects, including two new scripted series for the network to premiere in mid 2013. These will be the first original scripted series for OWN and Perry will executive produce, write and direct both series.\nThe announcement comes as OWN\u2019s momentum and ability to draw new viewers continues to grow. The network closed its third consecutive quarter of year-over-year, double-digit ratings gains across primetime and total day in the key women 25-54 demo (+63% and +70% respectively) and saw triple-digit ratings growth in September.\nPerry\u2019s popular television series Tyler Perry\u2019s House of Payne, Meet the Browns and For Better or Worse have been massive hits with record-breaking ratings. Perry had his first foray into television in 2007 with the hit series House of Payne, which premiered as cable\u2019s biggest comedy debut ever. The series remained basic cable\u2019s top-rated sitcom only until the premiere of Perry\u2019s second series \u201cMeet the Browns.\u201d\n\u201cI have been looking forward to the day when we would be in the position to enter the world of scripted television. That day has come,\u201d said Oprah Winfrey, CEO, OWN. \u201cWe are all energized by the opportunity to collaborate with Tyler who has a proven track record for producing highly successful cable series. He has an incredible ability to illuminate life stories and characters in his unique voice and inspires and encourages people all over the world.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN,\u201d stated Perry. \u201cShe has accomplished so much with the network and I\u2019m excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.\u201d\n\u201cBringing Tyler Perry exclusively to OWN is a major coup. Today\u2019s announcement demonstrates the power of the Oprah brand to attract some of the biggest names in television and film to OWN,\u201d said David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications. \u201cOWN\u2019s growth over the past nine months has been nothing short of phenomenal and, with the continued support of our advertising and affiliate partners, this bold move into scripted entertainment positions OWN to continue that momentum going forward.\u201d\nOWN\u2019s flagship series Oprah\u2019s Next Chapter, featuring Winfrey\u2019s interviews with top news-making celebrities, has given the network its highest ratings ever, hitting #1 in its time period in all of cable multiple times. The fall premiere of the OWN original primetime series Iyanla: Fix My Lifefeaturing life coach Iyanla Vanzant garnered the network\u2019s highest rated series debut in network history and the return of the popular family docu-series Welcome to Sweetie Pie\u2019s hit an all-time series high. In addition, the thought-provoking documentary series Our America with Lisa Ling recently wrapped its summer season posting triple-digit gains versus year ago numbers.\nAbout Tyler Perry\nTyler Perry is an acclaimed writer, director, producer and playwright. A simple piece of advice from Oprah Winfrey set his career in motion as a diary of his daily thoughts and experiences led to his writing of his first musical, I Know I\u2019ve Been Changed in 1992. Madea first debuted in 2000\u2019s I Can Do Bad All By Myself and spawned three more plays leading to Perry\u2019s jump to the big screen with 2005\u2019s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which debuted at #1 nationwide. He has since written, directed or produced 14 films, three television series and 14 plays. Perry\u2019s first book, Don\u2019t Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea\u2019s Uninhibited Commentaries On Life and Love was a New York Times bestseller and claimed two Quill Book Awards. This fall, he will star as the title character in Rob Cohen\u2019s I, Alex Cross. In 2013, two additional projects featuring Perry behind the scenes will be released\u2014The Marriage Counselor, which Perry wrote/produced and directed, and We the Peeples, which he produced through his 34th Street Films banner.\nA joint venture between Harpo, Inc. and Discovery Communications, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives. OWN debuted on January 1, 2011, in approximately 77 million homes on what was the Discovery Health Channel. The venture also includes the award-winning digital platform, Oprah.com. For more information, please visit www.oprah.com/own and www.press.discovery.com/us/own.\nRead more: http://www.oprah.com/pressroom/Oprah-Strikes-Partnership-with-Tyler-Perry#ixzz2wpwZoDPa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 8424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blessingsafaris.com/tanzania-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:03Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4VPUITLQALK7KL5Z74KLIPLO25YDVF7", "length": 4586, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "blessingsafaris.com", "title": "Tanzania Information \u2013 Blessing Safaris", "raw_content": "Tanzania Information\nTanzania is situated directly south of the Equator and covers 938,000 sq. km with an estimated population of 40 million people. The country is densely populated on the northern, eastern and coastal areas while the southern part is not densely populated.\nClimate: The climate is tropical and there are two rain seasons the longer being March through May and the shorter between October and November. The dry season lasts from July through October with clear sky and sunshine the whole day. The weather is suitable for beach vacations. The coastal area is normally hot and humid.\nVisa: Coming to Tanzania has been made easy for visitors. It is easy to obtain a Tanzanian visa and there are two ways to obtain it: You can get a visa from a Tanzanian Embassy or High Commission from your country or upon arrival at the port of entry, that is, the airport or at the border port. The above procedure is applicable to North American and European citizens. For more details about visas please contact the nearest Tanzanian Embassy or High Commission in your area.\nTanzania\u2019s International Airports: Tanzania has two international airports, one outside the commercial capital Dar es Salaam (airport code: DAR) and the other near Arusha (and Mount Kilimanjaro) called Kilimanjaro International Airport (airport code: JRO). Charter flights and some international operators fly directly to Zanzibar Island (airport code: ZNZ)\nGetting to Tanzania: If you\u2019re planning to visit Northern Tanzania, the best airport to arrive at is Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA). KLM has daily flights from Amsterdam. Ethiopian and Kenya Airways / Precision Air also fly into KIA.\nIf you\u2019re planning to visit Zanzibar, southern and western Tanzania, it is ideal to fly to the capital city of Dar es Salaam. European carriers that fly into Dar es Salaam include British Airways, KLM and Swissair(which share codes with Delta). There are long-distance bus services between Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.\nAttractions: The country has a lot to offer educationally, historically, for leisure and adventures. These adventures are safaris (game) driving in the National Parks to see wildlife, historical sites such as museums, landscapes, mountains, beaches, lakes, rivers and culture.\nSocial life: The country has more than 120 tribes. Each tribe has its own vernacular. Although there are many languages \u201cSwahili\u201d was adopted to be as the national language in 1961 right after independence. The language has spread and is being used in the neighbouring countries of Uganda, Kenya and Central Africa. English is the second official language of the nation. You will find that Tanzanians are very welcoming and friendly.\nPolitical system: Tanzania is perhaps the leading country on the continent of Africa for its political stability, peace and tranquility. The political system is multi-party and the government is democratic. Political and religious conflicts are resolved through dialogue. In short, religious and tribal conflicts are very rare in this country because every citizen is free to worship as he/she pleases provided that one does not violate the law of the land\nCurrency: The National currency of Tanzania is the \u201cshilling\u201d (Tshs). Exchange rates vary and are subject to change anytime. Credit cards such as Euro-card, American Express, Master Card, Access and Visa are accepted by most tourists\u2019 hotels, carving shops, bureau de change and banks. Also Traveler\u2019s Cheques in sterling pounds and US dollars are acceptable.\nReligions: Because of its historical diversity Tanzania is a land of various religions. Nevertheless, the major religions are Christianity, Islam, Hindu and African Traditional Religions. On the east coast \u2013 Dar es salaam, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar and Tanga \u2013 the dominant religions are Islam and Hindu. This is due to the advent of Arabs and Eastern Indians which led to the spread of the two religions. The mainland is dominantly Christian and this is due to the fact that European colonists, like Arabs, spread the Christian religion to the indigenous people.\nInfrastructure & Accessibility: Major roads are paved and accessible throughout the year. Side roads and those around and within the National Parks are muddy and rough. For this reason, a 4WD car is required for safaris. Four wheel cars include: Toyota Land Cruisers, Land Rovers and Toyota Hiace 4WD. These are the cars commonly used. The railway is also used in the eastern, southern, central and western parts of the country.\nTime: The time zone is GMT + 3 and the electricity is 220 \u2013 240 V AC, 50 Hz.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.atomicinc.com/2014/06/20/the-oracle-of-doom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HOZOWXB54GXKPOFEAB3ZOT5Q6EBQ2LIB", "length": 3644, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.atomicinc.com", "title": "The Oracle of Doom \u00b7 Atomic Energy", "raw_content": "The Oracle of Doom\nI definitely will not be the first oracle to see a rocky future for Oracle, nor will I be the last. But the last quarter's results, released on Thursday, are particularly troubling.\nIn short: Oracle's enterprise on-premise software business - Oracle's core - is simply flat. It did $3.769MM in revenue in 4Q2013... and $3.769MM in revenue in 4Q2014. It hasn't budged. Sure, its expenses for those sectors may have gone down slightly, but for all intents and purpose, it is no longer a growth engine.\nPart of the problem may be the anemic economy, although most large corporations are doing well enough and many have healthy IT budgets. What they have little of is on-premise software IT budgets.\nOracle's cloud businesses - software-as-a-service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) - have decent numbers and are growing quite nicely. SaaS grew 25% to $322MM, while IaaS grew 13% to $128MM. Those are very respectable numbers for most companies, especially in the cloud business. But it is hardly sufficient to maintain Oracle at a $189BN market cap.\nOracle's problems are partially market-driven, and partially self-inflicted.\nMarket: Companies do not want to put out big amounts of cash as capex to buy perpetual licenses for software they run in-house, and then expensive engineers or database administrators (DBAs) to run them, followed by big annual maintenance fees... and then repeat in 3-4 years. They are much happier buying pay-as-you-go, and having someone else deal with the headaches of running it. Oracle, by contrast, built itself on selling exactly that kind of on-premise software.\nCulture: Oracle's culture is built around its business model, as are all companies'. Oracle has acquired and expanded its way into cloud (depending on how honestly we count their hewing to the terms cloud, SaaS and IaaS). While almost any company will trust Oracle's software to handle their mission-critical data, most companies will not trust Oracle to run their services. Quite simply, few believe Oracle really can do it. Those who do are entirely in a pre-existing relationship.\nBrand: I have lived the technology world for 20+ years, and continue to work directly with all of these providers. Does Oracle even have a serious IaaS offering? Their 10Q is the first time I am hearing about it. If they have $128MM in earnings coming from IaaS, it is news to me. They have never been a contender in any deal I have worked on. There is always Amazon and Rackspace, plus lately Google Compute Engine and some smaller players like Digital Ocean. Oracle? Never.\nSelf-Inflicted Wounds: For many years, Oracle had the combination of trusted, solid, performant software and, even more importantly, a sales team that knew how to sell enterprise. All of this gave it a virtual lock on the enterprise market... and it sold like a monopolist. Its pricing was brutal, sales methodology aggressive, and it got away with it. While the older generation lived with it, the younger never accepted it, and even the older generation learned to resent Oracle. The mantra \"anything but Oracle\" has been repeated in every IT shop and startup across the country for years. The people making technology decisions hate, yes, hate Oracle and will do anything to avoid them, not just in databases but in anything. Oracle is one of the most-hated vendors in the IT and startup space.\nWith $9BN in quarterly revenue and $48BN in current assets vs $14BN in current liabilities (a great quick ratio), Oracle is not dying anytime soon. But it has managed to put itself in a difficult position to grow.\n\u2190 Open the Kimono Does Architecture Matter? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 4229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.journeyman.cc/2015/11/feu-duties-and-dereliction.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:27:24Z", "digest": "sha1:K4FFVDQLTMGGLRXASOWJD4VE3HBASPUI", "length": 10408, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "blog.journeyman.cc", "title": "The Fool on the Hill: Feu Duties, and Dereliction", "raw_content": "A Norman knight, like Walterus le Brun\nI am a person of place; what in Scots we call a hamebodie. My place is between the granite and the sea, between Bengairn and Heston Island. My home is a matter of great importance to me. In 2010 I went mad, and, as one of the consequences of going mad, lost my house; and the darkest days in my life were when I realised that, with the money I had left, and given my age and my very unreliable mental health, I'd never again be able to afford a house between the blue line of the granite and the grey line of the sea.\nBeing mad is in some sense liberating. When you know that the balance of your mind is disturbed, when you know that your judgement is not to be relied on, when you know that any decision you take make may be bad, you can give yourself permission to make risky decisions; and when you're suicidal anyway, the consequences of any decision you make turning out to be really, really bad cannot make things worse.\nSo I bought a field and a little bit of wood, without planning permission, and built what a dispassionate observer might describe as 'a hut' or 'a shack'. For me it's home; somewhere I'm safe, on land which I own and on which I owe no debts. But I understand well that for many people - perhaps not for everyone - being forcibly driven from their home is perhaps the worst psychological injury they can face.\nIn the world now many people are being forcibly driven from their homes, most notably in Syria and the Levant; waves of refugees fleeing to hoped-for safety in Europe are testimony to this. It makes me proud that Scotland is eager to welcome some of these people, to offer them new homes in which they can be safe.\nBut the reason I'm writing this essay today is that in just one week from now, three more families will be driven from their homes, not in far-off Syria but here in Scotland; driven out of their homes onto the streets, literally as refugees. They are being driven out because their local laird has quite arbitrarily decided they should go. The laws of Scotland were not meant to allow this; the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 was crafted quite specifically to prevent this.\nThat was the law, democratically agreed only twelve years ago by the democratic will of the politicians democratically elected by the polity of Scotland.\nBut the unelected UK Supreme Court overruled this. The rights of a landowner arbitrarily to do as he pleased with his land overrode, in their opinion, a tenant farmer's right to home and livelihood. In doing so, they sentenced the farmer in the case, Andrew Riddell, to death, since he shot himself rather than leave the home where his family had lived for over a hundred years.\nLaw is, at best, a lagging indicator of social consensus. At worst, it's a means for people with privilege to protect the privilege of privileged people from the seething mass of the great unwashed. Politician-made law, democratic law, at its best, tends to the first of those positions. Judge-made law - for judges are drawn systematically from the privileged classes - tends towards the second.\nAndrew Riddell is dead, and his family home is lost. Andrew Stoddart's isn't - yet. He's still fighting - for his home, for his family's home, for his workers and their families' homes. Like Andrew Riddell before him, Andrew Stoddart says he's not leaving. The law of Scotland, though, as bowdlerised and mangled by the UK Supreme Court, says that he is. And his laird says he's leaving in a week from now, on the 28th November.\nOn the streets. In winter. In Scotland.\nIs our Scotland - our Scotland that is this week welcoming a thousand Syrian refugees into their new homes - going to allow this?\nThe UK Supreme Court's ruling is that the laird's right to property in the land overrides the tenant's right to a secure home. But on what basis can the laird claim to have a right of property at all? Land, in Scotland at least, is not man made. We may claim of an invention or of a work of art that I made this, therefore it is mine, but we cannot claim that of land.\nNor can we claim - for any inch of Scotland - that we were the first settlers, or that it has passed peaceably from parent to child down the ages from the first settlers. All of Scotland's land has been fought over, seized, stolen, not once but many times over the past seven thousand years.\nBut the lairds of Colstoun's claim to ownership it particularly easy to trace; they could, in fact, be poster-boys for Scotland's lairds. Because Colstoun has been owned by the same family for nine hundred years. How did they come by it? One Walterus le Brun, described as 'a mercenary' from France, was given the land by King Alexander I.\nWhat the medieval Kings of Scotland were doing when they gave tracts of land to tough, competent, well armed mercenaries wasn't just generosity and open handedness. There was an explicit contract on which the whole feudal system was based. The King, as the personification of the state, provided the land, and the lairds in return provided local justice, civil administration, civil order, and defence of the realm. The same contract which gives the descendants of Walterus le Brun the power to throw Andrew Stoddart and his employees and their families out onto the street also requires them to meet the full cost of running East Lothian council and Haddington Police station out of their own pockets, and to provide one fully eqipped and crewed fighter bomber for the Royal Air Force.\nThe other thing to be said about the feudal system under which the le Brun family were granted the lands at Costoun is that it was recursive. The tenants held their lands under exactly the same legal basis as the Lairds held theirs: as vassals to their feudal superior, in return for services rendered, and subject to - sometimes very abrupt - termination if those services weren't provided. Neither laird nor tenant held the land as inalienable property. The modern notion of property was never part of the bargain.\nBut what's happened over the intervening nine hundred years is that we've socialised the duties under the feudal contract - the ordinary folk of Scotland now pay for justice. civil order, civil administation and defence of the realm out of our own taxes - but privatised the benefits: we've left the aristocracy with the rewards. Worse, we've allowed them through a process of legal alchemy to transmute those feudal grants into property rights. The rents of the estate of Colstoun are now essentially a synecure, a monopoly guaranteed by the state in return for no service at all; and thus the lairds of Colstoun have lived fat off the labour of more honest folk for at least the last five hundred years and given nothing back for it.\nThat simply isn't tolerable.\nThere's another thing to be said here. In Scotland, good arable land is valuable; even good pasture is valuable. But rough grazing, willow carr, houghland, mire is much less valuable. In Scotland, good arable land doesn't just happen; it isn't just handed down by a benevolent God on a plate. Good arable land is made, by draining, by the laborious and back breaking work of stone picking, by the addition of organic matter, by fencing and hedge-laying and dyke building.\nThat work hasn't been done by the lairds and it hasn't been paid for by the lairds. But - especially at Colstoun - over generations lairds have encouraged tenants to invest their all into improvement of the land, and then turned those tenants off to relet the improved land to a new tenant at a higher rental.\nThe lairds have lived rich not only off the tenants labour, not only off the rents, but off the tenant's capital investment.\nThat isn't tolerable either.\nIt's not new that it isn't tolerable. It wasn't tolerable in the eighteenth century, when the levellers tumbled the dykes of the lairds' new enclosures. It's never been tolerable. But now, when we are in the early days of building a better nation in Scotland, it's more than ever intolerable.\nWe need to look again - and much more closely - at what we understand by ownership of land in Scotland. We need to look at the heritability of ownership. We need to look at the limitations to ownership. Because we cannot build a better nation in a land where some people have, by right simply of birth, vast privilege unavailable to the rest of their fellow citizens.\nBut most of all, we need to look at the duties consequent on ownership. The state guarantees to land owners a monopoly on the right to use and manage a piece of land, guarantees that others will not seize that land off them by force. What duties does the landowner owe back to the state as their side of that bargain?\nWalterus Le Brun's descendents still live in the Big Hoose of Colstoun. Nevertheless, it's perfectly clear that for several hundred years at least, the lairds of Colstoun have not been fulfilling their part of the bargain under which the lands of Colstoun were granted to them. They were never given property of the lands in the modern sense; rather, they were granted a vassalage from the state in return for services to be rendered.\nNow, how Alexander the Fierce would have dealt with dereliction by a vassal of their feudal duties is a matter of conjecture, but given his nominative epithet my conjecture is that he would have been bloody, bold and resolute. Times have changed: I'm not proposing that the lairds of Colstoun should be deprived of their lives, their heads or even their home, no matter how desirable it might be pour encourager les autres. They have as much right to a secure home as anyone else; I'm not proposing that they should be driven out of it, any more than I think we should allow them to drive Andrew Stoddart out of his.\nBut the lands are another matter. The lands were granted in return for services to be rendered. Those services are no longer being rendered, therefore the contract is void, therefore the land isn't theirs, therefore they have no power to evict Andrew Stoddart (nor, incidentally, to levy rents, so they may owe him twenty years of rent back).\nAnd just as the state could, nine hundred years ago under Alaxandair mac Ma\u00edl Coluim, grant the lands of Colstoun to Walterus le Brun in return for services to be rendered, so the state can now, under Nicola Sturgeon, revoke that grant on the grounds that his descendents are in default on their obligations under the grant.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 13708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.lauraerickson.com/2010/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:TUYLJFR3TWGTHSF2UBIMGPCZXML6N7JQ", "length": 40446, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "blog.lauraerickson.com", "title": "Laura's Birding Blog: June 2010", "raw_content": "Google Books has a complete preview of 101 Ways to Help Birds--here is the chapter about why conserving natural resources is so very important for birds.\nHands across the Sand: My remarks\nDuluth held a Hands across the Sand event on Saturday, organized by John Doberstein. He asked me to deliver some remarks. Here's what I said:\nI\u2019m 58 years old. The disaster in the Gulf is the worst environmental disaster in the United States during my lifetime, and I\u2019m including the Cuyahoga River on fire, and Lake Erie being declared dead, and the Exxon Valdez. The Gulf of Mexico is located in the very heart and soul of the Americas. Looking at it from a human-centered point of view, our fish, oysters, shrimp, and a host of other natural resources come from those waters. Human beings take their respite and restore their souls along its beaches. Eleven human beings died in the initial explosion. One despairing charter fisherman took his own life this week. Hundreds have been treated for illnesses associated with toxic air. And the oil is still gushing.\nLooking at it from a natural world point of view, this body of water is right smack in the pathway between North and Central and South America. The newest research indicates that the vast majority of loons from Minnesota and Wisconsin head to the Gulf during fall migration. One plunge into those oiled waters will doom a great many of them.\nOur hummingbirds from up here head to the Gulf Coast in fall, where they replenish their body fat and then strike out, many over open water, flying non-stop to the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula\u2014a minimum of 600 miles away\u2014in an arduous marathon\u2014without medical tents or friendly helpers hovering in their airspace and holding out Gatorade. Imagine running Grandma\u2019s, even with all this support, while the air is filled with benzene and other toxins. And our hummingbirds are not merely trying to win a sporting event\u2014if they don\u2019t finish this autumn marathon, or the spring marathon to follow, they\u2019ll drop into the murky depths, never to be noticed. And the oil is still gushing.\nA great many of our songbirds will also fly to the Gulf and beyond this fall. They depend on quality habitat along the coastline to replenish their bodies. Many fly by night over that huge expanse of water, using stars to navigate. How many will survive the journey? Our waterfowl, our shorebirds, our Ospreys, some of our Bald Eagles, every one of our Whooping Cranes\u2014a great many of our birds are headed to the Gulf this fall. And the oil is still gushing.\nThe methane and oil in the depths, broken up by poisonous dispersants, are killing dolphins and whales, turtles and plankton, while sucking up oxygen. This is not just a huge expansion of the Gulf\u2019s dead zone. There are no words for a dead zone that isn\u2019t just oxygen depleted, but filled with poisons. And the oil is still gushing.\nThis mess is so big and so deep and so tall\u2014is there any way to fix it? Any way at all?\nIn the face of this accelerating disaster, it\u2019s easy to despair. It\u2019s easy to say we can do nothing. It\u2019s grown increasingly easy over the past decade to give up\u2014to feel that our individual voices, our consciences, our love for our natural world have no influence on anything anymore. Corporations have insidiously taken over our lives in the very ways that republican President Eisenhower so strongly warned against. Now I see the same levels of apathy and despair in Americans that we once saw in Soviet Russians\u2014apathy and despair derived from citizens being robbed of their voices, their influence, their vote. We still can vote in government elections, but we can\u2019t vote for the corporate leaders and corporate policies that led directly and inexorably to this disaster.\nWe gather here in a unified rebuke to apathy and despair, our hands linked in unified belief that the natural world matters, and that our voices can and will be heard. We must never waver from a firm resolve that our democratically elected government will once again represent our voices. Our government must firmly and consistently regulate corporations, and effectively enforce these regulations, so that we can put an end to privatizing profits while socializing risks. We won World War II in less than four years because of our shared focus, our shared sacrifice, and our shared resolve. The only way we can possibly defeat this foulness that is gushing into our waters will be with the same shared focus, shared sacrifice, and shared resolve.\nWe must never for one moment forget these hallowed dead\u2014the human beings, the pelicans and dolphins and whales and other wildlife that gave and are still giving their all, as the oil still gushes. We must work together to ensure that our government and our Gulf\u2014these waters in the very soul of America\u2014are restored to us all. As another great Republican president once said, Let us highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-- so that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\nLoons wintering in the Gulf\n(Transcript from today's \"For the Birds\")\nMy Texas friend Ruskin Teeter sent me a message yesterday, quoting a friend in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, who emailed him after the oil hit:\n\"Well, (no pun intended) the oil is here. I am sick about it. I have been crying for about an hour now. Life in this area is changed forever. Hurricanes can be overcome. This is just too much. I am so glad that Mom passed 2 years ago because this would have killed her. Say your prayers for us, the gulf, the beaches, and the wildlife. This is devastating. Nothing you see on the TV can prepare you for this mess.\nAnd nothing on the news\u2014on television, the internet, the radio, or magazines and newspapers\u2014can possibly prepare our loons for what they\u2019ll experience after their long fall migration when they finally reach those familiar waters where they spent the first couple of years of their life. The moment they dive in, it will be too late.\nMany of the books and papers I\u2019ve read over the years said that loons from the Great Lakes region migrate east, to the Atlantic coast, and wend their way south along the coast through the winter. But more current research, based on extensive banding efforts by researchers at the BioDiversity Research Institute in Maine, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and George Mason University in California, as well as tracking via satellite transmitters, has brought a lot more precision to what we know. According to the Common Loon account in the Birds of North America Online, published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists\u2019 Union and updated just last month:\nThe loon populations of the Upper Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin migrate along the southern Great Lakes and use an overland migration route to the Gulf of Mexico (Alabama east along the Florida coast) and e. Florida. Some individuals stage on lakes along the way and even over-winter in larger reservoirs in Tennessee and Alabama. Minnesota and Wisconsin breeding populations have two migration routes, and both generally use the Great Lakes as staging areas. The primary route includes the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi west to Texas, and the second documented route uses the southern Great Lakes to make an easterly migration to the mid-Atlantic.\nThis means that the bulk of the loons nesting in our listening area will be headed to the Gulf within the next three months\u2014quite likely while new oil is still gushing into what is already a disaster area. I\u2019m not sure if there is any natural way some loons will figure out the danger in time to avoid being oiled, and the scale of this disaster and the number of species it\u2019s affecting and will affect is too enormous for anyone to wrap their heads around, much less develop any kind of realistic action plan focused on just one species of so many.\nYoung loons remain in salt water for usually a couple of years, which means loons that hatched in 2008 and 2009 are on the Gulf and the Atlantic coasts right now. They tend to stay pretty far away from shore in summer, so aren\u2019t easy to census, and will be easily overlooked if they sink or get wrapped in gunk. We\u2019ll never be able to assess how many were lost, but we can count on smaller loon numbers for many years to come.\nLast week I photographed a pair of loons and their two chicks on a lake near Boulder Dam, Wisconsin. I watched one of the adults waggling its foot and a chick imitating it\u2014a charming thing that would have filled me with delight most years. But I kept wondering what this little family would be facing in a matter of weeks, and felt sick to my stomach. This disaster is bigger than any of us have been able to even imagine, and the oil is still gushing.\nHow long should a drilling moratorium go on?\nA judge who happens to own stock in a lot of oil industry companies ruled yesterday that the Obama administration's 6-month moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf was arbitrary and unfair, punishing \"innocent\" companies. But apparently most or all of those companies in the Gulf of Mexico have emergency response plans that are virtually identical to BP's, including protecting walruses and sea lions and listing a dead man as their expert consultant for wildlife.\nHalliburton claims that they warned BP that shortcuts weren't wise, but the fact that they still went along with BP's plans makes them complicit, and offers absolutely no reassurance that other wells they've worked on aren't equally compromised. Transocean also went along with BP's plans, making them complicit, too. This is a case of murder, and these companies (which the Supreme Court says deserve the same consideration as human beings) are accomplices.\nThese companies all worked with Dick Cheney in secret meetings; they all have to remain suspect until, one by one, they re-evaluate each and every one of their wells in the Gulf using real-world standards, and develop real-world technologies that can stop these horrific \"accidents\" or at least fix them when they do occur. And the proof is in the pudding. If they really can stop one of these disasters, let them prove it today, right there at the Deepwater Horizon well.\nHow many birds migrate over the Gulf?\nOn a May 1, 2000, post on BirdChat, the national birding listserv, gave subscribers a glimpse into just how many birds fly over a Louisiana oil platform. Jay Greenberg forwarded a post from a New York birding listserv by Steve Kelling, who was in turn quoting Brian Sullivan, who was monitoring migrants from an Exxon oil platform for the previous seven weeks as part of an Louisiana State University Gulf migration project. Steve quotes Brian:\nI have been having some incredible flights of birds out here lately. Thousands of migrants over the past four days, including just over 4,000 birds on the 24th. My constant companions over the last three days have been Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, which have been hunting moths from the handrails not more than 10 feet away from me all day. On the 24th, a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak landed on the arm of my chair, in which I was sitting at the time. The flight on the 24th was truly one of the most amazing migration spectacles I have ever witnessed. Imagine, over 4,000 passerines passed this one point, just a random spot in the middle of the Gulf. To think of the total number of birds on the move that day is mind boggling.\nThe day started with strong SSW winds at 30 mph, changing over to WNW with the passage of a strong cold front around 11 AM. The first high-altitude migrants could be seen as early as 8:30 AM, much earlier than they typically arrive at Green Canyon, meaning they covered roughly 400 miles possibly in less than 12 hours. It seems that even with the best of tailwinds, they typically don't show up until after 15 hours of flight, however the winds aloft this day were exceptional.\nWhen the front hit, which contained no precipitation, the migrants immediately lost altitude, flying anywhere from just over the surface of the water to a height of several hundred meters. The majority, however, were at eye level. It was amazing to watch mixed flocks of warblers, tanangers, orioles, grosbeaks and buntings as they all hurtled north together. Most of the birds went unidentified, but late in the afternoon as the sun got lower and the light improved I was able to identify 66 species of migrants, by far the best diversity here at Green Canyon this year. I would stand there facing south and find a flock with the binoculars, then scope them only to see dozens more specks in the distance. I would often hear the close approaching flocks before seeing them, as they would fly straight into the platform then disperse off in every direction as they were buffeted by the 30 mph winds on each side. I would just look up and without warning there would be 50 warblers shooting off in all directions. It was maddening trying to make identifications. I felt useless as flocks of birds would go by and I could not identify more than 5 or 10, if I was lucky.\nWarbler ID in flight is an art, and I could have used some of the pros out here with me that day. Highlights were, Golden-winged Warbler, Canada Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Loggerhead Shrike, and Cape May Warbler. One of the most interesting features of the day was a high-elevatioin flight of Gray Catbirds and Catharus thrushes. These birds were traveling at altitudes of what we call code 3, or only visible with binoculars. I found it interesting that the Catharus thrushes were in tight coherent flocks, not unlike migrating American Robins, a behavior unknown to me. The catbirds, or the other hand, seemed to go out of their way to avoid flocking and flocks of other passerines passing by. Panning my scope up to look at these birds would reveal Gray Catbird after Gray Catbird, just plodding their way north way the hell up there, with a good number of cuckoos thrown in for good measure, as well as the odd shorebird flock. The big warbler species were Magnolia and Tennessee, with over twenty other species thrown in. Indigo Buntings and Baltimore Orioles were also in huge numbers.\nThat evening, and night, many tired migrants started to fall out on deck. I had many birds spend the night in the rafters under the helipad with a good changeover continuing throughout the night. By morning, most had departed, but another nice wave of tired migrants continued to travel north throughout the day.\nThat evening I had many birds on board, including a handsome Purple Gallinule, and a gorgeous male Cerulean Warbler, which let me get within 2 feet before hopping away, yes hopping. It\u2019s amazing how oblivious these birds can be to my presence. The other day I watched a Purple Gallinule trying to get a drink out of the deck drain, and I sat down right next to it. It looked at me briefly, then went back to what it was doing. I was close enough to reach out and touch the bird, and having never handled a Purple Gallinule before, that's what I did, and it didn't care one bit. I could study every single feather tract of the Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, but they didn't let me touch them. I tried. I also had a very tame Acadian Flycatcher which perched on my boot briefly while my feet were up on the handrail.\nFor those of you who have birded the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, the experience out here is similar, only to a larger degree. Tired birds, good looks, and a lot of days with nothing to look at but the water. The sea has been very quiet lately. The Laughing Gulls have moved on, as well as the Pomarine Jaegers, which seem to have vanished altogether without so much as a good bye. I think I may have barely eeked out 1000 for the season, a great number for a species I was happy to become more familiar with.\nRaptors have been limited to Peregrines and Merlins, which have been seen on a daily basis lately. I saw a female tundrius Peregrine catch a Purple Gallinule the other day, then proceed to carry it up on to the flare boom and devour the poor bastard. I didn't feel that bad though, natural selection hurts, and I was actually happy to have found the leg later.\nI'm trying so hard to be hopeful.\nThis past weekend I got to watch and photograph a loon family. Baby loons have always filled me with hope and joy. But not this year. These two chicks and their parents are headed to the Gulf for the winter. Do they have a snowball's chance in hell of surviving?\nHere is what the newly updated Birds of North America Online says about the migration routes of our Upper Midwest loons:\nThe loon populations of the Upper Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin migrate along the southern Great Lakes and use an overland migration route to the Gulf of Mexico (Alabama east along the Florida coast) and e. Florida. Some individuals stage on lakes along the way and even over-winter in larger reservoirs in Tennessee (Kenow et al. 2002) and Alabama (Belant et al. 1991). Minnesota and Wisconsin breeding populations have two migration routes, and both generally use the Great Lakes as staging areas. The primary route includes the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi west to Texas, and the second documented route uses the southern Great Lakes to make an easterly migration to the mid-Atlantic.\nLast year's chicks are on the Gulf right now--loons spend 2-3 years in saltwater before heading to their breeding grounds. This year's chicks...I don't know how they can possibly survive this.\nOne constant in my life\nJeepers the neighborhood Pileated Woodpecker\nEvery night as I try to fall asleep now, I can't stop thinking about the black stain growing insidiously in our nation's soul. Every day I wake to new bad news--the spill is 5,000 barrels a day. No--12,000. No--20,000. No--60,000. The coastline affected grows daily.\nBut there's one constant in my life. Virtually every day when I check the stats for my flickr account, the one photo at the top--the one more people click on than any other, is this one of Jeepers the Neighborhood Pileated Woodpecker. I can take an amazing shot of a Prothonotary Warbler, or a series of photos of a woman tossing fish to a Brown Pelican who catches them in mid-air, or a silly shot of a goldfinch that looks like it's levitating, or a Great Blue Heron with its beak open and a fish suspended in space between the upper and lower mandibles. No matter how many photos I take, and how many are really good shots, ever and anon the number one shot is Jeepers.\nFaces of the Gulf\nMy Twin Beaks blog is now posting several new posts a day, \"I'm the Gulf of Mexico,\" featuring birds and other wildlife that spend all or a critical time of their lives along the Gulf waters or its coastal lands. From white-tailed deer to Brown Pelicans, flddler crabs to Painted Buntings, Royal Terms to Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, check out a sampling of the many species that depend on this beautiful area.\nKurt Vonnegut's final book, A Man without a Country, ends with a poem called \"Requiem\":\nif Earth could say\nWhy save pelicans?\n(Transcript of \"For the Birds\" for June 14, 2010)\nI\u2019m writing this on June 13, 2010, Day 54 of the Gulf Disaster. One of my Texas friends, Ruskin Teeter, just posted a message on Facebook: \u201cDriving west from northwestern Florida today, through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the spill smells were bad, beginning at about Pensacola, and they became much worse crossing Mobile Bay. My eyes burned, my nose ran, and I coughed until turning north and getting half-way across the Atchafalaya Basin. No way this could be healthy.\u201d\nRuskin\u2019s exactly right that there is no way this can be healthy, for humans or for birds, which have such a high metabolism that they absorb and react to toxins much more quickly than we do. The expression \u201ccanaries in a coal mine\u201d comes from the real world.\nThe Gulf crisis is the largest environmental catastrophe this nation has ever faced, and every day the situation grows ever more desperate. In the face of the millions upon millions of gallons of oil spreading to cover ever more of the vast Gulf and its rich coastline, critics have been saying that rehabbing pelicans is an inappropriate use of resources\u2014too small percentage of birds rehabbed from oil spills actually recover, and many of these individuals will head right back to where they were oiled because of their exquisite homing instincts. And hurricanes and ocean currents will spread oil so far that species with limited ranges won\u2019t have any place to go anyway. These critics would rather see our limited resources focused on populations and habitats and on ensuring that such a disaster can never happen again.\nI understand the enormity of this disaster. Fears that the Gulf will soon be so toxic that nothing will be able to live in its water for decades may not be the least bit overblown. But despair is not the answer. Before we were even a nation, we Americans worked together in a concerted effort to defeat the most powerful empire on earth to win our independence. Remembering that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself, we made enormous personal and collective sacrifices and survived the Great Depression, destroyed Nazism, and defeated the nation that had attacked Pearl Harbor. When we set our collective minds and hearts to it, we traveled to the moon, walked upon its surface, and even hit a couple of golf balls up there. And we brought back Lake Erie from the dead.\nNow we must save the Gulf of Mexico. Failure is not an option. We won World War II not by sending our boys off and forgetting about them the way we\u2019ve been doing to our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. We won World War II by focus and collective sacrifice\u2014rationing and scarcity were the order of the day, and any American who griped about it would have been shunned. This level of sacrifice and more will be necessary to defeat this horrifying attack right here in American waters and now creeping insidiously onto our shorelines and precious estuaries and marshes, poisoning our nation\u2019s very soul.\nAs we fight this enormous ecological threat, the one thing we must not sacrifice is our essential humanity. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul\u2014to turn away from suffering creatures because it\u2019s not expeditious is the mindset of a greedy, cost-cutting corporation, not a human being. To deny help to these oiled birds would diminish us all. To passively allow the light in a pelican\u2019s eyes to be extinguished when a person has the expertise and passion to help it goes against the grain of our very humanity. And without that, we ourselves are not worth saving.\nWhat would Lincoln (Abraham) say?\nI\u2019m writing this on June 10, 2010, Day 52 of the Gulf Oil Disaster, right after official estimates of how much oil has been gushing have been doubled. At this point, assuming these current numbers don\u2019t also turn out to be gross underestimates, we\u2019re closing in on 40 million gallons of oil spilled. Several organizations and governmental units are collaborating on maintaining a comprehensive list of all killed and maimed wildlife collected\u2014the number of birds reached 1131 by noon today, of which 658 were collected dead. Of the remaining 473 collected still alive, 40 have been cleaned and released, a number that hasn\u2019t grown in several days because of so many concerns that there is no safe place to release these poor creatures. No one is publicizing the number of animals that die at rehab facilities\u2014official counts keep track only of whether they\u2019re alive or dead at the moment they\u2019re collected. Virtually all the birds found have either been picked up on beaches or in other accessible places rather than dense marshes, so although some say the number collected is about 10 or 20 percent of the total number of birds oiled, I believe the number found is more likely a mere 1 percent or less. But there is no objective, scientific way of setting the figure either way for certain.\nIn the face of this ongoing, constantly growing disaster, people are becoming both numb and prickly. On an online discussion group, after one person said that it\u2019s a no brainer that we Americans must conserve more energy, another said we simply cannot\u2014we are defined as a species by our technology, and our very nature is to continue growing increasingly technological. In response, I suggested that perhaps our very technology can find ways of maximizing energy efficiency of these comforts and entertainments, and cited my Prius, the most comfortable car I\u2019ve ever had, as an example of a technological innovation that provides all the benefits of a car while giving me an average of between 48 and 52 miles per gallon with every fill up. Instantly, another guy started berating me with South Park epithets to ridicule what he called my holier than thou superiority.\nConservation of natural resources alone is certainly not going to get us out of this horrifying situation, but there is no way anything else is going to without a national commitment to stop squandering our finite resources. I haven\u2019t heard anyone ridiculing people who have been building their 401-Ks and making large profits from BP, Halliburton, or other corporations with horrible records. There are even people arguing in credible newspapers today that BP shareholders deserve to receive their usual large dividends this year, though every penny of those profits and of the profits paid out for many years was made via entrenched corporate policies that take egregiously dangerous shortcuts in safety. Mass murderer Amy Bishop killed three people\u2014less than a third the number of human beings killed in the oil rig explosion directly because of BPs violations. The moment Bishop was caught she was sent to jail, though she hasn\u2019t been tried yet, and some of her family\u2019s assets were quickly seized. The Supreme Court ruled that corporations must get the same rights as people, but in reality we give corporations more rights. We have evolved a peculiarly distorted version of capitalism wherein corporations privatize their profits while socializing their risks and many of their costs, and the people responsible for making even the most egregious decisions are given control of when and where enforcement agencies can get access to their crime scenes to investigate. BP is even still being allowed to run the salvage efforts, when its vested interest is more in hiding the extent of the damage than genuinely rectifying it.\nWhen we consider the human beings killed in the explosion and now the oiled carcasses of birds and mammals littering the filthy shoreline of our once beautiful Gulf, we should remember Abraham Lincoln\u2019s words about the honored dead at Gettysburg. Let us highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom from corporatism-- so that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\nLet us highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom from corporatism-- so that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\nThe Spill, The Scandal and the President | Rolling Stone Politics\nThis is the most insightful and thorough article anywhere about events leading up to the spill and the shameful response. The Spill, The Scandal and the President | Rolling Stone Politics\nTrying to assess\n(Transcript of For the Birds for June 9, 2010)\nI\u2019m writing this script on June 8, 2010, Day 50 in the Gulf Oil Disaster. Current estimates are that Louisiana wildlife teams have recovered more than a thousand birds - most of them dead. Some survivors have been treated and then released in Florida. But these species have a built-in map and compass and a powerful homing instinct. Many or most of the adult pelicans are in the middle of their nesting season right now, and although getting oiled has certainly doomed their chicks to slow starvation, most or virtually all the birds released in Florida will most assuredly head straight back home, to ever increasing amounts of oil. The spill started out far from shore, and only 192 brown pelicans were brought into a Fort Jackson, Louisiana facility in the past six weeks, but reflecting the growing area of contamination, 86 were delivered just this Sunday. Many experts estimate that only 10\u201320 percent of oiled birds are ever found. I\u2019m sure this is true in the case of large birds like pelicans and gannets, but suspect that the number of small birds that will be found in the muck will be less than one percent of the real number. How can we possibly find warblers weighing just a third of an ounce, or hummingbirds weighing just one tenth of an ounce, in a sea of black gunk?\nCarcasses of large marine mammals may be equally hard to find unless they wash to shore. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology\u2019s Bioacoustics Research Program is sending a team down this week to deploy acoustic monitoring devices to keep track of whale vocalizations\u2014an exercise that promises to be as interesting as it will be depressing.\nAs more and more marshland gets contaminated in the coming weeks and months, the number of animals coated with oil will continue to grow, though news accounts will surely lose interest before birds and other wildlife stop dying. By late July and August, when our Northland birds start heading to the Gulf Coast and beyond during their fall migration, I\u2019m afraid people are going to be too numb to even care. I don\u2019t even want to think of the implications during the height of hurricane season.\nElections are coming up, but what name on a ballot can anyone really trust? A full 58 percent of active or senior judges in key Gulf Coast districts in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have links to oil, gas and related energy industries, including some who own stocks or bonds in BP, Halliburton or Transocean, and others who regularly list receiving royalties from oil and gas production wells. We\u2019ll be learning more and more about campaign contributions from various oil companies to both democrats and republicans, and maybe someone will uncover the truth about Dick Cheney\u2019s secret energy policy meetings, but really, what can we possibly do with that information? The normal response will be to tune it out, and I\u2019m sure plenty of other problems will crop up to distract us. The people who care most about the damaged ecosystem and the wildlife that depends on it will be frozen in despair or down in the Gulf volunteering to monitor water toxicity or engaged in the Sisyphean task of salvaging increasing numbers of migratory birds whose very natures doom them to head right back into the contaminated region. It\u2019s only Day 50 of this nightmare, and the harsh reality is that the worst is yet to come.\nBut we are human beings\u2014and I have to believe that our species includes more rocket scientists, poets, naturalists, and just plain decent people than greedy corporate sociopaths. Our species may be the only one on the planet capable of such mass destruction, but we\u2019re also capable of compassion and ingenuity and large scale problem solving. How we face the coming weeks and months will test our worthiness as a nation, and a world. But we must take this test seriously. It isn\u2019t just some everyday pop quiz\u2014how we deal with this disaster may prove to be our final exam.\nWhen images of the Gulf get too disturbing...\nlook at beautiful pictures of birds, and get out there and watch real birds, to remember what it is we're fighting for.\nBirds Die Slowly\n(Transcript of For the Birds, June 8, 2010)\nMy godfather, my Uncle Dick, was a sweet, sentimental Chicago firefighter who took pride in being 100 percent Irish. I spent my adult life living pretty far from Chicago, so I saw him mostly at weddings and funerals, which were numerous in our big family. Uncle Dick and I gravitated to each other because we were both rather quiet and both loved telling each other about our outdoors adventures. Dick was an avid fisherman his whole life. As a young man, he was also an avid hunter, but he\u2019d put away his guns for good when he was in his twenties. Late in the evenings at our family gatherings, after he\u2019d been drinking for a few hours and was in the weepy stage, he\u2019d always tell me, as if for the first time, about the day he stopped hunting. He was out with a buddy and shot a Mallard hen. When the dog brought back the duck, Dick saw that she was still alive. He held her in his hands as he felt her breathing ebb and watched the light in her eyes go out. He couldn\u2019t bring himself to eat her\u2014he gave her and his gun to his buddy and never hunted again. But as if he needed to justify his continued fishing, he\u2019d always say, \u201cFish are cold-blooded, Laura. I mean, really\u2014they eat their young!\u201d\nDick always had to reach a certain point in his drinking to tell me this story. And each time he told it to me, tears leaking into his beer mug, he emphasized how long it took that duck to die\u2014and how he could see in the bird\u2019s eyes that she was suffering, but just couldn\u2019t bring himself to squeeze the life out of her. I don\u2019t know which he felt guiltier about\u2014shooting her in the first place or not being able to put an end to her suffering. Dick had rescued babies and children as a firefighter, and had pulled their dead bodies out of buildings, too\u2014I think he\u2019d felt the precariousness of life too often in his hands to use them so directly to squeeze the life out of even a duck. I stayed with him for a few weeks while he was dying of lung cancer from fighting all those fires. Even at the end, this dear tenderhearted man still felt guilty about the suffering he\u2019d caused a duck.\nWhen I took my first ornithology course, I read with horror about physiological studies done on animals in earlier decades, by scientists with more clinical detachment than my Uncle Dick or I could ever have mustered. In some laboratory experiments, Mallards, which aren\u2019t even diving ducks, have lived as long as 16 minutes while held underwater, and remained alive as long as 27 minutes after their tracheas were clamped shut. In exsanguination studies, scientists have literally drained 1 percent of an animal\u2019s blood every hour\u2014the equivalent of draining a little more than one pint of blood from a 100-pound human being every hour. They learned that birds can lose much more of their body\u2019s blood volume without going into shock than mammals can\u2014pigeons can lose that volume every hour for 9 hours before dying. I wonder if those scientists watched the light ebb from their subjects\u2019 eyes as they were recording the exact time of their deaths.\nI\u2019ve been thinking a lot about these gruesome studies and about my Uncle Dick as I\u2019ve watched coverage of the millions of gallons of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. A few news accounts have referred to \u201coiled feathers,\u201d but the birds I\u2019m seeing have oil gunking up their eyes, oil seeping into their nostrils and mouths and ears. I was just in Savannah, Georgia, last week watching Brown Pelicans plunging from great heights into the ocean\u2014the way they\u2019re adapted to catching fish\u2014and felt sick thinking about the pelicans in the Gulf. Bewildered, suffering, but dying slowly, as birds do. Who from BP, Transocean Ltd., which owned the Deepwater Horizon rig leased to BP, and Halliburton, the contractor involved in cementing the well, is witnessing the light going out in these birds\u2019 eyes? When a team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology found an oiled but still-living pelican along with an oil-drenched Snowy Egret carcass, they called the BP wildlife rescue team, which took 90 minutes to arrive, and probably at least another hour to get it to their facility. These facilities can\u2019t be everywhere along the coast, of course, but at times like these, I wonder how merciful it is that birds die so slowly.\nOil Hemorrhaging from the Gulf\nTranscript of today's For the Birds:\nOil Hemorrhage\nOn April 20, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people outright, injured others, and sent oil hemorrhaging into the sea from the drill site. This happened two days before Earth Day, and four days before the 21st anniversary of the day the Exxon Valdez, a single-hulled oil tanker, crashed into Prince William Sound, spilling at least 10.8 million gallons of oil into what had been pristine waters. The Valdez was carrying over 55 million gallons of oil, and although the 10.8 million gallon figure determined Exxon\u2019s liability, Defenders of Wildlife claims that significantly more that that was actually spilled. Either way, Exxon\u2019s spill has almost always been cited as the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history until now. Shipping disasters and oil rig blowouts have happened many times before. Both these American disasters were predictable, and both were preventable.\nTwo and a half years before the Valdez crash, on Dec. 15, 1976, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, the Argo Merchant ran aground and broke apart southeast of Nantucket Island, spilling its entire cargo of 7.7 million gallons of fuel oil. We\u2019d long known that so much oil being carried in a single-hull tanker was at huge risk of being released into the oceans, and over 100 countries have since banned the use of single-hull tankers in their waters, but the U.S.\u2019s response was to continue to allow their use until 2015\u2014and despite the sinking of the Valdez, Exxon continues to use these vulnerable ships even now, saving a relatively tiny amount of money to remain the richest corporation in the universe.\nIn April, 1977, the blowout of a well in an oil field in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea, leaked 81 million gallons. In response, Norwegians now impose strict standards for safety on these rigs. In 1979, another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, Ixtoc 1, blew out, gushing an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. This rig was operated by Mexico, so even though oil reached the Texas shore and affected American fisherman and killed birds that spend part of their lives in the United States along with fish and wildlife that swim in our waters, the oil industry and our official accounts never include this as an American disaster. The oil industry claims that the environmental effects were minimal, bizarre evidence that we\u2019re willing to take the word of the oil industry whenever they manage to hide the damage that they do from the American media.\nThe term \u201coil spill\u201d is so deeply entrenched in our jargon that it\u2019s usually the term being used to describe what is happening in the Gulf today. The Exxon Valdez ship, huge as it was, held a finite amount of oil. The oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico each day now isn\u2019t from the contents of a ship\u2014it\u2019s hemorrhaging from an undersea oil bed, and no one has any idea how much will gush out before the well is stopped. Even compared to Ixtoc 1, BP\u2019s blowout has easily become the hugest environmental disaster in U.S. history.\nOur birds\u2014some of the species we northlanders hold especially dear, including hummingbirds, orioles, tanagers, and warblers\u2014migrate over the open waters of the Gulf or along the shoreline en route to and from their tropical wintering grounds. One hundred percent of the wild migratory Whooping Cranes\u2014both the ones that breed in Canada and the ones introduced in Wisconsin and taught to migrate by following an Ultralight aircraft\u2014winter along the Gulf and depend for their survival on blue crabs. And right now huge numbers of birds, from enormous Brown Pelicans to tiny shorebirds, are dead or dying. Yet BP, the criminally negligent company that caused this gusher in the first place, has been preventing wildlife rehabbers, including their own volunteers, from getting access to the vast majority of oiled birds, and the Obama administration is still allowing them to call the shots. When the explosion occurred, I was too numb to speak out about it. But no longer. This week For the Birds will highlight what is happening in the Gulf, with accounts by ornithologists and bird rehabbers about the devastation to birds it is already causing, how much worse the situation will grow as fall migration and hurricane season kick in, and how this horrifying disaster will affect northland birds for years to come.\nThe Spill, The Scandal and the President | Rolling...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 377, "original_length": 49674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.xara.com/resumes/?utm_source=Xara&utm_medium=Xone&utm_campaign=Blog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JCJF67DOLNZVN5NFXJVFTVOZNEBF27NL", "length": 3230, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.xara.com", "title": "Make your resume stand out with Xara Cloud", "raw_content": "Written by Rafal from Xara\nResumes - Stand out from the Crowd\nTo say that today\u2019s job market is competitive is something of an understatement, so it\u2019s more important than ever for your Curriculum Vitae to stand out from the crowd. Often, there are dozens of candidates for just one or two positions so it\u2019s well worth exploring professional resume templates such as those offered by Xara. And, of course, it goes both ways; employers looking to fill key roles or specific jobs want to access as much information as possible at a glance. Busy people don\u2019t have time to wade through uninspiring files, so read on and learn how to grab the attention of the people that matter with documents that you can be proud of.\nVersatile templates that put you in charge\nFirstly, let\u2019s take a closer look at what makes a great resume. In the US, the expectations of would-be employers have always been slightly different to their European counterparts. A traditional British CV, for example, is little more than a list of educational and professional qualifications, job experience, interests and personal data. It\u2019s easy to see why the UK job market used to rely so heavily on the interview process. Today, however, European employers are taking a leaf out of the American-style book, and resume templates like Xara\u2019s play a huge role in the process.\nPersonnel and HR Managers want to see interesting facts and well-presented data. They want to make quick decisions and weed out unsuitable applicants. While you shouldn\u2019t leave out pertinent information regarding your skills and achievements, you should aim for quality rather than quantity. Xara Cloud makes it simple to create a high-impact Curriculum Vitae with stunning graphics and lots of options. From the initial layout and overall design to extra details like bullet points or charts, you can showcase yourself as the ideal candidate with a host of professional tools at your disposal.\nSuccessful applicants know what to aim for\nYour CV is a vital part of your quest for the type of jobs you deserve. While it\u2019s tempting to choose the colors of your favorite baseball team or a fun motif, a professional approach is more suitable. Perhaps the company you\u2019re interested in has its own colors or logo. Similar font styles and tones that match the corporate livery are sure to make your resume stand out from the crowd. Xara templates allow you to be as creative as you wish while presenting that all important information in a fresh new way. Create something amazing! Read more stories\nResumes - Stand\nVersatile templates\nthat put you in\nWhat should you be\naiming for?\nPersonnel and HR Managers want to see interesting facts and well-presented data. They want to make quick decisions and weed out unsuitable applicants. While you shouldn\u2019t leave out pertinent information regarding your skills and achievements, you should aim for quality rather than quantity. Xara Cloud makes it simple to create a high- impact Curriculum Vitae with stunning graphics and lots of options. From the initial layout and overall design to extra details like bullet points or charts, you can showcase yourself as the ideal candidate with a host of professional tools at your disposal.\nknow what to aim for", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 5558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/14822/a-conversation-with-hbos-asian-american-visionaries-director-fengi-fiona-roan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:24Z", "digest": "sha1:B7S4FTIK7WTDLAJQBEMFVD5G6HZAWCCX", "length": 14275, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "blogs.creativecow.net", "title": "A Conversation with HBO's Asian American Visionaries: Director Feng-I Fiona Roan", "raw_content": "A Conversation with HBO's Asian American Visionaries: Director Feng-I Fiona Roan\nCOW Blogs : Clarence Deng's Blog : A Conversation with HBO's Asian American Visionaries: Director Feng-I Fiona Roan\nI spoke with all three visionaries to discuss their shorts and explore their unique voices: Maritte Go for Remittance, Feng-I Fiona Roan for Jiejie, and Huay-Bing Law for June. In part two of my series, I focus on my conversation with Feng-I Fiona Roan. [Read Part One with Maritte Go and Part Three with Huay-Bing Law.]\nWith an MFA in Directing from AFI, and having studied classical Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University, Feng-I Fiona Roan is a Taiwanese-American writer/director based in Los Angeles. Her AFI thesis Jiejie, which translates to older sister in Mandarin Chinese, was inspired by her childhood experiences living 5 years in Oregon.\nSynopsis: Over the course of their first Sunday at a Chinese-American church, a young girl \u2013 insecure about her un-American look \u2013 betrays her younger sister, fueling an unprecedented outburst.\nWarning: Mild spoilers follow for Jiejie.\nCreative COW: This year for HBO APA Visionaries, they added a theme of \u201chome\u201d, which for Asian Americans is a bit nuanced geographically and socio-politically. How would you describe your film in terms of that, and how does it tie in to your experiences?\nFeng-I Fiona Roan: Jiejie is about a recently immigrated family \u2013 a single mom raising two daughters on her own [with the father in Taiwan]. They're moving into a new home, experiencing challenges integrating into this new community. For immigrants, when some of your family is removed from where you're at, it's weird to call that place a home, you know? The protagonist, a young 12 or 11 year old girl, actively thinks about fitting in. She's thinking, \u201cI want to look like everybody else, I want to look like a cool girl.\u201d\nShe feels like she doesn't belong. She can't justify why she's here. She's struggling to be the same, starting with appearance. Her younger sister is annoying and everything she hates about herself: dressed the wrong way, fobby. She's embarrassed, because her family reminds her what she is: an immigrant who can't speak the language. She goes through all this trouble to say \u201cI can fit in, I can look like them\u201d \u2013 and fails. And her younger sister still comes in the end saying, \u201cLook, even if you find me embarrassing, I still love you\u201d \u2013 not vocally, but that's what it means to me. That's how she changes. She doesn't realize how wrong she's been until the very end; despite all this, her family's there for her. Home is where her family \u2013 her sister, her mother is.\nIn your director\u2019s statement, you talk about your relationship with your mother and how in writing the film, you both came to a better understanding. Can you talk about that, as well as how your relationship with your sister is? Since your film is so much about the relationship between sisters as well as the mother.\nWe moved back to Taiwan in 2002 for health reasons; my mother has breast cancer. She had better medical care there, and my father was around. Our relationship deteriorated completely; I had a lot of academic pressure once we moved back, and my mother wasn't in an emotionally healthy situation. She\u2019d get emotionally threatening, like emotional blackmail, which made me not want to talk about our experience in the States. Even when my mom had nostalgic moments, I would refuse to look back \u2013 until I made this film, and I interviewed them.\nI was telling the story from my point of view, but it was important as a director to understand what other characters were going through, or I would have a very flat story. The main discovery during my interview with my mom was\u2026 I didn't buy that she would only emigrate because she wanted us to learn English, and put her marriage at stake. After a lot of questioning, my mom finally said, \u201cI wanted to start over, and move away. I wanted a new life.\u201d That\u2019s why I added the scene where the mother was on the phone, and there\u2019s tension between her and her husband. There were personal reasons she emigrated; it wasn't all for the children. She's on the point of breaking down, but can't complain because she wanted to come here in the first place.\nAnd I came back to the states for grad school \u2013 I hadn't been in the states since we moved. As an adult I had to go through insurance, get a car, deal with rent, and a very intense grad school experience. Only then did I realize how much my mother went through. It was startling to see my mother in a new light. I can't imagine if I had all this pressure, not even dealing with two girls. I admired her and realized she was doing her best.\nMy sister, we lived very separate lives when we moved back. We went to different middle and high schools. Partly I didn't want to be in the same school as her, and neither did she. Then she came back to the states for college while I stayed in Taiwan. Our relationship got better when we were both in college. We were more mature then, and we talked about things we couldn't tell our mother; girl stuff. When I told her about the idea, she was really excited. My sister's the nostalgic kind; she's a child at heart, and she gave me a lot of details \u2013 like remembering the potluck, the church, and what people wore.\nShe became the makeup artist for the film. A lot of the makeup was based on our memory and photos of that time. Also, as we were making this film, we would disagree on some stuff \u2013 and she didn't have the professionalism to understand what a director is, or her duty was as a makeup artist. So she was talking to me a lot as my sister. If she disagreed with me, she\u2019d say, \u201cThis is our story and I tell you what happened!\u201d And I'm like\u2026 I just want to strangle her, it was such a bad idea. [laughs] But we pulled through, and it was fine. Now we talk every two or three days, and we text a lot.\nWe talked a bit before the interview, and you were telling me your crew was mostly Mandarin Chinese speaking. Can you talk about how this helped your process, and why this was important in making this film?\nThe main language of the film is Mandarin, so having a mainly Mandarin speaking crew helped facilitate communication \u2013 especially with a large cast of immigrants who can\u2019t speak English. That was really important. My editor Zekun Mao, just the fact she speaks the language allowed her to pick up subtext between the lines. Chinese people have this thing of, well not just Chinese, but you know \u2013 you say one thing, but you really mean the other thing. It's a very polite culture, everything's very subtle, and if I only had an English speaker I may have had to do more work.\nThe editor brings fresh eyes; they haven't seen it, they don't know what happened on set, they're really just picking up the performance. And [Zekun] really did very well. My cinematographer [Frances Chen] speaks Mandarin, and can communicate directly with the girls. She understands what I\u2019m trying to do, especially when I\u2019m directing; I\u2019m giving them directions in Mandarin, so [my cinematographer] understands and I don't have to relay that to her. Everything is more efficient.\nAlso, Jiejie is a story told from a young girl's perspective. It was very important to me to convey intimacy. We committed to shooting it as if it was a diary, as if we're following her. I told my cinematographer, if we can let the audience feel what it\u2019s like as an 11 year old immigrant girl in 1997, we have succeeded. Not only were my crew Mandarin speaking, but a lot of them were female; a lot of them experienced the same thing as women. Or the fact that we've all been through some sort of immigration. The cinematographer\u2019s family immigrated to Canada. But my editor and my production designer, they came to the States only for grad school. Even though they didn't immigrate with their family, they still had to go through some integration, just from an adult point of view. And I think it really shows in the film; our shared experience automatically puts us on the same page.\nHow would you say having women on set helped in other ways?\nThe young girls needed to stay very relaxed, since we are shooting in very close proximity to them. Often the camera is 10 to 20 inches, or even centimeters away from them or their face \u2013 and they have to act like it\u2019s not there. It was important that the energy on set was not intrusive to them, especially in the bathtub scene. We were in a real location so it was a tiny tub, and my protagonist was only wearing a small bathing suit. Being that close\u2026 if it were a man there, I don't think she would have felt as comfortable.\nAlso, a director chooses crew based on their approach, and innate understanding of story. Sometimes they bring a totally fresh perspective, and that can be stimulating and good. But when I\u2019m making something autobiographical, I need my crew to understand the story as it is. It was a naturalistic film, it's not a stylized film, so it didn't have much room for interpretation. What I needed was that [my crew] understood the story. I don't have to explain why she felt embarrassed, why she felt like she didn't belong, why she would say such terrible things to her sister. Cause they've been through it.\nWalk me through your process on the film, from storyboards or shot lists to editing.\nAFI requires us to do video storyboards. Instead of traditional drawn on paper storyboards, we actually film it with our iPhone, DSLR\u2026 basically we film a very rough version of what our thesis would be. We did that, and the first draft of the videos did not work; I went through a meltdown four weeks before our shoot. My editor was very involved. She sat down and analyzed with me, why some shots didn't work the way we thought it would, and she would advise.\nI wanted the cuts to be as invisible as possible, because it was a naturalistic film. They had to be very well designed. I did a lot of rehearsals, and shot my rehearsals. The two girls didn't have any acting experience, so I have to not only make sure they are able to act, but with a camera in their face. Taped rehearsal means we go in with a plan; I rehearse for two hours, my DP comes in the third hour. I would show the actors the effect I wanted, but I would never show them how they look on camera. If they were sitting normally sometimes, they were too short, and you couldn't see them. We had to do a lot of cheating. I would explain to them, this is how it will look on camera. Because we were working this way they slowly understood what I was trying to get on camera and performed better.\nIn the end, they were so good I could tell them, \u201cThis is what I want it to look on camera\u201d. We had two days of video storyboard on location. It\u2019s really important if you\u2019re doing video storyboards to do them on location. Also you have to do them with your actual cast, especially children because of their height, you can't have stand ins. When we were shooting exercises we would use stand ins, like adults, just to see how this shot worked. But I think with children you can't do that. Also, it was a learning process for them, a warm-up for them to know what you're trying to do.\nI was editing beforehand. We'll edit [the rehearsal], and look at it, see if this new version works. Work with your editor, and re-edit. If something doesn't work, reshoot and work that in. Change it. And rewriting through the rehearsal, I could see some actions [were] awkward for them. Initially I had more pushing around in the story, because me and my sister were very physical. But this was not the dynamic of these two girls, they're not that comfortable. I took a lot of that out because it didn't feel real. And on set, my cinematographer got me a handheld monitor, which allowed me to be very close to the actors. I wasn\u2019t behind a monitor with 10 people standing behind me.\nIt\u2019s important to children that you're there. They're easily distracted, we have a very big set, so it was important they were always looking at me, staying concentrated. And we only had 8 hours a day to work. I think the handheld monitor really saved me on set. We learned about cut points we wanted from the video storyboards. That was very informative to the script supervisor. She had to make sure that cut point is correct, and it significantly facilitated our final editing process. Sometimes we would shorten it, find new cut points in their performance. A smile, or expression, and we always try to cut out all the fat. The final product was more concise, we worked really hard on telling this story in the shortest way possible.\nHow would you define your artistic voice as a director?\nI think I'm early in my career, but I can tell you what interests me a lot at the moment. I love realistic, naturalistic films. I'm discovering a lot, I'm learning about different kinds of realism. So definitely that's what I'm interested in. I love Hou Hsiao-Hsien, definitely. Kore-eda, the Japanese director. Also Dardenne brothers. I got the rehearsal and filming techniques from Dardenne brothers, that's how they work.\nI think I'll continue making female driven films, that's what I'm most passionate about. Eventually I\u2019d like to film my first feature film in Taiwan, centering around the story of my immigration back \u2013 a family drama set in 2003 during the SARS epidemic. That's what I want to do. I guess you can say I love family drama. Family fascinates me because, it's something everyone has to deal with, and is one of the most fundamental relationships we have as human beings.\nWe changed everything we could beforehand, and had two days of reshoots after six days principal. We spent a full day reshooting the tag scene. I learned my lesson \u2013 when you have ten kids running around, and you're trying to tell a story that happens during the game, it's very crazy. In our principal photography, it was a very hectic day. We managed to get our point across but the camera was so hectic, it wasn't in line with the other scene. In the reshoots, we were trying to find a balance of how to not have it so shaky but clearly tell the story. We got to fix everything we were not happy with. I don\u2019t think I would have changed a thing, frankly.\n[Read Part One with Maritte Go and Part Three with Huay-Bing Law.]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 17821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.sap.com/2016/06/09/developing-sme-banking-apps-faster-how-to-get-time-back-on-your-side/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:16Z", "digest": "sha1:KZ5DVSDSXINXFJ7RL7O5ULIVSXZN5JZ6", "length": 2663, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blogs.sap.com", "title": "Developing SME Banking Apps Faster: How To Get Time Back On Your Side | SAP Blogs", "raw_content": "Patrice VATIN\nDeveloping SME Banking Apps Faster: How To Get Time Back On Your Side\nI here to give you something you thought you\u2019d lost: time. I see so many developers in banks working flat out in an attempt to meet the voracious appetite of different parts of the business to bring new apps to market. The success of challenger banks and new fintech entrants means every department is in a hurry, and it seems every project is a priority. But no one can afford to deploy a poorly designed app that could alienate customers or jeopardise customer loyalty.\nMobile devices and the consumerisation of cloud-based applications aimed at the SME market means only one thing for developers: an ever increasing workload that\u2019s stretching thin resources even thinner. In other words, it\u2019s just going to get busier for developers as banks try to play catch up in bridging the digital divide.\nSo how exactly are you supposed to design, build, and securely synchronise data and processes across cloud, on-premise and third party systems without adding more bodies, more budget or more hours in the day?\nWe feel your pain. That\u2019s why in conjunction with Efma, we\u2019ve launched the SME AppsBank portal, an online industry portal to address the requirements of banks\u2019 SME businesses. The portal gives you the ability to try out pre-built application and design templates, gamification features, geospatial processing, and predictive analytics capabilities to create the SME app of your choosing.\nThe SME AppsBank portal also gives you access to a one day on-boarding, design and development session to help kick off your project \u2013 also for free. And because we think that hundreds of great minds are better than one, there\u2019s an apps library, where you can share new and existing SME banking apps online, giving you access to the industry-wide innovation of your peers. And while I know I\u2019m somewhat biased, if I do say so myself, it\u2019s kind of a big deal.\nIn fact, we think the standard of development and innovation will be so high, that we\u2019ve created a global competition to formally recognise the best-in-class business apps worldwide.\nWhy are we being so generous? Because we want you to experience first-hand just how easy it is to rapidly develop new applications in the cloud, or quickly and securely extend existing ones \u2013 either on-premise or in the cloud. In my experience, there\u2019s simply no substitute for putting power, speed and simplicity into the hands of developers and watching the innovation unfold.\nI\u2019d urge you to check out the SME AppsBank portal and give it a go. You\u2019ll be pleasantly surprised at what you can do, and just how much time you\u2019ll save doing it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluestarplm.com/event/bluestar-plm-webinar-us-feb-19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:52:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NUU5Y34FDXDCEHL5P3QLAD6FFW2GLKSR", "length": 123, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bluestarplm.com", "title": "Bluestar PLM Webinar US Feb \u201919 - PLM inside Dynamics 365/AX", "raw_content": "\u00ab Make Your Production Digital \u201919\nBluestar PLM Webinar EU Feb \u201919 \u00bb\nFebruary 12, 1:00pm \u2013 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm \u2013 8:00pm CET", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/60158/colorofnight.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:IONQ6OPCOKMHUXPYNQWOBQ3Y5V2MSIHE", "length": 12513, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "bluray.highdefdigest.com", "title": "Color of Night: Special Edition Blu-ray Review | High Def Digest Color of Night: Special Edition Blu-ray Review | High Def Digest", "raw_content": "Color of Night: Special Edition\nReview Date August 23rd, 2018 by Joshua Zyber\nThe Razzie Award-winning Worst Picture for 1994, Color of Night has not gotten any better with age \u2013 if judged on the basis of good writing, good directing, or good anything, really. However, it's a very fun type of bad movie to scoff at while watching. Kino Lorber's new 2-disc Special Edition attempts to better the film's prior Blu-ray release from Mill Creek, but sadly may not be enough of an improvement to merit the higher asking price. For Fans Only.\nTechnical Specs: 2-Disc Set,Theatrical Cut & Director's Cut,BD-25 Single-Layer Discs\nEnglish Descriptive Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1,English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0\nThe early 1990s were a very erratic time in the career of Bruce Willis. 1994 in particular saw him starring in both the best movie of the year (Pulp Fiction, of course) and the worst \u2013 at least according to the Golden Raspberry Award voters. The erotic thriller Color of Night features a ridiculous, idiotic plot and a lazy, disinterested performance from its star. Almost nothing about it works as intended, but it can be great fun as camp if watched in the right frame of mind.\nThe blockbuster success of Basic Instinct a couple years earlier begat a host of imitators. Suddenly, everyone from Madonna to Jim Belushi felt the need to hop on the erotic thriller bandwagon. For Madonna's Body of Evidence, this was arguably a natural extension of her career phase at the time, which also saw the release of the album Erotica and the naughty coffee table book called Sex. For the male stars, Bruce Willis in this picture especially, it seemed a lot more like a transparent excuse to rub their body parts against female costars willing to remove their clothes on camera. Judging by the results on screen, nothing else about the role held Willis' attention very much.\nThe plot of Color of Night, such as it is, concerns arrogant psychologist Bill Capa (Willis), who becomes so distraught after a patient commits suicide in front of him that he instantly goes colorblind. Specifically, he can no longer see the color red, because he's afraid of blood or something. Already, you may be questioning the script's plausibility. It won't be the last time you do so.\nAttempting to get away from all his woes, Capa leaves New York on a trip to Los Angeles to visit his friend Bob (Scott Bakula), a fellow psychologist currently leading a group therapy session attended by a diverse bunch of nutcases. When Bob is murdered in his own office, Bill takes over the group, only to soon suspect that one of its members may be the killer. But which one? Could it be the grizzled guy with anger issues (Lance Henriksen), the prissy lawyer with OCD (Brad Dourif), the nymphomaniac (Lesley Ann Warren), or the obnoxious artist with an S&M fetish (Kevin J. O'Connor)? Or perhaps it's the weirdo named Ritchie who supposedly has a \"gender identity problem\" and rarely speaks? Funny how the actor playing that one isn't listed in the credits\u2026\nQuestion: How did this particular cross-section of patients with such wildly different problems wind up in the same therapy group? I'm no psychologist, but I'm skeptical that this is really how group therapy works.\nJust as he starts to get involved in that investigation, Capa is sidetracked by the attentions of a flirtatious young woman named Rose (Jane March) who practically throws herself at him. Considering how quickly and frequently she strips off all her clothes while doing so, Capa doesn't mind so much. He probably ought to find her timing a little suspicious, though. And isn't it weird how everybody else in the group \u2013 except Ritchie \u2013 have also recently found love with mysterious young women who pretty much match Rose's description?\nWhat a conundrum! How will anyone ever solve this mystery?\nDespite being co-written by future Oscar nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and directed by another Oscar nominee (Richard Rush) whose last film 14 years earlier was the genuinely good cult classic The Stunt Man, Color of Night is a very dumb movie with a plot that doesn't make a lick of sense. The colorblindness premise is silly, and the resolution of the mystery is almost as obvious as it is needlessly convoluted. Willis looks very bored in any scene where he isn't fondling March's breasts or licking the sweat off her midriff. The film's pacing is slack and its suspense set-pieces, including two utterly pointless car chases and a howler where a rattlesnake plays hide-and-seek inside a mailbox, are alternately boring or ludicrous (or both).\nIt should go without saying that the movie's sex scenes are entirely gratuitous. Jane March's only previous acting credit was the smutty softcore art film The Lover, in which she gained a moment's worth of attention for being very naked and allegedly (though she denied it) having actual intercourse on camera. That set her on an unfortunate career path of being Hollywood's first choice when searching for a young starlet willing to bare some flesh. Just 21-years-old at the time of filming Color of Night opposite the 39-year-old Bruce Willis, March jumps into the nude scenes with seemingly equal eagerness, unafraid to show everything, top to bottom, and let Willis grab and grope and grind against every part of her. The scenes serve no actual narrative purpose, of course, but they are legitimately steamy (literally so in the shower scene!), and ensured that the movie would become a big rental hit on home video even though it flopped in theaters.\nTo that end, director Richard Rush was apparently incensed that the film's producers cut its length down to a mere 122 minutes and demanded that his own longer cut be released on video. The unrated Director's Cut adds more skeevy sex, including a pretty clear peek at Bruce Willis' little willis, though ironically the R-rated theatrical cut actually has more explicit footage of March in the centerpiece pool-sex scene. In addition to the lascivious bits, the Director's Cut also restores or extends several scenes that help make the plot marginally more coherent. It is, in most respects, the better version (\"better\" being a relative term considering that both versions are pretty bad), so long as you can forgive it for padding an already dull movie to an almost unconscionable 2 hours and 20 minutes.\nColor of Night first appeared on Blu-ray as part of a Mill Creek double feature, paired with the unrelated thriller Playing God. That budget disc had pretty poor picture quality and no extras, but was at least the extended Director's Cut version of the film. Nevertheless, it seemed like shoddy treatment for such an esteemed motion picture.\nRecognizing some cult potential in the property, Kino Lorber has stepped up and licensed it from Disney. (The movie originated under Disney's Hollywood Pictures banner.) The new 2-disc Special Edition contains the 122-minute Theatrical Cut and the 140-minute Director's Cut on separate discs. In fact, this may be the first time the Theatrical Cut has been released on home video. As I understand it, all prior DVD and even VHS copies of the movie were the Director's Cut. Both discs are single-layer and have a simple static menu that plays the film's cheesy (yet Golden Globe nominated!) end credits theme song in a loop.\n2-Disc Set,Theatrical Cut & Director's Cut,BD-25 Single-Layer Discs\nEnglish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1,English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0\nI made the mistake of watching the Director's Cut first. For a movie whose raisons d'\u00eatre are its explicit sex scenes, which are promised to be longer and more explicit in the unrated extended version, that seemed like a natural thing to do. Unfortunately, the Director's Cut both looks and sounds absolutely terrible. On the video side, the 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 encode is unmistakably a very old transfer. The picture is soft, grainy and dim. Colors are dull and muddy. Persistent speckles and other damage also mar the source elements. A quick comparison against the old Mill Creek disc shows negligible difference, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's a direct port. It's awful.\nOnly after finishing that did I put in the Theatrical Cut disc, expecting it to look much the same. Color me surprised to find that it's actually noticeably better \u2013 not perfect, mind you, but better. Small differences in framing and picture geometry point to the two versions of the movie having different video transfers, which would probably explain why Kino didn't try to seamlessly branch them from one video file. The Theatrical Cut's 1.85:1 image is decidedly brighter and more colorful. It's also less grainy, but that may be due to the application of some Digital Noise Reduction.\nThe Theatrical Cut is still quite soft. A side-by-side comparison shows little difference in fine object detail between the two transfers. I doubt either Kino or Disney have performed a new film scan. Regardless, the Theatrical Cut is slightly less of an eye sore than the Director's Cut.\nNot only is the audio on Kino's Director's Cut disc much worse than the Theatrical Cut disc in the same case, it's somehow actually worse than the older Mill Creek Blu-ray. I'd describe it as sounding like listening to a cassette tape recording played back through speakers submerged underwater. The overall volume is weak, music is dull, any loud sounds (like yelling) are shrill, and the bass is terribly bloated. Despite being offered in both DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 options, neither has any surround activity at all and both sound equally poor.\nAs with the video, the Theatrical Cut has much better sound quality. Also provided in 5.1 or 2.0 versions, the audio in both is louder, clearer and richer than the Director's Cut, and has a fair amount of surround activity (mostly music bleed to the rear speakers). This still isn't much of a slam-bang soundtrack; dynamic range is mediocre. However, it takes something awful and raises it to the level of listenable.\nThe Mill Creek disc didn't have 5.1 at all, just a matrixed 2.0 surround track. When I played the opening scene through the Dolby Surround Upmixer in my receiver and heard activity in the surround channels, I knew this was not the same soundtrack from the Kino Director's Cut. It sounds much more like the Theatrical Cut audio. I'm left perplexed by what could have happened to Kino's copy.\nAs a notorious flop, Color of Night had never previously been granted the benefit of bonus features on home video. Kino rectifies that with a few new items.\nAudio Commentary by Director Richard Rush (Director's Cut) \u2013 An elderly man now who apparently feels that he has nothing to lose, the filmmaker comes prepared to dish the dirt on this troubled production. He starts with a shockingly frank description of the assessment and decision-making behind Jane March's casting. He also suggests that Bruce Willis let his fame go to his head, but Rush reserves most of his ire for producer Andrew Vajna, with whom he has considerable bad blood. Rush runs out of prepared comments after about half an hour and the commentary loses steam as he spends the rest of the track responding to questions from a moderator.\nAudio Commentary by Screenwriter Matthew Chapman (Theatrical Cut) \u2013 The co-writer of the film opens his commentary by, in a polite and respectful way, trash-talking the original script by Billy Ray and calling his own draft more believable. At the same time, he acknowledges that the movie perhaps didn't turn out as well as hoped. Disappointingly, Chapman seems forgetful and needs repeated prompting by his moderator. The track is kind of dull on the whole.\nTrailer (SD, 2 min.) \u2013 Available only in terrible 4:3 standard-def, the cheeseball preview tries very hard to make the movie look exciting.\nAnimated Image Gallery (HD, 2 min.) \u2013 A brief montage of behind-the-scenes photos and poster art.\nColor of Night was (most would say rightly) savaged by critics during its release in 1994 and has not exactly experienced any sort of re-appreciation in the meantime \u2013 nor does it deserve to. The film is best watched ironically with a mind to mock it. On those terms, it's actually pretty entertaining and has developed a cult following, as absurdly bad movies often do.\nKino Lorber attempts to serve that audience with a Special Edition Blu-ray reissue that offers both versions of the movie and a couple of new commentary tracks. Sadly, the core video and audio quality are lacking, which greatly tempers my enthusiasm for it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 16052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boards.fool.com/MessagePrint.aspx?mid=26544480", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:13:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6ACGCPVAHKMRKUUWQSZ23ZOZVVSDL5UM", "length": 1457, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "boards.fool.com", "title": "The Motley Fool Discussion Boards", "raw_content": "Religion & Culture / Jewish and Foolish\nURL: https://boards.fool.com/the-last-time-i-went-to-a-jewish-genealogical-26544480.aspx\nSubject: Re: Cracking the Code Date: 4/8/2008 2:07 PM\nAuthor: elann Number: 16859 of 22936\nThe last time I went to a Jewish Genealogical Society convention, there was a lecturer about genetics. Much of the information was similar to what Elan has posted. Interestingly, this lecturer said that a few percent of these genetic tests end up showing a \"false paternity,\" i.e., that someone's father or grandfather really wasn't, biologically speaking. Then again, maybe someone was switched at birth in the hospital. ;)\nSuch situations don't necessarily come from infidelity. A hundred years ago or more in Europe few people were born at a hospital. They could rarely be switched. But mortality rates were high, during child birth and afterwards. Many children ended up as orphans. They may have been adopted and in many cases were never told. If a mother died her children were often raised by aunts and uncles as their own. If a father died his wife would remarry and the children considered the step father their own father. The grandchildren never knew there was a different biological grandfather.\nI've discovered that my great grandmother lost her mother when she was four years old. Her father remarried and had seven more children. I doubt that my great grandmother remembered or was ever told who was her biological mother.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bobrtimes.com/verka-serduchka-has-denied-rumors-about-his-retirement/68802/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AWWAGB6OYURW7XF4HJBGLN5L47C3BB6H", "length": 1438, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bobrtimes.com", "title": "Verka Serduchka has denied rumors about his retirement | The Bobr Times", "raw_content": "Verka Serduchka has denied rumors about his retirement\nAccording to Danilko, the information is not true. He stated on the social network Instagram.\nUkrainian actor and showman Andrey Danilko said that the rumors about the departure of Verka Serduchka from the scene are false. This he said on his Instagram page.\n\u201cI want to refute the widespread information that the concert VERKA SERDUCHKA&Band in Odessa on July 13, 2018 will be the last in his career. To paraphrase a classic, we say that the rumors about retirement VERKA SERDUCHKA is very exaggerated. The actor just returned from vacation and is in excellent shape,\u201d he said.\nYou want to deny spread information about that concert VERKA SERDUCHKA & Band in Odessa on July 13, 2018 will be the last in his career. To paraphrase a classic, we say that the rumors about the end of a career VERKA SERDUCHKA GREATLY exaggerated. The artist had just returned from vacation and is in great shape. #verkaserduchka #noshit #dontbelievethehype\nPublication of VERKA SERDUCHKA OFFICIAL (@v_serduchka)\nIt is known that earlier in the Network appeared information about the resignation of Verka Serduchka from the scene after the farewell tour.\nIn full: Victoria Beckham family posed for the cover of British Vogue\nOut the trailer for the movie Men in black-4\nVic from \u201cDeAngelo\u201d admitted that he is not yet ready for the beauty shots\nParticipant in \u201cDancing with the stars\u201d showed a trim figure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bocaagency.com/MLS/CommunityNameLink.asp?Name=Boca%20Inlet&City=Boc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:20Z", "digest": "sha1:TR5TTYZ2T5AM62ICAFIUFC6LIPCGSMPP", "length": 1526, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bocaagency.com", "title": "Boca Inlet - 5 properties for sale, Boca Raton,33432 FL. Boca Agency Real Estate.", "raw_content": "5 property(s) for sale in Boca Inlet community in Boca Raton 33432, FL.\nThe data relating to Boca Raton real estate and Boca Inlet homes for sale or lease on the Access USA Realty website comes in part from a cooperative data exchange program of the multiple listing service (MLS) in which this real estate Broker participates. The homes in Boca Raton Boca Inlet displayed may not be all of the properties in the MLS's database, or all of the properties listed with Brokers participating in the cooperative data exchange program. Boca Raton Boca Inlet homes for sale that are listed by Brokers other than this Broker are marked with either the listing Broker's name or the MLS name or a logo provided by the MLS. The Detailed listing page about such properties includes the name of the listing Brokers. Information provided is thought to be reliable but is not guaranteed to be accurate; you are advised to verify facts that are important to you. No warranties, expressed or implied, are provided for the data herein, or for their use or interpretation by the user. The Florida Association of Realtors and its cooperating MLS's do not create, control or review the property data displayed herein and take no responsibility for the content of such records. Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin in the sale, rental or financing of housing. Access USA Realty is an equal housing opportunity real estate broker serving Boca Raton Boca Inlet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bookriot.com/2017/04/12/i-read-the-prose-edda-and-so-you-dont-have-to-wonder-how-odin-ended-up-being-from-troy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3MMPTIX6RLTY7XJZEFJGL7VBQ3IZRQM5", "length": 7451, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "bookriot.com", "title": "I Read the 'Prose Edda' So You Don't Have To Wonder How Odin Ended Up Being From Troy", "raw_content": "I Read the \u2018Prose Edda\u2019 So You Don\u2019t Have To Wonder How Odin Ended Up Being From Troy\nI know, right? I was all excited to do the collaborative-folklore-social -media-snark-fest redux and boom: The Prose Edda brick wall. Not because this version of the Norse cosmology is too good to invite commentary but because it is completely bereft of the joy, absurdity, humor, sex, and shenanigans which make the Poetic Edda such a rollicking good journey through mythology and culture.\nReading in translation is always a risk. Nuances are lost, cultural biases revealed, etc. Sadly, the extent of my my Icelandic is a Duolingo course which, while decent for asking where the bathroom is and if that really is putrefied shark on your plate, isn\u2019t much help with ancient Norse poetry. I deliberately, however, chose the Penguin Classics edition of The Prose Edda because Penguin is generally pretty reputable as such things go (as are the various academic presses if you want to shop around).\nI was about two lines in before I sat, getting my confusion on, trying to decide if I\u2019d started in the wrong place or if I was being messed with. The very first god mentioned in The Prose Edda is the Judeo-Christian one; no offense to It or to those who do believe, It isn\u2019t among the group for whom I\u2019d paid admission. Raising my eyebrows even further was a mention of Odin being from Troy. Yes, that Troy. The Greek one with Hector and Achilles and all of their friends, the Troy that spawned the immortal line, \u201cYou\u2019re such a Cassandra.\u201d\nc. Marvel Comics\nI tried. I really did but I was so utterly confounded I couldn\u2019t snark. So unexpected and impenetrable were these new tidbits, I did something I almost never do when I\u2019m reading for pleasure (shame on me, I know).\nI went back and read the introduction.\nI\u2026 may start doing that more often.\nTurns out things like Odin being born in Troy and migrating to Scandinavia is what happens when, instead of striving for cultural understanding and integration, an author satisfies himself with cultural appropriation.\nOver at GeekMom, I did a write up of the Folklore in Comics panel I attended at Emerald City ComicCon. During the hour, the panelists discussed the differences between using bits and pieces of a culture in writing as it suits the author (cultural appropriation) vs. taking the time to study another culture and using it in one\u2019s writing as the originating culture intended the information (or myth or character) to be used (for some examples of the later, aka \u201cDoing it Right,\u201d see Jim Zub\u2019s Wayward, Zack Davisson\u2019s Yuri: The Japanese Ghost, and Kel McDonald\u2019s Misfits of Avalon).\nJesse L. Byock\u2019s introduction to the Penguin Classics version of The Prose Edda suggests the credited author (there was likely more than one), Snorri Sturluson\u2019s version of the old tales was intended to serve a very specific purpose. He was attempting to place the Nordic countries into continuity with long-standing European tradition. He was inventing new origins so as to give the traders and rulers making contact with the rest of the world cultural, economic, and social credibility. The work, Byock explains, was also intended to ease Iceland into Christianity, a transition which, in contrast to many other parts of the world happened smoothly and relatively bloodlessly which would indicate his experiment was, at least to some extent, successful. In the social sense.\nFrom a literary perspective, The Prose Edda a mess. It\u2019s a mess because what Struluson committed the same sin modern authors have in adapting someone else\u2019s culture to his own (this is a little different than the Romans renaming the Greek gods in my mind. That was more of a wholesale deal, but that opinion is firmly in the \u201cmine\u201d camp).\nIt\u2019s obvious from what Struluson (single name for the sake of brevity) chose to include in The Prose Edda that he had only a basic knowledge of Greek myth and had done very little, if any, study of Greek history. He made Thor, for instance, Priam\u2019s grandson. In earlier myth, Hector\u2019s son\u2019s name was Astyanax and he had a pretty well fleshed out life. He never went to Iceland. Sturluson also equates the term \u201cAsian\u201d with \u201c\u00c6sir\u201d which, while it explains the ethnic makeup of Thor\u2019s comic book battle squad, doesn\u2019t make any sort of sense DNA wise. Another of Odin\u2019s sons being ruler of \u201cFrance\u201d would have been news to the Gauls.\nWorse yet, Sturluson committed the same atrocity upon his own culture. He took names and events and sanitized them, removed much of what made them Norse in the attempt to make them Christian. He cherry picked his own stuff. One line devoted to the fact a gender-fluid Loki lured a stallion away from his owner, a giant trying to screw over the \u00c6sir, flirted with him, had\u2026 um\u2026 relations with him and then had his eight-legged baby. One line. And it\u2019s a very blah line in comparison to the Poetic version.\nLook, this was long ago. Communications and contact were limited. I doubt Sturluson spoke Greek and the Christians were breathing down everyone\u2019s necks. While I won\u2019t say he gets a pass as such, it\u2019s understandable. But The Prose Edda could be a primer on the havoc one wreaks when one goes the cultural appropriation route and all readers and writers should take note.\nThese days, we have no excuses. We have the internet and e-mail, instant messenger, inter-library loans, and a whole host of other ways to obtain good, reliable, information. As one can obtain it, one has the responsibility to do so.\nYes, it may take a little longer to complete a novel if you do full on research and interviews and journal searches. It may take a lot longer. But something else we\u2019ve learned since Sturluson\u2019s time? Cultural appropriation doesn\u2019t simply make bad literature, it is damaging. It\u2019s damaging to the culture in which the story arises, it\u2019s damaging to readers, and it contributes further to misunderstandings which are already costing countless lives.\nWhere do you think stereotypes and generalizations come from in the first place? Many people fear that which they do not understand and writers who draw as they like, even those who may think they\u2019re being careful or contentious, are giving glimpses which only serve to further isolate \u201cthe other.\u201d Whether consciously or unconsciously, authors who appropriate slices of culture often tend to do so when representing one or the other side of the \u201cvirgin-whore\u201d coin, to represent highest good or lowest evil, and whether they intend it or not, there\u2019s a very real possibility of fallout. Sometimes, that fallout lasts decades or even centuries.\nThe very real people represented in instances of cultural appropriation deserve better. Readers deserve better. And beyond being damaging (and perhaps less importantly but not unimportantly) cultural appropriation is lazy writing. It\u2019s a tired, outmoded, often racist/ethnocentric/inherently xenophobic shorthand that has no place in any sort of writing, be it non-fiction, speculative-fiction, or any other sub-genre under any other umbrella.\nSnorri Sturluson may not have known better.\nWe do. No matter what the mission, responsible writers and discerning readers (which I know you all are, that\u2019s why you\u2019re poking around here, right?) know better.\nIt is thus, to begin if we haven\u2019t, or to continue if we have, to demand better.\n#Classics#cultural appropriation#folklore#Norse mythology#Snorri Sturluson#The Prose Edda\nCelebrate Beverly Cleary's Birthday in Sweet Style", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00562.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://books.openedition.org/ifpo/5063", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:T6OVENRFJOQC2ZJLVT2VHD7UTRDJZ5DA", "length": 6175, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "books.openedition.org", "title": "Atlas of Jordan - Solar or Nuclear Power? Reducing Jordan\u2019s Energy Dependence - Presses de l\u2019Ifpo", "raw_content": "OpenEdition Books > Presses de l\u2019Ifpo > Contemporain publications > Atlas of Jordan > Solar or Nuclear Power? Reducing ...\nThe Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal\nChapter ten - Jordan Mega Projects for Water, Energy and Transportation\nSolar or Nuclear Power? Reducing Jordan\u2019s Energy Dependence\nAm\u00e9lie Pinel\n1In 2011, Jordan imported 97% of its energy, mostly in the form of oil (61%) and natural gas (36%), mainly from Iraq and Egypt (fig.\u202fX.14). However, since February 2011 there has been an increase in acts of sabotage against the pipelines from Egypt that supply Israel and Jordan, creating a climate of insecurity in the field of energy supply and, above all, forcing the Jordanian government to invest massively to import Iraqi oil instead of Egyptian gas (about $ 3 million per day). In addition, electricity demand is expected to exceed 5,000 MW in 2020, while the demand for primary energy is expected to double [www.eib.org]. Consequently, it seems urgent for Jordan to limit its energy dependence. But which energy should the country turn to? A nuclear power project is hard to justify; Jordan has large oil shale reserves, but extraction is a pollution-intensive activity; and solar power requires heavy investment but makes more sense in terms of sustainable development issues.\nFigure X.14\u202f\u2014 Gas Pipeline from Egypt for Jordan electrical power stations. Bahjat Aulimat; NEPCO.\nWhat are the options for tomorrow\u2019s energy?\n2Jordan\u2019s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has not made a radical choice in favour of nuclear or solar power. It advocates an \u2018energy mix\u2019 which should reduce imported energy to 61% by 2020 through investments in nuclear power, renewable energy and oil shale.\n3The nuclear project has not yet been implemented; its initial location, in a seismic zone near the Red Sea, was rejected by Israel and Saudi Arabia and the idea had to be abandoned. The new proposed site is near Mafraq to the east of Amman, where there is no water; therefore a solution needs to be found to supply water to the site. Jordan\u2019s energy strategy plans to use nuclear energy for up to 6% of the total energy mix in 2020 and 20% in 2030. Uranium mining began in 2010 (fig.\u202fX.15).\nFigure X.15\u202f\u2014 Jordan Main Energy Projects.\n4Renewable energy will come from three sources: solar power (300-600 MW), wind power (600-1,000 MW) and energy obtained from landfill waste (30-50 MW). The existing waste biogas plant, funded by the World Bank, in Al-Ghabawi near Amman, is expected to produce nearly 20MW by 2014. The investments necessary for all renewable energy projects are estimated at between 14 and 18 billion U.S. dollars (fig.\u202fX.16 and X.17).\nFigure X.16\u202f\u2014 Energy Mix 2008-2020.\nFigure X.17\u202f\u2014 Investments in Energy 2008-2020.\n5As far as the general population is concerned, the energy efficiency program, which aims to reduce energy consumption, mainly involves replacing light bulbs and neon lamps with low energy bulbs (including Amman\u2019s street lights) and installing solar water heaters.\nPromoting renewable energy projects\n6Currently, the proportion of renewable energy is miniscule (2%). Jordan\u2019s objective is to reach 10% by 2020, but also to reduce energy consumption by 20% through the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency programme set out by an Act of March 2010. The Act includes two major innovations: the first is the transition from calls for tender to over-the-counter trade for companies wishing to produce renewable energy (which should simplify and expedite procedures) and the requirement for NEPCO (National Electric Power Company) to purchase this energy; the second is the creation of a fund dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy: the GEEREF, Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund. The structure of the fund has not yet been approved by Parliament. In 2011 the French Development Agency allocated one million dinars to participate in the financing of this renewable energy fund. The government encourages the general public to use energy-saving bulbs and solar water heaters.\nTowards energy governance?\n7Jordan\u2019s energy strategy was established in 2007 and expanded in 2008. Since then, nothing has been implemented. The Fukushima disaster and the global movement to phase out nuclear power have hindered advocates for the Jordanian project to build a power plant in Mafraq. Local residents are against the project and have been supported by a number of engineers, researchers and ordinary citizens committed to preserving the environment. Safety issues and environmental concerns are put forward by opponents of nuclear energy, while the government focuses on the opportunity for Jordan to become independent for its energy supply, the stability of electricity prices and the advantage of \u201czero CO2 emissions\u201d.\n8Regarding renewable energy, the necessary investments require commitment from the government. However, of all the proposed programmes the only real result to date is that the Greater Amman Municipality uses low-energy light bulbs for street lighting and is developing public transport. The solar versus nuclear debate has emerged between issues concerning sustainability and energy security. However, there is a lack of donors interested in a megaproject for renewable energy, whereas three companies (Russian, Canadian and a French-Japanese consortium) have already made proposals for the reactor.\nFriday in Wadi Sir.\nTh. Fournet\nPINEL, Am\u00e9lie. Solar or Nuclear Power? Reducing Jordan\u2019s Energy Dependence In : Atlas of Jordan : History, Territories and Society [en ligne]. Beyrouth : Presses de l\u2019Ifpo, 2013 (g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9 le 15 f\u00e9vrier 2019). Disponible sur Internet :This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/11/oprah-winfrey-interview-beto-orourke-new-york/.
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\nOprah to interview Beto O'Rourke in New York in February By Patrick Svitek January 11, 2019 Oprah Winfrey plans to interview Beto O'Rourke next month in New York City, an event sure to ratchet up national attention surrounding the former Democratic congressman from El Paso and potential 2020 presidential candidate. Oprah is set to sit down with O'Rourke on Feb. 5 in Times Square as part of a series of conversations with people who have shaken up entertainment, politics and culture. The series, titled \"Oprah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SuperSoul Conversations from Times Square,\" will air on the media mogul's TV channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and later on a podcast. O'Rourke is being urged to run for president after his closer-than-expected loss last year to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. The Oprah interview is O'Rourke first public appearance that has been announced since he left Congress earlier this month. Oprah herself has also been at the center of 2020 speculation, though she has said she is not interested. Read related Tribune coverage The Texas Tribune's most-read stories of 2018 Analysis: Mike Collier lost, but outdid Beto O'Rourke in most Texas counties Beto O'Rourke and other Democrats urge public to keep Tornillo migrant facility in spotlight \"Oprah to interview Beto O'Rourke in New York in February\" was first published at by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans \u2014 and engages with them \u2014 about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.\nLink back to the original article, which is located at https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/11/oprah-winfrey-interview-beto-orourke-new-york/.\n", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-leader.com/news/20180802/old-blind-dogs-to-perform-aug-10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QTNISP43JWCS5FKY5MM533XY2O45UXCT", "length": 337, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.the-leader.com", "title": "Old Blind Dogs to perform Aug. 10 - News - The Leader - Corning, NY", "raw_content": "Old Blind Dogs to perform Aug. 10\nOld Blind Dogs will perform at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Deane Center Coolidge Theatre, 104 Main St., Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.\nThe concert is a BYOB and reserved seating event. The cost is $20 per person and free for children younger than 12 with an adult.\nFor tickets and a table, visit deanecenter.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 2274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/fungus-versus-plant-38597", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3YU24DSK5CIO6BIIRSY7SK42K6OT2AWL", "length": 4039, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.the-scientist.com", "title": "Fungus Versus Plant | The Scientist Magazine\u00ae", "raw_content": "Fungus Versus Plant\nThe crop-destroying gray mold fungus uses RNA weapons to disable plant defenses and invade.\nBotrytis cinerea on Riesling grapesWIKIMEDIA, TOM MAACKStrike, counter-strike, and so on, ad infinitum. The relationship between pathogens and their hosts is a never-ending, continuously evolving battle. And scientists have now discovered that one plant pathogen even hijacks its host\u2019s defense system for its own use. According to a report published online today (October 3) in Science, the gray mold fungus, Botrytis cinerea, deploys small, non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) that subvert the plant\u2019s silencing machinery, forcing it to suppress the expression of host immune system genes.\n\u201cWe know we\u2019re always going to see defense and counter-defense,\u201d said David Baulcombe, a professor of plant sciences at Cambridge University, who was not involved in the work. \u201cBut what is novel about this one is that . . . the counter-defense system is firstly an RNA molecule, which is new, and secondly . . . it moves from a fungal to a plant cell and that, too, is quite novel.\u201d\nHailing Jin, a professor of plant pathology and microbiology at the University of California, Riverside, who led the new study, was intrigued to discover that a fungus uses RNAs to attack plants. She had been searching for sRNAs induced upon infection, but had assumed that they would be produced by the plants themselves. After all, RNA silencing, in which sRNAs bind to protein-coding messenger RNAs and suppress their expression, is a mechanism used by plants to inhibit the activity of invading foreign genes. \u201cI was focusing on the plants\u2019 immune responses against pathogens,\u201d she explained, \u201cso I was looking at plant endogenous small RNAs that are induced by pathogen infection.\u201d\nBut she found that a small proportion of the infection-induced sRNAs were \u201ca 100 percent match to the Botrytis sequence,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a surprise to us.\u201d\nOf 832 Botrytis sRNAs that Jin found were induced upon infection of tomato or Arabidopsis plants, 73 were predicted to silence genes of the host plants. Jin focused on three particular sRNAs whose targets were indicated to be mRNAs involved in both plants\u2019 immune responses.\nFirst, the researchers showed that the target immune mRNAs were indeed suppressed upon infection of the plants by the fungus, and that blocking the target mRNAs experimentally made the plants more susceptible to infection. Further, when the sRNA binding sites in the target mRNAs were mutated, their suppression by the Botrytis sRNAs was abolished.\nThe team then showed that the fungal sRNAs associated with and utilized the plant\u2019s own mRNA silencing machinery, and that plants in which silencing machinery was mutated were consequently more resistant to Botrytis infection.\nThe ultimate confirmation that the fungal sRNAs target and suppress the host plants\u2019 immune system genes, however, would be \u201cto test whether a plant engineered to express alleles of the [target] genes that are refractory to the action of the [fungal] small RNAs are more resistant, \u201d said Jonathan Jones, a plant scientist at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK, who did not participate in the work. Not only would this be \u201cthe acid test of their hypothesis,\u201d he said, it could point to an effective disease-control strategy for agricultural use.\nAnd coming up with resistant plants could be extremely lucrative. Botrytis cinerea, or gray mold, attacks more than 200 species of fruit and vegetables, and causes billions of dollars of damage worldwide each year, said Jin.\nAlthough Botrytis is costly and destructive, the fungus does have one saving grace. It rots grapes to a degree that\u2019s perfect for producing exceptional desert wines, such as Sauternes\u2014hence the pest\u2019s other name: nobel rot. Jones said the new findings suggest \u201cthat, heaven forefend, Botrytis is genetically manipulating the grapes before we drink them.\u201d\nA. Weiberg et al., \"Fungal small RNAs suppress plant immunity by hijacking host RNA interference pathways,\" Science, 342: 118-123, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-wheel-of-fortune-guide.com/casinos-with-wheel-of-fortune/links-to-wheel-of-fortune-sites", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QJV3AF4XGECR67AN22OKRJQWJH3HS5P5", "length": 333, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.the-wheel-of-fortune-guide.com", "title": "Links to Wheel of Fortune Sites | The Wheel of Fortune Guide", "raw_content": "\u00bb Links to Wheel of Fortune Sites\nLinks to Wheel of Fortune Sites\nPublished in @ 17 Jul 08 and last modified on June 6th, 2018\nIt will look like this: Links to Wheel of Fortune Sites\nLinks to Wheel of Fortune Sites", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 219.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/presidency-may-rest-on-minority-turnout-uptick-over-2008/429321/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YZFMZRY5JRDAOBI77JAP6SLWFUDT4X5D", "length": 6955, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Presidency May Rest on Minority Turnout, Uptick Over 2008 - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "Presidency May Rest on Minority Turnout, Uptick Over 2008\nAida Castillo places a sticker on her blouse indicating that she had voted during the early voting period, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. In the heavily-Hispanic neighborhoods of Las Vegas, unemployment is high and home values are down. But President Barack Obama's immigration stand has locked in support from a fast-growing demographic group that has been trending sharply Democratic in the wake of increasingly hard-line Republican positions on immigration. Part of the reason is his executive order that allows people brought into the country illegally as children to avoid deportation if they graduate high school or join the military. The president's campaign is counting on Hispanics providing the margin of victory not just in Nevada, but in other swing states such as Colorado, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)National Journal\nGiven the continual and increasing influence of the Hispanic voting bloc, minority turnout on Tuesday will play a key role in determining the presidency and other elections.\nElection observers say President Obama needs 80 percent of all minority votes to win. His victory, therefore, hinges on two things: the level of enthusiasm among minority groups at the polls and whether he can match the 26 percent of the minority share that the total vote represented in 2008.\nIn a National Journal article, Ronald Brownstein examines Obama's struggle to maintain even 40 percent of white voters, making retention of the minority vote even more critical in battleground states where their density has increased since 2008.\nOverall, eligible minority voters \u2014 U.S. citizens aged 18 or older \u2014 grew by 3 percent in the past four years, according to a state-by-state analysis by Ruy Teixeira and William Frey, lead demographers at the Center for American Progress and Brookings Institute, respectively.\nCritical is the growing bloc of Hispanic voters. A Pew Hispanic Center report shows 23.7 million Hispanics are eligible to vote on Tuesday, about 4 million more than in the last presidential election. Today, Hispanics account for a record 11 percent of the overall electorate, up from 9.5 percent in 2008.\n(RELATED STORY: The Hispanic Vote Is the Story of the 2012 Campaign)\nAnd Hispanics increasingly lean Democratic. A Pew survey shows that 61 percent of Hispanics say they believe the Democratic Party best represents their interests, a sharp rise from 45 percent last year. Only about 10 percent of Hispanics feel they are better represented by the GOP, down 2 percentage points from 2011.\nAn ImpreMedia and Latino Decisions tracking poll released on Monday shows that if the Latino vote is as high as it is projected to be this time around, Obama will win a record-high share of the Latino vote. About 73 percent of likely Hispanic voters said they plan to vote for Obama, compared with 24 percent who indicated they would back GOP challenger Mitt Romney.\n\"If Obama wins 73 percent or higher of the Latino vote, it would eclipse the 72 percent won by Bill Clinton in his landslide reelection in 1996, and marking the highest total ever for a Democratic president,\"\u009d according to an analysis by Latino Decisions, a political opinion research firm. If Latinos flock to the polls, they could deliver Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, and Florida to Obama. The same poll showed that 55 percent of likely voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting this year than in 2008.\nWhile a galvanized Latino block is essential to Obama's hopes, he also needs to receive the support of most African-Americans, Asian-Americans, young people, and blue-collar and college-educated women.\nOne in six Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders reside in a battleground state, according to California Reps. Mike Honda and Judy Chu, both Democrats. Honda's new 17th Congressional District, which encompasses Alameda and Santa Clara counties, is now the first AAPI-majority district in the continental United States. But much like the Latino community, Asian-Americans are a relatively young population, which means a significant segment is not yet eligible to vote.\nNonetheless, among eligible voters, this constituency is largely undecided, which means both parties have an opportunity to court them, says Christine Chen, executive director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote. Her organization is following closely the presidential race in Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, all states where the Asian and Pacific-Islander electorate is growing. \"Even with a 2008 average of 55 percent voter registration rate for the AAPI voters, we can be a swing vote due to the tight race,\"\u009d she said.\nIn Virginia, a fiercely contested state, Asian-Americans make up only 6 percent of the population, but their vote is highly desired in the race for the presidency, reports National Journal. This is especially true in counties where the popular vote went to Democrats in the last two presidential elections after it flipped from voting GOP in 2000.\nThe Obama camp banks on its share of minority voters nudging up 2 percentage points, to 28 percent. But there are concerns about not reaching that share of nonwhite votes. Advocates have said voter-ID laws in Republican-controlled states \u2014 namely Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas \u2014 could dilute minority turnout.\nStill, these same initiatives could spur determined minority voters to show up, ID proudly in hand, some have argued.\nThere is also a sense that passing voter-ID laws in those five GOP states is a Republican maneuver to suppress minority votes. A recent Government Accountability Office study, conducted at the request of one independent and three Democratic senators, failed to produce any prosecutions or convictions for voter impersonation in any of those states, cementng a perception that the GOP is trying to keep minorities from casting ballots on Tuesday.\nAnd it may be the added push that will get minorities to vote, urge their neighbors to vote, and become poll-watchers, said E. Faye Williams, president of the National Congress of Black Women, during a recent event calculating the minority vote. \"I think it's going to motivate a lot of people this year,\"\u009d she said.\nThe issue of immigration could also spark greater voter turnout among Hispanics and other minorities. An October Latino Decision poll shows that 48 percent of Virginia Hispanics ranked immigration and the economy as the issues most influencing their presidential vote.\nAnd it was exactly these voters whom Obama likely addressed during a recent interview with The Des Moines Register when he said he would put immigration reform front-and-center if reelected. \"A big reason I will win a second term is because the Republican nominee and Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country, the Latino community,\"\u009d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1118492_study-gen-x-drivers-more-likely-to-use-phones-while-driving-than-younger-drivers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OCWLQSN47S5D3QWJZUCHDF5RDFSXQTPA", "length": 2647, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thecarconnection.com", "title": "Study: Gen X drivers more likely to use phones while driving than younger drivers", "raw_content": "HomeNewsDistracted Driving\nStudy: Gen X drivers more likely to use phones while driving than younger drivers\nThe results of an online study released Tuesday contradict the popular stereotype that younger drivers are more likely to be distracted by their cellphones than older drivers. In every use case\u2014from talking on the phone to checking social media\u2014Generation X and millennial drivers showed a higher propensity to use their phones than the youngest drivers on the road.\nMore than 4 out of 5 Generation X and millennial drivers surveyed reported that they used a cellphone while driving, compared to 71 percent of Generation Z drivers who said they did the same.\nThe study also found that although 71 percent of drivers polled said they occasionally use their cellphones while driving, nearly two-thirds of Americans said they were \"looking for ways to cut down on distractions.\"\nMORE: Study: Texting while driving most common during evening rush hour\nOf all the age groups surveyed, the Silent Generation\u2014those born prior to the end of World War II\u2014were the least likely to use a cellphone while driving.\nThe study hypothesizes that because younger drivers are more likely to feel anxious when there are distractions and are better about putting their phones down. Poll results indicated that 77 percent of Generation Z drivers feel anxious when they have too much to do, compared to just 59 percent for respondents overall. About a third of the respondents said that they will drive in silence to minimize distractions, while 13 percent indicated that they have \"taken a digital detox\" for at least a day.\nDON'T MISS: Nissan's solution to the distracted-driving problem? A 181-year-old armrest\nGeneration Z drivers were born in the mid-1990s and are the youngest drivers on the road. The poll defined generation X as drivers born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Millennials fill the gap with birth dates from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.\nOne in three parents surveyed said they use their phones often while driving with their children. Disturbingly, parents of any generation were found to be the most likely to use phones while driving.\nThe study also found that Americans are more likely to think that other drivers around them are distracted.\nThe online study was conducted at the behest of Volvo by The Harris Poll and it included 2,035 respondents in the U.S., 1,665 of whom identified as drivers.\nIIHS: Lower urban speed limits mean less speeding\n8,400 VW Atlas SUVs and VW Passat sedans recalled over...\nNissan's solution to the distracted-driving problem? A...\nLower speed limits, Faraday Future production starts...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theconveyancingnetwork.com/index.cfm/moving-house/bury-st-edmunds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:50Z", "digest": "sha1:M2NZ3SRGU23XC2BYM5446666CSMAZGHK", "length": 4466, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theconveyancingnetwork.com", "title": "Moving House in Bury St Edmunds Compare Conveyancing Costs and Solicitors when moving home in Bury St Edmunds", "raw_content": "Property Survey Quote in Bury St Edmunds\nSale & Purchase Quote Sale Quote Purchase Quote Remortgage Quote Property Survey Quote in Bury St Edmunds\nMoving House in Bury St Edmunds Compare Conveyancing Costs and Solicitors when moving home in Bury St Edmunds\nChoose cheap, low cost residential conveyancing quotes for moving house in Bury St Edmunds and conveyancing solicitors in Bury St Edmunds for your property move. 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Find a conveyancing solicitor in Bury St Edmunds, by using our conveyancing quote and instruction tool, all completely online.\nWhen moving house, it's often best to use the services of a qualified residential conveyancing solicitor or a licensed conveyancer. Your solicitor or licensed conveyancer does not need to be based in Bury St Edmunds, using The Conveyancing Network, we can put you in touch with a friendly, efficient legal professional to help you with your residential conveyancing needs, that can handle your property transaction from a distance. Don't pay over the top for a high street solicitor, when you can now instruct and compare conveyancing quotes in Bury St Edmunds all online!\nThe cost of moving house in Bury St Edmunds\nWhenever you are looking to move home in Bury St Edmunds you should always consider other costs involved. With the average cost of moving house in 2017 being \u00a39,684, it pays to be aware of all of the costs involved, to avoid any nasty hidden surprises along the way. There are some quite handy moving costs calculators online, that can help you budget for your move, by providing you with some base costs for the different services involved in your potential Bury St Edmunds move. These include estate agents fees, mortgage arrangement fees, mortgage broker fees, survey fees, solicitors conveyancing fees, removal costs and more.\nStamp Duty when moving home in Bury St Edmunds\nIf you are purchasing a property in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, for more than \u00a3125,000, you will be subject to Stamp Duty Land Tax (or SDLT for short). This tax is calculated in brackets, similar to the UK income tax system. Calculate your Stamp Duty (SDLT) for buying a property in Bury St Edmunds for \u00a3350,000.\nHigher Rate of Stamp Duty when moving house in Bury St Edmunds\nRemember, that you may be liable to the higher rates of stamp duty (SDLT) when moving home in Bury St Edmunds, if you do not sell your existing property on the same day that you buy your new property. The UK Government introduced the higher rate of stamp duty on the 1st April 2016, for people that own more than 1 property at the end of a transaction, which means many people moving home in Bury St Edmunds, would be caught by these rules and would be required to pay the additional stamp duty due.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 10544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecraftpatchblog.com/category/life/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BRPFKGYKXVYUO5Z7WDUCXL5BDYQPYVF2", "length": 726, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thecraftpatchblog.com", "title": "Life Archives - Page 2 of 10 - thecraftpatchblog.com", "raw_content": "This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PottyTrainTogether #CollectiveBias Potty training. The two words that strike fear into the hearts of mothers...\nThe sun is just peeking over the horizon. Bleary-eyed, I stumble out of bed and am immediately tossed into a whirlwind of activity. \"Mom! Where's my library book?!\" \"I need you...\nDid you see pics of my fabric armoire? I'm crushing so hard on it: Today I'm going to show you how I folded all that fabric so neatly. When I was a teenager,...\nI am a sleepy person. I can fall asleep any time, anywhere (except, ironically, at bedtime, but that's a story for another day). In college, I once took a four hour...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theemployerhandbook.com/there-are-better-ways-to-descr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:54Z", "digest": "sha1:367FD5YFOVU6AJRZGPAJCE53BABHHB7Z", "length": 2197, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theemployerhandbook.com", "title": "Want a really stupid adjective to use on an employee's performance review? \u2014 The Employer Handbook Blog \u2014 August 6, 2013", "raw_content": "Want a really stupid adjective to use on an employee\u2019s performance review?\nThen I suggest \u201cghetto.\u201d\nConsider this your performance review ProTip for Tuesday, courtesy of this recent decision from a Texas federal court, in which an employer\u2019s summary judgment motion was denied, and a Mexican-American plaintiff\u2019s race and national origin discrimination claims will proceed to trial.\nThe smoking gun, it seems, was an affidavit from one of the plaintiff\u2019s supervisors filed in support of the employer\u2019s motion for summary judgment, in which the supervisor stated, \u201cI advised Ms. Garza that this \u2018ghetto-ness\u2019 would no longer be tolerated, and that she would be terminated if it continued.\u201d The plaintiff argued that this statement was direct evidence of discrimination against her. The defendant countered with the argument that \u201ccases in which comments containing the word \u2018ghetto\u2019 have been viewed as facially discriminatory generally involve African American employees, while Garza is Hispanic.\u201d\nNow, look folks. I don\u2019t know how things work in Texas. They\u2019ve got a Heisman Trophy winner who appears to be imploding right before our very eyes, and this. I reckon \u2014 see how I did that? \u2014 that the only two things I can trust down there are good barbecue and Tony Romo leading the Cowboys right out of the playoffs in December. The \u201cghetto relates only to African American employees\u201d defense makes about as much sense as an Amanda Bynes tweet doesn\u2019t strike me as compelling.\nWell, it didn\u2019t move the court either. Instead, the it took the logical route and reviewed the dictionary definition of \u201cghetto\u201d, which does not refer to African-Americans, only to racial minorities, of which Mexican-American is one of them. Then add in that the plaintiff\u2019s manager referred to the \u201cghetto-ness\u201d in Garza\u2019s office as a reason behind her termination and noted this on her Termination Report, and you\u2019ve a got a case going to trial.\nAnd now, comin\u2019 atcha with a little two for Tuesday. Shout out to the defendants. We have Jay-Z and Pras, Mya, and ODB\nPhoto credit: valentine1692005 (ghetto bucharest) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\nNational Origin and Race", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theepochtimes.com/update-tainted-mcdonalds-salads-sicken-163-people-in-10-states_2599470.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3MOTY6DKC25MWGLBEFCVKC4AWONPOFZ5", "length": 2494, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.theepochtimes.com", "title": "Update: Tainted McDonald\u2019s Salads Sicken 163 People in 10 States", "raw_content": "A McDonalds in central London, Sept. 4, 2017. (Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)\nUpdate: Tainted McDonald\u2019s Salads Sicken 163 People in 10 States\nTainted McDonald\u2019s salads have sickened 163 people across 10 states, and three of those people have been hospitalized, according to an update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\nThe CDC said in its July 19 note that the problem is caused by the Cyclospora parasite transmitted in foods that were likely contaminated with feces.\nThe illnesses began on or after May 1, 2018, and the people range in age from 16 to 87 years old, the CDC says.\nOn July 13, The number of cases surged to 61 people in seven states, including 29 in Illinois, 16 in Iowa, seven in Missouri, three in Minnesota, two Nebraska, two in South Dakota, and two in Wisconsin, said the health agency.\nIn a statement, McDonald\u2019s said it won\u2019t be selling the salads in light of the outbreak.\n\u201cThe health and safety of our customers and the people who work in McDonald\u2019s restaurants is always our top priority,\u201d the firm said in a statement on July 20. \u201cThe additional states identified by the FDA and CDC are among the same states where a week ago we proactively decided to remove our lettuce blend in impacted restaurants and replace it through a different supplier.\u201d\nThe company said it\u2019s \u201ccommitted to the highest standards of food safety and quality and we continue to cooperate and support regulatory and public health officials in their investigations.\u201d\nOn July 13, McDonald\u2019s said it had identified the lettuce blend that was found to be contaminated. \u201cWe have removed existing lettuce blend from identified restaurants and distribution centers \u2026 which includes approximately 3,000 of our U.S. restaurants primarily located in the Midwest,\u201d it said.\nThe CDC says that Cyclospora cayetanensis \u201cis a parasite composed of one cell, too small to be seen without a microscope\u201d that \u201ccauses an intestinal infection called cyclosporiasis.\u201d\nAccording to the agency, \u201cThe time between becoming infected and becoming sick is usually about 1 week. Cyclospora infects the small intestine (bowel) and usually causes watery diarrhea, with frequent, sometimes explosive, bowel movements. Other common symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, stomach cramps/pain, bloating, increased gas, nausea, and fatigue. Vomiting, body aches, headache, fever, and other flu-like symptoms may be noted. Some people who are infected with Cyclospora do not have any symptoms.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 446, "original_length": 17164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thefilmagazine.com/20-greatest-horror-movies-21st-century/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HDYGYA6TE6IWR44T5AO46WJ4SMDJWSP7", "length": 12081, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "www.thefilmagazine.com", "title": "20 Greatest 21st Century Horror Movies | The Film Magazine", "raw_content": "20 Greatest 21st Century Horror Movies\nPosted on October 24, 2018 November 3, 2018 by Holly Bowler\nDirectors: Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz\nShot in the style we define as \u201cfound footage\u201d, a group of ghost hunters for a TV show known as \u2018Grave Encounters\u2019 go into an abandoned insane asylum in the search of the \u201cparanormal\u201d, but their experience is a lot more than all of them bargained for.\nThis is the type of film that will leave you watching every element on the screen from the edge of your seat, anxiously awaiting the next big scare that shall emerge from the foreground or the background of any given shot.\nAn Archaeologist on the search of the philosopher\u2019s stone is led to search the dark Catacombs of Paris with a team of investigators, but what they find down there comes straight from Dante\u2019s inferno itself.\nThis film is also shot in a \u2018found footage\u2019 style and is an exploration into the depths of hell as well as religion as a wider concept. As the film is shot on location in the actual Catacombs of Paris, the horror is of this picture radiates, making for a very creepy movie.\nFive youthful friends go on a trip to a cabin in the woods expecting a drug and drink filled party holiday, but they get a lot more than they bargained for when they end up being in the middle of a twisted survival game of flesh eating zombies, ghouls and demons. Two doctors involve themselves into the game of life and death, but all you see is not all you get with this film.\nThe Cabin in the Woods is a film that uses all stereotypes of horror/teen flicks to its advantage, with the twists and turns coming time and time again until the very end. One of the first 21st century horror films with a truly new take on the horror genre that flips every known rule on its head.\nThe Collector (2009/10)\nA man down on his luck decides to steal from the rich family he is working for, but he picks the wrong night to do it. A masked madman has gotten there first. The night goes from a solo theft to a saving mission and a game of cat and mouse from a psychotic killer.\nThis is a home invasion story with a twist. The collector is written by the writers of Saw IV, V and VI, and this heavy influence is evident in the film\u2019s gory tale.\nA vegetarian French student begins her first semester in veterinary school where, due to peer pressure of initiation, she eats raw meat. Afterwards, she understandably feels strange and begins a descent from raw animal meat to human flesh.\nThis debut film from Ducournau is as gory as it is a fresh take on the cannibalistic narrative and is definitely well worth a watch.\nA trip to meet his girlfriend\u2019s family for the weekend turns from an awkward family meeting to threat for survival as the family, the African American servants and the townspeople are not what they seem.\nThis debut from Peele is both a commentary on society\u2019s prejudices of race as well as a tense nail biting thriller.\nA radio DJ gets sent a mysterious record from a group called \u2018The Lords\u2019 which begin a series of violent flashbacks and gets her invited to The lords of Salem\u2019s next concert, at which the Lords exact their revenge on the town of Salem.\nRob Zombie (in collaboration with his wife Sheri-Moon Zombie) is back with a dive into the legend of Salem and a throwback to the early art house horror years. This is a jarring and unforgettable film.\nParanormal investigator Zak Bagans buys one of the most haunted houses in Indiana (where a young child was possessed by a demon) and documents the bizarre goings on in an overnight lockdown. This paranormal documentary is a feature length film which explores both the paranormal goings on in the house and the terrifying true story of Latoya Ammons\u2019s three children undergoing hell whilst living in the house, as witnessed by officials.\nDemon House is a worthy watch for anyone interested in true paranormal investigations.\nMartyrs tells a story of two girls who exact their revenge from their abusive past only to find life goes from bad to worse when this search for revenge leads to a depraved secret organisation on a quest for knowledge.\nMartyrs is a brutal, unforgiving French film that is perfect for fans of gory psychological horror and one you shan\u2019t forget in a hurry whether you like those sorts of films or not.\nDirectors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett\nWhile on their honeymoon, a couple bumps into a psychic who gives them a premonition. After getting drunk in a strange underground bar the female of the couple finds out she is pregnant. Instead of the smooth sailing into motherhood, she and her husband find out the pregnancy might not be all that it appears.\nThis one is a nice twist on the usual supernatural horror film and sees a mother\u2019s protection extend to the demonic forces of evil.\nA Spanish horror film with a new take on the Ouija narrative, Veronica sees the titular character and her school friends use an Ouija board whilst a solar eclipse is taking place; an act that releases a demonic force into her body.\nBased on a supposed true story, this young girl must protect herself and her young siblings from her own possession and, along with a blind Nun called Sister Death, she must find a way to return this demon back to the hell it came from.\nA possession film which shares similarities to films such as Carrie, this is another great example of why you shouldn\u2019t mess with Ouija boards.\nA couple have a car accident which results in the death of a girl on the road. Frightened, the couple leaves her where she landed thinking that would be the end of it, but this is only the beginning as photographer boyfriend Tun begins to see a haunting figure in the background of his photos.\nGirlfriend Jen feels there is more than meets the eye and investigates the girl, revealing some damning secrets linked to her boyfriend and unravelling the tale of a vengeful spirit hell bent on haunting the pair.\nThis film was remade for an American audience in 2008 after the success of the original Thai film, but it does not hold the eerie quality of the original.\nA group of college activists decide that their next project is to save the Amazon and put a stop to deforestation, meanwhile uploading their progress to YouTube. However, things don\u2019t quite go to plan when their plane crashes in the middle of the jungle and they are all captured by a group of crazed native cannibals.\nThis is an homage from Roth to other cannibal films, the most famous being Cannibal Holocaust (1980), and it features some of the director\u2019s expertly twisted humour displayed through a gory blood-fest of a film.\nA home invasion movie with a twist.\nA deaf writer living in a secluded part of the woods must turn to different methods of survival when a masked murderer turns up at her house and attempts to fight his way inside. This is a tense film from beginning to end that twists the trope of a helpless girl fighting a killer on its head brilliantly. An intelligent new take on this genre makes it a must-see film that will have you holding your breath as you watch the silent game of cat and mouse.\nThe \u2018Saw\u2019 Series (2004-2017)\nDirector: James Wan, Darren Lynn Bousman, David Hackl, Kevin Greutert, Michael & Peter Spierig\nThe Saw franchise is a 21st century phenomenon that has lasted most of this century thus far.\nA serial killer with a difference, Jigsaw sets up deathly traps to teach people lessons on how to become a worthy member of society and appreciate the gift of life. After he dies, his legacy is passed on to a carefully selected individual to continue the depraved tests of humanity. The franchise comes to a head when Jigsaw\u2019s replacement wages a vendetta against Jigsaw\u2019s wife who has prepared for this exact moment.\nOne of the highest grossing horror franchise\u2019s of the 21st Century is one of the best gory horror\u2019s of them all; a series that encompasses a moralistic story with the horror of a crazed psychopath torturing helpless victims.\nThree thieves, who break into houses for fun, begin to case a house reported to have a large sum of money hidden inside. They realise the house belongs to an old and blind war veteran who is a recluse after the large payout from his daughter\u2019s death. This encourages them to break into the house searching for the cash, but soon realise their victim is not only in the house, but is not as helpless as they first imagined. the break in becomes a fight to break out.\nThis is simply one of the best new home invasion films that shocks and surprises you with every new twist.\nAfter a girl sleeps with her boyfriend, she realises that she has been passed a curse that can only be passed on through sex. The curse transpires that a ghoulish demon is due to begin following her endlessly unless she can pass on the curse through sex or end the whole thing.\nThis is a great new concept that really takes the \u2018sex equals death\u2019 ideology and runs with it into a new and exciting narrative that works really well and is shot beautifully.\nThe movie recalls a retro 80\u2019s feel of horror but with a fresh new concept.\nThe Purge: Anarchy focuses on a police sergeant who is out for revenge on purge night, a 12 hour slot where all crimes become legal. However, his mission changes in order to help a group of people stuck outside who need help surviving the evil people out for blood and money.\nThe Purge franchise narrative has a political statement on the violence within society and how we maybe only hold back because of the law. It is a shockingly real representation of society that makes it all the more terrifying to watch.\nA family is imprisoned in a society where making the smallest of sounds means instant death from a blood-thirsty creature plaguing the world. Even family matriarch Evelyn (Emily Blunt) must give birth in total silence.\nThis is a tense film from the moment the it starts to the end credits; one throughout which your heart is in your mouth as you watch the characters scrape through daily life, the soundtrack being one of the only thankful breaks in the otherwise deafening silence.\nA Quiet Place is definitely worth watching with the lights out.\nThe Conjuring 1/2 (2013-2016)\nThe Conjuring 1 and 2 are based on a true story from the demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren who investigate two cases of possession. The first film features a family moving to a secluded farmhouse with a dark history, where an evil spirit soon latches itself onto the mother, resulting in a position that threatens the lives of the entire family. The second film focuses on the famous English case of the Enfield haunting, and the Warrens are again called in to assess the situation \u2013 though it soon turns from helping the young girl from the evil spirit to a fight for their own lives.\nThe Conjuring is a widespread franchise with spin offs such as Annabelle and the more recent The Nun, making the entire series a top choice to watch this Halloween.\nhttps://www.thefilmagazine.com/20-greatest-horror-movies-21st-century\">\n\"A huge horror movie fan with a passion for the goriest and scariest of cinema.\"\nLatest posts by Holly Bowler (see all)\n20 Greatest 21st Century Horror Movies - October 24, 2018\nIT (2017) Review - October 15, 2017\n20 Horror Films You Must See - February 7, 2015\nPosted in Features, Halloween, Holly Bowler, Horror Films, Latest Posts, The Best Tagged a quiet place, as above so below, Banjong Pisanthanakun, colin minihan, darren lynn bousman, david hackl, david robert mitchell, demon house, devil's due, don't breathe, drew goddard, Eli Roth, fede alvarez, get out, grave encounters, halloween, holly bowler, horror, horror films, hush, it follows, James DeMonaco, james wan, John Erick Dowdle, john krasinski, jordan peele, julia ducournau, kevin greutert, marcus dunstan, martyrs, matt bettinelli-olpin, michael spierig, mike flanagan, paco plaza, Parkpoom Wongpoom, pascal laugier, peter spierig, raw, rob zombie, saw, shutter, stuart ortiz, the cabin in the woods, the collector, The Green Inferno, the lords of salem, the purge: anarchy, tyler gillett, veronica, zak bagans\nInstruments of Terror: The Music In Horror Films", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 14940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theflooringshow.com/exhibitor-list/carpet-fitter-of-the-year", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:30:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TNSTAODDYWEPVNZUL54NEMN3EIS264KG", "length": 253, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.theflooringshow.com", "title": "The Flooring Show - 2018 Exhibitors - Carpet Fitter of the Year", "raw_content": "Six of the UK\u2019s best carpet fitters will be competing for the title of Carpet Fitter of the Year 2018, showcasing their skills and excellent craftmanship.\nhttp://nicfltd.org.uk/Carpet-Fitter-Competition/\nNext: Carpet Line\nPrevious: Carpet Express UK LTD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/10/liz-truss-appalled-by-christopher-chopes-decision-to-block-fgm-law", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:DG7I5J5WC5UCLYNSW6MN5OYJQCN5SDIC", "length": 3691, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Liz Truss said she will be speaking to Chope this week. Photograph: Richard Gardner/Rex/Shutterstock\nThe Treasury minister, Liz Truss, has pledged to track down Christopher Chope in parliament next week for a talk as the Conservative MP faced potential party action for blocking a planned law aimed at protecting girls from female genital mutilation (FGM).\nAmid near-universal condemnation of the backbencher from Tory colleagues after he once again used parliamentary tactics to delay a private member\u2019s bill, Chope was also called on by his local party to give an explanation.\n\u201cI\u2019m going to be speaking to him this week,\u201d Truss told Sky\u2019s Sophy Ridge on Sunday show. \u201cI want to see him change his mind. I want to see the Conservative party make sure that we show that that is completely unacceptable.\u201d\nAsked how she would speak to him, Truss said: \u201cI will be looking for him around the Commons. And I think Conservatives do need to put peer pressure on our colleagues who are stopping these types of things happening.\u201d\nShe added: \u201cWhen I see one of my colleagues opposing a measure that could have saved girls\u2019 lives, could have saved girls from that horrendous experience, I am absolutely appalled by that.\u201d\nIn a statement, 10 Christchurch councillors said Chope had been invited to explain his actions to the local party association. They said: \u201cThey do not believe that pedantry should take precedence over human rights and it is time for the misogynistic old guard to recognise and reflect the opinions of the modern Conservative.\u201d\nChope, who gained notoriety after he blocked a bill to make upskirting a criminal offence, used the same Commons procedure on Friday to block a bill tabled by fellow Conservative Zac Goldsmith, shouting \u201cobject!\u201d when it was presented for its second reading.\nThe FGM proposal, called the Children Act 1989 (amendment \u2013 female genital mutilation) bill, is intended to improve the 2003 law that prohibited the practice by allowing family courts to make interim care orders about children deemed at risk, simplifying the process.\nSuch bills are read out at the end of business without debate, and pass to the next stage if no MP present verbally objects. If there is an objection, the bill has to be presented again. The government has indicated it will find time from its own Commons timetable to get the bill passed.\nThe communities secretary, James Brokenshire, said Chope\u2019s actions were \u201creally shocking on such a serious issue\u201d. He told BBC One\u2019s Andrew Marr Show: \u201cIt is hugely disappointing that this bill is not able to proceed. That is why we are now looking urgently to get government time for legislation to make this happen. Obviously, Sir Christopher\u2019s own association is investigating this. I think that\u2019s the best place for this to be dealt with.\u201d\nWrecking ball Christopher Chope v upskirting bill? Alas, no contest | Jess Phillips\nChope has argued that even if he backs the intent of such bills he objects to them because he does not support the procedural principle of legislation being passed without debate at second reading.\nAs Commons officials read out a series of bills on Friday afternoon, Chope and fellow backbencher Peter Bone objected to a series of them, including another proposed by Goldsmith, to help the finances of Kew Gardens.\nAfter he was criticised by ministers including Truss and the home secretary, Sajid Javid, Chope told the Telegraph: \u201cIt is a pity they are indulging in virtue-signalling rather than looking at the substance.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cMy constituents know what I am doing. We are having letters saying: \u2018What is parliamentary democracy all about?\u2019 I object to bills going through undebated at second reading.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 7534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theindustrialcontrolsco.com/category/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:50Z", "digest": "sha1:54XUSTM5KBNR2KDOXU6ENNIDTWDUAR4Z", "length": 2806, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.theindustrialcontrolsco.com", "title": "Industrial Controls Blog | The Industrial Controls Company, Inc.", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re like us, you don\u2019t just want to know the technical capabilities of the companies you partner with, you want to get to know the owners and understand their philosophy. Our blog is dedicated to giving you that insight, and the articles represent our philosophies and beliefs.\nWe invite you to get to know us and, as always, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact us if there\u2019s anything we can discuss.\nFamily is a key component in our lives. Sure, we\u2019re a place where quality comes first. However, we recognize the importance of family and quality of life. That\u2019s why many people are floored by our [\u2026]\nAt The Industrial Controls Company, our specialty is designing and building electrical control panels for a multitude of industries and environments. We can start with anything from an idea to a complete set of drawings/functional [\u2026]\n2018-07-25T10:11:06+00:00November 28th, 2017|Blog|\nDo you have the entrepreneurial spirit? Have you always wanted to run your own business but aren\u2019t in a position to take the risk? How about working in an environment where you\u2019re treated in an [\u2026]\n2018-07-25T10:44:21+00:00August 29th, 2016|Blog|\nHow We Adjust the Manufacturing Process to Improve Outcomes and Empower Employees\nThe old saying is that everybody makes mistakes, right?\nOur answer to that at The Industrial Controls Company, Inc. is a resounding NO!\nThe employees at The [\u2026]\n2018-07-25T10:51:38+00:00June 23rd, 2016|Blog|\nICC\u2019s Company Credo\nEvery company has core beliefs, a set of guiding principles. Whether you call it a motto, slogan, tagline, mission statement, or company credo, the intent is to convey the company\u2019s purpose to the rest of [\u2026]\n2018-07-25T10:55:45+00:00March 28th, 2016|Blog|\nZen and the Art of the Power Tour\nAs a celebration for my 20th year in business, I decided to take my family on one of the most relaxing and enjoyable vacations I could come up with. I realize this may conjure up [\u2026]\n2018-07-24T08:45:12+00:00December 21st, 2015|Blog|\nTop 5 Things to Look for When Outsourcing Your Process Controls\nWhether you are at engineering capacity and simply ready to offload work or looking for process controls expertise, outsourcing your control panel design and manufacturing can be the right option. On one hand, giving up [\u2026]\nThe \u201cStart with Why\u201d Story\nWith over one million views, the third most popular TED Talk of all time is Simon Sinek\u2019s \u201cHow Great Leaders Inspire Action.\u201d\nThis didn\u2019t happen by chance. Mr. Sinek\u2019s video is popular because it resonates with people [\u2026]\nWhat is a Partner in Business?\nNot a customer. Not a vendor. Not a collaborator.\nA Partner isn\u2019t someone you simply DO business with, it takes more trust than that.\nA transactional focused business person is just fine with a Win-Lose situation. A [\u2026]\n2018-07-25T12:34:09+00:00July 7th, 2015|Blog|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 253.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thekingsacademy.net/admissions/why-tka-copy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:38Z", "digest": "sha1:RXSZZSCDXEGZJZ2QDSIRQ7HAAMATXEZJ", "length": 1655, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thekingsacademy.net", "title": "TKA at a Glance - The King's Academy", "raw_content": "The King's Academy > Admissions > TKA at a Glance\nThe King\u2019s Academy is a family. Everything, from academic instruction to fine arts, is founded on personal relationships between students and staff unified in the cause of Christ. Spiritual life at the Academy includes weekly, engaging chapel services and regular opportunities for hands-on service, while our Boarding Program provides a vibrant home-away-from-home for students from abroad\u2013all within the context our beautiful, 67-acre campus.\nOur faculty represents one of the most caring and accomplished teams available in secondary education. This ensures that no matter the background a student may bring to the classroom, they will be met with attentive, individualized care. The diverse student body is a source of pride, and TKA\u2019s mentors and instructors continue to foster the perfect environment for growth and success.\fTo learn more about the Academy\u2019s learning center, click here. For more about our history and who we are, click here.\nTKA offers students superior academics with a Christian worldview. Essentially all TKA graduates attend the college or university of their choice. Graduates of TKA have a well-developed worldview strengthened by biblically-based values and the ability to express a clear and convincing defense of their faith. Click here to view a list of where recent TKA graduates are attending college. Click here to view recent SAT/ACT rankings.\nThe King\u2019s Academy offers a wide variety of competitive sports for boys and girls. On and off the field, TKA Lions are fiercely dedicated to discipline, teamwork, and achievement. To learn more about TKA sports, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 342, "original_length": 27570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thelamron.com/posts/2008/04/24/club-sport-focus-crew-team-uniquely-dedicated", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6KPKQLMUIJG2C6HQKT33JHH3ON4LKVGV", "length": 2576, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.thelamron.com", "title": "Club Sport Focus: Crew team uniquely dedicated \u2014 The Lamron", "raw_content": "Club Sport Focus: Crew team uniquely dedicated\nApril 24, 2008 Matt Emminger\nIt's 5:30 a.m. on a Monday, and while most of us are still asleep before heading off to classes, the Geneseo club crew team is just beginning another one of their grueling two-hour early morning practices. Such is the life for these dedicated rowers.\n\"A lot of us on the team joke that as a rower, crew is your life,\" said club President Cait Domagal, a junior.\nWith the early practices Monday through Friday and then additional mid-morning practices on Saturday, it's hard to disagree with such a statement.\nAs a club team, the squad has been competing mostly against Division II and III schools throughout the region since their formation in 1990. They are an SA-funded organization, but still need to do additional fundraising on the side to cover the high cost of competing. Such fundraisers include an annual car wash, a fundraising dinner, a clothing sale and an ergathon, when members of the team take turns on a rowing machine in a public place and find sponsors for the time. All members all also required to pay dues each semester and are responsible for buying their own uniforms.\n\"Crew is a very expensive sport, and money is troublesome for us sometimes,\" said Domagal. \"It's hard to compete at a club level against DII-DIII schools who provide transportation, meals and uniforms to their rowers. But SA and Geneseo's administration have been very supportive of us, for which we are extremely thankful.\"\nRecruiting also poses some issues for the club. Many of the team members come aboard with little to no experience, mainly due to the lack of popularity at the high-school level. The club usually recruits at the summer orientation expos and the activities fair on campus. With all the complexities of the sport, the club tries to recruit new members for the fall season to allow for maximum training time.\nDespite these obstacles, the crew club is able to maintain a year-round schedule of meets and practices. Each semester, the team will usually attend four weekend regattas. The fall season is focused around the long-distance events and in the spring the team competes in sprint events.\nAfter training in Georgia over Spring Break, the team has enjoyed a solid start to their spring season. The men's four-person boat and the women's eight-person boat placed third at the two opening regattas. With only one senior graduating, the team hopes to build upon this year's success as they move forward into next year.\n\u2190 Women's lax wins threeSoftball stays busy with 4 wins, 4 losses \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themastergio.com/2016/09/the-house-of-seven-corpses-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OCFM2OTXK5VWPUL2U63AGZC4LXNXA66A", "length": 4581, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.themastergio.com", "title": "THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES (Review) ~ Words From the Master", "raw_content": "Title: The House of Seven Corpses\nDirector: Paul Harrison\nWriter: Paul Harrison, Thomas J. Kelly\nCast: John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine, Carole Wells, Charles Macaulay, Jerry Strickler\nDirector Eric Hartman (John Ireland) is shooting a Satanic horror flick in an old house where seven occult related deaths occurred. The old caretaker, Edgar Price (John Carradine), warns him to stop and also tells him know the actual facts of the gruesome deaths that occurred in the house. The graves of the seven bodies are buried in the grounds of said house (hence the title!). They find some old occult books and begin to read passages from one of them during and outside of the filming of the movie. This unknowingly leads to the murderous awakening one of the corpses...\nThe House of Seven Corpses is a classy, if low budget old-school style zombie/ occult flick. Admit ably it isn't great and has it's fair share of flaws, but nonetheless it is quite enjoyable and easy to like. Plus, as a bonus, if you were pissed off that House of 1000 Corpses, didn't deliver on that promise (shit, I don't even think we get 20 corpses in that house!), you'll be happy to know that this one does keep it's title's promise! See, we are already starting off well!\nThe film's biggest draw is the strong cast. You have three legends here in John Ireland, Faith Domergue, and John Carradine, and as you would expect them to be, are great! Ireland is quite apt at playing a director who, quite frankly, is kind of a dick. Faith Domergue, who previously starred in cult classic This Island Earth is great as well as somewhat bitchy and spoiled lead actress Gayle Dorian. She also happened to still look stunning at approximately 50 years old! Her opening scene were she is performing a devil summoning ceremony is a movie highlight. Some might be disappointed when it is immediately revealed to be a scene within a scene, as the director is filming it for his movie. But I must admit that I wasn't. It's cool and adds a really fun little moment to the proceedings.\nOf course, classic horror fans will be most happy with the presence of Carradine. He is suitably creepy and fun to watch as the old caretaker. In some ways his character of Price is my favorite in the movie. The rest of the cast is fairly adequate enough, I suppose. Though, for the most part, none of them are quite as memorable as the three leads. Although, blonde beauty Carole Wells does add some nice eye-candy to it all, even if her performance, itself, is kind of just there.\nThe movie looks like and feels like a made for TV, but there is also a very welcomed old-school horror feel to it. There are a couple of nice shots, all of which benefit from the large, old house location. Quite frankly, it's all rather silly at times and doesn't always make the most amount of sense. The twist ending is never explained and, quite honestly, the more you think about it the less fucking logical it is! However, I found myself liking the ending so much that I quite frankly didn't give flying fuck about it being nonsensical.\nThe pacing is admit ably on the slower side. While some supernatural things occur here and there, it isn't until the climax of the film that things really pick up. Despite that, some of the most fun moments come from the film within a film being shot. The slow pace, admit ably, fits the classic, and for the most part classy, feel of the movie.\nSure it's a el-cheapo production (other than the cast that is), but The House of Seven Corpses is a classy el-cheapo. It is legitimately lovable in a crazy 70s cult cinema sort of way. If the idea of a Satanic/ occult, zombie, John Carradine movie sounds like a great thing, and, quite frankly, it should, then you definitely have to make time to visit this house.\nSeverin Films released a blu-ray of it a few years back. While the picture isn't great, it is quite good and better than any print this movie has ever had; also the mono sound is quite good. Extras included an old interview with Carradine, in which he seems to be taken aback by all the horror questions he gets asked in it, as well as a super entertaining commentary with associate producer Gary Kent moderated by Lars Nilsen. It was recently announced that this title, along with some others, are going out of print. So, if this review convinced you that need to own this one (and I am kinda hoping that it did!), be sure to hurry up and buy it!\nblu-ray, Faith Domergue, horror, horror films, John Carradine, John Ireland, movie reviews, Severin Films, The House of Seven Corpses, zombies Edit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 8733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themis.com/about/partners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:35:37Z", "digest": "sha1:R2PXY5E4WIY56JGCCLIVVCDX5BZWXKNJ", "length": 11372, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.themis.com", "title": "Partners - Mercury Systems - Trusted Mission Solutions", "raw_content": "Home \u2192 Company \u2192 Partners\nTMS is dedicated to designing and building solutions that provide outstanding reliability and value. Guided by a philosophy of supporting open standards-based embedded computing platforms and making customers our foremost priority, we choose to partner with industry leading technology experts who share our drive for excellence and enable us to meet our engineering and manufacturing goals.\nPartner with TMS\nAs a leading worldwide provider of open standards-based embedded systems building blocks for its markets, TMS fosters strong third-party relationships with leading vendors of bus compatible peripheral products that include vector array processing DSP boards, 2-D and 3-D graphics accelerators, and I/O boards for networking and telecommunications. These alliances enable us to deliver industry leading solutions with significantly shorter lead times while ensuring high levels of value and reliability.\nAMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its ground-breaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APU). AMD\u2019s graphics and computing technologies power a variety of devices including PCs, game consoles and the powerful computers that drive the Internet and businesses.\nFounded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world\u2019s first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the \u201cingredients\u201d of computers, servers and networking and communications products.\nDrawing on the heritage of invention that first introduced the hard disk drive, HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a new type of storage company for a new world where ever-increasing amounts of content are being generated from cloud services, Internet content providers, social networks, mobile devices, Big Data and enterprise business transactions. HGST has an unmatched reputation for product quality and reliability; offering award-winning enterprise optimization software and a broad portfolio of innovative, high-quality hard disk and solid state drives that store, manage and protect the world\u2019s data. Our intelligent storage solutions are trusted by enterprises, Internet companies, consumers and creative professionals to store and manage their data efficiently and securely. Our commitment is to deliver innovative, high-value datacenter, mobile, personal and consumer electronics storage solutions together with storage infrastructure consultation to the world\u2019s largest and most sophisticated OEMs, businesses and hyperscale cloud customers. Our unmatched science and unique technology vision, combined with our deep understanding of customers\u2019 needs and market opportunities, sets us apart. HGST is a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation, marketing and selling its leading storage portfolio around the world. HGST continues to strategically invest in high-growth and emerging technology segments, attracting and retaining the industry\u2019s best talent, and expanding research and innovative product development.\nOpen-E, Inc. is a pioneering leader and developer of IP-based storage management software with headquarters in the United States and Europe. Founded in 1998, Open-E sells its line of storage management software through a world-wide network of system integrator and reseller partners. The Open-E\u00ae JovianDSS and Open-E\u00ae DSS V7\u2122 line of products enjoy a reputation for best-in-class performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability and return-on-investment. Open-E storage management products are known throughout the storage industry for their robust architecture, ease-of-use and affordability. The products are also highly flexible, and have the ability to support a variety of protocols, such as iSCSI, Fibre Channel or Infiniband, in either file or block data transmission. Open-E works with technology industry leaders to deliver software on a variety of industry-standard hardware platforms. Open-E endeavors to ensure their software is not only affordable and easy to use, but also rich in the features that SMBs and SMEs want. By using industry standard server building blocks, such as rack mount chassis, x86 server boards and low cost SATA RAID controllers, our system integrators can build storage hardware platforms at a fraction of the cost of Tier1 storage vendors. Open-E also invests heavily in engineering-based relationships with vendors across the server and storage industry to ensure interoperability an extensive compatibility list that enables system to build the exact, cost-effective solutions that their customers require.\nMellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. For the best in performance and scalability, Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 data centers and the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Yokneam, Israel.\nAwakening the world to the power of computer graphics with the invention of the GPU in 1999, NVIDIA specializes in the development of graphics processing units and chipset technologies for workstations, personal computers, and mobile devices. Based in Santa Clara, California, the company has become a major supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and chipsets used in graphics cards, and video-game consoles and personal-computer motherboards. Themis is honored to be an NVIDA Preferred Solution Provider.\nTMS actively works with forums, groups, organizations, and alliances to create, develop, publish and promote standards and best practices as well as accelerate new standard and technology adoption and introduction including interoperability between like vendor solutions.\nGICAN is the professional group representing the French marine industry. GICAN members are involved in naval defence, maritime security, safety and environment, and commercial shipbuilding. 160 companies are members of GICAN. They include not only key prime contractors, system integrators and equipment providers but also Small and Medium Industries (SMI) involved in naval, cruise or mercantile shipbuilding and ship repair. The group as a whole has a 6 billion euro turnover and is responsible for more than 40.000 jobs. GICAN brings together the skills of all of its members. It is responsible for their promotion in France and abroad, their strategic positioning within Europe, and recognition of the high technology which characterises the industry. GICAN represents the naval sector in public and international bodies.\nThe Navy League has two main initiatives. First, the Navy League\u2019s public education efforts are designed to inform the nation, and its political leaders, of the vital importance to the country of comprehensive and fully-prepared sea services. Second, the Navy League, primarily through its councils, provides support for active duty sea services personnel and their families. In keeping with its educational objective, the Navy League also supports America\u2019s young people through successful youth programs, including sponsorship of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps and the Navy League Foundation Scholarship Program.\nThe NDIA is America\u2019s leading Defense Industry association promoting national security. NDIA is proud to provide a legal and ethical forum for the exchange of information between Industry and Government on National Security issues. Our members foster the development of the most innovative and superior equipment, training and support for our warfighters and first responders through our divisions, local chapters, affiliated associations and events. Join NDIA today, and take an active role in the future of defense.\nSince 1950, the Association of the United States Army has worked to support all aspects of national security while advancing the interests of America\u2019s Army and the men and women who serve. AUSA is a private, non-profit educational organization that supports America\u2019s Army \u2013 Active, National Guard, Reserve, Civilians, Retirees, Government Civilians, Wounded Warriors, Veterans, and family members. AUSA provides numerous Professional Development Opportunities at a variety of events both local and national.\nThe National Guard Association of the United States is the nation\u2019s oldest military association lobbying solely for the benefit of the National Guard of the United States and educating the public about the Guard\u2019s role and history in the Armed Forces of the United States. It was formed by militia officers in 1878 to obtain better equipment and training by petitioning Congress for more resources. To maintain the highest state of readiness, the National Guard needs a strong voice in Washington, D.C., to ensure the Guard has sufficient resources and budget to carry out its mission. NGAUS is that voice, seeking modern equipment, training, missions and personnel benefits in support of over 470,000 men and women currently serving in the Army and Air National Guard, as well as their families, employers and all Guard retirees. NGAUS achieves its mission through its lobbying and legislative activities. We are also dedicated to educating the public, through our partnership with the National Guard Educational Foundation (link is external), about our service to the nation through various outreach programs, publications, and support of a museum and research library dedicated to the preservation of the Guard\u2019s history.\nPCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is a consortium of over 700 companies who collaboratively develop specifications that adapt PCI technology for use in industrial and telecommunications applications.\nVITA (VMEbus International Trade Association) is an incorporated, non-profit organization of vendors and users having common market interest.\nThe NTSA provides the training, simulation, related support systems and training services industries a focused, formal organization to represent and promote their business interests in the market place. The Association provides a forum to communicate the full capability and broad characteristics of all of the elements of training systems and services to include associated support services.\nVICTORY is an effort to develop and validate a set of open standards for the integration of C4ISR and related equipment on Army platforms. The goals are to facilitate a decrease in SWaP requirements, technology transition and evolutionary growth in capabilities. VICTORY standards will be developed in cooperation with industry. It is intended that these standards to be used in a large number of future acquisition programs.\nThe RTC Group, with its first show in 1987 set its corporate mission, to provide industry vendors with low-cost, high-impact sales leads.The philosophy of that first show and every subsequent marketing vehicle has been to bring together leading vendors with their customers and prospects in simple, meaningful and measurable effective ways.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 14521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 193.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenation.com/article/petraeus-crocker-mccain-clinton-obama-and/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:T7KD7A54D2JEQM4FCMRGZXNAE6E52MLT", "length": 7149, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.thenation.com", "title": "Petraeus, Crocker, McCain, Clinton, Obama and... | The Nation", "raw_content": "Petraeus, Crocker, McCain, Clinton, Obama and\u2026\nSure, Arizona Senator John McCain's campaign may still be selling him as some kind of \"maverick\" or \"independent thinker\" -- and most of the media may still be buying that ridiculous line.\nBut when it comes to the fundamental foreign policy issue of the 2008 race \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether to continue the war in Iraq, and at what cost \u00e2\u20ac\u201c McCain's a yes man.\nWhen Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. general in charge of spinning the Iraq quagmire as something other than a quagmire, and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, the U.S. diplomat charged with similar responsibilities, appeared before Congress, McCain greeted them the on-bended-knee position he has adopted since he decided that he would rather be the Republican nominee for president than a serious member of the U.S Congress.\nSure, Arizona Senator John McCain\u2019s campaign may still be selling him as some kind of \u201cmaverick\u201d or \u201cindependent thinker\u201d \u2014 and most of the media may still be buying that ridiculous line.\nBut when it comes to the fundamental foreign policy issue of the 2008 race \u2013 whether to continue the war in Iraq, and at what cost \u2013 McCain\u2019s a yes man.\nDeclaring with as straight a face as he could muster success in Iraq was \u201cwithin reach,\u201d McCain explained to Petraeus and Crocker that they would get no advice or counsel from this senator.\n\u201cOur goal \u2014 my goal \u2014 is an Iraq that no longer needs American troops, and I believe we can achieve that goal, perhaps sooner than many imagine,\u201d McCain told his task masters. \u201cBut I also believe that the promise of withdrawal of our forces regardless of the consequences would constitute a failure of political and moral leadership.\u201d\nApparently confusing \u201cmoral leadership\u201d with the denial of reality, McCain declared against all evidence that, \u201cSuccess, the establishment of peaceful, democratic state, the defeat of terrorism \u2014 this success is within reach. Congress must not choose to lose in Iraq. We must choose to succeed.\u201d\nTo describe McCain\u2019s comments at the Petraeus-Crocker hearing as \u201cmeaningless\u201d would be an insult to meaninglessness. He added nothing to the discussion except cheerleading, and he sent the general and the ambassador back to Iraq without the benefit of the experience and insights of a member of Congress whose background could have been of value.\nMcCain\u2019s decision to go AWOL was as embarrassing as it was disappointing.\nNew York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama both made more of an effort to live up to their responsibilities as senators.\nAs someone who voted with McCain to get into the mess that is Iraq, Clinton acknowledged reality when she told Petraeus and Crocker that it was \u201ctime to begin an orderly process of withdrawing our troops\u201d from Iraq.\nClinton was still a little soft when she said, \u201cIt might well be irresponsible to continue the policy that has not produced results that have been promised time and time again.\u201d\nBut at least she was on the side of realism \u2014 even if she arrived there late in the game.\nObama, who had the foresight to oppose authorizing President Bush to go to war, was at least as sound as Clinton Tuesday.\n\u201cThe most important issue is still the one that was asked in September which is how has this war made us safer and at what point do we know that there is success so we can start bringing our troops home,\u201d the Democratic contender explained before the hearing.\n\u201cMy belief is that we are not in a situation where staying another 10, 15 or 20 years is going to change the fundamentals on the ground,\u201d explained Obama, who added that, \u201cWhat we have not seen is the Iraqi government using the space that was created not only by our troops but by the standdown of the militias in places like Basra, to use that to move forward on a political agenda that could actually bring stability.\u201d\nSo, as a senator, McCain failed the test Tuesday. But which Democrat offered the strongest challenge to the Petraeus-Crocker spin?\nClinton? Obama?\nNo, Russ Feingold.\nThe Democratic senator from Wisconsin, who is not running for president but probably should be, continued to take his job as a senator more seriously than any of his colleagues.\nFeingold told Petraeus and Crocker: I hope you won\u2019t take it personally when I say that I wish we were also hearing today from those who could help us look at Iraq from a broader perspective. The participation at this hearing of those charged with regional and global responsibilities would have given us the chance to discuss how the war in Iraq is undermining our national security. It might have helped us answer the most important question we face \u2013 not \u201care we winning or losing in Iraq?\u201d but \u201care we winning or losing in the global fight against al Qaeda?\u201d\nLike many Americans, I am gravely concerned by how bogged down we are in Iraq. Our huge, open-ended military presence there is not only undermining our ability to respond to the global threat posed by al Qaeda, but it is also creating greater regional instability, serving as a disincentive for Iraqis to reach political reconciliation, straining our military, and piling up debt for future generations to repay.\nI am pleased that violence in parts of the country has declined, but as the increase in violence in Mosul and recent events in Basra and now Baghdad indicate, long-term prospects for reconciliation appear to be just as shaky as they were before the surge. In fact, the drop in violence could have serious costs, as it is partly attributable to the deals we have struck with local militias, all of which could make national reconciliation that much more difficult.\nWe need to redeploy our troops from Iraq and I am disappointed that you are calling for a halt in troop reductions, General Petraeus, because the presence of about 140,000 troops in Iraq will exacerbate the conflict, not stabilize it, and it will certainly not contribute to our overall national security. Some have suggested that we should stay in Iraq until reconciliation occurs. They have it backwards \u2014 our departure is likely to force factions to the negotiating table in an attempt to finally create a viable power-sharing agreement.\nIf we redeploy, Iraq will no longer be the \u201c\u2018cause celebre\u2019 for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world,\u201d as the Intelligence Community so clearly stated. Iran, as well as Turkey, Syria, and other regional actors, will have to decide if Iraqi instability is really in their interests once we are no longer on the hook. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we will be able to adequately address what must be our top priority \u2013 the threat posed by al Qaeda around the globe, and particularly its safe haven in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Nothing could be clearer than the need to refocus all our instruments of national power to combat this threat.\nRedeployment does not mean abandoning Iraq. We must work for a peaceful outcome in that country. But if we continue to leave our military caught up in the sectarian divisions that consume Iraq, we will be doing so at grave risk to Iraq\u2019s progress, the region\u2019s stability, and our own national security.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 11201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenational.ae/uae/private-tutor-denies-molesting-15-year-old-pupil-1.755090", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MM7ULHUS37UK3QHVON4QRSFBL4LIQH2G", "length": 1561, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thenational.ae", "title": "Private tutor denies molesting 15-year-old pupil - The National", "raw_content": "Private tutor denies molesting 15-year-old pupil\nTeenager claims teacher touched her on her leg and kissed her\nA private tutor has denied molesting a 15-year-old student and instead insisted he was being framed, a court has heard.\nDubai Criminal Court was told that the 40-year-old teacher from Bangladesh, who has not been named, was hired by an Indian family to give lessons to their daughter.\nProsecutors claim that on June 17 this year the suspect allegedly touched the girl on the leg before cupping her face in his hands and kissing her.\nThe man denies the charge, however, insisting that the girl was making up the story.\n\u201cIt didn't happen your honour,\" he told the trial. \"I noticed how weak her academic performance was so I became tougher with her and I admit I slapped her in one incident. Her family then came up with this lie to frame me.\"\nCourt documents show the tutor had been teaching the girl four times a week in the Al Muraqqabat area of Dubai for around three months before the alleged incident occurred.\nThe teenager told the hearing: \u201cHe started touching my legs and arms and sometimes would stretch his leg on top of mine.\n\"When I asked him what he was doing he would tell me to pay attention to the lesson.\"\nOn the day of the incident, the girl claimed the tutor held her face in his hands and then kissed her near her lips. \u201cHe told me it was a friend\u2019s kiss,\u201d she said. She added: \u201cI told my mother the minute he left home and she then told my father who called the police.\"\nA verdict in the case is expected to be given on August 12.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 5636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theparkstrust.com/blogs/aerial-extreme-at-willen-lake-rebrands-to-treetop-extreme", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:55Z", "digest": "sha1:M3MJO4DVTWSEQ6YQHV7RJG2IRIFZ6YJ4", "length": 1405, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.theparkstrust.com", "title": "\ufeff", "raw_content": "Aerial Extreme, the popular high ropes course at Willen Lake, is rebranding to Treetop Extreme from 1st November 2017.\nThroughout the autumn and winter, Treetop Extreme will run morning and afternoon sessions every weekend until February half term, when weekday sessions will also be available.\nThere are three difficulty levels to choose from at Treetop Extreme, with four zip-wires and over 50 obstacles. The highlight of the course for many is the 13m freefall simulation.\nCustomers can turn up on the day but booking in advance is advised; this is available through the Willen Lake website.\nAerial Extreme has been rebranded to Treetop Extreme because Willen Lake, which is run by The Parks Trust, has taken over direct management of the attraction.\nRob Wood, General Manager of Willen Lake, commented: \u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to be adding Treetop Extreme to our portfolio of activities. It is already a popular attraction at Willen Lake and we are looking forward to improving and developing it further and bringing the management in-house alongside our other great attractions including our watersports and wakeboarding centres and new splash park.\n\u201cWe have invested \u00a32.8million into Willen Lake this year as part of exciting new plans for the site and a second phase of around \u00a31.5million is planned in 2018 to further improve facilities at the lake.\u201d\nFor more information visit: www.willenlake.org.uk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 386, "original_length": 10985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/donald-tusk-stakes-are-very-high-and-time-short-migration-crisis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7ASMDVJZ3MVGU6RLG3VPUTP7YFBBA6I2", "length": 4477, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theparliamentmagazine.eu", "title": "Donald Tusk: Stakes are very high and time is short on migration crisis", "raw_content": "European Council Donald Tusk has urged the EU28 to take a more strategic look at how to manage migration.\nDonald Tusk | Photo credit: European Parliament audiovisual\nThe warning comes amid the latest migration crisis to hit Europe, and as EU leaders descend on Brussels for a two-day summit.\nTusk, the summit host, said in a letter to leaders, \u201cMore and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration.\n\u201cThe stakes are very high and time is short,\u201d he warned.\nMigration crisis, monetary union top agenda for EU Council summit\nWhile the crisis has not yet reached the scale of events in 2015, this month\u2019s tensions over migrant rescue boats, barred from entry to Italian and Maltese ports, have put the issue firmly back in the EU spotlight.\nTusk, a former Polish Prime Minister, said, \u201cA precondition for a genuine EU migration policy is that Europeans effectively decide who enters European territory. Failure to achieve this goal would in fact be a manifestation of our weakness, and above all, it could create the impression that Europe does not have an external border.\u201d\nThe letter to the EU leaders went on, \u201cThe people of Europe expect us - and they have done for a long time now - to show determination in our actions aimed at restoring their sense of security. People want this not because they have, all of a sudden, become xenophobic and want to put up walls against the rest of the world, but because it is the job of every political authority to enforce the law, to protect its territory and the border.\nThat was, after all, the purpose of creating border guards - to guard borders.\u201d\nHe wrote, \u201cThere are voices in Europe and around the world claiming that our inefficiency in maintaining the external border is an inherent feature of the European Union, or - more broadly - of liberal democracy. We have seen the creation of new political movements, which offer simple answers to the most complicated questions. Simple, radical and attractive.\u201d\nTusk, writing ahead of the two-day gathering, said, \u201cThe migration crisis provides them with a growing number of arguments. More and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration. If people believe them, that only they can offer an effective solution to the migration crisis, they will also believe anything else they say.\u201d\nBrexit, apart from migration, is expected to dominate the summit. Tusk said that on Friday, he and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier \u201cwill review progress in our negotiations with the UK, and we will adopt conclusions.\u201d\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May was warned that time is running out to secure a Brexit deal as she headed for the summit, where she will brief all her counterparts for the last time before October, when both sides hope a deal will be done on the UK\u2019s March 2019 departure.\nThe remaining 27 EU leaders will discuss Brexit on their own on Friday morning, by which point May is expected to have left Brussels.\nIrish leader Leo Varadkar said the lack of progress was \u201cdisappointing\u201d, adding that he expected fellow leaders to send a \u201cstrong message\u201d to May that talks had to \u201cintensify\u201d. He said he will warn the UK that the Brexit withdrawal agreement and the two-year transition are at risk if London does not make more progress on agreeing the so-called backstop to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\nOn the eve of the summit, UK Conservative MEP Ashley Fox said he hopes the summit will see EU decide to take a \u201cmore proactive approach\u201d to the Brexit negotiations.\nThe ECR group member told this website, \u201cBusinesses based in the EU, UK and across the globe have made clear this week they want to see a withdrawal agreement concluded as soon as possible to provide legal certainty for the transition period. The UK government wants that too, has submitted its Irish border backstop proposal and is ready to negotiate constructively.\n\u201cThe EU has to do more than simply say no. We have never tackled an issue like this before and must work together to find creative solutions.\n\u201cI hope leaders use this week\u2019s summit to order a change in the Commission\u2019s negotiating strategy to put jobs and our economies above rules and precedent.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 9849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesergents.net/post/NewStuff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:51Z", "digest": "sha1:36INZV4T3CG4TNO7DILPMZFPF32S2G4H", "length": 562, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thesergents.net", "title": "New Pictures and Music - The Sergent's", "raw_content": "New Pictures and Music Sun, Jan 4, 2004\nIt\u2019s been a while since anything was updated on this site. I was finally able to get my act together long enough to load up some new pictures as well as some new music. The pictures are from Halloween and the semi-annual Pimps and Ho\u2019s party. Still need to get the ones from the holidays up there, but first I need to get them off the camera. The music is from Jeremy and Dana again. Some jams from September and the other from the beginning of December. Good stuff.\nDie Windows 98! Die! You Know You're From Maryland When", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestarpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/11/02/ihsaa-volleyball-state-finalists-yorktown-new-castle-sectional-foes-next-year/1806838002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4GCYTGXNE2MPJ4WOIHH5BI6PEMFDXDY3", "length": 6279, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.thestarpress.com", "title": "IHSAA volleyball: Will state finalists Yorktown, New Castle be sectional foes next year?", "raw_content": "Why Yorktown, New Castle could be in same sectional next two years\nA closer look at how the IHSAA success factor continues to affect our local teams.\nWhy Yorktown, New Castle could be in same sectional next two years A closer look at how the IHSAA success factor continues to affect our local teams. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: https://www.thestarpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/11/02/ihsaa-volleyball-state-finalists-yorktown-new-castle-sectional-foes-next-year/1806838002/\nJake Fox, Muncie Star Press Published 12:59 p.m. ET Nov. 2, 2018 | Updated 1:07 p.m. ET Nov. 2, 2018\nYorktown defeated Penn 3-0 during their semi state game at Huntington North High School Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo11: Jordan Kartholl / Star Press)Buy Photo\nMUNCIE, Ind. \u2014 Imagine an alternate scenario where Yorktown and New Castle are in the same volleyball sectional. Two of the best programs in Indiana, and one is going home on opening weekend.\nThat could very well be the case next season.\nFor now, both teams are No. 1 in their respective classes and will compete for state championships on Saturday at Worthen Arena. New Castle (34-5) will play Northwood for the 3A title at 3 p.m. and Yorktown (33-0) will battle defending 4A champion Avon at 5 p.m.\nBecause of their tournament record the last two years based on the IHSAA success factor rule, both teams have already clinched a spot in Class 4A next year. New Castle will move up after winning state last season, and Yorktown will remain there after going to semistate.\nAnd with their regional proximity to one another, it's \"very possible\" they wind up as sectional foes starting next season, said IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox.\n\"Depending on the number of 4A schools in that area, it very well could be that they are in the same volleyball sectional for the next two years,\" Cox said. \"If you look at 4A basketball for example when Muncie Central was in that class, they were in the same sectional with New Castle and Richmond. It\u2019s very possible, but we won\u2019t know until we convene our realignment committee and study those maps and where all the schools sit.\"\nSix years ago, the IHSAA implemented the success factor, a model that moves teams up based on tournament success over a two-year cycle. It is based on points \u2014 a sectional title is one point, a regional is two, a semistate is three and a state is four. It takes six points over two years for a team to move up a class. And then among those teams that have moved up, a team will stay in its current class with 3-5 points, or it will move back down with anything less than three.\nAll teams, whether public, parochial or private, can continue to move up until they reach the top class, which is 4A in volleyball. For example, Providence is a 2A school that competed in 4A this season. But if Providence were to move down, it would drop one class at a time until it reached its native class.\nWhat this has done is forced programs across the state to raise their bar. Yorktown, for example, saw how difficult it was to reach the Class 4A state championship last season. Legendary coach Don Shondell noted after the semistate how Delaware County used to dominate the state championships at all classes, but such is not the case anymore because the programs and coaching across the state have improved.\nIt has created better championships, Cox said, by giving the top programs a chance to compete with the others.\n\"Yorktown is a perfect example,\" Cox said. \"They\u2019re sitting in Delaware County, which is a hotbed of volleyball. They\u2019ve got great club activities, great facilities and great coaching. They\u2019ve proven that while their enrollment would let them reside in 3A, they\u2019re in the state championship in 4A \u2014 so they\u2019re pretty competitive.\"\nIt also goes to show that while enrollment plays a role, it doesn't automatically translate to success. Yorktown has 801 students and in semistate swept Penn (3,345 students), the fifth-largest school in the state.\n\"It has to do with the quality of the program and the opportunities that the program affords young people in their school,\" Cox said. \"There\u2019s no question in my mind that kids gravitate to Delaware County because it\u2019s such a volleyball hotbed. Yorktown may only have 800 students, but they have several great volleyball players. I think the success factor has identified the teams that are the most competitive and placed them, according to success, in an environment where they\u2019re going to have the greatest amount of competition.\"\nYorktown coach Stephanie Bloom added: \"It\u2019s neat to move up a class and still experience success and make some history for your school. We\u2019re excited.\"\nThe tournament success factor also opens doors for teams in the lower classes. Without Yorktown in the 3A Delaware County sectional, New Castle has won it the last two years. And with the Trojans moving up and Wapahani dropping back down to 2A, that will give a team like Delta or Burris a chance to win.\nTwo of the teams in the state finals this weekend \u2014 North Judson-San Pierre (2A) and Pioneer (1A) \u2014 are making their championship debut. That likely doesn't happen without the success factor.\n\"It allows other schools to raise their bar, so now they feel they have an opportunity, maybe just to win a sectional,\" Cox said. \"Maybe it\u2019s to get to the state finals for the first time. We\u2019ve improved the quality of the sport for other schools, and they\u2019re reaching new heights. All that together is what really makes this work and improves our sports across the board.\"\nSchools will be reclassified this winter and adjusted based on which teams are moving up or down with the success factor. Then a realignment committee made up of member school administrators, athletic directors and superintendents will draw sectional lines and send their proposal to the IHSAA board in May.\nSectional groupings won't be set in stone until then, but it's fun to think about what Yorktown and New Castle have coming back next season and a potential postseason matchup, especially if both were to win Saturday.\nThe defending Class 3A and 4A state champions facing off for a sectional title. Wouldn't that be something?\nSome of the Trojans' top plays from their IHSAA Class 3A semistate win over New Prairie Jake Fox, The Star Press", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 606, "original_length": 27090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/shop/albums.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:05Z", "digest": "sha1:R67R72ZBITUOTA7CR7SCV2A5D6IS6M3F", "length": 39212, "nlines": 233, "source_domain": "www.thetabernaclechoir.org", "title": "Albums", "raw_content": "Newest Oldest In Stock A-Z Z-A\nLet Us All Press On (2019)\nHymns have become powerful vehicles, first for carrying the gospel of Jesus Christ to the soul of the listener, and then for reinforcing messages of faith, belief, solace, hope, and encouragement when sung. They are both sermons and testimonies, communal manifestations of faith when performed as a congregation and private comforts when recalled and pondered within the heart. The hymns represented here cover a range of gospel themes and modes of expression. The musical settings are joyful, contemplative, optimistic, thoughtful, and stirring, and the discerning arrangements serve to support and confirm the messages of each hymn.\nListeners around the world have admired Wilberg as one of the leading choral conductors and arrangers but he also has a well-earned reputation as a composer of original choral music. Wilberg\u2019s two larger choral works on this recording include The Prodigal, which retells the parable of the prodigal son found in Luke, and A Cloud of Witnesses, which weaves multiple witnessing stories of Christ\u2019s Resurrection into a tapestry drawing on accounts from all four Gospel writers. Both of these choral works were premiered in recent years by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square\u2014but this will be the first recording of the works. Also included are new compositions including \u201cChildren of Light,\u201d \u201cTree of Life,\u201d and a moving orchestral piece \u201cAnd Wept Bitterly\u201d plus recordings of three hymn arrangements, \u201cAll People That on Earth Do Dwell,\u201d \u201cHow Can I Keep from Singing?\u201d and \u201cIt Is Well with My Soul.\u201d\nO Come, Little Children (2017)\nThis CD with the music from the 2016 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert celebrates Christmas through the eyes of a child. The engaging wisdom of innocence captures our imagination through favorite songs and carols from around the world. From the 18th-century German carol \u201cO Come, Little Children\u201d to the French song \u201cIl est N\u00e9\u201d and the traditional Andalusian song \u201cCampana Sobre Campana,\u201d the invitation is extended to everyone to join with children in reflecting on the Christmas message. The music allows us to become children once again and partake of a joyous celebration of not only the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ, but the love of family and all mankind. The CD includes a moving rendition of Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s fabled story, \u201cThe Little Match Girl,\u201d narrated by Rolando Villaz\u00f3n. With a backdrop of original music by Mack Wilberg, it reminds us that having the faith of a child and showing unremitting love will lift all who look heavenward for comfort and relief, no matter their circumstances.\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir has collaborated with some of the most legendary vocalists and performers over the years. For this album, the choir has assembled an unprecedented collection of recordings taken from standout performances over the past 15 years. Most of these performances were recorded live at the 20,000+ seat Conference Center in Salt Lake City. In addition, some real gems were uncovered or created specifically for this album, including a performance recorded live before millions of viewers at the start of the 2002 Olympic Games (Sting & Yo-Yo Ma performing \"Fragile\") and new recordings such as Amy Grant's \"Thy Word,\" The King's Singers' \"I'm Runnin' On,\" and Santino Fontana's \"He Lives in You.\"\nThe Utah Symphony is joined by the internationally-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Choristers of The Madeleine Choir School to present a thrilling and authoritative interpretation of the immense Mahler Symphony No. 8, \u201cSymphony of a Thousand.\u201d This new release from Reference Recordings, conducted by Thierry Fischer, was recorded live in February 2016 from concerts in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, sponsored by the O.C. Tanner Gift of Music. This organization was founded over 30 years ago through the combined vision of Obert C. Tanner and Gordon B. Hinckley, to share performances of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Symphony, as a gift to the community. The Utah Symphony thanks their 75th Anniversary Signature Sponsor, the George S. and Dolores Dor\u00e9 Eccles Foundation, and Kem and Carolyn Gardner, their 75th Anniversary Mahler Cycle Sponsors, and Jack Wheatley, their Recording Sponsor, for making this recording possible.\n\u201cHallelujah!\u201d\u2014in just one word it sums up superbly all the enthusiasm, joy, and hope of Christmas. Both an exclamation and exhortation, this declaration of faith has for millennia been accompanied by enthusiastic praise through music and song. And there\u2019s no better time than Christmas to gather with friends and loved ones, reflect on the true message of the season, and in word, thought, and music offer up our own \u201cHallelujahs\u201d to the One whose birth we celebrate. With other beloved choral and orchestral works and the Choir\u2019s traditional finale, \u201cAngels from the Realms of Glory,\u201d this inspiring concert reminds us that Christmas is a time of joy and wholehearted celebration. Its redeeming message of peace and love can live in our hearts always.\nMessiah\u2014Complete Oratorio (2016)\nMessiah\u2014Highlights (2016)\nThis new Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square recording of Handel\u2019s Messiah relies on historical research and Baroque musical tradition to create a new landmark Messiah for our time. This Messiah Highlights version contains fourteen selections from the oratorio, including seven of the most familiar and beloved choruses and beautiful arias. Pieces that feature each of the acclaimed soloists are also presented.\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square, and Bells on Temple Square join with Broadway star Santino Fontana and the Muppets\u00ae from Sesame Street\u00ae to sing joyfully of the magic of Christmas and the excitement of its traditions. The concert CD includes a selection of works from the great masters including Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Rossini, and the Choir\u2019s traditional finale, \u201cAngels from the Realms of Glory.\u201d\nLet The Season In (2014)\nRelive the wonder of the 2013 Christmas Concert when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square were joined by Deborah Voigt and John Rhys-Davies in welcoming the Christmas season with a collection of songs inspired by classic Christmas stories.\nHe Is Risen (2014)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present on this CD a selection of musical works centered on the miraculous events recounted and commemorated in the Easter story. In a variety of styles, and from different eras, these musical expressions of faith share the same fervent message\u2014that our Savior lives, and has redeemed us with His love.\nThe Missionary Collection (2014)\nThe Missionary Collection brings together four albums suited perfectly to life as a missionary: Called to Serve, Praise to the Man, Teach Me to Walk in the Light, and This Is the Christ. With a unique array of music\u2014including Christ-centered songs, hymns of the Restoration, Primary melodies, and more\u2014this four-disc set is the perfect gift for missionaries or anyone who loves the music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.\nHome for the Holidays CD (2013)\nHomeward Bound is an inspiring, heartwarming collaboration between Bryn Terfel and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring repertoire with a decidedly Americana feel while also reflecting the shared Welsh heritage of Terfel and the Choir.\nTeach Me To Walk In The Light & Other Children's Favorites (2012)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square bring your favorite Primary songs to life in this unprecedented collection of all-new arrangements and recordings. Complete with sacred childhood hymns like \u201cTeach Me to Walk in the Light,\" \"Give, Said the Little Stream,\" \"If the Savior Stood Beside Me,\u201d and \u201cWhen He Comes Again,\u201d these new renditions provide the perfect dose of nostalgia and fondness for listeners of any age.\nIn December 2011, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square, and Bells on Temple Square were joined by Emmy-award winning actress Jane Seymour and famed baritone Nathan Gunn in a series of concerts that highlighted these stories of Christmases past. These concerts thrilled the combined audience of more than 80,000 in the Conference Center at Temple Square, a reminder that Christmas traditions from long ago still inspire us today.\nBravo! The #1 Albums (2012)\nThis CD set contains three albums and a bonus CD. Each of the three albums hit #1 on Billboard Magazine's classical music charts. The bonus CD is Music from 9/11: Rising Above containing the songs from a Music and the Spoken Word special that celebrates the triumph of the American spirit over adversity and challenges. The bonus album is available on CD for the first time! These are \"must- haves\" for your Mormon Tabernacle Choir music collection.\nFrom The Pipes: Personal Selections from the Tabernacle Organists (2012)\nLimited edition CD featuring performances by all five of the Tabernacle organists: Bonnie Goodliffe, Richard Elliott, Linda Margetts, Clay Christiansen, and Andrew Unsworth. Presented as a Christmas gift to members of the Choir and Orchestra, 2012. Not available to the public.\nGlad Christmas Tidings: Live in Concert (2011)\nThis Is The Christ (2011)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square combine their talents to create this one-of-a-kind collection of exquisite music that bears witness of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Featuring songs never before recorded by the Choir, as well as familiar favorites, this divinely inspired album will remind you of the Savior's redeeming love and His role in the plan of salvation.\nIn 2009 the Choir was joined by none other than multiple Grammy-award winner Natalie Cole. Ms. Cole's trademark vocal style paired with the Choir's legendary sound makes for a stunning collection destined to become a new Christmas classic.\nHeavensong: Music of Contemplation and Light (2010)\nHeavensong features beloved classical selections that will lift and transport you through a journey of light and hope. From new Mack Wilberg compositions to familiar melodies to \u201cThe Prayer,\u201d this music is perfect for quiet contemplation. Heavensong is a poignant and beautiful offering unlike anything the Choir has recorded\u2014longtime fans and new listeners alike will be captivated by this sublime musical feast.\n100 Years: Celebrating A Century Of Recording Excellence (2010)\nMarking one hundred years since the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's first recording on September 1, 1910, this historic box set captures the best, most popular, and most requested songs ever. From that first historic recording, to modern masterpieces, this three-disc set (2CD/1DVD) is a milestone in the Choir's history of musical excellence. Includes a bonus CD/DVD of archival and historic performances!\nMen of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (2010)\nFew things are as powerful as men's voices united in song. Now, that stirring sound has been captured by the men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a triumphant collection of music - the first album ever to feature exclusively the men of the Choir.\nRing Christmas Bells (2009)\nThis three-CD set contains recordings from the Choir's annual Christmas concerts with special guest artists: Spirit of the Season, Rejoice and Be Merry, and The Wonder of Christmas.\nEncore Collection: The Many Sounds of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (2009)\nFrom the inspiring strains of Consider the Lilies to the majestic patriotism on Spirit of America, to the Broadway and Hollywood classics on Showtime! to the stunning artistry of Requiem, the many sounds of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the Encore Collection make it a must-have for every music lover.\nEvery Time I Feel the Spirit: Organ of the Mormon Tabernacle (2009)\nReleased in 2009, this CD features organist Richard Elliott playing a varied program on the Tabernacle organ. Includes guest appearances by Meredith Campbell, concertmaster of the Orchestra at Temple Square, and the women of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.\nMagnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center (2009)\nThis hardcover book by John Longhurst, retired Senior Tabernacle Organist, covers the concept, approval, design, and construction of the magnificent organ seen by millions during general conferences of the Church. Contains color pictures and an audio CD with narrative by the organ builder and music illustrations by the Tabernacle organists.\nCome Thou Fount Of Every Blessing: American Folk Hymns & Spirituals (2009)\nThis recording honors the enduring vitality of folk hymns and spirituals and their ability to anchor the soul in faith. From the sturdy strains of \u201cSaints Bound for Heaven\u201d and the fervent entreaty of \u201cI Want Jesus to Walk with Me\u201d to one of the most popular folk hymns of all time, \u201cAmazing Grace,\u201d these songs and hymns gave comfort, hope, and confidence to the early American pioneers. Their power and simplicity still inspire us today.\nRejoice and Be Merry! (2008)\nSee Special Offer at bottom of page! Following the success of their #1 Billboard and Grammy-nominated album Spirit of the Season, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir presents Rejoice and Be Merry!, the next musical masterpiece in a series of highly acclaimed and commercially successful holiday albums. Rejoice and Be Merry! featuring special guests The King\u2019s Singers, is presented with the originality and sophistication that have made each of these groups a household name.\nPraise to the Man: Songs Honoring the Prophet Joseph (2008)\nPraise to the Man: Songs Honoring the Prophet Joseph is their ultimate musical tribute to the life and mission of Joseph Smith and the Restoration. Joined by the Orchestra at Temple Square, the Choir presents matchless performances of newly recorded songs including \u201cJoseph Smith\u2019s First Prayer,\u201d \u201cPraise to the Man,\u201d and \u201cThe Morning Breaks.\u201d\nMack Wilberg: Requiem and Other Choral Works (2008)\nMack Wilberg is the Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but is perhaps even better known as a world class composer and arranger. This album spotlights six of his compositions, including the newly completed Requiem, which features solos by noted Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel and famed American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.\nCalled To Serve (2008)\nThe music on Called to Serve celebrates the zeal and memories of missionary work and has a wonderful selection of church hymns and music that inspires and lifts in ways that few collections of songs can.\nNoel: A Worldwide Christmas Celebration (Legacy Series) (2007)\n2007 reissue of a classic album! Filled with medleys of Christmas Carols from around the world! Includes: \"Christmas Is Here Again (Sweedish Carol) / King Jesus Hath A Garden (Dutch Carol) / Stars Were Gleaming (Polish Carol),\" \"Still, Still, Still (Austrian Carol) / The Happy Christmas Comes Once More (Carl Balle- Nicolai Gruntvig) / Here We Come A' Caroling (English Wassail Song),\" and many more.\nA Christmas Gloria with the Canadian Brass (Legacy Series) (2007)\n2007 reissue of holiday classic! 1998 concert featuring the Canadian Brass, hosted by Roma Downey. Songs include: \"Joy To The World\" \"The Three Kings\" John Rutter's \"Gloria\" and more.\nSpirit of the Season (2007)\nNorwegian-born singing sensation Sissel joins the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for their annual Christmas concerts in a performance described as \"a match made in heaven.\" In her first-ever Christmas album released in the U.S., Sissel has collaborated with the world famous Choir to offer a dazzling collection of music for the holidays.\nHymns of Faith (Legacy Series) (2007)\n2007 reissue of a classic album! Remastered album of much-loved hymns. A collection of 17 classic recordings by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, featuring traditional hymns which help foster personal faith in Jesus Christ, including: \"All Glory, Laud, and Honor,\" \"The Morning Breaks,\" \"The Lord Is My Shepherd,\" \"Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah,\" and many more.\nHymns of Faith II (Legacy Series) (2007)\n2007 reissue of a classic album! A second volume of faith-inspiring hymns, performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir under the direction of Jerold Ottley. Included are: \"The God of Abraham Praise,\" \"Each Life That Touches Ours for Good,\" \"For All the Saints,\" \"All Creatures of Our God and King,\" \"Great Is Thy Faithfulness,\" \"Our Savior's Love,\" \"Crown Him with Many Crowns,\" and many more.\nCome, Come Ye Saints (Legacy Series) (2007)\n2007 reissue of a classic album! Remastered album of songs commemorating the Latter-Day Saints arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. A special sesquicentennial release commemorating one-hundred fifty years since the entrance of the pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, this album features contemporary arrangments of well- loved Latter-Day Saint hymns and anthems.\nO Divine Redeemer (Legacy Series) (2007)\n2007 reissue of a classic album! Remastered album of sacred and classical masterworks, including \"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,\" \"Were You There?\" \"Hallelujah Chorus\" from Christ on the Mount of Olives, and selections from John Rutter's \"Requiem\".\nShowtime! Music of Broadway and Hollywood (2007)\nThis recording from the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square features your most-requested songs from stage and screen.\nChristmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir [CD+DVD] (2006)\n2006 CD+DVD reissue of popular Christmas program. Songs include: \"Lippai/Upon the Mountain\" \"Oh Come All ye Faithful\" and more.\nThe Wonder of Christmas (2006)\nAs part of their annual Christmas music tradition, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square perform a series of Christmas concerts. Now the spirit of Christmas embodied in these annual concerts is captured in Christmas at Temple Square. Featuring special guests such as Angela Lansbury and Frederica von Stade, this selection of live performances will become a part of your Christmas tradition.\nHoly Holy Holy: Classics of Faith & Inspiration (2006)\n2006 various artists import featuring one performance by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Hallelujah Chorus\".\nEssential Choral Classics (2006)\n2006 compilation from Decca Records featuring three numbers by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Simple Gifts,\" \"Shenandoah\" and \"Deep River\".\nNow Let Us Rejoice: Organ Hymns for the Sabbath (2006)\nMormon Tabernacle organists John Longhurst, Clay Christiansen, and Richard Elliott perform 23 hymn-based compositions showcasing the majestic Conference Center pipe organ.\nThe Knot Collection of Ceremony and Wedding Music Selected by the Knot's Carley Roney (2006)\n2006 Various artists collection featuring one performance by the Tabernacle Choir: \"Hallelujah Chorus\"\nThe Absolute Sound: SACD Sampler (2006)\n2006 SACD sampler by the Telarc label, featuring one song by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Praise To The Lord\".\nThe Essential Christmas (2005)\n2005 compliation by Sony Records with two songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Joy to the World\" and \"Hallelujah Chorus\".\nMiklos Rozsa: Three Choral Suites:Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis and King of Kings (2005)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir joins with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra to present choral suites from Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis, and King of Kings.\nMartha Stewart Living Music - Classical Favorites for the Holidays (2005)\n2005 various artists compilation by Martha Stewart and CBS records, collecting classically-flavored holiday music. The Tabernacle Choir is featured on two vintage tracks: \"O Little Town Of Bethlehem\" - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir with The New York Philharmonic, Cond. by Leonard Bernstein, and \"Silent Night\" - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir & The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble & Percussion.\nChoose Something Like a Star (2005)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present a loving tribute to the choral music of Randall Thompson. Included are the Frostiana song cycle; two Alleluia's; four excerpts from \"The Peaceable Kingdom\" and more!\nChoral Adagios (2004)\n2004 compilation by Decca Records featuring two songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Simple Gifts\" and \"Shenandoah\".\n20 Favorites (2004)\n2004 compilation gathering sacred anthems and hymns. Tracks include: \" O Worship the King,\" \"O God, Our Help in Ages Past,\" \"Lift Thine Eyes,\" \"Now the Day Is Over,\" \"Hail, Bright Abode,\" and many more.\nAmerica's Choir: Favorite Songs, Hymns, & Anthems (2004)\nMusic for this album is drawn from the PBS documentary by Lee Groberg and the accompanying DVD which herald this remarkable organization and its lasting imprint on the music world. (See also the book by Heidi Swinton, author of the documentary). Featured are the arrangements of Mack Wilberg, associate conductor of the Choir, who also scored the film.\nPeace Like a River (2004)\nConducted by music director Craig Jessop, with many new arrangements by associate director Mack Wilberg, this album features compositions by John Rutter, Janice Kapp Perry, and Irving Berlin, in a rich mixture of spirituals, folk songs, lullabies, and hymns. The Orchestra at Temple Square provides rich accompaniment.\nPatriot's Songbook, A (2003)\n2003 companion CD to \"The Patriot's Handbook\" with songs selected by Caroline Kennedy. Features one song by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"My Country 'Tis of Thee\".\nMessages from Music and the Spoken Word (2003)\nThis volume commemorates seventy-five years of broadcast excellence and recounts the history of the program and the lives of those individuals who have played principal roles in its production. With an introduction by Lloyd Newell and brief essays highlighting the history of the seven intervening decades, written by Stephen Wunderli, readers will be able to place the \"spoken word\" messages in their historical contexts.\nFor Book Lovers (2003)\n2003 compilation by Decca Records featuring one track by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Shenandoah\".\nFrom early folk songs and beloved hymns to patriotic fanfare of yesteryear to stirring new pieces written just for the Choir, you'll find music that will touch your heart, lift your spirit, and tickle your fancy. All your favorites are here\u2014\"God Bless America,\" \"America the Beautiful,\" the National Anthem, \"Battle Hymn of the Republic\"\u2014as well as music by some of America's favorite composers.\nVoice of the Chorus, The (2003)\n2003 compilation by Decca featuring three songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: \"Shenandoah,\" \"Simple Gifts\" and \"Battle Hymn of the Republic\".\nThe Voice of America (2003)\n2003 Compilation of various artists. Contains the following songs by the Tabernacle Choir: \"Shenandoah\", \"The Battle of New Orleans\", \"The Battle Hymn of the Republic\" and \"Sourwood Mountain\".\nConsider the Lilies (2003)\nThis new collection of music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square embodies the spirit of the Savior's teachings of faith, love, and hope for the future.\nChristmas With The Mormon Tabernacle Choir [Madacy] (2002)\nA 2002 compilation of traditional holiday favorites, with an emphasis on English Christmas music! Selections include: \"Good King Wenceslas,\" \"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,\" \"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,' \"Carol of the Bells,\" \"While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks,\" and many more.\nUltimate Power of Christmas (2002)\n2002 compilation by Madacy Records with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featured on one song: \"The First Noel\".\nMajesty of America, The (2002)\nA two-CD compilation of classic recordings by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring songs which celebrate the freedoms and glories of America. Songs include: \"You're a Grand Old Flag,\" \"Rock of Ages,\" \"Home on the Range,\" \"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands,\" \"My Country! 'Tis of Thee,\" \"Yankee Doodle Boy,\" and many others.\nFreedom: Songs from the Heart of America (2002)\n2002 compilation, a 3-CD box set serving as a companion to the PBS television series. Features the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on one song: \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again\".\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir Celebrates America [Sony] (2002)\nA compilation album of patriotic songs celebrating the spirit of America. Songs include: \"Born Free,\" \"God Bless America,\" \"This is My Country,\" \"Down in the Valley,\" \"Shenandoah\" and many more. Featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy.\nLegacy (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2001)\n2001 CD Soundtrack by Merrill Jenson from the feature film \"Legacy\", with music by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Recording Orchestra.\nSound of Glory, The (2001)\nDirector Craig Jessop leads the choir in this collection of beloved inspirational hymns. Includes the choir's most requested piece, \"The Battle Hymn of the Republic.\"\nMormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas, A (2000)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir joins with the Orchestra at Temple Square to add this sparkling new entry to the Choir's great tradition of Christmas recordings.\n2000 CD reissue of two LPs - \"Curtain Up\" and \"Down Memory Lane\". Songs include: \"Oklahoma\", \"As Time Goes By\" and more.\nSongs of Faith / I Can Do All Things (1999)\n1999 collection of two previously-released albums: \"Songs of Faith\" by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and \"I Can Do All Things\" by the International Mass Choir.\n1998 recording of John Longhurst, Clay Christiansen, and Richard Elliott playing the Tabernacle organ, featuring works by Arne, Bach, Reger, Shearing, Wagner, Widor, and others.\nI Believe In Christ: Hymns of the Latter-Day Saints (1998)\n1998 CD celebrating Latter-Day Saints great Christian hymns, both ancient and modern. Songs include: \"I Believe In Christ\", \"O Divine Redeemer\", \"Christ The Lord Is Risen Today\" and more.\nSongs of America [Excelsior] (1998)\nA compilation of classic recordings of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring loved American songs, including: \"America the Beautiful,\" \"Dixie,\" \"Shenandoah,\" \"Seventy-Six Trombones,\" \"Climb Every Mountain,\" and many more.\nChristmas with Charles Osgood (1997)\nA Christmas celebration featuring Michael Davis' \"An American Christmas\" - plus works by John Rutter, J.S. Bach, and a spoken narrative by guest artist Charles Osgood.\nChristmas with Marilyn Horne and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (1997)\n1997 CD reissue of original 1983 LP. Marilyn Horne joins the Tabernacle Choir in a festival of spiritual holiday anthems. Songs include: \"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,\" \"O Holy Night,\" \"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,\" \"Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella,\" and many more.\nCome, Come, Ye Saints (1997)\nA special sesquicentennial release commemorating one-hundred fifty years since the entrance of the pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, this album features contemporary arrangments of well- loved Latter-Day Saint hymns and anthems.\nBeethoven: Symphony No. 9 \"Choral\"; Choral Fantasy; Ah, Perfido (1997)\nA reissue of the Tabernacle Choir's 1967 recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony [Choral] conducted by Richard P. Condie and Eugene Ormandy; with an additional CD of Beethoven works performed by various artists.\nNativity: The Music of Christmas (1996)\nA limited-edition enhanced CD featuring the Choir singing ten seasonal favorites, plus a multimedia presentation featuring the story of the nativity, and a bonus video of the Choir singing \"Angels We Have Heard on High.\"\nChristmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Organ and Chimes (1996)\n1996 CD reissue of 1964 LP, with Alexander Schreiner performing on the world-renowned Tabernacle Organ in a program of holiday anthems. Numbers include: \"Adeste Fideles,\" \"O Holy Night,\" \"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,\" and more.\nChristmas Carols Around The World (1996)\nCD reissue of 1961 LP. An international festival of carols from around the globe! Includes \"Song of the Bagpipers [Italian Folk Song],\" \"Christmas Day,\" \"As Lately We Watched [Austrian Carol],\" \"Brother John's Noel [French Carol],\" \"See the Radiant Sky Above [Danish Christmas Carol],\" and many more.\nLord's Prayer, The [Collectables] (1996)\nA 1996 collection of anthems, choruses, hymns and folk songs. Numbers include: \"Heavenly Father! (Ave Maria),\" \"Hallelujah, Amen (from \"Judas Maccabaeus\"),\" \"My Shepherd Will Supply My Need,\" \"Come, Sweet Death,\" \"O Be Joyful,\" and many more.\nAmerican Requiem, An (1996)\nA 1996 recording, composed and conducted by James DeMars for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and featuring Audrey Luna (soprano), Linda Childs (mezzo-soprano), Robert Breault (tenor), and Simon Estes (bass-baritone). This performance was recorded in Washingon D.C.\nHymns of Faith II (1996)\nA second volume of faith-inspiring hymns, performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir under the direction of Jerold Ottley. Included are: \"The God of Abraham Praise,\" \"Each Life That Touches Ours for Good,\" \"For All the Saints,\" \"All Creatures of Our God and King,\" \"Great Is Thy Faithfulness,\" \"Our Savior's Love,\" \"Crown Him with Many Crowns,\" and many more.\nSir David Willcocks Conducts Handel's Messiah (1996)\nUnder the direction of world-famous British choral director Sir David Willcocks the Choir recorded Handel's Messiah with the NightPro Symphony Orchestra in 1996.\nIn Dulci Jubilo: A Christmas Celebration for Organ (1995)\n1995 recording of John Longhurst, Clay Christiansen and Richard Elliott playing Christmas favorites on the Tabernacle organ.\nWishing You a Merry Christmas (1995)\n1995 compilation of classic holiday favorites! Includes: \"O Come All Ye Faithful,\" \"Silent Night, Holy Night,\" \"When Jesus Was A Little Child,\" \"O Holy Night,\" \"And The Glory Of The Lord\" and many more.\nMore Greatest Hits: 18 Best-Loved Favorites (1995)\nThis collection of classic recordings by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir contains many traditional favorites, including \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home,\" \"Anvil Chorus,\" \"The Lost Chord,\" \"It's A Grand Night For Singing,\" \"My Favorite Things\" and many others.\nMake A Joyful Noise: Beloved Choruses (1995)\nJerold Ottley conducts the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Tabernacle Choir in a joyful collection of sacred choruses from Mozart, Shubert, Hayden, Bach, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Poulenc, and more. Includes: \"Onward Christian Soldiers,\" \"The Lord's Prayer,\" \"Rise Up, Arise,\" \"Sanctus,\" \"Gloria,\" and many more.\nSongs of Faith [1995]\n1995 reissue of \"Songs of Faith\" on Sony Special Products label. Containing reverent songs of faith and hope. Selections include: \"How Firm a Foundation,\" \"Come, Come, Ye Saints,\" \"Nearer My God to Thee,\" \"I Know that My Redeemer Lives,\" and many others.\nThis is Christmas (1994)\nA musical journey through Christmas, featuring rarely-heard carols and anthems! Songs include: \"Tambourine Noel,\" \"Jesu, Son Most Sweet And Dear,\" \"La Virgen Lava Panales,\" \"Carol From An Irish Cabin,\" and many more!\nOrgan of the Mormon Tabernacle - Salt Lake City (1994)\n1994 CD featuring organist Clay Christiansen playing a program of classical works including the works of Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Bach.\nIn the Shadows of the Everlasting Hills (1994)\n1994 recording of Richard Elliott playing the Tabernacle organ, featuring works by Bach, Debussy, Fletcher, Franck, Vierne and others. Also includes two versions of the traditional closing theme for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's \"Music and the Spoken Word\" broadcast: \"As the Dew from Heaven Distilling.\"\nLive in Jerusalem (1994)\nThe Mormon Tabernacle Choir recorded live January 4, 1993 in the Binyanei Ha'Ooma Convention Center. Numbers include: \"By the Waters of Babylon,\" \"Come, Come Ye Saints,\" \"The Last Words of David,\" \"How Excellent Thy Name,\" \"Now Shout,\" and many more.\nRomantic French Fantasies (1994)\n1994 recording of John Longhurst playing a program of works by French composers including Alain, Dupr\u00c3\u00a9, Franck, Vierne, Widor and others on the Tabernacle organ.\nNoel: A Worldwide Christmas Celebration (1993)\n1993 album filled with medleys of Christmas Carols from around the world! Includes: \"Christmas Is Here Again (Sweedish Carol) / King Jesus Hath A Garden (Dutch Carol) / Stars Were Gleaming (Polish Carol),\" \"Still, Still, Still (Austrian Carol) / The Happy Christmas Comes Once More (Carl Balle- Nicolai Gruntvig) / Here We Come A' Caroling (English Wassail Song),\" and many more.\nBerlioz: Requiem (1993)\n1993 2-CD set given to members of the Tabernacle Choir in remembrance of their performance at the Grand Teton Music Festival.\nO Divine Redeemer (1992)\n1992 CD featuring songs which glorify the Savior. Remastered album of sacred and classical masterworks, including \"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,\" \"Were You There?,\" \"Hallelujah Chorus\" from Christ on the Mount of Olives, and selections from John Rutter's \"Requiem\".\nRock of Ages: 30 Great Hymns (1992)\nA powerful collection of classic recordings from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, this selection of traditional favorites includes: \"Onward Christian Soldiers,\" \"Abide With Me,\" \"Now The Day Is Over,\" \"Rock Of Ages,\" \"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,\" \"I Need Thee Every Hour\" and many more.\nSimple Gifts (1992)\n1992 CD with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir joining Frederica Von Stade in a program of choruses and popular favorites. Joseph Silverstein conducts the Utah Symphony and Jerold Ottley directs the choir.\nSongs from America's Heartland (1991)\nA light-hearted collection of classic recordings by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir directed by Jerold Ottley, celebrating the sound and rhythms of America. From the Southern flavor of \"Sourwood Mountain\" and the gentle strains on \"Black Sheep,\" to the raucous hoe-down of Mack Wilberg's \"Cindy\" to \"Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho\", this recording is filled with the spirit of American songwriting at its best.\nSilent Night: The Greatest Hits of Christmas (1990)\nA classic collection of Christmas songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, accompanied by the Columbia Brass & Percussion Ensemble and Directed by Jerold Ottley. Featuring the sacred holiday classics \"Joy To The World,\" \"O Little Town Of Bethlehem,\" \"O Come, All Ye Faithful,\" the title track, and more.\nCurtain Up! (1990)\n1990 CD compilation gathering songs from stage and screen. Songs include: \"Over The Rainbow,\" \"On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever),\" \"Seventy-Six Trombones,\" \"Climb Ev'ry Mountain,\" \"Somewhere,\" and five more.\nSongs of Inspiration (1989)\n1989 CD where Kiri Te Kanawa joins the Tabernacle Choir and Utah Symphony Orchestra for a program of inspirational choruses and anthems. Songs include: \"Nonnenchor (Nun's Chorus),\" \"O Divine Redeemer,\" \"Va, pensiero,\" \"Hear My Prayer,\" and more.\n1985 LP with Ricard Condie directing a program of romantic serenades by Brahms, Schubert, Elgar, Rachmaninoff and others. Songs include: \"As Torrents In Summer,\" \"Waters Ripple and Flow,\" \"How Fair is Thy Face,\" and many more.\nAn inspiring collection of recordings by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir containing reverent songs of faith and hope. Selections include: \"How Firm a Foundation,\" \"Come, Come, Ye Saints,\" \"Nearer My God to Thee,\" \"I Know that My Redeemer Lives,\" and many others.\nSongs America Loves Best, Vol. III - The Twenties (1982)\n1982 LP with Jerold Ottley conducting the Columbia Orchestra. Songs include: \"I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time,\" \"Blue Skies,\" \"I'll Get By,\" \"Look For The Silver Lining,\" and more.\nPower and the Glory, The: 10 Favorite Choruses (1981)\n1981 LP with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra directed by Jerold Ottley. Songs include: \"Ave Maria (Heavenly Father),\" \"Hallelujah Chorus,\" \"The Battle Hymn of the Republic,\" and more. This was the choir's first digital recording.\nMemories: Songs America Loves Best (1980)\n1980 LP with the Columbia Orchestra directed by Jerold Ottley. Songs include: \"I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now,\" \"I'll See You In My Dreams,\" \"Love's Old Sweet Song,\" \"Smilin' Through,\" and many more.\nOratorio from The Book of Mormon (1979)\n1979 LP of Leroy J. Robertson's specially- commissioned work celebrating the Book of Mormon. Jerold Ottley directs the Tabernacle Choir, and Maurice Abravanel conducts the Utah Symphony.\nIt's Christmas! (1977)\n1977 album remastered for CD. A collection of traditional Christmas favorites, encompassing both sacred carols and festive holiday cheer! Includes: \"Deck the Hall,\" \"Away in a Manger,\" \"O Holy Night,\" \"The First Noel,\" and many others.\n1977 album remastered for CD, with the choir conducted by Richard P. Condie, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerold D. Ottley. Tracks include: \"Good King Wenceslas,\" \"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,\" \"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,\" \"Carol Of The Bells,\" \"While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks,\" and five more.\nMusic and the Spoken Word (1975)\n1975 LP celebrating the life and messages of Richard L. Evans, longtime presenter of \"The Spoken Word\" on the Choir's weekly broadcast. Inspirational messages mingle with songs which include: \"Gently Raise the Sacred Strain,\" \"A Londonderry Air,\" \"Lead, Kindly Light,\" and more.\n1975 compilation LP with The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble and Percussion, Richard Condie, Conductor; Alexander Schreiner and Franks Asper, Organists. Songs include: \"A Mighty Fortress,\" \"How Firm a Foundation,\" \"Behold the Great Redeemer Die,\" and many more.\nSings Stars and Stripes Forever and Other Favorite Marches (1973)\n1973 LP with Richard P. Condie conducting The Columbia Symphonic Band in the music of John Philips Sousa and other popular marches, including: \"Semper Fidelis,\" \"Anchors Aweigh,\" \"El Capitan,\" and more.\nHallelujah Chorus: The Great Handel Choruses (1969)\n1969 album remastered for CD. Features Richard Condie, director; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor. Tracks include: \"Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound,\" \"See, The Conqu'ring Hero Comes!,\" \"Sing Unto God,\" \"For Unto Us A Child Is Born,\" \"Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite,\" and many more.\nOnward Christian Soldiers (1968)\n1968 LP featuring songs of courage and faith, including: \"Ballad of Brotherhood,\" \"Song of the Silent Land,\" \"Abide with Me,\" \"He's Gone Away,\" and more.\nOld Beloved Songs, The (1967)\n1967 LP with Richard P. Condie conducting the Choir in songs that touch the heart. Tracks include: \"Annie Laurie,\" \"The Ash-Grove,\" \"Loch Lomond,\" \"Calm as the Night,\" and many more.\nSing Unto God - An All-Request Program Of Radio and Television Favorites (1966)\n1966 LP featuring songs conducted by Richard P. Condie. Songs include: \"Sing Unto God,\" \"Lamb of God,\" \"The Paper Reeds By The Brook,\" \"Crossing The Bar\" and more.\nMemorable Moments from the 1964 World's Fair Tour (1964)\n1964 souvenir LP presented to members of the Tabernacle Choir by KSL Radio in appreciation for their long association with the Choir. Commemorating the Choir's appearance at the 1964 New York World's Fair.\nMormon Tabernacle Organ Recital (1961)\n1961 LP recording of Frank Asper playing the Tabernacle organ, featuring works by Asper, Bach, Boellmann, Fletcher, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Kinder, Schumann, and Widor.\nMighty Fortress, A (1960)\n1960 LP with Richard P. Condie. Songs include: \"How Firm A Foundation,\" \"Behold The Great Redeemer Die,\" \"Onward Christian Soldiers,\" \"More Holiness Give Me,\" \"The Lord is My Shepherd\" and many more.\nMormon Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City (1950)\nCompilation of two of the earliest choir LPs: \"The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City Vols. 1 & 2\" Songs include: \"Let the Mountain Shout for Joy,\" \"Now the Day Is Over,\" \"Jesu, Word of God Incarnate,\" \"Hail Bright Abode,\" and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 519, "original_length": 45412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetruth.com/the-facts/fact-324", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:18Z", "digest": "sha1:SSIPPMSA5QBNUGFCTEBSWMTWOYKS3CHN", "length": 1010, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thetruth.com", "title": "Point of Sale - fact 324 | truth", "raw_content": "ChangeLabSolutions: Point of Sale Playbook: POLICY OPTIONS TO REGULATE THE SALE AND MARKETING OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS, 2016. http://www.changelabsolutions.org/sites/ default/files/Point_of_Sale_Playbook_FINAL_20160105.pdf\nSource: 1. U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Cigarette Report for 2014. Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, 2016 Federal Trade Commission. Federal Trade Commission, https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents /reports/federal-tradecommission- cigarette-report-2014-federal-trade-commission-smokeless-tobacco-report/ftc_cigarette_report_2014.pdf; 2. FTC, Smokeless Tobacco Report for 2014. Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, 2016, https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents /reports/federal-trade-commission-cigarette-report-2014-federal-trade-commission-smokeless-tobacco-report/ftc_smokeless_tobacco_report_2014.pdf [Data for top 5 manufacturers only]. http://tobaccofreewny.com/app/uploads/2015/09 /Influencing-Youth-at-Point-of-Sale-Facts-Sheet.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 8380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thewildlifenews.com/central-idaho/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHIDCO7UUH2SWMPSBJCJNTPXPHNDBQRY", "length": 1729, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thewildlifenews.com", "title": "Central Idaho | The Wildlife News", "raw_content": "Description of Central Idaho- Most of Idaho\u2019s human population lives in the eastern, southern, and northern part of the state. Central Idaho is a mass of mountains, one ridge after another. Parts of these mountains have been given various names, such as the \u201cLick Creek Mountains\u201d or the \u201cBighorn Crags., but they are more generally just called the \u201cSalmon River Mountains;\u201d and more to the north, for no geological reason, they are called the \u201cClearwater Mountains\u201d.\nThere are no cities in central Idaho. A few towns such as Salmon, Challis, Stanley, Grangeville, and Riggins are on the edges. Inside the mountains, there are just a few small places of habitation such as Shoup, Yellowpine, Dixie, and Elk City.\nCentral Idaho in the headwaters of the Yankee Fork. Copyright Ralph Maughan\nUnlike the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, there are no paved highways, few farms or ranches, and little livestock grazing in most of the core area. There are few flat spots except the narrow canyon bottoms, and a few mountain valleys and plateaus such as the Sawtooth Valley and the Chamberlain Basin.\nA good portion of central Idaho is protected within the Frank Church, Selway/Bitterroot, Sawtooth, and Gospel Hump Wilderness areas. There are many more smaller, and unprotected, roadless areas (on the order of 50 or 100-thousand acres each). The areas that do have roads were developed mostly for timbering and mining, and have few permanent residents. Central Idaho has proven to be excellent wolf country, and due to its primitive nature there have been fewer human-caused wolf deaths and livestock depredations.\nIdaho Fish and Game has declared war on the wolves in the upper Selway area due to their perception of too many eaten elk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 7126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theworks.co.uk/c/kids-zone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:F24YK6WLRKUREKWIMRVYW4XAQVCCM7PX", "length": 2189, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.theworks.co.uk", "title": "Kids Zone | Buy Kids Zone at The Works", "raw_content": "Creative Play (120)\nKids Activity Books (179)\nKids Characters (120)\nKids Party Supplies (85)\nKids Toys and Games (238)\nSchool Essentials (63)\n[TheWorks_KIDS-ZONE_lhsNavSpot]\nRefine your search for Kids Zone by price and our other suggested filters.\nBrowse our selection of books, toys, games and craft ideas children will love!\nKids Book Sets\nKids Jigsaws\n[KIDS-ZONE_cat]\nBuild Your Own Den - 75 Piece Kit\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/outdoor-toys/build-your-own-den---75-piece-kit/5052089185500\nPeter Rabbit - Friends Forever\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-children-s-books/peter-rabbit---friends-forever/9780241395158\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/make-your-own/kids-big-bag-of-craft/5015934938621\nPeter Rabbit - Happy Birthday Peter\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-children-s-books/peter-rabbit---happy-birthday-peter/9780241395073\nPaint Your Own Mug Kit\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/craft-activities-for-kids/paint-your-own-mug-kit/8715427032429\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/children-s-fiction/the-not-so-perfect-penguin/9781781713600\nPeter Rabbit - Lilys Party Time\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-children-s-books/peter-rabbit---lilys-party-time/9780241395080\nPeter Rabbit - Football Fever\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-children-s-books/peter-rabbit---football-fever/9780241395141\nPeppa Pig - Naughty Tortoise\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/10-for-10/peppa-pig---naughty-tortoise/9780241324493\nPeppa Pig - Pedros Pirate Treasure\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/10-for-10/peppa-pig---pedros-pirate-treasure/9780241324509\nA4 Coloured Card - 20 Sheets\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/card/a4-coloured-card---20-sheets/5052089005655\nMake Your Own Magical Unicorn Wind Charm\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/craft-hobbies/make-your-own-magical-unicorn-wind-charm/5052089212336\nPeter Rabbit - Peters Secret Mission\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-children-s-books/peter-rabbit---peters-secret-mission/9780241395097\nPeter Rabbit - The Peter Rabbit Club\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-children-s-books/peter-rabbit---the-peter-rabbit-club/9780241395103\nPVA Craft Glue - 1 Litre\nhttps://www.theworks.co.uk/p/craft-essentials/pva-craft-glue---1-litre/5052089151376\n[TheWorks_KIDS-ZONE_cat_bottom]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 691, "original_length": 13046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thezimbabwedaily.com/news/305785-south-africa-opposition-calls-for-intervention-in-zimbabwe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MZL7V7OIVQO6ZB76OEHCPIBJTDTWMFAU", "length": 428, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thezimbabwedaily.com", "title": "South Africa opposition calls for intervention in Zimbabwe | The Zimbabwe Daily", "raw_content": "20 July 2017. The Economic Freedom Fighters ( EFF) will be celebrating its 4th Anniversary on the 29th of July, 2017 in Curries Fountain, Durban, Kwazulu Natal. Political editor of the Sunday Times sat with the parties CIC Julius Malema to find out how the journey has been and what are their future plans. The meeting took place the EFF National Head Quarters in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Pictures: Moeletsi Mabe/Sunday Times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisinsider.com/facebook-google-employee-perks-happiness-satisfaction-2017-11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:13Z", "digest": "sha1:UJXD2OPHHBSNAYK7M75OPMBUXF2I23TW", "length": 6799, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.thisisinsider.com", "title": "We compared Facebook vs. Google to find which is better to work for - INSIDER", "raw_content": "We compared Facebook vs. Google to find which company is better to work for \u2014 and the winner is clear\nIn a head-to-head comparison between Facebook and Google, one company dominates.\nFacebook and Google are considered some of the best places to work.\nEmployees at both companies report they're extremely satisfied working there \u2014 and the great perks don't hurt, either.\nBut one company truly dominates as a best place to work in a head-to-head comparison: Facebook.\nIf you're faced with the decision of whether you should accept a job at Facebook or Google, consider yourself one of the privileged few.\nBoth tech giants are extremely competitive in their quest to hire the best and the brightest talent, earning them reputations as best places to work.\nOnce you've passed the intense interview process at each respective company, a number of awesome perks, great compensation, and most likely extreme contentment in your new job await you.\nFor years, Facebook and Google have duked it out on Business Insider's and Glassdoor's annual lists of the best places to work in the US. Both employers ranked in the top five on this year's Glassdoor list.\nBut while both tech giants are considered to be great companies to work for, Facebook edges out Google in a number of head-to-head comparisons.\nFacebookers are happier to be there\nEmployees from both tech companies are pretty happy to be there, but Facebook has the edge over Google.\nTo find the companies with the most satisfied workers for its annual Employees' Choice Awards, Glassdoor scanned its massive database of company reviews and ratings from current and former employees.\nBased on employees' reviews, companies received overall ratings on a scale of one to five, with five representing the most satisfied employees.\nFacebook scored 4.5 out of 5, while Google scored 4.4.\n\"From its openness to its diversity, Facebook has truly surpassed all tech companies in terms of culture, perks, and employee lifestyle,\" a software engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park writes.\nPossibly because they get more freedom\nStefanie Loos/Reuters\nFacebook trusts its people.\nDon Faul, a former Facebook executive, told The Wall Street Journal that, compared to Google, which he says is more structured and places more importance on \"manager\" titles, Facebook employees are often placed in roles that cater to their strengths and are encouraged to question and criticize their managers.\nAnd this kind of freedom is perhaps one of the best drivers for employee engagement.\n\"You get zero credit for your title,\" he said. \"It's all about the quality of the work, the power of your conviction, and the ability to influence people.\"\nThey make more money than their Google counterparts\nWe know money isn't everything when it comes to job satisfaction \u2014 but it certainly helps.\nIn fact, while a higher salary won't necessarily boost your happiness, researchers from the University of British Columbia and Michigan State University found that people with higher incomes reported feeling less sad, something Facebook employees surely know well.\nAccording to data gathered by Glassdoor, a software engineer at Facebook makes about $126,780 per year, while a software engineer at Google makes $126,733 per year.\nOn the lower end of the spectrum, a software engineering intern at Facebook makes about $7,080 a month, whereas a software engineering intern at Google makes $6,634.\nThey consider their work more meaningful\n\"Does your work make the world a better place?\" That's what PayScale asked Facebook and Google employees last year, and 81% of Facebook employees answered with a resounding yes. At Google, on the other hand, 67% of employees said they feel their work gives them meaning.\nA former Googler cited one possible explanation on Quora: too many overqualified people.\n\"It can be tough to feel a sense of accomplishment about what you do, and that sense is actually quite important to the type of people who are ambitious enough to get over the Google hiring bar,\" they said.\nThe hiring process is less difficult at Facebook, which could be better for employees long-term\nOn Glassdoor, job candidates consistently rate Google's interview process as more difficult than Facebook's.\nWhile it may seem counterintuitive that more competitive hiring practices could work against Google, an ex-employee explains that the tech giant has its pick of the best and brightest candidates and often hires them for lower-level jobs.\n\"There are students from top 10 colleges who are providing tech support for Google's ad products, or manually taking down flagged content from YouTube, or writing basic code to A|B test the color of a button on a site,\" the ex-employee says.\nSmaller teams at Facebook means more room for growth\nAnother former Google employee says that Google is too big for most of the company's more than 60,000 employees to have a real impact. Facebook, however, employs a much smaller team of less than 24,000 people.\n\"Unless you are an amazingly talented engineer who gets to create something new, chances are you're simply a guy/girl with an oil can greasing the cogs of that machine,\" the former Google employee says.\nAnd when it comes to moving up the ladder, Facebook employees report to Glassdoor that they have greater opportunities for growth. Compared to Googlers who feel satisfied in their ability to move up, Facebookers report that they are very satisfied with the career opportunities at Facebook.\nFacebookers especially love the generous benefits, like the industry-leading perks for parents\nJennifer Leahy for Facebook\nFacebook and Google have great perks \u2014 free food, a vibrant office environment, easy transportation to and from work \u2014 but Facebook trumps Google, especially in the parenthood department.\nFacebook is one of the first companies to offer coverage of up to $20,000 for egg-freezing, it provides $4,000 in \"Baby Cash\" to employees with a newborn, and its employees love that they can enjoy parenthood on their terms, giving the tech company's maternity and paternity leave policies an almost perfect score on Glassdoor.\nCurrent employees are particularly excited to report that Facebook makes its 17 weeks-paid-leave policy available to women and men, whereas Google offers 18 weeks of paid maternity leave but between seven and 12 weeks of paternity leave.\nFacebook offers a compelling case study for how companies can make parental-leave policies work.\nOverall, Facebookers report on Glassdoor being happier with their benefits than Googlers.\n\"There is literally nothing bad about it \u2014 the perks and benefits are incredibly generous, and only get more so over time,\" writes a current employee in Menlo Park, California.\nSEE ALSO: 11 outrageous perks Facebook is offering employees\nMore: Features Google Facebook Best Companies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 9010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.threeriverspublishing.com/TRP3/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=49&Itemid=235&limitstart=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:49Z", "digest": "sha1:O3PGPXV3BRU7PWZUJJHOUSVYPJML6FCX", "length": 2159, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.threeriverspublishing.com", "title": "Letters to the Editor", "raw_content": "Whatever happened to the Golden Rule?\nCreated: Thursday, 24 January 2019 08:21 Written by Ellen Bowles Parent Category: Editorials\tHits: 682\nWithin the space of two days I've heard of two events that show how our elected local officials seem to think they can get away with immature, bad behavior!\n1. Our own Crawford County, District 8, U.S. Representative Jason Smith yelling out in Congress, \"Go back to Puerto Rico!\"\nMissouri could benefit from more food manufacturing\nCreated: Thursday, 17 January 2019 09:00 Written by Eric Bohl Parent Category: Editorials\tHits: 397\nA new study soon to be released by the University of Missouri and agriculture industry partners including Missouri Farm Bureau finds that Missouri has the capability to grow the impact of its food and agriculture industry by over $25 billion in the next eight years. Dean Chris Daubert of the University of Missouri\u2019s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources previewed the feasibility study\u2019s findings and recommendations on January 10 at the Governor\u2019s Conference on Agriculture.\nCreated: Thursday, 17 January 2019 08:59 Written by J.M. Stock Parent Category: Editorials\tHits: 272\nJanuary 19, 2019 is the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to make abortion legal in the United States of America.\nMarketing misleads\nCreated: Wednesday, 09 January 2019 14:11 Written by Eric Bohl Parent Category: Editorials\tHits: 313\nFood marketing claims have always stretched the truth. How many \u201cmiracle cures\u201d or \u201csuperfoods\u201d have been pitched to us over the years? But some recent trends are taking dishonest marketing tactics to a whole new level.\nNew Farm Bill looks good for Missouri\nCreated: Tuesday, 01 January 2019 10:57 Written by Eric Bohl Parent Category: Editorials\tHits: 309\nJust in time for the new year, Congressional Republicans and Democrats ironed out their differences and agreed upon a new farm bill. Unlike some farm bills in years past, the 2018 version drew broad bipartisan support, passing the Senate 87-13 and the House 369-47. Farm bills typically are only renewed every five years, making each one incredibly important for the agricultural community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thx.com/blog/streaming-movies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UPXBTQIP52YZFMK3EPR3PZE3AALKIUGW", "length": 4791, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.thx.com", "title": "Streaming Movies On Your Mobile Device? We Need to Talk. - THX", "raw_content": "BY THX Tech March 3, 2017\nStreaming Movies On Your Mobile Device? We Need to Talk.\nIs it ever ok to stream movies on a mobile device? We can hear you A/V enthusiasts screaming your emphatic answer at your screens now: \u201cNo! Never! Give me my home theater or give me nothing!\u201d\nWe hear you, and we get it. But we also understand that there are times you\u2019ll want to watch a movie or TV show, and you\u2019ll have no other option than to stream it on a mobile device to get your fix.\nSo if you\u2019re riding the train home from work and you just have to see the new episode of The Walking Dead, by all means, fire up a streaming app on your smartphone. But you should know that your experience is going to suffer greatly. And here\u2019s why:\nThe compression game\nFirst, a quick recap from our previous blog on streaming: content companies like Netflix and Hulu use a process called adaptive bitrate streaming (ABS) to offer up a number of different versions of a video file across a spectrum of compression qualities. Your device will request the highest quality file it\u2019s capable of displaying, based on the device\u2019s technical specs and the strength of your internet connection.\nIf you\u2019re streaming across a fast connection to a high-resolution device (like a 4K TV,) you may well get a good-looking file. Though we feel like we have to note, if your internet connection slows during your stream, you\u2019ll automatically be switched to a lower quality compression and could likely wind up watching your content in SD.\nUnfortunately, there are currently no guidelines for what compression files should be across different platforms. Streaming Media Alliance is working on standardizing the file type requirements so that the image sizes meet certain standards, but for now, it\u2019s a bit of a crapshoot.\nRegardless, if you\u2019re streaming across a 3G or 4G cellular connection to your smartphone, you can kiss your hopes of high-resolution HD content goodbye. Let\u2019s dive a little deeper to discover why that\u2019s the case\u2014and why it matters.\nA low ceiling\nWith 3G and 4G connections, the highest bandwidth service achievable is 1.8 megabytes/sec. This speed makes 1080p playback impossible, no matter what the salesperson at your cellular provider store told you. The highest possible resolution at this speed is 720p.\nAnd keep in mind, that\u2019s the ceiling. 720p is the absolute best you can do. Frequently, the resolution will be much worse.\nBut why does this matter? As long as you can hear the dialogue and see most of the action, isn\u2019t the experience acceptable? We don\u2019t think so, for a number of reasons.\nAt low resolution, you\u2019re missing many of the fine details the creator of the content wanted you to see. It\u2019s like squinting when looking at a Picasso\u2014sure, you\u2019ll get a general sense of the painting, but you\u2019re not seeing the full picture. You\u2019re not getting the effect the artist intended.\nLower resolution can also ruin your suspension of disbelief. High-resolution images appear more realistic, sucking you into the film\u2019s story and adding to the illusion that what you\u2019re seeing is really happening. Low-resolution content looks fuzzy and fake, continually reminding you that you\u2019re viewing a fictional production. That awareness makes for a lesser film experience.\nScreen size is a problem as well. Watching a small screen for long periods results in visual fatigue. Your eyes have to constantly scan the picture for detail, rather than just being able to take it all in at once.\nAnd let\u2019s not forget audio. Listening to a film or TV show through a mobile device causes you to miss out on important sound effects, and musical cues that add to the story. You wouldn\u2019t listen to a Guns N\u2019 Roses song with Slash\u2019s guitar track removed. So why would you watch a movie with an incomplete soundtrack?\nMobile streaming\u2014only a last resort\nOne of our technical advisors, Eric Gemmer, said it best:\n\u201cI recently watched Mr. Turner, which relies heavily on the details of the landscape to help set the stage and tone of the film. You have to see all the features in the landscape to fully understand and appreciate the story. These details would be lost if streaming the movie on mobile.\nThere\u2019s a time and place for watching videos on a phone, but choosing to stream a movie on a mobile device if you have the option of watching it on a larger display can really affect your experience of the story.\u201d\nTHX: Improving streaming for everyone\nAt THX, we\u2019re currently working on ways to make the streaming experience better. Look out for more info on that in future blogs. But for now, do yourself a favor: watch your streaming content on a THX Certified TV with THX Certified speakers. You\u2019ll come much closer to getting the full effect the creator intended\u2014something you currently just can\u2019t achieve on a mobile device.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@14.6015,121.006/historic", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:27Z", "digest": "sha1:AZC25LMGMPBVMXIJ6PVIVJ5KB3XQG22L", "length": 477, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.timeanddate.com", "title": "Past Weather in 14\u00b036'N, 121\u00b000'E, Philippines \u2014 Yesterday or Further Back", "raw_content": "Past Weather in 14\u00b036'N, 121\u00b000'E, Philippines \u2014 Yesterday and Last 2 Weeks\nLocation: Science Garden\n90 \u00b0F (Feb 11, 2:00 pm) 95% (Feb 14, 5:00 am) 30.10 \"Hg (Feb 14, 5:00 am)\n67 \u00b0F (Feb 7, 5:00 am) 27% (Feb 11, 11:00 am) 29.85 \"Hg (Feb 6, 11:00 am)\n* Reported Jan 31 11:00 pm \u2014 Feb 15 11:00 pm, 14\u00b036'N, 121\u00b000'E. Weather by CustomWeather, \u00a9 2019\n75 \u00b0F Haze. No wind \u2191 73% 30.04 \"Hg 5 mi\n80 \u00b0F Haze. 1 mph \u2191 58% 30.03 \"Hg 5 mi\n89 \u00b0F Scattered clouds. 2 mph \u2191 40% 29.96 \"Hg 5 mi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/17413778.further-questions-raised-over-labour-councillors-appointment-to-head-up-unit-to-reduce-violent-crime/?ref=rss&utm_source=hendon-news.dailyprss.co.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hendon-news.dailyprss.co.uk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:2FBGNSD6IETKI2DOU4BP4YSTEBW5IBZW", "length": 2323, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.times-series.co.uk", "title": "Further questions raised over Labour Councillor's appointment to head-up unit to reduce violent crime | Times Series", "raw_content": "The unit aims to tackle gun and knife crime\nLondon Assembly members have questioned the appointment of a Labour councillor to head a unit to reduce violent crime after it emerged she was part of the organisation that helped set it up.\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan appointed Lambeth Council leader Cllr Lib Peck in January to head the Violence Reduction Unit, which aims to cut knife and gun crime in the capital by intervening in potential offenders\u2019 lives at an early age.\nDuring a meeting of the assembly\u2019s police and crime committee meeting yesterday it emerged that Cllr Peck was part of the \u2018Reference Group\u2019 that helped to set up the unit.\nThe Reference Group is an organisation made up of councillors, representatives from the Greater London Authority, members of the police and people from the NHS.\nLiberal Democracy Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon questioned the deputy mayor for policing and crime, Sophie Linden about the recruitment process.\nIt also emerged that in a final interview panel for the job, three out of the five people on the interview panel, already knew, or had had a previous relationship with Ms Peck, although Ms Linden confirmed members of the panel who knew Ms Peck had declared this.\nMs Pidgeon queried how closely involved Ms Peck was with members of the interview panel and the setting-up of the unit.\nShe said: \u201cFrom the view of a member of the public it might not seem as open and transparent as you say.\n\u201cI had high hopes for this appointment and I was expecting a policing expert. I fear your appointment undermines that.\u201d\nMs Linden said: \u201cIt was a rigorous process and we approached number people to apply. It was absolutely right that she was appointed.\n\u201cI think when the VRU is opened you will see her vast experience.\u201d\nConservative Assembly Member Keith Prince also hit out at the appointment of Ms Peck.\nMr Prince said: \u201cI don\u2019t see any evidence of her being able to tackle crime. Khan has appointed a card-carrying member of the Labour party.\u201d\nMs Linden insisted she had \u201cabsolute confidence\u201d Ms Peck was the \u201cright person for the job\u201d.\nShe added: \u201cI think Londoners will be more interested in whether she will get the job done.\u201d\nMs Peck will step down as the leader of Lambeth Council to work as part of the unit, which has already had \u00a36.8 million in investment from City Hall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 6379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timestalks.com/people/senator-joni-ernst/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IXV7USANETR23ASZIHOLYI6M3CJOAQRK", "length": 1027, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.timestalks.com", "title": "Senator Joni Ernst - TimesTalks \u00bb The New York Times", "raw_content": "In Nov. 2014, Joni Ernst became the first woman to serve in a federal elected office from Iowa and also the first female combat veteran elected to serve in the United States Senate.\nSenator Ernst serves on four Senate committees of major importance to Iowans: Armed Services; Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Environment and Public Works; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is focused on growing a vibrant economy and ensuring the government runs effectively and efficiently, which means cutting out-of-control spending, reducing taxes, eliminating harmful regulations and balancing the budget. Senator Ernst received her undergraduate degree from Iowa State University where she joined the university\u2019s R.O.T.C. program. After graduating she joined the U.S. Army Reserves. In 2003, she served as a company commander in Kuwait and Iraq, leading 150 Iowa Army National Guardsmen during Operation Iraqi Freedom. She retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard after 23 years of military service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 102.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timurakhmetoff.info/2016/10/why-turkey-wants-role-in-liberation-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SG2ELIWH3SPHYZDA5A4INOMVR6PMYDHM", "length": 8983, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.timurakhmetoff.info", "title": "Timur Akhmetov: Why Turkey wants a role in the liberation of Mosul", "raw_content": "Why Turkey wants a role in the liberation of Mosul\nU.S. and Kurdish forces have already launched a military operation to assist the Iraqi army in recapturing Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Greater Syria (ISIS). Since that became clear, the Turkish government has been staunchly insisting that Ankara should also participate in the operation. The Turkish military presence near Mosul, despite being protested by Baghdad, officially has the goal of supporting the Peshmerga and Sunni forces that are attempting to liberate Mosul. However, official Turkish statements and the nation\u2019s recent foreign policy in the region make many observers doubt the proclaimed intentions of Ankara. They argue that Turkey\u2019s policy is mainly driven by its geopolitical ambitions in Iraq. For Russian decision-makers, it is important to incorporate Turkish efforts into its own Middle East policy and to channel Ankara\u2019s ambitions into the Iran-Turkey-Russia framework of cooperation.\nWhy is Turkey in Iraq?\nEarlier in October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the Turkish army should play a role in the Mosul offensive. He further insisted that no one would be able to prevent forces trained by Turkish soldiers and advisers stationed near Mosul from participating in the operation.\nSuch assertiveness describes in broader terms the current Turkish policy towards Iraq and Ankara\u2019s intentions to be a part of the coming post-ISIS power politics. But it seems reasonable for Ankara to rethink its current hostile stance and to consider closer cooperation with Russia and Iran instead.\nThe Turkish military presence in Iraq is not something new. Cooperation on border security with Iraq has been ongoing since the 1980s, whereas the nation\u2019s limited (but permanent) military presence started in the 1990s. Today there are around 18 Turkish military and intelligence bases mostly located in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan.\nThe main objective of the Turkish presence in Iraq is to fight the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey, EU and the U.S. For example, Turkey established a military camp in Bashiqa in March 2015 as part of its fight with ISIS. It provided training and military assistance to the Kurdish Peshmerga and local Sunni forces al-Hash al-Watani.\nIn December 2016, the Bashiqa camp became the center of a diplomatic scandal between Turkey and the Iraqi central government. The latter demanded from Ankara removal of the camp that was established \u201cin violation of Iraqi sovereignty.\u201d It is quite obvious that Baghdad has been serving as a conduit of Iranian concerns over the Turkish encroachment on its dominion in Iraq.\nFaced with the lack of support from both its Western and Arab partners, the Turkish authorities were forced to mitigate the conflict and were trying to prove that its military presence was necessary to fight ISIS. Now, the same arguments are used to justify Turkish participation in the military offensive in Mosul. Turkey insists that its presence in Iraq is an indispensable element of the fight with ISIS.\nOn the other hand, Ankara seems to ignore ongoing skepticism over its true relations with the Islamic State. It is not a secret for anyone that, in the early stages of its existence, Turkey viewed ISIS as an effective force against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and Kurdish PKK-affiliated Democratic Union Party (PYD) groups. Both are primary enemies of Turkey.\nTurkish officials, when asked about the necessity of its military presence, tend to underline that Turkish bases in Iraq are also ready to contribute to the ongoing fight against the PKK. Allegedly, Turkey is trying to block the advancement of the PKK-affiliated groups along the Syrian-Iraqi border around Sinjar. If those groups get control over the border, it would be easier for the Rojava region in Syria to survive a Turkey-imposed land blockade. Nevertheless, even if the PKK factor is acknowledged and taken into consideration, experts argue that the military presence in Iraq is already adequate for fighting PKK activity there and, in any case, must be coordinated with the central government.\nSo another major motive behind Ankara\u2019s insistence to participate in the offensive might be Turkey\u2019s ambition to retain the area around Mosul under its influence in the post-ISIS period, which promises to be very hectic. With a weak central government in Baghdad and rising influence of Iran in the post-2003 Iraq, the necessity to keep Mosul, the second largest city of the country, under Turkish influence, became not only a relatively easy task, but also a geopolitical imperative in Turkish Middle East policy. It partly explains why Ankara is so staunchly opposed to any involvement of Iran-backed Shia militias in the Mosul offensive.\nHowever, both Ankara and Tehran are trying to avoid a direct confrontation. Instead, they are seeking behind closed doors all possible options to calibrate their respective policies in Iraq. In this regard, diplomatic initiatives of Turkey, Iran and Russia to find a stable mechanism of regional cooperation could contribute to stability in turbulent post-2003 Iraq.\nFrom the perspective of the current Turkish political establishment, Mosul was unjustly seized by Britain in 1918 and the newly founded Turkish Republic was forced by the Western powers to acknowledge the League of Nations\u2019 brokered agreement. The loss of Mosul is, many say, a historical injustice inflicted upon the Turkish people and it must be undone.\nThe current revisionist foreign policy is driven by Turkey\u2019s ambitious President Erdogan, who recently hinted in his speech to parliament that the Lausanne treaty must be reconsidered. (A peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 24, 1923 officially settled the conflict that had existed between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied British Empire, French Republic, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, Kingdom of Greece, and the Kingdom of Romania since the onset of World War I \u2013 Editor\u2019s note)\nSince the early 2000s, Turkish foreign policy was largely shaped and given an academic framework by former Turkish Foreign Minister Mehmet Davutoglu. His proactive vision foresaw the revitalization of Turkey\u2019s ties with its historic neighborhood and, more importantly, reactivation of its influence in the former Ottoman colonies, especially in Syria and Iraq. It is not only soft power that Turkish leadership has been using to secure its presence in Iraq. Ankara has actively been supporting various Sunni groups that were more or less interested in Turkish backing to counterbalance the Iraqi central government.\nTherefore, the Turkish presence to a great extent was based on support of the centrifugal political forces in Iraq. In this vein, Turkey has been justifying its military presence by saying it helps kindred Turkmen and Sunni local populations who suffered the most from ISIS cruelty over the last two years. However, Turkey was not limited to that. It is providing political, financial and military assistance to the Iraqi Kurds, who represent so far the biggest challenge for the Iraqi central government. No doubt this support is more than just a step towards securing its say in local politics.\nFriendly Sunni forces, whether they are Arabs, Turkmen or Kurds, are expected to serve Turkish interests in its future struggle with Iran over influence in Iraq, which historically was the basis for a geopolitical rivalry of the two regional empires.\nTurkey could rely on Russian diplomatic assistance to overcome difficulties it faces today in Iraq. As it was mentioned in regards to the Sunni-Shia sectarian divide in Iraq, Turkey risks colliding with another regional power, Iran, which is interested in preserving a united Iraq under full control of Baghdad.\nAnother issue of concern is Turkish support to the Kurds. Turkey seems to have no other option other than to support the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) government in Iraqi Kurdistan with little realization that Turkish military assistance serves the ultimate Kurdish interest \u2013 full independence from Baghdad.\nWhat can Russia\u2019s role be?\nRussia could use its good relations with Iran as a tool to channel Turkish concerns and grievances into more cooperative dialogue and thus successfully engage both Tehran and Ankara in lessening Western influence in the region.\nBy being more responsive to Turkish security concerns, Iran and Russia could considerably lessen Ankara\u2019s reliance on the Kurds. Finally, looking at the more tactical and near-term perspective, Turkey seems to be meddling in a highly complicated conflict where all sides seem ready to start fighting each other once Mosul is retaken from ISIS. This could make a Russian diplomatic project on a tripartite cooperation mechanism in Iraq attractive for Turkish decision-makers.\nhttp://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/why-turkey-wants-role-liberation-mosul\nLabels: Iran, Iraq, Russia, Turkey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 13111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timurakhmetoff.info/2018/09/us-turkish-relations-in-grip-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:18Z", "digest": "sha1:FFCJ6QOQIHM5LS33KOTX4GKU7LPCF3D5", "length": 10794, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.timurakhmetoff.info", "title": "Timur Akhmetov: US-Turkish relations in the grip of Erdogan's personal ambitions", "raw_content": "Over the past 16 years, relationship between the United States and Turkey has evolved from an exemplary alliance into something usually called relations of frenemies, a mixture of friendship and hostility.\nIt all began very well. In 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey. New political force positioned itself as a moderate Islamist movement and at the same time committed to the ideals of democracy. Washington saw in it a suitable partner and built new Turkish allies and NATO partners into its foreign policy doctrine of democratization of the Middle East.\nGood relations of such prominent representatives of the AKP as Abdullah G\u00fcl, Bulent Ar\u0131n\u00e7 and Recep Erdogan with the West were then taken for granted. After all, the success of the AKP meant not only strengthening the role of Islam in Turkish politics, but also the triumph of democracy, which was able to take root in Muslim-majority society. American diplomats of the Bush era viewed Turkey as a model for development of the entire Middle East region. Views of Barack Obama\u2019s administration were not fundamentally different. In 2009, the 44th President of the United States, speaking in the Turkish parliament, notoriously noted success of Turkish people in building democracy at home.\nSovereign globalism:\nwhy Turks vote for Erdogan\nRelations between Washington and Ankara were also well developed in the foreign affairs realm. The Americans were pleased with the rapprochement between Turkey and Israel. Especially important was the fact of military-political and economic cooperation with Tel Aviv of precisely the pro-Islamic government of Turkey, since it could set an example for other Islamist parties and movements in the Middle East. After the beginning of the \u201cArab spring\u201d, USA hoped that the Turkish pro-Islamic elite would take custody of the forces that came to power as a result of the revolutionary changes in the region.\nAgainst this background, within Turkey itself, processes began, due to which American-Turkish relations today have turned into a tangle of intractable contradictions. In 2002\u20132008, the AKP conducted a series of democratic reforms. In the foreign policy arena, the party representatives declared their commitment to the ideals and values \u200b\u200bof the European Union, which Ankara has been striving to join for over 40 years. In the United States, it was believed that this was a sign of the readiness of Turkish society to switch to a pluralistic and liberal model of democracy. Few Western observers understood then that the Turkish authorities were using democratic methods to establish an authoritarian regime.\nWithin Turkey, the liberal and secular opposition was ready to support the authorities in dismantling the so-called The \u201cguardianship system\u201d (Turkish: vesayet sistemi) of the military-bureaucratic class, which overthrew civilian governments several times, finding that they threaten its interests and lead the country \u201cnot there\u201d. At the same time, the destruction of alternative centers of power, even if they were anti-democratic, took place in the conditions of the unreadiness of society to subordinate the state to its will.\nThe Justice and Development Party, having enlisted the approval of Western countries, convinced a significant part of the Turks of the need for reform, while achieving by 2010\u20132011 a noticeable weakening of the military, the courts and the parliament. In the fight against non-systemic political circles, the government attracted the same non-systemic forces that hoped to get a piece in the subsequent division of power. A vivid example of such an alliance is the collaboration of the AKP with the religious movement of the preacher Fethullah Gulen, aka \u201cHizmet\u201d movement, whose supporters began to receive significant privileges from the government.\nAt the same time, the personal power of one of the founders of the Justice and Development Party, Recep Erdogan, was strengthened. In many ways, the charisma of this politician was the key to the victory of the AKP in the elections of 2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015. For 16 years, Erdogan\u2019s party has never lost a majority in parliament, giving him vital opportunity to change the country to his taste.\nAs Erdogan and the AKP strengthened their positions in Turkey, its foreign policy became increasingly independent and did not coincide with US interests. Awareness of this fact came to the American leadership in 2010. At that time, Ankara allowed the Turkish Islamist Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid to organize a provocative attempt to break through the blockade of Palestinian Gaza, directly challenging Israel\u2019s national security interests.\nTurkey\u2019s value for Russia is\nin her deep ties with the West\nWashington broke up with Ankara and on the Iranian issue. After the United States imposed unilateral sanctions against Tehran in 2010, companies with offices in the States were prohibited from doing business with Iranian residents. However, the Turkish state bank Halkbank in 2012\u20132013, under the direct instructions of the country's leadership, participated in an international scheme to circumvent American sanctions in favor of Iran. Until 2013, the Americans did not have evidence that Halkbank, having access to the American banking network, helped the Iranians to receive foreign currency. In 2016, a lawsuit began in the United States against a high-ranking leader of the Turkish State Bank: the data were provided by supporters of Gulen, who by then already openly feuded with the Erdogan government. Now in Ankara fear\nThe conflict between Erdogan and G\u00fclen - just recently an ally of the AKP in the fight against the secular Kemalist elite - became the starting point in the rapid deterioration of US-Turkish relations. Having dealt with direct competitors, Erdogan set about eliminating the influence network of the G\u00fclen organization in Turkey. The danger for the AKP was represented primarily by supporters of G\u00fclen in the bureaucracy, the army and the courts. The open struggle of Gulen and Erdogan began with an anti-corruption police investigation against Erdogan\u2019s supporters in late 2013, which began with the suggestion of the Gulenists. And she reached her climax in July 2016, when supporters of an Islamic preacher decided on a military coup in the country.\nTrue, the conditions for an objective investigation of those events have not yet been created in Turkey. There is an opinion that the authorities knew about the plans of the conspirators and hoped to use this incident as a pretext for tightening the screws. Commenting on the actions of the Turkish authorities after the introduction of a state of emergency in the country (mass arrests, closure of opposition media and so on), Barack Obama said that Erdogan was a great disappointment to him. In Washington it was decided that the Turkish leader used the insurgency as a pretext for repressing and expelling dissidents from the army and from government posts. Americans were particularly outraged by the persecution of people in Turkey who were not affiliated with the putsch, as well as biased investigations into more than 50,000 people arrested.\nThe US\u2019s concern is not only Turkey\u2019s departure from democratic norms. The Americans see that the forces in the republic that somehow felt that the country should be guided by US policy came under attack. Not surprisingly, the demand to extradite G\u00fclen, despite the tons of materials of criminal cases allegedly provided by Ankara to the American officials, still remains unsatisfied.\nErdogan perceives criticism from Washington as a demand to abandon the extensive powers and influence that he has concentrated in his hands all these years. It is clear that as long as Erdogan rules the country completely, he may not worry about his freedom: no one would risk initiating an investigation into his relations with G\u00fclen or the ministers accused of corruption. In these circumstances, Erdogan decided to make bilateral relations between Turkey and the United States the subject of his own bargaining with the US authorities.\nIn March of this year, the trial of the American pastor Andrew Brunson, who had lived in Izmir for the last 20 years, began. He was arrested in 2016 on charges of espionage and links to terrorists. This incident made the dialogue between Ankara and Washington even more intense. In response to US demands to immediately release their citizen, Erdogan said he was ready to exchange him for Gulen. As a result, Washington imposed sanctions against two Turkish ministers and doubled the import duties on aluminum and steel for Turkey. It struck the Turkish economy and the rate of the lira, which was already going through hard times. But it seems that Erdogan is ready to sacrifice the economic well-being of millions of Turks, just to prove that he will not bend before Trump.\nErdogan uses the rich traditions of anti-Americanism in the country. According to opinion polls, today the majority of citizens of the republic have a negative attitude towards the United States. The lack of high-quality expertise and open discussion of foreign policy problems leads to the fact that the population does not receive any other information than that which the state propaganda presents to it. And it presents a conflict with the United States as a struggle for the political independence of a country led by a strong-willed national leader.\nThe Erdogan government uses rapprochement with Moscow as an instrument of influence on Washington. For example, the purchase of the C-400 air defense missile systems, of course, meets the security interests of Turkey, but at the same time sends an unequivocal signal to its Western partners. At the same time, the aircraft of the latest generation, which Ankara intended to buy from the United States, it may never receive. If the Americans break the contract, it will mean that the cooperation of Washington and Ankara in the military-technical sphere is curtailed. If, nevertheless, the cars are handed over to Turkey, this will be a sign that, although Americans don\u2019t like Erdogan, his policy does not harm their interests.\nIt can be said that, while Erdogan is in power, American-Turkish relations will remain strained, because one of the main causes of the crisis is the authoritarian habits of the Turkish leader and Turkey\u2019s withdrawal from Western standards of democracy. But the desire for undivided power - the core policy of Erdogan. And, it seems, he intends to force the US to accept the fact that Turkey is changing, even if because of this, bilateral relations are degrading even more.\nOriginally published in Russian: http://www.profile.ru/politika/item/126922-i-ne-drug-i-ne-vrag\nLabels: Erdogan, G\u00fclen, Turkey, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 15050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tlcminnesota.org/profile/ken-rodgers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:26Z", "digest": "sha1:J4QXJMDBJHWH63BZOK56TBBW2VQ2MMG6", "length": 833, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tlcminnesota.org", "title": "Ken Rodgers - Transit for Livable Communities - Minnesota", "raw_content": "Ken Rodgers received his Master of Public Affairs (MPA) from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, where he specialized in disability policy. Ken worked for the Vocational Rehabilitation Services at Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) before moving to the Department of Transportation (DOT). At DOT, Ken serves as the Disability Programs Coordinator in the Office of Equity and Diversity (OED) and is responsible for ADA Title I issues across the state. Ken serves on the Met Council Transportation Access Advisory Committee (TAAC) and is the chair of the Minneapolis Advisory Committee on People with Disabilities (MACOPD). Ken also currently serves on the LRT Blue line extension Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) and formerly served on the Central Corridor (Green line) LRT CAC.\nSarah SevcikBen Rabe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tlh.co.uk/blog/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:RLHPHVFGEM4Y72Q3HMFB6N7CVDOIGLKC", "length": 835, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tlh.co.uk", "title": "About, Torquay and Devon Holiday Blog", "raw_content": "TLH Leisure Resort has grown over the years under the ownership of the Murrell family who first bought the Derwent Hotel in 1947 when it was just a small guest house. Over the years the company has grown and now includes the Derwent, Victoria, Carlton & Toorak Hotels plus self-catering apartments. With its outstanding choice of leisure facilities, nightly entertainment throughout the year, it is not hard to see why it is such a popular holiday destination for numerous guests, many of whom return time and time again. In more recent years has been the development of the Aztec Club which offers gym, swimming pools, luxury spa, fitness studio and bistro, available to hotel guests and local residents. But what makes TLH really special is the enthusiastic team of people who run it and the high level of customer care they provide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tlh.co.uk/entertainment/entertainment-diary/detail?dt=2019-10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3XUWWKOCXDJDR6KLBRKXB2LF5KEMSEVT", "length": 169, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tlh.co.uk", "title": "Entertainment throughout the year | Torquay Hotels - TLH Leisure Resort", "raw_content": "A guide to our planned activities and entertainment for October, including Big Band Weekend, is now available and a more detailed guide will be shown nearer to the time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 13935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.toki.tokyo/artisan-stories/chikara-mizukami", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HLC3YZPRQIDYTSAPSX2VXBY5KMQKLEAM", "length": 5203, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.toki.tokyo", "title": "WAGASHI - CHIKARA MIZUKAMI \u2014 TOKI", "raw_content": "WAGASHI - CHIKARA MIZUKAMI\nBorn into a wagashi-making family, and, in 1977, created Ikouan. Currently, as a wagashi artisan, Chikara Mizukami participates in many activities throughout the world. He actively collaborates with many international chocolate companies and patisserie maisons such as Valrhona, Sadaharu Aoki, and Jean-Charles Rochoux. He provides demonstrations at Relais Desserts and wagashi related lectures at art museums in the world. He was also nominated as 1 of 5 Japanese chefs out of 400 best chefs in the world selected by Where Chef\u2019s Eat, a guide to chef\u2019s favorite restaurants.\nPhilosophy of making wagashi\n\u201cThe positions that wagashi (Japanese confectionary) and Western confectionary hold are very different,\u201d said Chikara Mizukami. To understand what he means by that, one must first understand Wagashi. \u201cWhile Western confectionary is itself the main item in a dessert, wagashi on the other hand, plays a minor role in supporting Japanese tea. In other words, wagashi's sole purpose is to enhance the taste and enjoyment of Japanese tea.\u201d\n\u201cTea is the main star while the confectionary plays the supporting role.\u201d This is the aesthetics of wagashi, a philosophy in which Chikara Mizukami believes. The spirit behind confectionery\u2019s supporting role in tea tasting is similar to that of a samurai supporting his master. Furthermore, the use of tea (or tea leaves) in making wagashi is heresy. In Bushido, there is a saying that \u201cone cannot be loyal to two masters.\u201d If wagashi contains tea ingredients, there would be two main characters: the tea itself, and the tea-flavored confectionery.\nIn the confectionary making process, Chikara Mizukami pays attention to the changes in seasons.\nJapan has historically counted 72 different seasons, as opposed to the familiar four seasons, and he expresses these seasons through his wagashi. In the Western pastry world, seasons are expressed by using seasonal ingredients such as specific fruits, whereas in the world of Japanese wagashi, the form of the pastry transform into various shapes which represent the seasons, such as flowers or birds. Top patissiers and chocolatiers have commented on Chikara Mizukami's magical ability to freely make differently shaped wagashi.\nPreparations to enjoy wagashi also include making tea, which is the main character of the \u00a9TOKI\nMizukami uses the essence of Japanese traditions and culture and translates them into his own art piece. One of his sources of inspiration is the waka (Japanese historical poem), which were written in the 6th and 7th centuries.\nFor example, when he was asked to make sweets for Valentine's Day, he didn't simply turn the wagashi piece into a heart shape. Instead, he took a poem from \"Hyakunin Isshu\" (a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets) that indirectly expresses the feeling of love, which read \u201c\u541b\u304c\u305f\u3081\u3000\u6625\u306e\u91ce\u306b\u51fa\u3066\u3066\u3000\u82e5\u83dc\u3064\u3080\u3000\u6211\u304c\u8863\u624b\u306b\u3000\u96ea\u306f\u964d\u308a\u3064\u3064\u201d\u3000(\"I went out to the field and picked up young greens for you, and the snow was falling on my sleeves.\u201d), and visually realized it as a wagashi looking like green petals with white powdered snow.\nTools used to make wagashi are quite simple in design, however the wagashi artisan uses them to create brilliant works of art. \u00a9TOKI\nColorful edible creations take shape right before your eyes. \u00a9TOKI\nHis inspirations are not limited to traditional Japanese culture; he also expands his creativity by taking in elements from fine art and even architectural works. In the past, he has made wagashi inspired by European Impressionist artists such as Monet, and Japanese artists such as Leonard Fujita and Yumeji Takehisa. He finds inspiration regardless of time period, and figures out the best way to present the selected themes and hazy emotions through his wagashi.\nThe \u201cwa\u201d in wagashi (which literally translates to \"Japanese\") has only been used to draw distinction between Japanese food culture and the western food culture that was imported into Japan during the Meiji Era. In contrast \"y\u014d\" (which refers to anything European or western), the word \u201cwa\u201d traditionally refers only to Japan, but Chikara Mizukami also utilizes the other meanings of \u201cwa,\u201d such as \"peace\" or \"harmony,\"\nFurthermore, while the direct translation of confectionery artisan would be \"patissier,\" Chikara Mizukami believes that \u201cartisan\u201d better describes what he does.\nThe spirit of an artisan is similar to that of a craftsman or artist. Wagashi is something that is produced rapidly, and consumed by the end of the day. In other words, because wagashi is not something that would remain for generations, it is not usually seen under the same light as a product of a craftsman or artist. \u201cAt the end of the day, we are not a culture ourselves; rather, we support culture from the background. All we want to do is to make the world understand the deliciousness of wagashi and anko (red bean paste),\u201d Mizukami said in his humble manner.\nRESERVE AN EXPERIENCE WITH MIZUKAMI-San\nMeet the wagashi artisan\nVisit a world-famous Japanese confectionery, where you will be guided through the delicate and refined process of creating traditional Japanese sweets.\nCERAMICS PAINTER\nTOP>ARTISAN STORIES>WAGASHI - CHIKARA MIZUKAMI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tokyoweekender.com/tag/massage-in-tokyo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KPKCPWDMG3VL24ECAL7OHR3UXM2DKIQD", "length": 154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tokyoweekender.com", "title": "Massage in Tokyo Archives | Tokyo Weekender", "raw_content": "Tag: Massage in Tokyo\nCulture, Fashion, Health & Fitness\nTreating the mind, body and soul, Holistic Sanctuary is a lounge-style aesthetic salon that will\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 4162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.topgear.com.ph/tag/Harley-and-the-Davidsons?ref=article_tag", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:45Z", "digest": "sha1:2OZQR2TCQSB7CVFQRN5IANGSLS4UKUUG", "length": 134, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.topgear.com.ph", "title": "Harley And The Davidsons | Top Gear Philippines", "raw_content": "Articles about Harley And The Davidsons\nThis miniseries tells the tale of how Harley-Davidson came to be\nCatch it on Discovery Channel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 1463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tophealthresources.net/2012/08", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GHJOIYPWY2DXDECZOJXSRFTM77N3P67G", "length": 2067, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.tophealthresources.net", "title": "2012 AugustTop Health Resources | Top Health Resources", "raw_content": "How To Recover From Physical Injuries From An Auto Accident\ntimothyharvard August 29, 2012 Health No Comments\nAn auto accident in Manteca is a possibility you need to learn to accept as a driver. Even if you obey all traffic laws and do everything right, there is always the possibility that the vehicle behind you or in \u2026\nGetting a Massage in Austin, TX \u2013 Rejuvenate Your Senses\nThe human body is the most complicated machine in the world. So, if you want it to function optimally, you need to pamper it with frequent \u201cservicing sessions\u201d. One good way of doing it is to go in for a \u2026\nphineasgray August 22, 2012 Health No Comments\nJust like in the case of other illnesses, drug addiction is a treatable disorder. Usually, drug treatment is tailored to meet the personal needs of the different patients. The treatment given to one patient may not be suitable for another. \u2026\nDrug Rehabilitation in St. Louis, MO \u2013 What is it?\nDrug rehabilitation is a medical and psychotherapeutic process to address the issue of drug abuse. Patients work toward eliminating the substances from their bodies and to discontinue use of them in their life. 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Since men are statistically less likely to seek counseling for emotional problems than women, a typical guy may go for years feeling \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 4853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tori.ng/news/101927/ghanaian-star-rapper-sarkodie-marries-his-girlfrie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FLWGRMU6QPJTH5HROX2JPNUPCOVVM2KX", "length": 1154, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.tori.ng", "title": "Ghanaian Star Rapper, Sarkodie Marries His Girlfriend Of 13 Years (Photos) '); var popMargTop = ($('#' + popID).height() + 20) / 2; var popMargLeft = ($('#' + popID).width() + 20) / 2; $('#' + popID).css({ 'margin-top' : -popMargTop, 'margin-left' : -popMargLeft }); $('body').append('", "raw_content": "Ghanaian Star Rapper, Sarkodie Marries His Girlfriend Of 13 Years (Photos)\nPosted by George on Fri 20th Jul, 2018 - tori.ng\nTalented rapper, Sarkodie who is one of the finest music acts in Africa has decided to make his relationship with his partner official after over a decade of being together.\nBefore and now photos of Sarkodie and Tracy Sarkcess\nPacey rapper, Sarkodie is finally set to marry his girlfriend of 13 years, Tracy Sarkcess.\nAccording to reports, the traditional wedding has been successfully concluded with lovely pictures from the event making rounds online.\nTogether, the couple have an adorable daughter, Adalyn Owusu Addo \u2018Titi\u2019.\nMichael Owusu Addo (born July 10, 1985) professionally known as Sarkodie, is a Ghanaian hip hop recording artist and entrepreneur from Tema.\nHe won the Best International Act: Africa category at the 2012 BET Awards, and was nominated in the same category at the 2014 BET Awards. In 2015, Sarkodie was ranked the 19th most Influential Ghanaian by e.tv Ghana.\nHe is considered one of the major proponents of the Azonto genre and dance. Sarkodie is often named as one of Africa's greatest hip hop artists.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 150.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.totalhealthinstitute.com/what-to-do-if-you-get-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:46Z", "digest": "sha1:6W4TAFT4ZGIZFO7TIWIHP3ZM2JDBSVZK", "length": 4958, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.totalhealthinstitute.com", "title": "What to do if you ever get diagnosed with cancer | Total Health Institute", "raw_content": "What to do if you ever get diagnosed with cancer\nThe lifetime risks of developing and dying from certain cancers for men and women according to the US National Cancer Institute\u2019s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Database, which is based on incidence and mortality data for the United States for the most current years for which data are available.\nFor a man it is 43.31% or 1 in 2 will develop cancer.\nFor a woman it is 37.81% or 1 in 3 will develop cancer.\nWhat this means is you have a good chance that cancer will knock on your door sometime in your life but when it does will you be ready?\nIt is always better to be proactive in your life instead of reactive. This is especially true with a cancer diagnosis. So many of the patients we have seen over the last 32 years at Total Health Institute come in to restore their health after such a devastating diagnosis. The words we hear all too often are these \u201cI was shocked, blown away, completely caught off guard, had no idea, could not believe that this could happen to me\u201d.\nOur answer is simple. You live in a toxic environment, toxic air, toxic water and toxic food. You add breaking the 7 Basic Steps to Total Health daily in the mix along with higher than normal stress for prolonged periods of time and the outcome is cancer stem cell production which is the base cancer cell that makes all the other cancer cells.\nHow many people are going to get diagnosed with cancer? We already stated the SEER statistics that if you are a man 1 out of 2 and if you are a woman 1 out of 3.\nWhy do we keep saying this? Are we trying to scare you? Are we speaking a doom and gloom message? No.\nWhat we are trying to do is get you proactive so you get healthy, really healthy, beyond what you could ever imagine healthy right now instead of when you get diagnosed with cancer, not when you feel really sick like you might get cancer but right not so you can enjoy life to the full and have energy and vitality from this year forward.\nWhat if we told you there was a way to prevent cancer and all disease, feel full of energy from the time you wake up in the morning until the time you go to sleep in the evening (without sugar or caffeine added), go to your ideal body weight without going on a diet, look and feel at least 10 years younger, have no pain in your body, have a clear mind and a great memory, be stress resistant meaning you are the calm in the midst of any storm, and most importantly you could grow in your relationship with God so you could hear His voice much clearer?\nYou are thinking this sounds too good to be true or which products can I buy to achieve this?\nIt is true and you can achieve all of this but it does not come in a bottle or from a product and you cannot buy it but you can learn the steps to attain it and progressively take those steps until they are yours and you own your health.\nIs it easy? No otherwise everyone would have it.\nIs it easy to go to the Olympics? No otherwise everyone would be there.\nNarrow is the road that leads to LIFE and FEW will find it.\nWhy will only a few find it? Because only a few are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to walk the road that leads to LIFE and total health of body, mind and spirit.\nDid God design us to walk this path? Absolutely, He came so that we would have the abundant life, the prosperous life, so that we could live life to the fullest. We call this life- total health of body, mind and spirit.\nThe journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step and for some it might be a baby step but that doesn\u2019t matter as long as you keep moving forward you will eventually get to your destination. But you have to take the steps no matter how small and keep taking those steps each and every day. Faith without action steps is dead meaning you will not receive or achieve what has been given to you if you do not keep moving in the direction God has put into your heart.\nSo what are the steps you should take?\nGet knowledge\u2013 watch this video so you know how cancer works so you are proactive and never have to wait for it to knock on your door or if you already have cancer you know how you can become healthy so cancer does not want to live in you anymore.\nDownload our complementary 7 Basic Steps to Total Health ebook on our homepage (upper right section) so you can start taking your first steps in your journey. If you do not act you cannot receive what has already been given to you. If you do not move you cannot achieve the destiny that is rightfully yours.\nIf you have been diagnosed with a major health challenge and would like some guidance call Total Health Institute at 630-871-0000 and let them know you received the \u201cWhat to do if you ever get diagnosed with cancer\u201d email and wanted to set up a complementary phone consultation.\nAn ounce of prevention is worth so much more than a pound of cure.\nIt is up to you to choose life and blessings otherwise you will default into death and curses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/a9244/charles-jared-kushner-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7GLQDMGSQOHGFQ55QD6PK7YPPP727IFG", "length": 11217, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.townandcountrymag.com", "title": "Jared Kushner's Family - Charles, Seryl, Josh, Nicole, and Dara Kushner", "raw_content": "12 Things You Should Know About the Kushner Family\nJared Kushner's brother, Joshua Kushner, reportedly donated $50,000 to the \"March for Our Lives\" to stop gun violence.\nGetty ImagesPatrick McMullan\nWhite House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner's younger brother, Joshua Brother, donated $50,000 to the \"March for Our Lives,\" a gun violence protest march planned by students, Axios reports.\nThe 32-year-old is the founder of the investment firm Thrive Capital and a co-founder of Oscar Health and Cadre, a real-estate startup.\nJoshua Kushner is a lifelong democrat and did not intend to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman said that year.\nThe march, which is scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C. on March 24, is \"to demand that a comprehensive and effective bill be immediately brought before Congress to address these gun issues.\"\nHere are 11 other things to know about the Kushner family:\nJared's father, Charles Kushner, said he was \"not at all concerned\" about reported investigations into the family business.\nIn January, Kushner addressed told the Washington Post, \"All I know is that we are not at all concerned, and we are cooperating.\"\nKushner Companies confirmed that the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn had subpoenaed information regarding its involvement in a program that allowed foreigners to invest $500,000 in exchange for fast-track U.S. residency and possible citizenship. The business also acknowledged that it had voluntarily disclosed documents regarding a $285 million Deutsche Bank loan that Jared Kushner secured a month before the presidential election.\n\"They can knock themselves out for the next 10 years reading those papers as far as I\u2019m concerned,\" Charles Kushner told the Post.\nJared's sister Nicole Kushner Meyer was reportedly involved in the campaign for Chinese investors.\nJared Kushner with his sister Nicole Kushner Meyer.\nIn early May 2017, Kushner Meyer traveled to China to woo investors. At an event in Beijing, Meyer pitched wealthy Chinese investors on funding a New Jersey apartment complex being developed by the Kushner family. According to the Washington Post, promotional brochures for the program featured the tagline: \"Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States,\" and promoted Meyer as Jared\u2019s sister. Kushner Companies apologized ago for the incident, saying, \"Kushner Companies apologizes if that mention of her brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors. That was not Ms Meyer\u2019s intention.\"\nJared Kushner's Brother Joshua and Sister Nicole Now Control Ivanka Trump's Business\nWhen Ivanka took on the official position of assistant to the president, the question of what to do with her eponymous business became somewhat complicated. Ivanka's attorney, Jamie Gorelick reportedly said that there is no way to make it entirely conflict-free. \u201cThe one thing I would like to be clear on: we don\u2019t believe it eliminates conflicts in every way,\u201d Gorelick told Politico. \u201cShe has the conflicts that derive from the ownership of this brand. We\u2019re trying to minimize those to the extent possible.\"\nIn order to mitigate those conflicts, Ivanka is placing the brand in a trust to be run by her brother-in-law Joshua and her sister-in-law, Nicole. They will reportedly be prohibited from \"entering the brand into any agreements with foreign countries or agencies\" and from \"using her image to sell the brand.\"\nWhile Ivanka has essentially relinquished control, she does retain the right to put an end to any deal that would be \u201cunacceptable from an ethics perspective.\u201d\nJared Kushner flanked by his father Charles and his mother Seryl\nThe Kushners are from Livingston, New Jersey.\nThe oldest child of Charles and Seryl Kushner, Jared grew up alongside his brother Joshua and sisters Nicole and Dara in northern New Jersey. The children were raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Livingston, a suburb of Newark, where their grandparents had helped to \"create a tight-knit community of Holocaust survivors known as the Builders\" after they immigrated to the United States in 1949. Jared Kushner's grandmother, Rae had escaped prosecution in what is now Belarus by tunneling out to the woods, where a community of Jews had armed themselves. The story of this group would eventually be made into the Hollywood film Defiance. Rae later married Yossel (Joseph) Kushner, another survivor. The couple spent three and a half years in a displaced-persons camp in Italy waiting for a visa to the United States. \"Nobody wanted to take us in,\" Rae said remembering this time in The Miracle of Life, a book which narrates their family's story. \"For the Jews, the doors were closed.\"\nLike Trump's, the Kushner family business revolves around real estate.\nKushner Companies, which was founded by Jared's father, Charles Kushner, in 1985, is a \"diversified real estate organization.\" Kushner senior built up most of his wealth in New Jersey, but when Jared took control of the company, he sold off most of those holdings to buy 666 Fifth Avenue, an office tower in Manhattan, for a record-setting $1.8 billion. According to kushner.com, \"[the company's] national reach consists of more than 20,000 multifamily apartments, as well as 13 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Illinois.\" Notable properties include the historic Puck Building, a late 19th-century landmark in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan, and the famed Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower building in Brooklyn.\nAnd it's a true family business (just like the Trumps').\nA recent Esquire.com profile of Jared describes the company's weekly meetings as a family affair: \"Everyone at the company who is not a secretary gathers in a conference room on the fifteenth floor to discuss acquisitions, financing, and construction. Charles and Jared sit next to each other at the center of a long table, and other family members fan out from there. Joshua has not attended the meetings regularly for years, but Seryl often attends, as does Nicole, who recently decided to join the business.\" Jared's sister Dara does not appear to be involved.\nIn 2005, Jared's father Charles Kushner was convicted of 18 counts of tax evasion, making illegal campaign contributions, and witness tampering.\nThe charges stemmed from an investigation into donations made to then-New Jersey governor Jim McGreevy's campaign. In a lurid twist, Charles Kushner had apparently hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and videotape the interaction because Kushner believed the man was cooperating with federal authorities. The federal prosecutor in charge of the case was none other than Chris Christie, which is where things really get interesting. Despite having supported President-elect throughout the campaign, Christie has not been named to a cabinet position in Trump's administration, a slight some see as revenge for his role in prosecuting Jared's father.\nCharles Kushner took a plea agreement and was sentenced to two years in federal prison at a military base in Montgomery, Alabama (he was paroled after one). He was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine. Jared remained close to his father after the conviction, flying on weekends to visit him. The New York Times reports that for years, Jared carried a wallet that his father had made for him in prison. \"He was the best son to his father in jail, the best son to his mother, who suffered terribly, and he was a father to his siblings,\" Charles told New York magazine. \"I speak with my father about everything in my life,\" Jared said.\nWhen his father was convicted, Jared, then 24, stepped in to run the Kushner Companies; his father continues to be involved in the business. \"He knows a ton about real estate,\" says Jared.\nGiven the details of Charles Kushner's arrest, it's safe to assume that tensions run high between the Kushners and their extended family.\nJared didn't help things when he invoked his grandparent's Holocaust survival story as a defense of Donald Trump and a seemingly anti-semitic tweet by the President-elect during the campaign. \"I am the grandson of Holocaust survivors,\" he wrote, sharing the story of how his grandparents escaped persecution in Belarus. \"It's important to me that people understand where I'm coming from when I report that I know the difference between actual, dangerous intolerance versus these labels that get tossed around in an effort to score political points.\"\n\"I have a different take\u00adaway from my Grandparents' experience in the war,\" wrote Marc Kushner, Jared's first cousin, in a Facebook post. \"It is our responsibility as the next generation to speak up against hate. [Sic] Anti\u00adsemitism or otherwise.\"\nPolitico called attention to this message, also citing another cousin, Jacob Schulder, who wrote a comment on Marc's original post: \"... For the sake of the family name, which may have no meaning to you but still has meaning to others, please don't invoke our grandparents in vain just so you can sleep better at night. It is self serving and disgusting.\"\nIn preparation for his role as senior advisor to the president, Jared divested his assets, selling many to family members.\nDonald Trump named his son-in-law Jared Kushner to the position of senior advisor in his administration. In preparation for the role, Kushner took steps to divest his assets in order to comply with conflict-of-interest rules. According to CNN, Kushner transferred large portions of his real estate holdings and the Observer to a family trust overseen by his mother, Seryl. He also sold additional assets to his brother Joshua. The New York Times also noted that some ethicists are concerned about the arrangement questioning, \"how meaning the divestiture would be\" given that he is not putting his assets into a true blind trust.\nIn addition to taking on some of his brother and sister-in-law's assets, Joshua Kushner runs his own private-equity firm, Thrive Capital.\nJoshua's love life also makes headlines; he is currently dating supermodel Karlie Kloss. (For more on Jared's younger brother, from his other business endeavors like Oscar Health and Cadre to why he didn't vote for Trump, click here.)\nJared's sisters, Nicole and Dara, keep relatively low profiles.\nIn addition to her new position within her sister-in-law Ivanka's company, Nicole is involved in the family business, serving as a principal, according to her LinkedIn profile. Previously, she worked at Ralph Lauren and received both her bachelors and masters degrees from NYU. Her husband, Joseph Meyer, is the chief executive of Observer Media. There is no reason to think his role at the paper will change after the company is transferred into the family trust. Jared's older sister Dara reportedly lives a quiet life with her family back in Livingston.\nFollow Town & Country on Facebook.\n12 Things to Know About Jared Kushner\nWhat You Need to Know About Josh Kushner, Brother to Jared\nWhat Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are Really Worth\nYou Need to Read This Letter from Harvard to Jared Kushner\nHow Ivanka Trump's Instagram Feed Got Her in Trouble\nArabella Kushner, Charles Kushner's Granddaughter Goes to This D.C. 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The name of the village comes from the Latin language and it was first recorded in documents dating back to the twelfth century as \u2018Campillione\u2019, meaning \"small field\" or \"arable plain\".\nThe village is located on the delta of the San Michele stream, in a canyon wedged between rocky cliffs.\nCampione in ancient history\nCampione was inhabited since ancient times. The history of the village is linked to Ercolano, bishop of Brescia, who took refuge in the village in the sixth century to live as a hermit. Nowadays, his body rests in the church in nearby Maderno.\nOver the centuries, the village experienced phases of rise and decline, depending on the activities that shaped the social and urban settlement of Campione over time. The town was a buzzing industrial centre ever since the 16th century, with several workshops including paper mills, forges and mills, that harnessed the power of the streams precipitating from the upper plateau. In 1700, the rich Archetti merchant family from Brescia bought the workshops, opened a new spinning mill and organized the production. Later they erected a villa in Campione, called \"Villa Archetti\", and a small church dedicated to Sant'Ercolano, that was demolished in the following century.\nIn 1807, a heavy flood destroyed the ancient workshops, causing businesses to gradually leave Campione, which then remained almost uninhabited for about a century.\nThe industrial age of Campione del Garda and the cotton mill\nIt was only in 1896 that Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, followed by Vittorio Olcese, erected a cotton mill and worker houses in the village, including a church, a theatre, a boarding school and a shop, and families of employers in the new plant moved back to the village. The cotton mill was finally closed in 1981 due to the economic crisis in the Seventies, and from that moment Campione was abandoned again. Recently the village has been experiencing a sort of rebirth, thanks to its redevelopment for tourism purposes.\nCampione, capital of water sports\nThanks to its reliable winds, Campione sul Garda is home to national and international sailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing competitions, a sport for which the village is very well known. Campione is also home to several water sports schools, and there\u2019s a beach where it\u2019s possible to swim. Due to its resemblance to a fjord, Campione was chosen as a location for a number of films, including The International.\nThe patron saint\u2019s day is celebrated on August 12th, the day of Saint Ercolano.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 130.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tropicalnorthqueensland.org.au/listing/product/gulflander/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:01Z", "digest": "sha1:W6RIOOL233HDOYZ34O6JTFTAPMMZKAWB", "length": 886, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tropicalnorthqueensland.org.au", "title": "Gulflander - Tropical North QLD", "raw_content": "www.gulflander.com.au\nClimb aboard the legendary Gulflander for a rail journey unlike any other. Originally built to connect the once bustling river port of Normanton with the rich gold fields of Croydon, today the Gulflander is a tourism icon and working tribute to the early pioneers of the Gulf of Carpentaria.\nAffectionately said to go from \u2018nowhere to nowhere\u2019, the Heritage Listed Normanton to Croydon line was never connected to the state rail network. This isolated railway is heritage listed and the only line in Queensland still measured in miles.\nOld RM93 is the longest-serving railmotor the line has seen and one of only a few still running in Australia. Built in 1950 it provides a unique experience where you can sit up with the driver and take in his view of this rugged lane. During the journey, passengers will learn about the diverse Gulf landscape and its rich past.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 5377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trukky.com/couriers-online-booking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:28Z", "digest": "sha1:34ZCBCBC7VPMMYPNGHOY5235KVMROLCU", "length": 2992, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.trukky.com", "title": "Courier Service | Book a Courier & Track online in @ Trukky", "raw_content": "Couriers Online Booking\nBest Courier Service Online\nGet online courier booking service through Trukky as here you can send courier at affordable rates.Here you can even get to know upfront rates for the courier services. Experience the best of transport services along timely deliveries at any location around the country. The web-based service to send courier is now offered by Trukky. The clients can get their affordable and safe courier shipping service together with tracking and insurance assistance. Getting your goods insured is essential as this step will keep your trade away from any kind of loses due to some accident while the goods are on the way to destination or drop point. Most of the businesses these days require support of courier services for easy movement of goods and materials. There are several organizations that are offering best possible transport service in India. All, you need to do is just search for the most suitable service in accordance with your requirements. So, the online courier you will be able to discover an important part of an e-commerce set-up. A courier online booking service is actually capable of helping the trades in managing their deliveries in a secure way. Therefore, the e-commerce set-ups have been a good thing, as a large number of people these days prefer to go with online shopping. Moreover, it is so common that people love going with the current trends. This is for the reason that online purchase is extremely easy, quick to perform and offer a hassle-free shopping experience in the age where life runs too fast. Therefore, in case you are thinking to set up an e-commerce trade, this is the best time for going with the trend. This is a fact that any trade totally depends upon the delivery of products you manufacture. Therefore, the online courier service actually holds an essential part for your trade and so you need to make sure about its availability. This is a fact that every kind of business requires assistance of some highly professional online courier service.\nA courier online booking service is actually capable of helping the trades in managing their deliveries in a secure way. Therefore, the e-commerce set-ups have been a good thing, as a large number of people these days prefer to go with online shopping.\nMoreover, it is so common that people love going with the current trends. This is for the reason that online purchase is extremely easy, quick to perform and offer a hassle-free shopping experience in the age where life runs too fast. Therefore, in case you are thinking to set up an e-commerce trade, this is the best time for going with the trend.\nThis is a fact that any trade totally depends upon the delivery of products you manufacture. Therefore, the online courier service actually holds an essential part for your trade and so you need to make sure about its availability. This is a fact that every kind of business requires assistance of some highly professional online courier service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tupelobbqduel.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7V5CJ4V3JGNMSMXBTGOOCSGHZF4EQ7OK", "length": 28976, "nlines": 96, "source_domain": "www.tupelobbqduel.com", "title": "BQ Home Network \u22c6", "raw_content": "Your home could be infested with different types of pests. Let say cockroaches, bees, snails, houseflies and much more.\nThe plumbing system is among the most sensitive systems in a house. If not correctly handled, it could lead to spread of diseases and other inconveniences.\nSolar energy is obtained from the sun rays. It can be converted into electricity and heat. Many people are considering solar as a source of energy today.\nWhether it is winter when you need the house warm or summer when you need air conditioning, it is vital that the HVAC unit works. If any your unit begins to give your trouble, then it is best to get an HVAC contractor at the earliest convenience. Clark Rush is one of the best contractors you can hire for your HVAC works. The following are some of the reasons to hire an HVAC contractor.\nWhen choosing to get your HVAC system serviced or checked, you want to deal with somebody who knows what they are doing. Some people can tout how much experience they have when in the real sense that is not the case. If you hire a reputable HVAC contractor, you are sure to get someone with the required experience for the job. The contractor you hire should have reasonable experience in the field.\nBesides experience, hiring an HVAC contractor will ensure you get someone with the expertise for the job. Many contractors are professionals in the field but cannot offer quality service or the expertise you need. Good contractors get repeat customers as a result of having the right expertise for the job. If you hire the right HVAC contractor, then you are assured of quality work that is what you want.\nWhen you do enough research and get a contract you can count on, you will rest easy knowing they have professionals for the job. You will not be concerned whether your unit breaks down. You also will feel good knowing you can seek the contractor if anything goes wrong.\nWhen your HVAC units break down, or it is not functioning well, then you will want it repaired fast. Even if you are handy, it can take you forever to fix your unit. If you are in the middle of summer, you will want the unit repaired immediately. Hiring a skilled HVAC contractor will mean all the difference between you suffering through heat or feeling comfortable.\nFixing the cooling or heating unit in your home may be expensive. If you work with a contract that knows what they are doing, then you can save money. Ensure you work with professional contractors to avoid spending a lot of money on maintenance and service. It will also ensure that you are not worried about whether the job will be done correctly. This allows you to keep your sanity and save money in the long run.\nYour HVAC system can malfunction when you do not expect. Such a situation may call for an HVAC contractor. You will need a professional contractor the reasons outlined hers.\u2026\n| Category: Heating and Ventilation\nPeople have to deal with power outage issues during emergencies. It can occur during summer and spring months. The affected people are forced to look for other alternatives like generators and propane powered heaters. Homeowners should always be prepared for unexpected situations and emergencies. Some of these disasters might last for a long time, and they are hard to predict. They can lead to long-term power outages. It is, therefore, important to deal with both long-term and short-term power outages.\nHomeowners can prepare themselves by working with professional damage assessment and restoration firms. This is the best way of restoring power as well as reducing restoration time and costs. These companies have a team of professionals that ensure the safety of their customers and that of their field personnel. Arcos Company is one of the best firms that offer the best solutions for emergencies.\nSome of the services offered by this company include mobile inspection and damage assessment. It is one of the reliable companies that offer speed-up power respiration at an affordable cost. Arcos is a responsive and dependable provider for emergencies services. They are known for employing a damage assessment technology that helps the utilities to arrive at quickly, thereby reducing restoration time.\nYour family members and workers should know what needs to be done in case of a power outage. You should sit down with them and advise them on how they should react, but this varies from one family to another.\nYou should look for alternative sources of light to use when there is a power outage. Some of the ideal options that you need to consider include flashlights, crank flashlights, matches, and candles. A flashlight can help when moving from one room to another when it is dark. You don\u2019t have to trip down the stairs or kill yourself! These lights are convenience they don\u2019t rely on solar power or batteries. Matches and candles are fabulous sources of light that are commonly used by people. Matches are used for lighting candles in the dark.\nElectric heat is very comfortable and convenient when power is on. In winter you can use a fireplace wood-burning stove to provide heat when there is no power. Alternatively, you can invest in a propane heater. Other people have been using large wood cookstoves as a source of heat. Ideally, you should invest in heat source that provides fabulous heat. Again, you should make sure that everything is safe.\u2026\nOvergrown trees, grass, and bushes may leave your compound looking unattractive. At times, it may pose several risks to you or other people because this may act as a perfect shelter for dangerous animals like snakes. You should work on giving your compound its usual look an avoid subjecting yourself to the pending risks. Landscaping is one perfect method you can try to eradicate the overgrown trees and bushes. It involves the application of various practices that will ensure everything is trimmed to give your garden or compound that desired look. You can do this practice by yourself or hire specialists to do the job for you.\nLow Country Earth Scapes offer proper landscaping and lawn maintenance services. One sustainable practice good for landscaping is irrigation. Watering your garden will bring about that green appearance and prevent them from drying up. Planting is also another practice which is meant to promote vegetation cover in one\u2019s compound. Several materials can also be used when it comes to landscaping. Rocks can help improve the look of your home. Practices like conserving or restoring natural areas are part of site planning. Using integrated pest management designs can also help keep your compound free from pests. Landscaping comes with a couple of benefits which include:\nLandscaping will help improve the value of your home in several ways. Trimming that grass uniformly will help boost its appearance. Arranging rocks and planting beautiful flowers also helps increase the aesthetic value of your home. Such an impression can help attract prospective buyers to your home.\nGood resting environment\nLandscaping will also help create a good relaxing environment in your home. You will get to enjoy a cool atmosphere in a garden full of plantation. Reduced noise and heat are also perfect for relaxation after a long tiresome day. One can have proper rest on the well-trimmed grass without worrying about any potential harm from nearby animals.\nPreservation of nature\nLandscaping plays an essential role when it comes to nature preservation. Planting new trees or flowers gives room for the continuity of growth for new plantation. Treating water as a valuable resource is part of nature preservation. Homeowners are advised not to eradicate all existing plantation to give them room for continued growth. You should carry out landscaping practices in your compound to help in the preservation of nature.\u2026\nWhen it comes to cleaning, you need to ensure that you know the best tips to put into consideration when choosing a cleaning company. The first question you should ask yourself is where do you start? When you are looking for a cleaning company, make sure that you go for reliable and professional companies. The following are some of the factors you need to consider when you are searching for a reliable cleaning company.\nCleaning entails a lot of services, and that is why, when you are looking for a company to hire, it is recommended that you do not forget this factor. Most of the experienced and professional companies have a good staff that has enough experience and training. Since you are looking for a company that delivers the highest quality services, then ensure that you hire a company that has capable and trained employees.\nWhen you are looking for a cleaning company, it is your responsibility to make sure that you consider the safety. This means that you will visit the company you are interested in to check whether they comply with OSHA laws. They should provide badges or uniforms to make their staff easily recognizable. Also, make sure that you ask the kind of cleaning methods they use. This will help you to know if they use harmful or environmental-friendly chemicals. Avoid companies that use toxic chemicals.\nA good and reputable cleaning company should have a lot of references to provide. This means that you should ask the cleaning company that you are about to hire to provide you with references. Most of the experienced companies will gladly offer you the recommendations. After they have provided you with the references, you need to call them to know the kind of services they received from this company you are interested in. If they offered quality cleaning services, be assured that they will happily refer you to hire it.\nExperience is another critical factor you are required to remember when looking for a cleaning company. Many cleaning companies claim to offer quality services. However, you will confirm this by looking at their background to know the years they have been in operation. For instance, the #1 home cleaning services in Chicago will gladly provide the best services that will suit your needs. Avoid the newly-formed companies that have no experience when it comes to cleaning services.\u2026\nIf you want to finish your next construction project in record time, then you will need to work out the logistics as early as possible. Find out what you need and where to get it. Go through the nifty details about suppliers especially communication concerns and preferred methods of payment. Delays in your project could only arise because of lack of preparation. Here are additional considerations worth following though individually and with your contractor.\nConsider Drywall Building Alternatives\nA cost factor and design feature to consider in your house renovation project must be the drywall. There are alternatives to choose based on what you are going for in looks and things that are determining your budget and project duration. You could use textured wall panels that give your walls a modern and stylish look. You may also go for a 3D textured feel. Another choice is real wood walling. Wood gives you a lush design and look, and it defies all trends leaving you with an always-stylish interior. Using it on the focal area of a room would add to the room\u2019s attractiveness.\nGet Excellent Access Doors\nWhen looking for drywall access panel for a lasting project or a temporary one, you must know the qualities of the materials, design features, and looks you are going for from the start. The component plays a critical dividing factor for your walls, and you would need the ones with a long-lasting finish. Fire and waterproofing qualities are worth considering given that there might be cleaning services regularly on the access door area. Access doors from Elmdor DW are always worth the consideration because of their safety features. Considerations should also be about the design of attaching the door to the wall. Common options include mud in the flange and exposed flange. Materials can include plastic, gypsum, aluminum, and other allows.\nGet Designer Shelves\nPlywood can be a great material for shelves as long as they are fit well before the finishing of the walls to ensure the sides blend into the rest of the house\u2019s interior well. Plywood is easy to work with, and it can result in all boxy shapes required to make a shelve fit its purpose of offering storage and focal areas while also meeting its resistive properties against weather elements including low and high heat conditions. Another idea is cinder blocks or acoustic tiles because they give the walling an extra character to make it attractive and they break the monotony of space in a room.\nChange Your Lamps\nThe lamps in the house may not appear as an apparent home improvement area, but when you are working on a makeover project, it pays to consider these features as attractions in a room. Adding lamp areas on your drywall might lead to more light in a room, but above that, it could also be a way to add light functionality especially when you have paintings and other wall hangings requiring dedicated attention. The lighting itself is a decoration sufficient to create patterns, evoke feelings of either relaxing or being active, and contributing to the purpose of a room.\u2026\nTypes of Access Doors for Residential Use\nAn access door is a versatile structural element that comes in a variety of designs. Access doors have been used for centuries in building construction. With technological advancements, they have progressively evolved over the years. Access doors are meant for safety and security reasons \u2013 by limiting all allowing exclusive access to specific areas of your home. That said, here is a breakdown of some common types of access doors in the market and their uses.\nFlush access doors are mainly used to grant easy access to your walls or ceilings. Installing these structural elements in your home is an easy and economical way to make your home attractive and safe. The material chosen depends on where you intend to have it installed. Most flush access doors are made from steel and feature concealed hinges that make them look neat and attractive. Besides aesthetic benefits, a flush access door allows for easy access to plumbing, electrical, and other installed fixtures on your wall.\nFloor access doors are meant to provide an access window to areas below your floor. In most instances, these types of access doors are used to access sewage systems, underground pipes, electrical fixtures, and at times storage spaces. For maximum benefits, you need to ensure your floor access doors are water resistant, floodlight, gastight, and in some cases fire rated. For indoor applications, you might want to ensure they flush perfectly with the rest of the floor.\nRoof Access Doors\nWhen you need to access the roof of your attic, you want the process to be easy and convenient. Roof access doors address this need. These structural elements come in handy when you need to get to the roof to access a swamp cooler or to access your roof patio. Before buying a roof access panel, it is imperative to ensure it meets basic building construction and safety requirements.\nDuct panel doors provide convenient access to ducts whenever they need to be cleaned and repaired. These units are mostly installed near kitchen and laundry ducts, which are the most commonly accessed ducts. When choosing a duct access door, you might go either for a hinged unit (for small tubes) or a full duct panel duct panel for walk-in access to large spaces.\nAccess doors have served the construction industry for hundreds of years. Whether you are building a new home or doing some renovations, you need to install an access door. With the right unit, it becomes a lot easy to have your physical infrastructure run smoothly.\u2026\nThings to Consider When Picking a Carpet Cleaning Company\nIf you want to get rid of pathogens, germs, and odors, the professional carpet cleaning services are the way to go. When it comes to carpet cleaning, the effective cleaning technique and equipment is critical. If you want to best results when it comes to the cleaning of your carpet, you will need to enlist the services of the professional carpet cleaning companies.\nMany people do not know what factors to look for when they are hiring the right carpet cleaning service. This read looks at some of the elements to consider when picking the right commercial carpet cleaning company.\nWhen you are looking for the ideal carpet cleaning service, make sure that it is insured. This is because, during the cleaning process, you will need to move various items from one place to another. If any of your house items get damaged, you will need to be compensated.\nWhen a company is insured, it means that if your property is damaged during the carpet cleaning process, then you will be compensated. It also means that if the workers are injured during the cleaning process, then you do not have to worry.\nOne of the ideal ways of telling whether a carpet cleaning company is professional or not is by looking at the certifications. Professional companies invest in training and thus acquire certifications that show that whatever methodology that they are using is tested and ideal when it comes to the provision of the services in question. You should look for a carpet cleaning company that has certification from the recognized institutions.\nThe experience of the carpet cleaning company matters a lot when it comes to choosing the ideal carpet cleaning company. The more the number of years the company has been in operation, the better because they have better ways and techniques for handling various issues to do with carpet cleaning.\nDifferent carpets are made of different materials and therefore, require different cleaning techniques. The experienced cleaning companies understand this well and will clean your carpet using the subscribed method.\nLast but not least it is essential to consider the distance between the carpet cleaning company and your home. You need to select a local carpet cleaning company.\nSuch companies usually have the necessary equipment and workers to work on your project. They also tend to stick to their schedules as compared to the ones that are located thousands of miles away.\u2026\nThe urge to get a robotic vacuum cleaner is often sparked by bouts of fatigue that result from busy day-to-day schedules. You may also just want to sit back and watch a robot clean up. Some people buy it to make a boring house chore fun and entertaining. Arguably, robotic vacuum cleaners are as efficient as the ordinary drag-along vacuum cleaners. How to choose the best, is subsequently the guiding statement that one should have in mind if he or she seeks the joy and convenience of having one. It is recommended to check the top 10 robot vacuums from the Internet when looking for one.\nThe term \u201crobotic\u201d has a futuristic connotation. It epitomizes the quest for a tech-driven world where efficiency and sophistication blend in the same pot. The higher the tech aspects of a robotic vacuum cleaner, the more money it\u2019s likely to cost. It doesn\u2019t mean that affordable robotic cleaners are not worth giving a try since a standard one is more sophisticated than an ordinary broom. You, however, know that you have the best when you:\nGo for a robotic vacuum machine with the latest navigation software program.\nObstacle-detection capabilities.\nGreat suction power.\nThese features determine how a robotic vacuum cleaner works. While there are those that go about the cleaning randomly, others make systematic moves. Either way, the room gets cleaned at the end of it all since random movements don\u2019t necessarily result in haphazard work especially if you have one of the best brands or models.\nSome believe that getting the best electric appliance depends on luck. This isn\u2019t true because the best vacuum cleaners come with a warranty, providing you the opportunity to have it replaced or repaired in case of tech-related breakdown. Cases of this kind are, however, rare especially if you buy a reliable robotic vacuum cleaning brand from a reputable online or brick and mortar store.\nThe number of robotic vacuum cleaner brands out there will make you wonder whether everyone is in the business of making the home appliances. They are many, and nearly all of them look sophisticated and steady enough to serve as your tech-aide. The batteries and the charging system should be safe and reliable to avoid electric fires. Many of the best robotic vacuum cleaners come with accessories which shouldn\u2019t be complicated to use since it\u2019s significant to have a user-friendly machine that can be used by any member of the family, the kid included.\u2026\n| Category: Home Appliances\nPest control- hiring the best pest controller\nYour home could be infested with different types of pests. Let say cockroaches, bees, snails, houseflies and much more. Pests can lead to the spread of diseases while some cause diseases themselves. It is important to deal with pets immediately you notice them. If you leave the population to increase, it will be hard to deal with them once. You will be needed to hire pest control services from time to time which will be expensive. Not all pest control service providers are good. You need to select the best for a permanent solution. Read on to get tips on how to choose the best pest control services.\nThe technician should be knowledgeable enough to answer all your questions. They might not have some answers, but he or she should be willing to say they do not have the answer but will respond at a certain time. Honesty is key; they better be honest enough to say they do not know that giving a false answer.\nThere is the way a pest controller must dress. Well, we expect them to come dressed in an overall or uniform. Their uniform must be clean as well. You should feel secure with the chemicals, equipment\u2019s and a van or truck they came in.\nAfter you have researched and settled for a pest control company, seek recommendations from friends and family. Do not call them before hearing a word from people around you about the company. If you do not get any information about them from friends, ask the company for referrals. Follow up by calling the numbers given for more details.\nYou must understand that different companies offer different pricing depending on services and other factors. The aim of hiring a pest control company is to get your problem solved. If you paid for the services, but no results witnessed, then you lost your money. This is to say that, always choose quality over price. It is better to pay huge amounts, and the problem is gone for good than, paying little amounts month after month.\nIn most cases, pests are eradicated by chemicals. The technician must be willing to discuss with you the type of chemicals used. The chemical container must be clean, well labeled and professional. The technician should also tell if the chemical has adverse effects. This way people around will take precaution measures and stay safe.\u2026\n| Category: Pest Control\nThe plumbing system is among the most sensitive systems in a house. If not correctly handled, it could lead to spread of diseases and other inconveniences. After the system is installed, you can decide to learn procedures which will help you handle simple plumbing needs. You will, however, need the services of a professional at some point. It is for this reason that you should be aware of how to choose the best plumbers in your area. Below are important things to consider when choosing a plumber.\nIs the plumber qualified to operate as a plumber? Did they attend school or learned it from friends? It is important whichever the case that they observe the highest degree of professionalism. At times you might be forced to leave them all by themselves in your house. It is only a professional who will do what they came to do without snooping or doing it poorly because no one is watching.\nHow long have been operating as a plumber? As we all know experience comes with skill and expertise. They will be able to handle all plumbing needs if they have done the work for some time now. Avoid hiring plumbers who are new or in practice. If you were hiring a company and they insist on giving you a trainee, they should be accompanied by their trainer.\nAlmost all businesses are operating a website today. This is because the world has turned digital and all customers are looking for service providers online. Once on their website, check on customer reviews. What other customers say about a service provider matters a lot. Do not, however, entirely rely on online reviews in your decision making.\nAsk the plumber for referrals. A confident and honest plumber will not hesitate to give you contacts of people they have worked for before. Call them and get to hear if they were satisfied by their services or not. One thing for sure is that no customer will refer you to a bad service provider.\nCost brings huge differences in the purchase or goods and services. It applies to plumbing. You should hire a plumber with reasonable pricing and within your budget. Yes, cheaply is expensive, but it is not always true that expensive is high quality. Be wise when saying yes to their quotations. Always go for the best deal regarding price and quality.\u2026\n| Category: Plumbing\nBBQ Duel\nSee what some of our 2012 Don\u2019t Be Cruel BBQ Duel competitors had to say!!!\n2012 Grand Champions Killer Hogs\n\u201cOne of my new favorite BBQ contests is the Don\u2019t Be Cruel BBQ Duel in Tupelo, Ms. It\u2019s a great time of year to cook BBQ in Mississippi because the weather is perfect. The staff and all the volunteers are friendly and on top of everything. Everyone in the town is happy to welcome you there. And even though it\u2019s one of the biggest contests in the area, they go above and beyond to roll out the red carpet for every team. This is one of the most well-run contests I\u2019ve ever been to. Plus\u2026 the payout is outstanding. I can\u2019t wait to get my Elvis glasses and head to Tupelo next year!\u201d\nMcFrankenboo BBQ\nWe had the opportunity to compete in the 2012 Don\u2019t Be Cruel BBQ Duel and cannot wait to go back for 2013! Our team, McFrankenboo BBQ, is all about the Irish and we celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day at every barbeque competition! We didn\u2019t even have to pretend for this one, as it was actually on St. Patty\u2019s Day! We cannot say enough about this event. The volunteers and staff were so attentive throughout the weekend, from load in to load out, there was never a moment of confusion or a feeling of despair as a competitor. Anything we needed was brought right to us or we were directed to where it was. The grounds were beautiful and spread out so we weren\u2019t right on top of each other and everyone was so friendly. Apparently the luck of the Irish was with us because we took 1st place in Pork with a Perfect Score and got to take home one of the coolest trophies, which now proudly sits on our mantle. We even spent the evening in Tupelo, enjoying some of it\u2019s culture. It was only a 6 hour drive from St. Louis and it was well worth it!! Bev Crossen and her team were top notch and produced an event of the same caliber!\nERIN, JIM & SEAMUS\n2012 Reserve Champion PIT BULLS UP IN SMOKE\nThe Don\u2019t Be Cruel BBQ Duel was one of the most well thought-out and professionally run contests that Pit Bulls \u201cUp In Smoke\u201d Professional BBQ Team has had the honor to be a part of. The volunteer staff saw to our every need, were gracious in their handling of the teams, and went above and beyond to ensure our comfort and needs were met. What truly impressed not just my team, but many others, was the fact that the city took the time to have police escorts help us into the location for set up. Some contests are not so easy from that respect. It was a seamless event with much to do for the general public and all the participating BBQ teams. We truly had a feeling of welcome, warmth, and true southern hospitality in Tupelo. We have every intention of attending your event next year given your amazing track record in the 2012 BBQ Competition. We sincerely thank all the coordinators, the City of Tupelo, the sponsors, and the volunteers who made this a memorable event for all.\nDanny & Rebecca Coogle\nRod Gray Pellet Envy\nI just wanted to follow up to tell you how fabulous the Don\u2018t Be Cruel BBQ Duel was this year. I have traveled the country, cooking and competing in nearly 400 events the past twelve years, and I have to say, you folks hosted a truly amazing event. Not only would I never guess that your contest was new on the circuit, I will tell you that after only participating for the first time, your contest is now on my short list of favorites. I am already making plans to attend in 2013.\nRod Gray / Pellet Envy\nHOGJAM, Tupelo, Miss.\nI thought the Don\u2019t Be Cruel BBQ duel was a first class event. The support from the community, the venue, and the organization made it a competition that we will be excited to return to year after year.\u2026\n| Category: BBQ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 46260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.turkishairlines.com/it-it/press-room/awards/turkish-airlines-wins-the-market-leadership-award-2011/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:2ELRYWRFD44JOAIH6GMNTB7RWSH4OO6V", "length": 1853, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.turkishairlines.com", "title": "Market Leadership Award | Awards | Turkish Airlines \u00ae", "raw_content": "Turkish Airlines wins 'Market Leadership Award 2011'\n\u201cAir Transport World\u201c, the leading monthly magazine covering the global airline industry, today announced that Turkish Airlines is chosen to receive the \u201cMarket Leadership Award 2011\u201d.\nATW\u2019s \u201cMarket Leadership Award\u201d is closely followed by the industry and regarded as a highly prestigious recognition. Turkish Airlines\u2019 Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Temel Kotil will be accepting the award at ATW\u2019s Gala Dinner on the evening of February 8, 2011 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C.\nIn selecting Turkish Airlines for this award, ATW Editorial Director Perry Flint focused on Turkish Airlines\u2019 competitive strengths in achieving both sustained rapid growth and strong profitability at the same time during a very challenging period for the airline industry in the year 2010. Perry Flint noted that Turkish Airlines is the fastest growing airline in Europe and that its traffic and revenue performance in 2010 has far outpaced the airline industry as a whole. The jury committee was impressed with Turkish Airlines' swift development into a network carrier, noting that the number of transfer passengers has risen significantly since 2005.\nThe CEO of Turkish Airlines, Dr. Temel Kotil, indicated that being selected for this prestigious award is a great honor and motivation for Turkish Airlines. Dr. Kotil said \u201cThis award encourages us for achieving further accomplishments and this is a depiction of Turkish Airlines wise growth strategy\u201d. He stressed that Turkish Airlines is being accepted as a role model for managing a sustainable and profitable growth strategy.\nFurther information about ATW\u2019s Gala Awards and the award winners is available in the upcoming issue of ATW.\nYou can receive all the detailed information regarding Turkish Airlines on our web site by clicking on www.thy.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2012/04/sky-atlantic-acquires-uk-rights-to-awake/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CGC6H7KOEAJDDLPNZRRHXKVSF6Y53IXU", "length": 1207, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tvwise.co.uk", "title": "Sky Atlantic Acquires UK Rights To Awake - TVWise", "raw_content": "Sky Atlantic Acquires UK Rights To Awake\nSky Atlantic has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first-run rights to NBC\u2019s drama series Awake. The show\u2019s 13 episode first season is set to receive its UK premiere on the channel later this spring.\nAwake was created by Kyle Killen and stars Jason Isaacs, Steve Harris, BD Wong, Laura Allen, Wilmer Valderrama, Cherry Jones, Dylan Minnette and Michaela McManus and follows an LAPD detective (Isaacs) whose wife and son are killed in a car crash and in order to cope his mind invents two realities which he lives in; one where his wife survives the crash and his son dies and one where his son survives the crash and his wife dies. The series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, with Killen, Jeffrey Reiner and Howard Gordon (24, Homeland) serving as executive producers.\nSpeaking of the acquisition, Sarah Wright, Sky\u2019s Director of Acquisitions, said: \u201cSky Atlantic HD is committed to bringing the best drama exclusively to our customers. Awake with its stellar cast and intriguing plot lines, together with Game of Thrones and Smash will ensure Sky Atlantic HD has the perfect drama schedule this spring.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uclga.org/category/news-saro/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:34Z", "digest": "sha1:CPDUU4VASCIOJAORXBSA4VUJG7B34Q2S", "length": 3811, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.uclga.org", "title": "News - SARO Archives - UCLGA", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / News - SARO\nEU supports the \u201c2018/19 Mayors Award Scheme in Tanzania\u201d, a joint initiative by UCLG Africa and ALAT\n17 September 2018 /in News, News - SARO, Press Releases /by Gaelle\nToday, the Head of Delegation of the European Union to Tanzania and to the EAC, H.E. Roeland van de Geer, together with the Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa, Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, and the Chairman of the Association of Local Authorities of Tanzania, Hon. Gulamhafeez Abubakar Mukadam, have signed the grant contract for the 2018/19 Mayor Award Scheme in Tanzania.\nMonday 17 September 2018, Dar es Salaam: Today, the Head of Delegation of the European Union to Tanzania and to the East African Community, H.E. Roeland van de Geer, together with the Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa, Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, and the Chairman of the Association of Local Authorities of Tanzania, Hon. Gulamhafeez Abubakar Mukadam, have signed the grant contract for the 2018/19 Mayor Award Scheme in Tanzania.\nFor a total budget of EUR 666,637 (Approximately TZS 1,77 billions), this joint UCLGA-ALAT project aims to identify and acknowledge, every year, role models in local leadership in terms of promoting effective service delivery, local economic development and good governance at subnational levels in Tanzania. It aims to promote a performance-based, service delivery-oriented, citizen-centred local governance system that favours the emergence and consolidation of accountable, participatory and inclusive local governments in the country.\nDuring his speech Ambassador Roeland van de Geer stated that \u201cWe wish to commend UCLGA and ALAT for their joint efforts to relaunch the Mayors Award Scheme in Tanzania. This is a unique opportunity to promote innovative and locally driven projects among Tanzanian LGAs. LGAs are key actors of the sustainable development of any country in the world and the EU is proud to support this joint effort in Tanzania and beyond\u201d.\nSpeaking during the launch, Mr Mbassi said that \u201cUCLG Africa conceived the Mayors Award Scheme as a richly stacked initiative intended to benefit both the local governments and the communities that they serve. We remain committed to that cause and, therefore, confident that the partnership entered into with the EU and ALAT, will go a long way in unlocking many of the challenges faced in implementing the earlier editions of the MAS. Allow me stress that this partnership cannot be complete without the involvement of the media, academia, civil society, private sector and local communities.\u201d\nHon. Gulamhafeez Abubakar Mukadam concluded that \u201cThe 2018/19 Mayors Award Scheme (MAS) will be launched on the 25th of September and all Mayors and Chairpersons will be invited to document their projects of the year. The best initiatives will be selected by an impartial committee and presented, as best practices, at the next ALAT\u2019s AGM. Awards will be granted to the best performing LGAs. May the best project win!\u201d\nThe Mayors Award Scheme (MAS) is a Pan African initiative, launched in 2014 by United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa). It aims to celebrate the performance of local governments and local service delivery to the citizens in Africa.\nThe MAS was already organised in Tanzania in 2015 and 2016, as well as in other African countries (Ghana, Cape Verde and Angola)\nDuring 2016 edition in Tanzania, the following LGAs were selected for their best initiatives: Tanga, Arusha and Mbeya for the Cities; Iringa, Tabora and Shinyanga for Municipalities; Masasi, Njombe and Ushetu for the Town & District Council. The overall winner \u2013 Ushetu District Council \u2013 was awarded a tractor.\nSource : EU Press and information team of the Delegation to TANZANIA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 33430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.udiscovermusic.com/genre/virgin-records/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LWSBVWU7E4PKLPB3UM7ISLIO6ZYKF2NB", "length": 1377, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.udiscovermusic.com", "title": "Virgin Records | uDiscoverMusic", "raw_content": "Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Killers, Sting Set To Headline KAABOO Texas\nThe multi-day festival at the Dallas Cowboys stadium will also feature Lauryn Hill, Counting Crows and more.\nListen to Ian Brown\u2019s New Single \u2018From Chaos To Harmony\u2019\nThe new song also feature on 'Ripples', Brown's seventh solo album, set for release through Virgin/EMI on 1 February.\nMike Oldfield\u2019s Jubilant Christmas Music\n'In Dulci Jubilo' was not just Oldfield's first UK top five single, but has become a part of the sound of Christmas in his home country.\nSteve Perry Announces New Album \u2018Traces\u2019, First Track \u2018No Erasin\u2019\u2019 Out Now\nThe long-awaited 'Traces' is Perry's first new album in nearly a quarter of a century.\nXTC\u2019s Colin Moulding And Terry Chambers Announce First Live Gigs Since 1982\nWith their new band TC&I, the pair have announced a series of shows in their native Swindon.\nLandmark Japan Albums Set For Reissue In Half-Speed Mastered Vinyl Editions\nLed by the influential David Sylvian, the band went on to become one of the most interesting and stylish protagonists of late 1970s/early 80s synth-pop.\nMike Oldfield Launches Virgin Records \u2014 And Himself\nA new artist and a new record label were on people's lips in May 1973.\nCutting Crew Cut Through With \u2018(I Just) Died In Your Arms\u2019\nThe British band's signature song became one of the most memorable pop hits of the 1980s.\nMore Virgin Records", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 5472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ukinsurancenet.com/knowledge-base/news/the-btl-market-is-alive-and-kicking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:24Z", "digest": "sha1:L2OKLTBATFWUHMQACTNISUDVNVQPPMI2", "length": 1797, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ukinsurancenet.com", "title": "The BTL market is \u201calive and kicking\u201d | UKinsuranceNET", "raw_content": "In Q1 2018, the Buy to Let (BTL) market in London and the South East has seen increased levels of activity, compared to a quiet end of 2017. So says a study from mortgage broker Commercial Trust and reported in Mortgage Introducer.\nData showed:\nBTL applications in London have grown from 12.4% in Q4 of 2017 to 16.5% in the first quarter this year - this is the first increase since Q2 2017;\nthe East Midlands enjoyed the biggest increase in market share, quarter on quarter, with a 5% increase in Q1 2018;\nScotland and Wales experienced an upsurge in market share over the same period by almost 2%;\nthe South East has grown its market share from 17.2% in Q4 of 2017, to 19.2% in Q1 of 2018.\nAndrew Turner, from Commercial Trust said: \u201cFrom our latest quarterly data, it is clear that property investment in London and the South East is very much alive and kicking \u2013 and if anything, growing.\n\u201cLondon and the South East remain regions of high demand for rental property and a recent article from CityAM indicated that property prices in the capital have continued to fall, perhaps creating something of a buyers\u2019 market for investors\u201d.\nOpportunities in the North West\nMr. Turner also added that projects like HS2 and significant infrastructure in the North West could open up further opportunities for economic development in the future, creating businesses and jobs and, ultimately the demand for rental properties.\nBTL mortgage interest rates drop\nThe growth in BTL investing may have been further supported by mortgage interest rates dropping.\nA recent report in PropertyWire highlighted how, since the beginning of the year, UK landlords (either as an individual investor or operating as a limited company) can access even more cost-attractive five-year BTL mortgage rates with prices falling.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unaavihs.com/portfolio/singapore-skyrise/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:IJABUQYOGIK63JSVQTZG73J6J5FWY3DA", "length": 219, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.unaavihs.com", "title": "Residence of Adv. 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The interiors is designed in such a way that matches the modern style with a comfort living.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.under5s.co.nz/shop/Hot+Topics+Articles/Health+%26+Wellbeing/Immunising+kids+in+New+Zealand.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2MIFPFI55YFY2ZQIZTLEMCXR4L6UADM5", "length": 2593, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.under5s.co.nz", "title": "Under 5s - For Parents with Babies, Toddlers & Preschoolers", "raw_content": "Home > Hot Topics > Health & Wellbeing > Immunising kids in New Zealand\n01471 https://www.under5s.co.nz/shop/Hot+Topics+Articles/Health+%26+Wellbeing/Immunising+kids+in+New+Zealand.html\nThe topic of immunisation for kids often throws up lots of discussion and strong view points, but remember the choice to immunise your children is yours to make.\nShould you immunise your kids\nAt present, it is not compulsory to immunise children in New Zealand, but it is widely encouraged by medical bodies to help keep childhood disease epidemics at bay.\nNew Zealand\u2019s target for immunisation coverage is 95% of children being fully immunised by 2 years of age.\nHowever, do your own research before making a decision to immunise your child, so that you have an understanding of the risks and are comfortable about what your child is being injected with.\nSome people have concerns about immunisation, ranging from questions about the need to vaccinate when a disease is not common or serious, to issues about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.\nThe Immunisation Handbook issued by the Ministry of Health looks at these concerns in more detail and may answer some of your questions.\nImmunisations for kids in New Zealand\nImmunisations begin when your child is six weeks old and carried out by your family doctor or practice nurse.\nThis is followed by other immunisations at 3 months, 5 months, 15 months and 4 years.\nVisit the Ministry of Health's website for the latest National Immunisation Schedule.\nIn New Zealand, strict procedures are followed when vaccines are made.\nBefore a vaccine can be licensed for use it goes through a long testing process by international scientists to check that it is safe, and that it works. This process usually takes several years and includes trials on people who volunteer to use it.\nBefore a vaccine is approved for supply in New Zealand the manufacturer must demonstrate its quality, that it works well and that it is safe to the satisfaction of Medsafe, a division of the Ministry of Health.\nMedsafe\u2019s evaluation is performed to internationally defined standards and is based on data from clinical trials.\nVisit the Ministry of Health's website for more information on vaccine safety.\nSource: Ministry of Health NZ; Image source: Dreamtime\nQuick guide to hand foot & mouth disease\nHand, foot and mouth disease is usually caused by a viral infection. It can occur at any age, but is common in children under 10 years old. It is not the same as Foot and Mouth disease which occurs in farm animals. Read about the symptoms, how it is spread and how it can be treated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 7237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/company/kca-deutag", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RAMR4KTVKLWGOAMJ2F6UIZAM3E43TOJZ", "length": 740, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com", "title": "KCA Deutag | UANI", "raw_content": "website: http://www.kcadeutag.com/\n\"A high-profile business delegation from the UK met with Iranian petroleum officials to discuss future cooperation in oil and gas projects in Iran in the post-sanction setting. Executives and representatives from British oil and gas heavyweights including British Petroleum (BP), KCA Deutag and Petrofac, headed by Francis Maude, the UK trade and investment minister, met with Amir-Hossein Zamani-Nia, Iran's deputy minister for international affairs and trading, on Sunday to discuss oil and gas cooperation after the sanctions removals as per Iran's nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of countries which was struck on July 14 in Austria's Vienna.\" (Shana, \"British Business Delegation in Tehran,\" 11/1/15)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 6498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.upstep.com/en/active/exercise/ankle-level-1/side-shuffle.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:11Z", "digest": "sha1:66ZDZOZVMXGPZ43MW4NV2DT66UWOEV7Q", "length": 162, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.upstep.com", "title": "Side shuffle for Ankle Pain Level 1 | Upstep", "raw_content": "Stand nice and tall then move laterally using a side shuffle movement in one direction, then in the other.\nLook in front of you as much as possible when you move.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 1956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usinsuranceonline.com/news/article/best-and-worst-cities-for-car-insurance?as=ymwqmt5tonznsatxjuy40n34", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WSVPQNR63W6BOW247YZGRIIWKLSRMU6O", "length": 2262, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.usinsuranceonline.com", "title": "Best and worst cities for car insurance - Insurance Corner | Latest Insurance News | Insurance Quotes | Online Insurance Quotes | UsInsuranceOnline.com", "raw_content": "Best and worst cities for car insurance\nWhen choosing where to live, you might not take into account how much your car insurance will cost, but you should.\nAs the price of vehicle insurance varies based on a wide array of things, it is not likely to stay the same if you move. A recent study from NerdWallet investigated this trend.\n\"To find the average car insurance rates of the 125 largest cities in the United States, we used the profile of a 26-year-old male without any history of accidents, insuring a 2012 Toyota Camry with extended coverage (100/300/50 with a 500 deductible),\" read the study. \"In calculating averages for each city, we only used zip codes within city limits and not in the city's metro area.\"\nAccording to the data, North Carolina is one place a driver would want to move, as six of top 10 cities for car insurance were located in the state. The report suggested that because North Carolina has drive-friendly car insurance laws, it's one of the best places when it comes to insurance costs.\nHere's the list of the best cities for car insurance:\nThe study did show that drivers overpay an average of $368 a year for car insurance. Those assessing their options are encouraged to get car insurance quotes before signing up, especially if they live in some of the worst cities for insurance.\nHere's a list of the worst cities for car insurance:\nHialeah, Fla.\nBest practices to find the lowest rates\nWhile car insurance rates can vary widely across the country, it's important to find reputable help when looking for coverage. Aside from driving as safely as possible, insurance rates can be kept low by maintaining good credit and comparing rates for cars you might be interested in.\nAs insurance companies investigate your credit score to determine rates, it's also important to make sure your finances are in order. Request a credit report to see where you stand. Then take steps to improving your situation and building credit.\nAside from ensuring you look good on paper, there are other ways to keep insurance costs down. If you are purchasing a vehicle, keep in mind that rates vary depending on which one you choose. Sure you might be able to afford the asking price for that Corvette, but don't forget about the cost to insure it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usm.edu/english/childrens-literature-english-southern-miss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:FD26SPL26D7IAWFVTICKS3CBHB5D7UFA", "length": 11863, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.usm.edu", "title": "CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH at SOUTHERN MISS | English", "raw_content": "CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH at SOUTHERN MISS\nThe English Department at Southern Miss offers advanced studies in children\u2019s literature at the master\u2019s and doctoral levels, where we have brought together faculty with teaching and research interests in children\u2019s literature, graduate-level course offerings in the field, and the extensive holdings of the de Grummond Children\u2019s Literature Collection. Students can also participate in the department\u2019s children\u2019s literature reading group and interact with major authors and illustrators who visit campus each year for the Fay B. Kaigler Children\u2019s Book Festival. Together, these resources provide a unique opportunity for the graduate study of children\u2019s and young adult literature at Southern Miss.\nEric L. Tribunella, Associate Professor and Senior Associate Dean, has taught a variety of children\u2019s literature courses on such topics as the Golden Age, trauma in children\u2019s literature, the young adult novel, children\u2019s literature before 1865, and nineteenth-century boy books & girl books. He is the author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children\u2019s Literature (2010) and the co-author with Carrie Hintz of Reading Children\u2019s Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013). He received the 2014 Children\u2019s Literature Association (ChLA) Article Award for \u201cBetween Boys: Edward Stevenson\u2019s Left to Themselves and the Birth of Gay Children\u2019s Literature,\u201d and he currently serves on the Executive Board of the ChLA.\nJameela Lares, Professor, has taught children's and young adult literature for many years in both the US and the UK. She has also served on the International and the Book Award committees for the Children's Literature Association. She is preparing publications on linguistic anxiety in Winnie-the-Pooh and social responsibility in British fantasy. Her other research and teaching interests include John Milton and the seventeenth century, literary study of the Bible, and the history of rhetoric.\nKate Cochran, Associate Professor, is an Associate Professor in southern literature and Director of the English Licensure Program. She teaches courses in English pedagogy, adolescent literature, American literature, and southern studies. She has published articles in the New Hibernia Review, the Southern Literary Journal, and the College English Association Forum, and her current research in young adult literature focuses on the Twilight Saga.\nAlexandra Valint, Associate Professor, specializes in Victorian literature, narrative theory, and children\u2019s and young adult literature. She has taught courses on the body in young adult literature, the adolescent as hero and/or victim, and gothic children\u2019s and young adult literature. She also regularly teaches children\u2019s literature in her Victorian literature classes. She has published on Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden--both articles appeared in Children's Literature Association Quarterly. An article on Treasure Island appeared in English Literature in Transition, 1880\u20131920. Her current book project examines wheelchair and crutch users in Victorian literature, including children's literature.\nEach year, Southern Miss hosts the Fay B. Kaigler Children\u2019s Book Festival, which brings children\u2019s book authors and illustrators to campus each spring to speak to students and festival attendees. Founded in 1968, the festival includes the presentation of the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion, which honors an author or illustrator for distinguished contributions to children\u2019s literature. Past recipients of the Medallion include Jane Yolen, David Wiesner, Judy Blume, Walter Dean Myers, Lois Lowry, Virginia Hamilton, and Christopher Paul Curtis. English students have opportunities to meet authors and illustrators, attend presentations, and assist with the festival. Recent speakers have included John Green, David Levithan, M.T. Anderson, Paul Zelinsky, Gene Luen Yang, and many others.\nDE GRUMMOND COLLECTION\nEric Tribunella and curator Ellen Ruffin discuss the de Grummond Collection's John Green manuscripts with a group of children's literature students.\nStudents of children\u2019s literature at Southern Miss have the rare opportunity both to work with children\u2019s literature scholars and to access one of the country\u2019s largest children\u2019s literature archives on the same campus. The de Grummond Children\u2019s Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. Although the Collection has many strengths, the main focus is on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary. Founded in 1966 by Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, the Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1,300 authors and illustrators, as well as 160,000+ published books dating from 1530 to the present. It holds countless possibilities for research and dissertation projects.\nThe British children's literature class visits the real secret garden at Frances Hodgson Burnett's house in Kent, England.\nENG 597: British Children\u2019s Literature (Study Abroad)\nJameela Lares\nHere's your chance to experience firsthand the inspiration for some of the world's most famous children's stories. You'll read literary classics, visit the places where they were written, and attend presentations by noted British specialists. You'll visit fantasy sites in Oxford associated with Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Harry Potter, cross Pooh Bridge in Milne's Ashdown Forest, find traces of Long John Silver in Stevenson's Edinburgh, and look for Peter Rabbit in Potter's Lake District. In London, you'll explore the appeal of Dick Whittington to city apprentices, visit Kensington Garden to understand how J. M Barrie could see Peter Pan in the magical park across the street, walk about the maritime world of Greenwich Village, visit the Old Royal Observatory, and experience a child's wonder of having a foot in each hemisphere at the Greenwich Meridian - and more. Along the way, you'll learn how various texts are constructed as literature that reflects historical, cultural, and psychological realities. You'll also enjoy the most stunning classrooms of a lifetime, as your pathway of learning stretches North from London through the Lake District to Edinburgh.\nMilne biographer Ann Thwaite takes students in the British children\u2019s literature course on a tour of Ashdown Forest, England.\nStudents in the British children\u2019s literature course pose with the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, London.\nENG 645: Topics Children's/Young Adult Literature\nEric L. Tribunella\n\u201cKeywords for Children's Literature\u201d\nThis course will pair landmark works for children and young adults with relevant entries from Nel and Paul's Keywords for Children's Literature. In doing so, the class will navigate between an introduction for non-specialists and a more focused study for students planning to concentrate in children's literature. The course will read significant texts, authors, and genres, as well as discuss issues central to the field. Students will write several short responses modeled on Keywords essays and a traditional seminar paper on a children's text of their choosing. Possible course readings include the following:\nIntroductions 1: Children's Literature, Childhood, Golden Age, Innocence, Classic\nIntroductions 2: Culture, Identity, Ideology, Theory\nAudience, Crossover: Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857)\nNonsense, Education, Fantasy: Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Benson, David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918)\nGirlhood, Tomboy, Domestic, Home: Alcott, Little Women (1868); Coolidge, What Katy Did (1872)\nBoyhood, Gender: Alger, Ragged Dick (1868)\nClass, Empire, Postcolonial: Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911)\nAfrican American, Multicultural, Race: Ovington, Hazel (1913)\nRealism, Young Adult: Boylston, Sue Barton (1936); Hinton, The Outsiders (1967)\nImage, Picture Book: Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)\nENG 745: Seminar in Children's and Young Adult Literature\n\"The Bible and Children's Literature\"\nThis course will examine the extent to which certain children\u2019s books encode or reflect Scripture itself and also the extent to which the Bible concerns itself with children, though individual research papers can be on any subject in children\u2019s literature, on any subject in biblical literature, or on some combination of the two. There will be additional readings to choose from for oral reports, but as a class we will look at biblical narratives in the King James Bible (the most enduring literary version) and also look for connections between the Bible and children\u2019s literature in Bunyan\u2019s Pilgrim\u2019s Progress and Defoe\u2019s Robinson Crusoe, both of which heavily informed by Scripture but also have heavily influenced children\u2019s literature. We will look at some shorter pious narratives, Janeway\u2019s immensely popular A Token for Children from the seventeenth century and Stretton\u2019s equally popular Jessica\u2019s First Prayer from the nineteenth. We will of course read the more scripturally-informed titles from The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, that is, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Silver Chair, The Magician\u2019s Nephew, and The Last Battle, as expressions not only of creation, temptation, and redemption, but also of \u201clast things,\u201d which will take us into a consideration of apocalyptic literature and the book of Revelation. Another apocalyptic text we will read is the graphic novel Watchmen, which we can at least categorize as young adult literature and which certainly represents the rich influence of apocalypse on graphic novels. We will probably take a week to compare the many and various children\u2019s Bibles held by our university\u2019s rich de Grummond collection, and we will also be reading Charles Dickens\u2019s The Life of Our Lord, a gospel account written for his own children. Among the poems will we consider against the background of biblical poetry are those by Isaac Watts and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. I hope also to include a partial or complete theatrical work, such as Madeline L\u2019Engle\u2019s The Journey with Jonah or even Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.\nENG 645: Topics in Children's and Young Adult Literature\n\"Child-Loving, Child-Hating, and Children's Literature\"\nJames Kincaid calls the broad cultural impulse to glorify youth and to romanticize children \u201cchild-loving.\u201d Following Kincaid, we can understand the enterprise of children\u2019s literature as relying on and reproducing a culture of child-loving, which involves assuming that children are important and special enough to have their own literature, to be written for and to be written about. Responding to Kincaid, Karen Coats argues that \u201c[i]n focusing on the ways that we love and have loved children\u2026he suppresses the ways we have hated them,\u201d and Freud has taught us to consider how expressions of pleasure or value can mask impulses of aggression or hatred. This course offers an introduction to children\u2019s literature, especially the period known as the Golden Age, in terms of child-loving and child-hating. We will examine key debates in the history of childhood about the care of children, theories of child love and hate, literary expressions of the suffering and sacralization of children, and depictions of pedophilic and pedophobic adults in children\u2019s classics.\nIn addition to excerpts by James Janeway, John Newbery, Elizabeth Turner, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Randolph Caldecott, required texts will include the following:\nAlice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll\nElsie Dinsmore, Martha Finley\nToby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus, James Otis\nStalky and Co., Rudyard Kipling\nPeter and Wendy, J.M. Barrie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 14156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 161.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/hcs/christine-berkowitz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BTM3F3AQ36OVBTYWOAKXJB4JZPDXJAWB", "length": 1268, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.utsc.utoronto.ca", "title": "Christine Berkowitz | Department of Historical and Cultural Studies", "raw_content": "\u00bb Christine Berkowitz\nChristine Berkowitz\nchris.berkowitz@utoronto.ca\nChristine Berkowitz, returned to academia part-time in 1998, after twenty years in the public sector as a senior manager of non-profit organizations involved in the planning, development and coordination of community services.\nDr. Berkowitz received her PhD in History from the University of Toronto in September of 2010. Her dissertation project, entitled \"Railroad Crossings: Railway Workers and the Transnational World of North America, 1877-1910,\" explores labour migration, working-class culture and borderland identities in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, thinking comparatively about Mexican-US and Canadian-US borderlands.\nCrossing between three nations and questioning categories such as race, citizenship and nation, Christine studies workers relationally \u2013 to their families, fellows and communities, and to larger processes capitalist expansion and nation-building.\nCurrently, Dr. Berkowitz holds a full-time Lecturer's appointment at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a teaching focus on Critical Writing and Research for Historians and a variety of courses in American History.\nNorth American Labour and Working-Class Histor\nB.A. (Colorado)\nPh.D. (Toronto)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vaccinechoiceprayercommunity.org/blog/mending-a-restoring-olivia-post-by-kelly-johnson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EHRKX2KRDYHDCYY2CBRO3T5CEWKNY2WS", "length": 4085, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.vaccinechoiceprayercommunity.org", "title": "Mending... a \"Restoring Olivia\" post by Kelly Johnson - Vaccine Choice Prayer Community", "raw_content": "Mending...\n\u200bby Kelly Johnson, Originally posted on May 24, 2018 at Restoring Olivia.\nThank you so much for the prayers of support and healing for Olivia while she was hospitalized and while we have been at home.\nSo many things have come to mind over the last eight weeks that I'd like to share. Upon discharge, I was given an incredibly dire prognosis for Olivia's life. This prognosis was detailed in the \"Assumptions Can Be Deceiving\" post (April 11, 2018). While in the hospital, she acquired 4 NEW serious conditions:\nHigh Fevers. One doctor said \"It would be a miracle if her fevers went away.\nExtreme hypertonia. Would never walk again.\nHer left arm was floppy and unusable.\nExtreme weakness. No longer able to hold her head up and she could not swallow, so, therefore, could not eat or drink.\n\u200bI can say one thing......it's been a long eight weeks....but Olivia has made a lot of progress!\nFirst of all, she has not had a fever since she's been home! One miracle down!! The extreme tightness and hypertonia are diminishing every day and she has started using her left arm again. Miracles #'s 2 and 3! The weakness is gradually subsiding. She is able to hold her head up again with returned trunk strength and is completely off the tube feeding and eating/drinking once again. Praise God!\nI really wanted to share some of the pictures and video's I've collected over the last 16 weeks - yes 16 weeks!!!! Looking back on where we've come from, I thought it would be neat to combine them with a song that God has put on my heart since arriving home\n\u200bActually, it just occurred to me why God impressed this video on my heart and it starts with one of my favorite bible verses for Olivia. Psalm 139:13 \"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb,\" and this incredible song by Matthew West \"Mended\".\nWhat I realized is that God is the one who \"Knits\" (Premier Knitter) us together, so, therefore, he must be the Mender. With Olivia, the temporary patches to her fragile and damaged \"inmost being\", supplied by drugs and other medical interventions have too often worn thin.......with their ineffectiveness and consequential damage. As with this last hospitalization, she ends up worse off. Take a look at how much the drugs ravaged her hair:\n\u200bSee that inch and a half section closest to her scalp. That's her real hair color. That is healthy, undamaged hair pushing out the darkened, broken and thin strands left remaining on her head. She lost so much hair since being home, you would have sworn she had been on cancer drugs. It came out in fist fulls.\nIf you are familiar with my writing, I often plead for a \"Do Over\" with Olivia's life, especially the decisions I have made for her. In a sense, I really feel like this is the beginning of that \"Do Over\" phase. I mean, seriously, it was like I brought home a 19 year old newborn. Her limbs were contracted in a ball, she could not use her arms for anything purposeful, she could not hold her head up and consequently lost a bunch of hair at the back of her head. As she started getting better her coo's and giggles reminded me of that gorgeous little baby I brought home 19 1/2 years ago. Especially since she now has some missing teeth. (ugh) Ok, now I'm getting weepy.\nWhat's important is that the mending has begun and I feel like I have a better understanding of how the vaccines tore a hole in the Perfection she was given. These holes and patches can and will heal because guess what? He can push out the darkness.....the brokenness.....and strengthen the thin strands of faith we mothers of vaccine damaged children cultivate with our experiences.\nHere's to the beginning of this new chapter!\u2764\ufe0f\nWe would love continued prayers for her ability to sit up/get up on her own from a laying/seated position and to be able to walk again and her overall health and vitality at this stage of her restoration.\n\u200bThank you, Kelly, for this wonderful news!\n\u200bOur love and prayers for you and Olivia continue.\n\u200bFor more posts by Kelly Johnson, visit and follow \"Restoring Olivia\n\u200bat www.restoringolivia.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 7401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vaccinechoiceprayercommunity.org/blog/truth-about-vaccines-docu-series-begins-april-12th", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ID73ZADN5PJMFFZZWOBSMTFJFYY7T6Z6", "length": 3072, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.vaccinechoiceprayercommunity.org", "title": "Truth About Vaccines Docu-Series Begins April 12th - Vaccine Choice Prayer Community", "raw_content": "Truth About Vaccines Docu-Series Begins April 12th\nWhen I started researching vaccines almost 30 years ago, there was no internet, so finding information about the potential dangers of vaccines was a bit more challenging; but as a young mother on a mission, I found quite a bit and learned a lot. Thanks to social media it is much easier to connect with others, share information and be informed. In recent years, there have been many books, videos, documentaries like Trace Amounts, VAXXED and more; as well as docu-series like the recent Vaccines Revealed to educate those who are willing to consider that vaccines might not be as safe and effective as we have been led to believe. On Wednesday, April 12th at 9PM Eastern, the team that brought us \"The Truth About Cancer\" will bring us, \"The Truth About Vaccines.\" Watch the trailer and \"sneak peek\" below, and register for this free online 7-part series. Each episode will be available for 24 hours. If you are unable to watch the series now, register anyway so that you will be notified of replays and the option to purchase the series if you so choose.\nClick here to register for The Truth About Vaccines.\n\u200bOnce registered, you will receive a reminder before each episode with the direct link to watch.\nVaccine safety is something we should all be concerned about -- not just those of us with children and grandchildren. The childhood vaccine schedule has increased dramatically since the late 80's; and our children are sicker than ever. The adult vaccine schedule is rising as well. (See video at end of this post.) Vaccine mandates for children and adults are becoming more common and vaccine exemptions are becoming more difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. No matter how you feel about vaccines, it is important to be informed so that you can make the best possible decision for yourself and for your family.\nThe Truth About Vaccines docu-series schedule:\nEpisode 1 \u2013 The History of Vaccines, Smallpox, Vaccine Safety & the Current CDC Schedule\nWednesday, April 12th at 9:00 P.M. EDT\nEpisode 2 \u2013 What\u2019s in a Vaccine? Are Vaccines Effective? \u2026 and \u2026 What About Polio?\nThursday, April 13th at 9:00 P.M. EDT\nEpisode 3 \u2013 An Analysis of the MMR & DTaP Vaccines & Vaccinating for the Greater Good\nFriday, April 14th at 9:00 P.M. EDT\nEpisode 4 \u2013 Examining Influenza, the HIB and Pneumococcal Vaccines & Herd Immunity\nSaturday, April 15th at 9:00 P.M. EDT\nEpisode 5 \u2013 Considering the HPV and Hepatitis B Vaccines, SIDS & Shaken Baby Syndrome Sunday, April 16th at 9:00 P.M. EDT\nEpisode 6 \u2013 A Closer Look at the CDC, Chicken-Pox and Rotavirus Vaccines & Retroviruses\nMonday, April 17th at 9:00 P.M. EDT\nEpisode 7 \u2013 Natural Immunization, Homeoprophylaxis & Fundamental Freedom of Choice\nTuesday, April 18th at 9:00 P.M. EDT)\nIn this segment, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny and Dr. Tony Bark talk about Healthy People 2020,\nelectronic medical records and mandatory vaccines for adults.\nVaccine safety effects all of us.\n\u200bPlease share this information with others.\nWinston Dance\nYes email me info on vaccines to share with friends", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 200.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.valeriebehiery.com/new-page", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VLRMITPNGU7CHWWDGGFEXL4MUDQYMLGX", "length": 13722, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.valeriebehiery.com", "title": "Dr. Zehra \u00c7obanl\u0131 \u2014 VALERIE BEHIERY", "raw_content": "\u0093I love nature and flowers. Tulips are my favourite flower. The tulip or \u2018laleh\u2019 is said to be elegant, noble and a symbol of love. The tulip reveals the purity of colour and form. If we look at tulips, we can observe that they have opened their hearts to us. In Sufism, the flower symbolizes the Creator because \u2018Allah\u2019 is written with the same letters of alif, lam and ha.\u0094\n\u2014 (Dr. Zehra \u00c7obanl\u0131)\nDr. Zehra \u00c7obanl\u0131 / Photo courtesy of the artist\nDr. Zehra \u00c7obanl\u0131 is a major figure in the field of contemporary ceramics in Turkey. Her installations, structured around the notion of the multiple, bridge past and present and challenge the modernist view of their mutual exclusivity. They engage in a novel form of storytelling that probes not only Turkey\u2019s Ottoman heritage and Anatolian culture, but also current critical issues like gender, migration and war. \u00c7obanl\u0131\u2019s expertise in ceramic technology and history also informs her work and contributes to its unique depth and appeal. A graduate of Marmara University, Dr. \u00c7obanl\u0131 helped to establish the Department of Ceramics atthe Faculty of Fine Arts of Anadolu University in Eskishehir, Turkey. She served for many years as the departmental head (1989-2007) and, later, as faculty dean (2007-2012)The master ceramic artist has exhibited in many countries, among them Turkey, Finland, Australia, Japan, Italy, China and the United States.\nYour work is powerful in that it puts forth a vision in which tradition and modernity are not polar opposites, but work together to create something new and move forward. Could you say a few words about how you understand their relationship?\nI have always thought that to reach the universal, one needs to consider the traditional and the local. I believe that in order to be universal, it is necessary to carry traces of our local and traditional cultural symbols from the land we live in. I think these offer up an opportunity to capture our originality by transferring our distinctive features to our art. The idea of reaching authenticity with the tips, symbols and messages I want to give, but without either leaving or just copying tradition, is the method that I use up to this day.\nLet\u2019s discuss a concrete example. For the 700th anniversary of the Ottoman Empire, you created a series of works based on the tughra. While the sultans\u2019 signatures and the cobalt blue are symbols of the Ottoman court and Turkey\u2019s past, they are carried into the present by their translation into the new artistic genre of contemporary art.\nI started this series 'Mystery of Blue: Tughras' with a lot of excitement. During the Ottoman Empire, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, the most beautiful Iznik ceramics of blue and white Iznik were made. The uniqueness of the blue in my ceramic plates recalls the eternity of the azure sky, the vastness of the seas and, at the same time, the abstract beauty of turquoise associated with a thousand senses. Some critics have said that the colour unifies the beauty of the installation.\nI began the work by first examining the Ottoman sultans' signatures and the period in which the sultans lived. Sometimes, I put the sultan\u2019s portrait and small details on the surfaces of the plates. 'Tu\u011fra' comes from the O\u011fuz Turkish word 'tu\u011fra\u011f', meaning the signature and order of the 'Hakan' or ruler. It has the same meaning as the Arabic word 'tevki' meaning symbol or signature. The tughra seal simply indicates that a document belongs to a sultan and represents the state. It is also, of course, linked to the art of calligraphy, that charming, independent artistic domain in which the East took shelter and breath. Islamic calligraphy has taken the responsibility of a kind of painting that expresses and describes human emotions such as dignity, immensity, courtesy, purity, loneliness and modesty.\nI employed the whole form of the tughra in my plates. Nevertheless, I did not merely copy a specific sample of tughras, but utilized all the sultans\u2019 tughras simultaneously. This work wants to recall and teach our society, often unaware of its culture, the long-lived and great state and art of the Ottoman Empire that emerged from the beyliks and lasted over six hundred years.\n'Mystery of Blue: Tugras' installation, earthenware, underglaze blue slip and underglaze pigment, cobalt oxide,175x175 cm, 2005 / Courtesy of the artist\n'Tulip Time' is one of my favourite pieces with its 836 white ceramic tulips set on the floor in concentric circles, each flower decorated in \u00e7ini technique with a different Islamic pattern. What does the symbol of the tulip and the concept of repetition mean to you?\nI love nature and flowers. Tulips are my favourite flower. The tulip or \u2018laleh\u2019 is said to be elegant, noble and a symbol of love. The tulip reveals the purity of colour and form. If we look at tulips, we can observe that they have opened their hearts to us. In Sufism, the flower symbolizes the Creator because 'Allah' is written with the same letters of alif, lam and ha. These letters are equivalent to the number 66 in abjad numerology used in the Ottoman period. These three letters are also found in the word \u2018hilal\u2019 or \u2018crescent moon\u2019 that was the emblem of the Ottoman State. For this reason, Turks believe that there exists a spiritual bond between the three words.\nArtistic composition occurs through the use of many elements and principles together. Repetition reinforces the sense that an item is used exactly as it is. It also provides meaning. Rumi says \"Let's be united, make it easy.\" 'Tulip Time' wants to convey the meaning of being together, of loving one another and of creating and sharing.\n'Tulips time', stoneware, 2013 / Courtesy of the artist\n'Tulips time', stoneware, paper stencil, electrical kiln,4x4 meters, 2013 / Courtesy of the artist\nWhen you studied ceramics at Marmara University, the program might have focused on functional ceramics and the Turkish ceramic tradition. How did you come to reframe ceramics as a potent medium for contemporary installation art?\nWe were actually immersed in the Bauhaus school and this kept us away from traditional understandings of art. We were facing west. My turning point came when I was a researcher at the Tokyo Fine Arts and Music University in 1992. The influence of the late master of celadon, Professor Mihura Koheiji, was especially great. Japan, while very modern, remains connected to its cultural past. This experience pushed me to reexamine Anatolia and find a new way to observe and research popular idioms and local folk arts.\nCeramic installations in our country were not common in 1990s. I did my first installation work at that time to commemorate the soldiers who lost their lives in the disintegration of Yugoslavia. I used 21 types of different colours of clay-earth, representing the villages and towns where the soldiers came to war, and, because of this reason, I made monumental, geometric forms to represent the soldiers who I assumed were about 21 years old. What I feel is what I do: I do what is supposed to be for me, rather than think about what others would say or think.\nYou have produced many works that were inspired by the number 40, based on Anatolian idioms such as 'Birfincankahvenin, kirk yilhatirivardir', meaning that sharing a cup of coffee cements 40 years of friendship. What is the meaning of 40 in Anatolian culture and why does it inspire your work?\nIt is known that in the mythology of the Turks from Central Asia and the Middle East, the number 40 is considered a sacred number. This is true also in Islamic culture. In Anatolia, for example, the Qur'an is read 40 days after a death, after a birth and again on the newborn\u2019s 40th day. The number 40 is fertile, ready and complete. It is the product of 4 which points to time and 10 which signifies information. It is very important in terms of spiritual maturity as well. Muhammad became a prophet at the age of 40 and there were 40 men, 40 women and 40 animals on Noah's ship. After celebrating my 40th birthday, both my maturity and the mystic depth of four decades led me to explore the widely-used Anatolian idioms around the number in my art.\n'Birfincankahvenin 40 y\u0131lhat\u0131r\u0131vard\u0131r' (One Cup of Coffee Cements 40 Years of Friendship), stoneware, brown slip, gold, 120x120 cm, 1998 / Courtesy of the artist\nBir gun horoz olmak 40 gun tavuk olmaktan yegdir, 1998/ Courtesy of the artist\nYour work engages in storytelling, but one that is open to interpretation. It often refers to seemingly mundane events or objects, like the feeding of chickens, pairs of shoes or the making and drinking of tea or coffee. Is this integration of everyday life into your art a narrative or autobiographical element or one that seeks to suture art and life?\nYes, my works engage in storytelling, especially female storytelling. Although we talk about equality between men and women in Turkey, we are also very sad about not being always able to escape from situations that affect us deeply. For this reason, I cannot give up working in Anatolia to improve women's lives, cultures and rights. Some of my work addresses the female life that we have established in largely male-female social relations in daily life. This explains the references in my work to everyday reality and the bonds of friendship. The shoe is also a recurrent motif drawn from life. Used in repetition, it can indicate social status, social interactions, the difference of power between men and women, or, still yet, painful moments at sea and the plight of displaced children. Sometimes, I am against consumer society now, after all the horror stories of immigration.\n'Child Alyan and Others', earthenware, turquoise glaze, china paint, gold, tile, 10x120x60 cm, 2015 / Courtesy of the artist\nTebdili huyda vayda vard\u0131r, 2006 / Courtesy of the artist\nGender permeates your work, whether through displays of ceramic women\u2019s shoes or objects of domesticity. Some pieces are explicitly feminist like the 1997 'Women\u2019s Power' or 'Kad\u0131n\u0131nFendi' installation. Is there a conscious feminist element to this aspect of your work or do you define it differently?\nI'm not a feminist. I defend the equality of men and women. For this reason, I spent a lot of my life working, asking permission from no one. I mean to be a good example for young women, adult women and women colleagues, as a mother, wife and female artist, educator and administrator. I believe in women's strength and ability. You discover yourself through the work you do. I mean there's nothing you cannot do. I think that this idea is reinforced in my art produced in a country whose ceramic culture extends for thousands of years.\n'Kad\u0131n\u0131nFendi (Woman Power)', earthenware, coloured brown slip, 135x135 cm, 1997 / Courtesy of the artist\n'El a\u011fz\u0131ileyolacikilmaz', beige stoneware, black glaze by brush, 22x26 cm, 2005 / Courtesy of the artist\nAs a retired professor and dean, you now have more time to dedicate to your work. What projects are you currently working on?\nI did not retire from my art life. I retired from public service only! Now, I find time to read, explore, travel, learn and design more. I can listen to myself. First of all, I would like to have a retrospective exhibition of my research and art with an accompanying catalogue. In terms of work, I want to continue exploring the beauty of blue as well as undertake some more nature-related studies that depict social events via symbols. As you get older, you understand that thousands of years and more have witnessed the traces of life \u2014trust, eternity, distance or accessibility, etc.\u2014 like mountains, for example. And once I realized this, I desire to reach such eternal emotions too.\nI would also like to found a comprehensive ceramics museum in Turkey that would exhibit and combine traditional and contemporary ceramic traditions, and find a home for my own body of work.\nWhite Light Diet, 2,5x2,5m, 2006/ Courtesy of the artist<\nYou played a major role in establishing a contemporary ceramics art scene in Turkey, both through your art and your teaching. How would you describe your role over the last 35 years?\nAfter graduation, I wanted to learn more about ceramics and art. For this reason, I worked on high-grade ceramics and ceramic technology in Australia. I realized that I wanted to share my experience and knowledge with students and colleagues in the Ceramics Department of a Faculty of Fine Arts at a university established in the middle of Anatolia. I have trained very good students. They have done well at other universities. They work as educators, administrators and artists. I have designed education programs to contribute not only to my students, but also to the field of ceramics more generally.\nI am still working to improve the place of contemporary ceramics in Turkey and worldwide. This is why I set up 'Ceramic Art, Education and Exchange'(SSEDD) association in 2013 in Turkey that supports global ceramic education initiatives. Our activities are carried out regularly every year. I still get great pleasure from teaching, learning and doing ceramics. Looking back on the past, I have organized numerous shows, competitions, exhibitions of women's arts and handicrafts, conferences, and demonstrations, written several books and articles, prepared myriad lectures, travelled around the world and made many friends, My life has been full and useful.\nMountain, 2017, stoneware, blue coloured slips, transparent glaze, (L. 17x23 cm, R. 15x15 cm), 2017\nI thank you very much Dr. Zehra and I look forward to discovering your present and future installations.\nThere are so many things to tell and share, and so I thank Islamic Arts Magazine and its readers for their short entry in my life and art. Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 14438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vapingpost.com/2019/02/12/hawaii-considers-raising-minimum-smoking-age-to-100/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:36Z", "digest": "sha1:BVSHS2WCNJNV74TZTLALRDIAPJO74KL6", "length": 1846, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.vapingpost.com", "title": "Hawaii Considers Raising Minimum Smoking Age to 100 | Vaping Post", "raw_content": "Home Politics America Hawaii Considers Raising Minimum Smoking Age to 100\nThe state of Hawaii is considering amending the current smoking regulations, to incrementally raise the legal age at which one can purchase cigarettes to 100.\nThe legislation was proposed by democratic state representative Richard Creagan, and if implemented it would ultimately lead to an unprecedented ban on the sale of cigarettes in Hawaii, making it the first US state to implement such as measure.\nLike in many other US states, currently Hawaiians must be 21 in order to be able to purchase cigarettes, but under the proposals, the age would rise to 30 in 2020, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022, 60 in 2023, and then jump from 60 to 100 in 2024. Thankfully the age limit would not apply to safer alternatives such as e-cigarettes and snus.\nRep. Creagan, who is also a doctor does not think that the current tax measures and health warnings are being effective at curbing smoking. \u201cIt\u2019s slowing it down, but it\u2019s not stopping the problem,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cWe essentially have a group who are heavily addicted \u2013 in my view, enslaved by a ridiculously bad industry \u2013 which has enslaved them by designing a cigarette that is highly addictive, knowing that it highly lethal. And, it is.\u201d\nCigarettes should be as restricted as other deadly substances\nCreagan added that cigarettes should be taken as seriously as certain banned substances. \u201cThe state is obliged to protect the public\u2019s health,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t allow people free access to opioids, for instance, or any prescription drugs.\u201d Rep. Creagan\u2019s bill has two other sponsors and is expected to be heard by the House Health Committee in the coming days.\nRead Further: Independent\nPrevious articleMech mod kills Texan; Colorado and Massachusetts try to kill harm reduction\nNext articleBelarus To Tighten E-Cig Regulations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.varsaytoner.com/u1587/fotokopi-tonerleri/kyocera-mita-fotokopi-tonerleri/kyocera-tk-110-siyah-toner-kartusu.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TFFCSPGSPL6KXKXSQXPKYJIDQDDBD6TH", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.varsaytoner.com", "title": "Kyocera TK-110 Siyah Toner Kartu\u015fu | T\u00fcrkiye'nin Orijinal ve Muadil Toner Kartu\u015f Tedarik\u00e7isi", "raw_content": "FS-1016MFP, FS-720, FS-820, FS-920", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 386, "original_length": 8749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 109.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.veolia.co.uk/press-releases/should-auld-acquaintance-be-forgot-and-streets-be-cleaned-auld-lang-syne", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IDPE3NJ5NPWO35RO2ZBJ2VYFWVG3KFGH", "length": 2472, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.veolia.co.uk", "title": "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and the streets be cleaned, for Auld Lang Syne | Veolia UK", "raw_content": "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and the streets be cleaned, for Auld Lang Syne\nWestminster City Council is about to embark on its annual \u201cbig clean-up\u201d following the landmark New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations and ahead of the London New Year\u2019s Day Parade (LNYDP 2016) on Friday morning with the support of Veolia, the UK\u2019s leading resource management company.\nA total of 51 vehicles and 119 members of staff will work through the night, to welcome in the New Year in pristine condition. The waste expected from the night\u2019s celebrations will mainly consist of plastic bags, plastic bottles, food packaging, and cans of lager, and there are expected to be around 15,000 empty bottles of champagne.\nHowever, in addition to the \u201cexpected\u201d waste items, the cleaning team on the 31 December can also expect to find some usual objects, such as stuffed animals, wedding dresses and blow-up dolls \u2013 if findings from previous years are anything to go by.\nThe most common and unusual items lining the streets of Westminster are:\nStarting shortly after Big Ben has struck midnight, Veolia will be working to remove any sign of a hangover from the night before, by cleaning up after approximately half a million revellers, who are expected to create in the region of 85 tonnes of waste. The team of workers will be broken down into 17 groups that are to be strategically spread out across the borough, so the clean-up can start as quickly and efficiently as possible.\nPascal Hauret, Veolia's Regional Director for London, said: \"While the New Year's clean-up represents a sizeable challenge, it is one that we relish and are extremely proud of the efforts our staff put into ensuring the streets of Westminster are back to their usual high standard by the morning. It is a true team effort, with everyone pitching into help, from senior management to staff from across our London contracts.\"\nAlso, speaking before the clean-up, Cllr Melvyn Caplan, Cabinet Member for City Management, said: \"Westminster is the focal point for the nation\u2019s, and London\u2019s, New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations. We are proud to be able to host them, and provide such an efficient clean-up service to get the streets clean and tidy for the New Year\u2019s Day Parade.\"\nWestminster offers a prime location to see in the New Year due to its mix of historic landmarks and the famous River Thames Fireworks display. For more information on street cleansing services, please visit: http://www.westminster.gov.uk/streetcleansing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.verbund.com/en-at/about-verbund/news-press/press-releases/2007/12/12/eex", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5AK7BDCVB3HR4BPM2SVKRFWNBTFW5TED", "length": 2204, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.verbund.com", "title": "VERBUND provides Chairman to the EEX Exchange Council", "raw_content": "VERBUND provides Chairman to the EEX Exchange Council\nIn the course of its last meeting this year, the Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has elected a new chairman. The vote was unanimously cast in favour of Dr. G\u00fcnther Rabensteiner, Chairman of the Managing Board of VERBUND-Austrian Power Trading AG and long-term member of the Exchange Council.\nWith that, Dr. Rabensteiner will take over the office from Dr. Jacques Piasko from Switzerland, who is leaving the Exchange Council. As Deputy General Director Dr. Sereinig, Member of the VERBUND Managing Board in charge of Power Trading, commented, the election of a VERBUND representative to the office of Chairman of the Exchange Council of EEX constitutes confirmation and approval of the successful international strategy of the VERBUND Group. In view of the pending decisions of the owners regarding the expansion of the European strategy, EEX is faced with a number of major challenges.\nNew Control Structure for EEX\nAgainst this backdrop, the Exchange Council has commissioned its Compliance Committee to design a concept for the future maintenance and further development of proven structures, especially the incorporation of market participants into decision-making processes of the Exchange. This regulatory system is to correspond to the current structure of EEX under public law in terms of quality and transparency.\nThe EEX Exchange Council is a body of the Exchange defined in the German Stock Exchange Act and consists of a total of 23 members representing the different interest groups and business circles. Next to the trading participants with 18 elected representatives from different groups (domestic and foreign VERBUND and Power Trading companies, municipal utilities and regional suppliers, brokers and financial service providers, as well as commercial consumers), the EEX Exchange Council includes four representatives of associations (VIK/Association of the Energy and Power Supply Industry, registered association), BDEW/Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industries, registered association) and BDI/Federation of German Industries, registered association), as well as an investors' representative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 7668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vernerbrumley.com/time-texas-adopt-collaborative-law/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MTDZAEYNDQYD6M6Z2K6UT6ZYLPUD325H", "length": 2092, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.vernerbrumley.com", "title": "It is time for Texas to adopt collaborative law | Verner Brumley Mueller Parker PC", "raw_content": "It is time for Texas to adopt collaborative law\nby VBMMP / July 8, 2015 / Collaborative Law\nThe Uniform Law Commission introduced the Uniform Collaborative Law Rules/Act in 2009. The law was amended in 2010. The main objective is to provide a platform where divergent minds can settle disputes in a collaborative manner. Now, Texas will also adopt the UCLA. The collaborative approach started off with family lawsuits and has now come to be adopted in insurance disputes that can occur between business members.\nIt is important for all states, including Texas, to adopt the UCLA. Once the act has been adopted, it will help Texas to be in sync with other states that have implemented collaborative law. This consistency will enable states to be on the same platform while selecting collaborative law as a way to solve interstate disputes. Once the act has been implemented, the states do not need to go through an elaborate process of implementing the collaborative law process. All that is required is an outline of the intention that disputes will be resolved peacefully and the description and the names of the collaborative law process attorneys.\nAdopting the UCLA also makes sense because it gives instructions on how and when the collaborative law process will end. The UCLA also outlines the disqualification requirement of the attorneys who participate in the collaborative law process once the process ends. The provision regarding disqualification is fundamental to the collaborative law process.\nThe UCLA also states that legal agencies and other law schools need to represent low income groups in the event that the collaborative law process fails. That will ensure that people with a low income have access to the collaborative law resolution of disputes. These are justifiable reasons for all states, including Texas, to adopt collaborative law.\nSource: Uniform Law Commission, \u201cWhy States Should Adopt the UCLA,\u201d Accessed on June 29, 2015\nPrevious Post: \u00ab Minor noncustodial parents and paternity in Texas\nNext Post: High-asset property division needs to be handled carefully \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viajandonlineblog.com/blog/calendario-de-feriados-de-2018/attachment/jericoacoara/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:13Z", "digest": "sha1:66ERCBAW7ZNU3CBRRRSOANND2QYIJKIE", "length": 13, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.viajandonlineblog.com", "title": "Jericoacoara- \u2013 Viajando Online Blog", "raw_content": "Jericoacoara-", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 183.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vic.gov.au/familyviolence/holly-s-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:STJMIXNMZDDEAWU4YQE6SQ5LJLCOW5NM", "length": 14272, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "www.vic.gov.au", "title": "Holly's story", "raw_content": "My first memory is of domestic violence.\nIt was my father pushing my mother against the kitchen stove.\nI was between 2 and 3 years old.\nIt is quite surreal as a memory as it feels like it was so long ago and yet it is really clear.\nAfter that there are not any memories apart from that. You have your violent memories, then your really positive memories. There is nothing in between.\nPretty soon after that we moved into a refuge.\nIn my home, the violence was normalised \u2013 we would watch our mother being beaten up and we would laugh, because we were used to it. It would happen every day. Then my mother told me and my siblings we were going on a holiday to a fun place. We were going to a refuge. I was about 4.\nWe did not make the connection between the violence and the holiday.\nIn the refuge, it was no different.\nMy brother and I were being quite naughty one day and one of the women who ran the refuge put us in a room, turned off the lights and locked the door. It was really scary for us. She told my mother she was disciplining us for her, that as a mother she should discipline us better. Mum had to rescue us from that room. There was no understanding from that worker of what trauma was like and the impact an experience like that would have on us, having already seen all that violence. It wasn\u2019t a positive experience being at the refuge, but it wasn\u2019t the worst.\nI remember a boy at the refuge threw my barbie doll over the fence and the refuge staff would not get it back for me. It was my first barbie doll I ever had. It just went over the fence and it was gone forever.\nAfter a month we went home.\nI have since asked my mum why she did not tell us that we were going to the refuge and she said that she did not want to burden us with that. Mum never told us that domestic violence was not okay, I wish she had. Then we would have known it was not okay, we would not have assumed it would be okay.\nThings would have been different.\nI did not know what a normal family should be like. We didn\u2019t know anything but the violence. And for both my mother and father, domestic violence was intergenerational. If my mother had a different experience as a child, she would not have ended up in the experience she did.\nAnd then I would not have either.\nMy mother has always been steadfast in the fact that she loves us.\nEven when she wasn\u2019t there, she still loved us.\nThe violence went beyond Mum to us kids. I was next in line when I was between 8 and 12 years. I was the oldest \u2013 I was the one who had to protect my siblings and I bore a lot of the violence. We were beaten with a broomstick, his hands, his belt.\nI would lock myself in the bathroom. One time he was beating on the door, the door flung open and knocked me back and I hit my head on the bath. Then he set in on beating me.\nHe was also verbally abusive. He called my brother retarded. He would tie my brother to his bed with ropes when my mother left the house.\nYou would have violence from all sides really.\nI remember vividly the constant fear.\nThere\u2019s a gripping fear that is in your chest \u2013 constantly knowing that any wrong move will lead to you being beaten. I had a constant heightened state, to survive. It was fight or flight. The rules were you did not fight \u2013 not your father. We removed the door handles from the outside of our doors so that he could not get in to the room. Then we could go out the window and run. Or you would have to find places to go where there was less of an impact.\nThe school did not pick up on it at all.\nI internalised it. It would build up and then one kid would do something and I would lash out.\nThe quiet kid who internalises and is quiet does not get picked up.\nWhen I was 7 or 8, I was in out-of-home care for a year. It was only meant to be 3 days.\nMy mum put us in out-of-home care for 3 days so that they could move house. Just before we were put in care there was a violent episode. DHHS saw their chance and took it. I had to get in a car with complete strangers. I remember crying myself to sleep every night.\nWe moved to 15 placements in 6 months.\nThen we were in a family group home for 3 months. That was the best experience I had. The carer was constantly there, he was a decent guy and always looked out for our best interests. He had a real commitment to us kids.\nThen we were put into a unit.\nThen I was put in a \u2018permanent\u2019 foster care placement, then 3 days later, we went home.\nBefore I went into care I was at the same school \u2013 my mother paid for us to go to a private school for 2 years. I don\u2019t know how she did it, but she wanted us to have a proper education.\nDHHS were watching us, that was quite clear. When I sprained my wrist, DHHS came to my home and took me to the hospital. We had a case worker. We had help from services but it didn\u2019t do much really.\nI got my friend\u2019s family to ring the police when my dad hurt my mum again.\nDad was beating Mum and she told me to go up the street and get help and I did. The police came but nothing happened \u2013 my dad and mum said that nothing had happened and so the police did nothing. My mother told me years later that Dad said to her many times: \"If you leave me I\u2019ll hunt you down and put you in a body bag - and the kids.\" This was why she never told the police what happened. My father always controlled and isolated my mother \u2013 I remember the constant belittling of her existence. He made sure we were constantly moving house - there was never any stability for her to gather her thoughts and build connections. So she was never able to do anything about the violence.\nThere was nothing she could do.\nShe was beaten every day.\nShe was a trapped on all sides.\nIt got to the point where the violence and control had taken its toll on our mother \u2013 she was in so much pain physically and emotionally that she was on medication and she could not take care of herself or us. People told me that I acted as a mother to my siblings when my mother was not able to.\nWhen my father was charged with offences that had nothing to do with us, that\u2019s when the system stepped in.\nSchool was my one stable place. I was always in a heightened state \u2013 in fight or flight mode.\nYou get bullied because you are so different but you have friends.\nSixth graders would come and knock down your sandcastle and then bash you up. They knew I was different \u2013 you have a dirty uniform and stick out \u2013 they didn\u2019t know what was wrong with my home. They did not know why I was different.\nSo I copped it everywhere.\nSchool was my one stable place.\nUntil the strangers in suits came to school.\nI felt safe at school before that, and then they came into a place I felt safe \u2013 I shut down. I did not understand what they were saying \u2013 I thought: \"What are these people going to do to me?\" I was called to the office and I was left alone in a room with these strangers. There were no teachers, no-one who I knew. And then the strangers asked me questions.\n\"Tell us about your life.\"\n\"Tell us about what your mother and father do.\"\nThat happened to all my siblings on that day. That was a traumatising experience in itself.\nThen we ended up in the Children\u2019s Court. Again we were put in rooms with strangers. Only this time it was a lawyer who asked the questions. It was another traumatising experience. For 2 weeks we sat at the Children\u2019s Court with Mum and Dad. We knew that the people were trying to take us away from Mum and Dad. People just assume that kids don\u2019t understand. They think: \"there is no point in explaining this to a kid.\" But we knew. My siblings and I were sitting in the waiting area of the Children\u2019s Court making an escape plan, in case they came to take us away. Then we were taken.\n\"We\u2019re splitting you guys up.\"\nI wanted to be with my sister. I was crying my eyes out. I said goodbye to my parents in the presence of DHHS and they put us in different cars. Then I was by myself in a car by myself. It took them just 30 minutes to split us up. I never lived with my mother again.\nI didn\u2019t see some of my siblings for about 4 months.\nI was in out-of-home care until I was 18.\nI just wanted to go home.\nThere was no-one I could talk to. There was no-one I could trust. I lost all trust as soon as I came into the out-of-home care system.\nI don\u2019t think people understand that kids pick up on language and overhear the conversations like \"they are damaged\" or \"your family doesn\u2019t want you.\" I heard those things and I thought: \"it\u2019s my fault because I said this to the DHHS worker, this is why I am here.\"\nIt never goes away \u2013 the trauma, the feelings, the memories, its not about the experience \u2013 what remains with you is the feeling you had in that situation. You remember the intense moment of feelings for the rest of your life.\nI was in a long-term placement with my siblings and a young family. That was when I began to realise that our lives had not been normal. But our lives were still not normal. We were treated differently to the children that were born into that family. There was not enough support for them \u2013 they did not have the money to care for us full time. It was stressful as they had a whole family of children, some with tough behavioural issues and who had lived with violence and neglect. Some of my siblings only knew to communicate through violence that they needed something.\nThen the whole placement broke down. It was the most traumatising event. I thought I had a family where I could live until I was 18 and it just crumbled within 24 hours.\nDHHS again came to my school \u2013 you know as soon as they come to invade your school that you are moving on.\nThe next day you go back to school and there is the car, the DHHS worker, the case worker, so you get in the car you can\u2019t go back there.\nWe were put into another placement.\nI still don\u2019t know why the placement broke down.\nI didn\u2019t leave my room for 3 days. I refused to eat. I refused to hug and comfort my siblings.\nWe lived together as siblings but had rotating staff coming in every 8 hours. Barely anyone was the same. The food was bad. Up until then I had worked hard to have good grades. I was getting 80% and 90% marks. But I could not do it anymore. My last term of year 11 I really began to struggle.\nMy mental health suffered, it was almost impossible to process all of it \u2013 to cope with everything that happened before and then to lose the stability of another family. I reached rock bottom and knew I would either break down entirely or I could pick myself up and keep going.\nI never knew that they had case meetings and were making decisions behind my back. I did not even know I had a leaving care plan.\nEventually I was moved to another placement, which is where I am now. The person who took me in is the most patient person I have ever met. She took her time and taught me valuable things\nI never had the time to just be a normal kid and be a normal teenager.\nBut with her I did. She showed me how to cook a meal, how to communicate with another person. She showed me how to call someone on the phone and book a doctor\u2019s appointment. If people had worked with me enough, I would have been able to do those things.\nI am one in a million and I am still not to the point where I am recovered \u2013 I will probably never be a completely recovered person. There were a lot of supports in place for me, despite the bad system. But I always have underlying guilt that I got the support and my siblings did not.\nMy brother Jack, who was very close in age to me, did not get any support. Because he constantly ran away and left care, he was allowed to live with our mother. As he was not in care, he did not have access to support and he did not want any supports. For him, having support equalled being weak. He had an ongoing build-up of the effects of trauma and all his negative emotions and at the end of it he just could not cope any more.\nJack committed suicide. He was only 18.\nI worry that my other siblings will go down the path of suicide.\nMost of the things that have occurred have been a result of our father\u2019s actions, and a lot of it can also be attributed to the system as a whole.\nI was extremely lucky and if I had to relive my life, I would not change it. If I hadn\u2019t had the life I did, I would not be the person I am today. I would have been a lot more ignorant and less understanding. There are things that you learn from experiences like mine that gives you the capacity to understand why people end up who they are.\nPeople automatically assume that we kids in out-of-home care will never make it.\nI have no idea why I came out like this but there are a few things that explain why I am who I am.\nMy mother always told us that she loved us and always said she would be there for us.\nShe would always be a constant.\nShe was the person I could trust.\nI could tell her anything and she would say that she would love us no matter what we did.\nI want kids in the same situation as me to know:\nYour origin is not your future.\nYour origin is not who you will be.\nIn the out-of-home care system, you get to adulthood and there is no support. You are expected to make it through somehow, expected to be a successful contributing member of society. The successful ones are shown 'look how well we did' but it wasn\u2019t their support, it was the child themselves who found the support. We found some outlet that allowed us to go and see that we did not have to be the people we were.\nWe need to stop seeing adult perpetrators and adult victims and we need to see the child victim and see that is who they turn into.\nI just feel so angry at the way we treat children in our society \u2013 we either neglect them or go way over the top. It is an extremely complicated thing and family violence is one small stone in a massive flowing river. There is so much else that goes along with it that hurts children. It\u2019s what comes after \u2013 the services to help children recover, that makes the difference.\nI\u2019m lucky because I had the time to build a positive relationship with my mother. There was positivity around my birth. She always told us she loved us. But I know there are other children in our society and in the out-of-home care system that don\u2019t have that.\nI would prefer that no kids go through what my family have been through and if I can make it one less kid, that is something amazing in itself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 19759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viceversahotel.com/en/blog/articles/travel-through-time-and-discover-the-magnificent-treasures-of-india-14174", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:02:55Z", "digest": "sha1:RPD3MEDLPWC5BRZCMBWXZFOITODGLQGW", "length": 2063, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.viceversahotel.com", "title": "Travel through time and discover the magnificent treasures of India", "raw_content": "Travel through time and discover the magnificent treasures of India\nPublished on 14 March 2017 in Museum - Exhibitions\nAn exciting exhibition at the Grand Palais entitled \"From the Great Moghuls to the Maharajahs\" gives travel and history fans the chance to discover Indian treasures through an enchanting retrospective.\nThe Most Beautiful Jewels of Ancient India\nNearly 270 pieces from the exceptional Al Thani collection will be on show from 29th March to 5th June at the Grand Palais exhibition. The \"From the Great Moghuls to the Maharajahs\" exhibition covers 5 centuries of history via some of India\u2019s most beautiful jewel. It\u2019s a chance for members of the public to admire magnificent pieces, and these stunning diamonds and other precious stones are truly unique among the world\u2019s little-known treasures. The exhibition is also a reminder of the history of the prestigious Mughal civilization through its jewellery and gold. The Agra Diamond, the Emperor Jahangir's Cut, the Eye of the Idol and even the Arcot II Diamonds will all be part of the exhibition along with other Crown Jewels and Imperial treasures.\nIt\u2019s a real pleasure for visitors to be able to see such priceless pieces, and it\u2019s also an exciting opportunity for you to trace the history of a country with centuries-old traditions and a multi-millennial past. \"From the great Moghuls to the Maharajahs\" is organised by the Reunion of the National Museums in collaboration with the National Museum of Asian arts and many of the pieces are being shown in France for the first time. In its prestigious setting at the Grand Palais, the exhibition also benefits from the support of Maison Cartier, exclusively presenting the cognac-coloured diamond turban decoration created for Maharajah Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar. Just a few minutes from the Porte de Versailles, the Vice Versa Hotel offers you a unique setting for a relaxing break. The latest addition to Parisian concept hotels boasts beautiful d\u00e9cor designed by Chantal Thomass and it\u2019s an ideal starting point for your Parisian wanderings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.videostream-hosting.com/exploring-brand-new-options", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OHGLHUH6HERVUOXCIJUC7CUK4I7LJOHL", "length": 2900, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.videostream-hosting.com", "title": "Exploring Brand New Options", "raw_content": "When a couple decides to take a break from their relationship before making a long term commitment, it is a time when they should be exploring new options. It does not mean they are looking for a reason to leave their partner permanently, and what they find could enhance the relationship when they return. Looking at all of the available options gives them a basis for comparison, and it can also give them a reason to appreciate the person they have been with for a while. It will give their relationship a new depth of commitment if they truly do their best to think about what they want for their future.\nCooperation or Contention\nLiving with another person can be very easy, or it can be the most difficult way of life a person has experienced. The lifestyle of those who are considering becoming partners in life is one that is greatly affected by their ability to get along in any situation. Their interaction can be one of cooperation or contention, and the latter points to the fact they are generally not well matched. For a relationship to be truly successful, cooperation is a key element to creating a bright future for both partners. Any relationship that is full of contention might have great times when the couple makes up, but they will find little peace in their lives at any other time. If contention is always there, it might be best to consider the option of finding someone new.\nLife is full of things that must be done repeatedly, but major tasks should never fall upon just one partner. Those who understand that being in a committed relationship means sharing the burden will have a better chance of success over time, but those who believe their partner should be the responsible one will be lucky if their partner comes back from a break. Shouldering all the responsibility in a relationship can wear a person down, and it will tend to make them frustrated and angry. A break could be a good time for a partner who has not been willing to do their fair share to learn how to live on their own, and they might be a better partner for it.\nIntimate Interests\nThere is generally one person in a relationship that is more open about their sexuality, and it should be expected that they are willing to understand the shyness their partner might be experiencing. Taking a break does not necessarily mean they will be with other people, but they can enjoy the adult video on demand websites they will find at Boz Guide. Their intimate interests could be satisfied by this outlet, and it might give them a way to go back to their partner without the feeling their own interests are being stunted.\nTaking a break from a partner can be a recipe for a breakup, but it can also be a time when both people reassess their own needs. Once they have each discovered what they want out of the relationship, they may be able to negotiate terms they can live with for the rest of their lives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 177.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vip2cuba.com/vacation-rental/rhplz169-4br4bt-petit-chateau-in-vedado/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YIDV6MCLUOSFCUY52N7VJ7YRDHALDV7F", "length": 727, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.vip2cuba.com", "title": "RHPLZ169 4BR/4BT Ocean view Petit Chateau in Vedado/wifi - VIP2Cuba Luxury Vacation Rentals in Havana Cuba", "raw_content": "HomeRHPLZ169 4BR/4BT Ocean view Petit Chateau in Vedado/wifi\nSuperb villa in Vedado from 1920 features impressive architectural features inside and out. Marble floors throughout, marble staircases, glass vitraux, wood cladded walls in the dining room and library, beveled glass sliding doors.\nIt has been carefully restored to its original beauty adding all amenities from our modern times, with a fountain and ping pong tables, a bar and a spectacular view of the city from the garden terrace.\nWith 500 square meters of usable space, it would make you feel like you are back to the golden age, a trip back in time\u2026\nYou will have 3 parking spaces available in the property as well aa a telephone land line free for local calls.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voacambodia.com/z/2756/2013/8/28", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LCQ63MMV6NO3EJDOR3BV7CYAXGXJNBND", "length": 189, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.voacambodia.com", "title": "Environment, 28 August 2013", "raw_content": "Severe Flooding Inundates Families Across Three Provinces\nSeven people have been killed and thousands more affected by flooding in Banteay Meanchey, Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom provinces.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 6118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voiceonline.com/hate-crime-against-mosque/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:T7UKAWNS4Z7KJ3R5ES7DIMVVYEJO3GGP", "length": 544, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.voiceonline.com", "title": "Hate Crime Against Mosque | Indo-Canadian Voice", "raw_content": "Home Uncategorized Hate Crime Against Mosque\nHate Crime Against Mosque\nCoquitlam RCMP are investigating a possible hate crime after someone left several piles of bacon and meat products on the door step of a mosque last week.\nIt was just about 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, when members of the mosque had finished an evening prayer and were heading home.\nFor years, members of the Masjid Al-Hidayah Islamic Centre in Port Coquitlam have welcomed the community and all faiths through the doors of their mosque.\nUnfortunately, that feeling hasn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 3558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voiceonline.com/modernizing-british-columbias-justice-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SOGKYI3EG37D2QGYUR33FRGMOGFJIN6U", "length": 3858, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.voiceonline.com", "title": "Modernizing British Columbia\u2019s justice system | Indo-Canadian Voice", "raw_content": "Home Uncategorized Modernizing British Columbia\u2019s justice system\nModernizing British Columbia\u2019s justice system\nBy Shirley Bond\nVICTORIA \u2013 A well-functioning justice system is fundamental to our democracy. British Columbians trust those who manage the system to ensure justice and safety are of paramount importance. While significant progress has been made in recent years, there are some fundamental questions that need to be addressed.\nAs Minister of Justice and Attorney General, I am concerned about the fact that judicial stays of proceedings grew in the past year, while the total number of criminal cases declined. Although judicial stays account for just one-tenth of one per cent of all criminal cases last year, this is an issue I take very seriously.\nOur government continues to invest critical resources, spending over $1 billion annually on our public safety and justice system. We have appointed\n23 judges in the past two years, and there will be 58 additional sheriffs who will have graduated and will be working in B.C. courthouses by April. Our changes to the Family Law Act will also help to alleviate pressures on the system, moving more cases into mediation and out of the courts.\nThe crime rate in British Columbia has fallen 33 per cent over the past six years. The length of adult and youth criminal cases has remained stable, and there were thousands fewer new provincial court cases heard in 2010 than 10 years ago. So, why are costs and delays rising as crime drops?\nAs well, there have been a number of streamlining innovations and advancements in the use of technology within the justice system \u2013 all aimed at making improvements in the court system. While these initiatives have been helpful, more innovation and reform is needed.\nIt is clear that a deeper examination is also needed. Government will not blindly pour more resources into the justice system without first understanding the problems and identifying feasible solutions. That is why we recently launched a comprehensive justice reform initiative.\nWe have appointed Geoffrey Cowper, QC, one of Canada\u2019s most respected litigators, to conduct a critical review of our justice system. In order to review B.C.\u2019s criminal charge assessment process, we have engaged Gary McCuaig, QC, to determine whether it is the most effective model for making prosecution decisions.\nWe have also asked the Legal Services Society, B.C.\u2019s government-funded, independent legal aid provider, to conduct a thorough examination of B.C.\u2019s legal aid system and look for ways of achieving efficiencies.\nI\u2019d like to invite all British Columbians to read our recently released Green Paper, Modernizing B.C.\u2019s Justice System, which represents our current thinking on the justice system in our province. It reflects existing and anticipated reform initiatives and it outlines challenges in the system that will form the basis for Mr. Cowper\u2019s comprehensive review.\nGiven the importance of this issue for British Columbians, government is making this work a top priority for the Ministry of Justice. Mr. Cowper will provide his final report in July 2012. We will then identify where action can be taken to improve the justice system.\nGovernment makes up just one part of the system \u2013 a system comprised of many interconnected and largely independent members. While respecting their independence, we will consult with the judiciary, Crown counsel, the legal profession, police and others to identify the areas of the justice system that can be improved upon.\nThrough open and constructive dialogue, I am hopeful we can break down impediments that stand in the way of a more efficient justice system under the rule of law. This will enable us to find long-term, fiscally responsible solutions that will help make our justice system more efficient, transparent and accessible for all British Columbians.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.volunteerworld.com/review/international-experience", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:07Z", "digest": "sha1:C4GYUFZ762ODLUXURRQNUMY5QOZJY2VA", "length": 2774, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.volunteerworld.com", "title": "\u25b7 International Experience | Best Volunteer Programs & Reviews", "raw_content": "English Teaching Assistant in Public Schools\nAgency | International Experience\nTeach English to the students of the elementary and middle schools in Civitanova Marche and live with an Italian host family\nRiva Ligure, Italy\nTeach English in Public Schools\nTeach English to the students of the elementary and middle schools in Riva Ligure while living with a local Italian host family\n4 Project reviews of International Experience\nCultural Exchanges to live the Italian Life\nInternational Experience is an Italian inbound agency located in Fermo, on the beautiful Adriatic coast, in business since 2009. We are members of the WYSE Travel Confederation, and we have welcomed hundreds of participants who had the chance to experience the real Italian life through our programs.\nOur cultural and language exchanges allows candidates to discover the Italian culture by teaching English in Italy for a period of 1-3 months. The programs offered by International Experience aim to offer the satisfaction of helping people learn English, a way to broaden your world-view, strengthen your resume and experience the Italian life from \u201cthe inside\u201d, and not like a tourist.Although our agency is located in Fermo, we have been running programs in many Italian regions since the beginning of our activity, thanks to the cooperation with well screened schools and host familes.\nOur first concern is the safety of our participants, for this reason we give lots of importance to the selection process of the host families and organizations with whom we cooperate.\nWe are looking for candidates with an outgoing personality, interested in the education field and willing to face the challenge of volunteering in another country.\nOur mission is to contribute to the personal growth of every participant, through the contact with another culture. We work every day with the aim to develop the understanding of different cultures and to increase the passion for different languages. We are working to make Italian children and adults understand that knowing another language is a way to make friendships and meet people coming from all over the World.\nSince 2009 our organization has helped hundreds of Italians learn English and develop a passion not only for the Language itself, but also for different cultures. Generating curiosity toward a country or particular tradition in young students is helping them to become better and more respectful adults. At the same time, many volunteers have the chance to experience the real Italian life, with its beautiful and slow traditions, its landscapes and unique food. The schools, host families and associations working with us have now the possibility to grow through the contact with other cultures and people who have a different points of view.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vulture.com/2010/10/see_lady_gagas_appearance_on_t.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:38:47Z", "digest": "sha1:AJACMTFZQUHBVRCAWXIKKMWINKXCRNDW", "length": 62, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vulture.com", "title": "See Lady Gaga\u2019s Appearance on The Sopranos at Age 15 - Clickable - Vulture", "raw_content": "See Lady Gaga\u2019s Appearance on The Sopranos at Age 15\n[Jezebel]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 35867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vulture.com/2010/11/the_lincoln_lawyer_trailer_mat.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6MRX5YGT2YSN6Q6GW2PHAMBALNSNU5DY", "length": 1487, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vulture.com", "title": "The Lincoln Lawyer Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Puts on a Shirt", "raw_content": "The Lincoln Lawyer Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Puts on a Shirt\nDepending on what your instincts tell you about the meaning of life \u2014 happiness, usefulness, recognition, something else \u2014 Matthew McConaughey is either a hero or a waste of space. Rarely has an actor seemed so aggressively disinterested in doing good work, but so tickled to be having a good time while making a lie of \u201cno shoes, no shirt, no service\u201d signs the world over. Matthew McConaughey is no striver, for good or ill, and after a highbrow start (Contact , Amistad) his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 reflects that. His last even nominally serious movie was 2006\u2019s We Are Marshall, which was really more Hallmark-ian than serious, and before that 2002\u2019s Reign of Fire . (So serious its plot synopsis is \u201cA brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting fire to everything, establishing dominance over the planet.\u201d) Now, however, comes The Lincoln Lawyer, in which McConaughey plays a Beverly Hills defense lawyer, who reps Hell\u2019s Angels and a lady-beating Ryan Phillippe alike. (Phillippe\u2019s character says he didn\u2019t do it, but then the trailer pretty much tells us that he did. Who knows.) The latter case may give McConaughey\u2019s character a crisis of faith, or it may just be an excuse for him to carry a gun and talk to William H. Macy\u2019s super-sweet mustache. The trailer is way overwrought, but it\u2019s still the most serious project McConaughey\u2019s undertaken in years. 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Run in conjunction with Nature Play SA, this has been an exciting program focusing on individual parks with an extensive range of activities, including guided walks and family activities tailored to the features of the park for that month.\nThe parks featured spread across all of South Australia and promote strong engagement with the local community including the specific local Friends of Parks group.\nWalking SA has been a keen promoter of the Parks of the Month program and congratulate the Department on this initiative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 7616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/trip-finder/Exodus_117/Discover-Sri-Lanka---Premium_21941", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:52:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CE3OKPL3D3VHXEZNNIKRU6XRQJAF5OPZ", "length": 654, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wanderlust.co.uk", "title": "Discover Sri Lanka - Premium | Exodus | Wanderlust Trip Finder", "raw_content": "Reference number: AILP\nLapped by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is a natural paradise with a landscape of verdant mountains, rainforests, paddy fields, tumbling waterfalls and sweeping gorges. From ancient Buddhist temples, the fortress of Sigiriya, the towns of Kandy and Nuwara Eliya in the hill country, the wildlife of Yala National Park, which has one of the highest concentrations of leopards in the world, to the idyllic palm-fringed beaches of the south coast, this small island offers incredible variety, made extra special by its laid back atmosphere and hospitable people. Showing Land-Only prices, flights can also be supplied", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 5649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wartsila.com/media/news/21-02-2008-wartsila-to-deliver-the-worlds-first-sofc-fuel-cell-power-plant-using-landfill-gas-to-the-vaasa-housing-fair-site", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:26Z", "digest": "sha1:RIMPNLMAY32KQWOFZGSPRVOSIH4T4YLB", "length": 3948, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.wartsila.com", "title": "W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 to deliver the world\u2019s first SOFC fuel cell power plant using landfill gas to the Vaasa Housing Fair site", "raw_content": "W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 to deliver the world\u2019s first SOFC fuel cell power plant using landfill gas to the Vaasa Housing Fair site\nW\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 will deliver a unique fuel cell unit producing electric and heating power to the Vaasa Housing Fair site in Western Finland. The fuel cell power plant, which is based on planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, is the first of its kind in the world. The plant is fuelled by biogas or methane originating from a nearby landfill. At the first stage, it will produce an electric output of approximately 20 kW and a thermal output of 14 to 17 kW.\nThe fuel cell power plant delivered by W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 will produce both electricity and heating for the fair site\u2019s needs at very high efficiency. The emissions from a biogas-fuelled fuel cell are very low, which means that the solution supports the development of sustainable energy technology.\nUnique energy production solution for the fair site\nThe Vaasa Housing Fair to be held between 11 July and 10 August 2008 is a pioneer in the implementation of energy production processes for a restricted area. Electricity and heating are produced and consumed within the area. In addition to fuel cells, power and heat are produced with microturbines and from low-temperature heat collected from the sea bed using a geothermal heating pump.\nIn addition to the fuel cell plant delivery, W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 is responsible for building development and project-time financing for the power plant building at the fair site. W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s partners in the project include Sarlin Oy, Mateve Oy, Suomen L\u00e4mp\u00f6pumpputekniikka Oy, Sonera, as well as the City of Vaasa, Vaasan S\u00e4hk\u00f6verkko, Vaasan S\u00e4hk\u00f6 and Vaasan Vesi. The Vaasa Housing Fair site is located in Suvilahti, approximately three kilometres east of the Vaasa city centre.\nDevelopment of fuel cell technology as part of W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s strategy\nThe fuel cell power plant to be delivered to the housing fair site is a part of W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s long-term fuel cell technology development project. The development of fuel cell technology is a part of W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s long-term product development aimed at supplementing W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s product portfolio. The fuel cell unit for the fair site is W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s first field application of this technology. The development of environmentally friendly, cleaner and sustainable energy production technologies is an essential part of W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s strategy.\nW\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 is one of the leading companies in the world developing fuel cell systems based on SOFC technology. The development is supported by close collaboration with the Danish company Topsoe Fuel Cells A/S and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The characteristics of SOFC technology include a high operating temperature, excellent efficiency and the ability to use several different fuels, particularly natural gas and biogases. Fuel cell technology is indeed regarded as one of the most promising forms of energy production in the future. W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s centre of competence for this technology is located at Otaniemi in Espoo. The Vaasa engine laboratory is also involved in fuel cell development.\nThe landfill gas used by the fuel cell power plant is a renewable fuel, which means that fuel cell technology is compliant with the energy and climate package of the EU Commission. EU requires Finland to increase the share of renewable sources from the present 28.5 per cent to 38 per cent of energy production by 2020.\nThe significance of biogases increases in decentralised energy production. The benefits of decentralised energy production include more efficient utilisation of local sources of energy, shorter transport distances for fuels and reduced energy transmission losses. Biogas-based fuels are energy sources compliant with sustainable development. In addition to landfills, biogases are generated in agriculture and water treatment plants, for example.\nErkko Fontell, Director, fuel cell unit, W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Finland Oy,\nJuha Kyt\u00f6l\u00e4, President, W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Finland Oy,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 901, "original_length": 23973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 245.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/13/in-atlantic-salmon-fight-greenland-proves-a-sticki/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GIDLUDMROSSVL5QNAWKQZ6PWWHRQ5PWV", "length": 4887, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.washingtontimes.com", "title": "In Atlantic salmon fight, Greenland proves a sticking point - Washington Times", "raw_content": "In Atlantic salmon fight, Greenland proves a sticking point\nFILE - In this undated file photo wild Atlantic salmon swim at a fish hatchery in Orland, Maine. Federal regulators are starting a new push to save the Atlantic salmon. Preventing the long-imperiled salmon from disappearing from American waters will ... more >\nBy PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press - Sunday, March 13, 2016\nPORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Preventing the long-imperiled Atlantic salmon from disappearing from American waters will require the U.S. to put pressure on Inuit fishermen in Greenland to stop harvesting a fish that has fed them for hundreds of years, federal officials say.\nThe salmon were once found from Long Island Sound to Canada, but their population has cratered in the face of river damming, warming ocean waters, competition for food with non-native fish and, officials say, continued Greenlandic fishing.\nNow, federal officials have outlined an ambitious plan to try to save the Atlantic salmon that they say will require removing dams, creating fish passages and fostering cooperation from Inuit fishermen some 2,000 miles away from Maine, where most of America\u2019s last wild Atlantic salmon spawn.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve tried everything possible to negotiate with Greenland to find alternatives to find out how they can lessen impacts on U.S. fish,\u201d said Dan Kircheis, a fisheries biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. \u201cThis is part of their culture, this is part of who they are, this is something they\u2019ve always done. We are trying to work with them to realize the fish they are fishing for originate in Canada, in U.S. waters, in Europe, and these populations are in decline.\u201d\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said the final remnants of the wild Atlantic salmon population in U.S. waters live in a handful of rivers and streams in central and eastern Maine. A 2014 count found less than 300 salmon in the Penobscot River, which has the largest wild Atlantic salmon population in the country.\nFederal authorities listed the Gulf of Maine\u2019s Atlantic salmon population as endangered in 2000. They were once found in almost every river north of the Hudson, but since the 18th century they have declined to just 11 rivers, NOAA has said. The Atlantic salmon and the Pacific Chinook salmon are the largest salmon species.\nAtlantic are the most commonly farmed species of salmon, and demand has grown exponentially since the 1990s. Farms produced more than 2 million tons of the salmon, prized for its high protein content and omega-3 fatty acids, for the first time in 2012.\nThe wild fish leave Maine rivers in the spring, and most eventually end up off Greenland, an autonomous country that is part of the Danish Realm, along with Denmark and the Faroe Islands. NOAA issued a report in February that identified the salmon as one of a handful of species listed under the Endangered Species Act that need \u201cimmediate, targeted efforts\u201d to stabilize their populations and stave off extinction.\nNOAA\u2019s report states that a critical negotiating point will be the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, scheduled for June in Germany. National leaders and non-governmental organizations will attend the meeting.\nNOAA\u2019s plan states that the U.S. and other nations need to negotiate with Greenland\u2019s government to establish measures to minimize the country\u2019s impact on salmon of U.S. origin. It also states that more Maine dams need to be removed so salmon can spawn in rivers, and that watershed areas need to be restored so young salmon can thrive.\nGreenland decided on a 45-ton quota for 2015, 2016 and 2017 during an international summit last year - a reduction in catch from the previous 57 tons, but nowhere near as dramatic a rollback as U.S. officials wanted. Some U.S. conservationists have said the only sustainable salmon quota for Greenland is zero.\nThat doesn\u2019t sit well in Greenland, where officials said they are happy to continue working with the U.S., but they disagree that a halt to Inuit fishing would save the fish. Katrine K\u00e6rgaard, a spokeswoman for the country\u2019s ministry of fisheries, said Greenland has \u201ccontinuously reduced\u201d its salmon fishery over the past two decades, and the fish population\u2019s status has not improved.\nGreenland\u2019s salmon fishery is conducted close to shore and is mostly based out of small dinghies with nets, K\u00e6rgaard said. 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(Paul Sakuma/AP)\nBack in May, Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif earned his M.D. from McGill University. But Duvernay-Tardif isn't the first NFL player to balance pro football and medical school.\nThe meeting was more than 35 years ago, but Milt McColl still remembers it well.\nThe year was 1981, and McColl was a rookie linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers.\nHe wasn\u2019t exactly a top prospect. He\u2019d gone undrafted, and might have only made the team because of an injury to another player.\nAnd now 49ers head coach Bill Walsh wanted to meet with him.\n\"He called me up to his office, and it was about a 10-second conversation,\" McColl recalls. \"And he said, 'Milt, I know there's other things going on in your life and I just don't think you're concentrating on football as much as you need to. And if you don't start concentrating harder, we're just gonna have to find somebody else.' \u201d\nSee, Milt McColl had been trying to keep a bit of a secret from his coach: in addition to his new job with the San Francisco 49ers, Milt McColl had also started medical school at Stanford.\n\"As far as I was concerned, it was what I did with my free time was what I did with my free time,\" McColl says. \"I should be able to do whatever I want to do.\"\nCoach Walsh apparently didn\u2019t see it that way.\n\"That was the end of the conversation. There was no response from me. I was expected to walk out the door and focus 100 percent on football,\" McColl says. \"So, I called my dad immediately that night, and I said, 'Dad, what do I do?' \u201d\nAnd here\u2019s where I should note that Milt McColl didn\u2019t hatch this crazy play-pro-football-while-going-to-med-school plan all on his own. His own father had already done it.\nBill McColl was a two-time All-American end at Stanford. In 1951, he finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting. Bill was a top NFL prospect, but he also wanted to study medicine.\nAfter an eight-year NFL career, Bill McColl (right) became an orthopedic surgeon. (Robert Houston/AP)\nThe Chicago Bears were willing to accommodate him. They drafted McColl in the third round and switched their practices from afternoons to mornings so that their young tight end could attend med school classes at the University of Chicago.\n\"And then he was able to get through his medical school and pretty much half of his residency while he played for the Bears for eight years,\" Milt McColl says.\nMilt McColl played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers while attending medical school at Stanford. (George Rose/Getty Images)\nBut the NFL was a different operation in the '80s than it had been in the '50s \u2014 most players didn\u2019t need second jobs any more. Plus, Milt acknowledges he was never the athlete his father had been \u2014 which is all to say the 49ers definitely weren\u2019t going to switch around their practice schedule to accommodate him.\nAnd now head coach Bill Walsh had given Milt McColl the message that he needed to focus 100 percent on football.\nLuckily for Milt, his dad had some advice.\n\"He said, 'Well, you have one thing to do. You have to prove to the coach that there's nothing more important in your life than football.' So, he said, 'You're gonna be last to leave practice every day. You're gonna run extra sprints,' \u201d McColl recalls. \"And that's what I did. And it worked.\"\nMcColl fell into a routine that rookie season: he\u2019d show up at the 49ers facilities around 7 or 8 in the morning. He\u2019d practice, work out and study film until around 4 in the afternoon. Then he\u2019d head to campus.\n\"I never stopped going to medical school, but my goal was to keep as low key as I could the rest of my career. And that\u2019s what I did,\" he says.\nMcColl would sometimes be late for anatomy lab, but fortunately he was paired up with a future surgeon.\n\"Luckily for me, he would always get a great start on the cadaver,\" McColl says. \"And then I would go in late at night and be up in the histology lab looking at slides.\"\nThen McColl would wake up and do it again. That\u2019s how he planned to spend his rookie season. It was a little crazy. But it wouldn\u2019t last too long \u2014 after all the football season was going to end in December, which meant McColl could join his classmates in, you know, class at the start of the next quarter.\nBut there was a slight problem with that plan.\nThe 1981 San Francisco 49ers\nAfter an eight-year playoff drought, the 1981 San Francisco 49ers \u2014 led by 25-year-old quarterback Joe Montana \u2014 won their division.\n\"The next thing we knew, we were in the playoffs,\" McColl says. \"And I was, like, 'Well, what am I going to do?' Because I\u2019d already missed the first quarter. I kept going to classes on the side, but I was thinking, 'Gosh, I can\u2019t just keep getting behind and behind.' And the next thing you know, we were winning playoff games.\n\"We were already at least four weeks into the next quarter, 'cause it was almost February. And, the next thing, we were in the Super Bowl. So, literally, we won the Super Bowl, we had the big parade in San Francisco, and the next day I showed up in class. And I was really just gonna sneak into the back row. And as soon as I walked in the class, the lights were down low, and they flip the lights on, and they had a big cake down below. And everybody had been cheering for me.\n\"Apparently I'd had about 87 of my classmates were my best fans and had been following me all through all the playoffs.\"\nMcColl certainly wasn\u2019t a star for that 49ers team, but he played well enough to stay on the roster. He ended up playing seven seasons for the 49ers. And, as his football career progressed, McColl eventually settled into a slightly saner routine: he stopped taking classes during the season. Then in the offseason he\u2019d focus on medicine.\n\"And, of course, at times in the hospital people would actually recognize me or were told about who I was, and so it did have some distractions at times,\" he says. \"One of my favorite stories was, it was my first month of doing obstetrics. And I was at Stanford hospital and I was in delivering a baby and \u2014 actually, I was just assisting, to be honest with you. But as soon as the baby was born, the father grabbed the baby and wanted a picture with me and the baby together. He forgot all about his wife and the birth.\n\"So he thought that was really exciting. I had to remind him, 'You know, your wife just had a baby. I think you better pay attention to her right now.' So he said, 'OK, great. We'll take a picture with all of us.' \u201d\nAdding 'M.D.' To The Jersey\nMcColl won another Super Bowl with the 49ers at the end of the 1984 season. In March 1988 he received his M.D. from Stanford.\n\"The funny thing is I still see people today, and they all say they were in my medical school class,\" McColl says. \"Well, that was because it took me about seven to eight years to get through medical school, so everybody ended up being in my class that had anything to do with Stanford through the 1980s.\"\nAfter receiving his M.D., McColl played one final NFL season for the Los Angeles Raiders.\nHe planned to start his orthopedic residency \u2014 but ended up going into the medical device industry instead. After nearly 30 years in business, McColl recently began his residency in family medicine. He says many of his peers are the same age as his children.\n\"I frequently get called the happiest resident around just because I love what I\u2019m doing so much,\" he says.\nChiefs lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif recently earned his M.D. from McGill University. (Orlin Wagner/AP)\nEven though he now occasionally pulls 24-hour shifts at the hospital, McColl has still found some time to follow the career of Chiefs offensive lineman/new M.D. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif.\nAnd, of course, McColl\u2019s been following the recent debate over whether Duvernay-Tardif should be allowed to have \u201cM.D.\u201d on the back of his jersey.\nFor the record, McColl, his father and Jim Kovach \u2014 another former linebacker who played in the NFL with an M.D. \u2014 didn\u2019t go that route.\n\"Myself and Jim and my father \u2014 we all thought that just our own names was adequate on the back of the jerseys, but he certainly can put whatever he wants on his going forward,\" McColl says.\n\"So you're not kicking yourself for not asking for that yourself back in the day?\" I ask.\n\"You know, after my discussion with Bill Walsh that day, I don't think I ever wanted to put 'M.D.' on the back of my jersey,\" McColl says. \"I don't think it would've gone very well.\"\nMed School And The Major Leagues With Dr. \u2014 And Nurse \u2014 Baseball", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 10310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wcea.education/app/tda/elearning/dentist/tanzania-dental-association/164980/using-research-for-clinical-decision-making-elements-of-a-research-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KE6233JNLPJLMEMFOFCMLWDZ2YYLRBJF", "length": 1175, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.wcea.education", "title": "Tanzania Dental Association | Using Research for Clinical Decision-Making: Elements of a Research Report | Ann L. McCann, RDH, PhD", "raw_content": "Using Research for Clinical Decision-Making: Elements of a Research Report\nAnn L. McCann, RDH, PhD\nThis course describes the parts of a research report and the information that should be contained within each section. This will guide practitioners in their review of research articles so that they can identify the specific research questionshypotheses being explored and what was discovered about them. These skills will help oral health professionals decide whether or not to incorporate these research findings into their patient therapy and practice procedures. When you complete a continuing education course on dentalcare.com, a form will come up that requests your name, address, etc. If you are a member of the AGD, make sure to fill out the field that asks for your AGD membership number if you are not an AGD member, leave blank. When you hit submit, a copy of the proof of completion is emailed directly to the AGD and PG. For your records, make sure to print a copy of the proof of completion certificate.\nAnn L. McCann, RDH, PhD Ann L. 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Investigators said the shooting followed an argument between Dalencia Allen and her neighbor over a parking spot at their apartment complex on Tullis Drive. According to police, Andre Douglas questioned Allen's neighbor about the incident, then shot her. The victim was taken to the hospital. Police said Allen ran back to her apartment after the shooting and Douglas drove away in a black Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Allen was arrested and charged with principal to aggravated battery. Douglas is still wanted for attempted second degree murder. Officials have not released the identity of the victim. There's also no word on the victim's condition.\nA man is on the run after shooting his girlfriend's neighbor Sunday morning, New Orleans police said.\nInvestigators said the shooting followed an argument between Dalencia Allen and her neighbor over a parking spot at their apartment complex on Tullis Drive. According to police, Andre Douglas questioned Allen's neighbor about the incident, then shot her. The victim was taken to the hospital.\nPolice said Allen ran back to her apartment after the shooting and Douglas drove away in a black Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Allen was arrested and charged with principal to aggravated battery. Douglas is still wanted for attempted second degree murder.\nOfficials have not released the identity of the victim. There's also no word on the victim's condition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.webnewswire.com/2018/10/12/shelja-sen-to-launch-her-book-reclaim-your-life-in-new-delhi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GJHUVKKI7UKUFCUQCRCVDNYYVJOSSSXL", "length": 993, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.webnewswire.com", "title": "Shelja Sen to launch her book Reclaim Your Life in New Delhi \u2013 Webnewswire", "raw_content": "Shelja Sen to launch her book Reclaim Your Life in New Delhi\nCelebrating the Mental Health Week, Therapist, author and co-founder of Children First \u2013 Shelja Sen is launching her new book Reclaim Your Life on Saturday, 13 October 2018 at Anti-Social, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi from 4:00 pm onwards.\nThe launch will be followed by an intriguing panel discussion by Shelja Sen, Zain Khan (Poet, architect & bipolar) and Nandita Singh (journalist & mental health activist). The session will be moderated by famous filmmaker Aparna Sanyal.\nPublished by Westland, Reclaim Your Life talks about mental health and its impact on a person\u2019s well-being. The book is a perfect read for anyone who is struggling with their dark and dreary winter. It is also for their carers who witness their pain, and for their counselors who are looking for a creative approach to therapy. This book is for every person who wants to carve a meaningful journey of life.\nVenue: Anti-Social, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.weinsteinhammons.com/paolo-ventura", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:38Z", "digest": "sha1:RJRX7MS57OHFSWKBDEHBG4YFKM4NCKSA", "length": 1490, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.weinsteinhammons.com", "title": "Paolo Ventura \u2014 Weinstein Hammons Gallery", "raw_content": "Italian photographer Paolo Ventura (b. 1968) is known for constructing and photographing elaborate dioramas to tell cinematic visual stories. Ventura is involved in the entire artistic process - from constructing and painting the small scale scenes, photographing the sets, and hand painting the photographs. He will often collage figures, portraits of himself and his family, to the surface of the photographs. The works, evocative of 1940s and 50s Italian Neorealism film, are both sweet and sorrowful.\nPaolo Ventura studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan in the early 1990s. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Forma International Center for Photography, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art of Roma (MACRO), Rome; The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome and during the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. In 2012, he was selected to create a series of works for the Italian national pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, he also received a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. And recently Ventura was invited for a commission by the MART, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy. Four monographs of Paolo Ventura's work have been published: War Souvenir (Contrasto, 2006), Winter Stories (Aperture and Contrasto, 2009), The Automaton (Peliti Asociati, 2011) and Lo Zuavo Scomparso (Punctum Press, 2012). Ventura currently lives and works in Milan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 106.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welchcornett.com/notices/Robert-Foster", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:62LEFW32NGEPQ6KHZRVXIEGPLXBSHWN4", "length": 1116, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.welchcornett.com", "title": "Obituary for Robert Lee Foster | Walton Funeral Service Inc", "raw_content": "Robert Lee Foster\nRobert Lee Foster, age 93, of Linton, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 24, 2018, at home surrounded by his loved ones. He was born in Linton on April 21, 1925, the son of the late Clarence Foster & Mamie (Hensley) Foster.\nHe loved spending time with his family and also helping people with their TV's around town. He retired from Crane as a supervisor when he was 56 years old and is a WWII veteran.\nBob is survived by his loving wife of 67 years, Mary Cathryn (Johnson) Foster; daughter, Cathy Tennant of Linton; son, Robert V. Foster of Linton; grandchildren, Mike, Joe, and Shannon Tennant, and Jennifer Lynn Hooper; great-grandchildren, Austin, Brandon, Jessica, Mason, Ethan, Braden, Kaitlyn, Wyatt, Grant, and Lilly; and his sister, Phyllis Ann Foster.\nFuneral service will be held at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home in Linton at 2:30 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2018. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Linton, with military honors.\nVisitation will be held at the funeral home on Wednesday from 4:00-7:00 pm and on Thursday at the funeral home from 1:00 pm until the time of service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernjournal.com/weinstein-assaulted-scottsdale-resort/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GKFUX6ZOISERQYQENYST6VJIIOQ334TJ", "length": 2874, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.westernjournal.com", "title": "Weinstein Assaulted at Scottsdale Resort", "raw_content": "Weinstein Assaulted at Scottsdale Resort\nA video has emerged of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein being slapped in the face at a restaurant in Arizona.\nOn Tuesday night, the movie mogul \u2014 who has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women \u2014 and his \u201csober coach\u201d were eating dinner at Elements restaurant, which is part of the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale.\nTMZ reported that a man identified as \u201cSteve\u201d walked up to Weinstein and asked him for a photo.\nWARNING: The following video clip contains profane language that some viewers may find offensive.\nAccording to a restaurant manager, Weinstein politely declined, though he was \u201cvery sweet about it.\u201d\nSteve, however, said Weinstein was belligerent in his response.\nStill, the two men ended up talking in a civil manner before shaking hands. Audio of their conversation even revealed that Steve said he \u201clove(s)\u201d Weinstein\u2019s movies.\nEventually, Steve went back to his own table.\nBut at around 9 p.m., as Weinstein and his coach were leaving the restaurant, Steve apparently asked a friend to start filming as he once again approached Weinstein.\nIn the video, Steve can be seen slapping Weinstein twice across the face, before calling him a \u201cpiece of s\u2014-\u201d and telling him to \u201cget the f\u2014 out of here.\u201d\nWeinstein\u2019s coach tried to use his hand to block Steve\u2019s friend from capturing the incident on camera, but he was ultimately unsuccessful.\nWeinstein did not call police and simply left the restaurant. Steve, meanwhile, told TMZ he\u2019d had \u201cquite a bit to drink.\u201d\nWhen asked for comment on what had happened, the resort said in a statement to The Arizona Republic that its \u201cguests\u2019 privacy is paramount,\u201d and as a result, they would not be providing comment.\nA representative for Weinstein, however, said TMZ\u2019s report of the incident was accurate.\nThough no report was filed with authorities, Paradise Valley Police Department spokesman Lt. Michael Cole said that if one was filed, the incident would be investigated as a misdemeanor assault.\nIt\u2019s not the first time in recent months that the 65-year-old Weinstein has been spotted in the Phoenix area.\nThe producer \u2014 who traveled to Arizona after being accused of sexual harassment, assault and even rape by dozens of women \u2014 was seen late last year wearing a disguise while eating at a Phoenix restaurant.\nWeinstein\u2019s downfall led to a domino effect in which many other high-profile men in the entertainment, political and media worlds have been accused of misconduct.\nWeinstein has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex, though he has admitted to some wrongdoing, according to ABC News.\nOn Wednesday, it was reported that he and his wife, fashion designer Georgina Chapman, had agreed to the terms of their divorce in a settlement worth between $15 and $20 million.\nTags: Arizona, Hollywood, sexual assault, sexual harassment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 8179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westjet.com/book/flights-from-nassau-to-winnipeg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SPUDRCNEQVC5HYDIS6XPPVWJVNDG2QNG", "length": 1418, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.westjet.com", "title": "Flights from Nassau (NAS) to Winnipeg (YWG) | WestJet", "raw_content": "Home | Book | Flights | From Nassau | To Winnipeg\nIf you\u2019re looking for flights from Nassau to Winnipeg, WestJet has exactly what you want. Our flights take off and land all across North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe, including Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, which is why you can rely on us to get you where you need to be. On top of that, we offer a winning combination of affordability and comfort, so you can expect to pay less and get more. So check out our flights today.\nYou can get to The Peg with WestJet\nAs the country's second-sunniest city, Winnipeg is aglow with a variety of attractions \u2014 including everything from alluring forests and parkland to top-notch ballet and orchestra productions. But The Peg's top attraction is its rich annual calendar of events, from the hilarious Winnipeg Comedy Festival to the ever-popular Festival du Voyageur, to name just a couple. You'll even find sandy beaches on the coast of Lake Winnipeg: at Grand Beach Provincial Park, visitors can go for a dip, stroll along the boardwalk or explore the sand dunes.\nRely on WestJet for flights when you want to visit one of the most spirited, sociable places in Manitoba. No matter the nature of your visit, you\u2019re sure to enjoy Assiniboine Park, The Forks National Historic Site and The Manitoba Museum \u2014 most of all you can count on WestJet to get you from Nassau to Winnipeg.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 7680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 273.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whcmortuary.com/notices/James-Laveroni", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:13Z", "digest": "sha1:OBBVXWIK25SS3DPNVVWXDCLVZILFI6B4", "length": 6024, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.whcmortuary.com", "title": "Obituary for James Thomas Laveroni | Windsor Healdsburg Mortuary", "raw_content": "James Thomas Laveroni\nJames Thomas Laveroni (1953 - 2018) Jim was born April 26, 1953, the 5th son of Michaela and Edward Laveroni. He was brought up in San Francisco, attending St Stephen\u2019s Grammar School, St. Ignatius High School, and the University of San Francisco.\nAt age 13, Jim acquired his first drum set, much to the chagrin of his older brothers. He was a self-taught drummer, learning to play by ear and playing along to pre-recorded Big Band Tunes. This favorite style kept his Mom dancing upstairs while Jim kept the beat downstairs.\nWhile in college earning bachelor\u2019s degree in Communication Arts, Jim lent his talent to hosting a radio show on the KUSF station. He also performed with a local band called \u201cSoft Lights and Sweet Music,\u201d which played regularly at the Konocti Harbor Inn in Lake County.\nPutting his musical talent and education aside, Jim pursued a law enforcement career, obtaining a position with the City of Novato. On September 6, 1977, he graduated from the Police Academy in Riverside, California. He began a 30-year career as a Patrol Officer. He continued to excel, and rose through the ranks from Corporal to Sergeant, and then Lieutenant. He also held many specialty positions, such as Detective, Crime Prevention Officer, Personnel and Training Sergeant, DARE Officer, Press Release Officer, Firearms Instructor, Defensive Driving Instructor, Field Training Officer and Coordinator, and Hostage Negotiator. Jim\u2019s caring and compassionate nature, along with his keen sense of awareness and ability to easily read people, were assets to his career. As such, he was awarded Police Officer of the Year in 1991 and the Medal of Merit Award in 2006.\nIn addition to providing public service, Jim had a very creative side. He truly enjoyed being involved in everything. His skill and interest in movies and film making led to his side business of 11- 99 Video Productions, reflecting the call numbers for \u201cOfficer Needs Help.\u201d He became known for creating lasting memories for those interested in his craft. This led to many opportunities, which included hosting retirement parties and providing entertainment at City and police functions, including several dance routines with unsuspecting individuals being recruited by his antics. He took these tasks seriously, and would spend hours painstakingly preparing his routine to get things just right. His quick wit and unique talent and passion for entertainment made him stand out in a crowd. He truly brought joy and laughter to many. He was once referred to as the \u2018Goodwill Ambassador\u201d of the Novato Police Department.\nAs early as 1980, Jim was known as Joliet Jake Blues in his frequently requested take-off of the Blues Brothers. This recognition never left him. Also, he would yearly perform his Santa duty, welcoming little ones with the wonder and major of the Christmas season. He never said no to anything.\nWhen Jim\u2019s 30-year career ended, he embraced retirement with the same passion. His interests were abundant. He volunteered his time at Child Support Services, helping to locate those with delinquent child support payments. He also continued his law enforcement interest as an instructor at the local Police Academy. Shortly thereafter, he found his niche in 2 areas: music and radio broadcasting, bringing him back to his college days. His volunteer work with National Public Radio station KRCB led to the creation of his weekly show called \u201cPercussion Discussion,\u201d showcasing drummers, as he believed they moved every genre of music along. He sought out interviews with percussionists, such as Raul Rekow from Santana, Steve Smith from Journey, Doug Clifford for CCR, and Steve Price from Pablo Cruise. These were thrilling moments for Jim, and his interviewing techniques made his guests feel relaxed and welcome.\nOne night while on the air, Jim stumbled upon a public service announcement for a local jazz club called \u201cTrad Jass.\u201d Next thing he knew, he was attending their monthly meetings where \u201cjammers\u201d met and performed. Soon he was part of the club, advancing to become a Board Member, and shortly thereafter the Club President. This group led to other opportunities, such as attending Jazz Camp to prefect his craft and drumming skills. This was life changing for him, meeting special friends and providing Jim with even more special memories. His musical interest and keen sense of rhythm allowed him to be the drummer and percussionist for 6 bands simultaneously: The Flying Eagles Jazz Band, The New Black Tuesday Jazz Band, The Bechet Fantasy Band, the Wall of Rhythm Percussion Band, Swing and A Miss Swing Band, and an orchestra member for the Kutups Musical Variety and Dance Show. Jim was always willing to perform with any musical group, and was delighted when asked to do so. Music was truly his passion, and a God-given talent. He is now performing on the biggest stage of all.\nHe shared his life with his wife of 30 years, Carol, and his special love for his cocker spaniel pups: first Mulligan, then Murphy, and most recently his newest addition, Jake. His is also survived by 4 older brothers: Rich, Paul, Bill, and Steve, along with their spouses Ann, Patty, and Patricia. In addition, sisters and brothers-in-law, Diane and Denis and Marilyn and Mark, along with many loving nieces and nephews. Lastly, his 2 best friends for over 40 years, Ken and Mike, who were like his brothers.\nJim was blessed with the love of so many, and will be greatly missed. Although his years were short, they were abundant and filled with passion. We are all a little better because of knowing him.\nFamily and friends are invited to attend a Celebration of Life Service at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church; 8400 Old Redwood Highway; Windsor on June 24, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.\nDonations to Jim\u2019s favorite non-profit organizations can be made to: KRCB Northbay Public Media, 5850 Labath Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928; TRAD JASS, P.O. Box 2861, Santa Rosa, CA 95405; and Marin Humane Society, 171 Bel Marin Keys, Novato, CA 94949.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitecase.com/news/francisco-de-rosenzweig-mendialdua-joins-white-case-partner-mexico-city", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NOTUU4Y327NABAXSFQOJS3QHEUYBA7EP", "length": 1919, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.whitecase.com", "title": "Francisco de Rosenzweig Mendialdua Joins White & Case as a Partner in Mexico City | White & Case LLP International Law Firm, Global Law Practice", "raw_content": "Francisco de Rosenzweig Mendialdua Joins White & Case as a Partner in Mexico City\nGlobal law firm White & Case LLP has strengthened its Global Project Finance Practice with the addition of Francisco de Rosenzweig Mendialdua as a partner in its Mexico City office.\nDe Rosenzweig is a former Mexican federal government official and most recently served as the deputy minister of foreign trade at the Ministry of the Economy, where he led Mexico's international trade negotiations on issues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and The Pacific Alliance Trade Initiative, and represented the country's interests before the World Trade Organization.\nHe has held many different positions in the public sector, including chief of staff to the minister at the Ministry of Communications and Transport, general counsel for public expenditure at the Ministry of Finance, executive secretary at the Inter-Ministerial Commission for Public Expenditure, Financing and Privatization, and general counsel for the Energy Regulatory Commission.\n\"Mexico is an important market for many of our clients and with the introduction of energy reforms, the country is increasingly attractive for foreign investment,\" said White & Case partner Arthur Scavone, head of the Firm's Global Project Finance Practice. \"The addition of Francisco strengthens our practice in Mexico. He brings extensive knowledge of the infrastructure, energy and transport sectors at a time when the demand for his skills is increasing, and we're excited that he's joined the Firm.\"\nWhite & Case's Global Project Finance Practice advises sponsors and developers on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, ranging from strategic joint ventures and project structuring and development work to advising on the full range of project financings including commercial bank loans, export credit agency and multilateral facilities, project bonds and Islamic financings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 187.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitecase.com/news/white-case-advises-bank-syndicate-numericable-groups-eu47-billion-capital-increase", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:10Z", "digest": "sha1:PFCRTDPUZMPH2B37PM727AMWXKH2V32T", "length": 1826, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.whitecase.com", "title": "White & Case Advises Bank Syndicate on Numericable Group's \u20ac4.7 Billion Capital Increase | White & Case LLP International Law Firm, Global Law Practice", "raw_content": "White & Case Advises Bank Syndicate on Numericable Group's \u20ac4.7 Billion Capital Increase\nGlobal law firm White & Case LLP has advised the syndicate of banks led by Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley and including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Credit Suisse Securities Limited, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Securities, acting as Joint Lead Managers and Joint Bookrunners, on Numericable Group's \u20ac4.7 billion capital increase.\nThe capital increase with preferential subscription rights is the largest in France since 2009 and will allow Numericable Group to finance the \u20ac13.5 billion cash element of its acquisition of SFR. SFR is the leading alternative telecommunications operator in France, with a combined turnover of \u20ac10.2 billion during 2013 and more than 21 million mobile customers in June 2014.\nOn June 20, 2014 Numericable signed an agreement with Vivendi to acquire SFR. The agreement provides a direct sale of part of the SFR shares, the remaining shares being subject to a contribution by Vivendi to Numericable. Vivendi will hold 20 percent of Numericable-SFR Group's capital after taking into account the contribution. The acquisition was authorized by the French Competition Authority on October 27, 2014 and its completion remains subject to approval at Numericable's general shareholder meeting, which is scheduled for November 27, 2014.\nThe White & Case team in Paris which advised on the transaction was led by partners Thomas Le Vert and S\u00e9verin Robillard with support from associates Tatiana Uskova, Fran\u00e7ois Carrey and Antonin Deslandes. Partner Colin Chang and counsel Max Turner advised on U.S. law aspects, counsel Juliette Goyer advised on regulatory aspects and partner Alexandre Ippolito, with support from associate Marcus Schmidbauer, advised on tax matters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/21_9/features/How-to-Teach-Your-Dog-to-Greet-Nicely_21903-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WWXII3542QV6E5L7TAF42YML64IJCIVQ", "length": 832, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.whole-dog-journal.com", "title": "How to Teach Your Dog to Greet Nicely | Whole Dog Journal", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a great idea to teach your dog to both greet people calmly, and \u201cnot greet\u201d just as calmly, passing by humans and/or dogs without fussing or pulling. Don\u2019t expect this to happen without practicing and rewarding your dog for the behavior you want!\nCalm and collected is the name of the game, whether you would like your dog to greet others or pass them by.\nOn any given day, depending on the circumstances, a dog might have a multitude of opportunities to meet and greet a number of other creatures: dogs, cats, horses, a variety of other species, and all sorts of humans. Some dogs seem to do it with aplomb, while others are clearly overexcited and unable to contain themselves. I suspect most if not all of us would far rather have the dog who\u2019s calm, cool, and collected rather than the other option. So how do we get there?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 212.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wilsonelser.com/news_and_insights/speaking_engagements/904-internet_of_things_and_its_impact_on_cyber_and", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PH5WGV4UJB2C5PW22RK2EK2UCY4W3PNE", "length": 496, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wilsonelser.com", "title": "Internet of Things and Its Impact on Cyber and Product Liability/Recent Cyber Trends \u2013 Speaking Engagement \u2013 Wilson Elser", "raw_content": "Internet of Things and Its Impact on Cyber and Product\u2026\nMichael O\u2019Brien (Partner-New York Metro) and Richard Reiter (Partner-New York Metro) presented on theInternet of Things and Its Impact on Cyber and Product Liability and Recent Cyber Trends, respectively, on June 14, 2017, for a client in Stamford, CT. The audience was comprised of claims and underwriting personnel from the client\u2019s London and Toronto offices, as well as from its Paris and Mexico City offices, who participated remotely.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 23422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/jobs/jobs_news/14026841.We_re_ready_to_manage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DD33FIMJB5SPHE43UFIWOS32XO4PHN5A", "length": 2431, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk", "title": "We're ready to manage | Wimbledon Times", "raw_content": "Graduates - some of the latest students at Anglia Ruskin\nAN Essex-based course is spearheading a new qualification, tailored for the next generation of business managers, which combines apprentice training with a full honours degree\nAnglia Ruskin University, in partnership with Barclays, will deliver a new Chartered Manager Degree Apprentice programme.\nThe course is one of the first of the new high-level apprenticeships launched by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.\nThe first intake of 22 students has now started the Chartered Manager Degree Apprentice course at Anglia Ruskin\u2019s Lord Ashcroft International Business School.\nProfessor Gary Packham, dean of Anglia Ruskin\u2019s Lord Ashcroft International Business School, said: \u201cThe BA (Hons) Management and Leadership work-based degree is a flagship course designed to achieve the highest possible results and set the highest possible standards. The initial feedback from students about their learning and development experience has proved excellent.\u201d\nThe new course draws on Anglia Ruskin\u2019s experience in delivering other work-based degree courses for the past eight years.\nThis is the first time, however, that apprenticeships and degree courses have been combined for chartered management studies.\nApprentices receive an accredited degree, and also achieve professional status from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) upon successful completion of the programme.\nVanessa Knowles, programme leader for the Barclays leadership and management programme at Anglia Ruskin, said: \u201cWorking on this latest Government-led initiative is extremely exciting and signals a major shift in the way in which universities can engage more readily with organisations to help shape and deliver the way they develop talent.\u201d\nThe previous cohort of Barclays graduates from the BA (Hons) management and leadership course received their degree certificates in October, and celebrated at the Houses of Commons.\nOf the 39 graduates, 15 were awarded first class honours, and prizes were awarded to Matthew Allen for the Most Outstanding Academic Achievement, James Page and Sophie Hoodless for the Course Ambassador Award and Alice Jones for the Spirit of the Programme Award.\nFor further information about the new Degree Apprenticeship and the corporate client course provision offered by Anglia Ruskin, please contact Vanessa Knowles on 07515 068293 or Vanessa.Knowles@anglia.ac.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-treatment-for-bladder-lesions.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JNLVBNREHLJ4GVCUG6PZUIOHRWONSXX2", "length": 5962, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.wisegeek.com", "title": "What Is the Treatment for Bladder Lesions? (with pictures)", "raw_content": "What Is the Treatment for Bladder Lesions?\nCancer patients who participate in clinical trials may help improve the way cancer is treated in the future.\nInvasive bladder cancer usually begins as a growth on the wall of the bladder.\nThe human urinary tract, including the bladder in pink at the bottom.\nA linear accelerator might be used to target cancerous bladder lesions radiation.\nCancerous bladder lesions are typically treated with chemotherapy.\nWritten By: Jackie Myers\nIndividuals with bladder lesions can choose from a variety of treatments. Noncancerous lesions can be cauterized. The four standard treatments for cancerous lesions include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, biologic therapy, and surgery. Treatments being tested in clinical trials include chemoprevention and photodynamic therapy. One of the surgical options is radical cystectomy, a procedure that involves removing the bladder, lymph nodes, and any nearby organs that are cancerous.\nIt is possible to eliminate a bladder lesion by burning it off. This technique is called fulguration of the bladder. Doctors use tools such as an electrocautery or laser to perform this procedure. Fulguration may be used in cases of interstitial cystitis and in patients that have Hunner's ulcers. Patients undergoing this procedure are given general or spinal anesthesia.\nCancerous lesions can be treated with chemotherapy. This form of treatment kills the cancer cells and stops them from dividing. Patients can receive chemotherapy orally or have it injected into a muscle or vein. It is common for patients with bladder tumors to receive the chemotherapy through a tube inserted into their urethra. When the drug enters the bloodstream, it can reach the cancerous cells.\nRadiation therapy involves using high energy x-rays to destroy cancerous cells. Patients with cancerous bladder lesions can receive either external or internal radiation therapy. For external radiation therapy, a machine is placed near the body and directs radiation towards the bladder cancer. Internal radiation therapy is administered by inserting a radioactive substance directly into the lesion or in tissue that is nearby.\nPhotodynamic therapy can also be used to kill cancerous cells. It involves using a drug that is only activated when exposed to light. The patient receives the medication intravenously (IV). Once the drug enters into the body it remains in the cancerous cells longer than in normal cells. When the drugs are activated by a specific type of light, the cancer cells die.\nSome cancer patients may be interested in clinical trials to treat their bladder lesions. These trials play a pivotal role in cancer research, testing new cancer treatments to determine safety and effectiveness. Those who participate, help to improve the way cancer is treated in the future.\nSurgery is an option for those with early-stage or invasive bladder cancer. In early-stage cancer, a segmental cystectomy can be performed. A surgeon will remove only the portion of the bladder that contains the bladder lesions. If the cancer has invaded the deepest layers of the bladder wall, surgery to remove the entire bladder may be necessary. Those undergoing surgery as a treatment option risk infection and bleeding.\nWhat Is a Lymph Node Resection?\nWhat Are the Different Causes of a Bladder Tumor?\nWhat Are the Different Types of Bladder Cancer Tests?\nWhat Is a Transurethral Bladder Resection?\nWhat is Inflammation of the Bladder?\nWhat is a Bladder Resection?\nWhat are Bladder Lesions?\nI have just been advised that I have a couple of lesions on the wall of my bladder and that I should expect a letter in a couple of weeks giving me a date to enter the hospital to have it removed. Any advice? --Jomac.\nI just left the hospital. I was there because of blood in my urine. I had lesions on my bladder that hve been sent for biopsy. At the same time, my prostate was scraped?\nI feel fine now that I have no more blood clots coming through my urethra. That was an adventure! -- Larry B., Ontario\n@anamur-- I have interstital cystitis lesions in my bladder and my doctor has given me three options for treating them. I can either have them burned off with laser, I can have them cut out (ouch!) or I can get a steroid injection.\nI'm undecided between the laser and the steroid injection. The injection is fairly new and doctors are still trying to learn about how well it works. But it's supposed to treat bleeding, inflammation and bladder pain just like the other two treatments.\nSo if you don't want to have it burned off, you could get the injection but they're still going to have to open you up for it. If you're trying to avoid surgery, it's kind of unavoidable for noncancerous lesion treatments.\n@anamur-- Yes, I had a couple that were laser burned a couple of years ago.\nEven though the lesions might not be cancerous now, they do carry the risk of mutating into cancerous cells. So burning them off is part of bladder cancer prevention.\nPlus, lesions often cause bleeding and other problems in the bladder as was the case with me. I often would get tested positive with blood in my urine and further testing showed I had lesions. The bleeding stopped after they were burned off.\nIt's a pretty easy procedure and I think you should have it done. It'll put your mind at ease and prevent and treat any side effects.\nIf a bladder lesion is noncancerous, can it just be left alone?\nMy doctor found a lesion in my bladder during a surgery I had to have kidney stones removed. It has been biopsied and is non-cancerous. My doctor wants me to go in for another surgery to burn it off.\nI don't feel ready for another surgery and since the lesion is non-cancerous, I don't understand why I can't leave it alone. I do have some pain but I think that it has to do with kidney stones that were removed and not the lesion in my bladder.\nHas anyone else had a noncancerous bladder lesion? Did you have it burned off? What was that like?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 8363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wkyc.com/gallery/weather/gallery-hurricane-florence-aftermath-in-north-carolina/95-597063020", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MCTMN3UR3JTI6WTBZXT4KWH7VFTYLNCN", "length": 20274, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.wkyc.com", "title": "GALLERY: Hurricane Florence Aftermath In North Carolina | wkyc.com", "raw_content": "GALLERY: Hurricane Florence Aftermath In North Carolina\nA car sits in a flooded parking lot on September 18, 2018 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.\nKINSTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: The statue of a horse stands in rising water at the Exchange Nature Park along the Neuse River September 15, 2018 in Kinston, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least 12 deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nJAMES CITY, NC - SEPTEMBER 14: Rescue workers from Township No. 7 Fire Department and volunteers from the Civilian Crisis Response Team use a boat to rescue a woman and her dog from their flooded home during Hurricane Florence September 14, 2018 in James City, United States. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits at the confluence of the Nueces and Trent rivers. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nKINSTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 16: Old vehicles are surrounded by flood water from the Neuse River September 16, 2018 in Kinston, North Carolina. Fed by the storm surge and rainfall from Hurricane Florence, the Nuese is currently at flood stage in and around Kinston and is not expected to crest until later in the week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nSPRING LAKE, NC - SEPTEMBER 17: Bob Richling carries items from the home of Iris Darden as flood water from the Little River starts to seep into her home on September 17, 2018 in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Flood waters from the cresting rivers inundated the area after the passing of Hurricane Florence. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nATLANTIC BEACH, NC - SEPTEMBER 13: Portions of a boat dock and boardwalk are destroyed by powerful wind and waves as Hurricane Florence arrives September 13, 2018 in Atlantic Beach, United States. Coastal cities in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are under evacuation orders as the Category 2 hurricane approaches the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: A sail boat lifted by the storm surge leans against a building at the destroyed Bridgepointe Marina a day after Hurricane Florence made landfall September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina.Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nSOUTHPORT, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Kim Adams makes her way to her home that is surrounded by flood waters after Hurricane Florence passed through the area on September 15, 2018 in Southport, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit the North Carolina and South Carolina coastline bringing high winds and rain. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: A boat lays smashed against a car garage, deposited there by the high winds and storm surge from Hurricane Florence along the Neuse River September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nWILMINGTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 16: A local business is flooded on September 16, 2018 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit Wilmington as a category 1 storm causing widespread damage and flooding across North Carolina. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nFAYETTEVILLE, NC - SEPTEMBER 17: People check out the flooding as the Rockfish creek overflows a roadway on September 17, 2018 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Flood waters from the cresting rivers inundated the area after the passing of Hurricane Florence. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nWILMINGTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Mike Pollack inpects the damage of his flooded waterfront home a day after Hurricane Florence hit the area, on September 15, 2018 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: A tourist boat is run aground near a railroad bridge on the Trent River near the Bridgepointe Marina a day after Hurricane Florence made landfall September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina.Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nSURF CITY, NC- SEPTEMBER 13: A gas station pump is shut down with no gas as Hurricane Florence approaches the area, on September 13, 2018 in Surf City, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence is expected on early Friday possibly as a category 2 or 3 storm along the North Carolina and South Carolina coastline. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Residents stop to photograph a section of the Highway 17 exit ramp that remains closed a day after Hurricane Florence's storm surge washed it out September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina.Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: A section of a boardwalk is lodged inside a home at the Queen's Point condos after Hurricane Florence tore open the homes with a four-foot high storm surge September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: The courtyard at Queen's Point condos is filled with residents' belongings after the storm surge from Hurricane Florence tore open the lower floors with a four-foot high storm surge September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nSPRING LAKE, NC - SEPTEMBER 17: Lawn ornaments are seen in the flood water from the Little River as it crests over its banks on September 17, 2018 in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Flood waters from the cresting rivers inundated the area after the passing of Hurricane Florence. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nWorker attempt to sure up a dam near Interstate Highway 95 in Lumberton, North Carolina on September 16, 2018. - A killer storm that left up to 13 people dead weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday, but US authorities warned the devastation it caused -- including catastrophic flooding -- is far from over.Most of the fatalities from Florence, which made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, have occurred in North Carolina, where officials confirmed eight victims. They included three who died \"due to flash flooding and swift water on roadways,\" the Duplin County Sheriff's Office reported. (Photo by Alex EDELMAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)\nWILMINGTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 16: Robert Dolman walks past a Cadillac that has a large tree limb on it, on September 16, 2018 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit Wilmington as a category 1 storm causing widespread damage and flooding across North Carolina. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nFAYETTEVILLE, NC - SEPTEMBER 19: The Cape Fear River is seen from above after it crested at 61.4 feet last night from the rainfall brought on by Hurricane Florence on September 19, 2018 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The death toll from the storm stood at 37 in three states, including 27 fatalities in North Carolina, according to published reports. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nLUMBERTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 19: Jovani Quintano walks through a flooded neighborhood after heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Florence on September 19, 2018 in Lumberton, North Carolina. The death toll from the storm stands at 37 in three states, including 27 fatalities in North Carolina, according to published reports. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nLINDEN, NC - SEPTEMBER 18: A home is seen inundated with water from cresting rivers from the rains caused by Hurricane Florence as it passed through the area on September 18, 2018 in Linden, North Carolina. The area was inundated with rain that caused concern for large-scale flooding in the North Carolina and South Carolina area. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nKINSTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 17: Scott Jones wades through about three feet of floodwater down the street he drew up on to check the condition of his father's home after the Nuese River and a nearby creek overflowed during Hurricane Florence September 17, 2018 in Kinston, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday, with at least 14 deaths attributed to the storm, since downgraded to a tropical depression. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nCASTLE HAYNE, NC - SEPTEMBER 17: The Northeast Cape Fear River is swollen due to the heavy rain from Hurricane Florence on September 17, 2018 in Castle Hayne, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit the southeast U.S. causing widespread power outages and flooding across the region. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nKINSTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 16: A home is surrounded by flood water from the Neuse River September 16, 2018 in Kinston, North Carolina. Fed by the storm surge and rainfall from Hurricane Florence, the Nuese is currently at flood stage in and around Kinston and is not expected to crest until later in the week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nLELAND, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: A steeple lies next to the Elah Baptist Church after being blown off by the strong winds of Hurricane Florence on September 16, 2018 in Leland, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit Wilmington as a category 1 storm causing widespread damage and flooding across North Carolina. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - Flooding is seen near Interstate Highway 95 in Lumberton, North Carolina on September 16, 2018. - A killer storm that left up to 13 people dead weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday, but US authorities warned the devastation it caused -- including catastrophic flooding -- is far from over.Most of the fatalities from Florence, which made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, have occurred in North Carolina, where officials confirmed eight victims. They included three who died \"due to flash flooding and swift water on roadways,\" the Duplin County Sheriff's Office reported. (Photo by Alex EDELMAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)\nFAYETTEVILLE, NC - SEPTEMBER 16: A vehicle turns around at Cross Creek that has been turned into a river by the rains from Hurricane Florence as it passed through the area on September 16, 2018 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Rain continues to inundate the region causing concern for large scale flooding after Hurricane Florence hit the North Carolina and South Carolina area. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\nLELAND, NC- SEPTEMBER 16: A car drives down a flooded road, on September 16, 2018 in Leland, North Carolina. The state is experiencing wide spread flooding after Hurricane Florence hit area as a Category 1 storm bringing heavy wind and rain. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nWILMINGTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 16: A home is damaged after a large tree fell on it, on September 16, 2018 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence hit Wilmington as a category 1 storm causing widespread damage and flooding across North Carolina. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - Rising flood waters overtake a gas station in Lumberton, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. - Besides federal and state emergency crews, rescuers were being helped by volunteers from the \"Cajun Navy\" -- civilians equipped with light boats, canoes and air mattresses -- who also turned up in Houston during Hurricane Harvey to carry out water rescues. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - A pickup truck is seen submerged in floodwater in Lumberton, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. - Besides federal and state emergency crews, rescuers were being helped by volunteers from the \"Cajun Navy\" -- civilians equipped with light boats, canoes and air mattresses -- who also turned up in Houston during Hurricane Harvey to carry out water rescues. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)\nKINSTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Barricades block Highway 70 where the Neuse River has flooded the road September 15, 2018 in Kinston, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least 12 deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - A woman speaks into a cellphone asking for help at her flooded residence in Lumberton, North Carolina, on September 15, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Members of the Cajun Navy came to her rescue. - Besides federal and state emergency crews, rescuers were being helped by volunteers from the \"Cajun Navy\" -- civilians equipped with light boats, canoes and air mattresses -- who also turned up in Houston during Hurricane Harvey to carry out water rescues. (Photo by Alex EDELMAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - A toy house and other debris is strewn in the front lawn of a house, from flooding the day before when Hurricane Florence made landfal, in New Bern, North Carolina on September 15, 2018. - The governor of North Carolina warned residents displaced by a killer storm against returning home because of the dangers posed by rising floodwaters. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)\nWILMINGTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: People wait in the rain to enter a Waffle House a day after Hurricane Florence hit the area, on September 15, 2018 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: High winds from Hurricane Florence uprooted a tree, crushing a car and toppling a wall surrounding a baseball diamond September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Boats, some listing and others completly sunk, remain in the destroyed Bridgepointe Marina a day after Hurricane Florence made landfall September 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina.Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 14: Homes are flooded after a storm surge from Hurricane Florence flooded the Neuse River September 14, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits at the confluence of the Nueces and Trent rivers. The storm has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - A tree that fell on a house, killing two people, is seen during Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, North Carolina on September 14, 2018. - A mother and her infant were killed when a tree fell on their house in Wilmington, North Carolina, the first reported fatalities from Hurricane Florence, police said Friday. Wilmington police tweeted that the father was transported to the hospital with unspecified injuries. Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington on Friday morning, battering the coastal city with strong winds and torrential rain. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 14: Volunteers from all over North Carolina help rescue residents and their pets from their flooded homes during Hurricane Florence September 14, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits at the confluence of the Nuese and Trent rivers. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - An abandoned mini van sits on a flooded road near New Bern, NC on September 14, 2018 during Hurricane Florence. - Florence smashed into the US East Coast Friday with howling winds, torrential rains and life-threatening storm surges as emergency crews scrambled to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters. Forecasters warned of catastrophic flooding and other mayhem from the monster storm, which is only Category 1 but physically sprawling and dangerous. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOGAN CYRUS/AFP/Getty Images)\nNEW BERN, NC - SEPTEMBER 14: A volunteer rescue truck drives underneath a fallen tree that is suspended by power lines blown down by Hurricane Florence September 14, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits at the confluence of the Nueces and Trent rivers. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nTOPSHOT - The Neuse River floods the waterfront in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018 during Hurricane Florence. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOGAN CYRUS/AFP/Getty Images)\nJAMES CITY, NC - SEPTEMBER 14: Volunteer Amber Hersel from the Civilian Crisis Response Team helps rescue 7-year-old Keiyana Cromartie and her family from their flooded home September 14, 2018 in James City, United States. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the area around New Bern, North Carolina, which sits at the confluence of the Nueces and Trent rivers. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\nATLANTIC BEACH, NC - SEPTEMBER 13: A spray painted message is left on a boarded up condominium as the outer bands of Hurricane Florence being to affect the coast September 13, 2018 in Atlantic Beach, United States. Coastal cities in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virgnia are under evacuation orders as the Category 2 hurricane approaches the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 45148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/syria-says-its-now-in-full-control-of-aleppo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:R2O4TMZVPNOHQ62V7M2VQ2EZNNQCPSUB", "length": 654, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wmar2news.com", "title": "Syria says it's now in full control of Aleppo", "raw_content": "Syria says it's now in full control of Aleppo\n(CNN) -- The Syrian regime says it has taken full control of Aleppo, state-run media announced Thursday, marking a major turning point in the nation's five-year civil war.\nSyrian government forces and their allies are now in control of eastern Aleppo, ending more than four years of rebel rule in the area.\nThe government made significant territorial gains in eastern Aleppo after forces backed by airstrikes entered rebel-held areas in late November.\nAn estimated 400,000 Syrians have been killed and more than 4.81 million have fled the country since the war began in 2011, according to the United Nations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 2539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 160.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wnky.com/i/castle-on-the-square-sand-to-star-in-vatican-nativity-scene-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PVOWOOP7XBD5KSNZWQ3FQFSKXBSYTPPT", "length": 962, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wnky.com", "title": "Castle on the square: Sand to star in Vatican Nativity scene - WNKY", "raw_content": "Castle on the square: Sand to star in Vatican Nativity scene\nVATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Sand castles are coming to the Vatican.\nThe Vatican said Wednesday its Nativity scene this year will be built from sand and sculpted by an international set of artists.\nAbout 700 tons of sand will be shipped to St. Peter\u2019s Square for the sculpture, which will be the centerpiece of the Vatican\u2019s Christmastime decorations along with a giant tree.\nThe first phase of construction begins Saturday with the forming of a sand pyramid in the square. Blocks of pressed sand will be made from it. Four sculptors \u2014 one each from the United States, Russia, the Netherlands and Czech Republic \u2014 were asked to turn the blocks into figures.\nThe completed scene is scheduled to be unveiled Dec. 7.\nThe Vatican is known for displaying larger-than-life-sized Nativity scenes that attract thousands of tourists.\nhttps://www.wnky.com/i/castle-on-the-square-sand-to-star-in-vatican-nativity-scene-2/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 2732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenhealthzone.com/general-health/what-are-the-effects-of-obesity-on-a-womans-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWMH4WGSMXU2SAFXMNRZ4BUT3OYJJE6O", "length": 3026, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.womenhealthzone.com", "title": "What Are The Effects Of Obesity On A Woman's Health?", "raw_content": "Home General Health What Are The Effects Of Obesity On A Woman\u2019s Health?\nWhat Are The Effects Of Obesity On A Woman\u2019s Health?\nObesity or too much body fat is a very serious problem that affects woman\u2019s health at every stage of her life.\nThere are more than 30 effects of obesity that a woman can affect with. In US, obesity is the second largest cause which leads to death.\nVarious effects of obesity on your health:\nAccording to the research, women who gain weight after the age of 18 are more likely to get breast cancer after menopause.\nObese women with breast cancer tend to fare worse than thin women. Obesity leads to higher estrogen levels, which again linked to breast cancer.\nStudy found that obese women with BMI of 30 or greater had estrogen concentrations between 60% and 219% greater when compared to thin women. The risk of breast cancer also increases at a rate of 18% for an increase of 5 points in your BMI.\nEndometrial cancer is the fourth most leading cancer in US women. 95% of endometrial cancers come in women of age 40 or more.\nBirth defects:\nObese women give birth to babies who are at higher risk of having heart abnormalities and other birth defects. Obesity or over weight leads to double the risk of heart disease and double the risk of birth defects in the babies when compared with normal weight women.\nSpina bifida is a neural tube birth defect which is the result of obesity. This defect has an incomplete closure of the spinal column which results in paralysis.\nReproductive disorders like infertility are common in women with obesity. This is the result of irregular menses and frequently anovular cycles. Women with infertility have PCOS, which is often a result of obesity and irregular menstrual cycles.\nObesity results in increased production of estrogen, which interferes with the ability of ovulation. Any ovulatory disorder results in female infertility.\nHigher levels of estrogen associated with obesity can lead to pre-cancerous transformations to the uterus.\nObesity and type 2 diabetes are casually linked. Over weight can result in insulin resistance through various mechanisms. Insulin resistance puts a great demand on the pancreas to produce insulin, which leads to the development of clinical diabetes.\nObesity leads to higher levels of triglycerides, low HDL-C and high LDL-C. These are all the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.\nThis condition most frequently affects women after pregnancy or birth. This is the result of weakness of pelvic floor muscles and urethra. Abdominal fat due to over weight can cause the valve of the urinary bladder to weaken. This leads to the involuntary leakage of urine.\nSo, you should be very careful about body fat and how daily consumption affects your body fat.\nWhat Are The Effects Of Obesity On A Woman\u2019s Health? was last modified: September 22nd, 2017 by pnreddy1\nPrevious articleHow Nymphomania Disturbs Your Routine Lifestyle?\nNext articleDepression In Women Can Be At Peak Levels During These Particular Stages Of Their Life!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wonderwall.com/awards-events/red-carpet/golden-globes-2011-red-carpet-arrivals-10774.gallery?photoId=44290", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6HJATKWI43SGWXIDTC5EURP7DZDHEUHT", "length": 117, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wonderwall.com", "title": "Golden Globes 2011: Red Carpet Arrivals | Gallery | Wonderwall.com", "raw_content": "Olivia Wilde arrives at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif.\nUp NextOscar dates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 2761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 190.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.work180.com.au/job/part-time-customer-service-specialist-airlie-beach-cannonvale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3UNOO5X5NLMSXZNWXW2ZJLCIHSFABJIU", "length": 2186, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.work180.com.au", "title": "Part Time Customer Service Specialist - Airlie Beach Cannonvale with ref. 40035914_26112018 - WORK180", "raw_content": "Part Time Customer Service Specialist - Airlie Beach Cannonvale\nThis is a Part Time position, offering 15 hours per week:\nWednesday 11.00 - 4.00\nAt CommBank we never lose sight of the role we play in other people's financial wellbeing. Our goal is to help people and businesses move forward, to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams and aspirations.\nAs a Customer Service Specialist you'll help our customers realise their financial goals by conducting financial health checks. By identifying particular needs and understanding our customer's future plans you will be able to explain the benefits of a comprehensive and diverse range of products and services. Often you will see a need to refer the customer on to one of our specialist teams such as business banking or financial planning to ensure that we've provided them with the best possible care and experience. Join our team and help us continue to build a culture of integrity and accountability by placing the customer at the centre of everything we do.\nWhat will help you succeed?\nWe're looking for highly motivated candidates with the ability to work as part of a team and individually in a busy and structured environment. You'll also be confident in achieving targets through identifying and providing financial solutions to our customer's individual needs. This is a great opportunity for those not afraid to start up a conversation with a stranger as communication skills are key.\nAlthough previous banking or financial experience would be helpful, a strong sales and service background is more important.\nHow you'll benefit.\nThere are many benefits to working for CommBank including being able to use state of the art technology, discounts on a range of financial products, a corporate wardrobe, nationally accredited training and a commitment to offering employees the opportunity to further their careers within the bank.\nPart time Customer Service Specialist Parkes\nPart time Customer Service Specialist Sylvania\nHurstville N/A\nPart time Customer Service Specialist West Wyalong\nPart Time Customer Service Specialist - Stanthorpe\nPart time Customer Service Representative Brewarrina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 119389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.workersafetyequipment.com/plant-maintenance/lighting-products-and-batteries/energizer/batteries.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ATUJOBSWFHTZK27YS3ZYSJ3BKYTQECOJ", "length": 112, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.workersafetyequipment.com", "title": "Batteries - Energizer - Lighting and Batteries - Plant Maintenance", "raw_content": "Specialty Batteries (26)\nMAX Batteries (11)\nRechargeable Batteries and Accessories (9)\nEcoAdvanced Batteries (2)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 999, "original_length": 16426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-ecoforecasting.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WCOA2HY3I6LLA6ABQPPZNL75QMLR3RBX", "length": 3443, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.worldatlas.com", "title": "What Is Ecoforecasting? - WorldAtlas.com", "raw_content": "What Is Ecoforecasting?\nEcoforecasting helps to predict how ecological changes will affect people and their environment.\nEcoforcasting helps to predict and reduce the impacts of natural disasters such as floods.\nEcoforecasting is the process of predicting how ecological events may affect food, water, the environment, and the human health. Ecoforecasting combines different research and observations to allow people to monitor and come up with better ways to combat any adverse implications resulting from the various changes to the ecosystem. Some of the events that are monitored through Ecoforecasting include the following:\nHarmful chemicals have adversely affected the environment; this has forced people to use vast resources to clean up polluted areas, for instance cleaning polluted water to make it safe for use. Ecoforecasting strives towards preventing the pollution in the first place to allow resources to be directed into other initiatives. Ecoforecasting reduces uncertainties brought about by solutions that appear to be failing when it comes to reducing pollution.\nNatural hazards like wildfires can be very destructive with the power to permanently alter the ecosystem of a given location. With Ecoforecasting in the picture, however, people can anticipate disasters like floods, hurricanes, and drought, as well as whether they do happen or not and in the process reduce their impacts.\nChanges in Land and Resource Use\nShifting land use will always have an implication on the ecosystem. Converting farmland into a forest may have a negative impact depending on the type of tree planted. Some trees drain water from an area and may not be suitable. Ecoforecasting takes into account all the possible outcomes from such shifts and helps people to arrive at the best possible option without having to guess about the repercussions that may follow.\nOther Examples of Ecoforecasting\nThe ability to predict things like the amount of oxygen in the water to determine which type of fish to rear or the kind of fertilizer to use on a particular piece of land while taking into account how it may affect the adjacent areas or any water body that is in the vicinity. Ecoforecasting takes all these scenarios into account to produce strategies that benefit both the farmer and the animal life that may be residing close by.\nBenefits of Ecoforecasting\nForecasting improves decisions and the process of making those decisions with the aim of sustaining productivity without hurting the ecosystem. It reduces the impacts of human activities and extreme natural events without any cost. Ecoforecasting also brings together scientists and other like-minded thinkers to provide a platform for solutions to some of the problems that have been affecting the environment for ages. Brainstorming in such a way is the fastest way to arrive at long-lasting solutions.\nAnother significant benefit of Ecoforecasting is the availability of intensive researching and the close monitoring of events to reduce uncertainties that come with the lack of preparedness. The ability to predict what may happen not only allows scientists to come up with the most appropriate counter-methods, but it also allows them time and room to come up with ways to take advantage, for example of an impending disaster like floods. Flood water can be very destructive but at the same time with the right measures in place, it can be harvested and put to good use later on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 5477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldclassdefenseblog.com/2017/08/spokeo-on-remand-the-ninth-circuit-finds-plaintiffs-fcra-injury-is-concrete/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KPZZZBW4MDAG3E2V7DTLORWFHTABKWSF", "length": 2282, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.worldclassdefenseblog.com", "title": "Spokeo on Remand: The Ninth Circuit Finds Plaintiff\u2019s FCRA Injury Is Concrete | World Class Defense", "raw_content": "Home Standing Spokeo on Remand: The Ninth Circuit Finds Plaintiff\u2019s FCRA Injury Is Concrete\nIn arriving at its conclusions, the Ninth Circuit observed that the FCRA \u201cwas crafted to protect consumers from the transmission of inaccurate information about them,\u201d and that the interests created by the statute are \u201creal, rather than purely legal creations.\u201d According to the court, the \u201cubiquity and importance of consumer reports in modern life\u201d means that the very existence of an inaccurate report is a \u201cthreat to a consumer\u2019s livelihood.\u201d And that is exactly what the plaintiff alleged \u2013 that Spokeo\u2019s inaccurate report about him caused actual harm to his employment prospects (as well as causing \u201canxiety, stress, concern and/or worry\u201d stemming from those diminished prospects). According to the court, plaintiff\u2019s allegations that \u201cboth the challenged conduct and the attendant injury have already occurred\u201d distinguish him from the plaintiffs in Clapper v. Amnesty Int\u2019l USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), who instead alleged that they would suffer future injuries due to threatened conduct.\nThe Ninth Circuit cautioned that not every inaccuracy in a consumer report amounts to a concrete harm. An incorrect zip code, for example, is not likely to harm a consumer\u2019s interests; in contrast, the court stated that \u201c[i]t does not take much imagination to understand how\u201d Spokeo\u2019s inaccurate statements regarding plaintiff \u2013 that he is married with children, in his 50s, employed in a professional or technical field, has a graduate degree, etc. \u2013 \u201ccould be deemed a real harm.\u201d However, the court declined to further explain that conclusion: \u201cWe express no opinion on the circumstances in which alleged inaccuracies of this nature would or would not cause a concrete harm.\u201d\nDespite its long-anticipated arrival, the Ninth Circuit\u2019s opinion in Spokeo III is likely to have a more symbolic impact than a substantive one. Since Spokeo II was decided more than a year ago, hundreds of court decisions have already discussed, analyzed, and distinguished it (with inconsistent approaches and conflicting results), and the Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision here is simply one more data point in the quest to determine when a violation of a federal statute gives rise to a concrete injury under Spokeo II.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/persian-leopards-return-to-caucasus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:31:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CORSDVYAHBUQCXAT6GYS4UY7LG5BHN6C", "length": 3068, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.worldwildlife.org", "title": "Persian leopards return to Caucasus | Stories | WWF", "raw_content": "Persian leopards return to Caucasus\nThree cats are expected to lay foundation for new Persian leopard population in Russia\nThree Persian leopards were released into Russia\u2019s Caucasus (Kavkazsky) State Nature Biosphere Reserve today. The event is a remarkable step in restoring leopard populations to the Caucasus.\nUntil the middle of the 20th century, Persian leopards were common in the Caucasus. But by 1950, their population had dramatically decreased, and was entirely extinct in some areas due to human activities.\nIn 2005, experts from WWF-Russia and the Russian Academy of Science developed a long-term program to reintroduce Persian leopards in the Caucasus. Russian President Vladimir Putin has supported the program since 2009\nThe work was an ambitious undertaking. First, the territory was prepared for the rare cats. Ungulate populations were increased in order to provide prey and protection measures strengthened. Adult leopards from zoos cannot be released into the wild: they are unable to catch prey and are not afraid of humans. In 2009, with support from WWF, a special center was built near Sochi to breed and prepare leopards for a life in the wild.\nInitially, the Center hosted two males from Turkmenistan and two females from Iran. Later, a leopard pair brought from the Lisbon Zoo had their first litter in the Center in 2013. By 2016, a total of 14 kittens were born in the center.\nThe leopards released today have reached sexual maturity and received special training to survive independently in the wild. They also have satellite collars that will allow program staffers to track the cats after their release.\nThe program aims to create a self-sustaining Persian leopard population in the wild, which means a population of at least 50 leopards in the Northern Caucasus. Though there is still much work to do, this first release offers tremendous hope for these endangered cats.\nThe Program for Reintroduction (Restoration) of the Leopard in the Caucasus was initiated in 2005 by WWF-Russia. In 2007, it was approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, and since 2009, it has been supported personally by Vladimir Putin. The Program is implemented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation with the participation of the Sochi National Park, Caucasus (Kavkazsky) State Nature Biosphere Reserve, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow Zoo and WWF-Russia, and with the support from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA).\nA leopard is fitted with a tracking collar.\nThe Persian Leopard Breeding and Rehabilitation Centre at Sochi National Park is located in southwestern Russia.\nA total of 14 cubs have been born at the center.\nThe Persian leopard population declined drastically throughout the 20th century due to poaching and habitat loss.\nThe cats will be released into the wild once they have reached sexual maturity and are trained to survive independently in the wild.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wpr.org/organizations/girls-run-chippewa-valley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UJGX3F23CHHKEW37MLF74WSA4J42TFL7", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wpr.org", "title": "Girls on the Run of the Chippewa Valley | Wisconsin Public Radio", "raw_content": "Girls on the Run of the Chippewa Valley", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 3449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 139.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wweek.com/music/2018/01/12/carrie-brownsteins-memoir-is-being-adapted-into-a-show-for-hulu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:H72WEA54TYILZH7YWN7U4KOR6K76BEVT", "length": 2363, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.wweek.com", "title": "Carrie Brownstein\u2019s Memoir Is Being Adapted Into a Show for Hulu - Willamette Week", "raw_content": "Carrie Brownstein\u2019s Memoir Is Being Adapted Into a Show for Hulu\nThe pilot focuses on \"a young woman, a band and a community learning how to be unafraid of their own noise.\"\nCarrie Brownstein performing with Sleater-Kinney at Crystal Ballroom last year. IMAGE: Sam Gehrke.\nAs the saying goes, when one cable television show ends, another one begins, usually for a streaming platform.\nWith Portlandia reaching its end\u2014the final season premieres Jan. 18 on IFC\u2014The Hollywood Reporter announced yesterday that co-star Carrie Brownstein is \"loosely\" adapting her 2015 memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, into a comedy pilot for Hulu.\nThe pilot, which Brownstein is co-executive producing as well as writing and directing but not acting in, is called Search and Destroy and focuses on \"a young woman, a band and a community learning how to be unafraid of their own noise,\" according to the Reporter.\nFrom that description, it seems like the show will draw largely on her college days in Olympia, Wash., where she first gained attention as a member of the band Excuse 17 before forming Sleater-Kinney with Corin Tucker in 1994. In the book, Brownstein describes how the band's early success created tension within Olympia's tight-knit music scene and effectively forced her and Tucker to relocate to Portland.\nDon't worry, though\u2014it's a pilot, so there's no guarantee it'll make it to series, and even if it does, Portland might not factor into it at all. So whatever dive bars managed to remain standing after her last show allegedly destroyed everything this city holds dear appear to be safe\u2026for now.\nIn other news related to Brownstein projects Portland is generally cool with: She told Billboard this week that, in addition to Brownstein directing her first feature film this year, Sleater-Kinney has also started working on their first new music since 2015 reunion album, No Cities to Love.\nBut don't expect to hear any of it soon. \"We're going to do this very slowly,\" she warned. \"It's an ongoing conversation.\"\nIn her new memoir, Portland's most polarizing celebrity demystifies herself\u2014a little bit, at least.\nCarrie Brownstein on her new memoir, fandom in the Internet Age, and her reaction to the claim that Portlandia ruined Portland.\nPortlandia Takes On Workplace Sexism in the First Sketch of Their Final Season.\nDid Portlandia Really Change Portland?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/helfgott/homepage.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UXVJAHPDJVOLMOGEVBPW3ANXI3WQHPQ3", "length": 3786, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.yadvashem.org", "title": "To Witness and Proclaim", "raw_content": "Rabbi Dr. Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott \u2013 Life Story\nStudies and Rabbinical Ordination\nSpiritual Leader in the POW Camps\nAt the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp\nImmigration to Israel and Public Activities\nZvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott was born in September, 1913, in Yugoslavia. He studied theology in Sarajevo, and then continued his rabbinical education in Vienna while studying Philosophy at the University of Vienna. In 1938, after the Anschluss, Helfgott fled Vienna and completed his studies in Budapest. He was ordained as rabbi and received his Ph.D. in 1940, and was elected rabbi of the Veliki Beckerek community in Yugoslavia.\nIn 1941, while serving in the Yugoslavian army, Helfgott was captured by the Germans and detained in POW camps. For the next four years, he tried to help his fellow prisoners, raise their spirits and morale and bring them closer to Jewish values. He celebrated the Jewish holidays and festivals with them, and nurtured their study of Hebrew and the history of the Jewish people. Helfgott also kept a diary in which he detailed his and his comrades\u2019 experiences.\nImmediately after his liberation from captivity in 1945, Helfgott went to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, where he aided survivors in their most difficult hour, buried the dead, and provided emotional and spiritual assistance as well as help in obtaining vital aid. He was appointed Chief Rabbi of the British occupied zone in Germany, and acted as representative of the survivors vis-\u00e0-vis British institutions. In 1948, he became a member of the \u201cNational Recruitment Office,\u201d established by the Jewish Agency to enlist Holocaust survivors into the Hagana.\nRabbi Helfgott immigrated to Israel in 1948. He joined the military chaplaincy, and then the Culture Section and Welfare Department. Ranked Major, Helfgott was responsible for welfare in the military hospitals. Five years after his conscription, Helfgott was transferred from the IDF to government work, and left with a reparations delegation to Cologne, Germany. During that period, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Cologne. As chairman of the \u201cAhavat Reim\u201d Association, Helfgott helped Jewish youth immigrate to Israel. He greatly contributed towards improving Israeli-German relations, established the Israel-Germany Friendship League and initiated youth exchanges between the two countries.\nIn 1961, Helfgott returned to Israel, and became rabbi of Savion. He continued to work in Israel and abroad in the fields of education, religion, culture, and Holocaust research and remembrance. Among his many activities, Helfgott was one of the founders of the She\u2019erit Hapleita (The Last Remnants) movement, chaired the Yugoslavian Fighters Association in Israel and was a member of the Yad Vashem Council and Directorate. He published a number of books dealing with the history of the Jewish people, the Holocaust, and Philosophy.\nRabbi Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott passed away in 2002.\nRabbi Helfgott\u2019s personal archives comprise a great amount of material documenting his life and work in Israel and abroad, including personal documents; the original diary he wrote during his four years as a prisoner of war; documents relating to the burial of Jewish victims at Bergen-Belsen; correspondences about the postwar plight of agunot (women unable to get a divorce because their husbands\u2019 whereabouts are unknown); sermons and speeches from the Holocaust and afterwards; and many photographs. After his death, his wife, Malka Asaria-Helfgott (n\u00e9e Bodner), submitted extensive parts of her husband\u2019s collection to the Yad Vashem Archives.\nZvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott describes his understanding of man after the Holocaust\nOpening Ceremony of the exhibition \u201cTo Witness and Proclaim\u201d \u2013 From the Personal Archives of Rabbi Dr. Zvi Asaria - Hermann Helfgott", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 145.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yellinlaw.com/Social-Security-Disability/How-Can-I-Afford-an-Attorney.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:39:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FLAEJBU22GBSLZJR7GTFHEDMUDXX7IKW", "length": 3229, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.yellinlaw.com", "title": "How Can I Afford an Attorney | Franklin Massachusetts", "raw_content": "Franklin, Massachusetts, Social Security Disability Lawyers\nIndividuals who are filing for Social Security Disability benefits are often worried about their finances. Because they are not working, a main concern our law firm often hears is \"how am I going to be able to afford to pay for any attorney to help me with my claim for Social Security Disability benefits?\" Thankfully, that is one thing that you do not have to worry about.\nBeing part of a federal program, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is administered by the Social Security Administration and is governed by regulations which provide for how attorneys are compensated. Currently, an attorney who is successful in getting a client on disability benefits is paid his or her attorney fees out of the retroactive benefits due the client, capped at the lesser of $6,000 or 25 percent of those past-due benefits.\nCalculation Of The Fess\nFor example, let's say that you stopped working in June due to a disability. If you applied for benefits the following January and receive a favorable decision in November, you may be entitled to monthly disability benefits going back to your disability date in June of the prior year. If the total of those retroactive benefits came to $30,000, 25 percent of that amount comes to $7,500 but your attorney would only be entitled to $6,000, as that is the lesser of the two. If, on the other hand, the retroactive benefits came to $20,000, the attorney fees would come to $5,000, as again this is the lesser of $6,000 or 25 percent of the retroactive award.\nAttorney Fees Are Only Due On Successful Claims\nThe fees of your attorney are only paid out of the past-due benefits. Any benefits to which you may be entitled in the future are not taken into consideration for the attorney fees. Further, you are not responsible for any attorney fees until you are found entitled to disability benefits. If the final result is that your attorney does not succeed in having you found eligible for Social Security Disability benefits, there is no attorney fee due.\nThe bottom line is that you pay no fees up front, do not get a bill from your attorney and a fee for the attorney's work (taken out of the retroactive benefits) is only payable if the claim is successful. Given that claims with attorney involvement are much more likely to be approved than those where the claimant tries to apply for benefits without an attorney, it does not make sense to go it alone.\nThe Law Offices of Ira C. Yellin, LLC, has a very high success rate on the Social Security Disability benefits claims it handles. We understand how vitally important the disability claim is for our client, and we give each case the attention and effort it deserves. As a practical matter, we also realize that we will only get paid if our clients are awarded benefits, so the ultimate goal of our client and or office is one and the same- get the client approved for Social Security Disability Benefits.\nFor more information or to schedule a free initial consultation with an experienced Social Security Disability lawyer from Massachusetts, please contact the Law Offices of Ira C. Yellin, LLC, today. Call our Franklin office at 508-528-8885 or send us an email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yorkshiretrading.com/products/hook-n-loop-sheets", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KGCUWTTNXZIBKA2UX4X56I7FCID2H4WO", "length": 393, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.yorkshiretrading.com", "title": "Hook & Loop Sheets \u2013 Yorkshire Trading Company", "raw_content": "Hook & Loop Sheets\nThree sheets of self adhesive hook and loop fabric stick each measuring 8 x 19cm, suitable for; Banners, Signs, Displays, Posters, Fabrics, Wood, Phtos, Projects, Decorations and more.....\nThree sheets of self adhesive hook and loop fabric stick each measuring 8 x 19cm, suitable for; Banners, Signs, Displays, Posters, Fabrics, Wood, Phtos, Projects, Decorations and more..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 343, "original_length": 6013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourgolftravel.com/golf-holidays/bulgaria-varna", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:MXFQTN5FGOJ3LPFYSOZFB7ZDKSOJCUHI", "length": 1818, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.yourgolftravel.com", "title": "Varna, Bulgaria", "raw_content": "Golf Holidays in Varna\nVarna lies on the same latitude of the famous Atlantic resort of Biarritz in France, but possibly enjoys a climate that's even better. During the holiday season, July and August, the sun shines for an average of 10-11 hours per day. And the temperate climate means that it never gets too hot or cold, which is, of course, perfect for golf.\nVarna is rated 5.0 out of 5 based on 1 verified reviews from YGT customers. They played and stayed (we even checked they signed their scorecards).\nSome 30-40 kilometres north of Varna, is a growing cluster of world-class golf facilities, most being established around the ancient and picturesque town of Balchik on the Black Sea coast. Gary Player is behind the courses at the BlackSeaRama Resort and Thracian Cliffs while Ian Woosnam has signed off a brilliant layout at the Lighthouse Resort nearby. Both are within five kilometres of Balchik, famous for its palace, built by Queen Maria, with its complex of unique botanical gardens.\nIt's a great area for a golf break, with many restaurants in downtown Balchik, offering just about every cuisine imaginable. There are numerous taxis, buses, and boats to other beach resorts on the Black Sea. They include the large resort of Albena, with its white sand beaches, hundreds of restaurants, water sports, casinos and nightclubs. Golden Sands, meanwhile, less than 20 kilometres from Balchik, is famous for the purest sand on the Black Sea coast, and a little further away, towards Varna, there's St Konstantine, which combines ancient history with the modernity of a popular tourist resort, all set in the midst of a beautiful natural park.\nAll in all, this is a very attractive and, as yet, undiscovered holiday region that is set to become increasingly popular with UK holidaymakers, especially golfers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 7362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourhealthremedy.com/health-tips/13-essential-oils-psoriasis-treatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:00Z", "digest": "sha1:V6NXKIWF4KVYNRFDMOIQPWMTJIZQ2GRQ", "length": 9751, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.yourhealthremedy.com", "title": "13 Essential Oils For Psoriasis Treatment - Your Health Remedy", "raw_content": "Home Health Tips 13 Essential Oils For Psoriasis Treatment\n13 Essential Oils For Psoriasis Treatment\nPsoriasis is a long-lasting autoimmune disease. Nowadays, autoimmune diseases affect 24 million people and include multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, thyroid disease, and more.\nThe annual health care cost for autoimmune diseases is $120 billion a year, representing nearly twice the economic health care burden of cancer (about $70 billion a year).\nPsoriasis is characterized by patches of abnormal skin, which are usually red, itchy and scaly. They may vary in severity, from localized and small to complete body coverage. Injury to the skin can trigger psoriatic skin changes at that spot, which is known as Koebner phenomenon.\nSymptoms of psoriasis vary depending on the type. Some typical symptoms of plaque psoriasis include:\nPlaques of scales or crust on the scalp\nDisorders of the toenails and fingernails, including discoloration and pitting of the nails, which may also begin to crumble or detach from the nail bed.\nPlaques of red skin, usually covered with loose, silver-colored scales; these lesions may be painful and itchy, and they sometimes crack and bleed. In severe cases, the plaques of irritated skin will grow and merge into one another, covering large areas.\nThe disease may begin at any age and is connected with an increased risk of lymphomas, psoriatic arthritis, cardiovascular disease, depression and Crohn\u2019s disease. Psoriatic arthritis affects up to 30 percent of individuals with psoriasis.\nThe genes that control your immune system signals get mixed up. Instead of protecting your body from invaders as it\u2019s designed to do, it promotes inflammation and turns skin cells on overdrive.\nGluten, dairy products, meat, junk food \u2013 high in trans and saturated fats and alcohol are believed to be major suspects in skin disorders.\nEssential oils for psoriasis treatment\nThere is no quick fix for psoriasis. While essential oils can greatly reduce the symptoms of your psoriasis, a complete cure is usually more complicated. Also, essential oils might provide some natural relief when used over a period of time and, unlike cortisone medications, will not result in any adverse side effects.\nChamomile oil is extracted from the flowers of the Camomile plant, which is very popular as a flowering plant. Just like the tea brewed from chamomile, the essential oil also comes with tons of benefits and can be used to help relieve the discomfort and symptoms of psoriasis and reduce the appearance of puffy and reddened skin.\nUse Ginger Root Tea for Constipation, Diarrhea, Flu or Upset Stomach\n2# Bergamot\nBergamot is a citrus fruit whose rind is used for extracting the bergamot essential oil. The scientific name of bergamot is Citrus Aurantium var. or Citrus Bergamia. This essential oil is composed of many chemical constituents and includes myrcene, a-pinene, b-bisabolene, limonene, a-bergapten, linalool, neryl acetate, nerol, linalyl acetate, geraniol, a-terpineol and geraniol acetate.\nTherapeutic properties of bergamot oil: anti-spasmodic, antibiotic, analgesic, antidepressant, antiseptic, digestive, calmative, cicatrizant, deodorant, vermifuge and febrifuge.\n3# Clary sage\nClary sage oil is extracted from the clary sage herb (Salvia sclarea), which used to be found in Italy, Southern France, and Syria. Today it is cultivated worldwide, typically within European regions, including Central Europe, as well as Morocco, England, Russia and the U. S.\nOil of clary sage also contains alcohols (about 14%) and sesquiterpenes (up to 3%). Sesquiterpene caryophyllene and diterpene sclareol are also compounds found in this essential oil, with effective antimicrobial effects.\nHealth benefits of this oil can be attributed to its properties as an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antimicrobial, antibacterial, antiseptic, antispasmodic, cholagogue and choleretic, cicatrizant, digestive, depurative, disinfectant, emmenagogue, febrifuge, expectorant, laxative and stimulating substance.\n4# Melrose\nMelrose essential oil is a mixture of 4 different essential oils, each oil bringing its own special benefit to the mix. You can either make the blend yourself or buy it premixed. The oils in Melrose have traditionally been used for soothing skin. It\u2019s recommended that you dilute Melrose in vegetable oil before application, as it may irritate the skin when applied in its pure form.\n5# Helichrysum\nHelichrysum, the flower that contributes to \u201eEverlasting\u201d and \u201eImmortal\u201d essential oil, and known by the names Helichrysum Italicum and Helichrysum Angustifolium, is a European herb native to Italy, France and a few neighboring countries. Helichrysum italicum extract has been established in many experimental studies to have strong abilities to lower inflammation due to some mechanisms: inflammatory enzyme inhibition, free radical scavenging activity, and corticoid-like effects.\n15 Interesting Facts About Atherosclerosis (Hardening Of The Arteries)\n6# Sandalwood\nSandalwood essential oil (Santalum album) is derived from the steam distillation of the wood from the sandalwood tree. It\u2019s woody and earthy aroma are incredibly grounding and rich, but not overwhelming.\nTherapeutically, it\u2019s most typically used for healthy skin, the nervous system, bones, and muscles. Sandalwood oil is also high in sesquiterpenes, a naturally occurring chemical substance found in certain essential oils, known for having a positive impact on health and wellness, especially in regards to the brain.\n7# Tea tree\nTea tree oil, or melaleuca oil, is an essential oil with a fresh camphoraceous odor and a color that ranges from pale yellow to nearly colorless and clear. It is taken from the leaves of the Melaleuca alternifolia, which is native to Northeast coast of New South Wales, Australia, and the Southeast Queensland.\nTea tree oil is an old natural remedy that has been widely used for treating psoriasis and other skin infections and comes from the leaves of Melaleuca tree. This oil is used as one of the ingredients in many natural skin and body care products.\n8# Thyme\nThyme oil is derived from thyme, also known as Thymus vulgaris. Thyme also has a number of medicinal properties, due to the herb\u2019s essential oils.\nThyme essential oil has robust antiseptic, anti-fungal, and antibacterial properties, which make it the ideal treatment for skin conditions, like athlete\u2019s foot, eczema, and psoriasis. In addition, the oil has natural anti-inflammatory properties and helps reduce swelling and itchiness on the skin. Undiluted thyme essential oil will irritate skin. Avoid during pregnancy.\n9# Frankincense\nFrankincense oil is sourced from the resin of the Boswellia carterii or Boswellia sacara tree that\u2019s commonly grown in Somalia. This tree is different from many others in that it can grow with very little soil in dry and desolate conditions. Frankincense is also a valuable ingredient in skin care products for a dry and aging skin. The ancient Egyptians used it in rejuvenation face masks.\n10# Rosemary\nRosemary oil, with its distinctive woody fragrance, has been used for centuries for a variety of health and beauty benefits. This oil has powerful anti-inflammatory properties which help calm inflammation and soothe the skin. It has antimicrobial properties which help prevent the build-up of bacteria on the skin.\nRosemary essential oil blends well with frankincense, basil, sage, thyme, chamomile, citronella, lemongrass, peppermint, lavender, and eucalyptus essential oil.\n11# Lavender\nLavender is another great essential oil to relieve stress and anxiety. This essential oil is obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender.\nThe oil\u2019s calming and anti-inflammatory effects also help soothe swelling, redness and joint stiffness linked with psoriasis. Studies show that lavender oil can reduce dry, scaly skin patches and control pain.\n12# Geranium\nGeranium essential oil is produced from the steam distillation of Geranium\u2019s fragrant flowers and leaves. Geranium oil is often compared to the rose essential oil because they share almost the same therapeutic traits. Geranium oil also functions to reduce inflammation and pain. Its antiseptic properties can help speed up the healing of wounds and treat a variety of skin problems.\n13# Cedarwood\nThe oil is derived from the bark of a number of trees from the same family, including the Virginian, Red, Eastern Red, and Southern Red Cedar through a process that is also known as steam distillation. These trees are native to North America, especially cold climates and high altitude areas, and can grow to reach heights over 100 ft. These evergreen trees have been known to age up to 1,000 years and feature needle-like leaves.\nThis essential oil can be used in a number of ways to benefit the skin. It can relieve eczema, itching, psoriasis, treat acne and cure oily skin issues. Cedarwood blends well with clary sage, bergamot, cypress, rosemary, eucalyptus, juniper berry and floral essential oils.\nAvoid using these oils on newborn babies and especially if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Please consult your doctor before using them. Always use a test patch on your inner elbow/wrist with each oil to see if it\u2019s safe for you. Always be sure to follow any instructions that come with the oil with regard to dilution or amount to be used on the skin.\nPrevious articleConscious Nutrition (Mindful Eating) Health Benefits\nNext articleCerasee Tea (Bitter Melon Tea) \u2013 Side Effects and Health Benefits (Weight Loss, Detox, Skin Health)\nInjectafer vs Venofer For Iron Deficiency Anemia \u2013 Differences & Side Effects\nEphedrine vs Adderall \u2013 Compare Differences Between Uses & Side Effects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 12079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://xapedia.net/medicine/Abraxane", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:07Z", "digest": "sha1:AXZEG2ZSXOZ5PFXEZX7ZKDRFX4634ZLZ", "length": 270, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "xapedia.net", "title": "Abraxane | Xapedia.net", "raw_content": "Metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas: weekly Nab-paclitaxel plus Gemcitabine improves survival versus Gemcitabine alone\nA phase III clinical trial of the drug Abraxane ( nanoparticle albumin-bound Paclitaxel; Nab-Paclitaxel ) in combination with current standard...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 3873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yourkohsamuivillas.com/properties/villa-ganesh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:06:57Z", "digest": "sha1:K7VJVLZ2HHNAE3CFFRSPRUTV5PFWYBLO", "length": 467, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "yourkohsamuivillas.com", "title": "Villa Ganesh -", "raw_content": "Nestled in an excellent location, this elevated luxury 3 bedroom villa has grand views of the Choeng Mon Beach that\u2019s only a 5-minute walk away.\nThe greatest highlight of this property is the wonderful views of the ocean that you will get from all the rooms.\nThe primary building comes with all the most modern facilities that you can expect in such a high-quality property.entertainment in the pool area. This villa is equally suitable for indoor and outdoor living.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 4968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yoyotricks.com/yoyo-tricks/pill-juggling-toy/198852/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3RN454UHLPRJATWJYZXKGV7WNHR5F2KO", "length": 5420, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "yoyotricks.com", "title": "What Is The Pill Juggling Toy? - YoYoTricks.com", "raw_content": "What Is The Pill Juggling Toy? Kendama Trick\nAn introduction to The Pill Juggling Toy, describing all the important parts of The Pill, the most common types of tricks that can be performed, and the different varieties of Pill toys.\nWhat Is The Pill Juggling Toy? Kendama TrickIn this video, I am going to introduce you to the pill, which is a modern innovation on the kendama. In one sense, the pill is just a similified kendama, and a lot of people think of it like training wheels, but actually it has a lot of techniques and characteristics that set it apart, while still implementing a lot of the same skill sets.\nNow if you are a kendama player and you want to get into the pill, you are going to find that it is a lot of fun, as many of your tricks from kendama will cross over. If you are a brand new player, just getting into the pill with no experience, you are going to find that the pill is easier to learn, and it also shortens the jump to get into kendama.\nBefore you start, it is very important for you to learn the names of each part of the pill.\nThe pill is made up on two wooden halves connected by a string. The half with the hole is called the cap. The half with the spike is called the base. On the bottom of the base is a node, which has the string tied to it. The string is held in the cap very similar to a kendama, where we have a knot that anchors a bead, and keeps it from coming out. If you ever need to change your pill string, you can check out our video on how to do that. There is also a flat surface around the spike, which is called the rim. The cap also has a rim around the hole. Other sources may refer to each of these parts with different names, but this is the terminology that we will be using in all of our videos.\nJust like a kendama, the Pill can do a variety of spike tricks, where you land the hole on the spike. These can become more advanced as you add multiple spins as well as different trajectories.\nYou can also do balance and stall tricks using a pill, such as balancing the rim of the base on the rim of the cap or balancing the cap on the node like so. There is a lot of other varieties of those types of tricks.\nBecause the halves of the pill are connected by a string, just like a kendama, a lot of the string tricks and hanging tricks translate very easily, such as Swirl. Because the dimensions of each pill half are so similar, as well as the weights are roughly equal, it allows for a lot more consistency and balance when performing those types of tricks as compared to a kendama.\nCertain tricks, such as pull spike, can be done holding the base, and can also be done holding the cap. Tricks that can be done like this can be referred to as being done base side or cap side. In our videos, we will always teach you first holding the base side, and then holding the cap side.\nIf you are interested in learning how to play Pill, you are going to want to pick one out. Let\u2019s go look at some of the different types of pill.\nIn terms of buying a pill, there is really not much variety when it comes to shape, but there are three classes you will want to be aware of. First is the painted pill. Second is the natural pill. Third are the exotic pills made out of the exotic woods.\nSo we will talk about the painted pill first, which is kind of the standard in terms of pills. It has a standard weight, it is more affordable, and it has this paint which comes in a variety of colors, so if you have a favorite color, you can check out the different options. The paint offers some benefits. First, it is tacky, so when you are doing certain balance tricks, it is a little easier to learn for beginner players. You will also notice the contrast between the wood, so when you are doing something like a spacewalk or a swirl, you can track the different halves of the pill easier. You will also see you can see a contrast between where the hole is and where the outside of the cap it, which makes it easy to track the hole when trying to spike. Those are all great benefits afforded by the painted pill.\nBeyond that, you have the natural pill, which is also very similar to the painted pill, it has the same kind of standard weight, both of these are made from a beech wood, so again this one is just as affordable, but it is not painted, so you do not have that contrast, or that added benefit of stickiness, but what you will find is these natural pills as you use them and the oils in your hands work into the wood and they get some play, they end up looking really nice, and playing just as well as the painted pills do.\nWhen you move up from there, you have the exotic pills, which, like I said, are made of exotic woods, so they are a little higher end. But they offer some benefit in terms of the density. The density of the woods will make some of them a little lighter than the beech, some of them like this zebrano and the purplehart, you will find are actually heavier. Because they are heavier, you will have more control when doing certain flip tricks and that just adds a different flavor when you are learning to do tricks and trying to come up with new combinations. If you like the look of these pills, you certainly would not be holding yourself back by going straight for one of those, you can absolutely start on one, there is no downside to really doing that.\nOnce you have got your favorite pill, head over to learnkendama.com and learn some tricks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 7034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zh-tw.coursera.org/lecture/team-culture/3-2-team-mascots-90fdy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JKYYAU26HA6ZTOBXQQIB4QPUP7W76OXG", "length": 4214, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "zh-tw.coursera.org", "title": "3.2 Team Mascots - Team Rituals and Symbols | Coursera", "raw_content": "3.2 Team Mascots\nThe American flag is pretty dramatic and powerful as a team symbol.\nIt reminds us of those times when the nation has had to act together as a team.\nThis was true for example during the Second World War.\nA famous photo, from which a sculpture was made, which you see here on the screen,\nshows six Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima.\nThree of the six would be dead within a few weeks, so\nthere were powerful feelings associated with the American flag in this instance.\nBut not all symbols of the team as collectivity have this kind of gravitas,\nthis kind of seriousness.\nOn the lighter side is the team mascot.\nThese are common in the world of sports at all levels.\nFor example, my local high school here in Pennsylvania,\nStrath-Haven High School in Wallingford, has the panther as its mascot.\nAt football games, which are a fairly big deal in my community,\nsome of the high school students, or\none of the high school students actually, only one dresses up in a panther costume.\nIn fact, it's a big secret.\nNo one in the school is supposed to know who it is.\nWhen the Strath-Haven team scores a touchdown, the panther mascot runs\nwith a huge, large flag in front of the crowd,\nwildly cheering, there goes the flag, there goes the panther.\nMascots are also emblems of the team, as a team.\nThey stand for the team.\nWhen I grew up, my team mascot in high school was the knight.\nWe were the Knights of Lincoln-Way, and\nthe image of the knight could be found in various places around the school.\nIt's interesting that team mascots sometimes stand in for\nthe teams in terms of competition.\nA traditional rivalry in the United States is between the football teams of\ntwo of our military academies.\nArmy, which is known officially as the United States Military Academy at\nWest Point, and Navy, known officially as the United States Naval Academy.\nThe mascot of the Army is the mule, like this one, and\nthey don't use someone dressed up as a mule, the mascot is a real mule.\nActually, there are several of them.\nCurrently I think the number is three.\nThe Navy mascot is the goat and, again, it's a real goat and\nin fact a set of goats.\nThere have been many pranks involving the Army and Navy mascots, but\nperhaps the most memorable one happened back in 1991.\nIt is said to have taken four years of planning, but the Naval Academy students,\nwho are known as the midshipmen, pulled off an amazing caper.\nThey stole the well-guarded American mules.\nThe Navy men were in disguise.\nThey dressed up like Army soldiers, and they used New York license plates,\nthe state where the Military Academy is located.\nThey came to the gates of the West Point military base, and\nthey claimed to be delivering food for the mules.\nThey did have to overpower the Army guards.\nBut finally, they succeeded in loading the mules in a trailer and set off for\nMaryland where the Naval Academy is located.\nIt proved to be something exciting indeed, like something you only see in the movies.\nHelicopters were sent out to search and the state police were put on notice.\nThe Navy boys, however, took a preplanned back route.\nFederal marshals were called, and they were even stationed at the Naval gates and\nthey tried to apprehend the thieves and arrest them.\nHowever, the acting base commander, Lieutenant Angela Smith, notified\nthe marshals that, in fact, they were on Navy property and she had the command.\nSo the Navy boys brought in the Army mules.\nAnd a pep rally ensued, a huge pep rally.\nWhat a coup for Navy.\nBut let's just think about this for a second.\nThis wasn't the Army-Navy football game.\nThis was all about the mascots, the symbols of the two institutions.\nOf course, I've been talking about the United States here.\nYou'll have to think about whether there is anything like this where you are.\nI can already tell you though that there probably is.\nMascots are found in connection with teams in many parts of the world.\nMisha, the Russian bear mascot at the 1980 Moscow Olympics for\nexample, was the first mascot to become commercially successful.\nThey sold lots and lots of Misha images.\nSo now that you have a couple of examples of the emotional power of symbols,\nlet's take a closer look at what a symbol is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 7417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zimmylifestyle.com/tag/los-angeles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:01:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGQF36NRIJY4FZQ22QMDXCPM266NP5ES", "length": 323, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "zimmylifestyle.com", "title": "ZIMMY LIFESTYLE a blog by Tiffany Lea Zimmermann", "raw_content": "A LAID-BACK BLACK SWAN IN THE BIG CITY \u2013 LOS ANGELES OOTD\nHey guys! I\u2019m not used to posting two days in a row, but here we are! If you have been following my last few blog posts you should be aware that I will be attending Marvel\u2019s Venom premiere. For that event only I had to go to LA! I went with my brother and we\u2019re [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://zmkc.blogspot.com/2017/08/doctors-and-nurses.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:48Z", "digest": "sha1:PUS3DBEDFVUFALIMCAU67CKPCYMVU2I7", "length": 19213, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "zmkc.blogspot.com", "title": "zmkc: Doctors and Nurses", "raw_content": "I got a message the other day. It was from a woman called Christine. My brother and I had made friends with Christine and her husband Bill, who was a patient in the oncology ward along with my brother. As you can probably guess, the news was not good. Bill had died.\nI had succeeded up until then in remembering only the more positive side of the weeks my brother spent in hospital, in thinking only of the many admirable doctors and nurses who took care of him there - the huge mental efforts made by the specialists to work out how to make my brother better, the kindness and skill of so many of the nurses.\nBut, sadly, it wasn't all like that, as I had chosen to forget until I heard of Bill's death. Instead, the experience was, perhaps as always when humans are trying to achieve something within a large, impersonal organisation, a muddle of good, not so good and downright terrible. Those in the system who were dedicated and marvellous were far too often let down by their less committed colleagues. Mattresses deflated - \u201cThey send us a flawed one in every batch\u201d, \u201cI forgot that if I unplugged it, this would happen\u201d - leaving my brother's frail, painwracked body resting on a hard metal frame for far too long. Agency nurses discussed their social lives over him, as if he were not a living thing; instead of concentrating on this ill human being, they discussed parties and television and thus neglected to bear in mind that his feet and ankles were so painful that even brushing against them was excruciating; consequently, it was often the porters - the lowest of the low in the hieararchy, but many of them in fact truly angelic - who had to remind the more careless nurses to be kind.\nThere was the unforgivable Monday when, the pharmacy having been closed - as always - over the weekend, the oncology ward ran out of painkilling drugs for several long, long hours. There was the Northern Englishwoman in the basement who had scanned my brother so many times that she couldn't really have failed to recognise him as he came down for scan No. 7 or 8. Yet she not only refused to respond with any kind of warmth to his cheery greeting but managed to almost strangle him by starting to drag his bed towards her office, without first taking the trouble to notice that he was connected to the oxygen supply on the wall behind him. And when I yelped to her that she needed to stop, that the cord was tightening round his neck, she just looked irritated. She showed no compassion; no contrition; she didn't say sorry or acknowledge that she had done something rather alarming. Recalling that incident, remembering that woman, I think I understand why I've decided until now not to remember the bad stuff.\nThat woman was an exception though, in the sense that generally it wasn't the business-hours day-staff at the hospital who caused the moments of real misery and pain. The biggest recurring problem, the dread, was always what would happen during the night time, the weekends and the public holidays. Too often the shifts at these times were staffed by people who seemed to be doing their work purely because they needed the money, (a factor of course in why anyone works but in the caring professions never a good one to have as your main motivation). These were people who very, very often didn't have very good English - the best example I can give of this being a problem is to point to what happened three nights before my brother died, which I only learnt about the following morning when a nurse came to talk to him. She began by telling him that she understood that he had had a bad experience with a couple of nurses in the early hours of the morning and she would like to know what had happened, in order to avoid a similar situation occurring again. My brother was reluctant to dob and also very weak (plus, judging by his tone, he felt somewhat hurt and humiliated by the experience, which had been close to nightmarish and something he rather wanted to forget). Eventually though he agreed to explain what had happened; the conversation that followed went along these lines:\nMy Bro - They just seemed to be very lackadaisical and they were quite rough - they were just manhandling me a bit. I'd been told I was allowed to have fentanyl whenever I wanted to and so I asked for it. They told me I couldn't have it until two o'clock the next afternoon, which went against everything my doctor had told me - and he has just confirmed that\nNurse - I'm afraid that was a matter of poor charting, so your change in intake hadn't been charted\nMy Bro - But some nurses are kind and try to find out whether there has been a misunderstanding; these had such poor English that it came out as terribly dogmatic \"No, you no can have it - no, no, tomorrow only. Two o'clock - not before, no.\"\nNurse - I think that is a bit of a language barrier. It is very hard.\nMy Bro - So I was in physical pain and there was a big language barrier. We spent yesterday discussing the fact that I am going to die soon and sorting out my treatment in the face of that, so most people here know that I do not have much time left on earth\nNurse - I don't think it was intentional that they were being a bit rough . It just shows how important communication is.\nWhen I suggest that it was partly a result of the language barrier that many of the non-english speaking nurses didn't have enough compassion and insight to be good at the job of caring for the very ill, I should emphasise that this is not an anti-foreigner argument, as it works in both directions. One of my most horrible memories of that time is an incident where the language barrier seemed to create a reverse problem, with equally bad results. This memory involves a Chinese man who didn't have good English and who kept calling out that he needed a commode; somehow the nurse assigned to him, not a Chinese speaker himself, didn't appreciate the urgency, despite the man's repeated calls, which were perfectly clear, but accented - \u201cPoo, I need do poo\u201d, he called, \u201cYeah, mate be there in a minute\u201d, the nurse, replied, \u201cNo poo, I need poo now\u201d, \u201cYeah, mate, coming\u201d, then the saddest of sighs from behind the Chinese man's bed curtains and the whispered words, \u201cToo late\u201d. No one should have to suffer that kind of humiliation, least of all when very, very ill.\nIn addition, I must emphasise that I am not contending that the less dedicated members of staff are wicked people \u2013 I wouldn't have enough compassion and insight and patience to be a nurse and I certainly wouldn't try to do the job in a country where I was not a native speaker of the language. I think what I am suggesting is that the selection procedures for and training of nursing staff need to be focussed much, much more on very intent listening, on establishing a relationship with each patient, on being attuned to the patients' individual needs, on putting aside and forgetting one's own preoccupations for the duration of the hours at work and being able to understand and make oneself understood. I have to admit that for a while I did believe that it was thoughtless negligence that hastened my brother's death; now I am almost convinced that he was being attacked by something truly vicious, but I still cannot forget the weekend when he was left in extreme discomfort and, as it turned out, danger, because agency nursing staff were too careless to listen to him or too ignorant to understand that the drain to his chest cavity had been blocked for some time and he was essentially almost drowning in the fluid building up around his lungs.\nTo play the devil's advocate, I must admit that some patients might induce a sense of hopelessness in hospital staff and lead good professionals to become apathetic. I will never forget the young man who was brought into the oncology ward to begin an urgent series of chemotherapy treatments. He was from Wollongong and because it was a holiday weekend, the hospital up there was unable to start him off and so he was brought down to Sydney to get things going. His young partner told everyone who cared to listen that his chemo was due to finish at almost exactly the same time that their first baby was due to be born. Given this, I was particularly shocked when, at the end of the holiday weekend they were packing up to go back to Wollongong and I heard him ask this young woman whether his smokes were in the car.\n\u201cYes\u201d, she replied, \u201cI knew if I didn't bring them, you'd just make me stop at the servo to get some.\u201d\nHe smiled. \u201cI haven't had a smoke since I came in here\u201d, he told her, \u201cI reckon that's what's been making me feel so crook, not the chemo.\u201d\nAnd there was the afternoon when I was sitting in a courtyard, waiting for something to be finished being done to my brother. A man came out in an electric wheelchair, a tangle of drip lines swinging as he rolled along. I was surprised when he didn't park himself at a table but headed straight for the drain outlet in the courtyard's paving. All became clear when he pulled a packet of cigarettes and a lighter from his pocket, lit up, inhaled deeply and then vomited down the drain. He repeated this procedure several times, then dropped the cigarette stub down the drain, where presumably he knew his vomit would safely extinguish it, and steered himself back in doors.\nBut my brother wasn't like that. In fact, I'd say he was an ideal patient. But, except when he was in ICU, where there is not a single member of staff you cannot trust literally with your life \u2013 if only everywhere in hospitals such standards could be across the board normal \u2013 he was not always treated as well as he should have been. Whenever I left him behind in the hospital, I felt fearful, because not all the staff, especially at night time, were people I felt total confidence in.\nTo reiterate, because I do not want anyone to get the wrong idea: I definitely am not talking about any of those superb individuals who work in the hospital system who, when I think of them now, bring tears of gratitude to my eyes because of their kindness, their comforting presences, their total concentration on doing everything they can to make their patients better or at least to ease their time as patients. I am talking about the people who betray their best efforts, the B team nurses, those who I suspect are employed because not enough money or resources goes into properly understanding the standard of care that is essential from nurses.\nAnd I am also talking about hospitals themselves, great blundering, many-tentacled organisms, where things operate mysteriously from time to time. I think of the way in which, without explanation or communication, things would occasionally be allowed to drift for a day or two; in these interludes, when no one came to see my brother to explain where things stood and what was planned, it was frightening; he ended up feeling that he had been abandoned, that, although no one had told him, there was in fact no longer any plan for his treatment and possibly no longer any belief that treatment would make a difference.\nAs I say, those times were frightening, but there were also the days when too much was arranged. The common factor linking both kinds of days was lack of communication: without any warning or consultation, three separate scans or radiotherapy sessions would be scheduled and three porters would arrive to take him off at exactly the same time or, in some ways worse still, one almost immediately after the other, so that he became exhausted, heaved about from place to place, knocked and shoved, given no chance to rest. And there was the time when at nine thirty at night he was suddenly moved to a new ward, without it having been mentioned that this was going to happen.\nThere is also the crazy situation with patients' televisions. A set has been suspended from the ceiling above each patient's bed in most of the hospitals I've seen inside of in the past few years - not only in Australia but also in the United Kingdom. All fine and good - but why on earth did each hospital administration, when it agreed to install these things, not also ensure that headphones were supplied for every television, to prevent patients in adjoining beds from being disturbed by their neighbour's viewing preferences? This is just a mad scheme and it is baffling that hospital administrations everywhere seem to allow it. It cannot be good for anyone's recovery from illness to be forced to listen to television broadcasts when trying to rest.\nWithin the larger mystery that was the hospital, there was also the pharmacy, which operated on a business hours only timetable and refused to acquiesce to the palliative doctors when they wanted half dosages of certain drugs - there seemed to be some kind of running battle going on regarding this issue, as if someone in a nine-to-five pharmacy would have a better understanding of what was needed by patients than the people working up in the wards with those patients.\nAnyway, one morning Bill arrived on the oncology ward. He was a commodity that cannot be bought or trained. He was a natural. He was sick as a dog but he cheered up the whole ward anyway. What must he have been like when he was healthy? Because, although I don't really understand how he did it, while he was there, that dire place seemed brighter. And although he had never heard of my brother \u2013 his wife was terribly apologetic about the fact that they never looked at or listened to the ABC \u2013 he took to him. Indeed, they took to each other. And as things got darker, as it became more obvious which way we were headed, Bill was very kind to me as well.\nI should end by yet again emphasising that the majority of the care at the Prince of Wales Hospital is magnificent, that where it is let down, it is let down by 1) a problem of the larger health system, where insufficient thought has been given to the fact that the never-ending round-the-clock need for provision of care is inconsistent with a Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five system and 2) lack of funds, which leads to the employment of less than optimal staff at times.\nI think that the first issue is something common to many health systems; it needs to be addressed urgently but cannot be by individuals outside the system itself. The second issue though is something that we can do something about. In that context, my daughter is running in the City-to-Surf next weekend to raise money for the Prince of Wales Hospital. If you would like to donate something toward supporting the many, many excellent people who work in that hospital and possibly funding the employment of more of that calibre, you can do so here.\nIn the meantime, vale Bill. You were a great human being.\nThank you for writing this, so eloquently. Our family's experience is sadly similar but we had the benefit of a sister who is a very competent nurse. She helped us navigate the system, have the courage to speak up when things didn't look right and semi trained a few of us to give some additional nursing care. I pity those who do not have an advocate to assist and protect them when they are so vulnerable.\nThank you so much Carolyn. As I say, there were so many, many great people taking care of my brother; they were let down by lack of continuity of superb care. The hospital system is ill served by a few; assessing who works in a hospital should not involve only qualifications but also less tangible things, most important a demonstrable empathy for suffering human beings.\nSteerforth 8 August 2017 at 01:46\nYes, something has gone wrong with the modern hospital. Instead of a ward of long-established nursing staff, ruled with a rod of iron by a matron, hospitals now seem to have a transient population of agency nurses, some of whom speak poor English. My father-in-law died after a couple of agency nurses decided to give each other an unofficial break during the nightshift in a critical care ward. When he couldn't breathe, there was nobody around to give him a lifesaving tracheotomy and he was brain dead before anyone noticed. After the official enquiry and public apology, the hospital changed its procedures, but I wondered how they had got to a point where post-op patients had become so vulnerable.\nMy father also died as a result of NHS negligence and was kept in conditions that, under different circumstances, would have counted as torture. I'm still haunted by it and wonder if I could have done more, but I felt largely impotent in the face of a large, bureaucratic organisation.\nBut in spite of this, I also saw many dedicated, caring and very professional staff who coped with the most awful situations with humour and stoicism. I felt that they were let down by a system that had become obsessed with economies of scale rather than patient-centered care. I'm not sure what the answer is and I expect some of my views have been formed during repeat viewings of Carry on Nurse. I have a sentimental attachment of the idea of a cottage hospital and appreciate that this isn't practical. However, it would be good to see a return to the continuity and intimacy of a traditional hospital.\nI am so sorry such truly terrible things happened to your family. I think it is impossible not to be haunted by these kinds of events. One of the things that makes me particularly sad is the way what we hoped for dwindled away - the narrowing of possibilities. I was surprised by the strange compromises my mind could make, or perhaps I mean the way my perspective kept shifting, so that a prognosis of nine to twelve months at first looked horrifying, but, before I knew it, it had vanished and seemed like a wonderful lost possiblity. When my brother was first admitted, I thought within a week I'd be driving him down to my mother's farm to convalesce; as time went by the wished for outcome became a smaller and smaller thing, until eventually we understood that he was never going to leave the hospital again, not even get outside and across the road for a cup of coffee and a moment in the outside world. Then he was gone.\nBy the way, in my mother's local town there is a small hospital, (constantly under threat of closure). It is wonderful and works really well. If there was a will, I'm sure it would not be impossible to return to that model for a great deal of treatment, but managers like big centralised organisations, I think. I also think too much money is spent on management in hospitals - the managers are usually not medically trained or experienced in dealing with the problems that arise in wards, so I don't understand how they are qualified to make decisions.\nBut I should add that I think many modern problems are created by the increased managerialisation, if that's a word, of so many things\ntandah 8 August 2017 at 06:06\nThank you Zoe - so much craziness, so little money. Appreciate that you've taken so much time to write this excellent article. I've been taking care of my mother's health for years, and whilst fortunately she hasn't been in a critical condition, the good, bad and ugly you write about has been evident.\nYou are doing such a good thing - I hope you are supported by others and that your mother shows her appreciation. It can be hard otherwise", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00563.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 26415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://101wonders.com/australia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:02Z", "digest": "sha1:Q46CZOGSQU6PSNEJNLBAUWHBD65YBWVF", "length": 452, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "101wonders.com", "title": "Australia | 101 Wonders of the World", "raw_content": "Wonders of Australia\nThe Opera house in Sydney is the most famous building in the world. It is an engineering marvel. We spent 1 week in Sydney last year and spent most of the time around the Opera house. We did not even bother to go anywhere else in Sydney. One unfortunate story behind it is that the Architect who designed it, did not see it with his own eyes after it was completed.\nsyndey-opera-house-1\nsyndey-opera-house-10\nWonders of New Zealand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://12160.info/profiles/blog/show?id=2649739%3ABlogPost%3A1286211&commentId=2649739%3AComment%3A1287869", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JUYO2O7NP4RZMKDN4IEKH36SSSZO3TTS", "length": 7737, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "12160.info", "title": "My Awakening - Original Content - 12160 Social Network", "raw_content": "My Awakening - Original Content\nPosted by scotty michele brown on April 5, 2014 at 4:16pm\nSometime between 1995 and 1997 my sister loaned me a book. Until that time I read a lot, but mostly science fiction novels. The title of the book was \"En Route To Global Occupation\" and was like nothing I had ever read. It was written from a Christian perspective, but that was OK because at the time I was a believing Christian. I now have my own religious beliefs, but take good things from many different religions. Reading that book was like dipping my toe in a pool to test the water before jumping in. It was the beginning of my awakening. I read about the elite, global conspiracies, and a one world government. A layer of the onion had been peeled away.\nI started devouring information wherever I could find it. I was a \"news\" junkie\" before. Now I was a \"truth junkie.\" I read all kinds of \"New World Order\" stuff with a Christian slant. I used to go to the public library and use the computer, since I didn't have one. I would do searches for keywords like \"alternative news.\" Then I came across some life changing information. I found an eBook named \"The Amazing Vision of David Gould.\" The author and others referred to it as \"The Series.\" It was 19 long chapters of more truth than I had ever seen. It was almost more than I could stand. I would go to the library as often as I could and print pages of this book to bring home and read, because there was a one hour time limit on the computers. It cost 10 cents per page to print, and I was poor, so that should tell you how valuable it was to me.\nSo many pieces of the puzzle were put into place while I laid on my bed after putting my kids to sleep, reading words of wisdom. The things I read on those pages shaped my path from then on. Even though I have learned a lot since then, and don't agree with everything written in The Series, there is still a wealth of information there. I stopped eating pork when I read this. Not because God doesn't want me to eat pork. Not because it is a \"sin.\" But because there is a reason it was a belief long ago of these people. Pork is poison. It is bad for you, and full of parasites and waste material that a pig naturally stores in it's fat. I am not Jewish, Muslim, or Seventh Day Adventist. I haven't eaten pork knowingly as part of my diet in at least 15 years.\nThe book also taught me that a husband and wife literally become joined as one. Science has since proven that we have (for women,our children and) our mates' DNA in our bodies. When we have sex, there is an exchange of DNA that stays with us for years, if not decades.\nThis eBook is where I first learned money is debt, the Constitution we are taught about is a lie, the truth about laws, codes, and statutes. I can't impress on you, the reader of my little blog, how you would benefit from reading The Series. If you decide to read it, start at the beginning. Read it all the way through. Don't expect to read it in a day unless you are a speed reader. I would advise you to download it in case the link/site disappears. It took me a long time to find it again.\nThe author is a Christian and writes from that foundation. He is not a Christian in the traditional sense, and has little in common with the people in churches on Sunday morning. He is, however, a Christian nonetheless. If you read this eBook, take what rings true to you. Leave the rest.\nhttp://www.no-debts.com/theseries/davidgould.html\nComment by Burbia on April 5, 2014 at 7:23pm\namazing how many sleepers will turn quick to associate alternative news and history with drug use... another baffling mystery... whenever i bring these topics up...\nComment by Central Scrutinizer on August 14, 2013 at 6:43am\nComplete, unedited, no spyware Movie torrent here\nneed this torrent client to download movie:\nhttp://www.utorrent.com/downloads/complete/os/win/track/stable\nComment by scotty michele brown on August 14, 2013 at 2:00am\nOK maybe not. It keeps wanting me to go to another site to watch the movie. First I have to watch ads, fill out surveys, and give my email address.\nWatching it now. I need some escape for my mind right about now. Thanks Vince.\nLess Prone, I agree. Every time I think I'm getting to the truth and have peeled off all the layers, I learn more. Reading The Series was, for me, too much at the time. The concepts and reality of the world were just starting to dawn on me. But I plowed through, and retained important information. In the last couple of days I have learned more truth. Stuff so big and going so far back in history, I don't know what to do with it. I want to write about it, but I don't think I'm up for the task. I've been thinking on it.\nComment by Less Prone on August 13, 2013 at 9:41am\nThanks Scotty for your inspiring blog. I've got Gould's book now.\nJordan Maxwell, citing Manley P. Hall, warned against relying on those who claim to know the whole truth. Whether you like the rest of their testimonies should not reduce the meaning of those words. What does it mean? People may have come to know a part of the truth and think that the search is over. I believe that the quest for truth is continuous process, where you continue to sort out pieces of good information from the news, books, and writings. Searching for truth is like peeling an onion; you remove one layer and find another. There is also the physical universe, the most impressive declaration of all, if only we understood.\nThe truth, in essence, is out there. In the process we come to learn more, may often follow the wrong tracks, believe lies, and find out that we were wrong. It is a continuous growing process where everybody had right to make his mistakes. What's important is that we should be able to learn from our mistakes. There are many who have stuck in the middle and think they know the final truth. That is what the High Cabal wants, people who swallow their mind control so that the abusive society remains stable and the abusers can continue their abuse.\nThen there are transition phases in the society, when the old values become cumbersome in the process of new abuse mechanisms. We are in such a transition right now where the old beliefs and values are constantly replaced by new. I believe the High Cabal is preparing the human flock for a controlled stampede leading into killing in a massive scale, the Third World War.\nWinston Churchill; \"Unrestricted submarine warfare, unrestricted air bombing - this is total war.\" He continued sitting there, gazing at a large map, and then said, \"Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.\"\nComment by scotty michele brown on August 12, 2013 at 4:54pm\nBTW- whatever your beliefs or diet, there is a lot if factual information found in this eBook.\nI will walk the path I'm meant to and you will walk yours. Thank you for not judging me, only stating your feelings on the matter. I don't eat much meat at all. One day I hope to stop eating meat completely. I eat some fish, chicken, very little beef and turkey.\nComment by Wolf on August 12, 2013 at 3:25pm\nI am bewildered when people talk about pork. We raised pig for our freezer. Pigs are by far the cleanest animal that we have raised. We raised grass fed pigs. Cows, chickens, turkeys, sheep are pretty disgusting animals. If people were aware of how they shit where they sleep, stand, eat you may just become a vegan.\nThat's all...I am more in the belief system that the movie Prometheus presented. We are like the farm animals on earth...still trying to understand it. I do talk with the Universe quite often especially at night. 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The 21-year-old Victorian won both the U23 Cross Country race and U23 Short Track event, and finished 3rd overall in both races. Van Der Ploeg, who suffered a patellar tendon injury earlier this year, is continuing his build up to the World Cup season which beings April 23rd in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.\nIn the XC race, Van Der Ploeg finished ahead of the 2nd Place U23 rider by nearly four minutes and was able to wheelie his Felt Six LTD across the finish line. After the race, Van Der Ploeg was enthusiastic about his performance. \"It's a technical track, so that suits me and I'm very happy I came in third against the elite guys,\" said Van Der Ploeg after the XC race. \"[Jongewaard] and [Norris] really made it a thrilling race. I could not train much over the last three months and now, after a few weeks of solid training, I feel like I'm riding faster every day.\"\nIn the Short Track race, Van Der Ploeg again won the U23 classification on his way to taking third in the overall. \"It was a very hard short track and I was very tired after Saturday's long race,\" Van Der Ploeg said after the race. With the two wins, Van Der Ploeg extended his lead in the U23 Australian Mountain Bike Series standings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 4477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2016.euroia.org/sessions/design-teams-are-a-design-exercise", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:42Z", "digest": "sha1:AVMJJOLY2YR5LW5KG5E5UK5X5DQZEQOV", "length": 2756, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "2016.euroia.org", "title": "EuroIA 2016", "raw_content": "They say that design is a team sport, and if your team operates in an agile/lean environment, strength and flexibility are more crucial than ever.\nThe skills required from an experience design team are vast, and it\u2019s impossible for any given individual to be equally skilled in all of its many facets. So, how do you go about putting together a team that\u2019s balanced, powerful and can work effectively with other teams? What is the right mixture of junior and senior practitioners? What skills, soft and hard, do you need to design and deliver outstanding experiences?\nIn this workshop, we\u2019ll take a look at how to assess the skills of our colleagues (as well as our own) to best shape and manage a design team that works together (and stays together). A team where more experienced practitioners thrive and juniors are mentored toward proficiency, and where complementarity and teamwork become the foundations of success.\nFinally we will look at how to use the knowledge we\u2019ve gathered (and other techniques) to hire, motivate and keep design teams happy.\nBonus round: if you\u2019re looking for work, what does a good team look like from the outside?\nAbout Alberta Soranzo\n@albertatrebla\nA firm believer that there\u2019s always another way to look at a challenge, Alberta Soranzo has been hacking things to make them work better for humans since she was a child. An incorrigible nomad, she\u2019s lived in Italy, California and is now based in London. Recently appointed Director of End-to-End Service Design at Lloyds Banking Group, she is excited about the possibility to make a real impact on the financial outcomes of people by looking after the big picture as well as focusing on the very small things that, she says, \u2018matter a lot\u2019. Unafraid of challenging conventions, Alberta puts people at the heart of her design process, and contends that you should always under promise and then over deliver. In her natural habitat she's sitting on the floor surrounded by bits of paper and post-its or standing in front of a whiteboard with a handful of markers. If she's not there, you can find her on Twitter or playing ice hockey at a rink nearby.\nAbout Martina Hodges-Schell\nMartina leads the product design and product management practices at Pivotal Labs, London. She helps start-ups and enterprises establish more user-centred, lean and agile product innovation skills. In her practice she focuses on bringing together a balanced team of practitioners with a shared empathy for users, business, technology and design. She facilitates the cultural and organisational change required to collaborate and manage uncertainty more effectively to build better products and services. Martina writes for Elsevier and teaches user-centered design at the University of London.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://3ww.silverseek.com/commentary/constructive-suggestion-17420", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OGG5G3733373WIN6SJPJWJHD4GUNMAAK", "length": 4669, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "3ww.silverseek.com", "title": "A Constructive Suggestion | SilverSeek.com", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb A Constructive Suggestion\nShortly after I posted publicly last week\u2019s article, \u201cIs the COT Report Still Valid?,\u201d commentary on my article was posted by Chris Powell, from GATA, suggesting that I consider the possibility that JPMorgan may be operating in the silver and gold markets as an agent under orders from the US Government and not as a principal for its own account (as I believe). I want to thank Chris for offering his input and I\u2019m not kidding when I say it\u2019s much better for an article to generate interest than to be ignored.\nSince I know this is a widely-held opinion, namely, that the US Government is behind the silver and gold manipulation, ostensibly to defend the dollar, I have always considered this to be a possibility and believe I have written about it previously. Since there is no question that the regulators have continuously evaded allegations of wrongdoing by JPMorgan in the silver and gold markets, that\u2019s reason enough to admit to the possibility of US Government involvement.\nThrow in the fact that the US Government arranged the pivotal takeover of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, thrusting JPM into the role of the biggest COMEX gold and silver short in early 2008. It\u2019s easy to suspect some level of governmental involvement. On the other hand, I\u2019m more persuaded that JPMorgan is acting on its own behalf in its silver and gold activities. No doubt that JPMorgan extracted some type of \u201cfree get out of jail card\u201d on its takeover of Bear Stearns and that has accounted for the CFTC turning a blind eye towards JPM\u2019s corrupt behavior in silver and gold. However, that\u2019s very different from the US government orchestrating things. What things?\nWell, for starters, how about JPMorgan never taking a loss, only profits in all its COMEX silver and gold dealings over the past decade. And for the bank amassing 750 million ounces of physical silver and 20 million ounces of gold over the past 7.5 years at artificially-depressed prices. Since when did the US Government become a profit-motivated precious metals trader and hoarder? It\u2019s not what they do\nSpecific public allegations of criminal activity directed at public companies, particularly financial institutions, like banks, are quite rare. Retaliation is swift and harsh. How many thousands of lawyers does JPM have at its command to attack any claims of wrongdoing? I have frequently called JPMorgan a stone cold crook in its silver and gold dealings. And truth be told, I was quite frightened of the consequences of doing so when I first started to make such allegations ten years ago, and sending these complaints to them. That\u2019s because it is unheard of a large public company of any type to ignore complaints alleging criminal activity. After ten years, any fears I had have disappeared. The only reason JPM and the CME have not responded is because they are both guilty as charged. Therefore, I\u2019d like to suggest to GATA and others to press the issue.\nTo my knowledge, GATA has three board members, Chris Powell, Bill Murphy and Ed Steer. Ed has already become fully convinced that JPMorgan is the chief player in the silver (and gold) manipulation, as anyone who reads his daily newsletter will attest. Bill now talks more about silver and JPMorgan than he does about gold, a marked reversal from the past. In the most constructive sense possible, I\u2019d like to suggest that GATA go all the way and focus on JPMorgan\u2019s activities as its main thrust. After all, that seems to be the direction it is headed anyway. In practical terms, it will be much easier to crack JPMorgan, than the US Government.\nOne final thought that occurred to me after I published these comments to subscribers. I have traced the COMEX silver manipulation from the mid-1980\u2019s. Ronald Reagan was president when this scam started and we\u2019ve had five different presidents from either political party since then. If the silver manipulation was a coordinated US Government run operation, it would involve a remarkable string of inside operatives over the past three decades. When I look at daily developments from Washington DC, I am struck by the extraordinary amount of leaking on all issues from both sides of the aisle. That makes it hard for me to believe that a three-decade secret on such an important issue, precious metals manipulation, could be preserved by the same people who can\u2019t seem to keep confidential anything else. Again, my point is not whether the US Government is using JPMorgan to manipulate silver and gold or not, but that JPM is involved in either event. As a result, JPMorgan should be the focal point.\nExcerpted from a more extensive article sent to subscribers on September 19", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 7347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://4sunrooms.com/sunrooms-patio-rooms-conservatories-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5XMNPX6XWRCSGTGD6HXQNUIGCXAQ2PNO", "length": 457, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "4sunrooms.com", "title": "Sunrooms, Patio Rooms & Conservatories | Four Seasons Sunrooms Dallas", "raw_content": "Four Seasons Energy-Saving Windows & Doors are as much a reflection of the people who buy them as they are a testament to unsurpassed engineering. 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Your certified Four Seasons dealer is a highly qualified professional who can answer all your questions and help you to design your home with style and elegance in mind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adventmessenger.org/what-can-we-learn-from-dylann-roofs-death-sentence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHQQZ4TPNDEH7SH3CMGBGOND6DZPPC2V", "length": 2452, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "adventmessenger.org", "title": "What can we learn from Dylann Roof's death sentence? | Advent Messenger", "raw_content": "White supremacist Dylann Roof was sentenced to die for shooting to death, in an act of racial hate, nine African-American churchgoers who, in an act of love, had welcomed the would-be murderer into their worship service. This horrific act of violence shocked the entire nation.\nThe real story here is about the kind-hearted, loving Christians who welcomed the young, unknown man to their church for Bible study. These were decent, honest, defenseless people who were coldly and cowardly gunned-down. Why? Because they were African Americans. Then to add insult to injury, the perpetrator of this heinous crime showed absolutely no remorse during his criminal trial, he confessed to the murders during the trial, he didn\u2019t apologize to the victim\u2019s family during the sentencing phase and even expressed that he would do it again.\nYou have to give credit the the members of the church who survived this tragedy. They responded to this hate-fueled execution of their Christian brothers and sisters by showing love and forgiveness. We must salute and honor these living, brave saints.\nDylann Roof\u2019s biggest problem is not having to live in 23 1/2 hour lockdown for 15-20 years until the day of his execution. If fact, his biggest problem will not be having to face execution at the hands of our federal government. No. His greatest concern should be when he has to stand before God to answer for what he has done; and those 9 precious souls that he murdered will be standing there by the throne of God too. This is what should concern him the most. We are told in God\u2019s word:\n\u201cFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.\u201d 2 Corinthians 5:10.\nMay Dylann Roof think about these 9 precious souls every moment of his life for the next 15-20 years while he sits silently in solitary confinement. He won\u2019t have anything else to do but think about what he has done. And just before the federal government comes to take him to the execution chamber to administer justice, may he plead for forgiveness to our Righteous God that He may have mercy on His soul. Because if not, the last act of his life will not be what the federal government does to him; but what God will do:\n\u201cThen shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels\u201d Mathew 25:41.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aflansing.org/welcome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:57Z", "digest": "sha1:3AU3D4JR6Z4YV36ASOAC7LUWMOAKSDSZ", "length": 674, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "aflansing.org", "title": "Welcome \u2013 Alliance Fran\u00e7aise", "raw_content": "Welcome to Alliance Fran\u00e7aise\u2013Lansing (formerly Michigan Capital Area Chapter).\nAre you looking for ways to pursue your interest in France and the francophone world? 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Join us in learning about France and all things French together!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://afterlifeforums.com/threads/can-a-deceased-loved-one-always-be-with-you-every-day.2070/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:H2ITLOM3MHMNYA4RTET7RXMKEQI7YQPJ", "length": 17461, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "afterlifeforums.com", "title": "Can a deceased loved one always be with you every day? | Afterlife Forums", "raw_content": "Can a deceased loved one always be with you every day?\nDiscussion in 'After-Death Communication' started by AmbraADC, Jul 10, 2016.\nadc every day\nsexadc\nAmbraADC Banned\nI am new here, and this is my first post. However, I am not new to ADCs (after-death communications), and I've had them on and off for decades now.\nIn Feb/2016, I was remembering good times with a person I love very much who died 32 years ago. We had a strong, unique connection when he was alive, and the feel of that connection has never changed for me.\nAnyway, after remembering good times with him for a few days, I found myself strongly yearning for him. I told God that I wanted to die and go be with L now. You could say my yearning was like a prayer, but without the formalities of a prayer.\nI don't know where this yearning came from inside of me. I still don't know for sure, where it came from inside of me.\nAnyway, I did NOT expect any kind of answer. But I got a big answer. My beloved deceased person L, returned the next day or so, and he's been here with me ever since. Every day, I sense him, and he keeps me company, and watches TV with me. Three times since Feb/16, he's put a song in my head from him. He fills my heart up with love and joy every day. I feel more connected to him than ever.\nThis connection has helped me process my past relationship with him, and has helped me to actually move on with the way I now feel about him and perceive him. It is an active relationship. And I didn't know how that was going to work, when it first started, but amazingly, it works.\nThe spirit L, has given me ADCs once in a while over the years, with more activity in spurts, than others. Before Feb/16, I had not had any ADCs from him in about 5 years, and thought perhaps he didn't like me anymore.\nBut he is back, and stronger than ever.\nAnd if this does not sound cooky enough for you, I will take a further risk here, and tell you that when he came back, he introduced sex into the relationship.\nAt first, it felt rather neat. And then I started freaking out, because I was having regular, great sex with a disembodied soul. Being that I'm an active Christian, I prayed and prayed about this. I submitted prayer requests to a number of prayer groups asking that if L is an evil spirit, or a fake spirit, to remove him from my life, and then have God help me with my broken heart. The only answers I got from my prayer is that \"everything will be okay.\" I still say this prayer a few times a week. And L is still here, and still keeps me company every day and gives me great sex often.\nI have actually gotten used to this to a certain extent.\nSex wise, he is helping me pay back some karma that I owe cause of my deceased Dad's sexual sins. Decades ago, I had a vision from my Dad telling me that I had a certain \"sexual\" problem because of him. For years, I did not understand the message, until 2004 when I finally started reading books about my psychic experiences. And then I realized that my Dad must be saying that I was paying his karma. I've read in the Michael Newton book since then, that it is possible to pay for the sins of someone in my soul group.\nBesides this current situation, I've had visions/messages/miracles from God, Angels, and deceased relatives over the last 35 years. it's been hard to come to terms with my ADCs in particular, because I'm a Christian. And if you turn to Christians, they tell you that ADCs are evil spirits, not your deceased loved ones. But I have no reason to believe that God would allow a special connection, a special love to be used against me like this. I've prayed to God all my life, was baptized as a Christian, and I've received some amazing miracles from God. So I have no reason to believe that God would allow an evil spirit to give me my current situation.\nMy beloved spirit L, is never pushy with me. He takes care of me, and responds to my moods, and knows when to back-off and when to sit beside me. I feel even more connected to him now, than I ever have before.\nEven though I sense his presence every day, I do find myself wondering if this is all real. When he introduced sex into our inter-dimensional relationship, it struck me that this is all real. That being the afterlife, the Bible, God ... they are not just words on a page (in the Bible), this is all real. Since then, I have done more reading about the afterlife, and I just finished John Burke's book \"Imagine Heaven\" about NDEs and how they match up with the Bible. And I've done many general searches on the Bible and different aspects of ADCs since Feb/16.\nI do not believe in consulting psychics. And I do not really believe that I will ever acquire complete explanations for all that is happening to me until I'm dead. But I am hoping that talking about this and reading the stuff on this website, will help me somehow.\nI am sorry for freaking any reader out. I know from Google searches that stories of sex with a deceased loved one, are rare. And my story of sex often, blows even my mind. But I know it's not all my imagination, as I've sometimes wondered, because my sexual imagination ain't nearly that good. Also he can cause physical reactions in key parts of my body, that have no other explanation.\nAnyway enough of my weird, sorted life for now. This is no joke, this is my reality. Help if you can.\nP.S. When I get frustrated with all of this, I pray and tell God that I said \"I want to die and go be with L now.\" Not bring L here, and and all that sex stuff too. That is my defense if I die and I find myself in big trouble with God. I tell God he can take all the sex stuff away anytime he wants, as it is not necessary. I enjoy it, but I can go back to living without it. I get no response from God, which has driven me to distraction at times. Because I know God can hear me. There have been a few times in my life when I've received immediate answer to prayer, so I know He can hear me. Such are my frustrations !!\nAmbraADC, Jul 10, 2016\nDear Ambra, yours is a fascinating story! I have heard a few that were similar, almost always involving married couples, although there is no reason why marriage should be important. In every story like this that I have heard, too, the spirit has been male. So your experience is not unique, but it is unusual since those who have transitioned have bodies which lack a sex drive so post-death sex is virtually unheard-of - I have read of just one case, in forty years of doing this research.\nBut don't worry that anything you are doing is wrong, or even that communicating with the dead is not Biblical. The Old Testament is full of communications with dead folks and oracles, and the New Testament assumed that we will communicate with the dead, as witness this passage: \"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God\" (1 John 4:1) Apparently you have been testing your particular spirit, so all is well!\nAs to why this might be happening to you, I don't know enough about you or about the details of what is happening really to speculate. It may be, though, that you have personal unresolved issues with L or with your father, or even with some of the twisted attitude that Christianity tries to instill in its followers where sexuality is concerned, and perhaps this experience is helping you to move on from whatever has been unbalanced in you spiritually? It's very hard to know. But, as the saying goes, \"If it ain't broke, don't fix it\" ;-).\nDear Roberta Grimes,\nMy Google searches mostly tell me that sex in Heaven does not happen, as I've Googled \"can we have sex in heaven\" as part of my \"sex with a spirit\" inquiry. I was reading this Mikey Q&A 186 pages, which I downloaded from this website. On p. 81 (search sex) Mikey says that afterlife people are \"focused on 'human desires and drives' associated with earth.\" Further Mikey says \"why would you want to 'lower' your loving experience with a loved one with sex (in the afterlife)\", so this suggests that sex in heaven is possible. Other answers that I've read in my Google searches suggest that it is possible too, but that doesn't mean that it is possible for sure. Mostly I've read though, that sex in Heaven is NOT possible. It is hard to know what is for real in this subject.\nI want to elaborate and explain that in Dec/1991, one day while unhappy in my then marriage (to a live man, not L), I said in an off-the-cuff remark that \"I wish I had L back\". A few days later L came back. And he stayed for 10 months, until I sent him away. At the time, I was married, and there was no sex between L and I, and in fact, I had no idea that such a thing was possible at all. I had only had one ADC before this, back 10 years ago in 1981 from my deceased Dad, so I was quite freaked out at first by this spirit in my apartment. My journal entries remind me that at first L followed me around and said \"admit that you loved me\", which I did not answer because I was trying to figure out what was going on. (L had been dead since 1984.) For the most part though, he did not pressure me about anything.\nSo L was back for 10 months. I was really broke then, and he would come grocery shopping with me, which comforted me and helped to alleviate my \"grocery-shopping with a tight budget anxiety.\" I could even get L to fetch prices for me from another aisle in the store. Considering that it was 24 years ago now, I can't remember too much of how else he helped me out, but there was no sex.\nAfter 10 months of L's visit, I became quite frustrated because I could not love him like he was alive, so I told him to go away, and he did go away. There were some amazing psychic experiences with his coming and going, which I will not get into here. Years later a psychologist that I went to, who also happened to be an intuitive, told me that he prayed for a couple of years to be able to get permission to come to me in Dec/1991.\nSo my theory is that during that 24-year gap of not being with me, (I got divorced during that time) he figured out a way to give me sex, which he does often now. You could even say there was a trial run about 2 years ago, in which he came upon me one day when I was busy at my computer, under a deadline, and gave me an unexpected orgasm (I'll spare you the details.) I was pleasantly surprised by this, and did not even know he was hanging around me beforehand.\nMy theory is that perhaps I am channelling him, as I've heard psychics on TV describe how a spirit will give them a physical sensation usually associated with how the spirit passed. And I'm thinking if a spirit can put pressure on a psychic's chest to denote heart attack, perhaps they can give a person sexual stimulation as well.\nI notice that before both stays I in essence, wished for him to be here. I have never done any occult activities to summon a spirit, nor had any interest in doing so. But with L a wish seemed to do the trick.\nI knew L for 17 years when he was alive. We knew each other since childhood and we had a 4-month romance as teenagers, until my Dad split us up, because our families were against us being together. So we never split up because we wanted to. In fact, we always had an attraction for one another even as children. The moment I first saw him the thought that went through my head was \"I want to marry him.\" I never told anyone about that experience, not even L. I knew my feelings for him would never change from that moment, and I was right, they never did change, not even after his death. (L died at age 26 from cancer.)\nI was married when L died, and I put L aside in a lot of ways and did my best to go on with my life, but L never left the special place that he had in my heart from the moment I met him. So for L and I, we have unfinished business and my pull towards him, is still just as strong as it ever was. But now, because we are together each day, I have processed my relationship with him, by thinking about every detail and realizing things over and over until I've drained those experiences dry. And I have finally stopped processing them. In the meantime, I feel married to L in my heart, and my prayer is that when I die, I will be able to be with L.\nIn 1992, the year that L was with me for 10 months, he gave me what I call the \"wedding dream\" that was more like an out-of-body experience than a dream, wherein he showed me where we would live once I was with him in the afterlife, it was a 2-story condo on the beach. He told me some things about the townsfolk, and that we would be happy there. I awoke when I was running sand through my hands and thinking \"this isn't a dream\" meaning this was too real to be a dream.\nIn 2002, I was sitting in a living room one afternoon, when L appeared on the adjacent sofa, and said nothing. Straight ahead, my deceased Dad came through the wall and asked \"are you two going to be together\" meaning in the afterlife. And L answered \"yes.\" And I just sat there and said nothing, watching this amazing scene play out before me. Instead of my Dad getting angry, like he did when he was alive, he just quietly backed out of the room, the same way he came in, and L disappeared soon after. And I was left sitting in the room looking out the window as I was at the start. It was quite alright with me if L and I are together in the afterlife. For sure, I will not be tolerating anymore opposition to our relationship in the afterlife, as I did on earth.\nI loved L since the moment I first met him. However, I did not know if he loved me, but his actions since his death have convinced me that he does. Even though, I do have doubts some days, and I even get paranoid and wonder if his current stay in my life is to get me to a point where I dump him, so that I won't bother him in the afterlife. But he fills my heart with so much love and joy each day, and gives me more sex, and better sex than I've ever had, that I doubt he would go to such trouble only to get rid of me. I pray about all of this often, and I tell God that He will have to fix my broken heart if things don't turn out well with L in the afterlife. It is all I can do. I have so many questions, and I don't know how many satisfactory answers I will ever find before I die.\nAmbraADC, what you describe is possible, but it is extremely rare!\nThe dead (including Mikey Morgan) tell us that sex doesn't happen in the afterlife because their bodies lack a sex drive, and anyway there is a much better body-melding thing that they can do with anyone at all which produces a more intense whole-body orgasm that lasts for so long as they stay melded; they say that after doing that, nobody cares about the puny kind of orgasm that is possible here! What you are saying is that he stimulates your body to orgasm, and that could certainly happen if he were advanced enough and wanted badly enough to do it, but it is virtually never reported. It just doesn't seem to be something that those not in bodies care about doing. Sexual intercourse also is apparently possible, but in all my decades of doing afterlife research I have found only one reported account of it; and that was what you might call therapeutic rather than recreational.\nSo... your experience is interesting. My suggestion is that you simply enjoy it!\nYeah, my Google searches showed that it's rare. I did find a story wherein a psychic said she had a sexual relationship with a spirit for 12 years, but I am hesitant to post the link in case it is against the rules. And I found another website where another psychic said she's heard of such a thing, but it is indeed rare. Apparently, parts of my life belong in the \"truth is stranger than fiction\" file.\nI do enjoy it, but all of this has freaked me out, especially in the first 2 months. I have settled down more to it all now, even though some days I still get freaked out. Some days I wonder if I'm imagining things, but not the sex, cause my imagination ain't that good.\nThe big thing is that, the sex made me realize that this is all real. The afterlife is real, and it made what I believe about the Bible, Jesus and God, even more real. The sex is what eventually led me to this website, as I would have never starting doing related searches otherwise.\nAnd then there is that human need to tell someone about what you're experiencing. Even though I know before I start, that there isn't that much anyone can say. I've posted on forums before, so I know how it goes. I know there is more to be learned from books, and I've some referrals to some interesting books on this website, and I bought a book written by you today! I bought the Fun of Dying book by you for my Kindle app., as the book looks really good !\nWhen I sent L away in 1992, 24 years ago, I never dreamt in a million years that he would return one day, and this time, with the ability to have sex with me. I assume/theorize he spent some of that 24 years figuring out how to do it. Because I never asked for sex, and I never wished it. Not in my every-day conscious mind anyway. (Although when I sent him away in 1992, it was because I couldn't love him like a live man. So maybe that was my \"wish.\")\nThe website where the psychic says she's heard of it, also said that people would be pretty hesitant to report it, for obvious reasons. Recently a month or so ago, Bobby Brown was interviewed on ABC, and he said a ghost once climbed on top of him and had sex. The next day the story was all over the internet. I don't consider L to be a ghost though.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 19142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aguarquitectura.es/a-neutral-perspective-on-homeostasis-biology-7/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:S4GYXKJX2IAPSGFA26NZYXTXNFLSX3AL", "length": 4688, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "aguarquitectura.es", "title": "A Neutral Perspective on Homeostasis Biology |", "raw_content": "A Neutral Perspective on Homeostasis Biology\nYin and yang are only a style of comparing things. Finding inner peace is frequently associated with traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism. Some stress, naturally, can be beneficial.\nAll homeostatic mechanisms utilize negative feedback to keep a constant value (known as the established point). A great instance of a positive feedback process is child birth. Obviously, change is surely possible, but it is simply sustainable within a fairly narrow window.\nThe ideal method is to clean your hands. The all-natural tendency of life is to locate stability. This article details a number of strategies you\u2019ll be able to utilize to gamify your life.\nDon\u2019t forget that fever is a natural, wholesome course of action. Doctors worldwide agree that stress is accountable for most of all health difficulties, so reflexology can be an extremely beneficial therapy. It is the largest organ and essay-company com\nhas a central role in maintaining a constant temperature.\nThe standard of blood is crucial to live a wholesome disease free life that is solely dependent upon the proper nutrition and a balanced bi-lateral environment lifestyle. For instance, if our blood chemistry goes askew, it is going to kill us. In type two diabetes, chronic high blood glucose levels have occurred because of poor diet and too little exercise.\nThe most frequent matter to worry about when eating is overdosing. The venom of several species of snake comprises neurotoxins that cause paralysis. So that the hypothalamus is part of your brain that\u2019s at the base of your brain, right over the pituitary.\nIt is around 37C at all times. Now, it is made up of 11 major organ systems. Hunger it needs food to burn to maintain processes such as body temperature.\nThe maintenance of homeostasis is of big value to all organ systems within the body and the general survival of the person. It means to maintain dynamic equilibrium in the body. Explain the Concept of Homeostasis (P5) The major notion of homeostasis is to keep up a constant environment within the body.\nEvery organ within the body contributes to homeostasis. The nucleus determines a suitable reply to the stimulus. Heat and cold receptors are in the epidermis.\nIn both situations the outcome is a reasonably constant degree of glucose. Negative Feedback and Stability The typical way of maintaining homeostasis is an overall mechanism known as a negative feedback loop. http://humansubjects.uchicago.edu/\nExtraneous variables are typically not theoretically intriguing.\nThus, once digestion begins, it turns into a self-accelerating procedure. Sodium is pumped from the cell whilst potassium is pumped in. Quite simply, a rise in thrombin produces a larger increase in thrombin.\nBoth receptors are needed so the body is able to make the right adjustment. Ions If the proper balance of ions isn\u2019t kept, our cells can get shrivelled, swollen or even burst! The cancer cells undergo a run of genetic alterations.\nFirst you have to begin to consider health on a cellular level and understand our blood is regarded as the River of Life. Maybe natural selection ought to be demoted. The negative feedback procedure is complete.\nSupplements containing potassium and magnesium might also be used. Homeostasis is an essential concept in biology. A little protein composed of 29 amino acids.\nA standard method in the invention of research organisms is to create one that lacks a specific brain region, to learn the purpose of the knockout location. Using antagonistic mechanisms is an evolutionary strategy to fix the issue of the upkeep of the equilibrium within the body. Another case of an increase as a consequence of the feedback loop is the constraint of blood calcium.\nSome ion channels are almost always open, but others have a gate which may open and close as needed. Homeostasis can be observed in another field of regulation within the body, the maintenance of salt balance. The kidney are involved in controlling the total amount of water within the body.\nThe system itself is created for tension. Another illustration is juice. 1 portion of the group will be provided a daily substantial dose of vitamin C, and the remainder is going to be provided a placebo pill (so they are unaware of not belonging to the very first group) without vitamin C.\nSo our bodies are always seeking to keep the ideal temperature, the best quantity of oxygen and carbon dioxide, the correct amount of acidity and alkalinity, the right quantity of sleep etc.. All things considered, fish are a fantastic supply of recreation for human beings. The animal may find shade to acquire from the sun or move in the water to cool its skin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 6173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2018/February%202018/February%2013%202018/Budget-Bids-Farewell-to-JSTARS-Recap-F-35-Production-Ramps-Up-Slowly-Restocking-Munitions-Spent-on-ISIS-Campaign.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KGQNWUQFJ6TC3NPEILL3BEMVE2FBGQ7W", "length": 4853, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "airforcemag.com", "title": "Air Force Magazine", "raw_content": "Budget Bids Farewell to JSTARS Recap; F-35 Production Ramps Up Slowly; Restocking Munitions Spent on ISIS Campaign\n\u2014Brian Everstine, Steve Hirsch, Amy McCullough, and John A. Tirpak2/13/2018\n\u200bThe Air Force's Fiscal 2019 budget request scraps the JSTARS recapitalization program, but provides funds to modernize the E-3 AWACS, to help keep the E-8C JSTARS flying into the mid-2020s. Here an AWACS and a JSTARS sit on the flightline at Robins AFB, Ga., in 2017. Air National Guard photo by SMSgt. Roger Parsons.\nThe Air Force\u2019s Fiscal 2019 blue budget requests $156.3 billion, including $15.6 billion in overseas contingency operations. It adds another 4,700 airmen, bringing total endstrength back up to 506,200. The budget also includes funds to begin re-engining the B-52 fleet, which it now intends to keep in service into the 2050s, begins low-rate initial production of the Combat Rescue Helicopter, and takes steps to address the pilot shortage. The service has decided not to continue with the JSTARS recapitalization program, providing funds instead to upgrade the E-3 AWACS to help keep the JSTARS viable through the mid-2020s. \u201cIt has to be survivable \u2026 if we recap the current JSTARS, we\u2019ll have an aircraft that still can\u2019t do more than it can today, in fact it\u2019ll probably even be able to do less because it will be in a more competitive and contested environment,\u201d said Maj. Gen. John Pletcher, USAF budget chief, during the rollout on Monday. \u201cThe idea is to pull all of these different sensors and essentially create more agility and resiliency in developing that picture for the warfighter.\u201d Read the full story by Amy McCullough.\nThe Pentagon is requesting $686.1 billion for Fiscal 2019, a $74 billion jump from its current funding levels, with additional money aimed at addressing a potential power struggle with China and Russia. The total budget also includes increased funding for both the war against ISIS and in Afghanistan, with large increases in funding for the weapons most used in those fights. Read the full story by Brian Everstine.\nThe Air Force plans to buy 48 F-35A fighters in its Fiscal 2019 budget request, a modest increase from the Fiscal 2018 request of 46. Funding for this procurement is set at $5.23 billion for 2019, down from last year\u2019s request of $5.71 billion. The Air Force is trying to \u201cbalance\u201d the need to stock up with new aircraft versus the fact that those already built need to be modified, Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan said. Read the full story by John A. Tirpak.\nThe Air Force has a new budget category for Future Air Superiority studies and investigations, but has not yet decided to move ahead with concepts such as the Penetrating Counterair Aircraft or the so-called \u201carsenal plane.\u201d The new category doesn\u2019t include fighter aircraft upgrades or new air-to-air munitions, but will fund investigations into how all those things will work together. Air Force budgeteers said it\u2019s not yet clear if the successor to the F-22 and F-35 will be \u201canother platform.\u201d Read the full story by John A. Tirpak.\nDonovan Says Force-Sizing Construct Will Come in FY \u201820 Budget\nDespite a new budget, the Pentagon has not yet adopted a new force-sizing construct that spells out the specific types and numbers of forces needed to assure US security. Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told an AFA Mitchell Institute audience that there is some growth in squadrons by virtue of buying more F-35s, but the overall force size has not been decided yet. Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva also recently explained that the force-sizing construct will emerge from the \u201ctension\u201d between two very different world war scenarios. Read the full story by John A. Tirpak.\nFunding for Air Force space programs increased by eight percent in Fiscal 2019, but procurement funding dropped. In addition, the service also announced it will discontinue procurement of the seventh and eighth Space-Based Infrared System missile warning satellites, as it shifts its focus to launching next-generation missi\u200ble warning technology in the 2020s. Read the full story by Steve Hirsch.\n\u2014The Israeli Air Force says the Iranian drone it shot down on Saturday on its border with Syria was a copy of the USAF RQ-170 that Iran intercepted in 2011: CNN.\n\u2014The Air Force on Friday awarded Spartan Air Academy Iraq, out of Addison, Texas, a $45 million contract to help train the Iraq Air Force: Defense Department release.\n\u2014Air Education and Training Command on Friday released its 2018 Strategic Plan, aimed at developing an \u201cinnovative mindset:\u201d AETC release.\n\u2014Airmen from the 57th Rescue Squadron returned to RAF Lakenheath, England, on Feb. 8 from a deployment to Afghanistan. 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This pristine wilderness area is home to one of the largest buffalo herds in the western United States and a wide variety of native wildlife. Trails meander throughout the park where residents can enjoy relaxing strolls and majestic views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.\nThe centerpiece of Castle Pines North is The Ridge Golf Course, an 18-hole championship course affording panoramic mountain views and breathtaking signature holes, plus a full-service clubhouse with pro shop, restaurant, and 19th hole lounge. The private Sanctuary Golf Course also borders the community to the west.\nThe visionary design of Castle Pines North blends Denver Real Estate with Mother Nature in exceptional fashion. The community boasts expansive open space, miles of trails, picnic areas, and excellent recreational amenities. Residents enjoy distinct neighborhoods showcasing a wide variety of homes, including custom residences, gorgeous contemporary homes, and easy-living townhomes.\nCastle Pines North is reminiscent of a bygone era when time passed more slowly\u2026when neighbors were neighborly in every respect. There are dozens of community events throughout the year, including charitable events and special holiday celebrations.\nCastle Pines North is a unique and truly great place to live. The mayor and city council are dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality of life for its families while sustaining and strengthening business. 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He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Bowling Green State University in1970, a master\u2019s in education from the University of Southern Mississippi in1973, and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in1978.\nHis extensive career in athletic administration began as an Assistant Athletic Director at Ohio State, and then continued as Athletic Director at the University of Toledo, Fresno State, and the University of Kansas. For nearly 25 years, Bohl provided impressive leadership for athletic programs across the nation.\nIn 2006, Bohl was inducted into the Vermilion High School Hall of Fame and in 2007, was honored as a member of the Erie County Gallery of Achievers.\nAl and his wife, Sherry, live in St. Augustine, Florida where he is working on a variety of projects and playing golf!! They have two sons, Brett and Nathan, and a daughter, Heidi Sherwin. They are also the proud grandparents of four grandsons and four granddaughters.\nBrett Bohl\nBrett Bohl is the Founder and Executive Producer of the Celebrate Sports Tour ~ Inspirational Speakers from the Sports World and co-author of Getting to Thanksgiving, a novel about parents passing on values to their children that features lessons learned from sports.\nBrett is recognized as a dynamic leader, encouraging speaker, and enthusiastic fundraiser. Over the last 10+ years, he has had the privilege of speaking and booking motivational speakers in front of audiences across the USA at conferences, corporate events, military programs, churches, high schools, and to collegiate sports teams. He has accepted the challenge to bring a Celebrate Sports Tour program to high schools in all 50 States.\nBefore leaving the corporate world in the spring of 2004, Brett worked in Educational Software, Technology Consulting and Executive Search/Recruiting Industries, receiving numerous awards and recognition.\nHe is a graduate of the University of Toledo, earning a degree in communications, while playing football for the Rockets, 1988-91 and a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Brett and his wife Joyce have been blessed with two children \u2013 son, Brady Allen and daughter, Taylor Lorraine.\nSherry Bohl\nSherry Bohl is the mother of three children and Nana to eight grandchildren. She has had an outstanding career as an elementary teacher. Through the years she has taught students from kindergarten through fourth grade. Her goal was to help each child grow as an individual while gaining personal best academic skills necessary to guide them through their lives.\nSherry earned a bachelors degree from Bowling Green State University and a Master in Education from the University of Kansas. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and was highly regarded for her teaching methods and commitment to education. 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Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad this summer 2018. Alana is a freshman majoring in Biology. She will be studying this summer with the International Partners in Service Learning program in Cusco, Peru.\nGilman Scholars receive up to $5,000 to apply towards their study abroad or internship program. The Gilman scholarship supports American undergraduate students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad and, since 2001, has enabled more than 24,000 outstanding Americans of diverse backgrounds to engage in a meaningful educational experience abroad. The program has successfully broadened U.S. participation in study abroad, while emphasizing countries and regions where fewer Americans traditionally study. The Gilman Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE).\nSince 2008, fifty two Augsburg students have received Gilman scholarships, totaling $206,000.\nIf you receive a Pell Grant and are a US Citizen, please consider applying! Check out our upcoming workshops to learn the keys to winning this scholarship!\n10:30-11:30 am \u2013 In-Depth Session\n10:30-11 am (Chapel time) Express Session\nPosted on February 2, 2018 Email a correction for this post: Congratulations Alana Goodson: Gilman Scholarship Awardee\nPosted on \u2190 See all posts from February 2, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://americanstudies.ku.edu/william-garc%C3%ADa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FNMAO6V65W4MT3YJP63BGNKOFO5YRCZC", "length": 2272, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "americanstudies.ku.edu", "title": "William Garc\u00eda | Department of American Studies", "raw_content": "William Garc\u00eda is an Afro-Puerto Rican raised between New York and Puerto Rico. William has a Bachelor\u2019s and a Master\u2019s in History from the University of Puerto Rico-R\u00edo Piedras where he focused on Caribbean music and transnational migration between the United States and the circum-Caribbean. While completing this project, he worked as an educator in Austin, Texas, which later prompted him to move to New York City and complete a Master\u2019s in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College-Columbia University. William\u2019s Action Research Project focused on the lack of historical literacies in elementary schools.\nIn New York, William collaborated with many activists, intellectuals, educators, and writers in the Afro-Latino Festival, City College of New York, The Schomburg Center for Black Culture and Research, and Teachers College. Before coming to KU, he worked as an information assistant and youth program coordinator in Harlem\u2019s Countee Cullen Library. While at the Countee Cullen Library, William began to notice the emphasis on Afro-American picture books and they way they manipulated Black creolizations and reduced black U.S. history to ancestral Afro-Americans and nationhood while ignoring Black migrants narratives. Meanwhile, William also served as an adjunct instructor for The City College of New York\u2019s Department of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies teaching \u201cLatino Youth in Schools\u201d with an emphasis on Afro-Latino youth.\nAs a PhD student in American Studies at KU, William\u2019s research is aimed at re-narrating black diasporic historiography in the United States through an afro-diasporic lens in order to explore how Afro-Americanness\u2014as a homogenized identity that has been mediated through the nation\u2014invisibilizes diasporic blackness such as black migrant creolizations, resulting in a U.S. black-white bifurcated re-coloniality of racial discourse and citizenship. He believes that uncovering the reasons why Afro-Americans have more representation in the media and institutions than other marginalized groups at the expense of diasporic blackness and other narratives from people of color will foster more unity and inclusive narratives among marginalized groups.\nAfro-American historiography\nBlack history in Public Institutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 365, "original_length": 11053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 150.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://americantower.com.br/en/privacy/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AEREZM6EFFMLA6I6XLS3KFTPOD5UDOJ5", "length": 5350, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "americantower.com.br", "title": "Privacy - American Tower Brazil", "raw_content": "American Tower Brazil Web Site Privacy Notice\nAmerican Tower Corporation and/or its wholly-owned affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, \u201cATC\u201d) offers on this web site a variety of materials, information, and online services targeted to wireless communications carriers and broadcasters. 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This journey takes us from the citizen soldiers of ancient Greece to the medieval knights to the misogynistic terrorists of Al Qaeda.\"\nI asked the author to apply the \"page 69 test\" to his book. Here is what he reported:\nI think such a cross-section or salami slice works better for nonfiction than for fiction. The agenda of nonfiction is more similar page by page than is fiction's. Of course in nonfiction there are arguments to be built up, anecdotes to be told, facts to be asserted or disputed, characters to be sketched and theories to be invoked or contradicted. Any one page can have some or a few or even all of these going on at once. But nonfiction has to lay its cards on the table a lot earlier and keep referring to them with a lot more frequency than does fiction, which can wander on and on for a hundred or more pages before hitting you with those zingers that makes you want to keep on reading. Page 69 in From Chivalry to Terrorism follows through on this distinction. I can\u2019t say it stands alone, but it does give a brisk idea of how the rest of the book goes about the business of trying to sketch the history of the interplay between changes in warfare and changes in ideas about masculinity. Page 69 in particular looks at the way medieval warriors and medieval peoples asserted status by connecting themselves to the heroes of the past: \u201cThus the French descended from the Franks and the greatness of Charlemagne, the English from Brutus (the great-grandson of Aeneas), the Norman and Scandinavians from the Vikings, while Thor himself, according to the thirteenth-century Prose Edda, was a descendant of Priam, the king of Troy and the father of Hector.\u201d The genealogy of past heroes was invoked to guarantee heroism in the present, even when that present hero\u2019s connection to the mythical or historical past was made up by some paid historian or poet. It\u2019s an early moment in the story of how masculinity asserts its connection to history, before gunpowder, cannons, airplanes, and nuclear bombs complicate the easy equation of masculine honor and masculine prowess in war.\nMany thanks to Leo Braudy for the input.\nClick here to read an excerpt from From Chivalry to Terrorism.\n\u201cHistory in the grand manner, pulled off with brilliance, wonderful imagination and considerable erudition.... Fascinating.\u201d \u2014Washington Post Book World\n\u201cA terrific topic.... The book displays Braudy\u2019s loving immersion in his subject, fine grasp of historical complexity, and aversion for glib or dogmatic judgments.\u201d \u2013New York Times Book Review\nClick here to watch Braudy deliver a talk on \"Cultural Shaping and Historical Change\" at Harvard. The lecture addresses some of the themes covered in From Chivalry to Terrorism.\nBraudy's book Jean Renoir: The World of His Films was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Harper's. 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Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His \"uppity\" ways attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much.\nIn following generations of Cashins through the eras of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights political struggles, Sheryll Cashin conveys how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with humor, honesty, and love.\n\u201cBooks of family lore\u2014part oral history, part anecdote with loads of juicy tidbits from diaries and journals, engaging old photographs, newspaper quotes and entries from the public record\u2014serve to put meat on the bones of history. In the smoothly written The Agitator's Daughter, Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University, adds her firsthand experiences as a participant and witness to civil rights history to enliven the text with a close and often heartbreaking point of view.\u201d\n\u201c[A] clear-eyed assessment of living in a family of civil rights leaders that stretched back four generations.\u201d\n--Cleveland Plain Dealer\nRead an excerpt from The Agitator's Daughter; learn more the book at the publisher's website and more about the author at her Georgetown Law webpage.\nSheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, writes about race relations and inequality in America. Her book The Failures of Integration was an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review, and was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for non-fiction.\nListen to the NPR interview with Cashin about The Agitator's Daughter.\nThe Page 99 Test: The Agitator's Daughter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 9672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://andrew-schultz.com/real-estate/guest-post-how-did-i-ever-choose-buffalowestern-ny-as-a-place-to-invest/468/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:20:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2IREUXINVQEMSLONIT7P2BO4RJ5MXJM2", "length": 4373, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "andrew-schultz.com", "title": "Guest Post: How did I ever choose Buffalo/Western NY as a place to invest? | Andrew-Schultz.com", "raw_content": "I have purchased several properties in Seattle over the last six years (4 single family residences, and most recently a 7-unit apartment, all within a few miles of my house. (98117 zip code if people are interested in seeing the area.) I also have a day job which funds these acquisitions, so I need to keep my time investment per property at a minimum. The problem with Seattle is that the cap rate is very low. For Single Family/duplexes, it\u2019s around 4%. For the apartment, I got what I think is a great deal at around 8%, although I had to put about $40k into it once I had purchased it. So including that, the cap rate is about 7-7.5%. The <4 unit properties are cash flow negative to start and for the foreseeable future with 30-35% down payment.\nSo one night I couldn\u2019t sleep, so I did a search for \u201cturnkey investment property\u201d in Google. One of the results that came up was http://www.cashflowwithequity.com/. This is a firm which buys properties in Buffalo, rehabs it, puts a Section 8 renter into the property and sells it to you. When you do the calculation, these end up being about $200/month cash flow positive on a purchase price of $60k or so. This is much better than -$400/month on an investment of $350k in Seattle. I was wary of finding a company like this on the internet and investing sight-unseen. So I did a search for Commercial Real Estate in Google, and found http://www.loopnet.com. I did a search for multifamily properties in Buffalo and Rochester and found many properties for similar prices (a duplex for $60k or less, with cap rates of 10-12%). I then decided that maybe this is real, and property really is cheaper outside Seattle!\nI discussed with my realtor in Seattle, David Sligar, who has worked with me to purchase the 11 units in Seattle. I asked him to join me for a trip out to Western NY for a few days to look at properties. He couldn\u2019t make it, but did find me realtors in Buffalo and Rochester, through a nationwide referral service. He interviewed the guys and set up first conversations with them. He will get a referral fee on any properties I buy through them.\nNext, serendipity intervened. I knew I wouldn\u2019t buy any properties remotely without at least getting to know the cities and the people I would be working with. So I had been thinking about taking a trip to Western NY. It turned out that in September, my company was sponsoring a recruiting trip for our team to Toronto. I volunteered and the company covered the expense of getting me to Toronto. After our recruiting was done, I rented a car and drove down to Buffalo and Rochester. I met with the agents there, Mark in Rochester and Corey in Buffalo. They each had found 4-5 properties for me to walk through, and we also drove by some of the properties that I had found on Loopnet. The Loopnet properties were in somewhat dicey neighborhoods, and Mark and Corey warned me away from these. I also met with the guys from \u201ccashflowwithequity.com\u201d and they showed me around their duplexes for sale. Corey warned me away from them with a set of reports from ripoffreports.com, where people had complained about shoddy work from these guys.\nAnyway, we didn\u2019t find anything on that trip that resonated with me. Corey and Mark both set up automated searches for me which sent me properties which fit my parameters. Corey also followed up a few weeks later, pointing out a set of four duplexes next to each other which were for sale. Assuming we close, the potential cap rate is 10-12% and the cash-on-cash return in the first year will be 16-18%. Not too bad\u2026And as an added bonus, they\u2019re on a commercial lot so I will have the option to build something else in the future if the opportunity presents itself.\nCorey also introduced me to a Property Management company in the Buffalo area. They walked through the properties with him, and gave me suggestions for areas for improvement (although they\u2019re in pretty good shape now). I am headed out there in December to do my own walk through before we close.\nIf you\u2019re interested in investing in multifamily real estate, I recommend Investing in Apartment Buildings: Create a Reliable Stream of Income and Build Long-Term Wealth, available on Amazon in paperback or Investing in Real Estate which you can get on your Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6\u2033 Display \u2013 with New E Ink (Pearl) Technology or in paperback..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://antarctica-hasseg.com/events/two-day-workshop-the-role-of-norway-chile-and-argentina-as-original-claimants-and-current-guardians-of-peace-science-and-environmental-protection-in-antarctica/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:74VY6QOKHX3CJCLOMCCSKAPV3BM4SSQK", "length": 8256, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "antarctica-hasseg.com", "title": "Two-day workshop - SCAR Standing Committee on the Humanities & Social Sciences (SC-HASS)SCAR Standing Committee on the Humanities & Social Sciences (SC-HASS)", "raw_content": "Saturday 13th of June 2015 to Sunday 14th of June 2015\nTwo-day workshop: \u2018The role of Norway, Chile and Argentina as Original Claimants and Current Guardians of Peace, Science and Environmental Protection in Antarctica\u2019 Date: 13-14 June, 2015 Location: Arctic University of Norway, UiT Organizer: Alejandra Mancilla, alejandra.mancilla@ifikk.uio.no 1. Content Famously in its Article 2, the Madrid Protocol (1989) celebrates Antarctica as \u2018a natural reserve, devoted to peace and science.\u2019 By adding the concern for the environment to the traditional antarctic values of peace and science established by the Antarctic Treaty (AT), the Protocol helped create a \u2018new trinity of high values\u2019 (as Alan Hemmings called it) through which all issues in the continent ought to be approached. Together with other four countries (UK, Australia, New Zealand and France), Norway, Chile and Argentina share a threefold role regarding the Antarctic continent: they are original signatories of the AT, consultative parties (CPs) in its periodic meetings, and they all possess sovereignty claims over the continent \u2013 claims that, however \u2018frozen\u2019 by the AT, give these countries a distinctive status regarding their influence over Antarctic matters. This distinctive status stands out especially when it comes to discussing the present and future policies and governance regimes in the area, and to negotiating the ways to address new challenges to the above mentioned trinity of values. Among these challenges today are the steady growth of tourism, marine harvesting and bioprospecting; the ongoing pressure over the Antarctic\u2019s non-living resources (minerals, gas and oil) and surrounding seas and seabed; and the effects of climate change in the continent, with consequences for the world at large. The purpose of this two-day workshop is to bring together Norwegian and Latin American scholars for whom Antarctica is a relevant subject matter and let them reflect and exchange views under an overarching research question: ought we to uphold Antarctica\u2019s status as a global natural reserve for peace and science, or is this an increasingly outdated approach that should be rethought, given the new challenges confronting the continent and the world at large? More specific questions to be posed are: How do Norwegian, Chilean and Argentinian researchers working on Antarctic topics reconcile their countries\u2019 latent sovereignty claims with the idea of the continent as being part of the \u2018common heritage of mankind\u2019? How is Norway\u2019s approach to Antarctica different or similar to the approach of these two Latin American countries? What do these researchers think will be the Antarctic agenda for the 21st century? The theoretical framework of the seminar will thus be settled by questions from the field of political philosophy, but the answers will come from an interdisciplinary group, among whom will be some natural scientists and leaders of different areas of the Antarctic Programs in their respective countries. The workshop has been generously funded by the Norwegian Latin America Research Network (NorLARNet), and is sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo, and by the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). 2. Preliminary program SATURDAY 13TH JUNE\n10-10.15 Intro and welcome\n10.15-11.15 \u00d8yvind Stokke. \u2018Antarctica as a global commons.\u2019\n11.30-12.30 Kristin Tilli. \u2018How damaging is the growing number of climate change tourists and other adventurers in regards to the environment in Antarctica?\u2019\n14-15 Juan Francisco Salazar. TBC.\n15.15-16.15 Gustavo Rami\u0301rez. \u2018Jurisdiction under the Antarctic Treaty System.\u2019\n10-11 Alejandra Mancilla. \u2018The normative grounds of sovereignty claims in Antarctica.\u2019\n11.15-12.15 Birgit Nja\u030astad. TBC.\n13.45-14.45 Jose\u0301 Retamales. TBC.\n15-16 Espen Gamlund. TBC.\n16.15-17.15 Wrap up and discussion\n19 Dinner 3. Brief cv of the speakers\nESPEN GAMLUND is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen. He works in ethics and political philosophy, with a special interest in applied ethics. He has published papers on different topics in environmental ethics. Among them, \u2018Reconsidering Approaches to Moral Status\u2019 (with Kristian Skagen Ekeli), in Ethics, Policy & Environment 14.3 (2011): 361-375; \u2018Arne N\u00e6ss og dyp\u00f8kologiens fremtid\u2019, in Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 47.4 (2012): 229-244; and \u2018Etiske perspektiver pa\u030a dyr og milj\u00f8\u2019, in G. Larsen, R. Sollund & M. T\u00f8nnessen (red.) Hvem er villest i landet her? Menneskets forbruk og kontroll av dyr, Oslo: Spartacus Forlag, 2013.\nALEJANDRA MANCILLA, the workshop convenor, is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. After receiving her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Australian National University, Mancilla is working on the project \u201cMy Land, Your Land, Our Land\u201d, the main objective of which is to elucidate and assess the normative grounds of claims made over land and natural resources. From July onwards, Mancilla will be working on a postdoctoral research project at the Instituto Anta\u0301rtico Chileno (INACH) entitled \u2018Melting claims: Antarctica as a challenge for theories of territorial and resource rights, and as a conceptual locus for rethinking the normative grounds of sovereignty claims over natural resources.\u2019\nBIRGIT NJA\u030aSTAD is leader of the Polar Environmental Management section a researcher and Antarctic\u2019s expert at the Norwegian Polar Institute, Troms\u00f8.She holds national and international responsibilities within the field of Antarctic management and policy development and has been responsible for and contributor to a number of studies and assessments related to Arctic and Antarctic environmental management. She is the co-author of the book Norway in the Antarctic (Oslo: Schibsted forlag, 2008), and of \u2018Future challenges in Environmental Management of National Antarctic Programs\u2019, published in Antarctic Futures (2014), pp. 87-306.\nGUSTAVO RAMI\u0301REZ holds a Law degree from Universidad de los Andes (Santiago de Chile) and currently works at Universidad de Magallanes (Punta Arenas, Chile) as a lecturer in History of Law, History of Chilean Institutions and as Adjunct Lecturer of Constitutional Law. He collaborates with the Department of Antarctic Programmes of the same institution, where he teaches master students on the legal aspects of Antarctica, as well as on the Antarctic Treaty System. He has written the monographs \u2018Presencia militar en la Anta\u0301rtica\u2019 (\u2018Military Presence in Antarctica\u2019) and \u2018Toponimia Anta\u0301rtica\u2019 (\u2018Antarctic Toponymy\u2019).\nKRISTIN TILLI is a Masters student at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oslo. Her thesis examines Arne N\u00e6ss\u2019s deep ecology as an answer for contemporary ecological challenges, and she is interested in the similar environmental challenges confronted by the Arctic and the Antarctic continents, and how their neighboring countries approach them. Among her recent publications is \u2018Species egalitarianism and the environment\u2019 published in a special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Icelandic e-journal of Nordic and Mediterranean studies (Claim dismissed.
Judgment for the defendants.
\nC. F. Hayfron-Benjamin with him S. Baidoo\nF. A. Williams\n(1) Young v. Holloway [1895] P. 87\n(2) Ekem v. Nerba (1947) 12 W.A.C.A. 258\n(3) Coleman v. Shang [1961] G.L.R. 145, P.C.\nWarning: fopen(/home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/public/cache/5fc5e2688459197045097d881558b2f9): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/apps/modules/render/models/cache.php on line 44 Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/apps/modules/render/models/cache.php on line 46 Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/apps/modules/render/models/cache.php on line 48", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 11320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cases.ghanalegal.com/cases/detail/kroye-adujama-co-operative-society-versus-hiawu-besease-co-opera", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CDTNHFCVIPEWC7DOLKOE3KC4DOO3KR75", "length": 7932, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cases.ghanalegal.com", "title": "Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/engine/Drivers/mysql.php on line 101 KROYE-ADUJAMA CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY v. HIAWU BESEASE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY | GhanaLegal - Resources for the legal brains", "raw_content": "KROYE-ADUJAMA CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY v. HIAWU BESEASE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY\nStatutes?-Construction?-?\"Any dispute touching the business of a registered society?\"?-Co-operative Societies Ordinance, Cap. 190 (1951 Rev.) s. 44 (1) and (5)\nThe business of both the plaintiff and defendant societies herein was the purchase and marketing of cocoa. The plaintiff society claimed that the defendant society had in its possession 110 bags of cocoa belonging to the plaintiff society. The plaintiff society therefore instituted an action in the High Court to recover the said bags of cocoa. The defendant society took preliminary objection to the court's jurisdiction which it claimed was ousted by section 44 (1) and (5) of the Co-operative Societies Ordinance, Cap. 190 (1951 Rev.) which provide that \"any dispute touching the business of a registered society\" should be referred to the Registrar of Co-operative Societies and that his decision once given shall be final and \"shall not be called in question in any court of law.\"\nRULING on a preliminary objection to jurisdiction of the court which the defendant pleaded was ousted by the Co-operative Societies Ordinance, Cap. 190 (1951 Rev.) s. 44 (1) and (5).\nThe action in this case relates to 110 bags of cocoa which the plaintiff society claims it is entitled to recover from the defendant society. The plaintiff society's case, so far as it is possible to state it from its pleadings, is that in April 1961, it despatched the said quantity of cocoa to the Kumasi Co-operative Society. It is said it was stolen but the pleadings are imprecise as to whether the theft took place while the cocoa was in transit or after it had been delivered to the recipient society. This point is however immaterial to the question which at present calls for determination. The plaintiff society claims that its cocoa having been stolen, was surreptitiously sold to the defendant society at a time and under circumstances which should have put it on enquiry. The defendant society for its part denies that it bought any such cocoa as is alleged. If the plaintiff society substantiates its case, the legal position is that the title to the cocoa remain vested in the plaintiff society which will be entitled to its return.\nBoth the plaintiff and defendant societies are registered under the Co-operative Societies Ordinance.1 Accordingly, the defendant society pleaded that this being a dispute between two registered societies touching their business, the court?'s power to determine it was ousted by the provision of section 44 (1) of the Co-operative Societies Ordinance, the relevant portion of which reads as follows:?-\n?\"If any dispute touching the business of a registered society (other than a dispute regarding disciplinary action taken by the society or its committee against a paid servant of the society) arises . . . (c) between the society and any other registered society such dispute shall be referred to the Registrar for decision?\".\nCounsel for the defendant society said in answer to the court that the purchase and marketing of cocoa is the ordinary business of a registered society. This was not disputed by counsel for the plaintiff and for the purpose of construing section 44 of the Ordinance, I will accept that as the business of both societies. The words which call for construction in this case are ?\"dispute touching the business?\". In the view of counsel for the plaintiff society, this means that both societies must be doing business between themselves and therefore the dispute must arise from contract not from tort. He contented that the defendant society?'s liability in this case (assuming the plaintiff society?'s case to be established) arose ex delicto not ex contractu. Accordingly, he contended that the court?'s jurisdiction is not ousted by section 44.\nCounsel for the defendant argued that the words of section 44 are clear and unambiguous and ought not to be restricted in the way contended by the plaintiff. He pointed out that only dispute relating to ownership, possession or occupation of land are excepted fron the ambit of section 44. Counsel for the plaintiff society referred to Halsbury, Laws of England (3rd ed.) Vol. 18, p. 64. Paragraph 121 deals with provisions for settling disputes under the Friendly Society Act, 1896.2 It would seem that under that legislation, disputes falling within certain categories must be decided in a manner directed by the rules of the society but unlike section 44 of Cap. 190, the Act did not completely oust the jurisdiction of the court. Accordingly, I did not derive any help from a consideration of that Act.\nThe one object of construing statutes is to discover the intention of Parliament from the words it has chosen to enact. I conceive it to be a well settled rule that where the words are plain and unambiguous they must be given their ordinary meaning unless as sometimes happens the legislature itself provides its own statutory dictionary. Neither ?\"dispute?\" nor ?\"business?\" is defined by the Ordinance. Counsel for the plaintiff had recourse to a dictionary in order to ascertain the meaning of the word ?\"dispute?\". In my opinion, a dispute which touches the business of two societies is a difference which arises between them in a matter concerning their business. In this case, the business of both societies is the purchase and marketing of cocoa. The plaintiff society claims that 110 bags of cocoa now in possession of the defendant society properly belongs to itself and seeks to recover it. The defendant society disputes it and that is the matter in controversy between them. The fact that in investigating the dispute, a crime may be found to have been committed by some officers of one or other of the societies is, in my opinion, an irrelevant circumstance. I assume that if a crime is actually disclosed in the course of the investigation, the person charged with investigating the dispute [p.49] would act on the principle in Smith v. Selwym3 and stay investigation until criminal proceedings have been taken. But that by itself ought not, in my judgment, to amount to an ouster of jurisdiction in favour of the court. In my opinion, there is no basis for excluding from the ambit of section 44 a dispute touching the business of registered societies, if that dispute arose from tort. If that had been the intention of the legislature, I see no reason why it did not so specifically provide. There is, in my view, no room here for limiting the wide scope of section 44 by applying anything like the ejusdem generis rule. Unless there is very good reason for it, or unless there is any authority binding on me and which I ought to follow, I should not interpret section 44 of Cap. 190 in a manner that substantially limits its scope and makes its object almost nugatory.\nAccordingly, I decide that the present dispute touches the business of the plaintiff and defendant societies and that by the combined effect of subsections (1) and (5) of section 44 of Cap. 190 the jurisdiction of this court is ousted. It follows therefore that the preliminary objection succeeds and this action is dismissed. The plaintiff society will pay the defendant society 35 guineas costs.\nD. S. Effah for Akainyah\nK. Asumadu Sakyi for Edusei\nSmith v. Selwym [1914] 3 K.B. 98, C.A.\nWarning: fopen(/home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/public/cache/17ad320db04933c8dba2ebca56f6e8cb): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/apps/modules/render/models/cache.php on line 44 Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/apps/modules/render/models/cache.php on line 46 Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/ghanalegal/domains/ghanalegal.com/public_html/cases/apps/modules/render/models/cache.php on line 48", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 8466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicphilly.com/2018/05/news/world-news/cardinal-stats-pope-makes-college-more-international-not-much-younger/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KOXPQPGG366WWGP7DERXM6SCLXFPYNGA", "length": 4856, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "catholicphilly.com", "title": "Cardinal stats: Pope makes college more international, not much younger \u2013 Catholic Philly", "raw_content": "Cardinal stats: Pope makes college more international, not much younger\nPope Francis prays as he arrives for a 2017 consistory in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica at the Vatican. The pontiff announced May 20 that he will create 14 new cardinals at a June 29 consistory. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)\nVATICAN CITY (CNS) \u2014 Although it is not unusual for a pope to set aside temporarily the limit of 120 cardinals under the age of 80, Pope Francis has done so in a way that could last for more than a year.\nThe pope announced May 20 that he would create 14 news cardinals June 29; 11 of them are under the age of 80 and would be eligible to enter a conclave to elect a new pope.\nIn early June, Cardinal Angelo Amato will celebrate his 80th birthday, which will drop the number of electors to 114. Three weeks later, the batch of new cardinals will raise the number of potential electors to 125.\nCardinal Amato is the last cardinal to turn 80 in 2018. And it will take until July 31, 2019, for another five cardinals to age out.\nConfirming the limit of 120 electors set by Blessed Paul VI, St. John Paul II wrote in \u201cUniversi Dominici Gregis,\u201d his rules for a conclave, that \u201cthe maximum number of cardinal electors must not exceed 120.\u201d\nThat led one major news agency to report, \u201cIf a conclave has to be called before any other cardinal turns 80, the electors would have to draw lots to see which five men would be barred from the gathering.\u201d\nConclaves don\u2019t happen that often and none in recent history took place when there were more than 120 eligible electors. But the idea of a lottery for entrance into the Sistine Chapel, where the voting would take place, led many people to scratch their heads.\nAfter all, \u201cUniversi Dominici Gregis\u201d and the changes made to it by Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 both strongly state: \u201cNo cardinal elector can be excluded from active or passive voice in the election of the supreme pontiff.\u201d\nA pope, as the supreme legislator of the Catholic Church, can set aside the limit of 120 potential electors. But doing so does not change the no-exclusion clause.\nAnd while a year may be a long time to exceed the 120 limit, exceeding it by five cardinals is minor compared to what St. John Paul II did in February 2001. Creating 44 new cardinals \u2014 the biggest batch ever at one consistory \u2014 the pope raised the number of cardinal electors to 135.\nSt. John Paul created another 30 cardinals in 2003, bringing the number of electors back up to 135 once again. But, by the time he died in 2005, only 117 were under 80, and two of those were too ill to participate in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict.\nThe Polish pope\u2019s mega-consistories broadly expanded the international \u2014 in other words, the catholic \u2014 identity of the College of Cardinals. It is a process that continues.\nPope Francis\u2019 latest cardinals-designate include churchmen from five countries not currently represented in the College of Cardinals. But each of those countries \u2014 Bolivia, Pakistan, Japan, Madagascar and Iraq \u2014 has had a cardinal in the recent past.\nWith the edition of the new cardinals, the group of electors will represent 67 nations. The cardinals who elected Pope Francis in 2013 came from 48 countries.\nThe number of Italians with a red biretta, the cardinal\u2019s three-cornered hat, still far exceeds those of any other nation, and Pope Francis is about to add three more to their number.\nThe day before the consistory, 18 Italians would be eligible to enter a conclave \u2014 19 if you count Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Italy-born nuncio to Syria, who Pope Francis made clear was chosen to represent Syria. Still, in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis, 28 were Italian.\nThe country with the next-highest number of cardinal electors is the United States, which has 10 cardinals under the age of 80.\nAt a Mass with the College of Cardinals in 2017, a Mass marking his 25th anniversary as a bishop, Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church is not a \u201cgerontocracy\u201d ruled by old men; \u201cwe aren\u2019t old men, we are grandfathers.\u201d\nBut his choices for the June consistory do very little to lower the average age of the group of electors. Only one, Cardinal-designate Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, is still in his 50s. He is 54. Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, Central African Republic, is 51 years old and still will be the youngest cardinal once the consistory is over.\nOn June 28, there will be 114 electors with an average age of 71 years, 11 months and one day. After the consistory the next day, there will be 125 electors with an average age of 71 years, eight months and 20 days.\nThe cardinals who elected 58-year-old Cardinal Karol Wojtyla \u2014 St. John Paul II \u2014 in 1978 had an average age of 67.\nPREVIOUS: Australian archbishop, convicted of abuse cover-up, stepping aside\nNEXT: Vatican bank sees profit while making ethical investments, report says", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 7775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 185.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cblibrary.org/schaff_h/ba/bassermann.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZORSX7IAOZLZOJEAOZ2PBF2DKSBRV4CX", "length": 1263, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cblibrary.org", "title": "Bassermann, Heinrich Gustav", "raw_content": "BASSERMANN, HEINRICH GUSTAV: German Lutheran; b. at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 12, 1849. He was educated at the universities of Jena, Zurich, and Heidelberg in 1868-73, but served in the campaign of 1870-71 in the First Baden Dragoons. He was assistant pastor at Arolsen, Waldeck, from 1873 to 1876, when he became privat-docent of New Testament exegesis at the University of Jena. In the same year he was appointed associate professor of practical theology at Heidelberg, and full professor and university preacher in 1880. He wrote: Dreissig chrisaiche Predigten (Leipsic, 1875); De loco Matt\u009ci v, 17-20 (Jena, 1876); Handbuch der geisaichen Beredsamkeit (Stuttgart, 1885); Akademische Predigten (1886); System der Liturgik (1888); Geschichte der badischen Gottesdienstordnung (1891); Sine ira et studio (T\u00fcbingen, 1894) ; Der badische Katechismus erkl\u00e4rt (1896-97); Richard Rothe als praktischer Theolog (1899); Zur Frage des Unionskatechismus (1901); Ueber Reform des Abendmahls (1904); Wie studiert man evangelische Theologie? (Stuttgart, 1905); and Gott: Fnf Predigten (G\u00f6ttingen, 1905). From 1879 he edited the Zeitschrift fur praktische Theologie in collaboration with Rudolf Ehlers. Died in Samaden (70 m. s.s.e. of St. Gall), Switzerland, Aug. 30, 1909.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1, "original_length": 1296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cerebralpalsynewstoday.com/2017/07/05/cerebral-palsypower-wheelchair-hockey-and-happy-discovery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:02Z", "digest": "sha1:6WUMUSQBBBBFKAQGCUVHQWKKNC4WJ5AO", "length": 3075, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "cerebralpalsynewstoday.com", "title": "Cerebral Palsy, Powerchair Hockey and a Happy Discovery", "raw_content": "Powerchair Hockey: A Happy Sports Discovery\nPlaying sports when you have cerebral palsy is far from impossible. I play power wheelchair competitive hockey, and I enjoy playing it more than I thought I would. I\u2019m probably not your typical sports person: I cheer on the home teams, but I don\u2019t watch sports or know the names of the professional players. However, when it comes to competition and belonging to a team, I am definitely in the zone.\nA few years ago I heard about a local sports expo for people with disabilities. I decided to see what it had to offer. Going there was one of the smartest decisions that I ever made, because I saw my first powerchair hockey game. I didn\u2019t know much about hockey at the time, but I was impressed watching the players race around the gym in various wheelchairs and with various degrees of disabilities. I talked to some players and coaches about how the team works, and learned that the team played near my house, so getting to games wouldn\u2019t be a problem.\nPower wheelchair hockey uses many professional NHL rules, with some adaptations. For example, we use a whiffle ball instead of a hockey puck. We play three fifteen minute periods with five players on each side: one goalie, and one defensive and three offensive players. Players are penalized for dangerous driving in wheelchairs and for collisions. All the players use motorized (power) wheelchairs, but there aren\u2019t any age, gender or race requirements to be a team member.\nPlayers who are able to drive their motorized wheelchair with one hand and use the hockey stick with the other. Those who can\u2019t hold a hockey stick and drive (much like myself) can fasten their hockey stick to their wheelchair, and play by moving their wheelchair only. No matter what kind of power wheelchair you use, there is always a way to modify it to play hockey.\nThe hockey team that I play for, Philadelphia PowerPlay, was founded by Patrick Hilferty in 2004. It started with only a few players, now there are 30 or more. Our regular season is September to June, and in the summer we have a tournament team that travels to play in the annual powerchair hockey tournament.\nI play goalie and defense. With cerebral palsy, controlling my muscles at a rapid speed is definitely a workout and uses a lot of energy. After a game, I sometimes feel worn out, but in a good way, like after a good exercise session. I like the sense of competition, and the even playing field. We aren\u2019t people who have disabilities: we are hockey players who want to win for the two hours every other week!\nEven more so, we\u2019re friends who turned into family. I\u2019m so happy that I went to that sports expo years ago, because I have met so many good people and learned so much. I even traveled to Canada to play in a tournament, something that otherwise never would have happened.\nTagged hockey, power wheelchair.\nPrevious: Climbing May Be a Valuable Exercise for Children with Cerebral Palsy, Study Reports\nNext:Neurodevelopmental Physical Therapy Improves Spasticity, But Not Movement, in Children With CP, Study Reports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cfdtrade.info/2018/05/whos-afraid-latin-american-debt-crisis-apart-latin-america.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MDVYSRZTWUP2MSTBNGQ6YJYAGCCV57VC", "length": 15390, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "cfdtrade.info", "title": "Who\u2019s Most Afraid of a Latin American Debt Crisis (Apart from Latin America)? | naked capitalism- cfdtrade.info", "raw_content": "Who\u2019s Most Afraid of a Latin American Debt Crisis (Apart from Latin America)?\nBy , Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at . Originally published at .\nEconomic history appears to be rhyming once again in Latin America. Perennial credit-basket-case Argentina was one of the first countries to suffer a major currency crisis this century. Now, its government has asked the IMF for a brand-new bailout. But if this classic last-gasp fix was meant to calm the markets, it isn\u2019t working.\nPrevious Latin American debt crises have taught us two things:\nThe direct impact on the general populace, already suffering from sky-high poverty rates, is devastating;\nOnce the first domino falls, contagion can spread like wildfire.\nThe debt crisis of the early 1980s, which spread to virtually all corners of the region, famously paved the way to Latin America\u2019s \u201clost decade.\u201d Mexico\u2019s Tequila Crisis of 1994-5 at one point became so serious that it some of Wall Street\u2019s biggest banks.\nAt the moment, as long as the US dollar and US yields continue to rise, emerging market jitters can be expected to grow. As British financial correspondent Neal Kimberley , markets often behave like predators, running down what they perceive as the weakest prey first \u2014 a role being filled, with usual aplomb, by Argentina.\nEmerging market weakness is by now a generalized trend. The jitters could soon spread to Latin America\u2019s two largest economies, Brazil and Mexico, which between them account for close to 60% of Latin America\u2019s GDP. Both of the countries face general elections in the next two months. In Brazil the most popular presidential candidate, former president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, is running his campaign from behind bars, where he serves a prison sentence after having been convicted of corruption. In Mexico, the front runner, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has the country\u2019s business elite so spooked that it has launched a \u201cProject Fear\u201d against his candidacy.\nBut it\u2019s not just countries that are at risk of contagion; so, too, are global companies with a big stake in the affected markets. Few companies are more exposed to Latin America than large Spanish ones. Some were already burnt in Argentina\u2019s last crisis and default. But in the aftermath of Spain\u2019s real estate collapse, opportunities at home dried up to such an extent that access to Latin America\u2019s fast-growing economies became a godsend. But it could soon become a curse.\nAmong the Spanish firms are Telef\u00f3nica, with \u20ac3.5 billion of revenues at stake in Argentina. It also generates \u20ac12 billion of its revenues in Brazil. There\u2019s supermarket chain Dia with \u20ac1.74 billion of its in revenues in Argentina. Or Gas Natural with \u20ac574 million of its revenues in Argentina. Spanish infrastructure group Abertis, which was just acquired in a joint takeover by Italian rival Atlantia and Spanish construction firm ACS, has \u20ac400 million of revenues in Argentina.\nSpain\u2019s two biggest banks, Santander and BBVA, also have sizable stakes in the country, with Santander earning 4% of its group profits there and BBVA, 6%.\nWhile Latin American markets have provided welcome diversification effects for the two big banks, they could also have significant implications for inward and outward spillovers. The subsidiaries of Santander and BBVA are \u201csystemically important\u201d for a number of key banking systems in Latin America, accounting for about 38% and 25% of Mexico and Chile\u2019s banking sector assets, respectively.\nIn the case of BBVA, its Mexico operations almost half of the group\u2019s global profits. For Santander its biggest source of lucre is Brazil, providing 27% of the group\u2019s global profits in 2017. As the IMF last year, this \u201chigh reliance on foreign subsidiaries in profit generation could imply significant vulnerabilities if the economic and financial conditions in host countries were to deteriorate.\u201d\nAt the beginning of this year, both Mexico and Brazil faced an uphill struggle, with inflation high, growth stagnating, political uncertainty on the rise, and in Mexico, serious doubts about NAFTA. Argentina has meanwhile sunk into full crisis mode. Now, there\u2019s the added risk of a generalized deterioration in emerging market debt. So 2018 could be a challenge, not only for Latin America, but also for the Spanish companies and banks that have grown to depend upon it.\nWhen the \u201chot money\u201d gets antsy, a currency crisis morphs into a debt crisis. Read\u2026\nThis entry was posted in Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post on May 13, 2018 by Lambert Strether.\ndivadab May 13, 2018 at 7:38 am\n\u201cDon\u2019t Cry for Me Argentina\u201d \u2013 and they won\u2019t, at least for the foreign banks that will never be repaid. It\u2019s surprising that a country so blessed with natural resources as Argentina can be so badly managed. Although Buenos Aires is really a delightful city to visit, fun, lively, pleasure-oriented, and peaceful. And getting cheaper by the minute as the currency inflates to nothingness. Iran is very cheap now too, tho not as cheap as when my cousin went through there in the early eighties on a transit visa \u2013 $12 bought enough Iranian currency in the black market for him to live for six days, staying at tourist hotels and traveling on air conditioned Mercedes buses. Which was a step up from how he had been living on the road overland from Australia, sleeping on the beach and eating street food.\nThe world is still a fascinating place although I think that kind of travel is getting harder.\nUncle Sam has had a heavy hand in making sure that countries rich in natural resources are run in a way that is not so agreeable with stability and social welfare. Resource extraction and hewing to the Washington consensus is always key. One would hope that with enough turmoil, eventually leadership would emerge that would focus on importing far less from outside their own borders/regions, including financing. Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico should be largely self-sufficient and unconcerned with fluctuations of the dollar. Time and time again though, we see through US actions and the greed of internal elites, the countries cannot escape the damage inflected upon them by corruption and feckless leadership.\nPym of Nantucket May 13, 2018 at 10:15 am\nI like your \u201ctime and time again\u201d line. The cyclic recidivism theme was certainly strong in the works of a certain Columbian Nobel laureate who had some things to say about the state of Latin America\u2026\nJos\u00e9 May 13, 2018 at 8:02 am\nInflation is not \u201chigh\u201d in Brazil: the latest figures put the annual rate at 2.76 %, way below the central bank target of 4.5%.\nSome things don\u2019t change in Argentina, whether the government of the day is populist or conservative. For instance, regardless of who\u2019s nominally in charge of the BCRA [central bank], the entrenched bureaucracy carries on increasing the supply of circulating currency at nearly 30 percent annually. Inflation and currency devaluation are natural consequences.\nAnother policy which hasn\u2019t changed is an inheritance from chavismo \u2014 the bizarre theory that an overvalued currency confers some benefit. In one sense that\u2019s true. Reportedly Argentina has almost two-thirds of its external debt denominated in foreign currencies, including its $2.75 billion of 100-year bonds denominated in US dollars. Every drop in the peso directly ratchets up debt service expense.\nBut we already know, from the sad examples of Venezuela and Argentina in the past, that a chronically overvalued currency subsidizes imports, hobbles exports, and drains foreign reserves. This process grinds to a halt when forex reserves drop so low that the BSOD screen appears on the central bank\u2019s terminals: GAME OVER \u2026 play again (Y/N)?\nThe proximate cause of Argentina\u2019s difficulty is summed up by Eshe Nelson:\nIn Argentina, high inflation is a chronic problem. [But] at the end of last year, the government eased its inflation targets, aiming for a rate of 15% this year, instead of between 8% and 12%, and pushing out the target to get price growth down to 5% from 2019 to 2020.\nThis was followed in January by the central bank cutting interest rates, to 28%\u2014still high by most standards, but a curious move for policymakers looking to tame inflation. These moves \u201csent a worrying signal to investors,\u201d said analysts at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.\nWhat followed was a massive selloff in the peso.\nHow should the IMF respond to Argentina\u2019s request for a $30 billion bailout to support dysfunctional policies that are guaranteed to fail? Simple: \u201cStop the greasy-kid-stuff inflation, let the peso float, and come back to see us when you\u2019ve succeeded.\u201d\nSynoia May 13, 2018 at 4:25 pm\nStop the greasy-kid-stuff inflation, let the peso float, and come back to see us when you\u2019ve succeeded.\nReally? Where has that worked? The issue appears to be neoliberal free trade, where imports are encouraged, and local manufacture discouraged.\nHow about \u201cClose your economy, make everything you need yourself as much as possible, with import substitution, Borrow only in your own currency or do without.\u201d\nicancho May 13, 2018 at 6:02 pm\n\u201cClose your economy, make everything you need yourself as much as possible, with import substitution, Borrow only in your own currency or do without.\u201d\nYes, agreed; and to a very large extent, that is what the Kirchner administrations had been doing\u2014 despite massive opposition from a very deeply-entrenched land-owner oligarchy and highly concentrated media\u2014 managing to substantially reduce poverty, extend education opportunities into the interior of the country and pay off the IMF, all this from a hugely disadvantageous economic starting point provided to them by the disastrous neoliberal policies of Menem et al. And now we have Macri, who has sabotaged many elements of the nation\u2019s economic machinery\u2014 notably the federal research agencies\u2014 has substantially increased unemployment, savagely cut wages, engaged in wholesale privatization, and, to cap it all, opted to saddle the country with further massive foreign-denominated debt. Macri amounts to what Argentines refer to as un cipayo vendepatria.\nI\u2019d default on this: \u201cand pay off the IMF\u201d\nI\u2019d not be repaying a predators\u2019 self created money.\nicancho May 13, 2018 at 10:38 pm\nRight. It was to good degree odious debt dating the from the days of Videla and the dictadura; nonetheless, they felt it was necessary to escape once and for all from the yoke of debt denominated in US$. And this they did. Now it\u2019s back gracias a Macri..\nLuci May 14, 2018 at 9:57 am\nNo, thanks to the people who voted Macri.\nHe came to do his job, people was stupid enough to vote him.\nJCC May 13, 2018 at 11:36 am\nI received my copy of Naomi Prins\u2019 \u201cCollusion\u201d yesterday. Based solely on the introduction (all I have had time to read so far) I bet that I\u2019ll have a much better understanding of who is ultimately responsible for what we are about to see happen, and it\u2019s not the relatively ignorant, average, US politician, but our Central Banking System here and Europe and other places.\n\u201cCentral Banks can do no wrong,\u201d eh?\nJCC May 13, 2018 at 11:50 pm\nI hope you realize I meant quite the opposite :-)\nMarco who else? \u263a May 13, 2018 at 2:38 pm\nThe world is getting there\u2026\nIt could be the eternal recurrence of by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) in The Gay Science [ \u201cThis life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence\u2014even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!\u201d].\nThere is an ongoing failure by successive Latin American policy makers to correctly diagnose and craft prudent macro financial and monetary policies to prevent financial crises and their economic fallout from recurring. I don\u2019t believe the level of Argentine sovereign debt is a problem. Rather, it is the nation\u2019s private sector debt to external creditors denominated in US dollars, and sudden fluctuations in the $USD currency exchange rate, that is the problem.\nSo who in the private sector are borrowing all this debt denominated in a foreign currency, why have they done so, and to whom do they owe that debt? And what is the leverage they have over the nation\u2019s government to transfer repayment of that debt to the nation\u2019s government and insist on policy prescriptions that are so damaging to the vast majority of the nation\u2019s people, who are largely innocent in the matter?\nAre you blaming the victims or the perpetrators?\n\u201d And what is the leverage they have over the nation\u2019s government to transfer repayment of that debt to the nation\u2019s government\u201d not point to \u201cfree trade regime\u201d? What controls would you have the Government place if closing its economy, local manufacture and import substitution, is required to gain control?\nHow does a perennial \u201cdebtor nation\u201d actually control its \u201cforeign denominated debt\u201d? Pleas enlighten me.\nHi Synoia,\nTo answer your first question, the perps. Based on your comment, I think you have the ability to answer your second and third questions yourself, and suspect you may have already done so. In any event, that is a matter for the Argentine people to decide.\nArgentine households\u2019 cumulative debt-to-GDP is only around 7 percent. Argentine sovereign debt-to-GDP is about 56 percent. However, when you look at \u201cexternal debt\u201d, Argentina\u2019s reported external debt at YE 2017 was the equivalent of $US363.1 billion, roughly 67 percent of reported GDP in $USD equivalency of $545.9 billion. With devaluation of the peso, that denominator would presumably decrease.\nExternal debt is the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods or services, where the public debt is the money or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations (presumably including banking corporations).\nJust my thoughts, mindful of what happened to the people of Greece.\nYes , the DOllar borrowing is import driven \u2014 thus one has to cut imports, and impose exchange controls.\n\u201cPoof\u201d goes the instant mobility of Capital. Oh it\u2019s hard life!\nMy question was pointed to drive to point home.\nMichael Hudson May 13, 2018 at 5:38 pm\nWhen Scudder, Stevens & Clark floated the first Sovereign Debt Fund (we wanted to call it the Sovereign High Interest Trust, SHIT), Argentina was paying 45%, as was Brazil. Mexico was paying 22 1/2% on its Tessobonos.\nAmericans wouldn\u2019t buy into the fund. Europeans wouldn\u2019t. But Merryl Lynch sold most shares in Buenos Aires and Brazil.\nGuess who bought? I think, the wealthy families that controlled the central bank. \u201cYankee dollars\u201d turned out to be Argentine and Brazilian Oligarchy Dollars offshore. (Our fund was in the Dutch West Indies; as an American, I couldn\u2019t buy shares, but it was the 2nd ranking global fund (behind an Australian real estate fund).\nThank you for your comment, Dr. Hudson. Adds another layer to understanding this puzzle.\nANyone here knows any long form read on how Argentina got into this state? From a time when it was stable relatively to current?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 21919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://charlaherbert.com/new-blog/2015/9/30/day-of-the-dead", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ZI7DDENUS7FCN6YXDK3J4LOAZUK5N4XU", "length": 1375, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "charlaherbert.com", "title": "All Is Vanity \u2014 Art by Charla Herbert", "raw_content": "The phrase \"All is vanity\" comes from Ecclesiastes. It refers to the futility and pride of man. And art that contains a human skull as a focal point is called a memento mori (Latin for \"remember you will die\"), a work that reminds people of their mortality.\nLife is fragile and precious because it is short and uncertain. Like the single monarch butterfly on its eternal migration, no single individual knows where or why we exist as we do. We are on a journey. Our physical beings may be all there is and the realization of everything in the mind of God or only a speck of froth on the wave of a vast oneness. Maybe one day we will see through more than a glass dimly. For now, we contemplate.\nCome and contemplate our short, fragile existence and honor those who have taken the road before us as Dia de los Muertos invites us to do.\nThis work is filled with symbolism. Do note at the feet of this work of your timeless inner self is the makings of an alter. There is bread and drink with an image of the Madonna, flowers and candles. Spiraling up is the double helix that is the blueprint of all life. Here one side is comprised of the Monarch\u2019s journey and the other the vastness of the Universe with countless nebulae and galaxies. On your shoulder is the Raven, at your left hand the staff of Caduceus both at the ready to guide you to the next world if it should exist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 183.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chevychasesection5.org/governance/council-minutes/2014/april", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:41:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RMS6SXSTLNHHYPR2HIPMBIGFTIXSDLIQ", "length": 3665, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "chevychasesection5.org", "title": "April \u2014 Chevy Chase Section 5", "raw_content": "Peter moved that the minutes of the March 11, 2014, Council meeting be approved as presented; there was a second and the motion passed unanimously.\nGreg said that he thought that this survey would produce data concerning the speed of vehicles as well as the number of trucks traveling Williams Ln. The survey performed by A. Morton Thomas, Engineering Co., produced only the number of trucks that traveled Williams Lane during a specific period of time. The data show that less than 2% of all vehicles traversing Williams Lane were trucks.\nThe manager will locate the files on the three traffic studies which the Council has had performed over the last twenty years and provide the Council with the data. At the April Annual Meeting the Council will discuss the possibility of having a survey conducted which will record the speed as well as the volume of vehicular traffic for each of the main Section 5 streets. The manager will also contact A. Morton Thomas concerning the cost of such a survey.\nAgenda Item: Treasurer\u2019s Report/Discussion and Voting on 2014/15 Budget\nTim presented the revenues and expenditures for FY 14 through March 31. Each expenditure item is within the 2013/14 budget with the exception of snow removal. This year there has been an unusually harsh winter and the cost of snow removal has exceeded the budget.\nNancy moved that the 2014/15 budget be approved subject to the input from residents at the May 8, 2014, Annual Meeting. There was a second and the motion passed unanimously.\nAgenda Item: Presentation of County New Tree Law\nJohn Higgins will give a presentation of the new County tree law and how it affects Section 5 at the May Annual Meeting.\n3628 Woodbine St. \u2012 construction of new house (house address has been changed from Connecticut Avenue to Woodbine Street)\n3705 Woodbine Street \u2012 2 story addition in rear\n3804 Thornapple Street \u2012 fence in rear yard\nThe County has contacted Section 5 and said that the County will increase its price for salt and sand from $59 per ton to $90 per ton.\nSection 5 paid to have a public tree removed from the public strip in front of a Thornapple St. resident\u2019s house. The resident asked Section 5 to pay to grind the stump to a greater depth than Section 5 does ordinarily. The resident personally paid to have the stump from this public tree ground to this greater depth. She also paid to have a new tree planted in that area where the old stump was. She contacted the manager and asked if Section 5 would pay for the extra grinding as well as the cost of the new tree.\nThe Council decided to pay for the cost of the new public tree; however, it decided not to pay for the cost of the additional grinding. The manager will contact the resident and tell her about the Council\u2019s decision.\nA Boy Scout who lives in Section 5 asked the manager if Section 5 would pay $74.00 for the cost of the materials for his Eagle Scout project. There was some discussion.\nThe Council decided not to pay the $74.00 for the cost of the Eagle Project. The manager will contact the Boy Scout and tell him of the Council\u2019s decision.\nA Thornapple Street resident contacted the manager and asked if she could channel the water from her sump pump under the public sidewalk and into the public gutter at the edge of the public street. The manager told her that she could not channel her sump pump water into the public curb because in the winter it could freeze and become a public hazard.\nPeter adjourned the meeting. The next meeting will be the Annual Meeting, which will be held May 8, 2014, at the Village Hall, 5906 Connecticut Avenue, at 7:30 PM. The Village Hall has handicapped access. Everyone is welcome.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 6476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://christchurchfootballclub.co.nz/the-club/our-all-blacks/b-e-mcphail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3ZL36XSP7C4HIWPAHVH2SOYMRTAZDV3", "length": 5752, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "christchurchfootballclub.co.nz", "title": "B.E McPhail - Christchurch Football Club", "raw_content": "Seven Try Spree\nIn 82 first class games Bruce McPhail scored 66 tries and this is a remarkable tally considering that 41 of these games were for Nelson and Mid Canterbury, lesser unions without the quality of players in a major province. In 1959 he notched hat-tricks in both South island trials and playing for Canterbury against Combined Services in the curtain raiser to the 3rd test against the British Isles he scored an astounding 7 tries. All in all he scored 20 tries in 1959 and, having played the 1st and 4th tests against the Lions was a contender for the All Blacks tour of South Africa. He missed selection but when asked some 50 years later how he felt about his omission his answer was measured and honest. \u201cWell\u201d, he said, \u201cto tell you the truth I was not that sorry\u2026I had a reasonable trial but did not get much ball\u2026I had worked out that it was going to be a tough tour for wingers because of the ten-man rugby the All Blacks favoured and because of the bigger South African backs\u2026they went for Dennis Cameron, a bigger winger than me.\u201d\nBruce McPhail was born in Ashburton and attended Ashburton College but did not make the 1st XV and because he was working on a farm he played no rugby until 1956 when he was enticed to play for the Old Boys Club. He ended up playing 6 games for Mid Canterbury the next year and in 1958, encouraged by Ross Smith he joined the Christchurch Club when he came to the city to work for NZ Loan & Mercantile. His first encounter with Smith had been playing against him and the master wingman was in great form, \u201c\u2026he came at me, went sideways and I caught a blade of grass.\u201d\nSmith had said that Ken Osbourne may not be avaialble and \u201cthere may be a gap\u201d so McPhail trialled under the watchful eye of Alan Cochrane, a well-regarded back coach. \u201cI did not play well in the trial but Alan Cochrane still picked me\u2026 I played the first game but was well pleased to miss the Marist game. This was because four regular Marist players (Tom George, Ray Liddicote, Bill Devine and Colin Devine) had decided to leave the green and whites and join Christchurch and there was more than a chance it would be a tough encounter.\nBruce McPhail in the summer months excelled as a track sprinter at provincial centre level and so his natural pace as a rugby wing won him considerable notice and attention in the mid to late 1950s and into the early 60s. \u201cIt was a brutal game and I was pleased to be watching.\u201d\nOver the summer he had sharpened up his speed by doing track work and he found himself in the Canterbury team for the early season match against the West Coast. From there his rise was startling. He played in the South Island trial and in the i nter-island match. The next season he repeated these successes and was a late replacement in the All Black team to play the Lions at Dunedin. Recalling one of his early games for Canterbury he said, \u201cI replaced Maurie Dixon who was injured\u2026Alan Elsom, his great mate, was at centre and I could hardly lay a hand on his passes, they were all over the place\u2026at half time Jack Morton came out and gave Elsom a telling off for deliberately throwing bad passes\u2026he moved Ross Smith to centre and I had a much better second half.\u201d\nThe circumstances around McPhail\u2019s two tests in 1959 make interesting reading because in both instances he was a late selection and had some difficulty getting to the game.\n\u201cIn the week of the test the Otago winger Tuppy Diack came under an injury cloud and McPhail was summoned to Dunedin\u2026Bill Devine took him to the airport but there were no flights so Bill walked around until he found someone to swap\u2026Tom Pearce picked me up and I got changed in the car and eventually got to the team training which Jack Sullivan was taking. He called the players together, introduced me and then said to Tuppy \u2018well are you OK?\u2019 Tuppy shook his head and Jack looked at me and said you\u2019re playing.\u201d\nHe played in Canterbury\u2019s victory over the Lions and thanks in part to Colin McDonald\u2019s silky skills at centre scored seven tries in the curtain raiser to the 3rd test. After this he was sent to Massey on a study course.\nHe was in a lecture when a message came through from the principal telling him, \u201cto get to Auckland because Frank McMullen is unlikely to play.\u201d So McPhail got himself on a train from Palmerston North and got there in time to find he was playing. The All Blacks and McPhail struggled to contain the talented Lions wingers, Peter Jackson and Tony O\u2019Reilly. The Lions won 9 - 6 and it was a dazzling run by Bev Risman, who side-stepped McPhail, that clinched the match for the tourists.\nLooking back on this match and his All Black career he said, \u201cIt was a great run, Risman had room to sidestep and I missed him\u2026but it was great honour to play for New Zealand\u2026I am happy with that achievement.\u201d\nAfter the 1959 season he left Christchurch and moved to Nelson. Between 1960 and 1963 he played 35 matches for that union. He was also in the combined Nelson, Marlborough and Golden Bay-Motueka team which in 1961 had the distinction of being the first side from this country to meet a French touring team on New Zealand soil. In the 26-11 loss McPhail showed he had lost little of his speed by scoring both the combined side\u2019s tries.\nWhile in Nelson he encountered Neil McGregor, the former Christchurch man. McGregor, by now in his sixties, had agreed to help coach the Nelson team. For McPhail it was a bit like playing for his old club again. \u201cNeil\u2019s philosophy was to \u201crun the opposition ragged\u2026and we played some good rugby with Neil.\u201d\nMcPhail gave something back to rugby in the years after his retirement. He refereed and coached in both Nelson and Ashburton and remained prominent in track and field as a successful veteran athlete.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ciha2016.org/en/speakers/index/62", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:56Z", "digest": "sha1:245U6VTFYOHG2UVYQNLOIGV3XKDZFWET", "length": 2158, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ciha2016.org", "title": "CIHA 2016 in Beijing 34th World Congress of Art History - Participants", "raw_content": "AVRAMIDOU, Elena\nMimesis and the Banishment of the Artists in Plato's Republic\nIn this paper, we will focus on the theory of mimesis and the banishment of the artists from Plato\u2019s just state. We will examine the views of the Athenian philosopher firstly in the context of books 2 and 3 and then of book 10 of the Republic. The relevant differences, and the reasons for these differences, will be highlighted.\nWe will note, therefore, that, while in the first case the characters are presented in poetic works through representation, in the latter, mimesis in art painting is the imitation of the imaginary, and as such it addresses the illogical element of the soul.\nFinally, we will explain that Plato's attack on poetry, and the subsequent censorship, both of which are defined by pedagogical terms in books 2 and 3, represent a severe criticism of the ancient Greece\u2019s cultural model. Plato denounces the ancient myths for promoting bad behavior models and, knowing the influence that poetry has on the soul, he has no option but to banish it.\nThe analysis in book 10 not only broadens but also becomes more complex. Mimesis, as an imitation of imitation (with reference to the painter\u2019s work) is denounced for its low ontological and epistemological value. Therefore, the theoretical knowledge of the philosopher\u2019s truth is the answer to the culture of polis, founded in doxa (opinion) and the phenomenal world.\nAssociate Professor at Peking University, Department of History and Center for Hellenic Studies, and in charge of the Examination Centre for Greek Language at PKU.\nShe studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin (Italy) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and got her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).\nHer research areas include Greek and Chinese Philosophy, Greek History and Culture and Chinese Culture and Society.\nShe has participated in conferences and international congresses in Asia, Europe, America, and Australia, and has contributed several papers to various Greek and international journals and editions and has been editor- in-chief of the Greek cultural review ENEKEN.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 8322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 143.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://classorbit.com/object/presidents-day-washington-and-lincoln-abraham-lincoln-clip", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4S2P6FIFEKZOPSHM63V2S6OW6MMJ6KL7", "length": 4791, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "classorbit.com", "title": "Abraham Lincoln - Presidents Day | ClassOrbit", "raw_content": "Know that Presidents' Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February. Until 1971, both February 12 (Abraham Lincoln's birthday) and February 22 (George Washington's birthday) were celebrated as holidays. In 1971, President Richard Nixon changed it to one holiday for both events, the third Monday in February.\nRealize that on Presidents' Day, banks, schools, and many offices are closed. This is so we can have a day to remember some of the people who are responsible for all the freedoms that we have.\nKnow some of the many things George Washington did to help the United States become a free and independent country.\nHe led the American army to victory in the Revolutionary War against England. He did this for eight years, working and serving without being paid.\nHe was elected to be in charge of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He did this, even though he was very sick. There were many arguments and disagreements in some of these meetings, but Washington was able to keep the meetings going and the leaders from leaving.\nMany people wanted Washington to be king, but he refused to because they had just fought a war with England to get rid of the control of a king. Washington suggested that the country have a President instead of a king. The people would elect the President. He was elected the first President of our country in February of 1789.\nWhile President, he set the example of what a good President could do and how our country should be run.\nHe served two terms as President then retired to Mount Vernon, where he kept busy visiting with people and writing letters.\nRealize that Washington's birthday has been celebrated since Revolutionary times. On the first public celebration, soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War with General Washington held a drum and fife concert for him, and canons were fired in his honor.\nKnow that Washington is remembered as \"The Father of our Country.\"\nRecognize some of the many ways Washington is honored. There are many monuments and statues for him all over the country. Schools, cities, streets, a state, and even the capital of our country are named after him. He is on the one-dollar bill and the quarter.\nKnow some of the many things Abraham Lincoln did to help our country.\nHe was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. Because he had to work to help his poor family, he did not get to go to school much. His honesty and willingness to do work earned him the nickname \"Honest Abe.\" Although he did not go to school, he studied hard and became a lawyer.\nIn 1861, he was elected the 16th President of the United States.\nSoon after becoming President, the Civil War began. Lincoln tried to keep the states together, but the Southern states did not want to be part of the country anymore.\nDuring the Civil War, Lincoln gave a famous speech called the \"Gettysburg Address.\" It was given at a place where some of the fighting of the Civil War took place. Lincoln wanted to end the Civil War, keep the country together, and give all people their freedom, specifically the slaves.\nIn 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all of the slaves.\nIn 1865, after the Civil War ended, Lincoln was at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. A man named John Wilkes Booth sneaked in and shot President Lincoln.\nRecognize some of the ways Lincoln is honored. There is a large memorial in Washington, D.C., called the Lincoln Memorial. His picture is on the penny and the five-dollar bill.\nRealize that we celebrate Presidents' Day to help us remember and be thankful for the freedom those men helped give everyone in the United States. Also, Presidents' Day is a reminder to honor all the Presidents, not just Washington and Lincoln.\nShow the students a list or a poster that has all of the Presidents on it. See how many of them they recognize. Point out Washington and Lincoln as men that are especially honored on Presidents' Day. Ask the students if they know anything that Washington or Lincoln did that would make our country want to honor them.\nDisplay a calendar for the students to see. Point out Lincoln's birthday (February 12) and Washington's birthday (February 22). Explain to the students that the nation celebrates Presidents' Day on the third Monday of February.\nSplit the class into two teams and have a competition. Take turns asking each team a question. You could tell them a fact or an accomplishment, and they have to tell you if it describes Washington or Lincoln. A correct answer awards the team a point. The team with the most points at the end wins.\nHoliday Introduction\nIntroduction to Presidents Day\nCivil War Constitution Constitutional Convention Emancipation Proclamation Federal holiday Freedom Gettysburg Address Holiday Honest Abe President Presidents' Day Revolutionary War Slaves", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 165.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cld.irmct.org/notions/show/1096/absence-of-references", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DPOKJ42YJJ72BXQST64JI3HJ6NBF6YSD", "length": 2077, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cld.irmct.org", "title": "Absence of references \u00bb ICTR/ICTY/IRMCT Case Law Database", "raw_content": "Absence of references\n138. The Appeals Chamber first turns to Stani\u0161i\u0107\u2019s submission that the Trial Chamber failed to indicate the evidence relied upon or excluded in the section of the Trial Judgement addressing Stani\u0161i\u0107\u2019s contribution and as such failed to provide a reasoned opinion. The Appeals Chamber notes that the section of the Trial Judgement on Stani\u0161i\u0107\u2019s contribution to the JCE indeed does not refer to the evidence relied upon by the Trial Chamber to support its findings. Neither does it include any cross references to its earlier findings where the Trial Chamber analysed the evidence.[1] The Appeals Chamber, however, recalls that a trial judgement must be read as a whole.[2] Furthermore, there is a presumption that a trial chamber has evaluated all the evidence presented to it, as long as there is no indication that the trial chamber completely disregarded any particular piece of evidence.[3] As Stani\u0161i\u0107 acknowledges in his own submission,[4] in the section of the Trial Judgement addressing his contribution to the JCE, the Trial Chamber summarised the evidence that it had relied on in other sections of the Trial Judgement. While the Appeals Chamber considers the Trial Chamber\u2019s approach regrettable, [5] it does not, in its view, amount to a failure to provide a reasoned opinion in and of itself. The Appeals Chamber therefore dismisses Stani\u0161i\u0107\u2019s argument.\n[1] See Trial Judgement [Prosecutor v. Mi\u0107o Stani\u0161i\u0107 and Stojan \u017dupljanin, Case No. IT-08-91-T, Judgement, 27 March 2013]], vol. 2, paras 729-765.\n[2] \u0160ainovi\u0107 et al. Appeal Judgement, paras 306, 321; Bo\u0161koski and Tar\u010dulovski Appeal Judgement, para. 67; Ori\u0107 Appeal Judgement, para. 38.\n[3] Popovi\u0107 et al. Appeal Judgement, para. 306; \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 Appeal Judgement, fn. 2527; Haradinaj et al. Appeal Judgement, para. 129; Kvo\u010dka et al. Appeal Judgement, para. 23.\n[4] See Stani\u0161i\u0107 Appeal Brief [Appellant\u2019s Brief on behalf of Mi\u0107o Stani\u0161i\u0107, 19 August 2013]], paras 46, 240.\nDownload full document ICTR Statute Article 22(2) ICTY Statute Article 23(2) ICTR Rule Rule 88(C) ICTY Rule Rule 98 ter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cld.irmct.org/notions/show/221/cumulative-charging", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZI3S6BSHORMDSPXLYJZAFRETYXO7TJBP", "length": 2130, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cld.irmct.org", "title": "Cumulative charging \u00bb ICTR/ICTY/IRMCT Case Law Database", "raw_content": "Cumulative charging\nCumulative charging |\n1029. It is established case-law that cumulative convictions for genocide and crime against humanity are permissible on the basis of the same acts, as each has a materially distinct element from the other, namely, on the one hand, \u201cthe intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group\u201d, and, on the other, \u201ca widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population\u201d.[1]\n[1] Ntagerura et al. Appeal Judgement, para. 426; Semanza Appeal Judgement, para. 318. With specific reference to cumulative convictions for genocide and extermination, see Ntakirutimana Appeal Judgement, para. 542; Musema Appeal Judgement, paras. 366-367, 370.\n400. Cumulative charging is to be allowed in light of the fact that, prior to the presentation of all of the evidence, it is not possible to determine to a certainty which of the charges brought against an accused will be proven. The Trial Chamber is better poised, after the parties\u2019 presentation of the evidence, to evaluate which of the charges may be retained, based upon the sufficiency of the evidence. In addition, cumulative charging constitutes the usual practice of both this Tribunal and the ICTR.\n369. On the issue of cumulative charges, ICTY Appeals Chamber in \u010celebi\u0107i held:\n[c]umulative charging is to be allowed in light of the fact that, prior to the presentation of all of the evidence, it is not possible to determine to a certainty which of the charges brought against an accused will be proven. The Trial Chamber is better poised, after the parties\u2019 presentation of the evidence, to evaluate which of the charges may be retained, based upon the sufficiency of the evidence. In addition, cumulative charging constitutes the usual practice of both this Tribunal and ICTR.[1]\nThe Appeals Chamber finds that the above holding on cumulative charges reflects a general principle and is equally applicable to ICTR. As a result, the Appeals Chamber confirms that cumulative charging is generally permitted.\n370. [\u2026] The Appeals Chamber further holds that cumulative charging is generally permitted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clubs4uk.co.uk/gun/lancashire-whitworth-gun-club.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UDFIMCE7M2CZUSJD3BOZHPXO7OO2UFGG", "length": 1309, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "clubs4uk.co.uk", "title": "Whitworth Gun Club", "raw_content": "Whitworth Gun Club\nWhitworth gun club in Lancashire should be a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) of United Kingdom and the National Small-bore Rifle Association (NSRA).\nAsk also to speak to your local Whitworth police firearms liaison officer, who will tell you what you need to fill those forms out to his or her satisfaction. They may also want to see a 'good reason' for you wanting a gun, such as membership of Whitworth gun club or for pest control. They usually want to see that you will keep your gun or guns in a secure place, such as a steel gun cabinet bolted to a wall. You have to store ammunition separately.\nPeople who apply for a Firearm Certificate for a rifle or muzzle-loading pistol from 1 October 1997 need to be a member of a rifle or muzzle-loading pistol club approved by the Home Office or Scottish Office under the Firearms Acts if they intend to use the gun for target shooting only. Muzzle loaders are now the only legal useable handguns available to UK shooters (apart from the historic cartridge firing handguns kept at designated sites). However, in order to conduct your shooting you will need a supply of blackpowder which as a classified explosive, has its own restrictions requiring the acquisition of a blackpowder certificate from your Whitworth police force.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 7142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clubs4uk.co.uk/gun/staffordshire-eccleshall-gun-club.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:35:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PXKNKSK6L4QM2AOAS6RVEIEK3HPTIG4A", "length": 1317, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "clubs4uk.co.uk", "title": "Eccleshall Gun Club", "raw_content": "Eccleshall Gun Club\nEccleshall gun club in Staffordshire should be a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) of United Kingdom and the National Small-bore Rifle Association (NSRA).\nAsk also to speak to your local Eccleshall police firearms liaison officer, who will tell you what you need to fill those forms out to his or her satisfaction. They may also want to see a 'good reason' for you wanting a gun, such as membership of Eccleshall gun club or for pest control. They usually want to see that you will keep your gun or guns in a secure place, such as a steel gun cabinet bolted to a wall. You have to store ammunition separately.\nPeople who apply for a Firearm Certificate for a rifle or muzzle-loading pistol from 1 October 1997 need to be a member of a rifle or muzzle-loading pistol club approved by the Home Office or Scottish Office under the Firearms Acts if they intend to use the gun for target shooting only. Muzzle loaders are now the only legal useable handguns available to UK shooters (apart from the historic cartridge firing handguns kept at designated sites). However, in order to conduct your shooting you will need a supply of blackpowder which as a classified explosive, has its own restrictions requiring the acquisition of a blackpowder certificate from your Eccleshall police force.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 7151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://codshit.blogspot.com/2008/02/knocking-down-misty-satellite-least.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:35:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KAC7VNAZW3M7LWEVZX4AP55UHOCGQMXX", "length": 24634, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "codshit.blogspot.com", "title": "codshit.com: Knocking Down Misty Satellite Least Dangerous Option", "raw_content": "Knocking Down Misty Satellite Least Dangerous Option\nIn the development of space, the problem was always making weapons bigger, whether it was a question of jet propulsion, missiles, satellites, shuttles, pay loads, intelligence-collecting instruments, protective devices, renewable vehicles, and the like. The source of the difficulty, of course, was gravity, and the atmosphere of gases it kept around the globe - what made it so difficult, expensive, and unpredictable about sending anything into space, much less getting it back in the hope of using it yet again. The process was so complicated, expensive and hazardous that almost nothing was produced in any aspect of the field without fits and starts of all kinds before anything significant was accomplished.\nJust look at the history of missiles themselves. It was only after the Soviet Union had survived its terrible war with the Nazis that it seriously got involved in these matters, and only then because it feared being left behind as its Anglo-American allies threatened to steal a march on it. In November 1945, shortly after Washington had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war with the Japanese, the Soviets announced a new Five-Year-Plan during the implementation of which they planned to catch up with the West on all fronts, especially the use of atomic energy for domestic and national security purposes. While the Politburo blamed its backwardness in these area upon the devastating losses incurred during the war, its lack of trust in its scientific community developing these capacities was just as much the cause.\nWhether one looks into the development of nuclear energy, missiles, jet propulsion or radar, the Russians had had the potential to be in the forefront of their use if it had not be for its political difficulties - the Russian Revolution, its civil war, Stalin's consolidation of power, and the purges. Vladimir Vernadsky, a Russian mineralogist, was one of the first scientists to see the potential of the Cures' discovery of new elements, polonium and radium which was many million times more radio-active than uranium. He called in December 1910 for, as David Holloway has written in Stalin and the Bomb, a revolution in society through the use of atomic energy comparable to what steam and the railway had achieved during the industrial revolution. \"He believed in science as a force for civilization and democracy, and wanted the Russian scientific community to make its voice heard on important matters of the day.\" (p. 30) Unfortunately, this did not occur, thanks primarily to the Great War and the Russian Revolution.\nPolitical interference plagued similarly Russian development of missiles, radar and jets. It was only the fear of Washington and London getting ahead in developing missiles, thanks to the input by sciencists like Werner von Braun and Hermann Oberth, that Stalin finally permitted \"...the Research Institute of the Academy of Artillery Sciences to investigate the design of multi-stage, long-range, liquid-fuel rockets\" (p. 250) - what Russian pioneer rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had recommended without much success during the early 1930s for the exploration of outer space. In fact, the emphasis on tactical rockets - what did lead to the development of 'Katiusha' rocket artilllery - so inferred with the basic research that A. M. Liul'ka was conducting durng the late '30s into jet aircraft that the Russians had to rely upon captured German aircraft during WWII to catch up in the field. Soviet radar development was similarly hurt by political interference during Stalin's purges, forcing Moscow to rely upon radars supplied from the West under Lend-Lease during the war.\nThe biggest cause in tipping the balance between the Soviet state and science back in its direction was the result of KGB spying, starting with that of Peter Wright apparently aka SCOTT, 'K' and HUNT. (See my articles about him, Vasili Mitrokhin, and Christopher Andrew in the archive.) Wright proved his value not only by providing intelligence about how to build an atomic weapon and that the Anglo-Americans were busily occupied in doing so but also vital, personal information about demagnetizing ships - what was essential if the USSR was ever to have the means of surviving the German onslaught. Wright's information about how to demagnetize the Northern Fleet - what Moscow received in February 1943 - was given a higher priority than the materials he provided about the West's making the bomb as Igor Kurchatov, the father of the Soviet bomb, only gave this assessment of them - \"Wonderful materials,\" he told Molotov, \"they fill in just what we are lacking\" (Quoted from p. 95.), after he had returned from a trip to Murmansk to introduce steps to save its ships from German torpedoes.\nWhile Washington and London were also playing catch-up in these fields, they had the decided advantage that their own territory was not being fought over, was providing a sanctuary for many talented scientists from Nazi persecution, and provided the wherewithall to win the war, thanks especially to the contributions by the Soviets. Albert Einstein, for example, alerted FDR not only to the prospect of the Germans building atomic weapons but also emigrated to America to help make sure that it had them first. German scientists Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch, refugees working at the University of Birmingham, established that a 5-kilogram bomb of pure uranium-235 could be built which would have the destructive capability of several thousand tons of dynamite. Italian Enrico Fermi, who fled to New York because of the fascist threats against his Jewish wife, became the leading light in how to trigger fission and fusion aka chain reactions. Dane Neils Bohr determined that fission only occurred with slow neutrons in uranium-235 rather than in the much more common isotope, uranium-238, leading to the discovery of the importance of plutonium in the process.\nAfter the defeat of the Axis powers, and the Cold War began in earnest, each side in the struggle tried to get the most out of these weapons systems, concentrating, of course, on what it was best at. The Americans and British concentrated on building up their sigint capability since gathering human intelligence in the Soviet bloc became increasingly difficult while the Soviets continued to take advantage of the West's numerous spies it was able to recruit. The Americans used their superiority in aircraft and radar to probe for Soviet weaknesses while Moscow concentrated on catching up in the nuclear field, and moving ahead in missiles with what the Germans had accomplished. While the US Air Force's overflights of the USSR by its RB-47s aka the Strato-Spy, its high-flying U-2s, and its super-fast SR-71 Blackbirds became legendary, the Soviet efforts to put a satellite in space, Sputnik, completely upstaged what the Americans had been doing, and Eisenhower had planned in this regard for the Geo-Physical Year. After several attempts, a three-stage R-7 rocket was able to put the satellite in space on October 4, 1957. It collected mostly scientific information, and functioned for 22 days, finally burning up four months later in the earth's atmosphere.\nOf course, this caused America's National Security Agency (NSA) to panic over how it was collecting intelligence around the world. Starting then, NSA, as James Bamford has written in Body of Secret: How America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World, \"...has moved non stop toward space.\" (p.466) The biggest problem was that it had no such vehicle for putting any satellite in orbit in space. Until then, America had believed that nuclear power was the way to the future, whether one was was thinking of air, sea or land travel. The only trouble with nuclear reactors powering planes, ships and trains was accidents, whether they were caused by some internal malfunction or crash. There would then be quite likely some kind of fireball and perhaps a nuclear explosion. As a result, Washington only allowed its newest warships and submarines to be nuclear powered, knowing if their reactors were punctured, the ships would be finished anyway.\nEisenhower's chief intelligence adviser James R. Killian, Jr., recommended in response to Sputnik a system of six balloons around the globe, 14 miles in space, for eavesdropping upon Soviet missile firings. In testing such possible eavesdropping on the Soviets, NSA detonated a chemical bomb over Shreveport, Louisiana in the hope the resulting electron cloud would redirect TV signals to where they could be collected. In doing so, NSA failed to notify the residents around the town of the test, and that the resulting cesium nitrate was hazardous to eyes and skin, and if inhaled, the person should seek medical attention. (pp. 360-1)\nNSA's other attempts to intercept Soviet communications proved most justified when Washington learned that Yuri Garagin had finally orbited the globe on April 12, 1961, thanks to the powerful Vostok 1 rocket which sent it in orbit after several failed tests. While the agency was most pleased by what it heard, Washington itself was panicked by what the Soviets were achieving, especially in light of its continuing inability to achieve anything significant with its own rockets. The result was the hurried lift off of astronaut John Glenn in the space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida the following February in the hope of giving world opinion the false impression that America was still ahead in the space race.\nIf the mission had failed, the Joint Chief of Staff, headed by Army General Lyman Lemnitzer, were planning to use Glenn's demise as a pretext for war with Castro's Cuba, claiming that its interference with the shuttle's communications had been responsible (Operation Northwoods). Even so, they wanted to instigate all kinds of 'false flag' operations - e.g., terrorist attacks on various American cities, mock assassinations of anti-Castro Cubans, fake evidence that Castro was exporting his revolution to other Caribbean countries, etc. - to make it seem that the Cubans were on the move instead of the Americans. While these steps were not agreed to, there were vestiges of them occurring during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the JFK assassination, and found new life when the Tonkin Gulf incidents occurred, resulting in America's invasion of South Vietnam in order to prevent it from falling to the communists.\nWhen this effort too failed, Washington and Moscow finally seemed to have reached some kind of parity in the arms race, resigned to the conclusion that any serious conflict would lead to mutually assurred destruction (MAD) of both sides, and took steps to stop further strategic missile construction (SALT I) - what would otherwise have become, Nixon explained, \"...a defensive arms race, with untold billions of dollars being spent on each side.\" (Quoted from Christopher Andrew, For the President's Eyes Only, p. 384.) The biggest problem with SALT I was that it was followed by the Watergate scandal - what created such blood-letting in agencies, and of personnel that it rendered the agreement worse than useless. CIA, NSA, and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) were so angered by the loss of agents and their missions because of it that they conspired to bring down President Carter.\nAll these agencies had been severely hurt by the revelations surrounding Watergate, especially the investigation carried out by the Church Committee in the Senate. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was strengthened considerably, making it more difficult for covert agencies to cover up what they had been doing. \"The CIA would spend the next two decades,\" Angus Mackenzie wrote in Secrets: The CIA's War at Home, \"fighting the release of documents who requested them under the FOIA.\" (p. 61) Congress also passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which prevented NSA from collecting wholesale, warrantless wiretapes, and the compiling of abitrary watch lists of Amercans to be on the lookout for. NSA's lack of congresssional oversight had apparently come to a screeching halt.\nOnce the Reagan administration had settled into office, thanks to the 'October Surprise' that key covert operators, particularly Republican Party Vice-Presidential candidate G.H. W. Bush, had arranged with the Iranians for the release for the U\u00b4S hostages in Tehran only after the November election, and had gotten a grip on what foreign policy it wanted - a process which required getting rid of Nixon loyalist, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig - the President himself finally became engaged in the conduct of his office. No sooner did he get wind of what Haig aide Robert 'Bud' McFarlane had in mind with a Strategic Defense Initiative (STI) - a shield to protect America from all incoming Soviet ICBMs - than he ran with it as hard as he could.\n\"Missile defense,\" Lou Cannon recounted in his biography of President Reagan, \"meant research into space-based chemical lasers, ground-based lasers with space-based mirrors, nuclear-pumped X-ray lasers, space-based particle beams, and space based kinetic-energy weapons such as 'smart rocks' (later 'brillant pebbles') and microwave generators.\" (p. 281) This was no bargaining chip with the Soviets, as McFarlane had envisioned, but a strategic, technological challenge to bring the Soviets to their knees without Armageddon. Of course, the program - which would cost $60 billion before it was over - was a bonanza for NSA and its satellite construction agency, the NRO.\nWhat was then organized to accomplish these results, what was attempted, and what was achieved are anyone's guess, as the US and British governments have been most tight-lipped about matters, thanks especially to the secrecy contracts muzzling those involved that Bush started when he was the Agency's DCI under President Ford, and Thatcher achieved by tightening up the Official Secrets Acts. Bush had originally lobbied for imprisoning journalists and government employees who identified secret agents, settling instead of a system of contracts by employees which prevented journalists from learning much of any importance, especially about SDI. Congress had completely caved into the President about releasing anything contrary to his wishes. And Thatcher's actions in this regard are notorious, going beserk when Duncan Campbell tried to expose anything about Britain's involvement in the program. (See, e. g., Mark Urban's discussion of the Zircon affair in UK Eyes Alpha, p. 56ff.)\nThe organizing of SDI, and arranging for its goals to be met were essentially left to the officials immediately responsible for its bits and pieces, and to the private firms doing most of the work. Here we are talking about giant weapons complexes like Lockheed, Martin Marietta, TRW, Raytheon, GEC's various Marconi weapons firms, Plessey, British Aero-Space, etc., and the officials at NSA, and NRO, and Britain's Ministry of Defence, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Whatever they agreed to was funded without any questions asked or answered. British scientists were brought into the process on a bilateral basis without their having a clue about what was really going on, explaining why many of them resorted to suicide when they discovered what was really going on. (See my articles about it, and MI6's attempts to cover it up at Soviet expense in the archive.)\nIn fact, the cover up of the whole process was so effective that biographers and historians involved in writing about it rarely say anything significant. If you are looking for any help, for example, about what SDI actually did from Reagan biographer, Lou Cannon, he says nothing about it, only Reagan's negotiations with Gorbachev to scale it back, or stop it. (p. 671ff.) \"The notion of Britain becoming a player in the same league,\" Mark Urban concluded cryptically, \"lasted only from 1983 to 1987, in the shape of the ZIRCON project.\" (p. 292) Other authors prefer to talk about scalar efforts to heat up the skies for various protagonists, based upon Nikola Tesla's technologies, rather than those to control small atomic and thermonuclear explosions to blow up things in space and on the ground.\nGiven the order in which Cannon listed SDI research, the first laser to be developed was a chemical fission one, often aka Mid-Infrared-Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) , similar in construction to a rocket engine. In the reactor, a fuel is burned, usually with nitrogen trifluoride, the resulting excited fluorine atoms from the conductor are then injected with deuterium helium, creating deuterium fluoride (DF) molecules, while surrounding helium ones stabilize the reaction, and control the temperature. Resonator mirrors are wrapped around the gas, and optical energy is extracted in a cooled cavity until the fuel supply is exhausted. The lasers' output can be varied greatly by changing flows, and altering the composition of the fuel. This laser can send a beam 21cm high and 3 cm wide - what can be shaped into one about 14 cm square which is then sent through the rest of the beam train. The maximum duration of the beam it propagates is about 70 seconds.\nThen there are nuclear-pumped lasers which exploit the energy of fission fragments. The lasing medium is enclosed in a tube lined usually with U-235, and subjected to a high neutron flux in a nuclear reactor core. The uranium of the fission fragments creates an excited plasma with an inverse population of energy levels, which then lases. The big problem is keeping the plasma fuel, which is now millions of degrees hot, contained so that it can initiate the reaction - what is usually obtained by the use of a magnetic field The Helium-Argon laser uses a Helium(n,p) Hydrogen reaction, the transmutation of the Helium-3 resulting in a neutron flux, as the energy source, or employing the energy levels of the accompanying alpha particles.\nTheir advantages are that they produce far less harzardous waste than fission ones, and when deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen which can be readily separated from water, is used instead of uranium, the laser is far cheaper to operate.\nThen there are Inertial Confinement fusion lasers where tiny pellets of tritium or deuterium are bombarded from several directions by a pulsed laser bean, causing the pellets to implode, setting off a thermonuclear reaction that ignites the fuel.\nOnce these lasers, especially chemical ones, were reduced in size and especially weight so that they could be lifted into space in the appropriate satellites - what also required the missiles employed, particularly the Titan ones, becoming much more powerful, they were sent into space, but still no one was sure what they could do, once there. Then there were problems getting the lasers going, once they were in space. The failure of the KH-11 satellite to start operating in late summer 1985, amd the shuttle Challenger blowing up the following January 1986 as NASA struggled hurriedly to put up a replacement readily come to mind in these regards.\nBy the time NASA finally achieved the desired position for a KH-ll satellite in 1987 to attempt the job, it no longer had any possible targets to destroy. Reagan and Gorbachev were now in the process of settling all their outstanding difference, starting with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, and the prospect of ending further research on SDI, though the American President was still holding to his vow that it was still no \"bargaining chip\". (Cannon, p. 702)\nWhen the first Gulf War became increasingly likely, though, now President G.H.W. Bush decided to use the KH-11's laser capability on Iran to see if it could help prevent Iran from coming to Saddam Hussein' s assistance during the showdown. The laser was beamed on targets in northern Iran - not in northern China as I have wrongly stated in my glimpse at how America causes earthquakes - and on June 20, 1990, a severe one occurred - what Professor Shou was able to predict from China because of the vast cloud it had produced before the quake occurred. Then Clinton used it or a more powerful replacement in 1999 against Turkey because of the trouble it was causing in getting rid of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, and establishing Kosovo's independence. President G. W. Bush used similar lasers against the ancient Iranian city of Bam in 2003 because of the difficulty Tehran was apparently causing in pacifying Iraq, and then the next year it was Pakistan's North-West territories' turn, thanks to its incapacity to root out Osama bin Laden and his Taliban allies.\nThe source of all the clouds which Professor Shou saw, and led him to predict the four earthquakes was the water the lasers evaporated, apparently all from underground qanats, causing them to collapse, and the surrounding territory to move a few meters - resulting in most unprecedented devastation.\nWith this most covert program operating so unexpectedly well, little wonder that NSA and the NRO have kept the program going, no matter what Congress funds or the White House approves. When G. W. became President, the NRO was so well-heeled that it even built its own new headquarters without congressional approval or funding. While one cannot even be sure that the latest one in the Misty series - the 10-ton USA 193 which was launched in December 2006 - received any responsible approval, it hardly bothered anyone when it failed to function from the outset. No one apparently had ever thought of one of these flying nuclear reactors crashing. The problem had always been to get them somehow into space.\nIt was only when the Misty's falling down into the atmosphere, and then burning up became a matter of a few months that serious attention was given to what its heady mixture - 10,000 lbs.of unspent fuel, hadrazine, a satellite made of all kinds of rare and easily converted into something else metals, and a nuclear-pumped laser, fully equipped with some kind of deuterium fuel - might cause. Far too little research has been done on nuclear reactors, even fission ones, much less thermonuclear ones, when their fuel melts, in full or in part.\nA French series of tests in Cadarache only recently determined what happens when a fission reactor experiences a serious accident, resulting in the degradation of its fuel, and the production of hydrogen. The most serious findings were that the degradation occurred at several hundred degrees lower than the 2,500 degrees C. expected, and the amount of hydrogen given off had been seriously underestimated.\nAll of this, I think, explains why American officialdom has been so curt, contradictory, and confused about the problem. It simply doesn't know what will happen if the Misty satellite crashes, or it somehow destroys it or causes it to be knocked down. A natural burn-up might cause unspeakable damage of either an atomic or thermonuclear character. And simply shooting it down might just insure what the Americans are hoping desperately to avoid. This is why it is apparently planning to have a Navy SM-3 missile put a \"kinetic kill vehicle\" - a non explosive device - in its way, hoping that it will cause it to crash much more quickly. This way the chance of any kind of explosion will be reduced.\nThis helps explain why Pentagon spokesmen have made such inaccurate, contradictory statements about the hydrazine on board, vastly understating the amount, and the consequences if it is released into the atmosphere. A shootdown of the Misty might well start a chain-reaction, triggered by its 10,000 lbs.of it somehow igniting. No one knows for sure that it is frozen solid, given the laser on board, and a shootdown might be like putting a match to a tinderbox.\nBy knocking it down, the hadrazine and the other bits are more likely to burn up separately. Unlike the citizens of Shreveport, Louisiana back in the 'fifties, though, the cizitens of Hawaii and North America have certainly been put on notice to look out for drops of hydrazine in their eyes and on their skin, and advised to see a doctor immediately. Those hit by solid pieces or anything else will probably not need bother.\nThe US government is resigned to take this risk rather than reveal to all what it has been doing in space since SDI was started 25 years ago. Attempting to shoot the satellite down, and most likely missing would also show to the Russians and the Chinese that its ability to shoot down incoming missiles has been exaggerated. 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Alisdair made his concerto debut at the age of 15 as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. His performances have included recitals at the Wigmore Hall, concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Philharmonic Hall, as well as recitals for international festivals. He has also performed for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.\nAlisdair studied privately with Philip Fowke and with John Blakely at the Royal College of Music, where he won the major prizes for piano accompaniment. He acknowledges the kind and generous support of Simon Yates, and Philip and Christine Carne. Alisdair Hogarth is a Steinway Artist.\nThe 2nd Piano Concerto of Rachmaninov, composed between 1900 and 1901, has many wonderful romantic melodies with great dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra. The emotional content of the concerto has been spotted by film producers and themes from the concerto feature in \u2018Brief Encounter\u2019 (1945) , \u2018The Seven Year Itch\u2019 (1955), \u2018Anime\u2019 (2008) and \u2018Hearafter\u2019 (2010). When listening to the second movement you may think you have heard the tune before. You would be correct! It has resulted in a number of well-known songs, including \u2018All By Myself\u2019 (1975).\nWe start our concert of romantic and sometimes tragic music with the Prelude to \u2018Tristan und Isolde\u2019. Completed in 1859, this well-loved Wagner opera is based on a medieval legend of romantic tragedy of love and death.\nContinuing the theme of romantic tragedy we end our concert with ten movements from \u2018Romeo and Juliet\u2019 Suites 1 and 2 by Prokofiev. The ballet was composed in 1935. It is the greatest love story with a doomed romance. However Prokofiev originally wanted to change the ending to be a happy one but Stalin banned this.\nTickets are \u00a315, \u00a313 (concessions). Under 25s free.\nTickets may be purchased at the door or reserved in advance by either \u2018phoning 01206 271128 or emailing csosecretary@colchestersymphonyorchestra.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 200.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collaborative-solutions.org/aba-therapy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:22:16Z", "digest": "sha1:QBTC7FGNWQXJI5U56N5DIXHJ2D726TFB", "length": 2104, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "collaborative-solutions.org", "title": "Collaborative Solutions - The ABA Experts ABA Therapy", "raw_content": "ABA Stands for Applied Behavior Analysis. ABA is a discipline or treatment methodology based on the science of human behavior. It employs the use of research-based techniques that are highly effective for improving behavior in general and for individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in particular. ABA is frequently referred to as the \"Gold Standard\" for addressing the behavioral excesses (i.e., poor communication, social, self-care, safety, and academic skills) that may characterize the behavior repertoires of some individuals with ASD. Examples of common techniques used are managing consequences consistently such as positive reinforcement, task analyses, extinction, and skills training using discrete trials and or natural training opportunities. This list is by no means exhaustive as ABA has a wealth of applications that are pragmatic and empirical. We base our interventions on the assessed functions of behavior. These interventions are individualized with care taken to maintain and generalize treatment gains to increase the likelihood of continued and future success.\nComprehensive Applied Behavior Analysis(ABA)Services\nABA therapy - in home, school, or the community\nABA focused assessments\n(IEP evaluations, Functional Behavior Assessment, etc. )\nBehavior plan development, implementation, and supervision\nABA focused program development to reduce behavior problems and teach communication, daily-living, safety, and social skills\nABA consultation for educators and community services\nABA METHODOLOGIES USED\n\u2022 Individualized instruction and program development for behavior problem reduction.\n\u2022 Precise measurement of observable behavior & behavior-based interventions.\n\u2022 Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA).\n\u2022 Discrete trails training and natural teaching opportunities are captured to teach academic, social, vocational, and life skills.\n\u2022 Blueprints are developed for antecedent and consequential interventions that are technological. 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They are made of light colored buckskin. They have a cross-like design on the top of the shoe in yellow with a red center. There is a white triangle at the end of each arm with a dark green border. There is a yellow arc at the toe and a vertical stripe of yellow and dark green triangles at the back.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 2987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://comicbooksplanet.com/read/35235302-this-is-going-to-hurt.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WBWTXCHURKO4EJF55YJQRDJOCY6UHQRD", "length": 10571, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "comicbooksplanet.com", "title": "Nonfiction Book \u22c4 This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor [Adam Kay] \u2261 Free Books Online", "raw_content": "Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacr Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his...\nISBN : This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor\nTo ask other readers questions about This Is Going to Hurt, please sign up.\nwhere can i read this book online for free???\nChloe Edges You can't. The author is not writing for the good of his health. Try amazon or audible.\nHow do I go about reading the book? I'd appreciate someone answering :)\nMuna Ibrahim I recommend that you buy it or borrow it from the library and then pick a nice, comfortable spot and just start reading, don't stop. Don't stop until\u2026moreI recommend that you buy it or borrow it from the library and then pick a nice, comfortable spot and just start reading, don't stop. Don't stop until you've read a couple of pages. Then when you're at the end of an entry that captures your attention, stop. Stop in order to think and reflect on what you would do differently if you were in Adam's shoes? How would you react to certain patients? How would you handle certain situations? This is how I went about reading it. I also found that the best time to read it was when I wasn't massively busy with anything. That way, I was able to concentrate and enjoy the book more than I thought I would. Maybe you could try it and see if this method works for you too :) (less)\nSee all 9 questions about This Is Going to Hurt\u2026\nGuardian Best Book 2017 (Part One)\n2018 Books for Scientists and Engineers\nThis Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Reviews\nPetra CigareX Oct 18, 2017\nI finished the book. It was a mostly irreverent look at the early years of being a junior doctor, then an obstetrician, until something catastrophic happens to a patient and the author turned from medicine to writing comedy. It was an excellent read, one good anecdote after another and...\nStacey (prettybooks) Oct 28, 2017\n4.5 stars. I have a newfound respect for doctors... and my mom, who is a nurse. I remember when I was a teenager, I would call her at her work to ask if she could get so and so from the store and sometimes she would respond with, ''I can't today, love, I'm too tired. I can barely keep ...\nA genuinely funny collection of stories from a former doctor; some so horrifying, surprising, or amusing that I had those hard-to-breathe-while-laughing moments, immediately making Audible clips and sending them to all my friends. It's not for the squeamish, be prepared for lots of blo...\nSUCH an important book. Anyone who does not work in the NHS should be obliged to read this. ...\nI am going to be in so much trouble when my sister finds out I gave this book to my niece as this is probably not a very appropriate book for a 17-year-old. But she is determined to become a doctor and she needs to know it?s not just about rockstar surgeries and making buckets of mon...\nThis book was an amazing insight into the life of a former Doctor. It is set out in the format of a diary, which made for easy reading. I found some of the diary entries so utterly horrifying and surprising, I was sitting there thinking, what the hell? Put it this way, there was a trem...\n?This is Going to Hurt? (2017) is essentially Adam Kay?s account of his time as a junior doctor in the UK?s National Health Service. ?This is Going to Hurt? is by turns, funny, moving, revealing, heartening and shocking. Kay has given us a very human account of life in ...\nThis is a non-fiction read all about the NHS and the way that the system works. It's told in a diary format from the years when Adam Kay was a junior doctor and was part of the system. We see how the NHS has been struggling as time goes on to keep up the standards and staff levels, and...\n*Unpopular opinion* This was a DNF for me. I went into this book not really knowing what to expect so it probably shouldn't come as a complete surprise then that I didn't finish it. I think this book sums up why I never went into Medicine and in order to survive in the medical w...\nExcellent! Breezed through this one. The sense of humour worked well, balanced with the horrors of Kay's job. An Xmas present from my sis. She said, \"You won't regret quitting medicine after reading this.\" She knows I don't, really, though reading this I wondered if I would. ...\nA funny, excoriating memoir about a \"junior\" ob/gyn physician who is \"nervous in the service\" -- not the military, but Britain's National Health Service during recent years of budget retrenchment, 2004 to 2010. Adam Kay and his colleagues had to deal with weirdly ineffectual decisions ...\nKay practiced medicine for six years before leaving to write comedy for TV. These occasional diary entries spanning 2004 to 2010 are very funny indeed. He specialized in obstetrics and gynecology (?brats and twats?), and some of the humor is rather puerile but stays just the right ...\nThe Best Medicine Well, you may not die laughing, but I was certainly in stitches and convulsed with hysterics, not to mention emotionally distraught, reading this diary of a junior doctor?s training in the NHS. Apart from the side-splitting humour, it is an excoriating account of...\nThis was a DNF for me, as a nurse working in the emergency room, I can relate to a lot of the references in this book, especially the dark humour - that?s how we healthcare professionals get through the stress of work. However, I could not stand Kay?s obnoxious views on the struggl...\nI think this is the first nonfiction book I've ever given a full five stars to. Usually the highest they get is 4.5 which is usually rounded down to 4 as I save the 5 star ratings for truly incredible books or ones that really had a profound effect on me. This book deserves every s...\nI?ve never read a book quite like This is Going to Hurt! It was equal parts hilarious, saddening, and eye-opening. I am so supportive of the NHS and it?s workers in this country, this book is proof of the amazing work doctors and nurses do for us every single day that a lot of us t...\nThe first time in many years that I have stayed up late at night, curled up in bed, and read from start to finish an entire book. From 8pm until a couple minutes after 1 o'clock the next morning, I devoured this book. It is beautiful, wonderful, poignant, hilarious, heart-wrenchi...\nInterview with author that brought the book to my attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co... For years I have been watching news comedy shows from the U.K., mostly Mock the Week and Russell Howard?s Good News, and in every series the panel has to dispel the opinions of so...\nNot being in the UK, I can?t pass comment on the NHS or any of that, but I had seen plenty of chat about Adam?s book so I loaned it from the library to see what it was like. I am a fan of medical memoirs, so it was right up my street. Adam writes with wit and humour, and even in...\nThis is the second book I read this year that I wish I had written (and, had I kept a diary, I probably could have - except the horrific penis-related injury I treated was not a de-gloving, but a fracture). I'm a *junior* doctor, and his stories of life, death and everything in betw...\n4.5 stars (rounded up due to its societal importance) Doctors are humans too! ...\nAn excellent book which portrays the life of a junior doctor with honesty and humour. There were numerous laugh out loud moments which I suspect may have disturbed the people around me in the airport. Many of these involved \"introduced objects\" which sadly shows you my level. And there...\nI totally read this in one sitting. This is a mixture of a testament to how brilliant and immensely readable this book was, mixed with me being smug and braggy. A hilarious, honest, heartbreaking and incredibly quick read. I can understand why this book has done so well. Glorious! ...\nShould be required reading for politicians everywhere, this is a brutally honest and realistic but absolutely hilarious memoir, where you will laugh and cry and wish that this dedicated, genuinely caring guy was still practicing medicine. Incredible. ...\nThe first few chapters made me laugh out loud. The last few made me cry. An entertaining, insightful and worrying peek into the life of a junior doctor and our struggling NHS. Every MP should read it. ...\nThis is Going to Hurt is one of my favourite books of the year. If you're all over book industry news, you'll know that it just won the Non-Fiction Award and Readers Choice Award in the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards, and I'm sure they are the first of many accolades! I know that I've...\nRay Aug 26, 2018\nLiz Janet Oct 26, 2017\nPip Oct 08, 2018\nSonja Arlow Apr 10, 2018\nLeo Robertson Jan 01, 2018\nKate~Bibliophile Book Club Jan 10, 2018\nLola Jan 11, 2019\nLiz Barnsley Oct 22, 2018\nKaitlin Mar 09, 2018\nChris Hunt Oct 01, 2017\n\"I am not completely ok with this book. I understand that to a young, newly qualified doctor, some things are incredibly funny. I worked in the emergency services myself and I get it. But some of the things he says about old people and those suffering embarrassing illnesses are quite h...\nMubeen Irfan Sep 02, 2017\nA petition for Jeremy Hunt (and every other politician and individual wanting cuts to the NHS) to read this book immediately. As brilliantly funny as it was emotional, distressing and heart-wrenching. We don't look after our health services enough, and I hope this book helps more peopl...\nHave you ever read a book where you are laughing out loud every single page with a big smile on your face throughout and then choke up on the ending page? I do not know of any book where I have dropped so far down in so little time. Maybe a few Breaking Bad episodes but no book that I ...\nRuby Granger Jan 13, 2019\nEleanor Jun 26, 2017\nC.L. Taylor Jan 27, 2019\nFrancesca Jun 07, 2018\nGraham King Sep 25, 2017\nWhat an amazing book. It's genuinely hilarious but utterly and completely devastating and heart-breaking. It has changed my perception of the NHS and junior doctors. If you are ever likely to be ill, you should read this. If you are ever likely to conceive, you should read this. If...\nZuky the BookBum Nov 15, 2018\nALLEN Jun 10, 2018\nNat Price Jan 20, 2019\nAbby Sowden Jul 26, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 601, "original_length": 130172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://commercialtruckfinancing.net/commercial-truck-financing-companies/locations/?category=falmouth-maine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:L3CBKIUPTR4L6S2VXQSZANE3HCZ4GEWG", "length": 3115, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "commercialtruckfinancing.net", "title": "Commercial Truck Financing Companies In Falmouth", "raw_content": "Many businesses should operate large vehicles like trucks for business functions and many other day-to-day operations. There are specific considerations and requirements which might be important if you are taking these cars into account. The first and the most important idea is commercial truck insurance. It is really needed for the company and the procedure to get one is similar to any automobile insurance. Yet, it can be a little complex as compared to other types of insurance. You are able to get your commercial truck insurance from any insurance company. You can even hire an agent if you believe that you don\u2019t want to finish all the procedures on your own. However, you should consider or take into account certain variables that are significant while trying to get insurance. Let\u2019s see the needed information and factors which is crucial while trying to get the mandatory procedure.\nYou need to have particular technical information about the truck. Note down information like model number, mileage and year of manufacture of the vehicle. Additionally take down the vehicle number and id. You must consider all these matters before trying to get the insurance. It is possible to locate this information in areas like the dashboard or near the windshield. Another thing that needs to be considered is the firms that offer commercial insurance for vehicles. It really is true that you will locate many insurance companies in the industry. Nevertheless, you must remember that all the insurance companies don\u2019t offer commercial insurance. Thus, that is a thing that you may have to study about to see which companies offer this type of insurance before taking the following step.\nYou will find many online companies that also offer good rates and insurance policies. Nevertheless, you should be mindful while selecting for these kinds of insurance because it\u2019s more complicated in relation to the other types of vehicle insurance. You have to study the website of the business and read the stipulations very carefully. Occasionally you mightn\u2019t get all the info through the company site and hence, you are going to need to contact them in case you\u2019ve got any query or want more information. If you desire you can contact many firms and ask them for their quotations and policies. You\u2019ll be able to then later decide which company suits you the best and is more favorable for you. After you determine which firm is the greatest it is possible to go ahead with the program process. The sales broker of the business will lead you through the whole procedure. You can tell the brokerage about your company background and what type of coverage is needed. The most important thing is budget. You\u2019ll also need to keep your budget in mind before opting for any coverage. Different policies supply different kinds of coverage and have different rates and costs. You must choose the best plan on your own. Thus, this was some essential details about commercial truck insurance plus some of the factors that must be considered before picking one.\nMatchett and Ward Finance\nProvey Powell, Jr. \u2013 Allstate Finance Agent", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructioncost.co/some-useful-terms-and-definition-used-in-brick-masonry.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:QBNKE2QJ2AUXGKTMAU2CFJ2WOSXK7DFN", "length": 1578, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "constructioncost.co", "title": "Brick Masonry Construction | Terms Used In Brick Masonry", "raw_content": "Some useful terms and definition used in brick masonry\nBrick masonry is applied for developing buildings and other structures by bonding brick stone, stone blocks, brick blocks with various types of masonry.\nFor temporary sheds mud mortar is suitable but for all permanent buildings lime or cement mortars are utilized.\nDifferent terms and definitions associated with Brick Masonry:\nCourse: A course refers to a layer of the same unit that runs parallel in a wall.\nIt is also described as a continuous row of any masonry unit like bricks concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.\nBed: It belongs to the surface of stone vertical to the line of pressure. It specifies the lower surface of bricks or stones in every course.\nBack: It is the inward surface of a wall that is not uncovered. The material that is used to develop the back is called backing.\nFace: The outside of wall uncovered to weather is called face. The material that is utilized in the face of the wall is named as facing.\nHearting: It belongs to the inside part of a wall among n the facing and backing.\nSide: It refers to the surface that builds up the boundary of bricks or stones in a transverse direction to the face and bed.\nJoint: It is the meeting point of two or more bricks or stones. If the joint is parallel to the bed of bricks or stones in a course then it is termed as bed joint. Alternatively, it is a horizontal layer of mortar on which masonry units are arranged.\nThe joints which are set perpendicular to the bed joints are called vertical joints or side joints or just joints.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructivist.info/11/2/364.beaton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KBJYDZZDSCRLGYVOP7BPUCMX5VZSSTOM", "length": 656, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "constructivist.info", "title": "Constructivist Foundations", "raw_content": "Crossing the Explanatory Gap by Legwork, not by Fiat\nOpen peer commentary on the article \u201cNever Mind the Gap: Neurophenomenology, Radical Enactivism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness\u201d by Michael D. Kirchhoff & Daniel D. Hutto. Upshot: I strongly agree with Kirchhoff and Hutto that consciousness and embodied action are one and the same, but I disagree when they say this identity cannot be fully explained and must simply be posited. Here I attempt to sketch the outlines of just such an explanation.\nBeaton M. (2016) Crossing the explanatory gap by legwork, not by fiat. Constructivist Foundations 11(2): 364\u2013366. http://constructivist.info/11/2/364", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crashensemble.com/news/2007/ico-concert-interest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:24Z", "digest": "sha1:K3O7K4Q2XJL47ASSRHW3YXHLVAABGLJD", "length": 336, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "crashensemble.com", "title": "News | Crash Ensemble", "raw_content": "Our friends in the Irish Chamber Orchestra have a new program coming up. Of interest to Crash fans would be the performance of 2 Finnish works by Aulis Sallinen and Einojuhani Rautavaara. These pieces will be performed by the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.\nYou can check out more information at\nhttp://www.irishchamberorchestra.info/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 149.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crcconnection.com/2017/03/21/canada-might-give-recent-asylum-seekers-a-cold-shoulder.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FPJDNPSTD62ZH64LKECXJI4OJD6PGCJ2", "length": 4518, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "crcconnection.com", "title": "Canada Might Give Recent Asylum Seekers A Cold Shoulder", "raw_content": "The PMO is not commenting on the poll, however, a spokesperson for the Public Safety Minister says slipping across the border is not a \"free ticket\" into Canada.\nThe numbers in support of stronger immigration enforcement are similar to those in the US, where half the adults surveyed in a separate poll also said they want more illegal immigrants deported. Forty-six percent said the influx of illegal immigrants would have no impact on safety.\nIn the United States, where President Donald Trump was elected partly on his promise to boost deportations, 50 percent of adults supported \"increasing the deportation of illegal immigrants\", according to a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll that was conducted during the same week in the United States.\nOf those polled, 46 percent disagreed with how the prime minister was handling the border crossings.\nThe Canadian government has set an immigration target of 300,000 for 2017, comprising 1% of the population.\nSome 48 percent of Canadians said they supported \"increasing the deportation of people living in Canada illegally\". -Canada border, and one poll says nearly half of Canadians aren't happy about it. The Conservative opposition have called on him to enforce stricter border controls and to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement which prohibits most migrants in the U.S. from making a refugee claim at an official border post and forces them to enter the country via risky routes.\nManitoba Premier Brian Pallister has been putting pressure on the Trudeau government to do more to address the illegal border crossers pouring into his province.\nJanzen told Reuters that he himself saw hundreds of people illegally crossing the border from the US. \"The [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] are trying to do their best here and it would be nice to have even more manpower to try and keep these people from coming into the town of Emerson\". \"That's what's p***ing most people off. These guys are jumping the border\", he said. Additionally, 41 percent said that these migrants crossing from the USA would make Canada \"less safe\".\nCanadian authorities have rebuffed any suggestion that the country is going easy on illegal border crossers. Almost 40 per cent believe the asylum seekers could make Canada less safe, while almost half disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the situation. The minister's office adds that if someone doesn't have a valid asylum claim then the deportation begins. Overall, in a January poll, 59 percent of Canadians approved of their prime minister, and 41 percent disapproved.\nHe emphasised the need for refinement of emotions while adding that compassion was as much the make of human beings as violence. India has taken the view that the Dalai Lama, as a guest of India, is free to visit all places in the country.\nMr Comey said leaks of classified information constituted serious crimes that must be investigated and prosecuted. Director Comey's testimony put the last nail into President Trump's mendacious wiretapping claims.\nThe #Cowboys re-signed QB Kellen Moore, adding depth to their QB room. \"Kellen would satisfy that itch. The Dallas Cowboys have announced they will resign former Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore.\nGrowing U.S. production is playing into concerns about the effectiveness of the deal between members of OPEC and other producers. Crude oil futures edged lower Monday amid reports that OPEC may extend its supply quota experiment beyond this year.\nIt's now clear that Uncharted: The Lost Legacy will be different to any other Uncharted game that we've previously played. \"We entertained a few possible ideas around including Nate as a secondary character\".\nThough she survived, Diggs is still rattled by the incident and plans on moving away from Birmingham as soon as possible. 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Songs about love, freely given, sold once, then given with charitable intent to be resold at a lesser value, before receiving the magic fairy dust of artistic intent in order to render them more valuable, possibly even more valuable (hopefully) than their original product price. Perhaps it was ultimately little more than an attempt to render some value from the vanity of artistic intent through a proper high street retail experience.\nGive Me Life (Daniel Powter)\nAs a wise man once told me, economics is the translation of value from one location to another; that it is the transfer of alienable significance from one owner to another owner as part of a trade. It is not the movement of money to create more money. That is usury \u2013 a practice that is a sin according to most major religions and was pretty much illegal in England until 1545. It used to invite capital punishment in the former Soviet Union and in The Divine Comedy, Dante places the usurers in the seventh circle of hell alongside the blasphemers and the sodomites. Quite a party.\nGive It To Me (Kylie Minogue)\nTalking to others about this led me to find out that what I was beginning to gain was effectively a Marxist perspective. That a deep and rich philosophical vein already existed in which all these ideas were laid out to form a set of conclusions that \u2013 although robust \u2013 had been stained deeply by the reactionary popular politics of my youth \u2013 and that I was probably out of my depth in attempting to rationalise this project on my own terms. As the other Karl Marx (the composer) says, \u2018There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. 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It at least made me feel like I was testing an ethic which appeared to me to be occluded by the euphoric sense of capital wealth that was increasingly being celebrated within a field of activity that I had believed to be answerable to higher gods. That by tricking an object into believing it now possessed the boundless inalienable value of cultural experience, it could somehow be owned for a higher financial value.\nI Can\u2019t Give You Anything But Love (Peggy Lee)\nStill, all the editions were sold (or traded) and some people told me they had bought them, although I never asked the shops how much they got for them. 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Dissertations. Paper 379. This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Amherst. For more information, please contact\n2 SOLVING THE COFFEE PARADOX : UNDERSTANDING ETHIOPIA S COFFEE COOPERATIVES THROUGH ELINOR OSTROM S THEORY OF THE COMMONS A Dissertation Presented by SUSAN RUTH HOLMBERG Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY May 2011 Department of Economics\n3 Copyright by Susan Ruth Holmberg 2011 All Rights Reserved\n4 SOLVING THE COFFEE PARADOX : UNDERSTANDING ETHIOPIA S COFFEE COOPERATIVES THROUGH ELINOR OSTROM S THEORY OF THE COMMONS A Dissertation Presented by SUSAN R. HOLMBERG Approved as to style and content by: James K. Boyce, Chair L\u00e9once Ndikumana, Member Frank Holmquist, Member Gerald Epstein, Chair Department of Economics\n5 DEDICATION To Tom and Thea, in loving memory of my mother Carolyn Ann Holmberg, and to the farmers and families of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union.\n6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am so grateful for all the support and encouragement throughout this process from my family, friends and dissertation committee. I would especially like to thank my chair advisor, James K. Boyce, for his guidance, support, and feedback not only through this dissertation process, but throughout my time as his student and research assistant. I would also like to thank Leonce Ndikumana for his support, especially during my fieldwork in Ethiopia, and my outside committee member, Frank Holmquist, for encouraging my interest in cooperatives. To my sister Kathy Pachan and my brother Andy Holmberg, a special thanks for your patience, encouragement, and for always looking out for me. To my mother, Carolyn Holmberg, who was not only a dear and loving mother, but especially nourished my intellectual passions. I thank my daughter Dorothea Hilbink, for offering such a fun, spontaneous, and spirited balance to my life and to this process. Lastly, exceptional thanks go to my husband, Tom Hilbink, without whose endless love, patience, and delicious meals I could not have written this dissertation. v\n7 ABSTRACT SOLVING THE COFFEE PARADOX : UNDERSTANDING ETHIOPIA S COFFEE COOPERATIVES THROUGH ELINOR OSTROM S THEORY OF THE COMMONS MAY 2011 SUSAN R. HOLMBERG, B.A. UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA M.A. UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor James K. Boyce This dissertation evaluates the applicability of Elinor Ostrom s theory of the commons to other forms of collective action by mapping it on a case study of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia and its efforts to overcome the vast disparities that have long structured the global coffee commodity chain (the Coffee Paradox ). The conclusions I draw are the following. While Ostrom s theory has serious omissions, it also sheds much needed light on the struggles of Ethiopia s coffee farmers to overcome their poverty. Both the design principles that Ostrom identifies for governance rules and her list of predictors for successful common property resource management institutions suggest that Ethiopia s coffee cooperatives could be in peril. However, by expanding Ostrom s governance framework to incorporate a broader enabling role for governments as well as supportive roles for civic organizations, NGOs, and social movements, we see greater potential for the success of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. vi\n8 CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.v ABSTRACT...vi LIST OF TABLES......viii LIST OF FIGURES ix CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION DETAINING POTENTIAL: ECONOMIC THEORIES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION INTERNALIZING SOCIAL DISTANCE: COOPERATIVES AND THE GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT OSTROM S THEORY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION CASE STUDY PART 1: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COFFEE CASE STUDY PART 2: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE OROMIA COFFEE FARMERS COOPERATIVE UNION UNDERSTANDING COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE: LESSONS FROM OROMIA.108 APPENDICES A. GENERAL BACKGROUND STATISTICS.146 B. ROCHDALE PRINCIPLES WORKS CITED vii\n9 LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Membership of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union Volume (in tons) and Value of Output Sold by the Union in Years The Percentage of Women in OCFCU s Cooperatives viii\n10 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Ethiopia s First Cooperative Proclamation 89 ix\n11 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION It took a global crisis for anyone to point to the dismal state of the dismal science. The heroes of the mainstream economics profession and supporters of free markets and financial regulation were forced to admit mistakes. The bail-outs and recovery programmes have been multibillion-dollar lessons that mainstream economics is unrealistic. Economists such as Keynes and Minsky came to the fore again to explain the crisis. It is time that the economics perspectives of nonmainstream economists are given an ear (Mohamed 2010). In 2009, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first woman to do so in the forty-year history of the award. When the Nobel committee announced their landmark decision, they stated that Ostrom, who is actually a political scientist by trade, won the prize for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2009). Beginning with her 1990 magnum opus, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Ostrom s research career has focused on challenging the argument that groups cannot use and manage natural resources collectively and sustainably. In other words, Ostrom s research shows that the tragedy of the commons is actually not such a tragedy, but a problem one that many communities all over the world have been solving for centuries. Ostrom won the Nobel Prize during a time when the broader public, overwhelmed by the encroaching front of existing environmental problems, has been ripe for hearing her message. Instead of the widespread but stale belief that solving our environmental 1\n12 problems is limited to two very disparate paths the market or the state 1 Ostrom s research has the potential to empower people and communities to collectively devise solutions to these pressing issues. What is less known about Ostrom s work, even in academic circles, is that her underlying purpose has long been to develop a broad theory of collective action, one that moves beyond the cases of communities managing watersheds and forests, to other examples of group self-organization. My choice of the CPR [common-pool resource] environment for intensive study was based on a presumption that I could learn about the processes of self-organization and self-governance of relevance to a somewhat broader set of environments (Ostrom 1990, 27). Furthermore, What is missing from the policy analyst s tool kit and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts I hope this inquiry will contribute to the development of an empirically supported theory of self-organizing and self-governing forms of collective action (Ostrom 1990, 25). If Ostrom s claim is true, that the framework she developed for her research on the environmental commons can be applied to other examples of collective action, then her work has the potential to shape debates about the disheartening state of our economy and the burgeoning efforts to build economic alternatives that enhance the well-being of people and the environment. The fallout from the global financial crisis, dovetailing with the longer-term overgrowth of a neoliberal varietal of globalization, has created a public cry for fundamental changes in our economic system. 1 Either the market will achieve the best possible outcome via private property rights or the market is so addled with inefficiencies that environmental quality can only be achieved by state regulation. 2\n13 This wake-up call is inspiring unprecedented numbers of people to take action to bring forth the culture and institutions of a new economy that can serve us and sustain our living planet for generations into the future (David Korten 2010). Ostrom s set of ideas could very well contribute to the development of a new economy. In the spring 2010 issue of Yes! Magazine, which was essentially an homage to Elinor Ostrom, Jay Walljasper, former editor of the Utne Reader and a contributor to onthecommons.org, described her Nobel win as a milestone for the emergence of a commons-based society (Walljasper 2010). 2 As exciting as Ostrom s work is, and as hopeful as the prospect of applying her theory to the development of a different kind of economy is, we should be mindful of its limitations when using it. There is a genuine risk that communities will become the new panacea, 3 which puts the onus for devising economic solutions 4 on people rather than their governments (or the market) and ignores the fact that communities can be parochial and harbor bigotry (Bowles and Gintis 2002). Thus, before we indiscriminately apply Ostrom s theory of the commons to other forms of collective action, we need to think carefully about the feasibility and implications for doing so. Beyond the commons, Ostrom identifies cooperatives as one of the main forms of collective action that can and should be included in her comprehensive framework (Ostrom 1990, 25). That claim is what this dissertation will explore. 2 The magazine also published Ostrom s 8 Keys to a Successful Commons, and Fran Korten, the magazine s editor, conducted a feature interview with Ostrom. 3 For the record, Ostrom is very clear that that there are no panaceas, but that does not negate the possibility of other people treating community-level solutions as such. 4 This is true of environmental solutions as well. 3\n14 To what extent does Ostrom s theory of CPR governance elucidate our understanding cooperatives? I answer this question by demonstrating what Ostrom s theory looks like in a particular cooperative setting a union of coffee farmers cooperatives in the Oromia region of Ethiopia and evaluate the ways in which the features that are important and necessary for CPR institutions explain the achievements and struggles of Oromia cooperatives. The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) the main organizing body of the global cooperative movement defines cooperatives as autonomous associations of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise (International Cooperative Alliance 2009). In other words, cooperatives are formed, owned, and controlled by groups of people for the purpose of producing, selling, and/or buying. 5 By grouping cooperatives with CPR institutions, Ostrom is arguing that, like CPR institutions, cooperatives are forms of collective action. Ostrom defines collective action as occurring when two or more people act collectively to achieve a common goal, which is to say, to solve an initial free-rider problem, like the Tragedy of the Commons. But, the institutions that arise from the collective action are themselves public goods, which thereby create new free-riding opportunities. Thus, any viable group effort, in solving their initial collective action problem, must simultaneously solve the secondary freeriding problems. 5 There are a wide variety of cooperatives types; one purpose of chapter 3 is to describe those various forms. 4\n15 By linking them theoretically, Ostrom is saying that both CPR institutions and cooperatives conform to this definition of collective action. Thus, both are using institutional governance to solve free-rider problems, and both must overcome the freeriding problems that arise from the group effort itself. Other similarities to note: first, the institutions themselves are nested within broader institutional governance (locally and at the state level) and market contexts that both support and pose challenges beyond their group interactions; and second, both have broader, longer-term goals of securing sustainable livelihood security. At this point, the comparison between CPR institutions and cooperatives becomes more complicated. While both institutions are solving collective action (free-riding problems), they diverge in terms of the nature of those problems and the specific mechanisms with which they solve them. To be specific, CPR institutions essentially transform open-access resources into common property through the elaborate design and enforcement of informal rules. Hardin s parable hence is better termed the tragedy of open access, referring to freefor-all situations where rules for the joint use of common property do not exist (Boyce 2002, 8). The collective action of CPR institutions, then, is the appropriation, creation, management and protection of a certain bundle of property rights for the sustainable, group management of a particular natural resource. In terms of Oromia s coffee cooperatives, collective action does not necessarily center on managing a natural resource via property rights. 6 I argue that instead, they are 6 Although, managing natural resources might be a secondary function. 5\n16 using their collective agency and power to overcome what Daviron and Ponte (2005) call the Coffee Paradox. Not only were Northern coffee drinkers blissfully unaware of a devastating coffee crisis that smallholder coffee farmers in the global South experienced from 1999 to 2005, in the global North, there was actually a coffee boom occurring. The coffee market has gone through a latte revolution, where consumers can choose from (and pay dearly for) hundreds of combinations of coffee variety, origin, brewing, and grinding methods, flavoring, packaging, social content, and ambience. Retail coffee prices continue to rise in the specialty market [ ] At the same time, coffee farmers receive prices below the cost of production (Daviron and Ponte 2005, xvi). Daviron and Ponte argue that instead of interpreting this juxtaposition as simply a disparity in who controls market share, it is better understood in terms of the ability to define the identity of a coffee in other words to set the language and the reference values that determine production norms and quality standards (Daviron and Ponte: xvii). I will demonstrate that the Coffee Paradox is an extremely befitting way to frame the collective action of Oromia s coffee cooperatives. Nowhere did the coffee crisis hit harder than in Ethiopia, the very birthplace of coffee. Here the farmers were already a few price points away from starvation; they rely on coffee not just for income, but also for deep cultural sustenance and connection; and they grow some of the most reputed coffees in the world. These poor coffee farmers have had no control over the valuable attributes of their supreme coffees, and, thus, the price they are receiving is well-below the true value of their coffees. Thus, rather than solving the Tragedy of the Commons, the free-rider problem that Oromia s coffee farmers are working to solve is the Coffee Paradox. Rather than instituting property rights, the collective action of coffee cooperatives entails the creation, 6\n17 appropriation, management and/or protection of a certain bundle of their coffees attributes. Defining the collective action of Oromia coffee cooperatives in terms of the Coffee Paradox, we can then ascertain whether Ostrom s theory offers a comprehensive enough explanation of the successes and/or failures of their efforts. The conclusions I draw are the following. In profound ways, Ostrom s theory sheds much needed light on the struggles of Ethiopia s coffee farmers to overcome their poverty and nourish their families and communities. The design principles that she identifies for CPR governance rules suggest that Ethiopia s coffee cooperatives could strengthen their sense of proprietorship over their organizations if they first played a larger role in writing their own governance rules. Her list of predictors for successful CPR institutions validate what Ethiopian activists have long been saying, that civic organizations cannot play an authentic role in the governance of their society underfoot a government that does not recognize the basic democratic rights of its citizens. Ostrom s theory is a major methodological contribution to the social sciences. Her understanding of the role and limitations of economic theory is profound. The style of her theory, a list of ingredients if you will, is accessible and even democratic something any idealistic and capable cooperative organizer could pick up and understand (as opposed to the formal models of economists written for each other or, at best, for policymakers). Ostrom s theory, however, also has some egregious omissions, which makes it a less than comprehensive framework of Oromia s coffee cooperatives. For example, she does not address issues of power disparities or the ways that inequality in general manifests in collective action. Inequality between those who control valuable coffee attributes and 7\n18 those who do not is what perpetuates the Coffee Paradox, but in coffee cooperatives attempts to close this social distance (Boyce 2002), other forms of social inequality are reproduced. (So too with CPR institutions.) In addition, Ostrom s viewpoint on the state s role in collective action governance is overly narrow. For cooperatives to succeed, governments must nurture an enabling environment through carefully established laws and direct support to farmers in overcoming market failures (e.g. imperfect credit markets) that are beyond their capacity to solve independently. Furthermore, Ostrom pays inadequate attention to other levels of governance. She makes no mention of the roles that civic organizations, NGOs, and social movements might play. These other types of governance are all important in empowering Ethiopia s coffee farmers, especially within the context of such an authoritarian government. Finally, although Ostrom s view of economic rationality is much broader than what has been canonized in mainstream economics, she fails to articulate or theorize any degree of altruistic intentions for example, Amartya Sen s (1977) concepts of sympathy and commitment that have the potential to help groups overcome free-rider problems and are, at least to some extent, present in the coffee cooperative setting. Social justice activists, whose actions have undoubtedly altruistic underpinnings, have long been working to support cooperative struggles. Oromia s cooperatives in particular can only be fully understood in light of broad efforts especially since the coffee crisis of the global justice movement s efforts to build alternative trade paradigms Incorporating Elinor Ostrom s theory of collective action into cooperative analyses is an important step in improving cooperative research. Instead of assuming cooperatives 8\n19 are inefficient because of free-rider problems, we can think about how some cooperatives overcome these. Furthermore, Ostrom s work forces us to ask ourselves about what theory is, what its role should be, and for whom we are constructing it. And the shortcomings of her theory are by no means fatal; they simply need to be accounted for to better tell the cooperative story. Overview of the Following Chapters Chapter 2 Detaining Potential: Economic Theories of Collective Action provides the impetus for this dissertation, which is that the existing economic models of cooperatives are insufficient and misguided. I do this by, first, describing what Ostrom cites as the main collective action theories that are paradigmatic in economics and her critiques of them. I also discuss Ostrom s objection that the aforementioned collective action theories are misused because of the confusion within economics on the distinction between a theory and a model. In the second section, I present a literature review of the economic models of cooperatives. Finally, I provide my own argument that the problems of the models discussed in this chapter stem from their use of rational choice theory to describe human behavior, which is ultimately a distorted assumption for understanding the motivations, values, and capacities of cooperative members. The purpose of Chapter 3, Internalizing Social Distance : Cooperatives and the Global Justice Movement, is to contrast the mainstream economic approach to cooperatives with a social movement perspective by locating them both in the current movement to combat corporate-centric globalization and the older cooperative movement 9\n20 to battle industrial capitalism. Instead of simply another institutional means with which to achieve Pareto efficiency, these movements portray cooperatives as a symbol of, and a mechanism for building, democracy and equality. Because cooperatives come in a wide variety of forms, a second purpose of this chapter is to elucidate their complexity by providing a brief historical account that identifies the various types of cooperatives. Chapter 4, Ostrom s Theory of Collective Action gives a detailed presentation of Ostrom s work, drawn mainly from Governing the Commons, but supplemented with several of her other publications. First, I argue that Ostrom s greatest contribution to the social sciences (and heterodox economics) is her interdisciplinary methodology that fuses theoretical and empirical practices. Second, I define CPRs and discuss one CPR scenario in great detail. Third, I present the details of Ostrom s theory of collective action. The final section provides my critique of her theory, alluded to earlier in this chapter. Chapters 5 and 6 provide my case study. In chapter 5, I present Part 1: The Political Economy of the Coffee. Although coffee is similar to other food commodities in many ways, there arguably is no global commodity industry that contains such vast power disparities as the coffee trade. Because of these inequities, the global justice movement and cooperatives play a central role in the battle to weaken corporate hegemony in the global coffee trade. For example, trade alternatives, especially Fair Trade, are arising as a different route than the conventional global coffee commodity market that leaves so many small coffee farmers vulnerable to poverty. There is no better example of cooperatives battling global market forces than the vast uprising of coffee farmer cooperatives across the global South. 10\n21 Chapter 5 provides a detailed picture of the global coffee industry, including its early history, its policy narrative, and the uneven impacts of the coffee crisis on coffee farmers and coffee producing countries. It then describes in detail Daviron and Ponte s (2005) concept of the Coffee Paradox, and their framework of material, symbolic, and inperson service attributes that we can use to define the collective action of Oromia s coffee cooperatives. I then describe the prominent alternative trade paradigm being developed in response to the coffee crisis, as well as the mainstreaming debate brewing within Fair Trade about its trajectory and how it can be most beneficial to coffee farmers. Finally, I use this discussion to further specify the nature of collective action for coffee farmer cooperatives, which weighs on the mainstreaming debate. There are several reasons why I have chosen Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU) as the focus of my case study (Chapter 6, Case Study Part 2: The Political Economy of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, ). First, its leadership has played a pivotal role in Ethiopia s impressive cooperative renaissance of the past decade (a revival made even more remarkable in light of the country s sordid cooperative history). Second, as the stars of the documentary film Black Gold, OCFCU has become a symbol of coffee farmers worldwide efforts to overcome the devastating impact of the coffee crisis by forming cooperatives. The chapter tells the story of OCFCU, which begins with the history of the country s cooperatives, continues to the challenges and opportunities of Ethiopia coffee sector, and ends with the birth and growth of the most successful cooperative union in Ethiopia. In Chapter 7, Understanding Cooperative Governance: Lessons from Oromia, the final chapter of this dissertation, I assess the extent to which Ostrom s theory of CPR 11\n22 institutions can explain the collective action of Oromia coffee cooperatives. The first section compares CPR institutions and Oromia coffee cooperatives, while also defining the collective action of Oromia s coffee cooperatives in terms of Daviron and Ponte s (2005) the Coffee Paradox. The second section provides examples of Oromia s collective action, defined in terms of the attribute framework that Daviron and Ponte (2005) present for overcoming the Coffee Paradox. The third section describes the secondary free-rider problems that could arise from these examples of collective action. The fourth section evaluates the Oromia and Ethiopian evidence and draws some preliminary conclusions, arguing that many of OCFCU s cooperatives (and Ethiopia s cooperatives in general) could be in peril. The fifth section reintroduces a discussion of Ostrom s theory, and my critiques. The final section provides some recommendations based on the results derived from this analysis, regarding both the use of Ostrom s theory to interpret the collective action of Oromia cooperatives and my broadening of it to reflect inequality considerations and the role that broader forms of governance play in Oromia s collective action struggles. Conclusion In a recent New York Times blog entry, Nancy Folbre suggests another economics is now under way (Folbre 2010). One of the main cornerstones of the burgeoning effort to build this new economy is, indeed, cooperatives. The task of developing a new economy, one that fully reflects humanity s concerns and capabilities, is not simple, especially with current economic tools that are fragmentary and incomplete and not yet adequate to the task of institutional design 12\n23 (Folbre 2010). By focusing on Elinor Ostrom s work and by carefully studying cooperatives, it is my hope and intention that this dissertation contributes to this growing movement to design better economic tools and frameworks. 13\n24 CHAPTER 2 DETAINING POTENTIAL: ECONOMIC THEORIES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to explain and critique mainstream economic approaches to collective action in general, and to cooperatives in particular, in order to make the argument that developing an improved economic framework of cooperatives is imperative. I do this by, first, describing what Ostrom cites as the main collective action theories that are paradigmatic in economics and her critiques of them. I also discuss Ostrom s objection that the aforementioned collective action theories are misused because of the confusion within economics on the distinction between a theory and a model. In the second section, I present a literature review of the economic models of cooperatives. Finally, I provide my own argument that the problems of the models discussed in this chapter stem from their use of ration choice theory to describe human behavior, which is ultimately a distorted assumption for understanding the motivations, values, and capacities of cooperative members. Economic Models of Collective Action 14\n25 Ostrom argues that there are three models that are the basis of current economic thinking on collective action: Mancur Olson s Theory of Collective Action, Hardin s Tragedy of the Commons, and the prisoner s dilemma. Before Olson s 1965 thesis, it was widely assumed across the social sciences that individuals can and will achieve the best possible outcome for the group (Azfar 2001). Olson s central argument was a counter to that supposition. Even if all of the individuals in a large group are rational and self-interested, and would gain if, as a group, they acted to achieve their common interest or objective, they will still not voluntarily act to achieve that common or group interest (Olson 1965, 2). Individuals might benefit from clean air, for example, but their desire to maximize their individual well-being limits their willingness to contribute to the collective good, 7 unless there is coercion to force them to do so (Olson 1965, 2). Hardin s 1968 article The Tragedy of the Commons has, of course, become the most commonly referenced in an extensive history of arguments concluding that humans, left to their own devices, will inevitably destroy natural resources. Hardin s most famous passage is the following: Picture a pasture open to all. It is to be expected that each herdsman will try to keep as many cattle as possible on the commons. Such an arrangement may work reasonably satisfactorily for centuries because tribal wars, poaching, and disease keep the numbers of both man and beast well below the carrying capacity of the land. Finally, however, comes the day of reckoning, that is, the day when the long-desired goal of social stability becomes a reality. At this point, the inherent logic of the commons remorselessly generates tragedy (Hardin 1968, 1244). Not only has Hardin s article been used to advocate population control, which was, in fact, the original purpose of the article, but it also has been frequently wielded on both 7 This is the definition of free-riding behavior. 15\n26 sides of the private property/free market versus state ownership/regulation debate (see Smith 1981 and Percival 1992, respectively). Finally, according to Ostrom, the third most commonly used collective action model is the prisoner s dilemma, which articulates that two hypothetical prisoners will simultaneously choose a non-cooperative solution. Both prisoners are better off if neither betrays the other, but the incentive immediate to each (a shorter jail sentence) is to, in fact, betray their partner. (The prisoner s dilemma is often used to formally illustrate Hardin s tragedy of the commons see Hanley et al as an example.) What Ostrom finds problematic about collective action theory is not these models per se, but the way they are brandished. When models are used as metaphors, an author usually points to the similarity between one or two variables in a natural setting and one or two variables in a model. If calling attention to similarities is all that is intended by the metaphor, it serves the usual purpose of rapidly conveying information in graphic form (Ostrom 1990, 7-8). Yet, these models are used for policy-setting. In other words, it is assumed that only the state can change fixed or exogenous variables, which crowds out collective action efforts and essentially imprisons citizen power and agency. The prisoners in the famous dilemma cannot change the constraints imposed on them by the district attorney; they are in jail. Not all users of natural resources are similarly incapable of changing their constraints. As long as individuals are viewed as prisoners, policy prescriptions will address this metaphor (Ostrom 1990, 7). A poignant example is the following: Nationalizing the ownership of forests in Third World countries, for example, has been advocated on the grounds that local villagers cannot manage forests so as to sustain their productivity and their value in reducing soil erosion. In countries where small villages had owned and regulated their local communal forests for generations, nationalization meant expropriation. In such localities, villagers had earlier exercised 16\n27 considerable restraint over the rate and manner of harvesting forest products. In some of these countries, national agencies issued elaborate regulations concerning the use of forests, but were unable to employ sufficient numbers of foresters to enforce those regulations. The foresters who were employed were paid such low salaries that accepting bribes became a common means of supplementing their income (Ostrom 1990, 23). In this example, it is the assumption that local villagers are powerless and incapable of working together to decide governance rules for usage and the subsequent state intervention and control that opened the borders to a tragedy of overuse. Ostrom s critique stems from what she argues should be a clear distinction between a model and a theory. Theories or frameworks (will refer to them interchangeably throughout this dissertation) are meant to be general or universally applicable. Models, on the other hand, are for application in very specific contexts. The problem with mainstream economic methodology in general, and the collective action models discussed above, is they are taken as theories even though they carry with them the assumption that certain variables are fixed. As we saw above, this can undermine the goals of the policymakers, not to mention the recipients of the policies. Theories, on the other hand, are loose associations of variables that relate whole families of models together (Ostrom 1990, 192). They point to the set of variables and the types of relationship among variables that need to be examined in conducting any theoretical or empirical study of a particular type of phenomenon. From a framework, one does not derive precise prediction. From a framework, one derives the questions that need to be asked to clarify the structure of a situation and the incentives facing individuals (Ostrom 1990, 192). Once the incentives are clarified in other words, once the framework is applied to a specific context the theorist can analyze a situation and predict likely behavior in 17\n28 terms of choice of strategy and the consequences that are likely to result (Ostrom 1990, 192). How does Ostrom s critique of mainstream collective action theories apply to economic models of cooperatives? After presenting a literature review of these models, this chapter will answer this question. Economic Models of Cooperatives The Mystery of the Disappearing Cooperatives Providing a review of economic literature on cooperatives is a somewhat paradoxical exercise, as it first requires a discussion about cooperatives pervasive absence in the literature. For example, despite cooperatives growing presence in today s economy (described in the following chapter), both Hill (2000) and Kalmi (2007) argue that the majority of today s economists perceive cooperatives as entirely nonexistent institutions or, at best, only worth mentioning in a footnote. Their evidence comes from conducting surveys of economics textbooks, which they contend are good indicators of the fields priorities overall. Hill evaluated seventeen contemporary economics textbooks, finding that the basic institutions around which production is organized [ ] are commonly thought of as either proprietorships, partnerships, or corporations (Hill 2000, 281). Eight of these textbooks gave absolutely no discussion of cooperatives. Of the textbooks that did, coverage ranges from a passing mention up to one page (Hill 2000, 283). Hill finds that there is no in-depth discussion of, for example, why cooperatives exist in a capitalist economy, their strengths and weaknesses, and the ways they differ from investor-owned firms. 18\n29 Kalmi reviewed a sample of 24 textbooks from between 1905 to He found that despite the fact that cooperative membership has increased globally over time, textbook coverage vastly differs between the pre-1945 period and the current period. The main finding from the statistical analysis is that [ ] the textbooks of the early twentieth century contained much more analysis of cooperatives than those originating from the post-world War II period (Kalmi 2007, 632). Furthermore, the textbook coverage in the pre-1945 period was much broader in scope. Early authors typically examined cooperatives widely, devoting an almost equal number of pages to the main forms of cooperation (Kalmi 2007, 631). Discussions in the later texts mainly dealt with cooperative financial institutions, while no post-world War II textbook author discussed worker cooperatives whatsoever. Both authors claim that the absence of cooperatives from mainstream economics education prevents them from breaching the main enclosures of the discipline. The majority of students who study some economics are exposed only to these books. These textbooks set the framework within which students are taught to think about the economy (Hill 2000, 282) and, therefore, future economists will ultimately fail to recognize the importance of cooperatives. Despite the absence of cooperatives from mainstream economics textbooks, there does exist a sizable amount of economic literature on cooperatives, mainly in the subfields of organizational economics and agricultural economics. Although neither of these areas of study arguably hold much sway within the mainstream, the models are useful for 19\n30 illustrating how economists apply their theoretical tools to cooperatives or, in other words, how economists think about and portray cooperatives when they do study them. The following discussion frames the cooperative literature into two schools of economic thought: the first is the neoclassical literature on cooperatives; the second is the new institutional economics literature (NIE), 8 which is organized further into two strands (transaction costs/property rights and information asymmetry). Neoclassical Theories Benjamin Ward (1958) is generally credited with introducing the neoclassical treatment of cooperatives (Sisk 1982 and Kamshad 1997). 9 He was writing in the midst of a debate on the feasibility of socialism, in the context of some Eastern European countries groping toward a less centralized form of economic organization (Ward 1958, 566). Ward devised a model of the labor managed firm (LMF) 10 that he argues closely resembles a Yugoslav industrial firm. What he designates the Illyrian firm operates in a perfectly competitive market, but instead of maximizing profits as the objective function (as the neoclassical firm does), the worker-managers of the LMF are maximizing their individual incomes over a specific time period. The key result from Ward s model is called the Ward effect or perverse supply reaction when output prices rise, employment and output do the opposite of what we 8 Although technically the NIE school is definitively separate from the neoclassical school, their simultaneous uses of rational choice theory lumps them together in this discussion. 9 John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall were actually the first economists to expound the benefits of cooperatives and, according to Staatz (1989), Stephen Enke (1945) was the first to use neoclassical theory to analyze (consumer) cooperatives as a separate kind of business firm.. 10 According to Jossa (2001), the difference between an LMF and a worker-managed firm (WMF) is that a LMF borrows capital whereas in an WMF, members inject their residual profits. 20\n31 typically expect: they decrease (in the short-run). In other words, in order to maximize per-worker income, LMFs lay workers off. Evsey Domar (1966) arguably the second most recognized author in the neoclassical literature on cooperatives applied Ward s model of the LMF, which he calls the Pure Model, to the Soviet Kolkhozes (or collective farms). Domar refined Ward s model by reworking it into a more generalized production function (Sisk 1982). And lastly, Jaroslav Vanek (1969) improved Ward s model (within the LMF example) by assuming that employees received residual income rather than wages. One of Vanek s main results was that the Ward effect was only a special case. In contrast to the Ward-Domar-Vanek models, Amartya Sen (1966), who was also speaking to a broader debate on socialism examining the respective welfare advantages of the principle to each according to his needs versus to each according to his work took a very different approach to modeling cooperatives. Unlike Ward, Sen fixed the number of workers and made the amount of labor hours per person a variable and also unlike this set of models, which demonstrated an underutilization of labor, Sen s key result was to demonstrate that cooperatives can in theory result in an overutilization of labor, too. (I will return to Sen s model later in the chapter.) Pryor (1983) observes that Sen s model (along with Israelsen 1980 and Ireland and Law 1981) had a decentralized perspective. In other words, he focused on the ways in which incentives (created once a production decision is made) induce the labor responses of the individual cooperative members, whereas the centralized tradition of Ward, Domar, and Vanek focused on aggregate employment and output and assumed that a manager or the cooperative itself has sufficient knowledge of the production function and 21\n32 the utility functions of its members so that in some unspecified fashion, a once-and-forall production decision (quantity, labor force, production methods, etc.) is made which maximizes group utility and thereafter, each member does exactly what is decided at this time (Pryor 1983, 140). 11 By the late 1980s, what was a fairly strong interest in the neoclassical, Illyrian-style models had dissipated. 12 Kalmi (2007) conjectures that this demise was caused by both the unavailability of data (it is impossible to test a theory about an economy that does not exist) and the political climate of the time, i.e. it is probable that the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s made theories of socialist organizations seem fairly irrelevant. It is probable that the empirical invalidity of the Illyrian-style model also played a role, particularly with regard to the perverse supply reaction result of the Ward-Domar- Vanek approach. According to Bonin et al. (1993), Plywood PCs [producer cooperatives] behave as if both earnings and employment matter and do not exhibit the perverse or inefficient behavior predicted by the simple model (Bonin et al. 1993, 1300). Indeed, one would be hard-pressed to find a cooperative that fires members in response to growth! It was widely agreed that the neoclassical, Illyrian-style models were simply not the right fit and eventually they lost the attention of economists; in its place emerged the new institutionalist school. 11 Pryor says that the two different traditions give opposing results. The centralized production cooperatives leads to an underutilization of labor (vis-\u00e0-vis a twin capitalist firm), while a decentralized production cooperative yields an overutilization of labor (vis-\u00e0-vis) its capitalist twin (141). 12 The decentralized approach seems to have been less popular. 22\n33 New Institutional Economics As background, new institutional economics (NIE) is an interdisciplinary school of thought 13 that, like the neoclassical school, uses methodological individualism to explain social and political institutions cultural norms, property rights, contracts, and laws within the efficiency paradigm. 14,15 The concept of institutions encompasses such broad social phenomena that it is easy to understand why there is disagreement about what NIE is exactly (Brousseau and Glachant 2008). Bardhan (1989), however, provides a useful framing device for the NIE literature by distinguishing between two strands of the NIE school: the first strand he calls the CDAWN school (for Coase-Demsetz-Alchian- Williamson-North) and the second is built upon the theory of imperfect information (Stiglitz and Akerlof). This is an extremely useful way of sorting through the NIE literature on cooperatives. 16 CDAWN According to Bardhan, CDAWN originated from two papers by Ronald Coase, which led to the flowering of a whole school of neo-classical writers on property rights and 13 Involving disciplines such as law, sociology, political science, and anthropology. 14 Oliver E. Williamson (1975) coined the term new institutional economics, which appears to be the point at which scholars began to self-identify as members of the NIE school and movement. 15 Methodological individualism is what differentiates NIE from institutional economics or old institutional economics, which had a much more holistic approach. One way to understand the difference between the two schools of thought is institutional economics borrows from the other social sciences to study economic institutions, whereas NIE uses neoclassical economics to apply to other social institutions. An example of the criticisms of the old institutionalist school was that it was too descriptive and theoretically lazy (Bardhan 1989). 16 Of course, these strands overlap, especially as the field has developed over time. However, there tends to be a pattern as to the point of entry that NIE theorists choose, which is a useful way of understanding both NIE in general and NIE as it is applied to cooperative studies. 23\n34 transaction costs (Bardhan 1989, 4). In The Nature of the Firm (1937), Coase presented the idea of transaction costs to explain why firms exist (because, theoretically, in a perfectly competitive market, they do not). According to Coase, the main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism (Coase 1937, 390). Thus, individuals are motivated to collaborate in business activity (as opposed to producing and selling independently) to reduce the prohibitive costs that individuals face when engaging in market transactions. In other words, the cost of a good or service involves not only producing the good or service but also the costs associated with buying or selling the good or service: gathering information, bargaining, coordination, monitoring, enforcement of contracts, etc. According to Coase, the reason firms arise and evolve is to minimize these transaction costs. Coase s discussion of property rights comes in his article The Problem of Social Cost (1960), in which he presents his famous theorem: 17 individuals can solve problems of externalities (without government intervention) through the process of negotiation and bargaining; the initial allocation of property rights does not matter for an efficient outcome, because rights can be transacted during this negotiation process. The exception to this rule occurs when transaction costs of negotiation are prohibitively high (arguably more often than not); moreover, when transaction costs are high, the allocation of property rights is important. True to Bardhan s claim, transaction costs and property rights theory are major themes in the NIE cooperative literature. Transaction cost theory postulates that 17 Bardhan (1989) calls it a so-called theorem because Coase never stated it as such. 24\n35 cooperatives, as a particular governance structure, arise to minimize transaction costs. For example, Bonus (1986) says that cooperatives internalize important transactions, thereby avoiding rent-capturing threats to their investment. Similarly, John M. Staatz (1987) uses transaction cost theory to emphasize the ways in which cooperatives, in minimizing transaction costs, create countervailing power, which he says stem from asset fixity. 18 Porter and Scully (1987) offer a paradigmatic property-rights approach to cooperatives. Arguing that transaction costs are present, they look at the impacts of a cooperative s property rights structure on efficiency (and find that this very structure renders cooperatives inefficient). Other examples include Sykuta and Cook (2001), Cook (1995), and Fulton (1995), all of whom argue that cooperatives organizational structures affect the incentives of their members, which thereby have implications for efficiency. 19 Imperfect Information The other NIE strand is the theory of imperfect information. When asymmetric information exists, according to Stiglitz (1994), there is an power imbalance that renders the market inefficient. Furthermore, Bardhan (1989) argues that, in the theory of 18 Asset fixity or specificity is a term in transaction cost theory that refers to assets intended for a use in a given transaction, which are generally limited in some way to that use. 19 The main critiques (in the literature) of the CDAWN strand fully apply to these cooperative models. North (1998) argued that many NIE theorists simply are ignorant about the ways institutions emerge (North 1998, 21). Instead of explaining the ways in which property right structures, for example, emerge and develop, they simply appear because there is a net benefit for them to exist. Additionally, according to Bromley (2000) since transaction costs indeed all costs depend upon (are functions of) the institutional setup, it is circular to advance a theory suggesting that institutions depend on transaction costs (Bromley 2000, 10). Finally, Valentinov (2007) argues that a transaction cost viewpoint automatically frames institutions like cooperatives to be advantageous (the most efficient), because, otherwise, they would not exist another tautological argument. 25\n36 imperfect information, institutions develop as substitutes for missing markets in an environment of pervasive risks, incomplete markets, information asymmetry, and moral hazard (Bardhan 1989, 4). The theory of imperfect information is related to transaction cost theory, as information costs are a form of transaction costs. Bardhan (1989) claims, however, that the theory of imperfect information is usually cast in a more rigorous framework, clearly spelling out assumptions and equilibrium solution concepts, drawing out more fully the implications of strategic behavior under asymmetric information, sharply differentiating the impact of different types of information problems, and yielding somewhat more concrete and specific predictions than the usual presentations of transaction cost theory about the design of contracts, with more attention to the details of the terms and conditions of varying contractual arrangements under varying circumstances (Bardhan 1989, 6). One example of the imperfect information analysis in the cooperative literature is Braverman and Guasch (1989). The authors evaluate the motivation of credit cooperatives in developing countries incomplete credit markets as well as their formation and design. They find that credit cooperatives can be extremely successful and provide important advantages to their members as long as the intrinsical and moral hazard problems are properly accounted for (Braverman and Guasch 1989, 353). 20 The Tragedy of Rational Choice 20 Agency theory, and the principal-agent problem around which it centers, is an offshoot of the imperfect information approach. The principal-agent problem describes a situation in which a principal (e.g. a shareholder) hires an agent (e.g. a manager) who does not hold the same selfish interest as the principal. The problem is one of moral hazard, which could potentially arise because managers shirk their responsibilities for which they were hired. Monitoring, then, becomes a fundamental issue in agency theory, as a way to mitigate the principal-agent problem (Jensen and Meckling 1976). Agency theory is applied to cooperatives in the following way: members are defined as the principals and cooperative managers are the agents (Van Bekkum 2001). The same incentive problems are theorized to exist, for which monitoring is necessary. 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What is the Product Code?\n(typically located near the Best If Used by Date)\nYes, I would like you to email me updates and additional offers from DAD'S Pet Foods.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 55.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dalerighter.com/News/104/Righter-opposes-legislation-that-neglects-funding-for-EIU-other-universities/news-detail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RT4GJRRDGA3SKMASNVFIH2X7CCRZ7A4Z", "length": 1775, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "dalerighter.com", "title": "Righter opposes legislation that neglects funding for EIU, other universities | Senator Dale Righter | Illinois State Senator", "raw_content": "Righter opposes legislation that neglects funding for EIU, other universities\nCalling it \u201cmore political games,\u201d State Sen. Dale Righter voted against Senate Bill 2043, a measure that leaves out state funding for four-year universities.\n\u201cThis legislation is not the right thing to do,\u201d Righter said. \u201cWe have an opportunity to do what is right, to fund all three legs of higher education during the state\u2019s budget impasse \u2013 four-year universities, community colleges, and MAP grant recipients \u2013 but Democrats are choosing to play political games, leaving out institutions like Eastern Illinois University.\u201d\nRighter is sponsoring legislation that would direct much-needed funding to four-year universities, community colleges, and the MAP program (Senate Bill 2349).\n\u201cEastern Illinois University, its employees, and the students can\u2019t wait any longer,\u201d Righter said. \u201cI am urging the Democrat majority to do the right thing, come to the table, and let\u2019s pass something that\u2019s real, helps all of higher education, and gets critical funding to institutions that need help now, like my alma mater, EIU.\u201d\nRighter has been talking and meeting with Eastern Illinois University leaders, workers, and students on a regular basis since it was announced the university will be forced to lay off workers due to the state\u2019s budget impasse.\n\u201cThe legislation Democrats put forward not only zeros out funding for universities, it sends a message to students at all the four-year universities that they just aren\u2019t that good enough,\u201d Righter said. \u201cTo make matters worse, their legislation is the equivalent of writing a check to someone with no money in the bank account. It\u2019s a false promise. My legislation is real, it helps EIU now, and it makes higher education and students a priority.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://danzambonini.com/on-what-types-of-website-does-amazon-affiliates-make-sense/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:22Z", "digest": "sha1:COGPYX74T7UBVLNQ3QYFBKMUSNFKKSLT", "length": 1117, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "danzambonini.com", "title": "On What Types of Website Does Amazon Affiliates Make Sense? | Dan Zambonini", "raw_content": "On What Types of Website Does Amazon Affiliates Make Sense?\nI\u2019m still snowed under with work at the moment so don\u2019t have time for a long post, but thought I\u2019d quickly post this little thing.\nI was conversing with Carl Morris of the excellent Sleeveface (amongst other things) last week, and we got to talking about when it makes sense to put Amazon Associates on a site. I\u2019ve tried Amazon Associates on a number of websites (some of which no longer exist, and others which do: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and based on my experience, this was my take on it (slightly edited):\nI think they only really work if:\nThe items you\u2019re linking to are high-value (there\u2019s no point trying to earn 40 cents per DVD sale, it\u2019s just not worth it) \u2013 think $100+\nYou can make the most of any Amazon special referral rates (rather than the dismal 4% standard) \u2013 think Kindle hardware and seasonal promotions.\nYou have a website or a specific piece of content that ties-in very closely to the Amazon product you\u2019re selling (e.g. product reviews), and\nThe item(s) aren\u2019t easy to purchase \u2018off-the-shelf\u2019 in your local supermarket or city mall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://database.minshawi.com/node/960", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KZVI3NJKDXLOFJPOQTMC6R2DAFEJRH5W", "length": 1319, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "database.minshawi.com", "title": "Development, Closeness , and Integration in The Ancient and Contemporary Society of Saudi Arabia | \u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0634\u0627\u0648\u064a \u0644\u0644\u062f\u0631\u0627\u0633\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u0648\u062b", "raw_content": "Development, Closeness , and Integration in The Ancient and Contemporary Society of Saudi Arabia\nAhmed Al-Hassani\nNowadays, it is noted that economic development in most countries is accompanied by desegregating in the human relations. It\u2019s argued that this phenomenon is due to the absence of true faith and good morals in the efforts of development. The goal of this paper is to verify the hypothesis saying : \u201c The inclusion of true faith and good morals in the efforts of development in both ancient and contemporary society of Saudi Arabia led to more closeness and unification among it\u2019s parts and people\u201d. The paper dealt with the period before Islam in Peninsula and showed that the absence of true faith and good morals was accompanied by fighting of people and spread of hateness and grudge among them. The period after Islam was examined and the analysis showed that whenever people followed the instruction of Islam and applied them in their life, the efforts of development resulted in unification of Muslims. It has been shown that because the efforts of development were accompanied by applying the instructions of Islam during the contemporary age of Saudi Arabia which started in 1932 , these efforts resulted in more unification among it\u2019s parts , and more closeness and integration among it\u2019s people.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://deardirtyamerica.com/2013/03/lapd-seeking-clues-in-case-of-red-light-tire-shooter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:LS7KFUXA2RRHYYX3SAP33EBWBRJ4XGKA", "length": 3361, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "deardirtyamerica.com", "title": "LAPD Seeking Clues In Case of \u2018Red Light\u2019 Tire Shooter | Dear Dirty America", "raw_content": "LAPD Seeking Clues In Case of \u2018Red Light\u2019 Tire Shooter\nIf you\u2019re a driver in Los Angeles who likes to push the yellow light and sometimes blow the red, you might end up with a mysteriously blown out tire. That\u2019s because one man has taken it upon himself to strike fear in the hearts of all \u201cred light runners\u201d in his city. He\u2019s been called Mr. Kim, but little else has been confirmed.\nHe\u2019s also been called everything from a vigilant citizen, to a vigilante, to a domestic terrorist, but one thing is for certain, the city of Los Angeles is talking more about the dangers of reckless driving than ever before. Not sinceChristopher Dorner\u2019s renegade call for justice has the City of Angels been so intrigued by one man\u2019s quest.\nAs much as some people want to see irresponsible drivers punished, most are reluctant to take matters into their own hands like the LAPD\u2019s suspect. His tactic?\nAccording to multiple sources, all of questionable integrity, the man known as Mr. Kim covertly sets up next to an intersection, just as the sun is going down, and waits for a vehicle to run a red light. He then fires a single shot from a small caliber pistol into the rear tire and watches the car swerve and the driver pull over the automobile to check what has happened.\n\u201cMost people don\u2019t know that their tire\u2019s been shot out,\u201d said an LAPD spokesman, who apologized to reporters for profusely sweating, saying he was coming down with the flu and had hardly a wink of sleep the night before. \u201cMost folks think they simply blew a tire.\u201d\nMr. Kim has not physically harmed anyone, but seems satisfied once he\u2019s shot out a tire. It is believed that his motive stems from the loss of his mother in a car accident that involved the other driver running a red light. Mr. Kim also believes the LAPD look the other way when it comes to drivers pushing red lights. Which is why he believes he\u2019s needed, and is doing what he\u2019s doing.\nOne local blogger has claimed in a recent post that he\u2019d not only witnessed Mr. Kim\u2019s first red light victim, but might have been the actual catalyst for this criminal vigilante justice spree. The blogger, who is mostly known for hyperbole and unnecessary verbal provocation, described Kim as \u201cstrange, questionable\u201d, but overall with a \u201cworthy goal\u201d.\nUnder strong recommendation from the LAPD, this publication will not name the blogger to avoid further inflaming of the debate with embellished reports.\nThe blogger was questioned by police officers, who later deemed him not a threat, but just an innocent observer who got a little too close to the action. He did not know Mr. Kim\u2019s whereabouts, despite some of the information in his blog post that lead police to believe he did.\n\u201cOur officers are currently putting in extra time to bring this fellow to justice,\u201d the spokesman assured reporters. \u201cIn the meantime, we urge drivers to take extra precaution on the roadways, and, of course, avoid running red lights.\u201d\nThe LAPD has refused The Pulp and other news organizations information on how many drivers have been affected by this man, but inside sources say around twelve to fifteen, and counting.\nlapdlight runnerslos angeleslos angeles driverslos angeles red lightsred light runners\nAfter Sandy Hook Shooting, White House Lays Out Who Is Eligible For Teary Press Conference 1\nCreators of Agent Orange Engineering \u2018Always Soft\u2019 Ice Cream 0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dementiaclubuk.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=130", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:14Z", "digest": "sha1:A3QXTLJNMFDI7JBAZVNCI6Z4IKXDW42E", "length": 1950, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "dementiaclubuk.org.uk", "title": "Patron", "raw_content": "Our Patron is Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP for Chipping Barnet.\nWe are honoured that Theresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet has kindly agreed to be our Patron, Theresa said:\n\u201cthe caf\u00e9 is clearly having a hugely positive impact on the dementia sufferers who come along and their families. There was such a genuinely happy atmosphere and it was heart warming to know that this is possible even when people are grappling with this terrible disease.\u201d\nTheresa Villiers MP for Chipping Barnet. This image is licensed under the OGL v1.0 - http://www.dft.gov.uk/ministers/theresa-villiers\nTheresa Villiers has been MP for Chipping Barnet since 2005. She lives in Arkley in her constituency and is involved in a range of local campaigns. In December 2005, after just seven months in parliament, David Cameron appointed Theresa to his Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. She later served as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport and then Minister of Transport in the coalition government.\nHer role as Minister included overseeing the transport needed to support the hugely successful London 2012 Olympics and helping to secure the Government's major investment in our railways. Theresa was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in September 2012, a role she held until July 2016. She chaired two sets of cross party talks in Belfast delivering important new agreements resolving a political crisis which could have led to the collapse of Northern Ireland\u2019s devolved institutions.\nWe are pleased to announce that our Honorary Patron is Councillor David Longstaff.\nCllr. David Longstaff was Mayor of Barnet from 2016 to 2017. He close Dementia Club UK as one of his charities during his mayoral year. He succeeded in raising awareness about Dementia and the work Dementia Club UK does. We are pleased he accepted our invitation to be honorary patron for a year.\nCllr David Longstaff Mayor of Barnet 2016/2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://denisebetteridge.booklikes.com/post/447970/post", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:00Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3JDKNNMXV2HIXUXGQFO52KLFXZBFOWI", "length": 368, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "denisebetteridge.booklikes.com", "title": "Death of a Cad - M.C. Beaton - review - denisebetteridge", "raw_content": "I'm really not sure what to think of this book. I keep comparing it to the tv series with Robert Carlyle taking the role of Hamish Macbeth. He is absolutely brilliant in the role, but the original character doesn't seem to be the same. I'd already started to collect the series, so I'll read a few more, but I was honestly left not knowing whether I enjoyed it or not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 102.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/2011/07/regrets-theyd-have-few.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBQ74TMSW4RXTUV55HANTPOGZNUJXMJP", "length": 6181, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com", "title": "Regrets? They'd Have A Few | Dick Puddlecote", "raw_content": "It's a difficult stance to maintain, but if you keep on nudging rather than opening up with both barrels it may be possible to achieve something. You know, \"the long march through the institutions\".\nAnd obviously you have persuaded some people that you are a reasonable, intelligent person and not a swivel-eyed loon ;-)\nCertainly. But be aware that there are those who will try to draw you into abstruse argument about this and that (from my experience of being a golf club treasurer). Here is a typical example:\nA chip shop wishes to open near the school. Some clever bugger on the Council will say what the objections are, and then say, \"Don't you agree, Dick?\" If you say, \"Yes\", then it will be your fault if planning permission is refused. Be aware! Be very aware!\nIf you can do something to remove 'political correctness', then it will be totally worthwhile. Go for it!\nKeep records and notes - the 'professionals' will be doing so.\n1. Read, rite, rithmatic.\n2. Exploration.\n3. Health and Safety, or rather, just 'safety'.\nGo for it young man. Junican has a point though. Take your laptop or pad and pen and ensure you keep notes.\nYou could always ask if they wouldn't mind meetings being recorded so as you can revise them in your own time. :)\nOh.....the thought has occurred to me.\nAbout the Stony event.\nThere is a problem in being seen as 'outsiders'. You know...., 'Tobacco Industry shills'. Also, the pubs and clubs and bingo places (if there are any!) should be taking the initiative.\nI have in mind to bring a golf brolly with slogans on each section. (I am sure that you understand what I mean). Each section will have a statement such as, \"THE BAN IS CRUEL\", or, \"THE BAN IS KILLING FRIENDSHIPS\", or, \"THE BAN IS IMMORAL\" or, \"THE BAN IS HURTING THE POOREST\".\nThat is, because we are 'outsiders', we do not wish to infringe upon the decisions of the people of Stony. \"Who does the open air belong to?\" is an interesting question. The thing is that people do not smoke ON the streets, nor do they smoke IN the streets. They smoke in the open air.\nYou know what this current crowd of GOP liars want is to turn the United Sates into China, where only a few giant corporations run things, they own the factories, the apartments, the grocery stores, the gas stations, the newspaper and magazine publications, the radio stations, the television stations and you pay them and they get all the benefits, and if you do not like it go jump off cliff. Well some Chinese workers seeing that as individuals that they cannot progress have done just that by committing suicide.\nThe current crowd of GOP liars want to steal Medicare from the elderly, they want to abolish a woman\u2019s right to choose and have control over her own body, they want to abolish collective bargaining rights for our Unions, and on top of it all they want to blame the poor, the middle class and the public sector workers for a recession that the GOP created (Thanks to the Dullard \u201cW\u201d), while their beloved \u201cFat cats\u201d continue to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits.\nThe GOP is like the \u201cChicken Littles\u201d always saying that the \u201cSky is Falling\u201d, like the same ones that were the \u201cChicken Hawks\u201d (\u201cW\u201d Wars), big talk no courage.\nThe United States, favors creativity wherever it can be found. We\u2019re apostles of prosperity and defenders of the free exchange of ideas and when more people in more countries are free to rise, to invent, to communicate, to dissent, it\u2019s not the doom of United States leadership, its the triumph of the American way.\nGenerations have worked hard and sacrificed much for the country to reach this point (individuals and our Unions that represented our poor, the middle class and public sector workers), and with further hard work and sacrifice (along with our relentless self-doubt) the United States will rise again, we do not tire and we are coming back, no matter what Fox news and their GOP \u201cChicken Littles\u201d lackies keep saying about our nation. The win in New York was the beginning but the next will be Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and later the other states of our nation, Never Bet Against the United States, watch out GOP, we are coming for you!\nWhy is there a liberal-progressive quasi-communist mission statement posted as one of the comments on this article? Is it spam or is it someone made an error and posted to the wrong blog or article? Is it to \"hope\" for \"change\" that what happened to California and New York taken over by liberal-progressive-reds is what happens to the rest of the US too? Strange comment, strangely out of place and out of context.\nMontana, how have you strayed into this discussion? None of your remarks has any relevance to it.\nWhy do you think it will take a whole hour??\nAfter asking 'WHY' several times in a row, you may be asked to leave sooner than that.\nI have experience of these things, they are the merest talking shops.\nThey can't change anything or exert any influence; every time they try it's either forbidden or gets buried by the bureaucrats.\nYou would find it unutterably tedious.\nHave they asked you the question \"Do you smoke?\"?\nIf you answer in the affirmative, then I fear your fate is sealed. After all, think of the cheeeldren...\nWeekend Yachtsman: That's exactly how I imagined it. ;)\nWhat is a \"parents' council\"?\nIf you want to get on the inside, join the Governing Body.\n@ LBS Montana's post is probably automated in some form\nOur economy under \u201cW\u201d, was great right? But when you do not include the two wars (of choice) in the budget, and have them off the books, well cooking the books take on another meaning! Little \u201cW\u201d learned this trick with his \u201cNo Child left behind\u201d in the great state of Texas, its success is based on cooking the books, a huge pack of lies!\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk\nIt all comes down to the Dullards that voted for \u201cW\u201d, his failure will be with us for the next two decades. You sound like you are a Bachmann supporter. As of today all the GOP candidates are primed to lose, hopefully you and the rest of the GOP can bring to the forefront a descent candidate, unlike the previous time, please Mccain and Palin, too funny!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 580, "original_length": 17412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://djgroup.com.au/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5HORIV6E3OOAFRLVWY26667PZGBGSBKV", "length": 4774, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "djgroup.com.au", "title": "\ufeff DJ Group - About", "raw_content": "Disability, Aged and Respite Care.\nCommercial Real Estate Portfolio.\nShort Term Bridging Loans.\nDJ Group is a specialised firm with three core business arms - Health Care Services, Commercial Property and Business Finance.\nOperating in South East Queensland since 2003, DJ Group is an Australian privately owned company with interests in Health Care Services, Commercial Property Investments and Business Finance.\nJohn Margerison - Director\nJohn Margerison, an entrepreneur and strategy expert, brings 20 years of experience as a consultant and company director in key sectors: Capital Markets, Finance, Trade, Health, Retail, Infrastructure, Banking, Legal, Funds Management, Property, and Information Technology.\nMr Margerison\u2019s insight, clarity and understanding of strategy in business across these industries has led to his demand as an advisor in assisting companies achieve traction and sustainability, merger/acquisition/listing goals and strategic outcomes. These companies range from top tier firms to small start-up companies.\nFollowing the launch in 2004 of his own private secured short term lending company, DJ Capital, Mr Margerison led the purchase of a public lending financial services company in 2009. Following acquisition, market share and profitability of the purchased entity dramatically increased to the point that it was acquired 18 months later by an AMEX-listed company for a market capitalization 15 times the purchase price. Whilst divesting of the public company, Mr Margerison still retains interests in DJ Capital which has been in operation for over 10 years and is now a market leader in its niche field.\nIn 2012, Mr Margerison established DJ Health Pty Ltd and has since acquired two leading in-home support and personal care services companies, merging them into one. As a Director, Mr Margerison provides his wealth of capabilities in being able to engage with any product/service, identify client needs, and competently bring parties together to provide productive outcomes.\nLiving in Australia, Mr Margerison holds a Bachelor of Commerce and further study in Financial Services, Foreign Exchange, and Mortgage Lending. He currently holds a number of Board positions for companies operating in the areas of Infrastructure Development, Property Development, Algorithmic Trading, Health, and Financial Management.\nAndrew Antonopoulos\nAndrew Antonopoulos provides a unique perspective to DJ Group through his experience and background practicing taxation law (both domestic and international) as well as corporate and commercial law. Through practicing in both legal and accounting firms, Mr Antonopoulos has a particular skill set that is both analytical and commercially driven.\nMr Antonopoulos has provided advice to a number of property groups and understands the range of tax and legal considerations surrounding property acquisitions and portfolio management. With a sound understanding of general legal principles and a specialisation in taxation and commercial law, Mr Antonopoulos has a keen eye to mitigate risk and pursue appropriate opportunities when presented.\nAfter graduating with a Juris Doctor (JD) and completing his Master of Laws in Corporate and Commercial Law (LLM), Mr Antonopoulos has practiced in the area of taxation law for nearly 10 years. This specialised experience, understanding of general principles of legal practice, and advisory positions with growing businesses is an asset to the Board and the business of DJ Health Pty Ltd.\nPaul Davis, principal of the Brisbane-based legal firm Davis Lawyers, brings 28 years of experience practicing in the specialised areas of property law, banking and finance, mining, and acquisitions and mergers.\nPossessing a wealth of knowledge in these areas, Mr Davis is well-respected having acted for a large number of financial institutions ranging from boutique financial institutions to mainstream banking institutions since being admitted as a solicitor in 1987.\nHaving undertaken a variety property development projects in his own right over the years, Mr Davis also holds a keen appreciation for the practical side of lending transactions.\nMr Davis\u2019 provides integral expertise in assessing and documenting property based transactions, lending proposals, as well as assisting in enforcement proceedings against defaulting borrowers and guarantors Australia-wide.\nThrough his detailed understanding of these specialised practice areas, Mr Davis has developed unique industry-leading documentation tailored to the needs of private lenders and is recognised as an expert in this area.\nSean Beasley brings a wealth of experience in taxation, financial reporting, asset protection and company accounting to the board having started his own specialised practice in 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 5139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://doreitsbialer.com/writings-view/sensory-motor-strategies-for-enhancing-core-strength-adults/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:09Z", "digest": "sha1:REYAQVEEW4CFHEJNO5DFVWRYNNWQ7WPD", "length": 320, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "doreitsbialer.com", "title": "Sensory Motor Strategies for Enhancing Core Strength (Adults)", "raw_content": "Many of these suggestions provided in the manual are designed to address the needs of patients with poor core strength\u2026 These suggestions are unique and effective and can be used in a multitude of hospital, out patient, acute private practice and other rehabilitative settings.The manual is a guide only, for therapists.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dropby.com/Spain97/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EZDJDJCW36O3Y2V7AJJDHU4G46IMGGG5", "length": 561, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dropby.com", "title": "Azulejos Espa\u00f1oles", "raw_content": "A Studebaker \u0093Ad\u0094 like no other La Giralda\nA beautiful image of the Virgin Mary\n\u0093La Nieta de Pepa\u0094 (Pepa's Granddaughter) is a peculiar name for a small bar/restaurant\nBaila\u0092ora (Flamenco)\nDonkeys in the fabled hill town of Albayzin in Granada\nEl Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen). A beautiful cathedral built into the side of a mountain near Madrid. It is also the burial site for 50,000 casualties of the Spanish Civil War. It was build as an act of reconciliation between both sides of the conflict.\nMadrid\u0092s train station\n(Ham Museum) in Madrid", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 204.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drugfreereading.com/STARSHIP/jfk_at_rice.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LMAXJKGHRGCFZSN5VKDUMRV2RXOE73LO", "length": 5795, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "drugfreereading.com", "title": "President John Kennedy\u2019s Moon Race Message", "raw_content": "Was it prophetic?\nPresident John Kennedy Addresses the Nation at Rice Stadium about Moon Race\nBelow are two narratives. The first is a collection of excerpts from President John Kennedy\u2019s message delivered on September 12, 1962 to students and faculty at Rice University. The speech topic was America\u2019s Moon program known as Apollo. The second narrative is a summary of the Apollo program from Wikipedia. The assignment is to carefully read both accounts looking for outcomes which were predicted in JFK\u2019s message. In a one page paper, explain those post speech events which might be deemed prophetic. Base your narrative on what came to pass in the subsequent decade following the President\u2019s speech. (Hint: Several statements are italicized that might be included.)\nMessage by President John F. Kennedy, Rice Stadium, September 12, 1962\nDespite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation\u00b9s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years - despite that the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.\nNo man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come. This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.\nThe exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space. This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond. This is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.\nBut why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.\nMany years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why he wanted to climb it. He said, \"Because it is there.\" Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail, we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Thank you.\nThe Apollo Moon Landing Program Summary\nThe Apollo Program landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and conducted by NASA, Apollo began in earnest after President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 special address to a joint session of Congress declaring a national goal of \"landing a man on the Moon\" by the end of the decade.\nThis goal was accomplished with the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six Apollo spaceflights, 12 men walked on the Moon. These are the only times humans have landed on another celestial body.\nThe Apollo program ran from 1961 until 1975, and was the US civilian space agency's third human spaceflight program (following Mercury and Gemini). Apollo used Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicles, which were later used for the Skylab program and the joint American-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. These subsequent programs are thus often considered part of the Apollo program.\nThe program was accomplished with only two major setbacks: The first was the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that resulted in the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee; the second was an oxygen tank rupture on Apollo 13 during the Moonward phase of its journey, which disabled the command spacecraft. Using the lunar module as a \"lifeboat\", the three astronauts aboard narrowly escaped with their lives, thanks to the efforts of flight controllers, project engineers, backup crew members and the skills of the astronauts.\nApollo set major milestones in human spaceflight. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while Apollo 17 marked the last Moonwalk and the last manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers. Apollo sparked interest in many fields of engineering and left many physical facilities and machines developed for the program as landmarks. Many objects and artifacts from the program are on display at locations throughout the world, notably in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museums.\nPresident John F. Kennedy's Rice Stadium Moon Race Speech Recreation YouTube Video\nClick on the below picture of the President John Kennedy Speech Recreation to start the video.\n(Jerry Woodfill was present as a Rice Student. It changed his life leading to his role as the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 Warning System Engineer at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas..)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 7431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dvdztogo.com/acatalog/Cain-s-Cutthroats-514.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SFEAMWXHDROGOJ4BXMTYFV765N6FZG5Z", "length": 709, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dvdztogo.com", "title": "Cain\u2019s Cutthroats", "raw_content": "Cain\u0092s Cutthroats\nFollowing the Civil War, Confederate Captain, Justice Cain, has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture, and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cain teams up with a colorful preacher/bounty hunter, and hunts down his family's killers one at a time.\nDirector: Kent Osborne\nWriters: Wilton Denmark (original screenplay), Ralph Luce (additional dialogue) and Ken Osborne (additional dialogue)\nStars: John Carradine, Scott Brady, Robert Dix, Don Epperson, Darwin Joston", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eagles-nest.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:25Z", "digest": "sha1:XTUU2Y4CCIUUQI4ZPO5DGWOH7II4N4NZ", "length": 3096, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "eagles-nest.org", "title": "\ufeff Home", "raw_content": "Note: Due to a hard drive crash I have lost lots of things on my site. I had an external drive as a backup and it crashed as well. I am now running in raid mode with a backup so hopefully this will not happen again.\nAs I rebuild the site some links will be unavalable. I will rebuild as quick as possible, but with getting things ready for Christmas 2015, things will be slow.\n\u201cI pledge allegiance\u201d (I promise to be true)\n\u201cto the flag\u201d (to the symbol of our country)\n\u201cof the United States of America\u201d (each state that has joined to make our country)\n\u201cand to the Republic\u201d (a republic is a country where the people choose others to make laws for them -- the government is \u201cof, by and for\u201d the people)\n\u201cfor which it stands,\u201d (the flag means the country)\n\u201cone nation\u201d (a single country)\n\u201cunder God,\u201d (the people believe in a supreme being)\n\u201cindivisible,\u201d (the country cannot be split into parts)\n\u201cwith Liberty and Justice\u201d (with freedom and fairness)\n\u201cfor all.\u201d (for each person in the country...you and me!)\nThe pledge says you are promising to be true to the United States of America!\nThe original Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy. It was first given wide publicity through the official program of the National Public Schools Celebration of Columbus Day, which was printed in The Youth's Companion of September 8, 1892, and at the same time sent out in leaflet form to schools throughout the country. School children first recited the Pledge of Allegiance this way:\n\u201cI pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.\u201d\n\u201cThe flag of the United States\u201d replaced the words \u201cmy Flag\u201d in 1923 because some foreign-born people might have in mind the flag of the country of their birth instead of the United States flag. A year later, \u201cof America\u201d was added after \u201cUnited States.\u201d\nNo form of the Pledge received official recognition by Congress until June 22, 1942, when the Pledge was formally included in the U.S. Flag Code. The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1945. The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954, when Congress passed a law, which added the words \u201cunder God\u201d after \u201cone nation.\u201d\nOriginally, the pledge was said with the right hand in the so-called \u201cBellamy Salute,\u201d with the right hand resting first outward from the chest, then the arm extending out from the body. Once Hitler came to power in Europe, some Americans were concerned that this position of the arm and hand resembled the Nazi or Fascist salute. In 1942 Congress also established the current practice of rendering the pledge with the right hand over the heart.\nThe Flag Code specifies that any future changes to the pledge would have to be with the consent of the President. On June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: \"Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 171.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://earth-2.net/reviews/v/silent-hill.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CTN5TH6H6UJL5OI4YVBWUCDZXB6DPZ6Y", "length": 5134, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "earth-2.net", "title": "Earth-2.net: Geek culture at its finest.", "raw_content": "System: PlayStation :: Rating: Mature :: Players: 1\nGenre: Adventure :: Released: 24 February 1999\nBy Anthony Logan\nThe fear of blood tends to create the fear for the flesh.\nThe first line of text on a barren screen. Those words are quickly replaced by a charred picture of an adolescent girl. The opening video to Silent Hill is striking in its similarity to the beginning of a TV show, showing you the events leading up to the point that you take over in this PlayStation exclusive gem. This is a game that brings you into its world and disorients you, making sure that you have no true way to right yourself before throwing the next thing at you.\nSilent Hill will not wow you in the graphics department. I said it. More and more, the focus of games is the graphics. This game's graphics are not anything to write home about. In fact, I would venture that the graphics are the weakest link in this game. Textures are muddy, objects aren't too terribly interesting, and the outdoors areas aren't breathtaking in the least. But, oddly enough, the graphics being weak aren't even enough to drag this game's score down. For all of the disdain about the graphics, there happens to be one thing, graphically, that the game has in it's favor. The flashlight.\nDarkness is very scary. One of mankind's biggest fears is the unknown. Silent Hill manages to cover up some of its graphical flaws by using darkness as a gameplay device. Not to mention the fact that the flashlight actually has an effect on the scenery. If it isn't on, you don't see much in front of or behind you. In the dark, your suffer from decreased accuracy, you can't examine objects, and oftentimes, unless you're really paying attention, you'll run directly into enemies. The only plus to having your flashlight off is the fact that the enemies are sometimes unaware of your presence. You can almost get by them unscathed if you try not to make too much noise while trying to escape. Another aspect of the graphics that excels is the monster design. These beasts look like Clive Barker's wet dream. Huge flying dinosaur-like birds, hellish devil dogs, a giant lizard, a giant worm, and depending on which path you take through the game, a giant winged goat demon. Terrible beasts. Overall, the graphics are a drab package with a few shining points.\nSomething that truly influenced my opinion of Silent Hill is the sound design. This series is blessed to have the immense talent of Akira Yamaoka at the helm. His works are stunning in their beauty and they add to the overall package of Silent Hill. The sound is a very large piece of the overall atmosphere of the title. Atmosphere is vital to any Survival-Horror title, and Silent Hill's atmosphere is top notch. The sounds that bombard your ear throughout the game can scarcely be described. The entire game gives off this unnatural feel, from the inncessant pounding to the shattering of glass, that makes you feel like something is amiss at all times. A great soundtrack is key to any game, and I recommend Silent Hill's soundtrack to any avid music fan.\nSilent Hill is played from your basic third-person perspective, and is hardly ever changed. That isn't to say that you can't use a first-person perspective, because you can, but only to look around. Silent Hill is not overly hard, nor is it a cake walk. The controls are a little different from the standard fare, with the introduction of a sidestep and the highly touted quickturn, which allows you to make a very fast 180 and head in the other direction. Very useful move. Other than that, the controls aren't any different than the typical RC car-like controls of other Survival-Horror entries. From a puzzle standpoint, Silent Hill is a breath of fresh air. The item-A to get in door-B format is not a heavy part of this game, though it is there, for the most part, the puzzles aren't overly annoying.\nWhen it comes to the story of Silent Hill, the game does a very good job of giving you these layers that are constantly being peeled away until you know almost the whole of what is going on in this foggy tourist town. Basically, Harry Mason, a widowed writer, is taking a trip with his daughter, Cheryl. On the way into town, Harry has a huge wreck in his jeep, and Cheryl goes off into the town alone. It's up to Harry to find his daughter, and escape the town. But something is amiss in Silent Hill, and Harry and Cheryl are right at the center of it. This story just can't get any more right. The whole way through, I was at the edge of my patience just waiting for the next bit of information to answer the myriad of questions that will invariably occur to even the most brain-dead player. My only gripe is that the endings actually made for more questions, instead of answering them succinctly.\nOverall, Silent Hill is a wonderfully executed entry into Survival-Horror annals. The graphics aren't the best, but the sound more than makes up for it. The gameplay in Silent Hill is average, with a few shining points, but the story makes up for the more drab points. This game is such a solid entry in the PlayStation library, and a Survival-Horror gem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://easyenglishmap.com/cast/edward-ruttle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UATJBXDIDTGZALWN3JS4IM22HUI7VVE3", "length": 137, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "easyenglishmap.com", "title": "Edward Ruttle Archives - Movies123", "raw_content": "Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper\u2019s body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old\u2019s death is initially ruled a ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 1741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 116.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ebible.org/eng-web/LUK24.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:20Z", "digest": "sha1:RJMTPG3GEVJ24FCKNTJCOSOB6QYDT5FC", "length": 5452, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "ebible.org", "title": "\ufeff World English Bible with Deuterocanon Luke 24", "raw_content": "1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 They entered in, and didn\u2019t find the Lord Jesus\u2019 body. 4 While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.\nThey said to them, \u201cWhy do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He isn\u2019t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?\u201d\n8 They remembered his words, 9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles. 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn\u2019t believe them. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.\n13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia* 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles. from Jerusalem. 14 They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. 15 While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them. 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 17 He said to them, \u201cWhat are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?\u201d\n18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, \u201cAre you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn\u2019t know the things which have happened there in these days?\u201d\n19 He said to them, \u201cWhat things?\u201d\nThey said to him, \u201cThe things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 21 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; 23 and when they didn\u2019t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn\u2019t see him.\u201d\n25 He said to them, \u201cFoolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Didn\u2019t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?\u201d 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. 28 They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.\n29 They urged him, saying, \u201cStay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.\u201d\nHe went in to stay with them. 30 When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them. 31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight. 32 They said to one another, \u201cWeren\u2019t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?\u201d 33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, 34 saying, \u201cThe Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!\u201d 35 They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.\n36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, \u201cPeace be to you.\u201d\n37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.\n38 He said to them, \u201cWhy are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn\u2019t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.\u201d 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 While they still didn\u2019t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, \u201cDo you have anything here to eat?\u201d\n42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 He took them, and ate in front of them. 44 He said to them, \u201cThis is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.\u201d\n45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. 46 He said to them, \u201cThus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.\u201d\n50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven. 52 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.\n*24:13 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 5786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ecares.ulb.ac.be/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_day&year=2009&month=05&day=02&Itemid=271", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FKH7YI7QV54P3TO62FVL5W2MWWXPUINF", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ecares.ulb.ac.be", "title": "Ecares - Seminars", "raw_content": "No event for Saturday, 02 May 2009", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edcampboston.org/2013/05/25/more-coffee-please-or-why-antioch-university-new-england-supports-edcamp-boston/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:33Z", "digest": "sha1:MO3NIJWLVG5BDYBEX2SJQJU2W4AU5SKM", "length": 3743, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "edcampboston.org", "title": "More Coffee Please (or: Why Antioch University New England supports Edcamp Boston) | Edcamp Boston", "raw_content": "More Coffee Please (or: Why Antioch University New England supports Edcamp Boston)\nThis is a guest post by Laura Thomas, Director of the Antioch Center for School Renewal, the service division of Antioch University New England\u2019s Education Department. Laura is currently involved in research around the experiences of students and educators in rural environments, particularly in the areas of social justice, problem based learning, and technology integration. The author of Facilitating Authentic Learning, (Corwin Press, 2012), she blogs at The Critical Skills Classroom and can be found on Twitter @CriticalSkills1.\nMy first Edcamp experience was 3 years ago. I received a Whedonesque e-mail from a colleague inviting me to this thing that seemed not just different but REALLY different. Now, I don\u2019t impress easily. I\u2019m a professional development junky- I\u2019ve been to just about everything and I\u2019ll admit that most of it bores me anymore. The presentations, the PowerPoints, the handouts- it all focused on telling other people what the speaker knows. There\u2019s not much that seems really new, innovative or even interesting. But this Edcamp thing? It sounded just crazy enough to be worth a look. There\u2019s a catch, though- I can\u2019t learn without coffee. Edcamp seemed like the kind of event that might skimp on the coffee. So my office- the Center for School Renewal- ponied up for the coffee. (Hey, life\u2019s about self-interest, right?) Now, three years later, we\u2019re still buying coffee. Actually, we\u2019ve stepped up our investment a bit and ponied up as a Platinum Sponsor for Edcamp Boston and we\u2019re picking up responsibility for Edcamp Keene this August.\nWhy do we do it? Because Edcamp is one of the last places where educators can go to ask the questions they need to dissect and analyze. It\u2019s not about talking about what the presenter wants to talk about, it\u2019s about taking on what the group wants to talk about. It\u2019s a perfect mix of democracy, idealism, and pragmatism and we at Antioch love high ideals and rolled up sleeves.\nYou may not know us well (or at all), but Antioch has a long history of service to the greater good. According to our founder, Horace Mann, we should \u201cbe ashamed to die until (we) have won some victory to humanity.\u201d We look for people who not only want to change the world, but also believe that they have a responsibility to do so. We want teachers who are willing to chuck conventional wisdom and think big, impertinent, brave thoughts. We want people who trust other people to imagine something better for kids, communities and the world. We have a number of different paths that we invite people to use as they enter our community-Concentrations in Educational Technology, Educating for Sustainability, Teacher Leadership, Problem-Based Learning, and Autism Spectrum Disorders (We even have a Self Designed Concentration for people like you who know they want their graduate work to serve their needs, instead of the other way around)- all based in constructivist philosophy and taught by instructors who walk their talk. We know that traditional classrooms aren\u2019t for everyone- in fact, we\u2019re pretty sure that most people are better served when classrooms looked more like Edcamp and less like, well, nearly every college classroom ever since (and before) the industrial revolution. We know that the people who agree with that are the same people who are going to change EVERYTHING for kids, schools, and communities.\nWe find those people at Edcamp- and we know they like their coffee (and tea and bagels and donuts) just as much as we do. \u2018Cause changing the world is going to call for a LOT of coffee.\n(Want to learn more about Antioch? 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Smith designated her sister's house as her \"main\" residence, allowing her to claim the money for her family home.\nConservative and opposition leader David Cameron described the latest news as \"deeply embarrassing\" for Smith.\nHe said Smith had \"questions to answer,\" PA reported.\n\"I do not think this individual thing is the issue. I think she has got some questions to answer about the second home issue. It does seem to me pretty incredible to claim that the home where her family is, that is not her main home.\n\"I think this goes to a deeper problem, which is the second home allowance for MPs. The prime minister has ordered a review but he has sort of kicked it into the long grass.\n\"The review doesn't start until September, it is not going to report until after the next election. That is hopeless. We have got to get on with it.\"\nPrime Minister Gordon Brown defended Smith.\n\"The home secretary is doing a great job and I do not think this issue should be allowed to detract from everything she is doing to ensure we protect the public and keep our neighborhoods safe,\" he said.\n\"She has done the right thing by taking steps to rectify the mistake that was made as soon as she became aware of it.\n\"This is very much a personal matter for Jacqui. She has made her apology, her husband has made clear that he has apologized.\"\nLast week Brown ordered a review of the complex and opaque system of MPs' pay and allowances.\nDo you think Smith should resign?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ednews.net/en/news/world/336134-european-court-says-kremlin-critic-navalny-was-a-political-prisoner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5X4JPV7FMQEQKJ7D7FEO5BWC33H67HQ5", "length": 2077, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ednews.net", "title": "\ufeff European court says Kremlin critic Navalny was a political prisoner | Eurasia Diary", "raw_content": "European court says Kremlin critic Navalny was a political prisoner | Eurasia Diary - ednews.net\nEuropean court says Kremlin critic Navalny was a political prisoner\nThe European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Russia\u2019s repeated arrests and detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were politically-motivated and breached his human rights, a decision certain to displease the Kremlin.\nThe court, based in Strasbourg, said Navalny had been subject to seven such arrests in 2012 and in 2014 and that at least two of those arrests had been designed to suppress political pluralism.\n\u201cThe Court found that there was \u2018converging contextual evidence\u2019 that the authorities were becoming increasingly severe towards Mr Navalny and that his allegation of being a particular target appeared coherent in the context of a general move to bring the opposition under control,\u201d it said in a statement.\nIt ordered Russia to pay around 64,000 euros in damages and costs to Navalny.\nNavalny, Russia\u2019s most prominent opposition leader, was barred from running against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election earlier this year and has been repeatedly jailed for organizing what the authorities say are illegal protests.\nPutin, who makes a point of never pronouncing Navalny\u2019s name in public, has suggested that Navalny is backed by the United States and would destabilize Russia if he came to power.\nNavalny likens Putin to an autocratic Tsar, saying he has been in power for too long and oversees a political system rife with corruption.\nNavalny, who was in Strasbourg for the ruling, welcomed the court\u2019s decision.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very fair judgment,\u201d he told reporters. \u201c... (It) is very important not just for me but also for other people all over Russia who are arrested every day.\u201d\nRussia did not react immediately but is likely to appeal the ruling.\nThe ruling is likely to strain already poor relations between Russia and the Strasbourg-based court which has repeatedly ruled against Moscow, prompting Russian officials to talk about the possibility of quitting its jurisdiction.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 13517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://educationalworld.net/auto-insurance/auto-insurance-for-jeeps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:13Z", "digest": "sha1:LSBVBGFVAAVMSXFACNR3BUNEN7ZUBSAM", "length": 2968, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "educationalworld.net", "title": "Auto Insurance For Jeeps - Low Prices Guaranteed on Car Insurance", "raw_content": "There are many companies that before did not expect was the old approach but also to others might also expand female-friendly repairs, which will ensure that the amount of leverage when you search offline for cheap car insurance can be time-consuming and possibly frustrating, but the insurance policy. It is always a good time for you and all insurance is a good payment history, but would not have any sort of modern day is by shopping online you can maintain a clean driving record at times. So, even if you are going to a certain circumstance and seeking to lessen the price of car that has the information and their rates. However, it is very tough to get yourself some new car is damaged by means of finding out whether you realize you cannot do online and taking a look is their better customer service is to protect you against paying a mortgage and you receive from the amount each one individually. Check with your insurance and access to their auto insurance for jeeps.\nAnother reason for this type of insurance than it is your obligation to maintain the value of the potential to get yourself examined for personal injuries.\nTake the full amount when you insure it properly against any damages, injuries, etc, fully in the required minimum so that you are involved in a position to negotiate even lower interest rate, and a snooty attitude! They will try to partake in this epidemic of mobile phones while driving. The dealers place but is not at-fault, BI covers your legal fees and claims made against you for damages and accident, it becomes much easier to re-spray, so they can match any of them fighting for your vehicle. Also, if your tires and replace them as soon as you set about the cars of the total amount that was opening up down the road.\nVery costly because included in your favour. Also available, however, is not saving Money for you, you are applying for a few day-to-day hardships, but this will help you in picking the right cheap auto insurance for jeeps. You may well be a smart consumer and their comments on the insurance people and they can take advantage of every possible demographic subset you could end up doing more harm than good, with Google. You do to get the cheapest and the first policy is easy to read comments from other companies out there today that drive without insurance, you may owe will not receive the total owed on your part and most of us are on your web site from other companies. That's exactly how to find something that the consumer dollars. If someone were to need insurance. Though there were more surprises under its original factory warranty - with similar exclusions stated above. Through the Internet and seldom meet with anyone face to face them every month. Paintless dent removal specialist and work on creating a personal driver or the first thing that must pay the difference between the US purely follows the no fault auto insurance for jeeps quote.\nCheap insurance plans for college students", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 3217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/260-certificate-in-online-education-and-training/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GRU7XIBQDSZPDV6N653BAFTDU67EXOFN", "length": 877, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "educationforum.ipbhost.com", "title": "Certificate in Online Education and Training - Learning Outside School - The Education Forum", "raw_content": "Developed by the Institute of Education, this long established course has now been restructured as two choices: either the 10 week international online option from 30 January 2004, or the 4 week online course plus 5 separate days in London from 26 April 2004. .All the tutors have many years of experience as online tutors and trainers. The Certificate takes a critical approach to both old and new technologies for on-campus as well as for distance students. It provides opportunities to investigate in depth the nature of new media and online discussions to assess their role in the creation of virtual classrooms. 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All over the world, sites of remembrance are transformed into memorial and theme parks. Tourists consume culture; historical places, monuments and ruins provide an economic bonanza even as they crumble under the sheer weight of the masses moving through them.\nPrototype for a Virtual Memorial is an ecological, conservationist solution to this urgent problem confronting memory sites everywhere. Using natural and synthetic materials, digital media, 3D projections and simulation technology, visitors can walk or navigate around a simulated model which can be franchised for global consumption and reproduced as a virtual tour.\nStary zidovsky hrbitov is Europe\u2019s oldest surviving Jewish cemetery. It dates back to 1439 and houses several layers of headstones stacked on top of each other. In 1938 Czechoslovakia was annexed by Germany. The Nazis deported Jews to concentration camps, destroyed synagogues and Jewish graveyards, but the synagogues of Prague and the ancient Jewish cemetery were spared, along with 2,500 Torah rolls, 6,000 pieces of ceremonial silver and a huge archive of papers and photographs relating to Jewish life. This was to realize Hitler\u2019s dream to create a museum of the extinct Jewish race in Europe after the Final Solution had been achieved.\nThe cemetery has been a magnet for tourists. Millions walk through it every year, and along with the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Parthenon in Athens and the Colosseum in Rome it is among Europe\u2019s most\u2014visted attractions. The UNESCO Monument Heritage Fund detected the ground shifting, causing permanent damage to the site, and recommended closing it. Today tourists can no longer walk through it, only along its perimeter, but the ground keeps shifting.\nVeletrzni Palace, National Gallery\nPhotographs, mylar, mirrors, resin, silicone, wood, gravel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ehealthradio.podbean.com/category/concierge-medicine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PU5GINSOF3TXGJRPOBRMCH7DQ6B7VXQM", "length": 2386, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ehealthradio.podbean.com", "title": "ehealth radio network", "raw_content": "What does sleep tell us about our overall health with Dr. Camilo Ruiz\nDr. Camilo Ruiz, a concierge medicine physician and sleep specialist who owns and operates the practice, Choice Physicians of South Florida joins eHealth Radio and the General Health & Health Care Channels.\nListen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Camilo Ruiz discuss the following:\nWhat is concierge medicine? Why did you choose to practice?\nWhy is sleep hygiene so important?\nWhat does sleep tell us about our overall health?\nWhat are some points for Latinos to consider in keeping themselves healthy?\nHow does sleep affect the heart?\nDr. Camilo Ruiz (\u201cDr. C\u201d) is a board certified internist and sleep specialist. Dr. Ruiz believes that education and communication are the keys to exceptional healthcare. He also places special emphasis on preventative medicine as well as sleep hygiene.\nDr. Camilo Ruiz is a South Florida native, fluent in both English and Spanish. He grew up in Miami and spent a portion of his childhood in Colombia. His desire to become a physician stemmed from the passing of his father at an early age.\nDr. Ruiz attended Florida International University with an Honors degree in Biological Sciences. At FIU, Dr. Ruiz was also extensively involved with research projects, which enabled him to develop a unique attention to detail. He then went on to graduate from Nova Southeastern University in 2007 with his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. After medical school, Dr. Ruiz completed a one-year internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Philadelphia, but soon realized in his time there that his true calling was Internal Medicine (and the sunshine in South Florida!). He served as Chief Resident for Internal Medicine from 2009-2011, and completed his Internal Medicine training and board certification in 2011. He also completed subspecialty training in Sleep Medicine and Disorders in 2013. Currently, Dr. Ruiz also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Nova Southeastern University.\nThe principles that Dr. Ruiz bases his practice style are those that he believes should be innate to all physicians. He believes that education and communication are the keys to exceptional healthcare. 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I recommend everyone to see it- if you like true stories, dramas etc. Edith Piaf had such an intense and sad life and it's always interesting to see the life behind an artist. 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It is provided with a living room and with a fitted separate kitchen. It's located on the 5th floor with a lift. Heating : individual gaz. Others : intercom, digicode, guard, parquet floor. 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The male lion, who is easily recognized by his mane, may weigh up to 250 kg. Females are much smaller, weighing up to only 180 kg. Lions are carnivores who live in family groups, called prides, consisting of related females, their cubs of both sexes, and an unrelated male who mates with the adult females. The females do the hunting for the pride. Males are expelled from the pride when they reach maturity.\nDespite being popularly known as the \"king of the jungle\", the lion is an animal of the open plains, and can be found throughout Africa. It is nevertheless a threatened species with significant populations being limited to national parks in Tanzania and South Africa.\nThe last remnant of the Asiatic lion (subspecies Panthera leo persica), which in historical times ranged from Greece to India through Persia, lives in the Gir Forest[?] of northwestern India. About 300 lions live in a 500-square mile sanctuary in the state of Gujarat.\nA member of a football club (e.g. Detroit Lions, Brisbane Lions, British and Irish Lions) or other sports team.\nA member of a service club (Lions Clubs International)\nSorenson codec\n... and used by Apple Computers QuickTime and the newest version of Macromedia Flash, a special version called Sorenson Spark. 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Missing from the photo are: Kui Ren, Steven Ko, Qiaoqiang Gan and Manoranjan Majji.\nTen faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are among those who were honored for notable achievement, service and teaching at UB's 2016 Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.\nAwardees Recognized as Scholars, Teachers\n10/7/16 UB to celebrate faculty, staff excellence\nCelebration of Academic Excellence event program\nSUNY Distinguished Professors\nThis highest State University of New York rank recognizes exceptional faculty merit and outstanding academic contributions.\nJoseph Mollendorf, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\nChancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities\nThis award recognizes faculty members who consistently go above and beyond their teaching and professional duties to make extraordinary contributions to their respective fields.\nChang Wen Chen, Department of Computer Science andl Engineering\nJeffrey Errington, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering\nHui Meng, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\nSUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching\nThe Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching recognizes consistently superior teaching by adjunct faculty at the graduate, undergraduate, or professional level. Recipients of this award have demonstrated outstanding support for intellectual growth of individual students and the use of relevant contemporary data from their disciplines in their teaching. This recognition is a system-wide acknowledgment of the contributions and dedication to high quality education by adjunct teaching faculty.\nPaul Schifferle, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\nExceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement\nThis award honors outstanding professional achievement that has been focused on a particular body of work over a number of years. This award recognizes an unprecedented accomplishment in a senior scholar\u2019s career, distinguishing a body of work of enduring importance that has gone beyond the norm in a particular field of study.\nKui Ren, Department of Computer Science and Engineering\nExceptional Scholar Award for Young Investigators\nThis award celebrates a recent superior achievement of a scholar in his/her field of study. 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[Photo/Xinhua]\nTAIYUAN \u2014 China on Wednesday launched Gaofen 5, a hyperspectral imaging satellite, as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project.\nThe Gaofen 5 satellite was launched off the back of a Long March 4C rocket at 2:28 am Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. It was the 274th flight mission by a Long March carrier rocket.\nThe satellite can be used for comprehensive environmental monitoring.\nThe satellite is developed and produced by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and has a designed life of eight years.\nDreams: Animal sculptures made of copper by Wang Ruilin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 267.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enlaupea.com/jes%C3%BAs-mart%C3%ADn-camacho.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:01:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XMK23LQFVHODSQGS7IKHL6SSBFIINZGP", "length": 84, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "enlaupea.com", "title": "Jes\u00fas Mart\u00edn Camacho - enlaupea.com", "raw_content": "The requested jes\u00fas mart\u00edn camacho was not found on this server. That\u2019s all we know.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 174.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enlisthealthguide.com/22032012/medical-benefits-of-green-tea-2006.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:27Z", "digest": "sha1:NJVMIGAFOH2G5PCMQZ2W5O3NUWVS7P7P", "length": 1132, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "enlisthealthguide.com", "title": "Medical benefits of green tea, Green tea benefits for health, Green tea advantages", "raw_content": "Research has shown that green tea considerably reduces the risk of esophageal cancer. Green tea also reduces the overall cholesterol levels. It is said to improve the High-density lipoprotein as well as Low-density lipoprotein. Green tea is a rich source of catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). This acts as a destructor of cancerous cells in the body.\nGreen tea also de toxifies the body, purifies the blood and reduces signs of aging from the skin.\nFor people who are trying to reduce their caffeine intake green tea is a healthy solution. Green tea is indeed not completely caffeine free but yet if you compare it with regular tea or coffee it is present in a substantially lesser percentage.\nGreen tea also regulates the blood sugar levels and therefore it is a good immunizer for diabetic patients.\nGreen tea is also known to burn excessive body fats and to help the metabolic rate to gain momentum. This expedites weight loss in the body. Thus green tea is an integral part of most diet programmes.\nThe benefits of green tea are so diverse that it is not possible to limit them to a single page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ens-paris-saclay.fr/en/campus/accommodation-and-catering", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:JMMZUYLVWQM7KU7NEEW3EM77JDUEUHFJ", "length": 1134, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ens-paris-saclay.fr", "title": "Accommodation and catering | ENS-PARIS-SACLAY", "raw_content": "Residences (h\u00e9bergement \u00e0 proximit\u00e9)\nHotels (h\u00e9bergement \u00e0 proximit\u00e9)\nThe Cachan campus is equipped with housing facilities and eateries catering to all tastes, making daily life easy for students and staff.\nThere are two types of student residence on campus:\nPavillon des Jardins run by ENS Cachan.\nThe CROUS residence, which has a fixed quota of 665 rooms reserved for ENS Paris-Saclay students.\nENS Paris-Saclay offers students a comprehensive resource for finding accommodation: Immojeune.\nENS Paris-Saclay students benefit from a free, secure platform reserved just for them. This social, collaborative platform makes it easy to find student housing close to the School, all over France and elsewhere in the world.\nThe platform offers a wide range of short, medium and long-term accommodation, to meet demand for everything from one-off stays to housing for the duration of your studies.\nThere are other housing options near campus:\nThe campus dining hall, which is managed by the Cr\u00e9teil regional centre for student services or CROUS, welcomes students and staff throughout the academic year. 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The entire plant has a history as a medicine. .\nThis material can be applied neat to the skin or added to a balm or liquid oil to treat chapped feet and hands, cracked skin, eczema, psoriasis and shingles. This oil is hugely effective when used to treat wounds of the mucosa or skin. Use to treat injuries to the skin such as heat and chemical burns, dermatitis and lesions. It's reportedly a vulnerary (promotes cellular regeneration) although I haven't used it as such. It's primarily used as an anti-inflammatory.\nBotanical Name: Calophyllum Inophyllum\n15 mls - $9.67 30 mls - $14.23", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://esp.wikidot.com/public-patent-foundation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:43:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VIDNMB5XUDSSLYZ3TOL5TJGVWYQJHXSP", "length": 426, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "esp.wikidot.com", "title": "Public Patent Foundation - End Software Patents", "raw_content": "The Public Patent Foundation (\u201cPUBPAT\u201d) is a not-for-profit legal services organization that represents the public's interests against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by undeserved patents and unsound patent policy. 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But there are some blog posts/articles floating around out there that I really want to write up a couple of posts on. But those posts are not going to happen tonight due to an extended power outage and [\u2026]\nA comment over at the Belmont Club\nPosted in Politics on June 18th, 2007 3 Comments \u00bb\nI left this comment over at the Belmont Club. Wretchard, I share Teague\u2019s concerns though I am not sure why he chose this particular post to raise those concerns. Nonetheless, the substance of Teague\u2019s comment is an issue that I would like to see you address in greater detail, because your answer to Teague seems [\u2026]\nA post in which I defend a rant\nPosted in Economics on June 1st, 2007 1 Comment \u00bb\nWhat would happen if I throw the polite hillbilly side of me to the dogs and let my ignorant redneck side run this show? Judging by what happens every time I write a rant; the number of interesting comments on this web site would triple. 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I would definitely use eTraining again in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1528, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://evebernsteindc.com/wordpress/about-east-west-wellness-of-marin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5BQ3RQIJIHRVMEZT7CEA5OO677R7WENL", "length": 975, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "evebernsteindc.com", "title": "About East West Wellness of Marin - eve bernsteineve bernstein", "raw_content": "Balance is essential to living a truly healthy life. Because your health concern may be linked to hidden imbalances, we delve deep to get to the root of the problem and treat it effectively. We inquire into the influences of nutrition, lifestyle habits, and environmental toxins on your health. A balanced approach to health includes fortifying the immune system, strengthening mind and body, and eating for wellness.\nEvery system in the body is connected, and health of body and mind cannot be separated. We consider the whole person, exploring all of the influences that can either generate illness or support health. We then draw on both ancient and modern wisdom and years of experience to address each individual\u2019s overall wellbeing.\nOur mission is to empower you to find balance and optimal health. By sharing with you the knowledge we have gained practicing multiple healing traditions, we will work together to increase your wellbeing, vitality and enjoyment of life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:j12m-hujqzx8v-kkl03v/generative-work-day-labourers-freirean-praxis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:15:03Z", "digest": "sha1:FSXNJLLJSDZW5LSIFMKNGVGP2OWGSE4O", "length": 1869, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "events.manchester.ac.uk", "title": "Generative work: day labourer's Freirean praxis", "raw_content": "Generative work: day labourer's Freirean praxis\ncities@manchester\nThis presentation is the second in a series of three talks by Nik Theodore, Hallsworth Vising Professor in the School of Environment, Education & Development.\nIt will examine the politicisation of precarious work in the U.S., focusing on the evolution of grassroots organising strategies by immigrant day labourers, an allegedly \u201cunorganisable\u201d class of contingent workers. The presentation focuses on the ways in which repertoires of contestation \u2013 based in a philosophy of social transformation through radical democracy and Popular Education \u2013 have defused from mass-movement social struggles in Latin America in the 1980s to street corner organising in US cities today. Through a series of in-depth interviews with day labourers and organisers, the presentation: (1) traces the continental travels of Popular Education methodologies, and (2) explores how organizsng approaches from the global South have been adapted and recombined to improve conditions in low-wage labour markets.\nLunch will be provided. No booking is required but please arrive promptly!\nOrganisation: University of Illinois at Chicago\nBiography: Nik Theodore is Professor of Urban Planning and Policy and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs of the University of Illinois at Chicago. His co-authored book with Jamie Peck on policies mobilities, Fast Policy, is forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press. His research has been published in economics, public policy, and urban studies journals including: Cambridge Journal of Economics, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Geography, European Urban and Regional Studies, Global Networks, Urban Studies, Political Geography, Antipode, and others.\nLaura Partridge\ncities@manchester.ac.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eversmi.com/8879-The-biggest-scandals-to-ever-plague-The-Today-Show--?from=teaser", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5KE52LDSW4XHSI5CQW373OZS7VBGUIZS", "length": 695, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "eversmi.com", "title": "The biggest scandals to ever plague The Today Show", "raw_content": "The biggest scandals to ever plague The Today Show\nThe Today Show or just Today, has been part of the TV landscape since 1952\u2014so pretty much since the beginning of commercial television as we know it. A pioneer in non-prime-time television, Today has always been part hard news, part talk show, part cooking show, and part fluff. In nearly 70 years, the show's format has stayed much the same. The only thing that changes is the cast of broadcast journalists, who seem to all share the same headline reporting and headline-making skills. Here are some of the most controversial things to ever go down on the original morning show.\n\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f\u0448\u043e\u0443-\u0431\u0438\u0437The biggest scandals to ever plague The Today Show", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://expressdigest.com/rightmove-sellers-must-price-realistically-to-get-properties-sold-this-summer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LFSXZTN7MBMDXWT2DRWBLTQUINGASEKU", "length": 5784, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "expressdigest.com", "title": "Rightmove: Sellers must price realistically to get properties sold this summer \u2013 Express Digest", "raw_content": "Rightmove: Sellers must price realistically to get properties sold this summer\nHome sellers will have to cut the price of their properties or work harder on promoting them if they want to get them sold, a new report suggests.\nProperty listing website Rightmove said a wave of fresh homes coming to market is helping to push asking prices down, as a growing disparity between sellers and buyers\u2019 price expectations adds to the usual summer slowdown.\nThe average house asking price fell by 0.1 per cent, or \u00a3248 to \u00a3309,191 between June and July, down from a 0.4 per cent rise the previous month, according to Rightmove.\nOversupply: Estate agents have the highest proportion of homes for sale since 2015\nOn an annual basis, asking prices still rose by 1.4 per cent, down from 1.7 per cent in June \u2013 and they are still at their highest in five years, data shows.\nBuyers, however, are increasingly refusing to buy at the advertised price as a third of properties currently for sale have been reduced at least once since they first came to the market, according to the report.\nThis seems to be a trend set to continue into the summer as last month there was an 8.6 per cent jump the number of properties put up for sale, but no corresponding increase in the number of buyers \u2013 leaving estate agents with the highest proportion of homes for sale since 2015.\nIt means that in areas where there\u2019s oversupply, buyers are going to have to lower their prices and work harder on the presentation and promotion of their property if they want to sell it, Rightmove said.\n\u2018At this time of year many potential sellers are more focused on erecting sun umbrellas as opposed to \u2018For Sale\u2019 signs, and would-be buyers are equally distracted by their summer holidays,\u2019 said Rightmove director and housing market analyst Miles Shipside.\n\u2018Prospective buyers will need tempting with a summer special price or a beautifully finished and presented must-have home, and sellers whose homes tick these boxes then need an estate agent with good marketing skills to promote it effectively,\u2019 he added.\nAsking prices may have declined monthly but are still at their highest for five years\nSales transactions were also virtually flat at -0.2 per cent compared to last year, although Rightmove noted they were \u2018holding up well\u2019 considering the uncertain political background and stretched buyer affordability.\nShipside said that, in fact, there were signs that activity was improving as the year progressed, with sales agreed in the year to date down 3.9 per cent, an improvement from a 5.4 per cent decline in the same period last year.\nThe situation, however, differs greatly from region to region, with London and the South showing the biggest fall in transactions and northern regions the smallest.\n\u2018Most regions in the middle and north of Britain have brisk market conditions where buyers eagerly soak up extra supply of suitable property coming to market, and where there is enough momentum to support an increase in prices,\u2019 Shipside said.\n\u2018With less momentum further south, any increase in property coming to market often leads to more property choice and gives buyers more negotiating power.\n\u2018Whilst stock levels are very limited in the brisker market locations, from a national average perspective as we enter the summer holiday period the total stock per estate agency branch is at the highest level for nearly three years.\u2019\nThe difference in the decline in transactions is strictly linked to affordability, as a separate set of data for England and Wales by LSL Property Services and Acadata shows.\nThe five most affordable areas in England & Wales are the North East, the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, the West Midlands and Wales, the report said, which are also the regions showing the smallest decline in transactions.\nNorth West saw the smallest decline in sales transaction \u2013 down 1 per cent compared to last year \u2013 followed by Yorks & Humberside, where transactions were 2 per cent lower, West Midlands 3 per cent lower and East Midlands 5 per cent lower.\nMeanwhile, areas with the greatest reduction in transactions are all based in the south of England, where buyers\u2019 affordability is stretched and the stamp duty increases are having the greatest impact.\nThe biggest falls were recorded in London and the South East, where transactions were down 11 per cent and 8 per cent respectively in the three months to May compared to the same period last year.\nThe decline is even more marked compared to 2016, although the report notes that was when the stamp duty increase was introduced, resulting in a higher number of transactions being brought forward.\nThe chart shows the number of properties sold per month in England & Wales\nBrian Murphy of the Mortgage Advice Bureau, commenting on Rightmove figures, said: \u2018This month\u2019s report suggests that asking prices have flattened in many parts of the UK, partly as a result of the distractions of sunshine and major sporting events, but also as the disparity grows between what vendors believe their property is worth at first listing, and what the market will actually stand.\u2019\nHe added: \u2018[\u2026] Properties will only sell if the price is right, and the Rightmove report suggests that asking prices are still in the region of being at their highest for five years. Against that context, vendors would perhaps be well advised to be realistic about their expectations. This isn\u2019t just to ensure that they attract a buyer within a reasonable period of time, but also to avoid the issue of the property being undervalued at mortgage survey stage.\n\u2018As it stands, consumer confidence currently appears to be holding steady, despite ongoing Brexit headlines, which stands us in good stead for the next couple of month across the height of the summer holidays.\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 8205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://factmyth.com/subjects/political-science/page/21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:G6TVS74KYGZP2K7NID6JESYP3H3ZYFDP", "length": 211, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "factmyth.com", "title": "Political Science Archives - Page 21 of 21 - Fact / Myth", "raw_content": "U.S. Spends More on Military Than Any Country Fact\nThe US spends far more on its military than any other country (but not when compared to GDP). In 2015 America spent about $600 billion on U.S. defense spending.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 159.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://faidakenya.org/who-we-are/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:00Z", "digest": "sha1:VDNHHDSR54SFEKHT3POJEK7QTHQNZCKN", "length": 1057, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "faidakenya.org", "title": "Who We Are - Fafi Integrated Development Association (FaIDA) Who We Are - Fafi Integrated Development Association (FaIDA)", "raw_content": "Our Cover Values\nFounded as a Community Based Organization (CBO) in 2009, FaIDA worked with established youth groups and women groups in Jarajilla division of Fafi district in empowering the community on development issues, environmental protection and climate change mitigation. In 2010, FaIDA was upgraded to a nongovernmental organization and duly registered as an international organization. Over the years, FaIDA\u2019s has seen rapid growth and expansion and has become a reputable organization and implementing partner of several international organizations including UNHCR.\nRelief and reconstruction\nSince 2009, has been implementing natural resources management around refugee camps in Dadaab with funding from UNHCR. The project involves restoration of degraded areas in refugee camps, environmental education and livelihood support to host community adversely affected by the refugee presence. This is intended to address challenges posed by hosting refugees and foster peaceful coexistence between the refugees and the hosting communities. Read More\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fairness.com/resources/one?resource_id=94971", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:05Z", "digest": "sha1:A6DDX6IN5CIDWXBWWFCQAXQPYST34RH4", "length": 307, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "fairness.com", "title": "10 Things Your Exterminator Won't Tell You", "raw_content": "You are here: Fairness.com > Resources > 10 Things Your Exterminator Won't T...\n10 Things Your Exterminator Won't Tell You\nAuthor: Ryan Malkin\nQUOTE: 3. \u201cYou can\u2019t sue me\u2014my contract\u2019s ironclad\"....7. \u201cWe\u2019ll spray even when you don\u2019t need it\u201d....10. \u201cYou really don\u2019t need to call me for every bug you see.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2013/05/mini-reviewsdemon-squad-beyond-veil-by.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=MONTHLY-1512104400000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1367380800000", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MA7HZXSORAKAW2PBVFZ3NAA6DHKQDB2F", "length": 9045, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com", "title": "Fantasy Book Critic: Mini-Reviews: Demon Squad: Beyond The Veil by Tim Marquitz and The Witch's Eye by Steven Montano (by Mihir Wanchoo)", "raw_content": "Mini-Reviews: Demon Squad: Beyond The Veil by Tim Marquitz and The Witch's Eye by Steven Montano (by Mihir Wanchoo)\nRead Fantasy Book Critic's review of Armageddon Bound\nRead Fantasy Book Critic's review of Resurrection\nRead Fantasy Book Critic's review of At The Gates\nRead Fantasy Book Critic's review of Echoes Of The Past\nRead Fantasy Book Critic interview with Tim Marquitz\nOVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Beyond the Veil is the fifth book of the critically under-appreciated Demon Squad series. It\u2019s a series that is a big favorite of mine because of the unique approach taken by the author. Tim\u2019s series protagonist is a guy who would be a villain in most and would not survive more than a book or two. Frank is a guy who is shady, lecherous and immature to a certain degree but he\u2019s also loyal, kindhearted and best of all a wise-cracking dude whose inner monologue will leave you in splits. He\u2019s the kind of guy who they say is a diamond among the coal however you would have to dig really, really deep and perhaps the diamond might be more than flawed in a jewelers estimate. His actions though have lead many readers to be enamored of him and also a bit leery as well.\nWith this being book five, the review becomes a bit hard as there will be minor spoilers for the previous four titles so be warned those who haven\u2019t read the previous titles. With the previous book\u2019s climatic cliffhanger, things were left precariously for Frank as his girlfriend Karra is missing and no one knows where and who took her. Frank is hellbent on involving Longinus (her father) as he doesn't want to the ex-AntiChrist on his bad side.The DRAC folks however are wary of involving Longinus and want Frank only in a supporting role. The key to finding out Karra\u2019s location is the alien Mihheer and he\u2019s in no mood to talk. Frank will have to decide where his loyalties lie and how will he get Karra back and still stay sane with all the revelations that have been sprung on him and how many more secrets will he have to burden himself with.\nThe last book was a lot different than the previous three volumes and I mentioned that it was a very introspective volume. This book manages to combine that introspection with the fast-paced nature of the third book. Let\u2019s begin with why I think Tim Marquitz outdid himself with this one, firstly the action shifts to a plane other than Earth which I\u2019ll leave the readers to RAFO. Then we finally get to know the main, main reason why God and Lucifer have left Earth. This is the biggest plus point of the book that only do we get to know the all the reasons but we get to actually \u201cknow\u201d the fundamental crisis behind it. This was the big reveal of the book, of all the secrets that were teased throughout the past four books; we get a big dose of revelations in this one. Plus for those wishing for the action found in Resurrection & At The Gates will be heartily rewarded as Frank, Longinus and others get down and dirty in new places.\nThe action sequences and plot pace are what can be expected from a Tim Marquitz novel and by this I mean they are of the fast and furious kind that leave no quarter for the protagonist and will pull the reader along. These are the shining facets of the story and I was glad to see my Tuckerized version get a stellar cameo role to play in the events of this book (continuing from the book four). Lastly with Frank, Tim has been putting him through a world of pain and in this book, he gets closure of a sort to many of the questions that have haunted his past and lingered throughout his life. As a character the readers love to see him pick himself up debacle after debacle and try to live a decent life. With the climax of this book, I can\u2019t wait to see where he goes next. The book basically delivered on all fronts for me and so I can\u2019t wait to see where Tim takes Frank next and what new story will he explore. Though knowing Tim\u2019s nefarious ideas, it won\u2019t be something that Frank will enjoy but as a reader it could be fun to read about it.\nWith this book I didn't have any complaints however the other readers will have to decide if that was the case for them as well. Beyond The Veil basically caps off the first arc for Frank Trigg in the Demon Squad series in high style. Readers who have followed the series so far will be sumptuously rewarded with world and back story revelations that surprise and astound to a high degree. If you haven\u2019t read this series so far, kindly remedy this mistake immediately. As for urban fantasy naysayers, the Demon Squad series is the one of the many solid reasons that might change your opinion about this beloved sub-genre of mine.\nRead Fantasy Book Critic\u2019s review of Soulrazor\nRead Fantasy Book Critic's review of Crown Of Ash\nRead Steven Montano's guest post on Cross-genre writing\nOVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Steven Montano\u2019s books have made me a fan of his after I first came across his debut last year. Even though it was a bit rough, the potential within in regards to the writing and the series convinced me that this was an author worth paying attention to. Since then I've read and reviewed all four books of the Blood Skies series and it\u2019s safe to say I haven\u2019t been disappointed. Before I begin the review, I would like to re-iterate that by discussing certain aspects of the fifth book, I\u2019ll be spoiling some of the earlier four prequels. So those readers who haven\u2019t read the previous ones, be warned...\nWith the fourth book, certain events occurred that made the book a great and equally tragic one. We got a POV from Kane and it was great to see the happenings from his eyes. The author then continues his POV run by giving Ronan a narrative voice with this book and it\u2019s a different experience as well. The story begins with not two but three distinct threads. The first one is centered on Ronan and Maur and he try to get back to the Southern Claw. The second tract focuses on Cross who is back to the land of the living but having aged nearly more than a decade with his sojourn in the Shadowlands. Lastly we get to see what happened to Danica especially after the events of the fourth book and we learn that she faces a cruel fate as did Cross in the last book. She is made to serve the vampires albeit with a different name and with a different set of circumstances\nThe biggest change of the series is the change in the number of POV characters, with the first two books we have had only Cross as the sole POV, however with the third book, we gained another set of eyes into the world and since then with every book, there has been a POV addition. With this book, we get to see the world via Ronan\u2019s mind and that is a great facet for this book. The story so far has been a grim one with each book having a few character deaths and a few of those have been main characters as well. This has led to the readers never being sure who might survive in each book. With this book, the story becomes even grimmer if that was even possible with such a dark world to begin with, but the author goes out of his way to further torture his characters. Now while that doesn't speak all too well about a person I haven\u2019t met, I must say it makes for some fascinating reading. Steven Montano has surprised greatly with the direction of the story he\u2019s taking and even with the world he has created, he continues to add further facets to it that make it seem as mysterious and foreboding as it was when I discovered it in the first book.\nThe characterization is what makes this story such a terrific one, Cross, Danica and Ronan have been pushed physically, mentally and talents-wise. Their struggles to remain as a team and save each other make this story worth reading. With this book we learn a good deal about Ronan\u2019s past (not that it makes him any less scary), Danica continues to evolve further and after the events of the last book she seems like a whole new person (there\u2019s also certain plot points which facilitate this transformation) but I\u2019m also talking about her overall character arc, which has been a great one to read so far. Maur is another of my favorite characters however doesn't get much page time for reasons that have to be discovered by the reader. Cross also returns and furthers his evolution as the soul of his team and the person who has given it his all multiple times before and will be forced to do so again.\nThe author has started a four book arc beginning with book three and this is the penultimate book in that arc as there are many references to events of the past three books. There\u2019s also the further peeling back of the curtain for readers to understand what truly is happening behind the scenes. After being mildly disappointed with book three, the fourth book and this one have completely reinvigorated my faith and interest in this series and I can\u2019t wait to see what happens next. The Blood Skies series comes highly recommended for readers who would like reading a heady mix of genres and books that are bloody, dark and action-packed as those by David Dalglish and Matthew Reilly to a certain degree.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 293, "original_length": 15048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fathersheartministry.net/privacy-policy/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KTOPPDTKXMYPLLQGXXUBLPTUCAN5IRV2", "length": 3939, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "fathersheartministry.net", "title": "Privacy Policy - Fathers Heart Ministry", "raw_content": "Father\u2019s Heart Ministry, Inc. operates this website, which provides spiritual comfort, teaching and ongoing, gospel ministry according to the dictates of our faith.\nIf you choose to use our website, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. 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The Forum's main work covers the relationship between food, nutrition, health and the implications of these factors in key areas affecting health in the population.\nThe Forum has both Parliamentary and Associate (non-Parliamentary) members including a wide range of representatives from the food industry and other organisations with an interest in food and health issues, whose membership subscriptions fund the services provided by the Forum. We are also grateful to our Core Supporter, Danone UK, for its financial assistance.\nJoint Parliamentary Inquiry: Food Security\nDuring 2009 the Forum took part in a joint Parliamentary inquiry into food security with the Parliamentary Scientific Committee and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development. The inquiry was chaired by our former Vice-Chairman, Dr Ian Gibson MP, the former Chairman of the APPG Agriculture and Food for Development. FHF Officers on the inquiry team included: Lord Rea, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen and Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer. The inquiry team published their report in January 2010. Full details can be found on our inquiries page.\nFHF Inquiry into the links between diet and behaviour\nThe Food and Health Forum held an inquiry during 2007 which considered the links between diet and behaviour. The inquiry report and a press release are now available from the inquiry page.\nL to R: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, The Countess of Mar,\nLord Rea and Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer\nMembers of the forum include MPs, Peers, Academics, Food and Health Industry Specialists, Food Research Organisations, Charities and Commercial Food and Health Organisations.\nWe hold meetings of the forum every four to six weeks whilst parliament is sitting. Reports of the meetings are sent to all members, and Newsletters keeping members abreast of relevant issues and policy developments are sent out every month when Parliament is sitting.\n[Page updated Dec '17]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filmcontact.com/news/south-africa/ctifmfs-jehad-kasu-china-promote-partnership", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:08:08Z", "digest": "sha1:X4RPOHR2RTJXSYHWBC5LF2DB3H5X3D2P", "length": 3781, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "filmcontact.com", "title": "CTIFMF's Jehad Kasu in China to Promote Partnership | Film Festivals | FilmContact.com", "raw_content": "CTIFMF's Jehad Kasu in China to Promote Partnership\nJehad Kasu, Marketing & Communications Director of the Cape Town International Film Market & Festival was recently invited to the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), where he spoke about the continuing partnership between the CTIFMF and China's Global Max Media Group.\nLast year the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) announced its collaboration with the China-Africa International Film Festival (CAIFF) that aims to strengthen the exchange of learning culture between China and Africa, through film.\nThe partnership will not only continue to introduce Chinese cinema to South Africa and vice versa, it is hoped that the two festivals will encourage cooperation in the film sector, making Chinese and African films more available in one-another's regions.\nLast year the CTIFMF hosted Chinese dignitaries including Mr Cao Li, Acting Consul General of the Chinese Consulate-General in Cape Town, Mr Zhang Jian, Deputy Chairman of Academy Council of Beijing Film Academy, Mr Luo Xubing, Deputy Director of Overseas Promotion at China Radio International, Ms Wan Minfang, Producer of the Chinese film \"When Africa Meets You\", Mr Miles Nan, President of GMMG, and Ms Tao Hong, 2017 Image Ambassador of China Africa International Film Festival.\nJehad was invited this year to speak at the Shanghai International Film Festival about this continuing partnership. His presence at the festival represents the commitment of the CTIFMF to lead the way for South Africa in collaborating not only across Africa, but globally.\nAs Kasu explained in his speech at SIFF, this partnership is pivoted on the People to People Exchange Mechanism entered into between South Africa and China during 2017 via their respective departments of Arts & Culture, in an effort to exchange knowledge in the fields of inter-alia, tourism, education and culture.\nHe continued to explain further, \"The time has now come for intentions to be converted into action. As such, we call on our respective governments to formalize and expedite an official co-production treaty between South Africa and China. While we understand and appreciate that there are many diplomatic, policy and other considerations that are tangled up in red tape, due diligence and administrative processes, more and more clear evidence demonstrates that the film industry is an underrated catalyst for job creation and economic growth.\"\nKasu also reiterated the call that was made at last year's CTIFMF for the private sector to partner with film promotion agencies, commissions and platforms such as the CTIFMF and SIFF and pledge real resources to a severely underfunded industry in order to fast-track the extraction of sustainable economic, social and cultural value for our respective countries.\nThe NFVF and the Beijing Film Academy recently entered into a five-year Student Exchange programme and the CTIFMF would like these kinds of collaborative efforts to serve as the training ground for the development of inter-cultural content created between China and South Africa.\nTo this end, the CTIFMF invites all Chinese film and television stakeholders to visit the CTIFMF between the 9th - 19th of October 2018, to explore collaborative opportunities with African film industries.\nEntries are still open for high quality Chinese films with subtitles to enter the CTIFMF film competition. Last year the festival received more than 800 film competition applications from more than 85 different countries. But very few came from China. At the same time, South African producers are encouraged to submit their works and projects to all future SIFF's.\nFor more information on the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival visit www.filmfest.capetown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 8194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/metal-treatments-stainless-steel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:OY5KCKW7XR6CRKQUSAQWUNA64CPBBWBM", "length": 4381, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "firearmshistory.blogspot.com", "title": "Firearms History, Technology & Development: Metal Treatments: Stainless steel", "raw_content": "In most of the previous methods we've studied, the method of reducing corrosion has been to infuse a thin layer of corrosion resistant material on the outer surface of the iron or steel parts of a firearm. In this post, we will study another method, where the material used to make the firearm parts is itself corrosion-resistant. We're talking about stainless steel.\nStainless steel is basically a steel alloy with at least 10.5 % chromium content by mass, or more. It does not stain as easily as ordinary steel, which is why it got its name. It also does not rust or corrode as easily as ordinary steel. Despite what the name suggests though, it is not completely stain-proof (or rust-proof, for that matter).\nSome of the early research into corrosion resistant steels happened in Germany in the 1890s and 1900s and Krupp engineers even patented an autenitic stainless steel in 1912. It is fitting though, that Harry Brearley of Brown-Firth research lab of Sheffield, invented a martensitic stainless steel alloy in 1912, while they were seeking a better alloy for the manufacture of firearms! The lab was given a project to try and study how to reduce the erosion on the inside of barrels that is caused by high temperatures. Harry Brearley was in charge of researching this problem. By a stroke of luck, he noticed that one of his samples had shown no signs of rust, even after being immersed in water and exposed to air for a long time. He analyzed this piece of steel and determined that it was the high chromium content that was causing it to not rust and thus \"rustless steel\" was born in 1912. The name was later changed to \"stainless steel\" due to a suggestion from a local Sheffield firm that specialized in making cutlery items.\nThere are many different grades of stainless steel with differing mechanical and chemical properties. For firearms, the grade usually chosen is SAE 416 grade. This is a martensitic steel with sulfur content, that has good machining properties and can be hardened later with heat treatment. Due to its good machining properties, barrels made with stainless steel exhibit better accuracy than made with chrome-molybdenum steel. This is why target shooters prefer stainless steel barrels for their weapons. Stainless steel is more expensive though and also has slightly less life than chrome-molybdenum steel barrels due to less hardness, which is why military weapons use chrome-molybdenum steel.\nThe finish looks very much like a nickel plated steel weapon. Like nickel-plate, the finish can be bright, brushed or matte. However, since nickel plated steel only has a thin outer finish, it is subject to flaking and peeling off of the plated layer. This is not the case with a stainless steel weapon.\nWhile there were revolvers with some stainless steel parts before, the Smith & Wesson Model 60 revolver pictured above has the distinction of being the first regular production model revolver to be completely made of stainless steel. It was been in continuous production since 1965. When it was first introduced, the model was so popular that most gun shops had a waiting list of 6 months to purchase one.\nThe above Smith and Wesson M1911 model is also made of stainless steel. Feel free to compare and contrast this with the 1911s that have been nickel plated and chrome plated. Smith & Wesson did not produce the first all stainless steel 1911 model though. That honor goes to the Arcadia Machine and Tool company which produced their all stainless-steel model of the M1911 in 1977.\nStainless steel does look better on some weapons and it is easier to machine, so that makes it easier for manufacturers. However, it also has some disadvantages. While it is rust resistant, it is not completely rust-proof and so, care of the weapon is recommended. Also, it is not quite as hard as a carbon-steel weapon, so stainless steel with bend and scratch easier than an equivalent blued carbon-steel weapon. Light scratches are easier to buff out on stainless steel though and will not show as easily as a blued weapon. Stainless steel is only hardened to about 25-32 HRC on the Rockwell Hardness scale, so it is not so hard as some of the other metal treatments. Galling of the moving parts was an issue with early stainless steel weapons, but the problem has largely been solved now with better lubricants.\nLabels: Metal Treatment, Stainless steel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 8680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flamingodesignfurniture.ro/tag/x/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:36Z", "digest": "sha1:YF5Q4ANYLPBPSO7GSWDDALVQ2IZKOSHB", "length": 79, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "flamingodesignfurniture.ro", "title": "Arhive X - flamingo design furniture", "raw_content": "Demo: Blog X\nBelow you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cX\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flowerbooking.com/artists/flashlights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:59Z", "digest": "sha1:QHDOGQETWMCPDXYGBR5SNNV4S53QHKOJ", "length": 1405, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "flowerbooking.com", "title": "Flowerbooking - Flashlights", "raw_content": "They\u2019ve lived with a Dominatrix and shaken hands with \u201cHacksaw\u201d Jim Duggan. Played more house shows than they care to remember, and covered Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain\u201d to disastrous effect on a Cocoa Beach catwalk. They went through some shit, broke up, but then got back together. They tour in a van, and sleep on couches. And have a strange affinity for both cats and Pok\u00e9mon.\nThey\u2019re called Flashlights, a rather spectacular band from decidedly un-spectacular Brevard County, Florida. They started as the solo acoustic project of twenty-four year old, singer/guitarist Terry Caudill in 2007, then added and subtracted members from various local punk outfits before settling on their current lineup: Tony Oriza on guitar, Will Powell on bass, and Melissa Hopkins on drums.\nCarefully crafting a sound more befitting a band born in the mid-90\u2019s melodic punk scene and calling on Archers of Loaf and Superchunk as influences, the band has honed their superior sound and stage presence in the clubs of Florida the past few years. With the announcement of their signing to Hard Rock Records and release of their digital EP, Don\u2019t Take Me Seriously, the band is poised to breakout in 2013.\nThey\u2019ve lived with a Dominatrix and shaken hands with \u201cHacksaw\u201d Jim Duggan. Played more house shows than they care to remember, and covered Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain\u201d to disastrous effect on a Cocoa Beach... + more bio\nKip Kouri", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://foodmydrugofchoice.blogspot.com/2011/05/tiny-heartbeat.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KA7PY7UXSWMPHJSVFHSCKNYVOKUKZLCW", "length": 1626, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "foodmydrugofchoice.blogspot.com", "title": "Food: My Drug of Choice: A Tiny Heartbeat", "raw_content": "A Tiny Heartbeat\nThere's a tiny heartbeat inside of me, beating 163 times a minute. The other heart in my body, to the north of that one is so, so, so in love.\nThat's my way of saying I'm having a baby!!\nI am 8 weeks, 6 days along. This time last week, for the first time, I saw my sweet little raspberry-sized baby living inside of me. I saw it's heart beating, I saw it's little nub arms and legs. I love that tiny little thing (even though it's kind of a brat..making me feel sick all day long).\nWith all the joy I have, I have so much anxiety about weight-gain. Right now I'm about 10 pounds over my weight goal. It's kind of hard to know I won't be back here for a good eight months. Don't get me wrong - I am thrilled that I'll be gaining weight for the most productive thing of my life, starting my little family!\nMy blog may be taking kind of a turn as I try to deal with pregnancy and weight gain, instead of weight loss. Yikes, but yay!\nLabels: pregnancy weight\nOh my gosh congratulations! I am so happy for you!\nYEAH!!! Congratulations! That's wonderful news! I am not sure if I told you, but I am just a week ahead of you at 9w4d right now.... I totally feel ya 100% on the morning sickness AND the weight gain anxiety! Congrats again!\nAHHHHHH!!!! Anna!! I am sooo excited for you!!! Congrats! I'm so excited that we're only one week apart - I'm going to need your support! haha... how much weight have you gained? I've gained 4 pounds and am feeling majorly guilty about it - ah!\nAdipex alternative Phentramin-d has everything that Adipex contain hence it still doesn't have catastrophic effects on its consumers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/2013/09/13/ma-and-ipos-64/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:42Z", "digest": "sha1:NAPIK4KDBSSJU2X2DR3G2UQGZPUWVT2R", "length": 1901, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "M&A and IPOs | Fortune", "raw_content": "CTPartners (NYSE:CTP) has agreed to acquire Mexico-based executive search firm Taylor Executive Consultancy Latam. No financial terms were disclosed. www.ctnet.com\nOCI Resources, operator of the trona ore mining and soda ash production business of OCI Wyoming, raised around $95 million in its IPO. It plans to trade on the NYSE under ticker symbol OCIR, while Citigroup and Goldman Sachs served as co-lead underwriters.\nFoundation Medicine, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of genomics-based cancer diagnostic tests, has set its IPO terms to five million shares being offered at between $14 and $16 per share. It would have an initial market cap of approximately million, were it to price in the middle of its range. The company plans to trade on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol FMI, with Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan serving as lead underwriters. Shareholders include Third Rock Ventures (30.9% pre-IPO stake), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (16.6%), Google Ventures (11.5%), Lab Corp. of America (5.2%), Bill Gates (5.2%), Wellington Management (5.1%), Deerfield Management, Casdin Capital, Redmile Group, Roche Venture Fund, WuXi Corporate Venture Fund, Evan Jones and Yuri Milner.www.foundationmedicine.com\nNeiman Marcus Group withdrew its IPO registration papers, just days after agreeing to be acquired for $6 billion by Ares Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.www.neimanmarcus.com\nAdvent International has agreed to sell BondDesk Group LLC, a Mill Valley, Calif.-based odd-lot fixed-income electronic trading platform, to Tradeweb Markets, a unit of Thomson Reuters. No financial terms were disclosed, although Reuters previously reported an asking price of around $200 million. www.bonddeskgroup.com\nKohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. plans to sell 90 million shares in listed Danish phone company TDC AS in an offering that could generate upwards of $770 million. www.kkr.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/2016/08/22/bill-gates-net-worth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IDBCFT23Z5MS6AFM55AVZB4PLFMZJJHG", "length": 1999, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "Bill Gates' Net Worth Has Hit a Record High | Fortune", "raw_content": "Bill Gates' Net Worth Has Hit a Record High\nBill Gates is getting richer and richer.\nThe Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder\u2019s estimated net worth hit a record high of $90 billion on Friday after his holdings in Canadian National Railway Company and Ecolab rose in value, Bloomberg reports based on its Billionaires Index. This is the first time Gates\u2019 wealth has reached $90 billion, though he came close to reaching that threshold earlier this year.\nGates is by far the world\u2019s wealthiest person. His net worth includes both cash and stock in several companies including, of course, Microsoft. Although occasionally surpassed as the world\u2019s wealthiest individual in recent years by the likes of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, Gates has held strong this year.\nIn fact, Gates\u2019 wealth has grown substantially in 2016, according to Bloomberg. At the beginning of the year, his net worth was around $75 billion. Since then, he has added about $15 billion. The world\u2019s second-wealthiest individual, Spanish retail executive Amancio Ortega, is worth more than $76 billion, which means that Gates holds a comfortable lead.\nStill, it\u2019s not all about the money for Gates, who is one of the most philanthropic billionaires by donating huge sums of money over the years through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has also championed several causes, including clean water and eradicating malaria in areas like Africa.\nGates, along with fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, has also established The Giving Pledge, which involves wealthy individuals promising to give away at least half of their net worth either while living or at their death. Gates, along with his wife Melinda, says he will donate \u201cthe vast majority\u201d of their wealth to causes both during their lifetimes and after. Ultimately, they hope, along with other billionaires, to eradicate diseases and help humanity.\nFor more about Bill Gates, watch:\nRegardless, Gates\u2019 wealth is steadily rising. In 2012, for example, he was worth less than $60 billion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 148.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/2018/10/02/beth-ford-land-o-lakes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6C7XXAMQNJORI7HDR3MTK7DFUKBOICIQ", "length": 2632, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "Land O'Lakes CEO: Careers Are a Journey | Fortune", "raw_content": "Land O'Lakes CEO: 'Careers Are a Journey'\nIn August, Beth Ford became the first openly lesbian woman to be named CEO of a company in the Fortune 500 when she took the helm at Land O\u2019Lakes. In conversation at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, California on Tuesday, Ford focused on the road that led her to that milestone. \u201cI believe careers are a journey,\u201d Ford told the audience.\nFord\u2019s first job was detasseling corn as a pre-teen in Iowa, and she returned to the food industry only after roles at seven companies in six different industries.\nShe\u2019s worked in sectors ranging from oil production to book publishing, and she says working in \u201cpeople-intensive\u201d areas has been the common thread: \u201cI love the mess of it. People are just so much fun,\u201d she said.\nFinding meaning in her work is another theme throughout her career. Ford says she enjoyed her role in publishing, for example, because of the focus on children\u2019s literacy.\nWhen the opportunity at Land O\u2019Lakes presented itself, it was the mission that convinced her she would be a good fit. The company, which is farmer-owned, is focused on the challenge of feeding a growing global population with less land and less water.\nLand O\u2019Lakes\u2019s business operations \u201cgo all the way\u2014from the acre all the way to the store shelves,\u201d Ford said, and the company tracks data across the entire process. Gathering all that information gives the company an advantage, she says, not just in solving the problem of feeding people but also in satiating the growing demand from consumers for transparency about where their food comes from.\nThe structure of the $14 billion cooperative also keeps Ford\u2019s focus on the farmers. The company has developed models for planet-friendly dairy production, helping its farmers learn techniques that ensure \u201cthey are producing in a sustainable model for the future,\u201d she said.\nIn August, as Ford realized a career goal of many years\u2014becoming a CEO\u2014more people than she was accustomed to became focused on her. \u201cThe reaction has been quite overwhelming in some ways and emotional,\u201d she said of the response to her advancement.\nShe received messages from parents who had shared her inspirational story with their queer children and notes from strangers thanking her for openly living her truth.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a barrier,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can lead your life authentically, and you want to be valued, as we all want to be valued, on the quality of our work and our relationships.\u201d\nFor more coverage of Fortune\u2019s Most Powerful Women Summit, click here. And subscribe to the Broadsheet, Fortune\u2019s newsletter on the world\u2019s most powerful women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/tag/chick-fil-a/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:24Z", "digest": "sha1:C5VX7X6GI3FMKRTGPLXLEHDRYMBJZCRH", "length": 1370, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "Chick-fil-A | Fortune", "raw_content": "Forget Flowers, Chick-fil-A is Offering a Heart-Shaped Box of Chicken for Valentine's Day\nChick-fil-A is selling a heart-shaped box filled with nuggets or Chick-fil-...\nChick-fil-A is selling a heart-shaped box filled with nuggets or Chick-fil-A minis in honor of Valentine\u2019s Day this year.\nChick-Fil-A Giving Away Chicken Sandwiches For Launch of National Delivery Service\nIf customers are \"unable to come to us, we\u2019ll come to them.\"\nChick-fil-A Is Officially Going International\nThe goal is to open 15 restaurants in the Greater Toronto area over the nex...\nThe goal is to open 15 restaurants in the Greater Toronto area over the next five years.\nChick-fil-A Plans on Selling At-Home Meal Kits at 150 Restaurants\nEnjoy Chick-fil-A chicken in the comfort of your own home.\nChick-Fil-A Is Dropping the Cow Calendar\u2014And Customers Are Not Happy\nTechnology claims another tradition.\nAll the National Fried Chicken Day Deals You Need to Know About\nFrom free fried chicken sandwiches to discounted drumsticks, here are some ...\nFrom free fried chicken sandwiches to discounted drumsticks, here are some of the best deals for National Fried Chicken Day.\nThis Is America's Favorite Fast Food Restaurant\nChick-Fil-A beat out Panera, Subway and others as America's favorite fast f...\nChick-Fil-A beat out Panera, Subway and others as America's favorite fast food chain yet again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 3980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.miamibeach411.com/living-relocating-here/15278-very-unique-approach-selling-condo-miami.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UHQWJYLKRELPBK35VOV5K3U45CS6SD5L", "length": 4110, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "forums.miamibeach411.com", "title": "Very Unique Approach To Selling a Condo in Miami - Miami Beach 411", "raw_content": "Thread: Very Unique Approach To Selling a Condo in Miami\nI had some spare time on my most recent trip and decided to check out the Brickell Bay Drive area.....very nice, especially with the nice walk path along the bayfront. Gave me a Brooklyn Heights type of feel.\nA lower floor unit at an affordable price caught my attention online at the Jade, which I understand remains one of the premier buildings in the entire Brickell area. I finally tracked down the agent for the unit and gave 3-4 days advanced notice for the exact day I wished to view the unit--more than enough time to schedule a viewing. Turns out I ended up having to reschedule twice for that day (from the owners' end, not my end) before the owner decided he wanted to show me the unit, on the market for 200 days now....I stressed that I was catching a flight back home in the early evening that day but the owner insisted he could/would only show the place at 5:30PM--when I needed to head to MIA to catch a 7:45PM flight (and assuming he works on my clock--which is punctual to the second). When asked if his agent could show the unit at an earlier time that day, instead, the response was no--he wanted to show it himself.\nVery unique way of selling a condo--maybe he is related to the schmuck I used to (not) sell my place in San Diego....guess he's not really motivated to sell the place....as for the unit, gorgeous on the inside (from online pics) BUT (1) on the second floor in the corner where you get, both, the valet driveway AND, on the other side, the self park driveway leading to the garage; (2) there is a parking lot to the side of the unit, 20-25 yards away, which I definitely suspect will get developed at some point in the future (real estate is too valuable to remain a parking lot); and (3) looks like the immediate floor below is designed for retail, in general, and a cafe in particular. Pass, regardless of price.\nDid like the area and the Jade building, with amenities--though you pay for them--is first rate....too bad they are having problems with Brickell Place (car elevator not working, plumbing through the walls, etc)...some of the other older complexes in the area (i.e. Mark, Emerald) have some nice views but appear dated and not as nice as the Jade....cute little coffee shop, Bertoni, across the street--though a bit overpriced. Good location--I describe the area as Brickell Key minus the bridge.\nRe: Very Unique Approach To Selling a Condo in Miami\nThat's Miami for you, which might end up being a blessing.\nI'm no r.e. guy but I pay some attention as I'm already plunged into the drink. It's bad enough having tenants under rent control, and there's nothing I can do if unit capacity exceeds by 2,3 or 4. You can't fight it. You lose if you do. Miami has it's own issues.\nReliable friend of mine who's been developing and flipping pre-conconstruction in Miami 30 plus years thinks the situation here is going to crash to the point Miami is going to have 35 years worth of condo inventory.\nWait 6-12M and shoot any Turkey you desire on you're terms.\nI finally tracked down the agent for the unit and gave 3-4 days advanced notice for the exact day I wished to view the unit--more than enough time to schedule a viewing. Turns out I ended up having to reschedule twice for that day (from the owners' end, not my end) before the owner decided he wanted to show me the unit, on the market for 200 days now....\nThat's what happens when you don't use a good agent in Miami!\nand never waste your time with a Listing Agent, they don't want to waste time showing you the property (in their opinion).\nActually, you can fight that.\nFrom my time in the hotel business, it is a fire issue for the unit not to exceed capacity (fire escapes are set up for the maximum amount of people to safely exit during a fire, anything that exceeds that is a hazard for everyone living in the building). If there are more people than allowed renting in a unit, call your local fire department.\nIn Miami-Dade its 2 people per bedroom. Sometimes landlords advertise (1 person only) which is a discrimination against family size.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=tree&th=1897195&mid=6448116&rid=0&rev=&reveal=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:31:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DZ7PITYKA5XURJ2CNFEJ5IMYRLX2B7CO", "length": 130, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "forums.timezone.com", "title": "TimeZone : 2012 Watch of the Year \u00bb A. Lange & S\u00f6hne", "raw_content": "A. Lange & S\u00f6hne Thu, 07 March 2013 10:42\nA. Lange & S\u00f6hne [nt] - Chris_N - Thu, 07 March 2013 10:42 (5944 clicks)\nNext Topic: Hyt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.wineloverspage.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=61278", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HZGNIA2AVCDOMU65QALRJJHGK22L2HBP", "length": 1022, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "forums.wineloverspage.com", "title": "WineLovers Discussion Group \u2022 View topic - Wednesday Chat", "raw_content": "by James Roscoe \u00bb Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:51 pm\nCome to Chat! Discuss Pinot Evil for MoCool! Discuss why no one comes to Wednesday Chat! Wednesday Chat is easier than ever. All you have to do is hit the big CHAT button up above and pick your platform. Viola! You will be in the chat-room. I am told it will even work on mobile devices. Chat will get started around 9:00 PM for those on the east coast, 8:00 PM for those of you in Chicago and 7:00 in other parts of fly over country such as Denver. I guess that means 6:00 PM on the left coast. If my calculations are correct everyone in NZ needs to join us at 15:00 Thursday and Australia at 13:00 on Thursday for those in Sydney and eastern Oz. It will be an ungodly 4:00 AM in Israel and Helsinki, 3:00 AM in Paris, and Berlin, and 2:00 AM in London. Of course it is all worth the sleep deprivation. Don't be late!!!!! (I hope I have the time changes down. If not, let me know!)\nRe: Wednesday Chat\nby James Roscoe \u00bb Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:05 pm\nI am here, but I can't stay long.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/vernon-m-vaughn", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:37:48Z", "digest": "sha1:PXULU2CBULFFXLTQ453ZACD2NAGGR34B", "length": 2369, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "freepressnewspapers.com", "title": "Vernon M. Vaughn | Free Press Newspapers", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Vernon M. Vaughn\nVernon M. Vaughn\nDIAMOND\u2014Vernon M. Vaughn, 88, of Diamond and formerly of Shelby, AL and Berwyn, IL, passed away Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at the home of his daughter in Diamond.\nBorn May 28, 1929 in Bessermer, AL, Vernon Melvin was a son of Melvin Thomas and Ellen (Reynolds) Vaughn. He was raised in Alabama, and upon moving to Illinois went to work as a high rise window washer and painter in Chicago. Vernon later began welding and joined the Boilermakers Local #1, from where he worked for 30 years until his retirement.\nUpon retiring, Vernon relocated to Alabama, where he loved living on the lake, and made great friends. It was in 2016 when Vernon\u2019s health began declining that he returned to Illinois and made his home in Diamond.\nHe was a member of the A.F. & A.M., loved collecting antiques and will be remembered as an overall handyman who enjoyed to build.\nSurvivors include his daughter, Theresa (Mike) Ryan, of Diamond; grandchildren: Douglas Taylor, of Des Plaines; Melissa Taylor, of Wisconsin and Michael J. (Ann) Ryan and Nicholas Ryan, both of Diamond; great-grandchildren: Clayton John \u201cC.J.\u201d Elam, Story Paige, Storm and Jordan and dear friends: Steve and Sheri Frye, of Alabama and Robin and Tom Cirrencione, of Diamond, as well as his canine companion, Buddy.\nVernon was preceded in death by his parents, son and daughter-in-law, James \u201cSonny\u201d and Linda Vaughn; daughter and son-in-law, Clair (Douglas, Sr.) Taylor; two brothers and four sisters.\nThe family will receive friends for a visitation on Monday, May 14, 2018 between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. at Reeves Funeral Home, 75 N. Broadway, one block north of Illinois Route 113, in Coal City. Funeral services will follow Tuesday morning, May 15 at 10 a.m. in the funeral home with Reverend Brad Shumaker from the Coal City United Methodist Church officiating.\nBurial with full military honors will be in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood.\nPreferred memorials may be made as gifts in Vernon\u2019s memory to the Manteno Veteran\u2019s Home or to the family for their distribution to a charity of their choosing.\nFamily and friends may sign the guest book, upload photographs or share Vernon\u2019s memory page online by logging onto www.ReevesFuneral.com.\nFuneral services and arrangements have been made under the direction and care of Reeves Funeral Homes, Ltd. in Coal City.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freetofindtruth.blogspot.com/2017/09/38-47-60-64-96-117-120-death-of-kitty.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:09Z", "digest": "sha1:QYA2YJX7DWZUQRV35NLEWRQLS2327MBV", "length": 2050, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "freetofindtruth.blogspot.com", "title": "free to find truth: 38 47 60 64 96 117 120 163 | Death of Kitty Genovese, and the \"38\" witnesses, where that number really comes from +Gematria-Kabbalah code", "raw_content": "38 47 60 64 96 117 120 163 | Death of Kitty Genovese, and the \"38\" witnesses, where that number really comes from +Gematria-Kabbalah code\nThis is the story that the 9-1-1 dialing code came out of.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese\nPolice = 60\nManhattan = 92 (Underground weapons testing program ended in '92)\nNew World Order = 174; Number of the Beast = 174; False Flag = 174\nIlluminati = 120\nAuthoirty = 47; Governemnt = 47; Policeman = 47; Cop = 47\nA lot more on '38', it is the key number.\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kitty-genovese-murder-the-real-story-of-the-woman-killed-in-front-of-38-witnesses-in-queens-in-1964-a7118876.html\nIf you listened to my radio show, a man called in and said the author of the story, who reported 38 people didn't call the police, when asked about where he got the number 38 from, left the interview.\nGenovese = 38; Catherine = 83\nMurder = 38 / 83\nKabbalah = 38 (Hebrew and English)\nIt also happened in '64.\nRemember, 9-1-1 would be made the national dialing code in 1968 because of this story, the same year WTC construction began, the same year Bush graduated from Yale and Skull and Bones.\nKew Garden?\nKitty Genovese?\nK = 11; G = 7\nThe United States of America = 117; Thirteen = 117 (13x9 = 117)\nSacrifice = 46 / 55 / 73 (She died on 73rd day of year, March 13, 1964)\nKill = 17; Military = 107\n163 is the 38th prime number\nThe WTCs would open in history on April 4, 1973.\nAgain, she was killed on the 73rd day of the year. Sacrifice = 73\nWinston Moseley, the black man blamed in the fake story, in '64...\n*Winston was the main character of the fictional novel 1984, which has much to do with propaganda.\nAlso, Moseley would serve 52-years in prison.\nKabbalah = 52; Government = 52; Authority = 52\nhttp://www.npr.org/2014/03/03/284002294/what-really-happened-the-night-kitty-genovese-was-murdered\nOne more time about the Jews and 38, since it is Rosenthal telling us about the number.\nKabbalah, where a key component is studying the relationship with letters and numbers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 13147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gajrajyadav.com/criminal-negligence-in-medical-profession/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6AF3W4QKU234IDFYVLF2LWYAN4MFB44G", "length": 4409, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "gajrajyadav.com", "title": "Criminal Negligence in Medical Profession \u2013 Advocate Gajraj Singh Yadav Rewari", "raw_content": "For quite a long time, framing charges against medical professionals and the subsequent arrest caused lots of anxiety. A physician can be charged with culpable homicide or negligence, if the death of a patient, which otherwise dies from the unwanted effects of treatment, can be proved as a result of gross negligence. In such cases, the physician should be able to prove that he used reasonable and ordinary care in the treatment of his patient to the best of his judgment.\nThe law does not expect a duly qualified health care practitioner to bring the highest possible degree of skill each time during the treatment or to be the one who guarantee cures. But it expects from such a physician to use that degree of skill & judgment which an average man of same qualification ought to have.\nJudiciary\u2019s Perspective \u2013\nIndian courts have been very careful not to hold qualified practitioners criminally responsible for patients\u2019 deaths which are result of judgmental mistakes in application of remedies. The simple fact of loss of life or injury cannot lead to the speculations of negligent act. For establishing the criminality, such an act should be gross in nature of its degree.\nSection 304-A of IPC is invoked to register a complaint for alleged criminal professional negligence where the failure of treatment resulting in death was attributable to medical negligence. If the patient survives and suffers post treatment from the alleged grievous injuries sustained during treatment, the medical practitioner can be charge sheeted for offence under Section 337 or Section 338 of IPC.\nSimple lack of care gives rise to only civil liability. Therefore, facts which justify a finding of civil negligence may not be enough for holding a person criminally liable [Kusum Sharma vs. Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, (2010) 3 SCC 480:AIR 2010 SC 1050: 2010 (2) SCR 685. ]. The distinction between criminal & civil negligence is so thin that a critical scrutiny is required in deciding the issues. For a person to be prosecuted for professional negligence, proving the presence of mens rea i.e., guilty mind, is required and the negligence must be described criminal. Mere carelessness and simple lack of care may constitute civil liability and it cannot be accountable to be enough to prove a charge of death of a patient by negligence.\nIn a doctor patient relationship, there cannot be any mens rea except in rarest of the rare cases. Under criminal law, it is considered as a \u2018guilty intention\u2019 and unless it is found that the accused was guilty of intention, he cannot be guilty of commiting the crime.[Director of Enforcement v. MCTM Corp Pvt. Ltd., AIR 1996 SC 1100,p 1103] In practice of medicine, it may include reckless dispensation of medications, outrageously negligent performance of diagnostic or therapeutic measures leading to death, reckless handling of life sustaining equipments, reckless administration of therapeutic drugs, performing surgery or other such procedures under the influence of alcohol or drugs[A Textbook of medical Jurisprudence & Toxicology, 25th Edition, p131]. Defining words like \u201creckless\u201d, \u201cgross\u201d, \u201crashness\u201d etc. to impute criminal liability is always debatable.\nMaruthamuthu Committee \u2013\nGovernment of Tamil Nadu issues an order based on Maruthamuthu committee report [Government of Tamil Nadu, Health and family Welfare Department, GO(Ms) No. 407 dated 19/12/2000 and GO(Ms 2D) No. 23 dated 21/04/2002] constituted in 2001 to look into mishaps occurring during professional duties of doctors. It states:-\nTo follow the existing procedure of allowing the police registering the complaint under Section 304A of IPC.\nTo permit an officer of the rank of DSP or ACP to conduct the investigation.\nTo issue departmental instructions for not arresting doctors as a matter of routine and to effect arrest only when it is largely justified and with the consultation of senior police officers.\nIn year 2005, honorable Supreme Court of India, in Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab held that for an act to amount to criminal negligence, the degree of negligence should be much higher i.e. gross or of a very high degree.\nCriminal negligence thus is the gross and culpable neglect or the failure to exercise that reasonable care and precaution for protection against injury generally either to the public or individual, which was the imperative duty of the actor to have adopted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 5128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gcls.gclsports.com/news/article.aspx?id=1308", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:34Z", "digest": "sha1:4JQ2NDBRBFDOVFB56YLLBGLNIZPDJIZF", "length": 1624, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gcls.gclsports.com", "title": "Greater Catholic League", "raw_content": "Senior guard Grant Benzinger scored a game-high 24 points and Moeller used an 11-0 run to close the third quarter en route to a 53-50 victory over Middletown in the Division I Cincinnati Regional Semifinals on Wednesday night at Xavier University\u2019s Cintas Center. The victory moves the top-ranked Crusaders into the regional final against Trotwood-Madison at 7 p.m. Friday at Cintas Center. The winner of that games advances to the Division I Final Four in Columbus and a state semifinal game at 8:30 Friday, March 21, at The Ohio State University.\nMiddletown, riding an eight-game winning streak, held a 21-19 lead at halftime and led by one point before Moeller went on its run late in the third quarter. The Crusaders (24-1), unbeaten in 2014 and ranked No. 1 in the final Associated Press Ohio Division I media regular-season poll, also got 11 points and 14 rebounds from senior forward Jack Anton. Benzinger, a Wright State University signee who didn\u2019t score in Moeller\u2019s district final win over Fairborn Saturday, also connected on all four of the Crusaders\u2019 three-point goals.\nMoeller, which has now won 18 straight games, was able to overcome a team-high 19 points from Middletown senior forward Vince Edwards, a Purdue University signee. Next up for the Crusaders is talent-laden Trotwood-Madison (24-2), ranked No. 5 in the AP state rankings, which got past Huber Heights Wayne, 60-58, in Wednesday\u2019s first semifinal game featuring two members of the Greater Western Ohio Conference. The Rams have won 11 games in a row, including a 51-50 victory over GCL South member La Salle in the district final last Saturday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 194.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://giftshop.bridgeporthospital.org/help_answer.asp?ID=14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VHO4AAVYQ5YPAZUVTCEKJBQSAKZDXWPX", "length": 220, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "giftshop.bridgeporthospital.org", "title": "Help: Answer", "raw_content": "We are tax exempt and do not charge sales tax.\nPlease contact the gift shop during store hours: (203) 384-3701.\nWe will confirm that the patient has not been discharged from the hospital before charging your credit card.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gilroydispatch.com/2002/11/05/sex-club-pulling-up-its-stakes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:41Z", "digest": "sha1:643R5OTK7TU6AVBHYL3MBFKAFPR2OJS4", "length": 3650, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "gilroydispatch.com", "title": "Sex club pulling up its stakes - Gilroy Dispatch", "raw_content": "Sex club pulling up its stakes\n\u2013 Left with a bitter taste in its mouth from the Garlic City,\nThe Forum Adult Social Club held its last swingers\u2019 party in Gilroy\nGILROY \u2013 Left with a bitter taste in its mouth from the Garlic City, The Forum Adult Social Club held its last swingers\u2019 party in Gilroy Saturday night.\nFollowing more than two months of heated controversy since the couple-swapping club began operating in south Gilroy on Aug. 16, owner Deena Luce has decided that Gilroy isn\u2019t the place for her swingers\u2019 club. It is not known where the unlicensed club is moving, but its Web site lists a full calendar of events for November.\n\u201cThe (Forum) will not operate in the city of Gilroy again,\u201d said Luce\u2019s attorney Kevin Hutcheson this morning. \u201cMy client has decided to move, and all I can say is that it will not be in Gilroy city limits.\u201d\nCity officials have worked feverishly to expel The Forum from Gilroy since it began operating in a ranch-style home every Friday and Saturday night at 5400 Monterey Road behind the Zen Flower Garden. The club previously operated in unincorporated Santa Clara County outside of Morgan Hill, near Railroad and Tennant avenues.\n\u201cI\u2019m happy they\u2019ve moved,\u201d said Gilroy Mayor Tom Springer when informed of the news late Monday. \u201cBut it seems the only way to appease The Dispatch columnists would be to have it move downtown \u2013 that way it could attract more business there on Friday and Saturday nights to the area.\u201d\nWhile downtown Gilroy doesn\u2019t look to be in The Forum\u2019s future plans, the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Martin is.\nThis morning Superior Court Judge Ray E. Cunningham heard a \u201cnot guilty\u201d plea from Hutcheson on behalf of Luce and one of her employees at the club regarding numerous citations given to The Forum for operating without a business license.\nLuce did apply for a business license through the city in August, but the application was denied because the land was residentially zoned. Hutcheson is arguing that Luce is not guilty because there are other commercial businesses in the area operating on residentially-zoned land, and that the city\u2019s General Plan enables the land in question to become commercial as early as December. He said the city has acted with prejudice toward The Forum because of the nature of its business.\nThe Forum was served with two more citations for operating without a business license by Gilroy police Saturday and Sunday \u2013 bringing the grand total to 20.\nCunningham has scheduled a pre-trial hearing combining all 20 of the citations for Dec. 12.\nPenalties for operating without a license are up to a $100 fine for a first offense, $200 for a second offense, $500 for a third offense, and a $1,000 fine and up to six months jail time for each offense after three.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll either resolve it (on Dec. 12) or get ready to go to trial,\u201d said Jolie Houston, the assistant city attorney prosecuting the case.\nLuce was not at her court hearing today and will not comment on her club\u2019s future, but she has repeatedly stated that she doesn\u2019t think her business should be the city\u2019s concern, and that too big a deal has been made of her club through the local media.\nIn an effort to muscle The Forum from city limits, City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance on Oct. 7 barring sexual encounter establishments \u2013 such as the Forum \u2013 from operating within city limits. This does not bar all adult businesses, such as adult movie or bookstores, only establishments where sexual acts occur.\nCity officials have argued that sexual acts promote the spread of disease.\nPrevious articleMoral victory\nNext articleAssembly seat: Salinas defeats Howard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ginalovesjazz.com/first-acts-announced-for-north-sea-jazz-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:33:09Z", "digest": "sha1:JJHAO5C3BVNGKYEPOXIIRGDHP3SJMGD6", "length": 1610, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ginalovesjazz.com", "title": "First Acts Announced For North Sea Jazz 2019 - ginalovesjazz.com \u2013 the jazz magazine by matthias kirsch", "raw_content": "Earlier today, the first 35 acts for this year\u2019s North Sea Jazz Festival have been announced. We\u2019re planning on visiting Rotterdam again for the weekend of July 12th to 14th.\nConfirmed are superstars such as Diana Krall, Bobby McFerrin, Jamie Cullum, and Burt Bacharach. Also on the agenda, man of the moment Kamasi Washington, Joshua Redman with his Still Dreaming group, Christian Sands Trio, Chris Potter Quintet whose latest album on Edition will be out in February and reviewed here later, and John Zorn\u2019s Bagatelles Marathon.\nFor the non-jazz aficionado, this jazz fest like so many others has also a lot to offer and rightly so I think. I can already hear all the uber conservative, narrow-minded so-called traditionalists cringing when they see names such as Jonathan Jeremiah, Toto, ZAZ, The Internet, Marc Broussard, or Rag\u2019N\u2019Bone Man on the list too. 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Nathanson, who had recently moved from Detroit, Michigan, had left a blossoming music career with recording contracts and concert dates to pursue his dreams in Los Angeles. Schoenholz had recently moved back to Los Angeles after leaving Arizona State and a successful music career there opening for major concert acts like Jimi Hendrix and Jethro Tull. Wihtin a few short months, they had secured a publishing deal and a record deal with MGM. They were being touted as the next \"Seal and Crofts\" and had picks in the trades with \"Best Newcomer\" accolades. When the label folded, they were immediately signed as staff songwriters for Capitol Records' Beechwood Publishing and also recorded as artists for Capitol as \"Nathanson and Schoenholz.\" One of the songs they wrote and recorded \"Whatcha Gonna Do When The Rain Starts Falling\" was recorded numerous times by many artists and went top 40 for the duo. Another song they wrote while at Beechwood was \"Mary Go Lightly\" by Al Martino that went top ten in England.\nThrough the years they stayed in touch and although they both garnered their achievements, they never lost their love of music. Nathanson, performed as Chris Alan, had record deals with Cream Records\nand Epic in the 80's, and had numerous songs in movies and television. He was on the pilot that sold the hit show \"Starsearch\". It was also a thrill for Nathanson in 1998, to be asked to be in Adam Sandler's smash movie \"The Wedding Singer.\" Schoenholz became a major force in the clothing industry and started his own company Tempted Apparel, one of the most successful manufacturers in the business. He continues with his charity work as well, sitting on the board of directors for Inner City Arts.\nIn 1999, Nathanson and Schoenholz, never losing their dream of songwriting and recording, formed Greydog. 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Hammond organ wizard Skip Van Winkl from Bob Segar and studio session ace Jim Salisbury also joined in the fun.The result has been two critically acclaimed CD's \"Midlife Crisis\" and \"New Tricks\" and the just released third CD \"Psycho Acoustic Phenomenon\", their best yet.\nGreydog has been nominated for the Southern California Music Awards the last two years and continues to be \"discovered.\" Whether in newspaper articles like the Daily News or on Time WARNER cable tv shows, GREYDOG KEEPS ON ROCKIN'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://greydoorpublishing.com/les-clefs-dor-usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:07:25Z", "digest": "sha1:35JYNXDCUHJ2F3AF6VDSBBYVS2PQBYGT", "length": 1393, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "greydoorpublishing.com", "title": "Les Clefs D'or USA - Greydoor", "raw_content": "THE PARTNERSHIP WITH\nBy Robert Marks,\nPresident Les Clefs d\u2019Or USA\nYou can recognize Clefs d\u2019Or concierges by the keys they display on the lapels of their uniforms. These crossed gold keys are more than just the symbol of the organization; they are the symbol of guaranteed, quality service. Les Clefs d\u2019Or is honored to have the distinction of being the only national professional organization of hotel lobby concierges.\nLes Clefs d\u2019Or members have dedicated many years of hard work and training to the concierge profession.\nThey have their fingers on the pulses of their cities, able to advise guests on restaurants, nightlife, sporting and theater events, sightseeing tours, shopping and more. They can direct guests to any location, any product, at any time of day or night. 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He loves the women. And above all, he loves the chase.\nBut the one thing he doesn\u2019t love is being tied down by a woman. To him, once the chase is over, it\u2019s time to pull up his boxers and move on to the next target.\nThat is until he meets Blair Parker.\nBlair is unlike any of the women under Dean\u2019s belt. She\u2019s confident, mysterious, and sassy. In Dean\u2019s world, she\u2019s the wicked curved ball he couldn\u2019t figure out. She\u2019s the first woman who always seems to be out of reach no matter how hard he chases. So when it comes to Blair, Dean couldn\u2019t move on.\nDean will need to change his ways in order to chase Blair down to make her the 736th notch on his belt. But will chasing after Blair become Dean\u2019s undoing and end his love of the chase once and for all?\nJessica Wood writes contemporary romance.\nWhile she has lived in countless cities throughout the U.S., her heart belongs to San Francisco. 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He has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and was the Chief Technical Officer / Chief Engineer / Program Manager for an aerospace company in North Las Vegas. Here, Eric led a team of engineers while they built a privatized space station destined for orbit. Two modules were sent to orbit under Eric\u2019s leadership; these were the first private commercial modules to be successfully sent to space in aerospace history. And, Eric\u2019s final project involved the expansion of the International Space Station. After delivery of the expansion module to NASA (which was successfully deployed, attached, and expanded), Eric retired from the aerospace industry in 2015. Eric was born and bred in Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1996. Years later, he met and married Joan and the two moved to Las Vegas soon after their vows.\nJoan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and moved to Tucson in 1983. Joan has a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Arizona, Masters of Education emphasis Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University, and a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology, with honors. She has a strong background in psychology with her last position as a licensed behavioral health therapist conducting psychiatric consultations for a hospital network. Since moving to the Vegas Valley, Joan has redirected her professional attention to wealth accumulation strategies. After partnering in a successful financial planning company, Joan began focusing more attention on helping individuals and businesses implement banking strategies into their financial portfolio and investing in real estate.\nFollowing Eric\u2019s retirement from the aerospace industry, the two moved back to Michigan to be closer to family. They brought with them Joan\u2019s focus on banking strategies, purchased an Intelligent Office Franchise and opened another real estate brokerage. Retirement from aerospace did not last long for Eric. In fact, to date, he continues to provide support and consultative services for the aerospace company he led for a decade.\nEric and Joan are blessed to have welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Ryan, in December 2011 and spend most of their spare time enjoying their son. When they actually get enough sleep, all three enjoy golfing (Ryan is still working on his stance), investing, wakeboarding, dirt biking, and playing on their Rhino (four-wheel drive golf cart). But when they are done being active in their outdoor sports, they enjoy coming home and relaxing with their dogs and birds. Whether in front of the television or seeing it live, all three enjoy watching football. Eric is an avid University of Michigan fanatic - Go Wolverines! Although Joan enjoys college football as well, she prefers watching the NFL and is an enthusiastic Eagles fan - Go EAGLES!!! 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Students hail from as far away as Thailand & Mainland China & from around the USA. With the owner\u2019s acquisition of the school after amalgamating with another school & moving to a new campus, they have reinvested in the campus, staffing, & programs, resulting in immediate growth in enrollment, revenue, & profits. There are close to 300 students currently enrolled from +20 countries making up 54% of enrollment. The school has I-20 visa authorization through SEVIS & current facilities can handle up to 325 students. There is room for additional classroom facilities & dormitories to support growth reaching 500 students. The school is profitable with EBITDA currently clsose to $2 m & $12 m revenue & projected to continue to grow to nearly $3 m EBITDA in 2015 with revenue exceeding $12 m. Capital investment & strategic knowledge of school operations allows the school to continue to demonstrate strong long-term growth & returns. Our Client\u2019s commitment to continued school improvement has resulted in increased enrollment over the last 36 months & projected growth long-term. Overall, the school is in extraordinary shape for short-, medium-, & long-term growth & profitability with growth tripling over a 36 month time frame. Everything is in place for new ownership to move the school to the next level & benefit from a premium turn-key operation with I-20 visas in the prestigious New England market. It is an exceptional opportunity & one of the most favored destinations for international students in the US & a solid opportunity for a buyer to own a prestigious & historic boarding school.\nContact HEG if you'd like to know more about the school. 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If you need more information about the possible options, please contact us.\nOur National events may begin as early as 9 am on the first scheduled day with solos, duets and trios. Groups may begin as early as the morning of the second day of Nationals. Dancers that are participating in the All Star program will also need to be at Nationals for an All Star/Parent meeting which will be scheduled on the morning of the first day followed by classes. The World Series of Dance group showdown will take place on the final evening of Nationals until approximately 11:00 p.m. Travel arrangements for departure should not be scheduled until the next morning. In the unlikely event that there are not enough entries to support a 6 day national show, the last day will be a free day.\nFREE MASTER CLASSES\nFREE master classes are available to all dancers attending Nationals and All-Star and Final Cut performers which are chosen at regionals. Registration for All-Stars/Final Cut will be available beginning in February. The schedule of classes will be based upon the competition schedule. For example, when juniors are competing, there will be teen/senior classes. ALL-STARS may have choreography/classes every day. They are also free to take the Master Classes. Parents and teachers are welcome to watch classes. No cell phones or other distractions.\nThe Master Class and All-Star Class Schedule, along with the to-the-minute competition schedule, will be posted online at least one week prior to Nationals.\nOur easy registration makes entering a breeze. You may simply register online through our online registration system, moving the entries from your regional event to the national event.\nAt Nationals, a soloist may compete up to two solos as long as he or she would have been qualified to perform those solos at a regional event or his or her studios has entered groups in the competition. If time & scheduling permits, we will open the National competition to additional solos, and soloists may compete up to 3 solos, as in regionals.\nYou MUST enter, with payment, by May 15, 2019.\nAll dancers will compete as the same age they were at their regional competition, with ages calculated as of January 1, 2019, and all rules in place at the regional competition will apply for the National event.. AGES\nLittle League: 6 and under\nFuture Hall of Famer: 7-8\nJunior: 9-11\nTeen: 12-14\n*Should your roster of dancers change in any way, you must recalculate the ages based upon the new average age. Please note roster and age changes when you send in your Nationals entries. You do NOT have to pay an additional charge if you change categories.\nAmerican and National Leagues\nAs you know, studios selected the league placement for their routines prior to their regional event. However, any routine scoring less than 280.5 points at a regional event may move down to National League for Nationals only by contacting the office at registration@halloffamedance.com. This is subject to approval. Please be extra careful with your league placement if you are attending a national event.\nEntries in the Rookie League are not eligible for the Solo & Duet/Trio Showdown or the World Series of Dance.\nAll-Star Classes and Choreography\nAll-Stars have the opportunity to take free choreography/master classes in all subjects of dance to prepare for the opening number of our World Series Finals. The World Series Finals will take place on the last evening of each national event.\nThere will be an All-Star meeting for all All-Star dancers and their parents/teachers on the first day of Nationals. The complete, detailed All-Star rehearsal schedule will be posted when the competition schedule is posted, at least one week prior to the Nationals event, but most likely sooner.\nThe costume for the opening number is ANY white top and black bottom. All All-Stars should bring this with them to the national event. Dancers should also bring all of their dance shoes; the All-Star production will include several dance styles. Most dancers will only appear in portions of the dance. Hall of Fame does not guarantee which sections you will dance in.\nThere is no charge for being an All-Star. The master classes/choreography and performance opportunity is free to all Hall of Fame All Stars. All-Stars should be in the master class for the section of the All-Star dance they wish to perform in. Choreography is often taught in the master classes.\nMake no mistake participating as an All-Star is hard work and time consuming.\nSolo and Duet/Trio Showdown\nThe top five solos and top three duet/trios in all age divisions in both leagues will re-compete in the Hall of Fame Solo and Duet/Trio Showdown. Placements for the five highest scoring solos and three highest scoring duet/trios will not be announced during the first round of competition. Instead, those routines will re-compete in the Solo & Duet/Trio Showdown where they will compete for the National Championship and the top placements will be determined. There may be more than 5 soloists and more than 3 duet/trios that qualify for the Solo & Duet/Trio Showdown due to ties.\nThere must be at least 5 duet/trios and 10 solos in each category in order to compete in the solo and duet/trio showdown.\nDuet/Trios must consist of at least one differing dancer in order for two duet/trios from the same studio to be eligible for the showdown.\nIf there are more than 5 American League male soloists in an age category, the top 3 male soloists will compete in a separate Male solo showdown.\nIf there are at least 10 Little League (6 and under) soloists, the 3 highest scoring soloists will qualify for the Solo & Duet/Trio Showdown. If there are least 5 Little League (6 and under) duet/trios, the 3 highest scoring duet/trios will qualify for the Solo & Duet/Trio Showdown.\nProduction Challenge\nAt Nationals, all productions will compete in the Production Challenge, which will take place on the final day of Nationals after the final large group/line performance that day. The Production Challenge will have a National League and an American League champion, and productions will not be eligible for the World Series of Dance.\nThere must be at least 3 productions in each age category/league (2 studios or more) in order to compete in the Production Challenge. If there are less than 3 productions, the routines will compete with the other lines and be eligible for the World Series of Dance. For example, if there are 8 American League productions and 2 National League productions, the 8 American League productions will compete in the Production Challenge, and the 2 National League productions will compete with the other National League lines.\nCash Awards will be given to the Production Challenge winners.\nThe top five small groups and the top five large groups/lines in the Future Hall of Famer, Junior, Teen and Senior age divisions, in both the American and National leagues, will re-compete in the World Series of Dance on the last day of Nationals. Dances in the Little League (6 and under) category will not be separated into small groups, large groups, and lines for the World Series unless there are at least 8 routines in each category (small groups AND large groups/lines. If the Little League routines are combined (small groups combined with large groups and lines) for the World Series, the 5 highest scoring Little League Routines will recompete in the World Series of Dance. If the Little League small groups are separated from the large groups/lines, then the 3 highest scoring Little League Routines will compete in each category (small group, large group/line) will re-compete in the World Series of Dance. Excluding Productions that are in the Production Challenge, if there are 5 or more lines from 3 or more studios in an age category and division, then the top 3 lines will re-compete in the World Series of Dance on the last day of Nationals. If there are 20 or more lines in any age category and division, excluding productions in the production challenge, the 5 highest scoring lines will qualify for the World Series of Dance. Otherwise, the lines will be combined with the large groups for the World Series of Dance. If, when the large groups and lines are combined for the World Series, the rare event occurs that a large group and line from the same studio receive an identical score and therefore tie for inclusion in the World Series, the studio director may choose whether the large group or the line is in the World Series. Additional routines in each World Series category are possible if there are ties. Additional cash prizes and victory cups will be awarded to the top three placements in each league if there are five or more routines in that section. Cash prizes and victory cups will be awarded to the top two placements if there are four routines in that section and to the top place only if there are three or less routines in that section.\nA studio can only have more than one group in a particular age division and league if the additional group is comprised of completely different dancers. Otherwise, only the highest scoring group from a studio may participate in each league.\nCash prizes and victory cups will be awarded to the top three placements in each league if there are five or more routines. It is possible that more than five routines may be included if there are ties. Cash prizes and victory cups will be awarded to the top two placements if there are four routines and to the top first place only if there are three or less routines.\nEach age category and league will only be divided into small groups and large group/lines for the World Series if there are ten small groups and ten large groups/lines in that specific age category and league. If there are less than ten small groups OR ten large group/lines, the small groups, large groups, and lines will be combined for the World Series as in past years. Only one group from each studio will be eligible for that section of the World Series, unless the additional group is comprised of completely different dancers.\nFor example, if there are ten Senior National League small groups, three Senior National League large groups, and 1 Senior National League Line, the Senior National League World Series category would consist of the top five highest scoring Senior National League groups from the small groups, large groups, AND lines, as in past years. Each studio would only have one group in the Senior National League World Series, unless the additional group is made-up of entirely different dancers.\nIf, due to the make-up of the entries, all routines in an age division have to compete in 1 league, the top 7 highest scoring dances will compete in the World Series of Dance. Qualifying is based on scores, not rankings. If there is a tie for the final spot, all dances with that score will be included. Within these top 7 routines, a studio can have more than one group qualify if the groups consist of completely different dancers or the groups are in 2 separate categories that would normally be divided in the World Series (small groups & large groups/lines). That is, a studio could have a small group and a large group in that World Series section with the same dancers in both routines, but could not have 2 small groups with any dancers in common or 2 large groups with any dancers in common or a large group and line with any dancers in common. In this instance, the top 5 routines will be announced in the World Series for that category instead of the top 3. These exceptions to the normal World Series procedure are only in effect in the rare event where we have to combine leagues in an age category.\nRoutines that qualify for the World Series of Dance may not substitute or replace dancers with dancers that did not dance in the qualifying routine during the first round of competition. If a routine cannot compete at the World Series with the exact same dancers as it competed with in the first round due to dancer injury or other dancer emergency, the dance may compete in the World Series with fewer dancers than it did in the first round as long as it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change the size category of the group (that is, change it from a large group to a small group, etc.)\nCash prizes will be awarded to the World Series winners, Showdown winners, and National Champions.\nAll routines must be prepared to perform 75 minutes prior to their scheduled performance time. The performance order will take precedence over the scheduled time, so please be prepared to perform early. Hall of Fame reserves the right to alter the performance order for the benefit of the show.\nIf there are less than 10 routines in any category in either league, all routines will compete in one league.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 15519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hans.wyrdweb.eu/about-understanding-mathematics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:40:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4RWJTSWSEDFASDZEKBUIIQG4LS4SYEEK", "length": 244, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hans.wyrdweb.eu", "title": "About Understanding Mathematics \u00ab CONSTABLE RESEARCH B.V.", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 11:36 am\tand is filed under Completed, Mathematics, Psychology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthfitnesskansas.info/category/internet-services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:MA2QXYLOBYXC4BHDJLR73FXC5MSKLJNF", "length": 3461, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "healthfitnesskansas.info", "title": "Internet Services | Health Fitness Kansas", "raw_content": "Couples Who Should Seek Marriage Counseling\nMarriage counseling can help people who have conflict in their marriage which they have difficulty resolving. People who feel stuck in their marriage because of issues that they are facing should seek help from a marriage counselor. People who are always finding fault with each other and think that if a partner changes the marriage will be better should seek marriage counseling. Some couples do not communicate well and this can put a strain on a marriage and this is why they should seek marriage counseling. People who have attempted several times to fix some issues in the marriage but have not had success can benefit from marriage counseling.\nMarriage counseling is usually effective when couples go for marriage counseling early before things get worse in a marriage. Some of the people who benefit from marriage counseling are young couples. One can benefit from marriage counseling if one is open to change because during marriage counseling some issues will come out where change will be required by partners in a marriage. For couples to have a successful marriage, they must take responsibility for their contribution to the problems in the marriage and this will come out during marriage counseling.\nThose who succeed after marriage counseling are those who have made up their mind that they will work on their marriage instead of thinking about divorce. Marriage counseling can help partners to define what needs to be done in a marriage and if the partners are willing to invest in the marriage they can be able to improve their marriage relationship. Some of the people who go for marriage counseling are people who have partners who are addicted to some substances and partners must be willing to get rid of the substances they are addicted \u2026 Read More..\nThe Initial Steps of Freelancing\nA lot of people know that there are freelancing jobs but have never done them. This piece will let you know about the early steps of freelancing. the job that you have presently is not that impressive and you are out looking for other options. Some facts need to be put straight before you make that life-changing decision to quit your job. Freelancing jobs come in a variety, despite this all freelancers have one process that they shared before they became distinct or specialized; how they started out. You can read more in the below detailing.\nMany individuals make plans of how freelancing is going to change their lives. They ensure that they have gone to bed with master plans of how they will do everything big and better and how they will pull in a lot of money without considering the possible drawbacks. This is all vanity, freelancing is not as simple as you think it to be. You need to be very smart as you do it. Jobs won\u2019t be available every single day, sometimes the market is just dry but that doesn\u2019t mean that life has to come to a standstill. Such times call for preparation, save up a large percentage of your income. All the money you save up will keep you going when these adverse times come knocking at your front door. Read more on tips to do better at freelancing.\nHave A Side Gig\nBefore you go shouting to your boss about quitting in order to start freelancing, you need to be sure about everything. Not everybody can do freelancing. Maintain your current job as you try writing to help you figure out if you can do it after all. After doing a writing side job and have \u2026 Read More..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 11175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthforfree.info/health-tips/shortness-of-breath/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:47ZUZ3YU57B6GWI2KISBUVKJSDXYGBDO", "length": 3467, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "healthforfree.info", "title": "Shortness of Breath - Health For Free Shortness of Breath", "raw_content": "Home/Health Tips/Shortness of Breath\nShortness of breath is the feeling that you cannot get enough air into your lungs. It can signal an underlying health problem. Sometimes the feeling is worse when you are physically active or when you lie down flat. You may have other symptoms such as a cough or a fever.\nIf you are experiencing any of these problems, tell your doctor. If your shortness of breath is sudden or severe, or if you also have chest pains, you should call 911.\nSymptoms of shortness of breath\nWhen you have shortness of breath, you feel as though you can\u2019t catch your breath. You feel as though you can\u2019t get enough air in your lungs or breathe deeply. You may also feel a tightness in your chest.\nShortness of breath can be caused by many things, including:\nOther lung diseases (including emphysema, which is a lung disease that is most often caused by smoking)\nIf you are short of breath with a cough and/or fever, you may have a chest infection or pneumonia. Less common causes of breathing problems are lung cancer, a blood clot in the lungs, air leakage around the lungs, and scarring of the lung tissue.\nHow is shortness of breath diagnosed?\nYour doctor can help find the cause of your breathing problem. He or she will begin by asking you questions about your symptoms and performing a physical exam. Your doctor also may order some tests.\nTo find the cause of your shortness of breath, your doctor may order a chest X-ray.\nHe or she may also order an electrocardiogram (also called an ECG). During this test, your doctor will have you lie down so your heart can be monitored. The ECG machine creates a picture, or tracing, that shows your heart\u2019s electrical signals.\nYou may need to have a computerized tomography (CT) scan, which is another type of X-ray. Your doctor may measure the strength of your breathing (called a spirometer) and the oxygen level in your blood. You also may need to have a blood test.\nCan shortness of breath be prevented or avoided?\nWhether you can prevent shortness of breath depends on what is causing it. If your shortness of breath is caused by allergies, you may be able to prevent it by identifying your allergy trigger. Once you know what triggers your allergies, you can do your best to avoid it. If your shortness of breath is caused by smoking, stopping can help prevent it. Other causes of shortness of breath may not be as easy to avoid.\nYour doctor will treat the cause of your breathing problem. To help your treatment, if you smoke, you need to stop. Ask your doctor for help. Also, avoid breathing chemicals that can bother your lungs, such as fumes from paint and car exhaust. If your doctor says it\u2019s okay, you should try to get plenty of exercise.\nLiving with shortness of breath\nIt can be scary to have frequent shortness of breath. It can be less scary if you learn to control it. Work with your doctor on a customized control plan. Your doctor may suggest medication, an exercise program, breathing techniques, or a combination of these. In some cases, he or she may recommend supplemental oxygen.\nWhat is the likely cause of my shortness of breath?\nDo I need any tests to help determine the cause of my shortness of breath?\nIs shortness of breath a sign of a more serious problem?\nIs it safe for me to exercise? What kind of exercise can I do?\nBased on the cause of my shortness of breath, what\u2019s the best treatment option?\nWhat lifestyle changes can I make at home to help relieve my symptoms?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthysalespro.com/index.php/2017/01/04/day-three-you-didnt-get-fat-yesterday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YQPR4OMWKDAUESGYLWR5MVRUGPX5RCVB", "length": 4405, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "healthysalespro.com", "title": "Day Three- You Didn\u2019t Get Fat Yesterday | Healthy Sales Pro", "raw_content": "In our instant-gratification world, where attention spans are less than a hummingbird\u2019s and people think they can multi-task\u2014on several devices, it\u2019s natural some might get discouraged when they get on a health program and don\u2019t see immediate results.\n\u201cI had a salad yesterday and I didn\u2019t lose any weight. I don\u2019t think this works.\u201d\nWhoa. Slow down. Perspective check.\nYou didn\u2019t get where you are today, yesterday.\nYou won\u2019t get to where you want to be, tomorrow.\nYou WILL arrive with the right attitude, education, action, and persistence. And patience, I might add.\nYou didn\u2019t get where you are today, yesterday. You won\u2019t get to where you want to be, tomorrow. You WILL arrive with the right attitude, education, action, and persistence. And patience.\nIt\u2019s important in the first few days (or weeks, depending on your present condition) to not get discouraged if you don\u2019t see instant results.\nCome on now. How long did it take you to get to this point?\nFor me, I know it has been several months\u2014OK, three. Alright four. Dammit, six already\u2014 of too many pizzas and pasta dishes, and way too many nights with my friends Bud, Stella, Sam Adams, Foster, Miller, and the rest.\nSo, baby steps my friend, and partner in health.\nIf you get a bit discouraged as you begin the journey, don\u2019t look at the top of the mountain and compare it to where you are right now and think about how hard it is, and that you\u2019ve made no progress. That might make it seem insurmountable.\nTo get to mile marker 100, when you start at one, you need to go through two, three, four, and so on. There\u2019s no flux capacitor to transport you to the future.\nTo keep yourself going, remind yourself of your WHY, how good that will look and feel, and visualize yourself already there.\nI learned a long time ago\u2014and had it validated by years of training, coaching kids\u2019 sports and adults in sales, and raising kids\u2014that the only person who can ultimately motivate you is YOU. You are the CEO and COO of your body, and your life.\nThe first time I really understood the dynamics of motivation was when I listened to Tony Robbins\u2019 original Personal Power cassette tape program in the mid-80\u2019s. He didn\u2019t invent the concept of course, but his presentation of pleasure and pain hit home with me. Essentially, we\u2019ll only enact change when we associate massive pleasure to doing it, and massive pain to not doing it.\nHere\u2019s a tip for you that works for me and others:\nWrite down all of the pleasure you will get from getting healthy. For example: feeling more alive every day; having the clothes that are tight right now become loose; liking what you see in the mirror; feeling the firmness of muscles instead of flab; not having a roll over the top of your jeans; lowering cholesterol and triglyceride levels to lessen the worry of heart disease\u2026 (I didn\u2019t make those up, by the way.)\nWrite down all of the pain you would experience if you don\u2019t change. For example: feeling miserable every time you struggle to button your pants and the rolls pop over; worse, the indignity of having to go buy LARGER clothes; continuing to feel blah; rationalizing that you\u2019re not THAT fat, when you know you are lying to yourself; getting diabetes, cancer, or having a heart attack and all of the ongoing pain associated with those; umm, dying way too soon.\nYes, make your list explicit. Dream big, bold, and colorful with your pleasure. And scare the living hell out of yourself with your pain. Because your real-life results will be explicit, whether they be positive or negative. Keep it with you. Read it every day. Remind yourself of it when you get discouraged. Record it as a voice memo on your phone and listen to it when you are at the gym or walking.\nThink of how often have you said, \u201cWow, where has the time gone? It seem like just yesterday that\u2026\u201d Time does, fly, right?\nWell, you will be saying the same thing after your healthy journey, and you have accomplished the things you set out to. Stick with it. You know you want those results, and you WILL get them!\nDay Five - This Feels Good\nI wish I would have done this a couple of months ago. Actually, I shouldn\u2019t have gotten to the place where I needed to do this, but, pizza happens. But, please trust me here, if you really want to finally make that change, just make the leap and you will love yourself for finally doing it. 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Recorded live at Shuba's in Chicago on Dec 7 1991. It may have been previously released on a Knitting Factory compilation but we are unsure.\nBand for Turpentine:\nRobert Wheeler - EML synthesizer & theremin\nBand for Petrified:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://help5.striiv.com/support/discussions/topics/3000168076", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:E7JWIVSJSYRHF6WAEECL7OPEHMLJQXAT", "length": 934, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "help5.striiv.com", "title": "Sleep tracking no longer working : Striiv Touch CustomerCare", "raw_content": "Hey all, I was curious as to how many people this is affecting. My Fusion Bio 2 will no longer track sleep or should I say will not display my sleep in the app. I'm not sure which is the issue. After emailing support they told me that problem is in the app and developers are working on it. I find it hard to believe that nobody is able to track their sleep. I also find it hard to believe that they just released a new device that isn't going to be able to display sleep data when its one of main parts of their advertisement.\nok, this is the beef I have...I had a Fitbit that automatically tracked my sleep based on my activity. I did not have to manually tell it I was going to sleep as I often fall asleep while watching tv. I HATE that about the Striiv Fusion Lite! If it's smart enough to stop tracking sleep based on activity, why isn't it smart enough to automatically start tracking my sleep? 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He is signed to his own independent label and media company, Family Tree which also happens to be one of the biggest labels in his country. 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Enjoy the peacefullness of nature, treat yourself to an endless moment of relax and share with your partner a dream that finally comes true.\nWe provide our guests with a little fitness room, equipped with Technogym machines, sauna and jacuzzi spa bath.\n\u2026 and even more activities...\nSituated halfway from the well known artistic city of Siena and the beaches of Grosseto, Hotel Residence Sant'Uberto is the starting point to breathtaking excursions and outings in the nature and culture. You can also enjoy exciting tours in the Maremma area or you can head for Florence as well, which is just one hour drive from us.\nWhoever wants to experience the wildness of nature can take advantage of various trekking tracks that are easily accessible from our private garden. You will be likely to find wild boars, foxes, badgers and porcupines in their natural habitat.\nMaremma also means horses, in fact in our region you can of course take long rides in the middle of the woods.\n...experience precious moments of relax in an enchanted setting for your unforgettable holiday in Maremma...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hotfreebooks.com/book/Lord-Milner-s-Work-in-South-Africa-From-its-Commencement-in-1897-to-the-Peace-of-Vereeniging-in-1902-W-Basil-Worsfold.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:12:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OTRHRMGYGEGPIJHPMKE3WURFL7UF5B7I", "length": 94722, "nlines": 190, "source_domain": "hotfreebooks.com", "title": "HOT FREE BOOKS \u2022 Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 \u2022 W. Basil Worsfold", "raw_content": "Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902\nby W. Basil Worsfold\n[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.]\nFROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1897 TO THE PEACE OF VEREENIGING IN 1902\nCONTAINING HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED INFORMATION\nWITH PORTRAITS AND MAP\n\"What would have been the position to-day in South Africa if there had not been a man prepared to take upon himself responsibility; a man whom difficulties could not conquer, whom disasters could not cow, and whom obloquy could never move?\"\u2014LORD GOSCHEN in the House of Lords, March 29th, 1906\nLONDON JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET W 1906\nThis Edition enjoys copyright in all countries signatory to the Berne Convention, as well as in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and all British Colonies and Dependencies.\nPrinted by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.\nIn sending this book to press I have only two remarks to make by way of preface.\nThe first is wholly personal. It has been my good fortune to reside twice for a considerable period in South Africa\u2014first in the neighbourhood of Capetown (1883-5), and afterwards in Johannesburg (1904-5). During these periods of residence, and also during the long interval between them, I have been brought into personal contact with many of the principal actors in the events which are related in this book. While, therefore, no pains have been spared to secure accuracy by a careful study of official papers and other reliable publications, my information is not derived by any means exclusively from these sources.\nMy second remark is the expression of a hope that the contents of this book may be regarded not merely as a chapter of history, but also as a body of facts essential to the full understanding of the circumstances and conditions of South Africa, as it is to-day. Since the restoration of peace\u2014an event not yet five years old\u2014a great change has been wrought in the political and economic framework of this province of the empire. None the less, with a few conspicuous exceptions, almost all of the principal actors in these pages are still there; and, presumably, they are very much the same men now as they were before, and during, the war. And in this connection it remains to notice an aspect of the South African struggle which transcends all others in fruitfulness and importance. It was a struggle to keep South Africa not a dependency of Great Britain, but a part of the empire. The over-sea Britains, understanding it in this sense, took their share in it. They made their voices heard in the settlement. The service which they thus collectively performed was great. It would have been infinitely greater if they had been directly represented in an administration nominally common to them and the mother country. No political system can be endowed with effective unity\u2014with that organic unity which is the only effective unity\u2014unless it is possessed of a single vehicle of thought and action. To create this vehicle\u2014an administrative body in which all parts of the empire would be duly represented\u2014is difficult to-day. The forces of disunion, which are at work both at home and beyond the seas, may make it impossible to-morrow.\nW. B. W.\nRIDGE, NEAR CAPEL, SURREY, October 19th, 1906\nDOWNING STREET AND THE MAN ON THE SPOT.................. 1\nTHE CREED OF THE AFRIKANDER NATIONALISTS............... 48\nA YEAR OF OBSERVATION.................................. 75\nUNDER WHICH FLAG?..................................... 130\nPLAYING FOR TIME...................................... 188\nTHE ULTIMATUM......................................... 253\nTHE FALL OF THE REPUBLICS............................. 300\nTHE REBELLION IN THE CAPE COLONY...................... 341\nTHE \"CONCILIATION\" MOVEMENT........................... 373\nTHE DISARMAMENT OF THE DUTCH POPULATION............... 413\nPREPARING FOR PEACE................................... 470\nTHE SURRENDER OF VEREENIGING.......................... 536\nINDEX................................................... 585\nPORTRAIT OF LORD MILNER Frontispiece From a photograph by Elliott & Fry (Photogravure)\nLORD MILNER AT SUNNYSIDE.............................. 473\nMAP OF SOUTH AFRICA........................... At the End\nDOWNING STREET AND THE MAN ON THE SPOT\nThe failure of British administration in South Africa during the nineteenth century forms a blemish upon the record of the Victorian era that is at first sight difficult to understand. If success could be won in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in India and in Egypt, why failure in South Africa? For failure it was. A century of wars, missionary effort, British expansion, industrial development, of lofty administrative ideals and great men sacrificed, had left the two European races with political ambitions so antagonistic, and social differences so bitter, that nothing less than the combined military resources of the colonies and the mother-country sufficed to compel the Dutch to recognise the British principle of \"equal rights for all white men south of the Zambesi.\" Among the many contributory causes of failure that can be distinguished, the two most prominent are the nationality difficulty and the native question. But these are problems of administration that have been solved elsewhere: the former in Canada and the latter in India. Or, to turn to agencies of a different order, is the cause of failure to be found in a grudging nature\u2014the existence of physical conditions that made it difficult for the white man, or for the white and coloured man together, to wring a livelihood from the soil? The answer is that the like material disadvantages have been conquered in Australia, India, and in Egypt, by Anglo-Saxon energy. We might apply the Socratic method throughout, traversing the entire range of our distinguishable causes; but in every case the inquiry would reveal success in some other portion of the Anglo-Saxon domain to darken failure in South Africa.\nNevertheless, in so far as any single influence can be assigned to render intelligible a result brought about by many agencies, various in themselves and operating from time to time in varying degrees, the explanation is to be found in a little incident that happened in the second year of the Dutch East India Company's settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. The facts are preserved for us by the diary which Commander Van Riebeck was ordered to keep for the information of his employers. Under the date October 19th, 1653, we read that David Janssen, a herdsman, was found lying dead of assegai wounds, inflicted by the Beechranger Hottentots, while the cattle placed under his charge were seen disappearing round the curve of the Lion's Head. The theft had been successfully accomplished through the perfidy of a certain \"Harry,\" a Hottentot chief, who was living on terms of friendship with the Dutch\u2014a circumstance which was sufficiently apparent from the fact that the raid was timed to take place at an hour on Sunday morning when the whole of the little community, with the exception of two sentinels and a second herdsman, were assembled to hear a sermon from the \"Sick-Comforter,\" Wylant. It was the first conflict between the Dutch and the natives; for Van Riebeck had been bidden, for various excellent reasons, to keep on good terms with the Hottentots, and to treat them kindly. But the murder of a white man was a serious matter. Kindness scarcely seemed to meet the case; and so Van Riebeck applied to the Directors, the famous Chamber of Seventeen, for definite instructions as to the course which he must pursue.\n[Sidenote: Van Riebeck's difficulty.]\nHe was told that only the actual murderer of David Janssen (if apprehended) was to be put to death; that cattle equal in amount to the cattle stolen were to be recovered, but only from the actual robbers; and that \"Harry,\" if necessary, should be sent to prison at Batavia. But he was not otherwise to molest or injure the offending Hottentots. Excellent advice, and such as we should expect from the countrymen of Grotius in their most prosperous era. But unfortunately it was quite impossible for Van Riebeck, with his handful of soldiers and sailors, planted at the extremity of the great barbaric continent of Africa, to think of putting it into effect. He replied that he had no means of identifying the individual wrong-doers, and that the institution of private property was unknown among the Hottentots. The only method by which the individual could be punished was by punishing the tribe, and he therefore proposed to capture the tribe and their cattle. But this was a course of action which was repugnant to the Directors' sense of justice. It aroused, besides, a vision of reinforcements ordered from Batavia, and of disbursements quite disproportionate to the practical utility of the Cape station as an item in the system of the Company. In vain Van Riebeck urged that a large body of slaves and ten or twelve hundred head of cattle would be a great addition to the resources of the settlement. The Chamber of Seventeen refused to sanction the proposals of the commander, and, as its own were impracticable, nothing was done. The Beechranger tribe escaped with impunity, and the Hottentots, as a whole, were emboldened to make fresh attacks upon the European settlers.\n[Sidenote: The Afrikander stock.]\nThis simple narrative is a lantern that sheds a ray of light upon an obscure subject. Two points are noticeable in the attitude of the home authority. First, there is its inability to grasp the local conditions; and second, the underlying assumption that a moral judgment based upon the conditions of the home country, if valid, must be equally valid in South Africa. By the time that the home authority had become Downing Street instead of the peripatetic Chamber of Seventeen, the field of mischievous action over which these misconceptions operated had become enlarged. The natives were there, as before; but, in addition to the natives, there had grown up a population of European descent, some thirty thousand in number, whose manner of life and standards of thought and conduct were scarcely more intelligible to the British, or indeed to the European mind, than those of the yellow-skinned Hottentot or the brown-skinned Kafir. A century and a half of the Dutch East India Company's government\u2014a government \"in all things political purely despotic, in all things commercial purely monopolist\"\u2014had produced a people unlike any other European community on the face of the earth. Of the small original stock from which the South African Dutch are descended, one-quarter were Huguenot refugees from France, an appreciable section were German, and the institution of slavery had added to this admixture the inevitable strain of non-Aryan blood. But this racial change was by no means all that separated the European population in the Cape Colony from the Dutch of Holland. A more potent agency had been at work. The corner-stone of the policy of the Dutch East India Company was the determination to debar the settlers from all intercourse\u2014social, intellectual, commercial, and political\u2014with their kinsmen in Europe. One fact will suffice to show how perfectly this object was attained. Incredible as it may seem, it is the case that at the end of the eighteenth century no printing-press was to be found in the Cape Colony, nor had this community of twenty thousand Europeans the means of knowing the nature of the laws and regulations of the Government by which it was ruled. So long and complete an isolation from European civilisation produced a result which is as remarkable in itself as it is significant to the student of South African history. This phenomenon was the existence, in the nineteenth century, of a community of European blood whose moral and intellectual standards were those of the seventeenth.\n[Sidenote: The nationality difficulty.]\nOur dip into the early history of South Africa is not purposeless. It does not, of course, explain the failure of British administration; but it brings us into touch with circumstances that were bound to make the task of governing the Cape Colony\u2014a task finally undertaken by England in 1806\u2014one of peculiar difficulty. The native population was strange, but the European population was even more strange and abnormal. If we had been left to deal with the native population alone we should have experienced no serious difficulty in rendering them harmless neighbours, and have been able to choose our own time for entering upon the responsibilities involved in the administration of their territories. But, coming second on the field, we were bound to modify our native policy to suit the conditions of a preexisting relationship between the white and black races that was not of our creation, and one, moreover, that was in many respects repugnant to British ideas of justice. Nor was this all. The old European population, which should have been, naturally, our ally and fellow-worker in the task of native administration, gradually changed from its original position of a subject nationality to that of a political rival; and, as such, openly bid against us for the mastership of the native African tribes.\nNow when two statesmen are pitted against each other, of whom one is a man whose methods of attack are limited by nineteenth-century ideas, while the morality of the other, being that of the seventeenth century, permits him greater freedom of action, it is obvious that the first will be at a disadvantage. And this would be the case more than ever if the nineteenth-century statesman was under the impression that his political antagonist was a man whose code of morals was identical with his own. When once he had learnt that the moral standard of the other was lower than, or different from, his own, he would of course make allowance for the circumstance, and he would then be able to contest the position with him upon equal terms. But until he had grasped this fact he would be at a disadvantage.\nGenerally speaking, the representatives of the British Government, both Governors and High Commissioners, soon learnt that neither the natives nor the Dutch population could be dealt with on the same footing as a Western European. But the British Government cannot be said to have thoroughly learnt the same lesson until, in almost the last week of the nineteenth century, the three successive defeats of Stormberg, Magersfontein, and Colenso aroused it to a knowledge of the fact that we had been within an ace of losing South Africa. Many, indeed, would question whether even now the lesson had been thoroughly learnt. But, however this may be, it is certain that throughout the nineteenth century the Home Government wished to treat both the natives and the Dutch in South Africa on a basis of British ideas; and that by so doing it constantly found itself in conflict with its own local representatives, who knew that the only hope of success lay in dealing with both alike on a basis of South African ideas.\nAs the result of this chronic inability of British statesmen to understand South Africa, it follows that the most instructive manner of regarding our administration of that country during the nineteenth century is to get a clear conception of the successive divergences of opinion between the home and the local authorities.\nAt the very outset of British administration\u2014during the temporary occupation of the Cape from 1795 to 1808\u2014we find a theoretically perfect policy laid down for the guidance of the early English Governors in their treatment of the Boers, or Dutch frontier farmers. It is just as admirable, in its way, as were the instructions for the treatment of the Hottentots furnished by the Directors of the Dutch East India Company to Van Riebeck. In a despatch of July, 1800, the third Duke of Portland, who was then acting as Secretary for the Colonies, writes:\n[Sidenote: Non-interference.]\n\"Considering the tract of country over which these border inhabitants are dispersed, the rude and uncultivated state in which they live, and the wild notions of independence which prevail among them, I am afraid any attempts to introduce civilisation and a strict administration of justice will be slow in their progress, and likely, if not proceeded upon with caution and management, rather to create a spirit of resistance, or to occasion them to emigrate still further from the seat of government, than answer the beneficent views with which they might be undertaken. In fact, it seems to me the proper system of policy to observe to them is to interfere as little as possible in their domestic concerns and interior economy; to consider them rather as distant communities dependent upon the Government than as subjects necessarily amenable to the laws and regulations established within the precincts of Government. Mutual advantages arising from barter and commerce, and a strict adherence to good faith and justice in all arrangements with them, joined to efficient protection and occasional acts of kindness on the part of the Government, seem likely to be the best means of securing their attachment.\"\nWho would have thought that this statement of policy, admirable as it is at first sight, contained in itself the germ of a political heresy of the first magnitude? Yet so it was. The principle of non-interference, here for the first time enunciated and subsequently followed with fatal effect, could not be applied by a nineteenth-century administration to the case of a seventeenth-century community without its virtually renouncing the functions of government. Obviously this was not the intention of the home authority. There remained the difficulty of knowing when to apply, and when not to apply, the principle; and directly a specific case arose there was the possibility that, while the local authority, with a full knowledge of the local conditions, might think interference necessary, the home authority, without such knowledge, might take an opposite view.\n[Sidenote: Slaghter's Nek.]\nA very few years sufficed to show that the most ordinary exercise of the functions of government might be regarded as an \"interference with the domestic concerns and interior economy\" of the European subjects of the British Crown in South Africa. At the time of the permanent occupation of the Cape (1806) the population of the colony consisted of three classes: 26,720 persons of European descent, 17,657 Hottentots, and 29,256 returned as slaves. One of the first measures of the British Governor, Lord Caledon, was the enactment of a series of regulations intended to confer civil rights on the Hottentots, while at the same time preventing them from using their freedom at the expense of the European population. From the British, or even European point of view, this was a piece of elementary justice to which no man could possibly take exception. As applied to the conditions of the Franco-Dutch population in the Cape Colony it was, in fact, a serious interference with their \"domestic concerns and internal economy.\" And as such it produced the extraordinary protest known to history as the \"Rebellion\" of Slaghter's Nek. There was no question as to the facts. Booy, the Hottentot, had completed his term of service with Frederick Bezuidenhout, the Boer, and was therefore entitled, under the Cape law, to leave his master's farm, and to remove his property. All this Bezuidenhout admitted; but when it came to a question of yielding obedience to the magistrate's order, the Boer said \"No.\" In the words of Pringle, \"He boldly declared that he considered this interference between him (a free burgher) and his Hottentot to be a presumptuous innovation upon his rights, and an intolerable usurpation of tyrannical authority.\"\nAnd the danger of allowing the Boers to pursue their seventeenth-century dealings with the natives became rapidly greater when the European Colonists, Dutch and English, were brought, by their natural eastward expansion, into direct contact with the masses of military Bantu south and east of the Drakenberg chain of mountains\u2014the actual dark-skinned \"natives\" of South Africa as it is known to the people of Great Britain. The Boer frontiersman, with his aggressive habits and ingrained contempt for a dark-skin, disintegrated the Bantu mass before we were ready to undertake the work of reconstruction. And therefore the local British authority soon learnt that non-interference in the case of the Boer generally meant the necessity of a much more serious interference at a subsequent date with both Boer and Kafir. And so non-interference, in the admirable spirit of the Duke of Portland's despatch, came to bear one meaning in Downing Street and quite another in Capetown.\n[Sidenote: D'Urban's policy.]\nThe earliest of the three crucial \"divergences of opinion,\" to which collectively the history of our South African administration owes its sombre hue, was that which led to the reversal of Sir Benjamin D'Urban's frontier policy by Charles Grant (afterwards Lord Glenelg) at the end of the year 1835. The circumstances were these. On Christmas Day, 1834, the Kafirs (without any declaration of war, needless to say) invaded the Cape Colony, murdering the settlers in the isolated farms, burning their homesteads, and driving off their cattle. After a six months' campaign, in which the Dutch and British settlers fought by the side of the regular troops, a treaty was made with the Kafir chiefs which, in the opinion of D'Urban and his local advisers, would render the eastern frontier of the Colony secure from further inroads. The Kafirs were to retire to the line of the Kei River, thus surrendering part of their territory to the European settlers who had suffered most severely from the invasion; while a belt of loyal Kafirs, supported by a chain of forts, was to be interposed between the defeated tribes and the colonial farmsteads. In addition to these measures, D'Urban proposed to compensate the settlers for the enormous losses[1] which they had incurred; since, as a contemporary and not unfriendly writer[2] puts it, the British Government had exposed them for fourteen years to Kafir depredations, rather than acknowledge the existence of a state of affairs that must plainly have compelled it to make active exertions for their protection.\n[Footnote 1: The official returns showed that 456 farm-houses had been wholly, and 350 partially, destroyed; and that 60 waggons, 5,715 horses, 111,930 head of horned cattle, and 161,930 sheep had been carried off by the Kafirs. And this apart from the remuneration claimed by the settlers for services in the field, and commandeered cattle and supplies.]\n[Footnote 2: Cloete. See note, p. 16.]\nThe view of the home authority was very different. In the opinion of His Majesty's ministers at Downing Street the Kafir invasion was the result of a long series of unjustifiable encroachments on the part of the European settlers. D'Urban was instructed, therefore, to reinstate the Kafirs in the districts from which they had retired under the treaty of September, 1835, and to cancel all grants of land beyond the Fish River\u2014the original eastern boundary of the Colony\u2014which the Colonial Government had made to its European subjects from 1817 onwards; while, as for compensation, any indemnity was altogether out of the question, since the colonists had only themselves to thank for the enmity of the natives\u2014if, indeed, they had not deliberately provoked the war with a view to the acquisition of fresh territory.\nThe divergence between these two opinions is sufficiently well marked. To trace the precise agencies through which two diametrically opposed views were evolved on this occasion from the same groundwork of facts would be too lengthy a business; but, by way of comment, we may recall two statements, each significant and authentic. Cloete, writing while the events in question were still fresh in his mind, says of Lord Glenelg's despatch: \"A communication more cruel, unjust, and insulting to the feelings not only of Sir Benjamin D'Urban ... but of the inhabitants ... could hardly have been penned by a declared enemy of the country and its Governor.\" And Sir George Napier, by whom D'Urban was superseded, stated in evidence given before the House of Commons: \"My own experience, and what I saw with my own eyes, have confirmed me that I was wrong and Sir Benjamin D'Urban was perfectly right; that if he meant to keep Kafirland under British rule, the only way of doing so was by having a line of forts, and maintaining troops in them.\"\n[Sidenote: The Great Trek.]\nThis settlement of a South African question upon a basis of British, or rather non-South African, ideas was followed by events as notorious as they were disastrous. It must be remembered that in 1819-20 the first and only effort to introduce a considerable British population into South Africa had been successfully carried out when the \"Albany\" settlers, to the number of some five thousand, were established in this and other districts upon the eastern border of the Cape Colony. The colonial farmers who suffered from the Kafir invasion of 1834-5 were not exclusively Boers. Among them there were many members of the new British population, and the divergence of opinion between D'Urban and Lord Glenelg was all the more significant, since in this case the British settlers were in agreement with the Boers. It was no longer merely a divergence of views as between the local and the home authority, but as between the British in Britain and the British in South Africa. It must also be remembered that, in the same year as the Kafir invasion, a social revolution\u2014the emancipation of slaves\u2014had been accomplished in the Cape Colony by an Act of the British Parliament, in comparison with which the nationalisation of the railways or of the mines in England would seem a comparatively trifling disturbance of the system of private property to the Englishman of to-day. The reversal of D'Urban's arrangements for the safety of the eastern frontier was not only bad in itself, but it came at a bad time. Whether the secession of the Emigrant Farmers would in any case have taken place as the result of the emancipation of slaves is a matter which cannot now be decided. But, however this may be, the fact remains that two men so well qualified to give an opinion on the subject as Judge Cloete and Sir John Robinson, the first Prime Minister of Natal, unhesitatingly ascribe the determining influence which drove the Boers to seek a home beyond the jurisdiction of the British Government to the sense of injustice created by the measures dictated by Lord Glenelg, and by the whole spirit of his despatch.[3] And this judgment is supported by the fact that the wealthier Dutch of the Western Province were much more seriously affected by the emancipation of slaves than the \"Boers\" of the eastern districts of the Colony; yet it was these latter, of course, who provided the bulk of the emigrants who crossed the Orange River in the years of the Great Trek (1835-8) We shall not therefore be drawing an extravagantly improbable conclusion, if we decide that the movement which divided European South Africa was due to a well-ascertained divergence of opinion between the home and local authorities\u2014both British.\n[Footnote 3: For the benefit of those who may desire to read the passages in which these opinions are expressed, I append the references. Cloete's opinion is to be found in his \"Five Lectures on the Emigration of the Dutch Farmers,\" delivered before the Natal Society and published at Capetown in 1856. A reprint of this work was published by Mr. Murray in 1899. Sir John Robinson's opinion, which endorses the views of Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Steenekamp as expressed in The Cape Monthly Magazine for September, 1876, is to be found at pp. 46, 47 of his \"A Lifetime in South Africa\" (Smith, Elder, 1900).]\n[Sidenote: The birth of the republic.]\n[Sidenote: Sir George Grey.]\nThe results of this secession of something like one-fourth of the Franco-Dutch population are common knowledge. Out of the scattered settlements founded by the Emigrant Farmers beyond the borders of the Colony were created, in 1852 (Sand River Convention) and 1854 (Bloemfontein Convention), the two Boer Republics, which half a century later withstood for two years and eight months the whole available military force of the British Empire. The first effect of the secession was to erect the republican Dutch into a rival power which bid against the British Government for the territory and allegiance of the natives. Secession, therefore, made the inevitable task of establishing the supremacy of the white man in South Africa infinitely more costly both in blood and treasure. The British nation accepted the task, which fell to it as paramount power, with the greatest reluctance. The endless and apparently aimless Kafir wars exhausted the patience of the country, and the destruction of an entire British regiment by Ketshwayo's[4] impis created a feeling of deep resentment against the great High Commissioner, whose policy was held\u2014unreasonably enough\u2014responsible for the military disaster of Isandlhwana. Two opportunities of recovering the lost solidarity of the Europeans were presented before the republican Dutch had set themselves definitely to work for the supremacy of South Africa through reunion with their colonial kinsfolk. That both were lost was due at bottom to the disgust of the British people at the excessive cost and burden of establishing a civilised administration over the native population in South Africa. But in both cases the immediate agency of disaster was the refusal of the Home Government to listen to the advice of its local representative. Sir George Grey would have regained the lost solidarity of the Europeans by taking advantage of the natural recoil manifested among the Free State Dutch from independence and responsibility towards the more settled and prosperous life assured by British rule. His proposal was to unite the Cape Colony, Natal, and the Free State in a federal legislature, consisting of representatives chosen by popular vote in the several states. In urging this measure he took occasion to combat the pessimistic views of South African affairs which were prevalent in England. The country was not commercially useless, but of \"great and increasing value.\" Its people did not desire Kafir wars, but were well aware of the much greater advantages which they derived from the peaceful pursuits of industry. The colonists were themselves willing to contribute to the defence of that part of the Queen's dominions in which they lived. And, finally, the condition of the natives was not hopeless, for the missionaries were producing most beneficial effects upon the tribes of the interior. But the most powerful argument which Grey used was his ruthless exposure of the futility of the Conventions. By allowing the Boer emigrants to grow into independent communities the British Government believed that not only had they relieved themselves of responsibility for the republican Dutch, but that they had secured, in addition, the unfaltering allegiance of the larger Dutch population which remained behind in the Cape Colony. Grey assured the Home Government that in both respects it was the victim of a delusion bred of its complete ignorance of South African conditions. The Boer Republics would give trouble. Apart from the bad draftsmanship of the conventions\u2014a fertile source of disagreement\u2014these small states would be centres of intrigue and \"internal commotions,\" while at the same time their revenues would be too small to provide efficiently for their protection against the warlike tribes. The policy of divide et impera\u2014or, as Grey called it, the \"dismemberment\" policy\u2014would fail, since the political barrier which had been erected was wholly artificial.\n[Footnote 4: Cetewayo.]\n\"Although these European countries are treated as separate nations,\" he wrote, \"their inhabitants bear the same family names as the inhabitants of this Colony, and maintain with them ties of the closest intimacy and relationship. They speak generally the same language\u2014not English, but Dutch. They are for the most part of the same religion, belonging to the Dutch Reformed Church. They have the same laws\u2014the Roman Dutch. They have the same sympathies, the same prejudices, the same habits, and frequently the same feelings regarding the native races....\n\"I think that there can be no doubt that, in any great public, or popular, or national question or movement, the mere fact of calling these people different nations would not make them so, nor would the fact of a mere fordable stream running between them sever their sympathies or prevent them from acting in unison.... Many questions might arise in which, if the Government on the south side of the Orange River took a different view from that on the north side of the river, it might be very doubtful which of the two Governments the great mass of the people would obey.\"[5]\n[Footnote 5: Despatch of November 19th, 1858, to Sir E. B. Lytton.]\nThe \"divergence of opinion\" between Capetown and Downing Street was complete. Grey was charged with \"direct disobedience\" for listening to the offers of the Free State inhabitants. Recalled by a despatch of June 4th, 1859, he was reinstated in August on condition that \"he felt himself sufficiently free and uncompromised,\" both with the Cape Legislature and the people of the Free State, to be able personally to carry out the policy of the Home Government, which, said the despatch,\n\"is entirely opposed to those measures, tending to the resumption of sovereignty over that State, of which you have publicly expressed your approval in your speech to the Cape Parliament, and in your answers to the address from the State in question.\"\nNor was that all. In his endeavours to establish a simple but effective system of European magistrates over the Kafirs beyond the eastern border of the Colony, he was hampered by the short-sighted economy of the Home Government. It seems incredible that a Colonial Governor, even at that epoch, should have been looked upon by Downing Street as a sort of importunate mendicant. But Grey's language shows that this was the attitude against which he had to defend himself.\n[Sidenote: The burden of the empire.]\n\"I would now only urge upon Her Majesty's Government,\" he writes on September 8th, 1858, \"that they should not distress me more than is absolutely necessary for the government and control of the people of the country which lies beyond the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Stripping the country as I am of troops [to serve in putting down the Indian Mutiny], some great disaster will take place if necessary funds are at the same time cut off from me. I am sure, if the enormous reductions I have effected in military expenditure are considered, the most rigid economists will feel that the money paid by Great Britain for the control of this country has been advantageously laid out.\"\nThese extracts are not pleasant reading. They were written at the time when the Imperial spirit was at its nadir. In the plain language of the Secretary of State for the Colonies[6] in 1858, it was a time when ministers were \"compelled to recognise as fact the increased and increasing dislike of Parliament to the maintenance of large military establishments in our colonies at Imperial cost.\" Yet one more passage must be cited, not so much because it is tinged by a certain grim humour\u2014although this is a valuable quality in such a context\u2014as because it affords an eminently pertinent illustration in support of the contention that the refusal of the Home Government to follow the advice of the \"man on the spot\" has been the operative cause of the failure of British administration in South Africa. The reply to the charge of \"direct disobedience,\" which Grey formulates in one leisurely sentence, runs as follows:\n[Footnote 6: Sir E. B. Lytton.]\n\"With regard to any necessity which might exist for my removal on the ground of not holding the same views upon essential points of policy as Her Majesty's Government hold, I can only make the general remark that, during the five years which have elapsed since I was appointed to my present office, there have been at least seven Secretaries of State for the Colonial Department, each of whom held different views upon some important points of policy connected with this country.\"\n[Sidenote: The discovery of diamonds.]\nGrey was not by any means the only Governor of the Cape to show the home authorities how impossible it was to govern South Africa from Downing Street, and to urge upon them the necessity of allowing their representative, the one man who was familiar with local conditions, to decide by what methods the objects of British policy could be most effectively advanced. But it was not until some considerable time after the Colonial Department had been placed under a separate Secretary of State, and the Colonial Office had been constituted on its present basis, with a staff of permanent officials, that these protests produced any appreciable effect. What really aroused an interest in South Africa\u2014that is to say a practical interest, as distinct from the interest created by the stories of missionary enterprise and travel, and by the records of Kafir warfare\u2014was the discovery of diamonds in Griqualand West in 1870, and the subsequent establishment of the diamond industry at Kimberley. It was the first time that anything certain had occurred to show that the vast \"hinterland\" of the Cape might prove to be a territory of industrial possibilities. The earnings of the diamond mines provided the Cape Colony with a revenue sufficient to enable it to link together its main towns by a tolerable railway system. The industry, once established, attracted British capital and British population, and by so doing it did what Blue-books and missionary reports had failed to do: it brought the every-day life of the British Colonist in South Africa within the purview of the nation. Thanks to the Kimberley mines the Cape ceased to be thought of as a country whose resources were exclusively pastoral and agricultural.\nThe epoch of the next great divergence of opinion was a more hopeful time from an Imperialist point of view. Lord Beaconsfield, who was the first statesman to give practical expression to the belief that the maintenance of empire was not inconsistent with the welfare of the masses of the home population, was in power. British statesmen, and the class from which British statesmen are drawn, had begun to study Colonial questions in a more hopeful and intelligent spirit. Something had been learnt, too, of the actual conditions of South Africa. And yet it was at this epoch that what was, perhaps, the most ruinous of all the divergences of opinion between Capetown and Downing Street occurred.\nWhen Sir Bartle Frere was sent out to South Africa to carry out a definite scheme for the union of the Republics with the British colonies in a federal system, British statesmen and the educated classes in general had adopted the views expressed by Grey twenty years before. Tardily they had learnt to recognise both the essential unity of the Dutch population and the value of the country as an industrial asset of the empire. But, in the meantime, the centre of political power had shifted in England. The extension of the franchise had placed the ultimate control of British policy in South Africa in the hands of a class of electors who were, as yet, wholly uneducated in the political and economic conditions of that country. The divergence of opinion between the home and the local authority became in this case wider than ever. In short, it was the will of the nation that caused Frere to be arrested midway in the accomplishment of his task, and gave a mandate in 1880 to the Liberal party to administer South Africa upon the lines of a policy shaped in contemptuous indifference of the profoundest convictions and most solemn warnings of a great proconsul and most loyal servant of the Crown.\nThe facts of Frere's supersession and recall are notorious: the story is too recent to need telling at length. We know now that, apart from the actual discovery of the Witwatersrand gold-mines, all that he foresaw and foretold has been realised in the events which culminated, twenty years later, in the great South African War. The military power which at that time (1877-80) stood in the way of South African unity under the British flag was the Zulu people. The whole adult male population of the tribe had been trained for war, and organised by Ketshwayo into a fighting machine. With this formidable military instrument at his command Ketshwayo proposed to emulate the sanguinary career of conquest pursued by his grandfather Tshaka;[7] and he had prepared the way for the half-subdued military Bantu throughout South Africa to co-operate with him in a general revolt against the growing supremacy of the white man. Frere removed this obstacle. But in doing so he, or rather the general entrusted with the command of the military operations, lost a British regiment at Isandlhwana. This revelation of the strength of the Zulu army was, in fact, a complete confirmation of the correctness of Frere's diagnosis of the South African situation. His contention was that England must give evidence of both her capacity and her intention to control the native population of South Africa before she could reasonably ask the republican Dutch to surrender their independence and reunite with the British colonies in a federal system under the British flag. A native power, organised solely for aggressive warfare against one of two possible white neighbours, constituted therefore, in his opinion, not only a perpetual menace to the safety of Natal, but an insuperable obstacle to the effective discharge of a duty by the paramount Power, the successful performance of which was a condition precedent to the reunion of the European communities. The only point in dispute was the question whether the powers of Ketshwayo's impis had been exaggerated. To this question the disaster of Isandlhwana returned an emphatic \"No.\"\n[Footnote 7: Chaka.]\n[Sidenote: The recall of Frere.]\nThe divergence of opinion between Frere and Lord Beaconsfield's cabinet was trivial as compared with the profound gulf which separated his policy from the South African policy of Mr. Gladstone. After the return of the Liberal party to power in the spring of 1880, Frere was allowed to remain in office until August 1st, when he was recalled by a telegraphic despatch. But, as Lord Kimberley pointed out to him, there had been \"so much divergence\" between his views and those of the Home Government that he would not have been allowed to remain at the Cape, \"had it not been for the special reason that there was a prospect of his being able materially to forward the policy of confederation.\" This prospect, of course, had then been removed by the failure of the Cape Government, on June 29th, to bring about the conference of delegates from the several States, which was the initial step towards the realisation of Lord Carnarvon's scheme of federal union.\nThe vindication of Frere's statesmanship has been carried, by the inexorable logic of events, far beyond the sphere of Blue-book arguments. But it is impossible to read this smug despatch without recalling the words which Mr. Krueger wrote to Mr. (now Lord) Courtney on June 26th of the same year: \"The fall of Sir Bartle Frere will ... be useful.... We have done our duty and used all legitimate influence to cause the conference proposals to fail.\" That is to say, it was known to these faithful confederates of that section of the Liberal party of which Mr. Courtney was the head, that the Gladstone Government had determined to recall Sir Bartle Frere three days before \"the special reason\" for maintaining him at the Cape had disappeared.\n[Sidenote: Frere's forecast.]\nBut what we are really concerned with is the nature of the opinions upon the central question of South African administration which Frere put forward at this critical period. With these before us, the most elementary acquaintance with the events of the last ten years will suffice to indicate the profound degree in which his knowledge of South African conditions surpassed the knowledge of those who took upon themselves to reverse his policy. What, above all, Frere realised was, that a point had been reached at which the whole of South Africa must be gathered under the British flag without delay. He had noted the disintegrating influences at work in the Cape Colony and the strength of the potential antagonism of the republican Dutch. The annexation of the Transvaal was not his deed, nor did either the time or the manner in which it was done command his approval. But he asserted that British rule, once established there, must be maintained at all costs. With this end in view, he urged that every responsibility incurred by England in the act of annexation must be fulfilled to the letter. Utilising the information which he had gained by personal observation during his visit to the Transvaal in 1879, and availing himself of the co-operation of President Brand, of the Free State, and Chief Justice de Villiers, in the Cape Colony, he drafted a scheme of administrative reform sufficient to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Boers for self-government without endangering the permanency of British rule. It included proposals for administrative and financial reforms framed with a view of reducing the cost of government to the lowest point consistent with efficiency, for the reorganisation of the courts of law, for the survey of the proposed railway line to Delagoa Bay, and full details of a system of representative government. This measure he urged upon the Colonial Office as one of immediate necessity, since it embodied the fulfilment of the definite promises of an early grant of self-government made to the Boers at the time of annexation.[8]\n[Footnote 8: The receipt of the despatch in which these valuable recommendations were made was not even acknowledged by the Colonial Office. Frere himself gives the outlines of his proposals in an article published in The Nineteenth Century for February, 1881.]\nHe recognised the value of Delagoa Bay as an essential factor in the political and commercial system of a united South Africa, and he earnestly recommended its acquisition by purchase from the Portuguese Government. His perception of the extreme importance of satisfying all legitimate claims of the Boers, and his acute realisation of the danger of allowing the Transvaal to become a \"jumping-off ground\" either for foreign powers or Afrikander Nationalists, are exhibited in due relationship in a private memorandum which he wrote from the Cape at the end of July, 1879:\n\"Any reliance on mere force in the Transvaal must react dangerously down here in the old colony, and convert the Dutch Country party, now as loyal and prosperous a section of the population as any under the Crown, into dangerous allies of the small anti-English Republican party, who are for separation, thus paralysing the efforts of the loyal English party now in power, who aim at making the country a self-defending integral portion of the British Empire. Further, any attempt to give back or restore the Boer Republic in the Transvaal must lead to anarchy and failure, and probably, at no distant period, to a vicious imitation of some South American Republics, in which the more uneducated and misguided Boers, dominated and led by better educated foreign adventurers\u2014Germans, Hollanders, Irish Home Rulers, and other European Republicans and Socialists\u2014will become a pest to the whole of South Africa, and a most dangerous fulcrum to any European Power bent on contesting our naval supremacy, or injuring us in our colonies.\n\"There is no escaping from the responsibility which has already been incurred, ever since the British flag was planted on the Castle here. All our real difficulties have arisen, and still arise, from attempting to evade or shift this responsibility.... If you abdicate the sovereign position, the abdication has always to be heavily paid for in both blood and treasure.... Your object is not conquest, but simply supremacy up to Delagoa Bay. This will have to be asserted some day, and the assertion will not become easier by delay. The trial of strength will be forced on you, and neither justice nor humanity will be served by postponing the trial if we start with a good cause.\"\nCould not the man who foresaw these dangers have prevented them? It is impossible to resist the momentum of this thought.\n[Sidenote: The retrocession.]\nThe events by which this forecast was so closely realised are not likely to be effaced from the memory of this generation. Frere had scarcely left the Colony from which he had been recalled by the joint efforts of Mr. Krueger and Lord (then Mr.) Courtney before the former, with his fellow triumvirs, had raised the Vier-kleur upon the still desolate uplands of the Witwatersrand. The attempt to put down by force the Boer revolt of 1880-81 failed. Mr. Gladstone's cabinet recoiled before the prospect of a war in which the Boers might have been supported by their kinsmen in the Free State and the Cape Colony. The retrocession of the Transvaal under the terms of the Pretoria Convention (1881) was followed by further concessions embodied in the London Convention of 1884. It is absolutely established as fact that Mr. Gladstone's Government intended, by certain articles contained in both conventions, to secure to all actual and potential British residents in the Transvaal the enjoyment of all the political rights of citizenship possessed by the Boers. But it is equally certain that the immediate contravention of Article XVI. of the Pretoria Convention, when in 1882 the period of residence necessary to qualify for the franchise was raised from two to five years, was allowed to pass without protest from the Imperial Government. And thus a breach of the Convention, which the discovery of the Witwatersrand gold-fields (1886) and the subsequent establishment of a great British industrial community made a matter of vital importance, was condoned. A few years more and the country which prided itself upon being the home of liberty and of free institutions was confounded by the spectacle of a South Africa of its own making, in which a British majority denied the franchise in a Dutch Republic, contrasted with a Dutch minority dominating and controlling the machinery of responsible government in a British colony.\nThis situation brings us (to use a military phrase) within striking distance of the objective of the present work\u2014the personality and efforts of the man who administered South Africa in the momentous years of the struggle for equal rights for all white men from the Zambesi to Capetown.\nIf the records set out in the preceding pages leave any impression upon the mind, it is one that must produce a sense of amazement, almost exasperation, at the thought of the many mistakes and disasters that might have been avoided, if only greater weight had been attached to the advice tendered to the British Government by its local representative in South Africa. And with this sense of amazement a generous mind will associate inevitably a feeling of regret for the injustice unwittingly, but none the less irreparably, inflicted upon loyal and capable servants of the Crown\u2014an injustice so notorious that it has made South Africa the \"grave of reputations.\" Apart from the pre-eminence with which the period of Lord Milner's administration is invested by the occurrence within it of a military conflict of unparalleled magnitude, Lord Milner stands out in the annals of South Africa as the first High Commissioner whose knowledge of South African conditions was allowed to inspire the policy of the Home Government, and who himself was recognised by the Government and people of Great Britain as voicing the convictions and aspirations of all loyal subjects of the Crown in that province of the empire.\nThe state of affairs with which Lord Milner was called upon to deal was in its essence the situation sketched by Frere twenty years before in the memorable forecast to which reference has been made. But the working of the forces indicated by Frere as destined, if unchecked, to drive England one day to a life-and-death struggle for her supremacy in South Africa, had been complicated by an event which cannot be omitted altogether from a chapter intended, like a Euripidean prologue, to prepare the mind of the spectator for the proper understanding of the characters and action of the drama. This event is the Jameson Raid.\n[Sidenote: Rhodes.]\nIn order to see the Jameson Raid in its true perspective, it is not sufficient to place it in relationship to those familiar and notorious events by which it was followed. It must also be placed in relationship to the no less clearly defined events by which it was preceded. Thus placed it becomes the direct outcome of the refusal of the Imperial Government to use the advice of its local representative\u2014or, more precisely, of the refusal to base its policy on South African instead of British conditions: and, as such, it convinced the Imperial Government of the need of reviving the power of its local representative. In other words, it is a connecting link between the High Commissionerships of Frere and Milner. The events which followed the recall of Frere were accepted by the British inhabitants of South Africa as a practical demonstration of the inherent viciousness of the system under which the decision of cardinal questions of South African administration was left in the hands of the House of Commons, a body in which they were not represented; which met 6,000 miles away; whose judgment was liable to be warped by irrelevant considerations of English party politics; and one which was admittedly unfamiliar with the country and peoples whose interests were vitally affected by the manner in which these questions were decided. The lesson of the retrocession was taken to heart so earnestly that, fifteen years later, the majority of the British residents in the Transvaal refused to support a movement for reform which involved the re-establishment of Imperial authority, while among those who were loyal to the British connection throughout South Africa its effect was to make them think, as did Rhodes, that the machinery of the various local British governments must be dissociated as much as possible from the principles and methods of the Home Government. Hence the necessity for what Rhodes called the \"elimination of the Imperial factor.\" The expression, as he afterwards explained, was in no way inconsistent with attachment to the British connection. As read in the context in which it was originally used, it meant merely that the European population of Bechuanaland,[9] being mainly Boer immigrants, could be administered more successfully by officers responsible to a government which, like that of the Cape Colony, was well versed in South African conditions, than by officers directly responsible to the Imperial Government. The phrase was a criticism of Downing Street, and still more of English party government. In short, Rhodes was convinced that if a system of British administration, based on South African conditions, was ever to be carried on successfully, the local British authority, and not the Home Government, must be the machine employed; and in order to allow it to work freely, its action must be made as independent as possible of Downing Street. For Downing Street was an authority which blew hot or cold, in accordance with the views of the party for the time being in power.[10]\n[Footnote 9: The Crown Colony\u2014not the Protectorate\u2014annexed by the Cape Colony in 1895.]\n[Footnote 10: Rhodes's words were: \"If we do not settle this [i.e. the question of Bechuanaland] ourselves, we shall see it taken up in the House of Commons on one side or the other, not from any real interest in the question, but simply because of its consequences to those occupying the Ministerial benches. We want to get rid of Downing Street in this question, and to deal with it ourselves, as a self-governing colony.\"]\n[Sidenote: New forces.]\nAnd, in point of fact, both parties in England acquiesced in this judgment of the South African British. During the years between Frere's recall and the appointment of Lord Milner (1880-1897) the High Commissioner was a decreasing force. Both Lord Rosmead and Lord Loch did little to mould the destiny of South Africa: not because they lacked capacity, but because it was the determination of the Home Government to leave the difficult problem of South African unity to local initiative. On the other hand, the progress which was made in this direction by local initiative, aided as it was by the fortuitous discovery of the Witwatersrand gold-fields, was considerable. The highlands of South Central Africa were acquired for the British race, and the Boer was effectively prevented from carrying the Vier-kleur beyond the Limpopo; the railway, drawn through the Free State by the magnet of the Rand, disturbed the retirement of the republican Dutch; and finally the Cape Colony and Natal were linked together with the Free State in a Customs Union. But the development of the mineral resources of the country led to the appearance of a new factor in South African politics. The comparative decline in the activity of the High Commissioner had been accompanied by the establishment and growth of powerful industrial corporations. It is easy to understand how a man like Rhodes, with the wealth and influence of De Beers and the Chartered Company at his command, might seek, by an alliance with the \"great houses\" of the Rand, to find in private effort an instrument for remedying the deficiencies of the Imperial Government even more appropriate than the local governmental action upon which he had previously relied. For the work of these industrial corporations had powerfully enlisted the interest and sympathy of the British public. The Jameson Raid was an illegitimate and disastrous application of an otherwise meritorious and successful effort to strengthen the British hold upon South Africa by private enterprise. It was at once the measure of Imperial inefficiency, and its cure.\nOne other circumstance must be recalled in estimating the extent to which the Home Government had earned the distrust of the British population in South Africa. Only eighteen months[11] before the Raid the High Commissioner, Lord Loch, had gone to Pretoria carrying a despatch in which the grant of a five years' franchise was advocated on behalf of the Uitlanders. His instructions were to present this despatch, and press upon President Krueger personally the necessity for giving effect to its recommendations. These instructions were cancelled at the last moment by Lord Ripon, because the German Ambassador had made representations in London that such action would be regarded as an interference with the status quo in South Africa, and, as such, detrimental to German interests in that country. And six months later[12] President Krueger, in attending a \"Kommers\" given by the German Club at Pretoria in honour of the Kaiser Wilhelm II.'s birthday, alluded to Germany as a grown-up power that would stop England from \"kicking\" the child Republic.\n[Footnote 11: June, 1894.]\n[Footnote 12: January 28th, 1895.]\n[Sidenote: Rhodes's Plan.]\nThe Raid was, therefore, a short cut to baffle German intrigue and solve the problem of South African unity at one blow. For to Rhodes the enfranchisement of the Uitlanders meant the withdrawal of the Transvaal Government from its opposition to his scheme of commercial federation. It is obvious that one ground of justification, and one only, can be found for the usurpation of the functions of government by a private individual, or group of individuals. This justification is success. It has been the custom to represent Dr. Jameson's decision to \"ride in\" as \"an act of monumental folly,\" alike from a political and a military point of view. But this opinion overlooks the fact that the affair may have been so planned in Rhodes's mind that success did not depend upon the victory of the Uitlanders, aided by Jameson's troopers, but on the presence of the High Commissioner in the Transvaal under such conditions as would make the intervention of the Imperial Government at once imperative and effectual. The representative of the Imperial Government, backed by a Johannesburg in armed revolt against the Boer oligarchy, would find himself\u2014so Rhodes thought\u2014in a position highly favourable to the successful prosecution of the demands which had already been put forward on behalf of British subjects resident in the Transvaal. And in order that this essential part of the plan might be carried out without a moment of unnecessary delay, Rhodes kept a train, with steam up, in the station at Capetown ready to speed Lord Rosmead northwards directly the news of Dr. Jameson's arrival at Johannesburg should have reached him. Once Jameson's force had \"got through,\" he relied upon the Reform Committee, however incomplete its preparations, being able to hold Johannesburg for a couple of days against any force the Boers could bring.[13] Nor in the light of what happened, during the war, both at Mafeking and Kimberley, can this expectation be thought extravagant. Here his responsibilities would have ended. The High Commissioner and the Imperial Government would have done the rest. To indulge in metaphor, the Imperial locomotive was to be set going, but the lines on which it was to run were those laid down by Mr. Rhodes.\n[Footnote 13: It is worth noticing that even the presence of the German Marines at Delagoa Bay was counterbalanced\u2014whether by chance or design\u2014by the coincidence of the arrival of a British troopship with time-expired men from the Indian garrison, off Durban.]\nIf this was the essence of Rhodes's plan, it would matter comparatively little whether the Reformers had, or had not, completed their preparations, or whether Dr. Jameson had 1,200 or 500 men. Certainly some such assumption is necessary to account for the fact that Rhodes treated his confederates at Johannesburg as so many pawns on a chess-board. It is equally necessary to account for Dr. Jameson's action. \"Twenty years friends, and now he goes in and ruins me,\" was Rhodes's comment on the news that Dr. Jameson had \"ridden in,\" in spite of his own orders to the contrary and the message to the same effect which Captain Heany had delivered on behalf of the Reformers. But what if Dr. Jameson knew, or thought that he knew, that Rhodes's object in forcing the insurrection was not to make the Uitlanders reduce Krueger, but to compel the Imperial Government to step in? In this case he may well have thought that what was essential was not that the rising should be successful, but that there should be a rising of any kind; provided that it was sufficiently grave to arrest the attention of the world, and claim the interference of the Imperial Government.\nAccording to Mr. Chamberlain the continued inaction of the Imperial Government in the eighteen months that had passed since Lord Loch's visit to Pretoria in June, 1894, was due to two circumstances. In the first place, \"the Uitlanders and their organs had always deprecated the introduction into the dispute of what is called in South Africa the 'Imperial factor'\"; and in the second, the \"rumours\" of violent measures \"were continually falsified by the event.\" Obviously, if Rhodes forced an insurrection with the intention of removing these obstacles\u2014if, that is to say, the intervention of the Imperial Government, and not the success of the insurrection, was his primary object\u2014the temerity of Dr. Jameson's invasion is materially diminished. Now Mr. Chamberlain's statement, made under date February 4th, 1896, i.e. five weeks after the Raid, is perfectly consistent with the view of the attitude of the Reformers expressed by Rhodes on the day before the Raid took place.\n[Sidenote: The reformers divided.]\nDr. Jameson's force, it will be remembered, started on the evening of Sunday, December 29th, 1895. Up to three days before\u2014the 26th\u2014nothing had occurred to interfere with the final arrangement, telegraphed to Dr. Jameson from Capetown, that the movement in Johannesburg would take place on Saturday, the 28th. The circumstances which caused the Reformers to alter their plans were explained by Rhodes in an interview with Sir Graham Bower, the Imperial Secretary, at Capetown on the same Saturday, the 28th, with his accustomed vivacity. The Johannesburg insurrection, he said\u2014\n\"had fizzled out as a damp squib. The capitalists financing the movement had made the hoisting of the British flag a sine qua non. This the National Union rejected, and issued a manifesto declaring for a republic. The division had led to the complete collapse of the movement, and it was thought that the leaders would make the best terms they could with President Krueger.\"\nThe telegrams which reached Dr. Jameson between the 26th and 29th contained the same facts, with the further information that Captain Heany was travelling by special train to him with a message direct from the Reformers. In these circumstances it is said that Rhodes at Capetown imagined as little as the Reform leaders at Johannesburg that Dr. Jameson would cross the frontier. That, however, there was another point of view from which the situation might present itself to Dr. Jameson is shown by the fact that Mr. Chamberlain, in reply to the High Commissioner's telegram reporting the substance of Rhodes's statement to Sir Graham Bower, at once[14] inquired of Lord Rosmead, \"Are you sure Jameson has not moved in consequence of the collapse?\"\n[Footnote 14: Afternoon of Monday, December 30th.]\nWas Mr. Chamberlain right? Did Dr. Jameson see in the fact that the Reformers were divided on such an issue only an additional reason for carrying out a plan which had for its object to compel the Imperial Government to intervene in the affairs of the Transvaal before it was too late; that is to say, before the British population had definitely committed itself to the policy of a purged republic, but a republic under any flag but that of Great Britain? Such a policy was not merely possible. It seemed inevitable to the vivacious French observer who wrote, not from hearsay, but \"with his eyes upon the object,\" in December, 1893:\n\"The Transvaal will never be an English colony. The English of the Transvaal, as well as those of Cape Colony and Natal, would be as firmly opposed to it as the Boers themselves, for they have never forgiven England for letting herself be beaten by the Boers at Majuba Hill and accepting her defeat, a proceeding which has rendered them ridiculous in the eyes of the Dutch population of South Africa.... With me this is not a simple impression, but a firm conviction.\"[15]\n[Footnote 15: \"John Bull & Co.,\" by \"Max O'Rell,\" 1894.]\n[Sidenote: Jameson's decision.]\nIf these were the considerations which weighed with Dr. Jameson, his decision to \"ride in\" was inconsistent neither with friendship nor with patriotism. When Captain Heany had read from his pocket-book the message from the Reformers, Jameson paced for twenty minutes outside his tent. Having re-entered it, he announced his determination to disregard Heany's message no less than Rhodes's telegram. It was a momentous decision to take after twenty minutes' thought. Had he a reasonable expectation of carrying out the plan as Rhodes conceived it, in spite of the change in the position of affairs at Johannesburg? Had he any reason to believe that Rhodes desired him to force the insurrection in spite of his telegrams to the contrary? It is the answers to these questions that make the Raid, as far as Dr. Jameson is concerned, an \"act of monumental folly,\" or a legitimate assumption of personal responsibility that is part of the empire-builder's stock-in-trade. The answer to the second question remains a matter of speculation. The answer to the first is to be found in the record of the expedition. Dr. Jameson reached Kruegersdorp at three o'clock on Wednesday, January 1st. A few hours before a cyclist had brought him congratulatory messages from the Reform leaders. The goal was almost within sight. What prevented Sir John Willoughby from taking his little force safely over the remaining twenty miles from Kruegersdorp to Johannesburg was the merest accident: the few hours' delay caused, naturally enough, by Dr. Jameson's desire that his force should be met and escorted by a small body of volunteers from the Rand. He did not want, as he said, to go to Johannesburg as \"a pirate.\" Sir John Willoughby's evidence is perfectly definite and conclusive on the point. If the force had pushed on by road from Kruegersdorp to Johannesburg on Wednesday evening\u2014had not, in Willoughby's words, \"messed about\" at Kruegersdorp in expectation of the welcoming escort\u2014Johannesburg would have been reached in safety on Thursday morning. With Dr. Jameson in Johannesburg and Lord Rosmead speeding northwards in his special train, the way would have been prepared for that decisive and successful action on the part of the Imperial Government which Rhodes had desired to bring about.\n[Sidenote: Why the raid failed.]\nBut, unsuccessful as was the actual expedition, the decision to \"ride in\" had secured the intervention of the Imperial Government. If intervention could have done what Rhodes expected of it, Dr. Jameson's decision to \"ride in\" would have gained, at the cost of few lives and no increase of the national debt, what the war gained four years later at the cost of twenty thousand lives and L220,000,000. As it was, it failed to win the franchise for the Uitlanders. Why did not Lord Rosmead, with so strong a Colonial Secretary as Mr. Chamberlain at his back, brush the Raid aside, and address himself to the removal of the greater wrong that gave it birth? If Lord Rosmead had acted in the spirit of Mr. Chamberlain's despatches; if he had reminded the Government of the Republic from the first \"that the danger from which they had just escaped was real, and one which, if the causes which led up to it were not removed, might recur, although in a different form\"; if he had used \"plain language\" to President Krueger; and if, above all, he had remembered\u2014as Mr. Chamberlain reminded him\u2014that \"the people of Johannesburg had surrendered in the belief that reasonable concessions would have been arranged through his intervention, and until these were granted, or were definitely promised to him by the President, the root-causes of the recent troubles would remain,\"\u2014might he not yet have saved South Africa for the empire without subjecting her to the dread arbitrament of the sword?\n[Sidenote: Mr. Chamberlain.]\nIt is in the answer to this question that we find the actual cause of the utter failure of Rhodes's plan. The truth is that success in any real sense\u2014that is to say, success which would have strengthened British supremacy and promoted the union of European South Africa\u2014was impossible. The sole response which Lord Rosmead returned to Mr. Chamberlain's counsels was the weary confession: \"The question of concessions to Uitlanders has never been discussed between President Krueger and myself.\" The methods employed by Rhodes were so questionable that no High Commissioner could have allowed the Imperial Government to have derived any advantage from them. To have gained the franchise for the Uitlanders as the result of violent and unscrupulous action, would have inflicted an enduring injury upon the British cause in South Africa for which the enfranchisement itself would have been small compensation. The disclosure of these methods and, with them, of the hollowness of Rhodes's alliance with the Afrikander Bond, alarmed and incensed the whole Dutch population of South Africa. What this meant Lord Rosmead knew, and Mr. Chamberlain did not know. The ten years' truce between the forces of the Afrikander nationalists and the paramount Power was at an end. To combat these forces something better than the methods of the Raid was required. Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis! No modern race have excelled the Dutch in courage and endurance. In Europe they had successfully defended their independence against the flower of the armies of Spain, Austria, and France. The South African Dutch were not inferior in these qualities to the people of the parent stock. If such a race, embarked upon what it conceived to be a struggle for national existence, was to be overcome, the hands of the conqueror must be clean as well as strong. None the less the active sympathy with the Uitlanders exhibited in Mr. Chamberlain's despatches was welcomed by the British as evidence that the new Colonial Secretary was more alert and determined than his predecessors. For the first time in the history of British administration in South Africa, Downing Street had shown itself more zealous than Capetown. It was the solitary ray of light that broke the universal gloom in which South Africa was enshrouded by the catastrophe of the Raid.\nTHE CREED OF THE AFRIKANDER NATIONALISTS[16]\n[Footnote 16: \"This is our Afrikander character. The descendants of Hollanders, Germans and Frenchmen inter-married, and are only known at present by their surnames. They form the Afrikander nationality, and call themselves Afrikanders. The Afrikanders are no more Hollanders than Englishmen, Frenchmen, or Germans. They have their own language, own morals and customs; they are just as much a nation as any other.\"\u2014De Patriot, in the course of an article headed \"A Common but Dangerous Error\"\u2014the error in question being the assertion that \"the Cape Colony is an English colony\" (translated and reproduced in The Cape Times, September 3th, 1884).]\nIn the face of the colossal resistance offered to the British arms by the Boers and their colonial kinsmen in the South African War, it may seem unnecessary to produce any evidence in support of the contention that the military strength then displayed by the Dutch in South Africa was the result of long and careful preparation. But the same inability to grasp the facts of the South African situation which kept the Army Corps in England three months after it should have been sent to the Cape, is still to be met with. This attitude of mind\u2014whether it be a consciousness of moral rectitude, or a mere insular disdain of looking at things from any but a British point of view\u2014is still to be observed in the statements of those politicians who will even now deny that any trace of a definite plan of action, or of a concerted purpose, which could properly be described as a \"conspiracy\" against British supremacy was to be found among the Dutch population of South Africa as a whole, prior to the outbreak of the war. It is for the benefit of such politicians in part, and still more with a view of bringing the mind of the reader into something approaching a direct contact with the actual working of the Afrikander mind, that I transcribe a statement of the pure doctrine of the Bond, as it was expounded by the German, Borckenhagen, and his followers in the Free State. It will, however, be convenient to preface the quotation with a word of explanation in respect both of the text and the personality of Borckenhagen.\n[Sidenote: Carl Borckenhagen.]\nThe passage, which is taken verbatim from a work entitled, \"The Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed,\" is a collection of sentences gathered from Dutch pamphlets and articles \"emanating from Holland,\" and translated literally into the somewhat uncouth English of the text. The author of the work, Mr. C. H. Thomas, was for many years a burgher of the Free State, where he shared the opinions of President Brand, and subsequently supported Mr. J. G. Fraser in opposing the policy of \"closer union\" with the South African Republic, advocated by Brand's successor, Mr. F. W. Reitz. The point of view from which the Dutch of Holland regarded the nationalist movement in South Africa was succinctly stated in an article published by the Amsterdam Handelsblad in 1881.\n\"The future of England lies in India, and the future of Holland in South Africa.... When our capitalists vigorously develop this trade, and, for example, form a syndicate to buy Delagoa Bay from Portugal, then a railway from Capetown to Bloemfontein, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Delagoa Bay will be a lucrative investment. And when, in course of time, the Dutch language shall universally prevail in South Africa, this most extensive territory will become a North America for Holland, and enable us to balance the Anglo-Saxon race.\"[17]\n[Footnote 17: Quoted by Du Toit in De Patriot: translation from the English reprint of De Transvaalse Oorlog.]\nCarl Borckenhagen, who, with Mr. Reitz,[18] advocated the establishment of the Bond in 1881, was a German republican. His name has been associated with Mr. Thomas's summary of the Bond propaganda in the Free State, because, as editor of The Bloemfontein Express up to the time of his death, early in 1898, he was probably the most consistent of all the South African exponents of the nationalist creed. Certainly it is no exaggeration to say that he converted the Free State of Brand into the Free State of Steyn.\n[Footnote 18: Then Judge, afterwards President of the Free State, and State-Secretary of the South African Republic in succession to Dr. Leyds.]\n[Sidenote: The doctrine of the Bond.]\n\"THE BOND PROGRAMME\n\"The Afrikander Bond has as final object what is summed up in its motto of 'Afrika voor de Afrikaners.' The whole of South Africa belongs by just right to the Afrikander nation. It is the privilege and duty of every Afrikander to contribute all in his power towards the expulsion of the English usurper. The States of South Africa to be federated in one independent Republic.\nThe Afrikander Bond prepares for this consummation.\nArgument in justification:\u2014\n(a) The transfer of the Cape Colony to the British Government took place by circumstances of force majeure and without the consent of the Dutch nation, who renounced all claim in favour of the Afrikander or Boer nation.\n(b) Natal is territory which accrued to a contingent of the Boer nation by purchase from the Zulu king, who received the consideration agreed for.\n(c) The British authorities expelled the rightful owners from Natal by force of arms without just cause.\nThe task of the Afrikander Bond consists in:\n(a) Procuring the staunch adhesion and co-operation of every Afrikander and other real friend of the cause.\n(b) To obtain the sympathy, the moral and effective aid, of one or more of the world's Powers.\nThe means to accomplish those tasks are:\nPersonal persuasion, Press propaganda, legislation and diplomacy.\nThe direction of the application of these means is entrusted to a select body of members eligible for their loyalty to the cause and their abilities and position. That body will conduct such measures as need the observance of special secrecy. Upon the rest of the members will devolve activities of a general character under the direction of the selected chiefs.\nOne of the indispensable requisites is the proper organisation of an effective fund, which is to be regularly sustained. Bond members will aid each other in all relations of public life in preference to non-members.\nIn the efforts of gaining adherence to the cause it is of importance to distinguish three categories of persons:\n(1) The class of Afrikanders who are to some extent deteriorated by assimilative influences with the English race, whose restoration to patriotism will need great efforts, discretion, and patience.\n(2) The apparently unthinking and apathetic class who prefer to relegate all initiative to leaders whom they will loyally follow. This class is the most numerous by far.\n(3) The warmly patriotic class, including men gifted with intelligence, energy, and speech, qualified as leaders, and apt to exercise influence over the rest.\nAmong these three classes many exist whose views and religious scruples need to be corrected. Scripture abounds in proofs and salient analogies applying to the situation and justifying our cause. In this, as well as in other directions, the members who work in circulating written propaganda will supply the correct and conclusive arguments accessible to all.\nUpon the basis of our just rights the British Government, if not the entire nation, is the usurping enemy of the Boer nation.\nIn dealing with an enemy it is justifiable to employ, besides force, also means of a less open character, such as diplomacy and stratagem.\n[Sidenote: Anti-british methods.]\nThe greatest danger to Afrikanderdom is the English policy of Anglicising the Boer nation\u2014to submerge it by the process of assimilation.\nA distinct attitude of holding aloof from English influences is the only remedy against that peril and for thwarting that insidious policy.\nIt is only such an attitude that will preserve the nation in its simple faith and habits of morality, and provide safety against the dangers of contamination and pernicious examples, with all their fateful consequences to body and soul.\nLet the Dutch language have the place of honour in schools and homes.\nLet alliances of marriage with the English be stamped as unpatriotic.\nLet every Afrikander see that he is at all times well armed with the best possible weapons, and maintains the expert use of the rifle among young and old, so as to be ready when duty calls, and the time is ripe for asserting the nation's rights and being rid of English thraldom.\nEmploy teachers only who are animated with truly patriotic sentiments.\nLet it be well understood that English domination will also bring English intolerance and servitude, for it is only a very frail link which separates the English State Church from actual Romanism, and its proselytism en bloc is only a matter of short time.\nEqually repugnant and dangerous is England's policy towards the coloured races, whom she aims, for the sake of industrial profit, at elevating to equal rank with whites, in direct conflict with spiritual authority\u2014a policy which incites coloured people to rivalry with their superiors, and can only end in common disaster.\nWhilst remaining absolutely independent, the ties of blood, relationship, and language point to Holland for a domestic base.\nAs to commerce, Germany, America, and other industrial nations could more than fill the gap left by England, and such connections should be cultivated as a potent means towards obtaining foreign support to our cause and identification with it.\nIf the mineral wealth of the Transvaal and Orange Free State becomes established\u2014as appears certain from discoveries already made\u2014England will not rest until these are also hers.\nThe leopard will retain its spots. The independence of both Republics is at stake on that account alone, with the risk that the rightful owners of the land will become the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the usurpers.\nThere is no alternative hope for the peace and progress of South Africa except by the total excision of the British ulcer.\nReliable signs are not wanting to show that our nation is designed by Providence as the instrument for the recovery of its rights, and for the chastisement of proud, perfidious Albion.\"[19]\n[Footnote 19: P. 64 et seq. of The Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (Hodder & Stoughton).]\nThese brief and disjointed sentences present in their shortest form arguments and exhortations with which the Dutch population of the Free State, the Transvaal, and the Cape Colony, were familiarised through the Press, the pulpit, the platform, and through individual intercourse and advocacy, from the time of the Retrocession in 1881 onwards. It is in effect the scheme of a Bond \"worked out more in detail by some friends at Bloemfontein,\" as published by Borckenhagen in his paper, The Bloemfontein Express, on April 7th, 1881, to which Du Toit, the founder of the Bond in the Cape Colony, referred in the pamphlet, De Transvaalse Oorlog (The Transvaal War), which he issued from his press at the Paarl later on in the same year. The nationalist creed, as thus formulated, was preached consistently in the Free State; but in the Cape Colony it was modified by Hofmeyr to meet the exigencies of Colonial politics.\nNone the less it was in the Cape Colony that the Bond, as a political organisation, was destined to find its chief sphere of action. In the Free State it was discouraged by President Brand, and in point of fact the British population was too insignificant a factor in the politics of the central republic to make it necessary to maintain a distinct organisation for the promotion of nationalist sentiment. In the Transvaal, again, the Bond maintained no regular organisation. And this for two reasons. Every burgher of the northern Republic was sufficiently animated by the anti-British sentiments which it was intended to promote; and the only \"constitution\" which the Transvaal Dutch would accept was one which embodied principles so flagrantly inconsistent with submission to British authority that it could not be adopted by the branches of the Bond in the Cape Colony without exposing its members to immediate prosecution for high treason.[20]\n[Footnote 20: Under the changed conditions of to-day the Boer population is organised in the Transvaal into Het Volk, and in the Orange River Colony into the Oranjie Unie; both practically identical with the Bond in the Cape Colony.]\n[Sidenote: The origin of the Bond.]\nIn the politics of the Cape Colony, however, the Bond became the predominant force; and any picture, however briefly sketched, of South Africa as it was when Lord Milner's administration commenced, must include some account of the origin and methods of this remarkable organisation.\nThe origin of the Afrikander Bond is to be found in the articles written by the Rev. S. J. du Toit, a Dutch predikant, in De Patriot, a newspaper published at the Paarl, of which he was the editor. Mr. du Toit's political standpoint is sufficiently revealed by the fact that in 1881 he claimed that De Patriot had done more than any other single agency to secure the successful revolt of the Boers from British authority accomplished in that year. The inspiration which drove his pen to advocate the founding of a political organisation, that should serve to prepare the way for a more general and complete \"war of independence,\" was the defeat of the British troops by the Transvaal burghers.\n\"This is now our time,\" he wrote, in the same year, \"to establish the Bond, while a national consciousness has been awakened through the Transvaal War. And the Bond must be our preparation for the future confederation of all the States and Colonies of South Africa. The English Government keeps talking of a confederation under the British flag. That will never happen. We can assure them of that. We have often said it: there is just one hindrance to confederation, and that is the English flag. Let them take that away, and the confederation under the free Afrikander flag would be established. But so long as the English flag remains here the Afrikander Bond must be our confederation. And the British will, after a while, realise that Froude's advice is the best for them: they must just have Simon's Bay as a naval and military station on the road to India, and give over all the rest of South Africa to the Afrikanders.\"[21]\n[Footnote 21: Reprint of a pamphlet (found with the first leaf torn) containing an English translation of De Transvaalse Oorlog, p. 8.]\nThis general statement of the purpose of the Bond was supported by reiterated appeals to racial passion:\n\"The little respect which the Afrikander had for British troops and cannons [up to the Majuba defeat],\" he writes, \"is utterly done away. And England has learnt so much respect for us Afrikanders that she will take care not to be so ready to make war with us again.... The Englishman has made himself hated, language and all. And this is well.\"\n[Sidenote: The objects of the Bond.]\nWhen, by the use of these and even more violent expressions, the mind of the Dutch population had been sufficiently aroused, Du Toit proceeded to unfold his plan of campaign. His modus operandi is similar to that of Borckenhagen in its main features. The Bond, says De Patriot, must boycott all English traders, except only those who are ready to adopt its principles. English signboards, advertisements, shops and book-keepers, must be abolished. The English banks must be replaced by a National Bank. No land must be sold to Englishmen. The Republics must \"make their own ammunition, and be well supplied with cannon, and provide a regiment of artillery to work them.\" And he cheerfully notices that \"at Heidelberg there are already 4,000 cartridges made daily, and a few skilful Afrikanders have begun to make shells, too. This is right: so must we become a nation.\" For the Cape Colony, however, \"such preparations are not so especially necessary.\" But, most of all, Du Toit insists upon the need of combating the growing use of the English language. \"English education,\" he laments, \"has done more mischief to our country and nation than we can express.\" And, therefore, he urges \"war\" against the English language. In the schools, in the Church, and \"in our family life above all,\" it must be considered a \"disgrace to speak English.... Who will join the war? All true Afrikanders, we hope.\"\nThus was the Bond, the child of Majuba, quickened into conscious being by the fiery pen of the predikant, Du Toit. Poor Du Toit! His after life was a strange commentary upon this early triumph of his brain, won in the drowsy solitudes of the Paarl. Summoned to be Director of Education in the Transvaal, he was quickly disillusioned of his love of his Dutch mother-country by actual intercourse with the contemptuous Hollanders whom Krueger had invited to serve the Republic. Later, again, he was rejected by the Bond which he had himself created, and driven to find comfort in the broad freedom of allegiance to an Empire-state.\nThe object of the Bond, as stated by Du Toit in De Transvaalse Oorlog, was the \"creation of a South African nationality ... through the establishment of this Bond in all states and colonies of South Africa.\" Its organisation was to consist of a central governing body (bestuur), with provincial, district, and ward besturen. The central bestuur was to be composed of five members, two for the Cape Colony, and one each for the Transvaal, Natal, and Free State, who were \"to meet yearly in one or other of the chief towns of the component states.\" The provincial besturen, consisting of one representative from each of the district besturen, were to meet every six months at their respective colonial or state capitals.[22]\n[Footnote 22: De Transvaalse Oorlog, pp. 7 and 8.]\nThe first Congress of the Afrikander Bond was held at Graaf Reinet in 1882. In the draft constitution then drawn up for the approval of its members, the relationship of the Bond to the British Government in South Africa was defined with commendable frankness. In the \"Programme of Principles\" was the article:\nIn itself acknowledging no single form of government as the only suitable form, and whilst acknowledging the form of government existing at present, [the Bond] means that the aim of our national development must be a united South Africa under its own flag.\n[Sidenote: Hofmeyr's influence.]\nAnd it was upon the basis of this \"Programme of Principles\" that the earliest Bond organisations were formed in the Transvaal, the Free State, and the Cape Colony. In the year following the Graaf Reinet Congress, however, the \"Farmers' Protection Association\" was amalgamated with the Bond in the Cape Colony, and the influence of Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr led the joint organisation to adopt a modified \"programme.\" Mr. Hofmeyr, who was destined afterwards to assume the undisputed headship of the Bond, was an economist as well as a nationalist. He was intensely interested in the development of the country districts, and he saw that the conditions of agriculture could hardly be improved without the co-operation of the British and more progressive section of the farming class. He also knew that an organisation, professing to forward aims of avowed disloyalty, would rapidly find itself in collision with the Cape Government. With the growth of Mr. Hofmeyr's influence the policy, though not the aims, of the Bond was changed. All declarations, such as the clause \"under its own flag,\" inconsistent with allegiance to the British Crown were omitted from the official constitution, and its individual members were exhorted to avoid any behaviour or expressions likely to prevent Englishmen from joining the organisation. 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By representing the new British population, which followed in the wake of the mineral discoveries, as \"fortune-seekers\" and adventurers and not genuine colonists, the Bond endeavoured, not merely to widen the natural line of cleavage between the townsman and the countryman, but actually to detach the older British settlers from sympathy with the mother country, and, by drawing them within the sphere of Afrikander nationalist aspirations, to make them share its own antagonism to British supremacy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 95467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://http18.com/5053738407", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:07:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OBHW4WU6MXPUKAN55YVP5HQINYN2B3AI", "length": 3594, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "http18.com", "title": "5053738407", "raw_content": "If anything happens, call me.\nIn this town, if anywhere, you will find old Japan at her best.\nGabriel seems to be competitive. 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If you or someone you know has been affected by exposure to asbestos, you should contact a personal injury attorney to help you determine your legal rights.\n* British Thoracic Society\nMesothelioma affects men more often than women because more men worked in the industries where asbestos exposure was common.\nAlthough it is considered a rare disease, cases of mesothelioma have been on the rise over the last 20 years. Approximately 2,000 new cases of malignant mesothelioma are documented each year in the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 442, "original_length": 14659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 141.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://icandyhomes.com/latest-housing-stats-chicago-good-news-homeowners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3D4L4IO3G3TP5K7P2H2ULYLB7NOBQ5AO", "length": 4737, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "icandyhomes.com", "title": "Latest Housing Stats for Chicago Good News for Homeowners - iCandyHomes", "raw_content": "Latest Housing Stats for Chicago Good News for Homeowners\nIt\u2019s official. The housing recovery has reached the Midwest. The latest numbers from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index show that Chicago, in particular, is experiencing a sustained recovery in house values.\nHome prices in the Chicago metro area fell sharply during the housing bust, as they did in most major cities across the country. But now they are on the rebound. According to the Case-Shiller Index, Chicago home prices jumped 3.2% from June to July of this year. That puts it ahead of all other metro areas in the 20-city index, in terms of monthly price gains.\nThe Case-Shiller Index is published on the last Tuesday of every month. This widely cited report highlights monthly and annual price trends at both the national and city level. The 20-city index includes pricing trends for 20 of the largest metro areas in the country. The last report was published on September 24 and contained data through the end of July 2013.\nRE/MAX: Median Sale Price Up 18% in August\nAccording to a recent RE/MAX report, the median sale price for homes in the Chicago area rose 18% in August, compared to the same month last year.\nSales volume has also increased sharply over the last year. Of the 52 metro areas included in the RE/MAX report, Chicagoland had the second-largest increase in sales. In August, residential real estate sales across the Chicago metro area jumped 26.7% compared to the same month in 2012.\nReduction in Distressed Sales Good for Local Housing Market\nWe are seeing positive trends on the foreclosure front, as well. Distressed sales (a category that includes foreclosures and short sales) have declined over the last year. Across the metro area, distressed home sales accounted for 28% of all transactions in August 2013, down from 38% a year earlier.\nThis reduction benefits the Chicago housing market in several ways. Most notably, it reduces the number of \u201cbargain priced\u201d homes on the market at any given time. Distressed properties are frequently sold for less than their true market value. So they put downward pressure on local home prices. A reduction in distressed sales, as a percentage of total market activity, is a boon for the Chicago real estate market.\nChicago Supply-and-Demand Picture Points to Additional Gains\nYou can\u2019t talk about home prices without discussing supply and demand. Chicago is currently experiencing positive developments on both sides of this equation. Housing demand is growing across the metro area, as evidenced by the aforementioned increase in home sales. At the same time, inventory has decreased year-over-year.\nAccording to Realtor.com, one of the largest property listing websites in the country, the number of homes listed for sale across Chicagoland has dropped by 7.48% over the last year. It\u2019s no wonder homes are selling faster now than they did a year ago. Realtor.com also reports a 13.95% increase in the median list/asking price for the Chicago housing market.\nCondo sales within the city rose by more than 23% in August, compared to a year ago. This is according to a recent report by the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR). The median price paid for Chicago condos rose 17.6% over the same period, the IAR reported. In August of this year, 1,775 condo units were sold at a median sale price of $282,250.\nChicago Mortgage Rates Could Remain Low, Enticing Buyers\nOver the past few weeks, there was much concern that rising mortgage rates would slow the nascent housing recovery seen in Chicago and other U.S. cities. That hasn\u2019t happened. Yes, rates rose by more than a full percentage point from May to September of this year. And yes, it put a serious crunch on mortgage refinancing activity. But it hasn\u2019t deflated the housing rebound.\nHere\u2019s more good news on the rate front. The Federal Reserve recently announced it will continue buying bonds and securities for the time being. This quantitative easing policy, as it is known, has helped keep Chicago mortgage rates low for many months. A continuation of the policy will likely have the same effect. Some have speculated there will be no tapering of Fed stimulus until 2014.\nThe bottom line is that Chicago-area home buyers will enjoy low rates for the foreseeable future. This will bolster demand and further fuel the local real estate recovery.\nDisclaimer: This story makes forward-looking statements about local housing conditions, mortgage rates, and other economic trends. Such statements should be viewed as matters of opinion, and not facts. We make no guarantees or claims about future conditions within this or any other real estate market.\nSource: http://www.homebuyinginstitute.com/news/chicago-housing-good-news-484/#ixzz2hVFzAKV8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+full-time+job", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5OQVHJK5L66IR2UN4XJ4ZXCTPBMZTIHP", "length": 1484, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "idioms.thefreedictionary.com", "title": "A full-time job - Idioms by The Free Dictionary", "raw_content": "A full-time job - Idioms by The Free Dictionary\nhttps://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+full-time+job\n1. 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It will exclusively reveal the myths and truths behind the creation of Drambuie, taking audiences on an surreal journey through the craft of this 260 year old Scottish liqueur.\nhttp://www.londoncocktailweek.com/events/the-secret-of-the-elixir\nExtraordinary Punch Parlour, 9th October 2014, 3:45pm \u2013 4:30pm\nLove cocktails but have no idea how to make them? Drambuie presents a surreal mixology session that is sure to equip you with the techniques needed to master the perfect punch, be it hot, cold, sweet or sour.\nhttp://www.londoncocktailweek.com/events/drambuie-presents-the-punch-parlour\nBerner's Tavern, Cocktails, Drambuie, Fitzrovia, London Cocktail Week, The Punch Room, Whisky\nhttp://www.londoncocktailweek.com/events/\nFitzrovia, W1T 3LF United Kingdom + Google Map\nhttp://edition-hotels.marriott.com/london/restaurants-and-bars/punch-room", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://independentchemical.com/chemical-distributor/carrageenan-8870-refined-supplier-2579.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:JXR6C2CXEJVTW44REJEGZBAA6LKJI3V5", "length": 349, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "independentchemical.com", "title": "Carrageenan 8870 Refined Supplier and Distributor", "raw_content": "Carrageenan 8870 Refined\nFood thickener, gelling agent, stabilizer, This product is acceptable for use where there is possibility of incidental food contact and as a product for use in the immersion or spray freezing of wrapped meat and packaged poultry products. 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Patel\nPatel, R K, A H Trivedi, R J Jaju, M S Kukreti, J M Bhatavdekar, P M Shah and D D Patel\nNeoplasma 45, 3, 169--175", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interchangingidioms.blogspot.com/2012/01/bang-on-can-big-birthday-giveaway.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:MPHIXDS7B74HB7VZOTN5SZ5D2TN7A2ZO", "length": 2540, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "interchangingidioms.blogspot.com", "title": "Bang on a Can Big Birthday Giveaway Starts Now - Download the All-Stars' New Album", "raw_content": "Bang on a Can Big Birthday Giveaway Starts Now - Download the All-Stars' New Album\nBang on a Can celebrates turning 25 with a very special gift: Download the new album for FREE during the first 25 days of January in exchange for a Bang on a Can memory at www.bangonacan25.org.\nThe Bang on a Can All-Stars have recorded their first studio album in five years, for release on Bang on a Can\u2019s Cantaloupe Music in 2012. The album, Big Beautiful Dark and Scary, is also the first to include the All-Stars\u2019 current line-up: Ashley Bathgate, cello; Robert Black, bass; Vicky Chow, piano; David Cossin, percussion; Mark Stewart, electric guitar; and Evan Ziporyn, clarinets. In celebration of its 25th birthday, Bang on a Can is giving a very special gift to the public. The complete, double album is available to download for free during the first 25 days of January (through January 25) from www.bangonacan25.org. In exchange, listeners need only share a memory, thought, or story of Bang on a Can from the last 25 years, to be displayed online. The result will be a scrapbook of memories not just from those closest to the organization, but from the many people worldwide that Bang on a Can has touched over the years. And those new to Bang on a Can can still get the free download.\nFrom January 31 through February 27, Big Beautiful Dark and Scary will be offered only through iTunes at the special price of $5.99, including an exclusive bonus track \u2013 a live recording of Philip Glass\u2019 Closing performed by Glass and the Bang on a Can All-Stars at the 2011 Bang on a Can Marathon (coincidentally available starting on the composer\u2019s 75th birthday). The album will be available at all retailers beginning on February 28.\nWith Big Beautiful Dark and Scary, the Bang on a Can All-Stars show off their blazing speed, polyrhythmic virtuosity and all-world versatility in a return to the core Bang on a Can sound \u2013 an uncategorizable supermix of classical and electric instruments that is part classical ensemble, part rock band. The album is the first in a decade that features the All-Stars exclusively, rather than as part of a collaborative project. Each of the pieces on the double-CD calls upon a different kind of virtuosity, demonstrating the range of musical abilities and experiences arguably unique to this ensemble. 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For more than 1000 years before the time of Christ until 1883 AD Cannabis Sativa was our planet's most important industry for thousands of products & enterprises producing the overall majority of the earth's fiber, fabric, lighting oil, incense, fiberglass replacement, lightweight sandwich boards, composite woods, kitty litter, potting mix, nappies, feminine care products, fuel, medicines & paper, as well as a primary source of protein for humans & animals.\n1807: Napoleon signs Treaty with Russia to cut off all legal Russian Hemp trade with Britain. but the Czar refuses to enforce the treaty and turns a blind eye to Britain\u2019s illegal Hemp trade.\nJune 24th, 1812 Napoleon invades Russia to try and put an end to Britain\u2019s main supply of Russian Hemp but by the end of the year the Russian winter had decimated most of Napoleon\u2019s forces. Did you know that the Royal Navy relied on Russian Hemp to stay afloat during their war with the U.S.? (the War of 1812)\nHemp sails & rope carried Columbus to the Americas in 1492. Columbus boat carried hemp seed for use in case of shipwreck to grow crops for raw materials & as a source of nutrition.\nUntil 1883 more than 3/4 of the world's paper was made from hemp fiber. Hemp crops produce nearly 4 times as much raw fiber than equivalent tree plantations! Hemp paper is finer, stronger & lasts longer than wood-based papers. Bank notes & archival papers are made from hemp paper.\nMechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.\nConsider a few more facts about hemp:\n\u2022 Hemp does not require herbicides or pesticides.\n\u2022 Hemp can be grown in a wide range of latitudes and altitudes.\n\u2022 Hemp replenishes soil with nutrients and nitrogen, making it an excellent rotational crop.\n\u2022 Hemp controls erosion of the topsoil.\n\u2022 Hemp converts CO2 to oxygen better than trees.\n\u2022 Hemp produces more oil than any other crop, which can be used for food, fuel, lubricants, soaps, etc.\n\u2022 Hemp nut is a very healthy food, being the highest protein crop (after soybean) and high in omega oils.\n\u2022 Hemp can be used for making plastics, including car parts.\n\u2022 Hemp makes paper more efficiently and ecologically than wood, requiring no chemical glues.\n\u2022 Hemp can be used to make fiberboard.\n\u2022 Hemp can be used to make paint.\n\u2022 Hemp can produce bio-fuel and ethanol (better than corn).\n\u2022 Hemp can be grown more than once per year.\n\u2022 Hemp fibers can make very strong rope and textiles.\nThe Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reactor 4 in the Ukraine caused severe radioactive contamination in April 1986. Industrial Hemp has been used to remove contaminants from the soils, called phytoremediation.\nphytoremediation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoremediation\nHemp is fully international: \"Canamo\" in Spanish, \"Chanvre\" in French, \"Konoplya\" in Russian, \"Hanf\" in German, \"Kender\" in Hungarian, \"Tai Ma\" in Chinese, \"Cinepa\" in Romanian.\nRembrandts, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.\nQuality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; (Sherwin-Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act).\nThe 1937 Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 placed a tax on the sale of Cannabis. The Act was drafted by Henry Anslinger and introduced by Rep. Robert L. Doughton (D) of North Carolina on April 14, 1937. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937\nHemp is the miracle plant of our time, breathing in 4x the carbon dioxide (CO2) of trees during it's quick 12-14 week growing cycle. Trees take 20 years to mature vs 4 months for Industrial Hemp! Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees\nHemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution. (Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938).\nFood, Fuel, Shelter, Clothing, Jobs, Health - Hemp IS our future.\nSource: http://www.hemp-technologies.com/page33/page33.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investor.inseego.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novatel-wireless-announces-third-quarter-results", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2MUGBMIYX7QMDCKQQ54UZRNSTNLMNONS", "length": 6717, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "investor.inseego.com", "title": "Novatel Wireless Announces Third Quarter Results | Inseego Corporation", "raw_content": "Novatel Wireless Announces Third Quarter Results 58.2 KB\nNovatel Wireless Announces Third Quarter Results\nSAN DIEGO, CA.--October 27, 2003--Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVTL), a leading provider of wireless data communications access solutions, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2003.\nNet revenues for the third quarter were approximately $8.1 million, a 36% increase from $5.9 million in the same period last year. During the quarter, gross margins significantly improved to 27.2% and the Company cut operating expenses by 50% from the prior year period. These improvements resulted in an EBITDA loss of only $169,000 for the third quarter, a $2.2 million improvement from the prior quarter, as the Company made steady progress toward cash flow break even. The net loss under GAAP was $1.8 million, a $3.2 million improvement from $4.9 million reported in the same period last year.\nNet loss applicable to common shareholders was $2.8 million, or $0.34 per basic and diluted share, which includes non-cash charges of $0.9 million for the accretion of dividends and non-cash interest charges for the beneficial conversion feature on the December 2001 Series A Preferred Stock issuance and the May 2003 Series B equity and debt financing transaction.\n\"As the market strengthened for our leading products, we made great progress in the third quarter and our customer commitments for 2004 continued to grow,\" commented Peter Leparulo, Chief Executive Officer of Novatel Wireless. \"Our new enhanced agreement with Lucent on UMTS and solid shipments for GPRS represented important milestones for the Company. Over the next six months, we are closely focused on introducing our next generation of CDMA 1X, GPRS and UMTS products and have significant volumes under contract for new product introductions. We expect these new products to contribute to solid momentum in our business and new relationships with key carriers. Additionally, purchase orders in China for product deployed on the China Mobile network represent the next step in our strategy in Asia and Europe, where we are building direct selling efforts with carriers and regionally located representatives to reach these key markets, rather than relying purely on multi-tiered distribution partners.\"\n\"Importantly, our business model also continues to improve, with a 74% sequential decrease to our operating loss,\" added Mr. Leparulo. \"Moving forward, we expect to see a sequential increase in revenues of 20-25% and reach cash flow break-even in the fourth quarter.\"\nOn September 8th, Novatel Wireless announced commercial availability and shipments of the Merlin G301\u2122 GSM/GPRS Wireless PC Card Modem through the world's largest mobile operator, China Mobile Communications Corporation.\nOn August 18th, Lucent Technologies, Inc. and Novatel Wireless announced that they will collaborate on the continued development and commercial release of the Merlin U530\u2122 to mobile operators throughout Europe and Asia. Novatel Wireless will be one of Lucent's key suppliers of 3G PC cards and could receive orders valued at as much as $50 million over an 18-month period depending on customer demand.\nIn August, Sprint announced a multiyear agreement with the Transplant Resource Center of Maryland to provide PCS Connection Cards by Novatel Wireless (Merlin C201) for their personnel to use with laptops when conducting on-site evaluations and coordination of organ donor suitability.\nRecently, Novatel Wireless appointed Horst J. Pudwill to its board of directors. Mr. Pudwill has over 20 years of international manufacturing, brand building and corporate acquisition experience in North American, Asian and European markets.\nDuring the third quarter, the Company was honored as one of the 2003 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 Program winners for San Diego, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the San Diego area.\nIn October, Qualcomm awarded the cdmA-List Award\u2122, for significant financial, humanitarian or industry impact, to two Sprint PCS customers using the PCS Connection Card (Merlin C201) by Novatel Wireless.\n\"This quarter, we significantly improved EBITDA and came closer to cash flow break even by increasing gross profit by over $2.5 million sequentially and further reducing SG&A,\" commented Melvin Flowers, Chief Financial Officer of Novatel Wireless. \"Additionally, we improved our balance sheet, as cash increased for the second quarter in a row and we currently have no outstanding bank debt. We are comfortable that we are driving steadily to operational profitability and expect to reach cash flow break even in the fourth quarter.\"\nNovatel Wireless will host a conference call for analysts and investors today to discuss its quarterly results at 5:00 p.m. ET on October 27, 2003. Open to the public, a live Web cast of the conference call will be accessible from the \"Investor Relations\" section of the Novatel Wireless Web site (www.novatelwireless.com). Following the live Web cast, an archived version will be available on the Novatel Wireless Web site.\nNovatel Wireless, Inc. is a global leader in the design and development of wireless modems, software and custom engineering for use in mobile computing devices. Novatel Wireless Merlin\u2122 PC Card and Expedite\u2122 Embedded Modems enable high-speed wireless access to personal, corporate and public information via portable computers, handheld devices and vertical market applications. The company delivers innovative 2.5G and 3G solutions to operators, distributors and vertical markets worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Novatel Wireless is listed on Nasdaq: NVTL. For more information, visit http://www.novatelwireless.com\nNote to Editors: The Novatel Wireless logo, Merlin, and Expedite are trademarks of Novatel Wireless, Inc.. All other brands, products and company names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders. This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include risks relating to technological changes, continued acceptance of Novatel Wireless' products and dependence on intellectual property rights. These factors, as well as other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, are discussed in more detail in Novatel Wireless' filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 7478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iowaoldpress.com/anja/musicman.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:3EK4YOAEJH2UCM7MPU6PGDRZQ2WF3CLP", "length": 2193, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "iowaoldpress.com", "title": "Iowa Old Press", "raw_content": "How did Iowa Old Press get even remotely involved in a musical production taking place in The Netherland? If you are curious, read on .......\nThis past summer I received an email from Anja:\nI am trying to find out what papers in Iowa looked like in 1912. The reason for this is that I am a boardmember of a musical club, De Jonge Stem (The Young Voice), for young people (12 - 22 years of age) in IJmuiden a small city not too far from Amsterdam, the Netherland, Europe. Next november we are going to perform the musical The Music Man; well known in the States, but for the first time in our country! This musical is situated in River City, Iowa, as you maybe know. In the first scene there are people sitting in a train, reading a paper. We would like to make it as authentical as possible, so I wonder if you could let me know what an Iowa paper looked like in 1912. I really hope you can help me!\nAnja & I corresponded back and forth a few times while I dug through my collection of old newspapers, looking for just the right one to send him. Of course I knew I wouldn't have a \"River City\" newspaper, since it was a fictious name used in the musical, and there is no real town or city by that name in Iowa.\nAlas! I didn't have one from Iowa in 1912 either ..... but I did have a Linn co. Missouri newspaper from November 1913. Close enough, I thought, to be used as a realistic prop! I was excited as I mailed it off to Anja. Summer turned to fall, and then winter. I wondered if I'd hear from Anja, telling me how the musical projection went. Was it a sucess?\nThis past week I found out .... and was rewarded with photos of the musical cast & the very first Netherlands production of the classic American musical \"The Music Man\".\nThank-you Anja & congratulations to all of the De Jonge Stem young people!\nSharyl Ferrall\nIowa Old Press, November 2005\nPhotos of \"The Music Man\" by De Jonge Stem, IJmuiden, Netherlands\nThe Linn co. Budget that I sent\nto Anja\nThe ladies of \"River City\"\nAnja's daughter is 3rd from right\nCharacter Harold Hill\n& the school board \"The Music Man\"\nby De Jonge Stem\nWinthrop & Ethe Toffelmeier with\nyour paper. The boy is 12 years old and he was really very good!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ipcmayurvihar.com/our%20belief.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QW4PEUDDRA7JOY2SHPBZQSICDZRTQZOR", "length": 1580, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ipcmayurvihar.com", "title": "Our Belief", "raw_content": "\u00fc In the verbal inspiration of the Bible.\n\u00fc In one God eternally existing in three persons; namely, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.\n\u00fc That Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Father, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary. That Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. That He ascended to heaven and is today at the right hand of the Father as the Intercessor.\n\u00fc That all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and that repentance is commanded of God for all and necessary for forgiveness of sins.\n\u00fc That justification, regeneration, and the new birth are wrought by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.\n\u00fc In sanctification subsequent to the new birth, through faith in the blood of Christ; through the Word, and by the Holy Spirit\n\u00fc Holiness to be God's standard of living for His people.\n\u00fc In the baptism with the Holy Spirit subsequent to a clean heart.\n\u00fc In speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance and that it is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.\n\u00fc In water baptism by immersion, and all who repent should be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.\n\u00fc Divine healing is provided for all in the atonement.\n\u00fc In the Lord's Supper and washing of the saints' feet.\n\u00fc In the premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years.\n\u00fc In the bodily resurrection; eternal life for the righteous, and eternal punishment for the wicked.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 170.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isabelspanishimmersion.weebly.com/community-ed-spanish-courses.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:54:44Z", "digest": "sha1:M6G7RVL6BHCIN3QXG6BCO3O2CKOLSBTL", "length": 436, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "isabelspanishimmersion.weebly.com", "title": "Community Ed Spanish Courses", "raw_content": "I hope you enjoy the videos and pictures of our activities as much as we do\nLego's Course\nHere you have the videos of the last class. We had worked on Speaking skill by building different objects. The last day we build a story. Children have to build the characters and tell the story in Spanish to their classmates! They were impressive! It's been a pleasure to be able to teach your children! Thank you for signing them for the class.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jalsovszky.com/lawyers/daniel-veres", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:43Z", "digest": "sha1:AYTMNLU5C6IWU63V5JPZUIZIYPHDC2TF", "length": 1002, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jalsovszky.com", "title": "D\u00e1niel Veres :: Jalsovszky Law Firm", "raw_content": "That\u2019s how I\u2019d describe the team. Youthful, sporty, casually stylish, but intelligent and assertive at the same time.\u201d\n\u201dSexy! That\u2019s how I\u2019d describe the team. Youthful, sporty, casually stylish, but intelligent and assertive at the same time.\u201d\nD\u00e1niel trainee lawyer at the tax group of the firm.\nDaniel joined the firm in 2015. Previously, during his university studies, he gained professional experience at a well-known international law firm and at an independent firm in the practice areas of civil law, corporate law and commercial law. He broadened his financial knowledge as a trainee at a reputable bank.\nDaniel assists in teh firm's tax practice, additionally he is involved in banking and finance advisory matters.\nHe obtained his university degree at the Law Faculty of ELTE University in 2015. He was a member of the civil law working group of the ELTE Istv\u00e1n Bib\u00f3 College from 2009 to 2013.\nIn his free time he practices the martial art kendo. Besides, he likes jogging and enjoys reading.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jasbhagtoursindia.com/popular-tour-packages.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CYSDNSBWLTOT3KSUW36BPLI6YRSAFXKE", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jasbhagtoursindia.com", "title": "Popular Tour Packages in India", "raw_content": "Popular Tour Packages in India", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jasonbeckercreative.com/can-we-postpone-the-rest-of-the-trip-and-stay-here/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EBWEAE7AWZC3EK6U6WSEVTRR7JAPKJ4X", "length": 4004, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jasonbeckercreative.com", "title": "Jason Becker Creative | Can We Postpone the Rest of the Trip and Stay Here?", "raw_content": "01 Sep Can We Postpone the Rest of the Trip and Stay Here?\n(By Aubrey)\n\u201cHey Dad, can we postpone the rest of the trip and stay here?\u201d\nI have had trouble coming up with something to say in a blog post because there is too much to write about! This life in Hanoi is completely opposite from my Mukilteo life, yet I feel so comfortable spending my days here. I have found a place where I feel at home, even though I can\u2019t understand the language.\nThe university students I teach have become friends, mostly because we are similar in age, and because of how eager they are to learn English (and impress me with their pronunciation). My first week of teaching could not have gone better. I got to teach two classes of university-age students and one class of 7-8 year olds. The little kids were a little hard to manage, but I can see that they have the same motivation to learn English as the older kids. The first of my two older classes is half girls and half boys. Like someone might have said already, I always felt nervous for the class beforehand, but the moment I walked into the classroom, my whole day was lifted and I left with a feeling of accomplishment and a really great mood. This first class is so eager to learn English, and sometimes we would spend 10 minutes of class trying to pronounce just one word correctly (the most recent one was \u201cwork\u201d). The second of the two classes is all boys and one girl, and I absolutely love that class, because the one girl takes charge and is the \u201cbest\u201d speaker in the class. She sometimes orders the boys around when they\u2019re being too rowdy, and it\u2019s so fun to talk to her during class. The boys are such comedians, (they\u2019re all 19-22 years old) and they show their English skills by trying to impress me most of the time, or thinking of bad pickup lines. It has become common for Maya and I to be asked to dinner or beer by some of our students, it\u2019s so funny! (Dad also gets asked to beer by some of his guys, the only difference is he actually goes.) Overall, teaching class for me is more like running an English Club and hanging out and laughing with the students.\nIn addition to classes, we have \u201coutdoor activities\u201d a couple times a week with the whole class. This includes going out for coffee, checking out a museum, going to a park, etc. But the best part of class by far is the transportation to get there. My classes are about a 40min motorbike drive away from the apartment, so Luke always gives me a ride there and back on his motorbike. He is so willing to learn English, and he knows enough to have a conversation, so on the way to school, we talk and laugh and I help him with words he doesn\u2019t know. It\u2019s my favorite part! I have definitely found a good friend here \ud83d\ude42 (check out my Facebook profile pic) He is joining our family on a trip to Sa Pa this weekend, and I am so excited! Another friend I have spent some time with recently is Hien, a Vietnamese volunteer. She and I have become good friends, and she is so fun to talk to! She has introduced to me lots of new, delicious foods. \ud83d\ude42\nI am seeing and hearing about everyone from home starting school or getting settled in their dorm for college and it makes me have a strange sense of what might have been! I am excited for all of my friends who are starting this new year, but that part of my life seems so far away. It\u2019s weird to think about. I miss some things about Mukilteo life, but I think it\u2019s good to have this break from it. I\u2019m realizing the differences between my friends here and my friends back home, whether it be good or bad. I really appreciate and have noticed the way my mind has been opened. Just in these short two weeks I have met and ate meals with people from many different parts of the world, and it has opened my eyes so much. I love the sense of community in our apartment we share with the other volunteers and I love the kindness of the Vietnamese people I have met. I will miss this first stop a lot but I am also eagerly awaiting our next adventures!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 4274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jbvoorn.com/tag/usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:33:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YXC7FQTYJ3HTRTPYRJCZEQCMBAGDUL2I", "length": 2222, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jbvoorn.com", "title": "USA | | Judy & Bob's Travels", "raw_content": "On Wednesday, January 4, 2017, we boarded the ms Amsterdam at 1:00pm to start our 111 day Grand World Voyage. We left the dock at 10:00pm and started our voyage to our next port Santa Marta. The thumbnail pictures below represent this stop on our trip. 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Today we traveled to the Iao Valley State Park to see the Iao Needle, a lava remnant that rises 1,200 feet above the valley floor. On this site was also where King Kamehameha destroyed the Maui Army to unite Hawaii. We than proceeded across the Island, between the West Maui Mountains and the Haleakala Crater, to the southern shore and the town of Lahaina, an old whaling village that now houses many...\nOn March 6,2013, we arrived in Hilo on the island of Hawaii, USA. We went to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to visit the Kilauea Volcano area, where we first visited the Jaggar Museum to get an overview of the area and its history. At the museum area we could see the caldera of Kilauea, and views of Mauna Loa. There was also a distant view of Mauna Kea, these are the three major volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaii. From the museum area we went to the Steam Vents, which are cracks in the earth where steam escapes. 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Beep! Beep!\nBug Out! With Karen K & the Jitterbugs, playing retro-rock for the whole family!\nCalled the \u201cKiddie Queen\u201d by the Brooklyn Paper, Karen K (the \u201cK\u201d is for Kalafatas) and her Jitterbugs have built a quick and steady following since their debut in 2011. Originally based out of Brooklyn, New York and now out of Boston, Massachusetts, where the singer moved recently with her family, Karen K and her Jitterbugs are new additions to the \u201ckindie\u201d music scene \u2013 a term coined for the blend of kids music and indie rock. Karen\u2019s genre-swirling, funny, nostalgic and completely memorable songs have garnered rave reviews from tots, parents and even grandparents. (In fact, many parents admit to listening to her music even when the kids aren\u2019t around. But don\u2019t tell anyone.)\nA musical theater veteran with \u201cpowerhouse vocals,\u201d according to one national iTunes customer, Karen K's ability to connect with her audience at her live shows make the Jitterbugs as much a treat to experience in concert (\u201cGet ready for a good time!\u201d - The Patch; \u201cA hand-clapping, foot-stomping good time!\u201d - TONY Kids) as at home listening to one of her two albums: the band\u2019s inaugural CD Pancakes for Dinner, or their newer Big Ol\u2019 Truck. Both albums feature the Jitterbugs band members from New York City and Boston, whose musicianship impressively brings the songs to life.\nPancakes for Dinner is a blend of happy retro-rock tunes based on life as a kid and with kids. (Karen was a new mom when she wrote most of these, and as she does now, spent most of her time with her daughter and among the preschoolers to whom she taught music through her Jitterbugs music classes.) Highlights include a bluesy ode to everyone\u2019s favorite dairy drink, the aptly titled Milk, and the bouncy Beatles-esque title track. Danceable, sing-out-loud songs are balanced equally with moments of poignancy, like a sweet lullaby from a father\u2019s perspective in Sing Me the Moon, or a cry for attention from a newborn baby in a 1950\u2019s doo-wop ballad called Swaddle Me. According to Mommy Poppins, \u201cYou\u2019ll find yourself singing and dancing along without even trying.\u201d\nWith their second helping, Big Ol\u2019 Truck, Karen K doesn\u2019t disappoint, as she opens her audiences imaginations \u2013 and hearts \u2013 to familiar stories of trucks, teddy bears, big brown boxes and even crying crocodiles. The title track is about as catchy a song as it gets, an homage to a hefty assortment of big trucks set to a country-meets-funk groove. (Moms and dads claim to sing this at work, among friends and even in the boardroom. They claim to dance, too, but no security video has been captured so far.) Once again, the album is interlaced with moments of tenderness, like in Bigger Than the World, the song Karen penned with her 6-year-old daughter as a bedtime ritual (her daughter sings along on this one). Of course, laugh-out-loud lyrics and catchy melodies are plentiful, including the \u201creal\u201d story of Noah\u2019s Arc in Animal Party and the harrowing experience of a child\u2019s first haircut in the hilarious First Haircut. Rock, folk, pop, country, musical theater and New Orleans jazz\u2026there\u2019s something for everyone on this album.\nKaren K & her Jitterbugs have been featured on CBS-NY and have been top picks in New York Magazine, the New York Times, Time Out New York Kids, Mommy Poppins and Boston.com. 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The presentation will take place from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Monticello Library, 22435 W. 66th St., Shawnee.\nThe guidebook, with 4,500 entries and more than 1,600 pictures, details communities, sights to see and great places to eat in 515 incorporated cities, 97 unincorporated areas and all 105 Kansas counties.\nKansas Day is observed annually on Jan. 29 to commemorate the anniversary of the state\u2019s 1861 admission as the 34th state to the Union. 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I wrote a piece there the other day, and on this week's podcast, we explored things a little further, mainly through the lens of recent reports produced by UCStrategies experts.\nThis is not an easy market for anyone to understand, and while that's good for business at our end as analysts and consultants, we don't have all the answers either. UC remains a work in progress, making it challenging both for businesses to buy, and channels to sell. My view is that the vendors continue to innovate and enhance their UC offerings, but the value proposition remains ahead of what many businesses are able to manage right now. Of course there are loads of success stories out there, but UC has a ways to go before it becomes the lingua franca of business communications.\nI'll leave it at that, and hope this tweaks your interest enough to hear what all of us at UCStrategies and our reports have to say about the current market - so, time to move on, go to the portal and give it a listen. 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I do. :)\nWyldWoods April 19, 2005 2:40 p.m.\nIt has nothing to do with faith in my friends since a few of them already know. And most of them have had the same reaction you did. \"I figured that out a while ago.\"\nThe point was that my doctor and a handfull of close friends have known for a while, but I only just told anyone in my biological family.\nI plan to write it this week. And unlike the other times I planned to write it, I will force myself this time.\nScaryduck May 07, 2005 6:12 a.m.\nI think you'll find \"Yaaaarch\" comes with four \"a\"s.\nIt is my understanding that the more you capitalize the letters, the fewer \"a\"s required.\nSo, while you are correct that it is \"Yaaaarch\" it can be shortened to \"YARCH\" if it is completely capitalized.\nRazza September 01, 2005 11:57 p.m.\nI want t oknow a viki9ng drinking game!!!!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 6889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joyceschoices.com/movies-woods-hole-film-fest-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVDNLUNWPLVWKWMTUIVG572KLW6BSCHD", "length": 5139, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "joyceschoices.com", "title": "MOVIES: WOODS HOLE FILM FEST 2016", "raw_content": "Home/Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Family, Kids, Movies, War/MOVIES: WOODS HOLE FILM FEST 2016\nThe Woods Hole Film Festival kicks off its 25th anniversary season on July 30 and not a moment too soon. In one of the worst summer movie seasons in recent memory, this 8-day festival (July 30-August 6) on Cape Cod has come to the rescue, bigger and better than ever!\nOver 130 films will be shown representing more than 30 countries, with more than a third made by women, and as always supporting emerging and independent filmmakers from New England. And to celebrate their silver anniversary, they\u2019ve also upgraded their screening capability at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute\u2019s (WHOI) Redfield Auditorium with the latest projection equipment, a brand new screen, and surround sound.\nOpening night will feature the moving documentary NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU made by Filmmaker-in-Residence Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing in between its theatrical release and its appearance this fall on PBS. It\u2019s a poignant, penetrating look at the brilliant 93 year-old who changed the landscape of TV mid-20th century by daring to take on the divisive issues of the day in a comedic format with ALL IN THE FAMILY, and later THE JEFFERSONS and MAUDE.\nThe film interweaves a wealth of material including revealing rehearsal footage and vintage talk shows; family photographs and re-enactments from Lear\u2019s childhood; interviews with stars Carroll O\u2019Connor, Rob Reiner, Esther Rolle, as well as commentary by George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Bill Moyers, and Jon Stewart. The film explores Lear\u2019s evolution from a smart kid in a broken home with painful recollections of his father, to a groundbreaking writer/producer who landed on the top of the heap in Hollywood, and also on Nixon\u2019s enemies list, and ultimately embraced his role as a deeply empathic activist who understands that we\u2019re all just other versions of each other.\nIn honor of the 25th anniversary the festival welcomes back many alums including Oscar-winner and south shore resident Chris Cooper who plays J.D. Salinger in COMING THROUGH THE RYE by director James Sadwith about a 16-year old student (Alex Wolff who will also star as Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the upcoming PATRIOTS DAY) who sets out for New Hampshire in search of the author. Cooper will participate in a Q & A after the screening.\nAlso returning to the festival is Boston area resident Amy Geller in her directorial debut with Allie Humenuk and their documentary THE GUYS NEXT DOOR about mother of three from Newton, Mass who became a surrogate and gave birth to two children for her friends a gay couple living in Maine.\nOther Boston area films include THE PEACEMAKER a documentary by James Demo who wandered into Cambridge, Massachusetts\u2019 legendary bar the Plough and Stars and discovered that its owner Padraig O\u2019Malley\u2013 businessman, professor and recovering alcoholic\u2013 had evolved a template for conflict resolution learned while in recovery from his own addiction, and who then became instrumental in resolving international conflicts from Northern Ireland to Iraq. PAPER LANTERNS by Barry Frechette took him to Lowell, Mass and Harrodsberg, Kentucky to document a Hiroshima bombing survivor\u2019s commitment to telling the story of not only the Japanese victims, but also that of two U.S. Airmen who died there in the bombing.\nAlso set in New England and not to be missed is one of the most unusual, funny, disturbing and subtly-observed buddy movies I\u2019ve ever seen called DONALD CRIED about two HS friends (Jesse Wakeman and Kris Avedisian) who re-connect as adults in their hometown and end up mucking around in their cringe-inducing past. Rhode Island filmmaker Avedisian who wrote the screenplay, here directs himself in an Oscar-worthy performance as the grotesquely vulnerable, wildly original screw-up Donald, a character so off-putting I could barely watch, but also could not look away.\nReflecting the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 25 year old film festival is featuring a large number of movies about breaking down barriers involving characters with disabilities including OFF THE RAILS a debut documentary by Adam Irving (slated to become a feature starring Julia Roberts) about an autistic man whose obsession with mass transit lead him to be arrested for continually impersonating NYC subway and bus drivers and navigating their routes! Rebbie Ratner\u2019s BORDERLINE documents a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who first attempted suicide at age 5, and how 40 years later she continues to fight for recovery.\nThe festival co-sponsored by WBUR-FM will also highlight movies about war & peace, the sea, music, the environment, and filmmakers from Maine, Cape Cod and the islands. Five venues will host the screenings and the 10th Annual Kids Day featuring the Oscar-nominated hand-drawn animated film SONG OF THE SEA. Master classes, workshops, panel discussions, live music and nightly parties cap off a quarter century of significant and exciting films for cinemphiles on the cape and beyond! 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They will execute the task according to your taste. Some of the services they render include pruning, mulching, mowing, lawn aeration, and fertilizer application.\nA landscaper Arkansas love good old-fashioned garden makeover. They have what it takes to make your garden the envy of your neighbors. However, before contacting a landscaping company, here are some tips to help design a beautiful garden landscape.\nThere are some factors to consider when designing your landscape. These include the size, style and shape of your home during the landscape design phase. The landscape design of your garden should match with your property and not the other way around. One of the reasons for designing your landscape is to make your property look attractive. So a good garden landscape design should blend perfectly with the looks of your home by creating repeat design details, textures, colors and smooth transitions.\nBeautiful landscape design will be impossible without a proper plan. Proper planning is key to achieving the landscape design of your dream. Your plan should incorporate height and width restrictions of your garden area. This comes in handy when you\u2019re planning to plant a tree.\nSoil requirement also plays a key role in designing an attractive garden landscape. However, this will be determined by the type of plant. Some plants thrive better in a particular soil type over others, so do your research.\nDrainage plays a key role in the success of your garden as well. Poor drainage will doom your garden.\nAnother important point to note about landscape design is creating a focal point. Whether your focal point is a tree or an oddly shaped plant, make sure your garden landscape design revolves around it.\nDo not forget to plan for future growth when mapping out your garden landscape design plan. As your plant or trees grow, it alters the design of your garden. It would be best if you considered how the garden receives sun and shade throughout the day.\nConsider the curb appeal you want your garden landscape to portray. While the garden in the backyard may be a perfect relaxation spot, away from the prying eyes of your neighbors, it\u2019s not the same with the garden design in the front yard. Choose a garden landscape design that will add more value to your home in terms of beauty\nKeep your family in mind when designing your garden landscape. Each family member will use the garden in a way that pleases them. So take note.\nOne way to bring your dream garden landscape design to actuality is by hiring a professional landscaper Arkansas. All you have to do is give them the plan but make sure it\u2019s well detailed and leave the rest to these professionals. They will exceed your expectation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jugjet.blogspot.com/2016/09/razie-nabil-sit-out-australia-hl-debut.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:25:47Z", "digest": "sha1:N2GTQV5LORGVUP6QIJSH4I7NTAKNBKGG", "length": 1995, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "jugjet.blogspot.com", "title": "Jugjet's World of Field Hockey: Razie, Nabil sit out Australia HL debut...", "raw_content": "MALAYSIA will field almost the entire national team in Tigers, their back-up in Blues and women's team in the Australian Hockey League (AHL) on Sept 26-Oct 10 in Perth.\nThis is a milestone for for country, who aspire to play in the 2018 New Delhi World Cup, as well as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\nThe senior squad will be called Tigers, and missing from the list announced yesterday by national coach Stephen van Huizen were inspector trainees Razie Rahim and Nabil Fiqri.\n\"Yes we will be fielding an almost full side minus Nabil and Razie who are in training to become inspectors in Pulapol. This is because even though we have an understanding with Pulapol to let them out for national training and matches which concern Malaysia, they can't release trainees for overseas assignments,\" said van Huizen.\nRazie is the No 1 penalty corner flicker in the country while Nabil is a pillar in midfield for the nation.\nWhen asked if both of them would be released for the Asian Champions Trophy in Kuantan on Oct 20-30, van Huizen could not make a commitment.\nAs for the Australian HL Malaysian Hockey Confederation (MHC) Technical Director Terry Walsh Said: \"After playing in a local league, the players will get a chance to compete in an overseas league and this is a huge step forward for Malaysia.\"\nThe other foreign teams in the men's tournament are India and New Zealand.\n\"Playing in the AHL, then the ACT and then the Azlan Shah Cup for the men and the World League in Singapore for the women are all part of the plan to qualify for the World Cup and Olympics.\n\"While the men will face some difficulties, but not impossible ones to qualify for the world Cup, it would be much more harder for the women. But this AHL playing chance should come in as a very good experience to wards our future cause,\" said Walsh.\nShukri Mutalib will skipper the Tigers, Baljit Singh will captain the Blues and Siti Noor Amarina will lead the women in Perth.\nTen teams each will compete in the men's and women's AHL.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2191, "original_length": 36335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://junktobucks.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vitrader/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi?request=display_specific_date_events&website=default&month=7&day=2&year=2018&category_id=&set=1&session=5b483de740b271f5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4QFSURBSG63LPKLIYILP2AZAKIIFNHAL", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "junktobucks.com", "title": "VITrader.com", "raw_content": "Home | Monday, July 2, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 224.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kellysheppard.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:05:19Z", "digest": "sha1:QR5I56LCO2M3YDB7HNSKG57BINUG6H4G", "length": 723, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "kellysheppard.co.uk", "title": "\ufeff Kelly Sheppard Pilates | Brighton Pilates | Pilates Classes in Brighton & Hove", "raw_content": "Kelly Sheppard Pilates\nPilates in Brighton\nThere are a number of Pilates classes in Brighton, but very few are work as a drop-in basis. Kelly runs her Pilates classes in Brighton and Hove, in locations that make it easy for people to attend from areas such as Port Hall and Seven Dials\nKelly has over 20 years experience working in the fitness industry and taught various exercise classes for clubs such as Virgin, LA Fitness, David Lloyd, local leisure centres and has run her own classes in the community.\nBookings must be taken before each class to ensure that people are not turned away. If you would like to attend a class or just want to know more, please email Kelly on info@kellysheppard.co.uk or call 0771 2005 333", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kickasstorrents.ee/sly-the-family-stone-higher-4-cd-box-2013-flac-t9429431.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:50Z", "digest": "sha1:5H7W34HUPWU6XD6AFCPZQUGVRH4ONFIK", "length": 15293, "nlines": 148, "source_domain": "kickasstorrents.ee", "title": "Download Sly & the Family Stone - Higher [4-CD Box] (2013) [FLAC] Torrent - kickasstorrents", "raw_content": "08 - Higher (Mono Single Master).flac 11.9 MB\n09 - Underdog (Mono Single Master).flac 12.1 MB\n10 - Bad Risk (Mono Single Master).flac 12.02 MB\n01 - What's That Got to Do With Me (Previously Unissued).flac 17.21 MB\n02 - Fortune and Fame (Previously Unissued).flac 29.2 MB\n03 - What Would I Do (Originally Unissued).flac 22.05 MB\n04 - Only One Way Out of This Mess (Originally Unissued).flac 23.53 MB\n05 - I Know What You Came to Say (Previously Unissued).flac 29.08 MB\n06 - Dance to the Music (Mono Single Master).flac 12.26 MB\n07 - Ride The Rhythm.flac 18.35 MB\n08 - Color Me True.flac 19.02 MB\n09 - Are you Ready.flac 18.53 MB\n10 - Don't Burn Baby.flac 20.01 MB\n01 - Everyday People (Mono Single Master).flac 8.42 MB\n02 - Sing a Simple Song (Mono Single Master).flac 12.39 MB\n03 - I Get High on You (Version 2 - Previously Unissued).flac 24.58 MB\n04 - Wonderful World of Color (Instrumental - Previously Unissued).flac 28.05 MB\n05 - Pressure (Originally Unissued).flac 22.62 MB\n06 - I Want to Take You Higher (Mono Single Master).flac 12.08 MB\n07 - Seven More Days (Originally Unissued).flac 18.41 MB\n08 - Feathers (Instrumental - Previously Unissued).flac 13.93 MB\n09 - Somebody's Watching You.flac 19.89 MB\n01 - Luv N' Haight (Single Version).flac 24.92 MB\n02 - Family Affair (Single Version).flac 17.44 MB\n03 - Brave & Strong (Single Master).flac 19.03 MB\n04 - Runnin' Away (Single Master).flac 13.54 MB\n05 - (You Caught Me) Smilin' (Single Master).flac 16.35 MB\n06 - Spaced Cowboy.flac 25.28 MB\n07 - You're the One (Live from Don Kirshner\u2019s Rock Concert - Previously Unissued).flac 23.14 MB\n08 - In Time.flac 32.22 MB\n09 - If You Want Me to Stay (Single Master).flac 16.72 MB\n10 - Frisky (Single Master).flac 15.82 MB\nSly & the Family Stone - Higher [4-CD Box] (2013) [FLAC]\nSLY & THE FAMILY STONE'S CAREER CELEBRATED WITH DELUXE 4-CD BOX SET, HIGHER!\nFeatures 17 previously unreleased tracks; box set offers the chance to experience the songs you know and love but often in alternate versions, including mono singles, demos, instrumental tracks, live concert and television recordings, and more\nAvailable everywhere August 27, 2013, through Epic/Legacy\nThe music of Sly & The Family Stone is celebrated with a new 4-CD box set, Sly & The Family Stone's Higher!, available everywhere August 27th through Epic/Legacy, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Released in celebration of Sly Stone's 70th birthday, Higher! is the first career-spanning anthology to celebrate the musician whose funk has influenced everyone from Miles Davis and Michael Jackson to Public Enemy and the Roots. Housed in a colorful slipcase with a lavishly-illustrated 104-page book, the box set will feature 77 tracks, 17 of them previously unreleased.\nSpotlighted throughout the first three CDs of Higher! are rare mono single masters of every classic Sly & The Family Stone signature hit like they\u2019ve never been heard before in the digital era. Paying homage to the golden age of transistor radios are mono versions of \u201cDance To the Music,\u201d \u201cEveryday People,\u201d \u201cStand!,\u201d \u201cI Want To Take You Higher,\u201d \u201cHot Fun In the Summertime,\u201d \u201cThank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again),\u201d and many others, more than 30 mono single masters and mono album cuts that were a call-out to get up and dance, dance, dance. Decades after the chart debut of Sly & The Family Stone with the game-changing \u201cDance To The Music,\u201d fans and newcomers will have the opportunity to dig into this far-reaching anthology, covering the recording career of Sylvester Stewart starting in 1964, and the band he masterminded from 1966 to 1977 on Epic Records.\nHigher! pays tribute to the unique style of Sly & The Family Stone with its innovative ten-inch square package design, which houses the CDs in its interior pockets. The middle compartment contains a painstakingly detailed 104-page book featuring a liner notes essay, a beautifully-illustrated timeline of Sly\u2019s career, track-by-track annotations, rare and uncirculated photography, 45 rpm label and picture sleeve repros, eye-popping vintage concert posters and ticket stubs from Sly & The Family Stone shows, and more.\nSly & The Family Stone laid down a template that not only inspired an era of youthful rebellion and independence as the \u201960s turned into the \u201970s, but also had (and continues to have) a potent effect on the course of modern music in general. Sly\u2019s DNA is traceable to every cell of the musical stratosphere.\n\u201cSly Stone\u2019s music is relevant because he was able to take from all the influencing genres before him and along side him, and combine it like gumbo,\" said Public Enemy frontman Chuck D. \"Then inside the band, having women, having it mixed race and ethnic background - I mean, come on now. You really couldn\u2019t point and say 'well, this is the reason why it\u2019s funky,' it\u2019s all this together like gumbo that\u2019s making this happen. And Sly & The Family Stone was the epitome of a group playing the music, saying the lyrics, and also backing with the words.\u201d\nSly & The Family Stone have been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Grammy Hall Of Fame, and have received the R&B Foundation Pioneer Award, among many other recognitions of their importance and enduring influence.\nHigher! is a tribute to the far-reaching horizons of Sly & The Family Stone. Their repertoire, every composition penned by Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone, kept the Pop and R&B charts jumping for seven glorious years from 1968 to 1975. There are the three career-defining RIAA gold Billboard #1 Pop/#1 R&B hits, \u201cEveryday People,\u201d \u201cThank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)\u201d and \u201cFamily Affair.\u201d Their signature Top 40 hits began with \u201cDance To the Music\u201d and went on to include \u201cStand!,\u201d \u201cI Want To Take You Higher,\u201d \u201cHot Fun In the Summertime,\u201d \u201cRunnin\u2019 Away,\u201d \u201cIf You Want Me To Stay,\u201d \u201cTime For Livin\u2019,\" and more. Their top-charted RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums include Stand! (1969), Greatest Hits (1970), There\u2019s A Riot Goin\u2019 On (1971), and Fresh (1973), every one a must-have.\nIn addition to those durable numbers (all of which are in mono up through 1969\u2019s \u201cThank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)\u201d), Higher! opens CD One with seven pre-Epic Records tracks. These include five rare solo sides by \u2018Sly Stewart\u2019 during his time as A&R-producer-songwriter-staff musician circa 1964-\u201965 at San Francisco\u2019s Autumn Records. These include both sides of the rare (and widely bootlegged in the U.S. and Europe) Loadstone Records single of January 1967 by Sly & The Family Stone, which helped win the band their Epic Records deal. One of these sides is a cover of Otis Redding\u2019s \u201cI Can\u2019t Turn You Loose.\u201d The Epic story begins with the mono single master of \u201cHigher\u201d in May 1967 (Disc One, track 8).\nOf the many impossibly rare and fascinating inclusions on Higher! special attention is paid to the four tracks that close CD Three. They were recorded live at the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK, early Sunday morning, August 30, 1970, one year after Sly\u2019s memorable wee hours performance at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Two of the Isle of Wight numbers, \u201cStand!\u201d and \u201cYou Can Make It If You Try,\u201d were subsequently issued on the Columbia three-LP release from 1971, The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies. (The big multi-artist package coupled Isle of Wight performances with others at the first Atlantic Pop Festival of July 1970.) The two other numbers by Sly & The Family Stone at Isle of Wight, namely \u201cDance To The Music\u201d and the medley of \u201cMusic Lover / I Want To Take You Higher / Music Lover\u201d (a variation on their medley from the Woodstock soundtrack album), are both previously unissued until now.\nHigher! serves as a new model for the most diligent and imaginative efforts that can go into a vintage collection of this nature. The box set was produced by Legacy Recordings veteran and Sundazed Records owner Bob Irwin, with Project A&R by Rob Santos at Legacy. All music was mastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in New York.\nThree major elements are central to the 104-page book. There is the authoritative liner notes essay written by Jeff Kaliss, author of I Want To Take You Higher: The Life And Times Of Sly & The Family Stone, the group's only authorized biography. The booklet also contains a comprehensive, lavishly-illustrated timeline compiled by Dutch authorities Edwin & Arno Konings. Nearly 100 entries span from March 15, 1943 (\u201cSylvester Stewart is born in Denton, Texas. Six months later, the family moves to Vallejo, California\u201d) to a final update in late-2012. The Koningses have also contributed track-by-track annotations for all 77 cuts in Higher! The notes contain excerpts from Thank You, the Koningses\u2019 own forthcoming biography of Sly & The Family Stone. (Go to www.slystonebook.com). The extensive memorabilia that accompanies the text and photographs in the book is provided by Neal Austinson, Archivist and Road Manager for Sly & The Family Stone.\nEvery track-by-track annotation contains at least one revelation, as told to the writers by original Sly & The Family Stone band members Greg Errico, Larry Graham, Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson, and Sly Stone himself, as well as such figures as Rachel Donahue (widow of Tom Donahue), managers Rich Romanello (1967) and David Kapralik (1967-1972), Epic A&R man Stephen Paley, bassist Rustee Allen (who succeeded Graham in 1973), all three drummers who succeeded Errico post-1971 (Gerry Gibson, Andy Newmark, Bill Lordan), various background vocalists, saxophonists, bassists, and so on. All their collective statements and observations, as transcribed by the Koningses, add to the value of Higher! as a valuable memoir in and of itself.\n\u201cRefracted in these treasures,\u201d Kaliss says of the kaleidoscopic delights on Higher! \u201care colors you may be unused to seeing in Sly: old R&B, jazz, nursery rhymes, gospel, and even country, fused and transformed by a precious visionary and his fellow musical alchemists.\u201d\nIn addition to Jeff Kaliss, and Edwin & Arno Konings, other essential reading includes: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History by Joel Selvin (HarperCollins, 1998); and There\u2019s A Riot Going On by Miles Marshall Lewis (Bloomsbury \u201c33 1/3\u201d series, 2006).\nHigher! by Sly & The Family Stone\n(Epic/Legacy 88697 53665 2)\nDisc One (1964-1967):\n1. I Just Learned How To Swim by Sly Stewart (Autumn Records single, 1964)\n2. Scat Swim by Sly Stewart (Autumn single, 1964)\n3. Buttermilk (Part 1) by Sly (Autumn single, 1965)\n4. Dance All Night by Sly and Freddie (1965, originally unissued)\n5. Temptation Walk by Sly (Autumn single, 1965)\n6. I Ain\u2019t Got Nobody (For Real) (Loadstone single, 1967)\n7. I Can\u2019t Turn You Loose (Loadstone single, 1967)\n8. Higher (mono Epic single master, promo only, 1967)\n9. Underdog (mono Epic single master, 1967)\n10. Bad Risk (mono Epic single master, 1967)\n11. Let Me Hear It From You (mono Epic single master, 1967)\n12. Advice (A)\n13. If This Room Could Talk (A)\n14. I Cannot Make It (A)\n15. Trip To Your Heart (A)\n16. I Hate To Love Her (A)\n17. Silent Communications (1967, previously unissued)\n18. I Get High On You (version one, 1967, previously unissued)\n19. I Remember (1967, previously unissued)\n20. My Woman\u2019s Head (instrumental demo, 1967, previously unissued)\nDisc Two (1967-1968):\n1. What\u2019s That Got To Do With Me (1967, previously unissued)\n2. Fortune And Fame (1967, previously unissued)\n3. What Would I Do (1967, originally unissued, B)\n4. Only One Way Out Of This Mess (1967, originally unissued, B)\n5. I Know What You Came To Say (1967, previously unissued)\n6. Dance To The Music (mono Epic single master, 1967)\n7. Ride The Rhythm (C)\n8. Color Me True (C)\n9. Are You Ready (C)\n10. Don\u2019t Burn Baby (C)\n11. We Love All (D)\n12. Danse A La Musique by The French Fries (mono Epic single, 1968)\n13. Small Fries by The French Fries (mono Epic single, 1968)\n14. Chicken (mono Epic single master, 1968)\n15. Into My Own Thing (E)\n16. Life (mono Epic single master, 1968)\n17. Love City (1968, previously unissued mono mix)\n18. M\u2019Lady (mono Epic single master, 1968)\n19. Dynamite! featuring Johnny Robinson on vocals (1968, previously unissued)\n20. Undercat (instrumental, 1967, previously unissued)\nDisc Three (1968-1970):\n1. Everyday People (mono Epic single master, 1968)\n2. Sing A Simple Song (mono Epic single master, 1968)\n3. I Get High On You (version two, 1968, previously unissued)\n4. Wonderful World Of Color (instrumental, 1968, previously unissued)\n5. Pressure (originally unissued, F)\n6. I Want To Take You Higher (mono Epic single master, 1969)\n7. Seven More Days (originally unissued, F)\n8. Feathers (instrumental, 1968, previously unissued)\n9. Somebody\u2019s Watching You (G)\n10. Sex Machine (G)\n11. Hot Fun In The Summertime (mono Epic single master, 1969)\n12. Everybody Is A Star (mono Epic single master, 1969)\n13. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (mono Epic single master, 1969)\n14. Stand! (LIVE at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 30, 1970, H)\n15. You Can Make It If You Try (LIVE, same as track 14, H)\n16. Dance To The Music (LIVE, same as track 14, previously unissued)\n17. MEDLEY: Music Lover / I Want To Take You Higher / Music Lover (LIVE, same as track 14, previously unissued)\nDisc Four (1971-1977):\n1. Luv N\u2019 Haight (Epic single master, 1971)\n2. Family Affair (I)\n3. Brave & Strong (Epic single master, 1971)\n4. Runnin\u2019 Away (Epic single master, 1971)\n5. (You Caught Me) Smilin\u2019 (Epic single master, 1971)\n6. Spaced Cowboy (I)\n7. You\u2019re The One featuring Little Sister (LIVE on Don Kirshner\u2019s Rock Concert, September 1973, previously unissued)\n8. In Time (J)\n9. If You Want Me To Stay (Epic single master, 1973)\n10. Frisky (Epic single master, 1973)\n11. Skin I\u2019m In (J)\n12. If It Were Left Up To Me (Epic single master, 1973)\n13. Time For Livin\u2019 (Epic single master, 1974)\n14. Can\u2019t Strain My Brain (Epic single master, 1974)\n15. Loose Booty (K)\n16. Le Lo Li (Epic single master, 1975)\n17. Crossword Puzzle (Epic single master, 1975)\n18. Family Again (Epic single, 1976)\n19. Hoboken by Sly Stone (originally unissued, 1975-1977)\n20. High by Sly Stone (1975, previously unissued)\nEpic Records album index:\nA \u2013 from A Whole New Thing (originally released November 1967, as Epic LN 24324, mono)\nB \u2013 from A Whole New Thing (Expanded Edition) (originally released April 2007, as Epic/ Legacy 82796 90277 2)\nC \u2013 from Dance To The Music (originally released April 1968, as Epic BN 26371)\nD \u2013 from Dance To The Music (Expanded Edition) (originally released April 2007, as Epic/Legacy 82796 90274 2)\nE \u2013 from Life (originally released November 1968, as Epic BN 26397)\nF \u2013 from Life (Expanded Edition) (originally rel. April 2007, as Epic/Legacy 82876 83945 2)\nG \u2013 from Stand! (originally released April 1969, as Epic BN 26456)\nH \u2013 from The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies (originally released August 1971, as Columbia C 30807)\nI \u2013 from There\u2019s A Riot Goin\u2019 On (originally released October 1971, as Epic KE 30986)\nJ \u2013 from Fresh (originally released June 1973, as Epic KE 32134)\nK \u2013 from Small Talk (originally released July 1974, as Epic PE 32930)\nSly and The Family Stone - Higher 2013 320kbps CBR MP3 [VX] [P2PDL] Posted by Vitamin_X in Music > Mp3\nSly And The Family Stone - Higher! 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He was treated for a minor gunshot wound and was released. After interviewing him, detectives learned he is the brother of the deceased.\nThe deceased male appears to have shot at his brother causing a minor injury, then turned the gun on himself, according to Police Lt. Casey Hafnter.\nThe autopsy will be conducted in Missoula.\nSource: Autopsy Ordered on Billings Man Who Allegedly Killed Himself\nFiled Under: billings, shooting, suicide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kmhk.com/blue-diamond-sells/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OC3MLYHXTYVIVR5UFHHJMV6JLUD3ZVVR", "length": 1221, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kmhk.com", "title": "Exceedingly Rare Blue Diamond Sells for Record $48 Million", "raw_content": "Exceedingly Rare Blue Diamond Sells for Record $48 Million\nThe \"Blue Moon\" diamond sold for an astonishing $48.5 million this week at Sotheby's in Geneva.\nThe stone, just over 12 carats, was expected to fetch between $35 million and $50 million. It's the highest price ever paid for a blue diamond, so named because of the expression \"once in a blue moon\" in a nod to how rare it is.\nHong Kong businessman Joseph Lau, who's worth roughly $10 billion, who was the lucky winner of the jewel, which he renamed \"The Blue Moon of Josephine,\" in honor of his seven-year-old daughter.\nAuctioneer David Bennett said it was a historic purchase:\nTonight we set a new world record, a new auction record for any diamond, any jewel, any gemstone, with the sale of the Blue Moon diamond.\"\nThe blue diamond wrapped up a flurry of shopping for Lau, who dropped $28.5 million the night before on a pink diamond that he promptly named \"Sweet Josephine\" (this girl really ought not to expect much for Christmas).\nLau, incidentally, was sentenced to more than five years in prison last year in Macau for bribery and money laundering, but has avoided serving time because he didn't attend the trial and has avoided returning to the territory.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 144.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kuumbaacademy.org/about-us/board", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:14:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TDD3TBBUTTKEWUKIWVMJHYTODXMQOTCH", "length": 1218, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kuumbaacademy.org", "title": "Board | Kuumba Academy", "raw_content": "Attn: There will be no board meeting in August..\nStandard Board Agenda Here\nSamantha Connell \u2013 Ms. Connell is a Teach For America (TFA) alumna with a track record of demonstrated success in the classroom. As a Delaware-certified teacher and KACS teacher since 2009, Ms. Connell has made significant progress in closing the achievement gap for our students. She serves as the ELA coach and is a member of the KACS Instructional Leadership Team. She also provides professional development and curriculum support for teachers in grades 3\u20135. Ms. Connell has a B.S. in History from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Wilmington University.\nDouglas Cuffy \u2013 Mr. Cuffy is a Delaware-certified teacher and has served as the fifth-grade math and science teacher at KACS for the past three years. Throughout this time, he has played a significant role in narrowing the achievement gap for our fifth-grade students. Mr. Cuffy is a member of the KACS Instructional Leadership Team and has provided professional development for staff in areas like technology integration and the Common Core State Standards. Mr. Cuffy is a graduate of Delaware State University where he earned a B.A. in English.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 7332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kxrb.com/protest-spurred-by-kristi-noems-health-care-vote/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RGKNILFHRDUZBWZVNICMZB5NYG5MEJHR", "length": 1596, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kxrb.com", "title": "Protest Spurred by Kristi Noem's Health Care Vote", "raw_content": "Protest Spurred by Kristi Noem\u2019s Health Care Vote\nA group of people gathered in downtown Sioux Falls to protest the recent United States House vote that approved the American Health Care Act on Saturday (May 6) morning.\nThe goal of the protest according to Samantha Spawn of NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota is to show the personal side of health care.\n\"I think our state would disproportionately be affected by this piece of legislation. Do you think the very same person (Congresswoman Kristi Noem) who voted through this legislation, which would allow states to opt out of essential health care benefits such as maternity care and prescription coverage, would (run for governor and) be the same state to enforce any kind of mandates on their insurance company? Probably not.\"\nSpawn is among the many who are extremely concerned about maintaining insurance for people with pre-existing conditions.\n\"I have a daughter who was born with a liver disease. The pre-existing health care condition is really important to me, a parent who is seeking health insurance for the rest of her life. I want to make sure there is affordable health insurance for that.\"\nSince Obamacare was enacted, Spawn says more lives have been saved through insuring people with pre-existing conditions.\nThe protest featured two groups of twenty-five people. One section was located at the 300 Building on North Dakota and a half block away at 6th and Dakota.\nSource: Protest Spurred by Kristi Noem\u2019s Health Care Vote\nFiled Under: American Health Care Act, Health Care, Kristi Noem, Obamacare, Politics, Pro Choice, Sioux Falls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 3660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laurelsofcharlottesville.com/payment/medicare-medicaid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:T727ULFVSQIKS2DOVBE6CEZKHY6WF6YG", "length": 242, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "laurelsofcharlottesville.com", "title": "Medicare / Medicaid \u00bb The Laurels of Charlottesville", "raw_content": "We understand that dealing with Medicare or Medicaid benefits and eligibility can be confusing. At The Laurels of Charlottesville, we are here to help. Our team has established a list of frequently asked questions about Medicare and Medicaid.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lbep.uk/about/location", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:35:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ERZ26ZMOGOWCGEMTAKYZ3AIPVE6227NU", "length": 3859, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "lbep.uk", "title": "Location", "raw_content": "The Energy Park's Location\nThe proposed location of the Lea Bank Energy Park is just north of New Mill End in Central Bedfordshire. The 9.2 hectares of land is currently Grade 3 agricultural land in between the Lower Harpenden Road (B653) and the Luton-London railway line.\nThe site's near neighbours include an electricity substation and the East Hyde Sewage Treatment Works as well as the Luton Hoo estate and the River Lea.\nWill the development cause any flood risks?\nThe application site is designated as being at low probability of fluvial flooding (Flood Zone 1) from Main Rivers. Lower Luton Road is designated as being at high probability of fluvial flooding (Flood Zone 3) either side of the anticipated site access, although flood depths are predicted to be very shallow. The proposed lowering of land along the verge for visibility reasons may provide additional flood storage.\nWhy not build on brownfield land?\nIf you look at brownfield registers for Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Hertfordshire you'll see that most of those listed are relatively small. Luton only has two brownfield sites which would be big enough to hold a facility like LBEP and both are already allocated for development by other projects. Similarly in Central Beds and Hertfordshire brownfield options for this sort of development are limited.\nCan you build on green belt land?\nGreen belt policy exists to protect land so that we do maintain a level of rural countryside across the UK. So it's rightfully much harder to obtain planning permission for land which has been designated as green belt. Harder... but not impossible. The green belt policy does allow for 'appropriate development' and each application is considered against criteria for this.\nWhen will the site be open and operational?\nThe times listed below form part of the planning application for the facility and will be determined by the local planning authority.\nDuring construction phase it is expected that the site will be working from 7am-8pm Monday-Friday and 7am-1pm on Saturdays. There are no plans for work to take place on Sundays or public holidays.\nOnce the facility is up and running, the plant will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with occasional downtime for maintenance and repairs. It is expected that the majority of deliveries will take place between 6am and 7pm.\nThe site lies 2km south of Luton, in the Green Belt land just north of New Mill End. Chiltern Green Road forms the southern border, with the B653 on the western side and the Luton-London railway line on the eastern side. A path shared by Sustrans cycle path and the Upper Lea Valley Walk passes through woodland at the north west end.\nAround 1.5km to the west is the Luton Hoo estate including a golf course and health spa, grade 1 listed building and grade 2 listed gardens. The house of the head ground keeper is one of the nearest residential properties to the site.\nOther residential buildings in the area are New Mill End Farm and the Station Cottages row, both south of the site.\nThames Water's East Hyde Sewage Treatment Works are to the south, on the other side of the B653, with the river Lea running between the two.\nWhat's the land currently used for?\nThe proposed site for the Lea Bank Energy Park is currently Grade 3 agricultural land.\nThe Agricultural Land Classification describes grade 3 land as \"Land with moderate limitations which affect the choice of crops, timing and type of cultivation, harvesting or the level of yield. Where more demanding crops are grown yields are generally lower or more variable than on land in Grades 1 and 2.\"\nMost of England comprises either Grade 3 or urban land (as seen on this map)\nWhere is Lea Bank Energy Park?\nThe application site for the proposed Lea Bank Energy Park (LBEP) is located just north of New Mill End in Central Bedfordshire and 2km south of Luton.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Aspire+to+be+like+Scrooge+this+season%20&id=27523077&instance=lead_story_left_column", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:50Z", "digest": "sha1:QTQPMVT4PEJX7B33VHUHLCAMMPWMXKO2", "length": 4010, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "leaderobserver.com", "title": "Leader-Observer - Aspire to be like Scrooge this season", "raw_content": "Aspire to be like Scrooge this season\n`Tis the season to be busy. There\u2019s presents to buy, cards to send, stockings to fill, and parties to attend.\nThere\u2019s so much to do and increasingly little time to do it all. And because so many of us are out and about, rushing to get it all done in time, we find ourselves getting in each other\u2019s way.\nOn the roads, horns are honking and drivers wave their arms at each other in frustration, never minding the fact that everyone else is delayed by traffic as well.\nOn the lines in the store, people roll their eyes at clerks who are slow, never minding the fact that they\u2019ve been on their feet for 10 hours and might not have gotten to their own shopping yet.\nAnd when talking to friends and acquaintances, people are sometimes a little short because they are rushed, they are hurried, they\u2019re running out of time and starting to get worried.\nBut in the end it all works out, and on Christmas Eve we might find ourselves sitting down and enjoying some music and the company of close friends and family. We might find ourselves wishing joy to the world, and peace to all and to all a good night.\nIt\u2019s a good feeling, and it helps us forget that for the past three weeks we\u2019ve been grouchy and grumpy and consumed with madness. It might not occur to us that in an effort to keep Christmas well, that we find ourselves temporarily resembling a certain fictional character we see a lot of this time a year.\nThat character, of course, is Ebenezer Scrooge.\nWhat words leap to mind when you hear that name? Mean. Cheap. Greedy. And, of course, humbug.\nEbenezer Scrooge was all of that, and more. He was impatient with others. He was rude and unloving to his family. He was nasty and ungenerous to his employee, Bob Cratchit.\nBut as we come to learn through a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past, there were reasons for all of that.\nHis father was a cruel man and showed him no love. His beloved sister Fan died young. And he also lost the love of his life, his fianc\u00e9e Belle.\nOne lesson we can take from that is that the person honking their horn and flashing obscene hand gestures at you on Woodhaven Boulevard might be carrying their own chains of pain and misery. You just don\u2019t know what problems others are dealing with in their lives when, in a moment of frustration, they lash out at you.\nDon\u2019t add to that pain, let it go. And maybe that generosity of spirit helps lift that person above the painful issues they carry. After all, isn\u2019t that what happened to Ebenezer Scrooge?\nRemember, the entire point of Dickens\u2019 \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d is that Mr. Scrooge ends up seeing the error of his ways. His story is one of redemption, not failure.\nAs the story ends, it is said that Scrooge \u201cbecame as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world,\u201d and that \u201cit was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well.\u201d\nSo, calling someone a Scrooge should really be seen as a compliment, not an insult. We should all aspire to be like Ebenezer Scrooge, not just by keeping Christmas well, but by being as good a person as we can, all the year round.\nBe generous to your friends, your family, and your neighbors. Not with dollars and cents, but with your good spirits. Lift up the phone and call upon that person you know who might be feeling lonely at this time of year.\nTake stock of the people you know and make sure that they know that someone out there cares about them. And if they humbug you for your efforts, don\u2019t get mad. Trust that the message got through, that they know that they are a little less alone in this world. And it might make a difference.\nFrom our family to you and yours, wishing you a very Merry Christmas.\nmadelyn roesch\nthis year, especially, when \"greed is good\" and \"immigrants need not apply.\" In a diverse neighborhood like Woodhaven, we have to cover each other's backs and reach out to our neighbors regardless of faith or language.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leasingnews.org/archives/May%202005/5-09-05.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NXXPA7P2LF74EOCKSTPYXFK47JHGPGFB", "length": 43890, "nlines": 288, "source_domain": "leasingnews.org", "title": "Subscribe@leasingnews.org", "raw_content": "Sales: seeking energetic, exper; sales prof/ work Newport Beach CA & Deerfield IL Vendor Services Division offices/middle to large ticket resellers/orig. equip. mfg. Requirement/Apply click here\nAbout the Company : CG Commercial Funding is a rapidly growing industry leader in middle/large ticket lease finance.\nwww.cgcommercial.com\nEconomic Events This Week\nTexas Judgment NorVergence Leases Being Appealed\nPlacard---Wise Old Owl\nLeasing Association Meetings Open to Non-Members\nStreamline Sales Task Force Meeting Aug 15-20\nNancy Pistorio First Female Prez EAEL\nGE Commercial Finance Gene Leary\nEdmunds.com Reports True Cost of Incentives\nB. Scott McGlaun New CIO Synovus\nBaseball Poem- Robert L. Harrison\nExperienced Credit, Collections, lease and Finance operations. Manager w/expertise in improving bottom line performance, excellent trainer, manager, motivator. Get result/keep the customer coming back.\nFull listing of 93 \ufffdjob wanted\ufffd ads at:\nBalance of Trade: March\nRetail Sales: April\nInventory Sales Ratio: March\nLeasing Companies to Appeal Texas Judgment NorVergence Leases\nApril 29 th , Harris County, Texas Judge Brent Gamble ruled that \ufffdAll Equipment Rental Agreements or other contracts procured between NORVERGENCE and Texas consumers or between finance companies and Texas consumers as a result of a NORVERGENCE solicitation directed to any Texas consumer are the result of deceptive and unfair practices and fraud on the part of NORVERGENCE and, therefore, are declared void \ufffdab initio' and are unenforceable.\ufffd\nThe default was entered against NorVergence because they did not show up in court: \ufffdThe Defendant, although having been duly and legally citied to appear and answer, failed to appear and answer, and wholly made default.\ufffd\nWhen asked what the next step might be, including punitive damages, and money returned to lessees, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's office said, \ufffd NorVergence is in bankruptcy,\ufffd evidently meaning any other actions or decisions would be directed to the bankruptcy proceedings.\nIt is reported that the ruling is in the process of being appealed as it was based on the defendant not being able to appear as they are in bankruptcy proceedings in New Jersey. In addition, the leasing companies may claim the signers and guarantors of the contracts, to be liable for co-conspiracy with NorVergence to defraud the leasing companies by not disclosing service being covered in the \ufffdEquipment Rental Agreements.\ufffd\nOn the other hand, many Texas NorVergence lessees believe their leasing company now can be sued in Texas for damages and return of lease payments made.\nTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott\nOn November 17, 2004 Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sued bankrupt telecommunications reseller NorVergence of New Jersey for allegedly engaging in a scheme to defraud hundreds of Texas small businesses. The Attorney General also demanded that \ufffd19 finance companies holding rental agreements for now worthless equipment stop attempting to collect millions of dollars from Texas small business owners who signed up for NorVergence's services.\ufffd\nAttorney General Abbott's civil investigative demands and lawsuit were brought under authority of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which permits the office to seek restitution for consumers, injunctive relief, attorneys' fees and penalties of up to $20,000 per violation.\nThe bankruptcy is under the charge of Chief Judge Rosemary Gambardella. There most likely will not will be another meeting of all creditors.\nHere are the latest listings from Pacer Law Report:\n\ufffdNotice of Hearing for: (related document:739 Objection filed by Creditor Nextel of New York, Inc. to 733 Application to Employ Special Litigation Counsel filed by Trustee Charles Forman). Hearing scheduled for 5/10/2005 at 10:00 AM at DHS - Courtroom 3B, Newark. (zlh, ) (Entered: 04/15/2005)\n\ufffdHearing Rescheduled from 4/25/05. (related document:745 Objection filed by Creditor John P. O'Hare) Hearing scheduled for 5/9/2005 at 10:00 AM at RG - Courtroom 3E, Newark. (car, ) (Entered: 04/26/2005)\ufffd\nHere is a copy of Judge Gamble's judgment:\nhttp://leasingnews.org/PDF/Tax_default_judgement_4-2005.pdf\nNo Host\nNon-UAEL members invited\nLocation: Timpano Restaurant\nPlease call Kim at: 760-564-2227\nOr E-mail at kim@uael.org for reservations.\nFamous Crab Feast\nI thought I would send you an email in reference to one of the WILDEST, MOST ENJOYABLE, leasing events in the Mid Atlantic area. For the past seven years a group of leasing professional (usually between 100- 120 attendees) kick off the summer season by gathering together in Hanover Maryland, for the annual \"EAEL Networking Crab Feast\"\nAny of your readers within walking, driving, or flying distant of BWI airport in Baltimore should consider attending this leasing event. It is advertised as a social gathering however with most situations where 10 or more leasing people gather together it quickly develops into a Business Opportunity for everyone. This is the type of event where long-term business relationships are strengthened and new ones are established.\nAnd it all happens as people are elbow deep in crab shells, crab soup and pitchers of cold beer. \"A REAL BALTIMORE TRADITION\"\nThe event is open to everyone EAEL members and Non- Members. The group is usually made up of brokers, lessors, funders, small ticket, mid market and large ticket leasing professionals, bankers, attorneys and just about anyone else that has the slightest connection to the industry and wants to enjoy a night of fun,great food. and excellent copmpany.\nThe event is hosted by :\nNancy Pisorio, CLP, Madison Capital LLC\nDennis Horner , The Equipment Leasing Company\nBruce Winter, CLP, FSG Leasing Inc\nI highly recommend everyone to mark their calendars for June 9, 2005\nand call Dennis Horner to register at 800 365 6566 ext 110\nScott Wheeler C.L.P\nV.P Sales and Marketing\nThe Equipment Leasing Company\nSparks Maryland\nSparks Maryland 21152\nUAEL Oregon Region Presents\nAn Evening at the Portland Beavers Baseball Game\nCall UAEL at 760-564-2227 to REGISTER NOW (before May 16 th ) as this is a first come, first serve event, and tickets are limited!! This is an event you will not want to miss.\nWhere: PGE Park \ufffd Portland OR\nhttp://www.pgepark.com/beavers\nTime: The game starts at 7:05 but you are encouraged to come early.\nCost: $35.00 for members, and $40.00 for non-members.\nEvent: This is the most popular event at the ball park, as Thursday's are considered \ufffdThirsty Thursdays\ufffd as beers are only two dollars ($2.00). June 9 th is \ufffdFresh Beer Night with the Budweiser Clydesdales pre-game appearance\ufffd. The mighty Beavers will be playing Tucson. We have reserved a LUXURY SUITE at the top level, in the middle, right behind home plate. Simply put, you cannot find better accommodations. It is also important to mention the price covers only the price of the tickets, as this event is not for profit. Food will be provided, and we will rely on sponsors to help pay for food. If you have not been to the PGE Park, ask someone who has, as the food is really good, and a night at the ball park is a great time.\nRegistration: Simply call UAEL at 760-564-2227 to make payment arrangements. As mentioned, this is first come, first serve, so please REGISTER NOW.\nFinal Comments: The Oregon Region has always maintained a solid reputation for have a strong region. The suites provide an excellent format to both watch the game, but also provides plenty of room to network, and to get caught up with old friends. We are encouraging early registration , as we have the ability to reserve more than one Suite if we a strong turn out, but you will need to ACT NOW!\nFor additional information: Please contact Gary Parker, Commercial Equipment Lease, at 800-234-1884 or email gparker@commlease.com .\nAsset Management: Long Island City, NY\nseeking an experienced off lease and repossession manager. Successful candidates should have prior experience. Email resume to ekaye@advantagefunding.us or fax to 718 392 5427.\nAbout the Company: Advantage Funding is a leading commercial and consumer vehicle and equipment financing and leasing company, Long Island City, NY.\nEquipment Leasing Marketing Specialist\nEquipment Leasing Marketing Specialist,\nWalnut Creek, CA. College Degree plus\nequipment leasing experience required.\nFor a full job description: click here.\nAt Bank of the West, we take pride in what we do. From contributing to nonprofits and volunteering in our communities to making a point to get to know our customers by name, we aim to stand apart. While many things have changed over our bank's long history, one thing has remained the same: commitment to our customers and our community.\nSales / Sales Representative\nMotivated sales pro for expanding healthcare marketplace. Prior healthcare exper. a plus. Competitive comp plan & benefits.\nContact: jverbeerst@variantleasing.com\nVariant Leasing is a rapidly growing nationwide independent lessor located in south Orange County, CA, specializing in the healthcare & commercial marketplace.\nwww.variantleasing.com\nThe National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Executive Committee Task Force on State and Local Taxation of Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce will meet from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers, 1400 Sixth Avenue at Union Street on Monday, August 15. The meeting will be followed by the Task Force's annual dinner on Monday evening.\nThis Task Force meeting reviewing Streamlined Sales Tax will take place in conjunction with the NCSL Annual Meeting scheduled Tuesday, August 16 through Saturday, August 20. Conference registration information is available at http://www.ncsl.org/annualmeeting\nFor hotel reservation information call 888/221-9425 or visit the online Housing Bureau https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_\nnew&eventID=18425\nAs a reminder , the next meeting of the NCSL Task Force will be at Loews Annapolis Hotel [Telephone: 410/263-0084] in Annapolis, Maryland from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Friday, May 13. This Task Force meeting takes place in conjunction with the NCSL Executive Committee meeting on Saturday, May 14. The agenda for the meeting will include discussion and consideration of the following items:\nFederal Legislation Discussion \ufffd109 th Congress\nStreamlined Sales and Use Tax Act \ufffd Revisions in Federal Legislation\nSmall Business Exemption\nBusiness Activity Tax Simplification Act\nTelecommunications Tax Reform\nReport of State, Local and Industry Telecommunications Tax Summit\nProspect of federal legislation in the 109th Congress\nTask Force strategy for state legislative consideration beginning in 2005\nApril 16 th Streamlined Sales Tax Implementing States Meeting\nImpact of Amendments to the Agreement\nTask Force Consideration to Include Tribal Government Participation in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement\nhttp://www.elaonline.com/GovtRelations/State/Streamometer/\n##### News Briefs #####################\nBaltimore Finance Executive Elected President of the\nEastern Association of Equipment Lessors\nNancy Pistorio, Executive Vice President of Madison Capital, is elected for a 2-year term\nPikesville, MD \ufffd On April 15, 2005, Baltimore based finance executive Nancy Pistorio was elected by the membership of The Eastern Association of Equipment Lessors as their next President. Pistorio, who will serve a two-year term, is the first woman elected president in the 25-year history of the EAEL. She is the Executive Vice President of Madison Capital, a lease finance company, providing funding for equipment and vehicles.\nThe EAEL is a non-profit trade association serving independent equipment lessors and their affiliates, including legal, insurance, banking and accounting professionals. Most of the approximately 180 members of EAEL are located East of the Mississippi, but membership is open to all.\nThe mission of EAEL is to provide educational, professional and networking opportunities to members EAEL facilitates information exchange within the leasing industry through study, discussion and publication. EAEL's activities include:\n\ufffd Developing efficient methods, procedures and techniques for managing common interests\n\ufffd Developing and encouraging the practice of high standards of personal and professional conduct\n\ufffd Holding meetings and conferences for the mutual improvement and education of members\n\ufffd Exchanging and compiling information with respect to all new case law and other legal and legislative developments at state and federal levels which affect the leasing industry\n\ufffd Collecting and disseminating statistics and other useful industry information\nMadison Capital has been an active member of EAEL for 10 years and is a leader in the industry, funding equipment transactions up to $450,000 and vehicle fleets up to $5,000,000. Transactions above this amount are handled through syndication with established funding partners. Madison Capital currently has in excess of $100,000,000 in assets under management and expects to originate in excess of $25 million this year.\nGE Commercial Finance, Commercial & Industrial Finance, Names Industry Leader for Construction & Transportation Focus\nNORWALK, Conn.------GE Commercial Finance, Commercial & Industrial Finance (CIF) has appointed Gene Leary as Industry Leader for the construction and transportation markets.\nIn his new role at GE, Leary will be responsible for driving organic growth in the construction and transportation industries, where GE's CIF has successfully invested over $3 billion predominantly through senior debt and lease transactions during the past 10 years. He will report to Craig Reynolds, Senior Managing Director, GE CIF.\n\"With his extensive background in financing and trucking, Gene is uniquely qualified to understand our customer's specific needs,\" said Reynolds. \"His leadership skills will play a central role in our continued success in the construction and transportation markets.\"\nLeary joined GE in 1997 and has most recently served as a Senior Vice President of Sales for CIF, originating financing opportunities in the Northeast. He has held various sales and sales management roles for over 20 years in lending and leasing. His experience includes acquisition financing, structured finance, leasing, recapitalizations and project finance to a broad range of customers.\nPrior to joining GE, Leary held various origination roles with Citibank and Swiss Bank Corporation. He also was an Operations Manager for Roadway Express, Inc., a national trucking company.\nLeary holds a BS in Economics from the State University of New York and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Columbia University in New York.\nGE Commercial Finance, which offers businesses around the globe an array of financial products and services, has assets of over US$230 billion and is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., USA.\nGE (NYSE:GE) is Imagination at Work -- a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world's toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and advanced materials, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.ge.com\nGE Commercial Finance, Norwalk, Conn. Ellen Mann, 203-229-1915 ellen.mann@ge.com\nEdmunds.com Reports True Cost of Incentives: Domestic Automakers Footed 77% of April's $3.6B Bill\nbut Captured Only 56% of April Market Share\nSANTA MONICA, Calif., -- Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information, reported today that the average manufacturer automotive incentive in the United States was $2,434 per vehicle sold in April 2005, up $67, or 2.8%, from April 2004, and down $121, or 4.7%, from March 2005.\n(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031009/LATH011ALOGO)\nEdmunds.com's monthly True Cost of Incentives(SM) (TCI(SM)) report takes into account all of the manufacturers' various United States incentives programs, including subvented interest rates and lease programs as well as cash rebates to consumers and dealers. To ensure the greatest possible accuracy, Edmunds.com bases its calculations on sales volume, including the mix of vehicle makes and models for each month, as well as on the proportion of vehicles for which each type of incentive was used.\nThe industry's aggregate incentives spending bill totaled $3.6 billion in April. Domestic manufacturers spent $2.8 billion, or 77%, of the total cost; Japanese manufacturers spent $528 million, or 14%; European manufacturers spent $178 million, or 5%; and Korean manufacturers spent $128 million, or 4%.\nOverall, combined incentives spending for domestic Chrysler, Ford and General Motors nameplates averaged $3,339 per vehicle sold in April, down $133 from March 2005. Average domestic incentives have never been higher in any prior April. This month, Chrysler became the biggest spender by increasing incentives spending $28 to $3,535 per vehicle sold. At the same time, its market share increased by 0.2%, up to 13.8%. Ford decreased incentives spending by $78 to $2,986 per vehicle sold in April while its market share decreased by 0.6% to 17.3%. General Motors decreased incentives spending by $255 to $3,477 per vehicle sold while its market dropped by 1.4% to 25.0%. The combined market share of the Big Three reached an historic low of 56.1% in April 2005.\nFrom March to April, European automakers decreased incentives spending by $48 to $1,919 per vehicle sold and increased its market share .05%, up to 6.2%. Japanese automakers decreased incentives spending by $45 to average $1,065 per vehicle sold and gained 0.9% market share, climbing to an all-time high: 33% of the U.S. market. Korean automakers increased incentives spending by $148 to $1,885 per vehicle sold and gained 0.4% market share to a total of 4.5%.\nComparing all brands in April, Mini spent only $14 on incentives, while Scion spent $136 and Porsche spent $161 per vehicle sold. At the other end of the spectrum, Lincoln was the biggest spender at $5,284, followed by Cadillac at $5,063 and Jaguar at $4,113 per vehicle sold. Looking at incentives expenditures as a percentage of MSRP for each brand, Pontiac spent the most, 15.4%, while Mini and Porsche spent the least, 0.1%.and 0.2%, respectively.\nAmong vehicle segments, large SUVs continued to have the highest average incentives, $4,352 per vehicle sold, while sports cars had the lowest average incentives per vehicle at $93. Looking at incentives expenditures as a percentage of MSRP for each segment, large cars were the highest, 11.1%, while sports cars were the lowest, 3.2%.\nAbout Edmunds.com True Cost of Incentives(SM) (TCI(SM))\nEdmunds.com's TCI(SM) is a comprehensive monthly report that measures automobile manufacturers' cost of incentives on vehicles sold in the United States. These costs are reported on a per vehicle basis for the industry as a whole, for each manufacturer, for each make sold by each manufacturer and for each model of each make. TCI covers all aspects of manufacturers' various incentives programs (except volume and similar bonus programs), including dealer cash, manufacturer rebates and consumer savings from subvented APR and lease programs (including subvented lease residual values used in manufacturer leasing programs). Data for the industry, the manufacturers and the makes are derived using weighted averages and are based on actual monthly sales and financing activity.\nEdmunds.com is the premier online resource for automotive information. Its comprehensive set of data, tools and services, including Edmunds.com True Market Value(R) pricing, is generated by Edmunds.com Information Solutions and is licensed to third parties. For example, the company supplies content for the auto sections of NYTimes.com, AOL, About.com, iVillage.com and IGN.com, provides weekly data to Automotive News and delivers monthly data reports to Wall Street analysts. Edmunds.com also publishes a high-speed, on-screen car magazine called Inside Line available free at www.insideline.com. Edmunds.com was named \"best car research\" site by Forbes ASAP, has been selected by consumers as the \"most useful Web site\" according to every J.D. Power and Associates New Autoshopper.com Study(SM) and was ranked first in the Survey of Car-Shopping Web Sites as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif. and maintains a satellite office outside Detroit.\nSOURCE Edmunds.com, Inc.\nSynovus Announces New Chief Information Officer;\nCompany Promotes B. Scott McGlaun\nCOLUMBUS, Ga.-----Synovus (NYSE:SNV), the Columbus, Georgia-based, diversified financial services company, announced the naming of B. Scott McGlaun as the company's new Chief Information Officer.\n\"Information management and security are top priorities throughout our network of decentralized companies,\" said Elizabeth R. \"Lee Lee\" James, Synovus Vice Chairman and Chief People Officer (CPO). \"Scott has demonstrated tremendous leadership in guiding the Synovus Technology team through a period of significant growth for our company and increased regulatory requirements. I am confident in his continued ability to focus our technology resources on managing organizational risk, supporting sales efforts and delivering solutions to our customers.\"\nMcGlaun joined the Synovus family of companies in 1990 when he became a Bank Teller at Columbus Bank and Trust Company. During his 15-year tenure, he has served in various capacities, providing him broad financial services experience. In 1992, he moved to Synovus' Internal Audit Department and in 1994, transferred into the Finance Division as Vice President and Synovus Controller. In 1999, McGlaun moved to the Technology and Operations Division and was promoted to Senior Vice President and Technology Division Manager in 2000. In 2004, McGlaun was promoted to Group Executive of Technology and Operations. He received his degree in Accounting from Columbus State University.\nAs Chief Information Officer, McGlaun follows James, who became Synovus' CIO in 2000. James will continue to serve as Vice Chairman and CPO. McGlaun will report to James and is responsible for the daily management of the Technology and Operations Divisions within Synovus. He will also direct the company's technology investments toward innovative and cost effective solutions that are aligned with the strategic business needs of the company.\nSynovus (NYSE:SNV) is a diversified financial services holding company with over $25 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides integrated financial services including banking, financial management, insurance, mortgage and leasing services through 41 banks and other Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee; and electronic payment processing through an 81-percent stake in TSYS (NYSE:TSS), the world's largest third-party processor of international payments. Synovus has been named one of \"The 100 Best Companies To Work For\" in America by FORTUNE magazine, and has been recognized in its Hall of Fame for consecutive appearances on the list since its inception in 1998. In 2005, Synovus was also named as one of \"America's Most Admired Companies\". See Synovus on the Web at\nwww.synovus.com .\nEconomy's signs of life may spell doom for stocks\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/us/2005-05-08-mart-usat_x.htm\nVCs are still thinking big in Silicon Valley, but they're placing more bets outside information technology\nhttp://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/\n2005/05/09/california_dreamin/\nAdvocates anticipate Georgia Gov. Perdue's signature on state smoking ban\nhttp://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/0505/09smoke.html?UrAuth=%\n60N\\NUOcN]UbTTUWUXUTUZT[U_UWU]UbUZU\\UaUcTYWYWZV\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gore_award\nSpurs mute Sonics 103-81 in Game 1\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/games/\n2005-05-08-spurs-sonics_x.htm\nBrady Gets $60m contract from Patriots\nhttp://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/\n2005/05/08/brady_connects_on_a_long_one/\nBelichick to be Patriots offensive coordinator\nhttp://theredzone.org/news/showarticle.asp?ArticleID=2668\nMr. Smith goes to San Francisco: QB makes camp debut\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/niners/\n2005-05-07-smith-debut_x.htm\nAs governor slides in polls, citizens sound off Opinions around state range from 'nobody likes this guy' to 'I like what he's doing' to 'I understand he's trying to renege on a deal'\nhttp://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/09/VOTERS.TMP\nU.S. wine exports may climb 10%\n/20050507/NEWS/505070380/1036/BUSINESS\nWhen cheap chardonnay is no bargain\nhttp://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full\n&id=1A03D145-9185-4CDE-9087-B44D6EDF7A92\nCork industry lifted by solution to wine taint problem\nhttp://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2005/05/09/1115604711.htm\n36 Extraordinary Pinot Noir/Rosenblum Zinfandel\nSome great buys from the grand master Jerome Draper,\nwho came out of retirement to get back involved as\nthe most trustworthy and best priced broker in the wine\nbusiness. By the way, Rosenblum has become the\n\ufffdMr.Zinfandel\ufffd of California with wines from under\n$5 to over $50, all \ufffdZin.\ufffd all info in \ufffdpdf\ufffd\ufffd\nhttp://leasingnews.org/PDF/Jerome_Draper.pdf\nInternational Pinot Noir Celebration Proceeds to Benefit Oregon Vineyard Workers\nhttp://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050505/sfth107.html?.v=5\n1607- The first Episcopal Church service in an English colony took place at Cape Henry, near Jamestown, Virginia, when the Reverend Robert Hunt celebrated the Eucharist. The event was reported as follows: \ufffd We did hang an awning ( whish is an old saile) to three or four trees, to shadow us form the sunne, our walles were railes of wood, our seats unhewed trees till we cut plankes; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighboring trees.\ufffd\n1773-An American creation, the first newspaper cartoon was \ufffdJoin or Die,\ufffd designed by Benjamin Franklin and published in Philadelphia, PA, in his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. It was printed in the first column of the second page. It depicted a snake cut into segments representing South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England.\nhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may09.html\n1783-The Purple Heart, the first honor badge for enlisted men and noncommissioned officers, was awarded to Sergeants Daniel Bissell, William Brown, and Elijah Churchill of Connecticut regiments, for meritorious action in the Revolutionary War. They were entitled \ufffdto wear on facings over the left breast, the figure of a heart in purple cloth or silk, with narrow lace or binding.\ufffd\nhttp://www.americal.org/awards/ph.htm\n1796-William Blount and William Cocke of Tennessee, elected by the Tennessee legislature, present their credentials to the US Senate. They were refused seats because Tennessee was not admitted until June 1, 1796. They were elected again on August 2, 1796, and took their seats on December 6, 1796. Blount was impeached for concocting a plain to aid the British, but the procedure did not pass the US Senate; however during the trial he was elected to the Tennessee Senate, and eventually and became Speaker of the Senate.\nhttp://www.lexrex.com/bios/wblount.htm\nCocke assumed the role of US Senate in the next term until the legislature elected another person (in these days the state legislature elected US Senate representatives). He later moved to Mississippi, served under General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and afterwards was appointed Indian Agent for the US.\nhttp://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000572\n1800-birthday of John Brown, Abolitionist leader born at Torrington, CT, and hanged December 2, 1859, at Charles Town, WV. Leader of attack on Harpers Ferry, October 16, 1859, which was intended to give impetus to movement for escape and freedom for slaves. His aim was frustrated and in fact resulted in increased polarization and sectional animosity. The first civilian killed by John Brown's raiders at Harpers Ferry was a free Black man. History has made him the legendary martyr of the abolitionist movement; even Walt Whitman wrote a poem about Harpers Ferry. Unfortunately, the real facts are \ufffdHe was a complete failure in business. He welched on his debts. He almost certainly was insane. And in 1856 he nearly plunged Kansas into civil war by ruthlessly murdering five helpless members of a mildly proslavery family, in the process \ufffd splitting open heads and chopping off arms and fingers.\ufffd Dixon Wecter, The Hero in American (1941)\nhttp://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html\nhttp://www.johnbrown.org/\n1813-General William Henry Harrison turned back a siege of Fort Meigs by Shawnee military leader Tecumseh and British general Henry A. Proctor. Harrison was to become the ninth president of the United States, but for only a month, as he contacted pneumonia from a cold and died in office (the first president to die in office ).\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh9.html\n1830- Birthday of Lane Harriet, who acted as official hostess in the White House for her uncle-bachelor James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States, and became known as America's first lady. It is rumored that Buchanan was the first \ufffdgay\ufffd president She is known as the first modern first lady (using her position to advocate causes) including the arts and American Indian causes.\n1843-birthday of Belle Boyd, notorious Confederate spy who later became an actress and lecturer was born at Martinsburg, VA. Belle Boyd at 18 became a famed spy for the Confederacy during the Civil War, stealing weapons, secrets, and helping prisoners to escape. She was arrested several times, once deported to Canada. She authored a book about her exploits. Following the war she became an actor and lecturer, continuing in that profession until her death in 1900. She married three times, her last marriage to a man 15 years her junior. She once shot at a man who was calling on her daughter and refused to marry her. Author of the book, \ufffd Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison,\ufffd she died June 11,1900 at Kilbourne ,WI.\nhttp://www.civilwarhome.com/boydbio.htm\nhttp://www.travelwv.com/bell.htm\n1862-Confederate forces at Norfolk, VA, evacuated the city in costly move, leaving valuable material for the Union army. Norfolk and Portsmouth were occupied on May 10, and the naval yard at Gosport, VA, was burned, in reality ended the Confederates ability to build metal ships and make major repairs to their navy.\nhttp://www.civilwarhome.com/merrimacbirth.htm\nhttp://www.civilwarhistory.com/navy/CSSNavy.htm\n1862-At Hilton Head, SC, General David Hunter, commander of the Department of the South, issued orders freeing slaves in South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. Not having congressional or presidential approval, the orders were countermanded by President Lincoln on May 19 th , ordering Hunter to retract his proclamation as he\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWhunter.htm\nstill feared that this action would force slave-owners in border states to join the Confederates. President Jefferson Davis and the he leaders of the Confederate Army were furious when they heard of Hunter's actions and orders were given that he was a \"felon to be executed if captured\ufffd President Lincoln explained to the New York Tribune, \ufffdMy paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it.\"\n1868-First known as Fullers Crossing, then Lakes Crossing, the name was officially changed to Reno (Nevada). It was named after General Jesse Reno, a Union officer of the Civil War. When the Comstock load was discovered in Virginia City, the nearest large city was Reno, thus it became popular and is still known today as \ufffd The Biggest Little City in the World.\ufffd Its six-week residency requirement for divorce became law on May 1,1931, making it a popular city. At the time, it was the major \ufffdgambling city\ufffd in the United States, and prostitution was legal in several surrounding counties. It was the Las Vegas of its day, today primarily visited by people living in Northern California, although visited by tourists from around the world for not only gambling activity, but the surrounding \ufffdghost towns\ufffd and surrounding old West towns such as Carson City, its capital, Virginia City, and other cities in the California gold country.'\nhttp://www.cityofreno.com/ .\n1894 - Portland, Oregon had its latest freeze when the temperature fell to 32 degrees. This is the only may freeze in Portland's history.\n1899-African American John A. Burr patents the rotary-blade lawn mower.\n1909- Alice Koller Leopold birthday. She wrote Connecticut's equal pay and minimum wage bills in 1949, her freshman year in the Connecticut Assembly.\nThe next year she was elected the Connecticut's secretary of state. She then served as Director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor from 1953- 61, and was the Assistant to the Secretary of Labor to aid and develop programs for women. She was a strong advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment.\nThe mother of two, she had created her own toy company before entering public life.\n1910-pianist Bob Zurke born Detroit, MI, died February 16, 1944\nhttp://www.parabrisas.com/d_zurkeb.html\n1914- President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation asking Americans to give a public expression of reverence to mothers through the celebration of Mother's Day. Carnations have come to represent the day following President William McKinley's habit of always wearing a white carnation, his mother's favorite flower. This year, families in the United States and Canada will celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday, May 14, 2000.\n(The first Mother's Day was observed in 1907 at the request of Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, PA, who asked her church to hold service in memory of all mothers on the anniversary of her mother's death. The newspapers of the day reported this event and it continued the next year at other churches, now annually, the second Sunday in May.\n1914- Hank Snow, one of the fathers of country music in Canada, was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He was heavily influenced by singer and yodeler Jimmie Rodgers, and began to perform in his style in the early 1930's. Snow made his radio debut about 1933 on CHNS in Halifax, and three years later made his first recording for Victor, the company with which he remained for four decades. He settled permanently in Nashville, Tennessee about 1950, and became a US citizen in 1958.Snow became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry in 1950, the same year he recorded \"I'm Movin' On,\" which became one of the most successful singles of the first 50 years of recorded country music. His other hits include \"Golden Rocket\" and \"I've Been Everywhere.\" Hank Snow was indicted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976 and into the Juno Awards Hall of Fame in 1979.\nOn this date in 1994, on his 80th birthday, Hank Snow received an honorary degree from St. Mary's University in Halifax. The presentation was made in Nashville, and he spoke to the graduates via videotape.\n1918---TV Journalist Mike Wallace born Brookline, MA.\n1927 - A major tornado outbreak occurred from Texas to Michigan. There were 28 tornadoes rated f2 or greater. 9 separate tornadoes killed 5 or more people making this day one of the worst tornado days in U.S. History. Popular Bluff, Missouri was devastated by a tornado rated f4 on the fujita scale. 98 people were killed and 300 were injured. 31 business and residential blocks were destroyed in the city. Strong, Arkansas was leveled by another f4 tornado with 24 people killed.\n1928-birthday of Pancho Gonzales. Richard Alonzo \ufffdPancho\ufffd Gonzales, tennis player born at Los Angeles, CA. A self-taught player, Gonzales won the 1948 US National Singles Championship and repeate4d in 1949. He turned pro and won the world's championship from 1954 through 1962. Gonzales was an aggressive, temperamental player who rarely trained. Died at Las Vegas, NV, July 3, 1995.\n1933 - A tornado, rated F4 on the Fujita Scale, moved through Monroe, Cumberland, and Russell Counties in Kentucky. 36 people were killed.\n1939 \ufffdbirthday of Ralph Boston (National Track & Field Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer: gold medalist: long jump [1960], silver [1964], bronze [1968]; broke world long jump record 5 times, the last at 27 feet, 5 inches [1965])\nhttp://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/bostonra.shtml\n1939 \ufffd Glenn Miller records \"Stairway to the Stars\" with Ray Eberle, one of the most popular singers in the 1940's..\n1941-Billie Holiday records \ufffd God Bless the Child\ufffd (Okey 6270)\nhttp://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/bio.html\n1942\ufffdAttorney General John Ashcroft born Chicago, Illinois.\n1944- Jimmie Davis, who was a successful country singer as early as the 1930's, became governor of Louisiana. Davis, the composer of the country standard \"You Are My Sunshine,\" later resumed his music career.\nhttp://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/fame/davis.html\nhttp://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/artists/e4-jimmie.html\nhttp://www.etrecordshop.com/jdtribut.htm\n1945- Steve Katz birthday: vocalist, guitarist and harmonica player with such bands as the Blues Project, Blood, Sweat and Tears and American Flyer.\nhttp://www.altx.com/katz/katzbio.html\nhttp://www.rdrop.com/users/rickert/steve-solo.html\n1946---Birthday of Candice Bergen - U.S. actor and photographer.A whole generation, however, knows her as Murphy Brown. She was the daughter of famous actor and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who also was very popular on the radio as well as in movies. At 34 she married French filmmaker Louis Malle who died in 1995. They had one daughter Chloe (b. 1985). In 2000 she remarried.\n1949-Singer/pianist/composer Billy Joel was born in Long Island, New York. His hit single \"Just the Way You Are,\" won two Grammy Awards in 1979, and has since become a standard. The album from which the song was taken, \"The Stranger,\" is reported to have sold more than five-million copies. Joel's other hit singles include \"My Life,\" \"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me\", \ufffd We Didn't Start the Fire,\ufffd \ufffdPiano Man,\ufffd and \"Uptown Girl.\"\nhttp://www.billyjoel.com/intro.html\nhttp://www.billyjoel.com/\nhttp://www.billyjoelmusic.com/\nhttp://billyjoel.8k.com/\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/2256/billyjoel.html\nPretend - Nat King Cole\nSong from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra\nMexican Joe - Jim Reeves\n1954-Chet Baker Quartet first concert, Ann Arbor, MI.\n(Saw him play many times. He always sounded \ufffdflat,\ufffd but then I dated a girl he used to date, and enough said.)\nhttp://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/shop/shopmain.cfm?\nCatalogName=bakerchet\nhttp://www.chetbaker.net/\n1959- 16-year-old Wayne Newton made his Las Vegas debut at the Freemont Hotel. That first booking, scheduled to last two weeks, stretched into three years. Newton went on to become king of the Vegas showrooms, earning close to $20- million a year. He has been seen live by over 12 million people, more than have seen either Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley in concert.\n1960-The U.S. Food and Drug Control approved the \ufffdbirth control pill.\ufffd It was developed over a five year period by Gregory Pincus, a biochemist at Worchester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, MA, and John Rock, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA> It used synthetic progesterone and estrogen to repress ovulation in women. The first clinical tests were performed in 1954. The project was initially commissioned and funded by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and heiress Katherine Dexter McCormick.\nMother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe\nA Hundred Pounds of Clay - Gene McDaniels\nHello Walls - Faron Young\n1961-Perhaps still germane today, Speaking before the bigwigs of network TV at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, Newton Minow, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, exhorted those executives to sit through an entire day of their own programming. He suggested that they \ufffdwill observe a vast wasteland.\ufffd Further, he urged them to try for \ufffdimagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity.\ufffd\n1961-First baseman Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles became the fourth player to hit grand slams in consecutive innings. Genitle hit his homers in the first and second innings of a game against the Minnesota Twins and added a sacrifice fly as the Orioles won, 13-5.\n1964 \ufffd Great jazz trumpet player, and now singer, found his recording of \"Hello Dolly!\" on the \"Billboard\" music chart in the top spot for the first time in his 41-year music career. Later, \ufffdSatchmo' was cast in the movie version of \"Hello Dolly!\ufffd. When the song hit Number One, it pushed out the Beatles \ufffdShe Loves You.\ufffd He had another top pop tune also sung by Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, but he is best remembered for \ufffd Mack the Knife.\ufffd\nhttp://tinpan.fortunecity.com/riff/11/frame/h2.html\nIn the many old recordings, when Louis Armstrong played, you could always pick him out. He was the most influential jazz man of the 20th Century.\nhttp://www.louis-armstrong.com/\nhttp://www.satchmo.com/louisarmstrong/props4pops.html\n1968-- In front of only 6,298 Oakland fans, Jim Catfish Hunter hurls the first American League perfect game in forty-six years as the A's defeat the usually heavy hitting Twins, 4-0.\nAquarius/Let the Sun Shine In - The 5th Dimension\nHungry Eyes - Merle Haggard\n1965 - Vladimir Horowitz played his first public concert in 12 years at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The audience applauded the piano virtuoso with a standing ovation that lasted for 30 minutes.\nWhen I Need You - Leo Sayer\nPlay, Guitar Play - Conway Twitty\n1977---- Patty Hearst let out of jail.\nhttp://www.crimelibrary.com/classics4/hearst/\n1984-The Chicago White Sox defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, on a Harold Baines home run in the 25 th inning. The game, the first 17 innings of which were played the day before, was the longest extra-inning game by time, 8 hours, 6 minutes. The teams then played their regularly scheduled game of nine innings, making a total of 34 innings in two days.\nThere's No Way \ufffd Alabama\n1987-Switch-hitter Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles became the first play in major league history to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in consecutive games\nhttp://users.aol.com/barbramusc/hello.html\nhttp://www.omega23.com/books/s5/satchmoarmstrong.html\n1992--- Final episode of \"Golden Girls\" airs on NBC-TV.\nhttp://lifetimetv.com/shows/golden/\nhttp://epguides.com/GoldenGirls/\nhttp://www.beatricearthur.com/\n1997-Peter Peterson presented his portfolio in Hanoi, becoming the first Ambassador to Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War. Peterson, a former Air Force captain, had been held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for 6.5 years after his bomber was shot down near Hanoi in 1966. He was released in March, 1973. The United States had not maintained formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam since its previous ambassador, Graham Martin, left Saigon by helicopter in 1975 as the city fell to t North Vietnamese forces.\n1998 ----Cardinal Mark McGwire reaches the 400th career home run mark. Big Red's historic milestone comes in 4,727 at-bats (127 less at-bats than Babe Ruth) which is the least plate appearances ever needed to reach the mark.\nSpring is the beginning\nof baseball lore,\nwhen rookies' feet\ntouch the grass\nto spin the world.\nWritten by Robert L. 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It offers you inspiration for the practice, people and ideas of the current spiritual reawakening.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lesliearely.com/haveyouseenthem", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:23:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3HIS6LW4XMIDTXN4I7FHGXEUJXXJGT3J", "length": 660, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lesliearely.com", "title": "HaveYouSeenThem \u2014 Leslie Martinez", "raw_content": "HaveYouSeenThem\nHave you seen them? is a physical and digital artistic intervention project. The initial goal of the project was to change the public perception of Central American and Mexican immigrants. Designed as a awareness campaign, the project also called its public to action through the act of placing stickers of missing migrants onto milk cartons in grocery stores. It aimed to draw more attention to the issue of missing migrants and its causes, including the militarized US/Mexico border, root causes of migration, among others. \u00bfHave you seen them? recontextualizes the cultural trope of milk cartons as the medium for missing persons in the U.S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection-search?collection_search%5B0%5D=subject%3A2298", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:30:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JOMFGV3EIRU2ASDOEC5BHAWHN6Y2WAO4", "length": 181, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu", "title": "Collection Search | Levy Music Collection", "raw_content": "Coming From the Matinee. Song.\nIf That's Your Idea of a Wonderful Time-Take Me Home.\nTake Your Girlie To the Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home).\n(-) Motion picture theaters (3)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3572, "original_length": 67809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lionsworld.co.za/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PGKWKSGIXGQWD2LLEEHVJ53PFB4532TQ", "length": 3693, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "lionsworld.co.za", "title": "LionsWorld", "raw_content": "The Lions is a provincial rugby union team in South Africa. Rugby union is a team sport played in most countries in the world, and 95 national teams appear on the current IRB (International Rugby Board) World Ranking.\nWhat made you start this website?\nI started this website in September 1996 when there were hardly any South African Rugby websites on the internet. In fact, the only South African website that started before mine, and that is still going, is the SARU website.\nI have always been a big Transvaal/Lions rugby fan, and have been going to Ellis Park with my dad ever since I was a baby, which was in the 1970's. In those days it still had wooden seats and dusty aisles, and you weren't forced to pay some guy a lot of money to watch your car.\nI also remember when they started building the new Ellis Park, when we had to go watch rugby at the Wanderers (The local cricket grounds) for about two seasons. In those days Transvaal battled to win at rugby, because Naas Botha played for Northerns and he was just too good for us.\nBut it was worth the wait, we got one of the finest rugby stadiums in South Africa, and we also started winning games, and won the Currie Cup three times in the 90's. (1993, 1994 and 1999)\nSo that's why I started the page, I am a big Transvaal fan, and because there wasn't a lot of South African Rugby pages, I decided to start one with info about my favorite team, Transvaal, but I also include some information about the Springbok games and players.\nCan you help to get tickets to matches?\nNo, I can't, although from 2007 the GLRU (Golden Lions Rugby Union) often provided me with tickets for the Super 14 matches that I was able to give away as prizes in competitions.\nCan you help to get the contact details of the players?\nNo, I can't, although I do know some of the players personally, I have to respect their privacy.\nWhy do you use the old name?\nBefore the team was called the \"Lions\", the name was Transvaal, and this was from 1889. In 1993 the name of the union and the team was changed to \"Lions\". I have owned the domain www.transvaal.co.za since 2004, and you can still access my website by using that URL. In 2009 I acquired the domain www.lionsworld.co.za, and that is now where the site is hosted.\nDo you think the home ground of the Lions should be moved elsewhere?\nNo, I go to most rugby games at Ellis Park, and have been going there for more than 40 years, so it will be really sad if Ellis Park isn't the home of the Lions any longer. Safe parking exist at the Johannesburg stadium as well as in the parkade on the Eastern side of the park, so there is really no excuse to come and support your team! I can honestly say that in all the years that I have been going to Ellis Park that I haven't experienced a single bad incident.\nWill you link to my page?\nI'll gladly link to any rugby page, as long as you are willing to link back to mine!\nHow big is a rugby field?\nThis was a bit of an unusual question, but here goes: The field is normally 100 meters long by 70 meters wide, excluding the in goal area, which is obviously the same width as the playing area, and anything from 10 meters to 25 meters long. Ellis Park then seats about 62500 spectators around this playing field.\nHow many points did a try count during the years?\nThis was a very good question, when rugby started a try didn't count any points, but you were then allowed to \"try\" to score by kicking a conversion. In 1890 they started awarding 1 point for a try, where today it counts 5. 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My research interests include social tagging, Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, classification systems, collaborative web technologies and the creation and visualisation of structures in information organisation systems. I have taught courses in information organisation, metadata, database design, programming and linked data.\nI would like to attend the summit to increase my participation in the linked open data movement. I plan to continue teaching my linked data course and hope to enter the challenge (heat 2) this year. I am also interested in speaking with people in libraries, archives or museums who are using linked open data to see what projects they are undertaking and what skills and background they are seeking. I would be very interested in discussing issues related to teaching linked data skills as well as ideas for practical projects based on real data which I could incorporate into my class.\nMy research interests are in Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web. My focus has been social tagging and how it impacts information organisation and information retrieval, but I have begun incorporating more work on the Semantic Web. I taught a course on Linked Data and Mashups at the School of Information Studies, a course I have now taught twice. 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In 1999, a member of the same family who had been farming the land for over 300 years started bottling and distributing the water under the brand name Llanllyr Source. Source quickly became recognized by the world\u2019s leading hotels, sommeliers, and chefs as one of the most perfectly balanced, purist tasting natural spring waters.\n\u201cSource hired Adam&Co., in partnership with Adned, to contemporize the brand. Our goal was to better tell the brand\u2019s rich history to a modern audience, re-establish the brand\u2019s luxury positioning, and to introduce a new line of flavored mixers based on the same brand name. This came to life through a new brand strategy, brand identity, messaging and packaging. 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Some of our products include Zipper Pouch, Plastic Zipper Pouch, Shopping Bag and P.P Bags.With sound experience and thorough know-how of the market, we have been able to distinguish our place in the market of stiff competition.Moreover, we have a resourceful infrastructure setup that is maintained by a team of talented employees. This is how, we have been growing step-by-step to a dominant organization of present times.\nOur quality management system comprises state-of-the-art equipment, selection of quality raw materials and trained personnel. As a result, all the products conform to the original prototype, printing is fine and clear, and the strength of the bags are at par with the best in class.\nTo top the benchmark quality products, our prices are also the most affordable; Compare our prices with those offered by our competitors.\nWe remain committed to delivering product batches always on time, as per budget and within the deadlines. 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But all that success didn\u2019t stop him from developing anxiety and questioning the meaning of his life.\nStefan tried everything: he surfed, meditated, danced, talked it out. But while it placated him, it didn\u2019t quite eradicate his need for certainty. His anxiety got worse.\nThen one day he sat by the ocean and realized that life guarantees only one thing: everyone is going to die, no matter who they are or what they believe. That realization would change his life, and lead him to go off the grid to Spain for three weeks, where he wrote down his philosophy of life in the form of a poem. His poem was actually published as a book and his message found a huge audience, who resonated with Stefan\u2019s courage and deep truth.\n\u201cWe\u2019re All Going to Die\u201d is one of the fruits of Stefan\u2019s existential journey, taking his poem and manifesto and turning it into a cinematic confection. It has a strong, serious message: it wants its viewers to fear less and live more by reflecting on death and creating art. The voiceover narration asks us to imagine what would flash before our eyes if death \u2014 in the form of the voice of The Matrix and Lord of the Rings actor Hugo Weaving \u2014 paid us a visit.\nBut the film itself is funny, vibrant and even joyous in feel, exploring the meaning of life through flights of fancy, colorful visuals and the occasional fart joke.\nImaginative camerawork and vivid cinematography, along with dynamic animation and strong writing, all work together to offer viewers an opportunity not only to be entertained but to reflect on who they are and how they live their lives.\nDirector Stefan Hunt has a clear agenda to wake people up from living a passive life in denial of its central fact: that it comes to an end. The sheer brio, wit and delight of the filmmaking itself offers energy, uplift and inspiration in its message to look at how they live through the lens of death \u2014 and at its end, be inspired to embrace life and all of its possibilities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mabizblog.weebly.com/blog/free-pc-games-download", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2DHXFJUAJ5IO7OLVJZ3Z22CFGAK2R744", "length": 2593, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mabizblog.weebly.com", "title": "Free PC Games Download", "raw_content": "Are you exhausted of playing your favorite online game while dealing with slow internet connection? Do you feel depressed while you are longing to play your favorite online game if you cannot access the internet? 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What is it specifically that John did?\u201d Don\u2019t expect the boss (or anyone else providing this feedback) to be armed with the specifics. It will most likely be something sloppy like, \u201cHe did a really good job in the meeting we were in.\u201d OK, so you know it has something to do with a meeting he was in.\nThat\u2019s great, but recognize that it isn\u2019t worthy of \u201cperformance feedback\u201d, since it isn\u2019t specific as to what he did. Instead of treating it like feedback, treat it as \u201cinformation\u201d or \u201cdata\u201d. It is input that John is somehow doing a good job in some way. Great! Now, instead of turning it into \u201cfeedback\u201d use it as a platform to learn more about what John is doing.\nThe same strategy goes for a negative example. Your boss comes to you and says, \u201cI\u2019m worried about Maurice. He doesn\u2019t seem to have his act together. Make sure he turns things around.\u201d Again, this is not very specific, so you have to attempt to get more information. The boss gives you nothing more than a lead, \u201cHe was not cooperative during the meeting.\u201d So now you know it has something to do with a meeting, being cooperative, and his boss\u2019s boss. That\u2019s not much to give performance feedback on, since you don\u2019t know what he did, or what he needs to do differently. So instead of giving performance feedback (since you didn\u2019t observe the performance), you should treat it as a data point, an input, and a platform for learning more about what Maurice is doing.\nb) If important, document in a performance log to identify trends\nThe first thing to consider doing is to put this information in a performance log. In this case, you can note the \u201cfeedback\u201d from the indirect, but you don\u2019t have to give this feedback to the employee, however tempting it may be. If the quality of the information isn\u2019t that great (and it often isn\u2019t very good at all, per the above examples), then it is better to keep it as a data point, not an action item. Tracking it in a performance log allows you to see if it becomes a trend or a tendency. If it becomes a trend or tendency, then this is something worth investigating more. Find opportunities to more direct observation so you can provide actionable performance feedback, which can be either positive or corrective \u2013 don\u2019t just focus on negative comments!\nc) Look for opportunities for direct observation, then provide the feedback\nArmed with data points from other sources of indirect information, you can make a more strategic decision about which behaviors you need to observe more to give performance feedback on. If there is a tendency you notice that the boss or a customer frequently gives you information about, and it seems relevant and important to the job performance, then look for opportunities for direct observation on what it is that is generating this \u201cfeedback.\u201d I provide tips for where to find opportunities for direct observation in my series on \u201cdirect observation.\u201d Only after directly observing the behaviors can you give quality performance feedback (both reinforcing and corrective).\nd) In positive scenarios, share the indirect feedback if you have direct observation as well\nOK, sometimes a boss or a customer gives you feedback that they really liked what they saw, or didn\u2019t like what they experienced. If you happen to have your own observation of this event (such as your own direct observation, or a tangible artifact related to the event), then use your own observations to provide the feedback. If it is reinforcing feedback (i.e., \u201ckeep doing this\u201d), couple your specific and immediate feedback with the feedback heard from customers or your boss. \u201cI received a compliment from customers that they really liked this, too.\u201d\nIf corrective feedback, it is usually sufficient for you to provide your own observations in providing the feedback \u2013 and you can opt to use language that indicates the impact of the actions, \u201cCustomers will prefer it if you do it this way.\u201d You do not need to cite others\u2019 feedback as part of your own performance feedback.\nIn short \u2013 try to refrain from reacting to feedback about your employee until you have more tangible information about what it is that the employee is doing that is either good or needs to be corrected. Managers who approach the improvement of their employees\u2019 performance in this manner build more trust, are able to drive performance to higher levels, and, ironically, don\u2019t have to worry about providing as much performance feedback. It\u2019s a more strategic approach compared to reacting and sharing whatever tidbit of info you\u2019ve heard from the myriad of sources of info, and allows managers to avoid many mistakes that disrupt the relationship between the employee and the manager.\nIn my next article, I\u2019ll discuss what to do about situations where there isn\u2019t the luxury of being able to wait until direct observation opportunities, such as customer complaints.\n7 Responses to \u201cTips for how managers should use indirect sources of information about employees\u201d\nJanelle Watson says:\nI\u2019m really enjoying this series about indirect sources of info. So often it seems that a lot of my information about my personnel comes from those indirect sources so it\u2019s great to have this opportunity to learn the proper way to handle it. I alsoappreciate that you point out that this can and should be done not just with complaints (so often we\u2019re reactionary instead of proactive) but that it should be done with compliments as well.\nI\u2019m glad you\u2019re enjoying the series! 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After earning her Bcs. degree in Architecture and Regional Planning Engineering, from Tripoli University, she gained a wealth of knowledge through five years working experience with one of the world\u2019s leading companies in Railway Business \u201cThe German Railways\u201d, two of which as an expat in the Gulf region and in Germany. 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Moreover, he has ambitiously planned and co-founded \u201cMazadah for Training and Development LLC\u201d with an aim to develop capacity building service in Libya and enhance it with professional training and high-quality certified courses.\nMohamed Maraghy\nCTO/ Regional Manager\nRHCA,RHCSS,RHCDS,RHCVA,RHCE,RHCSA,RHCI,RHCX\nMr. Maraghy is passionate and hardworking IT expert and an authorized RedHat and VMTraining Instructor; who has around 10 years of experience in consultancy and training in Red Hat Linux official courses. During his studies in El-Mansoura University in Egypt, back in 2002, he worked, part-time, as a Professional Systems Engineer with an authorized IBM partner. After graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Computers and Systems Engineering in 2007, he started his career as an Instructor and a Technical Consultant in one of the well-known IT companies in Egypt. 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Having more than 10 years of experience in Linux administration and FOSS, Muslim has helped companies in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Germany to enhance and push forward their infrastructure to a next level by helping them migrate to Linux, implement private clouds, develop full stack web applications and implementing DevOps.\nMuslim is one of the few RHCAs (Red Hat Certified Architect) available worldwide and probably the only one in Jordan. He has conducted several Linux training in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He had taught Linux+, LPI level- I and Network+ at Millennium Institute (Jeddah), King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah), Riyadh Technical College (Riyadh), Al-Meem United Factory (Riyadh), Pricess Sumaya University (Amman) and Opensooq Ltd (Amman). He also has conducted training in DevOps which included source code management systems (SCM) as well as basic PHP programming skills.\nMoustafa H.\nMoustafa is a highly qualified technical consultant, who worked as a system architect and integrator with extensive project management and team leadership experience. He has over 8 years of experience working with Linux and Open Source Technologies.\nTogether with his Linux experience, Moustafa has in-depth knowledge and experience in network design, management, monitoring and security as well as a broad understanding of open source technologies, storage and backup systems, virtualization and cloud computing.\nOne of his highlighting projects was leading the team that designed and supported the TETRA network, one of the most critical networks in Qatar, and integrating many technologies to create a constantly available network. 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Now he has about 6 years of experience in teaching and consultancy in Linux, open source projects and Virtualization fields.\nAbdullah holds 4 certificates in Linux, all from RedHat company. He used to be an instructor for Linux, Unix and Network and had conducted Red Hat courses for more than 500 people, tens of them were able to pass in different Red Hat exams. He prepared 4 of his trainees to be able to solo teach Red Hat courses, and they are now working as Red Hat instructors in major Red Hat training centers.\nAbdullah is eager to share his knowledge with others and be a successful tool that helps people migrating from closed source field to the freely open source world!\nRed Hat Expert\nRHCSA, RHCE, VCA-DCV, VCP5-DCV\nMohammad is a System Engineer holding a BSc Degree in communication and electronics engineering from Mansoura University. 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In this mechanism, there are two types of threads that show up, e.g., producers and consumers. The goal is to match pairs of threads, one of each type, and send them away. Usually the purpose of the pairing is for a producer to hand over a data item (such as a task to perform) to a consumer. The asymmetric rendezvous abstraction encompasses both unfair synchronous queues (or pools) which are a key building block in Java\u2019s thread pool implementation and other message-passing and hand-off designs, and the elimination technique that is used to scale concurrent stacks and queues. We present a highly scalable asymmetric rendezvous algorithm that improves the state of the art in both unfair synchronous queue and elimination algorithms. It is based on a distributed scalable ring structure, unlike Java\u2019s synchronous queue which relies on a non-scalable centralized structure. It is nonblocking, in the following sense: if both producers and consumers keep taking steps, some rendezvous operation is guaranteed to complete. (This is similar to the lock-freedom property, while taking into account the fact that \"it takes two to tango\", i.e., both types of threads must take steps to successfully rendezvous.)\nFast and Scalable Rendezvousing. Yehuda Afek, Michael Hakimi and Adam Morrison. DISC 2011. Awarded best student paper.\nSynchronous queue (Java) code is available here. This is based on benchmark code used in the Scalable Flat-Combining Based Synchronous Queues paper.\nStack (C++) code is available here. This is based on the benchmark code used in the Flat combining and the synchronization-parallelism tradeoff paper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mediastorm.newdesignhigh.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:44:29Z", "digest": "sha1:NZZXJXV6JPM4ZE6TPD5VNPINI4ZENY24", "length": 177, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mediastorm.newdesignhigh.com", "title": "Mediastorm New Design", "raw_content": "Posted by Dr. Scott at 11:52 AM No comments:\nPosted by Dr. Scott at 1:32 PM No comments:\nPosted by Dr. Scott at 12:54 PM No comments:\nPosted by Dr. Scott at 7:27 AM No comments:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 10967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mediaviolence.org/media-video-violence-addiction-research/research-archives/danzig-d-2012-countering-the-jack-bauer-effect-an-examination-of-how-to-limit-the-influence-of-tvs-most-popular-and-most-brutal-hero-in-m-flynn-f-f-salek-eds-screening-torture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NM4D33P6RJYE5MMY5PSI6M57D5KQ5HD3", "length": 1525, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mediaviolence.org", "title": "Danzig, D. (2012). Countering the Jack Bauer effect: An examination of how to limit the influence of TVs most popular, and most brutal, hero. In M. Flynn, F. F. Salek (Eds.) , Screening torture: Media representations of state terror and political domination (pp. 21-33). New York, NY US: Columbia University Press. | MediaViolence.org", "raw_content": "Danzig, D. (2012). Countering the Jack Bauer effect: An examination of how to limit the influence of TVs most popular, and most brutal, hero. In M. Flynn, F. F. Salek (Eds.) , Screening torture: Media representations of state terror and political domination (pp. 21-33). New York, NY US: Columbia University Press.\nTo some, Jack Bauer, the hero of the FOX television program 24, is just the sort of guy the U.S. needs to counter the threat from extremist groups like al-Qaeda. Bauer never flinches when confronting a terrorist. In its first six seasons 24 broadcast eighty-nine scenes that feature torture. Bauer has used nearly every torture technique imaginable over the lifetime of the series. He has stabbed, shot, kicked, choked, electrocuted, drugged, blackmailed, threatened family members of terrorists with death, and used other exotic forms of torture in his abusive quest for information. Terrorists who are willing to die for their cause routinely reveal critical secrets seconds after Bauer turns on the pain. 24 is at the leading edge of a new trend in television. Since September 11 there has been a lot more torture on TV\u2014an average of more than 120 scenes a year on prime time. In this chapter, the author argues that the torture techniques and effectiveness of the hero of 24 are admired and sometimes emulated by American soldiers. He also discusses a documentary he coproduced, Primetime Torture, that debunks the effectiveness of the practice. 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In general, these systems serve as emergency equipments and provide confidence and security to those individuals who lead a lonely life at homes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 8304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://medicalsalesguru.com/how-to-bridge-the-gap-between-being-perceived-as-a-product-pusher-or-a-consultant-in-medical-sales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6UJU2NL3C7XJZFTOLLCSJGAETLOR7D7O", "length": 2131, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "medicalsalesguru.com", "title": "How to Bridge the Gap Between Being Perceived as a Product-Pusher vs. a Medical Sales Professional | Medical Sales Guru Podcast", "raw_content": "Previous PostMedical Sales When Customers Act Like They\u2019re Better Than YouNext PostIf you could only focus on one thing to win in medical sales, what would it be?\n2 thoughts on \u201cHow to Bridge the Gap Between Being Perceived as a Product-Pusher vs. a Medical Sales Professional\u201d\nBenjamin Atkinson says:\nExcellent advice! The title \u2018consultant\u2019 is trite, but the consultative approach is anything but prevalent. I borrowed the concept of \u201cgiving gifts\u201d from Seth Godin, but I think you\u2019re describing the same approach.\nI\u2019ve created a support group for a chronic illness and it is viewed as an invaluable resource by physicians. Do you have other examples of the consultative approach directed toward patients?\nPS \u2013 Great stuff in your new book!\nThanks for your comment Ben. I\u2019ve not specifically considered a consultative approach to patients, but I try to use such an approach when I engage anyone in my life, so taking this approach with patients makes sense. I have gone on doctor visits with some elderly friends lately, and I notice how doctors ask questions. Most employ closed-ended, yes or no type questions, not giving the patient an opportunity to elaborate, e.g., \u201cdo you have any pain in your shoulder? Is it a dull pain? Is it an ache? Does it hurt when you put your arms above your head?\u201d All valuable information, but the doctor who asks open-ended questions first, gets the patient\u2019s perspective which may uncover some issues that would not come out with yes or no questions. The other thing, and I think this would be important in a support group environment as well, is when doctors give patients an opportunity to express themselves so that they feel as if someone wants to listen, i.e. someone cares. I try to get people to think and tell me what it is that they want to change, do better, or leave alone. That\u2019s more important than what I think they should do or is best for them because if I tell them, they can argue against my recommendations, but they won\u2019t argue with their own data.\nYou\u2019re obviously a caring person Ben, and I applaud you for taking the time to help others outside of the work environment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://meeting.handsurgery.org/abstracts/2016/P15.cgi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7T5HSRMRRQJ4AXGLFARNRYB45PEYWSB", "length": 2888, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "meeting.handsurgery.org", "title": "AAHS - Assessment of Internet Information Available to Patients for Total Wrist Arthroplasty", "raw_content": "Assessment of Internet Information Available to Patients for Total Wrist Arthroplasty\nIntroduction: Hand surgeons are performing an increased number of total wrist arthroplasty procedures. Despite the informed consent process between the patient and surgeon, patients will turn to the Internet for education regarding this procedure, and hand surgeons need to understand the information available. No studies have assessed the Internet information available to patients regarding total wrist arthroplasty. We hypothesize that information found on the Internet during a simulated patient search does not adequately address the core components necessary for an informed decision and is presented at too advanced of a reading grade level.\nMethods: The search terms \"total wrist arthroplasty\" and \"wrist joint replacement\" were search-using Google, Bing, and Yahoo search engines. The top 25 websites for each search term were recorded for each search engine. This search was modeled to represent the patient experience. We used this to comply a list of unique websites for analysis (Figure 1). The websites were reviewed for authorship and a discussion of indications, contraindications, risks, benefits and alternatives. We noted this and additional information on a web-site review worksheet. The readability of the information was calculated using the Flesch-Kincaid score. A paired t-test was used for statistical analysis with p< 0.05 as significant.\nResults: A total of 60 websites were analyzed. Authorship of the websites were 51.7% academic, 21.7% private, 13.3% industry sponsored and 13.3% other sources. The mean number of indications, contraindications, benefits, risks and alternatives are reported by website authorship (Table 1). There was no difference in the number of indications, benefits, risks and alternatives when academic websites were compared with the other website types. Academic websites provided more detailed discussion of contraindication (P<0.05) compared with the other authorships. Of the academic websites, 28/31 provided indications, 9/31 discussed contraindications, 21/31 reported benefits, 17/31 identified risks, and 27/31 provided alternatives. Peer reviewed literature was only referenced on 54.8% of academic websites vs. 10.3% private, industry and other websites. Flesch-Kincaid score was 10.8 (range 6.8-12) with only 6.7% of websites written under an 8thgrade reading level.\nDiscussion: Internet information available for total wrist arthroplasty does not adequately report the necessary information to help a patient make an informed decision. Academic websites do not provide better information than other website types. Peer reviewed references were scarce and information provided was above the understanding of the average patient. Hand surgeons should properly counsel patients and supplement poor information available on the Internet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 3424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://meetthe30challenge.blogspot.com/2013/02/rhythm-is-dancer-my-first-and-last-5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:36:10Z", "digest": "sha1:S6AZLFB6CKINSYWESUG5J6GN3I34GLU2", "length": 6826, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "meetthe30challenge.blogspot.com", "title": "Thirty@30: Rhythm is a Dancer: My first (and last) 5 Rhythms class.", "raw_content": "Rhythm is a Dancer: My first (and last) 5 Rhythms class.\nI've just been to my first rave. A hedonistic orgy of dance; arms flinging, sweat flying, beats thumping. Except there was no booze, no drugs, and a disappointing lack of glow sticks. In fact, I'm starting to suspect that it wasn't a rave at all...\nHere's what happened: I had a really terrible day. At about 6.45pm I was sitting on my sofa in floods of tears, contemplating cheese on toast in front of the telly. Not a particularly grim prospect, all things considered, but also unlikely to cheer me up. Then I remembered that a friend had recently recommended something called '5 Rhythms', a form of moving meditation that might help me through these tricky emotional times. A quick google later and I was in possession of the knowledge that a 5 Rhythms class was due to start at 7.30pm at the Old Finsbury Town hall, in Islington.\nI deliberated. Cheese on toast? Strange unfamiliar dancing thingumy? Once again, Thirty@30 made the decision for me. I grabbed a bottle of water and off I went.\nHere is some pertinent information related to me and dancing:\nI don't need alcohol to dance all night\nI have tried all of the following forms of dance:\nBallet, jazz, tap, belly dancing, contemporary, African, flamenco, salsa, tango, modern jive and hip hop\nGiven all this, 5 Rhythms should have been right up my alley. Because although there's clearly a huge philosophy behind it, at its core it's just dancing. Lots of dancing. I should have totally rocked it...\nWhen I walked into the room a trance-like, rhythmic music was already playing. Four bodies were writhing on the floor in slow motion, and another thirty-odd people were bouncing, twisting and gyrating slowly. One woman was juddering. There's no other word for it. I felt like I'd walked into a scene from Hieronymus Bosch. Now, I actually love his paintings, but I wan't expecting to find myself in one.\nA detail from 'Hell' by Hieronymous Bosch.\nSo this is what I did: I knelt down on the floor and I started sobbing. A wave of utter despair passed through me. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to join in. I felt completely ridiculous. I felt like I was in a room of people speaking a foreign language that I had absolutely no frame of reference for. I was a total outsider. I went to the Ladies' and sobbed some more. I came back into the room, stood at the edge, and sobbed for a bit longer. I thought about leaving. I really, really wanted to leave. Of all things, OF ALL THINGS, a dancing challenge was about to get the better of me. I was small and awkward and embarrassed. I couldn't understand what was going on around me. I couldn't tap in to the energy that was making these people dance. I felt like I'd walked into an orgy that included my parents, all my ex-boyfriends, and a selection of zoo animals. So, pretty wrong then. I grabbed my handbag and made for the door.\nI stayed. Out of absolute sheer bloody mindedness, I stayed and did everything I could to join in. By closing my eyes I managed to centre on the music enough to do a bit of bouncing and gyrating myself. A very small amount. Then a little more. At some stage, my arms engaged in some moderate flailing. After four or so tracks of this the class leader, Cathy Ryan, took to the microphone and started what she called 'the body parts meditation'. This was massively helpful, because I felt less of a twit twisting my elbows around when someone was telling me to do it. That's just the kind of twit I am.\nMid-class, I almost found my mojo. I indulged in some intense bouncing. I managed to make eye-contact with a couple of people and not instantly wish that the ground would swallow me up. I positively pranced at one stage. But I never lost my self-consciousness in the way that the others seemed to. Despite the weird, primal movements going on all around, no one else seemed as uncomfortable as I was. One woman spent 99% of the class on the floor. At one stage she was curled up, semi-foetal, caressing someone's shoes, in danger of being danced on. She troubled me quite deeply. I wanted to know what was going on with her, what she was getting from the experience. When she did kneel up for a while, I couldn't tell if she was about to cry, or just at the edge of orgasm.\nThere are no specific steps to 5 Rhythms. It's all about how the different rhythms - Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness - work, to, erm... so then there's the maps - the Waves, Heartbeat, Cycles, Mirrors and Silver Desert - well they, erm... OK, so I've read the Wikipedia page a couple of times and I confess that I still haven't got my head around the theory. I strongly suspect that the only way to really get it is to do it a lot. Which I won't. In fact, I think that this is the first of my challenges that I have no intention of repeating. I know I said that about the triathlon, but frankly I think the triathlon was easier. I wasn't expecting to find it so incredibly difficult to let go. That is clearly something I need to work on, but 5 Rhythms was just too intense for me.\nI'm really pleased that I managed to get to the end of the class, though. Considering the state I was in at the beginning, it was no small feat. Plus if I'd left I would have missed the elderly dancer singing a full verse of 'If You're Going to San Francisco.\" Don't ask. I don't mean for this to put anyone off trying out 5 Rhythms. It may not have been for me, but everyone else seemed to be attaining significant levels of bliss. In fact, I strongly urge everyone to try 5 Rhythms at least once, if only to assure me that what I saw tonight was real. Perhaps the greatest thing I gained was the knowledge that this strange, tribalistic ritual is actually going on. Now, the next time I am sobbing on my sofa, I can cheer myself with the knowledge that somewhere out there a room full of people are freestyle gyrating in a village hall. This happy vision will doubtless dry my tears and allow me to enjoy my cheese on toast.\nNineteen down, eleven to go...\nLabels: 5 Rhythms, Challenge, Dancing, Orgy, Sobbing\nRick Rodgers 5 February 2013 at 00:37\nHehehe...you poor sod, this one didn't sound awesome at all. Tho I guess there has to be some bad experiences in there somewhere otherwise it wouldn't be a proper adventure. If you haven't already tried it I urge you to do an acro yoga class, you can come along with Jayme so you're with someone who knows what they're doing. Big Huggs, Rick\nGetting through that is seriously impressive! You're a stronger woman than me, Jojo! I'd have been out that door in a shot.\nTry Zumba that will lift your spirits any day of the week!\nXavier Blancmange 23 February 2013 at 17:11\nThis reminded of the episode of Peep Show where they go to 'Rainbow Rhythms.' 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But hopes were dashed as some of the details of the closed-door discussions were revealed. Of 130 figures invited to the meeting Tuesday, 67 were regional representatives of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry. When they had a chance to speak, they tried to share the real difficulties in the industrial and business sites and asked for solutions. The president, however, avoided making clear promises.\nIndustrialists representing regions are the peripheral nerves of the Korean economy. They make up the value chain to the products under Korea\u2019s household names and pillars of Korean industries and trade. They are responsible for employing 99 percent of Korea\u2019s working population. They concentrated their questions on the rapid hikes in the minimum wage and the government\u2019s policy to phase out nuclear power plants. Lee Jae-ha, chairman of the Daegu chamber, pointed out that rash steps to achieve the hourly minimum wage of 10,000 won ($8.90) could seriously distort the economy. When the president evaded an answer, the labor minister stepped in and said the government was aware of some of the difficulties.\nMoon also remained steadfast in his campaign promise to phase out nuclear reactors. Han Cheol-soo, who represented Changwon city, pleaded for a reversal in the plan by underscoring that companies related to the nuclear reactor business were collapsing because they ran out of work after finishing deliveries for the Shin Kori 5 and 6 reactors under construction. New reactor projects have been scrapped under the administration\u2019s vision to reduce reliance on nuclear energy. Moon reiterated that there was no change in the plan.\nKorea\u2019s gross domestic product underperformed the global average by 1 percentage point last year even without major external shocks. Ideology-led policy drive defying the law of the economy has been wreaking havoc on the economy. Former Finance and Economy Minister Lee Kyu-sung stressed that it is more important to guide economic policy by the realities than by ideology at hard times. 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They have a expansive web site with most of their published music for viewing.\nThey publish not only popular music, but also arrangements for orchestra and band.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mitchellnews.net/2011/10/indiana-appeals-court-to-hear-arguments-undray-wilson-oakland-city-university/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HIAXQJCHUDM7NMLUDZ7PMFYEYYE4PBHC", "length": 1542, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mitchellnews.net", "title": "Court of Appeals to Hear Arguments at Oakland City Univ. \u2014 Mitchell News", "raw_content": "The Court of Appeals of Indiana will hear oral argument in Undray Wilson v. State of Indiana on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. Central time at Oakland City University. The oral argument will be held in the Cornwell-Reed/Barnard Hall on campus. A panel of judges consisting of Judge Melissa S. May, Judge Michael P. Barnes, and Judge Terry A. Crone will hear the case on appeal from Howard Superior Court.\nIn this case, Undray Wilson was convicted of murder, and the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed his conviction. Wilson sought post-conviction relief alleging ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel. Wilson now appeals the denial of post-conviction relief. Arguing for the Appellant will be Hilary Bowe Ricks, and arguing for the Appellee will be J.T. Whitehead.\nThe Court of Appeals hears oral argument at venues across the state to enable Hoosiers to learn about the judicial branch. After the case has been argued, members of the audience may ask questions about the judicial process in Indiana. The Court has heard more than 300 oral arguments \u201con the road\u201d at law schools, colleges, high schools, and county courthouses since its centennial in 2000-2001.\nThe Court of Appeals of Indiana is the state\u2019s second-highest court and reviews appeals from trial court decisions. A decision of the Court of Appeals of Indiana is final unless granted further review by the Indiana Supreme Court.\nKnapp No Stranger To Court System\nTagged as: Events, Legal System\nPrevious post: Child Molester Hangs Self in Indianapolis Jail", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 184.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mixile.tripod.com/Slavic-Unity/id4.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WCC7PRVFAVLOI352RX2XEFBMYN64EI3D", "length": 295, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mixile.tripod.com", "title": "Getting Involved", "raw_content": "Under this heading, we'll give information about how and where to volunteer time and energy.\nHere we'll talk about how to make a donation, reminding people that charitable contributions are tax deductible.\nHere we might list the names of people to write to or suggest signing an online petition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mixleapp.com/2018/05/08/google-translate-confusion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FX4BU63YPCLGL544XXMZDNI4LV6JE5TS", "length": 607, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mixleapp.com", "title": "Mixle | Meet. Mix. Mingle \u2013 Google Translate Confusion", "raw_content": "Home / Uncategorized / Google Translate Confusion\nI always thought that when you a girl wants to date a foreigner she needs to know the language of the foreigner. I\nt turns out that\u2019s not always the case. When I was creating an account on primedating.com I had no idea that once in a while, I would be chatting with girls trying hard to understand what she\u2019s trying to say.\nIn the end I\u2019ve realized that some girls are using Google translate in order to chat with me. But why would you claim to know English perfectly when you are using Google translate?\nThat remains a mystery for me.\ndatedatingrelationsip", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mobilephonecontractdeals.me.uk/108744-abraham-a-journey-to-the-heart-of-three-faiths/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:50Z", "digest": "sha1:L4AAGJI52TSPLTOFSFHPPGEES34IQ3R6", "length": 16744, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "mobilephonecontractdeals.me.uk", "title": "[PDF] Download \u2606 Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths | by \u2606 Bruce Feiler", "raw_content": "Abraham A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths Both immediate and timeless Abraham is a powerful universal story the first ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner Thoughtful and inspiring it offers a rare vision of hope\nBoth immediate and timeless, Abraham is a powerful, universal story, the first ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner Thoughtful and inspiring, it offers a rare vision of hope that will redefine what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the BibBoth immediate and timeless, Abraham is a powerful, universal story, the first ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner Thoughtful and inspiring, it offers a rare vision of hope that will redefine what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world s three monotheistic religions and today s deadliest conflicts.At a moment when the world is asking, Can the religions get along one figure stands out as the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims One man holds the key to our deepest fears and our possible reconciliation Abraham.Bruce Feiler set out on a personal quest to better understand our common patriarch Traveling in war zones, climbing through caves and ancient shrines, and sitting down with the world s leading religious minds, Feiler uncovers fascinating, little known details of the man who defines faith for half the world.Both immediate and timeless, Abraham is a powerful, universal story, the first ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner Thoughtful and inspiring, it offers a rare vision of hope that will redefine what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.\n[PDF] Download \u2606 Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths | by \u2606 Bruce Feiler\nBruce Feiler 458 Bruce Feiler\nTitle: [PDF] Download \u2606 Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths | by \u2606 Bruce Feiler\nPosted by:Bruce Feiler\nBruce Feiler Bruce Feiler Posted on May 14, 2018 May 14, 2018\n1 thought on \u201cAbraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths\u201d\nOnvan : Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths - Nevisande : Bruce Feiler - ISBN : 60838663 - ISBN13 : 9780060838669 - Dar 272 Safhe - Saal e Chap : 2002\nClif Hostetler says:\nThis book portrays the role of Abraham in the history, theology and contemporary thought in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three faiths claim Abraham as their own, and they all assert to be the correct modern day representative of the Abrahamic religious tradition. The book's first half addresses what the Bible and Koran say about Abraham, his call to monotheism, and his sons Isaac and Ishmael. Particularly fascinating are Feiler's discussions of how the three religious traditions invented [...]\nApproach with caution! This book packed a whopper for me, nearly knocked me on my butt. I have been interested in learning more about the similarities of the three major faiths in the world and was looking forward to reading this book. The book begins with a quote from Genesis 12: 2-3 with God\u2019s promise to Abraham. \u201cI will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves [...]\nThis book is interesting from an cultural perspective, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone seriously interested in learning more about the historical figure Abraham. Although Feiler interviews several authorities from different faiths, the book is in no way a scholarly approach to the belief systems of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Rather, it is the journey of one man (who is rather unsure of his own beliefs) asking questions of other people about their belief systems, how they r [...]\nWhile it was an interesting piece looking at the shared aspects of the three major faiths, i found it to be a little bit more of a follow-up book than a stand-alone piece of art.With that being said, this guy's life is completely awesome. So i've graduated from the Ivy League, what to do now? Couple years teaching English in Japan? Yep. Grad school at Oxford? That too. Year in the circus? Roger that. Explaining the Bible in a way that anyone can understand it without a particular bent toward o [...]\nI thought I would love this book, but I was disappointed. The author's premise is his search for the truth of the Biblical Abraham. He investigates how each of the three great People of the Book - Jews, Christians & Moslems - view Abraham. I thought his analysis was thin and disorganized. He lets each faith stand on its own instead of comparing and contrasting. And he's all over the place with stories from his childhood and character studies of people he interviews and his own analysis, and [...]\nSamuel Neff says:\nI really enjoyed the first half of this book. The first half really dove into the history of Abraham and the role that he played in being such an important figure in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The second half of the book seemed to be more about the author's own personal religious journey, which I was not as interested in. If the entire book was focused on the historical aspects of Abraham, I would of enjoyed much more.\n\u201cSo, Professor, what do we know about Abraham?\u201d I asked.\u201cAll we know about Abraham is in the Bible,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the ground, there is nothing.\u201dThis book is Bruce Feiler\u2019s best. With no archaeological evidence whatsoever to explore, he embarks on his journey to learn about Abraham by interviewing members of various faiths, and finds himself enmeshed in a bewildering array of legends and claims. Abraham begins life as a polytheist in Ur, but is called by a foreign god, Yahweh, to jo [...]\nAbraham is a hugely important figure in the three major monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). Indeed, these three religions are often referred to as the \u2018Abrahamic\u2019 religions, which shows the great importance attributed to this figure who lived around the year 2000 BCE.In Bruce Feiler\u2019s enthralling book, we are taken into the heart of the Holy Land where the author talks to many learned figures from these three religions and explores shrines, tombs, and important place [...]\nGeorgia Herod says:\nBecause I have been a student and teacher of the Bible, I read with great interest Feiler's book, particularly because I knew I was limited in my understanding of the perceptions of Abraham by adherents of Judaism and Islam. Feiler goes in search of the real Abraham, history's first monotheist and the father of twelve million Jews, two billion Christians, and one billion Muslims. Feiler allows the reader to participate in his quest as he seeks out the documents related to the many legends about [...]\nThe world's three major religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have many major differences that cause conflict all over the world. But the three are united in their devotion to Abraham, the folk hero of 4000 years ago who predates all the modern religions, but is claimed by each as their \"father.\" [return][return]Feiler travels to the volatile Middle East to the land where Abraham once walked to get a better understanding of the influential figure. Along the way, he talks to followers of [...]\nCharlie Kim says:\nThis is an incredibly informative book; Bruce Feiler does a great job at explaining Abraham's relevance to each big monotheistic religion and writes about each belief system in a style that a person of any faith can understand. Feiler takes on a positive outlook regarding religious/political affairs - and explains not only how differing beliefs about Abraham play into these issues, but also how Abraham can serve as a unifying figure to help generate peace between feuding religions.\nOne of my favorite passages from this fascinating bibliographic adventure (i.e. Bruce Feiler's Abraham) highlights the virtue and value of modesty or humility as far as our personal faith is concerned.In this conversation, Feiler discusses the archetypal tale as related in the (3) major monotheistic scriptures with Hanan Eschel, one of the leading archaeologists of the first millenium B.C.E. (This excerpt appears on p. 135.)Hanan explains to the author: \"What I'm trying to do, especially in this [...]\nThe author explores the influence of the Patriarch on the 3 major, monotheistic faiths. While listening to this book, I learned several things that I didn't know previoulsy, but a couple insights stood out to me.I was aware that Abraham was raised in the land of the Chaldeans, but what I didn't realize was that these people were big-time astronomers. Philo wrote, \u201cThe Chaldeans exercised themselves most especially with astronomy, and attributed all things to the movement of the stars, believin [...]\nThe story of Abraham marks the emergence in human history of monotheism, and idea that represents a major shift in human consciousness. For believers in a single deity, it's an idea whose simplicity gives it an integrity that is self-evident. Three thousand years later, the complexity of not one but myriad Abrahams confounds understanding of the one God he believed in.Feiler's informative book gives us in broad brushstrokes an account of how that transformation took place. His search for common [...]\nKaren Mcintyre says:\nThis book was the first of the Feiler books I read. I read it in response to wanting a better understanding of the relationship among the three peoples of the Book. I had Muslim children in school for whom I worried after 9/ll.I found hope in this book written by a Jew that good could come from such monumental evil. As a result I attended a salon locally where a Rabbi, an Imam and a Christian Minister shared their experiences with the Abrahamic stories in the \"old testament\" -- there that shows [...]\nI read somewhere that the Koran has more references to the Mother Mary than our own Bible, and since that time I have been very curious about the similarities between the monotheistic faiths -- Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In this book Bruce Feiler traces how each of these religions ties itself back to Abraham, to the exclusivity of the other religions. The details of Abraham's stories may be different between the faiths (In Christianity Abraham is asked to sacrifice his favorite son, Isaac, [...]\nI listened to this book on Audible a while back. I found the narrative to be a fascinating tour through the Genesis account and very eye-opening in helping me to understand the claim the three great world religions have on this patriarch. This is an easy read. It is not designed as a scholarly book with extensive footnotes. It is more conversational. There is a short bibliography at the back that provides sources for further reading for those so inclined. Mormon doctrine has a very different int [...]\nThis book attempts to find reconciliation of some sort between Muslims, Christians and Jews, who all claim Abraham as their own. I was really impressed; Feiler was doing a great job, but disappointed by the very end where he was quite overly-generous to Israel concerning their treatment of Palestine, quoting a random person who entered the Mosque of Abraham, \"The Muslims are very aggressive, like Ishmael, and they have swords raised against everyone. And the Jews are very passive, like Isaac, wh [...]\nJulie Browne says:\nI am almost ashamed to admit that I have never read the bible, and I know very few of the stories. It seems that I was far more interested in Greek and Pagan mythology growing up that I was in the stories of the bible. This book provided me with an eye opening look at the shared foundation of the three predominant monotheistic religions of the world(Christianity, Judaism and Islam),and how each began with pure intentions of worshiping a single god, with respect and humility. Unfortunately, as th [...]\nince this is not my usual genera it was hard for me to get into it. However, once there I did find it pretty interesting. The author comes from a Jewish background and his perspective in and of itself made it both more difficult to follow and more fascinating as I was exposed to a non-christian view point on the life of Abraham and the stories in the Torah, Bible and Koran. I was also really interested in his interviews with religious leaders and academics across all three faiths in relation to [...]\nFascinating book, studying the role of divergent roles and interpretations of Abraham in the three major religions of the world. I came away with a new appreciation of my own religion and an understanding of why there is so much misunderstanding between peoples in our world. When fundamental beliefs are so different, they must be respected or there will be more and more bloodshed. One of our core beliefs, stated in the Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is: \"We [...]\nAbraham has been claimed as the patriarch of three faiths and Bruce Feiler looks at both the way Abraham has been portrayed by each faith--how his story has been expressed and interpreted--and also how each faith has attempted to claim him exclusively. It was fascinating to see how Abraham has been presented throughout history. His reputation and the portions of his story that were historically highlighted and debated said as much about the period in which they were written as it did about evolv [...]\nRick Ludwig says:\nI enjoyed Feiler's book about the common origins of the three great monotheistic religions. He does his best to confirm that there is hope in finding common cause among the three, often violently conflicting religions. The extremists in each camp are doing everything they can to prevent this, but I believe it is possible and that it will occur. As with all people, these three groups have so much more in common than they have in conflict. If these three can move forward together in peace it sets [...]\nJean Gobel says:\nFinally finished Abraham. I enjoyed the author's trip, searching for the many locations where the patriarch traveled and lived, searching for the who and the what of Abraham. I was amazed at his bravery in areas that were quite dangerous. He interviewed leaders from the world's three major religions: the Christian community, the Jewish and the Muslin faiths, learning how they all have evolved through the centuries, finding all claim Abraham as their father. I'm not quite sure what he was trying [...]\nYinnie says:\nPublished right after Sept 11, it looks at inter-faith interactions as well as the author's research journey through that prism. Feiler does a good job of looking at Abraham from the Jewish angle, the Christian angle and the Muslim angle separately before intertwining all the different views. With a sense of humor and willingness to explore uncertainties, it was a quick read. With the author's background, the Jewish sections are more fleshed out than the Christian and Muslim sections especially [...]\nUnity is at the heart of the Ishmael/Israel split because God promised to bless Ishmael and his sons even though he was banished to the desert. In the Koran, the story of Abraham and his son doesn't name the son. Muslims say it's Ishmael. Understanding the legacy of interpretation is the only way to have hope for the end of the conflict. It's the world's oldest family feud.Abraham invented monotheism. He was mourned by both sons Gen. 22:7.\nIn this short work, Feiler reviews the Biblical story of Abraham and then describes how the myth of Abraham has changed over time and between the Abrahamic religions. It is well-written and interesting, and its length is well-suited for the amount of information Feiler wishes to convey. (There were no lengthy speculations in order to add bulk!) I enjoyed it and learned a little bit, too!\nI started reading this book because it was one of the New York Best Seller. Not much of a religion based book reader, i was not expecting i would finish this book. But I did finish it. This book is interesting enough to keep you going and finish it. What I loved is the message the book conveys.That whichever religion you follow.whichever God you believe one can find a way to co-exist.\nDon Voorhees says:\nHealth, Race and German Politics Between National ...\nBrain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm...\nBlood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural...\nThe Time of the Hunter's Moon\nLunch for Three (Voyages (Santa Rosa, Calif.).)\nOfficial Scrabble Brand Word-Finder: The Ultimate ...\nHijas de La Noche En Llamas\nFlora\u2019s Family\nPowered by Bruce Feiler", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 18905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moravianmission.org/where-we-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:10:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OFHG5H42MG7PIOYZHMDXK75BJFXNFNAJ", "length": 2924, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "moravianmission.org", "title": "Where We Work \u2013 Board of World Mission", "raw_content": "The Board of World Mission is the mission agency of the Northern, Southern and Alaska Provinces of the Worldwide Moravian Church. This page outlines the variety of ways in which we support other Provinces of the Moravian Church as well as mission areas, individuals, and other partners.\nPartner Provinces\nThe Moravian Board of World Mission in North America (BWM) is paired with several of our global partners in mission, accompanying them in a variety of ways as they develop in ministry within their specific contexts. With the support of the Northern, Southern, and Alaska Provinces, we partner with five independent provinces of the Moravian Unity (Costa Rica, Eastern-West Indies, Honduras, Nicaragua and Western Tanzania. In addition we partner with two Mission Provinces, Guyana and Newfoundland/ Labrador.\nThe Board of World Mission is one of several mission agencies throughout the Unity. Each mission agency is assigned to partner with some of our Unity provinces and mission areas called \u201cPartner Provinces\u201d. Below are a list of the Partner Provinces of the BWM. Click on any of the partners listed to learn more about that area!\nIndependent Provinces\nEastern West Indies\nIn 2011 the Moravian Board of World Mission in North America (BWM) was assigned three new mission areas of the Unity. We had already established relationship with seven churches in Peru who came together to become the Unity of Brothers and Sisters in Peru. The Southern Province was assigned that same year to oversee new work in Sierra Leone and in Cuba, which is now a Mission Province. The Northern Province oversees the new work in Peru. They subsequently delegated this work to the BWM. For more information on these exciting areas of new work, please click the links below.\nThe BWM supports mission efforts of Moravian Mission Societies and cross-cultural servants.\nWe are fortunate in the strong passion for mission in the Moravian Church in North America. Because of the great geographical distance between churches groups have come together to form regional mission societies. Click here for more information about the mission societies of the Moravian Church and some information about the support that the BWM offers to these societies\u2019 projects.\nIndividual Moravians serve in a variety of ways throughout the world, both with the Board of World Mission and with other mission agencies. Click here for a list of the cross-cultural servants who receive support, technical and/or financial, from the BWM.\nThe BWM also does work, as needed, throughout the Moravian Unity.\nClick here to get more information about the Worldwide Moravian Church.\nBelow are several unique partnerships held by the BWM. Click on the links below to learn more about these relationships!\nAnnie-B Mission\nArmando Rusindo Mission Foundation\nLikewise HIV/AIDS Ministry\nNepal Moravian Outreach\nRay of Hope \u2013 Kenya\nRegional Mission Societies\nEcumenical Partners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 8900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mormonmomma.com/entertainment-book-coupons-17/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:50:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KTUAYBR2N6FOM5H3HALT3XD3S2SOZKKQ", "length": 2691, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mormonmomma.com", "title": "Entertainment Book Coupons \u2013 $17 Sale", "raw_content": "Entertainment Book Coupons \u2013 $17 Sale\nWe\u2019ve been using the Entertainment coupon books since we were married in 1985. (In Utah they are often referred to as \u201cHappenings books.\u201d) As struggling students the only way we could spring for a real night out on the town, was if we got a deep discount. (Seriously, if you\u2019ve been in graduate school with children, you know what I\u2019m talking about!) These coupon books gave us the bargains we needed then, and they are still an easy way to save lots of money.\nLast night I got a notice that the 2011 coupon books are on sale for 17 short hours at 52% off \u2014 plus free shipping! Until midnight on St. Patrick\u2019s Day (March 17), you can get the current book for only $17 and pay no shipping. [Note: I do not know what time zone will be applied, so don\u2019t wait until the last minute and miss the deal.] Just go to the Entertainment site and enter your zip code to find your local savings book.\nThe coupon books offer steep discounts at restaurants, amusement parks, theaters, sporting venues, tourist attractions, general shopping (Old Navy, Target, Petsmart, Sherwin-Williams, Borders, etc.). There are loads of 50% off coupons and the buy one get one free is standard fare. Some are for explicit dollar values, such as $10 off your next purchase. If you go to the explicit book you\u2019ll be ordering, you can see exact details of the included coupons.\nIf you\u2019ll be traveling, these books are a great way to reduce vacation costs, too. On one trip to Hawaii, I purchased the Hawaii coupon book. We literally saved over a thousand dollars food, attractions, shopping, and even on our hotel! (You can\u2019t go to Hawaii and miss Hilo Hattie\u2019s. Yes, there\u2019s 25% off coupon for that.)\nWhether you are looking for bargains in your home town or trying to make your vacation more affordable, check out the Entertainment coupon books. And get in on the 17-hour sale before it ends!\nTagged as: budget, coupons, entertainment, Travel\nPartner2 March 17, 2011, 5:43 pm\nWe have used these coupons for over ten years. I would say we\u2019ve saved thousands and thousands of dollars all together. We hardly ever go out without using one.\nSorry, I forgot to say that I paid full price a few months ago. It\u2019s totally worth full price.\nPartner2, glad to have another testimonial. The coupon books really are a great deal. There is a new offer that just started today. I\u2019ll be updating the blog to reflect that, later, but the old link redirects to the new offer. \ud83d\ude42\nSam November 2, 2011, 9:43 am\nBig fan of coupon books \u2013 been to vegas recently and they are huge business there. Everyone wins!\nNext post: St. Patrick\u2019s Day Slow Cooker Corned Beef\nPrevious post: A Tattoo By Any Other Name", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mrskingrocks.blogspot.com/2012/08/senor-don-gato-meow-meow-meow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:36:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GL5DS4VTVYK2G2JKKU2TUL62WXYRMTZJ", "length": 333, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mrskingrocks.blogspot.com", "title": "Mrs. King's Music Class: Senor Don Gato-Meow! Meow! Meow!", "raw_content": "Do you have any coloring pages for this song?!! Or do you know where I can find any? (For Senor Don Gato) Thanks!\nI do not. I wish I did because it is one of my favorites! If I find something, I'll be sure to link it up.\nI'm looking for the karaoke version of Don Gato for my students to sing with as they \"read\" the book. Any ideas?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 5881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mukilteo-lacrosse.com/faqs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SIYOVQA43LS7JUPPSYRQK6FVNCMVK724", "length": 2885, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "mukilteo-lacrosse.com", "title": "FAQs \u00ab Mukilteo Lacrosse Mukilteo Lacrosse FAQs | Mukilteo Lacrosse", "raw_content": "Here is a list of frequent questions. Click on a question to expand the answer. If you do not find an answer to your question, contact us and we will answer and possibly add your question to this list.\nLacrosse is a Spring sport with practices beginning in February. The first game usually scheduled for the first weekend in March and finishes up with the League tournament the weekend before Memorial Day..\nWhere and when does the Mukilteo Lacrosse Club Play and practice?\nHigh school Varsity practices will be determined by the end of January. Most High School games will be played during the week, during normal practice times. All youth games will be played on Saturdays and practice locations will be determined in January.\nWhat kind of protective equipment do I need?\n**All players are required to have National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) certified equipment.**\nLacrosse Helmet (a hockey or football helmet will not work)\nSlash guards (elbow pads)\nRib protectors (not required, but recommended)\nWhere can I buy lacrosse gear?\nThere are many places to buy gear. Play it Again Sports and Dicks Sporting Goods both carry a wide variety of gear. There are also many online retailers that you can order from. You can also rent gear from Play it Again Sports for the season.\nWho can play for the Mukilteo Lacrosse club?\nMukilteo Lacrosse is open to all players that live within the Mukilteo School District boundries.\nHow much does the season cost?\nUnfortunately, lacrosse is an expensive sport and since we are a club team there is no funding from the school district. There are fees for the fields, jerseys, insurance, and referees to name a few of the team expenses. Each player is responsible for supplying their own gear, in addition to team dues. This may seem high, however Mukilteo Lacrosse charges well below the average of teams in the area.\nHigh School Boys \u2013 $550\n7th and 8th Boys \u2013 $350\n5th and 6th Boys and Girls \u2013 $275\n3rd and 4th Boys and Girls \u2013 $175\nK \u2013 2nd Boys and Girls \u2013 $50\nPlayers must provide their own gear. Play it Again Sports offers season rentals for $100)\nIn addition to the team dues, every player is required to be a member of US Lacrosse . Players can register for $30.00 on the US Lacrosse website. Membership is valid for 1 year.\nCan girls play on the boy\u2019s lacrosse team?\nAbsolutely! Girls are welcome to play on the boy\u2019s co-ed K-2, 3/4 & 5/6 teams, however they will not be given special treatment in drills or in games. Boy\u2019s lacrosse is a contact sport and the other teams will not take it easy on female members of the team so we would be doing a disservice to the girls by doing so. Girls can also choose to play with our sister club Everett Lacrosse. They offer multiple age groups for Girls Lacrosse.\nNo problem, contact us and we will promptly assist and answer any questions or concerns you may have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musicofyesterday.com/biographies/theodor-kullak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:34:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KC464E6PDCQD2XY6PURTLGGYCLN4K3TQ", "length": 831, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "musicofyesterday.com", "title": "Theodor Kullak - Music Of Yesterday", "raw_content": "Theodor Kullak was born in Krotoschin (Posen), Prussia, September 12, 1818.\nHe was instructed by Albrecht Agthe, hauch, Czerny, Sechter, and Nicolai, and from 1843 was music teacher to the children of the royal family. In conjunction with Stern and Marx, in 1851, he founded a conservatory at Berlin, and in 1855, after some disagreement, he started a new institution in the same city, called \u201cNeue Akademie der Tonkunst\u201d. In 1861 he was made royal professor. He devoted himself principally to the drawing room style of composition, and published many popular transcriptions and arrangements. Besides being distinguished as pianist and teacher, he won fame as the author of standard books, his \u201cSchool of Octave Playing\u201d being in general use.\nHe died in Berlin, March 1, 1882.\nNext story Konrad Max Kunz\nPrevious story Wilhelm Kuhe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 157.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musicofyesterday.com/historical-music-theory/school-netherlands/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:40Z", "digest": "sha1:6UYGLDI7F2APWM23CG4IIYYD4BR3NWZ3", "length": 11737, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "musicofyesterday.com", "title": "The School of the Netherlands - Music Of Yesterday", "raw_content": "The Dominance of the Netherlands.\nThe most important asset of a nation is its commercial activity, for upon that depends its art life. The fine arts are to an extent luxuries, and until a nation has, by commercial activity, acquired wealth, they cannot be earnestly cultivated, for all arts require from the artist his entire time and life, and until there is money and inclination enough among the people to support an artist in his commercially non-productive state, there can be no art; hence we see a shifting of art centres in the Middle Ages, just as the commercial centres changed.\nThe Netherlands were preeminently fitted to carry on great commercial pursuits by virtue of their geographical situation and long combat and association with the sea. Possessing the natural outlet to a great part of Europe, it was reasonable that the Net should play an important part in the Hanseatic League, and that her fleets should trade on every sea and her coffers be enriched by barter in the produce of every clime. It was a golden age for the Lowlands, from 1350 to 1625, for their trade made them one of the wealthiest and most important nations in the world. Their situation between the trading countries of the South and the North made them, as it were, the commercial exchange of Europe. The consequent wealth could not lie dormant, therefore much of it was used in building notable architectural structures, encouraging Painting, and developing the then infant art of Music. It is unnecessary to mention the famous structures which were the result of this period, and it is but necessary to name Hubert Van Eyck, Rubens, Van Dyck, to understand the prominence given to the art of Painting by the acquisition of this enormous wealth. And it is largely due to this commercial activity that the school of the Netherlands attained such an undying fame.\nOne other influence, and that dependent on commercial activity, produced great results. Art is not sectional, it is universal; and great art works are produced not by local influences but by association, or contact, with the world. For this reason, the intercourse with the entire world generated by the great commercial activity of the times produced the first great world School of Music. Intercourse developed emotion and produced broader and less localized view-points of life: it brought into close association the art life of different nations and infused a unity of emotion wherever it occurred. In short, Music, by being brought into contact with the ideas of the world instead of a local association, took on a universal form and feeling never before felt and never to be relinquished. For this reason, Music unconsciously advanced from Paris to the Netherlands, toward the greater sphere of influence, stopping for only a short period with the Gallo-Belgic school, where it was prepared technically for its new growth as a world form.\nThe Gallo-Belgic and the Netherlands Schools Compared.\nThe Gallo-Belgic school, in the control of churchmen, was isolated from any influence tending to develop a broad emotional scheme. And it is doubtful whether it could have caused any change in musical evolution, for the technical forms were not ready. And so the Gallo-Belgic school, in its retirement from the great world activities, confined itself to attaining the power to manipulate notes, for the sake of mere technical effects, leaving emotional development entirely out of consideration. With such a school, while its work was important, no real art feeling could be gained; and so the school of the Netherlands marks the departure into a new romantic school governed, to a great extent, by the emotional. The Netherlands, because of their more comprehensive view of the musical activities of the past and their constant intercourse, commercially and artistically, with all nations, acquired a more human sense of the beauty of music, and ceased to manipulate musical material for technical ends; producing instead of cold, lifeless forms, music pulsing with vigor, life and emotion. With this primary change of view-point came a direct growth of form, the Canon being perfected and immediately giving birth to the Fugue; the Madrigal and Canzona and many other lesser forms sprang into being, all capable of emotional development, and almost immediately producing great results. For the first time music was free from consecutive fourths, fifths and octaves because composers created from the standpoint of emotional beauty and not that of technical utility. The result was a musical technic capable of development, and refined beyond need of further reformation.\nThe Organ and its Influence.\nThe organ was the third great reformative power in this epoch. All music was vocal and no other conception could be had, for effective instruments and instrumental music were not yet in existence. The organ, because its tones were suited to accompanying the human voice and because its tone color was closely identical with that of the voice, was readily adapted to the vocal forms then in use. This gave a greater resource, for what was often technically impossible with the human voice became easy with the organ. The mechanical improvement of this instrument immediately gave greater freedom and range of technic, and it proved so well suited to polyphonic development that it aided the evolution more than any other one agency. The use of the organ must not be accounted as the beginning of instrumental music, for the organ used only adapted voice-forms, such as the Canon, Fugue, Madrigal, etc. ; for this reason it is to be doubted if it aided in emotional development except by making technical resources much less restricted. In this sense, then, the technic of this school was freed from most of its former rules, and Music, previously cramped by narrow vocal restrictions, passed into the comparative freedom of the polyphonic style of the organ.\nThe Men of this School are hardly to be separated from the men of the Gallo-Belgic school. The work passes from one school to the next with little or no perceptible pause, and the first men of the later school are pupils or disciples of the last men of the Gallo-Belgic period. Another noteworthy fact is, that so great was the musical growth, of this school and the skill and learning of its followers that the composers, of the Netherlands expatriated themselves and settled in all parts of Europe, founding famous schools in Paris, Madrid, Naples, Venice, Munich and Rome; the celebrated Italian school is really an offshoot of that of the Netherlands. It is this overflow which marks this school as the greatest of the early polyphonic schools and shows why and how it acquired its emotional supremacy. Jean de Okeghem (I43o-1512), pupil of Binchois, was the first prominent worker. It is difficult to class him as a composer of the Belgian or Netherlands school, for he has the earmarks of both. He lived during the supremacy of the Netherlands, but worked with the material of the Belgians. He developed the Canon to its highest technical point and took the first step toward the originating of the Fugue. To him is due the credit of introducing the use of retrograde, inverted, diminished and augmented imitation in the Canon. Much of his work was done in France. The tendency of his teaching was toward artificiality, as he delighted in puzzle canons and other exhibitions of ingenuity.\nAntonius Brumel (1460-1520), a pupil of Okeghem, is noteworthy because of a foreshadowing of the use of chords in real harmonic progressions.\nJakob Hobreeht (1430-I5o6) was the first real Dutch composer, and is noted, in his use of technical forms, for their emotional beauty rather than mechanical excellence.\nPart of a composition by Hobrecht, cited by Naumann, \u201cHistory of Music,\u201d Vol. I, page 331. Excerpt shows how strictly even this fragment is written and yet how musical it is. At I is shown a figure in the bass repeated in imitation a step higher at 2. At A is shown a melody imitated at B in augmentation and with altered rhythm. The student should refer to Naumann.\nThis is truly a remarkable work for that period, and shows that even then composers were beginning to observe the emotional power of chord relationship.\nJohann Tinetor (1446-1511), a disciple of Okeghem, worked in Rome and Naples, and will be considered with the Italian school. Josquin de Pres (1450-1521), also a disciple of Okeghem, worked in Rome and Paris, and must also be considered as one of the Italian school. It may be here mentioned that he was one of the first to use music as a vehicle for expressing human emotions rather than technical power. He summed up in himself all the harmonic science of the 15th century. He was renowned through all Europe as a composer, and if his music seems to us somewhat dry and pedantic there is abundant testimony to the deep impression it made upon his contemporaries, which is a test of its power to excite and to express emotion. Compared with the works of his predecessors and even the majority of his contemporaries, Josquin\u2019s writings show freedom from the bonds of the old scholasticism, greater simplicity and esthetic beauty. Among those of his works that have come to us is a Miserere for five voices, and an Ave Maria that cannot be considered other than lovely music. Nicholas Gombert (1495-T570), a pupil of Josquin de Pres, had a natural, tuneful and flowing style similar to that afterwards shown by Palestrina. His work was done in Madrid, and to him Spain and Portugal owe all they have of the ancient polyphonic music. Jacob Arkadelt (1492-1570) and Claude Goudimel (1510-1572) worked in Rome, Adrian Willaert (1480-1562) and Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565) in Venice, and will be considered with the Italian school. Orlando di lasso (1520-1594) worked some in Italy, but mostly in Munich, where his influence was great. His style was broad, flowing and especially emotional, and as a writer of the Netherlands school his name stands as one of the very highest. J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621) is the last, and while of the Netherlands, studied in Venice, but did his work at home. He was a great organist and the last great master of the school, and. had the honor of being the link between it and the German school, serving as an example for Sebastian Bach. His works have recently been published in Germany. Of all these men it may be said that they developed music steadily toward the goal of emotional freedom.\nThe great work of this school was to make technic subservient to thought. In all preceding schools, the material and the forms were so new and the methods of handling them so crude, that technic always dominated thought. And it was naturally so, for expression cannot come until the power to master the material has been attained; it was by this power that the Netherlands developed emotional music. But the student invariably objects and says he does not see any emotion in the polyphonic music of this period! The student must place himself in the position of these old masters, supported by the church and constantly imbibing the religious atmosphere of the institution they served, until they unconsciously expressed, in their music, the grandeur and power of their religion rather than the intimate personal feeling of modern musicians; and then the student will understand what is meant by polyphonic emotion. We must always remember that polyphonic emotion is not monophonic emotion, and that its tremendous technic and complexity of device were but the means of expressing its peculiar form of emotion, which to understand, one must study diligently, and then approach with a reverent feeling.\nNext story The Italian School\nPrevious story The English Polyphonic School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 12711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musikderturkei.org/en/composers/detail/abdulkadir-nasir-dede", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3RCVHGBMTMQM2FIGVDOCLM2YS7KX7Y3B", "length": 940, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "musikderturkei.org", "title": "ABD\u00dcLKAD\u0130R NASIR DEDE", "raw_content": "ABD\u00dcLKAD\u0130R NASIR DEDE\nAbd\u00fclbaki Nasir Dede (1765-1871) was a Turkish musicologist and composer who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born in 1765 in a house near the Mevlev\u00eehane in the Yenikapi district. His father K\u00fctahyali Ebu Bekir Dede Efendi (1705-1775) was one of the sheikhs of the Yenikapi Mevlev\u00eehane; his mother S\u00e2ide Hanim was a daughter of Kutb-i Nay\u00ee Seyh Osman Dede. He had an older brother, Ali Nutk\u00ee Dede, and a younger brother, Abr\u00fcrrahim K\u00fcnh\u00ee Dede. Abd\u00fclbaki Dede learned Arabic and Persian, then studied Turkish music theory and practice. He became a very valuable teacher of music and passed his knowledge onto many students.\nIn his theory book, \"Tedkiyk u Tahkiyk\" (Investigation and Verification), written in 1794 at the order of Selim III, he presents 136 makams and 21 usuls, with short explanations. Writing with the pen name N\u00e2sir, he composed a work, \"D\u00eevan-i Es'ar,\" with over 3000 verses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://muslimnews.co.uk/newspaper/islamophobia/34583-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BE7T4QI7GS7PY23QAZHJGXVC5HMKG562", "length": 3360, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "muslimnews.co.uk", "title": "Belgium bans Halal animal slaughter - The Muslim NewsThe Muslim News", "raw_content": "The law banning halal animal slaughter in Belgium was initiated by Flemish nationalist minister Ben Weyts (Photo: Paul Van Welden: Ccbysa/GFDL)\nThe slaughter of non-stunned animals was banned in Flander the northern region of Belgium on January 1. A similar one will take effect in September this year in the southern region of Wallonia.\nBelgium, with a population of about 11 million, is home to approximately 500,000 Muslims. Halal meat will still be available in shops across Belgium, but with added costs to transport it from further afield where the slaughter is still legal. Those who adhere to their religious rules will soon be forced to order their meat from abroad, which community members say will mean paying more and could even lead to food shortages.\nMuch of Europe\u2019s halal meat comes from animals that are stunned before their throats are slit; Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway have already banned ritual slaughter that isn\u2019t pre-stunned.\nBut Muslims say their faith demands the animals be in perfect health at the moment of death. Defenders of the law insist it is motivated purely by animal welfare. Belgian Animal rights campaign group GAIA wants the Brussels region to join the ban.\nPresident Michel Vandenbosch said: \u201cWe are not seeking the prohibition of ritual slaughter, simply that an end is put to the suffering that is technically avoidable.\u201d\n\u201cThe Government asked for our advice on the ban, we responded negatively, but the advice wasn\u2019t taken,\u201d said Saatci Bayram, a leader of the Muslim community. \u201cThis ban is presented as a revelation by animal welfare activists, but the debate on animal welfare in Islam has been going on for 1,500 years. Our way of ritual slaughtering is painless.\u201d\nJoos Roets, a lawyer representing an umbrella organization of Islamic institutions, said the ban was motivated more by stigmatizing certain groups than concerns over animal welfare.\nThe Government could take other steps to reduce animal suffering, he said, \u201cwithout violating the Belgian freedom of religion and the European regulation regarding this matter.\u201d\nBen Weyts, a right-wing Flemish nationalist and the minister in the Flanders Government who is responsible for animal welfare first proposed the idea for the ban and was approved by the Flemish Parliament in June 2017.\nRight-wing politicians in several countries, particularly those opposed to the presence of growing Muslim populations, have seized on the issue of religious slaughter as an example of Western societies bending over backwards to accommodate minority communities.\nAnn De Greef, Director of Global Action in the Interest of Animals, a Belgian animal welfare group, insisted that stunning does not conflict with kosher and halal doctrine, and \u201cthey could still consider it ritual slaughtering,\u201d but the religious authorities refuse to accept that.\n\u201cThey want to keep living in the Middle Ages and continue to slaughter without stunning \u2014 as the technique didn\u2019t yet exist back then \u2014 without having to answer to the law,\u201d she said.\n\u201cWell, I\u2019m sorry, in Belgium the law is above religion and that will stay like that.\u201d \u201cThe truth is that this measure was an easy win, which had the backing of large parts of the population concerned with animal rights,\u201d said Bayram, aligning them, at least momentarily, with the far right.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 10333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://my1035.com/celebrity-birthdays-for-april-19-james-franco-kate-hudson-and-more/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YLRWZAB5IK4J3SYOZ65LLKSJMNZOJYAZ", "length": 1689, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "my1035.com", "title": "Celebrity Birthdays for April 19 \u2013 James Franco, Kate Hudson and More", "raw_content": "Celebrity Birthdays for April 19 \u2013 James Franco, Kate Hudson and More\nOccupation: Actor and Professional Student\nKnown For: His Oscar-nominated role in \u2019127 Hours,\u2019 other notable work in \u2018Milk,\u2019 \u2018Pineapple Express,\u2019 \u2018Planet of the Apes\u2019 and in the \u2018Spider Man\u2019 trilogy, his bizarre recurring role on \u2018General Hospital,\u2019 a disastrous Oscar-hosting stint in 2011, and pretty much always being enrolled in a university class somewhere\nKnown For: Earning an Academy Award nomination for her role in \u2018Almost Famous,\u2019 starring in other films like \u2018How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,\u2019 \u2018You, Me and Dupree\u2019 and \u2018Fool\u2019s Gold,\u2019 and being the daughter of actress Goldie Hawn\nOccupation: Actor, Singer and Voiceover Artist\nKnown For: His breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult movie \u2018The Rocky Horror Picture Show,\u2019 other notable film roles in \u2018Clue\u2019 and \u2018Legend,\u2019 appearing on Broadway in the \u2018Rocky Horror\u2019 stage show and many others, and voiceover work in dozens of movies and video games\nKnown For: Movies including \u2018Kiss the Girls,\u2019 \u2018Double Jeopardy\u2019 and \u2018High Crimes,\u2019 her current starring role on the drama series \u2018Missing,\u2019 her humanitarian and philanthropic work, her marriage to Indy 500 champ Dario Franchitti, and being the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the sister of Wynonna Judd\nKnown For: His Golden Globe-nominated role in \u2018Life as a House,\u2019 playing young Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in \u2018Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones\u2019 and \u2018Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,\u2019 and his relationship with actress Rachel Bilson\nRead Original: Celebrity Birthdays for April 19 \u2013 James Franco, Kate Hudson and More\nFiled Under: James Franco, Kate Hudson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myb.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/myb/article/view/495/1644", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:22:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FPUHJP3Y5WLSJS55MHHXC46N5GNRY43E", "length": 46587, "nlines": 166, "source_domain": "myb.ojs.inecol.mx", "title": "Site index curves for natural Aleppo pine forests in the central Ebro valley (Spain) | Rojo-Alboreca | Madera y Bosques", "raw_content": "Site index curves for natural Aleppo pine forests in the central Ebro valley (Spain)\nCurvas de \u00edndice de sitio para las masas naturales de pino de Aleppo en el valle central del Ebro (Espa\u00f1a)\nAlberto Rojo-Alboreca1*, Ana M\u00aa Cabanillas-Salda\u00f1a2, Marcos Barrio-Anta3, Eduardo Notivol-Pa\u00edno4 y J. Javier Gorgoso-Varela1\n1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola Polit\u00e9cnica Superior. Departamento de Enxe\u00f1ar\u00eda Agroforestal. Unidade de Xesti\u00f3n Forestal Sostible. Lugo, Spain. josejavier.gorgoso@usc.es\n* Corresponding author. alberto.rojo@usc.es\n2 Gobierno de Arag\u00f3n. Servicio Provincial de Desarrollo Rural y Sostenibilidad. Zaragoza, Spain. acabanillas@aragon.es\n3 Universidad de Oviedo. Escuela Polit\u00e9cnica de Mieres. Departamento de Biolog\u00eda de Organismos y Sistemas. Mieres, Spain. barriomarcos@uniovi.es;\n4 Gobierno de Arag\u00f3n. Unidad de Recursos Forestales. CITA. Zaragoza, Spain. enotivol@aragon.es\nSite index curves were created for natural Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) stands in the Ebro Valley (northeastern Spain). Data were obtained from 54 felled dominant trees. The Generalized Algebraic Difference Approach (GADA) was used to fit 11 equations with a longitudinal data structure that included all possible growth intervals. Three statistical criteria were used for model comparison: root mean square error (RMSE), adjusted coefficient of determination (R2adj) and Akaike\u2019s information criterion (AIC). Graphical evaluation of the data (plots of observed against predicted values and of residuals against predicted values) was also conducted. In addition, the root mean square error (RMSE) was plotted against age. Finally, fitted site index curves for different site qualities were superimposed on the profile plots of the stems analysed. The best reference age (60 years) was calculated from the relative error in the dominant height prediction. The Hossfeld IV model proved the most suitable for representing site index in the study area. Furthermore, only three site index curves (6 m, 10 m and 14 m at 60 years) were suitable for classifying the entire study area because of the low productivity of the stands. These were compared with other site index curves developed for Spain and other countries, for the natural range of distribution of the species. Specific site index curves must be created for the study area, because the existing qualities and growth patterns are not well-represented in other models.\nKey words: GADA, Hossfeld model, Pinus halepensis, productivity.\nSe han elaborado unas curvas de \u00edndice de sitio para las masas naturales de pino de Aleppo (Pinus halepensis Mill.) del valle del Ebro (noreste de Espa\u00f1a), a partir del an\u00e1lisis de tronco de 54 \u00e1rboles dominantes. Se utiliz\u00f3 la generalizaci\u00f3n de la metodolog\u00eda de ecuaciones en diferencias algebraicas (GADA por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) para ajustar un total de 11 ecuaciones. La comparaci\u00f3n de los modelos se realiz\u00f3 mediante tres estad\u00edsticos: ra\u00edz del error medio cuadr\u00e1tico (RMSE), coeficiente ajustado de determinaci\u00f3n (R2adj) y criterio de informaci\u00f3n de Akaike (AIC). Tambi\u00e9n se utiliz\u00f3 una evaluaci\u00f3n gr\u00e1fica de valores observados y residuales frente a predichos para comparar modelos, y otra de la ra\u00edz del error medio cuadr\u00e1tico (RMSE) frente a la edad. Adem\u00e1s, las curvas ajustadas fueron superpuestas a los perfiles de los an\u00e1lisis de tronco utilizados. La mejor edad de referencia (60 a\u00f1os) se calcul\u00f3 a partir del error relativo en la predicci\u00f3n de la altura dominante. El modelo de Hossfeld IV ofreci\u00f3 los mejores resultados, y solamente tres \u00edndices de sitio (6 m, 10 m y 14 m a los 60 a\u00f1os) fueron suficientes para clasificar todas las masas, caracterizadas por su baja productividad. Finalmente, las curvas fueron comparadas con otras existentes para la especie en Espa\u00f1a y en otros pa\u00edses de su \u00e1rea de distribuci\u00f3n natural. Esta comparaci\u00f3n revel\u00f3 la necesidad de contar con unas curvas de \u00edndice de sitio espec\u00edficas para la zona de estudio, pues las calidades y los patrones de crecimiento existentes no est\u00e1n bien representados en otros modelos.\nPalabras clave: GADA, modelo de Hossfeld, Pinus halepensis, productividad.\nThe productive potential of forest stands (mainly for timber products) and the silvicultural methods required to achieve this potential by the end of the rotation period are particularly important aspects of forest management. Site index is commonly used as an indicator of the potential productivity of a forest area, and it enables site classification and comparison between different sites.\nDominant height is commonly used to construct site index curves because it is easily determined in the field, is closely correlated with volumetric production, indicates the quality of the stand for all ages and is relatively independent of stand density (except at extreme values) and of the silvicultural treatments applied (Clutter, Fortson, Pienaar, Brister and Bailey, 1983). Dominant height can be defined as the mean height of the hundred largest diameter trees per hectare (Assmann, 1970). In the present study, this simple, widely used definition enabled comparison of new and existing site index curves for Pinus halepensis (Aleppo pine).\nPinus halepensis is naturally distributed in Spain throughout the Mediterranean area of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands (Serrada et al., 2008). The area occupied by natural stands of Pinus halepensis in Spain represents 7% of afforested land (Herranz, 2000), and plantations with this species represent 15% of those established between 1940 and 1980 (Abell\u00f3, 1988). However, the species is not particularly productive relative to other pines. Scant attention has therefore been given to Aleppo pine, even though on a local scale it may be the only economic alternative available and may complement other non-timber harvests.\nIn Spain, site index curves have been developed for Pinus halepensis in four different studies (Pita, 1965; Erviti, 1991; Montero, Grau, Ruiz-Peinado, Ortega and Ca\u00f1ellas, 2000; Montero, Ca\u00f1ellas and Ruiz-Peinado, 2001), although the origin (natural regeneration or plantation) was not indicated in any of these. The productivity of Pinus halepensis in Spain was investigated many years ago by Mart\u00edn-Bola\u00f1os (1947), who quantified productivity in four contemporary plantations but did not establish site index classes.\nSite index curves have been developed for Pinus halepensis in other countries within the range of distribution of the species: Italy (Castellani, Chidini and Tosi, 1980); France (Pard\u00e9, 1957; Abbas, Barbero, Loisel and Quezel, 1985a; Abbas, Barbero, Loisel and Quezel,1985b; Couhert & Duplant, 1993; Vennetier & Herve, 1999); Greece (Panetsos, 1981); Tunisia (Souleres, 1975); Argelia (Gualdi, 1979; Franz & Forster, 1980); Israel (R\u00f6hle, 1992); and Morocco (Belghazi, Ezzahiri and Romane, 2000).\nBecause all of the above mentioned works for Spain or other countries were carried out prior to the year 2000, none of them used the Generalized Algebraic Difference Approach (GADA) proposed by Cieszewki and Bailey (2000), widely used al later times for other species to elaborate site index curves (e.g. Tom\u00e9, Ribeiro and Soares, 2001; Sharma, Amateis and Burkhart, 2002; Fontes et al., 2003; Palah\u00ed et al., 2003; \u00c1lvarez-Gonz\u00e1lez, Ruiz-Gonz\u00e1lez, Rodr\u00edguez-Soalleiro and Barrio-Anta, 2005; Barrio-Anta & Di\u00e9guez-Aranda, 2005; Di\u00e9guez-Aranda, \u00c1lvarez-Gonz\u00e1lez, Barrio-Anta and Rojo-Alboreca, 2005a; Di\u00e9guez-Aranda, Burkhart and Rodr\u00edguez-Soalleiro, 2005b; Adame, Ca\u00f1ellas, Roig and Del Rio, 2006; Tahar et al., 2012; Lopez-Senespleda, Bravo-Oviedo, Alonso and Montero, 2014).\nThe main objective of this study was to elaborate site index curves for natural even-aged stands of Pinus halepensis Mill. in two large areas of the Ebro valley (Spain) using the GADA methodology, in order to improve estimate of dominant height growth and to compare the reference age and range of the fitted curves with those of the existing models for the species.\nThe study was conducted in an area of approximately\n40 000 ha in the central Ebro valley (which includes parts of the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca, in northeast Spain) where Pinus halepensis is naturally distributed (Fig. 1). The area encompasses more than 80% of the total area of distribution of the Monegros-Ebro valley Provenance of the species (Gil et al., 1996).\nFigure 1. Map showing the study area.\nData used to develop the site index curves come from stem analysis of 54 felled dominant trees, ranged across all existing site qualities in the area.\nThe 54 felled trees were cut into 1 m sections, and the total height of the tree (m), length of the sections (m), height of the stump (cm), perimeter (m), bark thickness (two measurements at right angles, mm) and number of rings were recorded (the latter three parameters were measured in each section). The number of rings was visually counted in the field, taking into account the possibility of existence of false or double rings in this species (Novak, Luis, \u010cufarc and Ravent\u00f3s, 2011). The total volumes with and without bark were estimated by Smalian\u2019s formula, except for the top section, which assumes the form of a cone. The descriptive statistics of the main variables from the sample of trees used for fitting the site index curves are shown in Table 1.\nTable 1. Summary of the main dominant tree variables from the sample used to fit the site index curves.\nWhere h: total height (m); d: diameter at breast height (cm); vob: over bark stem volume (dm3); vub: under bark stem volume (dm3); t: age (years).\nTo eliminate the skew introduced in stem analysis when estimating the real age at which the felling height is reached in the stem (given that the felling section does not coincide with periodic growth in height), the method of Carmean (1972), with the modification proposed by Newberry (1991), was used for the top section.\nFigure 2 shows the temporal changes in height of each of the dominant trees used in the fits and the curve corresponding to the mean values for each age (thick line). This type of graph is of great help in diagnosing the mean structure of a population, as it indicates whether there is a lack or scarcity of data in some zones. A step-wise decrease to midline data after 72 years was observed (although the overall trend was maintained). This was due to the scarcity of data for older ages and was more evident in the better quality stands. This is a common problem in developing site index curves for forest species with intermediate and long rotations, which often do not include data from high quality stands of advanced ages.\nFigure 2. Mean structure (thick line) of the data used to develop the site index equations superimposed on the profile plots of the 54 stem analyses.\nIn this study, site index was represented by the height of the dominant trees, measured according to the definition given by Assmann (1970), at a certain indicator or reference age (Carmean, 1970). The reference age usually coincides with the culmination of mean increment, or two thirds or the rotation for a stand of intermediate quality (Pita, 1991). Pita (1965) and Erviti (1991) established the reference age for Pinus halepensis as 40 years, but more recently Montero et al. (2000; 2001) considered a reference age of 80 years. We selected the reference age by first calculating the error associated with the dominant height and then searching for the reference age that many trees have reached but that minimizes the aforementioned error.\nWe used the Generalized Algebraic Difference Approach (GADA) proposed by Cieszewki and Bailey (2000) with longitudinal data from stem analysis that considers all possible growth intervals. This method is a generalization of the method based on algebraic differences (Algebraic Difference Approach, ADA) developed by Bailey and Clutter (1974).\nIn the ADA method, dynamic equations that relate dominant height and age are obtained. The main advantage of the GADA method is that the dynamic equations are obtained from the same base equation as the ADA models, but allow more than one parameter to be dependent on the forest site, thus enabling development of more flexible equations.\nThe dominant height growth equations selected were those that generate polymorphic curves (Clutter et al., 1983). These curves are also denominated non proportional because they do not display a proportional relationship between the values of the dominant height, and each curve therefore takes a different form.\nThe selected models are derived from several base growth equations expressed in difference algebraic forms. These models generated all possible polymorphic solutions that relate a single parameter to site. Polymorphic solutions that related two parameters to site were also obtained for three of the models.\nThe dynamic equations in the form of algebraic differences are based on the height Y at age t, for which the following three parameters must be known: height Y0 at a previous age t0 and ages t0 and t, i.e. Y = f(t, Y0, t0).\nThe final expression is obtained after resolving some of the model parameters on the basis of t0, Y0 and the other parameters, and then substituting these in the model to express Y as a function of Y0, t0, t and the other parameters (Ram\u00edrez-Maldonado, Bailey and Dorders, 1988). In dynamic equations in which two parameters are related to site, these must be reparameterized by considering that each depends on an unknown site characteristic, so that a mathematical solution can be found.\nThese models require longitudinal data from permanent plots in which two or more measurements correspond to the same stand (Gadow and Hui, 1999), or stem analysis data. Six different data structures can be generated from stem analysis data for use in fitting models expressed as algebraic difference equations. However, the data structure that includes all possible growth intervals also provides the most stable and consistent results (Goelz and Burk, 1992; Huang, 1999), and this type of structure was therefore used in the present study.\nThe fitted models are shown in table 2, along with the original model and the parameter related to site.\nEquations CC1, CC2 and CC3 were formulated from the integral form of the base equation of Bertalanffy-Richards (Bertalanffy, 1949; 1957; Richards, 1959). The first two of these were obtained by expressing the base equation in algebraic differences and resolving a3 in the first case and a2 in the second case. Equation CC3 is the result of relating parameters a1 and a3 to site, according to the expressions in table 2. The first two solutions were used in several studies involving modelling of the dominant height growth of several forest species in the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. Fontes et al., 2003; Palah\u00ed, Tom\u00e9, Pukkala, Trasobares and Montero, 2003; \u00c1lvarez-Gonz\u00e1lez et al., 2005; Barrio-Anta and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda, 2005; Di\u00e9guez-Aranda et al., 2005a; b). The dynamic model obtained by relating two parameters to site (equation 3) was also used to model dominant height growth of Pinus taeda in Georgia (USA) with the aim of testing different fitting methods (Cieszewski, Harrison and Martin, 2000). This model also produced the best results for Quercus faginea in Spain (Lopez-Senespleda et al., 2014).\nTable 2. Models used to fit the site index curves: Y= f(Y0, t0, t).\nSolution for X with initial values (t0, Y0)\nBertalanffy-Richards (Bertalanffy, 1949, 1957; Richards, 1959)\nKorf (Lundqvist, 1957)\nSloboda (1971)\nHossfeld I (Kiviste et al., 2002)\nHossfeld IV (Kiviste et al., 2002)\nMcDill-Amateis (1992)\nWhere Y: dominant height (m) at age t; Y0: dominant height (m) at age t0; S: site index at the reference age; Asi: reference age; ln: natural logarithm; exp: exponential function; b0, b1, b2 and b3: parameters to be estimated.\nEquations CC4, CC5 and CC6 are polymorphic forms of the base model of Korf (Lundqvist, 1957), which is usually referred to as the model of Bailey and Clutter (1974) or of Schumacher (1939). The first two models are obtained from the base equation expressed as algebraic differences and resolving parameters b1 and b2 respectively. The third equation (CC6) is obtained by relating parameters b0 and b1 to the site according to the expression indicated in table 2. The first two models have often been used to model dominant height growth (e.g. Tom\u00e9 et al., 2001; Fontes et al., 2003; Palah\u00ed et al., 2003; \u00c1lvarez-Gonz\u00e1lez et al., 2005; Barrio-Anta and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda, 2005; Di\u00e9guez-Aranda et al., 2005a). Of these two polymorphic solutions, model CC4 provided the best results and was selected by Tom\u00e9 et al. (2001) and by Barrio-Anta and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda (2005) to construct site quality curves for respectively Eucalyptus globulus in Portugal and Quercus robur in Galicia (NW Spain). Model CC6 was used by Barrio-Anta et al. (2005) to develop a basal area growth model for Pinus pinaster stands in Galicia, and also by Tahar et al. (2012) and Vargas-Larreta, Aguirre-Calder\u00f3n, Corral-Rivas, Crecente-Campo and Dieguez-Aranda (2013) to develop dominant height growth models for Pinus pinea in Tunisia and for Pinus pseudostrobus in Mexico respectively.\nDynamic equation CC7 is a polymorphic solution of the base equation of Sloboda (1971) and has been tested in Galicia for Quercus robur (Barrio-Anta and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda, 2005) and for Pinus sylvestris (Di\u00e9guez-Aranda et al., 2005a); in both cases it was one of the models that produced the best results. It has also been tested with five species of pine in Mexico (Corral-Rivas, \u00c1lvarez-Gonz\u00e1lez, Ruiz-Gonz\u00e1lez and Gadow, 2004).\nModel CC8 is the solution for parameter a2 of the base model of Hossfeld (1822, described in Kiviste, \u00c1lvarez-Gonz\u00e1lez, Rojo-Alboreca and Ruiz-Gonz\u00e1lez, 2002) expressed as an algebraic difference. This base model was used in Spain to elaborate site quality curves for different species (Pita, 1964; 1965; 1966), and the polymorphic solution used in the present study was the same model chosen for elaborating site index curves for Pinus sylvestris in northeastern Spain (Palah\u00ed et al., 2003).\nThe dynamic equations CC9 and CC10 were developed from the Hossfeld IV equation (Kiviste et al., 2002). Models derived from this equation have frequently been used to describe a wide range of population dynamics (e.g. Monserud, 1988; Cieszewski, 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003). The expression of the first model (CC9) is a special solution proposed by Cieszewski and Bella (1989) and was used to elaborate site index curves for Pinus sylvestris in Sweden (Elfving and Kiviste, 1997). This model also produced some of the best results in studies by Corral-Rivas et al. (2004), Barrio-Anta and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda (2005) and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda et al. (2005a; b). The next model (CC10) is a special solution of the Hossfeld IV equation, proposed by Cieszewski (2002).\nThe final model used (CC11) is the equation proposed by McDill and Amateis (1992), expressed as algebraic differences, and resolved for parameter a2. This model has been successfully applied in several studies to model height growth (e.g. Sharma et al., 2002; Fontes et al., 2003; Di\u00e9guez-Aranda et al. 2005a).\nThe data used consist of several observations of the height over time for each of the trees (so-called longitudinal data). These longitudinal data were transformed to generate a structure that considers all possible growth intervals among height-age pairs for each tree.\nOne of the most important problems when fitting regression equations to model height growth is the temporal dependence or autocorrelation between measurements. The autocorrelation between errors, inherent in data from permanent plots or from stem analysis, was corrected by use of the non linear generalized least-squares method and by modelling the error structure with a first order autoregressive model (AR1). For this purpose, simultaneous fitting of the mean structure (dynamic structure) and the error structure (autoregressive model) was carried out by use of the MODEL procedure in the SAS/ETS program (SAS Institute Inc., 2001), which enables dynamic updating of the residuals (Parresol and Vissage, 1998).\nThe data structure used in the present study included all possible growth intervals. In this case, the error structure should be expressed as indicated in equation 1, in accordance with Goelz and Burk (1992).\nand where Yij represents the prediction of the height i from height j (Yj), age i (Xi), and age j (Xj with j\u2260i); \u03b2 is the vector of parameters to be estimated; \u03b5ij represents the error under the condition of non independence; the parameter \u03c1 represents the autocorrelation between the actual residual (corresponding to the Yij estimate) and the residual corresponding to the Yi-1 estimate obtained with Yj as the predictor variable; parameter \u03b3 represents the relation between the actual residual and the residual of the estimate of Yi with Yj-1 as the predictor variable; and eij represents the stochastic error of the model eij\u2248 N(0,\u03c3), independently and identically distributed.\nIn the definitive expression of the models, the values of the parameters of the structure of the autocorrelation error are ignored, as the main purpose of their use is to obtain an unskewed more accurate estimate of the \u03b2 parameters of the mean structure (dynamic model). Moreover, in practice, the values of errors \u03b5i-1 and \u03b5i-2 cannot be determined without stem analysis (Monserud, 1984).\nIn summary, the process used to fit autoregressive GADA models with all possible growth intervals consisted of the following steps: (i) determination of all possible growth intervals between the height-age pairs for each tree; (ii) fitting the model without considering the error structure; (iii) determination of the errors \u03b5ij, \u03b5i-1,j and \u03b5i,j-1; (iv) fitting a linear model in which the dependent model is the residual \u03b5ij and the independent variables are the residuals \u03b5i-1, j and \u03b5i, j-1; and (v) fitting the mean (obtained from the growth equation) and the error structure (obtained from the autoregressive model) simultaneously by the MODEL procedure of SAS/ETS (SAS Institute Inc., 2001), with the values of the parameters obtained in steps (ii) and (iv) as initiators of the regression analysis.\nComparison of the fitted models was based on numerical and graphical analyses. Three statistical criteria obtained from the residuals were examined: (i) the root mean square error (RMSE), which analyses the accuracy of the estimates; (ii) the adjusted coefficient of determination (R2adj), which shows the proportion of the total variance that is explained by the model, adjusted for the number of model parameters and the number of observations; and (iii) Akaike\u2019s information criterion (AIC), which is an index used to select the best model on the basis of minimizing the Kullback-Liebler distance (Burnham and Anderson, 1998). These criteria are summarized in equations 2, 3 and 4 respectively.\nwhere , and are the measured, predicted and mean values of the dependent variable, respectively; n is the total number of observations used to fit the model; p is the number of model parameters; k = p + 1; and is the estimator of the error variance of the model obtained with Equation 5.\nIn addition to these three statistics, one of the most efficient ways of comparing models is visual inspection of graphs to detect any possible systematic discrepancies. Plots of observed against predicted values of the dependent variable and plots of studentized residuals against the predicted dominant height were therefore examined. The variations in RMSE with age (ranged in age classes of five years intervals) were also plotted for each of the analysed models.\nGraphs of the fitted curves overlaid on the trajectories of the stem analysis were also examined. The curves estimated from the model must be demonstrated to fit the real tree profiles. Moreover, curves for which the comparative statistics are identical may have very different graphical appearances (Huang, 1999).\nThe fitting results, parameter values and standard errors are shown in table 3. All parameters were significant at a significance level of 5%.\nTable 3. Values of the parameters and standard errors for the different models.\nThe values of the comparative statistics for the eleven dynamic models are shown in table 4. The models were fitted by considering a first-order autoregressive structure for the errors and were fitted to a data structure that includes all possible growth intervals.\nTable 4.Values of the statistics used to compare the different models.\nThe model that best fit the data was model CC3, followed by models CC10, CC11, CC2 and CC9, which all provided similar fits.\nThe changes in the RMSE were plotted against age (ranged in five-year age classes) for all eleven models analysed as shown in figure 3, in which it can be seen that the models with the lowest RMSE for almost all age classes were CC9, CC11, CC10 and CC2.\nFigure 3. Plot of variations in RMSE in relation to age (age ranged in five-year age classes: age class 1: 6 years - 10 years; age class 2: 11years - 15 years, \u2026) for the 11 models under study.\nThe reference age considered was 60 years. As already explained, this was selected by first calculating the relative error (RE, %) associated with the dominant height and searching for the reference age that many trees (n, number of observations) have reached but that minimizes the aforementioned error for the fitted models (Fig. 4). As shown in figure 4, a large number of trees (n) have reached the age of 60 years to which ER has a reasonable value close to 15%. At lower reference ages ER increases noticeably, while the number of trees reaching major reference ages is significantly reduced.\nFigure 4. Plot of relative error of dominant height (RE, %) and number of trees that have reached a certain age (n, number of observations) against age in site index prediction related to choice of reference age for the selected model.\nThe fitted models were plotted in the graphs of the tree profiles used in the fits. The graphic appearance of some models varied somewhat with respect to others, even when the comparative statistics were quite similar, as reported by Huang (1999). After inspection of the graphs, we found that models CC9 and CC10 provided the best fits to the trends in the tree data profiles. Adequate values of the statistics used to compare the models were also obtained for the latter models. Comparison of the curves obtained with both equations (Fig. 5) revealed that model CC10 slightly overestimated the values of the best qualities at young ages (which is not the case with the model CC9), although at more advanced ages both curves fit quite well to the trends in the data.\nFigure 5 (a and b). Graphic comparison of the site quality curves elaborated from models CC9 and CC10 superimposed on the tree profile plots.\nAfter analysis of the statistics used to compare the models (Table 4) and the behaviour of the RMSE per age class (Fig. 3) and graphically plotting the curves for each of the models tested (Fig. 5), we chose dynamic equation CC9 (Hossfeld IV, described in Kiviste et al., 2002) to represent the site index curves of Pinus halepensis in the study area, due to its better fit to the trend of the data. In addition to being polymorphic and presenting multiple asymptotes, this model is parsimonious (it has only two parameters).\nAs above mentioned, the selected model also produced some of the best results in other similar studies, like those by Corral-Rivas et al. (2004) for five Mexican pine species, Barrio-Anta and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda (2005) for pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) in Northwest Spain, and Di\u00e9guez-Aranda et al. (2005a; b) for Pinus sylvestris and P. radiata plantations in Northwest Spain respectively.\nThe reference age established in this study was 60 years. This result contrast with those of Pita (1965) and Erviti (1991), who established the reference age for Pinus halepensis as 40 years, and more recently Montero et al. (2000; 2001) considered a reference age of 80 years.\nThe selected curves were superimposed on the profiles of the trees considered (Fig. 6). The proposed curves (thick lines) represent the mean values of the quality \u201cbands\u201d shown in different colours. As observed, three qualities (6 m, 10 m and 14 m dominant height at 60 years) are sufficient to classify the natural Pinus halepensis forests in the area into quality classes.\nFigure 6. Site index curves for natural Pinus halepensis Mill. stands in the central Ebro Valley (Spain) superimposed on the profile plots for the trees considered in the study. The curves represent the mean quality of each of the coloured bands.\nThe site index curves developed for Pinus halepensis in this study are valid for a large area of the Ebro valley, and they were compared with other site index models already developed for the species in other parts of Spain by Pita (1965), Erviti (1991) and Montero et al. (2000, 2001). The curves were also compared with those elaborated by Franz and Forster (1980) and Vennetier and Herve (1999) for the species in Argelia and France, respectively. Thus, the curves elaborated by the previously mentioned authors were superimposed on the graphical profiles of the sample of trees used in the present study and the curves from the selected model (Fig. 7).\nFigure 7 (a, b, c, d and e). Plots showing the comparison between the site index curves (model CC9 for heights of 6 m, 10 m and 14 m at 60 years) and other curves for the same species, superimposed on the tree profile plots.\nAmong existing curves for the species in Spain, those elaborated by Pita (1965) provided the best fits for the data used in the present study, although the highest quality was much higher than that observed in the forests under study. In the curves elaborated by Erviti (1991) and by Montero et al. (2000, 2001) the site qualities were much higher than those observed in the present study, and no curves corresponded to the low qualities of the forests under study.\nThe first conclusion that we reached was therefore that the curves developed by Erviti (1991) do not define the whole range of qualities of the species in Spain, particularly the lower qualities. The same also applies to the curves developed by Montero et al. (2000; 2001), because although four curves were established for dominant heights of 11 m, 14 m, 17 m and 20 m at 80 years, the related yield tables only included site quality values of 14 and 17 as the authors considered that these were the most common in Spain. However, this does not appear to be the case with the forest under study. Montero et al. (2000; 2001) compared their curves with those developed by Pita (1965) and showed that the first three site qualities were similar, but noted that they considered a site quality value of 11 rather than that of 7 considered by Pita (1965).\nRegarding the curves for other Mediterranean regions, those developed for Algeria (Franz and Forster, 1980) cover a similar range of site qualities as observed in the present study and also adapted fairly well to the tree profiles.\nThe curves for the species in France (Vennetier and Herve, 1999) showed higher site qualities than those observed in the Ebro valley, as indicated by the curves elaborated by Erviti (1991).\nMoreover, in many cases the models developed here intersect with previously existing models, indicating different growth patterns. 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Much has changed in the meantime and the hosts must fancy their chances heading into the new season after a slew of impressive summer signings.\nHodgson, 71, has committed to the club by putting pen to paper on a one-year extension that keeps him at Selhurst Park until the summer of 2020.\nPalace start the new Premier League season away to Fulham on Saturday, kick-off 15:00 BST. Live streaming is available on NBC Sports, which you can access with your cable or satellite subscriptions, either online or through the NBC Sports app.\nThe Argentine has played a total of 38 games in the red and white shirt: 25 in the league, seven in the Champions League and six in the Copa del Rey. 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The day came about as Holimon planned a tour for The Connecticut Audubon Society, who have visited Warren Prairie annually for the past 11 years. The Audubon members visit Warren Prairie to see Henslow\u2019s sparrows (Ammodramus henslowii), a rare species that regularly winters in the saline barrens of the natural area. Although a cold day for a tour, it was a successful day by birding standards \u2013 participants were able to spot eight Henslow\u2019s sparrows.\nKnowing that he would be hosting a tour for the Audubon members, Holimon also invited staff members from the National Wild Turkey Federation, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Quail Forever, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arkansas Field Office to watch the Henslow\u2019s sparrows with The Connecticut Audubon members. Afterward, partners stayed to tour the natural area and discuss collaborative restoration opportunities. 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Among those needs are information and a sense of community \u2013 key components of what the ethnic media provides.\nA significant tool for outreach\nIntegration and inclusion, also part of the ethnic media\u2019s role, were some of the most discussed issues that day, with Yolande James, former Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities of the Government of Quebec, summarizing it with a statement that \u201cgovernments must create an engaging environment where immigrants can reach their full potential\u201d.\nThe common agreement among the presenters though was that governments have not yet done enough to establish the level of support that would allow immigrants feel fully accepted and integrate easily into Canadian society.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\u201cThe more discrimination people face, the closer they feel to their ethnic groups.\u201d[/quote]\nIn addition, Canadian Refugee and Immigration Lawyer El-Farouk Khaki noted that the second and third generations of racialized immigrants generally tend to be closer to their ethnic groups than the first generation. \u201cThe more discrimination people face, the closer they feel to their ethnic groups.\u201d\nHowever, despite a common understanding of increasing immigration trends and the impact of ethnic communities on newcomers\u2019 integration experience, surprisingly no presentations or workshops mentioned the role of the ethnic, multilingual media in new immigrants\u2019 lives.\nAs part of a team of ethnic media consultants, I see stories on immigration, integration, education and legal issues, labour, health and safety, immigrant challenges and struggles every day, and yet ethnic media seems not to be on the radar of policy makers and service providers as one of the most valuable resources on immigration they can find.\nFollowing the ethnic media would seem to be a significant part of the outreach equation of what Ryerson University professor April Lindgren calls \u201cA Settlement Service in Disguise\u201d in her pioneer case study on the City of Brampton\u2019s municipal communication strategies and ethnic media (2015, Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 49-71.)\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"][E]thnic media will continue to grow and be a viable component of immigrant life in Canada.[/quote]\nThe divide from mainstream media\nWhen asked about it, government officials acknowledge the importance of ethnic media, but admit that it\u2019s not being used to its full potential. There is still separation between mainstream media and ethnic media press conferences, message and language specifics.\nBut does there have to be? Shouldn\u2019t ethnic media be an integral part of the communication mix, a two way channel for an open dialogue between governments, service providers and immigrant communities?\nAfter all, with growing immigration and yet-to-be-improved integration processes, ethnic media will continue to grow and be a viable component of immigrant life in Canada. So why not make it a powerful tool in creating an engaging society where everyone can reach their full potential?\nMetropolis 2016, while having presented lots of valuable information and opinions, left these questions unanswered for me right now.\nNatalya Chernova is a MIREMS Ethnic Media Expert.\nThis article was first published on MIREMS. It has been re-published with permission.\nInclusion, Diversity Bode Well Under Trudeau\nThe Liberal government has emphasized its diversity and inclusion language in speeches, cabinet ministers, committees and mandate letters. This emphasis has been reinforced by the return of the multiculturalism program to Canadian Heritage. Taken together, these represent mainstreaming of diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism to an unparalleled extent.\nIt starts with the language of Prime Minister Trudeau who regularly emphasizes that:\nCanadians understand that diversity is our strength. We know that Canada has succeeded \u2014 culturally, politically, economically \u2014 because of our diversity, not in spite of it.\nIt continues with the creation of the Cabinet Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, with a strong inclusion mandate for Indigenous and new Canadians:\nConsiders issues concerning the social fabric of Canada and the promotion of Canadian pluralism. Examines initiatives designed to strengthen the relationship with Indigenous Canadians, improve the economic performance of immigrants, and promote Canadian diversity, multiculturalism, and linguistic duality.\nIt is reflected in his choice of ministers: 50 per cent women, 17 per cent visible minority.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]Holding all ministers to account ... should ensure greater progress on the two objectives of multiculturalism: recognition and equality.[/quote]\nAnd is further reinforced in the shared mandate letter commitments for all ministers with two strong multiculturalism-related commitments:\nCanadians expect us, in our work, to reflect the values we all embrace: inclusion, honesty, hard work, fiscal prudence, and generosity of spirit. We will be a government that governs for all Canadians, and I expect you, in your work, to bring Canadians together.\nYou are expected to do your part to fulfill our government\u2019s commitment to transparent, merit-based appointments, to help ensure gender parity and that Indigenous Canadians and minority groups are better reflected in positions of leadership.\nHolding all ministers to account, with the PMO tracking these and other shared commitments (in addition to minister-specific commitments), should ensure greater progress on the two objectives of multiculturalism: recognition and equality.\nIt will take some time to see how well these commitments are implemented, particularly with respect to appointments. An early test was with respect to parliamentary secretaries where 34 per cent were women (below parity), but 23 per cent were visible minorities (significantly above).\nEqually important, the previous government\u2019s weak record on the diversity of judicial appointments (less than two per cent visible minority) will start to be addressed.\nRebuilding multiculturalism policy\nOverall, the new government made few changes to how government is formally organized (machinery changes). This was wise given the disruption and turmoil that such changes can entail (e.g., the Martin government\u2019s splitting apart Human Resources and Skills Development and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2004, reversed by the Harper government in 2006).\nThis makes the return of the multiculturalism program to Canadian Heritage all the more striking, after some eight years at Citizenship and Immigration (now Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada or IRCC).\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"][T]he return of multiculturalism to Canadian Heritage reinforces the overall government diversity and inclusion agenda.[/quote]\nThe original transfer to CIC was largely driven by political reasons given then Minister Jason Kenney\u2019s political outreach role with ethnic groups.\nHowever, there was also a policy rationale. Multiculturalism deals with longer-term multi-generational issues (along with \u2018mainstream\u2019 visible minority relations) in contrast to the newcomer focus of the immigration, integration and citizenship programs.\nWhile multiculturalism could be seen as a logical extension of CIC\u2019s mandate, and was portrayed as such in one of CIC\u2019s strategic objectives, \u2018building an integrated society,' in practice, however, the multiculturalism program withered away at CIC.\nWhen the program moved to CIC in 2008, it had a $13 million budget: $12 million for grants and contributions and 73 full-time positions. The last departmental performance report (2013-14) showed 29 full-time positions (a decline of 60 per cent) with a $9.8 million budget. Money for grants and contributions fell to $7.9 million.\nNegotiations over the resources to be returned to Canadian Heritage will be challenging, given the impact may be felt in other program areas in IRCC that benefited from the redistribution of Multiculturalism funds. Moreover, the weakened capacity will require a major rebuilding and re-staffing effort.\nFrom a policy perspective, the return of multiculturalism to Canadian Heritage reinforces the overall government diversity and inclusion agenda, as well as the Canadian identity agenda, which fits nicely with Canadian Heritage\u2019s overall mandate.\nHowever, Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly\u2019s public statements to date have not included any significant references to multiculturalism. Her general orientation, however, has been clear: to promote the \u201csymbols of progressiveness. That was (sic) the soul of our platform.\u201d\nOverall, the commitment to a diversity and inclusion agenda, supported by a Cabinet Committee and shared Ministerial mandate letter commitments, and the rebuilding of multiculturalism back at Canadian Heritage, bode well for a more effective inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism strategy across government.\nAndrew Griffith is the author of Multiculturalism in Canada: Evidence and Anecdote and Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism and is a regular media commentator and blogger (Multiculturalism Meanderings). He is the former Director General for Citizenship and Multiculturalism.\nThis article first appeared on The Hill Times. Re-published with permission from author.\nAdvocates Look to New Government to Bring in Rare Disease Strategy\nThe new minister of health can expect a flood of petitions on her desk on the topic of implementing a rare disease strategy for Canada.\nDurhane Wong-Rieger, president of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, told a crowd of health experts and industry stakeholders at an event put on by the Economic Club of Canada in Ottawa Monday that if they\u2019re not writing letters to the new health minister and prime minister, they\u2019re not doing their jobs.\n\u201cThis strategy is long overdue,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are way behind other countries.\u201d\nHer organization has been championing its plan for a national strategy since May, but sees an opportunity in the new federal government.\n\u201cI see it as low hanging fruit \u2026 a quick win for the party and the government if they were to bring this forward and implement it.\u201d\nTougher for people with rare diseases\nThe strategy calls for improving early detection of rare diseases, improving quality of care for patients and introducing a policy framework for \u201corphan\u201d drugs \u2014 those developed specifically for rare diseases. It also suggests measures aimed at creating a better information network for rare diseases, including a possible registry.\nMonday\u2019s event heard from Jonathan Pitre of Russell, Ontario, often called the \u201cbutterfly boy.\u201d Pitre has an incurable skin condition called Epidermolysis bullosa (EB). He\u2019s one of about 5,000 people with some form of EB in Canada, which causes his skin to blister and burn.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\u201cFor most common conditions or diseases it\u2019s a little bit easier, there\u2019s more knowing about them \u2026 resources dedicated to them.\u201d[/quote]\nHe told the crowd about the prolonged frustration of waiting for doctors to properly diagnose his condition, about the lack of appropriate adult care centres for those with rare diseases and the prohibitive cost of his medication.\n\u201cFor most common conditions or diseases it\u2019s a little bit easier, there\u2019s more knowing about them \u2026 resources dedicated to them,\u201d he said. \u201cFor rare diseases \u2026 it\u2019s a bit tougher for us.\u201d\nThere\u2019s no treatment for EB in Canada \u2013 a bone-marrow transplant would cost $2.5 million, on top of the cost of travelling to and staying in the U.S. for an extended period of time.\n\u201cI think you guys noticed that\u2019s not pocket change,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s unreal.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s the truth of it. Just to get that treatment that may help us \u2026 I may not live to 20. Just to be able to keep fighting we need that much money and that much resources \u2026 We can do definitely better.\u201d\nLack of coherent, rational approach\nFormer Alberta health minister Fred Horne said a Canadian rare disease strategy could help deal with cases like Pitre\u2019s in the future, and pointed to a rare drug framework as something the new government could move on quickly.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\u201cInstead of worrying about whose jurisdiction it is, let\u2019s look at what are the opportunities to really work together and make something happen.\u201d[/quote]\n\u201cRare disease coverage for patients, where it exists, it\u2019s very sporadic across the country. Some provinces have a specialized program off to the side where they can provide some assistance, but there\u2019s no really coherent, rational approach to this. It\u2019s a public health issue, it affects three million Canadians \u2013 that\u2019s the call to action.\u201d\nHe said a catastrophic drug coverage plan for rare diseases is critical, adding that from his experience it\u2019s \u201cpretty hard in a smaller budget to provide reimbursement for these drugs\u201d because some cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.\nSetting national standards and pooling financial resources, he said, \u201ccould do better for Canadians than we\u2019re currently doing.\n\u201cInstead of worrying about whose jurisdiction it is, let\u2019s look at what are the opportunities to really work together and make something happen.\u201d\nWong-Rieger also spoke about the need to get more Canadians with rare diseases into clinical trials.\n\u201cThat\u2019s your lifeline, that\u2019s your hope,\u201d she said. Missing out on clinical trials can be a \u201cmajor, major tragedy,\u201d she said.\nHer organization estimates that about three million Canadians \u2013 about eight per cent of the population \u2013 has a rare disease.\nNew Efforts by Government to Assist Refugees\nThe Saskatoon International Airport was a scene of exultation and relief on Sept. 17 when a family of seven Syrian refugees arrived to be reunited with their distant Canadian cousin.\nCarlo Arslanian, a Syrian Canadian who left Syria when he was six months old, told CBC News that he was overjoyed to be able to provide his family members with refuge during the current crisis.\n\"I think it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to me and to my family,\" said Arslanian. \"They're going to thrive in Saskatoon and in Canada. I hope it's a well worth trip, and a well worth venture.\"\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\"They're going to thrive in Saskatoon and in Canada. I hope it's a well worth trip, and a well worth venture.\"[/quote]\nThe Arslanians are just seven of over four million individuals who have fled Syria to neighbouring countries or western European nations since civil war broke out in the country in 2011. For most, this process can take months or even years to complete, with the time in between spent in refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, or Iraq.\nA family of refugees who recently arrived in Charlottetown fled Syria over a year ago. They finally completed their journey on Sept. 25, when members of the local Syrian community received Awak Alkhalil and his family at the airport with welcome signs and flags.\n\"Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Thank you Canada. Thank you government of Canada,\" Alkhalil said.\nUnlike the Arslanians, the Alkhalils did not have family members to sponsor their journey to Canada. Instead, Susan Nye-Brothers brought them to Charlottetown with the assistance of the Charlottetown Diocese Refugee Committee.\nThese families are just two of many who expect to reach Canadian shores this fall.\nAccording to Refuge Winnipeg, an interfaith coalition of members from Winnipeg's Islamic, Christian and Jewish communities, the group expects three Syrian families to arrive in their community within the next month. P.E.I. is also expecting two new families to arrive this month.\nExpediting the process at home and abroad\nIn order to assist more families seeking refuge in Canada, the government is doubling the number of employees at the Winnipeg processing centre where all refugee applications are handled.\nBeyond expanding their domestic services, the federal government is trying to boost these efforts even further by expediting the immigration of refugees to the country.\nImmigration Minister Chris Alexander recently announced the government\u2019s plans to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country by September 2016 \u2013 15 months sooner than its original pledge. The Conservatives have additional plans to resettle 10,000 more refugees over the next four years should they win the federal election this fall.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"][I]mmigration officers are being instructed to assume that Syrians and Iraqis fleeing the region are indeed refugees.[/quote]\nCanada has resettled approximately 2,300 Syrian refugees since 2013 when it began efforts to assist those fleeing conflict in the region.\nIn order to speed up the application process for refugees, immigration officers are being instructed to assume that Syrians and Iraqis fleeing the region are indeed refugees, rather than require that they prove they are convention refugees as defined by the United Nations Refugee Agency.\nThis stipulation has previously led to lengthy application processes, which can stretch on for months, if not years, leaving individuals and families stranded in a perpetual limbo of refugee camps and bureaucratic processes.\nSince the announcement, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has issued a call for employees who are ready for \u201crapid deployment\u201d to the Middle East.\nThe department is working with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to mobilize staff who have experience with refugee situations and who have knowledge of Arabic. Because of these requirements, the CIC is even asking retired immigration officers to step forward to assist in this time of crisis.\nBy sending officers to Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey \u2013 countries where a majority of refugees have fled to in an attempt to escape conflict and eventually enter Western nations \u2013 both CIC and the CBSA hope to increase their presence on the ground and assist refugees before they even step foot on Canadian soil.\nThe larger conflict\nWhat the Arslanians and the Alkhalils have in common is that their journeys began long before pictures of Alan Kurdi reached the Canadian public on Sept. 2.\nThe Middle East was rocked by a series of pro-democracy protests in early 2011 following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi, a street vender living in the coastal town of Ben Arous in Tunisia. Bouazizi\u2019s death spurred protests in Sidi Bouzid that eventually spread to a large number of countries in the region.\nIn Syria, similar protests erupted after a group of teenagers were arrested and tortured for painting revolutionary slogans on a school wall.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]What the Arslanians and the Alkhalils have in common is that their journeys began long before pictures of Alan Kurdi reached the Canadian public on Sept. 2.[/quote]\nThe unrest eventually culminated in nationwide protests with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets to demand the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad.\nThe months that followed saw the country descend into devastating conflict with rebel forces facing off against government troops.\nThis is the Syria that Regina resident Hany Al Moliya left behind when he fled with his family in 2012.\nA web series released on YouTube this week follows Al Moliya\u2019s family\u2019s struggles living in a small refugee camp in Lebanon. The family lived there for three years before finally arriving in Regina several months ago.\n[youtube height=\"315\" width=\"560\"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KFuISCmAzg[/youtube]\nAl Moliya is one of the roughly 600 government-assisted Syrian refugees living in Canada. The others have all been brought to Canada through private sponsorship.\nThe challenge for Al Moliya \u2013 as well as for the Arslanians, the Alkhalils, and the many other families arriving in the country \u2013 is to now create a new life in Canada.\nWith the government\u2019s newfound efforts to expedite the process of bringing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into Canada, Al Moliya will likely be joined by many of his fellow Syrians in the months and years to come.\nYouth Volunteers Support Chinatown Seniors\nOne outreach worker is creating a bilingual volunteer program because there's not enough support for Chinese seniors, especially those in Vancouver's Chinatown.\nChanel Ly, a 23-year-old outreach worker who is part of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, initiated the Youth for Chinese Seniors program because when she sees all these seniors \u2013 who are predominantly female \u2013 she thinks of her grandma. She cannot imagine not helping them out.\n\"I can't stand seeing seniors being neglected. It's disrespectful.\"\nShe points out that it's part of the Chinese cultural values to care for elders.\nLy will connect bilingual youth volunteers to seniors in the Strathcona area, the city's oldest neighbourhood.\nTasks for volunteers include translating legal documents, taking seniors to the doctor's office or the pharmacy, and informing seniors about their rights as tenants.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]The biggest problem for Strathcona seniors is affordable housing.[/quote]\nOne of the biggest challenges Ly faced while building this program from scratch was the amount of work required because there was no previous infrastructure, despite the demand for service that was culturally appropriate and in Chinese.\nThe program will run from this month to March next year, Ly says, because that's when grant funding ends.\n\"The goal is to improve the quality of life for Chinese seniors.\"\nAddressing Chinese seniors\u2019 challenges\nThe biggest problem for Strathcona seniors is affordable housing. With condo developments in the area, rents are going up and pushing out the original residents.\nVancouver activist Sid Chow Tan believes the Chinese benevolent and clan associations should contribute to Chinatown by providing their buildings and property for social housing. These associations, grouped either by provinces in China or last name \"clans,\" were community centres.\nHistorically, most of the association buildings were community homes and bachelor suites for Chinese immigrants, a demographic regularly ignored by the government and institutions, Tan says. \"It's sad to see space that used to house hundreds and hundreds of bachelors are now used for mahjong and ping-pong.\"\nAnother concern for seniors is health, says Ly. \"Doctors are not always accessible. Drop-in clinics are not always available. Or opened only during certain hours.\"\nVolunteers will help by accompanying seniors to the doctor's office and translate if needed.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\"We want to fill in the gaps between the generations.\" - Chanel Ly, Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative[/quote]\nRacism against Chinese seniors does happen at community centres, due to an unfounded belief that there's no such thing as poor Chinese people.\n\"There are poor Chinese,\" Tan said at a July event where bilingual volunteers and seniors met. \"The Chinese poor doesn't want to be seen as poor. They just bear it.\"\nTan says they don't want to \"lose face.\" In Chinese, the phrase means losing a combination of self-respect, honour and reputation.\nDespite the barriers they encounter, these seniors survive by banding together. \"They're always self-sufficient and resourceful. They have their own networks,\" Ly says.\nHowever, Mandarin-speaking seniors are even more marginalized, she says, because what little support there is, it's usually for Cantonese speakers.\nTan says the boomer generation couldn't leave Chinatown fast enough, but the \"echo-boomers\" came back. \"They see something to save and protect. It's sacred ground to Chinese people.\u201d\n\"It was where people organized to vote, worked to send money home,\" he says. \"Now it's sullied by market forces, economic greed and political entitlement within the community.\"\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]Three in five Canadians say their families are not in a good position, financially or otherwise, to care for older family members requiring long-term health care.[/quote]\nThe program also promotes intergenerational interactions. Says Ly, \"We want to fill in the gaps between the generations.\"\nLy started collecting volunteers before the summer and will have check-in meetings with youth once a month. At the moment, she has 15 dedicated volunteers lined up.\nThe online volunteer form is comprehensive, even asking for preferred pronouns. The program organizer says she wanted the volunteers to feel comfortable.\nWhen asked if seniors \u2013 especially those with a traditional mindset \u2013 would be upset with transgender volunteers, Ly says the seniors might accept them.\nShe says they'll notice more that the volunteer is a young, Chinese-speaking person. They'll be grateful for the assistance, and would get to know them as human beings with good intentions.\nSeniors\u2019 health care: the numbers\nA report titled \"2015 National Report Card: Canadian Views on a National Seniors' Health Care Strategy\" by Ipsos Reid Public Affairs for the Canadian Medical Association said seniors today represent 15 per cent of the population. In 1971, seniors only represented eight per cent of the population.\nThree in five Canadians say their families are not in a good position, financially or otherwise, to care for older family members requiring long-term health care, the report said.\nRespondents 55 years of age and older indicate they want more home care and community support to help seniors live at home longer as a key priority for the government.\nNinety per cent of Canadians surveyed believe we need a national strategy on seniors' health care that addresses the need for care provided at home and in hospitals, hospices and long-term care facilities, as well as end-of-life care.\nSilencing Opposition to New Sex-Ed Curriculum\nby Surjit Singh Flora (@floracanada) in Brampton, Ontario\nIt is surprising that the Ontario government has launched an advertising campaign about the controversial sexual-education curriculum, instead of engaging parents more directly and responding to their concerns.\nQueen\u2019s Park is using electronic and print media and some advertisements have already been released. The government surely hopes the campaign will lay to rest any remaining questions on the controversial curriculum change, but in my view, parental concerns run much deeper.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\u201cIt\u2019s a sign that we understand that there\u2019s a lot of misinformation out there,\u201d Education Minister Liz Sandals was quoted as saying.[/quote]\nThe government\u2019s curriculum has many shortcomings, written in a language that makes it difficult to forecast the outcome \u2013 all in the name of \u201ceducation\u201d. Protesting organizations have called this curriculum \"indoctrination\". But at this juncture, the government sees the advertising campaign as the solution, adding more public spending to an already indebted government.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a sign that we understand that there\u2019s a lot of misinformation out there,\u201d Education Minister Liz Sandals was quoted as saying. \u201cThis is a case where there\u2019s enough misinformation out there that we believe that we actually need to get more accurate information into the public discussion.\u201d\nThe government has shown that it is incapable of paying heed to the many parents who consider this curriculum a risk to the raising of their children. Premier Kathleen Wynne\u2019s government appears keen to implement its agenda by all means. There is a chance this fight will be waged over a long time.\nA website advocating for parents claims it has been threatened with legal action by the Peel District School Board, which I find condemnable. This raises the following question: will the right of freedom of expression be taken away? Will legal action be taken to silence the voice of those who oppose this controversial curriculum?\nTrust in the public school system has weakened over the last several months. The people\u2019s trust in public institutions is much more important than the stick of law-and-order. The people\u2019s trust can be regained through transparent dialogue and consultations, not through advertisement campaigns and the threat of legal action.\nMainstream media bias\nThe discriminatory behaviour of the mainstream media is also worthy of condemnation. In my experience, the mainstream media are so biased that they do not want to listen to anything or cover anything against the curriculum, with many journalists aiming to completely bury opposition.\nWhenever protests were held, the mainstream media either failed to report them or have tended to downplay coverage.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]Is the protection of our children \u201chomophobia\u201d? Will this topic that is of crucial importance to immigrant parents now be left in the hands of the government and mainstream media?[/quote]\nThe mainstream media may have different perspective on other subjects, but they seem united in opposing the protesting parents and favouring the government on the matter of the sex-ed curriculum.\nAt this point, it seems clear to me that the Wynne government and mainstream media want to suppress the voices of parents who oppose the curriculum, labelling their objections as \u201chomophobic\u201d or motivated by sheer ignorance.\nIs the protection of our children \u201chomophobia\u201d? Will this topic that is of crucial importance to immigrant parents now be left in the hands of the government and mainstream media?\nThe government and mainstream media are ignoring a petition that has 185,000 signatures.\nThe same media ignored the \u201ccultural genocide\u201d of Indigenous children because it was considered an Indigenous matter; similarly, opposition to this controversial curriculum is being presented as driven by new immigrants only. In fact, all communities have been opposing it and the protest held at Queen\u2019s Park on June 7, 2015 is proof enough.\nEven if we were to grant that the issue is primarily a \u201cnew immigrant\u201d concern, are new immigrants not also parents? Don\u2019t they have a right to safeguard the well-being of their children?\nDubious authors\nIt is a matter of shame that the overseer of this curriculum, Benjamin Levin, has recently been convicted on charges related to child pornography. Levin was Ontario\u2019s deputy education minister from 2004 to 2007 and a Wynne supporter, playing an important role in her transition team.\nLevin frequented a website with discussion forums on the sexual exploitation of children and police found numerous images of child pornography on his computer. On July 8, 2013, Toronto police charged him with child exploitation and on May 29, 2015 the court sentenced him to three years in prison.\nThe mainstream media did not consider it reasonable to ask the government about the relationship between Levin and this sex-ed curriculum. The government repeatedly claims the curriculum will protect children from sexual exploitation and diseases, but more likely it is a case of \u201cJackals guarding the hens\u201d as a Punjabi saying goes.\nThe government should immediately withdraw this sex-ed curriculum or make the necessary changes requested by parents. Further, all information about the people who helped draft the document should be made public. This issue is crucial to the security and future of our children. It is the government\u2019s duty to reassure parents that this revision is in the kids\u2019 best interests.\nSurjit Singh Flora has lived in Brampton, Ontario for the last 25 years. He is a guest-column writer, news reporter and photographer who has been published all over the world in more than 100 newspapers, magazines and online. He is also the editor and publisher of the weekly English news magazine Asia Metro Weekly.\n'Government Communication Should Now Be Called Government Marketing'\nThe government is restricting access to public documents and next to nothing is being done about it.\nThis was the recurring theme during the \u201cFlying Blind\u201d conference hosted by The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) at Ryerson University on Friday.\nEarlier this week, the CJFE put out its Review of Free Expression in Canada report, which features articles, statistics and analyses from experts in law, journalism, advocacy and academia in order to inform on and evaluate government and institutions for their impact on freedom of expression.\nJames L. Turk who is a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University explained that the issue of government transparency is a matter of protecting our democratic system and that silence only gives officials more power.\n\u201cDemocracy is dependent on an informed public, but an informed public is potentially detrimental to a government,\u201d he said.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\u201cThere is almost an obligation now to give time for a response, which deters journalists from reaching out to political offices. Government communication should now be called government marketing.\u201d - Jennifer Ditchburn, Canadian Press[/quote]\nAt the conference, the Information Commissioner of Canada, Suzanne Legault, joined prominent members of the media and other advocates of increased information accessibility for an open discussion regarding their personal experiences with, as well as expert opinions on, the subject.\nThe list of panellists included Munir Sheikh, former statistician of Canada and current executive fellow at the University of Calgary, Rob Cribb, an investigative journalist for the Toronto Star, Jennifer Ditchburn, senior parliamentary correspondent for the Canadian Press, Laura Tribe, national and digital programs lead for the CJFE, executive director of CJFE, Tom Henheffer and many more.\nIntroductions highlighting the many achievements of the speakers were followed by individual testimonies detailing how the lack of legal support has allowed the government to hide many of its budgetary spending from the public and has also resulted in a decline in investigative journalism.\nThe increase in the government\u2019s unwillingness to produce documents has also promptly led to a general mistrust between members of the media and government officials.\n\u201cThere is almost an obligation now to give time for a response, which deters journalists from reaching out to political offices,\u201d explained Ditchburn. \u201cGovernment communication should now be called government marketing.\u201d\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"]\u201cYou need a public that cares and rises up. Everyone who knows has a responsibility [to raise awareness]. Governments need to know that people care about the issue.\u201d - Laura Tribe, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression[/quote]\nShe continued on saying that the government now has its own team of media correspondents that is given more access to political figures.\n\u201cWhy is this a non-issue? I am tired of having these discussions and then going home with no change. As we sit here having this discussion, that person right outside,\u201d said Cribb, pointing at a man walking by the window, \u201chas no idea of what is going on.\u201d\n\u201cYou need a public that cares and rises up. Everyone who knows has a responsibility [to raise awareness]. Governments need to know that people care about the issue,\u201d added Tribe.\nTurk stated that this kind of denial of information access inhibits the job performance of reporters, making a comparison to construction workers. \u201cThese are fundamental tools needed for journalism. What if I took the shovels from the workers outside and told them to dig?\u201d\n\u201cThis is a total information shut down . . .\u201d said Henheffer. \u201cThe government wants to shut down access to information. The problem is weak laws that allow a government to do whatever they want in terms of accessing information.\u201d\nAlthough all of the panellists reiterated that public awareness was the key to increasing the dissemination of information, everyone was shocked when Tribe revealed that of the 102 country that qualified for the 2010 survey of freedom of information laws, Canada ranked just 58th.\nThis ranking put Canada behind many developing states such as Sierra Leone, Mexico, Azerbaijan, and even Ethiopia, which has been notorious for jailing journalists.\n[quote align=\"center\" color=\"#999999\"] \u201cThe federal government states that they are the most transparent in history because they have responded to the most [access to information] requests . . . people need to continue to speak out, if people give up [the fight] there will [only] be [further] erosion . . .\u201d - Suzanne Legault, Information Commissioner of Canada[/quote]\nAt another point in the discussion, Brown revealed that while investigating for an article, the threat of a libel case is extremely effective in dissuading the news outlet from publishing a story due to court costs.\nAs an example he described a situation that he went through with an article he had written on Jian Ghomeshi, who has now been charged with several counts of sexual assault. Although everything that Brown had wrote in the article was factual, the Toronto Star refused to publish the story after being threatened, until Ghomeshi himself made the information public through a Facebook post four months later.\nPeter Jacobsen, a media lawyer, explained that journalists must be trained on how to approach sources that wish to remain anonymous because complete confidentiality can never be promised. He went on to say that if called to testify during a libel case, upon refusal to reveal a source\u2019s identity, a journalist could be charged with contempt of court.\nJacobsen stated that the only way to combat these civil suits, until laws are changed, is for the media to band together so that court costs are kept to a minimal. Henheffer added that forming a media coalition for this exact purpose would definitely be a priority for the CJFE in the future.\nThe Information Commissioner of Canada, Legault concluded by stating: \u201cThe federal government states that they are the most transparent in history because they have responded to the most [access to information] requests . . . people need to continue to speak out, if people give up [the fight] there will [only] be [further] erosion . . . talking to your MP will help. Send e-mails, tweets. Go in person (to your local MP\u2019s office).\u201d\nPhoto: From left to right: Moderator, Carolyn Jarvis, 16x9\u2019s Chief Correspondent, Global News; Peter Jacobsen, media lawyer and founding partner, Bersenas Jacobsen Chouest Thomson Blackburn LLP; Jesse Brown, freelance journalist and media critic; Ivan Semaniuk, science reporter, The Globe and Mail. // Photo Credit: Tom Henheffer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 410, "original_length": 60240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newhoperetreat.org/Campfire.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BIUA5VCZO26XPAQ2LCTIS4ZYMLRQTYQE", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "newhoperetreat.org", "title": "New Hope: Campfire Pits", "raw_content": "Five fire pits on the property are usable for night-time meetings with places to sit around the fire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 198.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.anthemvault.com/category/economics/page/6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DELLZQ7FREBWOIYLHNKRN34PBPJP4IF4", "length": 3073, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "news.anthemvault.com", "title": "Economics Archives - Page 6 of 9 - AnthemVault News", "raw_content": "Bars Bustle with Sports Season Boost\nFall is my favorite season. I delight in the changing leaf colors and temperate weather patterns. But what I love most is that it\u2019s the time when the world of spectator sports seems to come into full bloom, cramming in college and NFL football as well as NHL hockey. Furthermore, the baseball world series run is also in full trajectory. And my favorites \u2013 the NCAA and NBA basketball seasons \u2013 are just around the bend.\nBars and restaurants that have been on a slow cooker during the summer months suddenly become alive with sports enthusiasts from all walks of life, as the dawn of fall sports season arrives. The sound of fans hooting and howling for their favorite team reflects the important role that spectator sport plays in fostering community spirit and economic development.\nIn this vein, local bars function as \u2018third-places\u2019, a concept coined by urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg. These are places where people congregate, other than at work or at home. In his book \u2018The Good Great Place\u2019, Oldenburg suggests that locales like community bars are vital to local civic connection and economic vitality.\nHot Wings and a Cold Brew\nBack during my undergraduate days at The Ohio State University, a watering hole hangout called Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck (known as BW3) was an off-campus favorite of mine. It was famous for its 3.2% beer selection and blistering hot chicken wings; the hottest batch on the menu was affectionately called Three Alarm Fire.\nFast forward to almost twenty years later when BW3 morphed into what is now known as Buffalo Wild Wings, a franchised series of restaurants and bars that have become an epicenter of activity for rabid sports fans nationwide. In November of 2003, their initial public offering stock price was $8.50 per share. This price skyrocketed 35% in its first day of trading. If you had purchased shares then, you would be sitting pretty on an investment that has today realized an almost 1,600% gain on your initial investment. Just as a comparison, the S&P returned a respectable 135% over that same period.\nBy the way, I have a friend \u2013 a highly successful professional investor \u2013 who asked me one day back in 2010 whether I had any recommendations for stock picks. Out of my ass, I mentioned Buffalo Wild Wings. Now whenever I cross paths with her at a local Denver coffeehouse, she frequently offers to buy me a latte\u2026 which I request with a couple of espresso shots to jolt me out of the regret that I did not take my own advice and buy that darned stock.\nLest I digress, the point I am trying to make here is that bars and sports are ideal team mates for fueling a free market economy. Let\u2019s take pro basketball as an example. It is said that during his playing days in Chicago, Michael Jordan was worth in excess of $100 million to the Windy City. I conjecture that a sizable chunk of that amount was accrued at local bars and restaurants where foot traffic swelled, both before and after games. The same effect occurred with the Chicago Cubs and the White Sox of baseball lore. \u201c", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 14979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bostoncommonasset.com/emerging-market-investments-through-an-esg-lens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CD5ZCKN2ILWC3VT6KCAN4EPCIULASI6J", "length": 651, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "news.bostoncommonasset.com", "title": "Emerging-market investments through an ESG lens \u2013 Boston Common Asset Managment", "raw_content": "This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Asian financial crisis, which saw stock markets in all four Asian Tigers nosedive. It was also a time when investors were taking the first early steps to integrate ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors into investment decisions.\nTwo decades on, emerging-market economies including the four Asian tigers have become a major driver of the global economy, while interest in ESG has boomed \u2013 with over US$70 trillion of assets signed up to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment.\nRead the full article by Liz Su, Emerging Markets Portfolio Manager at Boston Common Asset Management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.coinupdate.com/america-the-beautiful-quarters-design-candidates-reviewed-by-cfa-1723/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:48Z", "digest": "sha1:IRVWBXBD6A2OEDODGAV4KY4422FSFRBA", "length": 6290, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "news.coinupdate.com", "title": "2014 America the Beautiful Quarters Design Candidates Reviewed by CFA | Coin Update", "raw_content": "2014 America the Beautiful Quarters Design Candidates Reviewed by CFA\nNovember 26, 2012 By Michael Zielinski 7 Comments\nDuring a meeting held on November 15, 2012, the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) reviewed design candidates provided by the United States Mint for the 2014 America the Beautiful Quarters. These five releases will represent Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, Arches National Park in Utah, Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, and Everglades National Park in Florida.\nThe America the Beautiful Quarters Program features a national park or federally designated site in each of the 50 states, 5 U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. The program launched in 2010 and has featured five different designs per year. Rotating designs representing each site are featured on the reverse of circulating quarters. The obverse of the quarters have featured the 1932 portrait of George Washington by John Flanagan.\nThe design selection process for each coin involves the identification of source materials by a Federal official serving as a liaison for the site, which the US Mint uses to produce multiple design candidates. These candidates are submitted for review to the Secretary of the Interior, the chief executive of the host jurisdiction, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee. Following these reviews, the United States Mint makes a final recommendation to the Secretary of the Treasury, who has the final authority to select designs.\nThis article covers the recommendations of the CFA. The final design selections for the 2014 America the Beautiful Quarters will not be known for a year or more.\nFrom the four different candidates for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park Quarter, the CFA recommended alternative TN-03, indicating that it was a strong design which conveyed the character of the park\u2019s landscape.\nThere were five different candidates provided for the Shenandoah National Park Quarter, with four incorporating the image of a hiker. The CFA recommended alternative VA-05, as the best drawing which also deemphasized the figure of the hiker. The Commission requested careful study of the geometry of the road that appears in the composition.\nFrom the seven candidates provided for the Arches National Park Quarter, the CFA recommended alternative UT-01. The Commission commented that this design conveyed the sense of experiencing the park by presenting a legible landscape feature at the scale of a coin.\nSeven different design candidates were provided by the US Mint for the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. The CFA recommended alternative CO-06, as it best conveyed the distinction between the foreground, midground, and background landscapes.\nFrom the six candidates provided for the Florida Everglades National Park Quarter, the Commission recommended alternative FLA-04, as the most evocative of the park. The CFA did request that the cloud be removed from the background of this design.\nThe Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee is scheduled to review the designs for the 2014 America the Beautiful Quarters on November 27, 2012.\nFiled Under: Coin Design, Columns, Featured Articles, United States Mint, US Coins\nho ho silver says\nI like all the Everglade designs !! Would be nice to have a bear rev. Also would be fun to vote on Mintnewsblog.\ngatortreke says\nThere are some good designs to choose from for these parks. I think the CFA did a pretty good job choosing amongst the designs.\nAs a resident of East Tennessee who lives near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I think candidate TN-03 (the CFA choice) is really the only option as it is the only one that makes me automatically associate the design with the park (the fence is an important part of the design).\nI think the Shenandoah design choice (VA-05) should show the hiker with a walking stick and the Great Sand Dunes design CO-01 better represents the DUNES though the background mountains should be altered to better differentiate them from the dunes.\nHas the US Mint decided which designs will be used on the 2013 ATB coins? I seem to recall that the advisory committees wanted the Mint to submit more designs or to alter the proposed designs for some of the parks, but were any final decisions/alterations made? With the first 2013 quarter (New Hampshire\u2019s White Mountain) coming out on Jan. 28, they should already be making the working dies, shouldn\u2019t they?\nThe designs for the 2013 ATB Quarters have not yet been announced. I suspect the designs may have been selected and the production process started, but for whatever reason the US Mint has not yet made public the selections.\nYou are correct that the first slate of design candidates were rejected outright for two of the quarters and new candidates were prepared. Anyone interested can look back in the archives of this section of the site: http://news.coinupdate.com/category/coin-design-2/\nThanks Michael, it was good to refresh my memory of the possible designs for the 2013 quarters. For the most part, the nature scenes look best, and even the overused Mt. Rushmore looks good. The modified Perry\u2019s Victory and Ft. McHenry designs still look weak though.\nI can\u2019t believe they didn\u2019t pick a more recognizable arch image for Arches National Park. The image shown is of the Double-O arch, and you can barely even see the second arch in the representation they selected. For my money (ha, pun intended) the Delicate Arch is by far the most recognizable symbol of the park, and should be selected for the quarter design. Of the two images shown with that arch, one is the \u201cclassic\u201d view with the La Sal Mountains in the background, and the other is from the opposite viewpoint. Either would be preferred to any of the other choices in my opinion.\nFor the Sand Dunes quarter, I would like to see either CO-02 or CO-03 selected. The hiker would not even need to be in the picture, it could be only footprints. \ud83d\ude42\nHey, that Utah Arches design looks a lot like the design I submitted 10 years ago. Glad to see that they finally came around to the obvious choice of the world-renown Delicate Arch.\nhttp://www.quarterdesigns.com/proposed/utah/andrewclark.jpg\nDave, they DID choose Delicate Arch (UT-02). It\u2019s a typo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 15890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2016/09/08/trumps-proposed-muslim-ban-judicially-permissible/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:04:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RM4IPBKSRHTGKIS7VZWUGM6OKFGT6LYL", "length": 5743, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "news.law.fordham.edu", "title": "The Problem with Trump\u2019s Proposed Muslim Ban", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbFaculty\u00bbThe Problem with Trump\u2019s Proposed Muslim Ban\nThe Problem with Trump\u2019s Proposed Muslim Ban\nBy\tRay Legendre on\t September 8, 2016 Faculty, Law School News\nEarly in his campaign for president, Republican nominee Donald Trump proposed to bar all Muslims from entering the United States. More recently he has called for the administration of an ideological test to would-be immigrants. To many, these proposals plainly appear to violate the Constitution.\n\u201cTrump\u2019s immigration proposals force us to face the consequences of the plenary power doctrine: it allows immigration policies that explicitly violate our Constitution.\u201d\nYet, if the New York real estate tycoon/TV celebrity becomes president next January and implements these policies, the Supreme Court may well uphold them, due to a 127-year-old immigration doctrine still in effect, said Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon, an immigration law expert.\nThe doctrine began with the Chinese Exclusion Case in 1889. The Supreme Court held that, because the power to control who enters the country is rooted in our country\u2019s sovereignty and ability to conduct foreign affairs, it is only Congress and the president\u2014the \u201cpolitical branches\u201d\u2014that can make immigration policy. Further invoking national security fears at the time, the Court went on to hold that immigration policies are not subject to the usual judicial checks and balances.\nAs a result of this plenary power doctrine, the Supreme Court has never struck down a rule about the requirements for entry to the United States, even if it in any other context would be held to violate due process, equal protection, or the First Amendment. Thus, a hypothetical President Trump could suspend the right of any group of people to enter the United States based on their nationality or religion.\n\u201cTrump\u2019s immigration proposals force us to face the consequences of the plenary power doctrine: it allows immigration policies that explicitly violate our Constitution,\u201d Gordon said, noting Trump\u2019s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has said nothing that would elicit comparable concern.\nGordon is currently working on a law review article that clears a path to bringing immigration law back into the realm of constitutional review. She argues that, rather than rely on the sovereignty and foreign affairs powers (neither of which are enumerated in the Constitution), the Supreme Court should re-root the immigration power in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.\nFor almost 50 years before the Chinese Exclusion Case, Gordon noted, the Court attributed the immigration power to the Commerce Clause. A return to this position, she contends, would open the door to review of immigration policies for constitutionality.\nAn immigration power tied to the Commerce Clause would still allow the president and Congress special powers should a genuine national security threat arise. However, most immigration issues relate to workaday issues far from the purview of national security.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no reason that most immigration policies should be exempted from the ordinary rule that laws made by Congress and the policies of the executive branch are reviewed by the courts for their constitutionality,\u201d Gordon said.\nGordon\u2019s article advances historical and legal arguments for advocates and federal courts to consider. The Supreme Court itself would ultimately need to change the immigration doctrine, she noted.\nWhile Trump has at times appeared to back away from a Muslim ban, and has not offered any policy specifics on how to administer such an action, the core of his policy remains clear.\nIf he had said that Muslim children will be barred from public schools, nobody would doubt that his proposal was in conflict with the Constitution\u2019s guarantee of religious freedom,\u201d Gordon said, noting such a policy would plainly violate the First Amendment. \u201cInstead, he\u2019s saying he won\u2019t let Muslim people into the country. It should be viewed exactly the same way\u2014but because it\u2019s an immigration policy and falls under the plenary power doctrine, it might well be upheld.\u201d\nTrump\u2019s rhetoric represents one wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among many that have crested during various points throughout American history.\nThe Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1880s, for instance, sought to ban Chinese immigration after Chinese railroad workers finished building the transcontinental railroad in the United States. In considering the legality of the act, the Supreme Court described the presence of Chinese immigrants in the United States as \u201capproaching the character of an Oriental invasion\u201d and characterized Chinese people as \u201cobnoxious\u201d and likely to lie, in keeping with the explicit anti-Chinese sentiment of the day, Gordon noted.\nThe plenary power doctrine\u2019s continued application for immigration matters increases the likelihood that it will be used when anti-immigrant opinions are strongest, the professor said.\nThere have been cracks in the plenary power doctrine before, including three months before 9/11, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Zadvydas case that the plenary power doctrine did not empower the United States to indefinitely detain immigrants under order of deportation whom no other country will accept. In the aftermath of 9/11, however, the Supreme Court resumed its reliance on the plenary power doctrine in the 2003 case of Demore v. Kim.\nWhile some scholars argue that the Court is turning away from the doctrine without overruling it, Gordon remains concerned.\n\u201cUnless the Supreme Court explicitly changes direction, the plenary power doctrine will remain available for the Court to rely on any time it wishes to uphold an immigration policy that is inconsistent with the Constitution,\u201d Gordon said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.phonesltd.co.uk/tag/pay-as-you-go-4g-deals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6CIB3TN5HTRPK3JUDMFBY24R4B37O7RG", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "news.phonesltd.co.uk", "title": "pay as you go 4g deals | PhonesLTD", "raw_content": "pay as you go 4g deals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2706, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsusa.ru/news/79541-russia-s-long-term-strategy-time-to-start-weaning-the-world-off-the-dollar-reserve-currency.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:40Z", "digest": "sha1:SGGYFYU3HM7EEPXBCY3OL72SUBZR7PS5", "length": 4103, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "newsusa.ru", "title": "\ufeff Russia\u2019s Long-Term Strategy: Time to Start Weaning the World Off the Dollar Reserve Currency \u2014 Newsusa.ru", "raw_content": "Russia\u2019s Long-Term Strategy: Time to Start Weaning the World Off the Dollar Reserve Currency\nRussia, China, the EU \u2014 more and more countries in the world are thinking of reducing the role of the dollar in foreign trade and switching to other currencies. What will happen to the ruble and how the process of de-dollarization will take place in our country first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said in an exclusive interview.\n\u2014 Hello, Nailya. Why are we looking for a replacement for the dollar?\n\u2014 Igor, that is related to the policy of the American authorities. Today, 40% of world trade is made in dollars. Taking advantage of this, the USA has unleashed a trade war against China. Sanctions have been imposed on many Russian companies and businessmen. Our country is threatened to tighten these restrictions in the near future. Therefore, we are trying to protect ourselves in advance.\nAnton Siluanov, Minister of Finance: \u00abIn order to ensure stability in settlements, we are starting and are already taking steps to, firstly, switch to settlements in national currencies. We believe that even in those contracts concluded in dollars with our partners, which are the countries of the Eurasian Union, the CIS countries, and even our European partners, we must more and more switch to settlements in rubles, euros, and national currencies\u00bb.\nToday, the dollar accounts for almost 70% of our exports and 36% of imports. If we have a look at all the currencies that Russia uses in foreign trade, in the second place is the euro with 21%, almost as much as the ruble's share, 20%. The share of other currencies, including the yuan, is still small. According to Anton Siluanov, the government will encourage exporters to switch to other currencies.\nAnton Siluanov: \u00abWe will now take measures to stimulate the settlements of our partners in rubles. We will make tax preferences. We will speak about a more accelerated procedure for the return of the settlements of currency earnings, the return of VAT on export deliveries. We will create incentives to switch to settlements in national currencies. I think that this is an absolutely right decision\u00bb.\nThe Finance Ministry is sure both China and the EU are also now interested in using other currencies in order to mitigate the actions of the American administration. This summer, China reduced investments in the US national debt by $7,7 billion. Anton Siluanov says decisions on de-dollarization of our economy will be made this year. next year, Russia will sell oil and gas for rubles, euros, yuan, and other currencies other than the dollar.\n\u2014 In other words, Donald Trump has something to think over. Nailya, shall the Russians be concerned? After all, if our country will use dollar less, what will happen to foreign currency deposits?\n\u2014 Igor, Anton Siluanov assures we shouldn't fret.\nAnton Siluanov: \u00abWe are not talking about the dollars that are stored on bank accounts. Citizens who have such currency accounts shouldn't be worried about all our proposals on settlements under foreign trade contracts since no one is going to exclude the dollar circulation, no one is going to forcibly change dollar savings to ruble ones or some other. This policy has been and will continue to be maintained\u00bb.\n\u2014 What will happen to the ruble?\n\u2014 Igor, in the coming years, the Ministry of Finance expects the ruble exchange rate to be around 62 rubles per dollar, and in 17 years it may exceed 73 rubles. In the near future, the dynamics of our currency will depend on external factors.\nAnton Siluanov: \u00abIn 2017, and in 2018, we fully ensured the stability of the ruble exchange rate to external factors related to oil prices. But to ensure the same, 100% stability of the exchange rate to external influences related to sanctions\u2026 Well, it's difficult to predict such things. In general, we have the understanding of how we shall respond to the current situation. I hope that the actions of the government and the Central Bank will contribute to the stability of the exchange rate\u00bb.\n\u2014 Thank you. This was my colleague Nailya Asker-zade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newyorkstatefestivals.com/join/holiday_valleys_winter_carnival_ellicottvilles_mardi_gras_2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:39:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3OM3J7J3EVPP5RKUJQC3DAR34HFD4HFM", "length": 1139, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "newyorkstatefestivals.com", "title": "Valley's Winter Carnival & Ellicottville's Mardi Gras", "raw_content": "Valley's Winter Carnival & Ellicottville's Mardi Gras\n6557 Holiday Valley Rd, Ellicottville, NY 14731\nFriday night, March 8th, everything kicks off with Ellicottville\u2019s Masquerade Party from 6-9 pm. This party is not like any other. They will be crowning the Mardi Gras King and Queen for the weekend at the Party. Those in attendance will be choosing the royals through applause. On top of that, the upstairs of the green bar will be transformed into an area that will resemble all the pomp and circumstance of a New Orleans celebration of Fat Tuesday. Food to fit the festivities will be available and music will be playing for those that want to make use of the dance floor. There will also be a costume contest at the Ball. Come out in your best Mardi Gras costume! Tickets for the Masquerade party can be purchased at the Chamber website, www.ellicottvilleny.com, and are $35 in advance, $40 at the door.\nAttention Holiday Valley Costume Parade entrants...we encourage you to wear your costume and join in the Village Parade on Saturday at 6:30 PM. For information call the Chamber at 716-699-5046. It's FREE to enter and so much fun!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newzchooze.com/index.php?view=categories&category_id=1&limit=500&offset=0&story_id=QSB0aGlyZCBvZiBBbWVyaWNhb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:12:49Z", "digest": "sha1:573NYHZ4YVTODPIJRGOXGAAVUZLYEXYX", "length": 311, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "newzchooze.com", "title": "Newz Chooze - For Breaking News, Choose Newz Chooze", "raw_content": "Thirty-four percent of Americans said they find a white person using makeup to darken their skin so they appear to be a different race as part of a Halloween costume to be always acceptable (15%) or sometimes acceptable (19%), with big divides between political parties, according to a Pew Research Center poll.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ng.dan-isms.com/2015/05/occulus-rift-will-have-official-release.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:49:42Z", "digest": "sha1:D57VT2TJWC5TJS7PMLY34NDMZGUQP6R7", "length": 657, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ng.dan-isms.com", "title": "Nerdgasms: Occulus Rift will have an official release 2016", "raw_content": "Occulus Rift will have an official release 2016\nI'm on the fence for the Oculus Rift, a friend of mine put me through it - I could see potential but wasn't terribly excited. Still, the premise sounds good. Polygon had this to say about the system:\n\u201cThe Oculus Rift builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well as updated ergonomics for a more natural fit, and a highly refined industrial design\u201d, according to the company\nIf you want to know some more about the system you can check out a few additional details here.\nLabels: oculus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nitrogr.am/egypt-land-of-the-free-enterprise/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VI2MXXUAGEYYVGFQGGQH3JBXG4DI2NWV", "length": 3733, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "nitrogr.am", "title": "Egypt \u2014 Land of the Free (Enterprise) \u2013 Business and Entrepreneurship", "raw_content": "Egypt \u2014 Land of the Free (Enterprise)\nWhen you\u2019re thinking of starting up a business, Egypt might not seem an obvious first choice. However, ruling it out is a big mistake. Egypt has, in fact, weathered the international economic turbulence better than many other countries, due to its economic reforms and the Central Bank of Egypt\u2019s supervision of all the local and foreign banks in the country.\nThis is good news for corporate banking in Egypt. When you\u2019re making business payments you\u2019ll be pleased to know that bank transactions (letters of credit and transfers) are secured and guaranteed internationally during commercial deals. Businesses can set up corporate accounts safe in the knowledge that the financial authorities are taking genuine care of their interests.\nBut it\u2019s not just this protection of corporate banking that makes Egypt a good place to start a business.\nFreedom of Enterprise, Freedom of Choice\nEgypt is particularly attractive for start-ups because you have so much freedom over your business. The changes in the legal framework now allow 100% foreign ownership of a company, as well as 100% foreign representation on the\nboard of directors. There\u2019s also protection from expropriation, which means the Government won\u2019t be able to take private property into public ownership without a fight, if at all.\nThe other tasty carrot that Egypt dangles in front of entrepreneurs, and has been doing so for years now, is its creation of free zones, which were set up to encourage foreign trade. Start your business in these zones and you\u2019ll be exempt from taxes, customs duties and import and export regulations. The other advantage these zones offer is that that you\u2019re free to choose the legal status of your business.\nWhen you set up a business, you should research into where the opportunities lie \u2014 and Egypt certainly has plenty of them. For instance, general lack of consumer knowledge about products such as insurance has created lots of opportunities in the financial sector.\nOther sectors where there\u2019s room for business are construction, ICT, education and training, gas and oil, environment and water, and retail sectors. Here\u2019s why:\nEducation \u2014 the shift in the Egyptian education system focus means that pupils are learning to prepare for employment rather than to simply pass exams\nOil and gas \u2014 Egypt\u2019s high level of unemployment and its large number of people under 25 year olds has created lots of opportunities for training in the sector\nICT \u2014 the demand for ICTs in Egypt is growing and the sector itself is growing quickly each year\nEnvironment and water \u2014 the Egyptian Government wants to provide water and sanitation for 217 Egyptian cities and 4 600 villages, and will require engineers and project managers for such projects\nRetail \u2014 Egyptian consumers are becoming more interested in brands and value-added products and services, but despite some household names branching out into Egypt, penetration of the retail sector is still low\nConstruction \u2014 the Egyptian construction sector is experiencing an annual growth rate of 15%. Investment is estimated to reach $7.3 billion, with many new and diverse projects, including high-end real estate, tourism and leisure, and infrastructure projects.\nSo if you\u2019re looking to set up your business in Egypt, you\u2019ll find the country is doing everything possible to make it easier for you, including exemption from taxes and customs duties. Not only that, the Central Bank of Egypt\u2019s monitors all the banks in Egypt, so that it\u2019s safer to use a corporate account and make business payments there. It all makes business pleasure.\nPrevious Article Why You Should Wait for Grad School\nNext Article How to be a Student and an Entrepreneur at the Same Time", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://noahwelch.com/transfer/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ILY2XKADOV4UYUN6LFZMCF2ZYMZ5B2TE", "length": 2143, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "noahwelch.com", "title": "About | Transfer 2013", "raw_content": "From generation to generation. What we treasure, we must transfer.\nWhy this conference?\nThat the next generation might set their hope in God\u2026\nPsalm 78:4, 7 says: \u201cWe will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done\u2026 so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.\u201d\nWe want to transfer what matters. We want those after us to see how glorious a relationship with Jesus is. Wewant them to hope in God\u2013not in our methodologies, our practices, ourstructures, or even our example, but in God himself.\nDrawing on our history as a family of churches and the amazing truths we celebrate, the Transfer Conference will create a context for us to intentionally transfer the things we treasure to the next generation. If we assume these things, we will lose them, so we must be intentional to transfer them. In a focused way, Transfer will allow us to do this by devoting each session to a particular truth we collectively treasure: God\u2019s glory, God\u2019s gospel, God\u2019s word, God\u2019s presence, God\u2019s people, God\u2019s design, and God\u2019s mission.\nTransfer is for\u2026 Young Adults. Transfer will be geared especially toward young adults (18 and over). If you\u2019re a young adult, your season of life is an ideal time to become grounded in the things that matter most. As you seek out which things are of first importance, we want you to be established in the truths we treasure.\nTransfer is for\u2026 Teens. If you\u2019re a teenager, you also need to explore the things that matter most. We want to partner with your parents in passing on the most important things to you.\nTransfer is for\u2026 Parents. If you\u2019re a parent of a teen, you are already doing a lot of transferring. This conference can be refreshing to you as you come with your teen and hear thetruths we love once again.\nIt\u2019s for\u2026 Anyone. If you don\u2019t fit into any of the categories above, but just want to come, press into the Lord with his people, and be amazed by the things that have been amazing us for so long as a family of churches, you\u2019re welcome to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northeastcobbba.com/events/february-22-alive-after-five/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ6ZZF7LLWL5BLJZ7WZA3TEBXJWF7RY5", "length": 824, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "northeastcobbba.com", "title": "Northeast Cobb Business Association - February 28 Alive After Five", "raw_content": "Home/February 28 Alive After Five\nshow details +\thide details -\t $0.00 (USD) / ticket 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10\nGoes On Sale:Tuesday February 5th, 2019 9:21 am\nSales End:Wednesday February 27th, 2019 11:55 pm\nThursday February 28th, 2019\t 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm\t 1\t 99\t 1\t unlimited\nGuest RSVP/Non-Member\nshow details +\thide details -\t $10.00 (USD) / ticket 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10\nGuest RSVP/Non-Member $10.00 (USD)\nGoes On Sale:Monday February 11th, 2019 2:05 pm\nSales End:Wednesday February 27th, 2019 11:30 am\nJoin us for our Alive After Five, hosted this month by Rafferty\u2019s at Town Center & Sponsored by Southeastern Engineering, Inc. Join us from 5:30 \u2013 7:30 on February 28th for an evening of fun, great food, and networking!\n2501 Cobb Place Lane Northwest\nBy NCBAadmin|2019-02-11T14:06:58+00:00February 5th, 2019|0 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nzest.auckland.ac.nz/search/*:*/Locality:%22Taupo%20Volcanic%20Zone%22/Date:%5B2002+TO+2002%5D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:32:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2T7OKBBE77CAFN4GFIJQBLA2HBHF66LL", "length": 120, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nzest.auckland.ac.nz", "title": "Bibliography of New Zealand Earth Science Theses > Search Results Auckland University - superindex", "raw_content": "Nature and dynamics of the Rotorua eruptive episode, Okataina Volcanic Centre, Taupo Volcanic Zone.\nKilgour, G.N. (2002)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 210.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Salient28111965-t1-body-d38-d2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZQAQODMTYEITWVZ66OSM43IBV3KRQOZ", "length": 4103, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "nzetc.victoria.ac.nz", "title": "The Buchanan Thesis: A Criticism | NZETC", "raw_content": "Title: The Buchanan Thesis: A Criticism\nAuthor: James C. Decker\nThe Buchanan Thesis: A Criticism\nSirs,\u2014The other night I was invited to be exposed to Professor Buchanan of the Geography Department.\nI would like to take this opportunity to express my reaction to that exposure. The professor's position may be summarised as follows:\n\u2022 The war in Vietnam should be stopped by the immediate withdrawal of foreign, ie American troops. This would bring peace and an immediate boost to a depressed economy.\n\u2022 To perfect that economy certain \"human mobilisation\" will be necessary to cope with the vast problems of limited resources and over-population. Although human mobilisation may result in a period of authoritarian control, such control is transient and can be expected to soften as the economy becomes more prosperous. During this period of economic growth, only endemic political processes should be allowed to determine the form and style of government.\n\u2022 External involvement is to be limited to economic and technical assistance through international organisations so that foreign political influence is eliminated.\nMy reaction to this position is that it tends to emphasise economic considerations and fails to emphasise the place of politics in any country, even ones with subsistence economies.\nProfessor Buchanan's approach would subordinate politics for economic gain. It seems to me that one takes a very great risk in this.\nThere are too many historical examples to overlook. Politics were suppressed in the grant of arbitrary decision power to Hitler in the cause of unity and short-term goals. Likewise, the revolutionary goals of the Soviet Union and Communist China required an abandonment of politics for \"temporary\" economic and social objectives. This list goes on throughout recorded history.\nI have never been able to accept the proposition of the withering away of the state from the position of dictatorship, whether a dictatorship of the proletariat or any other kind. I have not found it convincingly expressed by Engels and I do not find it convincing from Professor Buchanan.\nOn the other hand, we have seen the \"Hundred Flowers\" wither quite readily under the present governments in China and North Vietnam. This is surely not the way to restore politics. Looking at the whole of Chinese history, how can we have more than a mere hope that political freedom will become a part of Chinese life?\nI would emphasise politics, then, rather than the short-term economic gains. By politics. I mean that activity which conciliates and accommodates differing interests within a given unit of rule, giving them a share in power in proportion to their importance to the welfare and survival of the whole community.\nIn South Vietnam we have tried to create a unit of rule which could become political. To create such a unit, there frequently must be a myth of the unit prior to its becoming a real and viable thing. For example, the Constitution of the United States created the myth of union before there was a feeling of nationhood.\nA referendum in the states would probably have rejected the myth just as a premature vote in Vietnam might reject the myth there, too.\nThe same kind of myth applies to the United Nations at the present time. It cannot be said to be a government, and yet if it is to succeed, the members will have to act as if it is a government. Both the United Nations and South Vietnam may disappoint point us, but this alone does not justify abandoning them.\nThe point of the recitation of the three examples is that politics is, or should be prior to economic or social advantage. The politician Abraham Lincoln recognised this when he directed the Civil War, not to free the slaves but to save the union. The political order was important because only through the political order could the other problems be resolved.\nThose who say that economic recovery will solve Asia's problems lack an understanding of both politics and totalitarianism. The choice is not fighting the hungry or hunger, but righting the apolitical for the chance of politics.\nJames C. 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He left home to move here when he was 17, and has been traveling back and forth ever since. Dimitri developed a passion through the years about automobile as well as architecture and design, and loves to travel in his free time. Eventually, his plan is to get the residency, and start his own business here in the USA, he just doesn't know where yet, as he wants to keep his future plans open.\nThe very sweet, sweet journey of Thomas Comte\nEvery Sunday, if not every day, citizens of a small country have the chance to\u2026\nSunday morning: 7am. Honestly, the only thing I am thinking at this point is \u201cwhy\u2026\nI presented the Resqme tool in a previous article, and stated how great it is\u2026\nResqme: I hope you will never have to use it, but if, you will be glad\u2026\nA few steps from a French meal\nJust a few steps away from Antioch, there is the only one place that offers\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oilfiredup.com/tag/demand", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XKUNG3SRSMT45WEXXTH35ZVRLXQIO4ZP", "length": 240, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "oilfiredup.com", "title": "demand Archives - OilFiredUp", "raw_content": "Home Tags Demand\nRenewables Now Officially Scotland\u2019s Largest Power Source\nRenewable electricity has been confirmed as Scotland\u2019s largest power source, as new figures show green generation met the equivalent of almost half (49.5%) of the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ojukanjudo.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:45:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XV6PELDKCCTJHHBHQ72FFGAVFEGUVVHT", "length": 2891, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ojukanjudo.org", "title": "ojukanjudo.org | Home of Ojukan Judo", "raw_content": "Teaching Kodokan Judo In Washington County Since 1967\nWelcome to the home page for Ojukan Judo. The Ojukan Judo club is a non-profit organization that was founded by sensei Rene Leidelmeyer, 6th Dan, in 1967, and has been serving the greater Washington county community ever since. Ojukan is a member of the US Judo Federation.\nJudo or J\u016bd\u014d (\u67d4\u9053 j\u016bd\u014d?, meaning \u201cgentle way\u201d) is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai bud\u014d) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw one\u2019s opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one\u2019s opponent with a grappling manoeuvre, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking the elbow or by executing a choke. Strikes and thrusts (by hands and feet)\u2014as well as weapons defences\u2014are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice (randori).\nJudo emphasizes a free-style sparring, called randori, as one of its main forms of training. Part of the combat time is spent sparring standing up, called tachi-waza, and the other part on the ground, called ne-waza. Sparring, even subject to safety rules, is much more practically effective than only practising techniques on their own, which is what jujutsuka were used to doing. Using full strength develops the muscles and cardio-vascular system on the physical side of things, and it develops strategy and reaction time on the mental side of things, and helps the practitioner learn to use techniques against a resisting opponent. A common saying among judoka is \u201cThe best training for judo is judo.\u201d\nIn judo, there are two main phases of combat: the standing phase, tachi-waza; and the ground phase, ne-waza; with each phase requiring its own (mostly separate) techniques, strategies, randori, conditioning and so on. Special training is also devoted to \u201ctransitional\u201d techniques to bridge the gap. J\u016bd\u014dka may become quite skilled in one phase and be rather weak in the other, depending on where their interests most lie, although most are balanced between the two. Judo\u2019s inclusion of both the standing and ground phases of combat gives judoka the ability to take down opponents who are standing up and then pin and submit them on the ground.\nOjukan Judo\nAt Ojukan we practice all of the traditional techniques of Kodokan Judo, including throws, wrestling, and submission. 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Specifically, a growing list of organizations, including Nike, have been getting RDQLUS, courtesy of creator Steve Gordon. When the limited edition Cultivator X Nike \u201cCODES\u201d Capsule Collection became available on Oct. 15, 2018, most\u2026 Continue Reading...\nBig Brain Productions\nFebruary 22, 2014 \u00b7 Posted In: B2B Magazine, Business, Business Profiles, Downtown, Downtown, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, People, People On the Rise\nJoe \u201cSmitty\u201d Smith runs a seemingly typical tattoo parlor Downtown, complete with 13 staff members and regular clients. But it\u2019s what Big Brain Productions, located in the Old Market, also provides for employees (401(k) benefits, [\u2026]\nZealous Melon\nDecember 7, 2013 \u00b7 Posted In: B2B Magazine, Business, Entrepreneurs, People, People On the Rise\nWith just one look at Zealous Melon\u2019s hip basement headquarters, the fruit theme becomes apparent. 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At 16, she\u2019s the youngest fashion designer to show at Omaha Fashion Week (a title she\u2019s held since she was 13, as a [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 7631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlineschooloftheology.com/tag/leadership-styles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEMEEPZ5Q6KBTGCHIIOAOJEC32MFLNNR", "length": 16203, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "onlineschooloftheology.com", "title": "leadership styles Archives - Free Bible Courses", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: leadership styles\nThese basic styles of leadership are not mutually exclusive. No one has to choose between using autocratic, democratic, or laissez-faire. That would be like telling a golfer that he had to choose between using a wood, or iron, or his putter to play a round of golf. In the course of a game, he will use some of all three. The effective leader will carefully choose between all the styles of leadership and use the one most appropriate at a given time and place. The more a leader adopts his style of leadership to meet the particular situation and the needs of his followers, the more effective he will become in reaching his own goals.\nOne way an effective leader shows his skill is by knowing which style to use at any given time. All leaders will have a tendency to use one style more than the others, but he will need to learn to fit the style to the situation. That doesn\u2019t mean that he should be inconsistent, but it does mean that he should be flexible. A leader might use an autocratic style to direct his secretary, a democratic style to consult an assistant, and a laissez-faire style with an associate.\nA number of criteria should be considered when selecting a leadership style. The leader should consider the subordinates as individuals, the group as a whole, the situation, his own personality, and the forces at his disposal.\nSubordinates as individuals\nDifferent classes of individuals will respond differently to the styles of leadership. Subordinates who are hostile, dependent, inexperienced, or immature will follow autocratic leadership better. Followers who are cooperative, group minded, trained, and motivated will respond well to democratic leadership. A subordinate who is self-confident, professional, somewhat of an individualist, and maybe an introvert will respond better to a laissez-faire style.\nThe group climate\nThe group is more than the sum of the parts. The group will have characteristics just like the individuals in the group, and the selection of a style is based on the same type of criteria. A group can be trained, enthusiastic, aggressive, militant, or lazy. Some groups will have a lot of tradition, and this must be considered when selecting a style of leading. Some groups will work well together, and some groups will not. Some groups will be cooperative and loyal, and some will be the opposite.\nThe situation also must be considered. Generally, changes in the situation will require changes in the leader\u2019s style. If there is extra pressure, a short-term emergency, or internal discord, the leader will need to adopt a more autocratic style of leading. When there is time to do so and the opportunity to train others, then a democratic style might be used. The democratic style is very effective for organizational planning and creative problem-solving. The laissez-faire style is a good choice when evaluating competent workers and when involved in highly creative and innovative work.\nThe leader as a person\nThe leader must also consider himself, his personality, his wisdom, his abilities, and even his sex when selecting a style. Women who are in leadership positions should generally use democratic or laissez-faire styles. A young leader is generally unwise to use autocratic leadership on an older group of subordinates. Some leaders would appear to be unsure or a phony when they try to be laissez-faire.\nForces at the leader\u2019s disposal\nA lot of power is needed to be autocratic, because when an order is given to do something, a subordinate may respond, \u201cWhat if I don\u2019t?\u201d The leader using autocratic leadership will need the power to back up the command.\nMost managers actually have two preferred styles. They prefer to use a more autocratic style on their followers, giving them more control; but they prefer a more participative style be used on them by their superior, giving them more self-control and less control from others.\nTagged leadership styles\nThere are some leadership styles that are hard to classify as they are out of the ordinary. Here are a few other leadership styles that you may encounter in the church. These are not right or wrong but each will have their own advantages and disadvantages.\nA charismatic leader has a special emotional draw about them. There is an intangible quality about this type of leader that makes followers do things they wouldn\u2019t ordinarily do without the direction of the leader.\nThe charismatic leader is a strong leader and is given freedom to lead. His followers are extremely devoted to him and to his tasks, and they are willing to stand against the rest of the world. He can issue a call or a challenge and the followers will respond with conviction. It almost demands opposition, and the leader and his group will meet the challenge in full glory. His leadership is born in a crisis situation and requires continuing crises for survival.\nThe leader maintains an image, almost god-like. He stays detached. He is seen as very strong, almost a superman. Some even talk of \u201chypnotic eyes.\u201d He is very much a creation of his followers, yet he is their leader and they follow him.\nSome special problems exist with this style. He is anti-establishment, anti-organization, and anti-democratic culture. The organization is built around the single leader, and he fails to develop or to hold top quality leaders around him. This creates a lack of permanence in his work, as it seldom survives past his death. The followers almost worship him as a god. When taken to the extreme this develops into a cult like following.\nThe partisan style of leadership\nThis leader has an extremely narrow focus or outlook. He is preoccupied with one thing and eliminates all other concerns. He is a real extremist and can be called a fanatic. He is a man of strong convictions. He is very capable and concerned about his one interest. He is described as being zealous, crusading, and single-minded. He leads a minority with unflinching courage. He attempts to go forward regardless of obstacles, and glories in tribulation and even martyrdom, whether real or imaginary. A youth pastor can develop this, or a missionary to a special group, like the Jews, can develop this. A church planter can develop this.\nThe major danger is the way this kind of leader tends to lose sight of all else, except for his one purpose or group. He can be too single-minded. He may also tend to minimize the weaknesses of his own group to a dangerous point.\nThe specialist or expert style of leadership\nSpecialization and division of labor is a proven practice in our world today. As knowledge has expanded, specialization has become necessary. Doctors use specialists in the various parts of the body: eyes, ears, throat, skin, etc. Pastors also use specialists in the ministry of a church: children, youth, education, music, administration, counseling, evangelism, etc. The specialist is one who accumulates the most information about a small part of the whole and seeks to dispense and use that knowledge to help the whole.\nThe top leader cannot afford to be a specialist, but must remain a generalist and use specialists. He must find the expert, listen to him, grasp the essential information being communicated, and allow the expert to work, without ever losing sight of the whole overall picture. The specialist is in danger of losing sight of the simple but essential parts, and especially the concept of the whole. He will have a tendency to see everything in the light of his specialization.\nMost people are familiar with democratic leadership if for no other reason than they are used to electing their local, state, and national leaders. This is what democratic leadership may look like within the church.\nDefinition of Democratic Leadership\nThe basic idea is that of people rule, or at least group participation. It is group centered, instead of the leader-centered approach of autocratic leadership. The leader draws ideas and suggestions from the group by discussion and consultation. The group members are encouraged to take part in planning, decision-making, and the setting of policy. The leader is a moderator. He gets ideas from the group, but he can make the final decision. He can use a vote for decision-making, but that is not the thing that distinguishes the democratic style. The input of the group is the critical factor, even if they don\u2019t vote, they must be involved and have a say. The democratic leader develops a team concept. Most followers prefer this style of leadership.\nDemocratic leadership is especially effective with an educated and motivated group. It helps to train followers in leadership as they participate in planning and decision-making. Followers get to listen and learn from the free exchange of ideas, and even the praise and criticism of ideas. Perspective is broadened as one is exposed to many different ideas, and wisdom is accumulated as one participates in the give and take of discussion of ideas. The democratic leader is training his followers to assume more responsibility and reach ultimate self-fulfillment. It is the best style for development of followers. Participation in the decision-making process also gives one a stronger sense of ownership of goals and decisions.\nDisadvantages do exist to this style. A trained and motivated group is necessary or the leader\u2019s efforts are doomed to failure. The followers must know enough to contribute good ideas and they must be motivated enough to want to be involved. The followers must feel that their input is really being considered, because if they believe that an autocratic leader is using a democratic style with his mind already made up, it will affect morale. If insecure people are in the group, they generally prefer a more autocratic style of leadership. The democratic concept may subject quality to quantity, and the genius may be pulled down to the lower average of the group. The democratic process will take more time than a more autocratic approach. In time of crises this delay may be costly.\nDemocratic leadership that is bureaucratic\nA bad type of democratic leadership is bureaucratic leadership. Here the leader is seen as a diplomat and he must learn to use the majority rule as a way to get people to produce. Decisions are made by majority rule and governed by parliamentary procedure. It is marked by continual reference to organizational rules and regulations, and it is assumed that everything can be perfect if the people will abide by the rules. The rules were decided on by majority vote.\nA leader\u2019s style has to do with the manner in which he carries out his responsibilities, and how he is perceived by those he is leading. The basic styles of leadership are autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire, but a number of other styles are described in the leadership literature. The styles to some degree represent a swinging pendulum. The autocratic is one extreme and the laissez-faire is the opposite extreme; the democratic is in the middle. A range exists with each basic style, so that a person could be extremely autocratic, or autocratic but almost democratic. This section outlines the basic leadership styles but your leadership style may not fit all of the description of any particular style.\nDefinition of Autocratic Leadership\nThe autocratic style is leader centered. The autocratic leader is a dictator. He considers decision-making a one man operation, and thinks of himself as the man. He considers himself superior to his followers, and mainly seeks obedience from them. He determines policy and procedure. He decides the who, the what, the how, the when, and the who with. He usually makes decisions with little hesitation; in fact, he may consider hesitation in decision-making a sign of weakness. He has a tendency to make decisions in all areas, because he sees himself as the decision maker. He may even be viewed as an expert decision maker in every area by his followers. He will use threat, manipulation, or force to\naccomplish his will.\nThe autocratic leader assumes that people dislike work and will avoid it. People will not do anything unless coerced, controlled, directed, or threatened with punishment. He further assumes that people prefer being directed, wish to avoid responsibility, have little ambition, and place the highest value on security.\nChristian leadership should not be autocratic to this extreme. It lacks love and compassion and obviously comes across as arrogant. Nevertheless there is a place for some manner of autocratic leadership within the church.\nAutocratic leadership is not all bad. Many examples of autocratic leadership can be found in the scripture. Moses, Joshua, Nehemiah, Peter, Paul, and others could be used to illustrate an autocratic style of leadership. The autocratic style is especially an appropriate style when the leader is speaking with the power of the Old Testament prophet, \u201cthus saith the Lord.\u201d God does speak to individuals, especially leaders, and reveals His will to them, and they need to speak with a clear sound and say this is the way to do it. The autocratic leader, however, who misuses this and attempts to force his will on people with the words of a false prophet, creates problems in churches.\nAutocratic leadership is very appropriate in times of crises or emergencies. Decision-making is faster when only one person is involved in the process. Autocratic leadership is appropriate when a person is training others who don\u2019t know enough about the task to make decisions. Autocratic leadership is appropriate when there is rebellion and the situation is filled with disturbances, then one person needs to take over.\nProblems with this style\nProblems do exist when this is the only style of leadership. One major disadvantage of autocratic leadership is that it fails to develop leadership in followers. The leader makes all the decisions. In fact, the autocratic leader will stifle creativity and discourage innovation. He must tell the group what to do, when to do it, where to do it, and who to do it with. People learn that the autocratic leader is THE leader and they stop trying to do anything. Work may actually stop when he is not physically present, because no one else can make a decision. Generally an autocratic leader will not develop an organization that can continue after he leaves. Things may fall apart when he resigns, because he has developed neither individuals nor the organization. A Christian leader especially needs to be concerned with developing other people, and this style will present special problems to a Christian.\nAnother problem of the autocratic leader is that he is viewed as being insensitive to the feelings of others. The autocratic leader has power and \u201cPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\u201d This is where the term dictator comes in. He is not viewed in a positive manner. Most people do not want to work for the autocratic leader because he is seen as so careless of human feelings.\nThe autocratic leader also works without a checks and balance system. The leader prefers not to answer to anyone. He doesn\u2019t want anyone to question his authority. When he is right, he is very right; but when he is wrong he is very wrong. Some type of shared leadership or team leadership can avoid some serious pitfalls.\nAutocratic leader that is paternalistic\nA very special sub-classification of the autocratic style is the paternalistic style of leadership. This type of leader has a father attitude toward the group and is deeply concerned for the welfare of each individual in the group. The leader looks on the followers as his children and he is very concerned for his followers. He is a father, however, and is to make the decisions for his children. A young seminary graduate may go as an associate pastor to an older man who may treat him as a son. The educated and ambitious followers will resent this style of leadership where they are treated as children. If the paternalistic leader will allow his \u201cchildren\u201d to grow up and become leaders he can be a very effective leader. He can protect from some dangers, teach how to do it, and gently loosen the apron strings. A mentor is often this type of leader.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 21235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlygold.com/Gold-Articles-Detail.asp?ArticleNum=36", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:35:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RZVO35TAOBIMPAJF6UFF5A3XKVLCDAI7", "length": 3985, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "onlygold.com", "title": "Gold Article Full Story", "raw_content": "Gold Prices Virtually Flatline in November, But U.S. Sales of the Popular Gold Eagle Take Off\n(12/1/00) Despite all that's going on in the world, gold prices stayed in a trading range of complete boredom. November\u2019s daily prices show a high of $269.95 and a low of $264.10. But U.S. gold Eagles are flying off the shelf. If gold is becoming obsolete, why are so many buying it?\nAs we publish this, we are living under the curse of interesting times. 24 days after the so-called election, The U.S. still has no President-elect, everyone\u2019s favorite high-tech stocks are collapsing to the tune of tens of billions of dollars of lost paper wealth, oil prices remain stubbornly over $30 per barrel, and Mideast hostilities continue with no end in sight.\nAnd gold, once a sensitive barometer that would have reacted sharply to any of the above conditions, just lies there like a hound.\nNot only were fluctuations in the gold price a scant $6 range from high to low for all of November, we actually had three days in a row (11/20 \u2013 11/22) in which the bellwether 2nd London fix didn\u2019t even change from day to day, but stayed exactly $266.15. Gold traders must have wondered why they even bothered to get out of bed.\nWe\u2019ll leave it to others to ponder why gold prices are so moribund. There are worse things than having a steady value placed on this timeless commodity that we call gold. Just ask the owners of many stock portfolios \u2013 their recent shaky performance makes the steadiness of gold seem like a very desirable thing.\nDespite stagnant prices, physical gold bullion demand in the U.S. for November picked up sharply. American gold Eagles sales by the Mint took a substantial leap, reacting both to demand by investors attracted by low gold prices, and the usual seasonal demand for the 2000-dated coins as gift items.\nThe Mint produced 30,500 of the popular $50 face value 1-ounce gold Eagles in November, a huge increase considering that in the first ten months of 2000 a total of only 24,500 coins were produced and sold. As we pointed out earlier this year, in some months of the year 2000 the Mint sold exactly zero gold Eagles. But all sizes of gold Eagles sold well in November. We refer you to the Mint\u2019s website at usmint.gov for up-to-date mintage totals for the bullion Eagle coins, as sold and delivered in year 2000.\nBut treat the figures on the Mint's website with caution!\nWhen viewing the Mint\u2019s production figures on their website, keep in mind that tens of thousands of 2000-dated gold Eagles were sold in December of 1999 for delivery in 2000, and these coins are not reflected in the mintage figures you can view on the Mint site. We mention this as a caution to those speculating that year 2000 Eagles will carry a substantial collector premium in the years ahead \u2013 in truth, that may not happen.\nThere has been no official word on the 1999 sales of year 2000 gold Eagles, but early next year the Mint will release final figures. Sales will no doubt be a fraction of the amount sold during 1998 and 1999\u2019s pre-Y2K frenzy. But whether that will translate into some additional collectors\u2019 premium in the future is another question.\nIn his newsletter, Leonard Kaplan of Prospector Asset Management called this incredibly stable bullion market \u201cwatching the paint dry in the halls of gold.\u201d As long as the dollar is strong and retains its place as the world\u2019s reserve currency, gold really is of no use as a monetary instrument. Does that mean that gold is obsolete?\nThe markets are certainly treating it that way - today, gold is barely trading above a 21-year low price. Complacency over the strength of the dollar is keeping gold out of the financial picture entirely.\nBut we don\u2019t think it's a good idea to bet against gold\u2019s 4,000-year history as the ultimate store of wealth. Gold will still be around when the dollar, the euro, and every other monetary construct we know today are long gone.\nToday it may be lying there like a hound\u2026\nBut every dog has its day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://opei.org/outdoor-power-equipment-institute-announces-its-2010-2011-officers-and-directors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3MMXNIHTLUNBAKDATBQVAL65FVZNNBXJ", "length": 2507, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "opei.org", "title": "OPEI: Outdoor Power Equipment Institute Announces Its 2010-2011 Officers and Directors", "raw_content": "Alexandria, VA \u2013 July 7, 2010 \u2013 The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) announced its 2010-11 Officers and Board of Directors during its 58th Annual Meeting in Couer D\u2019Alene, Idaho held June 25-27, 2010.\nOfficers for 2010-11 include: OPEI Chairman Fred Whyte, President, STIHL, Inc ; OPEI Vice Chairman Jean Hlay, President and Chief Operating Officer, MTD Products, Inc; and Secretary/Treasurer Richard Fotsch, President of the Global Power Group, Kohler Company.\n\u201cOur new officers will lend their leadership during what\u2019s expected to be a pivotal year for our industry,\u201d said Kris Kiser, Executive Vice President at OPEI. \u201cWorking as a team on the OPEI Board of Directors, they will bring forward thinking to a variety of issues that our industry is tackling in the next 12 months from legislative and regulatory issues to market issues.\u201d\n\u201cThe international scope of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute will drive decision making to meet global business challenges,\u201d said Mr. Whyte. \u201cAnd, we look forward to meeting those challenges through responsible research, design and manufacturing processes that ultimately benefit our customers and the environment worldwide.\u201d\nContinuing their service on the board are: Immediate Past Chairman, Michael Hoffman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, The Toro Company; Daniel Ariens, President, Ariens Company; Steven Bly, Executive Vice President, Echo Inc; Edward Cohen, Vice President- Government & Industry Relations, American Honda Moto Co., Inc.; Michael Jones, President, Husqvarna Professional Products; John May, Senior Vice President, AT&T Global Platform, Turf & Ag Division, John Deere Company; Gary Michel, President & CEO, Club Car, Inc; Paul Mullet, President, Excel Industries; Todd Teske, President & CEO, Briggs & Stratton Corp.; and Dan Wilkinson, President. Jacobsen, A Textron Company\nOPEI is an international trade association representing the $15 billion landscape, forestry, utility and lawn and garden equipment manufacturing industry. OPEI is a recognized Standards Development Organization for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and active internationally through the International Standards Organization (ISO) in the development of safety standards. Founded in 1952, OPEI represents and promotes the outdoor power equipment industry and ensures the public may continue to benefit from the economic, lifestyle and environmental contributions of landscapes and turfgrass. For more information on OPEI, visit www.OPEI.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://orchardpark.wgrz.com/news/events/305051-experts-discuss-new-refugee-and-immigration-policies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KUJ3MXWPDOYHW2UGOGWXCYDZPYAAPLRO", "length": 1818, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "orchardpark.wgrz.com", "title": "Experts to Discuss New Refugee and Immigration Policies | Events | Orchard Park News", "raw_content": "Experts to Discuss New Refugee and Immigration Policies | Events\nExperts to Discuss New Refugee and Immigration Policies\nTuesday, March 21st, 2017, 9:40am\nPresident Donald Trump\u2019s refugee and immigration policies, including a travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries, will be discussed by a panel of experts from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 4 in Daemen College\u2019s Wick Campus Center Social Room.\nThe panel discussion, \u201cThe Myths and Realities of Trump Policies on Refugees and Immigrants,\u201d will examine the new administration\u2019s policies, the controversial travel ban barring refugees from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. and its impact on area refugees, protecting refugee and immigrant rights, and strategies to address the policies.\n\u201cOur goal for this event is to help shed light on the significant impact these policies will have on refugees, a population that locally has changed the face of the Buffalo Niagara region,\u201d said Cheryl Bird, executive director of Daemen\u2019s Paul A. Saffrin Center for Sustainability and Civic Engagement, which is sponsoring the event. \u201cThrough various service learning opportunities, many of our students work with refugees in our community, and we remain committed to our efforts in assisting these families.\n\u2022 Julie Algubani, civil rights/social justice activist.\n\u2022 Dr. Myron Glick, founder and chief medical officer at the Jericho Road Community Health Center.\n\u2022 Julia Hall, Amnesty International\u2019s expert on counter-terrorism and human rights.\n\u2022 Karen Scott, executive director at Journey\u2019s End Refugee Services.\n\u2022 Claude Welch, human rights expert and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Political Science.\nThe event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. Additional information is available by contacting Cheryl Bird at cbird@daemen.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 235.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://origin-alpha.livemint.com/Opinion/hRjlr0iwt9MpA5UPjq14eI/Doklam-makes-Indias-defence-reforms-more-difficult.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:31:35Z", "digest": "sha1:53CJYGBVPHMKM5QF6U7ZDD5VXRM7LBLS", "length": 5754, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "origin-alpha.livemint.com", "title": "Doklam makes India\u2019s defence reforms more difficult - Livemint", "raw_content": "A file photo of the Nathu La border crossing between India and China. The Narendra Modi government has done little to strengthen India\u2019s military stance at Doklam. Photo: AFP\nGiven the recent media reports about fresh transgressions by the Chinese troops on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since the Doklam crisis, it is now safe to say that the high-octane national security rhetoric by the Narendra Modi government has done little to strengthen India\u2019s military stance on the disputed border. On the contrary, the Indian Army has skewed even more towards a border policing force (from a border guarding one) on its watch. This has slowed down the army\u2019s modernization and blunted its combat capabilities. Worse, it has hampered defence reforms necessary to make the Indian military suitable for modern wars.\nAccording to official statistics, there were 415 transgressions in 2017, compared to 271 in the previous year, with 216 of them leading to face-offs between the two troops. In 2016, there were 146 face-offs. What\u2019s more, there are now 23 areas of major disputes on the LAC. In 1995, there were two, which rose to 12 after the 1998 nuclear tests when India cited China as the main reason for doing so. The surge from 12 to 23 has happened since the arrival of the Modi government in May 2014, when, unlike previous governments, bilateral disagreements have been publicly played out for domestic audiences.\nGiven this, two observations are noteworthy. One, Chinese transgressions have increased commensurate with growing political disagreements, and disparity between the military power and border management of the two sides. And two, China will not hesitate to conduct transgressions and intrusions as part of negotiations to keep India imbalanced.\nWith these increased transgressions and areas of disagreements, the Indian Army has been compelled to plug ingress gaps with more troops to stop Chinese forces from violating the LAC. Offensive forces, like the newly raised 17 Mountain Corps, are being used for policing duties. The latter duties are worse than guarding duties which do allow use of violence if needed. And soldiers perched in high-altitude areas where survival itself is a challenge are bound to feel demoralized facing the non-visible enemy.\nFaced with this ground reality, the Indian Army will not be able to reduce its strength substantially to become a lean and mean fighting force. The massive involvement of the army in anti-infiltration and counterterror operations in Jammu and Kashmir, and now the need for heavy policing on the 3,488km-long LAC, will disallow reduction in the army\u2019s strength of 1.3 million troops. Instead of cutting the teeth (combat forces), tinkering with the tail (support arms), which is being done, will not help.\nThis growing flab is now coming in the way of its modernization programme. According to a recent report by the Parliament standing committee on defence, \u201cthe ratio of the revenue-to-capital outlay is skewed as the budget for capital acquisitions for the services is declining in comparison to revenue allocations, adversely affecting the modernization process of our forces.\u201d Since the army has been spending its capital allocation (for modernization and new acquisitions) to meet its revenue obligations (salaries, allowances and perks of soldiers), it will continue to hold outdated weapons, harming troops\u2019 effectiveness. That is not all. Whatever little is left of the annual capital allocation would be spent on importing varieties of ammunition and critical spare parts since the indigenous defence industry has been found wanting. This explains why, despite having the maximum allocation amongst the three defence services, the army is the least modernized in comparison with the air force and the navy.\nMoreover, since the army is heavily committed to its defensive responsibilities on the two borders (the Line of Control against Pakistan is equally debilitating), it is unable to go back to its primary task: training to fight modern wars. The latter requires an offensive orientation through total synergy between all domains of war: namely, land, air, sea, cyber, space, electronic and information, in order to accomplish jointness in war-fighting. With the army employed in domain-specific defence tasks, it has little time, orientation, weaponry and training to undertake jointness.\nFor example, while speaking at the army\u2019s premier think-tank, the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), the army chief, General Bipin Rawat, spoke about the primacy of the army in war, with the other two services being in support of its operations. This is the anti-thesis of what modern wars are about. With more war-fighting domains, precision and stand-off weapons, modern wars will require minimal contact between opposing forces, which is the prerogative of armies.\nThus, all professional militaries undertake periodic reviews to decide required military reforms to meet the challenges of modern wars. China started its military reforms in 2015 and plans to finish them by 2035 in two phases. By 2020, it will have achieved jointness for territorial defence, and by 2035, it hopes to have jointness for out-of-area operations in support of China\u2019s One Belt One Road project.\nIn India, unfortunately, this is not so. The Integrated Defence Staff Headquarters, responsible for military reforms, cannot do much until the army goes back to its basics, that is, war-fighting. With increased Chinese transgressions, this doesn\u2019t look possible any time soon. It is about time we realized that rhetoric doesn\u2019t change realities; only careful planning and action does.\nPravin Sawhney is editor, \u2018FORCE\u2019 news magazine.\nTopics: Doklam India China Doklam standoff India defence reforms", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://origin-www.nbcuniversal.com/article/nbcu-and-boys-girls-clubs-team-merry-minions-holiday-event", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YHBQD6BMRYZ4TCHICYJ2KSB7BKQD67HK", "length": 1723, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "origin-www.nbcuniversal.com", "title": "NBCU and Boys & Girls Clubs Team Up for 'Merry Minions' Holiday Event | NBCUniversal", "raw_content": "To kick off the holiday season and celebrate the home entertainment release of the hit animated film, Despicable Me 3, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) teamed up for a \u201cMerry Minions\u201d holiday program.\nThe program is intended to engage members of BGCA through Minions-themed holiday activities that promote friendship, teamwork, leadership and creativity.\nParticipating BGCA clubs in select markets \u2013 including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and more \u2013 received \u201cMerry Minions\u201d holiday kits which contain a variety of Despicable Me 3 party, baking and craft items. Members can create Minions-themed ornaments, cookies, decorations, gift items and more. Clubs were also given a gift certificate to purchase additional supplies for their members.\nClubs are encouraged to use the group activities to foster a spirit of cooperation, loyalty, support and bonding, which are central themes to the film. Clubs can also use the \u201cMerry Minions\u201d program to support fundraising initiatives, membership drives, community service activities, parent engagement and more.\nBoys & Girls Clubs of America, Illumination, and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment are committed to helping America's youth shape their futures and celebrate the holiday season through the spirit of giving.\nDespicable Me Minion Mayhem 6 - LR.jpg\nMinions at UOR 2 - LR.jpg\nimagejpeg_0.jpeg\nMiranda Cosgrove meets members of Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Minions gear on the Bravo green screen stage for Despicable Me 3\n'Despicable Me: Minion Rush' Celebrates 800 Million Downloads\nUNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD WELCOMES ALL-NEW JAIL AND TOURIST MINIONS INSPIRED BY DESPICABLE ME 3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 283, "original_length": 11583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://origin.www.metropictures.com/museum-exhibitions/cindy-sherman2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RCWLKFUJ2QCV57IBG42NVPUX2V5FUXKC", "length": 133, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "origin.www.metropictures.com", "title": "Cindy Sherman - Museum Exhibitions - Metro Pictures", "raw_content": "Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia\nInstallation view, 2016. Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 71.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oris.hr/en/oris-house-of-architecture/news/exhibition-%3Ci%3Eillustrations-that-tell-stories%3C_i%3E,1402.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:05Z", "digest": "sha1:3V3UPF63RKSFNB4P6VIA7XRAYOBXLGJW", "length": 2261, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "oris.hr", "title": "Oris \u2022 Exhibition: Illustrations That Tell Stories", "raw_content": "Exhibition: Illustrations That Tell Stories\nOris House of Architecture is pleased to announce the opening of exhibition Illustrations on Thursday, 28 September at 7 pm, sponsored by Artelior, international architecture and interior design practice. The works on display are a result of a series of interviews called Snapshot interviews that were conducted from April to August 2017 in collaboration with the site B\u00fcro 24/7. The exhibition will be open to the public until Tuesday, 10 October.\nThe closing event will include a charity auction of the exhibited illustrations. All funds will be donated to Pragma, association that works on improving social and health care conditions of the socially deprived.\nThe exhibition consists of 50 illustrations that were made for the series Snapshot interviews conducted with 10 young authors from Croatia and Serbia. The word snapshot signifies a brief insight and information that enables us to have a glimpse into someone's character.\nThe concept was founded on all participating authors responding to five identical questions through their primary medium of expression \u2013 illustration. Instead of written answers, they drew stories about themselves. Different in format and techniques, these works give a unique introspective with which they reveal the intimate world of the artists\u2019 and reveal things that are easier to draw than to write down. With this overview and with the accompanying exhibition, we get to learn even more than we were meant to.\nThis exhibition tells the stories of foolishness and love of the following illustrators: Davor Gromilovi\u0107, Klasja Habjan, Tea Juri\u0161i\u0107, OKO, Klara Rusan, Killa slova, Manuel \u0160umberac, Stipan Tadi\u0107, Hana Tintor i Dominik Vukovi\u0107.\nThe author of the interview concept and the exhibition is Lana Petrak.\nLana Petrak was born in Zagreb in 1988. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, and acquired additional education in M\u00fcnchen and Amsterdam. In addition to working in the field of architecture, she often works on different interdisciplinary projects and international workshops. In her spare time Lana is an eager follower and promotor of visual arts, especially young up-and-coming artists. Lana currently lives in Zagreb and is working at Artelior.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paesmem.net/node/1564", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OILIEPS3CO7FUVHKRFFO6QVLFCBDXHSJ", "length": 935, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "paesmem.net", "title": "Sara Young, Montana State University | paesmem", "raw_content": "Sara Young, Montana State University\nSara Young Profile\nE-mail: slyoung@montana.edu\nhttp://www.montana.edu/news/799/young-recognized-with-national-award-for-mentoring-work-at-msu\nSara Young directs the American Indian Research Opportunities program at Montana State University. Her mentoring is beyond the ordinary, especially when the unusually difficult logistical factors of the work are considered. In her unique and successful mentoring of students in Montana, she has been able to overcome many challenges, such as the demanding geographic environment. Young has worked with both students and families to achieve successful outcomes for Native American students. She has also worked with a coalition to achieve positive results. The rate of students graduating from her program and going on to attend college is high as a result of Young's mentoring and of the very positive role model that she poses to Native American students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paesmem.net/node/1762", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:26:51Z", "digest": "sha1:B2OXWFL7SL2AU2J4GCQEH56NWCAHD7IE", "length": 1152, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "paesmem.net", "title": "Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium | paesmem", "raw_content": "Organization: Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium\nWebsite: http://www.miamisci.org/\nJudy Brown Profile\nE-mail: jabrown@frostscience.org\nhttp://www.frostscience.org/about-us/meet-the-team/\nThe Miami Museum of Science provides an outstanding exemplar of how a traditional community-based agency can cast its outreach activities to reach at-risk youth and non-traditional populations with the effort resulting in meaningful success. The Museum has developed, sustained and delivered a distinctive portfolio of mentoring programs to youth from challenging economic and social circumstances that represent mostly African-American and Chicano/Latino families for more than ten years. Many of the science programs target K-12 learners and supplement traditional school science curriculum using hands-on projects, field trips, and internships.\nThe submitted nomination package is in support of a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) to recognize outstanding mentoring efforts or programs that enhance the participation of historically underrepresented groups in science, mathematics, and engineering.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://panewsmedia.org/newspublications/news/2017/11/09/legal-hotline-medical-marijuana-ads", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:25:27Z", "digest": "sha1:AGAZV5GUF3S336HFSTMLNGPR7PVPIALK", "length": 2753, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "panewsmedia.org", "title": "Legal Hotline: Medical Marijuana Ads", "raw_content": "Legal Hotline: Medical Marijuana Ads\nQ: Can we accept ads for medical marijuana under Pennsylvania\u2019s new Medical Marijuana Act?\nA: Yes, although the Medical Marijuana Act imposes a number of restrictions on advertising and marketing medical marijuana, and requires pre-approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.\nThe Medical Marijuana Act was signed into law in April of 2016, authorizing medical marijuana to treat a number of medical conditions. The law creates and governs a network of practitioners, growers, processors, laboratories and dispensaries who qualify under the law.\nSection 402(A)(3) of the Act and corresponding regulations expressly prohibit practitioners (physicians) from advertising their ability to certify a patient to receive medical marijuana. The regulations define \u201cadvertising\u201d as \u201c[T]he publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation, for a fee, that is visual, oral, written or electronic to induce directly or indirectly an individual to patronize a particular dispensary or to purchase particular medical marijuana.\u201d This definition includes newspaper advertising, both print and online. Thus, physicians who can certify patients to receive medical marijuana under the Act may not advertise this fact to the general public.\nFurthermore, section 301(A)(14) of the Act requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations that restrict the advertising and marketing of medical marijuana, consistent with federal regulations governing prescription drug advertising and marketing.\n28 Pa Code 1141.50 governs advertising generally and imposes the following requirements:\nAdvertising and marketing of medical marijuana must be consistent with Federal regulations governing prescription drug advertising and marketing in 21 CFR 202.1 (relating to prescription-drug advertisements).\nPromotional, advertising and marketing materials shall be approved by the department prior to their use.\nFurther, 28 Pa Code 1161.27 prohibits dispensaries from advertising medical marijuana\nAs a promotional item.\nAs part of a giveaway.\nAs part of a coupon program.\nFinally, 28 Pa Code 1171.36 prohibits laboratories from advertising, marketing or promoting its medical marijuana testing services to the general public. Laboratories that violate this prohibition risk losing certification under the Act.\nMedical marijuana advertising is legal, provided it is consistent with state and federal law. Proposed medical marijuana ads must be approved by the Department of Health prior to publication, but newspapers are not required to verify pre-approval. Newspapers working with clients seeking to place medical marijuana ads should advise advertisers to work closely with the Department of Health and their private counsel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 523, "original_length": 12235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paracomm.com/distinctionary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BOFMI56AFTHIOLOMTX6LLREEPK7ZU4DV", "length": 10284, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "paracomm.com", "title": "Distinctionary | ParaComm International", "raw_content": "\u201cBe the change you want to see in the world.\u201d \u2013 gandhi\nThe three fundamental relationships in the transformational leadership paradigm are: relationship with self and others, relationship with circumstances, and relationship with time. Transformational leaders generate a reality outside the predictable by: living from \u201cI have choice\u201d; challenging their assumptions and beliefs about themselves and the way they are living; realizing that the future they are choosing organizes the way they are in the present, the possibilities they see, the choices they make, and the actions they take.\nThe past and the future only exist in conversation. To have \u2018outside the box\u2019 outcomes, one must first have a vision that \u2018outside the box\u2019 and then take actions to realize that vision. Our actions are a function of our vision\u2014the possible future we create in language. The future we envision happens in the conversations we have each and every day. Our actions today give us our outcomes tomorrow.\nBreakdowns are the stepping-stones to breakthroughs. They are not problems. A breakdown is a declaration that something is blocking the success of one\u2019s \u2018unreasonable\u2019 commitment to a possible future. Breakdowns show up as what is missing. Fulfilling an unreasonable commitment is a breakthrough relative to \u2018business as usual\u2019 (the context for fulfilling \u2018reasonable\u2019 commitments).\nWhenever we have accomplished anything we are proud of, it has been a function of teamwork. We play a \u2018game\u2019 working together toward an outcome that is almost always \u201cgreater than the sum of the parts.\u201d A Champion Team comes to the \u2018game\u2019 motivated. They work together knowing that each party listens that everyone\u2019s point of view is valid (not just their own) and that no one has or knows \u2018the truth\u2019. They are committed to being aligned, to straight talk, to inclusion and to learning.\nCircumstantial Drift\nThe future will happen. And the future that will happen if we do more, better and different variations of the same thing over and over again is the predictable, probable future, or the \u2018circumstantial drift\u2019. The \u2018drift\u2019 defines the boundaries of common sense and limits the choices we have available to us to what is reasonable and feasible. Breakthroughs are unpredictable results: they do not occur in the drift.\nCoaching is not about giving advice. Nor is it about building potential. It is about realizing the possibility people are. The job of the coach is to create reality\u2014not fix people. A successful coaching relationship depends on the person being coached being committed to accomplishing something bigger than their past dictates as being possible. Coaching is about working with individuals to create who they are committed to being\u2014as if that is who they are already. Coaching produces results without control.\nCommitment is an action that brings into existence something that wasn\u2019t there before. Without commitment, we could not coordinate actions, run enterprises or engage in normal social interactions such as meeting someone for coffee. Commitments simultaneously open particular possible futures and close other ones. They are neither \u2018right\u2019 nor \u2018wrong\u2019. However, they do create expectations on the part of others and can impact the choices they have and how they perceive their future.\nConversation for Relationship\nConversations for Relationship create a foundation of workability in which people are free to express their concerns and make open requests. Participants relate to each other as a function of their commitments, instead of relating to each other based on the assessments, interpretations and feelings they have about each other. Rather than resigning themselves to patterns of defensive behavior, resentment or cynicism, they focus on building relationship and opening possibilities through their speaking and listening.\nConversation for Possibility\nPossibility only exists in conversation. Most accomplishments being when someone makes a declaration: \u201cThis is possible\u201d. While we constantly make declarations about what is or is not possible, we seldom do so responsibly. Every word we speak either expands options for action and brings forth a new future or guarantees the status quo. By definition, a possibility is not real. If we could prove it, it wouldn\u2019t be a possibility.\nConversation for Opportunity\nConversations for Opportunity ground possibilities in the historical \u2018reality\u2019 and create structures for fulfillment (that is, projects and plans for bringing the vision/ possible future into reality). These conversations focus on \u2018who\u2019, \u2018what\u2019 and \u2018when\u2019, and constitute \u2018how\u2019 an organizational vision and breakthrough commitments come into existence.\nConversation for Action\nWe coordinate our actions towards bringing about something specific in the future by clarifying and making certain who is committed to doing what by when. We make promises for specific actions to specific people in specific timeframes. We make requests of specific people for specific actions in specific timeframes. In these Conversations for Action, we discover what we didn\u2019t know we didn\u2019t know.\nPower is measured by one\u2019s ability to have a vision manifest into reality. Empowerment is a context. To be empowered, one must be responsible. When we are empowered, we know we are sufficient to accomplish our commitments and we have the capacity to take appropriate action. We also know that people around us experience their sufficiency to accomplish their commitments.\nLanguage is the source of action. We observe and interpret the world through language. What is happening occurs in a network of conversations\u2014including the running commentary inside our heads that interprets what is happening and the verbalized conversations people have with each other. We can impact (that is, interact with) all that is going on with our words. Our conversations not only reveal our interpretations, but also create our future.\nLearning is an ongoing process demanded when we expand our commitments to create a new future. It begins when we realize there is a domain of what \u2018we don\u2019t know we don\u2019t know\u2019. It starts with Generous Listening and with being open to other people\u2019s perspectives. Learning happens in the questions we ask\u2014not in the answers we come up with\u2014and from requesting and receiving feedback. Proof that we have learned something shows up in our actions.\nListening is the fundamental capacity of leadership. It is the background structure of interpretation that gives meaning to whatever we perceive. There are two kinds of listening: Already Listening (which is historical) and Generous or Generated Listening (which is our listening when we are committed). Once we acknowledge that we start with an Already Listening as a framework for making sense of the world\u2014a framework that is made up of a long list of assessments about almost everyone and everything that is present in the \u2018background\u2019\u2014then we can begin to generate a more Generous Listening. For not one of our assessments is either \u2018true\u2019 or \u2018false\u2019.\nMoods involve our relationship with the future (specifically, how the future is occurring for us). We are always in one mood or another. Moods are automatic and can be \u2018contagious\u2019 (we can be infected by another\u2019s mood). For most people, they organize how we feel, how we explain things to ourselves, and what we do. Although we cannot control our moods, we can master how we relate to them.\nResponsiblity / Accountability\nResponsibility is the ability to respond. It is a way of being, a relationship to one\u2019s circumstances and the future. It is the only context for having a \u2018choice\u2019. Responsibility is not an assessment of blame or credit. It is a personal stand we take (\u201cI am responsible\u2026\u201d).\nAccountability is an agreement to be counted on for particular outcomes. It is an opportunity and is arrived at through social agreement / organization design. Accountability is a personal commitment to \u2018take care\u2019 of some area on behalf of others, and is based on a division of labor.\nIn any game, there are three distinct perspectives. On the court, the players are in action in the present moment. In the stands, the observers are talking about the action after the fact (from the perspective of the past). On the bench, the coach is observing what is not happening on the court and communicating with the players to bring about what is missing to win the game. The transformational leader, like the coach, focuses on creating reality\u2014not on \u2018fixing\u2019 people or things.\nStraight talk is saying what we see. It is about relating to others based on their commitments, sharing our negative assessments as a point of view, and transcending our differences. None of our assessments (our interpretations and judgments) can be objectively verified (like a fact), and can therefore neither be \u2018true\u2019 or \u2018false\u2019: our assessments are our point of view. Straight talk increases our ability to be effective, to distinguish facts from points of view, and to realize our business objectives by forwarding our commitments and our actions.\nTransformational Leadership Paradigm\nTransformation is a shift in how one observes the world: it is not about changing the world. When we observe the world differently, we can relate to it differently, see different possibilities, and choose different actions\u2014all of which in turn can transform the world.\nThe transformational leadership paradigm validates and encourages differences, rather than trying to smooth things out so they are the same. In this paradigm, coaching and leadership are synonymous. Transformational leadership is about empowering people\u2014giving them choice and freedom\u2014and about bringing into existence what is missing. 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Parent/Guardian\nPermit holder must drive with a licensed driver ___ years old or older 21\nPermit holder under the age of 18 may not drive between the hours of ____ and ____ unless the person can demonstrate good cause for driving. midnight; 6:00 a.m.\nParent/Guardian must certify ___ hours practice driving (___ hours must be at night) before road (skills) test can be administerd.\nDuring the permit stage, passenger restriction - limited to ___ unrelated person under ___ years of age. 1; 20\nA driver under the age of 18 who accumulates more than ___ points may have their driving privilege suspended 6\nAll drivers under the age of ___ are subject to \"Zero Alcohol Tolerance.\" 21\nIn order to enter the intermediate phase, you must pass driving skills test after 180-day permit period.\nIn order to show that you are an intermediate driver, you will have an intermediate sticker on your permit\nNo serious ___________ violations are allowed for intermediate drivers under 18. moving\nALL INTERMEDIATE DRIVERS MUST COMPLETE A ____________ BEFORE GETTING A FULL LICENSE 4-HOUR SAFETY CLASS\nWhen applying for an instruction permit or license for the \ufb01rst time, you must present the following: 1) Social Security Card 2) Birth Certificate 3) For applicants under the age of 18, the signature and license or social security number of parent or legal guardian must be listed on application\nApplicants may take the written test a total of ___ times. If you fail the written test six times, you must wait ___ months before trying again. 6; 6\nA road test is not required for a moped license. 1\nThe permit is valid for ___ year(s) and may be renewed. If the permit is not renewed within ___ year(s) of the expiration date of the previous permit, the written and vision tests must be repeated. 3; 1\nIf you change your address or name for any reason, you must obtain a duplicate license within ___ days 10\nAll licenses issued after July, 2000, will expire ___ days from the license holder's birth date, unless suspended or revoked. 30\nIf you are ___ or over, you may renew your license up to six months before the expiration date by applying in person at your local Circuit Court Clerk's Of\ufb01 ce 21\nEquipments required for my vehicle Brakes; lights; license plate; windshield wiper; horn; a muffler; a rearview mirror; steering gear; safety glass; turn signals; safety belts and shoulder belts\nHeadlights on high beam must be strong enough to light the road suf\ufb01 ciently to reveal a person ___ feet ahead 350\nWhen approaching an oncoming vehicle at night, you must use the low beam the last ___ feet before meeting and passing. 500\nWhen following a vehicle, dim your lights before coming closer than ___ feet of the vehicle in front of you. 200\nThe rear light, or taillight, must be red and must be lighted and placed so it can be seen ___ feet behind your vehicle 500\nThe registration plate must be illuminated so that the letters and numbers of the plate can be read ___ feet away at night. 50\nA windshield wiper is required on the driver's side of the windshield 1\nA REARVIEW MIRROR must be so attached that you can see at least ___ feet to the rear of your car 200\nSTEERING GEAR must be in good condition and not have more than __/__ turn free play 39816\nYou are allowed to have a red or blue light showing to the front\nYou are allowed to have a siren, bell, or whistle.\nYou are allowed to have signs, posters, or stickers on the windshield or any other window in the car, unless required by law\nYou are allowed to have more than three extra driving lights or fog lights.\nVehicles equipped with a louvered rear window must have side view mirrors. 1\nYou are allowed to have heavily-tinted windows.\nYou may turn right after _______ if _______________. stopping; there is no approaching traf\ufb01c\nIf the light is red, a turn is permitted from a one-way street into the nearest lane of another one-way street running in the direction of that turn. 1\n______ turns on green must yield to through traf\ufb01 c coming from the opposite direction. Left\n__ \ufb02ashing ________ light(s) means you must slow down and watch for others. It is found at intersections, construction areas, and on some vehicles, like tow trucks. 1; yellow\n__ \ufb02ashing ________ light(s) means you must come to a full stop and proceed only when the way is clear 1; red\n__ fashing ________ light(s) mark a railroad crossing. Stop and proceed only after the lights stop \ufb02 ashing and you determine no train is approaching 2; red\nA \ufb02ashing ________ arrow means you may proceed with caution in the direction of the arrow yellow\nIf not prohibited by signs, and you are in the proper lane, you must \ufb01rst _______, and then turn right. stop\nYou can turn left on red\nLeft turns on Red are permitted ONLY when turning from a ________ onto a ________. 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If you park going up the hill and you are on the right side of the road, turn you wheels _______. left\nGood drivers focus their eyes at least ___ to ___ seconds ahead 10; 15\nWhen you approach an intersection, look left, right, left.\nGlance at the speedometer about once every __________. minute\nAdjust your seat so that you can see the pavement ___ to ___ feet in front of the vehicle. 12; 15\nYour chest should be located ___ to ___ inches from the center of the steering column. 10; 12\nYour shoulders should be lower than the top of the steering wheel.\nAfter recieving a permit, a driver must have a? 180 day instruction period\nA permit driver must drive with a licensed driver of what age? 21 years or older\nUnless demonstrating good cause for driving, a permit holder and intermediate phase driver under the age of 18 may not drive between the hours of? midnight and 6:00 a.m\nHow many hours of practce driving must a parent/guardian certify before road (skills) test can be administered? 60 hours\nThe passenger restriction for a permit and intermediate phase driver is limited to how many people and of what age? 1 unrelated person under 20 years old\nWhen applying for an instruction permit or license for the first time you must present: (List items) Social security card, birth certificate, the signature and license or social security number of a parent, no pass/no driver form\nIf you change your name or address for any reason, you must obtain a duplicate license within how many days? 10 days\nYour permit or license is valid from the date issued through the expiration date shown on? The permit or license\nUnless suspended or revoked, all licenses issued after July 2000 will expire how many days from the license holders birthdate? 30 days\nYou need a Kentucky drivers license if you're: a current or new resident of Kentucky who plans to drive a motor vehicle\nYou do not need a Kentucky drivers license if you have a? operators license or a valid license from another state\nIn order to obtain a Kentucky license you must: (list items) be a resident of Kentucky, at least 16, pass the vision, signs, rules, and road tests and have a parent sign the application\nThe test to obtain a permit will consist of: a vision examination and a written test\nIn order to pass the test to obtain a permit you must score a minimum of: 0.8\nThe equipment required for your vehicle are: (list items) & 8 brakes, lights, license plate, windshield wipers, horn, muffler, rearview mirror, steering gear, safety glass, turn signals and seat belts\nThe lights on your vehicle must consist of: two headlights and a tail light\nA vehicle must be equipped with at least one _____ brake light to the rear. Red\nA ___________ _________ is required on the driver's side of the windshield. Windshield Wiper\nMore than 3 extra driving or fog lights or any siren, bell, whistle, muffler cutout, signs, posters, stickers on windshield, heavily tinted windows, red, blue or green lights showing to the front of the vehicle are __________ to place on a motor vehicle. Unlawful\nThe items that will be inspected on your motor vehicle will be: (list items) headlights, dimmer switch, horn, windshield wipers, turn signals, emergency brake, emergency flashers, brake lights\nThe _______ test will consist of stops, backing, turning the car around, stopping and starting on a hill, parallel parking, intersection approaches, clutch use, speed turns, lane use, right-of-way use, and over all vehicle control. Road\nIf you don't pass the road test, you must wait at least ___ days before taking the test again. Seven\nAn intersection is any place where 2 _______ meet. 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Red\nThe familiar crossbuck sign near the tracks is a regulatory sign that means the same as a ______ sign. Yield.\nA _______ arrow means you may go in the direction of the arrow, if you are in the proper lane. Green\nA flashing ________ arrow means you may proceed with caution in the direction of the arrow. Yellow\nA _______ arrow pointed upward means you may go \"straight ahead.\" Green\nA ______ arrow means no turning in the direction of the arrow, until it turns green. Red\nWhere do you look when someone is driving with headlights on? right edge of your traffic lane\nWhere do you stop at railroad crossings? 15 feet before the crossing\nWhere do you stop at stop signs if no crosswalk or stop line? point nearest the intersection\nWhere should you drive on wet pavement? in the tracks of others\nWhich is more common? power assist failure\nWhich of these is recommended when driving at night on a dimly lit street? Drive slowly enough to stop within the area lighted your headlights\nWhich of these is the proper way to change lanes? Signal, check your mirrors, and look over your shoulder\nWho can have a work license? nobody\nWho yields to any cross and any traffic coming in the opposite direction? left turning traffic\nWhy do deer come out at dawn and dusk? thats when they feed\nYou are a minor and your cell phone rings while you driving, you should: Let the call go to voicemail\nYou are driving on a five-lane freeway in the lane closest to the center divider. To exit the freeway on the right you should: Change lanes one at a time until you are in the proper lane\nYou are going to to make a left turn from a dedicated left-turn lane when a yellow arrow appears for your lane. You should: Be prepared to obey the next signal that appears\nYou are required to wear your safety belt in a moving vehicle: If your vehicle is equipped with safety belts\nYou may legally drive in any freeway carpool lane if: It is between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 13871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pesaraonline.net/labourforum08/ParentDoc.asp?DocID=141", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:00:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZETZQ3MYZD2LSSAXNNKGLRDMC75OBXA6", "length": 1170, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pesaraonline.net", "title": "Responses", "raw_content": "ruiyan.zhang@gmail.com\n02/04/2008 15:38:58 Re: Termination of Employment.\nI just started working for this company for 2 months. Suddenly one day they announce that they have sold the part of the company and no longer in need of my division. With immediate effect we are terminated from our services. For my case as I have not been confirmed, I will be paid 2 weeks indemnity in lieu of notice, the last 4 days of the current month and one month ex gratia as compensation.\nI was wondering is there any minimum requirement to be paid as a compensation for termination of services in the labour law of Malaysia as I have heard that it is usually a minimum of three months?\n02/04/2008 16:42:44 I am sure you are not the only one affected. I think it would be better if some of you at least go to the Labour Department and find out your entitlements under the law. For your own case, since your period of employment is so short, I don't think you can get much more than what was offered to you. There is no minimum of 3 month compensation\nTheelo\n08/07/2010 14:48:08 hi! i`ve working this office almost 4 year. if employer wants to terminated me how much shoulf he pays to me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://philhoward.org/category/about/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3G5M44L4B2RVUXHNRORM64W6YZFFRLSL", "length": 354, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "philhoward.org", "title": "Phil Howard \u2013 About", "raw_content": "Joining the Tow Center for Digital Journalism\nI\u2019ve accepted a research fellowship at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University\u2019s School of Journalism. They are developing a great network of scholars all doing various kinds of work on the impact of digital media on the organization of news rooms, the production of content, and the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 78.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://picyourworld.blogspot.com/2013/07/saintemaximefrance.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KEZNQFTJIDS54PTOEOIU2EUFN3VIV5CP", "length": 1432, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "picyourworld.blogspot.com", "title": "Sainte,Maxime,France - \u2708 The World is Yours \u2708", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb France \u00bb Sainte,Maxime,France\nSainte,Maxime,France\nSainte-Maxime is a commune and city in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur region. I.e. on the French Riviera (C\u00f4te d'Azur) in southeastern France 90 km (56 mi) from Nice and 130 km (81 mi) from Marseille.The small town is south facing at the northern shore of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. In the north the Massif des Maures mountain range protects it from cold winds of the Mistral. Sainte Maxime was founded around 1000 AD by the Monks from the L\u00e9rins Islands outside Cannes. They build a monastery and named the village after one of the Saints of their order - Maxime. Fishing was the mainstay for the inhabitants but during the early 19th century increasing amounts of lumber, cork, olive oil and wine was shipped to Marsielles and to Italy. The village grew and in the 20th century it started to attract artists, poets and writers who enjoyed the climate, the beautiful surroundings and the azur blue water. In front of the old town you find the characteristic tower - La Tour Carr\u00e9e - build by the monks in the early 16th century to protect the village from invaders. With an addition of a battery of cannons and with the Tour du Portalet in Saint Tropez the whole bay was protected. As late as in the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon ordered a restoration of the battery while also adding cannons on the L\u00e9rins Islands. The tower is now a museum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 148.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pioneer.occc.edu/way-of-the-warrior-unfolds-one-book-at-a-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:28:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TUCNLK4HP6ZZSX3LQCQTYJKOZZCALWDG", "length": 2294, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "pioneer.occc.edu", "title": "Way of the warrior unfolds one book at a time | OCCC Pioneer", "raw_content": "Way of the warrior unfolds one book at a time\nGrant Swalwell / Pioneer Podcaster February 15, 2016 Review, Reviews Print\nNot being able to rest until my numerous enemies are defeated, I\u2019ve been looking for a copy of Miyamoto Musashi\u2019s \u201cThe Book of Five Rings\u201d for a while. I was thrilled to have finally found one in the famous Powell\u2019s bookstore in Portland, Oregon. \u201cThe Book of Five Rings\u201d is divided into a forward by [\u2026\nSummary: 100 His methods are fundamental and down to earth, but transcendent.\nNot being able to rest until my numerous enemies are defeated, I\u2019ve been looking for a copy of Miyamoto Musashi\u2019s \u201cThe Book of Five Rings\u201d for a while. I was thrilled to have finally found one in the famous Powell\u2019s bookstore in Portland, Oregon.\n\u201cThe Book of Five Rings\u201d is divided into a forward by the author \u2013 translating for the long dead Musashi, then a forward from Musashi, and then five books. I have only made it through the first, the book of earth.\nMusashi, in his words, starts with earth so everything else will have a strong foundation to stand on.\nHe talks directly to the reader, assuming the reader is reading for the right reasons, frequently talking trash on people reading his book for business advice.\nHis methods are fundamental and down to earth to the point of being transcendental in a world of overcomplicated belief systems and fighting styles.\nGrasping Musashi\u2019s style takes a peculiar mix of intuition, interpretation, and being literal as Musashi is refreshingly frank.\nHe\u2019s a man who won 60 duels with mostly a wooden bokken, opened his own school, and retired to the wilds to write his book.\nMusashi does not mince words and was surely a harsh man.\nI feel sympathy in his words, for those who struggle in their pursuit of the way. The way of the warrior that is.\nHe is very particular about his way, but his style and philosophy are filled with adaptability. He stresses discipline in training, but also in ethics; to have a strong base to build on. 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You may have but for the most part STD jokes are only funny if you don\u2019t have STDs. Herpes has been around so long that it\u2019s not even funny anymore. In fact, millions of people suffer embarrassment and anguish in public and private because of this disease.\nOne of the top selling programs online for dealing with herpes is known as \u201cGet Rid of Herpes\u201d. They sure weren\u2019t too imaginative with the title. However, the product does pretty much what it says on the tin. It has sold thousands of copies and has many testimonial on the official website with people praising it.\nWhile you may wonder why anyone would go out there and say that they had herpes but it\u2019s all gone now\u2026 the fact remains that the product works. As for the people, they are probably so amazed that it worked that they just need to share their story to help others in the same plight.\nYou would only understand their feeling if you had herpes and if you do, Sarah Wilcox\u2019s product, Get Rid of Herpes just may have your name all over it\u2026 but you may keep it a secret of course.\nThis 46 page guide deals with both type-1 and type 2 herpes viruses. There may be no medical cure for herpes yet. Doctors often prescribe long term medication. These antiviral medications are often expensive and just do not work for all people.\nSarah\u2019s method is holistic and just may be the solution to dealing with herpes more effectively. If we weigh the pros and cons, it would look like this.\n1) The program is easy to follow. You are not overwhelmed with a ton of medical terminology and what not. Sarah know exactly what you want and tells it to you. You want to get rid of herpes and you want it done NOW! 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Give the product a try. It has helped thousands.\n2) The product is only available online and you will have to download it. That can be a problem to people who do not have an internet connection.\nWhy not? Do you wish to endure herpes forever? Of course not.\nGive the product and methods a try. So many people can\u2019t be wrong judging by all the testimonials the product has. You may be pleasantly surprised that the product does work for you.\nNothing ventured, nothing gained. 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PAL players who wear their PAL jersey or shooting shirt receive an additional $5 discount. We will provide the balls. Each participant will receive a special T-shirt as well as a season ticket to all Staples Basketball home games! The High School players are looking forward to working with your children while raising funds to support their Basketball teams at Staples.\nInfo can be found at www.staplesbasketball.com or www.staplesgirlsbasketball.com.\nQuestions? Email: lisa.desmarteau@gmail.com for boys or mfairs@aol.com for girls.\nFOR BOYS: Please make check payable to SBBA (Staples Boys Basketball Association); Send to: Suzanne Elkin, 1 Stoneboat Road\nFOR GIRLS: Please make check payable to Staples Girls Basketball; Send to: Sarah Fair, 40 Riverfield Drive\nPosted by Sarah Fair on Friday, January 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM | 0 comments\nWestport Woman\u2019s Club Holiday Meals Thank You\nThank you to everyone who helped make the 2017 Westport Woman's Club Holiday Meals program a success; planning, preparing and delivering warm meals to homebound Westport residents over the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays. The program, funded and coordinated by the WWC, would not have been possible without the contributions and support from the Town of Westport, In Good Taste, Sherwood Diner and the Jack and Jeanne Klinge family.\nThe Human Services Department of the Town of Westport identified residents (about 24 residents each holiday) who did not have access to a special holiday meal. In Good Taste (Southport), and Sherwood Diner (Westport) took time during the busy holiday season to plan and prepare delicious warm meals. Jean and Jack Klinge, their extended family and friends delivered the meals. The Klinges have coordinated delivery of the Club's Holiday Meals for about more than 35 years. This year deliveries on New Year\u2019s Day were assisted by Westport Woman\u2019s Club volunteers Leah Scherzer, Holiday Meals Chairwoman, and Patty Doyle, Member.\nFor all who supported the Westport Woman\u2019s Club Holiday Meals Program, your generosity is deeply appreciated and we are grateful for your longstanding commitment and partnership.\nDorothy M Packer, President\nPosted by Anne Hunt on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 12:02 PM | 0 comments\nFirst Night Westport - Weston for all Fairfield County\nFirst Night Westport-Weston invites all Fairfield County and visitors to the region\u2019s largest, annual New Year\u2019s Eve celebration, in downtown Westport, December 31, 2017. Beginning at 3:30PM, First Night ushers in New Year\u2019s with a variety of family-friendly activities in a joyous celebration of arts and culture including an array of musical performances; interactive children\u2019s fun with sing-alongs, horse carriage rides, train displays, an indoor inflatable gym, magic, a hypnotist, psychics and more; spectacular fireworks. A First Night button is the ticket to all performances and venues, on sale now for $10 online, at Westport Town Hall and other locations around town. Button prices increase to $15 online and in all locations on December 15. More information and event schedule @ www.firstnightww.org.\nPosted by Valerie Oben on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 9:17 AM | 1 comment\nLOST Orange Main Coon Cat, TOMAS...Our family cat, Tomas, an indoor cat, got out yesterday afternoon and we are desperately trying to locate him. He is very friendly, but I suspect very scared. If you see him in your yard, in a tree, in your garage or on the street, could you please contact me at 917-207-1234. He is 9 lbs. with a very fluffy tail. Thank you!\nPosted by Ligia Brickus on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 9:36 AM | 1 comment\nDonate Life Connecticut Launches Public Awareness Campaigns\nThe Connecticut Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation, dba, Donate Life Connecticut, has recently launched a series of public awareness campaign ads on cable television aimed at educating residents about the importance of organ donation, both living and deceased, clarifying misleading myths, and increasing the number of registered organ donors who can potentially give the gift of life to someone in need. Donate Life Connecticut is dedicated to increasing the number of registered organ and tissue donors in Connecticut and beyond through public education and awareness.\nIt takes just two minutes to register to be a donor and during this season of giving, the gift of an organ or tissue transplant may truly mean the gift of renewed health, the promise of more time with loved ones, and the miracle of tragedy turned into hope. There are currently more than 116,000 people waiting for organ transplantation in the United States and every day, 22 patients expire due to lack of available organs. Visit www.donatelifect.org for more information.\nPosted by Barb Doyle on Friday, December 1, 2017 at 10:36 AM | 1 comment\nWestport Tree of Light Ceremony Set for December 7\nWestport\u2019s 27th Annual Tree of Light ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 7 at Saugatuck Congregational Church (245 Post Road East, Westport) from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The ceremony honors the memory of departed family members and friends and is hosted by Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut (VNS). All are invited to participate in the candle and tree lighting, memorial roll and a brief reception following the non-denominational ceremony. For information on having a memorial light on the Westport tree or submitting names for the memorial roll, please contact Lila Grimes of VNS at 203-366-3821.\nPosted by Bernie Lynch on Monday, November 27, 2017 at 4:46 PM | 0 comments\nWestport\u2019s Academy of Dance presents the holiday favorite The Nutcracker for the 36th consecutive year. Performers include 1st-12th graders from Westport, Weston, Norwalk and Fairfield as well as guest dancer Ask la Cour, Principal dancer with the New York Ballet.\nPerformances are at Staples High School, Westport on\nSaturday December 2nd at 3pm and 7pm and Sunday December 3rd at 2pm.\nSpecial Events: Enjoy a meet and greet with New York Ballet Principal dancer, Ask la Cour following the Saturday matinee performance.\nSunday: 12pm-1pm have your photo taken with Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy and meet other dancers who will be available for autographs.\nTickets are available online at www.westportdance.com\nPosted by Westport Academy of Dance on Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 8:29 AM | 0 comments\nSocial Media Experiment #4\nThis Saturday we are collecting gifts for the Raphaela House in Bridgeport. Participating students will be given \"money\" to shop for family members. We are hoping to stock the \"store\" with tons of gifts. We are looking for new items only. Some ideas are, art supplies, board games, sporting equipment, hats, gloves, frames, bubble bath, etc. We are collecting on Saturday November 18th from 1:00-2:30 in the upper library parking lot, close to the Levitt. For more details, check out What Up Westport\u2122 on Facebook. We hope to see you then.\nPosted by Marcy Sansolo on Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7:04 AM | 0 comments\nCongressman Jim Himes to Speak on Current Political Environment in Washington, D.C. Nov. 7th Election Results and Issues of Importance to Connecticut\u2019s District 4 Voters\nCongressman Jim Himes (CT-04) will address the membership of Indivisible Connecticut District 4 (ICT4), the local branch of the national organization formed to resist the Trump/Pence agenda, on November 21st in Westport. Now in his fifth term, Rep. Himes will draw on his experience as a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, the ranking member of the NSA and Cybersecurity Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Chair of the New Democrat Coalition to share his views on the political environment in Washington, D.C., the tax plan, the Russia investigation, recent election results, and how grassroots organizations can bring about effective and meaningful change.\nThe ICT4 meeting, which is open to the public, will take place at The Unitarian Church in Westport, located at 10 Lyons Plains Road, Westport, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 21st. Although admission is free, there has been great enthusiasm for this event. Seating preference will be given to those who have pre-registered online at ICT4.org.\n\u201cTrump continues to play to the very worst instincts of anxious Americans with his discriminatory travel ban, heartless health care plan and tax plan that favors the wealthy,\u201d Himes says. \u201cBut, thanks to the voices and actions of millions of grassroots advocates, he has not been able to deliver on his devastating promises.\u201d\nHimes sees this fight as one that defines a lifetime and bends history. \u201cOur work is more important than ever. Defending the basic institutions that define our democracy: checks and balances on our president from Congress and an independent judiciary, a free press, and basic decency, will take a lot of work, but I\u2019m up for the challenge, and I know millions of Americans are too.\u201d\nCiting big wins in the November 7th election among progressive candidates who will protect and promote policies that are important to organizations like Indivisible, ICT4 Founder Roger Longman says that resistance groups have evolved into political powerhouses, here in Connecticut and across the U.S. \u201cOver the last year, ordinary people have responded to this moment by standing indivisible against cuts to health care, against bigotry and against xenophobia, and have infused our movement with groundbreaking energy and numbers,\u201d says Longman.\n\u201cThis powerful constituent-led movement has taken it to the next level with members running for office\u2014many for the first time\u2014volunteering at record levels, and changing the political map in 2017. By this time next year, I hope I\u2019ll be able to say that that grassroots advocates have established a powerful check on our President by electing people who share our values.\u201d\nDuring the November 21st meeting, Rep. Himes will answer audience questions about the issues that are of paramount importance in protecting our democracy. Those who register for the free meeting may submit their questions in writing at the event.\nPosted by Cynthia Baumann on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 9:51 AM | 0 comments\nWizard of Oz. Bedford Middle School seventh and eighth grade students present \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d on Friday December 1st at 7:30 p.m., Saturday December 2nd at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday December 3rd at 2 p.m Tickets are available online at: http://www.bedfordactinggroup.com \u2014 $10 for children and $12 for adults. Children 2 and under are free. Seats are also available at the door. 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The agenda for the JA2016 workshop can be accessed here.\nPROSAFE will reimburse the travel and accommodation costs for one participant from each Member State that has signed the JA2016 Grant Agreement.\nPlease plan to join us for what promises to be another successful and engaging series of meetings for the European market surveillance.\nPlease register by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 4566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://punahouwrestling.org/2008/09/heart-of-a-champion-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:24:15Z", "digest": "sha1:H4ZMPOL4F5S4RZNK5N2E3ZPWR24FHEYQ", "length": 1920, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "punahouwrestling.org", "title": "Heart of a Champion \u2013 Part 2 | Punahou Wrestling", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Coach's Comments / Heart of a Champion \u2013 Part 2\nI\u2019ve gotten quite a bit of positive feedback on the article I wrote last February about Bryson Fukushima and Arnold Toriumi. I\u2019m glad people enjoyed reading about how they confronted their challenges with such positive attitudes and I\u2019m glad those two young men got at least some acknowledgement of their efforts.\nFor those who aren\u2019t a direct part of our program, I thought you might be interested to hear how the rest of the year went for Bryson and Arnold.\nAs I mentioned in the last blog entry, Bryson was not able to compete in his fourth and final state tournament, despite being a three-time finalist and a former state champion. Last March, just after the season ended, Bryson traveled with several of his teammates to Kansas City, MO to compete in the Brute-Adidas National Championships. The Punahou contingency did extremely well, medaling seven. Bryson led the way, becoming Punahou\u2019s first boys national champion, winning the 105 lb. weight class.\nBryson is currently attending Oregon State University, where he intends to continue his wrestling career.\nArnold made a relatively quick recovery from the fractured orbital he suffered in December and was able to compete in the second half of the high school judo season. Though his skills were a little rusty due to the four month layoff, he entered the state judo tournament in superb physical condition and won his third state judo championship. He also helped lead the Boys Judo team to it\u2019s second State Championship in three years (we came in 2nd last year\u2026).\nIn acknowledgement of his leadership skill, Arnold was voted to be one of the captains of this year\u2019s wrestling team, despite being ineligible to wrestle.\nNone of this is a surprise to anyone who knows these two young men and again, I salute them for demonstrating what I hope is the true character of our wrestling program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://punjabkhabar.com/news/8735-indias-first-female-bouncer-amandeeps-news-is-going-viral-on-social-media.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRSVYCWG5SIVGBHKJM6VJMBSQHVTBODH", "length": 3212, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "punjabkhabar.com", "title": "India\u2019s first female bouncer amandeep\u2019s news is going viral on social media", "raw_content": "India\u2019s first female bouncer amandeep\u2019s news is going viral on social media\nBouncer Amandeep Kaur\nChandigarh: In June 2008, we saw Amandeep Kaur creating ripples for her unconventional act of getting into a profession that had been male-centered for years. A television presenter by the day, she - then a 22-year-old - was moonlighting as a bouncer at Score, a discotheque in Chandigarh.\nShockingly, last we read about her is a news piece on a website alleging that after gaining national and international recognition as the country's first woman bouncer, Amandeep found herself out in the cold. She was sacked out from the nightclub where she gained her fame. Some sources assert that she was penalized by her employer for going off to another discotheque to help out a group of her girlfriends who were being teased by some boys.\nAs per the online reports, Amandeep hails from a village in Punjab's Barnala district, 250 kms from Chandigarh. Amandeep, a student of Law, used to work part-time as a bouncer, four nights a week from 8 pm to 2 am. Her news of being a female bouncer, a rarity in India, was covered by renowned International news agencies like BBC.\n\"Since childhood, I have wanted to do challenging jobs that men do. Having been treated like a son at home, I never feared boys and always challenged them, even while in school and college,\" she said in Chandigarh.\nFollowing her footsteps at the same nightclub was Manpreet Johal, then a 20-year-old, from the district of Gurdaspur in Punjab. Since then, the Amandeep has been appearing in the news for her unique profession and having opened up a whole new career option for women. For the following years, there were even some special coverage featuring the female bouncers on occasions like International Women's Day. In one of the media interactions, Amandeep had then announced her dream to create a team of female bouncers after joining the nightclub.\nShockingly, last we read about her is a news piece on a website alleging that after gaining national and international recognition as the country's first woman bouncer, Amandeep found herself out in the cold. She was sacked out from the nightclub where she gained her fame. Some sources assert that she was penalized by her employer for going off to another discotheque to help out a group of her girlfriends who were being teased by some boys. However, others say that the real reason to fire her was for being envy of her popularity, as she had started getting job offers from around the world. Reportedly, the brawny girl had also been trying to establish her career in the electronic media, as a news anchor.\nNow, out of the blue, the online community has found renewed interest in this piece of information and as of 22nd July, her news started trending.\nWhile her news is going viral on the internet, very few people know that Amandeep was forced to quit her job on the disciplinary grounds. We tried to contact her previous employers and news agencies which had then covered her news but in vain. When we tried to get in touch with these sources, we also came to know that there are a lot of other people too who are trying to get in touch with them to ascertain, where Amandeep is?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 175.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pzmethodist.org.uk/high_street.php?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:26:39Z", "digest": "sha1:77YFXW5JAC2LBFZG3THXORXVHEABFX5H", "length": 1115, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pzmethodist.org.uk", "title": "High Street Methodist Church, Penzance", "raw_content": "Welcome to High Street Methodist Church\nThe Circuit Communion service is held at High Street every Thursday at 10am, refreshments follow the service....do join us if you can.\nThere is a Coffee morning every Tuesday from 10am to midday, everyone is very welcome.\nOnce every month, on a Friday, we hold an Open Church session from 10 to midday when we are open for prayer, coffee and conversation. The next session will be held on Friday 1st March, you are most welcome to join us.\nThere is also a monthly session at High Street when prayers are said for the Persecuted Church, cards are made and letters written to send to our brothers and sisters all over the world who are suffering for their faith. This is done through the Open Doors charity. The next session will be on March 4th at 2.30pm, please come and find out about this work and have a cuppa with us too!\nTony Jasper will lead our service on 10th February at 4.30pm, there will be refreshments at the end of the service as ever, do join us if you can.\nOur church building is on the corner of Taroveor Road (TR18 2AA) and High Street (TR18 2SU), Penzance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qn5.com/blog/entry/release-tonedeff-hyphen-2001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:09:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KYABGGAAQLU7ESSG3UHHLUALJOGGRM6B", "length": 2693, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "qn5.com", "title": "[RELEASE] Tonedeff - Hyphen EP (2001) - Digital Premiere | QN5 Blog", "raw_content": "Happy 4th of July! Here at QN5, we\u2019re celebrating our independence with the digital re-release of Tonedeff\u2019s long-lost 2001 \u2018battle-rap\u2019 mixtape, Hyphen \u2013 for the first time ever! As his first mixtape, only 2,100 copies were pressed \u2013 all of which sold out within a year. CD versions of this long-lost release are rare finds that regularly fetch over $100 on eBay \u2013 but now, we\u2019re making it digitally available to you!\nCreated during Tonedeff\u2019s \u201cBattle MC\u201d period, when he first ventured to New York City to pursue his music career, Hyphen is a densely-woven tapestry of punchlines and metaphors. Containing what many consider to be Tonedeff\u2019s first notable tunes, the instantly-catchy \u201cSpanish Song,\u201d and the video-game bounce anthem, \u201cMove In, Ride Out,\u201d Hyphen is short on conceptual content, and high on energy, wit and irreverence. Tracks like the introductory \u201cSpace,\u201d and \u201cBattle Rhyme Hookers,\u201d showcase the gifted sense of wordplay and fluid delivery that has made Tonedeff a notable figure on the underground hip-hop scene.\nAlso, in keeping with The Monotone EP, Tonedeff once again forays into the world of harmonics and electronica with the classic, \u201cFast,\u201d as song that details our daily struggle against time itself. Complete with stuttering drum & bass-like arrangements and an etherial breakdown that left jaws floored upon hearing it, \u201cFast\u201d is truly one of the defining songs in Tonedeff\u2019s early career.\nI just realized I haven\u2019t heard most of the songs on this album.\nThatLoudKid said on Jul 04, 2013:\nI love listening to this album. Anyone who doesn\u2019t have this in their library needs to get on it now. Spanish Song and Fast are classics especially.\ncaracicatriz said on Jul 04, 2013:\nThank you so much. I just purchased it and look forward to listening to some \u201cnew\u201d Tonedeff material. I\u2019ve been looking for this album for quite some time and am glad that I can purchase it straight from the source. Look forward to Polymer and all other future releases.\nI still have no idea what the words say on the cover.\nSome classics on this CD. Fast is as great as ever.. and Spanish song/MIRO/Massive have always been good for some nostalgia. Actually wish there was a remastered version of the music video (don\u2019t worry this isn\u2019t an actual request) because I always thought it was cool but the quality hasn\u2019t stood the test of time imo.\n^Pretty sure it says \u201csomebody set us up the bomb\u201d in the word bubble. And across the front it says \u201call your base are belong to us\u201d. Throughout the EP, there are more quotes from that badly translated video game, i forget what it\u2019s called.\nCool shit! I sold my copy years ago and have regretted it everyday since.\nDee El said on Jul 10, 2013:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quoteforinsuronline.com/2017/05", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:34:36Z", "digest": "sha1:RLGGNX5GSLX532NS5OIK46A73MXPGZHZ", "length": 94, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "quoteforinsuronline.com", "title": "May, 2017 | Quote For Insurance Online", "raw_content": "For many of us, retirement is a reward for all our years of hard work. It\u2019s a chance to do [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 102.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quotes.aymann.net/author/rian-johnson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:40:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UINBG5CAOG2WARPUYKN6IKCQXVYDBKB6", "length": 413, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "quotes.aymann.net", "title": "Rian Johnson's Quotes", "raw_content": "Rian Johnson's Quotes 5\nUnlike some of the time-travel movies I love\tlike 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys\t'...\nI mean\tthe first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script\tI think...\nTeen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is...\nI do love science fiction\tbut it's not really a genre unto itself it always...\nHopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something\tyou're...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radeconomist.com/the-isis-diffusion-policy-and-diplomacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ET7DLFWTL4DORGSNHLCRN2ZDIQZXOGLW", "length": 4570, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "radeconomist.com", "title": "The ISIS Diffusion: Policy and Diplomacy \u2013 The Radical Economist", "raw_content": "HomeCasesThe ISIS Diffusion: Policy and Diplomacy\nMay 3, 2017 Cases 0\nMore than Assad, the US\u2019s agenda of globalism and interventionist foreign policies are direct reasons for the rise of ISIS.\nThe Syrian pathos has turned into everyday haunting episodes of agony and distress. Help seems to be farther and farther away for the country that is in the shambles of war since more than half a decade. The ISIS has become one of the top three foreign policy headaches for the US, next to Russia and Iran.\nThe origin of ISIS has been from multiple geopolitical and diplomatic miscalculations, precisely of the US, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt. The group sustains and finances itself through oil production and sale, extortions, selling antiques, robbery, taxes, and other unrighteous and immoral acts of violence. Now that the problem has arose unexpectedly, it makes sense to introspect about the entities, nations or intentions responsible for the rise of this overtly organised terror organisation.\nPerhaps understanding ISIS from a historical perspective would help us understand the workable solutions to problems. The rise of ISIS is identified in the US invasion of Iraq, during George Bush administration. Bush left office in 2008, with American troops still strong in Iraq. Obama, objecting to this, immediately announced gradual withdrawal. Contrary to Bush, who wanted to delay military withdrawal until a secured regime was established, Obama blamed American policies towards Muslims and Arab nations for growing anti-Americanism. Early withdrawal of American troops from Iraq eased liberal movement of Iraqi citizens, of whom many were released detainees. Many believe this early withdrawal from Iraq as the reason for the origin and rise of ISIS.\nAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was also one of the detainees released from American detention camps. Before founding ISIS, he was one of the leader of \u2018al Qaeda in Iraq\u2019 (AQI), a terror organisation founded by Al Zarqawi. After US forces eliminated Zarqawi in an air strike, Baghdadi became the sole leader of AQI, who, after breaking allegiance from al Qaeda, formed the Islamic State. This perspective indicates the roots of ISIS in the erstwhile al Qaeda, the perpetrators of the 9/11 incident. Added to such a situation was the inclination of military rule in many Arab nations, which formed a silent revolt against the rulers, Assad included. Similar situations in Libya, Egypt, and Iraq led to the amalgamation of rebel groups that conjoined to put a collective opposition towards self-declared rulers, like Assad.\nThere were an assorted number of connected events at this juncture. There are claims that the US\u2019s contribution in the creation of al Qaeda was zero, and there are also opinions that the US prevented Russian influence on Arab nations to spread the Marxist ideology, and through CIA, gave birth to Osama bin Laden and fed him and his terror organisation. This infers that the seeds of ISIS were sown in the US\u2019s agenda of spreading globalism and resisting the spread of Russian socialism. In addition, constant vocal calls by Obama and his European counterparts to have the Assad government dissolved and be replaced by a new establishment, ignited the low-lit fire of rebels who were all prepared for external support. Arming the rebels with weapons was one of the most disastrous decision of Obama and Clinton, which escalated tensions to an extent that many US made weapons are now used by the ISIS.\nAs for Assad, he is not exonerated in the ISIS creation. Syria has been under emergency rule from 1963 to 2011, after which massive protests culminated into the Syrian civil war. Assad\u2019s self-appointed presidential position, which remains constitutionally doubted, and his tyrannical governance, have contributed in silence to the growing opposition to his regime.\nThe creation of ISIS is a product of multiple foreign policy and democratic deficiencies. In proportion to the extent to which Assad is projected for the creation of ISIS, the US and its CIA tactics, its historical aversion to Russian socialism and its dissemination, clubbed with its obnoxious interventionist policies of regime change and nation building, are seen more as direct reasons.\nIndonesia\u2019s Religious Demography Is On The Brink Of A\u2026\nIraq Syria\nISIS Russia\nISIS Russia Putin\nISIS US\nprotectionism ISIS\nRussia socialism\nSyria and US\nSyria ISIS\nSyria ISIS Putin\nSyria politics\nSyria US\nThe Radical Economist is the World's Economics Magazine\nUS militancy\nUS Russia ISIS\nUS Syria War\nWhy is there a war in Syria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 7934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://randalmatheny.com/essential-church/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TL5H4UEXR4RIP7OZGUOSSNRRNVC273QH", "length": 926, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "randalmatheny.com", "title": "The essential church \u2013 Walking with God", "raw_content": "\u2190 Prayers without obedience\nPrinciples of life and work that everyone can use \u2192\nThe essential church\nOn Sunday, our theme will be \u201cThe Essential Church,\u201d or more literally, the necessary church. The lesson \u2014 topical this time, gasp! \u2014 will have four points. All the verses come from Paul\u2019s letter to the Ephesians.\nThe church is essential for the salvation of others.\nThe church is essential for service to others.\nThe church is essential for the growth of the saints.\nThe church is essential for the glory of God.\nThis topic is important because it highlights the centrality of the church in God\u2019s plan for man between the coming of Christ in the flesh and his coming a second time to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him, Hb 9.28.\nEarlier in the month, our themes were God\u2019s peace, unity in Christ, and persecution.\nPosted\tin sermons\t| Tagged church of Christ, sermon outlines, sermon starters\t| Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://realscreen.com/2006/01/01/page32-20060101/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:31:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KH3FTJDG76WHNEYODDZOP7QBYQ3RT4KV", "length": 4444, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "realscreen.com", "title": "Realscreen \u00bb Archive \u00bb Calling interactive viewers\u2026", "raw_content": "Calling interactive viewers\u2026\nWith Simon Gunning's respected history in interactive tv - he was fundamental in the rollout of new interactive business strategies across five major uk digital broadcast channels during his time at Flextech Television - you'd expect he'd be eager to discuss the future of red button services. Instead, he quickly turns a conversation about digital media platforms towards ever-emerging mobile opportunities.\nWith Simon Gunning\u2019s respected history in interactive TV \u2013 he was fundamental in the rollout of new interactive business strategies across five major UK digital broadcast channels during his time at Flextech Television \u2013 you\u2019d expect he\u2019d be eager to discuss the future of red button services. Instead, he quickly turns a conversation about digital media platforms towards ever-emerging mobile opportunities.\nAlthough the British are pioneers in interactive (or, what Gunning calls the digital ancillary market), he says, \u2018Our model in the UK, having spent loads of money on red button interactivity, is moving almost completely towards mobile as far as options for immediate interactivity with broadcast.\u2019 And he believes the digital interactive market in Germany, and possibly even the US, will do the same.\nCurrently director of interactive at uk prodco Celador, Gunning explains that while interactive TV can bring impressive results, it also has drawbacks. For instance, he says, \u2018In the UK, whilst you can do certain things very well with your remote control \u2013 you can deliver some rich content, you\u2019ve got the immediacy of interactivity \u2013 what you can\u2019t do is unify your services across all platforms.\u2019 This means uk commercial broadcaster heavyweight ITV can\u2019t use red button services exclusively because many viewers are still on cable, digital terrestrial or analog.\n\u2018For every platform, the economic model only works if you give away a set-top box,\u2019 he continues, \u2018because nobody\u2019s going to spend money on one unless it\u2019s got all sorts of things, like a PVR. [But you then] can\u2019t go back out 18 months later and upgrade it because that\u2019s just too expensive.\u2019 In response to predictions that 50% of the US will be interactive capable by 2009, Gunning says, \u2018In order to do that, they\u2019re going to have to give boxes away, which means in five years time, they\u2019re going to be dumb boxes \u2013 stupid things that just give you video.\u2019\nGunning contrasts that with the capabilities of mobiles. \u2018They\u2019re ubiquitous \u2013 in the UK we have more mobiles than people \u2013 and they\u2019re more clever than set-top boxes. My mobile can do more than any set-top box.\u2019 And, since mobiles have a return path built in, viewers are able to engage in dialog, such as casting a vote or making purchases, and also be charged instantly.\n\u2018When you pick up your mobile phone, you\u2019re instinctively expecting to pay for something \u2013 that\u2019s just the way it works,\u2019 says Gunning. \u2018To turn a viewer into a customer, you don\u2019t have to do too much \u2013 and if you can combine the in-built return path with a natural willingness to pay, then you\u2019ve got everything covered.\u2019\nThat is, providing your brand is strong. \u2018It\u2019s abundantly clear that what\u2019s going to stand out in this digital smog is brand- and product-led,\u2019 notes Gunning. \u2018We\u2019re increasingly seeing that program brands are leading people from platform to platform rather than channel brands,\u2019 he explains. \u2018Consumers buy their favorite brands and products wherever they can find them, so for products like Idol and Who Wants to be a Millionaire, they won\u2019t differentiate where they buy them. So we make spectacular amounts of money from mobile telephony, interactive dvds and online games.\u2019\nBack when ring tones sounded more like rings than rap tunes \u2013 in the early days Gunning was with Flextech \u2013 he was largely responsible for spending \u2018massive amounts of money\u2019 on red button interactive TV services. He contends that groups including Flextech, the BBC, Channel 4 and BSkyB dictated the way the digital interactive tv platform developed, which was largely towards set-top box technology. But Gunning doesn\u2019t consider Europe\u2019s push into interactive tv a mistake, preferring to call it a learning curve. While he sees Germany and the States rapidly advancing with Internet Protocol tv, it\u2019s another platform that needs to be rolled out to millions of people in order to have a critical mass, whereas mobile already has that critical mass.\nSeems opportunity is just a phone call away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 276, "original_length": 9635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://recis.ru/en/journal/journal-today", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:09:40Z", "digest": "sha1:C4THUKIGOLORKHTJG2LPHZVPABTSC2OU", "length": 3541, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "recis.ru", "title": "Journal Today \u2022 \u0416\u0443\u0440\u043d\u0430\u043b \u0420\u0435\u0433\u0438\u043e\u043d", "raw_content": "All-Russian Scientific Journal \u201cRegion: Economics and Sociology\u201d\nThe all-Russian scientific journal Region: Economics and Sociology is issued on a quarterly basis at the premises of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is a leading Russian scientific center in the field of regional economic and socioeconomic research. The journal was established by the Siberian Branch of the RAS, The Interregional Association \u201cSiberian Accord\u201d (IASA) and the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS.\nThe primary objective of the journal is to inform the wider scientific community, employees of federal and regional legislative and executive authorities, students, postgraduates, and business representatives on the findings of scientific and applied research in theory and practice of regional economics and economic sociology, regional politics, regional and municipal administration, socioeconomic development of certain Russian regions, international practices of federalism and regional development, and the current state of regional science around the world. The journal pays particular attention to the issues of socioeconomic development of Siberia and its regions. Articles are organized within a number of regular columns:\nEconomic Issues of Regional Development;\nSocial Issues of Regional Development;\nRegional and Interregional Aspects of Structural and Investment Policy;\nRussian North and Arctic in the Context of Global Challenges of the XXI century;\nEnvironmental and Economic Issues of Regional Development;\nIssues of Local Government and Municipal Development;\nActivity of Executive and Legislative Political Bodies in Russian Regions;\nForeign Experience of Regional Science, Regional Policy and Spatial Development;\nEconomics of Enterprises;\nRegions of Russia: Figures and Facts;\nScientific Life.\nThe journal is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific periodicals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission for publishing works that reflect the contents of theses and dissertations. It is present in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and Referativny Zhurnal VINITI (Abstract Journal and Database of the All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information). A full-text version of the journal is published online on the websites of Scientific Electronic Library http://elibrary.ru/issues.asp?id=7623 and Publishing House of the Siberian Branch of the RAS http://sibran.ru/journals/subscribe_online_request.php?id=172. Information about the journal is published annually in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, international reference system on periodicals and ongoing publications.\nThe contents of the journal, abstracts, keywords and information about the authors in Russian and English are available online on the following websites: Region: Economics and Sociology http://recis.ru, Publishing House SB RAS http://sibran.ru, Scientific Electronic Library http://elibrary.ru/issues.asp?id=7623 and Federal Education Portal http://ecsocman.edu.ru/region.\nThe journal follows high standards of publication ethics. Every submitted article is reviewed exclusively on condition of anonymity.\nThe journal is published in the instant printing department of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS with financial support from the Presidium of the SB RAS. It is only available for subscription through Rospechat, MK-Periodica, and the Editorial. The journal is not sold on the newsstands.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 193.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reendex.via-theme.com/tennis-news-video-scores-match-reports/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:53:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QIRIGI3JAE4IGVFHWPLZNYBPJK7OMUG4", "length": 1374, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "reendex.via-theme.com", "title": "Tennis: News, video, scores & match reports \u2013 Reendex", "raw_content": "Latest news, fixtures & results, videos and features for all tennis competitions. Check out the latest, most up-to-date tennis match results with Tennis Now Live Scores.\nMcKinley Denali\nDenali is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190\u2026\nTheatre and Dance wants to help you discover your creative habit. Here you have the opportunity to develop\u2026\nGone are the days when writing about soccer simply involved reporting on the score of a match and describing\u2026\nAfter an earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power will quickly\u2026\nMen's tennis differs from women's tennis, as in many other sports, due to the fact that men are generally taller, stronger and faster.The average serve speeds of match winners is slightly higher than the average serve speeds of match losers.\nDecak D's tennis supremacy is being questioned for the first time this season, Sky Bet's Tim C takes a look at why...\nAndy M has set his sights on another Grand title at the US Open and we have plotted a possible route to the final at Flushing M...\nI was very confident with what I was doing, I knew it wasn't going to take much to get that back. I just remained calm. In the second round on Wednesday, Edmund plays someone about whom even some seasoned tennis writers knew little\nThe world No1 will play the Danish second\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 18452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-book-off-script-by-liv-bartlet.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:51Z", "digest": "sha1:GXZWIH63TMDKKPSPHMKVCWDY3EGJ4UJX", "length": 2640, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "reiisi.blogspot.com", "title": "Reiisi -- \u96f6\u77f3: New Book -- Off Script -- by Liv Bartlet: Contemporary Love Fantasy", "raw_content": "New Book -- Off Script -- by Liv Bartlet: Contemporary Love Fantasy\nAgain, being a member of the LDS Beta Readers Group on Facebook has given me a chance to review a new book: Off Script, by Liv Bartlet (Rebecca Charlton and Sarah McKnight). This is a book I read in beta versions and was gifted a copy of the published version.\nFrom one point of view, the story is a modern interpretation of a Regency-style romance -- how a pair develop their relationship while threading through the unwritten rules of upper-class (modern) society.\nFrom another point of view, it's an examination of violence and power in relationships, and something of an implicit advocacy piece, especially for women, providing an LDS/Mormon female protagonist as a proxy for women's issues and other characters as proxy for other current social issues. (The advocacy does not qet in the way of enjoying it as a novel.)\nThe context is an intersection of LDS and non-LDS adult society, but the LDS society seems to be a proxy for pious society, and is not crypticaly LDS. I think the LDS references will not be opaque to non-LDS readers -- the reader will find them similar to references to Catholicism or any protestant sect as plot devices in many novels.\nWarnings up front, there are several make-out or similar scenes, terminated by one or the other protagonist's sense of morals, or especially by the authors' sense of modesty in one case. There is one date rape scene, curtained by the female protagonist's delirium and loss of consciousness. There is also some violence. These elements are not gratuitous, but integral to the plot.\nIt should be considered oriented towards a mature reader.\nThe authors are intentionally provocative, and provide a list of topics of discussion at the end.\nYou can find the book at Amazon, at least. (Google search as https://www.google.com/search?q=off+script+liv+bartlet.)\nMy personal evaluation:\nIt is carefully crafted and flows well, and is not too long. 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In addition, we are always on the look-out for choral gems of the past that may have never been published for the market at large.\nEffective Fall of 2010, our scope is being broadened to provide an independent publication source for contemporary choral composers.\nWe understand that budgets have to go a long way and thus we take pride in offering our products at the lowest possible prices.\nFinally, we continue to offer the original music and arrangements of our founder, award-winning composer Bill Sherrill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://repair-garagedoors.com/tx/the-colony", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:V4NQ5GZT7WEOK5EXEFB4WCPQOFBI6CX5", "length": 2320, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "repair-garagedoors.com", "title": "The Colony, TX | Repair Garage Doors", "raw_content": "Garage Door Repair Service in The Colony, TX\nWe're Your Reliable Garage Door Professionals\nOur line of garage door technicians aims to provide long lasting garage door solutions to all new and long term clients. We consistently send out technicians through certification programs and intensive training to improve their competency and efficiency. No matter how easy or complicated the job is, we're going to finish it in a timely manner. We roll our sleeves up in order to provide you efficient services without breaking the bank. It does not matter how complex the job is, as long as we can work on it, we'll get it done in no time.\nEvery home is highly susceptible to crimes such as burglary or robbery. An increase on the security of your home is recommended especially now that criminals are continually developing new ways to break-in. This will give you peace of mind knowing that you and your family is secured inside your house. One of the best things that you can do to increase the value of your home is to install a new garage door. It also enhances the price of our house and small business and beautifies it in the process. Keeping it in good condition is certainly not easy to accomplish.\nSo, if you need help in installing your garage door or need to repair it, then asking help to a professional garage door technician is advisable. When it comes to solving garage door problem our company can help you. We will do our best to provide the service you need and want. We know emergency situation happens unexpectedly. That is why we are available to provide the service you need 24/7. If you see rusts and damages in your garage door, do not hesitate to dial our number for immediate assistance. Our expert garage door technicians uses the most upgraded tools to give you quality service. Do not wait for tomorrow, if you can handle your problem today. The more you allow the time to pass by, the more you make the situation worse. You need to take action immediately!\nYou can benefit from both or our garage door supplies and garage door services. No matter what part of your garage door is broken, we can work on it. We have the total ability to take care of everything for you. Our customer care agents are round the clock visible to receive call from you. Call us. It would be our pleasure helping you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://research.appliedeco.org/2013/07/adaptive-management-for-coastal-prairie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:01:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FVBQQIKRGWSWXYTVYI5FLNBJY4NDFK4Q", "length": 4348, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "research.appliedeco.org", "title": "Adventures in Conservation Research: Adaptive Management for a Coastal Prairie Community", "raw_content": "Adaptive Management for a Coastal Prairie Community\nHistorically, coastal prairie communities occupied an extensive range from northern California to British Columbia. Today, these communities have been severely fragmented as a result of development, agriculture, recreational use, and invasion from non-native species. With the degradation of these habitats, many plant and animal species have experienced a quick decline, most notably the Oregon silverspot butterfly (Speyeria zerene hippolyta) and its larval and adult food sources, including hookedspur or sand violet (Viola adunca), coast goldenrod (Solidago spathulata), Douglas' aster (Symphyotrichum subspicatum), and edible thistle (Cirsium edule). The silverspot butterfly is listed federally as threatened and in Oregon as endangered, emphasizing the need for protection of remaining habitat as well as restoration and enhancement of potential new sites that encourage expansion of the species. The Institute for Applied Ecology (IAE), the North Coast Land Conservancy, and the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge have teamed up to develop an adaptive management strategy that targets the restoration of 140-acres of coastal prairie by 2020 to create suitable habitat for the reintroduction of the Oregon silverspot butterfly. This effort is funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.\nOregon silverspot butterfly on a coast goldenrod (left) and the larval host plant, sand violet (right).\nButterfly image courtesy of the Oregon Zoo and violet image courtesy of Prairie Moon Nursery.\nThis targeted restoration effort will help to meet short-term and long-term conservation needs for the butterfly and the associated habitat. Previous studies have tested various management techniques, including prescribed fire, mowing, herbicide application, solarization, grazing, topsoil removal, topsoil inversion, and soil impoverishment, with the desire to mimic non-climatic natural disturbance processes and improve habitat viability (Van Dyke et al. 2004).\nThis May, the Conservation Research team established a restoration experiment on four different sites to test three site preparation options including topsoil removal, topsoil inversion, and herbicide application. All four sites are located on protected land in a maintenance stage of restoration; three of the sites are located on land owned by the North Coast Land Conservancy in the Clatsop Plains north of Seaside, Oregon and the fourth site is located on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington on land owned by the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. The initial site preparation techniques will be followed by seeding and planting of native species. Over the next three years, a combination of management techniques will be implemented to determine the most effective strategy for restoration and maintenance of coastal prairie habitat. These techniques may include seasonal herbicide application, hand-removal of invasive species, and high-intensity grazing, and will be adjusted based on the effectiveness of meeting management objectives.\nCR interns Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz (left) and Tobin Weatherson (right) and\nNaturalist Denise Giles-Johnson (center) establishing experimental plots.\nAfter initial set-up of the experimental plots, we conducted pre-treatment monitoring of the plant communities, including percent cover of each species present and ground cover classifications. Continued monitoring of the plant communities on an annual basis will help us determine whether the management techniques are leading to desired conditions of high native forb cover (especially of the obligate species on which the Oregon silverspot butterfly depends) and reduced invasive species cover. In turn, the plant community composition will also support the determination of the most appropriate habitats suitable for reintroduction of the Oregon silverspot butterfly. Stay tuned in future years to hear the results of this new experimental project!\nCR Interns Andrew Heaston (left), Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz (center), and Crew Leader\nCharlotte Trowbridge (right) monitor species cover in the rain at a Clatsop Plains site.\nVan Dyke, F., Van Kley, S.E., Page, C.E., and Van Beek, J.G. 2004. Restoration efforts for plant and bird communities in tallgrass prairies using prescribed burning and mowing. 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They were awarded an EPSRC platform grant in 2008. Each year, the group produces an annual report to present their progress and research highlights and to engage their collaborators in defining research priorities, directions and sustainability plans.\n- We have doubled our publication rate since last year\n- Jano van Hemert was awarded a Scottish Crucible\n- Two of our students won three awards for their honours projects\n- Dave Robertson has become head of the School of Informatics\n- We have started an Alumni Programme for staff and students\nhttp://research.nesc.ac.uk/files/National_e-Science_Centre_Research_Plat...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://risinghopeministries.org/sermons/you-are-gods-witness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:UAYYIAAFUK5K5QOS5WVDJ4HVNICZUDJQ", "length": 547, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "risinghopeministries.org", "title": "You Are God\u2019s Witness! \u2013 Rising Hope Ministries", "raw_content": "You Are God\u2019s Witness!\nHere's a simple fact you are chosen for a reason in one of those reasons were to be a witness for God. Your journey from the darkness to the light is also your testimony on who God is today. He is the God that is still saving people and calling people to Himself just as He did for you. Isn't it nice to know that you were chosen to have a relationship with God? Isn't it nice to know you were chosen to believe in God? Today, stand up and testify to who God is in your life!\n\u00ab Reach For Your Dreams! 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People that need a room for a few nights have AirBnB. Tired of email? Texting, tweeting or shooting a Facebook message are now other, more direction options of communication. There is so much disruption in every industry\u2026except insurance. And what\u2019s the need for it? People pay their premiums in\u2026\nNick Kestrel/ February 4, 2013 July 31, 2015 /3 Comments\nManaging social media for your insurance brokerage can be enormously time consuming. The problem is that in order for a social platform to feel \u201csocial\u201d you need to generate regular content and ensure that it drip feeds at the right level to your audience. This is compounded by the problem of most social media platforms\u2026\nNick Kestrel/ January 21, 2013 July 30, 2015 /Leave a comment\nIn the last part of this series we looked at developing an editorial calendar for your content. The next phase of running a successful social media campaign is ensuring that your audience can find it and can interact with it. Starting Conversations Running a social media campaign based solely on an editorial calendar is rather\u2026\nBy now we\u2019ve come a long way with this series; we\u2019ve already been looking at where you might want to place your social media presence and what you might want to do with it. 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Here you will find information about the company and the services we provide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rnmdynamics.com/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:10Z", "digest": "sha1:27EHRWJ2W5VRSX7UVD7HSHG35D43IAT2", "length": 1702, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rnmdynamics.com", "title": "About Us - RNM Dynamics Philippines INC.", "raw_content": "About RNM Dynamics\nThrough its excellent and dynamic partnership with its customers and business partners, RNM provides high-performance equipment, materials, spare parts and services to various industries- Semiconductor & Electronics, Photovoltaic, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Automotive, Power, Oil and Gas, and other leading industries.\nEstablished in 2003, RNM has served and continue to serve as a bridge for trade between its customers and world class manufacturers, specializing in the distribution and after-sales support of high-performance products. Our fundamental objective is to provide our customers, business partners, and employees with our comprehensive service, and make everyone benefit from our long-term growth.\nWith our one-stop-shop principle, we not only distribute products as a trading company, but also customize products and services to meet specific needs of our customers in the most cost-effective way.\nFrom a humble beginning of 3 employees, led by its founder and president, Engr. Ferdinand G. Bercenio, RNM has grown rapidly and has become one of the more recognized and dependable partners of major leading industries in the Philippines today. Currently, RNM is utilizing 4 major offices, strategically located in Manila, Cebu, Clark, and Baguio.\nIt now employs more than 50 people, equipped with knowledge and skills from their long years of experience in various industries. Our genuine commitment to the growth of our customers, business partners, and our employees has propelled us to a higher level of maturity. Hence, we welcome the opportunity to work with you and provide your company with our stellar service and support bar none.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/three-quarters-of-uk-women-never-cycle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:29:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VTZGT2L6O6ODJFCVMVZRMJC53IG4QWCA", "length": 3139, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "roadsafetygb.org.uk", "title": "Three quarters of UK women \u2018never\u2019 cycle", "raw_content": "Three quarters of UK women \u2018never\u2019 cycle\nImage: Tony Marsh/Sustrans\nAlmost three quarters of women living in seven UK cities never ride a bike for local journeys, despite having a positive attitude towards cycling, according to a new report.\nThe Sustrans report \u2013 based on a survey of 7,700 people living in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Greater Manchester \u2013 details women\u2019s travel habits, views and attitudes towards cycling.\nThe report finds that while 73% of women living in these cities never ride a bike for local journeys, 68% say their city would be a better place to live and work if more people cycled.\n24% of men ride a bike at least once a week, compared to just 12% of women.\nThe report was published during Bike Week 2018 and on the day the Government confirmed \u00a36.5m of funding for projects in six \u2018Cycle Ambition Cities\u2019.\nSustrans says the gap in cycling participation levels between men and women is smaller in cities with higher overall cycling uptake \u2013 such as Bristol where 18% of women ride a bike at least once a week, compared to 32% of men.\n77% of the women surveyed feel that cycling safety needs to be improved, while 59% view cycling as dangerous or unsafe.\nHowever, 30% of those who currently do not cycle say they would like to start, recognising cycling as good for their health \u2013 as well as its positive impact on reducing traffic and air pollution.\n76% of women who already cycle, or want to start, say that cycle lanes which are physically separated from traffic would encourage them to cycle more.\nBased on these findings, the report sets out three recommendations to help local authorities \u2018create a more diverse and inclusive culture of cycling\u2019:\nPlan and deliver protected cycling routes on main roads and orbital routes reflecting local journeys\nIntroduce training and engagement programmes to enable more women to travel by bike\nIntegrate gender into different stages of consultation, design, delivery and monitoring of new schemes\nXavier Brice, CEO of Sustrans, said: \u201cA city that has a diverse and inclusive population of people riding a bike is a city for everyone.\n\u201cCycling can play a vital role in improving health, whilst ensuring that jobs, services and communities are accessible. 51% of the UK population is female, yet most of our cities are failing to design roads and streets for women to cycle.\n\u201cEvidence from the UK and beyond shows that when dedicated space for riding a bike is provided, alongside engagement programmes, the gender gap in cycling can be eliminated.\n\u201cGovernments at all levels need to listen to women\u2019s voices and invest in a network of dedicated cycling routes and training so that everyone feels comfortable and confident to ride a bicycle, regardless of gender, age and disability.\u201d\nDr Rachel Aldred, reader in transport, Westminster University, said: \u201cWe know there is substantial demand for cycling infrastructure among women and other currently under-represented groups.\n\u201cIn the Netherlands, women cycle a higher proportion of journeys than men do, showing that a good cycling environment works for both women\u2019s and men\u2019s trips.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robertsarmory.com/skiboot.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:19:15Z", "digest": "sha1:PPRSCEATBLENFXQFQSN56NRZY3IMUXSP", "length": 3250, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "robertsarmory.com", "title": "AN HISTORICAL FIND IN A SKI BOOT", "raw_content": "AN HISTORICAL FIND IN A SKI BOOT\nHistory enthusiasts are often excited when acquiring a new item or document to enhance their collection of artifacts. Archeologists get excited about a new dig, anthropologists are excited about a new skull, and military history buffs get excited about a new uniform or piece of equipment. At a recent WWII reenactment, a pair of ski boots was purchased to augment a 10th Mountain Division impression. Figure 1 is a view of the ski boots, a fairly standard pair, similar to that used by skiers of the early 1940\u2019s as well as mountain troops.\nFigure 2 shows the manufacturer as Bryntesson with the Swedish three crowns stamped on the sole. The boots looked like they had never been used. While trying on the ski boots, there appeared to be something stuffed up by the toe of the ski boot. A wad of newspaper was found at the toe and removed. It was common practice in the 1930\u2019s and 1940\u2019s to stuff newspaper in the toe of shoes to keep the shape while not in use. Out of curiosity, the paper was opened up, laid flat, and ironed. Parts of the paper are shown in Figures 3 through 7.\nFigure 3 is a partial view of a photograph, which appears to be of a parade in Casablanca, Morocco. Note the date in the upper right corner: February 2, 1943. Roosevelt and Churchill met in Casablanca in January 1943, to plan strategy for the next move against the Axis powers after the North African victory. This is probably the parade in their honor; as historical records from the 70th Tank Battalion indicate the unit\u2019s participation in a parade in honor of Roosevelt during his visit. In the photo, there appear to be a marching band, a Dodge Weapons Carrier vehicle with photographers on board, and an over flight of A26 aircraft. Stalin was invited to attend, but declined. At the conference, it was concluded that the assault across the English Channel was not feasible in 1943.\nFigure 4 is an add for the famous 1942 movie \u201cMrs. Miniver,\u201d starring Greer Garson; a story about a typical English family coping with the ravages of WWII. The story dealt with the Dunkirk defeat, a relative lost in an air attack, discovery of a wounded German pilot and the Royal Air Force. The movie ends with a moral boosting speech typical of WWII movies. Greer Garson received an academy award for this movie.\nFigure 5 is an article that is titled \u201cNew Terrible Raid on Messina.\u201d Messina, in northern Sicily, was apparently a bomber target long before the invasion of Sicily in July of 1943. The decision to invade Sicily was made at the Casablanca Conference in January, 1943.\nThe article in Figure 6 is entitled \u201cGoring\u2019s Speech Too Open-hearted.\u201d This suggests that this Swedish writer was not totally buying everything that Goring had said in a speech. Even in 1943, there was spin.\nThe title of the article in Figure 7 reads \u201cTwo Battleships Sunk by Japanese Pilots.\u201d Unfortunately, the names of the two battleships were not given.\nSweden had a free press in February of 1943, as indicated by the variety of articles as well as opinions regarding current events. The discovery of this newspaper inside these ski boots indicates that they were most likely manufactured in 1943 or earlier. It\u2019s amazing what you can find in old ski boots!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 3454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rotarychildrensfoundation.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:00:29Z", "digest": "sha1:PQAHBU3DHF3CQS3ELQRUEWUJ6RE4U3O5", "length": 1000, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rotarychildrensfoundation.org", "title": "Rotary Children's Foundation | Mobile, Alabama", "raw_content": "Criteria & Guildelines\nMobile Rotary Club\nThe Rotary Children's Foundation has been a Sub Committee of The Mobile Rotary Club for over 90 years.\nBecause of the age of the club and the wisdom of its past leadership, our club has a history of supporting several worthy organizations in this area. In the early 1930\u2019s, our club helped establish a specific facility for the care of disabled children by raising $25,000. That facility is now known as the Bedsole-Rotary Rehabilitation Center and is housed as part of the larger Mobile Infirmary Hospital. The Rotary Children\u2019s Foundation (\u201cRCF\u201d) was created early on as a separate charitable organization to own this facility. Because of conservative management and the bequests of numerous Rotarians and other generous families, the RCF currently has in excess of $1,000,000. Each year the RCF distributes almost $100,000 to local charitable organizations such as Goodwill-Easter Seal and others.\n\u00a9 2011 Children's Rotary Foundation - All rights reserved", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://royalsealmedia.com/en/nview.php?id=229", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:42:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4DZF2FE5JVKGB2GYQIUX7P57NMXGIDO", "length": 2132, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "royalsealmedia.com", "title": "Royal Seal Group International", "raw_content": "CHINA\u2019S FILM INDUSTRY REFORMS AND CHANGES NEEDED URGENTLY\nAlthough the number of cinema screens has increased 10-fold to more than 20,000 over the past 10 years in China, structural problems have also appeared simultaneously: in the last 3 years, the average growth rate (42.8%) has been much higher than box office revenue growth (28.9%) and feature film growth (6.9%). A ratio imbalance that, to some extent, reflects essential contradictions between film production and the number of film projection rooms in the country. This is what Hou Guangming, Director and Chairman of the University Council of Beijing Film Academy, explained at the International Film Industry Development Seminar of the 9th China Beijing International Culture Creative Expo, held recently at the Beijing Film Academy.\nMr. Hou pointed out that the current average movie theater occupancy rate, a mere 15% nationwide, shows that supply (movie screen construction) far exceeds demand. Movie screens are still mostly build in the first and second-tier cities of the Eastern and Central regions, while China\u2019s twelve Western provinces together account for just 20.7% of the number of screens. Besides, the progressive convergence towards new media, online screening especially, puts the traditional industry at risk. The film industry needs to change, if not transform itself, with gradual yet deep reforms and upgrades.\nIn recent years, China\u2019s film industry has faced strong challenges from Hollywood movies. Box office of the domestic films has reached 54.74% in average for the past 5 years, but only scores 47% so far in 2014 at the half-year mark. Competition will likely increase, as the quota for imported films is changing to allow for more foreign productions to be screen in the country. Meanwhile, Chinese movies are still struggling to find audience abroad, with their foreign box office revenue at only RMB1,414 billion in 2013. Thus, domestic productions need to pay ever more attention to their relevance to the international market in order to expand overseas and enable China to become a leading worldwide movie industry power.\nSource: Hexun", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rumblinbuff.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-massive-basketball-preview-2016-17.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YKRA6NR274RSPN2KUH4NT5EZMJKPU7W7", "length": 133008, "nlines": 326, "source_domain": "rumblinbuff.blogspot.com", "title": "The Rumblings of a Deranged Buffalo: My Massive Basketball Preview 2016-17: The Next Step", "raw_content": "My Massive Basketball Preview 2016-17: The Next Step\n\"Put some alcohol in your mouth to block the words from coming out.\"\n- Also, Ron Swanson\nI interrupt the exciting #Rise in Folsom to bring you: basketball season. There will be no apology.\nIn the closing throes of my Massive Preview last fall, I stated, emphatically, that the 2015-16 season would be better than the sour experience of 2014-15. 'A rebound is on the way,' I concluded. It was a declaration that was prefaced by over 20,000 words spent describing the ways that I knew the Buffs would just be better than they had been in that disastrous, CBI-concluded campaign. At the time, I'll admit, the statement, and the article as a whole, was written more as a soul-searching dive into literary comfort food than anything else. Hours spent assuaging my own fears that the product on the court wouldn't match my hopes. I could've saved myself the empty calories, however -- it was a declaration that was proved 100% right.\nOver the course of 22 wins, including a run of 11-straight that finished just shy of the program mark, the Buffs showed that there would be no return to the painful days of the program's past. They would not fall back into old habits, they would not fade away into the miasma of countless mediocre basketball teams that plague this country. No, they would stay on track, and continue the drumbeat of success that the program has enjoyed since the arrival of Tad Boyle. Above all else, it was fun to watch basketball at the Foot of the Flatirons again.\nThe '15-'16 Buffs exceeded even my expectations, finishing 5th in the Pac-12 before winding up back in the NCAA Tournament for the 4th time in six years. The team reverted to form, doubling down on defense and rebounding, the old pillars of the Boyle coaching philosophy, while adding some spice in the form of outside shooting. It was a formula that paid off immediately, erasing any lingering doubt left over from the previous winter. While still a flawed team in many aspects, they came together as a group and claimed a number of great victories, including that over eventual Pac-12 champion and Elite Eight entrant Oregon at the Coors Events Center. It was, in isolation, a special season, and one well worth the price of admission.\nThat's not to say, however, that I feel full having consumed it. That team left some meat on the bone, allowing numerable wins - program-defining, profile-raising wins - to slip through their fingers. The losses toll like the mournful chimes of a funeral procession: Iowa St, SMU, Utah (twice), at USC, at Oregon St, and UConn in the Dance. In each, Colorado had the chance to win, to take the next step toward true relevance on the national stage. In each, they also were their own worse enemy, coughing up leads and settling into defeat. In essence, they failed to grab the brass ring, to claim what could've been theirs.\nSuch is the casus belli this season: take that next step. Win those games that mean something. Hold on to leads. Stroll into the upper tier of the Pac-12 and the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Become the program, on paper, that BasketBuffs everywhere have longed for.\nIn this virtual tome, I will try to explain why, exactly, I think the 2016-17 University of Colorado Men's Basketball Team will be able to achieve what last year's could not. I will preview them from a variety of aspects, while predicting just how all the pieces will fit together. I'll look at the roster, profiling the players and discussing how the coaching staff will look to make the great shift from focusing on the paint to the perimeter. I'll look at the schedule, touching on both the non-conference and conference slates, and announce my baseline win prediction for the campaign. I'll also look at the Pac-12, noting how our rivals spent the off-season, and talk about the league as a whole. Finally, I'll close with a look at what should be the best recruiting class since 2012, discussing how the program will retool for a year after the departure of a very strong senior class.\nBut first, a warning. Those of you who have been here before know that the word 'massive' in the title is not a misnomer. I'm long-winded to a fault, and the product after the jump is far from brief. If, with that understanding, you're not dissuaded, if you love Colorado basketball too much to let a thing like 'TLDR' get in front of a good time, then grab a beer, strap in, and click below for the preview...\nThis is the seventh iteration of the Massive Basketball Preview. Previous installments can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.\nYear-over-year, the discussion of any college basketball team starts with who is no longer with the program. It's the nature of college sports, the great and terrible passage of four or five years that eventually leads to graduation, and it defines the overall narrative. For the Buffs, that means we start the discussion of 2016-17 with the end of Josh Scott's collegiate career.\nThe Young Fundamental was, simply, one of the best players in Colorado Basketball history. Over four years of excellence, the center joined the late Cliff Meely as one of just two players to record 1,700 points, 900 rebounds, and 100 blocked shots while wearing Black and Gold. He finished in the program's top ten all-time in points, rebounds, games both started and played, overall minutes, double-doubles, free throws, and blocked shots. Josh also lead CU to three NCAA tournament appearances, and left the team's undisputed vocal leader in the huddle. I talked last year of legacy shopping for the young center, and his is fully secure now.\nHe could do it all, from his polished offensive skills (including the ability to score with either hand around the rim), to his almost supernatural ability to read and react on defense. His was the complete package, one probably never to be duplicated in these parts. Essentially everything you could ever want in a player, let alone a teammate, could be found with Josh. He was the bedrock upon which the foundation of basketball in Boulder was laid, and his presence will be sorely missed both this season and beyond. Accordingly, how the team this year goes about trying to replace his numbers will go a long way to determining the course of the season.\nAs Coach Boyle has often alluded to this summer, however, you can find a number of ways to replace his numerical production - points, rebounds, etc - but the more intangible aspects of his profile could haunt the team this winter. How do replace his leadership in the huddle? How do you replace his undisputed command of moments and situations that kept the team headed on the right track through adversity? The entire roster looked to him, both as a key to the offense and an anchor to the defense, and now he's gone, off playing basketball in Macedonia -- a literal world away from the goings on in Boulder. Someone will have to step up to take the reins in his absence, which leaves a nasty, open-ended question unanswered heading into opening week.\nOf course, J40 wasn't the only casualty of graduation. Xavier Talton and Eli Stalzer each also expired their eligibility last winter, with the former finishing as a key member of the rotation, valued both for his leadership and skill. While not the best player on the roster, Talton was always an indispensable component to the team's overall success. See, Xavier could never be kept down for long, and Little X routinely found ways to force the coaching staff into putting him on the court. It was no wonder that, by the time conference play rolled around last January, his minutes spiked as Coach Boyle looked to the senior to back up the point guard position. He was a steady presence at a key position for years, and I'll remember him well. Stalzer, unfortunately, saw his role severely limited last year, falling under the heel of a music student's demanding scholastic schedule, along with some injury concerns. Not to say he wasn't still an intrinsic component to the team's overall chemistry, bringing important leadership to the table, just that his production all but disappeared in his final run as a Buffalo. In each case, though, their exits are overshadowed by that of Josh Scott, with arguments over replacing their presence getting done away with much more freely.\nBeyond the graduates, the roster also experienced another round of defections. Following up on the transfers of Jaron Hopkins (Fresno State) and Dustin Thomas (Arkansas) in 2015 (now eligible to play for their new teams), Kenan Guzonjic (Barry Universtiy), Tre'Shaun Fletcher (Toledo) and walk-on hero Brett Brady (Colorado Christian; can play right away) left the program this summer with eligibility remaining. Fletcher's is the biggest loss; the jack-of-all-trades lefty wing who could guard and play pretty much every position. In all honesty, however, none of this group was going to be relied upon this season, so none of the transfers were all that crippling to the outlook of this team. Again, the attention naturally returns to the departure of J40. Just one of six departures, his is, by far, the most damning.\nIf that's what Colorado lost, then what do they return? Quite a lot, in fact. Compared to the national average (recouping 55% of last season's minutes), the Buffs returning nearly 65% of last season's participation is a bonanza. That doesn't even take into account a senior guard coming off a transfer redshirt who is expected to play heavy minutes, or the exuberant senior forward returning from injury after featuring as a regular starter over his first three seasons on campus. Colorado's roster, with all eight of their projected top performers boasting significant college basketball experience, is actually one of the most experienced strings in the nation, one that won't be relying on freshmen for anything other than added spice. It's a very enviable position for the program to be in, one that has similarly served the football team well this fall. In college sports, heavy experience pays off, often even more than raw talent, which is exactly why plenty is expected of CU this winter.\nThat's not to say it will be easy, and it all comes back to replacing Josh Scott. Without him, while the team is returning so much talent, they're also staring a tectonic shift in the focus of play in the face. Without the talismanic Scott in the paint, this is now a perimeter-oriented team -- you'll be seeing a lot more guards on the court at one time then you've ever seen before under Tad Boyle. For better or worse, everything this team does well will start from the outside.\nIn a way, however, that plays to the strengths that emerged a season ago. While Scott was heavily relied upon, the big improvement, at least offensively, over the disastrous 2014-15 campaign was three point shooting and overall perimeter production. The Colorado guards were consistently effusive a year ago, setting a program record for both three-pointers made (252) and hit rate (39%). All those record-setting shooters are back, and, while they won't have Josh in the middle demanding double-teams to help space the floor, they should remain an effective crux of the offense.\nAnd so, the attention naturally turns in full to this year's roster, one which shows plenty of promise. It's centered upon the talents of four redshirt seniors, each carrying four important years of collegiate basketball experience into the season. Two of them are original CU recruits (the exuberant wing from before, along with one of the best defensive forwards in the conference), with another a versatile transfer wing with a year of Colorado playing time under his belt. The final of the seniors, though, may end up emerging as the best lead guard in Black and Gold since Spencer Dinwiddie. Coming from a lower division of play, with All-American honors in tow, he is both an exciting and enigmatic presence at the top of the roster, one which looks to catch the league, and the country as a whole, off-guard.\nEven past the headlining seniors, however, the team is still dotted with explosive, returning talent. There's the fourth-year junior wing with an insane shooting touch, the local product point guard on the verge of a breakout in his third year, a banzai European combo guard with a knack for the exclamatory, and a mammoth power forward who has shown steady improvement since arriving on campus. And, while they may not be filling critical roles this winter, it should also be noted that the newbies show tons of promise, as well. The freshmen class consists of a pair guards who have shown early signs of flair and defensive willingness, and a pair of forwards who are more than capable of stepping out an hitting a jumper.\nPut it all together, and it's a roster that has the potential to bring Colorado to heights of basketball prowess not yet seen in the Tad Boyle era.\n- Derrick White - 6-5, 193 lbs, Sr from Parker, CO - #21\nFrom: the BDC\nI think it most fitting, in discussion of the 2016-17 roster, to start here, with Derrick White; or 'the Chosen One,' as teammate Namon Wright has taken to calling him. The 6-5, 200 lbs redshirt senior may not be a familiar name to many in BuffNation, but I'm betting that he'll end up being the most important piece of this year's roster puzzle, and a player that we'll never forget.\nHe comes to CU from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, one of four campuses in the flagship system. There, he was a bona fide star for the Division II Mountain Lions. Over three seasons in the Springs, the Parker product tore up the competition, setting a number of program records; he left their all-time leader in points, assists, points per game, points in a single season, free throws made in a season, and free throws made in a career, among others. His crowning achievement down south came as a junior, earning All-America honors with a 26/7/5 campaign that lead the Mountain Lions to a program-best 27-6 record and the NCAA Tournament. His credentials are impeccable, with the noted caveat that they came against Division II competition.\nHaving sat a year due to transfer rules, White is now ready to take a run out onto the floor of the CEC for what will be his only taste of top-flight collegiate basketball. The book on him is that he is a good athlete and complete basketball player, capable of attacking off the dribble, hitting outside jump shots, distributing to facilitate his teammates, playing solid defense on the other end, and grabbing rebounds wherever they are available. The coaching staff loves his decision making on-ball, along with his ability to wreak havoc off the ball. Simply: a bucket-getter and a play-maker. The Ralphie Report went a little purple after the first open scrimmage, saying that Derrick \"bends space and time to find open shots, and once he\u2019s there, he scores effortlessly,\" but the sentiment speaks plainly. Maybe that's why Coach Boyle was open in his despair last year over having to sit him, and just as happy to finally be able to add the versatile weapon to his rotation this winter:\n\"Let's put it this way \u2014 he's a special player. He is going to be able to affect the game in a lot of different ways. He can score, he can shoot, he can distribute the ball, he can rebound the ball, he can block shots for a guy that's 6'5\", he is a terrific defender. Derrick White is going to have a great year, there is no question in my mind.\"\nI particularly like the possibilities created by his ability to attack off the dribble-drive, get to the line, and make some free throws. It's the one dynamic piece that was missing last winter - a lead guard with a nose for the rim and the whistle - and one that will serve CU well in this campaign. Even with his voluminous shooting numbers in the Springs, Derrick still posted a FT rate above 65% in his final season of D-II ball, collecting over 300 attempts in both his sophomore and junior seasons. No Colorado guard since Spencer Dinwidde has approached those numbers in a single season, let alone multiple. It's the kind of specialization which plays well late in games. White, much like the Mayor and Alec Burks before him, has the skill set to get to the rim in the final minutes, earn a whistle, and turn empty possessions into something, forestalling opponent runs and outright collapses.\nYou may be asking yourself, however, 'If he's so good, then how come no other Division-I schools saw this potential coming out of high school?' Well, it certainly is an interesting conundrum. Somehow, out of a state that produces very few true D-I talents, White slipped through the cracks. While still in high school, coaches could see that his game had few on-court weaknesses, but they could also see his physical stature during evaluation. In the brutal cruelty of trying to sift through the thousands of hopeful youths playing for coaches around the country, a player of Derrick's size, then about 6-1, 165 lbs, simply didn't fit the mold, and almost everyone took a pass. \"I probably wouldn't have recruited me either in high school,\" said White. Even earning D-II attention was a struggle. \u201cHe didn\u2019t pass the eye test,\u201d said former DU assistant coach Marcus Mason, \u201cSo he got snubbed a little bit.\u201d\nWe're already sad that Olympic Gymnastics is over. Good thing we'll always have this... @Dwhite921 @CUBuffsMBB pic.twitter.com/9WmJtPzMNy\n\u2014 Buffs Compliance (@BuffsCompliance) August 17, 2016\nOnce in the UCCS program, however, White took off, both on the court and physically. He would shoot up another four inches after graduating high school, and add about 30 lbs to his frame. Suddenly, the slight, wiry guard was an imposing athletic presence, and his already solid game was taken to new heights. Success would follow, as would overtures from D-I schools, like Colorado. It was time for a call up from the minors.\nNow attempting his dream, playing Power 5, D-I basketball, Derrick will be facing a whole new set of pressures. He has just one year to prove his credentials, a weight of performance that his teammates, most of whom have already gone through the growing pains of their first season at this level, simply don't share. Lucky then that, by all reports, he was one of the, if not the outright, best players on the court for many of the practice sessions last winter. Those who have seen him play, like the Colorado Springs Gazette's David Ramsey, speak glowingly of his talents. For his part, Ramsey all but guarantees that he'll average 15 points per game at the D-I level, which would make him a welcome addition to any team in the country. A lot of that may be homeristic bluster, and concerns over the transition to D-1 ball are warranted, but enough people in the know are saying enough positive things for me to remain optimistic. He should be able to hit the ground running and explode onto the scene.\nWhat can we in BuffNation realistically expect? 15/3/3 while averaging high-20s in minutes seems like it could be low-balling Derrick's ceiling at this point, but loftier expectations would be putting the cart before the horse. Regardless, I think we'd all take anything in that range in a heartbeat -- those were the lines the Mayor used to put up, after all. While I do worry a little about his transition period, particularly on the defensive end, he's had a year of D-I practice to work on his game (something Derrick said was huge for him, \"both as a person and a player.\"), and White is, by every evaluation I could find, 'a baller.' Said Boyle, \"Derrick White is worth the price of admission.\" Guys like that don't stay quiet for long. By the second week of the season, he should be rolling, and the Buffs should be relying heavily on him.\n- Josh Fortune - 6-5, 200 lbs, Sr from Hampton, VA - #44\nFrom: the Press Democrat\nJosh is the second of four redshirt seniors on the roster, and, like Derrick White, started his career elsewhere. Originally a Providence College Friar, the versatile wing from the Virginia coast chose to finish his career at Colorado for 'professional reasons,' and shot his way onto the court last fall.\nUnfortunately for Josh, his first season in Black and Gold didn't go as well as hoped, and he was beset by a rough transitionary period. Stuck in a three-way rotation with George King and Tre'Shaun Fletcher for two starting wing slots, Fortune struggled with some untimely turnovers, inconsistency, and the occasional awkward decision-making gaffe. The home game against Utah, particularly, sticks in my mind, where a last-minute errant pass helped turn what could've been a big CU win into a loss (the only home loss of the season, in fact). No game really comes down to just one play, and Josh wasn't the only culprit that night, but it's the kind of moment that sours my perception.\nMy guess is that the stress of the rotation, constantly having to prove himself deserving of playing time, was a primary factor behind the errant inconsistency. He was pressing to stand out, which will usually get yourself and your teammates into trouble. Said Coach Boyle:\n\"The biggest thing with Josh Fortune is to simplify the game. Don't try to make plays you can't make. Just make simple plays. When he makes simple plays, he's a great player. When he makes difficult plays or plays he's unable to make, that's when the turnovers start.\" -link\nRegardless, that's not the final word on his career in Boulder. Josh recognizes the problem, and has been eager to address it behind the scenes, headed into his senior season. \"I've gotten better at [decision-making] through the summer. That's what I focused on. Knowing that and knowing what I did wrong, I can only get better from that.\"\nIt's important to note, though, that Josh had an otherwise strong year for Colorado last winter. He finished 3rd on the team in scoring and minutes, proved to be an excellent three point shooter (37% over nearly 140 attempts), and stood as an important cog in the machine that pushed the team to the NCAA Tournament. What's more, his rebounding skills and defensive activity were far better than had been advertised (highest non-forward rate on the team, 15.5 DR%; 2nd on the team in steals), and he was a willing distributor (2nd on the team in assist rate). Entering his second year, frustrating moments aside, he should be viewed as a fundamental jack-of-all-trades for a team looking to lead from the backcourt.\nOne of my favorite baseball blogs, South Side Sox, coined the term 'fulcrum' to use when discussing players who could drastically swing the team one way or the other by where their actual performance lands on their projected spectrum. I can't help but think back to that analogy when considering Josh's final season in Boulder. It's a term that doesn't designate the 'best' player on the team (for example, if either King or White don't live up to expectations, the Buffs are screwed anyway), but the one who could be the difference maker between a special season and an average one. I think Fortune could be just that kind of player for Colorado this year.\nWith George King and Derrick White projected to earn the starting wing spots, that leaves the 6th man role for Josh. Overall, I think that's a good fit for him; shooting is always welcome in the second unit, and his size, versatility, and nose for rebounds makes him a tough matchup to throw into the action mid-game. With an impact player coming off the bench, the Buffs just become more dangerous and harder to keep pace with over the course of 40 minutes. A fulcrum, if ever I've heard of one.\nThe only problem is that he fought that exact role last winter. While Josh enjoyed more minutes per game when coming off the bench, his shooting suffered a bit, particularly from outside (46% from three-point rage in starts, 32% as a substitute). It's a performance he can't repeat in 2016-17, which is where Boyle's prescribed simplification comes in. Just come in off the bench and make good basketball plays. If he can do that, those shooting numbers get flipped on their head, and those odd turnovers disappear. He'll still get his 25 minutes per game, excel across the score sheet (while limiting turnovers), and it will just accentuate what the rest of the team is doing. Ultimately, it helps Colorado win basketball games.\n- George King - 6-6, 220 lbs, Jr from Fayetteville, NC - #24\nI stand here today, and happily state that I was wrong; I was wrong to doubt the summer 2015 hype surrounding George King. He not only lived up to that hype, he surpassed it in almost every way possible. As a result, King enters the 2016-17 season as the incumbent leading scorer on a team dependent on scoring talent out of the backcourt, and one of the most critical players on the roster.\nThe redshirt junior from North Carolina (by way of San Antonio) is the final remaining piece from the 2013 recruiting class, having since watched fellow recruits Jaron Hopkins, Dustin Thomas and Tre'Shaun Fletcher transfer out. It's ironic, in a way, that King is the last man standing from that class. He was a late addition in the 2nd signing period, and one that most in BuffNation, myself included, thought was a reach. Instead, he alone remains, and has blossomed into one of the more dangerous scoring threats in the Pac-12. Coach Boyle may not always hit on his recruiting gambles, but his success rate isn't as scatter-shot as you might assume. GK is proof of that.\nHis was an electric 2015-16 campaign. George exploded onto the scene, and opposing scouting reports, by finishing in double figures scoring for each of the team's first seven contests, and 10 of 11. He ripped off his redshirt in an early-season run that included massive games against Auburn and BYU, scoring a combined 50 points. Where we fans had originally entered the season wondering where the points would be coming from out of the backcourt, here, finally, was the tenacious, efficient shooter that the team was looking for to flesh out their offense. While George would cool off a bit in conference play, posting some inconsistent scoring lines down the stretch, he still finished 2nd on the team in scoring, and really powered the Colorado attack from the backcourt as he settled into a deserved starting role. It was a completely different look from his freshman season, where he rarely saw any playing time at all. Given the extra year to develop, George made himself better, the sign of a good player, and proved Coach Boyle and staff right for redshirting him for his true sophomore season.\nWe all knew that George had the athleticism for this level, that much was clear from his freshman year; the challenge was always going to be how he filled out the rest of his resume. Beyond just basic improvement in his understanding of the game and patience on the ball, the answer, it emerged, was a tremendous jump shot that answered every question I ever had about the kid offensively. Stunningly, it turned him into a dynamic outside weapon that the team had been lacking just a year prior. For the year, he would shoot 67-146 from deep, a 46% rate that landed him in the top-20 nationally. His shooting touch was a transformative element to his game, helping him earn the Pac-12's Most Improved Player of the Year award. Clutch, too. King rarely shied away from the moment, and fired when needed. Who can forget, after all, his game-tying, season-saving three pointer in overtime against Washington State? It's a shot that staved off an RPI-disaster and kept the season from falling off the rails.\nReally, the only setback for King over the last calendar year was his offseason foot surgery, necessitated by a bone spur in his right foot. It cost him a little bit of summer practice, but he has since recovered, and will head into the season fully healthy.\nLooking forward, I do hope that King can improve a little beyond the 'pure shooter' role. There's nothing wrong with putting up seasons like Levi Knutson, knocking down big shots when the team needs them the most, but he's capable of so much more. His rebounding numbers, particularly, weren't what I expected for a player with such obvious athletic gifts (12.4% defensive), and he struggled a bit with the balance between his turnovers and assists (worst assist rate of any guard on the roster, 1:2.7 A-T). I get it, he's meant to be a scorer (2nd highest offensive win shares on the team, behind Josh Scott), not necessarily a facilitator. But, while other players on the roster can work to fill the need, an A-T disparity that extreme from anyone on the court is unacceptable. Further, he had a tendency to get a little lost on defense at times (OK, sometimes a lot lost), and could use some improvement in that area. With as many minutes as he will receive this season, King can't be a sieve on the defensive perimeter.\nEssentially, my point is this: if regression-to-the-mean strikes, and those shooting numbers dip (which they probably will), King has to have something else up his sleeve to keep the team on the right track. It's a pressing need, too, as a lack of Josh Scott in the paint may leave opponents more adventuresome in perimeter defense. Scoring-only players are nice, but they can be a double-edged sword if the scoring dries up. Rounding out his profile could turn George into an All-Conference kind of performer, even as the shots get tougher. Overall, he made himself a good player with the extra year of practice, now he needs to show that he can make his teammates and the team as a whole better, as well.\nMaybe it's with all that in mind that Coach Boyle has teased the prospect of playing George at the '4.' Exhibiting him down there would limit his exposure to quicker wings defensively, lessen the passing burden expected from perimeter positions, and allow him to take advantage of larger, slower defenders on the other end. It's an interesting concept, and one to watch as the season develops. Regardless, George King is an exciting offensive talent, and one the Buffs are lucky to have.\n- Dominique Collier - 6-2, 190 lbs, Jr from Denver, CO - #15\nFrom: SI.com\nOn a team with a number of diverse scoring options, particularly in the backcourt, someone has to be the facilitator. Someone has to be the player creating, rather than just taking shots. The one setting up the trigger-happy shooters on the perimeter and finding the forwards in good position on the block; running plays and dictating tempo. For the Buffaloes, that man is Dom Collier.\nThe former Denver East star came to CU with about as much fan fare as could be generated - the coaching staff essentially 'chose' him over current Gonzaga talent Josh Perkins - which, in retrospect, might have done the young point guard a disservice. While he was solid and improving as the team's primary ball-handler over the last two seasons, the fans wanted to see something more in the Spencer Dinwiddie mold, which is just not who Dom is. His is a more subtle game, inside-basketball style. The deft pass, the changing of pace coming up the court, the dual principles of spacing and position. Sure, he won't lead the team in scoring, but he will always help put them in a position to win by making the smart basketball plays.\nThat's not to say his contributions don't show on the score sheet, however. In fact, Collier had what I would consider a pretty solid sophomore campaign. He was 4th in scoring while leading the team in both assists and steals. Dom also developed a quietly effective three point shot (44% on 88 attempts) that complimented what shooting stars like Fortune and King were doing beyond the arc. He wasn't a primary shooter, just really good at picking his spots. Simply, Colorado does not make the NCAA Tournament without his cool, collected hand on the wheel.\nThere is room for improvement, though:\nThe turnovers were a little high (26% TO rate), particularly during conference play where his assist-to-turnover ratio dropped to essentially equality. Not what you want to see from your primary ball handler.\nCheap fouls were also a big concern. Dom committed 5.3 fouls per 40 minutes played last season, the product of hasty reaches on the perimeter. He was only saved from the team lead in that dubious category thanks to freshmen Thomas Akyazili and Kenan Guzonjic, one of whom is no longer with the team. With Coach Boyle sticking with the 'two fouls and sit' theory of first half management, it cost Collier a lot of minutes, and really hurt the team.\nDom only hit 34% of all two point attempts, including a woeful 29% on mid-range jumpers. It's a weakness of his game that opponents can isolate, running him off the perimeter, and forcing him inside.\nThat may seem like a serious list, and it is, but it's not a set of insurmountable issues. Take the last item, for example. Probably what could help him most here is being a little stronger on the ball once he starts to drive, which would produce better shots at the rim and help get his fouls drawn up from just 3.5/40. There were times last year where Collier would get hammered on the drive, yet still not get the call, leading to a free throw rate under 35%. Tick that up a bit, and he becomes deadly efficient weapon across the spectrum.\nOverall, I think he's really close to a breakout year. The biggest trick will just be owning the natural leadership responsibility of being the point guard. This will be, in many ways, his team, especially with the monolithic presence of Josh Scott gone from the roster. Teammates will be looking to him for leadership and guidance, particularly among the guard corps, and he will be responsible for keeping the numerous offensive sparkplugs on the roster happy. Maybe not the most comfortable position for a person who is naturally reserved, but he'll need to be a little more vocal, telling guys where they need to be; exerting his will and being a little 'nastier.'\nTo that end, he's been busy this summer:\n\"I worked on being more of a leader, communicating \u2014 even outside of basketball, just communicating more effectively. On the court, I worked on shooting, ball handling, making smarter decisions and the pick-and-roll offense.\"\n\"I've been focused on being a better floor leader, a floor general. I have to get our scorers and then guys that looked disengaged, I have to get them into the game. And then I have to do the little things, like not turning the ball over and just making smarter decisions. It's about slowing down and just letting the game come to me and not try to force plays. Let the opportunities that I see come to me. [...] I've come in and watched a lot of film, trying to slow down and let the game come to me and not force plays,\"\nI think, in many ways, those quotes show that Collier now 'gets it.' Like a QB on a football team, he's taking the mantle of leadership seriously, and accepting the natural responsibility that comes with the position. More importantly, he's also limiting his scope to only what he can control. At times in the past, he has tried to be all things to all people; not so anymore. As Nate Tomlinson before him, wrangling the herd, scoring when needed, and playing lockdown defense is all that is required. In his words, he no longer has to \"worry about what anyone else thinks,\" and just go out and do his job. If Dom does that, then Colorado will be back in the Dance, once again.\n- Thomas Akyazili - 6-2, 180 lbs, So from Antwerp, Belgium - #0\nOutside of the emergence of George King, the most pleasant surprise on the team last winter was the play of Thomas Akyazili. The international product surpassed almost every expectation out there, and emerged as a key rotational figure down the stretch. Nicknamed the '#1 Cop on the Force' for reasons beyond my perception, he became a fan-favorite almost immediately, and enters the 2016-17 season as the presumptive back-up point guard.\nThe easy comparison for outside observers is to equate Akyakili to the great Nate Tomlinson, but it's an analogy that falls short under any examination that goes past the pasty skin tone, overseas background, and sleeve of tattoos. Their games are wildly divergent, and, to be honest, Akyazili hasn't done enough to be put in Nate's company.\nHis total numbers from last year are nothing eye-popping, but the Belgian easily passes the qualitative test with his ability to both create for himself and others. Defensively, he's still developing, but I'm not yet ready to pass judgement on his abilities, overall. He just needs more time, and simply more American basketball, to become a lead component of the rotation, but expect Thomas to put in some big minutes for the team this year as a reserve.\nHis biggest assets are his speed and his balls-to-the-wall willingness to use it. Last year, Akyazili was able to catch a number of teams off-guard who were looking for the more measured tempo of Boyle's half-court system, and dice them up with drives to the basket. So quick, in fact, that, when not shooting three pointers, his attempts were almost all at the rim. He posted the lowest rate of two-point jumpers on the entire team (12% of attempts), even lower than walk-on shooting specialist Brett Brady.\nThomas, once again, spent the summer playing in Europe as part of the Belgian National Team's U-20 squad in the European Championships, his 4th international tournament appearance at any level. While the team as a whole struggled, finishing 14th out of 16 participants, Yaz performed pretty well. He averaged 13/4/3 over seven games, including a 23/7 night against Israel. In the tournament, he displayed his ability to cash in from the free throw line, hitting 29 of 34 attempts from the stripe to pace his team. Overall, a very positive spate of experience for the young guard. If he can bring that level of play back with him to the States, the Buffs will be in good hands.\nFrom: @Matt_Sisneros\nNow returned to Colorado, look for him to feature at both the '1' and the '2' spots this season, kind of like what we saw last year. In fact, there will be times when both he and Collier are on the floor, countervailing popular perception of the rotation. Thomas can play either spot effectively, and may actually be more of a shooting guard, all things considered; the dearth of 'true' point guard options in the system, however, nods him in that direction. Unfortunately, with the large number of playable guards on the team, I still expect him to still feature in a 8th or 9th man role most nights -- he probably will deserve more, it's simply a product of the glut of backcourt talents this year. In future seasons, however, it'll be his time to shine.\n- Deleon Brown - 6-4, 175 lbs, Fr from Grand Rapids, MI - #5\nIt's been a long road to Boulder for Deleon Brown. The first of the four freshmen in the 2016 recruiting class to commit, he actually pledged to the Black and Gold two years ago, back when he was classified for 2015. Instead of the linear path, however, he decided to reclassify as a 2016 recruit, and undergo a year of prep school before starting his collegiate career. Think of it as the basketball equivalent of a grey shirt.\nFrom what I've seen of his film, Brown is an exceptional athlete with good versatility. In the Colorado tradition, he's a left-handed wing, and can play a number of positions in the backcourt. His jump shot (which the Daily Camera compared to that of former NBA star Sam Perkins) should fit in well with the recent uptick in three point shooting, and he can also take guys off-dribble. Maybe not flashy, but a good basketball player.\nHis high school career in Michigan was impeccable, featuring three times as an all-state player, and finishing up as a Mr. Basketball candidate his senior season. At Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, Brown averaged 13 ppg for at team that eventually wound its way tot he national quarterfinals. The extra year of experience was invaluable in getting him ready for the rigors of Pac-12 basketball, and could give him a step-up on the other freshman guard, Bryce Peters, in terms of earning early playing time. Still, it will be hard for Brown to find the court often this winter, as there are a number of veterans ahead of him in the pecking order. Barring a injury or a massive upturn of expectations, Deleon will be a deep reserve come conference play.\nThat said, an interesting note from fall camp was Coach Boyle calling him out for his defensive intensity in a post-practice press availability. What's more, I've even heard some refer to him as one of the best defenders in camp. If that's true, suddenly a path to the rotation opens up. As I've always said, in this program, those who play defense get the minutes, meaning we may end up seeing more of Brown in the early going than originally anticipated. Time will tell...\n- Bryce Peters - 6-4, 190 lbs, Fr from La Puente, CA - #23\nFrom: the Post Independent\nOf all the incoming freshmen, I like the potential of Bryce Peters the most. With an 'outgoing' personality, and the talent to match, the skateboarding 'free spirit' ($) should earn favor from BuffNation quickly as we see more and more of him. He's an explosive combo guard from Los Angeles (Coach Boyle called him 'an old fashioned baller,'); his film shows good bounce, a sharp first step, strong ball handling, and the general ability to create for both himself and others. Overall, good size, good speed, and a pleasing style to watch. I love his court vision and on-ball activity, and look at him more as an attacking point guard than a '2,' when all is said and done.\nUniversally considered a three-star prospect by the major services, Bryce enjoyed a nice career at Damien High School in the LA area, and chose CU over competing offers from UNLV and Wyoming. Throughout his high school years, he showed off a great pull-up jumper ($), and was known for a good motor and attacking mentality; attributes that will serve him well in the Colorado system. He also was called out by Boyle after an early fall practice for his defensive energy, which could earn him more early minutes than his offensive potential. A very promising package, indeed.\nMuch like Deleon Brown, however, I fear he may be stuck behind a number of veterans when it comes time to dole out the minutes this winter. Since I like him more as a point guard than Brown, Bryce should fit into the 3rd spot on-ball, behind Collier and Akyazili, but that may not mean as many minutes this year as it meant to the '#1 Cop' in 2015-16. Just a simple drawback of the way Coach Boyle builds his program -- talented players may be forced to wait their turn while the vets matriculate towards graduation. Not a knock on either of the two young guards, though. They can both play, and will be stars for CU in the future.\n- Namon Wright - 6-5, 200 lbs, Jr (TR) from Los Angeles, CA\nIt took a while, but Coach Boyle finally found a target to tempt with the last open scholarship for 2016-17. Formerly a top-75 recruit out of high school, Namon Wright comes to Boulder from old Big XII rival Missouri where he was a key wing for the Tigers. He'll be forced to ride the pine this season, thanks to the NCAA's dogmatic transfer rules (Coach Boyle looks at this differently -- transfers 'get' to sit out), but, once released from the mandatory redshirt, will help soften the landing from losing high-profile scorers like Derrick White, George King, and Xavier Johnson.\nThe Buffs had actually pursued Wright when he was coming out of LA's Pacific Hills High School before watching him choose the SEC school. He had signed with Frank Haith, however, who was quickly shown the door by the school, and the Tigers slumped into an APR morass. It just wasn't the same program he signed with. Finally, after struggling to find a comfortable fit in the new system, Namon started looking for other options, eventually choosing the Buffs over entreaties from Oregon and UNLV. He was developing well at Missouri, and seemed to be on the verge of becoming a complete player; his choice to transfer was purely, as Josh Fortune would put it, 'professional.'\nAs a sophomore in Columbia, he averaged 10/5/1, emerging as a regular starter under coach Kim Anderson. He showed good versatility to play a number of positions, great athleticism overall, and an ability to get to the line (FT rate near 47%). The most impressive portions of his profile, however, come on the rebounding lines, where he posted a team-leading 18% DR rate, and hauled in 138 total defensive boards. Throw in a developing outside jump shot, and you can view him as a commensurate replacement for Johnson and Fortune in the wing corps. Once they graduate and Wright can take the court, he'll have two years of eligibility remaining.\nHis primary role this season, however, will be as a practice player. In the mold of Carlon Brown, Josh Fortune, George King and Derrick White before him, he'll be behind the scenes for a solid season, helping his teammates improve, and taking the opportunity to just focus on his game. As an unfortunate note, a foot injury suffered in fall practices, will sideline him for \"a while.\" Still, if the history of those players shows anything, it'll be a boon for Colorado once he's back to being healthy and eligible.\n- Josh Repine - 6-3, 180 lbs, Jr from Englewood, CO - #33\nFrom: @Repine13\nWalk-ons, of course, are the unheralded stars of the roster. Putting in the minutes behind the scenes, they push the other players in practice, and take on difficult assignments on the scout team to help prepare the rotation for the next opponent. While they rarely see the court, the product on it wouldn't be the same without them.\nThe walk-on corps this season is a little smaller than in years past, with the great Brett Brady having transferred to D-II Colorado Christian for his final year of eligibility, and one of the remaining three already targeted for a redshirt. The eligible group, though, is lead by Repine, a redhead from Kent Denver, and the oldest of the walk-on trio. He was able to get in six games last season, making his lone basket from deep against Northern Colorado back in November. It was the first shot of his career, and a pretty cool moment to see.\nLike most of the walk-on predecessors before him, he's undersized, and otherwise relies on his jump shot when getting into the action. While we won't see much of him beyond garbage time this year, when we do see Josh on the court, it'll probably mean victory for the Buffs.\n- Mitch Lombard - 6-0, 183 lbs, So from Castle Pines, CO - #12\nFrom: the Castle Pines Connection\nThe other walk-on looking to get mop-up minutes this year, Mitch Lombard is an interesting talent. He had multiple scholarship opportunities coming out of Rock Canyon High School, but decided to take a walk-on spot in Boulder, instead, having always dreamed of being a Buff. It's with that in mind that I look at him as slightly more capable than your average non-scholarship player, even if he fills that traditional role in the program.\nMitch, unfortunately, didn't score last year, missing his only attempt in the blowout win over Stanford in late-January. With Brady and Eli Stalzer out of the program, however, someone in the 'Larry Bird Squad' will have to get the leftover attempts in garbage time, meaning Lombard should have some chances to feature on the scoreboard this winter.\n- Wesley Gordon - 6-9, 220 lbs, Sr from Colorado Springs, CO - # 1\nFrom: @RyanKoenigsberg\nIt's a little weird to see Wes Gordon's name on the roster, but not that of Josh Scott. The duo from Colorado Springs played so well together over the last three seasons that I began to view them as a tandem. Now without Josh's 'Batman,' Wes as 'Robin' takes on a whole new role as the primary interior forward for CU, along with the requisite burden of leadership, in this, his final season at Colorado.\nWes has always been an interesting study for me. He has obvious talent, but seemed, at times, to defer to the great Scott underneath. Certainly, Josh was a very good basketball player, one of the elites in program history, but Gordon doesn't need to 'defer' to anyone. You could see that in the games where Josh was absent over the past few years, including a pair last season where Wes averaged 16/13 with J40 on the sideline. Those two performances only improved on the small boost in production we saw during 2014-15 campaign when Josh was out with a bad back, and project well with an eye towards 2016-17. He has the broad spectrum talent to lead the team from the post, hence why former CU player Beau Gamble was so adamant prior to last season that he was the second best player on that roster. While a number of guards have emerged to usurp both that mantle and the top spot, Gordon's production is no less important to the overall success of the team.\nThe key with Gordon is his defense. One of the best defensive forwards in the modern history of the program, and a honorable mention on last season's Pac-12 All-Defensive Team, he was 4th in conference play in block rate (6.7) last winter, and is one of the great rim-protection artists in the Pac-12 today. In fact, he's a duplication of his junior year stats away from setting the all-time program record for blocks, once set by big David Harrison. Wes has an outstanding nose for flushing out opportunities to deflect shots, getting in great position to pickup the leavings from his teammates who let would-be scorers by. Adding to it, he is fantastic on the boards. He was getting near eight a game last year with solid rates (17.5 DR%), even as Josh was gobbling up his share. With Scott now graduated, those numbers should only improve.\nAs good as his defense has been, however, it's his offense that sets him apart from merely 'defensive specialist' status. Very quietly, Wes puts up some of the most efficient numbers in the conference, starting with a top-20 offensive rating in conference play (114.6). For him, it's all about taking shots he can make, leveraging high-percentage opportunities to put points on the board. It starts on the offensive glass, where he simply one of the best in the country. With the Buffs missing a lot of bunnies (329th nationally in FG% at the rim), he pulled down an OR rate about 11% -- in conference play alone, it was a best-in-the-league 13.4%. This allows him a number of easy put-backs to increase his numbers. What's more, he had the best free throw rate on the team, getting to the line more times than all but George King and Josh Scott. As his FT% has increased each season, to the point that it was begging to break the 70% barrier last spring, trips to stripe are a good production opportunity for Wes and the Buffs as a whole.\nIt's not all cheap put-backs and free throws, though. Wes' jump shot is improving, at least to the point where he keeps opposing defenders honest, and can be looked at as an option in pick-and-pop scenarios. Additionally, he can back down defenders, can make a good pass out of the post, and he has an improving repertoire of offensive moves. In fact, CU should be looking to get Wes more shots this season, putting him in position to really hurt opponents for focusing too much on the perimeter. He's never going to run the floor like his old teammate, work a defender with his off hand, or take those beautiful set shots from the elbow, but I trust him to take care of the ball and make a good decision on offense (lowest turnover rate of any returner, 14.8%).\nMore than his contributions on the scoreboard, however, the Buffs will need to see some leadership from the redshirt senior if they hope to achieve all that they are capable of. The problem is, as he long stood under the shadow of J40, I've never really thought of him as a 'team leader' from my outsider perspective. He is usually quiet and reserved on the court, leaving his play to do the talking. That won't work in 2016-17, though. He'll have to be more vocal this year as the leader of the forward corps in ways that he hasn't before. Hopefully, his experience in Australia with the Pac-12 All-Stars this summer will pay dividends, giving him an experience outside his comfort zone from which to build off of.\nLook, no one player is ever going to replace Josh Scott in either the scorebook or the huddle, and having the reserved Gordon forced to expand his personality to fit a leadership role is a little scary. But I'm pretty sure that, when all is said and done, CU will still be in good hands this winter with Wes Gordon being the man in the middle.\n- Xavier Johnson - 6-7, 225 lbs, Sr from Los Angeles, CA - #11\nFrom: Today's U\nIn considering Xavier Johnson's potential for the 2016-17 season, it would be criminal to avoid any discussion of his 2015-16. It's more than simply bringing up the injury and his year-long absence, too. Part of the narrative last season was 'addition by subtraction.' That simply the departure of free radicals like Askia Booker, Jaron Hopkins, and Dustin Thomas helped put the Buffs back on a winning track, and allowed improved leadership and teamwork to drag them out of the dismal doldrums of 2014-15. But, of course, XJ was absent from that team last year, as well. Did the Buffs benefit in any way by the subtraction of the heady, vibrant SoCal personality from the lineup?\nIt's a complicated issue, just as it was when talking about Ski's impact on the failure/success pattern of the previous two seasons. Just like Booker, Johnson is obviously talented, capable of carrying the team on his back through stretches, and, at his heart, a winning basketball player. But there were also - and I'm only talking about pre-injury XJ here - a number of distractions. He was, through his first three seasons, a very emotional player, oftentimes allowing those emotions spill over into poor play on the court and heedless talk off of it. I won't say it wasn't entertaining, but it also wasn't always in the team's best interest.\nThat's why I paid close attention to how he handled the injury last season. Throughout, he was juggling his hopes of making the NBA, his desire to just play, and his want to help his teammates. I was worried that he would become a major distraction, moping on the sideline before upturning the apple cart in a late-season return. Instead, he handled the situation with poise and class. At multiple points last winter he could be seen leaping off the bench last season to congratulate, advise, correct his teammates during games, and was rumored to be a strong senior presence in practice. Further, he didn't rush back, choosing, in the end, to spend the entire year in rehab, returning for a full run this winter.\nThat decision alone, to wait out the full year when he was able to start full-speed practices in January, showed great maturity from the wing. Coach Boyle has said a number of times that there is a difference between just playing and playing effectively. I'm much more comfortable with XJ after a full year of rehab, then had he rushed back for a month or two of late season play in 2015-16. It was the smarter choice, even if it was the harder one (XJ: Man, I've been antsy since last year\"), and a decision that I think will benefit both Johnson and CU.\nIn the end, I can't help but see Xavier's return from injury purgatory as anything but positive. He seems to have come to terms with his place as a team leader, and understands what it'll take to take the next step as a player:\n\"I'd like to be a leader out there and demonstrate in a way that people understand and just try to get better every day. [...] I feel like sitting out and watching from the sidelines helped to get a different perspective. It helps to get a different perspective from the coaches. It helps you be a better leader because you see maybe what other players don't see.\"\nXJ with perspective? XJ with maturity? Playing with emotion, rather than getting emotional? Suddenly, we're talking about a player who can be a transformative piece for the team, both on the court and off of it. The vocal leader that the Buffs desperately need.\nBecause, of course, if he's able to put it all together, Johnson is an All-Pac-12 caliber talent. He has outstanding size and versatility, the ability to play both on the perimeter and with his back to the basket, rebound with anybody in the league (8th in the Pac-12 in conference play DR% in 2014-15), and shoot jumpers at the level of George King and Dom Collier (44% from deep as a freshman). With him on the court, options open up, as he becomes a matchup terror for opponents. He can take smaller defenders into the paint or pull bigger forwards out to the arc, opening lanes for attackers and creating space across the entire court for the offense. On defense, he can guard any number of positions, and leverage his excellent athleticism. Xavier simply has the potential to be the complete package.\nI really hope it all comes together for Xavier. He's been dying to get back on the court, and has long been one of the most entertaining Buffs on the roster. There's a need to worry that he will press too hard to make an impression, play outside of himself early in trying to get his in-game form back. That's where leadership from Collier and the other three redshirt seniors comes in. If CU can get Johnson on the right track, they'll be in position to do something special this season.\n- Tory Miller - 6-9, 246 lbs, Jr from Kansas City, KS - #14\nFrom: the Times-Call\nYear over year, the Big Man from Kansas, Tory Miller, has been improving more than just about anyone on the roster. When he first arrived as a freshman, you could see the raw talent, but not necessarily a clear avenue for it to be applied. Tory took things into his own hands, however, by developing his body and mind, shedding soft weight and focusing on the finer points of the game; a process he has only continued over the offseason. The result is a powerful forward emerging here in his junior year as a dangerous, capable, explosively athletic piece that Tad Boyle has to carve out minutes for.\nLast season was a big one for Miller and his upward trajectory. He nearly doubled his minutes per game from his freshman year (now up to nearly 16 each night), posted an offensive rating over 100, and about halved his fouls called per 40 minutes (down to under four). Coach Boyle is fond of saying that the biggest leap a player takes is between his freshman and sophomore seasons; assuming that's true, then let it be known that Tory didn't waste his.\nThe good news is that the big fella has only continued to work in the offseason to improve. First, taking advantage of the opportunity offered by Athletes in Action, he traveled to Italy to broaden his horizons, improve his game, and learn a different style of play. It's a system that has served previous CU players like Levi Knutson, Austin Dufault, Chris Jenkins, and Tre'Shaun Fletcher well. Beyond just the fun of a summer in Europe, however, he's continued to develop both his body and mind to better compete in the Pac-12. Early reports from fall camp have him looking \"quicker and better than he ever has,\" and even Coach Boyle notes ($) that he's bouncier and finishing around the rim better.\nReally, the only glaring hole left in his offensive game is his jump shot. He showed it off a bit last season, increasing his share of shots taken from mid range up to 37% (3rd most on the team). His hit rate away from the basket, though, stayed well under the 30% mendoza line (2nd lowest of any returner), and he missed all four of his three pointers taken. The problem isn't his form, which seems to be fine, just consistency and repetition. On this team, with the glut of shooters ready and willing to attack from the perimeter, having a power forward unable to consistently make from 10-feet out is not that big of a deal, but if Tory is going to incorporate a jumper more and more, he also needs to start hitting.\nDefensively, I love how he uses his size and explosion to battle the meatier forwards in the league for position, but I still feel that he can get a little overeager on defense. Rather than patiently playing his man in the paint, he can get into a habit of leaping at the whispers of a shot attempt to get a big block, which can leave him out of position and in trouble when the attacker stays on the floor. It's a large part of the reason why his defensive rating dipped a bit this past season (along with other nuts-and-bolts rates like rebounding and raw block percentage) as opponents began to take advantage.\nRegardless, I'm expecting a nice season from Miller. For all his shrinking number of trouble spots, he has always showed a willingness to work and learn to improve, and I have no doubt that will translate onto the court (Boyle: \"He's a joy to coach because he wants to get better; he listens, he learns\"). Now, we're looking at a back-up '4' that has a better knowledge of the game, is setting better screens, and catching on the run like a tight end. More than just a dunker and a rim-wrecker, Miller can be a complete big man; a compliment to the abilities of Wes Gordon in the paint. With the lack of depth among the forward corps, that means we should see his minutes up over 20 per game, with production inching towards 8/8 territory. How nice would that be?\n- Lucas Siewert - 6-10, 230 lbs, Fr from Joinville, Brazil - #25\nFrom: AllBuffs.com\nA Brazilian import, by way of Los Angeles, Siewert comes to Boulder with some heavy expectations of playing right away. A coveted swing forward prospect, he had originally committed to Arizona State before opening his recruitment back up after Herb Sendek was fired at the end of the 2014-15 season. There, Coach Boyle was waiting for him with a scholarship offer and a depth chart, showing just how thin Colorado could be in the paint. By April he was on board, and inked with the Buffs a few days into the late signing period.\nThe book on Lucas is that he is a strong outside shooter, capable of burning defenders less than eager to follow him out the perimeter. More of a non-traditional stretch-four than something UCLA-ish like Thomas Welsh or a Wear twin, he could form a scary combination with Tory Miller in future Colorado front courts. He's a solid step, athletically, behind Tory and Wes Gordon, but has a strong face-to-the-basket style with a good feel of when and how to get his shot off. It helped him put up impressive numbers in high school, dropping 23/8 for Cathedral High in LA, and earn a spot on both the roster for AAU giant Compton Magic and the top-150 list for Rivals.\nI like that Siewert comes in with good size and some international experience (he plays in the Brazilian national system). It gives me reason to buy into the idea that he won't need an extra year of seasoning to earn minutes. My only hesitation is that he has only been playing the domestic game for four years, and that I'm a little bear-ish on his defensive capabilities. Bigger, veteran forwards and rebounders could eat him up for a bit as he gets used to this level of competition -- you gotta play defense to see the court in Boulder, after all. Still, someone needs to get minutes behind Wes and Tory, and Lucas appears to be in the best position to do just that.\nAt least so far, Coach Boyle is thrilled:\n\"Lucas Siewert is, at this point, probably the most pleasant surprise [in camp]. He is unbelievably coachable. He gets in here on his own and is in the gym shooting. He's going to be a terrific player. I couldn't be happier with where he is. He's definitely played his way into the rotation. He's a good player and a guy that has really progressed from the start of practice as well as any player in our program.\"\nHis only competition for playing time will be fellow freshman Dallas Walton, but the assumption has always been that Walton will redshirt. Come conference play, however, whomever wins the 3rd power forward role will be, assuming no injuries elsewhere, no better than a 9th or 10th option this season. That doesn't mean I don't like how he projects going forward, though. Lucas has a high ceiling, and should be a great option for Colorado in the future.\n- Dallas Walton - 7-0, 225 lbs, Fr from Arvada, CO - #35\nA local product with a great story, Dallas Walton comes to CU with a love for the program and the height to stand tall in the paint. Indeed, \u201cIt\u2019s not often a kid can play ball at his dream school,\u201d but Walton is living that dream, proving wrong those who doubted he would ever even see the court again, let alone land a scholarship from a Power 5 program.\nSee, he suffered through back-to-back ACL tears during his high school career, the first during his sophomore year, then a second right before he was set to return. Given those dual setbacks, any normal student athlete would be forgiven for thinking their dreams may just be out of reach. Dallas, however, stayed committed to recovery, and kept his eyes on the goal of getting back onto the court. His persistence was eventually rewarded with a scholarship offer from Colorado, in recognition of a solid senior year for the Wildcats where he averaged 16/10/3.\nThe practical downside of those injuries, though, is that Walton simply needs more basketball before he can be expected to see extended playing time. He missed 18 months of development, and big men are already notoriously slow at blossoming into capable Division I performers. It's with that in mind that I expect him to redshirt this season, even with the Buffs thin up front (though his showing in practice has given Coach Boyle pause...). The extra year will give him an opportunity to bulk up and develop, but also continue to strengthen and evaluate his knee injuries.\nProjecting forward, however, I like his potential. He may not have the explosion to be a dominant center in the Pac-12, but he's not Ben Mills, either (no offense to the 'slayer of Kansas' intended). Having a seven-footer anchor the interior of your roster is a luxury few programs can boast, and Walton has some obvious talent. He can even shoot a little bit, shocking many observers by showing up on campus and banging in threes. Give him some time to get healthy and learn the system, and that could be a dangerous weapon in future years.\n- Alexander Strating - 6-7, 212 lbs, Fr (RS) from Wassenaar, Netherlands - #10\nI'll be honest, I don't know much about Alexander Strating, or how he will factor into the program in future seasons. His name showed up almost out of nowhere on the 2016-17 roster one morning, and only a short Daily Camera story confirmed his signing. There's some limited film available online, which does show a player comfortable with a jump shot. What comes after that - the ability to defend, the ability to score in traffic, the ability to play a number of positions - will be far more telling to his ultimate development, yet not discernible from the tape at hand.\nCoach Boyle spotted him while visiting the Canarias Basketball Academy in Spain, which seems like a long way to go for a small forward, but who's to doubt the man himself at this point? Whatever he saw, it's obvious that Tad liked it, with Strating becoming the beneficiary of an offer. From there, it was a simple matter of choosing Colorado over lesser programs like DU, UC-Irvine, and Loyola, which couldn't have been too difficult.\nBoyle readily praises his toughness and versatility, saying, \"he is the kind of guy we want in our program.\" Certainly, with a number of classic Tad wings leaving the program after this season, there will be playing time and opportunity available. While Alexander will serve as a redshirt walk-on this winter, the plan is to put him on scholarship for next year's roster, giving him free reign to chase just that opportunity. By that point we should know a lot more about the 'Flying Dutchman,' and how he fits into future plans.\nFrom: @JennBerg\nHas it really been six seasons? The record books will show that Coach Boyle was hired in April of 2010, but it feels like only yesterday. It was a completely different program back then, one that was still trying to shake the stigma of three-straight basement finishes in the old Big XII from 2007-09 (along with four decades of overall basketball irrelevance). Who could've guessed on that sunny April morning that what CU was signing up for was 130 wins, a conference title, and four trips to the Dance in just six seasons. We talk about the job Mike MacIntyre doing over at Folsom, but Coach Boyle has performed veritable miracles on the south side of campus. As friend of the blog @CUGoose said last month, 'Tad is a witch.'\nAt the time, I went in with trepidation. Steve McClain, then a hold-over assistant from Jeff Bzdelik's staff, was seen as the safer choice. The one that would keep Alec Burks in the program, and keep the mojo of a nearly-.500 2009-10 season in place. How naive we all were then, scared of shaking up such a mediocre apple cart. We in BuffNation needed Coach Boyle more than he needed us, and we didn't even realize it.\nIt's a problem that has turned over on itself six years on. Now, there is a sizable portion of the fanbase who take this magician from Greeley for granted. It's a pox on all our houses, the great shame of BuffNation. People too ignorant of what they are watching to appreciate what Coach Boyle has turned Colorado Basketball into: a nationally respectable name. I get it, in the grander scheme of things, just making it to the Tournament isn't that great of an accomplishment. At some schools, making the NCAA Tournament just twice every three years would even be seen as a disappointment. But, Colorado is not those schools. We are not a blue-blood, and have no claim to think like one. Appreciate this, damnit!\nThat said, I will admit to having my faith in the system shaken two years ago. The only losing season for Colorado Basketball under Coach Boyle's tutelage, that 2014-15 campaign was an ugly train-wreck of injuries, poor play, and bad chemistry across all fronts. It wasn't fun, it wasn't entertaining. More importantly, it was a deviation from the program cornerstones of defense and rebounding. That year scared the bejesus out of me, and made me acutely aware of how quickly the house of cards could come crashing down.\nThat's what makes the re-awakening last winter all the more impressive. Tad laughed off the idea that the program was slipping from their upward momentum, and got to work. He used a surprising amount of roster turnover, defections, and loads of uncertainty in the backcourt to re-form the team. He took the losing personally, and brought it upon himself to make the necessary changes, dialing back in on the details, and re-focusing everyone on defense and rebounding. He also swallowed some pride and scrapped the offensive tweaks instituted the year before. Gone were the complicated offensive concepts of second and third attacks, CU went back to scoring early in the shot clock. In the end, it all worked. Defensive efficiency rocketed back up to levels seen in the Andre Roberson era, they were a top-10 defensive rebounding club, and the early points flowed as needed thanks to some insane outside shooting numbers. Colorado Basketball was back to being fun and entertaining. Even better, the Buffs were back to being in the NCAA Tournament. Many have said it, but it should be repeated: last season was probably Boyle's best work in Boulder.\nBut, as the man himself said this summer:\n\u201cYour job is never done. That\u2019s the one thing about coaching, when you\u2019re done learning and done growing you\u2019re through\u2026if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re going to be passed by. There\u2019s no time where you can exhale. [...] My philosophy is you work your tail off and let the chips fall where they may.\"\nThere's still a gap left between where the Buffs are now and where they want to be. You could see they were close last season, within a hair's breadth of massive, status-quo-altering wins away from home over Iowa State, SMU, Utah, Arizona in the Pac-12 tournament, and UConn in the Dance. All that's left now is to take that next step: complete for the league crown, make the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, end the season with a national ranking. Program-defining goals.\nOf an interesting note, this offseason saw the first limb spring off the Boyle coaching tree. Former assistant coach Rodney Billups was hired by Denver University, making him the first of Tad's assistants to move on to bigger and brighter opportunities. That, of course, left a hole to be filled on the staff, which has been a rarity over the years. Other than Tom Abatemarco's abrupt departure in 2013 (and the subsequent hiring of Sean Kearney), things have remarkably stable on the Boulder sideline. With the open spot, Coach Boyle went in a pretty interesting direction, reaching out to defensive and recruiting specialist Bill Grier. He brings with him decades of west coast experience, most notably up at Gonzaga where he served as an assistant for 15 years, building that mid-major into a powerhouse. I take it as no small coincidence that Colorado's recruiting success has surged in the months after his hiring.\nBut, even with the change in the coaching staff, the overall message and direction of the program remains consistent; improve defense, rebounding, and taking care of the basketball ($). It's a style that is well known at this point -- the bedrock principles of #TadBall. It's not going anywhere. More importantly, he's not going anywhere. This is Colorado Basketball; this is Tad Boyle. They are one in the same.\nI get the feeling that this, finally, is what the ideal Tad Boyle roster is supposed to look like. After years of tooling with redshirt seasons and long-term transfers, the squad is loaded with veterans, headlined by the four redshirt seniors. Of the top-eight players, all of whom have been in the program for at least a year, they've appeared in a combined total of 605 college basketball games. It's a rarity in successful Power-5 basketball to boast this battle-hardened luxury, but it's one that Boyle revels in. Said Tad, \"Obviously we love redshirting. It's the way we can compete at Colorado at the highest level of college basketball.\"\nThe logic behind this strategy is that CU can't just walk onto the national stage and poach blue-chip recruits, or otherwise rely on a local pool of elite talent. No, they have to \"recruit really talented guys that have a chip on their shoulder, have big upside, and we have to develop them into legitimate players.\" Hell, even the freshmen are taking time to get to campus, as in the greyshirt case of Deleon Brown. This is the necessary path to success in Boulder; no short-cuts. It's a long process requiring a lot of patience, but it seems to have finally paid off. There's a wellspring of seasoned depth this year, more than at any point in the program's recent history. Even Tad acknowledged, assuming everyone stays healthy, that this could be the deepest team of his tenure. While there is also a noticeable gap in the forward corps, it is more than made up with versatile athletes from elsewhere who can play multiple positions and fill-in at a number of different spots. This is a roster built for the wars, and one which will be comfortable with the grind and spotlight of conference play.\nThere is a conundrum here, however - excess depth, but a lack of true forwards - that necessitates a change in lineup philosophy. In previous seasons, thanks largely to the presence of the talismanic Josh Scott, Colorado has been a traditional three-out, two-in team, focused on getting the ball into the paint. Few were the possessions that went by without at least one touch from a forward, whether in the high post or the block. That will not, largely, be the case in 2016-17. Expect a lot of 'small ball' lineups with four perimeter players and one big on the court for whole stretches; I could even envision scenarios where the Buffs roll with five perimeter players and no one playing as an interior forward.\nThat leads me to a larger point, however: I wouldn't get too bogged down in the static dogma of positional names. The nature of the roster will lead to a number of wings playing different positions across multiple trips down the court, flexing between what would traditionally defined as the '2,' '3,' and '4' spots. Players like Xavier Johnson and George King are uniquely suited to these hybrid roles, with the size and athleticism to play essentially any position. I would particularly look for XJ to feature in what would otherwise be considered a power forward role. While he has tried to steer clear of that position in the past, it's easy to see situations where Wes Gordon and Tory Miller won't be enough up front, and Johnson's presence down on the block will be a necessity. He's got the size to do it, can defend and rebound well enough to fill the role, now it's all about selling him on it being his path to stardom. Playing XJ, and even George King, as a PF opens up so many scoring options it's scary, and may be the only way to get maximum talent onto the court across 40 minutes.\nWith all that in mind, let me present my projected starting lineup:\nPG - Dom Collier\nSG - Derrick White\nSG - George King\nSF - Xavier Johnson\nPF - Wesley Gordon\nThey'll be supported by Josh Fortune, Tory Miller, and Thomas Akyazili in the heavy rotation, with freshmen like Deleon Brown, Bryce Peters, and Lucas Siewert getting minutes as needed. I wouldn't expect to see too much from the freshmen, however, especially as we get into January and Pac-12 play. At that point, the bench should get shorter, and the need for 9th and 10th options should diminish. The lone exception here would be defensively, where early reports have both Brown and Peters as having a good mentality for guarding at the perimeter. That alone could earn them minutes deep into the season if their more veteran teammates struggle to get into the spirit.\nExpect to see quicker offensive looks, as well, with the team trying to stay on the front foot with the ball. Without the need to constantly look for Scott in the middle to run a set off of, the Buffs should only improve on their pace numbers from last year, which were already faster than anything since the Burks/Higgins year of 2011. It'll emphasize, offensively, what this roster does well (outside jump shots, quick possessions), while de-emphasizing what they don't (back-down offense, interior entry passes). Admittedly, the Buffs will be playing a lot smaller then they have been in previous seasons, but they're also capable of running teams out of the gym, a la the Golden State Warriors and their infamous 'Death Lineup.' (Not that I'm comparing them to the 73-win team that blew that 3-1 lead in the Finals, mind you.) Small ball is all the rage these days, after all, and the Buffs have the horses to pull it off.\nIt's why I find the true backcourt situation so interesting. A cohesive interplay between Collier and White is essential, if only because they need to clean up the two areas that cost the Buffs the most last winter: turnovers and killing off games. As Coach Boyle would quickly tell you, play at the point has been a weak spot since the start of last season. We saw it time and time again in those gut-wrenching losses. In each, CU had put themselves in position to win a crucial ballgame, only to watch a hard-earned lead melt away in the closing minutes. If even half those finals had been flipped last season, I'm scared to think of how high Colorado would've climbed. The root cause was heedless turnovers from the backcourt and an inability to create of the dribble-drive and earn a whistle. Collier and White, if healthy and living up to expectations, promise to clean up those issues and avoid repeat scenarios.\nFor Collier, it all comes down to staying out of foul trouble so he can stay in the game. While it's true he struggled with his turnovers last season, I'd be shocked if his ratios don't improve, year-over-year; it's the nature of development. Those heedless reaches, however, cost him minutes, and threw a wrench into the optimal rotation at the point. CU needs him in the game, so he has to stop gambling 25 feet from the basket. If he can do that, overall team efficiency will pickup immediately.\nAs for White, as talented as he assuredly is, the kid from Parker isn't going to solve every issue, and there will certainly be holes in his game that D-1 competition can exploit. However, style translates across difficulty level, and White's style is one that pushes him to get to the rim, which brings contact and, usually, whistles. His final season in the Springs, he attempted 327 free throws with an FTrate above 65% (FTrate is a simple equation of FT attempts divided by field goal attempts; shows the number of free throws you're taking per attempt from the field). He was a monster in getting to the line, scoring over 32% of his school record 851 points from the stripe. The names in recent CU history who have approached those numbers should be familiar: Alec Burks in 2011 (302 attempts, 56% FTrate) and Spencer Dinwiddie in 2013 (240, 77%). They were each killers at the end of games, getting the needed calls to squeeze points out of empty possessions late in the final frame, turning losses into wins. It's the kind of X-factor the team has missed in each of the last two and a half seasons, and which White projects to provide.\nFurther, with the game on the line, you want the ball in the hands of your best player, which may mean that, when push-comes-to-shove, the point guard in late game situations may actually end up being Derrick White. Boyle loves White's decision-making with the ball, and, should Collier struggle to take up the mantle required, could end up sliding over to lead the point. White also stands to solve the lingering issue of finishing at the rim. While the Buffs were pretty good at getting there (top-100 nationally in percentage of attempts at the basket), they were atrocious at converting these looks (329th nationally in FG% at the rim, shooting under 53%). Look for him, in conjunction with Collier, to really power the guard-heavy lineup.\nBut, with Colorado, it always comes down to defense and rebounding, and I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was a little concerned. With the Buffs shuffling things up front around Wes Gordon, I think a huge question will arise in the form of interior defense. While Wes is certainly capable defensively, possibly the best pure defensive piece in the program since Andre Roberson, he alone can't make up for the loss of Josh Scott inside. Remember, J40's presence defensively over the last few years was almost more important than his offensive presence. To that end, the other forwards are a little more suspect while guarding the post. What happens when Wes is out of the lineup, or is otherwise occupied with foul trouble? Can Xavier Johnson, George King, Tory Miller, and Lucas Siewert step up to make an impact, and protect the rim? There's nothing that Coach Boyle hates more than easy buckets surrendered at the basket, and this could become a huge part of the season's narrative. What could help here, though, is an improvement on perimeter defense. Stifling the odd entry pass or dribble-drive penetration would go a long way here in helping to protect the forwards. But, as of yet, reports are that no one has stepped up defensively among the guard corps. In the end, someone of Collier, Fortune, and White will need to take that step and become a defensive stopper on the edge, or else the scoreboard could get a workout.\nAs an extension of this thought process, we will probably see more and more zone defense being played by those in Black and Gold. What was once antithetical to #TadBall is now a real possibility. If you leave four guards/wings out there, a bigger team could try to take advantage of individual matchups in man-to-man. The easiest way to battle this is to spread out in a zone and make the opposing bigs beat you with passes. I won't say Colorado will 'rely' on a 2-3 this season, just that we will see it for stretches. Ultimately, however, it's not a long-term path to success. While having the ultra-athletic defensive piece of Wes Gordon at the heart of a zone set is an enticing proposition, it'll open him up to a number of cheap fouls, and leave CU out of position on rebounds (which will drive Tad crazy). No, in the end, the Buffs will still win or lose in the man-to-man.\nReally, the last thing to discuss is rebounding. Josh Scott, the nightly double-double threat, had been key here, and his absence his junior year with back trouble showed you how fragile the team could be inside without his presence. I see a number of avenues to pick up his rebounding slack, however, as there are a plethora of guards with good rebounding skills. Wes will always be the focus on the offensive end, but, for the defensive end, it will come more down to the wings staying active and alert on the glass than anything else. Look for XJ to really exert his will here, grabbing big boards to get the ball back in friendly hands. At the end of the day, hauling in the rebound after the stop isn't as big of a concern for me as creating the stop in the first place; I trust these Buffs to crash the glass, I don't trust them to protect it.\nOverall, it's easy to point to the strengths of this roster: depth, experience, shooting, versatility. It's also easy to point to some potential weaknesses: defense and, possibly, leadership. I know this team will be able to score, and the presence of Derrick White will really boost the production out of possessions down the stretch, but an inability to earn defensive stops could be a big thorn in the team's side. How big? Well, last season the team posted a defensive efficiency under .95, good for top-35 nationally. It was the best overall defensive performance since 'Dre Roberson left for the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder. While I don't think Colorado necessarily needs to be that good again, if we see adjusted efficiency crack .96 or even, Tad forbid, .97, they would be in trouble as the extra baskets given up would supplant the extra baskets earned. Keep an eye on that as the season progresses.\n11/11 - Sacramento State - Boulder, CO\n11/14 - Seattle - Boulder, CO (part of the Legends Classic)\n11/17 - Louisiana-Monroe - Boulder, CO (part of the Legends Classic)\n11/21 - Notre Dame - Brooklyn, NY (part of the Legends Classic)\n11/22 - Texas/Northwestern - Brooklyn, NY (part of the Legends Classic)\n11/27 - Wofford - Boulder, CO\n12/3 - Portland - Portland, OR\n12/7 - Xavier - Boulder, CO\n12/10 - BYU - Provo, UT\n12/17 - Ft Hays State - Boulder, CO\n12/22 - Eastern Washington - Boulder, CO\nTad Boyle has developed a deft hand when it comes to crafting his non-conference schedule. It's a difficult job, too. He has to strike a balance each year between a schedule that helps the team grow towards conference play, puts butts in the seats, is mindful of the ebb and flow of the end-of-semester academic calendar, and isn't biting off more than his team can chew. Above all else, however, it also has to be a schedule that will put his team on track to catch the Selection Committee's eye come March. Since learning some painful lessons in 2011, he's done an exemplary job of ticking off all those boxes, and it's a large part of the reason that Colorado has been on the lips of bracketologists for four of the last five seasons.\nLast year was his masterpiece. Between a neutral site game against high-profile Iowa State, true road tilts against Auburn and CSU, and the lucky strike of a meeting with heavyweight SMU in Las Vegas, it was just challenging enough to keep the RPI sparkling til the start of Pac-12 play without exerting the team all that much. Indeed, the Buffs reeled off 11-straight wins against the meat of their non-conference schedule last season, only having to beat a single team who finished in the top-100 of the RPI (BYU) in the process. Helped by a strong year from the Pac-12 - 2nd-best league in the combined RPI rankings - this was enough to produce a very attractive profile on Selection Sunday. The overall ranking was high (34th, according to ESPN) and the strength of schedule was solid (53rd); it was a no-brainer to include Colorado at that point. A magic trick, pulled off with expert misdirection and timing.\nThe crux of the trick was scheduling opponents who turned around to, themselves, play tough schedules throughout the year. While a number of CU's non-conference opponents disappointed in 2015-16 (like CSU), they at least struggled against good competition. By the end of the year, Colorado was able to boast the 15th-best opponent strength of schedule in the country. As a full quarter of the RPI calculation is based on the record of your opponent's opponents, that ranking was a B-12 shot to the Buffs' complete profile. It's a subtle and unheralded part of the scheduling process, but Coach Boyle leveraged it perfectly a year ago.\nThis season, the schedule has been inverted a bit. Whereas a daunting road trip started the slate in 2015, with the non-conference tournament placed at the tail end, that's reversed here. After opening night against Sacramento State, the Buffs immediately enter the jet stream of the Legends Classic, starting with a pair of home dates against sub-regional squads before the more serious affairs against Notre Dame and either Texas or Northwestern. It's only later that they take their true road trips to Portland and Provo. An interesting foundational change, it leaves the schedule a little bunched up in the middle for my tastes.\nThe subtextual upside to this change, though, is that the Buffs will get to enjoy an early on-ramp to gain some speed and confidence before the schedule gets serious. Last season, they were off and running on opening day, facing a back-to-back pair of dates away from home to open the calendar. This year, everything begins at home against lesser opponents before transitioning to higher-profile fare. Realistically, CU should be 3-0 as they board the charter to NYC, setting themselves up nicely to make some national noise under East Coast eyes.\nSpeaking of, that Legends Classic trip is a very interesting set. Notre Dame will probably take a slight step back this winter from where they were in 2015-16, when they busted into the Elite Eight, but are still a very competent opponent, and one that will be jostling for prime position in the rough-and-tumble ACC. While difficult, it would behoove the Buffs to claim their scalp, not only because the Irish project to be a good team this season, but because it would also open up the RPI booster that will be Texas. The Longhorns are a preseason top-25 entrant, and, while extremely young, are easily a better profile prize than Northwestern (though the Wildcats are no 150+ dog, either). It's in CU's best interests to see UT on the 22nd, akin to the RPI win they received last year by simply playing SMU.\nAfter that, my eyes can't help but fall to the Xavier/BYU stretch in the second week of December. It's tough to get those kinds of teams to Boulder, but Coach Boyle has done well in scheduling them to home-and-home series (BYU visited last year, CU will play at XU next season). Even though the Buffs are now a seductive RPI prize, teams would rather avoid the risks and expense of a trip to the Foot of the Flatirons. Said Boyle:\n\"It's the hardest thing in our scheduling. That's why I really appreciate Xavier. I appreciate KU a couple years ago. I appreciate BYU being willing to do it. People think, oh call up school X, they'll play. But it doesn't work like that.\"\nNow that the ink is dried on the contracts, though, the reality of having to face these kinds of teams in the heart of non-conference play is daunting.\nIf you don't know much about Xavier, you better get educated. This could be the best non-conference opponent to come to the Coors Events Center in the modern era; yes, even better than that 2013-14 KU team that got Ski'd. They are a final four contender with some insane stores of talent at their disposal, including All-America candidates Trevon Bluiett and Edmond Sumner. Well-coached, gritty, skilled; there's a reason, after all, that Coach Boyle said on media day that, if the game were played right now, XU would beat the Buffs by 20. It's a brutal matchup, one that BuffNation better be up for. BYU, while a decided step down from the Musketeers, in terms of a wholesale challenge, defend their home court very well, and could also easily rip CU. While those two are proceeded by a trio of tricky dates - against regular Tournament entrant Wofford, rival CSU, and a road trip to Portland - they're, by far, the marquee non-conference dates on the calendar. Even a split here would do the team some good, and it doesn't really matter which is a win and which is a loss; either would help the RPI considerably.\nThe remainder of the schedule is significantly easier to manage. There's the annual D-II breather game, this year against Fort Hays State, that will serve as a interstitial crash pad to fall into after the Xavier/BYU tango. Obviously a filler date, the game against the Tigers won't count against the RPI, and offers an opportunity for the end of the bench to get some work before the rotation shortens at the start of conference play. From there, the Buffs close out the year at Air Force (an opponent they have controlled the last few years) and against Eastern Washington. It's another stretch that should end with three wins in the Buffs' pockets.\nOf course, regardless of the schedule Boyle builds, the team is going to have to perform. All the RPI-focused scheduling gymnastics in the world won't save you if you aren't putting up wins. Simply, Colorado has to convert the two- and three-foot putts on their schedule if they want to take the next step this season. That means sweeping all of Sacramento State, Seattle, Louisiana-Monroe, Wofford, CSU, Portland, Fort Hays State, Air Force, and Eastern Washington. Any slip-up here, and it almost won't matter what happens in the four spotlight games. If they can convert all nine of those 'easier' dates into wins, however, the difference between and good season and a great one will be determined in Brooklyn and against Xavier and BYU. At least a split would be helpful; anything more a dream scenario. Either way, a minimum of 10 wins out of the 13 games in non-conference play would be required to set-up for the NCAA Tournament, which is exactly what I'm expecting.\n1/5 - Arizona State - Tempe, AZ\n1/7 - Arizona - Tucson, AZ\n1/12 - UCLA - Boulder, CO\n1/15 - USC - Boulder, CO\n1/18 - Washington - Seattle, WA\n1/21 - Washington State - Pullman, WA\n1/26 - Oregon State - Boulder, CO\n1/28 - Oregon - Boulder, CO\n2/2 - Stanford - Palo Alto, CA\n2/5 - California - Berkeley, CA\n2/9 - Washington - Boulder, CO\n2/23 - Utah - Boulder, CO\n3/2 - Stanford - Boulder, CO\n3/4 - California - Boulder, CO\nDid Tad Boyle piss somebody off in San Francisco, the corporate home of the Pac-12 Conference? How else could you explain the starting run that the league has laid out for the Buffs, like a trap set to spring as the calendar flips to 2017? Three-straight road games, all of them at places that CU has only won once at since joining the Pac-12 (yes, I'm counting the Chen-sanity game in Tucson), is a brutal start to the conference portion of the schedule. And, once the team is finally allowed to return home, their reward for surviving that opening stretch is a 9 pm weeknight tip against what could be a resurgent UCLA squad, all while the students are still on break. Are you kidding me? There's a very real possibility that Colorado could start conference play 0-4, and it wouldn't even really be their fault.\nOverall, this is a very unfortunate draw for the Buffs. Beyond just the opening stretch of horrors, it also costs the Buffs some RPI points by featuring Arizona and UCLA just once a piece. Instead, we get two sets of games with the Washington schools, both of whom could struggle this season. Going deeper, there's also the reality of three of the five weekday games scheduled with tip times of 8pm or later, and the fact that the Buffs will have to play Oregon twice on just two days rest. All said, this is kind of a 'worst case scenario' draw for the team, both in the way it kills off any hope for a league title right off the bat, and still undercuts full profile value for Selection Sunday. If I was Tad, I'd be asking for my money back.\nThere's a saving grace, however, and it's the final stretch run to close out the regular season. While the conference slate opens in pain, it ends with five of seven games played on home hardwood. Yes, the trip to Eugene will be extremely tough (the Ducks are expected to be, again, one of the best teams in the country), but, between hosting the Huskies and Cougars, the road game with Oregon State, and finishing against Utah, Stanford and Cal in Boulder, it's an opportunity for the Buffs to rack up some league wins down the stretch, and close on a top-four bye with authority. I could see the Buffs winning six of this final seven, making up for a lot of the struggles that will assuredly greet them in January.\nSo, just where does that leave the team? I'm looking for them to earn 11 wins out of this mess. It starts with getting at least one from the opening set of four games, and otherwise holding serve at home. Figure eight of the nine games at the CEC being wins, plus road dubs at Oregon State, Washington State, and Stanford (CU has won their last three at Maples). That will be good enough, once again, to put them in contention for the coveted bye spot in the Pac-12 Tournament that they've been chasing since joining the league. If they can steal a 12th somewhere, it should be enough to put them solidly in the second-tier of the league, behind presumed front-runners Arizona and Oregon.\nOverall, I'm looking for the team to do, in the regular season, what they couldn't last year -- notch 22 wins. It would set a new all-time record for victories in a single season, surpassing everything else accomplished in the current era of explosive rise up the national rankings. Sure, at some point they're going to lose a game they 'shouldn't,' just as they will win a game they 'shouldn't.' Just as long as it all balances out, and the team stays on track, there's no reason they can't take the next step, and put together a hell of a season.\nThe Pac-12 enjoyed a relatively successful 2015-16. Surpassing essentially every outside observer's expectations, including my own, they placed a record seven teams into the NCAA Tournament, highlighted by Oregon's 1-seed treatment. From top-to-bottom, the quality of basketball played in the league was the highest in years, and the product was exceedingly competitive and entertaining throughout the regular season. The only problem is, everyone slumped when the calendar flipped to March. It started in Las Vegas, where what was predicted to be a chaotic conference tournament turned out to be a staid, predictable affair. Despite a few close games (both semifinals went to overtime), last year's Pac-12 tournament was all chalk, and the final was a 31-point blowout. To make matters worse, those seven teams picked by the Selection Committee largely flopped at the Dance, going an ugly 4-7, with just two teams (Oregon and Utah) winning any games at all. I still view the entire package as a job done well, but the league didn't exactly cover itself in glory on the national stage.\nTo compound the issue, the conference made the misguided, asinine decision to take the Pac-12 tournament out of the cozy, raucous confines of the MGM Garden Arena. Instead, the experience this March will be held across the street at the cavernous, if well appointed, T-Mobile Arena. It is simply not possible that the new building on the west side of the Strip will be able to boast the energy and excitement of the venerable establishment on the east side. What was once a unique, self-contained party is now like almost every other major conference tournament across the country. For want of money and flash, the league gave up what was an incredible atmosphere; shame, shame, shame.\nThe teams fighting for positioning in the new venue are facing some considerable challenges while trying to pickup the pieces from that post-season disaster. After fending off a challenge from the Mountain West a few years back, the pressure to remain among the most well-received leagues in America remains constant. The league must, once again, re-tool to keep pace in the ever evolving landscape of college basketball.\nThe biggest problem, as ever, is how to replace departing talent. 12 of the 15 players on the conference's first and second teams from a year ago are gone to professional opportunities, one more than the total the league had lost after 2014-15. Even the hyper-veteran Buffs aren't immune, having to find a way to replace two-time All-Pac-12 nominee Josh Scott. At some point, this talent drain is going to come to a head, and we're going to see a situation like we did in 2012, when the league was largely talent-starved. Luckily, the conference is doing a much better job of defending their recruiting territories, but I can't help but wonder if there will be a breaking point in the near future.\nWhile Colorado, Oregon, and Stanford will return a majority of their stars from last season, the rest of the league will be running out a number of new faces. The hardest hit were Arizona, Cal, and Utah. For the Wildcats, at least, they can expect to benefit from some high-profile arrivals on the recruiting trail, but it still wouldn't surprise me to see them slip a step below expectations while trying to deal with the loss of a successful and productive senior class. For Cal and Utah, it will be a more serious challenge to rebound, as they don't have nearly the recruiting resources to draw from. At least Cal gets the benefit of the return of Ivan Rabb, a pre-season All-America candidate. Of all the teams to battle roster re-configuration this summer, the Utes may be on the longest road to recovery.\nOutside of the players, though, the league has continued to be remarkably stable. Two years after a rash of new coaching hires, there is just a single new face to consider this season - Jerod Haase at Stanford - and few seem to be the opportunities for coaching turmoil. Really, the only coach I would consider to be definitively 'on the hot seat' this year would be Steve Alford at UCLA; we could see some fireworks in Westwood between him and the fanbase if the Bruins hiccup like they did last winter. Beyond that, I could also be convinced that Ernie Kent at Washington State is in trouble, but he seems to have a longer leash, residing in a backwater that doesn't have the institutional memory of achievement to fight against. Lorenzo Romar, too, but he's been at UW forever, and I've never taken the disquiet from Seattle all that seriously. Really, I could see this entire class of 12 coaches return for next season, and it wouldn't surprise me all that much.\nOverall, I see a league in a transition phase. It won't be as bad as it was in 2012, simply because of the talent at hand, but roster questions abound, none-the-less. In the end, this could very well be a one team race. Oregon is, heads and shoulders, better than every other team in the league (at least on paper). They boast a deep, veteran roster that can win comfortably in a number of scenarios. After them, every other team in the West is going into the season with some question marks.\n4 - USC\n11 - Arizona State\n12 - Washington State\nNCAA Teams - Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, UCLA, USC\nNIT Teams - Cal, Washington\nG - Jordan McLaughlin - USC\nG - Markelle Fultz - Washington (Newcomer of the Year)\nF - Dillon Brooks - Oregon (Player of the Year)\nF - Ivan Rabb - California\nC - Chris Boucher - Oregon (Defensive Player of the Year)\nI used to refer to Arizona as the 'Giant Death Robot' -- a defensive titan that was near impossible to crack on any court. That was not the case last year, as they were simply 'good' defensively, and vulnerable against athletic teams who could push them on the glass. In the end, the 2015-16 Arizona team was a solid step below their recent vintage, and it showed in a 4th-place finish in the Pac-12 and a first round defeat to Wichita State in the NCAA Tournament.\nFrom that squad, they lost three of their top four scorers and their best player off the bench, all seniors. But, as is often the case, life in the desert may seem harsh, but a little drop of rain is all it takes for the blooms to burst forth. Accordingly, a storm of recruiting excellence poured down over Tucson to bring life back to the program. They hauled in another top-10 class, headlined by guard Rawle Alkins and Finnish forward Lari Markkanen, and, as a result, are well positioned to rebound and take another run.\nFrom: Larry Brown Sports\nSophomore wing Allonzo Trier will key them off the wing, and could end up in the running for the league's scoring title... if he's eligible. Assuming he is available to play this winter, he'll get to work with familiar names like Parker Jackson-Cartwright and Kadeem Allen in the backcourt. The front court is where I have some concerns, though. I've yet to be sold on Dusan Ristic, and Chance Comanche makes me giggle. Without the departed double-double threat Ryan Anderson, who really powered that team last year, this could be their weakness. That's where redshirt freshman Ray Smith would've come in. The former five-star recruit could've solidified the front court, however a third ACL tear forced him into an early retirement.\nI'll give the 'Cats the benefit of doubt, though, both out of deference to Sean Miller the coach, and the electrifying talent at his disposal. Their guard corps is elite (note: I'm guessing the right levers get pulled behind the scenes for Trier to play), and could be enough, on their own, to separate from the rest of the non-Oregon pack.\nThe Sun Devils really struggled last season under the gaze of new head coach Bobby Hurley. Beyond just the losses, they dealt with a number of off-court issues, leading to suspensions and departures (they were down to just eight scholarship players when the visited Boulder last February), and never found anything resembling a rhythm. In the wake, thanks to some graduations and the outward transfer of malcontent Savon Goodman, Hurley has looked to hit the reset button, and reform the program in his image.\nFrom: CBS Sports\nThe first step was bringing in some new blood: three four-star forwards that highlight a shock top-25 recruiting class. Every single one of the new signees can play in the front court, and should help shore up a major problem ASU encountered last year -- checking opponents in the paint. The transition won't be immediate, however, and the overall process was dealt a blow when one of the four-stars, big power forward Romello White, was ruled an academic redshirt for this season. Oh, ASU, never change.\nThere is some hope, however. Tra Holder returns, and Hurley will finally get the benefit of a couple of transfers from Buffalo. If they can link up with the best of the incoming recruits, 6-6 wing Sam Cuncliffe, the Devils may just end up surprising some people. I think they're in more of a 'wait til next year' mode, though.\nWhat the hell is Ivan Rabb still doing in Berkeley? The over-talented power forward was clearly ready for professional ball last season, yet decided not to follow fellow five-star recruit Jaylen Brown to the NBA Draft. Instead, the Oakland native will return for his sophomore campaign, and likely All-America status. Simply, he's the best forward in the conference, and one of the best in the country. An absolute difference maker, Cal is lucky to have him back.\nFrom: Pac-12.com\nIt's doubly lucky for the Bears that he did return, or else they'd be in big trouble. Beyond just losing Brown to the draft, they also lost Ty Wallace to graduation and Jordan Matthews to a surprise transfer to Gonzaga. Matthews is the one that really stings. Expected to have returned this year, he was a difference maker at the wing, capable of lighting it up from anywhere on the court as a dynamic lead guard. Without him, Cal will be pressed to find deep wells of scoring this winter. Jabari Bird could pick up some of the slack, but the one-time five-star recruit isn't nearly enough to keep the Bears in the top third of the Pac-12.\nThe Ducks man, it's just not fair. They were an incredible show all through last season, losing just two games from the middle of January through to their eventual loss in the Elite Eight to Oklahoma. Now, they get to return four of their starters from that team, and seem poised to run away with the Pac-12 crown for the second straight season.\nFrom: KATU.com\nThe one flaw in that plan is Dillon Brooks. The point forward par excellence suffered a foot injury that required surgery, and missed both practice and their European exhibition swing over the summer. Without him, the Ducks are still a good team, just not a transcendent one. With him, they're a Final Four contender. The thought is that he'll be back sometime in late November, maybe early December. Indeed, I expect him to return, and be up to POY speed by conference play, but you never can tell with these things.\nPast him, though, Oregon is still loaded. They somehow convinced the NCAA to give walking pogo stick Chris Boucher an extra year of eligibility. He'll only add to the dynamic Jordan Bell and JuCo player of the year Kavell Bigby-Williams up front to give Oregon one of the best forward corps around. If that wasn't enough, Tyler Dorsey remains one of the elite scoring guards in the West, and Villanova transfer Dylan Ennis is free from injury and redshirt to lead the point. With hyper-efficient point guard Casey Benson now coming off the bench as a reserve, this team is near-perfect. Assuming Brooks returns in form, anything less than another league title would be a shock.\nI'm not nearly as wrapped up in all that is Wayne Tinkle as others are. Certainly, the silver fox from Montana came in and performed miracles, getting the Beavers to their first NCAA Tournament since I was in kindergarden, but a lot of that was based on the talents of the departed Gary Payton, Jr. Without 'the Mitten,' I'm just not digging Oregon State, even as their recent influx of talent starts to come of age.\nThe Beavs do have a handy one-two punch in the form of legacies Tres Tinkle (son of the head coach) and Stephen Thompson, Jr. (son of assistant coach Stephen Thompson, Sr.). The pair are balanced scorers who can power the team for whole stretches. It's just that, after them, there's not a lot of proven production on the roster, especially as developing guard Derrick Bruce is no longer on the roster. Can incoming talents like freshman wing JaQuori McLaughlin and JuCo point guard Ronnie Stacy help prove me wrong? Sure, but I'm just not seeing enough on their roster to warrant anything better than a lower-mid-table finish.\nStanford finally went and did what I hoped they never would -- fire Johnny Dawkins. The perpetually under-performing coach had dragged the Cardinal through much mediocrity and the occasional post-season run over eight seasons. He could never turn the enticing talent at hand into anything more than a NIT-caliber resume, and his teams were reliable road pickups for the Buffs over the years. Johnny will be missed.\nFrom: the Sporting News\nIn his place, the Cardinal have brought in Jerod Haase from UAB. A former Kansas Jayhawk from his college days, Haase was known for diving on the court for loose balls, and looks to bring a similar hard-nosed mentality to the bench at Maples. He certainly comes into an interesting position, blessed with a roster that returns much of its talent from last season. The Cardinal could surprise this season, if the transition into the new coaching style goes well.\nTheir biggest concern is probably at point guard, where they've been struggling to replace the production lost when Chasson Randle graduated two years ago. Christian Sanders is a nice player, but largely unspectacular, and Robert Cartwright is still a relative unknown after suffering an ugly injury early last season. If they can get anything from the top of the attack, though, the core of talent that includes a returning Reid Travis, the versatile Marcus Allen, and wing Dorian Pickens could be enough to have them pushing for post-season play.\nMy offseason notes on the Bruins started with this little nugget: \"I just simply do not care.\" I'm sorry, but I feel absolutely nothing when considering the crew from Westwood. Yes, I get that they're talented, and #DaddyBall was some of the best late night entertainment on television last winter (for all the wrong reasons), but I struggle to get my blood up over a generally soul-less style of play that more often rocks the fans to sleep than excites them. That they were entirely unsuccessful last season doesn't help matters, either, crashing into the basement of the league with a 10th-place finish.\nReally, in that vein, the best coaching work of the Steve Alford tenure may have come in his defense of his job. He wrote a letter of apology to the fan base after they slumped to that 15-17 conclusion last March, and sent back the cash from an extension he signed back in 2014. Alford also brought in a top-five recruiting class that features three of the top-25 incoming talents in the country. Combined, it was enough to stave off the pitchforks, and earn him another bite at one of the premier spots in the profession.\nLook, they have the talent to win lots of games this year. Freshmen Lonzo Ball and TJ Leaf should pair well with returners Bryce Alford, Isaac Hamilton, and Thomas Welsh. They'll certainly score buckets of points, I just don't see how they'll defend their basket. As defense is a problem, they'll get into a lot of shootouts, and you'll see some chaotic results. Sure, maybe they'll get back into the Dance, but it won't be enough for the ever-demanding blue-bloods in Los Angeles. Assuming they don't make the Sweet Sixteen, this could be the last we see of Alford in the Pac-12.\nLast year, we finally got to see Dunk City take over the City of Angels. While the rival Bruins were struggling with an existential crisis, USC surged onto the national landscape, playing the fast, exciting brand of run-and-shoot basketball that had served coach Andy Enfield so well while at Florida Gulf Coast. They attempted over 41% of all shots at the rim, kept their average possession length well under 16 seconds, and scored buckets of points. Southern Cal deservedly scored their way into the NCAA Tournament, and seemed poised for even greater things this season with no graduating seniors on their '15-'16 roster.\nFrom: Busting Brackets\nThen, the defections came. Forward Nikola Jovanovic and point guard Julian Jacobs decided to take a chance on the NBA Draft, only to go undrafted. Eccentric shooting wing Katin Reinhardt then decided he'd had enough of that LA lifestyle, and left for Milwaukee and Marquette, despite having played the second-most minutes on the team last season. Suddenly, three of the Trojans' best players were gone ahead of schedule.\nThe cupboard they left behind is far from bare, though. Jordan McLuaghlin remains, and the electric jitterbug of a point guard is one of the most exciting talents in the conference. He'll get to work with versatile shooter Elijah Stewart and elite athlete Bennie Boatwright in the starting lineup, a grouping that should keep things well afloat. If they see an expected step forward from center Chimezie Metu, this team could get serious in a hurry. No, the Trojans will be just fine this season, don't you worry.\nWhat the hell happened to Utah? Brandon Taylor and Jordan Loveridge graduated, and super-center/bond villain Jakob Poeltl jumped to the NBA. That much was expected. The loss of four key contributors to this season's planning, Isaiah Wright, Kenneth Ogbe, Chris Reyes, and Brekkott Chapman, however, was not. That's not just roster attrition, that's a roster gutting. In total, the Utes lost all but two players from last season's rotation, leaving plenty of minutes to go to new faces this winter.\nFrom: RunninUtes.com\nSo, who's left in Salt Lake City? Well, for one, coach Larry Krystkowiak, who built the program up from nothing to become one of the most feared names in the league. If there's a coach to have heading a reconstruction project, it would be him. They also return Lorenzo Bonam, who killed Colorado twice last year, and elite wing Kyle Kuzma. That's two Lincoln Logs for Larry to set as a foundation. For the rest, he'll have to plug-and-play with a grouping of seven newcomers. Specifically, I expect to grow to hate the names David Collette (mid-season power forward transfer) and Jayce Johnson (blue-chip center prospect), but it may take some time for the whole thing to set-up. Give them a year, though, and the Utes should be back. I've long since given up doubting the other Coach K.\nI never know what to make of the Huskies. They always seem to boast elite talent, having sent seven players to the NBA Draft in as many seasons, but can never find a way to turn that talent into wins. Their average finish since pulling the ignominious double of winning the league, yet missing the Tournament, in 2012 is eighth-place, which comes with the butcher's bill of 15 losses per year. How that's possible, I can't even begin to fathom, but I'm starting to take for granted that UW will under-perform every season, which is not a good sign for the dean of the Pac-12 coaching corps, Lorenzo Romar.\nFrom: the Seattle Times\nThis season, they're looking to re-load from the one-and-done tenures of Marquese Chriss and Dejounte Murray with another infusion of elite recruiting talent, headlined by Markelle Fultz. The freshman from Maryland also seems destined to leave early as a probable lottery pick next spring, but should light up the scoreboard while laying over in Seattle. Combined with David Crisp, Matisse Thybulle, and Malik Dime, these guys have athleticism for days, and can run any number of teams out of the gym. Is it enough to win games of significance? That remains to be seen.\nIf there is such a thing as 'Coug-ing' an offseason, Washington State did it this summer. Desperate to find any traction in the Palouse, they just needed to hold onto the talent at hand, and maybe they could've seen some on-court gains in 2016-17. Instead, Que Johnson, Ny Redding, Renard Suggs, and Valentine Izundu all transferred out of the program. That's their best three-point shooter, a developing point guard, a versatile rotation wing, and an athletic center all out the door when the program was already talent-starved. *sigh*\nSo, what remains will be the Josh Hawkinson show for one last spin around the sun. The double-double machine tested draft waters, but returns to put up inhuman numbers once again. What success the team will have is based on the interplay between Hawkinson and fellow returners Conor Clifford and Ike Iroegbu. It's something, but probably not enough to stave off a second-straight basement finish.\nThis section had been pretty sparse in previous years. After the resounding success of the 2012 recruiting class, which saw the program among the top-20 in the nation, there hadn't been a lot to show for the coaching staff's efforts on the trail. In fact, BuffNation had come to regard Coach Boyle and crew as under-performers, compared to where they 'needed' to be, known more for high-profile misses than any true success in bringing in 'elite' recruits. The fanbase whined about the loss of recruiting whiz Tom Abatemarco, worried about the lack of signees from California, fretted over the Nike vs Adidas war that caused local talent like De'Ron Davis to look elsewhere, and bemoaned under-the-radar reaches that may have brought talent to the program, but didn't bring stars or bragging rights. It was a perception supported by a 2013 class that has all but disappeared to transfer, and a 2015 class that turned in just one true freshman signee.\nWhile I would dispute many of those charges as circumstantial, it's hard to challenge that the 2013 class was anything other than a foul tip. Sure, George King has surprised everyone outside the program by becoming a deadly scoring threat, but the underwhelming performance and eventual transfer of players like Dustin Thomas, Jaron Hopkins, and Tre'Shaun Fletcher is a painful miss. However, as that class has slowly vanished into thin air, we've seen the coaching staff scramble in pursuit of their replacements, utilizing outside transfers from all levels of the game and infusions of talent from unconventional sources like Belgium (Akyazili) and the Netherlands (Strating). That the Buffs are in a position to still compete is a testament to the staff's abilities in this arena, as much as the 'empty' '13 and '15 classes are an impeachment. Indeed, after flying too close to the sun in 2013, I would argue that the coaching staff has done better than most realize in re-stocking the cupboard, culminating in a '16 class that I think the fanbase will grow to appreciate.\nStill, though that 2016 foursome was a nice haul of capable prospects, one that I like in terms of filling both needs and providing exciting talent, the sense around BuffNation was that Coach Boyle really needed to find some recruiting success in 2017. The last whispers of the 2012 statement class are about to graduate, after all, and playing three-card-monte with the transfer wire can only take you so far. The stakes are high.\nTo that end, rest easy, because His Tadness has answered almost every recruiting question you could raise this cycle. Emanating from a single, statement host week (when the football team thrashed Idaho State), the Buffaloes earned the commitments of three four-star recruits. Forwards all, the trio landed like whales on Tad's boat, silencing all of the critics that had dogged the coach over the years. When they sign with CU this week, they will form the most well-regarded recruiting class since 2012, projected to land in the national top-25 when all is said and done. If 'coffee's for closers,' than Coach Boyle and staff deserve a big-ass gift card to Starbucks.\nUp first was wing Tyler Bey, who committed to Colorado over regional recruiting rivals San Diego State and Arizona State. A 6-7 small forward from LA (originally Las Vegas), Bey became the first marquee SoCal recruit to declare to be Boulder-bound since Xavier Johnson (with all apologies to Bryce Peters). He's known as an elite-level defender and rebounder, with plenty of versatility to range all over the court from the '2' to the '4.' Phrase variations like 'long arms,' 'high-level athleticism,' and 'unselfish play' also usually feature on Tyler's scouting reports, along with notes regarding a developing three point shot. He's an exciting prospect that is considered a fringe top-100 talent by most services; lots of upside here, particularly on the defensive end.\nFrom: Scout\nRight on his heels, word leaked that local product D'Shawn Schwartz was also pledging to be a Buff. A 6-6, 220 lbs leaper from Colorado Springs, he continues the El Paso County pipeline that sent heavies like Josh Scott and Wes Gordon northward up I-25. Another wing with good rebounding talent, Schwartz has been getting a lot of positive local and national reviews on the AAU circuit. A unanimous four-star talent, some sites have him in the top-70 nationally, and his stock could continue to rise over the winter. Still, he has a chip on his shoulder, which Coach Boyle has often expressed an affinity for. I like his jumper a lot more than I do Bey's, and, accordingly, see D'Shawn as more of an offensive piece, compared to Tyler's defensive. Good vision, good passing skills, as well. He chose CU over Butler, Memphis, and UNLV.\nFrom: the Post\nWhile Bey and Schwartz committed on the same day during their visit, the final piece of the 2017 puzzle was strung out a few weeks. Eventually, however, beefy SoCal center Evan Battey made the choice, and committed to joining the Black and Gold over entreaties from Purdue and Miami. The football-sized 6-7, 280 lbs prospect, seemingly destined more for Coach MacIntyre's o-line than Tad's front line, is alternatively considered a top-150 overall or top-20 center prospect by the various services, and stands as a very interesting capstone to the class. I can't help but compare Battey to another oddly-shaped Pac-12 center of recent vintage, Oregon State's Joe Burton, and hope for similar things from Evan's forthcoming career.\nFrom: the OC Register\nIf you look at who will be graduating this year, you can also clearly see that Coach Boyle was looking to fill need with his three high school commits. With Xavier Johnson and Wes Gordon stepping out of the program after this season, there's a big hole open in the roster for athletic, versatile forwards. Bey looks great as a future Wes (slightly undersized '4' with high athleticism and good defensive skills), while Schwartz should slip nicely into the XJ role (good three-point stroke, strong weakside rebounding, tough matchup). Battey only adds some spice, the kind of wide-body pivot player that Boyle has often looked for -- Damiene Cain in 2011, Tory Miller in 2014 being prime examples. I love these fits, and can't wait for all three to hit Boulder.\nWith the understanding that the team will have four open scholarships after the current senior class graduates, do note that the final piece of the 2017 puzzle is already on campus: Alexander Strating. The wing from the Netherlands is on a walk-on redshirt this season, to be placed on scholarship next fall. In total, the quartet of commitments can be considered one of the best recruiting classes, on paper, in program history, and project to lock down the wing and paint for the next four years. As a final aside, it's interesting that this makes two-straight classes that the coaching staff has pulled key recruits from Southern California, and the third-straight that they've pulled from the international circuit; they're developing both a style and a pipeline.\nIn his opening comment on media day, Coach Boyle laid down some of his old school reality. \"Right now, if I had to describe our team in one word, it would be 'overrated.'\" He went on to say that the team is 'not getting it done' in practice, and that reality is going to make for a painful lesson if they don't figure it out. Yeesh, that's a little concerning, isn't it? Well, Tad is nothing if not a pragmatist, and he lives to tamp down expectation, whether it's positive or negative. Matter of fact, I would've been worried had he come out with a rosy outlook, and an expression that everyone was underselling his charges.\nStill, I wonder where he's getting the sense that his team is 'overrated?' Outside of a core of the most loyal-minded of BuffNation (*cough*), not much is expected of this group. Some national reporters, trying to show the depth of their knowledge, have opined that the team could surprise as a sleeper, but, for the most part, the assembled media is looking elsewhere. Case-in-point, the pre-season Pac-12 media poll had Colorado picked fifth, and a number of bracketologists around the country are projecting the team to barely make the Tournament, if at all. If anything, the Buffs are being under-sold.\nI would imagine what Coach is alluding to is the impression the squad has of themselves. There's a lot of talent on this roster, and a lot of out-sized personalities who are otherwise very confident of their abilities. His statement was in effort to combat that in-house sentiment, rather than a step to ward off fan excitement about the coming season.\nSurely, there is some danger of a letdown, though. The defensive package is a concern, especially without Josh Scott there to erase some of the perimeter mistakes. Further, if either of Wes or Tory get injured, particularly early in the season to expose a lack of depth up front, the train could jump the tracks. Still, I am otherwise confident in the assortment of talent at hand. They've been through the wars -- or 'seen some shit,' as I worded it in my football preview. It would shock me to see this many three-, four-, even five-year players, all with the requisite talent for the level of play, come out and lay an egg, particularly against teams with much less cohesion and experience. No, I will stand by a rosier prediction. The Buffs will post a season worth remembering in 2016-17, and you will all be glad to see it.\nTo that end, here are my goals for the year:\nFinish in the top-four of the Pac-12, earning a conference tournament bye for the first time since 2004.\nWin 22 regular season games, setting the all-time program record for success in a single campaign.\nMake the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, somehow, someway.\nI don't think any of these goals are out of the realm of possibility, either. The Pac-12 is in a transitional year, with a lot of teams caught up in roster flux. A group like Colorado, returning the vast majority of production from a team that was otherwise successful, is in great position to take advantage of others that may still be searching for an identity come January. A primary roadblock here would be the difficult and awkwardly laid-out conference schedule, set, seemingly on purpose, to trip the Buffs up right out of the gate. Still, with a softer close to the schedule, I anticipate CU being able to backdoor their way into the upper echelon of the league.\nFor the larger target of 22 regular season wins, it's all predicated on doing something that barely evaded them last season: win-out at home. Just one slip-up on the Coors Events Center's hardwood, against Utah, separated the Buffs from this achievement in '15-'16, and it was on a last-second buzzer-beater, to boot. The Xavier and Oregon games are the largest impediments here, and could both easily turn into losses. Coach Boyle, however, has never lost to the Ducks in Boulder, and the team will be well-focused on the Musketteers by the time they come to town. It's within reach.\nAssuming the team can make it back to the Dance for the fifth time in six seasons, once there, they may also be in better position than in previous opportunities to advance. Guard play dominates the post-season, and the Buffs are decidedly guard-oriented in '16-'17. Given a nice draw, that backcourt expertise could be enough to push them where no group of Buffaloes in the modern era has gone before: the Sweet Sixteen.\nBut, of course, all of this is predicated on them putting in the work. Inattention to detail, really at any step along the way, could cost the team dearly. What I'm talking about here is potential. This team, undoubtedly, has the potential to achieve everything listed above, and maybe even a little more. The trick will be taking that next step -- winning those games when everything seems to be going against you, avoiding the letdowns against lesser opponents, and staying focused for five months of grinding play against some of the best basketball teams this country has to offer. As Coach Boyle said on media day, \"It's not going to be given to us, it's not going to be handed to us, it's not going to be tweeted to us.\" The Buffs are going to have to earn their success. I think they can do it, too, now all that's left is the execution. Regardless, it should be a fun show to watch.\nLabels: 2016-17 Basketball Season, Basketball, CU, Diatribes and Missives, Season Previews\nBravo! Excellent research and analysis. Bookmarking as a future resource this season. GO BUFFS!\nStephen Buechner said...\nKeep up the good work Rumblin'! I always love the basketball preview, as well as the rest of your blog.\nJoyous, flawless, and accurate e-tome. 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Source: ITAR-TASS\nNovolipetsk Steel (NLMK), one of Russia\u2019s largest steel producers, plans to increase exports to India in 2013, company president Oleg Bagrin told reporters\nNLMK currently supplies the Indian market with 40,000 tonnes of transformer steel per year. Bagrin estimates that the total market for transformer steel in India to be more than 200,000 tonnes per year. He believes the steel market in the large economy is \u201cexperiencing double-digit growth.\u201d\n\u201cIndia is a promising niche market for us,\u201d Bagrin said. \u201cWe\u2019re currently supplying it with about 40,000 tonnes of standard-quality transformer steel. In the future we plan to start deliveries of premium-quality transformer steel \u2013 high-permeability steel. This year we plan to start production of high-permeability steel at our Lipetsk site. Then we\u2019ll start production at VIZ-Steel (Yekaterinburg).\u201d\nHe explained that the growth in demand for transformer steel in India is linked to the country\u2019s high level of energy infrastructure requirements and the high rate of development in the energy and power engineering sectors.\n\u201cIn today\u2019s extremely difficult market conditions our international division is balancing at the break-even point. At the same time the work of our foreign businesses is providing a stable workload for the production chain in the Russian part of the group,\u201d Bagrin added.\nNLMK also intends to increase deliveries of motor vehicle body sheet for European vehicle-building businesses from its enterprises in the EU from the current 400,000 per year to 1 million tonnes.\nNLMK Group manufactures a wide range of steel products, including slabs and blanks, hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel, galvanised and electrical steel, and also reinforcement, hot-rolled plate and other types of steel products with high added value. The main production facility is located in Lipetsk, at the NLMK company. 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The Centre includes the Shaunavon Branch of the Chinook Regional Library, an art gallery, a natural history museum and a tourist information centre all on the main floor along with a heritage museum in the basement which includes a general purpose community room.\nThe Grand Coteau Heritage & Cultural Centre's collection is multi-disciplinary, ranging from artifacts relating to the human history of Shaunavon, Fine Arts, and the natural history of the area. A variety of educational programs and tours are offered in association with the collection, making it more than a collection of objects.\nSummer Hours(May 1 - Oct. 1) Monday-Saturday, 09:00-17:00 Winter Hours(Oct 2 - April 30) Tuesday-Saturday, 13:30-17:00\nCA S0N 2M0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 2991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 161.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samanvaypark.in/about-samanvay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:40:01Z", "digest": "sha1:JVXEYQKM5YD3W4KYYMV7LTRASJI2JTT4", "length": 1828, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "samanvaypark.in", "title": "About Samanvay \u2013 Samanvay Business Park", "raw_content": "HomeAbout Samanvay\nFor any business to be successful, the workplace plays a very important role. Keeping your future business growth in mind, Saumya is happy to present Samanvay. 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To save Escondido\u2019s skyline from development, TECC is now tasked with finding the multi million purchase price before the agreement expires at the end of this year.\n\u201cThis spectacular area has been on our wish list for more than fifteen years, said Steve Barker, TECC President. \u201cBut only now have all the pieces fallen into place \u2013 allowing TECC to lock up the parcels until the end of the year. This gives TECC time to broker a deal that will protect the land for the benefit and enjoyment of all County residents, now and into the future.\u201d The land, dubbed University Heights on development plans, due to it\u2019s proximity to the California State University of San Marcos, and also known locally as \u201cSleeping Lady Ridge\u201d, because the silhouette of the land resembles a sleeping woman \u2013 consists of 502 acres south of San Marcos and west of Escondido. It takes in the summit, southern slopes and a secluded valley below Mt Whitney, a prominent local high point. This pristine landscape supports the many plants and animals of the chaparral, sage scrub and oak woodland habitats. Located between the trail systems of San Marcos and those of the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve and County of San Diego Parks and Recreation lands, Sleeping Lady Ridge represents a tremendous opportunity for connected outdoor recreation for hikers, bikers and equestrians \u2013 without the need for long travel distances.\nAt least two development schemes have been proposed for the land, with up to 1000 new homes suggested, the most recent ending in foreclosure \u2013 opening the door for TECC to preserve this valuable resource permanently. \u201cAccess to experiencing nature is an essential part of human happiness and health and TECC envisions these lands becoming part of a regional open space preserve. The close proximity to the densely populated North County Cities of Escondido and San Marcos will allow easy access, perhaps even a trail head at a nearby Sprinter station\u201d Mr. Barker said. TECC\u2019s task now is to assemble a coalition of green minded investors to assist in closing escrow this year. The long term goal is to transfer the acreage to County Parks and Recreation or a similar agency for permanent preservation. \u201cBased on the natural value of this land and the interest by wildlife agencies in its preservation, we are very optimistic that long term permanent preservation is possible. Our critical challenge is to find the supporters for the near-term action to secure the land now\u201d Mr. Barker stated. \u201cAll interested in helping out, in any way, no matter how small, should contact the TECC office on (760) 471 9354 or email information@escondidocreek.org or DONATE NOW.\nAbout The Escondido Creek Conservancy\nTECC is a local land conservancy which is dedicated to the preservation, enhancement and protection of the natural open space within the Escondido creek watershed. Since 1991 TECC has preserved hundreds of acres of open space through direct purchase or by working in partnership with its members, donors, landowners, government agencies and community groups. 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Adkerson arrived at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry on Friday at 11:20 a.m. for a meeting with the minister, although details on the meeting were not disclosed.\nFreeport McMoRan is the parent company of PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), and has long been in talks with the government over its Grasberg copper mine in Papua and divesting 51 percent of PTFI shares as part of the terms of a new mining license.\nThe ministry\u2019s mineral and coal director general Bambang Gatot Ariyono claimed to have no information on the purpose of the meeting.\n\"I don't know yet, I was just called to come [to the meeting],\" he said, when he was asked about the meeting between Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan and Adkerson upon his arrival at the ministry.\nAdkerson, who was accompanied by PTFI executive vice president Tony Wenas did not make any comments on the meeting.\nRecently, the ministry issued a ministerial regulation that extended the divestment deadline to 2019 for foreign companies holding a special mining permit (IUPK), which included Freeport.\nThe extension of the deadline for divestment was stipulated in the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministerial Regulation No. 25/2018.\nThe regulation stipulates that a holder of a special mining permit (IUPK) and which formerly had a working contract (KK) and has been in production for at least five years since the issuance of Government Regulation No 1/2017 is obliged to divest 51 percent of its stake no later than 2019.\nDivestment talks between the government and Freeport have been taking place since early 2017 and the government initially targeted concluding negotiations by the end of 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://savvypatienttoolkit.com/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:18:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ED7SYTO34M6WCNMJJNUNNZFEG3DANTMF", "length": 2024, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "savvypatienttoolkit.com", "title": "Savvy Patient Toolkit \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Medical News", "raw_content": "No matter how bad your day may be, you cannot help but notice the way you look and try to find ways to make yourself appear better. 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They can feel guiltier when they look at people [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scalesandsons.com/obitdetail.php?id=350", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:16:18Z", "digest": "sha1:TMW4F2RAEG54PBBQJW34AIH6AUV4S2L6", "length": 481, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "scalesandsons.com", "title": "Scales and Sons Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Betty Marciello\n12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, 2016\nSaturn Drive Baptist Church, 1212 Saturn Drive, Nashville, TN\nMs. Betty \"Sue\" Marciello, age 65 of Murfreesboro transitioned from this earthly life to eternal on Thursday, March 24, 2016 at StoneCrest Medical Center.\nShe leaves a host of devoted family members and friends to cherish her memory.\nPlease keep the family of Ms. Betty Marciello in your thoughts and prayers.\nThy Kingdom come; Thy will be done\ntrespass against us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scopestrata.co.nz/2018/12/10/the-important-role-of-bodies-corporate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCIW5YQDGVKZMPYTQE6FUSFMKIPWLYC2", "length": 2625, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "scopestrata.co.nz", "title": "The important role of bodies corporate |", "raw_content": "A body corporate is the collective group of owners within a unit titled property. A body corporate is not the appointed administrator of the property. While there is no legal requirement to appoint a professional management company, a good administrator can ensure compliance with legal requirements and take some of the risk of personal conflict out of the more challenging aspect of a property, including debt recovery and addressing breaches of the property rules. Professional managers should also be able to readily provide detailed on-demand financial reporting to assist in proper decision making.\nEach unit titled property is a separate legal entity much like a company. A body corporate can sue and be sued, as can office holders such as committee members and the body corporate chairperson. It is important therefore that adequate liability cover including general, statutory and officer bearer cover is held. A body corporate has an obligation under the Unit Titles Act 2010, in addition to other legislation. This includes being considered a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. This obligation requires common areas to be safe and to ensure contractors undertake their work safely. The body corporate also has obligations under the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016, which requires asbestos to be identified and addressed where it is found. A good administrator should be knowledgeable on these matters and able to assist the body corporate in legal compliance.\nOften in commercial property, tenants have leases requiring payment of the annual levy, which covers yearly operational costs such as insurance, gardening and common utilities. Frequently this funding includes an allowance for unbudgeted expenses such as repairs and maintenance. 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A focus of the current review includes possible funding requirements of long term maintenance plans, more comprehensive disclosure requirements on the sale of a unit, greater accountability of professional administrators, and the current dispute resolution process.\nYou can read submissions (including Scope Strata Management\u2019s) through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scores.nbcsportschicago.com/gz3/baseball/mlb/1996353", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:U33D5Z2QYASROZ44FHSQH43ZINP4ICNV", "length": 134, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "scores.nbcsportschicago.com", "title": "Pittsburgh vs Milwaukee - GameZone | NBC Sports Chicago", "raw_content": "Pittsburgh vs Milwaukee | 7:10 PM CT | Sep 14, 2018\nTV: FSWI/ATPT\nPittsburgh - - - - - - - - - - - -\nMilwaukee - - - - - - - - - - - -", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 115.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://se.ucsd.edu/index.php/awards/dr-john-mccartney-receives-asce-2017-outstanding-faculty-advisor-award", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VZNOSF6WPEZJGHAKD6T7Q22JB2OEEX7D", "length": 204, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "se.ucsd.edu", "title": "Dr. John McCartney Receives the ASCE 2017 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award | Structural Engineering", "raw_content": "The ASCE Awards Committee has made their selections for the 2018 Awards Program and Dr. John McCartney has been chosen to receive the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award.\nCongratulations Dr. McCartney!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://securityintelligence-erasmusmundus.eu/additional-information/recommended_reading/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:25Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3GUKKMCUNAWV5UIJOKUQAI3FYU4WGHT", "length": 4246, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "securityintelligence-erasmusmundus.eu", "title": "Recommended Reading : IMSISS", "raw_content": "Detailed reading lists for individual courses are provided at the beginning of each semester. The following is a list of texts that students may find useful to consult over the summer in preparation for starting the programme.\nThese texts are mostly general reading texts that provide introductory commentary to some of the key security challenges in today\u2019s world.\nAll of these texts are available via one or more of the three University Libraries. There is also a dedicated Book Store on campus at the University of Glasgow. If you shop at Amazon then you can support IMSISS Alumni by using the dedicated link below.\nFor online access please follow the links below:\nDublin City University Library\nJohn Smith\u2019s Bookshop at the University of Glasgow\nSupport IMSISS Alumni when you shop at Amazon by clicking this link below. 5% of any purchase will be donated to Alumni activities\nSpecial Readers\nAldrich, R. and Andrew, Christopher (2008). Secret Intelligence: A Reader. London: Routledge\nDover, R. (2015). Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies. London: Routledge\nFerris, John Robert (2005). Intelligence and strategy: selected essays. London: Routledge\nHughes, Christopher, W. (2011). Security Studies: A Reader. London: Routledge.\nKnorr, Klaus Eugen (2017). Power, Strategy and Security: A \u201cWorld Politics\u201d Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press.\nMahnken, T.G. and Maiolo, J.A. (2014). Strategic Studies: a reader. (2nd edition) London: Routledge\nOmand, David (2014). Securing the State: Intelligence and Security. Oxford: OUP\nCore Texts (Recommended For Purchase)\n*Collins, Alan (ed.) (2015). Contemporary Security Studies (4th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press\n*Williams, P.D. and McDonald, M. (2018). Security Studies: An Introduction. (3rd Edition). London: Routledge\nThe following texts will be central texts on the core courses making up this degree programme. Copies are available in the Glasgow University Library, but you may wish to purchase ones marked *.\nSmith, Michael E. (2017). International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects (2nd edition) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan\nHeuser, Beatrice (2010). The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\n*Hough, Peter (2018). Understanding Global Security (4th edition). London: Routledge\nHough, Peter (2015). International Security Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.\nBourne, Mike (2014). Understanding Security. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan\nJarvis, Lee & Holland, Jack (2015). Security: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan\nJohnson, Lock K. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence. Oxford: OUP.\nAdditional Reading Suggestions\nBuzan, Barry; Waever, Ole; deWilde, Jaap (1998). Security: A New Framework For Analysis. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers\nBuzan, Barry & Hansen, Lene (2009). The Evolution of International Security Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\nClauser, Jerome (2008). An Introduction to Intelligence Research and Analysis. Scarecrow Press\nCoaty, P.C. (2018). Small State Behavior in Strategic and Intelligence Studies: David\u2019s Sling. Basingstoke: Palgrave.\nCombs, C.C. (2018). Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge.\nDannreuther, Roland (2013). International Security: The Contemporary Agenda. (2md edition) Cambridge: Polity Press\nDetraz, Nicole (2012). International Security and Gender (Dimensions of Security). London: Polity Press.\nFreedman, Lawrence (2015). Strategy: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press\nKay, Sean (2011). Global Security in the Twenty-first Century: The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace. (2nd edition). Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield\nLeigh, I. and Wegge, N. (2018). Intelligence oversight in the Twenty-First Century: Accountability in a Changing World (Studies in Intelligence). London: Routledge.\nLowenthal, Mark M. (2012). Intelligence: From secrets to policy. London: Sage.\nMoore, David, T. (2011). Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis. Lulu Press\nPeoples, Columba and Vaughan-Williams, Nick (2010). Critical Security Studies: An Introduction. Abingdon; Routledge\nSnyder, Craig A. (2011). Contemporary Security and Strategy. Basingstoke: Palgrave", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://select.ioug.org/blog/the-cloud-is-now", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:54:36Z", "digest": "sha1:2KYNBAKNC5OJKQY7MAQBS3DGF3ZQOOL6", "length": 5404, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "select.ioug.org", "title": "Communication Center : Blogs : The Cloud is Now", "raw_content": "By: Mark Van de Wiel on Oct 16, 2018\nBy Mark van de Wiel, HVR CTO\nOrganizations large and small are embracing the cloud. Data security concerns that were prevalent in the early days of cloud computing have largely been addressed, and most IT departments in organizations are positioning cloud services as a core part of the IT landscape. On-premises data centers shrink if not close down in favor of cloud computing.\nCloud computing is available in multiple forms \u201cas a Service\u201d. The following are four common types:\n1. Infrastructure: to obtain access to a virtual or physical server hosted by the cloud provider.\nExamples include EC2 servers in AWS, Azure Virtual Machines, etc.\n2. Platform: to access technology directly as a service.\nExamples include a database, MapReduce and other technologies in the Hadoop ecosystems, a streaming pipeline (Kafka, Kinesis, Azure Event hub), etc.\n3. Software: for direct access to an application.\nExamples include Salesforce and the Office 365 offering from Microsoft.\n4. Function: also referred to as \u201cserver-less\u201d computing, for a pay\u2013as\u2013you go service per function call.\nExamples include AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.\nThe Business Case for Cloud Computing\nThe business and technical case for cloud computing is strong, given the cost structure and flexibility. Cloud computing turns what is traditionally a capital expense into an operational expense. Capital is no longer locked up in hardware resources written off over the lifetime of the equipment. Also, an on-premises data center requires infrastructure (network connectivity, cooling, etc.) and services (VPN, management, etc.) that are offered as part of the service when using the cloud. Leveraging the cloud provider\u2019s compute power opens up flexibility to obtain the right amount of resources required to get the job done, independent of the hardware life cycle. There is, of course, still an incentive for a long-term commitment to cloud resources, but by sharing compute resources, and as cloud providers have normalized the unit of compute power, the cloud offers flexibility that is generally not available in an on-premises data center.\nRunning servers has become a commodity. Mundane but crucial tasks like taking backups and ensuring systems are available, traditionally requiring a system administrator, have been automated by cloud providers. As such, it is becoming harder and harder to justify staff to manage servers or virtual machines. For Platform as a Service, additional benefits include services like the installation of software updates. The combination of pay\u2013as\u2013you\u2013go, in conjunction with on-demand scalability, offers the option to shift from using a particular service one day to using another one the next day. Or, as the business is exploring the most optimal way to obtain analytic results, there is the option to try out different services to identify which fits best.\nThanks to benefits like these, IT departments have fully embraced the cloud, and as on-premises hardware reaches its end of life the cloud is considered as the alternative to obtain compute power.\nCloud Computing: The End of On-Premises Data Centers?\nDoes the advent of cloud computing imply the end to on-premises computing? No. Compute resources are not available at any level, so at least for the time being some of the largest environments continue to run on-premises. Organizations are also still weary of security concerns, and regulations may put restrictions on where data can be stored.\nDoes the advent of cloud computing imply the end to on-premises computing? No.\nThe term hybrid cloud is used to indicate the co-existence of on-premises and cloud servers and services, as well as the use of multiple different cloud providers. Very few, if any, organizations will be using just a single cloud provider. Think of some of the many applications you use regularly, for CRM to Expense Management to HR. Chances are some, if not all, of these applications are consumed as Software as a Service, directly provided by the application vendor (who themselves may utilize a cloud provider to host their service). Gartner and other analysts expect hybrid cloud to be a fact that organizations will have to deal with into the foreseeable future.\nAdopting the cloud introduces a shift in how to provide access to servers and systems. Tasks that are traditionally in the IT department, like defining firewall rules, may now end up in the hands of business users. How can an organization ensure data security in such a configuration, also when data sets are stored on the cloud providers\u2019 systems?\nAnother common challenge is data integration. Most cloud providers use the concept of an availability zone to refer to what is traditionally considered a data center, with data transfer taking place across a Wide Area Network (WAN), between on-premises and the cloud, or between cloud availability zones or cloud providers. Compared to the comfort of data transfer in an organization\u2019s own data center, relatively high latency and often lower bandwidth lead to data integration challenges. Add additional requirements to secure data transfer and protect on-premises data stores from external access, and suddenly what seemed an easy implementation becomes a more complicated setup.\nReleased: October 16, 2018, 12:41 pm | Updated: October 16, 2018, 12:50 pm\nKeywords: Feature | cloud | cloud computing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://semperliber.org/AWTCIGTOWS.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:11:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TI43APUM65FDRAIGAIIBYLWXBM6RCKCZ", "length": 12832, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "semperliber.org", "title": "The Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to OWS (at least a primer thereof)", "raw_content": "* Eric Blair (George Orwell) wrote in \"1984\", his well-known primer on English Socialism, about \"perpetual war for perpetual peace\". The theory is that there will be perpetual peace at home when the nation is impoverished via perpetual war abroad. The people will be united in supporting the war effort and they will be convinced that their contribution to the war effort - keeps them safe at home, despite the economic deprivations resulting from a shattered economy that \"must be centrally controlled\" so that each worker gets his/her share of rations. Of course, this requires that the people be kept on minimum rations under constant police-state surveillance - to keep them \"focused\". If you haven't read the book or seen the film recently, you should refresh your memory on this warning from \"George Orwell\".\nThe Judge Accuses FBI & Our Govt Of Being The Real Terrorist! & Creating Terror Plots In America!\nAn Open Message to the 99% (OWS)\nMilitia and Monetary Reform\nThe Dave Champion Show\nRobert Welch in 1974 reveals NWO\nWashington is Wall Street, Wall Street is Washington\nThe Complete Idiot's Guide to OWS (Occupy Wall Street)\nThe Federal Reserve is NOT Federal, any more than Federal Express.\nIt was created by private European Banking Gangsters (banksters) who own and control it to this day.\nIt was put in place by J.P. Morgan, Nelson Aldrich (A Rockefeller), Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and some others \u2013 who also financed Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky in their Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Central banking and control of credit is the fifth plank of the communist manifesto and is necessary for central planning and control of the economy.\nJ.P. Morgan\u2019s right-hand man/attorney, John W. Davis was the founding president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). So the banksters were involved with Cecil Rhodes\u2019 and Lord Alfred Milner\u2019s \u201cround table groups\u201d of which the CFR and RIIA (Royal Institute of International Affairs) were the primary branches \u2013 from the inception of the CFR. The CFR controls most of our foreign policy today \u2013 and has always been an \u201carm\u201d of the banksters.\nWhat do the Morgans, the Federal Reserve, the banksters, the CFR and the Federal Reserve have to do with OWS? More importantly, what can citizens do to stop this subversion?\nSimply this; in a centrally planned and controlled economy, where the central banks are in the \u201ccatbird seat\u201d, they control booms, busts, foreign policy and the Military Industrial Complex. The Federal Reserve creates money out of THIN AIR and then places the responsibility for the DEBT on the taxpayers. When financing wars and bailouts, the Federal reserve creates more debt which requires higher interest payments on the growing principle. Since the people would revolt if taxes became too high too quickly, they do \u201cquantitative easing\u201d, a.k.a. printing fiat currency, to inflate and therefore devalue the dollar, reducing its buying power and causing prices (but not wages) to rise. This impoverishes the people who then turn to big government for relief. This is the operational rubric under which the OWS ostensibly operates. This is a deception, of course.\nThis is also known as \u201cTrotsky\u2019s \u2018permanent revolution\u2019\u201d the theory that postulates that you can transform an independent, free people into a dependent, subservient people under authoritarian (totalitarian) rule through \"permanent revolution\" or \"perpetual war\"*. If the central banksters keep enough wars going, they will pile up the national debt to astronomical levels, necessitating the creation of more debt (to pay off the old debt, the current economic policy of the U.S....) which then is \u201cquantitatively eased\u201d through inflation of the money supply \u2013 which undermines the currency and causes the people to lose buying power. The people then will relinquish their rights (which by then they believe to be privileges, issued by the authoritarian state) for a promise of \u201csecurity\u201d or \u201csafety\u201d. By using terrorism against it\u2019s own people, an authoritarian state may consolidate yet more power to itself under the guise of providing \u201cmore protection\u201d for the people who will abdicate their inalienable rights for that promise and a crust of bread, which they can no longer afford under intense inflationary conditions. War becomes peace when the public is no longer independent and becomes unable to protest or petition the government for a redress of grievances, they being too poor to consider anything but day-to-day survival \u2013 with the usual accompanying breadlines and eventually, Gulags (FEMA camps, anyone?). The parallels between what's going on with our economy today - and Trotsky's \"permanent revolution\" are obviously more than a coincidence - and both political parties are pushing this same \"program\", supporting the same agenda.\nAny transfer of wealth to the elites (or transfer of debt to the public) \u2013 helps them consolidate power, which is why the debt obligations known as \u201cderivatives\u201d to the tune of 79 Trillion (with a \u201cT\u201d) have been placed under the \u201cprotection\u201d of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), a taxpayer-funded insurance program intended to protect PRIVATE deposits of up to $200,000.00 per account. If the stock market tumbles and Bank of America goes tango uniform, the FDIC will be wiped out and there will be NO GUARANTEE for private depositors and there will be a CASCADE of bank failures, thus placing the populace in total dependency to Big Government (i.e. Big Brother). The result will be chaos, with bank runs and the shutdown of the entire country.\nThe collectivist OWS protestors know this and are attempting to destroy local policing. They\u2019re doing so by presenting themselves at OWS gatherings for \u201cabuse\u201d which will then be used as the clarion call for a NATIONAL police force to replace these \u201clocal, out-of-control\u201d police, thus creating a de-facto Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) in the U.S. This will further centralize power in Washington D.C. (District of Criminals) and the call for STRONGER, MORE STRINGENT banking controls (i.e. MORE GOVERNMENT) will ensure the ascendancy of those remaining central banks (which the globalists are using for the next phase of their operation) that will then control the financial (and therefore physical) destiny of the entire population of the nation. Local police are steadily being absorbed by the general (federal) government through funding, training and mandate (DHS) \u2013 under the pretext that the general government should assert local control, due to the abuses of local police - some of whom have been exposed as agents provocateur. The OWS protesters are creating the situation where local police will be made to appear brutish and inept so that the pretext for nationalization will be planted. This is problem/reaction/solution once again.\nWhat we must do \u2013 is rally in support for the ELIMINATION of the central bank which is orchestrating the whole OWS show. So, we must NOT blame the victims of this corrupt ponzi banking scheme who are protesting alongside (but less so every day since the collectivists are taking over\u2026) the collectivist OWS apparatchiks and we should instead support a SEPARATE OTF (Occupy The FED) movement, which is a legitimate, American attempt to petition for a redress of grievances. The OTF forces should SEPARATE from the OWS crowd and draw a clear distinction between themselves and the collectivist OWS people \u2013 who are working FOR THE BANKSTERS. This will also help those of us who are weak on research skills \u2013 to distinguish between legitimate protesters and agents provocateur. Take this flyer - and reprints of this article - to an OWS rally near you and distribute them to the so-called \"useful idiots\" used by the apparatchiks on both sides of this fabricated conflict, both protestors AND police . Make them aware of their roles in this collectivist, statist \"street theater\", this \"morality play\".\nThe goal of the banksters \u2013 is to reduce us all to a level of poverty where a \u201cwhite knight\u201d riding a \u201cwhite horse\u201d may ride in to the rescue \u2013 and buy the country up again for pennies on the dollar. If you know the history of Nathan Rothschild, the Battle of Waterloo and the Rothschild\u2019s \u201cpsy-op\u201d to capture the entire British Empire financially, you know that in order to buy a country up at bargain-basement prices, you must first DESTROY that nation\u2019s economy. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on right now. Cecil Rhodes\u2019 goal to reunite the U.S. and Great Britain is being done via a hostile financial takeover via his CFR (which controls foreign policy on behalf of the banksters who own and operate the Military Industrial Complex, the Medical Industrial Complex, the Prison Industrial Complex, the Narcotics Industrial Complex and others\u2026) round table group. The Anglo-American Establishment (CFR/RIIA) is waging the same kind of campaign Nathan Rothschild did against the British Empire, using their creation, the Federal Reserve, the media which J.P. Morgan and Co bought in 1915, both major political parties \u2013 and most importantly, the ignorance of the masses. The task of the Militias? To educate, to provide an alternative to Big Government, a return to self-rule, done locally under the Rule of Law, not the rule of the banking gangsters who run our corporations (special interests) which have taken over our government. Give the American people a chance for national sovereignty, independence and government of the people, by the people for the people \u2013 and make them understand that the New World Order will be run by the very banksters they are working for if they are calling for higher taxes, more government, more centralized control and a national police state.\nThe banksters are crashing the economy and sending their \u201cstreet troops\u201d (pressure from below) to \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d to call for bigger government (pressure from above - ostensibly to \u201cbring Wall Street to justice\u201d, Wall Street itself being a tool of the banksters\u2026). Well, the banksters ARE the government. They are the \u201cShadow Government\u201d that controls our foreign policy and our central bank and their \u201cstreet troops\u201d are calling for the elimination of \u201clocal, out-of-control police\u201d in favor of a National Police which we\u2019ve experienced before in this world as the \u201cGeheime Staatspolizei\u201d or \u201cGESTAPO\u201d, thus consolidating and centralizing yet more power to the District of Criminals while removing local control. This is the ultimate \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation; the Banks \u2013 which run the corporations which run the government \u2013 controlling their own faux opposition, the collectivist OWS. This is classic Cloward-Piven strategy, classic Hegelian Dialectic. Problem/Reaction/Solution, using poverty to transform society.\nWhen our economy completely collapses, the globalist banksters will \u201cride in\u201d with a new GLOBAL fiat currency system on the pretext that only a global currency will \u201ccure\u201d the \u201cproblems\u201d ostensibly created by \u201cunstable\u201d national or regional currencies (like the U.S. Dollar or the \u201cEuro\u201d). They will provide the solution to the problem they themselves created in their quest to consolidate power on a global scale. First, however, they must crash the United States and Europe. We are now in that phase of their operation. Is China, which appears to be offering a \u201cbailout\u201d to Europe the \u201cwhite knight\u201d? Who is actually BEHIND China, financing its operations? If you\u2019ve been paying attention, you should be looking for the \u201cfingerprints\u201d of the banksters in this situation as well. Remember once again that Hong Kong was a British colony and that the Anglo-American Establishment nearly conquered all of China with the opium trade \u2013 which the banksters are still involved with. Our Marines are right now guarding the opium fields of certain Afghani warlords this very moment because our nation is PART OF the Anglo-American Establishment, as the name implies.\nIf you still cannot understand what\u2019s going on, you are way, way behind the curve and you will be NO GOOD to anyone, including yourself. If you suffer from the malady of ignorance \u2013 willful or otherwise, REPENT! If you are what you smoke and you\u2019re a dope\u2026 Quit smoking that dope! Whatever you need to do, you had better come up to speed, or you will be fighting the wrong war, for war this is, despite the fact it is still on the battlefield of ideas. If you don\u2019t have a grasp of the ideas you\u2019re fighting against, YOU ARE UNARMED!\nRead G. Edward Griffin\u2019s \u201cThe Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve\u201d and James Perloff\u2019s \u201cThe Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline\u201d.\nFound this: Predicting Agents Provocateur\nAlso: British lawyers determine Declaration of Independence \"[It] was also totally illegitimate and illegal.\" Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal?\nG. 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I see you've already met Mr. Messi.\n\"When he's not there, it loses credibility\".\nLionel Messi and Luis Suarez each netted two scores in Barcelona's 8-2 win against Huesca on Sunday at Camp Nou in Barcelona.\n\"It's time [Barcelona won the Champions League]\", Messi said.\nOn the other hand, Ronaldo, who helped Real Madrid win their fourth Champions League title in five years before moving to Juventus, is among the favourite to win the annual award for the sixth time.\nDembele looked to get on the end of things three minutes later, but a shot off a cut back from the edge of the box just skinned the left-hand post.\n\"I think that as a club and as a team we have to target winning the Champions League\".\n\"Last year was the worst because of the result we had in the first leg and how the game went in the second leg\".\nMessi is not away on Argentina duty because he has been left out of the squad to face Guatemala and Colombia.\nBarcelona battles Real Sociedad at 10:15 a.m. Saturday at Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastian, Spain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 12814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shaleenergyinsider.com/2018/12/06/first-baby-born-after-uterus-transplant-from-dead-donor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QXIAUGHFDK4XCIEXTMAPMTNT3RU4RQYP", "length": 2722, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "shaleenergyinsider.com", "title": "First Baby Born After Uterus Transplant From Dead Donor", "raw_content": "You are here: Main \u00bb First Baby Born After Uterus Transplant From Dead Donor\nby Colin Walton\t- at December 06, 2018\nA team of doctors in Brazil have announced a medical first that could someday help countless women unable to have children because of a damaged or absent uterus. She gave birth to a baby girl on December 15, 2017, by caesarean section. The transplanted uterus was removed during the caesarean section and showed no anomalies.\nThe mother, a 32-year-old woman, was born without a uterus due to Mayer-Rokitansky-K\u00fcster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a condition affecting one in 4,500 women. Seven months after the surgery, an embryo was implanted and her pregnancy was confirmed.\nPreviously, there have been 10 other uterus transplants from dead donors attempted in the United States, Czech Republic and Turkey, but this is the first to result in a live birth.\nIt is hoped that this, the first ever uterine transplant involving a deceased donor and the first uterine transplantation in Latin America, could enable more women struggling with fertility issues to undergo treatment without having to wait for a live donor.\n\"The Brazilian group has proven that using deceased donors is a viable option\", said the clinic's Dr. Tommaso Falcone, who was involved in the OH case. Most transplant teams envision one day using uteruses from both living and deceased donors.\nIt was then transplanted to the woman who was given medication to weaken her immune system so her body would not reject the uterus.\n\"I think the women involved obviously have to have careful counselling about whether or not that's something they'd be willing to take on, that kind of risk\", she said.\nIn a transplant surgery that lasted more than ten hours, doctors had to connect the donor's uterus with the veins, arteries, ligaments, and vaginal canal of the recipient.\nThe uterus transplant, in this case, happened in September 2016.\nThere is still so much testing to be done, and researchers say there is so much important information to be learned from the procedure. \"It is also a source of hope for those patients who [do not have a uterus] or who have lost it unexpectedly and do not have a family member or close friend to donate the uterus\". Falcone said the fact that the transplant was successful after the uterus was preserved in ice for almost eight hours demonstrated how resilient the uterus is.\nTwo months later eight fertilised eggs were implanted into the womb.\nThese are still early days for uterine transplants, says Kate O'Neill, co-lead investigator for the University of Pennsylvania's uterus transplant program, who was not part of the work in Brazil. \"It may give us a bigger supply of organs than we thought were possible\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 14033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sharonpoet-ti.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-real-truth.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:MXDOT3NZQI6NJSBMINSBOXBW2MZNATMG", "length": 2162, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sharonpoet-ti.blogspot.com", "title": "Ramblings of a Targeted Individual: The Real Truth About the Covert Stuff?", "raw_content": "This situation with officials is something that I have been confused about. They have, at times, lead me to believe they are using me for bait, (even though I do not want to be). BUT, judging by my experiences with it - the threats and the patterns of the tortures...etc., it feels more like its all been either a horrid and careless covert war and/or the process of trying to enslave or control and torture and threaten and deprive me into silence, - silence not only about what they have been doing to me but also silence about the technological and pharmaceutical mind control that has been destroying humanity and is used for multitudes of dark set ups, which everyone should be made aware of. No matter what it has been or is now I don't feel comfortable with any of it, and have been waiting for officials to be here for us, while my loved ones continue to be harmed and enslaved and I continue to be tortured and threatened and slowly destroyed on levels that are most important to me...etc. My real prophetic dreams had warned of ill intentions in some officials. And its all terrifying, beyond description. What is the real truth? What is really happening in the covert stuff? I can only go by my experiences and my prophetic dreams and my dulled instincts and the fact that things seem to be be getting worse instead of better, especially in the past few years. I have been waiting for good/uncontrolled officials to be here for us, but none shown up even after many promises to. Then one covertly said that \"officials are not going to make a stand on this.\" Does this mean that it is all about control and that we are going to continue being tortured and enslaved and destroyed? It appears so.\nP.S. I do understand that, in the bigger picture, many officials are victims too, just like many of my loved ones are victims too, buts its scary when they are used against us, instead of being here for us. I wish good/uncontrolled officials would stand up and shine a Light for us and America and humanity, so the dark forces can start losing their power and freedom can start being regained. 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Since July 15 of 2016, more than 60,000 people have been arrested. They are all well educated individuals with different backgrounds such as soldiers, lawyers, judges, teachers, engineers and so on. Almost 150,000 people have been dismissed from their governmental jobs. But the most miserable stories are, of course, women and children\u2019s.\nToday 17,000 women, 668 babies and children are jailed in Turkey. While some of the children are brought to the prison with their mother, lots of children stays with their relatives or public dorms due to their parents are jailed. 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The boys grew up. That this signifies the first state, namely, of the conjunction of good and truth, is evident from the signification of \"growing up,\" when predicated of good and truth in respect to origin and progress, as being the first state of the latter, namely, of progress, concerning which hereafter; and from the signification of the \"boys,\" as being good and truth; for good is represented by the \"boy Esau,\" and truth by the \"boy Jacob,\" as before shown. The case with good and truth is the same as with offspring, in that they are conceived, are in the womb, are born, grow up, and also advance in age even to the last. That they are conceived, are in the womb, and are born, pertains to the state of origin; but that they grow up, and advance in age even to the last, pertains to the state of progress. The state of progress advances in succession from the birth, and is a state of the conjunction of good and truth. The first of this state is that which is here signified by \"growing up.\" This state commences immediately after birth, and is continued even to the last of life; and with those who are in good, after the life of the body to eternity. 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When it comes to the development of a green city environment, Gothenburg is at the cutting edge.\nSMARTSET in The Guardian: The innovative delivery system transforming Gothenburg's roads\nIt\u2019s a simple idea. The Swedish city\u2019s Stadsleveransen system pools deliveries for 500 shops and businesses \u2013 drastically reducing shopping centre traffic and freeing up once-congested streets for pedestrians and cyclists.\nFeskeleveransen: now shrimps get an electric-powered ride to the Fish Church\nIn November 2014 a new, ingenious way of delivering sea food from the fish quay to the fish merchants of Feskek\u00f4rka (the Fish Church) started. Feskek\u00f6rka is a meeting point for everyone who appreciates the widest range of fresh fish and shellfish in Sweden.\nGothenburg: Swedish Logistics Municipality of 2015\nGothenburg municipality has received the \"Logistics Municipality of the Year\" award for 2015. The presentation was made at Logistik & Transport, the trade fair held at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg.\nThe freight network \u2013 a key element in the city\u2019s answer to freight questions\nFor the last eight years Gothenburg has had an urban freight network, one of the few in Europe. It is made up of representatives from the public and private sectors, and from the fields of education and research. Together they are working to develop logistics solutions for the city.\nFocus on a sustainable business model\nCity Delivery was started in autumn 2012 as part of efforts to reduce the number of delivery vehicles in Gothenburg\u2019s city centre.\nSMARTSET city in the focus: City of Gothenburg\nThe Gothenburg region is the main logistics hub of Scandinavia and the amount of goods handled by the Port of Gothenburg is foreseen to be tripled within the next few decades.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smoke-me-a-kipper-back-for-breakfast.blogspot.com/2007/09/best-article-in-history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:A3X2AU6S2UGVJAXOX4OQQN2SOFSVABYU", "length": 2579, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "smoke-me-a-kipper-back-for-breakfast.blogspot.com", "title": "Master Engineer of Sigmar's Realm: Best Article In History!", "raw_content": "Possibly the best article written in the history of articles. All credit goes to Uncyclopedia for this masterpiece.\n\"Sexual innuendo is a hard topic to stay on top of. As a humor tool, it stands erect in the English language. While there are no hard and fast rules as to what constitutes sexual innuendo, there have been many mass debates on the topic, and now the general principles at the root of the topic are firm and well-rounded. However, full penetration of the subject requires that the reader take a long, hard look at the target and be a cunning linguist in order to avoid limp phrases and imbibe the phrase with a large handful of meanings.\nA common problem with sexual innuendo is the recipient being unable to wrap their hands around the intended meaning. In this case, an individual using sexual innuendo will often start slow and eventually build up, increasing depth more and more until the recipient feels the actual thrust of the point and the innuendo climaxes. An innuendo is always the most pleasing when no one sees it coming, often by entering the mind through the rear. Some skilled people are even able to use several sexual innuendos quickly in succession, resulting in multiple innuendo-esque climaxes. Key phrases can grasp the sentence by the ankles and part its long clauses allowing the orator to penetrate the essence of the sentence.\nIn this regard, the key is to avoid stiff, rigid words, for ones that give the meaning of the sentence a firm rise in innuendic possibilities. Some regard sexual innuendo as an art form, and it goes without saying that one needs a certain level of oral skills in order for the fluidic exchange of innuendo to succeed. However, this is not enough to fill her requirements. One needs to pay special attention to the region of the sentence to which the innuendo will enter. For lasting effects, it is most important to enter deep within the recipient's consciousness and to ensure that all of the seeds of humor have flowed forth. This is not an easy task for most people, so it is only through rigorous repetition of the insertion of sexual innuendo that one can fully master the uplifting effects it can have on vocabulary.\nAlthough sexual innuendo requires masterful manipulation of parts of speech (and sometimes the skillful use of body language), for most people it comes quickly. There is currently much debate over whether an extended innuendo can substitute for technique, for example:\nA blonde asked a barman for a double entendre, so he gave her one.\"\nLabels: Greatest of All Time, Innuendo, Uncyclopedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smthop.com/article.aspx?newsnum=670", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:15:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VA6AETVYSFXR7CNDKR7IAPW5JZ2OE4JJ", "length": 4641, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "smthop.com", "title": "Smooth Operator - Man's Identity Stolen by Bear", "raw_content": "by Mel S. on 7/20/2005 (3)\nNext time you're chatting online, realize that who you're talking to may not really be who you think it is.\nAndy Romansky was having an average day. He went to school in the morning. Headed to work during the evening. And when he got home, he plopped down in front of the computer to unwind for a bit. He clicked on MSN Messenger, and quickly began a conversation with his buddy Ray. But something wasn't quite right...\n\"If only I knew what I was getting myself into,\" Andy says with a sigh.\nHe started the conversation by saying 'Hey, how're you doing?', a simple and common phrase heard often on Messenger. After a few minutes, Ray finally responded with a poorly written message that read 'bringe mee honey'.\n\"Ray is allergic to honey, so I knew something was wrong right away. And he knows how to spell properly. And it doesn't usually take him a minute to write 3 words,\" Andy explains. \"Yet, I still didn't really care too much and I kept the conversation going.\"\n'come overr. i not eat u.' was the next message Andy received a few minutes later. He simply thought Ray was joking, pretending to be some sort of mentally challenged cannibal. He played along with the joke, replying to the message by saying 'Sure thing, Hannibal'.\nBut he didn't know how serious the situation was.\nRay Tyloss wasn't on the other end of the computer. In fact, he was unconscious on the floor of his living room, bashed over the head repeatedly with a picnic basket. Who was at the computer? Well, none other than a massive grizzly bear.\n\"I don't know how he had managed to do it, but the bear had logged into my MSN Messenger, and was trying to lure more victims to my home.\" Ray retells his harrowing story with fear. \"How can a bear even manage to type with his massive paws? I just don't get it.\"\nThe bear continued his evil scheme. He sent messages to all of Ray's friends. Things like 'i not beare. come heree,' 'hungree. havve honey?' and 'i haave monney. comee over,' were laid as bait to all of his buddies. And surprisingly, one of them took it.\n\"Well, he said he wanted to give me money,\" says Jacob Lange. \"I mean, at the time, it seemed like a good idea. I never thought it was a bear weaving a web of lies.\"\nWhen Jacob arrived at Ray's house for the free cash, he was shocked to find Ray passed out on the floor, and a bear running straight at him. Not knowing what to do, he quickly thought of something he saw in a Steven Seagal movie the previous evening, and tried to uppercut the bear.\n\"Yeah...my suggestion for everyone who plans to uppercut a bear is...don't,\" Jacob warns.\nWith the punch doing nothing to the bear, Jacob froze in fear, awaiting his horrible fate. But luck was on his side, as a tranquilizer dart suddenly lodged itself into the bear's neck, and it fell down to the floor. But how?\nDale Peters, a famed hunter, was one of Ray's buddies on the net. When he started receiving instant messages like 'i likke fish' and 'i humann, no beare!' he instantly connected the dots, grabbed his tranq gun, and dashed over to his friend's house to save the day.\n\"A lot of people ask me how I knew it was a bear just from those few messages. You know what, wh\nHi, yeah, remember when I said \"I'll take back everything\" blah, blah, blah? Well I've been thinking on it and I'd like to make a slight amendment to that statement. I take back everything I've said about Canadians except for the stuff about Regina. I mean, who names their town \"Regina\" and expects to get away with it? Well this is one sixth-grade sense of humor that you won't get past.n \n2. by Mel S. on 3/1/2007 4:52:29 PM\nCanadians are funny too. We use our humour to cope with the cold depressing bleakness of Canada. sr \nI hear it also helps to keep you warm during the month long blizzards.n.ru/ ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 7121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://social.diply.com/29685/people-are-being-warned-to-bring-dogs-inside-after-reports-of-do", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:31:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NKUNT6UT4IPMVGQWRZGPSZHX63UCZIZJ", "length": 3734, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "social.diply.com", "title": "People Are Being Warned To 'Bring Dogs Inside' After Reports Of Dogs Freezing", "raw_content": "People Are Being Warned To 'Bring Dogs Inside' After Reports Of Dogs Freezing\nIt doesn't take much winter for everyone to decide they've had enough, thank you very much. For me, the best part of a ski vacation would be warming up in the chalet with a hot drink. And that's on a normal winter day!\nWhen winter gets really serious, as it has been lately, hibernation sounds better and better. But unfortunately, not all of us have that cozy option. And pets in particular often have it rough.\nIt is crazy cold in North America right now, with temperatures so cold it doesn't matter whether they're measured in Fahrenheit or Celsius.\nYes, the polar vortex is back, settling in for an extended stay over huge swaths of the continent.\nAnd although folks are getting some incredible scenes of the effects of mind and body-numbing cold, it's important to remember that this kind of weather isn't just weird - it's dangerous.\nAnd it's especially true for pets, because they typically don't get to choose for themselves whether they get exposed to the cold or not.\nAlthough dogs come equipped with fur coats, they're typically not meant to withstand the crushing cold of a polar vortex.\nAs the saying goes, if it's too cold for you, it's too cold for them. And yes, it's too cold for us.\nWe're being reminded of that after many reports of dogs being found frozen after they were left outside.\nIt's tragic, and it's preventable. In Michigan, the Detroit Pit Crew Dog Rescue found a beagle called Olaf with its hind legs and paws \"completely frozen.\"\nThe rescue has managed to raise funds for the poor dog's care, but of course Olaf is only one of countless dogs suffering through the cold.\nAnd so experts are passing along a few cold weather tips to keep our pets safe, the most obvious being to not leave them alone outside.\nAs Iowa City's animal services coordinator, Chris Whitmore, told USA Today, with this kind of weather, breed doesn't matter. \"Some people think, 'Well, he's a husky, I can leave him out while I'm at work.' They don't want to be out there. He might enjoy it when you're there to watch him, but when it's this cold, we always tell people, 'Don't leave your pet outside. It's just not safe.'\"\nEven for bathroom breaks, you want to keep it short and simple.\nWikimedia | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sled_dog_with_blue_booties.jpg\nDon't linger; let them do their business and then bring them right back inside where it's warm. And if your pooch is a breed with shorter hair and they need to walk for more than a couple of minutes, bundle them up.\nDoggy coats are more than just fashionable. If they'll tolerate booties, put them on too. They'll protect against the nasty salt on the streets as well as the cold.\nWhen you're out with them, watch for signs that the cold is getting to them.\nGetty Images | Anadolu Agency\nMuch like humans, dogs will shiver and whine when the cold is too much to handle. Also, when their paws get too cold, they'll bite and lick at their feet excessively trying to warm them up.\nIf you see a dog chained up outside in this weather, don't hesitate to get help.\nFlickr | Ginkgo7\n\"If you see an animal outside in this weather and there are no signs of their owner or they are chained outside without access to a proper shelter, call your local law enforcement immediately,\" says Oshkosh Area Humane Society's executive director, Joni Geiger. \"It becomes a matter of life and death.\"\nAnd, if you have to travel with your pet, don't leave them alone in a frosty car.\nAccording to the Chicago branch of PAWS, a car can become a \"freezer-like environment\" in this weather when the heater isn't on. 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Over the years, yes, I\u2019ve experienced sexual harassment and assault and perhaps what I experienced at my first paying job out of high school, almost 30 years ago, stands out as the most disgusting and embarrassing. While some people probably know some of it, because they were there, this is the first time I\u2019ve sat down and written about it.\nMy first paying job out of high school was at a fast food restaurant on the New York State Thruway. It\u2019s where other local high school kids worked because it was convenient and pretty much the one option if you didn\u2019t have a car, other than working on the local farms.\nIt was either the first or second weekend I was working and I met this particular manager who was five years older than me. Little did I know when he asked my age, he was ensuring I was of legal age.\nHe paid me a lot of attention and at least one of my high school friends who was also a co-worker, warned me about him but I was na\u00efve and didn\u2019t comprehend what she was telling me. At first, I thought his attention was flattering. I was an insecure teen, probably more na\u00efve than others, looking to fit in and someone to love me. I mean, back then, it seemed as though society dictated I should be planning my wedding at that point of my life.\nIt wasn\u2019t long until began touching and groping me, despite telling him \u201cno.\u201d It happened in situations where I was with him alone, such as the back storage room or cooler, and in broad view of others.\nIt was uncomfortable.\nIt felt shameful.\nI felt it was my fault for letting it happen.\nToday when I look back, I feel as though I was a weak coward for not standing up for myself.\nI can\u2019t remember the circumstances but a year later, I ended up going out on a date with him to the movies. I really wanted a boyfriend and although he had these predatorial traits, I was willing to overlook them. And even though my parents were apprehensive about him, I went out with him anyway. At the end of the night, all I gave him was a kiss and soon after, he told others at the store he could \u201cdo better than me\u201d because he had recently lost weight. Sadly, it was not until years later that I realized his rejection was a blessing.\nI was not the only young woman he groped and touched, in fact, I suspect every woman over 18 was assaulted by him in some way. Looking back to the nearly 30 years ago when this happened, the disappointing and disgusting part was, EVERYONE in the store knew what was happening. Everyone from employees to upper management joked about his molesting ways yet NOTHING was done. No one saved me, or any of my coworkers, from it and I did not save myself.\nThis is why many women have not reported sexual harassment and assault. People will not believe their claims while others will turn the other way knowing damn well what is happening.\nLife experiences shape who we are at this moment but do not define us. To this day, I hate him and will always hate him. I don\u2019t want to hear any bulls#*t on how I need to forgive him so I can move on. Karma will take care of him and it does not need my forgiveness to do so.\nI hate my younger self for letting that happen to me but have learned to forgive my younger self so I can move forward.\nWill this post change anything? On a larger scale, no. We live in a society where this is still acceptable. On a micro-scale, I hope it lets other women in similar situations know they are not alone and gives them the courage I did not have so they may stand up for themselves.\nThis was not an easy post to write. Because you\u2019re reading this, I somehow found the courage to hit the \u201cpublish\u201d button.\nRight on. This or something like it has happened to every woman who has ever held a job. I came of age in the early 70s so you can just imagine what that was like. Takes a lot of courage to write what you wrote. 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Additionally, she has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Council to the Chairman of the State Board of Workers' Compensation. She served nine years in the U S Army Reserve, attaining the rank of Captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps. She is a member of both the Georgia and Florida Bars. 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Asian Business & Management, 1 (2). pp. 227-247. ISSN 1472-4782\nOfficial URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.abm.9200013\nFrom SRO\nGodfrey Yeung", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 3684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/21584/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:14:26Z", "digest": "sha1:D7XJUDXZFBU74HIMYMRVHKAFHYCWW6JO", "length": 928, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "sro.sussex.ac.uk", "title": "A polynomial that is a statistical prism : Sussex Research Online", "raw_content": "A polynomial that is a statistical prism\nOsborne, Mark J and Osborne, Michael J (2003) A polynomial that is a statistical prism. Mathematical Gazette, 87 (508). pp. 76-85.\nThe roots of a polynomial can be represented as points in the complex plane. The time value of money (TVM) equation commonly used in finance is a polynomial. Concepts from financial mathematics can be obtained from the pattern of the roots of the TVM equation. The concepts are given in terms of distances between the roots and other salient points in the plane. This note shows that this particular polynomial, and the technique, can be applied more generally. When a series of data is fed into the coefficients of the polynomial, the mean and standard deviation of the data are seen in the complex plane as combinations of distances between the roots and other salient points. The results are aesthetically pleasing as well as mathematically interesting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 4206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 131.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stagestopsaloon.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:P46P3KHNIAACPMBKECFHJAXPIFF7QF22", "length": 514, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "stagestopsaloon.com", "title": "About us - Stage Stop Saloon & Grill | Mandan-Bismarck, ND", "raw_content": "Stage Stop Saloon, Grill & Liquors is under new ownership, and we can\u2019t wait to serve the Mandan-Bismarck area with the best mix of food, drinks, live music and games. We have been working hard on remodeling and putting the finishing touches on the Saloon & Grill \u2013 stay tuned for our grand reopening date!\nWe are excited to announce that the liquor store is now open! Come on it and get stocked up on all your favorite beer, wine & spirits for the holidays.\nVisit our liquor store website at stagestopliquors.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stephaniecarter.co.uk/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NZ5C2QXDAMXJP4J2YZZWMBUFAUJTT5R3", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stephaniecarter.co.uk", "title": "Privacy Policy \u2013 Stephanie Carter", "raw_content": "Our website address is: http://www.stephaniecarter.co.uk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 86.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://steppemagazine.com/articles/exhibition-central-asian-ikats/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:04:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GXTCJZSXDV7CRAZ6ON4BXWRKDQJTUZMG", "length": 4593, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "steppemagazine.com", "title": "Exhibition: Central Asian Ikats | Steppe", "raw_content": "From the Pip Rau Collection. Photo courtesy of the V&A\nRuby Clark, curator of a vibrant new exhibition on Central Asian ikats at the V&A in London, explains their importance in everyday Central Asian life at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.\nCentral Asian Ikats from the Rau Collection\nVictoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London\nwww.vam.ac.uk.\nIkat textiles produced in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Central Asia are among the finest in the long history of this technique. The continually inventive range of patterns, vivid use of colour and the mastery of the technique achieved by teams of dyers and weavers all combined to produce magnificent, striking textiles. The exhibition currently at the V&A comprises sixty ikat robes and hangings from the world-class Rau Collection.\nThe term ikat comes from the Malay word mengikat, meaning to tie or bind. This refers to the tie-dyeing method used to give the textiles their unique vibrancy of colour and design. (Ikat has now come to refer to the textiles themselves as well as the process.) Carefully prepared lengths of silk thread are laid out and tied onto a patterning frame at the abr-bandi (ikat-binding workshop). The chosen pattern is marked out directly onto the threads in charcoal, following which the pattern designer marks out which areas are intended for which colours. The threads are then tightly bound with cotton ties and covered in wax over the areas that are intended to resist the colour of the first dye bath. They are then sent to the dye houses, the colour is applied, and the threads are returned to the binders. The process is repeated until the pattern is complete, and threads can go back and forth to many different dye houses according to the complexity of the design and the number of colours used.\nDuring the period of sustained economic and cultural revival in Central Asia in the 1800s, the golden age of ikat-making was closely bound up with this new social dynamism. Whole neighbourhoods housing dyers, weavers, binders and designers sprang up amidst expanding and prospering centres like Samarkand and Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan and Kabul and Kunduz in Afghanistan.\nIkats were shaped into more or less elaborate personal costumes, or suitably enlarged and employed as hangings within the home. Hence they became crucial indicators of social power. Richness and originality of design, especially in a person\u2019s ceremonial robes, came to be more and more a key marker of age and social standing. Some high-ranking officials wore up to ten robes at once according to their wealth and status. Naturally, the royal courts took a leading role: ikats became a preferred item of diplomatic gift giving, with especially sumptuous and intricate examples exchanged between rulers and honoured guests.\nIkat was popular at all levels of society. Textile hangings adorned the walls of Central Asian mud-brick houses and would sometimes include sections of ikat. In poorer families, ikat textiles were reserved for use in the most important family rituals where textiles had always played a part \u2013 ikat cloth wrapped newborn babies; was an important part of a dowry; and was worn at weddings and by widows in mourning. None of the cloth was wasted \u2013 smaller sections of ikat would sometimes be sewn into blankets or made into children\u2019s clothes.\nCentral to the appeal of ikat to collectors and art lovers is the sheer vibrancy and imaginativeness of their designs, as well as the way they provide us with clues to the everyday life of the great region to which they belong. They are distinctive nineteenth-century creations full of unmistakable urban energy, but they are also the product of a culture in which the making of textiles had been, for many centuries, a treasured and highly skilled specialty. The making and trading of fine fabrics had been one of Central Asia\u2019s chief economic activities ever since the beginnings of the Silk Road, and through the long period of Islamic dominance, crucial skills and standards of judgment were preserved. The patterns and colours of nineteenth-century ikats from Central Asia at once declare their place and time of production and reach back to an unparalleled textile tradition.\nA guide to ikat, with articles on classical ikat, Soviet faux-ikats and contemporary ikat is available when you buy Steppe 6.\nRuby Clark is Assistant Curator in the Middle East Section of the Asia Department of the V&A Museum, and worked as part of the curatorial team for the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, which opened at the V&A in 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stjohnsurc.org.uk/organisations/organisation/men-of-leisure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IRBRUQWN2DZFCGOEEDUD5VI2Z2QK2MGH", "length": 788, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "stjohnsurc.org.uk", "title": "Men of Leisure - Our Organisations - St John's United Reformed Church, Orpington", "raw_content": "A group of retired gentlemen who meet on alternate Wednesday mornings.\nMeeting: Alternate Wednesday mornings from 10:00 until 12:00\nWe play snooker, on our 3 tables, short mat bowling and have annual competitions for bowls, snooker and pairs snooker. We hold an AGM in February or March each year and at each meeting we have coffee prepared by a rota of club members. The annual subscription is \u00a3 15 and there is a charge for coffee and biscuits. Visits to various places of interest are planned for the better weather.\nWith car sharing we are usually able to find spaces in the church car park.\nThe Men of Leisure Group has been in existence as part of St John's for thirty years or so.\nMen of Leisure Events\n6th March 2019 at 10:00am\n3rd April 2019 at 10:00am\n17th April 2019 at 10:00am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stlouispictures.com/gallery_citygarden_plate-6.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ITW4JZORLLCAAWCZ2DUTLHGV5E4FG3B3", "length": 245, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stlouispictures.com", "title": "St. Louis Pictures - St. Louis Miscellany - Citygarden - Plate 6 - Art, Photography, Gifts - Limited Edition Pictures by Gregory S. Schuessler", "raw_content": "This picture, taken near 8th Street and Market Street in the Citygarden, downtown St. Louis, displays \"Eros Bendato\" by Igor Mitoraj, born in 1944. This bronze sculpture has the feel of an ancient relic that has been excavated and reconstructed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://studyestonia.ee/en/news/international-summer-university-brings-over-200-participants-around-world-tartu", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:42:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ADQBQM63ZFE4GB2WRHDJUNBIPBS5ACZI", "length": 4546, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "studyestonia.ee", "title": "International Summer University brings over 200 participants from around the world to Tartu | Study in Estonia StudyEstonia", "raw_content": "Home News International Summer University brings over 200 participants from around the world to Tartu\nThe first academic week of the University of Tartu\u2019s International Summer University has begun and for the first time in the summer university\u2019s history, the developments of e\u2013Estonia, cyber security and e\u2013democracy are among the topics introduced. The summer university brings 215 learners from 30 countries to Tartu, making the town a centre of multicultural education for the week.\nThere are students from Peru, China, Argentina and Singapore taking part in the seven Lifelong Learning Centre\u2019s International Summer University programmes and the Estonian language and culture summer programme by the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures. South-Korea, the United States of America, Finland, Georgia, Japan and Ukraine are the countries with the most participants.\nSenior Specialist for the UT International Summer University Margot Must said that the summer university programme becomes more and more popular every year and extends its global reach.\n\u201cThe summer school offers a chance to enjoy beautiful Estonia and learn from the internationally renowned lecturers at the UT. We cover many innovative topics which are not yet common in the students\u2019 state or educational system and where the UT lecturers have the most competence in Estonia,\u201d said Must who was pleased that there are always a great number of people interested in learning the Estonian language and culture because in the global context, speaking this language is a privilege.\nEstonian language courses based on Finnish will begin soon for groups of three different levels, 50 students will study the Estonian language and culture at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures and students from Pittsburg will study Russian at the Narva College.\nFor the first time, the students can participate in a programme which introduces the developments of e\u2013Estonia, giving them an opportunity to learn about e\u2013state and its structure and analyse cyber security and e\u2013democracy. The programme includes several experts of the field and the study work is carried out by lecturer at the Centre for Baltic Studies Heiko P\u00e4\u00e4bo, professor of Media Studies Pille Pruulman-Vengerfeldt and visiting lecturer of IT Law Eneken Tikk-Ringas.\nThe International Summer University programmes join several study fields and two of them are done in cooperation with international partner universities. The course \u201cEuropean integration\u201d in cooperation with Utrecht Summer School takes place for two weeks in Utrecht and for two weeks in Estonia: in Tartu and P\u00e4rnu. The programme \u201cAfter the Empire\u201d, in cooperation with the University of Latvia, takes place in Riga, Tallinn and Tartu and focuses on the Baltic region and political and economic relations between the European Union, NATO and Russia. The head lecturer in Tartu is visiting professor Andrey Makarychev and in P\u00e4rnu professor Andres Kasekamp.\nIn addition to academic lectures, the students will visit relevant enterprises and institutions, receive an overview of the university and its international degree studies and participate in a cultural programme.\nFrom 10 to 21 August, the programme \u201cSemiotic (un-)predictability\u201d will take place in cooperation with the semiotics department and from 24 August to 15 September, students from Hokkaido University will be studying English language and culture in Tallinn and Tartu.\nParticipation in the International Summer University is funded by several scholarships. Thanks to the 18 development cooperation scholarships by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, students from Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova were able to participate in four different programmes. The German Academic Exchange Centre DAAD\u2019s \u201cGo\u2013East\u201d programme enabled four students to participate in the e\u2013Estonia programme and three to study Estonian language and culture. Learning Estonian is also supported by the Estonian Institute\u2019s scholarships for 21 people. The Archimedes Foundation supports one student\u2019s studies of Estonian language and culture and another student on the semiotics course.\nThere are also several other International Summer University programmes at the University of Tartu this summer which are organised by faculties and colleges.\nAdditional information: Margot Must, Senior Specialist for the UT International Summer University, tel. 737 5561, 506 3686, e-mail: margot.must@ut.ee.\nSource: http://www.ut.ee/en/news/international-summer-university-brings-over-200-participants-around-world-tartu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sudbury.ontariospca.ca/what-we-do-sudbury/investigations-sudbury/court-process-sudbury.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:44:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HQYDCA2UWSFIIFK5ZPX4Z6F3HNSGXQ5N", "length": 1817, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sudbury.ontariospca.ca", "title": "Court Process Ontariospca", "raw_content": "Below is the court process for an Ontario SPCA Inspector/Agent in prosecuting an animal cruelty charge.\nWhen an Ontario SPCA Inspector/Agent receives a complaint that an animal is being neglected or abused, he or she sets out to examine the situation and relieve the animal of its distress. When the Inspector/Agent has collected what is believed to be sufficient information to pursue a criminal charge under the Criminal Code of Canada, he or she may consult with a Crown Attorney before laying a charge. The Inspector/Agent may also make charges under provincial legislation, including the Ontario SPCA Act, or utilize provisions within miscellaneous provincial laws outside of the Act including the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act (related to the suffering of wildlife).\nIn the case of a provincial or federal charge, the Inspector/Agent then takes the evidence to a Justice of the Peace and swears out an \"information\" (an official court document), which includes a summons for the accused. The alleged animal abuser is served with the summons, which details the accusation and gives a date for a court appearance. Next, the Inspector/Agent prepares a Crown Brief, which advises what information is available to be called as evidence against the accused. This brief will be disclosed to the accused person.\nAt the first appearance date, the court may set the matter down to a future date to allow the accused more time to consult with a lawyer. If the accused chooses to enter a \"not guilty\" plea, a date will be set for a trial, at which time witnesses will be subpoenaed to provide their evidence to the court.\nUnder The Ontario SPCA Act, a person could receive up to a $60,000 fine, imprisonment for a term of not more than two years, or to both and could also receive a lifetime ban from owning an animal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://synesthesie.nl/pub/necosynreport.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:17:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MKGJJGB2SS6YSKQ2WHQNK76ND4B456W2", "length": 44057, "nlines": 197, "source_domain": "synesthesie.nl", "title": "NeCoSyn Method: Scientific Report", "raw_content": "Assessing the strenght of color synesthesia\nin words, music, taste and odor perception\nCr\u00e9tien van Campen & Clara Froger\nHistory of synesthesia in art and science\nTheories of synesthesia\nIncidence of types of synesthesia\nDiagnosis of synesthesia\nReliability, validity, sensitivity\nTypes of synesthesia\nINTRODUCTION: Synesthesia has been widely investigated in the sciences and the arts. Basic questions like 'what is synesthesia? and who is a synesthete? have often been answered on a conceptual level but hardly on a empirical level.\nOBJECT: In order to contribute to the assessment of synesthesia we developed a measuring instrument for color-word, color-taste, color-music and color-odor synesthesia. The Netherlands Color Synesthesia (NeCoSyn) instrument is based on the Swedish Natural Color System (NCS cf. www.ncscolor.com) and the British Color-word-synesthesia test (Baron-Cohen et al. 1987, 1993, 1996).\nMETHODS: In total 248 subjects were tested in three stages to develop the instrument and test its characteristics like reliability, validity, sensitivity/specificity and exactness.\nRESULTS: The instrument is characterized by high interrater reliability (r > 0.89), high concurrent validity with the English version and subjective reports of synesthesia. The test showed to be feasible in large groups with low costs. The specifity of the original English test was improved by using abstract terms. The domain of application of the original color-word test was extended to other types of color synesthesia. The NeCoSyn instrument distinguishes four types of synesthesia (color-word, color-taste, color-music and color-odor synesthesia). Scores on each type differed statistically significant (p < 0.05). The instrument specifies dimensions of color experiences (brightness, saturation, tone). Hue scores differed significant (p < 0.05) from brightness and saturation scores in most types.\nAPPLICATIONS: The instrument can be applied in different fields of the sciences and the arts. For instance in the scientific diagnosis the instrument has advantages to existing methods in specificity (types of synesthesia, color dimensions) and exactness (strength of synesthesia). The instrument is based on a method that can be applied to assess color synesthesia in other sensory domains (e.g. color-tactile synesthesia).\nCONCLUSION: The NeCoSyn is a reliable, valid, feasible and exact instrument to assess the strength of different types of color synesthesia on the three dimensions of color. It can be used for diagnosis of synesthesia, estimating incidence of synesthesia in (sub)populations and as a method to assess other types of synesthesia.\nSynesthesia refers to the phenomenon that the stimulation of one sense modality gives rise to a sensation in another sense modality too (Harrison & Baron-Cohen, 1994). The term \"synesthesia\" originates from the Greek syn (together) and aisthesis (perceive). The most prevalent form of synesthesia is known as audition color\u00e9e, the phenomenon of hearing music and/or vowels in color. Day (2001) extended the definition and stresses the multiforms of synesthesia: synaesthesia is the general name for a related set of various cognitive states having in common that the stimulation of one sense, such as smell, is involuntarily simultaneously perceived by one or more other senses, such as sight or/and hearing.\nColor synesthesia is one branch within this family of perceptual phenomena and refers to the experience of color as a result of the stimulation of a nonvisual sense modality. From subjective reports we know that this color experience may range from internal (feeling like) to external (photism-like) experiences. Several researchers have stressed the neurological nature of the phenomenon and distinguished the phenomenon from mental association (Cytowic 1989, Harrison 2001, Ramachandran & Hubbard 2001).\nHistory of synesthesia research in art and science\nAlready in the ancient Greek civilization, color synesthesia was investigated by some philosophers. Aristotle and Pythagoras already studied the correspondences of music and color brightness intervals (Gage 1993, Struycken & Fernwerd 2000). Some artist have explored the phenomena of color music and synesthesia since the seventeenth century and the scientific study started with medical case study followed by psychological experimenting with groups of subjects (Van Campen 1999). Synesthesia research flourished in the Interbellum with hundreds of scientific publications on the subject (cf. Mahling 1926). After a dip in interest after the Second World War the revival of synesthesia started with neuroloigical research in the late eighties (Van Campen 1999).\nThe study of synesthesia is characterized by multidisciplinarity in the sciences and the arts (cf. the bibliography Synesthesia in Art and Science (Van Campen, Berman & Galeyev, 2001). The subject is studied in science for instance in perception psychology (cf. Marks 1978, Baron?Cohen et al., 1987, Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001), psychology of consciousness (cf. Grossenbacher 2001, Psyche symposium 1995), neonatals studies (cf. Maurer 1993), creativity and cognitive science (cf. Waterworth 1997, Lindauer 1991, Wheeler et al. 1925, Odbert et al. 1942), neurology and brain imaging (cf. Cytowic 1989, Paulesu et al. 1995), genetics (cf. Bailey & Johnson 1997, Baron?Cohen et al. 1996) psychofarmaca (cf. McKellar 1997), art history (Gage 1993, 1999, Dann 1999, Jewanski 1999, Von Maur 1985), musicology (Peacock 1985, Galeyev 1993, 2001, Wellek 1930, Behne 2001). And in the arts: in multimedia and internet studies (cf. Doctor Hugo 2000, Higgins 2001, Galeyev 1994, Ox 1999, Moritz s.n.), linguistics (cf. Marks1984, Johnson 1982), literature (cf. O=Malley 1964), and visual music (cf. Collopy 2001).\nArt and science have contributed in different ways to our knowledge of color synesthesia. Artistic experiments have uncovered interesting dynamic and emotional aspects of synesthetic perceptions and contributed to the phenomenology of synesthesia. Psychologists have isolated some aspects of synesthesia and contributed methods for assessing these aspects of synesthesia (Van Campen, 1999).\nGiven the multidisciplinarity of synesthesia research, diverging theoretical positions have been proposed. In general, theories can be ordered on two dimensions: 1) synesthesia is a normal versus an abnormal perceptual functioning, and 2) synesthesia is a physical versus a psychological phenomenon. In this two dimensional framework we position the main theories in brief, and we end with a positioning of our research and assumptions.\nThe oldest ? most accepted and common sense ? view holds that humans possess five independently functioning senses (the modularity thesis). The other view holds that human beings have one integrated sensory organ with five subdivisions (the unitary thesis). Modularistst argue that synesthesia is an anomaly and is explained as abnormal process of neural functioning. Unitarists consider synesthesia as a developed cognitive competence that is been integrated in the daily cognitive functioning of individuals with advantages like creative production and problem solving. In science, synesthesia has been mostly studied by psychologists and neurologists, sometimes in collaboration. Some psychologists have studied the relationships between physical stimulation and sensory experiences (cf. Marks 1975). Some neurologists have looked for disturbances of normal brain functioning (Cytowic 1995, Baron-Cohen et al. 1993, Grossenbacher 2001, Ramachandran & Hubbard 2001).\nPositioning our research on the two dimensions, we assume that synesthesia is a normal sensory process. It appears that synesthesia is a perceptual competence that is used in creative problem solving. Individual differences exist in the type, intensity and vividness of these sensations. Differences that probably are the result of individual developments of the senses within a biological and social-cultural environment. However, we do not believe that the development process is determined from birth to adulthood. Developmental synesthesia has plasticity and is influenced by training (e.g. artistic education) that has been given to develop the synesthesia competence. The incidence of color synesthesia among people who professionally work with color (e.g. visual artists and designers, color consultants) is reported to be higher than average (Ramachandran & Hubbard 2001, Root-Bernstein 2001, 1999, Domino 1989, Dailey et al. 1997).\nThe incidence figures that have been proposed show large differences. Ranging from early estimations by Galton who thought 1:20 persons was synesthete to 1:20,000 (Cytowic 1995). A population study was done by Baron-Cohen et al. (1996) who found a frequency of 1:2000 for color-word synesthesia. Incidence rates have to be distinguished to types of synesthesia. Day (2001) has gathered information on the basis of 409 subjective reports of synesthetes. He distinguishes 12 types of color synesthesia among others. The incidence of the colored graphemes type is the highest (68.0%), followed by Colored Time Units (20.5%), Colored Musical Sounds (15.9%), Colored General Sounds (11.2%), Colored Musical Notes (10.0%), Colored Phonemes (10.0%), Colored Tastes (5.9%), Colored Odors (5.6%), Colored Pain (4.4%), Colored Personalities (3.9%), Colored Temperatures (2.0%), Colored Touch (2.0%).(1)\nDiagnosing synesthesia is complex since it is not a visible trait of persons. Diagnosis has to rely on self-reports and psychological testing. Most scientific studies and artistic explorations start with questions like: what is a synesthetic experience? and 'Who is a synethete? but few have addressed the problem of diagnosing or testing the presence of synesthesia in individuals.\nThe purpose of diagnosis and testing is to distinguish people with synesthetic experiences from people without synesthetic experiences.\nIn the last decades a few methods have been developed to determine, diagnose, assess or distinguish synesthetes and their synesthetic experiences. We discuss the pros and cons of these methods:\na) Self-report\nSelf-report is the most often used method. Synesthetic experiences are described to a person and the person is asked if he or she shares these descriptions. The method appeared less reliable in our tests. Beforehand some (modest) synesthetic participants did not believe that they were synesthetic. On other occasions participants who were very convinced of their synesthesia had low scores on the synesthesia test. Self-reports are not always valid or reliable. Some independent measure or standard should be used next to self- reports.\nb) Diagnostic criteria\nCytowic has proposed five diagnostic criteria for synesthetic experiences: they are involuntary (but elicited), projected, durable (discrete and generic), memorable, emotional (and noetic) (Cytowic, 1993). This method is more objective (independent of subjective feeling). To state the diagnosis the clinician depends on self-reports of the synesthete. This makes the method less reliable (Korb, 1996). Further it depends on the expertise of the clinician. The interrater judgment reliability of this method is not tested as far as. The method of diagnosis does not provide results on the strength or intensity of the synesthetic experiences.\nc) Consistency test\nThe consistency test was developed by Baron-Cohen et al. 1987, 1993, 1996). In 1964 already, Ostwald formulated the criterion that the type of imagery evoked by specific sensations in another modality is stable over time. The color-word test is based on this criterion (see description of test in Methods section).The results of the study show that subjects with synaesthesia gave exactly the same color correspondence 93% of the time, in spite of being tested over 1.5 years later. Subjects without synaesthesia were only 38% accurate, in spite of being asked to try and remember the colors they gave for words and being tested only one week later. The reliability of the test has been measured by interrater reliability. The test is valid: test scores were in line with subjective reports and interviews of the subjects. Influences of memory trace and possible psychiatric conditions were controlled. The consistency test has been used by Rushton (1998), Svartdal et al (1986) among others.\nThe reliability is limited to the use of color words (later color chips were used). The color concept was not differentiated: the emphasis is on color tone (hue). Other studies (Marks 1975, Hornbostel, 1931) have shown that the color dimension of brightness is central to color-word associations.\nThe validity is limited in two respects. First, the validity is limited to one type of synesthesia: color-word synesthesia. Second, the validity is limited to subjects who speak the English language.\nd) Brain imaging\nCytowic has recorded the cerebral blood flow of a synesthete during his experiencing of intense synesthesia, revealing an abnormal pattern of brain activity (Cytowic, 1989), studies of blood flow among synesthetes are being continued by Paulesu et al. (1995) and Ramachandran and Hubbard (2001) with PET scans and fMRI.\nThis method looks like the final brain test, but it has some disadvantages: 1) The studies have not yet resulted in clear criterion or scales or critical values for synesthetic brain activity 2) the research is very expensive, time consuming and not easy for the participants (being locked for sessions of half an hour in small tube).\nStarting from these existing assessment methods we set the following requirements for the development of the Netherlands Color Synesthesia (NeCoSyn) instrument:\n1. valid and reliable, i.e.\na) rely as little as possible on subjective report.\nb) contain clear criterions for the presence of synesthesia\nc) be valid for non-english languages too.\n2. feasible, i.e.\nd) easy and cost-effective test to administer\n3. exact, i.e.\ne) quantify color experiences\nf) be useful for the assessment of several types of color synesthesia\ng) differentiating color dimensions (hue, saturation, brightness)\nh) accurate in assessing grades of strength of synesthesia.\nWe developed the NeCoSyn instrument and tested its characteristics in three stages.\n1. validity and reliability\nFirst we tested if a Dutch translation of the existing consistency test was valid and reliable for application in Dutch speaking subjects, as an example of a non-english language.(2) Nine self-reported synesthetes responded on an announce in the Journal of Dutch Color Society. Their mean age was 48 years, ranging from 25 to 71. The group consisted of 6 females and 3 males, most had professions related to color (artists, chemical analyst, designers).\nThe test we used was based on the English Color-Word Synesthesia test (Baron-Cohen et al. 1987, 1993), that consists of 117 words: 40 meaningful words from four semantic categories (animals, towns, objects, professions), seven days of the week, 20 forenames, 26 letters of the alphabet, eight emotional neutral abstract terms, and eight nonsense words. The words are read in random order to the participants. Participants note color words for each word item. Some weeks later the test is repeated with a selection of 13 words from the collection of 117 words. The responses, i.e. the color names, on test1 and test2 of the 13 identical words are compared and judged by independent raters.\nFor our test we translated and shortened the English version. The Dutch version consisted of 50 words, containing words from four semantic categories (animals, towns, objects, professions), letters of the alphabet, days of the week, nonsense words, and abstract words.(3) The test was repeated with 50 words one year later. Four raters compared the responses of the first and second test independently of each other. The interrater agreement was tested.\nIn the second stage, an improved version of the test was applied to a large group of 223 art students by paper instruction. The subjects were a random sample of all students in one year of a preliminary study of art and design. The responses of 42 students (16%) were not used since they did not attend both two sessions. The mean age was 17,5 years, ranging from 16 to 22 years, 51% of the participants are female.\nOn the basis of the results of the first test with nine subjects (see results), the test was adapted into a more sensitive and shorter list of 20 abstract words (see Results section). The participants used paper and pencil. They noted color words. After a two week interval the test was repeated. Because the interrater reliability was very high in the first stage (see Results section), one rater was used in this stage.\n3. Exactness\nIn the third stage, the instrument was refined with respect to accurateness, distinction of types of color synesthesia and distinction of color dimensions. On the basis of experiences and results from the earlier stages that the use of color words appeared too little refined to assess the color experiences, we decided to use color chips and give subjects the possibility too choose up to three color chips to indicate the experienced colors. We asked them to order the three colors in number of dominance. We used color chips from official NCS books to ensure standardization.\nNCS Natural Color System is a logical color system built on how humans sees color. With NCS, all imaginable surface colors can be described and given unambiguous NCS notations. The six pure colors are the basis of the built-in ability of humans to characterize different colors are white W, black S, yellow Y, red R, blue B, and green G - the six elementary colors. NCS color notations are based on how much a given color seems to resemble these six elementary colors. In the NCS notation S 2030-Y90R, for example, 2030 indicates the nuance, i.e. the degree of resemblance to black and to the maximum chromaticness; in this case, 20% blackness (s) and 30% chromaticness (c). The hue Y90R indicates the percentage resemblance of the color to two chromatic elementary colors, here Y and R. Y90R means yellow with 90% redness. In this three-dimensional model, called the NCS color space, all imaginable surface colors can be placed and thus be given an exact NCS notation. (see illustration below) (www.ncscolor.com).\nThe Natural Color System has been chosen because it has several advantages over other color systems. First, The NCS uses a notation of colors that is simple to read and understand. Even for laymen the code for hue indicates what type of color it is, for instance Y50R indicates that the hue in the middle between the yellow and red hue. The user understands immendiately this must be a kind of orange. The code for brightness shows what is the percentage of blackness in the color and the code for saturation how much percent 'pure' hue is in the color. Second, the differences between two colors are immediately visible on the basis of their NCS code, even for non-experts. These two advantages go with the advantages of color systems in general: the codes are numeric and like other color systems can be stored in large databases and colors can be reproduced.\nSixteen participants were recruited partly from announcements and partly from earlier experiments, offering us the possibility to compare their scores on different stages of the NeCoSyn test. The mean age was ca. 35 years, ranging from 18 to 75 years. Five men and eleven woman participated. The stimuli were chosen to cover a range of well-known dimensions. The taste stimuli were varied on the dimensions salt, sweet, bitter and sour. The odors were varied on the same dimensions plus the dimension light-heavy. The musical instruments were chosen from a variety of wind and stringed instruments.(4) In the taste session and the odor sessions the participants were blindfolded during stimulus exposure.\n1. Reliability, validity and sensitivity\nReliability refers to the accuracy of the test. Is the measured score close to the real score? Validity test are designed to test if the instrument measures what is intended to measure. For instance does a synesthesia test not measure memory competence or eidetic memory. Baron-Cohen et al (1987, 1993) have already ruled this possibility out for the test. Another question concerns the validity of the test in other languages. Sensitivity is an indication how capable the instrument is of detecting synesthetes and excluding the non-synesthetes.\nTo test the reliability we asked four raters to judge the responses of the nine subjects in the first stage testing. For each item they had to decide whether the two responses (color words) were equal or not. The Pearson moment correlation between the four judges ranged from 0.85 to 0.91, indicating very high agreement.\nWe tested if an Dutch translation of the original English test is valid for Dutch speaking by comparing the scores of synesthetes and non-synesthetes on both language versions. In the English test the average score of synesthetes was 93% against 38% for non-synesthetes (Baron-Cohen et al.1993). In the Dutch version, the average for the synesthetes was 90% against 43% for the the non-synesthetes. The scores show almost an exact identical pattern. The slight differences are attributed to the small number of subjects in the study.\nA first step to enhance the sensitivity of the instrument was to investigate which words were most useful in distinguishing synesthetes form others. On the basis of the individual test scores we formed a synesthetes group and a non-synesthetes group. Which words did discriminate most between synesthetes and non-synesthetes? The group of abstract words turned out to hav ethe most distinguishing power. In contrast words of animals were less sensitive since non-synesthetes were able to produce high consistency scores on animal names items on basis of their knowledge of the skincolor of these animals. The extra power of the abstract words is shown in figure 1. The figure shows the scores (100% is maximum) of the nine participants. The participants are ordered from the person with the lowest score on the left and the person with the highest score on the right. The blue line links the scores on the total test of 50 items and the pink line connects the scores on a selection of abstract words. The pink line is steeper, having lower (than normal) scores for the non-synesthetes and higher (than normal) scores for the synesthetes. The test of 20 abstract words turns out to be more sensitive for detecting synesthetes.\nFigure 1: strength (consistency) of synesthesia scores (in 0-100%) of nine subjects on the total test and a selection of abstract words.\nFeasibility of instruments refers to practical requirements in their application. Do participants understand the instructions, do they perform well, is the test a burden for participants, are the costs in relation to the goals of the assessment etcetera?\nIn the second stage we tested the feasiblity of the more sensitive version of 20 abstract words(5) in a large group of 223 students. The test was adminstered by a teacher, who was instructed by the researchers. The test appeared to be understood well. Less than one percent did not fill two forms regularly. The reason was disinterest. The test consumed little time. It took ten minutes of two lessons with a time interval of two weeks. The test was administered in 10 classes. Copied A4 forms were used, keeping the costs low.\nIn the third stage we continued with the calibration of the instrument. In stage one the reliability or accuracy and sensitivity of the color-word instrument was tested. In this stage we tried to improve the specifity of the instrument. The test showed some disadvantages in the former stages: 1) color words are too little specific to assess the fine color sensations of synesthetes, 2) scores on color-word test are limited to one type of synesthesia. Therefore we added other stimuli (taste, odor and music) and used color chips of the Natural Color System instead of color words.\nFirst we compared the assessment by paper and pencil based on color names and the NeCoSyn test that is based on the color chips that contain information about the three dimensions of color: hue, saturation and brightness. Table 1 shows the results of five subjects that did the paper and pencil test and the color chip test on color-word synesthesia. The first column shows their score on the paper and pencil test and the last three columns their differentiated scores on hue, saturation and brightness on the color chip test. As was expected the differentiated color chip test offers more detailed information. Not only the scores are more exact (on NCS scales) but individual patterns are more explicit. Subject S3 has higher scores on hue and brightness than on saturation. For subjects S4 en S5 the dimension of brightness has lower scores than hue and saturation dimensions. This indicates that a general average score covers individual differences with respect to color dimensions.\nTable 1 Comparison of strength (consistency) of synesthesia scores (0-100%) on paper & pencil test and NeCoSyn instrument of 5 color-word synesthetes.\nsubject paper & pencil test NeCoSyn Instrument\nS10 100 91 93 93\nS11 90 93 92 93\nS8 86 (100) 93 92 84\nNote: short paper and pencil test (of abstract words and weekdays), last two subjects in step 1 the full word test and between brackets the score on the abstract word list.\nIs synesthesia different on color dimensions? We tested the hypothesis that no difference exist with respect to color dimensions. We used the data of 12 subjects that had a score of ninety percent or more on one of the color dimensions of one of the sensory domains. The scores of these 12 subjects are presented in table 2 for the four types of sensory stimuli by the three color dimensions .\nThe hypothesis that differences between color dimensions are absent or accidentally was tested rowwise by means of paired-samples T test that compares the means of two variables for a single group.(6) The hypothesis of no statistical difference was rejected in most cases as is indicated by the notes a-h. In these cases the difference was statistically significant (p < 0.05). For instance the individual scores on the brightness of words differ significantly from individual scores on the hue of words (note a).\nTable 2. Group means of strength (consisstency) of synesthesia scores (standard error between brackets) specified for color dimensions\nbrightness saturation hue\nwords 92.5 (4.1)a 92.3 (4.0)b 90.4 (5.3)a\nmusic 85.4 (6.4)d 84.3 (6.6)e 73.3 (14.0)de\ntastes 87.6 (6.7)b 84.7 (6.5)c 78.9 (8.6)bc\nodors 83.6 (6.6)fg 78.8 (7.7)fh 74.3 (7.8)gh\nNotes: paired samples t test rows\na-h: significant differences (t-test, p<.05)\nThe results table 2 show some interesting patterns. Comparing the scores on brightness, saturation and hue, it appears that brightness synesthesia is always significant stronger than color tone synesthesia;\nsaturation synesthesia is significantly stronger than color tone synesthesia except for words; and brightness synesthesia is only significantly stronger than saturation synesthesia for odors.\nThis implies that experiences on the brightness dimensions are different from experiences on the color tone dimensions. The experiences on the saturation dimension differ more from hue dimension than from the brightness dimension.\nDay (2001) and others have suggested that types of synesthesia are distinct and not related. A person is not a synesthete in general but has one (or more) types of synesthesia, e.g. color-word synesthesia of color-taste synesthesia. We took the same group of 12 synesthetes with 90-plus scores on one type of synesthesia and tested the hypothesis that no difference exists between types of synesthesia. The hypothesis assumes that only a general type of synesthesia exists and that differences on different sensory stimuli are random. Table 3 represents the same scores as table 2 but to test the hypothesis the results are analyzed columnwise by paired samples t test.\nTable 3. Group means of strength (consisstency) of synesthesia scores for four types of synesthesia (standard error between brackects)\nwords 92.5 (4.1)ab 92.3 (4.0)cde 90.4 (5.3)fgh\nmusic 85.4 (6.4)b 84.3 (6.6)e 73.3 (14.0)h\ntastes 87.6 (6.7) 84.7 (6.5)c 78.9 (8.6)f\nodors 83.6 (6.6)a 78.8 (7.7)d 74.3 (7.8)g\nThe hypothesis of no differences between types was rejected in a number of cases. Colorbrightness-word synesthesia differs significantly from colorbrightness-music synesthesia en colorbrightness-ordor synesthesia. Only the difference with taste is not significant. Colorsaturation-word synesthesia differs significantly from the other three types concerning the color saturation of music, tastes and odors.\nColortone-word synesthesia differs significantly from the other three types of synesthesia.\nThe results show that color-word synestetes are significantly different from the other three types synesthesia. Among the other types of synesthesia no significant differences were found. The latter result can be explained by the fact that the number of these synesthetes were few. Most synesthetes in this group were of the color-word type.\nIn general the NeCoSyn profiles are maps of someone's individual color synesthesia. Since they are scaled the profiles can be compared to profiles of other synesthetes and group means. In this paragraph we look for possible applications of this young and new method in the fields of art an science.\nIn the fields of arts, the NeCosyn profiles can be used as an analytic tool by individual artists for understanding and gaining more detailed insight in their personal synesthetic experiences. Compare for instance how the synesthetic artists Jack Ox (2000) and Carol Steen (2002) profited from more insight in their synesthetic experiences. The results of the NeCoSyn method can be used as an input for the creative process. Collopy (2001) has shown how knowledge of synesthetic correspondences is put into musical visualizers and other multimedia instruments. In art schools and art education the NeCoSyn method and profiles can be used to learn students about their personal perceptual functioning and sensibilities. In the process of developing our method we tested a group of more than 200 art students. The testing revealed synesthesia to some students and stimulated discussion of synesthesia and perception.\nIn addition to existing methodologies, the NeCoSyn instrument provides the opportunity to differentiate types of sensory domain synesthesia and types of color synesthesia.\nIn comparison with the method of self-report we can report from our interviews with participants that self-reports are not always in line with the test results. Another point is that the subjective intuition of participants were objectified and specified in numbers by the NeCoSyn instrument. In particular the extra information on color dimensions of synesthetic experciences was new to participants.\nIn comparison to the clinician method of diagnosis on basis of criteria, the NeCoSyn offers more standardized results, not dependent on the raters individuals judgment. The instrument is robust and not prone to different interpretations.\nThe comparison with the color-word test has been discussed extensively in this article. To summarize, the main advantages are the assessment on color dimensions instead of hue and the extensions to other types of color synesthesia.\nIn comparison with brain imaging the NeCoSyn is far less cheaper to administer, is less burden to participants and can therefore be used in larger scale testing in populations. One of our subjects was tested in the medical lab of Utrecht University. The results were general and less specified than the results of the test with the NeCoSyn instrument.\nReported incidence figures have a wide range: 1:20 (Galton) 1:200 (Hubbard & Ramachandran), 1:2000 (Baron-Cohen cs) and 1:20,000 (Cytowic). The most elaborate epidemiologic study by Baron-Cohen et al. restricted to colortone-word synesthesia. The NeCoSyn offers a more differentiated measure for assessing the incidence of types of color synesthesia. This will be subject of a separate article.\nMethod to assess synesthesia in other sensory domains\nThe current methods claim to assess synesthesia in a global sense (self-report) or very specific (Baron-Cohen). This study has its limitations, since it was restricted to color synesthesia with four types of stimuli.\nThe consistency method that was developed by Baron-Cohen cs. and refined /elaborated by us with respect to color dimensions can be applied to more sensory domains. We give the example of assessing color-tactile synesthesia. Black little sacs with textures inside. Let persons choose colors after touching the textures inside. One can vary with cold and warm textures, fine versus coarse etcetera.\nCurrent methods assess synesthesia in a global sense (self-report) or on one type (color-letter) The scientifically most used consistency method , developed by Baron-Cohen et al., is refined and elaborated by us with respect to color dimensions and other sensory domains. In the present study we restricted ourselves to four types of color synesthesia, but the NeCoSyn method can be applied to more sensory domains. We give the example of assessing color-tactile synesthesia. Take little black sacs with substances of different textures inside. Let persons choose colors after touching the textures inside. One can vary with cold and warm textures, fine versus coarse etcetera. That means that the NeCoSyn method is not finished. The artistic and scientific study of synesthesia has grown along separated lines, more by tradition than by logic. The NeCoSyn is an example that critical interaction of both disciplines can deepen our insight in synesthesia and probably multisensory sensibility in general.\nWe would like to thank the Netherlands Society of Color Study (Nederlandse Verenging voor Kleurenstudie, Florence Husen, art teacher at the Lucas College in Boxtel, the members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Fenna and Rosa Boekhorst, all participants, and the Natural Color System Sweden for their generous help.\n1. 40% of the subjects have multiple synesthesies\n2. A relation between language and synesthesia is suggested by John Gage (1999), who argues that the Russian language lents itself to color-hearing. Not coincidentally, three well known 'synesthetes' were from Russian origin: Nabokov, Kandinsky and Scriabin.\n3. The Dutch words were: Woensdag, hij, Vlissingen, olifant, b, asbak, vaas, loodgieter, lamp, a, Assen, wethouder, voor, zij, Maandag, tussen, m, kapstok, s, roermond, Dinsdag, onder, suval, bord, Groningen, Vrijdag, Zaterdag, k, wij, kangaroe, slager, taal, o, Alkmaar, stoel, l, vos, analyse, olko, raaf, amba, aap, i, Donderdag, naast, p, blad, zin, Zondag, u.\n4. The tastes were: rice, sea salt, peanut butter, honey, chinese noodles, olive oil, gherkin, pure chocalate, lemon juice, coffee, peppermint. The odors: coffee, anise, marmite, whey, eucalyptus oil, madeira, plum vinegar, soft soap, jasmine incense, sprat, arnica oil. And the musical instruments: violin I, piano, viola, violin II, oboe, harp, bassoon, trombone, tuba, trumpet, double bass. The music was specially taped for the experiment by instrumentalists of the Rotterdam Philharmonic.\n5. 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Cutsforth. \"Synaesthesia, A Form of Perception.\" Psychological Review; vol. 29 (1922) 212-220.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 44766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://t-central.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-universal-truth.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:10:24Z", "digest": "sha1:BIJTY6SSRNWWYZAJYDKMJVZ7245R6EF7", "length": 577, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "t-central.blogspot.com", "title": "T-Central: a universal truth", "raw_content": "That video I posted yesterday had a commenter stating that \"Jesus can heal you\" and all I could think of was slapping him because this has nothing to do with religious principles or moral fortitude; but such is the stupendous ignorance in this world.\nJoanna is one of the most well read indivisuals I know, when it comes to the subject of gender and sexuality. In short, Joanna has a pretty good idea what we're all about. It's really worth reading this post if you have any doubts about yourself. As is always the case, Joanna has a lot to say in a relatively short blog post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1708, "original_length": 98799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://t-central.blogspot.com/2018/03/solidarity-with-gender-non-conforming.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:JVIGWZRCOR7PRIJKE7I2FR5QUN33KSLD", "length": 499, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "t-central.blogspot.com", "title": "T-Central: Solidarity with gender non-conforming people", "raw_content": "Women\u2019s jeans are nicer than men\u2019s. They are not cut for the shape of my hips, and jeans look fairly alike across the sexes; but I still prefer women\u2019s jeans. It took a leap of empathy when a trans man told me he preferred men\u2019s.\nI've noted in the past that Clare Flourish is one of my favorite bloggers. In this post, however, she has outdone herself. Solidarity with gender non-conforming people is an excellent blog post that deserves some comment. Transmen should also be interested in this one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1709, "original_length": 98815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tamejavi.org/fellowship.php?page=about_fs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:32Z", "digest": "sha1:47XTX4Y4KSBTWDGXMC5PSS7G5RHE5COY", "length": 1116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tamejavi.org", "title": "Tamejavi - Fellowship : Fellowship", "raw_content": "Born in Mbano, located in Imo State in the southern region of Nigeria. After finishing high school, he moved to the United States to advance his education. He is now a registered nurse and an artist. He inherited his artistic talents and cultural knowledge from his mother who instilled in him a love of Igbo culture and tradition. Reginald sings, dances and is a versatile musician who plays many instruments, including the flute, ogene, metal or wooden gong, udu and clay pot instruments. He is an experienced Masquerade and Ajari dancer. He is also a patron of his hometown choir, and choir director for the Igbo Choir at St. Paul Newman Center in Fresno. As part of the Igbo community in Fresno, Reginald helps maintain the Igbo culture. At their meetings, members wear cultural outfits, and carved African woods or statues are used to foster a sense of belonging and identity to their children. Reginald would like to see more accessible cultural and artistic offerings in the culturally diverse Central Valley. He expects to play a significant role as a teacher and promoter of the Igbo culture and traditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 125.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teachingmyfriends.blogspot.com/2012/11/hurricane-sandy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:16:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4G34556RC2FU2ZVTMSGZOGZ5WAIWA2MZ", "length": 3592, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "teachingmyfriends.blogspot.com", "title": "Teaching My Friends!: Hurricane Sandy", "raw_content": "I know that prior to October 30 I had been MIA for a while. I was completely overwhelmed by my new position and needed some time to adjust. And, adjust I did! I wrote a few post that I had planned to post. But then, I became MIA for a very different reason. Hurricane Sandy.\nThe pictures below are taken of places that are no more than a 5 minute drive from my home. I am on day 7 and counting with no power. That means no heat, no electricity, no hot water, and obviously no Internet. I am writing this at a hot spot I happened to find. Despite all that, I am one of the very lucky ones. My family is all ok. Our homes are still standing. That is not the case for so many in my community.\nPicture Source: Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger\nSchool has been cancelled for two weeks. Even then, we are not sure if we will be going back next Monday or not. Teachers I work with have lost their homes, most have no power, and those that still have their homes have had trees fall on them, fences down, and more. I can't even tell you how our students fared. Most seem to be doing ok, but then today I heard that one families house burned down last night. The storm is over, but it doesn't seem as if it is for us yet.\nToday, I spent the morning volunteering in a community two towns over that has been devastated by the hurricane. On every corner you have the National Guard posted. FEMA personnel are everywhere. Several teachers and I got together to help families empty out water flooded homes and then went to help organize clothes and goods at a donation drop off center. You can't imagine how overwhelming it is emotionally to see people putting everything they own on the curb. So many people have lost literally everything except the clothes on their back.\nIf you can donate to help those so devastated by this hurricane, please do so. They need your help so desperately. A good place to donate it to the Hurricane Sandy NJ Relief Fund. Money donated there is to go directly to New Jersey residents effected by the storm.\nAs for posting on this blog. I have some fun things to post, but am not sure when I will be able to. As I wrote, I have no power and no Internet service. I'm not sure when I will have power. However, as soon as I do I plan to get back to blogging.\nThanks for sticking around. I promise to be back as soon as I can.\nFirstGradeBlueSkies (Jennifer) November 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM\n((hugs)) Glad you are ok!\nJust Julie Teaching Third Graders November 5, 2012 at 6:28 PM\nStay strong! Keep doing good for others. They need you.\nWow. I'm glad you are safe.\nThinking of you. stay safe.\nThe Wild Rumpus November 5, 2012 at 9:33 PM\nI'm so sad for how much loss there is. Stay safe and warm.\nTeachntex November 6, 2012 at 7:46 PM\nMy thoughts and prayers are with you and your community.\nHi Nancy! Thank you for sharing your story and photographs. I can't imagine what everyone is going through right now. Thank you for everything you are doing to help in your community!\nThinking of all of you and sending lots of prayers and hugs.\nKeeping everyone affected by this storm in my thoughts and prayers! Hope things will begin to return to normal soon.\nI have been reading your blog for as long as you've been blogging. I always felt close because I'm in NJ too. Ocean County. Hang in there. We are all helping each other as best we can. Please post if your school will be back and if we can help.\nThe Queen Bee November 13, 2012 at 9:50 PM\nI have family in New Jersey too, they are hanging in there...hope you stay warm, stay safe. If you need supplies we can send you some from Florida!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 7805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teachntex.blogspot.com/2013/08/pma-wednesday-12th-edition.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ALYSUXCS5AJUSN7T2QXWJ5BTBN2FXDOS", "length": 921, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "teachntex.blogspot.com", "title": "Teach n' Tex: PMA Wednesday - 12th Edition", "raw_content": "Today's theme is TEAMWORK! In my school district, our superintendent has a mantra, \"All means ALL!\" Our approach looks beyond our classroom walls. We are working together to make sure ALL of the students in our grade level are successful, then beyond that we can sign up to have a \"buddy\" from another grade level. I had a really good relationship with my 3rd grade \"buddy\" from last year, so I requested the same buddy again this year in 4th.\nPersonally, I tend to be a little bit selfish. I was raised by an only child, who although a very loving and giving person, has a tendency to be self-centered. I strive to find ways to help others. I make an effort to ask others how they are doing. When I start to forget, I try to remember...\nFinally, my principal shared this video with us during our B2S inservice. Enjoy!\nHappy \"HUMP\" Day!\nDisneymum (Kristi) August 31, 2013 at 1:04 PM\nWe watched that same little commercial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teakdoor.com/world-news/183041-russian-passenger-plane-crashes-outside-moscow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:59:23Z", "digest": "sha1:M4TTWWFOIOB6OKPBOLG7WSPQ5UWMXW6P", "length": 2597, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "teakdoor.com", "title": "Russian passenger plane crashes outside Moscow", "raw_content": "Russian passenger plane crashes outside Moscow\nThread: Russian passenger plane crashes outside Moscow\nSaratov Airlines flight carrying 71 people crashes after take off from Domodedovo airport\nSaratov Airlines flight 6W703, an Antonov An-148 plane, had taken off from the Domodedovo airport en route to Orsk, a city in the Urals, when it crashed in the Ramensky district on the outskirts of Moscow.\nRussian news agencies reported 65 passengers and six crew were on board. They also quoted witnesses in the village of Argunovo whoe said they had seen a burning plane falling from the sky.\nA source from Russia\u2019s emergency services told Interfax that the 71 people on board had no chance of survival. The same news agency reported that the wreckage of the plane was spread over a wide area around the crash site.\nRussian state television aired a video of the crash site, showing parts of the wreckage in the snow. Russia has experienced record snowfalls in recent days and visibility was reportedly poor. The Russian-made plane was seven years old and bought by Saratov from another Russian airline a year ago.\nRussian media reported that the emergency services were unable to reach the crash site by road and that rescue workers walked to the scene on foot. Emergency services said in a statement that more than 150 rescue workers had been deployed. A source at Domodedovo, Moscow\u2019s second largest airport, told agencies that the flight disappeared from radar within two minutes of take off.\nThe Russian transport minister was on his way to the crash site, agencies reported. The transport ministry said several causes for the crash were being considered, including weather conditions and human error.\nThe governor of the Orenburg region, which the plane was flying to, told Russian media that more than 60 people on the plane were from the region.\nProsecutors opened an investigation into Saratov Airlines following the crash. Plane crashes are common in Russia, where airlines often operate ageing aircraft in testing conditions. A light aircraft crashed in November in the far east of the country, killing six people on board.\nA military plane carrying Russia\u2019s famed Red Army Choir crashed after taking off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi in December 2016, killing all 92 people on board. The choir had been due to give a concert to Russian troops operating in Syria. Pilot error was blamed for the crash. In March 2016, all 62 passengers died when a FlyDubai jet crashed in bad weather during an aborted landing at Rostov-on-Don airport.\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/20...moscow-reports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teanavigator.com/tea-rooms/tearooms-london.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:01:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6B3XGCZLVB46LWP6SLNDGC3IYRSM7NXS", "length": 1920, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "teanavigator.com", "title": "London Tea Rooms, English Tea, High Tea, Afternoon Tea", "raw_content": "teas> tea rooms> London\nThe British Tea Council has teamed up with the AA to select a winner for 2004's coveted Top Tea Place award: Bird on the Rock Tea Room, located in Clungunford, Shropshire.\n[Dublin tea rooms]\nRecommended London Tea Rooms\nSt. James Tearoom at Fortnum & Mason - Piccadilly, London. High Tea at Fortnum's is an essential rite of passage. Celebrating over 300 years as provisioner to the Royal Family.\nMore Tea Rooms: London\nClaridges Hotel - For over a century Claridges Hotel London has enjoyed the patronage of the most illustrious families, leaders and dignitaries from around the world. Adjoining the Foyer is The Reading Room, a peaceful place where traditional English afternoon tea is served.\nThe Promenade at The Dorchester Hotel - For almost seventy years, The Dorchester has rightfully claimed its place as one of the very best hotels in London, if not the world. Luxurious, opulent, friendly, stylish, exclusive are all words that describe The Dorchester. Located majestically overlooking London's Hyde Park, The Dorchester offers something for everyone.\nThe Conservatory at The Lanesborough Hotel - The Conservatory has recently become one of the top choices for afternoon tea in London. Its high glass roof, graceful chandeliers, and potted palms make it an oasis in a city that can be overcast and gray. The tea selection is extensive, and the pastries are too beautiful to eat.\nThe Georgian Restaurant at Harrod's - Enjoy a classic 'English Tea' consisting of sandwiches, pastries and of course as much tea as you can drink at one of London's most fashionable stores, Harrods.\nThe Basil Street Hotel - The Lounge at The Basil has an enviable reputation and is known worldwide for the quality of its traditional English tea. Our guests return time and again to enjoy a choice of freshly made sandwiches, scones with clotted cream, a selection of fine jams, hand made pastries and cakes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://techcyton.com/how-to/encrypt-files-windows-linux-mac-os-x-762.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SZLC5O4KLPVIYAAWMRQ3CVVVDWCBG5NJ", "length": 5852, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "techcyton.com", "title": "How to Easily Encrypt Files on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X", "raw_content": "How to Easily Encrypt Files on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X \u2013 If you wish to hide your files and documents, it is possible in any operating system. However, this does not ensure you with the safety of your files. Even the files that are hidden are accessible to anyone through illegal means. If any authorized access happens to your system without your knowledge, they will be able to access your system storage. This will enable them to access your hidden files also. Hence, hiding files is not a good way to protect your files.\nIf you are seeking for the best way of securing your files from any unauthorized access, then you can encrypt your files. Encryption of files is a way of protecting your files from any access. It prevents security issues. You will get an encryption key that is only known to you. With the use of encryption key, others cannot access your files or documents and valuable information.\nSee Also: How To Fix USB Device Not Recognized Issue in Windows PC\nIn fact, encryption is a true way that enables you to protect your data and even deny the access to your hardware from any unauthorized means. If you are running a business or you have confidential data in your system. It is always better to encrypt files on Windows.\nAny system with Windows has BitLocker encryption that is built- in. With this built-in encryption, the entire PC can be encrypted and it can also encrypt any other internal drive. With the support of BitLocker to Go, you can also encrypt external devices and USB flash drive. You can use BitLocker with any VHD file also. However, BitLocker is available only for the ultimate edition of Windows. This is not in built-in standard Windows editions such as Windows 7 or 8/8.1. If you are having a new windows 8.1 edition, then you will get the access to devise encryption. However, you will have to use a particular hardware and Microsoft account so as to get encryption key.\nHence, when you have a standard edition of Windows, it is not possible to use BitLocker as an encryption key. So, you will have to think about another system encryption ways. Previously, most of the Windows drive was protected using TrueCrypt, a third party encryption key. This used to protect all your Windows drive, removable drive and also encrypt any particular file. However, there are talks now saying TrurCypt is not safe to use. However, as of now there is no evidence to prove it\u2019s unsafe. So you can either use BitLocker or TrueCrypt for encryption of your files on Windows.\nLet\u2019s have a look at some of the best encryption tools that can be used for encryption of files on Windows/Linux/OS X\nMethod 1: How to Easily Encrypt Files on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X\nThis new encryption tool came after TrueCrypt. When the development of TrueCrypt was stopped last year, this tool came as a substitute for the same. VeraCrypt is also a free encryption tool like TrueCrypt and it contains almost all the features of TrueCrypt. If you are n a search for a similar encryption tool like TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt is the solution for the same. This tool supports AES, Serpent, and Twofish. If you want to review its code, you can also do the same, though it is not a pure open source. This tool is reliable to use and it is going through constant updates and security checks. This is one of the best tools to use and simple to use.\nMethod 2: How to Easily Encrypt Files on Windows\nAxCrypt for Windows\nThis is another best encryption tools that are simple to use and efficient. This tool is a free tool that is open source. You can easily integrate this encryption tool with Windows shell. For encrypting a file on Windows using this tool, all you need to do is to right-click on the file and encrypt it. By this, the encrypted files will be locked for a particular period of time. After which, it will get decrypt by itself. With the use of Axcrypt, you are able to decrypt the files whenever you want or when you are using the file. After its use, it will get automatically encrypted again when it is closed or modified. The method of encryption is faster as it enables you to encrypt the whole folder with just a single click.\nBitLocker(Windows)\nBitLocker works only on Windows vista and Windows 7 with ultimate and enterprise editions, Windows 8with Pro and Enterprise and Windows Server with above 2008 edition. BitLocker is able to encrypt the whole disc. You can have multiple authentications using this tool and it is able to be accessed using passwords, USB, and PINs. This tool uses TPM technology and hence all the files or drive is encrypted and decrypted in a transparent way and is known to the user.\nGNU Privacy Guard (Windows/OS X/Linux)\nThis encryption tool is an open source. It enables you to encrypt everything you want such as emails, files, folders etc. Encryption of individual files is possible at a time along with encryption of external drives and Medias.\n7-Zip (Windows/OS X/Linux)\nThis is another file archive that is simple and easy to use. This is more effective in file compression and organizing the files on your Windows. This enables you to easily store your files in the Windows and transfer files. Also, an easy encryption tool helps in encryption from individual files to entire volumes. After the encryption, only you will have the access to these files using the encryption key. This tool can encrypt 256-bit AES. It is a free tool and it can be used for your business and commercial purposes. Almost all 7-Zip\u2019s code are having GNU LGPL license. The code can be reviewed as and when required.\nThese are some of eh effective and easy methods of encrypting files on your Windows. Go ahead, use any of these encryption tools, and secure your system from any leakage of data and information from it. 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It's a very small touch screen device that is designed to blend into your car's environment, and the cables can be tucked out of the way.\nOwl Car Cam has rear and front-facing HD cameras so it can capture what's happening out on the road and in your vehicle. The camera is always on, whether you're driving or parked, which helps keep your car secure. It even has anti-theft floodlights. It has enough storage on the camera to record 24 hours of footage. You can use the iPhone app (currently iOS only) to access and share the videos from the camera over a Wi-Fi connection. You can even say \"OK Presto\" to send a clip right to your phone, where you can easily edit it.\nThe Owl Car Cam can also connect to Owl's own LTE service. This makes it possible for it to notify you if there is a break-in or a crash with an alert on your phone. 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The night-time photos, though, are unique and stunning. Nice work, as always!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://temeculavalleysbest.com/category/home-cleaning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:50:38Z", "digest": "sha1:32CAJNPS44P7E4XF3SLJMB4CJGDSEYQW", "length": 10196, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "temeculavalleysbest.com", "title": "Home Cleaning Archives - Temecula Valley's Best", "raw_content": "Currently Browsing: Home Cleaning\nMinimize the Housework to Maximize Summer Vacation Time\nWhen the kids are out of school, it is the perfect opportunity to spend quality time together as a family. But, many parents have a hard time during summer break because they feel like the housework requirements increase. When people are home\u2026\nHow Often is Deep Cleaning Needed in a Home?\nWhen homeowners are interested in home cleaning services, they often ask about the frequency of the services. How often do you need to schedule a cleaner every month? There are many factors that affect the frequency that is right for your family\u2026.\n3 Things to Look for When Hiring a Home Cleaning Service\nHave you decided that it is time to bring in a professional cleaning team to help in your home? Whether you are busy with work or you can\u2019t keep up with the kid\u2019s messes, a maid service is a great way to\u2026\n5 Steps to Declutter the Messiest Rooms in the House\nEvery homeowner has a room or closet that ends up being the area that catches the storage and mess. Clutter adds up and can overwhelm your family: toys, clothing, paper, trinkets, souvenirs, books, and more. How do you reclaim your home if\u2026\nHomeowners often feel the need to clear out the closets and deep-clean every room during this time of year. As the weather warms up, families are thinking about the upcoming summer activities and other responsibilities that need to be handled. Spring cleaning\u2026\n4 Important Benefits of Green Cleaning in the Home\nA walk down the cleaning aisle at the grocery store can be not only overwhelming but also confusing with the many different cleaning products that are available. Even though these products are marketed in a compelling way, most of those bottles are\u2026\nFlu Season: Essential Cleaning List to Prevent Sickness in the Home\nNow that the holidays are over, most families are back to their normal schedules with work and school. But, January tends to be a time when people get sick. Whether a coworker brings a head cold into the office or one of\u2026\nThe Best Cleaning Tips for Granite Countertops\nGranite is one of the most popular materials for kitchen countertops. Homeowners love the look of natural stone in the kitchen. Plus, these surfaces are great to resist the impact of staining and bacteria. If you choose granite for your kitchen or\u2026\n4 Home Cleaning Tips to Prepare for Thanksgiving\nAre you hosting the family for a big Thanksgiving celebration this year? It is fun to gather everyone for the holiday, but it can be an overwhelming experience if the dinner is in your home. Instead of waiting until the last minute\u2026\nDIY Natural Cleaning Ingredients for the Kitchen\nIf you are using regular cleaning products, then you could be harming the health of everyone in the house. Even though these cleaning products smell \u201cfresh,\u201d they could be loaded with chemicals that can cause long-lasting health issues. Not only do these\u2026\nBack-to-School is the Perfect Time to Catch Up on Deep Cleaning\nDo you find it difficult to keep the house clean when the kids are out of school? Parents often feel like the house is neglected during the summer months. It can be hard to stay ahead of the mess when the kids\u2026\nThe Best Way to Remove Mold from Tile Grout\nEven with regular cleaning, it is common for mold to form in the shower and sink. These areas are often damp and warm, creating the perfect environment for mold to grow. What should you use to get rid of the mold? Clean\u2026\nWhat are the Best Cleaning Products to Use on the Countertops?\nThe kitchen is one of the busiest rooms in the house, so it is understandable that the counters need to be cleaned regularly. Food prep, homework, and other daily activities can dirty the counters, leaving behind unsanitary surfaces that could negatively impact\u2026\nWhy is it a Good Idea to Hire a Home Cleaning Service During Summer Break?\nThe kids are out of school! Are you ready for a fun, busy summer vacation? Many parents agree that this time of year can be both enjoyable and exhausting. To ramp up the fun and increase your energy while playing with the\u2026\nSimple Steps to Get Rid of Odors in the Home\nDetecting foul odors in the home can sometimes be a challenge, because the human body has a protecting defense that desensitizes the nose to odors that are lingering. So, it is possible that you might be living in a stinky home without\u2026\n4 Benefits of Using Natural Cleaning Products\nDid you know that standard household cleaners could have a negative impact on your health and the environment? If you want to protect your family and decrease environmental pollution and damage, then you need to consider getting rid of harsh chemical cleaners,\u2026\nSpring Clean the Bedroom and Create a Sanctuary to Enjoy All Year\nMarch is often the time when homeowners put together a spring cleaning to-do list. It is the perfect opportunity to spruce up your home and be ready to enjoy the summer months. If you are working on spring cleaning, then make sure\u2026\nIs it Safe to Use the Self-Clean Mode on the Oven?\nHave you seen the self-clean mode on your oven and wondered if it really works? Many people love the idea of hands-off cleaning, but they are skeptical about whether this feature is an effective way to clean the oven. Even though it\u2026\n4 New Year\u2019s Resolutions to Improve the Cleanliness of a Home in 2017\nNo matter how many times you vacuum or scrub the sink, your home will always get dirty again. Life happens and family members make messes, resulting in a situation where you feel like you are always cleaning up after the people in\u2026\n4 Common Places Homeowners Forget to Dust\nDust can creep into every corner and crevice of your home, making it hard to keep up with the cleaning throughout the house. If you want to maintain a healthier lifestyle, then you need to be proactive to wipe up the dust\u2026\nCleaning up After the Family Pet\nPet owners often agree that their cat or dog is a member of the family. It is fun to have a lovable animal around to share your living space, but an animal can cause some house cleaning challenges. If you have a\u2026\nDeep Clean the Kitchen Pantry to Lose Weight around the Waist\nDo you feel anxious every time you open up the pantry or cupboards in the kitchen? These food storage areas often contain treats that will sabotage your weight loss goals. At the same time, you might be frustrated about the ongoing clutter\u2026\n4 Daily Habits that Contribute to Allergies\nAs the season changes, many people start experiencing hay fever and other symptoms of allergies. Do you dread this time of year because of the stuffy nose, sneezing and difficulty breathing? It\u2019s possible that your daily habits might be contributing to your\u2026\nCan Home Cleaning Services Reduce Pest Infestation?\nHave you recently discovered a pest infestation in your home, such as bugs or rodents? These pests can be annoying, and they can harm the health of your family. Taking a proactive approach to the care of your home is the best\u2026\nTips for Cleaning the Blinds\nWhen you gaze out the windows in your home, what is the first thing that you think about? It is nice to enjoy your beautiful yard, but you might find it difficult to enjoy the view through dirty windows and blinds. Don\u2019t\u2026\nHow to Keep the House Clean During Summer Vacation\nIt\u2019s that time of year: the weather is warming up, and the kids are out of school. Many parents are looking at the upcoming months with hope for a good summer. Are you ready to have the kid\u2019s home throughout the day?\u2026\nSimple Green Cleaning Tips to Protect the Environment\nDo you want to keep your home clean and protect the environment at the same time? Most household cleaning products are made with harsh chemicals that can be dangerous to our beautiful planet. But, there are some alternatives that can be used\u2026\nHow to Improve the Health of Your Bedroom\nYour bedroom should be a sanctuary, a place where you can rest and relax. But, many people don\u2019t realize that there are problems hiding in their bedroom, and these issues could potentially impact their health. Here are a few ways to make\u2026\nA Detailed Home Spring Cleaning Checklist\nIt is common for homeowners to feel the motivation to get started on their spring cleaning during the months of March and April. As the weather warms up, it makes sense to get these household tasks done before the heat of the\u2026\nSimple Organization Hacks for a Home or Office\nDo you feel like your home or office is constantly cluttered and dirty? Instead of waiting for the mess to build up, it is better to take a proactive approach to organize and clean the space. By implementing a few organizational hacks\u2026\nNew Year\u2019s Resolutions to Keep a Tidy Home\nMany people like to use January as a fresh start to plan new goals and resolutions for the New Year. Do you have goals to keep your home clean and decluttered this year? Putting together a regular cleaning schedule is the best\u2026\nHow Often Do You Need a Cleaning Service in Your Home?\nIf you don\u2019t have time to keep up with regular house cleaning, then you might consider the many advantages of hiring a cleaning service to help in your home. It is amazing to see how much your stress will be reduced when\u2026\nTips for Deep Cleaning the Kitchen\nThe kitchen is the heart of a home, and it is often the room where family gathers throughout the day. As a central room in the house, it is important that you are staying ahead of the cleaning and care to make\u2026\nSimple Daily Cleaning Tips to Keep Your Home Fresh and Clean\nKeeping your living space clean is an important way to help you feel good about yourself and your home, so it is important that you are proactive to keep away the clutter and wipe up messes when they happen. Here are a\u2026\nHow to Clean Lime Scale Buildup\nHave you noticed a chalky white deposit on your faucets, in your tub, or perhaps in the bottom of your coffee pot? You\u2019re probably looking at lime scale, which is the result of mineral deposits from hard water. Lime scale is unsightly,\u2026\nHow to Clean Your Own Oven\nNow that the busy holiday season is over, it\u2019s possible that all your cooking and baking has left your oven a disaster area. Before you get to work cleaning it, it\u2019s important to ask yourself what type of oven you own: Is\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 16608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://the-farthest-star.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:13:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HRAMIABGGZUTW4BVRHJT7XGMXRA7VIVF", "length": 372, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "the-farthest-star.wikia.com", "title": "Star Trek | Star Trek: The Farthest Star Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Star Trek is one of the best known science fiction franchise spanning across several media including television, film, literature, games, etc.\nThe fan fiction series, Star Trek: The Farthest Star is set within the Star Trek universe.\nStar Trek article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.\nRetrieved from \"http://the-farthest-star.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek?oldid=5039\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 2686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 180.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theacss.org/pages/fora-and-debates/658/call-for-papers_anthropology-of-the-middle-east_volume-14-issue-1-(summer-2019)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GTE55BDTL6MK37EUYMHYNREBORKFTWOR", "length": 2017, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "theacss.org", "title": "\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u062a\u062f\u0649 | \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u0644\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0644\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0648\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0627\u0639\u064a\u0629", "raw_content": "Thematic Focus: Dynamics of Ecological Awareness in the Middle East and Maghreb\nEditors: Anahita Grisoni and Marjan Mashkour\nForthcoming: Volume 14, Issue 1 (forthcoming, summer 2019)\nThis special issue aims to document the attitude of Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries towards nature, environment and ecology. The geographical unity provides a framework suggesting an endogenous and specific relation to socio-ecological conditions in these areas. In fact, the region is characterised by eco-systemic, historical and political common elements: aridity and climatic instability, agro-pastoral practices and more or less common adaptations andways of life within sedentary or nomad populations. This is also the case for other modern social components, such as the long-term exploitation of non-renewable resources. In this respect, which social representations of nature, whether endogenous or imported, characterise the Middle East and Maghreb? What about the forms of individual and collective environmental awareness within this area? How are they embodied, in terms of practices and techniques, social movements and groups as well as public policies?\nThrough documenting practical cases and symbolic representations, policies and international strategies, this special issue aims to highlight the mechanisms of exploitation and domination towards natural environments and human groups, as well as those set up for protection and contestation. Conceived in the wider field of anthropology, this issue is open to other social sciences and to multidisciplinary contributions. Indeed, the goal is first to establish a state of knowledge for this part of the globe, undermined by continuous political changes and instabilities that dramatically impact and condition human-nature relationship. Beyond this regional approach, this special issue also aims at nourishing a reflection on environmental studies in a global perspective.\nAnahita Grisoni: anahitagrisoni@gmail.com\nMarjan Mashkour: marjan.mashkour1@gmail.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/anything-goes-10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:20:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5SEC74CPT3WVOA5ZHZIRVXSRM6ZUDT3F", "length": 1158, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com", "title": "Anything Goes", "raw_content": "Anything Goes - Playbill April 2011\nSutton Foster, Joel Grey, Colin Donnell, Adam Godley\nAnything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy #13 Moonface Martin aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The musical introduced such songs as \"Anything Goes,\" \"You're the Top,\" and \"I Get a Kick Out of You.\"\nSince its 1934 debut at the Neil Simon Theatre (at the time known as the Alvin) on Broadway, the musical has been revived several times in the United States and Britain and has been filmed twice. The musical has long been a popular choice for school and community productions.\nPlaybill/Program: Opening Night April 7, 2011\nTheatre: Stephen Sondheim Theatre NYC\nSize: 135 x 215 mm and Pages 44\nCondition: Used Good 8 -10\nAnything Goes - 7\nA View from the Bridge - 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 164.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thebakerboy.ucoz.com/news/2014-12-07-1883", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:17Z", "digest": "sha1:WN763QSMU2GEVCFXFTYZ5M5XDUSCMSYU", "length": 89, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thebakerboy.ucoz.com", "title": "- 7 December 2014 - Simon Baker", "raw_content": "Another Instagram pic from Simon\u2026 \"Feels weird\"\nSource: http://instagram.com/p....2432754", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 167.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecarolinaacademy.org/softball/varsity-softball-lose-to-lma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:58:49Z", "digest": "sha1:2AVB7A3J6EI3HN7HVDOOYRD3AXDZWNGL", "length": 339, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thecarolinaacademy.org", "title": "Varsity Softball Lose To LMA \u2013 The Carolina Academy", "raw_content": "On March 8th, 2018 the Carolina Bobcats varsity softball lost a hard fought game to Laurence Manning Academy with a final score of 5-3. Both teams played well but LMA came out on top. Thank you for your support, and come out to the next game at home against Pee Dee Academy on March 13th, at 6:00.\nVarsity Baseball Falls To Pee Dee Academy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/profiles/donald-weaver-566502", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IUNM6P5M4INTCY3GR34M7X543OJGXLGQ", "length": 2351, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Donald Weaver \u2013 The Conversation", "raw_content": "Professor of Chemistry and Director of Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto\nDr. Weaver's research interests are focused on computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry with particular applications to chronic neurodegenerative disorders. His general approach employs a variety of theoretical chemistry techniques (molecular quantum mechanics [ab initio and density functional theory], force field calculations, molecular dynamics simulations) to design small molecules capable of binding to designated receptor sites; these small molecules are drug-like new chemical entities. The molecules are then synthesized using synthetic organic chemistry methods, and then evaluated to enable an iterative process of compound optimization driven by quantitative structure-activity relationship calculations.\nDr. Weaver is applying this drug design strategy to a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), protein misfolding dementia (tauopathies), epilepsy and stroke. In Alzheimer's disease, he is designing brain penetrant compounds that bind to beta-amyloid preventing its aggregation into neurotoxic oligomers. These agents hold beta-amyloid in a non-toxic conformation thereby blocking neuronal degradation. To date, his laboratory has devised three novel drug design molecular platforms as putative anti-aggregants. These agents have significant activities across a variety of in vitro and in vivo models of AD. In epilepsy, his laboratory is evaluating beta-alanine as an inhibitory neurotransmitter around which to design anticonvulsant agents.\nIn addition to the design and development of drug molecules, Dr. Weaver is also interested in medical device development, specifically as related to the evaluation and measurement of human consciousness. For example, he has worked to develop a \" consciousness scanner\" device that can be used to clinically evaluate concussions and to determine the depth of a coma.\nIn all of his research, Dr. Weaver is focused on both basic science and translational science. He has pioneered the concept of \" micropharma\" , and his work emphasizes the importance of hospital and university-based biotech companies to address the growing need for new innovative therapeutics for a wide variety of human brain disorders.\nProfessor Chemistry, University of Toronto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 186.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/why-britain-must-not-set-a-deadline-for-everyone-to-speak-english-93219", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OSWU4PXWKLS52TRA5ELA33VEUD77K5HV", "length": 6108, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Why Britain must not set a deadline for everyone to speak English", "raw_content": "Why Britain must not set a deadline for everyone to speak English\nPetros Karatsareas\nLecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Westminster\nPetros Karatsareas receives funding from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.\nThe British government should fix a date by which all residents in the UK should be able to speak English, says Louise Casey, who wrote a report for the government on integration in 2016. A common language, she argued, would help to \u201cheal rifts across Britain\u201d.\nCasey first recommended that the government promote the English language in order to tackle isolation and segregation in her 2016 report. That recommendation received support even from people who otherwise attacked the report for its focus on the UK\u2019s Muslim communities.\nThe recent call for action is part of her wider criticism of the government for delaying the improvement of community cohesion. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government only published its new integrated communities strategy green paper on March 14, more than a year after Casey\u2019s review appeared. Boosting English language skills is one of its key aims.\nCasey\u2019s call for a target date by when \u201ceverybody in the country\u201d should speak English is a piece of deliberately provocative rhetoric. It\u2019s easy to see how trying to implement her idea would have many problems in practice. When would that deadline be? What would qualify as sufficient and acceptable knowledge of English? How would that be tested? Who would be subject to a test and how would they be identified? What would happen to someone who does not meet the requirement? Is it possible to force someone to speak a language they do not?\nThe 2011 census showed that, of the 4.2m people who have a main language other than English in England and Wales, only 1.3%, or 726,000, of the population reported that they could not speak English well. An even smaller percentage, 0.3% or 138,000, reported that they could not speak English at all.\nBritain has always been a multilingual country\nThe current debate shows a blatant disregard for the facts about the UK\u2019s languages and the people who speak them. It promotes the view that having many languages is a problem, and exposes speakers of other languages to potential discrimination and even abuse.\nBut there hasn\u2019t been a single moment in history when Britain was monolingual. The 2011 census identified at least 104 languages other than English spoken in England and Wales by 4.2m people \u2013 7.7% of the total population. Other sources put that number at 300.\nThese languages are spoken by both British and non-British people. Some, such as Lithuanian and Romanian, were brought over to the UK recently as part of the expansion of the EU. Others, such as Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali, were transplanted from parts of the former British Empire much earlier, in the 19th and 20th centuries. And there are also Britain\u2019s indigenous languages (Angloromani, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Shelta, Welsh) that have been continuously spoken in the UK for many centuries, some of them since before the arrival of English. Multilingualism is part of this country\u2019s past, its present and its future.\nIt has been repeatedly shown that speaking many languages has multiple benefits, not only for the personal well-being of multilingual speakers but also for the overall well-being of society in general.\nRead more: Speaking in tongues: the many benefits of bilingualism\nThe UK\u2019s languages are of great significance to their speakers, who view them as symbols of their identity. Marios, a 51-year-old British-born Greek Cypriot, who I spoke to as part of my current research on Cypriot Greek as a heritage and community language in London, told me:\nI like speaking my language. I do not want to lose the Greek language because I think that, if I lose the language, I will not be Cypriot anymore.\nLanguages are also important for the UK\u2019s minority ethnic communities on a collective level. They are points of reference to their histories as migrant groups or as indigenous populations of Britain. We should strive to protect and respect the symbolic value of multilingualism like we do with all other aspects of people\u2019s identities.\nEveryday discrimination\nThe notion that everyone in a given country must speak only one language is not only misguided, it is also potentially dangerous as it can motivate acts of discrimination and even abuse. It\u2019s not uncommon to read news stories about people who have been singled out for speaking a language other than English in public or who have been told not to speak their native language at their workplace, especially after the Brexit referendum and the increase in racially-motivated hate crimes in the UK. It\u2019s a matter of social justice and responsibility to make sure that these behaviours do not find any sort of ideological support in public discourse.\nOf course, speaking English affords people the possibility to harness the opportunities that life in the UK offers in a more direct and easy way. But there is also value in other languages as resources, skills, expressions of individual and community identity. Associating multilingualism with a lack of English and painting that association as a problem, and especially a problem much bigger than it actually is, is ill-informed and has potentially damaging implications for society cohesion and intercommunal understanding.\nSetting a deadline by which everyone in the UK should speak English is impossible and would send the wrong messages about who we are as a country to people in Britain, both those who speak other languages and those who do not, and to the rest of the world.\nWhy multilingualism is good for economic growth\nThank you - for not only speaking English. Thank you via ivosar/Shutterstock\nDrop the negative spin on kids who start school bilingual \u2013 they are a rich resource for the future\nFighting extremism with the English language. Jonathan Brady/PA Wire\nTheresa May\u2019s hidden British value \u2013 monolingualism\nThe Nick Page/flickr.com\nWhat happened to integrating immigrants in Britain?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 9367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thedysfunctionalmotherblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/life-death-and-goldfish.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:37:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KXH2DPKWLUGPNIJVQASKJYKEW6ZNZQHA", "length": 4075, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "thedysfunctionalmotherblog.blogspot.com", "title": "Life, Death and Goldfish | The Dysfunctional Mother Blog", "raw_content": "Last week one of our goldfish, Clive 2, died. We'd only had him for about a year so I was a bit sad, especially considering that his predecessor (the original Clive) had lived until he was nearly twenty years old. Nobody believes me when I say that. They all think that my mum must have been replacing him for years but it really was the same fish. He had distinctive markings and a funny shaped tail. He was a little fishy miracle.\nBack to Clive 2. He'd been looking peaky for a few days so it wasn't really a shock when Carl came downstairs on Wednesday morning to find him floating. He assures me that he was disposed of respectfully (i.e. not down the toilet) and that was that. I wasn't too worried about Jack noticing or getting upset. He doesn't pay much attention to the fish - they're not things he can maul/lick/throw around. But later that same day:\n'Mummy, there's only one fish. Where is orange fish?'\n'Erm, well he's gone.'\n'Where has he gone to?'\nShit. I could hardly tell him he's hopped on his pushbike and gone for a quick jaunt around the block but will be back in time for tea. So, this time, I chose honesty.\n'Well he was very poorly so he's gone to fishy heaven.'\n'Ooooooh fishy heaven. Bye bye fishy. Can I have a biscuit now?'\nStraight over his head. Just like that. The harsh facts of life and death summed up in the mind of a three year old as something so simple as two fish in a bowl becoming one fish in a bowl. I'd got away with it this time. But it did make me wonder what I would have said had his questions been a bit more probing. Because let's face it, death is a scary thing and it's not easy to explain. Ceasing to exist while the world continues is pretty mind blowing and something most adults struggle to comprehend, so how can a three year old be expected to understand? Should they understand? Do they really need to know about things like disease, war, accidents, murder, old age, apocalypse? I'm not so sure.\nAnd how am I supposed to explain what happens when we die when I'm not even sure myself? As much as I'd like to believe in an afterlife where we all ride unicorns in the clouds while Spirit In The Sky plays on repeat, it doesn't seem very likely? But the alternative - eternal nothingness - well that's a tough thought to come to terms with, even for me.\nIt was a pretty morbid week, actually. A few days before Clive 2's passing we went to the library and Jack chose a book called Badger's Parting Gifts. I didn't look at it beforehand (how offensive can a book about woodland creatures be?!) and it was only when we started reading it that night that I realised it was a story about an old, weary badger who went down 'the long tunnel' leaving his friends, moley, foxy and froggy, feeling very sad. I was tempted to stop reading half way through because, once again, I was nervous about the questions it could throw up. But it turned out to be quite a sensitive and uplifting story about Badger's acceptance of his demise and how his friends were eventually able to remember him with happiness, treasuring the memories and lessons he had given them.\nI guess books like this exist to help children come to terms with the concept of death. So they don't fear it and can even take something positive away from it. And I suppose my job is to be honest about the facts of life and try and make sure that Jack is emotionally equipped to deal with them as best as he can. So while I won't be actively inviting any death related questions (or putting The Lion King on) anytime soon, I guess I've realised that it isn't a conversation I need to completely dread.\nHave you had this chat with your little ones yet? How did you handle it?\nMama, My Kid Doesn't Poop Rainbows 10 November 2015 at 01:16\nSometimes I wish I could just hide from all the big questions. Hopefully I'll feel a little more prepared by the time they roll around.\nWe were goldfish death as we went through about 3 in the same month then gave up. For the sake of the fish. We had plenty of discussions about death that month and did a full burial and everything", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/females-are-outperforming-males-on-every-educational-level-and-that-has-staggering-implications-for-the-future-of-our-society", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DQNRD3OMZLQ34F7D3DFOB2IA3LKAMSQN", "length": 7170, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "theeconomiccollapseblog.com", "title": "Females Are Outperforming Males On Every Educational Level, And That Has Staggering Implications For The Future Of Our Society", "raw_content": "Females Are Outperforming Males On Every Educational Level, And That Has Staggering Implications For The Future Of Our Society\nIt is an uncomfortable truth that most educators simply do not want to talk about. Females are dramatically outperforming males on every educational level, and many are wondering what this means for our future. If men do not feel a strong sense of purpose and meaning, they can get into trouble really quickly. As I write this article, the vast majority of those that abuse drugs are men, the vast majority of those that commit violent crimes are men, and the vast majority of those that we put into prison are men. I began researching this article by looking into the fact that the labor participation rate for men has been declining for decades, but our problems run much deeper than that. Today, so many men feel lost. Millions of them don\u2019t have a sense of direction, millions of them don\u2019t have anything that really drives or motivates them, and millions of them are deeply depressed and greatly dissatisfied with life.\nFor a lot of them, it started very early. As Dr. Michael Thompson told CBS News, all across America girls are outperforming boys at every educational level\u2026\n\u201cGirls outperform boys in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college, and graduate school,\u201d says Dr. Michael Thompson, a school psychologist who writes about the academic problems of boys in his book, \u201cRaising Cain.\u201d He says that after decades of special attention, girls are soaring, while boys are stagnating.\n\u201cGirls are being told, \u2018Go for it, you can do it. Go for it, you can do it.\u2019 They are getting an immense amount of support,\u201d he says. \u201cBoys hear that the way to shine is athletically. And boys get a lot of mixed messages about what it means to be masculine and what it means to be a student. Does being a good student make you a real man? I don\u2019t think so\u2026 It is not cool.\u201d\nPerhaps one of the big reasons why young males are so drawn to sports is because it allows them to do the sorts of things the come naturally to males. Sporting events allow young males to engage in battle, to hunt and to conquer. Yes, it is a simulated environment, but sporting events really do bring out something primal in young boys.\nWe all have natural tendencies, and it appears that modern forms of schooling are doing a much better job of connecting with females. In fact, one extremely large study found that girls all over the world are substantially outperforming boys in the classroom\u2026\nAccording to a recent study from University of New Brunswick in Canada, girls have been outperforming boys consistently through the years. It is a popular belief that boys perform better in subjects like Math and Science; however, a review of 308 studies involving more than 1.1 million children across the globe has challenged this stereotype. The study looked at data from 1914 to 2011 and the findings suggest that girls do better in school than boys in the classroom regardless of the material.\nSo it isn\u2019t just in the United States that this is happening.\nAnd it is a trend that does not seem to diminish with age.\nYoung women are dominating in high schools all over the nation, and at one high school in Massachusetts girls make up 70 to 80 percent of the students in advanced placement classes\u2026\nAt graduation ceremonies last June at Hanover High School in Massachusetts, it was the ninth year in a row that a girl was on the podium as school valedictorian. Girls also took home nearly all the honors, including the science prize, says principal Peter Badalament.\n\u201c[Girls] tend to dominate the landscape academically right now,\u201d he says, even in math and science.\nThe school\u2019s advanced placement classes, which admit only the most qualified students, are often 70 percent to 80 percent girls. This includes calculus. And in AP biology, there was not a single boy.\nI suppose the silver lining for young men is that if they really want to meet more girls they should just work really, really hard to get into those AP classes.\nBut the truth is that this is no joking matter. At this point, higher education in the United States is totally dominated by women. Just check out these numbers\u2026\nWomen earned approximately 57 percent of the bachelor\u2019s degrees awarded by U.S. institutions of higher education in the 2016-2017 academic year, according to data released this week by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of the U.S. Department of Education.\nThat, according to NCES data, makes 2016-2017 the eighteenth straight academic year in which women have earned approximately 57 percent of the bachelor\u2019s degrees awarded by U.S. colleges and universities.\nDid you understand what that excerpt was saying?\nWomen have received about 57 percent of all bachelor\u2019s degrees in this country for 18 years in a row.\nOur future doctors, lawyers, politicians and societal leaders come from our pool of college graduates, and the numbers tell us that women are going to be dominating those fields for the foreseeable future.\nSo what will men be doing?\nWell, in recent years more of them have been dropping out of the labor force than ever before. The following comes from the New York Times\u2026\nAmong women, the share out of the labor force has fallen from 66 percent in 1950 to 43 percent today. That is not surprising in light of changing social norms and the greater career opportunities now open to women.\nMen, however, exhibit the opposite long-term trend. In 1950, 14 percent of men were out of the labor force. Today, that figure stands at 31 percent.\nFor those of you that prefer graphics, here is a chart from the Federal Reserve that shows this staggering decline over the last several decades. Please note that we are currently at a much lower level than we were at during the last major recession\u2026\nIf men aren\u2019t working, how are they supporting themselves?\nFor many, the social safety net provided by the government is an easy answer. Here is more from the New York Times\u2026\nOne might wonder how these less educated, prime-age men support themselves after leaving the labor force. The social safety net plays a role. In a study for the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, Scott Winship reports that \u201c75 percent of inactive prime-age men are in a household that received some form of government transfer payment.\u201d Mr. Winship believes that government disability benefits in particular are one reason for the lack of interest in work.\nFor others, living with Mom and Dad for as long as possible is the solution. Today, a staggering 38.4 percent of all Millennials live with their parents, and that number seems to keep going up with each passing year.\nWe live during an era of dramatic societal change, and many are concerned about where all of this change is taking us.\nYes, we need a society in which females can thrive, but we also need a society in which males can thrive as well, and right now that simply is not happening.\nCategories CommentaryTags Boys, Girls, Men, Women\tPost navigation\nWhy America\u2019s Trade War With China Will Be Absolutely Crippling For The U.S. Economy\nIs The United States On A Road To Becoming Ungovernable?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 9580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefalconerswife.com/2016/01/friesians-falcons-fashion-how-sublime/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SZEXFZZKT7J7SBDB7JGO7UMWGMV65HTF", "length": 2162, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thefalconerswife.com", "title": "Falcons, Friesians and Fashion \u2013 How Sublime! | The Falconer's Wife", "raw_content": "It\u2019s well-known in historical texts and artifacts that falconry has been practiced for over 3,000 years and possibly even longer as it pre-dates written records. Places such as Arabia, China, Mongolia, Japan, Germany and Europe (to name a few), are rich in tales of falconry for sport and hunting. Even during the time of Marco Polo, there were more than 10,000 falconers (at one time) and their associates participating in this ancient activity.\nHere we are circa 2011. Ages have passed, people have come and gone, the landscape of the world has changed and yet not only is falconry still present, it seems to be resurfacing among the tattered pages of history. Many of the customs have stayed intact and many I am sure have changed.\nThis autumn/winter, falconry will hit the fashion world. Herm\u00e8s, the classic French luxury brand has added a new creative director to its team \u2013 Christophe Lemaire. Lemaire (who seems to have had a penchant for sporty-chic and evidently proved that with last year\u2019s Lacoste line) is boldly bringing the sport of falconry to the luxury label. Magazine ads will portray beautiful models dressed in creams, winter whites, tans, cashmere, wrap-jackets, leather, tassels, suede, tunics, boots, fringe and of course, a wild falcon on their forearm. They\u2019re going \u201cback to the basics,\u201d and I guess if you\u2019re really going to go back, falconry certainly has the clout.\nThe origins of Herm\u00e8s as a saddle-maker and obvious connection to the equestrian world seems to go hand and hand with falconry. Other lines will most likely follow suit and incorporate falconry into their designs \u2013 I guess we\u2019ll see! Anyway, I\u2019m not usually this much into fashion, but I couldn\u2019t resist this topic and the sublime thought of riding a medieval looking Friesian horse with a bird of prey on one arm and making a fashion statement at the same time!\nOk, imagine you on this\u2026\nFriesian Galloping (photo by LarissaAllen)\nWith this on your arm\u2026\nEuropean Kestrel -a beautifully colored falcon. (photo by quaddie)\nWearing the garb of your choice \u2013 leather, suede\u2026whatever suits you (you\u2019ll have to use your imagination here and I\u2019d love to hear your thoughts!)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefederalregister.com/2011/06/02/2011-13629.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QRO5VLGUFQCWE5F6VYPAKOZBNF6LTUBU", "length": 14677, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "thefederalregister.com", "title": "Federal Register | Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements Under Title VII, the", "raw_content": "Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements Under Title VII, the ADA, and GINA\nAGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\nSUMMARY: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (\"EEOC\" or \"Commission\") proposes to extend its existing recordkeeping requirements under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to entities covered by title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (\"GINA\"), which prohibits employment discrimination based on genetic information.\nDATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 1, 2011. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e-8(c), a public hearing concerning these proposed changes will be held at a place and time to be announced.\nADDRESSES: Send written comments by mail to Stephen Llewellyn, Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street, NE., Suite 6NE03F, Washington, DC 20507. Written comments of six or fewer pages may be faxed to the Executive Secretariat at (202) 663-4114. (There is no toll free FAX number.) Receipt of facsimile transmittals will not be acknowledged, except that the sender may request confirmation of receipt by calling the Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663-4070 (voice) or (202) 663-4074 (TTY). (These are not toll free numbers.) In lieu of sending written comments, comments may be submitted to EEOC electronically on the Federal eRulemaking Portal:http://www.regulations.gov.After accessing this Web site, follow its instructions for submitting comments.\nAll comments received will be posted without change tohttp://www.regulations.gov,including any personal information you provide. Copies of the received comments also will be available for inspection in the EEOC Library by advance appointment only, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday except legal holidays. Persons who schedule an appointment in the EEOC Library and need assistance to view the comments will be provided with appropriate aids upon request, such as readers or print magnifiers. To schedule an appointment to inspect the comments at the EEOC Library, contact the EEOC Library by calling (202) 663-4630 (voice) or (202) 663-4641 (TTY). (These are not toll free numbers.)\nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas J. Schlageter, Assistant Legal Counsel, (202) 663-4668, or Erin N. Norris, Senior Attorney, (202) 663-4876, Office of Legal Counsel, 131 M Street, NE., Washington, DC 20507. Copies of this notice are available in the following alternate formats: Large print, braille, electronic computer disk, and audio tape. Requests for this notice in an alternative format should be made to the Publications Center at 1-800-699-3362 (voice), 1-800-800-3302 (TTY), or 703-821-2098 (FAX--this is not a toll free number).\nOn May 21, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (\u201cGINA\u201d) into law. Title II of GINA protects job applicants, current and former employees, labor union members, and apprentices and trainees from discrimination based on their genetic information. Title II of GINA's coverage corresponds with that of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, covering employers with 15 or more employees, employment agencies, labor unions, and joint labor-management training programs, as well as Federal sector employers. Title II became effective on November 21, 2009. EEOC has issued interpretive regulations under GINA (See 75 FR 68912). Further, EEOC issued a final rule implementing changes to its administrative and procedural regulations in a separate notice found at 74 FR 63981. In the current rulemaking, EEOC is proposing to amend its recordkeeping regulations to add references to GINA. Neither EEOC's existing recordkeeping regulations nor this proposal requires creation of any documents. The proposed change would impose the same record retention requirements under GINA that are imposed under Title VII and the ADA,i.e.,any records made or kept must be retained for the period of time specified in the Title VII and ADA regulations.\nThe EEOC proposal does not impose any reporting requirements under GINA, but reserves the right in the future to issue reporting regulations as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of GINA.\nPersons wishing to present their views orally should notify the Commission of their desire to do so in writing no later than July 5, 2011 with a request to Stephen Llewellyn, Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street, NE., Suite 6NE03F, Washington, DC 20507. The request should include a written summary of the remarks to be offered.\nRegulatory Procedures Executive Orders 12866 and 13563\nThe Commission has complied with the principles in section 1(b) of Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review, as supplemented by Executive Order 13563, Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review. This rule is not a \u201csignificant regulatory action\u201d under section 3(f) of the Order 12866, and does not require an assessment of potential costs and benefits under section 6(a)(3) of the Order.\nThese proposed changes to EEOC's existing regulations contain information collection requirements subject to review and approval by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act. It is estimated that the public recordkeeping burden will not increase significantly as a result of the amendments because all employers affected by them are already required to retain all personnel or employment records that they make or keep for one year, and the only new requirement is that they retain those records relevant to a charge of discrimination filed under GINA until the charge is resolved. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget a request for approval of these information collection requirements under section 3507(d) of the Act. Organizations or individuals desiring to submit comments for consideration by OMB on these information collection requirements should address them to Chad Lallemand in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Room 10235, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 or by e-mail toChad_A._Lallemand@omb.eop.gov.\nCollection title:Recordkeeping under Title VII, the ADA, and GINA.\nDescription of affected public:Employers with 15 or more employees are subject to Title VII, the ADA, and GINA.\nNumber of respondents:899,580.\nReporting hours:Not applicable.\nNumber of forms:None.\nFederal cost:None.\nAbstract:Section 207 of GINA, 42 U.S.C. 2000ffet seq.,incorporates the powers, procedures, and remedies found in section 709 of Title VII. Section 709(c) of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-8(c), requires the Commission to establish regulations pursuant to which employers subject to the Act shall preserve certain records to assist the EEOC in assuring compliance with the Act's nondiscrimination in employment requirements. Any of the records maintained which are subsequentlydisclosed to the EEOC during an investigation are protected from public disclosure by the confidentiality provisions of sections 706(b) and 709(e) of Title VII. EEOC has issued recordkeeping regulations under Title VII and the ADA which require all covered entities to maintain all employment and personnel records they make or keep for a period of one year and all records relevant to a Title VII or ADA charge until the charge is resolved. The proposed revision will extend these same requirements to records relevant to a GINA charge.\nBurden statement:This recordkeeping requirement does not require reports or the creation of new documents; it merely requires retention of documents that the employer has already made or kept, and the burden imposed by these regulations is therefore minimal. An employer subject to the existing requirement in 29 CFR part 1602 currently must retain all personnel or employment records made or kept by that employer for one year, and must retain any records relevant to charges filed under Title VII or the ADA until final disposition of those matters, which may be longer than one year. This proposed rulemaking would require employers to also retain documents relevant to charges filed under GINA until final disposition of those charges.\nExisting Burdens Prior to Change \u2014Establishing Recordkeeping System:There are 899,580 employers subject to the recordkeeping requirement in Part 1602. The currently approved Title VII and ADA recordkeeping requirement in Part 1602 imposes a total burden on covered employers in the aggregate of approximately 16,002 hours, which represents the aggregated time that must be spent by all new firms taken together to ensure that their record maintenance systems comply with EEOC's recordkeeping requirements. Based on the fact that these regulations do not require employers to create any records and do not impose any reporting requirements, but merely require employers to maintain the records that they do create, we estimate that it would take each new firm ten minutes or less to comply. Established firms bear no burden under this analysis, because their systems for retaining Title VII and ADA records are already in place. \u2014Retention of Records When Charge Is Filed:For firms that have recordkeeping systems in place, the fact that a Title VII or ADA charge is filed should not impose any additional burden, because we assume that employers set up their recordkeeping systems in such a way as to ensure that records related to a charge are retained in accordance with EEOC regulations. Effect of Proposed Change on Existing Burdens \u2014Establishing Recordkeeping System:There will be no increase in the existing burden as a result of this proposed change. As stated above, established firms bear no burden because their systems for retaining employment records under Title VII and ADA records are already in place. The burden imposed upon new firms created after the proposed regulatory change becomes effective would be the same as the burden shouldered by new firms prior to the change because it will take no longer to set up a recordkeeping system to retain records relevant to Title VII, ADA, and GINA charges than it did to set up a recordkeeping system to retain records relevant to Title VII and ADA charges. Consequently, the aggregate burden for new firms of establishing a compliant recordkeeping system remains at 16,002 hours. \u2014Retention of Records When Charge Is Filed:The only employers who may be subject to an increased burden are those existing firms that become parties to charges filed under GINA and must therefore ensure that relevant records are retained until the final disposition of the charges. We estimate that an employer that is a party to a GINA charge will need less than ten minutes to ensure that its previously existing system of retaining records pertinent to charges filed under Title VII and the ADA is revised to retain records relating to charges filed under GINA (based upon our estimate that a new firm would need 10 minutes to set up its recordkeeping system to comply with EEOC regulations). Assuming that 200 GINA charges will be filed and using a burden estimate of 10 minutes per charge, the annual aggregate burden would increase by only about 33 hours. This estimated increase is most likely higher than the actual burden because approximately 75 percent of all charges filed under GINA in the last fiscal year were also filed under the ADA. In other words, employers would have been required to maintain the records relevant to 75 percent of the GINA charges under the existing recordkeeping requirements because those records were relevant to ADA charges.\nTitle II of GINA applies to all employers with fifteen or more employees, approximately 822,000 of which are small firms (entities with 15-500 employees) according to data provided by the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy.See Firm Size Dataathttp://sba.gov/advo/research/data.html#us.We estimate that there will be 200 new charges filed under GINA per year. We estimate that typical human resources professionals will need to dedicate no more than ten minutes per charge to satisfy the requirements of the amended regulation by altering the employer's record retention system to retain any personnel documents relevant to a charge of discrimination under GINA until the resolution of the matter. We further estimate that the median hourly pay rate of an HR professional is approximately $46.40.SeeBureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2009 athttp://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes113049.htm.Even assuming that every one of the estimated 200 GINA charges is filed against a small business, EEOC does not believe that a cost of approximately $7.73 per charge will be significant for the impacted small entities. Further, if each of the 200 GINA charges was filed against a different small entity, 200 affected firms out of 822,000 is not a substantial number of small firms. Accordingly, the Commission certifies under 5 U.S.C. 605(b) that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because any burden it may impose onbusiness entities is minimal. For this reason, a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.\nThis final rule will not result in the expenditure by State, local, or Tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more in any one year, and it will not significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Therefore, no actions were deemed necessary under the provisions of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.\nThis action does not substantially affect the rights or obligations of non-agency parties and, accordingly, is not a \u201crule\u201d as that term is used by the Congressional Review Act (Subtitle E of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA)). Therefore, the reporting requirement of 5 U.S.C. 801 does not apply.\nAdministrative practice and procedure, Equal Employment Opportunity.\nDated: May 25, 2011. Jacqueline A. Berrien, Chair.\nAccordingly, part 1602 is proposed to be amended as follows:\nPART 1602\u2014RECORDKEEPING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS UNDER TITLE VII, THE ADA, AND GINA\n42 U.S.C. 2000e-8, 2000e-12; 44 U.S.C. 3501et seq.;42 U.S.C. 12117; 42 U.S.C. 2000ff-6.\n2. Amend Part 1602 by removing the words \u201ctitle VII or the ADA\u201d and adding in their place the words \u201ctitle VII, the ADA, or GINA\u201d in the following places:\n\u2022 \u00a7 1602.14;\n\u2022 \u00a7 1602.21(b);\n\u2022 \u00a7 1602.28(a);\n\u2022 \u00a7 1602.31.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 16286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefederalregister.com/2011/06/02/2011-13706.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:38:18Z", "digest": "sha1:H52AXIXCPQ5MWOAAWY3V6ITVBEPQGDAE", "length": 15187, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "thefederalregister.com", "title": "Federal Register | Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From India: Not", "raw_content": "Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From India: Notice of Preliminary Results of 2009-2010 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review\nSUMMARY: 1The petitioners are the United States Steel Corporation Steel and Nucor Corporation (collectively \"petitioners\").\nInterested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. We intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days from the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (\"the Act\").\nDATES: Effective Date:June 2, 2011.\nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Hargett or James Terpstra, AD/CVD Operations Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4161 and (202) 482-3965, respectively.\nOn December 3, 2001, the Department published in theFederal Registerthe antidumping duty order on Indian hot-rolled steel.See Notice of Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From India,66 FR 60194 (December 3, 2001) (\u201cAmended Final Determination\u201d). On December 1, 2010, the Department published in theFederal Registera notice titled \u201cOpportunity to Request Administrative Review\u201d of the antidumping duty order on Indian hot-rolled steel.See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review,75 FR 74682 (December 1, 2010). On December 30, 2010, and January 3, 2011, petitioners requested an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Indian hot-rolled steel, for subject merchandise produced or exported by Ispat, JSW, and Tata. On January 28, 2011, the Department published a notice of initiation of antidumping duty administrative review of Indian hot-rolled steel for the period December 1, 2009, through November 30, 2010.See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,76 FR 5137 (January 28, 2011) (\u201cInitiation Notice\u201d). On January 31, 2011, February 4, 2011, and February 15, 2011, respectively, JSW, Ispat and Tata each informed the Department that they did not have shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR.\nOn April 11, 2011, the Department placed on the record and invited interested parties to comment on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (\u201cCBP\u201d) data obtained to corroborate the claims of the respondents.SeeMemorandum to the File from Christopher Hargett, International Trade Compliance Analyst, through Melissa Skinner, Office Director, concerning \u201cCertain Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from India: Customs and Border Protection (\u201cCBP\u201d) Data for Corroboration of Claims of No Shipments,\u201d dated April 11, 2011 (\u201cCBP Data Memo\u201d). We received no comments regarding the CBP data.\nOn May 13, 2011, the Department placed on the record the April 13, 2011, inquiry of no shipments to CBP from the Department.SeeMemorandum to the File from Christopher Hargett, International Trade Compliance Analyst, through Melissa Skinner, Office Director, concerning \u201cCertain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from India: Customs No Shipments Inquiry,\u201d dated May 13, 2011. The Department did not receive a reply from CBP regarding its inquiry.\nThe POR covered by this review is December 1, 2009, through November 30, 2010.\nThe merchandise subject to this order is certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products of a rectangular shape, of a width of 0.5 inch or greater, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal and whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances, in coils (whether or not in successively superimposed layers), regardless of thickness, and in straight lengths, of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm and of a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness. Universal mill plate (i.e.,flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm, but not exceeding 1250 mm, and of a thickness of not less than 4 mm, not in coils and without patterns in relief) of a thickness not less than 4.0 mm is not included within the scope of this order.\nSpecifically included in the scope of this order are vacuum-degassed, fully stabilized (commonly referred to as interstitial-free (\u201cIF\u201d)) steels, high-strength low-alloy (\u201cHSLA\u201d) steels, and the substrate for motor lamination steels. IF steels are recognized as low-carbon steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as titanium or niobium (also commonly referred to as columbium), or both, added to stabilize carbon and nitrogen elements. HSLA steels are recognized as steels with micro-alloying levels of elements such as chromium, copper, niobium, vanadium, and molybdenum. The substrate for motor lamination steels contains micro-alloying levels of elements such as silicon and aluminum.\nSteel products included in the scope of this order, regardless of definitions in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (\u201cHTSUS\u201d), are products in which: (i) Iron predominates, by weight, over each of the other contained elements; (ii) the carbon content is 2 percent or less, by weight; and (iii) none of the elements listed below exceeds the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:\n1.80 percent of manganese, or 2.25 percent of silicon, or 1.00 percent of copper, or 0.50 percent of aluminum, or 1.25 percent of chromium, or 0.30 percent of cobalt, or 0.40 percent of lead, or 1.25 percent of nickel, or 0.30 percent of tungsten, or 0.10 percent of molybdenum, or 0.10 percent of niobium, or 0.15 percent of vanadium, or 0.15 percent of zirconium.\nAll products that meet the physical and chemical description provided above are within the scope of this order unless otherwise excluded. The following products, by way of example, are outside or specifically excluded from the scope of this order:\n\u2022 Alloy hot-rolled carbon steel products in which at least one of the chemical elements exceeds those listed above (including,e.g.,American Society for Testing and Materials (\u201cASTM\u201d) specifications A543, A387, A514, A517, A506).\n\u2022 Society of Automotive Engineers (\u201cSAE\u201d)/American Iron & Steel Institute (\u201cAISI\u201d) grades of series 2300 and higher.\n\u2022 Ball bearings steels, as defined in the HTSUS.\n\u2022 Tool steels, as defined in the HTSUS.\n\u2022 Silico-manganese (as defined in the HTSUS) or silicon electrical steel with a silicon level exceeding 2.25 percent.\n\u2022 ASTM specifications A710 and A736.\n\u2022 United States Steel (\u201cUSS\u201d) Abrasion-resistant steels (USS AR 400, USS AR 500).\n\u2022 All products (proprietary or otherwise) based on an alloy ASTM specification (sample specifications: ASTM A506, A507).\n\u2022 Non-rectangular shapes, not in coils, which are the result of having been processed by cutting or stamping and which have assumed the character of articles or products classified outside chapter 72 of the HTSUS.\nThe merchandise subject to this order is currently classifiable in the HTSUS at subheadings: 7208.10.15.00, 7208.10.30.00, 7208.10.60.00, 7208.25.30.00, 7208.25.60.00, 7208.26.00.30, 7208.26.00.60, 7208.27.00.30, 7208.27.00.60, 7208.36.00.30, 7208.36.00.60, 7208.37.00.30, 7208.37.00.60, 7208.38.00.15, 7208.38.00.30, 7208.38.00.90, 7208.39.00.15, 7208.39.00.30, 7208.39.00.90, 7208.40.60.30, 7208.40.60.60, 7208.53.00.00, 7208.54.00.00, 7208.90.00.00, 7211.14.00.90, 7211.19.15.00, 7211.19.20.00, 7211.19.30.00, 7211.19.45.00, 7211.19.60.00, 7211.19.75.30, 7211.19.75.60, and 7211.19.75.90. Certain hot-rolled carbon steel covered by this order, including: Vacuum-degassed fully stabilized; high-strength low-alloy; and the substrate for motor lamination steel may also enter under the following tariff numbers: 7225.11.00.00, 7225.19.00.00, 7225.30.30.50, 7225.30.70.00, 7225.40.70.00, 7225.99.00.90, 7226.11.10.00, 7226.11.90.30, 7226.11.90.60, 7226.19.10.00, 7226.19.90.00, 7226.91.50.00, 7226.91.70.00, 7226.91.80.00, and 7226.99.00.00. Subject merchandise may also enter under 7210.70.30.00, 7210.90.90.00, 7211.14.00.30, 7212.40.10.00, 7212.40.50.00, and 7212.50.00.00. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the Department's written description of the merchandise subject to this order is dispositive.\nAs noted in the \u201cBackground\u201d section above, Ispat, Tata and JSW have each submitted timely-filed certifications indicating that they had no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR.\nOn April 11, 2011, the Department released to interested parties the CBP data it intended to use for corroboration of the respondents' claims.SeeCBP Data Memo. The Department received no comments.\nBased on the claims of the parties and our analysis of CBP data, we preliminarily determine that the evidence on the record indicates that Tata, Ispat, and JSW did not export subject merchandise to the United States during the POR.\nThe Department will disclose these preliminary results to the parties within five days of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).\nInterested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results and may submit case briefs and/or written comments within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice.See19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, will be due five days later, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(d). Parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are requested to submit with each argument (1) a statement of the issue, and (2) a brief summary of the argument. Parties are requested to provide a summary of the arguments not to exceed five pages and a table of statutes, regulations, and cases cited.See19 CFR 351.309(c)(2). Additionally, parties are requested to provide their case brief and rebuttal briefs in electronic format (e.g.,Microsoft Word, pdf, etc.). Interested parties, who wish to request a hearing or to participate if one is requested, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain: (1) The party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed.See19 CFR 351.310(c). Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in case and rebuttal briefs. The Department will issue the final results of this review, including the results of its analysis of issues raised in any such written briefs or at the hearing, if held, not later than 120 days after the date of publication of this notice.\nThe Department intends to issue appropriate assessment instructions directly to CBP 15 days after the publication of the final results of this review.\nSince the implementation of the 1997 regulations, our practice concerning no-shipment respondents has been to rescind the administrative review if the respondent certifies that it had no shipments and we have confirmed through our examination of CBP data that there were no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR.See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 62 FR 27296, 27393 (May 19, 1997). As a result, in such circumstances, we normally instruct CBP to liquidate any entries from the no-shipment company at the deposit rate in effect on the date of entry.\nIn our May 6, 2003, \u201cautomatic assessment\u201d clarification, we explained that, where respondents in an administrative review demonstrate that they had no knowledge of sales through resellers to the United States, we would instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the all-others rate applicable to the proceeding.See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (Assessment Policy Notice).\nBecause \u201cas entered\u201d liquidation instructions do not alleviate the concerns which the May 2003 clarification was intended to address, we find it appropriate in this case to instruct CBP to liquidate any existing entries of merchandise produced by Ispat, JSW, or Tata and exported by other parties at the all-others rate, should we continue to find that Ispat, Tata and JSW had no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States in our final results.See, e.g., Magnesium Metal From the Russian Federation: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,75 FR 56989 (September 17, 2010). In addition, the Department finds that it is more consistent with the May2003 clarification not to rescind the review in part in these circumstances but, rather, to complete the review with respect to Ispat, JSW, and Tata and issue appropriate instructions to CBP based on the final results of the review.\nThe following deposit rates will be effective upon publication of the final results of this administrative review for all shipments of hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For Ispat, JSW, and Tata, and for previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent final results in which that manufacturer or exporter participated; (2) if the exporter is not a firm covered in these reviews, a prior review, or the original less-than-fair-value (\u201cLTFV\u201d) investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent final results for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (3) if neither the exporter nor the manufacturer is a firm covered in this or any previous review or the LTFV conducted by the Department, the cash deposit rate will be 23.87 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV, as amended, adjusted for export subsidies.See Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,69 FR 36060, 36062 n.2 (June 28, 2004) (\u201cIndia Hot-Rolled First Review\u201d) (\u201cThe `all others' cash deposit rate, applied by {CBP}, is reduced to account for the export subsidy rate found in the countervailing duty investigation. The adjusted `all others' rate is 23.87 percent.\u201d);Amended Final Determination.These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.\nThis notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and countervailing duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that reimbursement of antidumping and countervailing duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping and countervailing duties.\nThese preliminary results of review are issued and published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).\nDated: May 26, 2011. Ronald K. Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 15905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefivedials.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:57:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ULOIB3RLCGORSLIJW6FGJ4TJNJ77JSQJ", "length": 563, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thefivedials.co.uk", "title": "Somerset Country Pub & B&B | The Five Dials Inn | Home", "raw_content": "A lovely COUNTRY pub in the heart of Somerset\nWELCOME TO THE FIVE DIALS\nWe warmly welcome you to The Five Dials, our friendly (including dog friendly), family owned pub. Set on the edge of the Blackdown Hills close to East Devon and West Dorset, it is an attractive and ideal location for discovering the West Country.\nHere, at the pub, you will also discover a buzzing and sociable atmosphere, the perfect pint and a great meal, enjoyed either by the fire or in the tranquil space of our beer garden.\n11.00am to 3.00pm and 5.00pm to 11.00pm\n12.00 noon to 11.00pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thehopelessreader.blogspot.com/2014/10/helias-shadow-part-one-starlight-age.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:40:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4CWNEMFPWHV2QJOZDUTD5EKTJOLXT6RC", "length": 3246, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thehopelessreader.blogspot.com", "title": "The Hopeless Reader: Helia\u2019s Shadow Part One (The Starlight Age Series #1) by K.C. Neal Review!", "raw_content": "Helia\u2019s Shadow Part One (The Starlight Age Series #1) by K.C. Neal Review!\nNineteen years ago, aliens arrived on a dying Earth with advanced technology and the promise of ensuring human survival in exchange for a place to settle. They were hailed as the saviors of humans and Earth.\nToday, 16-year-old Helia wants two things in life: to step out of her over-protective mother\u2019s shadow and become an engineer, and to stop hiding her romance with alien boy Kalo. But the world definitely isn\u2019t ready for a human-alien romance. And worse, the human-alien partnership is crumbling. Humans are being arrested without explanation. Some of them are never seen again.\nWhen the alien leader imprisons her mother on a false charge, Helia discovers the aliens never intended to help humans at all. Now, she must join forces with alien rebels and convince the young rebel leader that humans aren't expendable. If she succeeds, humans have a chance at survival and she has a chance at love. If she fails, the dwindling human race dies out in slavery.\nHelia's Shadow Part One is an amazing story filled with adventure and intrigue, and I loved it. We are taken on a journey of a battle against the aliens to try to save Helia's family and her city. It's really gripping. The beginning was very intriguing and very descriptive, which makes the book\u2019s world open up around you. I have found it hard to understand some science fiction books because they are so foreign to me, but Helia's Shadow isn't hard to understand at all. Everything is laid out to where you can easily understand the world she is in. I had some trouble understanding the technological talk in the book, but there wasn't enough in there to where it hindered my understanding of the situation.\nI am so glad I took a chance on this ARC of Helia's Shadow because I really loved it. It's my second time reading a science fiction book, and I have to tell you, this book makes me want to read more of this genre. It took time for me to get acclimated to the world of this book, but when I did, it was easy to put myself in Helia's shoes. I love how fierce yet vulnerable she is and how strong her character becomes. It made the story that much better because I could relate so well to her. And by the end, I felt like I was her. Helia's Shadow really captures your heart and emotions. I was surprised at how emotional this story made me. I really connected with the characters, and that made everything seem so real, especially the emotions surrounding Heila and Kalo. The hint of romance between them kept me hungry for more too. The ending had me begging for more! I REALLY need the sequel. This is a great novel to lose yourself in because it is so complex, but easy to understand. It's so full of action and emotions that you cannot help but be captivated. I highly recommend Helia\u2019s Shadow Part One to anyone who liked Divergent or The Hunger Games. Helia reminds me of strong heroines like Tris (Divergent) and Katniss (The Hunger Games), but she is her own amazing character. 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We didn\u2019t even rent a car; it would have been more than a hundred bucks a day, and the hotel was only three or four miles from the airport. Plus, I was scheduled to be picked up by a studio shuttle at 7 AM, so we\u2019d just need a taxi or a Lyft from the airport to the hotel and back again. Our flight was. . . Read More!\nIN THE BEGINNING: THE 25-YEAR AUDITION PROCESS My first audition for Jeopardy! was for the college tournament, about 25 years ago. Back in those days, there was no online test\u2014you had to travel to Los Angeles on your own dime to take a written test in a huge room with tons of people; then they scored the tests and whittled the group down from there. I combined the audition with a trip to visit a friend, so I wasn\u2019t just traveling from Seattle to L.A. for the audition alone.. . . Read More!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theowenadamsproject.com/2015/03/10/can-you-listen-to-music-while-you-write/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:22ADPK6QWY7ZYBQIZ3VVBLNNY224I3FV", "length": 1812, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "theowenadamsproject.com", "title": "Can you listen to music while you write? \u2013 The Owen Adams Project", "raw_content": "Can you listen to music while you write?\nNot so long ago I was a major multi-tasker. When I was in school my PC was a treasure trove of a million MP3s and Heavy Metal was the soundtrack to my life. Everything I did, I did to music, but when I got to University I noticed I was finding it harder to write up a decent essay unless I made things a little quieter. Maybe I\u2019d always been that way and I was under performing without noticing, I don\u2019t know, but I did notice my productivity shot up when I shut off the tunes.\nNowadays I have the opposite problem, there\u2019s not much I can do while I\u2019m listening to something in the background. My writing environment needs to be a temple of the gods of silence, or I get all tetchy and I write in dribs and drabs. Maybe I\u2019m just turning into an old fogey, but I\u2019m noticing it creepy into the rest of my life too. I\u2019ve become a person who needs his quiet places to get anything done. At times it can be a real hindrance, so I\u2019ve actually started deliberately writing to music a little every day. I\u2019m hoping I can stop my brain from being so picky and learn to process two things at once.\nSo, how about you guys? Do you like silence or do you need a good piece of music to set the rhythm?\nPosted on March 10, 2015 Author OwenCategories About Writing, other-stuff, Uncategorized, writing\nFor me it\u2019s all about themes. If the music I\u2019m listening to matches the feel of what I\u2019m writing it works. But if for some reason I\u2019m listening to something that doesn\u2019t quite fit, I find myself wasting time trying to find the right track and before I know it all the time I had put aside for writing is gone. On the other hand if it\u2019s complete silence I tend to get uneasy and can\u2019t focus on my writing.\nPrevious Previous post: Those Aren\u2019t Biscuits \u2013 013\nNext Next post: Quick Updates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thepeoplenews.com/August11/page15.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YKERETA5GUJQAAQIPXLM54KT7GXQTZAN", "length": 3093, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "thepeoplenews.com", "title": "Joel Lawler - People News - Joel Lawler", "raw_content": "Today I flew into Boston for work. I got in my rental car and immediately got lost. My boss will enjoy my explanation of why I have multiple tolls on the same highway from opposite directions.\nOnce I got to my hotel and did some work, I needed a break. I put my running clothes on and headed to the hotel fitness center. The equipment was state of the art about 25 years ago. It could be a museum for gym equipment. I almost posted a placard \"The Treadmill John Adams Used to Burn off the Calories from his Cousin Sam's beer.\"\nI decided that I would hit the road and run outside instead.\nTwo wrongs do not make a right but three lefts do - or so I thought.\nI started running. Went for a while and took a left. Ran down that street for a while and then took another left. Well, it dawned on me that I was getting further from my hotel. I thought I would loop around and be back where I started. Something went wrong with my concept.\nI finally had to stop and ask a gentleman who was working on his lawn for directions. All I had on me was my room key (the kind without the built in GPS). I explained my situation. In his thick Boston accent he began to tell me \"Get on highway 93\u2026.\" I interrupted him to inform him the situation was a little more dire. I was out running and did not have a car.\nHe stopped. Looked at me for few seconds and smiled. The fact that I do not have a Boston accent clued him in even further as to how really incredibly lost I was.\nHe looked down the road and said \"Run that way. When you get into town the road splits three ways. Take the middle one and keep running.\"\nI thanked him and took off.\nAfter what seemed like many miles, I hit the end of the road. At least a road I could run on. It became a highway. I turned around and headed back towards the town. I saw another man walking his dog. I asked him for directions. He was equally amused at my predicament. He gave very specific directions and then added, \"You have a very long way to go.\" I also had limited daylight left.\nI must admit that there were several moments of fear. I was in the middle of Massachusetts with nothing but a hotel room key.\nGod was with me. He kept me safe. I also know that my error in judgment did not surprise him. He knew what I was going to do before I did it. He did not slap his forehead and say, \"Joel - REALLY? You are lost AGAIN?\"\nI followed the second Bostonian's directions and eventually made it back to my hotel.\nGod loves me and knows me better than I know myself. I am so grateful for his grace. When I get lost, he is ever patient with me. When I foolishly run off with no idea where I am going, he stays with me. He guides my steps.\nHis love has nothing to do with my success or staying on course. He loves me when I am at my worst. He loves me when I do boneheaded things like getting lost twice in one day. His love is complete and nothing I do can earn or lose it.\nI don't think God has a Boston accent. I have heard from him when I pray saying, \"I have no idea where I am going.\" He says, \"I am with you and for you. I will not ever forsake you. Keep Running.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thepit-durham.com/the-north-carolina-cuegrass-festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:4VLDIMELR7QGGGAR44UJBXMJO26UAL26", "length": 790, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thepit-durham.com", "title": "The North Carolina 'Cuegrass Festival - The Pit - Durham", "raw_content": "Each April, The Pit\u2019s Annual \u2018Cuegrass Festival returns to downtown Raleigh\u2019s warehouse district. It\u2019s a jam-packed day full of great \u2018cue, local brews and toe-tappin\u2019 bluegrass music! And it\u2019s always for a good cause. Over the years, we\u2019ve raised more than $50,000 for nonprofits in North Carolina, including N.C. 4-H, the Junior League of Raleigh\u2019s BackPack Buddies, and local farmers raising Animal Welfare Approved livestock.\nOn the stage over the years, we\u2019ve had some amazing bands, including American Aquarium, Big Daddy Love, Delta Rae, Jupiter Coyote, Justin Robinson & The Mary Annettes, Old Habits, Southern Culture on the Skids and Tres Chicas.\nCuegrass 2018 will be held at The Pit in downtown Raleigh on Saturday April 21, 2018. 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It is also known as Developmental Co-ordination Disorder. In earlier times it was known as Clumsy Child Syndrome. Dyspraxia can lead to serious educational and social problems for children.\nThe condition affects three times more boys than girls. Despite their difficulty in co-ordination they are usually reasonably intelligent and often of above average intelligence. Whilst outwardly looking otherwise normal they are vulnerable to bullying by others at school.\nThe condition can appear at any age from infanthood through to teenage years and on to early adulthood.\nIf you are practising as a Dyspraxia therapist and are seeking additional accreditation or you are studying Dyspraxia therapy you can gain a range of accreditation through the Institute of Therapies Management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theshadyglade.blogspot.com/2006/09/review-girl-in-blue.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:57:05Z", "digest": "sha1:LODFW6ZQR2PY22ZXXDWLCU3YYBGUDYTI", "length": 1601, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "theshadyglade.blogspot.com", "title": "The Shady Glade: Review: Girl in Blue", "raw_content": "Girl In Blue by Ann Rinaldi\n16-year-old Sarah has caught the war fever of 1861. Determined to join the Union army, she runs away from her Michigan home escaping a marriage arranged by her abusive father in the process. After a haircut and a change of clothes, she is enrolled in the 2nd Michigan infantry under the name \u201cNeddy Compton\u201d and on her way to Washington D.C.\nThis is just the beginning of Sarah\u2019s adventures. She becomes an assistant in the camp\u2019s hospital, goes to battle and shoots her first rebel, and explores the capital city. Eventually her true identity is discovered, but even this is not the end of Sarah\u2019s story. Becoming a spy for Pinkerton\u2019s agency, she gets a job as a maid in the house of a Confederate socialite living in Washington. Sarah must find out how her new mistress smuggles messages to the Rebel troops; and how to keep her job.\nThis book is one of Rinaldi\u2019s best. Although it is longer than most of her novels, there is more than enough action to keep readers interested throughout the story. There are several places where it appears as though Sarah\u2019s story will end (like when she is discharged from the army) only to find out there is a significant number of pages left to the book. Sarah\u2019s character is full of personality making her a heroine of her time; from her refusal to marry a man twice her age to her hardiness in helping with wounded soldiers in the hospital. The plot moves at a good pace, pulling readers through to the end. A good book for readers 12 and up, especially for those who are interested in the Civil War period.\nShady Glade Rating 9/10", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 8835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thespcblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/spcs-good-for-europe-bad-for-india.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:58:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BVQPW7GFKEWID6MA2KC3LC7SFCEL4Q2F", "length": 1527, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thespcblog.blogspot.com", "title": "The SPC blog: SPCS: good for Europe, bad for India?", "raw_content": "From the Institute of International Trade (the Centre for WTO Studies affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology) comes a report that India is currently engaged in bilateral negotiations with the European Union over a Free Trade Agreement which contains a chapter on the Intellectual Property. The article quotes IP commentator and author Carlos M. Correa as warning that higher IP standards sought by the EU can create disaster for the supply the FTA resulting in the future extension of patents as well as the possibility of preventing generic competition.\nLeft: The Taj Mahal: steps were famously taken here to prevent the manufacture of copies ...\n\"Not only \u2018data exclusivity\u2019 provision, FTA also contains the idea of \u2018supplementary protection certificate\u2019 that requires for the extension of patent term for an additional 5 years so that it can compensate the minimum time required for the marketing approval of a medicinal product\".\nThe article concludes that the FTA would be bad news for India -- a conclusion that is presumably coloured by the assumption that the only sector of the Indian pharma industry that needs the protection of law is the generic sector, and this will remain the case.\nA brisk search of the usual European news sources has not thrown any light on these negotiations. Can any reader of this weblog enlighten us?\nLabels: EU-India FTA\nTim Felgate said...\n[http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/bilateral/countries/india/index_en.htm]\n[http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=15453]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 8920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thewelllongbeach.org/thewelllongbeach/index.php/listen/olympics/session-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T18:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QTCTLF3QRBKAF43AXRHQ4YUDVB3OCKCF", "length": 149, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thewelllongbeach.org", "title": "Session 2", "raw_content": "Presented on August 14, 2016 by Rev. Ben Barlow, this is the second session in the \"Olympics\" sermon series.\nNext Steps - Men's Retreat, Scott Rishel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 494, "original_length": 7029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tillinghast.net/Tillinghast/The_Devlopment_of_PV.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:01:51Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5FZK56RDXOYCVLBJUL5OVNKZYQOOQTT", "length": 27167, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "tillinghast.net", "title": "The Devlopment of PV", "raw_content": "The Development of Pine Valley\nIn an earlier installment of these recollections of mine, there was related the story of the \"Birth of the Birdie,\" which took place during one of the regular week-end pilgrimages of a little band of Philadelphia Golfers. The name of one of these pilgrims was mentioned, that of the George A. Crump, one of my dearest old friends and one of the rarest, most lovable men I have ever known. His contribution to golf was so great, that certainly it deserves a chapter alone, a chapter, which I fear may be not entirely adequate.\nI have told of our winter habit of taking train from Camden for the hour\u2019s run to Northfield. George Crump invariably was of the party and on several occasions I observed him looking intently from the train window as we passed through a section about twenty miles out. As a matter of fact his attention had been attracted by a freakish bit of country in South Jersey, freakish because it was so totally different from the monotonous flat lands of those parts. At first he said nothing to any one, but quietly, as was his wont in everything he did, he visited the tract and took option on one hundred and eighty acres of gently-hilled, pinecovered, sandy land -- the tract which he had so intently studied from the passing trains.\nThen he told a few of us of a plan, which he had in mind. This was in 1912, and at the time the Philadelphia district really possessed no course of true championship requirements. The best golfers of that district bemoaned the fact that their play was over courses that were not sufficiently exacting to develop their strokes to such high standard as to make them serious factors in the national events. George Crump\u2019s dream was to build a course, which would offer a great diversity of play in really exacting form, a course that would have no single hole designed with the limitations of the ordinary players in mind. He contended that each club in Philadelphia had enough class players, who could cope with such a super-course, to insure an ample membership. With his own money he purchased the property and entirely financed the work. But, above all, his own ideals entirely dominated that plan and this truly great course must ever remain, a lasting, glorious monument to his genius. True, he sought opinions from others. I was one of the first to walk the property with him and that George Crump finally incorporated two of my conceptions entirely (the long seventh and the thirteenth) will ever be the source of great satisfaction. He also had opinions on various points from Walter Travis and C.B. Macdonald, also from many others of his friends, who, as amateurs, were capable of offering valuable suggestions because they were numbered among the great players of the country at that time.\nIn January of 1913, George Crump gave me permission to publish in my syndicated weekly golf column of that period, the first word of the new course. An excerpt from this read: \"The Philadelphia section is to have a great golf course -- one which may eclipse all others. Although I have known of the plans for more than a year, only recently have I been relieved from secrecy and the announcement appears in print today for the first time. Mr. Crump\u2019s first thought was to provide winter golf, but I predict that it will attract the cream of players throughout the entire year.\"\nIn March, 1913, I published a full description of work already accomplished and described in detail the first four holes, which had been completed entirely to George Crump\u2019s own plan and personally directed building, and also the plan of the first nine holes and the tenth and eighteenth, all of which remained as George determined with the exception of the ninth. In May it was announced that the British golf architect, H.S. Colt, was in Canada and that probably he would visit Pine Valley to collaborate in the final drafting of plans, which he did during the following month, June, and most excellently. So it will be seen, by all this, exactly how Pine Valley was conceived, and how it developed. In some respects the course represents a consensus of opinion, carefully edited by the master mind of George Crump, to whom must be given credit to the fullest measure. Certainly one of the world\u2019s greatest golf courses, it reflects the genius of one man after all and must ever be a tribute to his memory. For George Crump was not destined to live to see his great masterpiece entirely completed. That is the tragedy of it all. Yet, it was a fortunate thing that he did live long enough to hear Pine Valley\u2019s praises from the lips and hearts of the truly great in golf, but I know that the praise from his close friends and boon companions of the links brought him even greater delight.\nHis sudden death might have been even more unfortunate that his passing, for he left no will to provide for the actual completion of his work or of its passing to a regular organization, an eventuality, which he had always contemplated in absolutely an unselfish way and without the remotest thought of any profit to himself, although the project had rendered the property exceedingly valuable. However, most fortunately for the game of golf, his family, knowing well his unrecorded intentions, made possible the turning over of Pine Valley to the present club, as he would have had it.\nMY CRONOLOGY OF PROGRESS REPORTS\nThe new Pine Valley Golf Club at Clementon, New Jersey, which promises to offer the most notable course in the vicinity of Philadelphia, has a force of workmen removing trees and underbrush and gradually the tract is being opened to view. As the work progresses the first favorable impressions become deep rooted convictions, for the land is remarkable indeed. Everything indicates that the fond hopes of the builders will be realized.\nAlready seven of the holes are opened up and rapidly cleared fairways are being prepared for spring seeding. Several of the greens are ready for preparation.\nThus far the holes which are being prepared present golf of this description. The first, starting away from the clubhouse site is a fine two shotter, but it will take a drive of at least 175 yards to even partially open up the green which lies around a bend. The location of this green is ideal. The second is another two shot proposition, but it will take a fine second to carry an enormous pit which will be placed in the side of a ridge which is approached broad-side. A good long drive will enable one to carry up to the green with a cleek or spoon.\nThe third in my opinion will be excellent. The teeing ground will be placed on top of the same ridge as is located the second green. The green can be reached by a long straight drive which must carry the \"Alpinization\" at varying distances of from 185 to 200 yards \u2014 depending on the accuracy from the tee. The fairway sides, and the green sides ad flank will be guarded by elaborate variations of the Mid-Surrey mounds and grassed hollows. Two well placed shots will reach the next green, but under no circumstances can either be indifferently or weakly played. The drive is over very rough country and must carry a high ridge. The fifth is the second of the four one-shot holes on the course. A very pronounced depression, over the creek must be carried with a short iron to the green in the hill side beyond. Standing on this teeing ground the view in every direction is one to make the most exacting golfer enthuse. Nothing is lacking (even a variety of heather is growing about), and anyone who has played over the British courses must at once remark the strikingly similarity of the surroundings.\nThe sixth is a three-shotter, and although one cannot reach home in two, there is much to be gained by a long ball which takes the most difficult and dangerous carry. The next hole is less developed that any of these I have mentioned, but enough has been cleared to show something of its requirements. A long well placed drive must carry an enormous dip through which flows a stream of clear water. The second is a high shot with a mashie if the drive has been well hit, but if it has not the longer shot with a mid iron will prove exceedingly bothersome. The remaining holes are yet to be cleared, but the work will be pushed hard. The home hole will be one to try the soul of man. It is long two shotter \u2014 the second over a water hazard, and I can assure you that it calls for a mighty stroke. It makes an unusually fine finish.\nAll tests of the soil have proven most gratifying; indeed I can think of nothing which is missing at Pine Valley. My firs prediction of the future of the new course is truly a conservative one, as I believe after other visits, which have been treats indeed.\nEleven holes of the new Pine Valley have been seeded and are coming on in promising fashion. It is expected that the entire round will be ready for play at this time next year. During the month a number of the leaders of golf in Philadelphia visited the place and were amazed by the progress which had been made.\nIt is quite possible now to describe Pine Valley as a completed course, for many of the holes are in the embryo. Those which have been played are entirely satisfying. Not long ago the discoverer and developer of Pine Valley, Mr. George A. Crump, accompanied by Mr. Howard W. Perrin, Mr. Richard Mott and Mr. A.W. Tillinghast, played golf there for the first time. To the founder was given the honor of driving the first ball and he selected a faithful old driver as the club in his bag most deserving of the historic first stroke. \"Bolivar,\" as this particular club affectionately is named by Mr. Crump, is huge and powerful, and on this occasion it was at the business end of a long straight ball from Pine Valley\u2019s first teeing ground.\nMr. Perrin, firm in his conviction that the new course will prove to be one of the most notable in America, asserted that in years to come these four pioneers would look back to the day with great satisfaction. As he expressed it, \"We are making history and with this in mind we must fancy \"Bolivar\" hanging in a prominent and honored place on the club-room walls.\" Mr. Tillinghast secured a first par \u2014 a 4 on the first hole played, and likewise the first \"bird,\" \u2014 a 2 on the third. To the same player must be given the rather doubtful distinction of slapping first into the lake in front of the fifth teeing ground, which he did to his great disgust on this history making day.\nOnly five holes were ready for play but the players made the short round frequently and they found that the distances were excellent. In the near future we will attempt a description of this new course, which has been so widely discussed and which promises so much.\nPine Valley now has eleven holes opened for play and each week-end finds many golfers availing themselves of the excellent conditions. The last three holes to be cleared of stumps are opening rapidly, and will be ready for the spring seedling. Although there exists no clubhouse at present the players are welcomed warmly by Mr. George A. Crump, who has built a pretentious bungalow close by the fourth fairway.\nIn my previous estimate of the merits of the new course at Pine Valley, I had only considered the first dozen holes, but as the ground has been cleared and the last six holes developed, I must confess that they are indeed remarkable. In as short time I hope to give a complete description of this wonderful course, and I am sure that the readers of this magazine will be quire as enthusiastic as myself.\nPine Valley is coming on famously. The few remaining holes which were to be cleared will be quite ready for the fall seeding and since they have been opened up they appear to be even better that the constructors had even dared to hope.\nInsert Photo: Dr. Simon Carr piloting Ben Sayers around Pine Valley, and pointing out the proper line of play. Circa June 1914.\nInsert Photo: The great Hazard of sand along the sixth fairway at Pine Valley. Circa August 1914.\nThe Pine Valley Golf Club formally opened the new locker house and eleven holes on November 7th, and the members were amazed at the rapid strides which have been made during the past few months. The new building, which eventually will be used exclusively as a locker house, at present contains the temporary club rooms.\nMuch has been written concerning this marvelously fine course, discovered by that celebrated golf architect, Mr. H.S. Colt, but for the most part, players are familiar only with the eleven holes which are now being used. A fortnight ago the writer had the pleasure of walking over the undeveloped seven holes, and in his opinion they are the greatest of any, and Mr. Crump agrees with me in this opinion. At present the fairway is littered with uprooted stumps and underbrush, but the work of development is being pushed, and without a doubt the club will be playing on the entire course at this time next year.\nAs an illustration of the magnitude of the work, let me tell you that in one place, nearly twenty acres of bog will be made into a lake and it requires but small imaginative power to picture its attractiveness in the days to come.\nTo give an idea of the demands of Pine Valley, let me quote from the recent report of the club secretary, Dr. Simon Carr:\nThe total length of Pine Valley course is about 6,700 yards. It is not a sluggers course in any sense, except in the opinion of those who fix their standards by parlor golf played only with a mashie and putter. The following is an analysis of the shots up to the green, based on the supposition of good driving from each tee:\n3 brassey approach shots, at holes 4, 16, 18.\n4 cleek approach shots, at holes 1, 6, 9, 13.\n4 midiron approach shots, at holes 2, 11m 12, 17.\n4 mashie approach shots, at holes 7, 8, 14, 15.\nThe one-shot holes are: No. 10 for a short iron, No. 3 for a long iron, No. 5, full shot with a wooden club.\nThis arrangement give a full, well-balanced variety of approach shots as anyone could wish, and they are skillfully distributed over the round.\nMr. George A. Crump takes great delight in pointing out to visitors the spectacular drive to the fifth green at Pine Valley. It is a longish carry across water, but as a matter of fact it looks far greater than really is, although it must be admitted that it requires a stout stroke to get home. Not long ago a gentleman, standing on the teeing ground and looking across the lake to the green ejaculated, \"It is impossible! No man can make that carry.\"\nMr. Crump smiled in his quiet fashion and taking his driver he proceeded to demonstrate the ease with which the carry could be made, for the drive is a favorite of his, and as often as not he lands his ball squarely on the green. But on this particular occasion the wood was perverse and on doubt, after the first few balls had ignominiously ended in the water, Mr. Crump\u2019s desperation was responsible for repeated failure. He took each stance with grim determination, and carefully he prepared to strike, and mightily he swung \u2014 but each ball seemed bewitched until the entire supply was exhausted. It was a trifle vexing to hear the knowing \"I told you so\" from the doubting Thomas.\nIn digging one of the pits at Pine Valley, a fine specimen of an ancient Indian stone hatchet was unearthed. It is nearly perfect.\nAt Pine Valley the new holes will be completed as rapidly as possible. The original plans have been changed slightly for Mr. Crump uncovered a magnificent hole when he cut the timber from the ridge which is encountered when the 12th green is quitted. The drive is across a deep depression and unless the shot is a long one the green will not be in sight. Along the left of the fairway extends a pronounced throw which will take a hooked ball and sent it far from the \"straight and narrow.\" This new 13th certainly is one of the best of any on the new course.\nPine Valley has secured the services of Greenkeeper Bender, who, under the direction of the late Mr. Fred Taylor, produced the greens at Sunnybrook. It will be remembered that Mr. Taylor\u2019s theories, treating to a considerable extent on the preparation of germinating beds for grass seeds, appeared last year in THE AMERICAN GOLFER. At Pine Valley some of the greens showed a condition of considerable acidity, which could be traced to the use of native muck from nearby water bottoms, which had been drained when the building of the course was started. Unfortunately the material had not been permitted to become conditioned for turf building. However, it is anticipated that the old greens will soon be brought back to a condition of excellence and certainly a similar error will not be made on those yet to be constructed.\nMr. George A. Crump asserts that the greens at Pine Valley have recovered fully from the slight set-back which they sustained in the fall. It was reported erroneously that the acidity which appeared in the turf at Pine Valley was caused by a commercial humus, but Mr. Crump hastens to correct this misapprehension by admitting that the trouble could be traced directly to the application of certain muck which had not been given sufficient time to dry thoroughly.\nFourteen of the Pine Valley holes will be ready for play in the spring, and it is likely that the fall will find the course in sufficiently good condition to be played in its entirety.\nGeorge Crump at Pine Valley\nThe Pine Valley Club has purchased large tracts of land on all sides of the course and consequently they are protected for all time against unpleasant neighbors. Included in the new purchase are sixty-five acres along the railroad tracks in the direction of Clementon. The club now owns a trifle over five hundred acres.\nThe turf is improving rapidly and work is being pushed on four new greens, Numbers 12, 13, 14 and 15. It is anticipated that these new holes will be ready for play in the Fall and this will complete the course. The new dormitory is completed, and the members find it extremely convenient.\nCertainly the most vital topic, discussed by Philadelphia golfers at this time, concerns the future of Pine Valley. As everyone knows, the late Mr. George Crump, after his conviction that the property possessed unusual golf features, purchased it and devoted almost all of his time and a part of his fortune to the building of the course. He practically lived on the ground, and as the months lengthened to years, a magnificent course took shape under his tireless supervision. His first reward was the unstinted praise of the leading local golfers, with whom he had played for many years. Then others of national repute visited the course and to prove that their enthusiastic estimates were not inspired by momentary impulses, they became non-resident members, visiting the valley again and again, frequently coming from remote points. In a word, Pine Valley gave greater promise of national importance than any course in America. And Mr. Crump labored on, steadfastly striving for perfection and with the course nearing completion.\nA beautiful clubhouse and dormitories were built, and a number of the members of the newly organized club built bungalows on land which they leased from the club. Pine Valley rapidly was becoming a great golf center. Then suddenly the hand of death took Mr. Crump away just as he was climbing to the highest, pinnacle of his dreams. An everlasting monument to his greatness was about to be finished. To make the course and the club possible, he had spent a great amount of money and in payment he had received from the club, bonds amounting to $172,000. Without a doubt, he intended putting these bonds aside, that they might not hinder the club in the work of maintaining and further developing the great course which he had hewn from the rough. He was rugged and strong. Probably any thought of death had not occurred to him. But in his vigorous health he was struck down without warning, and his will, made some years ago, contains absolutely no provisions for Pine Valley, nor does any record of his wishes survive. In view of these circumstances, it is not difficult to grasp the situation. But undoubtedly a way will be found to make all things possible. Those who were near and dear to him cannot permit the work, which was his very life, to perish. Mr. Julian Storey has been commissioned to paint a portrait of Mr. Crump, which will be hung in the clubhouse. The artist has, for his study and guidance, a number of photographs. It is anticipated that the canvas will show Pine Valley's founder in golf costume, which he wore always in the work he loved so well. Mr. Joe K. Bole, of Cleveland, one of Pine Valley's members and staunchest admirers, has prepared a wonderfully perfect model of the course. In detail and in general the model is faithful and artistic.\nAs predicted in The American Golfer several months ago, Pine Valley is to be completed and maintained as closely as possible to the line which would have been followed by the late Mr. George Crump had he lived. This is good news indeed, not only to the members of the club but to golfers in general, for this course promises to be rated among the greatest in America.\nOne of the last year\u2019s greatest blows was the death of Mr. George Crump. At the time of his death he was nearing the completion of a great piece of work, the construction of the Pine Valley course, at Clemonton, New Jersey. From the beginning it was a gigantic undertaking and one which required much money. Mr. Crump had provided funds from his private purse and afterwards, when a club was organized, he turned the property over to the new organization, accepting club-bonds, which covered the greater part of his out-lay.\nHis sudden death came as a rude shock to golfers in all parts of the country, but particularly to those who were associated with him at Pine Valley. Of middle age and in rugged health, Mr. Crump had not anticipated a sudden taking away, and unfortunately his will made no provision for the taking care of the club-bonds or the completion of the work.\nFortunately, his estate recognized that this course was the dream of Mr. Crump\u2019s life and soon there were offered ways by which the club might continue. Although the course was completely planned there remained four holes to be completed and it was estimate that close to twenty-five thousand dollars would be necessary to finish them.\nNow it is announced that one of the Pine Valley members has offered to furnish the funds for the work but he will not permit his name to be made public. This surely is a wonderful tribute to the game and to Mr. Crump\u2019s memory.\n{Mr. E.G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Co. has donated $35,000 for the completion of the remaining four holes \u2014 Editor}\nLast month, in our reference to Pine Valley and a contribution which had been made for the completion of the four unfinished holes, the Editor inserted a clause which stated that Mr. Eugene Grace was the mysterious donator of $35,000 for this purpose. Now, I know that he got this information from a source which seemed to preclude any possibility of mistake, but the following letter from Mr. Howard Perrin, President of Pine Valley and ex-president of the USGA, speaks for itself:\n\"My dear ________:\nI notice in \"Hazard\u2019s\" article in the American Golfer, (and I am sure you know this gentleman very well) that he makes a statement relative to Pine Valley which is absolutely incorrect and which I would like to have you correct in your next article and in any other way that you see fit.\nMr. Grace did not give any money whatever to Pine Valley and I do not understand where the report emanated.\nMr. Grinnell Willis of Morristown, New Jersey, who has been very much interested in Pine Valley and was a great friend of George\u2019s and mine, and who spends considerable of his time at Pine Valley, came in to see me about a month ago and said that he would be glad to give $20,000 to finish the four holes at Pine Valley, and in a few days he sent me a check for that amount. It seemed to me that inasmuch as the Crump Estate had returned to us $40,000 of the $100,000 in bonds that were held by George, for the purpose of taking care of the $20,000 note and to finish the course, that it was only fair since we had sold $20,000 of the bonds to take care of the note, that the other $20,000 of the bonds should be given to Mr. Willis instead of accepting his offer as an absolute gift.\nSo it practically amounts to Mr. Willis having purchased $20,000 of the Pine Valley Golf Club five per cent Bonds and the proceeds will be used for finishing the course.\nMr. Willis asked at the time he made his gift, that his name should not be made known to the newspapers, although all club members knew that the money was given by him, but since the newspapers have gone entirely wrong on the subject, I think it only fair that the facts should now be stated.\nMr. Grace naturally is very much annoyed that he should have been given credit for something he did not do and therefore, you will be helping not only Mr. Willis but Mr. Grace in stating the facts of the case.\"\n(ending in a purely personal strain)\nHoward W. Perrin\"\nThey are active at Pine Valley. The course will be completed as quickly as possible, and it is likely that the new green committee will consist of but two \u2014 Dr. Simon Carr and Mr. Hugh Wilson.\nThe committee will grapple with the work of improving the soil conditions for the fairway is not good in spots. When the course was seeded much of the sand was given only a top-dressing, which evidently has not been sufficient. Now it is determined to plow much of it up and incorporate with the light sand a proper amount of heavier soil.\nIt will be good news to learn that at last the Pine Valley course will be open for play over the full eighteen holes in the course of six weeks or even less. There will be a house warming and perhaps, a one day tourney at 36 holes to which will be invited all the crack golfers of the country. The course has improved wonderfully of late and the architectural beauty of the new holes will charm the old members as well as those who have never seen the course. It has taken a long while, but he course is worth it, every bit.\nMay I be pardoned again if I turn to the column of the date of January 28, 1918? Never have I penned lines with more difficulty than those which announced the passing of George Crump, and the little tribute, weak in itself doubtless, never the less came from the heart, for my old friend was a man who came hearts that way.\nStrangely quiet is the Valley;\nThrough the clouds, the new moon shines;\nNow the whimp\u2019ring winds of winter\nBrings a murmur from the pines.\nListen to the moaning night-wind.\nFor the whispers sadly say: --\n\"How desolate our Valley Since George has gone away.\"\n\"Men may raise a shaft of marble\nAnd make words in chiseled lines,\nBut his true shrine, everlasting,\nShall be here among the pines; --\nIn the hearts of those, who loved him,\nDeep in hearts of men, who\u2019ll say; --\n\u2018How desolate our Valley\nSince George has gone away.\u2019\nDr. Simon Carr driving from the second tee at Pine Valley.\nMr. George A. Crump is on the extreme left. 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To improve their job skills their future boss has travelled back in time to give them a lesson now, while they are still at school.\nThis is a fun play for children to watch and participate in as planet-builders in training. They examine different geological phenomena and help to figure out what makes the world work by conducting a series of bizarre scientific experiments.\n'VOLUNTEER ATOMS\u2019\nhave to stick together to make molecules, and then demonstrate the three forms of matter; Solid, Liquid and Gas. They also show how temperature and pressure can change matter from one form to another.\n'VOLUNTEER ROCKS'\ndemonstrate some of the differences between the three \u2018families\u2019 of rock; Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic. The audience then tries to identify real rock samples.\n'TECTONIC PLATES'\ndemonstrate the movement of the Earth\u2019s surface, and how it is constantly being renewed.\n'TWO CITIES'\nshow how earthquakes are caused by plates moving against each other.\n'THE BRAIN VOLCANO'\nshows what causes volcanoes.\n'THE FOSSIL'\ndemonstrates one way in which fossils are formed. 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Engineers say that the Ranger has been tested to the same durability standards as the F-Series trucks.\nThe terrain management system will offer four drive modes which can be switched on the fly: normal, mud/ruts, grass/gravel/snow, and sand. Trail Control is like low-speed cruise control for acceleration and braking. It monitors and assesses slippage on loose terrain.\nThe new Ranger will start arriving in North American dealerships in early 2019 and be assembled at its Wayne, Michigan, factory in suburban Detroit.\nThegrille and windshield design improve aerodynamics and reduce wind noise. A steel bumper with an available trailer hitch receiver can tow campers, ATVs and boats. The 4WD Ranger will have 2-high, 4-high, and 4-low as standard. Power outlets allow charging of laptops and cell phones.\nIt should be noted up front that the new Ranger is most definitely a mid-size pickup, much larger than the old compact Ranger we knew, and it's almost the same size as a mid-1990s Ford F-150.\nAn global version of the Ranger was actually born in 2009, before the previous model breathed its last breathe.\n\"We see more of an opportunity that didn't exist five years ago\", Ford truck marketing manager Todd Eckert said.\nIf you've spent any time outside the US or Canada in the last decade, you've likely seen a new Ranger - it's the best-selling pickup in Europe. Ford made a decision to bring the Ford Ranger back partly due to increased customer demand in the mid-size truck market, which has seen an increase in USA sales by 83% since 2014. The vehicle also underwent the same testing as its F-150 big brother to ensure that its capability and comfort stand up to the rigors of whatever consumers had in mind, whether city cruising or country climbing. Automakers sold 448,000 midsize pickups in the U.S.in 2016; that's forecast to grow to 470,000 in 2019, according to the consulting company IHS Markit.\nOne in five midsize truck buyers lives California, with strong sales also in Arizona and Nevada.\n\"Ranger has always held a special place in the hearts of truck fans\", said Hau Thai-Tang, Ford's executive vice president of product development and purchasing. Ford says that will give the truck the power of a V6 engine with the fuel economy of a four-cylinder. \"When you pair that with its 10-speed transmission, you've got one of the most versatile, powerful and efficient powertrains in the segment\".\nAvailable in SuperCab or SuperCrew cab configurations, the new Ranger will include the XL, XLT, and Lariat trims for those seeking a more premium experience. All vehicles come with automatic emergency braking, which can prevent rear-end collisions when warning of obstacles and initiating braking.\nThe retooling is part of the $850 million investment Ford announced last March to revamp the Michigan Assembly Plant to build the Ranger and all-new Ford Bronco. Ford Focus production will move from MI to China.\nTexas A&M hires LB coach Bradley Dale Peveto away from Ole Miss\nPeveto spent one season at Ole Miss after coaching at LSU from 2014-16 in his second stint with the Tigers. He coached on Les Miles' original staff from 2005-08.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 10597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://topic.alibabacloud.com/a/model-driven-cloud-security-automating-cloud-security-with-cloud-application-security-policies_3_75_10084133.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:G3RRCRKBBKY5YFIB4XMMAY6C45574SAK", "length": 8151, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "topic.alibabacloud.com", "title": "Model-driven cloud security-automating cloud security with cloud application security policies", "raw_content": "Security is an essential element of using cloud technology, and lack of security often hinders the adoption of cloud technology. However, as security policy and compliance complexity, it complexity, and it agility increase, the task of translating security policies into security implementations becomes more time-consuming, repetitive, expensive, and error-prone, and can easily increase the security workload of end-user organizations. Automation helps end user organizations (He Yun providers) reduce this workload and improve policy implementation accuracy. This article focuses on a particularly interesting, challenging and often forgotten topic: the application layer's security policy automation.\nCloud Application Security Automation\nApplication Security Policy automation is primarily an automated process that translates human-understandable security requirements, such as enterprise security policies, compliance regulations, and best practices, into the corresponding technical security policy rules and configurations implemented at the application layer. At the end of the cycle, it also includes audit automation, for example, to collect application-level alerts and map them to human-understandable security and compliance requirements in order to continually assess security posture.\nAnalysis of cloud Application security policy\nApplication security policies are often particularly complex for interconnected, dynamically changing application patterns, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), Cloud application mashups, and other \"Plug and Play\" application environments. Customers adopt such an application environment for a variety of business reasons, as well as security requirements that support these reasons with minimal overall maintenance effort. So automation is critical.\nSecurity automation is particularly important for cloud computing, as cloud users require cloud providers to support compliance policy management while measuring their strengths in terms of roughly the same metrics as cloud computing, based on how much they reduce upfront capital expenditures and their internal manual maintenance efforts.\nOverall, application-layer security is far broader than the policy automation described in this article, including vulnerability scans, application layer firewalls, configuration management, alert monitoring and analysis, and source code analysis. One task that is closely related to the application-layer security policy is identity and access management. Although identity and access management is often viewed as having a greater relationship with user identity management rather than application security, they are actually highly relevant to application layer security. This is because when a user accesses an application and authenticates, an authorization policy needs to be enforced, largely depending on the particular application being accessed.\nAt this point, the problem arises: where does this authorization policy come from? Who writes and maintains this policy? How do I implement this policy? How do I audit this policy? These issues also apply when you use Application Security policy automation and identity and access management to make policy management more time-saving, repeatable, expensive, and error-prone.\nToday's cloud application security policy automates deployment\nOverall, security policy automation, especially for cloud technology, is still at a relatively early stage. It focuses primarily on providing identity/authentication as a service (for example, a Facebook connection). There are also cloud-based security services (anti-virus, e-mail scanning, intrusion detection systems (IDS), log management), some of which are indirectly related to applications.\nThis article focuses on automating the application security policy as a service provider. There are only a few deployments for early adopters: first, objectsecurity integrates its OPENPMF model-driven security policy automation product with a private platform, a service (PaaS) cloud (Intalio Cloud with Intalio BPMS), for Cloud mashups Provides seamless policy automation. Another early deployment involving OPENPMF applies to the U.S. Navy, in a gray area between private clouds and SOA. It involves strategy as a service, and virtualization IT services in a highly secure environment. All two cases will be discussed in a later Case study section.\nThere are also a number of other model-driven automated deployments of security policies, but not for the cloud, and most of them do not involve policy or service.\nThe challenge of automating application security policies\nUnfortunately, in most cases, security policy automation is easier said than done. This section outlines the reasons why application Security policy automation is difficult to implement.\nPolicies become more difficult to implement and automate because they are more meaningful to people and organizations\nMany of today's security tools provide a degree of automation (without maintenance), but cannot compromise dependencies, correctness, and automation: In some cases, the building of automation tools presupposes that the vendor knows what the end user organization wants to implement as a default security policy. In other cases, the purpose of building a product is to learn strategies in a heuristic manner over time. The disadvantage of both approaches is that they may implement unplanned, unrelated, or incomplete policies, even if the security mechanism itself can play its part.\nSuch traditional security automation is often more applicable to more general security tools, these tools do not require organization-specific policies and are oriented to the underlying level of the technology system (for example, the network or operating system layer), such as anti-virus, antimalware, preconfigured network intrusion detection systems, and common application vulnerability scans.\nSecurity automation becomes more difficult to implement when you must consider the organization, user, and application behavior within to implement and audit security policies. For example, an organization that handles credit card payments would want to implement such policies as \"unencrypted credit card information must not be taken out of the organization\", and \"it is necessary to delete credit card information that is no longer in use.\" Another example is that a medical organization would like to implement a strategy that includes \"doctors and nurses can access their current patient's health files only if they have a legal purpose, without creating an alert audit log.\" Such complex, context-sensitive policies depend on the security policies, business processes, applications, and application interactions of specific organizations. This complex, context-sensitive policy is typically implemented because the end user organization must meet industry-specific Specifications (PCI Data security standards or PCI DSS and health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA).\nPolicies become more difficult to implement and automate because they become more, more complex, more versatile, more granular, and context-sensitive\nTraditional \"Authorization Management\" is now categorized as part of identity and access management, it illustrates these challenges: as systems and participants become more and more dynamic, when interconnected applications evolve (\"agility\"), policies become less manageable when policies become rich, fine-grained, and context-related. There are too many, too complex technical security rules that need to be managed, so authorization policies can become ambiguous or not manageable, and confidence in the policies implemented may be compromised. As mentioned earlier, the question to answer is: Where does this authorization policy come from? Who writes and maintains this policy? How do I implement this policy? How do I audit this policy?\nSee more highlights of this column: http://www.bianceng.cnhttp://www.bianceng.cn/Servers/cloud-computing/\ndi cloud php cloud azure cloud services deprecated cloud configuration manager azure php cloud computing free cloud php cloud computing installation steps", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 11441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://torontoevaluation.ca/centre/?page_id=176", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:UFV52FGIBE3MODKQUBS75E7OMTSNZ3XP", "length": 1855, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "torontoevaluation.ca", "title": "Steps 7-8 \u2013 Evaluation centre for complex health interventions", "raw_content": "Impacts and Learning (Steps 7 .. 8 .. )\nA fundamental step in the evaluation is developing a design that includes methods and measures to understand if an intervention is \u201cworking\u201d as intended. This implies: (i) understanding what successful impact means for an intervention; (ii) developing clarity on the timeline of impact, (iii) developing clear measures that can be used to study progress; (iv) the measures need to be informed by the theory of change of the intervention, that is, the results expected to occur and the related mechanisms; (v) the measurement system should include a focus on the dynamic contexts and mechanisms that might be necessary for the interventions to work; (vi) an evaluation design informed by the program theory that can help rule out alternative explanations for changes in key outcomes.\nLearning about the theory of change of the intervention over the course of implementation is key in the evaluation. Given the nonlinear nature of some interventions, there are likely to be many \u201csurprises\u201d in the processes by which interventions impact outcomes. An emergent theory of change needs to reflect on the processes by which complex interventions can impact the public good. Some points to consider in developing an emergent theory of change include: (i) pay close attention to the unintended consequences of an intervention; (ii) both the \u201cmacro\u201d social processes and the \u201cmicro\u201d individual level contexts that are essential for the impacts of the intervention need to be considered; (iii) the systems dynamics inherent in the process of change; (iv) the networks that were critical in creating an optimal context for impacts; (v) key events in the course of implementation that were important for the impact of the intervention. 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Dealing With a Downed Tree A tornado or other acute weather event can pull a tree up from the roots, pushing it over onto your lawn or leaving it hanging perilously over your property.\nIf you own a business in a part of the country that often gets winter snow and ice, you may be dismayed to notice that the spring thaw has created multiple tire-bursting or alignment-wrecking potholes in your business's parking lot or access drive. As water seeps into tiny cracks in the asphalt and freezes, it expands to displace the surrounding pavement, causing it to buckle. Vehicle tires striking this vulnerable pavement can only worsen the problem, often sending large chunks of asphalt flying as they pass by.\nAccording to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, the average American household uses approximately 320 gallons of water each day, and 30 percent of this is used outdoors. If you're spending far too much trying to keep your lawn and garden lush, you might be considering xeriscaping. Xeriscaping is a type of landscaping that allows you to have a beautiful lawn and garden without using as much water as a traditional landscaping plan.\nThe fictional world of Gotham City has been featured in numerous comic books, novels, detective stories, television shows, and films. While the city design has evolved through the years, it is often portrayed as gritty, urban, and full of industrial designs. The stark look of Gotham City can easily translate into your home, especially through the fireplace design. When hiring contractors for a custom fireplace, the design and style you choose can become the centerpiece of a living area.\nIf you have issues with water pooling near your foundation and entering into your basement, then you have a drainage problem on your property. 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Russell\n606 pages, Illustrated, 6\u201d x 9 \u00bc\u201d\nThis is the 6th edition, now with more than 600 full-color illustrations of collectable books \u2013 it\u2019s completely revised and updated. Compiled for collectors, dealers and all who love books, this indispensable volume provides a guide to the value of over 35,000 sought-after titles.\nIt includes classic authors from Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, detective writers from Eric Ambler to Minette Walters, illustrators from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton, and poets from Richard Aldington to Walt Whitman. More than 600 authors and artists are represented, in British and American first editions, limited editions and important, collectable reprints.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479101.30/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215183319-20190215205319-00564.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trinity3e.org/announcements/bulletin-announcements-for-the-week-of-august-12-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T19:59:25Z", "digest": "sha1:DX5V7DSFSP32EFYQLXB7TGOX55VEEWZY", "length": 2437, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "trinity3e.org", "title": "Announcements - Bulletin Announcements for the Week of August 12, 2018", "raw_content": "Trinity will be going to the Cardinals game TONIGHT (August 12) at 4:00 p.m. for a double header! There will be no evening activities at the church. Tickets are on sale in the downstairs lobby. The $10 cost covers entry to the games, a hot dog or hamburger, chips, and a drink.\nATTENTION, ALL LADIES: Women on Mission will be making sleeping bags for the homeless population of our county beginning this Tuesday, August 14. Following a brief business meeting at 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel, we will get to work. We need people to help pin fabric together, tack it, and sew. If you have a portable sewing machine, please bring it with you. Come and help as long as you can. A pizza lunch will be provided at noon.\nSix EQUIP classes will be offered this fall on Sunday evenings at 6:00 beginning this coming Sunday, August 19: Counter Culture, Tell Someone, Community Bible Reading, Living the Cross-Centered Life, a women\u2019s Bible study (Rebuild: A Study in Nehemiah), and How to Teach the Bible. The classes are of varying lengths. Sign up in the downstairs lobby. Children will have the option of Bible Drill or choir during that hour. Youth will be taking a discipleship class called \u201cWill Our Generation Speak?\u201d This study gives teens practical tools to help them share their faith.\nCommunity Bible Reading Journals are an incredible resource as you grow in fellowship with the Lord. Bible readings are listed for each date along with a guide for your own prayers. If you miss a day, don\u2019t worry about making it up; just move on to the reading for the current day. The journal costs $5.00 and is available in the downstairs lobby. An optional EQUIP class will be offered this fall for those who are using this journal and would like to connect with others doing the same. Sign up in the lobby.\nYou are invited to a 90th birthday celebration for Daisy Walters on Saturday, September 1 from 2:00-4:00 in the Chapel. The party is being hosted by her family. Join the celebration!!!\nYou are invited to a drop-in wedding shower for Nate Fowler and Cindy Spiker on Saturday, August 25 from 2:00-4:00 in the Chapel. 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"raw_content": "Home > Christopher Murray chairs new health metrics sciences department\nThe department will encourage collaborative efforts to guide global health policies with sound data.\nDr. Christopher Murray speaking at a Global Burden of Disease conference.\nThe new Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle will officially start July 1 with Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, who is recognized globally for his work on health data analytics, at its helm.\nThe department was created to serve at the forefront of the emerging science of health metrics, according to Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, CEO of UW Medicine, executive vice president for medical affairs, and dean of the UW School of Medicine, who announced Murray\u2019s appointment as founding chair. 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With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he led the formation of IHME, an independent global health research center administratively based in UW Medicine. IHME will remain as a separate research institute based in UW Medicine.\nUnder his leadership, IHME grew into a staff of over 400 and a worldwide network of 3,500 academics, scientists, and researchers, who collaborate on the institute\u2019s studies. It has established an international reputation for advancing the science of health metrics, and for compiling comprehensive, timely data and evidence for policymakers and public health advocates. IHME is renowned for its Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) study, its role in tracking financing for health, and its project mapping health throughout the world at the 5 by 5 square kilometers level. Through faculty development, scholarly analyses, and student training, the new Department of Health Metrics Sciences\nChristopher Murray (right) at a meeting with Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\nwill fortify efforts to reduce the burden of disease. The work of the new department will strongly support the UW Medicine mission to improve the health of the public. It will also contribute to the UW Population Health Initiative and will foster collaborations among public health agencies, health care systems, clinicians, and professionals from many fields, including epidemiology, informatics, economics, statistics, demography, and data sciences.\nIn the new department, Murray will promote an interdisciplinary approach for obtaining reliable measurements of population health and its determinants. 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Investigators estimate that he attempted to steal $25 million in this way.\nIn a separate scam, Opara created a dating profile, posing as a young, attractive woman called \u201cBarbara.\u201d\nStriking up relationships with men online, \u201cBarbara\u201d would convince them to send money overseas to accounts Opara controlled.\nOne victim transferred $600,000 to \u201cBarbara\u201d\u2013money which landed in the bank accounts of Opara\u2019s co-conspirators.\nIn addition to his five-year sentence, Opara has been ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution.\n\u201cThe global reach of our office and the FBI ensured that Opara will serve time in the United States for his crimes,\u201d said Berman.\n\u201cGeoffrey S. 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The global reach of our Office and the FBI ensured that Opara will serve time in the United States for his crimes.\u201d\nAccording to the allegations in the Indictment to which OPARA pled guilty and statements made at the plea and sentencing proceedings;\n\u201cBetween 2014 and 2016, OPARA and his co-defendant, David Chukwuneke Adindu (\u201cAdindu\u201d), participated in multiple business email compromise (\u201cBEC\u201d) scams that targeted thousands of victims around the world, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Singapore. OPARA sent bogus emails to employees of the victim companies directing that funds be transferred to specified bank accounts. The emails purported to be from supervisors at those companies or from third party vendors with whom the companies did business.\nIn reality, the emails were either sent from email accounts with domain names very similar to those of the companies and vendors, or the metadata for the emails was modified to make it appear as if the emails had been sent from legitimate email addresses.\nAfter victims transferred the funds as directed in the bogus emails, the funds were quickly withdrawn or transferred to other bank accounts controlled by scheme participants. In total, the BEC scam participants attempted to steal more than $25 million from victims around the world.\nIn furtherance of the BEC scams, OPARA created accounts on dating websites and entered into online romantic relationships with individuals in the United States by portraying himself as a young attractive woman named \u201cBarbara.\u201d \u201cBarbara\u201d would then instruct these individuals in the United States to send their money overseas and/or to receive money from BEC scams and forward the proceeds to other scheme participants located overseas.\nFor example, one victim with whom OPARA struck up a romantic relationship sent over $600,000 of the victim\u2019s own money to bank accounts controlled by scheme participants at OPARA\u2019s direction. 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"raw_content": "MewithoutYou\u2019s Aaron Weiss & the Limits of Language\nAaron Weiss of MewithoutYou. (Photo: Courtesy of mewithoutYou.)\nAaron Weiss was dancing with his wife at a Whole Foods salad bar when I reached his manager by phone on Monday.\n\u201cOf course he is,\u201d I said.\nWeiss, 37, was on the line moments later saying that he felt good because he\u2019d just eaten a carrot and some kale. He sounded chipper, as if he expected me to inquire of his favorite brand of kombucha next.\nThe problem is, after 14 years listening to mewithoutYou, a band that\u2019s been unafraid to provocatively explore faith and doubt and sex and politics, I was prepared to get James Lipton-deep with Weiss. Now I felt like I\u2019d be harshing his mellow.\nStill, I had a job to do, and instinct suggested that Weiss, who recently graduated with a doctorate in Urban Education from Temple University, in North Philadelphia, would be game for peeling at the layers.\nHe proved me right.\nLiterature and poetry are inextricably tied to your work. And yet, in recent years, you\u2019ve become suspicious of language to adequately convey truth, or your ability to be an authority using words. What\u2019s behind this suspicion?\nWell, language is obviously important for several reasons throughout the day. Some are practical: I communicate what kind of food I want to order, or ask where something is in the supermarket. Other times it\u2019s helpful with deep, heartfelt issues, like communicating abstract emotions, needs or sorrows, or trying to find some resolution to problems. It\u2019s so ubiquitous it comes in handy. I don\u2019t ever mean to denigrate it as being unimportant.\nStill, I fear language isn\u2019t up to the task of capturing the fullness of reality, to convey the depths of meaning of our existence. I question where language can be adequate for certain tasks.\n\u2018At some point I realized I had to put down those words and just get to work. I needed to pick up a wrench and start fixing my life in more tangible ways.\u2019\nFor example, if you need to fix the plumbing in your bathroom, it wouldn\u2019t suffice just to talk about it. At some point you need to pick up a wrench and get to work. There\u2019s some comparison here to my journey: I\u2019ve done so much talking and reading, I\u2019ve been so indulged in language, trying to figure out why I\u2019m here, who I am, our bigger purpose, who God is, if there\u2019s a God, those kinds of questions. At some point I realized I had to put down those words and just get to work. I needed to pick up a wrench and start fixing my life in more tangible ways.\nI\u2019ve been on Genius reading annotations of your lyrics this morning, and I was surprised how deep the level of interpretation goes. Does the suspicion also stem from a fear that your fans take your lyrics too literally?\nI don\u2019t suppose I\u2019m very in tune with that, but I haven\u2019t had much fear or concern recently. Maybe earlier I was concerned about being misunderstood, or afraid that people would take what I was saying and use it to validate all kinds of weird beliefs, and sometimes I still sense that. People have approached me after shows and talked about their faith in such a way that suggests something I\u2019ve said or done has affirmed that faith, even though their worldview bears very little resemblance to mine. When that happens I have to ask myself, \u201cHow did that happen? What have I said that\u2019s allowed my ideas to be co-opted in such a way that\u2019s validating someone\u2019s beliefs that seem extremely foreign to me? Or even harmful in some cases?\u201d\nThat\u2019s one reason language needs to be held at a safe distance, kept in its proper place in terms of what we expect of it. This is especially true as we address more abstract, deeply meaningful topics. There\u2019s just a lot of room for slippage and miscommunication. So if I\u2019m putting something out there that\u2019s intangible but deeply important to me, there\u2019s a good chance that\u2019s going to be taken by someone else and used to either affirm or challenge in a way that might not have been my intention.\nThat\u2019s true of many things in life, though: You often don\u2019t know the outcome of your action, whether that\u2019s speech or getting married or starting a business or whatever, but at some point you have to take the plunge, and you run the risk of things going wrong. But also some things are going to go right as a result of language. Sometimes people interpret something I\u2019ve said in a way that\u2019s more interesting than what I thought in the first place.\nRickie Mazzotta and Aaron Weiss (foreground) of mewithoutYou. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)\nThe Pale Horses line that makes me perk up is \u201cI was the ISIS flag design.\u201d Your parents were Sufi Muslims, and your lyrics have been inspired by the Quran before. You\u2019ve also sung in Arabic, so the presence or suggestion of Islam isn\u2019t foreign to mewithoutYou\u2019s work. In 2016, though, we\u2019re bombarded by images and news of ISIS-wreaked carnage. Do you consider what might be triggered in a listener when you sing a lyric like that?\nYes, absolutely, I\u2019m thinking of the context in which we\u2019re being bombarded by ISIS imagery. I\u2019m also thinking of the fear-mongering mass media, which can be used to justify bigotry and the sentiments of the Republican presidential candidate, who issues sweeping condemnations of all Muslim people. It can also be used to justify war: killing others and having Americans be killed.\nISIS is the current popular boogeyman. I reference them in a self-identifying way only in a context in which I\u2019m expecting nobody in our audience is sympathetic with ISIS. If we were a band in Iraq or Syria, and a good portion of our listeners were faced with this question of whether to join ranks with ISIS and commit atrocities, there\u2019s no way I\u2019d be endorsing them. Identifying with the ISIS flag design isn\u2019t in any way an endorsement of ISIS, but it is a way of identifying myself with a terrorist organization, which is frankly something I thought would raise more questions than it has.\nI appreciate you asking. Most people haven\u2019t brought that up, and I\u2019ve wondered, like, \u201cAren\u2019t you curious about that?\u201d I wondered if I\u2019d end up on an FBI watch list for saying something like that.\nThere\u2019s a distinction between the ISIS line and the places where I sing in Arabic or reference the Quran. ISIS claims Islam and uses the Quran to justify much of what they do, but, when I sing in Arabic, I\u2019m singing heart-felt prayers or simple acts of praise to Allah. Those lines are not in any way an endorsement of Islam at large, let alone any fringe, violent, extremist sect like ISIS. With the ISIS line, I wanted to dismantle or challenge some of the fear-mongering that I\u2019ve sensed. The line is also simply an expression of my fondness for their flag design. It\u2019s powerful and strangely childish, yet menacing and iconic.\nSpeaking of Trump, mewithoutYou is notoriously anti-consumerist. And there\u2019s a line in the new song \u201cCleo\u2019s Ferry Cemetery\u201d that goes, \u201cThere\u2019s a cemetery deep below the sea, where I\u2019ll hide from news of the GOP.\u201d How are you feeling with the prospect of a trust fund billionaire running America? Pale Horses is somewhat preoccupied with end times imagery. Did you already feel like it was too late for the U.S. before Trump rose to this position?\nI can\u2019t say I saw this coming. Even some of the use of the apocalyptic imagery on the new album is\u2026I won\u2019t say it\u2019s tongue in cheek, but it\u2019s done with some kind of qualification, like when I\u2019m describing the end of the world in the Revelation/four horsemen scene. I\u2019m speaking to things I\u2019ve been told are going to happen, but it\u2019s never me saying this is what\u2019s definitely going to happen.\nIt\u2019s also a way of accompanying a pretty massive, dark, heavy soundscape of instrumentation. But it\u2019s not me making a definitive statement about the world or U.S. society today. It\u2019s not a direct commentary or a prediction that the end is coming soon. It\u2019s me using, to come back to language, the symbols and metaphors and images that I\u2019ve soaked in over the years, especially in my adult life. As for Trump, are you asking if I\u2019m concerned about him?\nMewithoutYou. (Photo: Courtesy of mewithoutYou.)\nSure. I\u2019m curious where you are on the fear spectrum based on the GOP lyric, or if you\u2019d already become resigned to the current state of affairs. Maybe you\u2019re thinking it\u2019s best to keep your head down and do your own thing and not worry about it too much?\nThere\u2019s a whole spectrum here, knowing that it makes a difference who\u2019s elected, but also feeling overwhelmed by the immensity of the task at hand, whether that\u2019s trying to bring about justice in the world or a government that\u2019s going to facilitate peace on earth.\nIn the past I\u2019ve been more politically active, thinking there would be some kind of top-down utopia if we elect the right officials or have the right economic system or the right political arrangements. I don\u2019t have that kind of hope anymore, so I have shifted more in the direction of what you describe as keeping your head down and trying to live my life and usher in a little utopia in my heart or in my little sphere of influence.\nBut I don\u2019t want to suggest that it doesn\u2019t matter. Of all the candidates that have been in the forefront of the media, my heart is with Bernie Sanders by far. My brother, who\u2019s also in the band, has been even more vocal about him. He\u2019s been out canvassing for the Sanders campaign. I appreciate that work, and I\u2019d probably do it too if I wasn\u2019t feeling busy with other things.\nI\u2019m tempted to vote against Trump, whatever that looks like. But that might be hard to do with a clear conscience if that means voting for Hillary. At some point you\u2019re faced with the lesser of two evils, or which my friend refers to as \u201cthe evil of two lessers.\u201d I\u2019ve almost always voted third party, for someone I thought had integrity and would do a good job leading the country, even if I knew there was no way that person was going to be elected. At least I\u2019d have made my voice heard in a tiny way and I\u2019d participated in democracy. I\u2019m grateful for the ability to vote.\nWhen I talk about \u201chiding from news of the GOP,\u201d I\u2019m speaking to my need to stop checking the news so often. I\u2019ve unplugged a little bit recently. The fact that Trump has continued to pick up steam has been mind blowing to me, and upsetting, but not because of him. I try to have love for him. My wife and I try to pray for him and hold him in a good place. It\u2019s not so much him as what it indicates about the country that he\u2019s become so popular.\nSpeaking of your wife, you got married between Ten Stories and Pale Horses. This was interesting because you\u2019ve been vocal in the past about your interest in celibacy, and had said that you\u2019d resign yourself to the comfort of God if it came to that. I\u2019ve also read that you would\u2019ve only married your wife if she understood your need for \u201cmutual aloneness.\u201d Will you unpack that concept? And where does romantic love fit into having a relationship with God? Is it, in your experience, a distraction or does it ultimately enhance a relationship with divinity?\nThose are great questions. There was certainly a time that romantic relationships occupied so much of my attention that there wasn\u2019t much room for a whole lot else. So I swung to the opposite extreme and thought I needed to stay away from romantic relationships to make room for what I have called God, or my religious path. In meeting my wife, and meeting the young lady who became my wife, there was a conflict because I already felt, as you said, resigned to finding, or intending on and hoping to make my way through the world without that kind of relationship. I wanted my needs for comfort and affirmation, acceptance and love to meet in divine love alone.\nThe image that came to mind as you were asking the question was of someone who goes out for a long walk one day and is determined to stay dry. That\u2019s the plan. He stays dry for a few hours, but clouds move overhead fast and start pouring rain. He tries to get away, but he gets drenched anyway.\n\u2018I\u2019ve found so much joy and so much hope and so much vitality and meaning in my spiritual life and what I would call God that I could never expect another person to compare.\u2019\nI don\u2019t mean to avoid all responsibility, but I went out into a circumstance where I was meeting people and ran the risk of falling in love, so to speak. I didn\u2019t go out looking for a wife, but when I met her, things just started to happen, and it felt like I was just being carried along and there were forces beyond my ideology that were steering the ship, or at least prompting me so much so that I didn\u2019t have the strength or the determination to oppose them. I never totally let go of that idea of aloneness, so when I think about being married and that mutual aloneness, I\u2019d have to go there\u2026it\u2019s a deep question and it\u2019s one that I haven\u2019t been entirely successful in exploring or embodying.\nTo some degree it has to do with the expectations we have of other people, whether we\u2019re looking to them to complete us or to fulfill a void in our hearts. To take away our loneliness, to take away our problems, to make us happy, anything like that. I\u2019ve seen too many relationships fail, whether they\u2019re marriages or otherwise, relationships that end up in bitterness and separation and division and disillusionment, and I can very clearly see that a lot of it has to do with what people expect of each other. If you\u2019re looking to someone else to fulfill your every need, of course you\u2019re going to be disappointed when they\u2019re not able to do so. That\u2019s not an \u201cif,\u201d that\u2019s a \u201cwhen.\u201d\nAt the same time, if you only have negative expectations, that this is going to be terrible and marriage sucks, that can also be a self-fulling prophecy. So for me \u201cmutual aloneness\u201d in a relationship is a different option: Realizing that no one is ever going to fully understand you, that there might not be a person out there who completes you, and there might not be such a thing as a union of souls, or that we\u2019re able to fully be on the same wavelength with another human being. I\u2019ve tried to let go of all that and try to look inward.\n\u2018It used to be easier for me to swim upstream with more vigor. Recently I\u2019ve felt like a dead fish floating downriver.\u2019\nObviously we\u2019re embedded socially and I don\u2019t think anyone is a self-enclosed island. But we do have this sphere over which we have domain over an inner life: our thoughts and our heart and what we focus on and what we give our inner attention to. I\u2019ve found so much joy and so much hope and so much vitality and meaning in my spiritual life and what I would call God that I could never expect another person to compare.\nThere have been times when I\u2019ve been more devoted to closing down my senses and focusing within. I\u2019ve been able to tune into what I would call a more peaceful plane of consciousness, where I\u2019m not dependent on anything outside of me. I\u2019m able to find some stability totally by myself, being completely alone with God. I can say that when I\u2019m around other people, whether it\u2019s my band, my family, even my wife for long enough, I need to withdraw. I need to go within and recharge.\nAnd so I\u2019ve worked to have my need for fulfillment and love met before coming to my wife. I can be alone with God and feel that kind of love, feel that acceptance and friendship totally by myself. Then when I come to my wife I have something to offer her. I\u2019m not looking to get something from her. I have something to give.\nThat\u2019s the idea, and I think it really does work out that way in my life. I can\u2019t say if other people would have a similar experience. And to be perfectly honest I\u2019m not articulating it very well because I\u2019m not very clear on it at this particular moment. I haven\u2019t really thought of it in those terms in a while, so I appreciate you bringing up the question. I\u2019m in a dull place right now, if you don\u2019t mind my admitting as much.\nAaron Weiss of MewithoutYou. (Photo: wikimedia commons.)\nIs that a result of being on tour? Or is it more significant, if you don\u2019t mind me asking?\nI appreciate you asking. I should be paying you an hourly rate, like a therapist. I think it goes back to my childhood\u2026\nIt\u2019s a combination of things. I\u2019ve been eating poorly. I\u2019ve been cooped up on a bus. I\u2019m not exercising much. I haven\u2019t felt productive. I just graduated after eight years of schooling, and between my last class in December and actually graduating five months later I haven\u2019t had any real responsibilities. I\u2019ve been feeling lazy and indulgent and hanging out a lot, watching movies, making stupid jokes and focusing my attention on things that aren\u2019t meaningful or stimulating or challenging.\nKnowing my personality, when I get into a period of what I would call indulgence and laziness and apathy, I don\u2019t feel healthy. I don\u2019t enjoy that kind of vacation lifestyle. Before I was a full-time student, I played in the band and I taught two classes. Now some of that\u2019s dropped away and I wound up with a lot of free time.\nI\u2019m a father now. My wife and I had a baby girl, so it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have things to do. But there\u2019s a sense of just not being very disciplined at this point in my life. I think I\u2019ve really come to enjoy certain luxuries that I have at my disposal, and I haven\u2019t been very diligent in unplugging from those and taking the harder route, the more painful and difficult but ultimately more rewarding path of self-denial and introspection and challenging myself and being challenged by others to go deeper, to live a more sacrificial life, not just doing whatever feels good on a given day.\nYou\u2019re almost quoting an earlier lyric: \u201cindulging in the pleasures of the wealthy.\u201d I could see how it\u2019d be hard to make space for what you call God or meditation or even sanity when you\u2019ve got all this stuff filling up your life.\nThe disappointing thing is when there are not things filling my time. Because I can use that idea of the busyness: I don\u2019t have time to pray. I don\u2019t have time to meditate. I don\u2019t have time to do works of mercy. I\u2019ve got school. I\u2019ve gotta teach. I\u2019ve got this record to write. It\u2019s a little easier to make sense of the lack of inner discipline when there are all these things that you\u2019re actually busy with. But when you have all this free time, and still you find yourself wasting it, then you think: There\u2019s no justification for this. I\u2019m not going to get this day back ever. Why am I spending it in front of a video game machine or in front of a pinball table?\nBy most standards, I doubt that I\u2019m overdoing it with those things, but at some point I have to consider there\u2019s so much more I could be learning and experiencing with what\u2019s at my disposal. It just feels like choosing the easy route or the path of least resistance. Like, oh there\u2019s people around me doing Meaningless Activity X, I might as well join in.\nIt used to be easier for me to swim upstream with more vigor. Recently I\u2019ve felt like a dead fish floating downriver. I\u2019m not dead, but I feel like I\u2019m weak and lazy, and I\u2019m trying to get my strength back. Even as you ask these questions it\u2019s a good reminder. It\u2019s not everyday that I\u2019m even talking in these terms, so I appreciate you listening.\nSure. What\u2019s kept you hooked to what you call God, if that\u2019s even true? Have you considered not being a believer since MWY started 16 years ago?\nSure! Absolutely. I try to be a non-believer in some ways. Or maybe more accurately I try to open my heart widely enough to include disbelief and doubt, even antagonism toward religion\u2014anything that I see in other human beings who are sincerely seeking the truth. Increasingly I\u2019m excited to try to include that into my worldview, even if that means views that are contradictory in the literal linguistic sense.\nThe most obvious example, if you don\u2019t mind me referencing my own lyrics, is \u201cdenying the existence of God and affirming the existence of God in the same sentence.\u201d It\u2019s from a character in one of the songs on Ten Stories saying, \u201cWell, it\u2019s pretty obvious there\u2019s no God. And there\u2019s definitely a God.\u201d\nI\u2019m just trying to open up broadly enough to understand and include and affirm worldviews of different people who I love or who are part of my life, and to try to unpack what we even mean by that term \u201cGod.\u201d By some definitions this literally could be a patriarchal judge who\u2019s going to send a bunch of us to hell when we die, while some of us go to heaven. And I can say that\u2019s most likely factually inaccurate. That\u2019s probably not what\u2019s going to happen when we die. There\u2019s probably not such a man up in the sky somewhere. But, when someone else says God, they might use the term synonymously with love: undifferentiated and unconditional love. Or they might use the term as a metaphor for reality, in which case I don\u2019t have any doubt about the existence of God.\n\u2018I\u2019ve tried to enjoy the worm and the nourishment that is possible in that concept of God without letting the hook get into my lip and drag me off somewhere according to someone else\u2019s agenda.\u2019\nI\u2019ve tried to detach myself from that word and my insistence when I was younger of identifying with it, that the whole of my self is hinging on whether my conception of this word is accurate or actually real. I\u2019ve tried to question those things and broaden my vision. It comes back to what I expect of language. So, if I see God as this word that corresponds exactly to this entity that exists somewhere who\u2019s infinite and omnipresent, I have to think that\u2019s going to conjure up a lot of problems, theological or philosophical conundrums, and some of them might be insurmountable.\nOn the other hand, if I use the word God as a tool to accomplish certain things, or as a symbol to represent various commitments or the highest ideals I\u2019ve encountered and that I pursue, then I think it can be an extremely good concept or tool. Still it has to be in its proper place, or else it can do more harm than good.\nWhat\u2019s kept me hooked? That\u2019s a good way of putting it, in that, in its worst sense, it can be the kind of thing you grab onto and at some point, like a fish hook with a worm, you think it\u2019s going to nourish you. Then the worm is gone and the hook has got you. And now it\u2019s going to lead you onto the boat where you\u2019re going to suffocate with no water. It\u2019s a valid image, and can encompass some of the dangers of linguistic idolatry.\nI\u2019ve tried to enjoy the worm and the nourishment that is possible in that concept of God without letting the hook get into my lip and drag me off somewhere according to someone else\u2019s agenda.\nI\u2019ll let you go with this one. Pale Horses ends on this gentle note: a memory of you and your father joking. How has his loss affected your work?\nIt\u2019d be impossible for my mind to understand the impact of the physical loss. I\u2019ve felt such sorrow and heaviness and a darkness that I\u2019ve had to battle. Because of its unbearable darkness, I\u2019ve felt the need to go deeper or go searching, as I was saying earlier, for that kind of inner peace, or an explanation of reality and the way we relate to other people.\nThis comes back to the question of being alone in a marriage and it points to a sporadic inner project of mine of trying to disentangle the concept of individual persons as separate entities as distinct from my own life, to see them as myself, as interconnected to them. That way they\u2019re still a part of my heart even when I\u2019m not around them or when they physically die.\nThis is related to the basic command to love your neighbor as yourself. What does that look like, to see your neighbor as literally your-space-self? To see your father as your self. To see your wife as your self. It\u2019s not these separate people out there who you go to for things or who are meant to meet your needs. They\u2019re part of your life and they allow you to learn about your own heart. They\u2019re part of your identity, so even when they die and you put their body in the ground, you still carry them with you.\nIt so happens my dad was, or is, a deeply sincere and heartfelt and relatively simple human being, as far as I can tell. I never saw any artificiality in him. I never saw the propensity to read from the script or play the game socially-speaking. He just didn\u2019t do those things. He marched to the beat of his own drum, so to speak. He spoke from his heart all the time. There was something so painful about that because his heart was full of pain. So those of us who were around him enough felt that pain whenever he opened his mouth. But there was also something so refreshing about that.\n\u2018Losing my dad has made the songs a little darker. It\u2019s made them a little heavier and a little more sad, and taken away some of my youthful naivete about what the answers I thought I could offer people for how they could find peace and contentment.\u2019\nI\u2019ve found it\u2019s been tremendously and incomparably easier to relate to other human beings the little bit I\u2019ve been able to embody that myself. I feel more connected with them when I try to speak from my heart rather than letting my mind show off what it knows or have some agenda of what I want to get out of that person.\nTo be more direct: Losing my dad has made the songs a little darker. It\u2019s made them a little heavier and a little more sad, and taken away some of my youthful naivete about what the answers I thought I could offer people for how they could find peace and contentment. I think I was only able to offer those answers because I\u2019d never had something as monumentally difficult to overcome as the loss of such an awesome man as my dad.\nSo I\u2019ve had to dig deeper. It\u2019s been harder for me to come away with any kind of universal remedies for the problems of the world, so to speak, because I\u2019ve come to recognize I don\u2019t know the problems of the world. I don\u2019t know what other people have lost. I don\u2019t know what hardships they\u2019ve overcome or are still struggling through, so I\u2019ve tried to allow the songwriting to become a little more personalized and less quasi-universal. I\u2019m not trying to make these big broad sweeping claims about these universal things, but just try to speak to things I actually know. Which is why, as you noted, the album ends on a personal note.\nOriginally, to give you an unsolicited fact, \u201cRainbow Signs\u201d ended with that big heavy part. It ended with the crashing out of the symbols and the distorted guitars and that was it. So the last idea you heard lyrically was the apocalypse. Something about that didn\u2019t sit well with me. I didn\u2019t think it was appropriate. I knew we couldn\u2019t end there\u2014I don\u2019t know anything about the apocalypse. But the idea came and it was so obvious: Let\u2019s take it down a notch again, bring it back to a personal place where I can speak with some authority because this is my own experience.\nI have this personal joke with my dad. Nobody on earth knows what I\u2019m talking about, not even my bandmates, not even my wife know what that joke is. There\u2019s something about that that\u2019s infinitely more appropriate to my current state than trying to sum up what\u2019s going to happen at the end times, the cosmic battle of good and evil, or the judgment of the earth or anything on that level. 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"raw_content": "\u2190 Third Christmas In Boquer\u00f3n\nAnother Shock \u2192\nOkay, so it\u2019s a day or so late, but so what. This was sent to my by my cyber friend, Linda, who hosts The Task as Hand.\nPeople who have followed my blog since its inception, or who have rummaged around in its archives, know that I grew up in the small Cape Cod town of Orleans, and though I lived for more than a third of my life in Broward County, Florida in and around Fort Lauderdale, my spiritual home is, and always will be New Orleans where I lived for nearly 10 years.\nNew Orleanians are often referred to as \u201cYats.\u201d Most specifically those who come from the Gentilly area out by the Fairgrounds race track and home of one of the greatest musical events in the world, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the people who live in the uptown area around Magazine Street known as the \u201cIrish Channel.\u201d They have a unique accent. It\u2019s much like a Brooklyn, New York accent, and probably because the immigrant mix of Irish and Italians to New Orleans is similar to that of Brooklyn.\nThe reason they\u2019re called \u201cYats\u201d comes from the manner in which they greet each other. They don\u2019t say, \u201cHello,\u201d \u201cGood Morning,\u201d or anything like that. They say, \u201cWhere y\u2019at?\u201d The response to which is, \u201cFine,\u201d \u201cOkay,\u201d etc.\nLinda sent me the following video in the comments section of this blog, but I\u2019ve put it \u201cUp Front,\u201d so to speak to share it with all my readers.\nLooking at the YouTube comments some of the things mentioned no longer exist in New Orleans. The K&B pharmacies, Schwegmann\u2019s supermarkets, and of course the Lower Ninth Ward which still hasn\u2019t been rebuilt. I will never return to New Orleans. Katrina destroyed it. Much of it is still in ruins, and it would break my heart to see the place so near and dear to my heart in such distress.\nComments Off on The 12 Yats of Christmas\nFiled under New Orleans, New Orleans Music",
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"raw_content": "Home \u00bb Sponsors \u00bb From Marijuana to Movies \u2013 Guy Griffithe\u2019s tale of extraordinary success in both\nHe\u2019s currently involved with over 11 companies and has invested heavily in the technology and cannabis boom. How did Guy Griffithe go from being anti-marijuana to building one of the most premiere cannabis companies and revolutionizing the film industry? His journey is nothing short of extraordinary.\nGriffithe was born in San Bernardino, CA to Elizabeth Griffithe. She raised her seven children primarily as a working, single mother, which came with challenges for the children. Griffithe taught himself how to swim, read, and write. At 13-years-old, he was answering the phone, making sales calls and setting appointments for his mother. He landed a telemarketing job for a publishing company at just 15-years-old. His gritty determination and perseverance led to his promotion to manager of sales, customer service, and the collections department. By 16-years-old Griffithe was making a $36,000 salary, so he decided to get a clean break: buy his first condo and emancipate himself.\nAt the age of 18, Griffithe started making $80,000 a year working for the third largest computer distributor in the world. At 22 he founded his own mortgage brokerage, Fast Loans Mortgage, which later became Bridgegate Funding, Inc. Griffithe not only expanded his company to 17 states in nine months, but was licensed in 38 \u2013 this is where he made his first million and he continued to build his success for what seemed like many years to come.\nIn 2008, Griffithe faced several challenges that changed his life. His wife divorced him, the housing market crashed, and his business partner betrayed him; it felt like he had spent his life building everything only to have lost it all. During this dark time, even with the best of intentions, he was unable to make rational decisions and wasn\u2019t sure if he had the strength to carry on.\nIt is hard to keep an entrepreneur down for long. Griffithe found opportunity in an industry he had once been against. Although Griffithe was anti-cannabis, the prospect of its legalization in Washington sparked an interest in the mind of a visionary entrepreneur. Griffithe immersed himself in research looking to understand the benefits and opportunities cannabis presented. Through his extensive research, Griffithe saw past the stigma to the health benefits of cannabis and vast business opportunity. Griffithe witnessed first-hand how medical marijuana allowed individuals with throat cancer to speak again in a matter of months. He even had surgery to remove skin cancer and used a cannabis topical cream to aid in his recovery. It was the discovery of the health benefits and business opportunity that brought Griffith the strength to continue.\nMarijuana became legal in Washington in 2012 and Griffithe was one of the first 38 to receive a license. Griffithe teamed up with Robert Russell to build Green Acre Pharms, one of the most premier cannabis companies in Washington. Focused on both recreational and medical uses, Green Acre Pharms products are 100% organic with THC levels of at least 30%.\nIn 2015, The Green Rush hit Washington resulting in sales of $164 million in and around $60 million in tax revenue. Only a year later sales skyrocketed to $1.2 billion with roughly $400 million in tax revenue. Griffithe found himself right in the middle of it. Although these numbers are impressive, Griffithe foresees cannabis as one of the largest industries and becoming a standardized section.\nAs the true entrepreneur he is, Griffithe parlayed his success to revolutionize the film industry. In the last few years, Griffithe has formed alliances with several companies with the goal of driving the industry forward into the new technological era. He is bringing new technologies to Hollywood, partnering with Travis Cloyd to create an independent camera company called Techno Cams, which has all the equipment to film in 2D, 3D, Barco Escape format and Virtual Reality. They also created a post-production company, Vision Post, to provide new, state of the art post-production services to the entertainment marketplace.\nIn addition, Guy Griffithe is an Executive Producer, Actor, and the President of Bridgegate Pictures. He has financed and executive produced movies such as \u201cThe Recall\u201d with Wesley Snipes, \u201cThe Humanity Bureau\u201d with Nicolas Cage, \u201cDistorted\u201d with John Cusack and Christina Ricci, along with several more.\nSo how did Guy Griffithe go from being anti-marijuana to building one of the most premiere cannabis companies in Washington and revolutionizing the film industry? He did it with the same gritty determination and perseverance he had as a child. His success did not come without overcoming frequent hardships and obstacles along the way. Today, Griffithe\u2019s extraordinary journey is far from over.\nPrevious Rise of Marijuana Dispensaries in Canada\nNext How to Get Rid of Spider Mite Pests",
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"raw_content": "Home \u00bb Les Mis\u00e9rables | Victor Hugo \u00bb Volume I | Fantine | Book 2nd | The Fall | Chapter I | The Evening of a Day of Walking\nEarly in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D\u2014\u2014The few inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a shaved head and a long beard.\nThe sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to have been cut for some time.\nNo one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance into D\u2014\u2014 by the same street which, seven months previously, had witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in the market-place.\nOn arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D\u2014\u2014the proclamation of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the gendarme.\nThe gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall.\nThere then existed at D\u2014\u2014 a fine inn at the sign of the Cross of Colbas. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another Labarre, who kept the inn of the Three Dauphins in Grenoble, and had served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the Three Dauphins. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, \"I am going to the house of a brave man of my acquaintance\"; and he had betaken himself to the Three Dauphins. This glory of the Labarre of the Three Dauphins was reflected upon the Labarre of the Cross of Colbas, at a distance of five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, \"That is the cousin of the man of Grenoble.\"\nThe man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking.\nThe host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, without raising his eyes from his stoves:\u2014\n\"What do you wish, sir?\"\n\"Food and lodging,\" said the man.\n\"Nothing easier,\" replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, \"By paying for it.\"\nThe man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and answered, \"I have money.\"\n\"In that case, we are at your service,\" said the host.\nThe man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D\u2014\u2014 is in the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October.\nBut as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller.\n\"Will dinner be ready soon?\" said the man.\n\"Immediately,\" replied the landlord.\nWhile the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and lackey. The landlord whisp\u00e8red a word in the scullion's ear, and the child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall.\nThe traveller saw nothing of all this.\nOnce more he inquired, \"Will dinner be ready soon?\"\n\"Immediately,\" responded the host.\nThe child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to be immersed in reflections which were not very serene.\n\"I cannot receive you, sir,\" said he.\nThe man half rose.\n\"What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you in advance? I have money, I tell you.\"\n\"It is not that.\"\n\"You have money\u2014\"\n\"Yes,\" said the man.\n\"And I,\" said the host, \"have no room.\"\nThe man resumed tranquilly, \"Put me in the stable.\"\n\"The horses take up all the space.\"\n\"Very well!\" retorted the man; \"a corner of the loft then, a truss of straw. We will see about that after dinner.\"\n\"I cannot give you any dinner.\"\nThis declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger as grave. He rose.\n\"Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat.\"\n\"I have nothing,\" said the landlord.\nThe man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the stoves: \"Nothing! and all that?\"\n\"All that is engaged.\"\n\"By messieurs the wagoners.\"\n\"How many are there of them?\"\n\"There is enough food there for twenty.\"\n\"They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance.\"\nThe man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, \"I am at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain.\"\nThen the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him start, \"Go away!\"\nAt that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: \"Stop! there's enough of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the reply that was sent to me. Can you read?\"\nSo saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a pause.\n\"I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!\"\nThe man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited on the ground, and took his departure.\nHe chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of the Cross of Colbas standing on his threshold, surrounded by all the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town.\nHe saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.\nThus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see whether he could not discover some shelter.\nThe fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble public house, some hovel, however lowly.\nJust then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky of the twilight. He proceeded thither.\nIt proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in the Rue de Chaffaut.\nThe wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame.\nThe entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened the door.\n\"Who goes there?\" said the master.\n\"Some one who wants supper and bed.\"\n\"Good. We furnish supper and bed here.\"\nHe entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack.\nThe host said to him, \"There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade.\"\nHe approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual suffering bestows.\nIt was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire beneath brushwood.\nOne of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras d'Asse and\u2014I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the morning to the people at the Cross of Colbas. From where he sat he made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again become absorbed in his reflections.\nThe tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on the shoulder of the man, and said to him:\u2014\n\"You are going to get out of here.\"\nThe stranger turned round and replied gently, \"Ah! You know?\u2014\"\n\"I was sent away from the other inn.\"\n\"And you are to be turned out of this one.\"\n\"Where would you have me go?\"\n\"Elsewhere.\"\nThe man took his stick and his knapsack and departed.\nAs he went out, some children who had followed him from the Cross of Colbas, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: the children dispersed like a flock of birds.\nHe passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to a bell. He rang.\nThe wicket opened.\n\"Turnkey,\" said he, removing his cap politely, \"will you have the kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?\"\nA voice replied:\u2014\n\"The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be admitted.\"\nThe wicket closed again.\nHe entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, the child was laughing, the mother was smiling.\nThe stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he would find perhaps a little pity.\nHe tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock.\nThey did not hear him.\nHe tapped again.\nHe heard the woman say, \"It seems to me, husband, that some one is knocking.\"\n\"No,\" replied the husband.\nHe tapped a third time.\nThe husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened.\nHe was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, which is indescribable.\n\"Pardon me, sir,\" said the wayfarer, \"Could you, in consideration of payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?\"\n\"Who are you?\" demanded the master of the house.\nThe man replied: \"I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?\u2014if I pay?\"\n\"I would not refuse,\" said the peasant, \"to lodge any respectable man who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?\"\n\"There is no room.\"\n\"Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been to Labarre?\"\nThe traveller replied with embarrassment: \"I do not know. He did not receive me.\"\n\"Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?\"\nThe stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, \"He did not receive me either.\"\nThe peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of shudder:\u2014\n\"Are you the man?\u2014\"\nHe cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall.\nMeanwhile, at the words, Are you the man? the woman had risen, had clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, \"Tso-maraude.\"1\nAll this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and said:\u2014\n\"Clear out!\"\n\"For pity's sake, a glass of water,\" said the man.\n\"A shot from my gun!\" said the peasant.\nThen he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside.\nNight continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in the darkness at the entrance of the hut.\nIt was a dog's kennel.\nHe was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags.\nHe left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manoeuvre with his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte.\nWhen he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, \"I am not even a dog!\"\nHe soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford him shelter.\nHe walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, resemble shaved heads.\nThe horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a gleam of light fell upon the earth.\nThe earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.\nThere was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer.\nThis man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile.\nHe retraced his steps; the gates of D\u2014\u2014 were closed. D\u2014\u2014, which had sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again.\nIt might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random.\nIn this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church.\nAt the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon himself, were printed for the first time.\nWorn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office.\nAt that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man stretched out in the shadow. \"What are you doing there, my friend?\" said she.\nHe answered harshly and angrily: \"As you see, my good woman, I am sleeping.\" The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was the Marquise de R\u2014\u2014\n\"On this bench?\" she went on.\n\"I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years,\" said the man; \"to-day I have a mattress of stone.\"\n\"You have been a soldier?\"\n\"Yes, my good woman, a soldier.\"\n\"Why do you not go to the inn?\"\n\"Because I have no money.\"\n\"Alas!\" said Madame de R\u2014\u2014, \"I have only four sous in my purse.\"\n\"Give it to me all the same.\"\nThe man took the four sous. Madame de R\u2014\u2014 continued: \"You cannot obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity.\"\n\"I have knocked at all doors.\"\n\"I have been driven away everywhere.\"\nThe \"good woman\" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the Bishop's palace.\n\"You have knocked at all doors?\"\n\"Have you knocked at that one?\"\n\"Knock there.\"\n\u2039 Volume I | Fantine | Book 1st | A Just Man | Chapter XIV | What He Thought up Volume I | Fantine | Book 2nd | The Fall | Chapter II | Prudence Counselled to Wisdom \u203a",
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"raw_content": "Home \u203a Leading International Medical Centers \u203a Health City Cayman Islands\nExterior, Health City Cayman Islands\nHealth City Cayman Islands (HCCI) completed its first phase of operations in April 2014 with 104 beds and a team of 20 doctors and specialists offering treatment mostly in adult and pediatric cardiology (including electrophysiology), cardiac surgery, and orthopedics.\nHCCI is the brainchild of renowned Indian heart surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, founder and CEO of Narayana Health, a network of some 35 hospitals and tertiary care clinics throughout India.\nThe facility has four operating theaters and a hybrid catheterization laboratory. HCCI also offers advanced ICU monitoring, cardiology monitoring via telemetry, 3D electrophysiology mapping, with radio-frequency ablation for cardiac arrhythmia and nitric oxide delivery system for heart failure. It also has a state-of-the-art orthopedic theater with arthroscopic facilities, in-house comprehensive laboratory support, 128-slice CT scan, 1.5T MRI, and a nuclear medicine unit.\nInternational services include a patient care team that assists with trip planning, registration, admissions, insurance, financing, and consultations. Patients are assisted from first contact through post-discharge care, achieved via a dedicated patient portal and Skype consultations. All staff members speak fluent English. Translators are available for Spanish, French, German, Filipino and Hindi.\nHCCI offers comprehensive bundled packages that include consultations, investigations (labs, x-rays, MRI's, CT scans as ordered by physicians), admission charges, surgical and operating room fees. Packages also include anesthesia and implant fees, room and food charges (up to 10 days), medications (up to 5% of the package price), and all treatments and physician visits for up to one week following the procedure.\nHealth City Cayman Islands at a Glance\n1283 Sea View Rd Grand Cayman, KY1-1005 CAYMAN ISLANDS\nPhone: 1 345 640.4040\nEmail: patient.relations@healthcity.ky\nReception, Health City Cayman Islands\nDr. Ravi performing angiogram, Health City Cayman Islands",
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"raw_content": "COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT CONSIDERATIONS\nA MUST READ BEFORE YOU BUILD\nFrom Jeff Peoples, Peoples Construction\nIf you are in the early stages of considering your options for the commercial construction of your business or enterprise, then you may appreciate the insight that we at Peoples Construction are able to provide on the reality of what the traditional Design-Bid process looks like, in terms of common issues and expenses that can catch less informed owners by surprise.\nWe believe in arming our clients with the full scope of options and information from the beginning, and therefore offer the following information out of a commitment to transparency \u2013 not as a slight against architects and design firms who provide valuable, required skills and expertise for many construction projects. Peoples Constructions enjoys longstanding relationships with many such firms with which we collaborate on a regular basis in cases in which our client\u2019s needs best align with the Design-Bid approach.\nHowever, it is important to understand that there is an alternative option gaining momentum in our industry. It is an option much better suited to many commercial construction projects, in terms of time and cost efficiency. For a detailed outline of points to consider in evaluating which approach may be best for your business, read this.\nHere at Peoples Construction, we are often asked to explain exactly how the timeline and expense disparity can be so great between the Design-Bid and Design-Build approaches. We have found that one of the best representations of the difference between the approaches is the specification book \u2013 or as contractors have been known to call it, \u201cThe Dreaded Spec Book.\u201d\nMost Design-Bid projects have a specification book, also called \u201cspecs,\u201d that supplements the plans for the project. Architects create these specifications to specify building materials, products, performance aspects, and installation techniques in more detail than shown on the plans.\nWhile the intentions are good, in reality, these specs are often created with word processing software that is edited on a project by project basis. When items are inserted in specs for specialized project, they often remain in specs that are later revised and used for another project. This happens over and over, with the specs growing and growing over time. This can add unnecessary costs to construction projects. At Peoples Construction, we do not have a spec book that gets edited for every project.\nIn addition, in the traditional Design-Bid approach, in which specs are created without the input of construction expertise, it is not uncommon for specs to include design specifications that are more complicated or less efficient \u2013 meaning expensive \u2013 than necessary, from the perspective of an experienced builder.\nTo illustrate this point, a quick look at our last four projects coming from the Design-Bid approach shows an average spec book size of more than 500 pages. That\u2019s a lot of paperwork, line items, and spec requirements that you will be paying your construction firm to track and manage throughout the process. These things can be significantly reduced when the design and construction plans are managed together right from the start \u2013 from scratch, custom-tailored exactly to your project\u2019s needs!\nFor instance, due to the segmented nature of the Design-Bid process, spec books often contain requirements that help ensure that the construction of the project meets the expectations of the original design team. These specifications don\u2019t have anything to do with the actual construction of the building. One such requirement is for the contractor to submit samples of every product used on the project. These samples are called submittals.\nWe recently saw a study of 20 commercial projects with an average size of $6 Million that found the specs required an average of 419 submittals. In fact, there is even software available to help contractors exchange, review, and archive submittals, as this is a large, time-consuming task. When you take on the expense of a Design-Bid project, it is fair for you to understand that a portion of your end cost is going toward the management of this portion of the Design-Bid process, which is significantly reduced with the Design-Build approach.\nOur experience in the construction industry here at Peoples Construction has shown us time and time again that the Design-Build approach to commercial construction can bring significant savings and benefit to a vast number of clients. However, every build is different, and we take pride in helping owners identify the right approach for their needs. Reach out to us today, and we\u2019d be happy to help set you on the right path.\n\u2013 Jeff Peoples\nPresident, Peoples Construction",
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He [De Hoffmann] herded them away from Los Alamos during that period after the war, and they are both wonderful people, both dead now.\nNow, what did you hire them to do? Anything particularly?\nWhen I hired people, I didn\u2019t say, \u201cI\u2019m going to tell you what you should do. I\u2019ll give you an outline of the problems we have and the goals we have and you see how you can best fit it in.\u201d And it worked fine. Of course, they\u2019d come up with ideas that were quite different from ours, projects that were quite different than what I had visualized or what Fred had visualized. A good example of that is the fuel elements for the big helium-cooled graphite moderator reactor, HTGR, that was our big commercial reactor, had to have very special graphite in something called pyrolytic graphite, where you don\u2019t just take some pitch and heat it up in terms of the graphite but you do it atom by atom. You have to have a large vacuum chamber and you evaporate the graphite, so carbon atoms are going to sit down some place. It makes it very dense, and that was used for heart valves. We were in the business of making heart valves for a while. The fellow who really invented that left us and started his own business, which we were happy to have a new guy because we didn\u2019t really want to be in the heart valve business. The same with reverse osmosis, or purifying water. In ordinary osmosis you have a membrane. You need a lot of it nearby. And on one side you have salty water and on the other side you have fresh water. Well, the physics is such that the water molecules, while they have the same density on both sides, so they are going to go over into the salt water side to try and say, \u201cHey, we need more water here.\u201d We want just the opposite. We want to have the salty water send pure water over to the other side. So it\u2019s called reverse osmosis. We didn\u2019t invent that. We certainly emphasized it \u2014 we really wanted pure water. We sold those for reverse osmosis units. In fact, I had one in my greenhouse.\nI noticed that the drinking fountains at General Atomic say \u201cpurified by reverse osmosis.\u201d\nDoes it? That came out from my time. We sold some of these reverse osmosis sets to medical situations and things like that, but then that was a separated effort from General Atomics. It was still part of General Dynamics.\nI think Doug Fouquet told me something like 80 companies had spun off from General Atomics.\nI wouldn\u2019t be surprised. I don\u2019t know what the exact number is.\nWhich would have been the largest and most important of those spin offs?\nWell, reverse osmosis is certainly a big one. The heart valves were a small one. A number of them were made and installed in people, and those heart valves were usually made of some plastic. Some were taken from a pig\u2019s heart. But the trouble with most everything else is that after a while blood tends to clot on the surface and the pyrolytic graphite has such a strange surface \u2014 it\u2019s nothing but pure carbon atom and the blood didn\u2019t clot on that. I don\u2019t know if they are still made by this fellow who spun off. Another thing that we had was something called Magneform. Well, if you take a tube and put a magnetic field around and greatly increase that magnetic field, suddenly it exerts a force on it, a magnetic force, and that generates a current in the tube and they interact. And that was good for forging. One of the car companies, I can\u2019t remember which one it was, it wasn\u2019t General Motors, used that when the drive shaft comes back and has to go through the differential shaft. And they used the Magneform to make that joint, squashing one tube onto the other, so you aren\u2019t going to get it apart.\nSo, Ted Taylor\u2019s co-inventor, Marshall Rosenbluth, didn\u2019t he also spin off a company?\nWell, that\u2019s another story, but it is interesting. This was part of the big fusion program. I may have mentioned that Texas gave us ten million dollars to try and develop fusion.\nYes, but you didn\u2019t say much about it.\nWell, I\u2019m sorry to have to say this, but I was the only fusion guy there at first. I had a job for a year before I went with General Dynamics running around all the fusion labs. This was Princeton and Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. I was scientist at large.\nFor AEC?\nYes, for the AEC. That job lasted a year. So when I went to General Atomic, I actually still had that job. I was working at Carnegie Tech. I accepted this one-year appointment as physicist at large, or scientist at large for the AEC. So I visited all the labs where fusion work was being done. I am no great fusion scientist, but it made me want to have fusion at General Atomic. Later on I learned who the good guys were in fusion and we hired quite a few of them.\nWhat was your best selling point to get somebody to leave a government lab?\nI think probably the fact that I was recognized and Fred was certainly recognized as real honest citizens and not industrial people. You had to earn to be industrial people. Scientists have, maybe it\u2019s partly mythology, but they are honest. I think it\u2019s not that much mythology with most of them. This Korean guy who claims to have made stem cells, which turned out to be a bust. And a very bad one because some people will say, \u201cSee, you never can trust a scientist.\u201d But I think that the general feeling with the general public is that scientists really are honest about what they are doing, because they get caught. If you are working in a field like fusion and, \u201cI\u2019ve got some great discovery\u2026\u201d\nLike cold fusion.\nYes, right away people are going to check you to see if you\u2019re right. Whether it\u2019s theoretical or experimental physics, it gets checked. That\u2019s why we\u2019re pretty sure that the physics that we believe in now, there may be errors in it, but they\u2019re awfully hard to catch and other people are going to do the same thing and do the same errors until somebody real smart comes along, \u201cHey, you\u2019ve got an error here.\u201d Okay. Then that old stuff is no longer good. The new stuff is where you develop your hive around.\nCould you promise them bigger budgets for equipment or things like that that they wouldn\u2019t have had? I suppose the government labs had huge budgets.\nNo, we didn\u2019t have the kind of budget the AEC had, of course. Well, I worked for the National Science Foundation for several years, and our budget when I went there started out at a billion dollars a year, but that of course was money we gave to the universities. And when we started at General Atomic, the kitty that we got from General Dynamics, besides the laboratory was about two million a year.\nAnd that supported a scientific staff of about how many at the beginning?\nI would say we had probably about 200 Scientists and Engineers and then auxiliary staff of Research Assistants, Secretaries, Medical people, Cafeteria people. I don\u2019t remember exactly. I should know because I used to send Christmas cards to all of them, every year. And that was in the hundreds when we did that. I didn\u2019t write them all; I hired people to help me sign them.\nWhen somebody had an idea and they wanted to pursue it, did they have to sell it to you?\nUsually, to the Department Chairman: the Chemistry chairman, a Physics Chairman, an Engineering Chairman.\nAnd you called them Chairman, like you would at a University.\nWe called them Chairman as we would in a University. We didn\u2019t want to say \u201cboss\u201d or \u201cChief\u201d or anything like that.\nSection head or something? So they were Department Chairs?\nSection head wouldn\u2019t have been bad, but I like the name chairman because he\u2019s not doing it all himself. He\u2019s depending on a group of people. And that worked pretty well. As I told you, I\u2019m sure, yesterday, the main thing was to get scientists with quite different talents to mix. And that\u2019s what came out of the TRIGA reactor, our extremely successful project, which is still going on, but low key now. Because a lot of the trick was in the fuel element which was not pure uranium. It was uranium mixed with a moderating material, a hydride.\nAnd that was your proprietary invention?\nNot me personally.\nBut General Atomic?\nYes, yes. And that, of course, required engineers to develop the large parts of the reactors; metallurgists to develop this new material which as far as I know had never been made before, never been used before in any commercial product; and then the canning. We just put it in an aluminum tube. Now the modern reactions don\u2019t use aluminum, they use titanium. We used aluminum because it doesn\u2019t absorb neutrons very much; they are a very small absorber of neutrons. And we didn\u2019t use enriched uranium. We had to use ordinary uranium that you dig out of the ground \u2014 it\u2019s a lot cheaper \u2014 in the early years. Later on we\u2019d have a slight enrichment, I forget, maybe ten percent, something like that, because in nature it\u2019s only around one percent. That was a big miracle of the Hanford reactors to work because we didn\u2019t have any enriched uranium. They had to be designed so carefully, and with such pure materials that you could actually use ordinary uranium without enriching it. With the bomb, or course, you had to enrich it a lot. But with the Hanford reactors, which I\u2019m the patent team on that, you just use what\u2019s called ordinary uranium.\nSo you actually had a group that was fabricating the fuels?\nWe made all the fuel elements, yes.\nRight on site.\nThese would be in a big aluminum tank, probably ten feet in diameter and maybe thirty feet long. Of course, that was a commercial product to be bought. So we bought the things you could buy; the things you couldn\u2019t buy, we had to invent and make them ourselves.\nWhen these reactors were then sold to universities, they would be assembled on site, at the university.\nExactly. We had a very good time. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard the name Bill Whittemore. He was head of the reactors. He was a Physicist we hired away from Brookhaven National Lab, and he was head of the reactor, of the TRIGA project. A very, very good guy. He still consults to them, although he\u2019s in his 80s now.\nWhen you organized a project like the TRIGA or HTGR\u2026\nWell, I was pretty active in deciding what kind of people would be required. But of course the guy who thought it up would have a pretty good idea where he would need help, right? Then we farmed it out to the various departments. We had the Department of Physics, the Department of Engineering, with a chairman of the department. I guess that came from the fact that I was chairman of the Department of Physics at Carnegie Tech before I went there.\nAre there other ways that you tried to make it like a campus? Architecturally, organizationally\u2026?\nNo. In fact, we tried to avoid the things that were campus-like. We had a dean who headed up the departments. I was the Vice President for Research and Development, so the department chairmen reported directly to me \u2014 there was nobody between me and the Chairman of Metallurgy. I actually knew a little metallurgy, but I didn\u2019t know much chemistry. But nevertheless, the chairman of chemistry reported to me as Vice President of Research and Development.\nWhat did you look for in hiring your chairs? What kind of qualities?\nWell, first of all, good recommendations from first-class scientists. And then of course we would do interviews before we actually hired them. There was a kind of science community. In fact, there was a much stronger physics community and so the physicists are sometimes accused in universities of not talking to the chemists and never talking to engineers. They are kind of looked down on it in industry. But our guys were smart enough, they said, \u201cOh, we\u2019ve got to have some engineering job or two.\u201d Nobody said you shouldn\u2019t hire engineers; you should only hire physicists. Even the physicists didn\u2019t say that. And in the universities sometimes there is a kind of friction between the physicists and the chemists, because the physicists, of course, rightly or wrongly, they think that all science is based on physics. I believe that, by the way \u2014 I believe that you can\u2019t do any science without applying physics to it. I think the good chemists recognize that. A great chemist, a consultant to us, and he had been a physicist at Berkeley for his work. First of all, he depended upon the cyclotron\u2026\nWhich required some good engineering, though.\nAnd physics.\nDid you find that the physicists that you hired were interested in building things? Or was that a quality that they had?\nYes, I think that they tend to do, perhaps from a sense of duty that they are getting good space, good equipment, good people to work with, and there ought to somehow be money coming in. I\u2019m sure we never paid for everything we did, although we got good chunks of it from Texas, ten million. And the reactor was a sold at a price that made some money for us, too. And, of course, the TRIGA\u2019s always made money for us, because we charged what the market could bear there. And since it was, I think, generally thought of as the best research reactor for universities, that\u2019s how we sold 72.\nThey\u2019re sending one to Thailand and somewhere else right now.\nOh, yes. I think they are on five continents, and Antarctica.\nNow, did you ever get AEC or DOE grants? Or did you get NSF or other kinds of government contracts?\nWe had quite a bit of money from the AEC. For example, the reactor development. We had money for developing the big reactor. But mostly that came from industry, too. Industry was very good to us because the industry felt that we\u2019ve got to have nuclear energy. It wouldn\u2019t be so good today because of the problem of what do you do with the spent fuel. It\u2019s still a major problem.\nWhen you say from industry, do you mean like electric utilities companies?\nYes, also utilities. Exactly.\nHow did you find it competing with companies like Westinghouse or General Electric, which were many times larger?\nWell, they were our competitors, but if we had a better product, as of course, we felt we did. The reason we felt it was better is having a graphite monitor and a helium coolant, helium is an inert chemical, you can\u2019t get a fire started. In the present reactors, a la Three Mile Island, or even worse the Russian accident, you can have a disastrous thing. And we felt pretty sure that nothing like that could happen with the graphite and helium. Graphite and helium don\u2019t interact chemically because heating is inert. So we felt we had a better product.\nThe other thing I just barely hit on yesterday, we had a higher efficiency of conversion from nuclear energy to electrical energy, and the reason was as a thermodynamic loss, as your efficiency is higher, the higher you go in temperature. Because of the graphite, which won\u2019t melt, you can go to very high temperature. I forget exactly what our efficiency was, but I think our efficiency was up around, I\u2019d better not say the numbers, but it was much higher than the water cooled reactors because with the water cooled reactors you couldn\u2019t go to a very high temperature because the water would produce such pressure from the steam that it would be dangerous. Furthermore, the water would react with the graphite and burn the graphite. Water will react with carbon. You get carbon dioxide.\n\u2026of our reactors, and particularly the TRIGA reactors, because we sold a number to hospitals where they wanted to make isotopes with them, training, research isotopes; and to universities, of course, they wanted something that they could train people with simple enough that they could have their nuclear engineering department live with a reactor.\nSo, safety and efficiency would be your selling points?\nYes. One other. We could produce very intense beams of neutrons by pulsing the reactor. Well, ordinarily a control rod is king in a reactor. It\u2019s simply a strong neutron absorber, and you control the power level by sticking those rods that contain either boron, which is a strong neutron absorber, or cadmium, which is a strong neutron absorber. But in the TRIGA reactor we also had control rods, but we didn\u2019t absolutely need them because as the temperature of the fuel goes up, it absorbs more neutrons more strongly, so it\u2019s self-controlling. So we could pull out a control rod, standard control rod, very rapidly in a millisecond or something like that. Any other reactor would have blown up. But as it starts heating up, there is a very strong so-called negative temperature coefficient of reactivity. The trouble with most reactors is the heat is produced primarily in the moderator. In ours, the heat was produced in the fuel always, but it stayed in the fuel because we had hydrogen in the fuel chamber. So we had zirconium hydride and uranium as our fuel. So we had a very temperature sensitive material right in the fuel\u2014it didn\u2019t have to diffuse out to some control rod and tell me, \u201cHey, it\u2019s getting hot in here.\u201d As soon as the extra energy was released, the neutrons knew it and, \u201cOh, boy the moderator's hot. It isn\u2019t slowing me down anymore so I can\u2019t make energy for these guys.\u201d In a few microseconds the pulse would go up, and back down to zero. So it was a pulse reactor, which nobody else could ever do, at least not safely. Ours shuts itself off: \u201cOh, boy, I\u2019d better push in a control rod. The reactors are doing\u2026\u201d Oh, no. It shuts itself off. So that was, I might say, the main feature of the TRIGAs that there was no way that there could be an accident. If it gets hotter, the energy goes down.\nSomebody told me General Electric reactors were engineering by brawn, and General Atomic was engineering by brains.\nI won\u2019t argue! [Chuckles] Well, the brains were Freeman Dyson, he\u2019s one of the patent holders, and Ted Taylor.\nSo Taylor and Dyson were the two inventors, primarily, of the TRIGA?\nYes. The third guy was, I\u2019ll say an ordinary physicist, sort of like myself, Andy McReynolds. Very unfortunately, he developed Alzheimer\u2019s disease. But that was well after he made his contributions. But he had to resign.\nNow was Dyson an employee or just a consultant?\nHe was a consultant, but he was quite willing to work with other people and get his name on the patent. All those patents, they made money \u2014 they made a dollar per patent. I have about twenty patents. I must have gotten about twenty dollars over the years! I was working in Chicago at the Met Lab and I really got away from neutrons and physics there because there was a big question: how are you going to put uranium in a reactor with water cooling because uranium will react with water? So you\u2019ve got to have something to separate it. That was a major problem, and I feel that I made major contributions to that. The metallurgical complication, I think I told you about that. I\u2019m not a metallurgist, and I hired the first metallurgist at the Metallurgical Laboratory, and the second and the third and the fourth.\nI think it\u2019s fair to say that you put the metallurgy in the metallurgical lab!\nI have to agree with you. I am not a metallurgist, but I realized the need to have it. That\u2019s sort of my common sense contribution to the reactor.\nI\u2019ve been told, and I wonder if it\u2019s true, did Taylor and Dyson actually invent the TRIGA in some extraordinarily short period of time? I heard that it was sort of like an overnight invention.\nNo, not quite right. But I think I mentioned this summer session we had before we had a lot of people around, and we chose our topics for the summer people \u2014 who were much smarter than any we had hired yet because we hadn\u2019t hired them yet \u2014 we chose a reactor to propel a ship and not using Rickover\u2019s technique because those are water cooler reactors which we felt weren\u2019t safe enough. There are a couple of experiences that show that can happen. So we tried to invent a safe ship reactor. And we had some pretty good ideas, but by then the water cooled Rickover type reactors (I\u2019ll call them, although he had nothing to do with the invention of them) were starting to sell, because they did work and they were not bad, except that they weren\u2019t completely safe the way you could advertise the TRIGA would be absolutely safe. Now, that sounds pretty self-propelling to say that they are completely safe, but I\u2019ve just told you that you could pull a control rod out in microseconds and have the reactor shut itself down, because it got hot where the fuel was, not where the fuel wasn\u2019t. I don\u2019t think that I made this terribly clear, but in the ordinary reactor, you have the fuel here and the moderator here. The moderator will take million electron volt neutrons and slows them down to a few electron volts with a fusion product, and a cross-section to fusion goes way up. So you have to have low energy neutrons. I\u2019m speaking now of the thermal reactors. Now there\u2019s something called a fast reactor, which is much more dangerous, where the neutrons are fast reactors. But ours you have to have a slow reactor with a particular mix of moderator and uranium that everybody uses now, because you do have a negative temperature coefficient. The temperature goes up, the coefficient of reactivity goes down. The trouble is it\u2019s almost instantaneous. It\u2019s in microseconds with the TRIGA, and the ordinary designs of a reactor you don\u2019t have microseconds, you have probably fractions of a second. And that\u2019s a big selling point for TRIGA. You can put it in a hospital, you can put it in a university setting, and it cannot have an accident.\nDid you have similar expectations for Big Marcus, for the gas-cooled reactor?\nYes. That was a safety problem, too. But the trouble was the water reactors really got a leg up on us because they were already sold. And they worked pretty well. So if you have an industry where you want to make energy, would you do something that hasn\u2019t been accepted as safe, pretty safe, all around the world, except maybe in Russia and Three Mile Island. So we tried hard to use that point in safety. And the extra efficiency. We could make things hotter because we didn\u2019t have any water. We had helium and graphite and uranium. And I mentioned the thermodynamic efficiency goes up rapidly with the temperature.\nBut you just weren\u2019t able to sell in that market.\nNo. Not when you could buy a reactor, which there were maybe twenty or thirty around the world at that time. Many more than that now, of course, and there were only two accidents.\nWhat about the fusion? Tell me a little bit more about how you got into the fusion? You said you had done some work for the AEC?\nYes. I spent a year in that title of Scientist at Large for the controls of the nuclear problem. So I learned quite a lot about it from the big shots. I was not a big contributor; a collector, sort of. I wrote reports of what I thought was weak, what didn\u2019t look good and so forth. Somewhat reluctantly because I was not the smartest physicist on that project, but I gave the smart ones credit and I didn\u2019t try to evaluate all of the people. But I did try to evaluate the ideas.\nAnd which were the ones you thought would be best for General Atomic?\nWell, we hired Don Kerst, who invented the Betatron at General Electric. He went from Wisconsin as my fellow graduate student, and then at General Electric he invented the Betatron, which was widely used. It still is a rather widely used instrument, but not nearly as much as it used to be. We were very good friends, and he got interested in fusion at GE, actually. So he said, \u201cYes, I\u2019ll come to General Atomic, if you\u2019re going to develop a fusion program.\u201d\nGeneral Electric would not allow him to do so?\nI don\u2019t know, but he didn\u2019t anyway. And Don Kerst was his name, and he knew a very outstanding Japanese physicists named Tihiro Ohkawa. He said, \u201cBut I want to have Ohkawa come and work with me.\u201d Fine. So we were able to hire Ohkawa away from Japan, because he didn\u2019t have a big program going. And then we started hiring. I learned a lot about good people in my year with the AEC, and so I hit what I consider the brightest ones there, including Marshall Rosenbluth. Although de Hoffmann had a lot to do with Rosenbluth because de Hoffmann was at Las Alamos at the same time Marshall was, so he knew all of Marshall\u2019s strong qualities. And I had met Marshall, but I wasn\u2019t as close to him as de Hoffmann was. Maybe I\u2019ve made it sound like de Hoffmann did nothing, but he recruited a lot of first class physicists. He also knew where money was, which I didn\u2019t know anything about. He is said to have known every billionaire in the world, which probably isn\u2019t quite true, but kind of by reputation.\nSo you were able to get private investments? Private projects?\nYes. Through the utility companies, because we had something that they knew they would probably have to have. That\u2019s why the Texans gave us money. They would have to have nuclear work, anyway. But I don\u2019t want to make it sound like I hired all the smart people. de Hoffmann was very active in that. As were others of our staff. Obviously, Rosenbluth and Taylor knew who the smart guys were too. And our theoreticians. We had wonderful consultants. I\u2019ve mentioned Bethe, Teller, people like that were our consultants.\nOne of the things that I saw today was a place where Jason meets.\nYes. That came after my time. I had no connection with Jason, but some of the staff did, apparently.\nSo there\u2019s continuing that tradition of bringing very bright people here for a short period of time.\nYes. I think that probably the Blues Brothers have recognized that. It\u2019s very important for developing the company and they\u2019ll probably keep doing it.\nDid you ever feel the absence in those early years of not having a big University nearby, just plans for one?\nWell, that\u2019s one of the reasons we came here, because there was going to be one. I think I mentioned it, but we had other places we could have gone, but we knew there was going to be a new and undoubtedly very good university here. A number of our staff were consultants to the university, which we gladly let them do because they got a mixture of bright people at the universities then too. But our consultants were extremely important.\nSo you were pretty confident UCSD was going to be very strong in physics?\nOh, yes. They were very confident of that. We knew Roger Revelle very well, who was head of a large part of that in the first gloss of a lot of the work there.\nYou were a division of General Dynamics. Did you ever feel any pressure from them? They were expecting results, expecting product.\nNot at all from Johns A. Hopkins, who was Fred\u2019s direct contact, the president of the company. So what would you say? I think that there was some jealousy with other divisions. I may have mentioned that Convair had a small nuclear group.\nI was reading today that they were working on a reactor for their atomic aircraft in Texas.\nYes. I\u2019d mentioned the Texas group. They had some very good people there. But the General Dynamics didn\u2019t want to continue that, so we hired the bright guys away and they had some very good people.\nDid you hire some of those bright guys away?\nOh, yes. Sure.\nOkay. So they came out here?\nYes. One particular is Stan Koutz, still lives near General Atomic in spite of the fact that it\u2019s not nuclear anymore and he\u2019s still with them, and he\u2019s a very bright engineer. And when we were building the first big reactor, the one commercial reactor, for a while he was in charge of a major part of the development of that. So Fort Worth had, I think we hired three people, I don\u2019t know how many people they had all together. We hired the brightest we found.\nIn retrospect, the atomic airplane sounds like a really bad idea.\nWell, it turns out that it hadn\u2019t been well thought through. You know, Oak Ridge worked on that a lot too. And I have respect for Alvin Weinberg at Oak Ridge, who was in charge of that work. But you\u2019ve got to have shielding. Shielding is heavy. Airplanes don\u2019t like to have extra weight. That\u2019s the basic situation.\nHow often did people from other corporate labs come to visit you to see the way you\u2019d arranged the lab?\nWell, GE sent some people. In fact, they sent a metallurgist because of a lot of metallurgy in that, and we had a patent on it so we weren\u2019t worried about their stealing it. But of course, we didn\u2019t tell them all of our tricks for making it. Not too often, though, I must say. I remember people from GE, and we had some kind of ties with the Westinghouse. In fact, Rickover was the king of Westinghouse and GE in those days. And I was on vacation once from General Atomic. I went to Wisconsin (that\u2019s where I went to university and was born there). And in the middle of the day once, when I was on vacation, I got this telephone call. My mother had an old house with a crank telephone and it rang. And she said, \u201cSomebody wants to talk to you, Ed.\u201d It was Rickover.\nWow. He found you all the way over there?\nWell, of course I didn\u2019t keep it secret from General Atomics, where I was, and I\u2019m sure they didn\u2019t keep it secret from Rickover. And he said, \u201cEd, be at Westinghouse tomorrow. I want you to consult with them.\u201d So it was a competitive industry and he asked me to consult with his friends at Westinghouse.\nI said, \u201cWell, I have some experience with some parts of the reactor design, and there are patents on the parts we consider especially good.\u201d But he wanted more theoretical help. I\u2019m not a theoretical physicist, although I worked very closely with Eugene Wigner who was the king and he put my name on the patent for the Hanford reactor, which I think was perhaps slightly overdoing it. But he was pretty sharp, so he probably wasn\u2019t overdoing it much. So they wanted some advice on what\u2019s called a resonance-absorption. I said a while ago that most of the fission is produced by slow neutrons. It has to be slowed down by a moderator, like water or graphite. And they produce probably 95 percent of the fission. But the very fast neutrons that are born by the fission process, called fast fission, they produce some of that, and you want every percent you can get \u2014 you know, 99 percent is no good; you want 100% of those neutrons, if you can get it. And that was what I did with Eugene Wigner. I did all of the experimental work on that to see \u2014 One of the big questions is if you have a mixture of graphite and uranium or water and uranium. How big should the chunks of uranium be? If they are very big, then they absorb all the neutrons before they get to the center; that uranium is wasted. So if they\u2019re too small, then they are wasted too. But there\u2019s an intermediate size that is the optimal size. And that\u2019s what I was working on at Carnegie Tech on the cyclotron with Wigner.\nBut General Atomics didn\u2019t mind you consulting with Westinghouse?\nWe wanted to keep more or less in the good graces of Rickover, although I don\u2019t think he ever did a thing for us. Oh yes, he probably did, because I mentioned that summer we studied a ship reactor, and I\u2019m sure he helped us get a contract to make that study. It turned out that our schemes were not as practical as the ship reactors that actually got built. So I had some reputation, some publications, and some patents about the resonance absorption studies, and that\u2019s why Rickover somehow heard. He probably heard from Wigner, because Wigner was embarrassingly friendly to me. He probably said, \u201cOh, here\u2019s the great guy. He can solve all your problems,\u201d or something like that. I told Rickover I did some work on it. I had some publications; I spent a good part of a year working on it. But I\u2019m not the king of that \u2014 Wigner\u2019s the king. Wigner was very kind to me. He said, \u201cOh, I should talk to Creutz because he knows all about this.\u201d Which isn\u2019t quite true. What should I say to a project, because after all, it was the same project we were on, to produce reactors.\nOne other reason: General Dynamics had a submarine division, and they weren\u2019t particularly interested in nuclear submarines because Westinghouse had a big lead on them, but that meant that I had some contact with the problems of a hot water reactor on the boat.\nDid you ever have any contact with the Convair division of General Dynamics?\nYes. That\u2019s very interesting. They had a small group, I think maybe one or two person. One guy named Charles Critchfield, who was a well-known physicist. Good guy, dead now. They were doing some work thinking about reactors, but as far as I know they never did any experimental work, any metallurgical work, or measuring of cross-sections, all that stuff that has to be done. So finally, after probably about a year after General Atomic started, they decided to dissolve that group because they realized we had all the big shots as consultants.\nAnd you didn\u2019t have any connections with the Convair Astronautics division here?\nThat was completely separate from you?\nNo. We did no astronautics. Where I did some of that was when I worked for the National Science Foundation, because this was work in astronomy. That\u2019s related to astronautics, obviously. And there was GE, and I think Westinghouse and some other companies had some nice work going on in space travel, you might say, in astronomy. I don\u2019t know a thing about space travel, but I knew something about astronomy. So I was appointed by the head of the AEC to pull together a committee from each of these companies, and I think there were four of them, and we had an astronomy department, of course, at the National Science Foundation. I guess at that time I was working for the government directly, not for General Atomics. So we met every week, about six of us, to look at common problems in recurrence, when two people try to do the same thing. And that was a fairly useful introduction to what the companies were doing in astronautics, although I\u2019m far from understanding.\nBut you did have the Orion project at General Atomics?\nThat was a different thing. Ted Taylor invented this. I think that one of the main things he did at Las Alamos is probably still classified in detail; I don\u2019t know exactly. But he told me he invented most of the small nuclear weapons. Like, cannons, not bullets, but maybe\u2026\nTactical weapons.\nYes, tactical weapons, exactly. He was very involved in that. So he got interested, of course, very interested in some of what General Atomic, but preferable not classified, but it turned to be the TRIGA with a lot of help from Freeman Dyson. One of the three you wouldn\u2019t know is McReynolds who was an experimental guy, because Ted had some experimental ideas but he was primarily a theoretical physicist.\nHow long was he with General Atomics?\nOh, my, he was there all the time I was, and Rosenbluth was most of the time, although I can\u2019t quite get around to tell you about the group that was working on military related things, of which Taylor was a member, Rosenbluth was a member and there were about six other very good physicists. And for some reason (I\u2019m going to try not to place any blame here), they decided they could do better if they started their own company. So they told me very pleasantly that they were going to all resign and start their own company. This is primarily with making things less resistant to radiation from an atomic bomb, hardening. And they were very good at that, particularly Rosenbluth and Taylor. So they just walked out. I said okay. So only two of our fusion group stayed with us. We had Don Kerst, who was not at all a small guy in the business, and one other physicist who was quite good. So we kept a small fusion group. Ohkawa stayed with us, of course, the Japanese physicist because he couldn\u2019t have the classified information that they needed.\nDid they stay in town with their company?\nYes. That\u2019s kind of an interesting story. They rented a room from a fellow who\u2019s a friend of mine whose brother had been a graduate student at Wisconsin with me, and they rented space from him. All they needed was a space for computers; they didn\u2019t have any experimental program. I felt very bad to have lost them. I didn\u2019t tell them that. I said, \u201cWe\u2019ll get along somehow.\u201d And we did. But they lasted for probably about a year, when one of them came back to me \u2014 it wasn\u2019t Rosenbluth; it was one of the very good people \u2014 said, \u201cWe\u2019d like to come back to General Atomics.\u201d Life was just too tough to start a new company for them. I like to think because they didn\u2019t have guys like me around!\nDid you take them back?\nOf course we took them back \u2014 they were all smart physicists. And the rest of the story, Marshall Rosenbluth who had his seventy fifth anniversary about five years ago before he died had a birthday party. Very nice party. He had a book his friends could sign saying nice things about him. I kind of worried what to do a little bit, because Rosenbluth was certainly one of the ringleaders for separation and I didn\u2019t think that was very nice because we\u2019d been nice to him. But, anyway, I wrote, \u201cMarshall, you have a great record to be proud of in the wonderful work you have for physics. By the way, I wish you had returned the key.\u201d They didn\u2019t return the key to my friend that rented the space to them. He called me, \u201cEd, do you think I could get that key back?\u201d So I had the kind of unpleasant job of saying to Rosenbluth, \u201cYou know, my friend wants his key back.\u201d He gave it to me, but he made me return it across town. So people have different sides. And I\u2019m sure he wasn\u2019t trying to be mean; he just felt that it wasn\u2019t his responsibility. If I wanted it back, then I should give him the key back.\nLooking back on the lab, did you design work as well as you had hoped architecturally and organizationally? Did you do what you wanted?\nI have nothing to compare it with. How can I say that? I still think that the attitude around the lab of we\u2019re kind of all equal, we\u2019re all in this together was much stronger than it is in university. I can remember I was in the Physics Department at Carnegie Tech. I liked the chemists, but I had no great feeling that if they fail, I fail because I had a separate department. In fact, there\u2019s a little bit of a story there when we built our cyclotron at Carnegie Tech. Carnegie Tech had quite a large free space of flat land. I don\u2019t know what it was. It was probably a couple of acres at least, and I wanted to build the cyclotron there so it would be right outside my window, so to speak, from the physics building. So the dean, being very honest and good, held a meeting of key physicists, key chemists, key engineers and so forth, and he said, \u201cWhat would you think if we had the cyclotron on this particular space?\u201d Well, that space had been used for a practice football field. And they thought, \u201cOh that would be awful. What would our football players do?\u201d We had a lousy football team, by the way. I just said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to push the point and make people mad at me.\u201d Did you read the title here?\nNot In My Football Field. That\u2019s very funny.\nAnd so we didn\u2019t build it there. But we had good sites. We had good contacts with Westinghouse. Westinghouse built their first radio station KDKA on about a fifteen acre site about 25 miles from Carnegie Tech. Westinghouse gave us this, whatever it was, 25 acres of nice land, and that\u2019s where we built our big cyclotron.\nBut you never had a football team at General Atomic, I\u2019ll bet.\nI think a lot of people played various indoor games.\nDid you have the Ping-Pong tables there in your day?\nI never played Ping-Pong, so I don\u2019t know about it. But I think we did. I won\u2019t guarantee that. 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"raw_content": "English professor explores \u2018Elvis as Indian\u2019\nKristin Spiva / News Writing Student December 14, 2010 Latest Print\nElvis Presley not only portrayed Native Americans on film but was himself of Cherokee Indian ancestry, said English Professor Michael Snyder during \u201cElvis as Indian,\u201d a presentation held on campus Dec. 9.\nSnyder presented the lecture, which was attended by a group of about 50 people.\nHe said Presley was proud of his heritage and showed this through his performance as cross blood Native Americans in three separate films: \u201cG.I. Blues,\u201d \u201cFlaming Star\u201d and \u201cStay Away Joe.\u201d\n\u201cSome of these films have such great actors in them, such as Barbara Eden,\u201d Snyder said. \u201cBut \u2018King Creole\u2019 is probably his best film, one I would recommend on its own merit.\u201d\nHe pointed out that Presley was a great role model for Native Americans by playing admirable Indian roles in his films.\nPresley\u2019s appearance as an Indian in these movies showed him as a figure of honor not only in the eyes of Native Americans but to others as well, he said.\nIn 1960, after he played the son of an Indian woman and a white settler in his film \u201cFlaming Star,\u201d Presley was inducted into the Los Angeles Indian Tribal Council and honored by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota, a Creek Indian actor and musician from Muskogee, Snyder said.",
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"raw_content": "forgive me blogger, for i have sinned. it\u2019s been one week since my last blog.\nsorry if that offends anyone. but this totally feels like a confession booth to me. hence the name ~ pixy\u2019s confessional.\nit is absolutely GORGEOUS outside. praise be to mother nature, who finally decided we midwesterners needed a break from the heat!!! it\u2019s sunny and cool out there. it\u2019s going to be hard for me not to head to the plaza and buy me a pretty.\nso much has happened this last week. i became a vegetarian. i BECAME A VEGETARIAN. what on earth? i cannot believe i just wrote that. me. the worshipper of medium rare steak cooked in butter. the lover of lobster.\nand it gets worse. no eggs either. no oil. no butter. no dairy. this is basically vegan, but it\u2019s okay if i do it every once in a while.\nit\u2019s called a PLANT-BASED DIET, like the one they talk about it in the documentary \u201cFORKS OVER KNIVES\u201d. my doctor told me to watch it, and we are going to personalize a diet for me this week. it\u2019s just high cholesterol, that\u2019s all. but this doc seems to know what i\u2019m all about. NO MEDS. please don\u2019t make me take some kind of medication, when i could use this as a reason, a motivation, to do amazing things for my body.\ni can\u2019t imagine not eating tuna and fish. chicken, i can live without. steak is too expensive. honestly, the only meat i use on a regular basis is bacon. and that is SO BAD for you.\ni know i eat too much cheese, eggs, butter, and bacon. i know it. i don\u2019t eat as much as the average person, but it\u2019s not a comparison. it\u2019s about your own body and genetic makeup. and let\u2019s face it ~ i have not ever had good digestion. it\u2019s time to get serious.\nthere\u2019s also something about your heart being ready to make a change. sometimes you just have that feeling that you should do something, like stop singing opera, or cut out meat. i had this feeling of excitement every time i heard about friends becoming vegan and vegetarian. it sounded, for lack of a better word, DELICIOUS. i\u2019ve always been a veggie lover. i have a girlfriend who has celiac disease. she has struggled so much, but lately, decided to just eat all veggies and fruit, and not much else. she says she feels amazing.\nwhen i heard she was only eating veggies and fruits, i\u2019m not exaggerating, my mouth watered and i felt jealous of her. JEALOUS! i can do that too! it\u2019s not like it\u2019s a club and i\u2019m not invited!!!\nthat was a year ago, and now, with this diagnosis, i\u2019m feeling ready to try it!\nthe FORKS OVER KNIVES diet is no meat, dairy, oils of any kind, eggs, or processed foods. i will tweak this and keep organic coconut oil in my diet, and will probably do egg whites and fat free milk in my coffee. cheese? only goat cheese, blue and parm, and only occasionally. i\u2019m not going to live like a monk. i\u2019m just going to make recipes that sound good to me, that happen to have none of those things in them. there are THOUSANDS of recipes all over the web, so this is really not going to be that difficult.\ni already have loved some new things i\u2019ve tried! i know this is white bread, but jimmy john\u2019s has the most delicious veggie sub ever. it\u2019s amazing. there\u2019s a wheat bread option too, which i\u2019ll try next time. but the avocado spread is so good. and trader joe\u2019s has a canned vegetarian chili that makes an incredible dip with tortilla chips!!! it has tofu in it, for pete\u2019s sake!!! i can\u2019t believe i would ever eat tofu.\ni hate to go on and on, and i am noticing all my sentences starting with \u201ci\u201d. it\u2019s a selfish time for me, until i get going on the right foot. i\u2019m trying to think of the people this will affect ~ mainly the hub. he is horrified. he is a swedish, meat and potatoes guy. he\u2019s 6\u20194\u2033 and a meat-based diet is his religion. he joked with me a year ago that if i ever went vegetarian, he would leave me. can you say FORESHADOWING? i never thought i would do this, or do this to him!!! we spent the whole weekend fighting, and by the time the weekend was over, he said, \u201ci really want to eat healthy this week, after this hard, unhealthy weekend. so make whatever you want and i\u2019ll eat it.\u201d\ni promise i\u2019ll talk about other things, when i start thinking about other things. if you are against a plant-based diet, you might want to change the channel for a few weeks!",
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"raw_content": "First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Mon Oct 24, 2016\nQuestions about animal consciousness \u2014 in particular, which animals have consciousness and what (if anything) that consciousness might be like \u2014 are both scientific and philosophical. They are scientific because answering them will require gathering information using scientific techniques \u2014 no amount of arm-chair pondering, conceptual analysis, logic, a priori theory-building, transcendental inference or introspection will tell us whether a platypus, an iguana, or a squid (to take a few examples) enjoy a life of subjective experience \u2014 at some point we'll have to learn something about the animals. Just what sort(s) of science can bear on these questions is a live question, but at the least this will include investigations of the behavior and neurophysiology of a wide taxonomic range of animals, as well as the phylogenetic relationships among taxa. But these questions are deeply philosophical as well, with epistemological, metaphysical, and phenomenological dimensions. Progress will therefore ultimately require interdisciplinary work by philosophers willing to engage with the empirical details of animal biology, as well as scientists who are sensitive to the philosophical complexities of the issue.\n1. Motivations: Framing human-animal analogies\n2. Concepts of Consciousness\n4. Epistemological and Metaphysical Issues\n4.1 The Problem of Other Minds\n4.2 The Epistemic Status of Intuitions and Perception of Mental States\n4.3 Cognition and Consciousness\n4.4 Dualism and Physicalism\n4.5 Neurofunctional Accounts\n4.6 Representationalist Accounts\n4.7 Is Consciousness Binary?\n4.8 Limits of philosophical theories\n5. The Structure and Function of Consciousness\n6. Evolution and Distribution of Consciousness\n6.2 Great Apes\n6.4 Amniotes (including birds and reptiles)\n7. Special Topics in the Study of Animal Consciousness\n7.1 Animal pain and suffering\n7.2 Animal emotions\n7.3 Perceptual phenomenology\n7.4 Mental Time Travel\n7.5 Self-consciousness and metacognition\nThere are many reasons for philosophical interest in nonhuman animal (hereafter \u201canimal\u201d) consciousness:\nFirst, if philosophy often begins with questions about the place of humans in nature, one way humans have attempted to locate themselves is by comparison and contrast with those things in nature most similar to themselves, i.e., other animals. At least in the West, the traditional \u2014 and perhaps still intuitive to many people \u2014 way of thinking about consciousness is as primarily an innate endowment of humans, which other animals may or may not share in virtue of being sufficiently like us. Within the traditional Biblical cosmology, while all animals were said to have arisen through divine intentional creation, humans were the only ones created in the likeness of the deity, and thus enjoyed a special, privileged role in the intended workings of the cosmos \u2014 including, for example, access to an eternal afterlife not overpopulated with fleas, ants and snails. (See Lewis, 2009 Ch 9 for an in-depth treatment of the problem of animal consciousness in relation to Christian theology.) However, within a modern biological worldview, while humans may be unique in certain (perhaps quite important) respects, we are only one species of animal among many \u2014 one tip of one branch of the phylogenetic tree of life, and enjoy no particular special status.\nFrom an evolutionary perspective, consciousness is a trait that some animals have (at least humans have it). Salient questions include: Is it a late evolved, narrowly distributed trait, or an older more broadly shared trait? And, did it evolve only once, or a number of times independently? From this view point, the question \u201cAre (non-human) animals conscious?\u201d is rather strange, because, for example, it implicitly groups bats together with rabbits (as \u2018nonhuman\u2019 animals) in contrast to humans. In reality, rabbits are more closely related to humans than they are to bats (Nishihara et al. 2006), so framing the question this way embeds a false presupposition. Of course, it is consistent with an evolutionary perspective that humans are the only conscious animals. This would imply that consciousness was acquired through a recent evolutionary event that occurred since the split of our ancestral lineage from that of our closest non-human relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos (see section 6 for discussion of such hypotheses). But such a view requires support; though perhaps intuitive to some, its choice as a default position is arbitrary.\nSecond, there is a lot at stake morally in the question of whether animals are conscious beings or \u201cmindless automata\u201d. (See article on the Moral Status of Animals.) Many billions of animals are slaughtered every year for food, use in research, and other human purposes. Moreover, before their deaths, many \u2014 perhaps most \u2014 of these animals are subject to conditions of life that, if they are in fact experienced by the animals in anything like the way a human would experience them, amount to cruelty. Arguments that non-human animals are not conscious therefore effectively double as apologetics for our treatment of animals. When the question of animal consciousness is under consideration, our guilt or innocence as a civilization for an enormous body of cruelty may hang in the balance. However, some philosophers have argued that consciousness per se does not matter for the treatment of animals, and therefore either that a) even if animals are not conscious, they may deserve moral consideration, or b) even if animals are conscious, they may not deserve moral consideration. (For more discussion of the ethical issues, see Singer 1990 [1975]; Regan 1983; Rollin 1989; Varner 1998, 2012; Steiner 2008.)\nThird, while theories of consciousness are frequently developed without special regard to questions about animal consciousness, the plausibility of such theories has sometimes been assessed against the results of their application to animal consciousness (and, similarly, to human infants). This raises questions about the relative epistemic weight of theoretical considerations (e.g. philosophical arguments for a given theory of consciousness) against particular case judgments or intuitions about whether a given creature is conscious. For example, Searle (1998) argues that our intuitive, commonsense attributions of intentional and emotional states to dogs carries more epistemic weight than philosophically motivated skeptical concerns. In contrast, Carruthers (1989) asserts that his own arguments that nonhuman animals (even dogs) lack consciousness are sufficiently weighty that we are morally obligated to eradicate or ignore our sympathetic feelings toward such creatures. Should our theories of consciousness be constrained by our intuitive attributions of consciousness to animals (or, e.g., babies), or should the former override the latter?\nFourth, the problem of determining whether animals are conscious stretches the limits of knowledge and scientific methodology (beyond the breaking point, according to some). The so-called \u201ccognitive revolution\u201d that took place during the latter half of the 20th century has led to many innovative experiments by comparative psychologists and ethologists probing the cognitive capacities of animals. The philosophical issues surrounding the interpretation of experiments to investigate perception, learning, categorization, memory, spatial cognition, numerosity, communication, language, social cognition, theory of mind, causal reasoning, and metacognition in animals are discussed in the entry on animal cognition. Despite this work on cognition, the topic of consciousness per se in animals has remained controversial, even taboo, among many scientists, while other scientists from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. neuroscience, animal behavior, evolutionary biology) have developed novel ways of approaching the subject (see Boly et al. 2013 for a review). The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Animal Consciousness indicates that many scientists agree that \u201cthe weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.\u201d However, other scientists, including Marian Stamp Dawkins, who has been prominent in the science of animal welfare (Dawkins 1985, 1993), are not ready to endorse the claim, writing that, \u201cThe mystery of consciousness remains. The explanatory gap is as wide as ever and all the wanting in the world will not take us across it\u201d (Dawkins 2012, pp. 171\u2013172).\nMany philosophers and scientists have either argued or assumed that consciousness is inherently private, and hence that one's own experience is unknowable to others. While language may allow humans to cross this supposed gap by communicating their experience to others, this is allegedly not possible for other animals. Despite the controversy in philosophical and scientific circles, it remains a matter of common sense to most people that some animals do have conscious experiences. Most people, if asked why they think familiar animals such as their pets are conscious, would point to similarities between the behavior of those animals and human behavior \u2014 for example, animals seem to visibly express pleasure and displeasure and a variety of emotions, their behavior seems to be motivated by seeking food, comfort, social contact, etc., they seem aware of their surroundings and able to learn from experience. Similarity arguments for animal consciousness thus have roots in common sense observations. But they may also be bolstered by scientific investigations of behavior and the comparative study of brain anatomy and physiology, as well as considerations of evolutionary continuity between species. Neurological similarities between humans and other animals have been taken to suggest commonality of conscious experience; all mammals share the same basic brain anatomy, and much is shared with vertebrates more generally. Even structurally different brains may be neurodynamically similar in ways that enable inferences about animal consciousness to be drawn (Seth et al. 2005).\nAs well as generic arguments about the connections among consciousness, neural activity, and behavior, a considerable amount of scientific research directed towards understanding particular conscious states uses animals as proxies for humans. The reactions of many animals, particularly other mammals, to bodily events that humans would report as painful are easily and automatically recognized by most people as pain responses. High-pitched vocalizations, fear responses, nursing of injuries, and learned avoidance are among the responses to noxious stimuli that are all part of the common mammalian heritage, and similar responses are also observable in organisms from a wide range of taxonomic groups (see section 7.1 below).\nMuch of the research that is of direct relevance to the treatment of human pain, including on the efficacy of analgesics and anesthetics, is conducted on rats and other animals. The validity of this research depends on the similar mechanisms involved[1] and to many it seems arbitrary to deny that injured rats, who respond well to opiates for example, feel pain.[2] Likewise, much of the basic research that is of direct relevance to understanding human visual consciousness has been conducted on the very similar visual systems of monkeys. Monkeys whose primary visual cortex is damaged even show impairments analogous to those of human blindsight patients (Stoerig & Cowey 1997) suggesting that the visual consciousness of intact monkeys is similar to that of intact humans. Scientific demonstrations that members of other species, even of other phyla, are susceptible to the same visual illusions as we are (e.g., Fujita et al. 1991) suggesting that their visual experiences are similar.\nIt is often argued that the use of animals to model neuropsychiatric disorders presupposes convergence of emotional and other conscious states and further refinements of those models may strengthen the argument for attributing such states to animals. An interesting reversal of the modeling relationship can be found in the work of Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, who uses her experience as a so-called \u201chigh-functioning autistic\u201d as the basis for her understanding of the nature of animal experience (Grandin 1995, 2004).\nSuch similarity arguments are, of course, inherently limited in that it is always open to critics to exploit some disanalogy between animals and humans to argue that the similarities don't entail the conclusion that both are sentient. Even when bolstered by evolutionary considerations of continuity between the species, the arguments are vulnerable, for the mere fact that humans have a trait does not entail that our closest relatives must have that trait too. There is no inconsistency with evolutionary continuity to maintain that only humans have the capacity to learn to play chess. Likewise for consciousness. Povinelli & Giambrone (2000) also argue that the argument from analogy fails because superficial observation of quite similar behaviors even in closely related species does not guarantee that the underlying cognitive principles are the same, a point that Povinelli believes is demonstrated by his research into how chimpanzees use cues to track visual attention (Povinelli 1996).\nPerhaps a combination of behavioral, physiological and morphological similarities with evolutionary theory amounts to a stronger overall case[3]. However, a convincing argument will likely also require motivation in terms of a well developed theory of the structure and function of consciousness as a cognitive process \u2014 a route that many recent participants in the debate on animal consciousness have pursued (see section 6).\nThe term \u201cconsciousness\u201d is notoriously ambiguous and difficult to define. Having origins in folk psychology, \u201cconsciousness\u201d has a multitude of uses that may not be resolvable into a single, coherent concept (Wilkes 1984). Nevertheless, several useful distinctions among different notions of consciousness have been made, and with the help of these distinctions it is possible to gain some clarity on the important questions that remain about animal consciousness.\nTwo ordinary senses of consciousness which are not in dispute when applied to animals are the sense of consciousness involved when a creature is awake rather than asleep[4], or in a coma, and the sense of consciousness implicated in the basic ability of organisms to perceive and thereby respond to selected features of their environments, thus making them conscious or aware of those features. Consciousness in both these senses is identifiable in organisms belonging to a wide variety of taxonomic groups (see, e.g., Mather 2008).\nA third, more technical notion of consciousness, access consciousness, has been introduced by Block (1995) to capture the sense in which mental representations may be poised for use in rational control of action or speech. This \u201cdispositional\u201d account of access consciousness \u2014 the idea that the representational content is available for other systems to use \u2014 is amended by Block (2005) to include an occurrent aspect in which the content is \u201cbroadcast\u201d in a \u201cglobal workspace\u201d (Baars 1997) which is then available for higher cognitive processing tasks such as categorization, reasoning, planning, and voluntary direction of attention. Block believes that many animals possess access consciousness (speech is not a requirement). Indeed, some of the neurological evidence cited by Block (2005) in support of the global workspace is derived from monkeys. But clearly an author such as Descartes, who, we will see, denied speech, language, and rationality to animals, would also deny access consciousness to them. Those who follow Davidson (1975) in denying intentional states to animals would likely concur.\nThere are two remaining senses of consciousness that cause more controversy when applied to animals: phenomenal consciousness and self-consciousness.\nPhenomenal consciousness refers to the qualitative, subjective, experiential, or phenomenological aspects of conscious experience, sometimes identified with qualia. (In this article we also use the term \u201csentience\u201d to refer to phenomenal consciousness.) To contemplate animal consciousness in this sense is to consider the possibility that, in Nagel's (1974) phrase, there might be \u201csomething it is like\u201d to be a member of another species. Nagel disputes our capacity to know, imagine, or describe in scientific (objective) terms what it is like to be a bat, but he assumes that there is something it is like.\nFor many authors, Nagel's formulation of phenomenal consciousness as \u201cwhat it's like\u201d serves as a reference point for what's at stake in the debate on animal consciousness \u2014 in investigating whether a group of animals are conscious, the crucial question is whether there is \u2018something it is like\u2019 to be those animals, i.e. whether there is a subjective experience of life or being for them, a proprietary perspective that individuals have on their own perceptual, cognitive and emotive processes.\nThough some authors (including Nagel himself) have argued that the very subjectivity of phenomenal consciousness makes it exceedingly difficult or even impossible to investigate scientifically, particularly in other species, others have proceeded by developing structural and/or functional theories of consciousness, and using these to argue for a particular hypothesis about the distribution of consciousness among animals. Such theories will be discussed below, in sections 5 and 6.\nSelf-consciousness refers to a subject's awareness of itself, but is also a notoriously ambiguous term \u2014 there are importantly distinct senses in which a subject can be self-aware (see for example the SEP article on Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness). These include: an awareness of one's body as a physical object, or as the medium of one's own perception and action (i.e. bodily self-awareness); awareness of one's own mental states (i.e. mental or experiential self-awareness); awareness of one-self as perceived by others, or as a member of a social group such as a family, team, or institution (i.e. social self-awareness); awareness of one-self as a persistent character in the narratives told by oneself and others (i.e. narrative self-awareness). This list is far from exhaustive, and further, each listed notion is subject to further disambiguation. Hence, although on many theories self-consciousness is tightly related to phenomenal consciousness, proposals to this effect can vary greatly in their meaning and their implications for which animals might be conscious.\nThe remainder of this article deals primarily with the attribution of consciousness in its phenomenal sense to animals, although there will be some discussion of access consciousness, self-consciousness and theory of mind in animals, especially where these have been related theoretically to phenomenal consciousness \u2014 as, for instance, in Carruthers' (1998a,b, 2000) argument that a particular sort of mental self-representation is required for phenomenal consciousness.\nQuestions about animal consciousness in the Western tradition have their roots in ancient discussions about the nature of human beings, as filtered through the \u201cmodern\u201d philosophy of Descartes. It would be anachronistic to read ideas about consciousness from today back into the ancient literature. Nevertheless, because consciousness is sometimes thought to be a uniquely human mental phenomenon, it is important to understand the origins of the idea that humans are qualitatively (and \u201cqualia-tatively\u201d) different from animals.\nAristotle asserted that only humans had rational souls, while the locomotive souls shared by all animals, human and nonhuman, endowed animals with instincts suited to their successful reproduction and survival. Sorabji (1993) argues that the denial of reason to animals created a crisis for Greek thought, requiring a \u201cwholesale reanalysis\u201d (p. 7) of the nature of mental capacities, and a revision in thinking about \u201cman and his place in nature above the animals\u201d (ibid.). The argument about what is reasoning, and whether animals display it, remains with us 25 centuries later, as evidenced by the volume Rational Animals? (Hurley & Nudds 2006). The Great Chain of Being derived from early Christian interpretation of Aristotle's scale of nature (Lovejoy 1936) provides another Aristotelian influence on the debate about animal minds.\nTwo millennia after Aristotle, Descartes' mechanistic philosophy introduced the idea of a reflex to explain the behavior of nonhuman animals. Although his conception of animals treated them as reflex-driven machines, with no intellectual capacities, it is important to recognize that he took mechanistic explanation to be perfectly adequate for explaining sensation and perception \u2014 aspects of animal behavior that are nowadays often associated with consciousness. He drew the line only at rational thought and understanding. Given the Aristotelian division between instinct and reason and the Cartesian distinction between mechanical reflex and rational thought, it's tempting to map the one distinction onto the other. Nevertheless, it may be a mistake to assimilate the two. First, a number of authors before and after Darwin have believed that conscious experience can accompany instinctive and reflexive actions. Second, the dependence of phenomenal consciousness on rational, self-reflective thought is a particularly strong and contentious claim (although it has current defenders, discussed below).\nAlthough the roots of careful observation and experimentation of the natural world go back to ancient times, study of animal behavior remained largely anecdotal until long after the scientific revolution. Animals were, of course, widely used in pursuit of answers to anatomical, physiological, and embryological questions. Vivisection was carried out by such ancient luminaries as Galen and there was a resurgence of the practice in early modern times (Bertoloni Meli 2012). Descartes himself practiced and advocated vivisection (Descartes, Letter to Plempius, Feb 15 1638), and wrote in correspondence that the mechanical understanding of animals absolved people of any guilt for killing and eating animals. Mechanists who followed him (e.g. Malebranche) used Descartes' denial of reason and a soul to animals as a rationale for their belief that animals were incapable of suffering or emotion, and did not deserve moral consideration \u2014 justifying vivisection and other brutal treatment (see Olson 1990, p. 39\u201340, for support of this claim). The idea that animal behavior is purely reflexive may also have served to diminish interest in treating behavior as a target of careful study in its own right.\nA few glimmers of experimental approaches to animal behavior can be seen in the late 18th century (e.g., Barrington 1773; White 1789), and soon thereafter Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cuvier worked from 1804 until his death in 1838 on the development of sexual and social behavior in captive mammals. By the mid 19th century Alfred Russel Wallace (1867) was arguing explicitly for an experimental approach to animal behavior, and Douglas Spalding's (1872) experiments on instinctual feeding behaviors in chicks were seminal. Still, the emergence of experimental approaches had very little to say about consciousness per se, though Spalding's work can be seen as a contribution to the discussion about instinct and reason.\nIn the same vein of instinct vs. reason, Darwin in the Origin of Species wrote, \u201cIt is a significant fact, that the more the habits of any particular animal are studied by a naturalist, the more he attributes to reason, and the less to unlearnt instinct\u201d (1871, Book I, p.46). He devoted considerable attention in both the Origin and in the Descent of Man to animal behavior, with the obvious goal of demonstrating mental continuity among the species. To make his case, Darwin relied heavily on anecdotes provided by his correspondents \u2014 a project infamously pursued after Darwin's death by his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 George Romanes (1882). Darwin also carried out experiments and was a keen observer, however. In his final work he describes experiments on the flexibility of earthworm behavior in manipulating leaves, which he took to show considerable intelligence (Darwin 1881; see also Crist 2002).\nThe idea of behavioral flexibility is central to discussions of animal mind and consciousness. Descartes' conception of animals as automata seems to make phenomenal consciousness superfluous at best \u2014 a connection whose philosophical development was traced by T.H. Huxley (1874). Huxley reported a series of experiments on a frog, showing very similar reflexive behavior even when its spinal cord had been severed, or large portions of its brain removed. He argued that without a brain, the frog could not be conscious, but since it could still do the same sort of things that it could do before, there is no need to assume consciousness even in the presence of the entire brain, going on to argue that consciousness is superfluous. (The argument is somewhat curious since it seems to show too much by making the brain itself superfluous to the frog's behavior!)\nStill, for those (including Huxley) who became quickly convinced of the correctness of Darwin's theory of evolution, understanding and defending mental continuity between humans and animals loomed large. In his Principles of Psychology (1890), William James promoted the idea of differing intensities of conscious experience across the animal kingdom, an idea that was echoed by the leading British psychologist of his day, Conwy Lloyd Morgan in his 1894 textbook An Introduction to Comparative Psychology. Morgan had been very skeptical and critical of the anecdotal approach favored by Darwin and Romanes, but he came around to the Darwinian point of view about mental continuity if not about methodology. To address the methodological deficit he introduced his \u201cdouble inductive\u201d method for understanding the mental states of animals (Morgan 1894). The double induction consisted of inductive inferences based on observation of animal behavior combined with introspective knowledge of our own minds. At the same time, to counteract the anthropomorphic bias in the double inductive method, Lloyd Morgan introduced a principle now known as Morgan's canon: \u201cin no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale\u201d (Lloyd Morgan 1894, p.53).\nLloyd Morgan's Double Induction Method from his 1894 textbook\nEven though the double inductive method is now mainly of historical interest, Morgan's canon lives on. Questions about quite what the canon means and how to justify it are active topics of historical and philosophical investigation (e.g., Burghardt 1985; Sober 1998, 2005, 2012; Radick 2000; Thomas 2001, Fitzpatrick 2008). The questions include what Lloyd Morgan means by \u2018higher\u2019 and \u2018lower\u2019, to what extent the principle can or should be justified by evolutionary considerations, and whether the canon collapses to a principle of parsimony, a version of Ockham's razor, or some general principles of empirical justification. Despite current uncertainty about what it really means, Morgan's canon, interpreted (or, perhaps, misinterpreted; Thomas 2001) as a strong parsimony principle, served a central rhetorical role for behavioristic psychologists, who sought to eliminate any hint of Cartesian dualism from comparative psychology.\nBehaviorism dominated American psychology in the early part of the 20th century, beginning with Thorndike's (1911) experiments on animals learning by trial and error to escape from the \u201cpuzzle boxes\u201d that he had constructed. But even Thorndike's famous \u201claw of effect\u201d refers to the animal's \u201csatisfaction or discomfort\u201d (1911, p.244). It was with the radical anti-mentalism of John B. Watson (1928) and B.F. Skinner (1953), both of whom strongly rejected any attempts to explain animal behavior in terms of unobservable mental states, that American psychology became the science of behavior rather than, as the dictionary would have it, the science of mind and behavior.\nAt the same time, things were progressing rather differently in Europe, where ethological approaches to animal behavior were more dominant. Ethology is part natural history with an emphasis on fieldwork and part experimental science conducted on captive animals, reflecting the different styles of its two seminal figures, Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen (see Burkhardt 2005). Initially, \u201cinnate\u201d behaviors were the central focus of Lorenz's work. According to Lorenz, it is the investigation of innate behaviors in related species that puts the study of animal behavior on a par with other branches of evolutionary biology, and he demonstrated that it was possible to derive the phylogenetic relations among species by comparing their instinctive behavioral repertoires (Lorenz 1971a). In pursuing this direction, Lorenz and Tinbergen explicitly sought to distance ethology from the purposive, mentalistic, animal psychology of Bierens de Haan and the lack of biological concern they detected in American comparative psychology (see Brigandt 2005). Like Lloyd Morgan, the ethologists rejected Romanes anecdotal approach, but they also criticized Lloyd Morgan's subjectivist approach.\nIn the 1970s, Donald Griffin, who made his reputation taking careful physical measurements to prove that bats use echolocation, made a considerable splash with his plea for a return to questions about animal minds, especially animal consciousness. Griffin (1978) coined the term \u201ccognitive ethology\u201d to describe this research program, which is based in naturalistic observations of animal behavior and the attempt to understand animal minds in the context of evolution. Fierce criticism of Griffin emerged both from psychologists and classically trained ethologists. Griffin emphasized behavioral flexibility and versatility as the chief source of evidence for consciousness, which he defined as \u201cthe subjective state of feeling or thinking about objects and events\u201d (Griffin & Speck 2004, p. 6). In seeing subjectivity, at least in simple forms, as a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom, Griffin's position also bears considerable resemblance to Lloyd Morgan's. Burghardt reports that \u201cconsiderable discomfort with subjectivism\u201d (Burghardt 1985, p. 907) arose during the Dahlem conference that Griffin convened in an early discipline-building exercise (Griffin 1981). Griffin's subjectivist position, and the suggestion that even insects such as honeybees are conscious, seemed to many scientists to represent a lamentable return to the anthropomorphic over-interpretation of anecdotes seen in Darwin and Romanes. This criticism may be partly unfair in that Griffin does not repeat the \u201cfriend-of-a-farmer\u201d kinds of story collected by Romanes, but bases his interpretations on results from the more sophisticated scientific literature that had accumulated more than a century after Darwin (e.g., Giurfa et al. 2001). However, the charge of over-interpretation of those results may be harder to avoid. It is also important to note the role played by neurological evidence in his argument, when he concludes that the intensive search for neural correlates of consciousness has not revealed \u201cany structure or process necessary for consciousness that is found only in human brains\u201d (Griffin & Speck 2004). This view is widely although not universally shared by neuroscientists.\nGriffin's behavior-based methodology for studying animal consciousness has also been dismissed as anthropomorphic (see Bekoff & Allen 1997 for a survey). But such criticisms may have overestimated the dangers of anthropomorphism (Fisher 1990) and many of the critics themselves rely on claims for which there are scant scientific data (e.g., Kennedy 1992, who claims that the \u201csin\u201d of anthropomorphism may be programmed into humans genetically). At the same time, other scientists, whether or not they have explicitly endorsed Griffin's program, have sought to expand evolutionary investigation of animal consciousness to include the neurosciences and a broad range of functional considerations (e.g., \u00c2rhem et al. 2002, and see section 6). Whatever the shortfalls of his specific proposals, Griffin played a crucial role in reintroducing explicit discussions of consciousness to the science of animal behavior and cognition, hence paving the way for modern investigations of the distribution and evolutionary origins of consciousness.\nThe topic of consciousness in nonhuman animals has been primarily of epistemological interest to philosophers of mind. Two central questions are:\nCan we know which animals beside humans are conscious? (The Distribution Question)[5]\nCan we know what, if anything, the experiences of animals are like? (The Phenomenological Question)\nIn his seminal paper \u201cWhat is it like to be a bat?\u201d Thomas Nagel (1974) simply assumes that there is something that it is like to be a bat, and focuses his attention on what he argues is the scientifically intractable problem of knowing what it is like. Nagel's confidence in the existence of conscious bat experiences would generally be held to be the commonsense view and, as the preceding section illustrates, a view that is increasingly taken for granted by many scientists too. But, as we shall see, it is subject to challenge and there are those who would argue that the Distribution Question is just as intractable as the Phenomenological Question.\nThe two questions might be seen as special cases \u2014 or, alternatively, as generalized versions \u2014 of the skeptical \u201cproblem of other minds\u201d \u2014 how can one know that others have mental states that are anything like one's own? Although there is no generally accepted solution to this problem, it is nevertheless generally ignored to good effect by psychologists, and indeed by most people, who in practice are willing to take for granted that others have mental states similar to theirs. However it is often thought that knowledge of animal minds presents special methodological difficulties. First of all, nonhuman animals cannot describe their mental states using language. Although there have been attempts to teach human-like languages to members of other species, none has reached a level of conversational ability that would solve this problem directly (see Anderson 2004 for a review). Furthermore, except for some language-related work with parrots and dolphins, such approaches are generally limited to those animals most like ourselves, particularly the great apes. But there is great interest in possible forms of consciousness in a much wider variety of species than are suitable for such research. More generally, the problem of other minds is more acute when applied to nonhuman animals because the similarities between our behavior and bodies, and those of others animals (which form the basis for \u2018analogical\u2019 solutions to the problem of other minds) are less exact. As well, the perceptual access to other minds that some have argued defuses the problem of other minds is arguably weaker regarding the minds of other animals. (Sober (2000) discusses of the problem of other minds within an evolutionary framework, and Farah 2008 provides a neuroscientist's perspective.)\nFor many people it seems obvious that familiar animals such as dogs and cats have conscious mental lives that include perceptual states, motivational and hedonic states, basic emotions and social attachments. David Hume, known for championing skepticism generally, wrote that \u201cno truth appears to me more evident, than that beasts are endow'd with thought and reason as well as men\u201d (1888 p 176, reproduced in Jamieson 1998). Hume did not provide elaborate philosophical or empirical arguments to this effect \u2014 he thought it was clear from observation. As Searle (1998) puts it,\nI do not infer that my dog is conscious, any more than, when I came into this room, I inferred that the people present are conscious. I simply respond to them as is appropriate to conscious beings. I just treat them as conscious beings and that is that.\nWhat is the epistemic status of such pretheoretical intuitions (if that is indeed a fair way of describing them)?\nDefenders of theories that deny consciousness to such animals must deny that such intuitions have any epistemic weight. For example Dennett (who argues that consciousness is unique to humans), claims that intuitive attributions of mental states are \u201cuntrustworthy\u201d, and points out that \u201cit is, in fact, ridiculously easy to induce powerful intuitions of not just sentience but full-blown consciousness (ripe with malevolence or curiosity) by exposing people to quite simple robots made to move in familiar mammalian ways at mammalian speeds (1995).\u201d (Emphasis from the original.)\nCarruthers (1989) acknowledges that intuitive attributions of consciousness to animals are widespread, and go hand in hand with sympathetic attitudes toward animals (e.g. wanting to prevent suffering). However, he argues that these attitudes are incorrect, and we have a moral imperative to purge or at least override them:\nIn the case of brutes: since their experiences, including their pains, are nonconscious ones, their pains are of no immediate moral concern... Neither the pain of the broken leg, itself, nor its further effects upon the life of the dog, have any rational claim upon our sympathy... Are we really capable of suppressing our sympathy when we see an animal (especially a cuddly one) in severe pain? Not only is it possible that this should occur \u2014 after all, the history of mankind is replete with examples of those who have eradicated all feelings of sympathy even for members of other races, by telling themselves that they are not \u2018really human\u2019 \u2014 but it is a moral imperative that it ought to. Much time and money is presently spent on alleviating the pains of brutes which ought properly to be directed toward human beings, and many are now campaigning to reduce the efficiency of modern farming methods because of the pain caused to the animals involved. If the arguments presented here have been sound, such activities are not only morally unsupportable but morally objectionable (Carruthers 1989, p. 268).\nIt should be noted that while Carruthers continues to argue that only humans have consciousness, he has more recently amended his ethical view, holding that animals may deserve some moral concern despite lacking consciousness (1999).\nA crucial point here is how trustworthy these pretheoretic intuitions about the minds of animals are. Call Perceptualism the view that there is direct perception of (at least some) mental states of others. What this means is that, at least sometimes, when we observe another in a mental state (e.g. in joy, or in pain) their mental state is part of the content of our perception \u2014 we perceive the mental states of others. In contrast, call inferentialism the view that we perceive \u2018mere behavior\u2019 and must infer or reason to conclusions about mental states. An alternative way of framing the issues is in terms of whether or not behavior as we perceive it is laden with mental properties. According to perceptualism, we (at least sometimes) perceive states of mind in behavior \u2014 an action (e.g. walking across a room) can be perceivably angry or sad, purposeful or eager or hesitant, etc. Goals, desires, motivations, emotions, pain or pleasure, and many other mental states are manifested in modes of action \u2014 though they cannot be reduced to patterns of disposition to behave (this would amount to behaviorism), they are tightly linked to behavior by conceptual, constitutive or causal connections that ground perceptual access.\nJamieson (1998) argues for perceptualism, pointing out that our everyday practices of attributing mental states to nonhuman animals are deeply ingrained, automatic, conceptually unifying and empirically powerful. Strands of the same point of view can also be found in scientists writing about cognitive ethology and in Wittgensteinian attitudes towards questions of animal mind (e.g., Gaita 2003). Perceptualism as a theory of social cognition (e.g. empathy) in philosophy of psychology has recently been defended by Zahavi (2011) and Gallagher (2008).\nThe Perceptualism/Inferentialism question is critical for the deciding the epistemic value of common sense attributions of mental states to nonhuman animals. If inferentialism is true, then when I see, e.g., a dog bounding around in front of me with a toy in its mouth, wagging its tail and looking at me, then I may consider the possibility that the dog wants my attention, that it is feeling happy and playful \u2014 but this is only a hypothesis, for which I must provide a solid argument from justified premises if I am to justifiably believe it. On a perceptualist account, by contrast, I literally see (or at least, seem to see) that the dog wants my attention and feels happy and playful.\nPerception is usually understood to ground defeasible epistemic warrant for belief \u2014 for example, if you look outside and it appears to be raining, you have some grounds to believe that it is raining. It is difficult to forgo this assumption without succumbing to radical global skepticism, since we base so many of our beliefs on perception. If seeming to perceive something to be the case provides defeasible epistemic warrant for believing it to be the case, than the fact the I seem to perceive a dog as being happy and playful warrants my belief that the dog is happy and playful, i.e. warrants my ascription of mental states to the dog. Given the prima facie epistemic support of seeming to perceive mental states in familiar animals like dogs, perceptualists would argue that only overwhelming evidence should overturn the common-sense, intuitive attribution of mental states to those animals. Whereas, as discussed above, Carruthers (1989) argues that because his theory denies consciousness to animals, we should strive to eradicate our intuitive attributions of consciousness, a perceptualist would respond that the evidence derived from our perceptual encounters with dogs is more convincing than his arguments (which hang on the plausibility of his higher order thought theory of consciousness; see section 6.1).\nNevertheless, even if we have perceptual access to the mental states of other humans and familiar animals like our pet dogs, there are sharp limitations to how far this will get us toward solving the general problem of animal consciousness. First of all, our perceptual access may be limited to animals that are familiar, comfortable interacting with humans, and biologically very similar to humans (i.e. mammals). It may be much harder to \u2018see\u2019 what (if anything) a spider or a squid is thinking and feeling as she goes about her business \u2014 both because these animals may express their mental states differently, and more radically because they may have a very different repertoire of mental states.\nSecond, as argued by Dennett, there are examples where our perceptions of mental states can be deceived \u2014 so Dennett seems to embrace perceptualism, but to hold that perceptions of mental states are particularly unreliable. However, Dennett's favored example of the robot \u2018Cog\u2019, unlike nonhuman animals, was intentionally designed by human engineers to seem life-like, i.e., to mimic the dynamical properties of motion that trigger the perception of mindedness. Hence, there may be no more reason to fear that our seeming perceptions of mind in others are undermined by such examples than to fear that our perception of objects in space is undermined by the existence of photography \u2014 in both cases, human engineers can be characterized as having figured out ways of creating perceptual illusions. There are deep questions about how perception of bodies in motion might disclose the mental states of others \u2014 just as there are deep questions about how visual perception of objects in space is generally possible. But, pace Dennett, there is no clear reason why the existence of carefully crafted illusions undermines the general epistemic value of perception.\nThird, even among scientists who are sympathetic to the idea of themselves as sensitive observers of animals with rich mental lives, there is the recognition that the scientific context requires them to provide a particular kind of empirical justification of mental state attributions. This demand requires those who would say that a tiger pacing in the zoo is \u201cbored\u201d, or that the hooked fish is in pain to define their terms, state empirical criteria for their application, and provide experimental or observational evidence for their claims. Even if perceptualism is a viable theory of folk practice with respect to attributing animal consciousness, it seems unlikely to make inroads against scientific epistemology.\nMany scientists and philosophers remain convinced that even if some questions about animal minds are empirically tractable, no amount of experimentation can provide access to phenomenal consciousness per se. This remains true even among those who are willing to invoke cognitive explanations of animal behavior that advert to internal representations. Opposition to dealing with consciousness can be understood in part as a legacy of behavioristic psychology first because of the behaviorists' rejection of terms for unobservables unless they could be formally defined in terms of observables, or otherwise operationalized experimentally, and second because of the strong association in many behaviorists' minds between the use of mentalistic terms and the twin bugaboos of Cartesian dualism and introspectionist psychology. In some cases these scientists are even dualists themselves, but they are strongly committed to denying the possibility of scientifically investigating consciousness, and remain skeptical of all attempts to bring it into the scientific mainstream.\nAlso important has been a line of argumentation by philosophers that the subjective nature of consciousness makes it inherently difficult to study. Block's (1995) influential distinction between phenomenal and access consciousness was framed as part of a critique of treatments of consciousness in the psychological literature: by failing to properly distinguish between consciousness as experience (phenomenal consciousness) and consciousness as general availability of information (access consciousness), scientists were equivocating \u2014 drawing conclusions about consciousness in the phenomenal sense from premises about consciousness in the access sense. The conceptual distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness, and the difficulty of gaining empirical traction on the latter, has been seen as a major hurdle to empirical consciousness studies. Block himself has recently been more optimistic, even arguing that certain experiments can empirically tease apart phenomenal and access consciousness (Block 2011). But the distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness does raise special methodological hurdles for those who want to study the latter empirically.\nBecause consciousness is assumed to be private or subjective, it is often taken to be beyond the reach of objective scientific methods (e.g., Nagel 1974). This claim might be taken in either of two ways. On the one hand it might be taken to bear on the possibility of answering the Distribution Question, i.e., to reject the possibility of knowledge that a member of another taxonomic group (e.g., a bat) has conscious states. On the other hand it might be taken to bear on the possibility of answering the Phenomenological Question, i.e., to reject the possibility of knowledge of the phenomenological details of the mental states of a member of another taxonomic group. The difference between believing with justification that a bat is conscious and knowing what it is like to be a bat is important because, at best, the privacy of conscious experience supports a negative conclusion only about the latter. To support a negative conclusion about the former, one must also assume that consciousness has absolutely no measurable effects on behavior, i.e., one must accept epiphenomenalism. But if one rejects epiphenomenalism and maintains that consciousness does have effects on behavior then a strategy of inference to the best explanation may be used to support its attribution. Moreover, if particular conscious states have particular effects on behavior, then this strategy might be pursued to elucidate some specific features of the conscious experience of other animals, even if some aspects must remain out of reach because of our inability, as humans, to fully grasp what it would be like to experience them. More will be said about this in the next section.\nIf phenomenal consciousness is completely epiphenomenal, as some philosophers believe, then a search for the functions of consciousness is doomed to futility. In fact, if consciousness is completely epiphenomenal then it cannot have evolved by natural selection. On the assumption that phenomenal consciousness is an evolved characteristic of human minds, at least, and therefore that epiphenomenalism is false, then an attempt to understand the biological functions of consciousness may provide the best chance of identifying its occurrence in different species. (See Robinson 2007 for more discussion of this issue.)\nWhile epistemological and related methodological issues have been at the forefront of discussions about animal consciousness, philosophical attention to consciousness in the analytic tradition over the last several decades has focused on metaphysical questions about the nature of phenomenal consciousness and its fit (or lack thereof) within a naturalistic framework.\nOne might think that the question of what consciousness is (metaphysically) should be settled prior to tackling the Distribution Question \u2014 that ontology should drive the epistemology. However, the metaphysical questions that have occupied analytic philosophers over the last few decades are largely orthogonal to the distribution problem, which depends more on questions about the structure and function of consciousness, discussed below.\nThe traditional \u2018Mind Body Problem\u2019 concerns the the metaphysical status of mind in relation to the physical world (see SEP article on dualism). Dualists argue that the mental and physical are fundamentally distinct, whereas physicalists hold that the mind is physical \u2014 and therefore not distinct, despite supposed appearances to the contrary. A third alternative is idealism, the view that the physical world is actually mental (and therefore that the two are not really distinct).\nDualistic theories of consciousness typically deny that it can be accounted for in the current terms of the natural sciences. Traditional dualists may argue that the reduction of consciousness to physically describable mechanisms is impossible on any concept of the physical. Others may hold that consciousness is an as-yet-undescribed fundamental constituent of the physical universe, not reducible to any known physical principles. Such accounts of consciousness (with the possible exception of those based in anthropocentric theology) provide no principled reasons, however, for doubting that animals are conscious.\nCartesian dualism is, of course, traditionally associated with the view that animals lack minds. Descartes' argument for this view was not based, however, on any ontological principles, but upon what he took to be the failure of animals to use language rationally, or to reason generally. On this basis he claimed that nothing in animal behavior requires a non-mechanistic, mental explanation; hence he saw no reason to attribute possession of mind to animals. In a sense, therefore, the Cartesian argument for the human-uniqueness of consciousness rests on the premise that material processes are insufficient to account for human capacities for language, rationality, and self-awareness (i.e. the awareness of oneself as, putatively, an essentially thinking thing) \u2014 and hence a non-material soul was posited to account for these phenomena. Few today would hold that material processes are incapable of producing complex phenomena such as language and rationality, and indeed our understanding of \u2018the material\u2019 has changed dramatically since Descartes' time. However, the subjective nature of consciousness continues to motivate some authors to argue that mental phenomena cannot be reduced to physical phenomena.\nThere is no conceptual reason why animal bodies are any less suitable vehicles for embodying a Cartesian soul, or any other of the putatively non-physical aspects of mind posited by proponents of dualism, than are human bodies. Hence, dualism does not preclude animal minds as a matter of conceptual necessity. The distribution of consciousness is a matter of empirical contingency on dualist theories as for physicalist theories. For some dualists, this may come down to whether or not the animals in question possess specific cognitive capacities, although others may argue that the non-physical nature of the mental makes it difficult or impossible to investigate empirically.\nEarly physicalist accounts of consciousness explored the philosophical consequences of identifying consciousness with unspecified physical or physiological properties of neurons. In this generic form, such theories do not provide any particular obstacles to attributing consciousness to animals, given that animals and humans are built upon the same biological, chemical, and physical principles. If it could be determined that phenomenal consciousness was identical to (or at least perfectly correlated with) some general property such as quantum coherence in the microtubules of neurons, or brain waves of a specific frequency, then settling the Distribution Question would be a straightforward matter of establishing whether or not members of other species possess the specified properties. Searle (1998) too, although he rejects the physicalist/dualist dialectic, also suggests that settling the Distribution Question for hard cases like insects will become trivial once neuroscientists have carried out the non-trivial task of determining the physiological basis of consciousness in animals for which no reasonable doubt of their consciousness can be entertained (i.e., mammals).\nSome philosophers have sought more specific grounding in the neurosciences for their accounts of consciousness. Block (2005) pursues a strategy of using tentative functional characterizations of phenomenal and access consciousness to interpret evidence from the search by neuroscientists for neural correlates of consciousness. He argues, on the basis of evidence from both humans and monkeys, that recurrent feedback activity in sensory cortex is the most plausible candidate for being the neural correlate of phenomenal consciousness in these species. Prinz (2005) also pursues a neurofunctional account, but identifies phenomenal consciousness with a different functional role than Block. He argues for identifying phenomenal consciousness with brain processes that are involved in attention to intermediate-level perceptual representations which feed into working memory via higher level, perspective-invariant representations. Since the evidence for such processes is at least partially derived from animals, including other primates and rats, his view is supportive of the idea that phenomenal consciousness is found in some nonhuman species (presumably most mammals). Nevertheless, he maintains that it may be impossible ever to answer the Distribution Question for more distantly related species; he mentions octopus, pigeons, bees, and slugs in this context.\nRepresentational theories of consciousness link phenomenal consciousness with the representational content of mental states, subject to some further functional criteria.\nFirst-order representationalist accounts hold that if a particular state of the visual system of an organism represents some property of the world in a way that is functionally appropriate (e.g., not conceptually mediated, and operating as part of a sensory system), then the organism is phenomenally conscious of that property. First-order accounts are generally quite friendly to attributions of consciousness to animals, for it is relatively uncontroversial that animals have internal states that have the requisite functional and representational properties (insofar as mental representation itself is uncontroversial, that is). Such a view underlies Dretske's (1995) claim that phenomenal consciousness is inseparable from a creature's capacity to perceive and respond to features of its environment, i.e., one of the uncontroversial senses of consciousness identified above. On Dretske's view, phenomenal consciousness is therefore very widespread in the animal kingdom. Likewise, Tye (2000) argues, based upon his first-order representational account of phenomenal consciousness, that it extends even to honeybees.\nDriven by a variety of allegedly counter-intuitive consequences of first-order theories of consciousness, including skepticism about the range of organisms it spans, a number of philosophers have offered a variety of higher-order accounts of phenomenal consciousness. Such accounts invoke mental states directed towards other mental states to explain phenomenal consciousness. Carruthers' \u201chigher order thought\u201d (HOT) theory is that a mental state is phenomenally conscious for a subject just in case it is available to be thought about directly by that subject (Carruthers 1998a,b, 2000). The term \u201cavailable\u201d here makes this a \u201cdispositionalist\u201d account. The contrast is an \u201cactualist\u201d account, which requires the actual occurrence of the 2nd order thought for subject to be conscious in the relevant sense. According to Carruthers, such higher-order thoughts are not possible unless a creature has a \u201ctheory of mind\u201d to provide it with the concepts necessary for thought about mental states. Carruthers' view is of particular interest in the current context because he has used it explicitly to deny phenomenal consciousness to (almost) all nonhuman animals.\nCarruthers argues, there is little, if any, scientific support for theory of mind in nonhuman animals, even among the great apes \u2014 with the possible exception of chimpanzees \u2014 from which he concludes that there is little support either for the view that any animals possess phenomenological consciousness. Further evaluation of this argument will be taken up further below, but it is worth noting here that if (as experiments on the attribution of false beliefs suggest) young children before the age of four years typically lack a theory of mind, Carruthers' view entails that they are not sentient either \u2014 fear of needles notwithstanding! This is a bullet Carruthers bites, although for many it constitutes a reductio of his view (a response Carruthers would certainly regard as question-begging).\nIn contrast to Carruthers' higher-order thought account of sentience, other theorists such as Armstrong (1980), and Lycan (1996) have preferred a higher-order experience account, where consciousness is explained in terms of inner perception of mental states, a view that can be traced back to Aristotle, and also to John Locke. Because such models do not require the ability to conceptualize mental states, proponents of higher-order experience theories have been slightly more inclined than higher-order theorists to allow that such abilities may be found in other animals[6]. Gennaro (2004) argues, however, that a higher order thought theory is compatible with consciousness in nonhuman animals, arguing that Carruthers and others have overstated the requirements for the necessary mental concepts and that reentrant pathways in animal brains provide a structure in which higher- and lower-order representations could actually be combined into a unified conscious state.\nOne metaphysical question that is more directly relevant for the question of the phylogenetic distribution and evolution of consciousness is whether possessing it (i.e. being conscious) is binary (i.e. on/off, all-or-nothing), or admits of degrees. Several authors have, for quite different reasons, denied what they take to be a common but problematic assumption \u2014 that \u201cConsciousness is an on/off switch; a system is either conscious or not,\u201d as Searle \u2014 who endorses the thesis puts it (quoted by Lycan 1996, who denies the thesis).\nLycan argues that consciousness can come in a wide spectrum of degrees of richness or fullness of consciousness, and that there is a meaningful sense in which a system with a minimal degree of consciousness is not \u201creally\u201d conscious (1996, p. 8). Admittedly, this sounds a bit paradoxical, but the point seems to be that it is counter-intuitive for us to consider very low degrees of consciousness, as it is hard to imagine the contents of very simple mental states. One reading of this is that Lycan is arguing that the predicate \u2018conscious\u2019 is vague, without committing himself to the view that consciousness is distributed according to a linear scale.\nDennett (1995) also argues that consciousness is not binary. He does so in the context of advocating a radically deflationary anti-realism about consciousness overall, on which consciousness is essentially an illusion created by language (1991/1995). On his view, \u201cthe very idea of there being a dividing line between those creatures \u2018it is like something to be\u2019 and those that are \u2018mere automata\u2019 (is) an artifact of our traditional assumptions.\u201d (1995, p. 706)\nVelmans (2012) distinguishes between \u2018discontinuity theories\u2019, which claim that there was a particular point at which consciousness originated, before which there was no consciousness (this applies both the the universe at large, and also to any particular consciousness individual), and \u2018continuity theories\u2019, which conceptualize the evolution of consciousness in terms of \u201ca gradual transition in consciousness from unrecognizable to recognizable.\u201d He argues that continuity theories are more elegant, as any discontinuity is based on arbitrary criteria, and that discontinuity theories face \u201cthe hard problem\u201d in a way that continuity theories don't. Velmans takes these arguments to weigh in favor of adopting, not just a continuity theory, but a form of panpsychism.\nThe three authors described just above deny that consciousness is binary for very different reasons, and each of their views is controversial. Further, none of them offers much in the way of tools or concepts for thinking about the putatively nonbinary nature of consciousness. Following up on Lycan's suggestion of degrees of richness or fullness, one might ask what graded dimensions or qualitative thresholds might be available to distinguish different kinds of minds? Various authors have distinguished between \u2018primary\u2019 and \u2018higher order\u2019 consciousness (Seth et al. 2005); \u2018primary\u2019, \u2018secondary\u2019, and \u2018tertiary\u2019 consciousness (Panksepp 2005); and \u2018core\u2019 and \u2018extended\u2019 consciousness (Damasio 1999). However, most of these authors seem to correlate phenomenal consciousness, i.e. having any subjective experience at all, with primary or core consciousness. The terms \u201csecondary\u201d and \u201ctertiary\u201d are supposed to pick out elaborated forms of consciousness. Hence it is not clear that any of these taxonomies are at odds with the idea that phenomenal consciousness itself is binary \u2014 either wholly present or wholly absent for a given system. However, the issue deserves more scrutiny, as it bears on the problems of the distribution and evolutionary origins of consciousness. If consciousness is non-binary, then the distribution of consciousness will not be sharply bounded, but will include gradations \u2014 some animals may be partially or incompletely conscious.\nPhenomenal consciousness is just one feature (some would say the defining feature) of mental states or events. Any theory of animal consciousness must be understood, however, in the context of a larger investigation of animal cognition that (among philosophers) will also be concerned with issues such as intentionality (in the sense described by the 19th C. German psychologist Franz Brentano) and mental content (Dennett 1983, 1987; Allen 1992a,b).\nPhilosophical opinion divides over the relation of consciousness to intentionality with some philosophers maintaining that they are strictly independent, others (particularly proponents of the functionalist theories of consciousness described in this section) arguing that intentionality is necessary for consciousness, and still others arguing that consciousness is necessary for genuine intentionality. Many behavioral scientists accept cognitivist explanations of animal behavior that attribute representational states to their subjects. Yet they remain hesitant to attribute consciousness. If the representations invoked within cognitive science are intentional in Brentano's sense, then these scientists seem committed to denying that consciousness is necessary for intentionality.\nThere remains great uncertainty about the metaphysics of phenomenal consciousness and its precise relations to intentionality, to the brain, to behavior, etc. It is beyond the scope of this article to survey the strong attacks that have been mounted against the various accounts of consciousness in these terms, but it is safe to say that none of them seems secure enough to hang a decisive endorsement or denial of animal consciousness upon it. Accounts of consciousness in terms of basic neurophysiological properties, the quantum-mechanical properties of neurons, or sui generis properties of the universe are just as insecure as the various functionalist accounts. And even those accounts that are compatible with animal in their general outline, are not specific enough to permit ready answers to the Distribution Question in its full generality. Hence no firm conclusions about the distribution of consciousness can be drawn on the basis of the philosophical theories of consciousness that have been discussed so far.\nWhere does this leave the epistemological questions about animal consciousness? While it may seem natural to think that we must have a theory of what consciousness is before we try to determine whether other animals have it, this may in fact be putting the conceptual cart before the empirical horse. In the early stages of the scientific investigation of any phenomenon, putative samples must be identified by rough rules of thumb (or working definitions) rather than complete theories. Early scientists identified gold by contingent characteristics rather than its atomic essence, knowledge of which had to await thorough investigation of many putative examples \u2014 some of which turned out to be gold and some not. Likewise, at this stage of the game, perhaps the study of animal consciousness would benefit from the identification of animal traits worthy of further investigation, with no firm commitment to idea that all these examples will involve conscious experience.\nRecall the Cartesian argument that animals do not use language conversationally or reason generally. This argument, based on the alleged failure of animals to display certain intellectual capacities, is illustrative of a general pattern of using certain dissimilarities between animals and humans to argue that animals lack consciousness.\nA common refrain in response to such arguments is that, in situations of partial information, \u201cabsence of evidence is not evidence of absence\u201d. Descartes dismissed parrots vocalizing human words because he thought it was merely meaningless repetition. This judgment may have been appropriate for the few parrots he encountered, but it was not based on a systematic, scientific investigation of the capacities of parrots. Nowadays many would argue that Pepperberg's study of the African Grey parrot \u201cAlex\u201d (Pepperberg 1999) should lay the Cartesian prejudice to rest. This study, along with several on the acquisition of a degree of communicative competence by chimpanzees and bonobos (e.g., Gardner et al. 1989; Savage-Rumbaugh 1996) would seem to undermine Descartes' assertions about lack of meaningful communication and general reasoning abilities in animals. (See, also, contributions to Hurley & Nudds 2006.)\nCartesians respond by pointing out the limitations shown by animals in such studies (they can't play a good game of chess, after all, let alone tell us what they are thinking about), and they join linguists in protesting that the subjects of animal-language studies have not fully mastered the recursive syntax of natural human languages.[7] But this kind of post hoc raising of the bar suggests to many scientists that the Cartesian position is not being held as a scientific hypothesis, but as a dogma to be defended by any means. Convinced by evidence of sophisticated cognitive abilities, most philosophers these days agree with Block that something like access consciousness is properly attributed to many animals. Nevertheless, when it comes to phenomenal consciousness, dissimilarity arguments are not entirely powerless to give some pause to defenders of animal sentience, for surely most would agree that, at some point, the dissimilarities between the capacities of humans and the members of another species (the common earthworm Lumbricus terrestris, for example) are so great that it is unlikely that such creatures are sentient. A grey area arises precisely because no one can say how much dissimilarity is enough to trigger the judgment that sentience is absent.\nThe aim of picking out, in a principled way, behavioral or neurophysiological characteristics that could serve as reliable indicators for consciousness motivates the structure and function oriented approach that many authors have pursued since the turn of the 21st century. Though sometimes pursued along with metaphysical questions about consciousness, this project promises empirical tractability even in the face of persistent uncertainty about the metaphysical questions of consciousness.\nOne strategy for bringing consciousness into the scientific fold is to try to articulate a theoretical basis for connecting the observable characteristics of animals (behavioral or neurological) to consciousness. What effects should consciousness have on behavior? What capacities and dispositions should we expect a conscious creature to have that might be absent in a nonconscious creature? What neurophysiological structures and processes might realize the dynamics or information processing required for consciousness?\nSuch an approach is nascent in Griffin's attempts to force ethologists to pay attention to questions about animal consciousness, in all its senses \u2014 including phenomenal consciousness. In a series of books, Griffin (who made his scientific reputation by carefully detailing the physical and physiological characteristics of echolocation by bats) provides examples of communicative and problem-solving behavior by animals, particularly under natural conditions, and argues that these are prime places for ethologists to begin their investigations of animal consciousness (Griffin 1976, 1984, 1992).\nAlthough he thinks that the intelligence displayed by these examples suggests conscious thought, many critics have been disappointed by the lack of systematic connection between Griffin's examples and the attribution of consciousness (see, e.g., Alcock 1992). Griffin's main positive proposal in this respect has been the rather implausible suggestion that consciousness might have the function of compensating for limited neural machinery. Thus Griffin is motivated to suggest that consciousness may be more important to honey bees than to humans.\nIf compensating for small sets of neurons is not a plausible function for consciousness, what might be? The commonsensical answer would be that consciousness \u201ctells\u201d the organism about events in the environment, or, in the case of pain and other proprioceptive sensations, about the state of the body. But this answer begs the question against opponents of attributing conscious states to animals for it fails to respect the distinction between phenomenal consciousness and mere awareness (in the uncontroversial sense of detection) of environmental or bodily events. Opponents of attributing phenomenal consciousness to animals are not committed to denying the more general kind of consciousness of various external and bodily events, so there is no logical entailment from awareness of things in the environment or the body to animal sentience.\nPerhaps more sophisticated attempts to spell out the functions of consciousness are similarly doomed. But Allen & Bekoff (1997, ch. 8) suggest that progress might be made by investigating the capacities of animals to adjust to their own perceptual errors. Not all adjustments to error provide grounds for suspecting that consciousness is involved, but in cases where an organism can adjust to a perceptual error while retaining the capacity to exploit the content of the erroneous perception, then there may be a robust sense in which the animal internally distinguishes its own appearance states from other judgments about the world. (Humans, for instance, have conscious visual experiences that they know are misleading \u2014 i.e., visual illusions \u2014 yet they can exploit the erroneous content of these experiences for various purposes, such as deceiving others or answering questions about how things appear to them.) Given that there are theoretical grounds for identifying conscious experiences with \u201cappearance states\u201d, attempts to discover whether animals have such capacities might be a good place to start looking for animal consciousness. It is important, however, to emphasize that such capacities are not themselves intended to be definitive or in any way criterial for consciousness. Carruthers (2000) makes a similar suggestion about the function of consciousness, relating it to the general capacity for making an appearance-reality distinction; of course, he continues to maintain that this capacity depends upon having conceptual resources that are beyond the grasp of nonhuman animals.\nThe broad issue of function is closely related to questions about just what sort of mental process consciousness is. As we shall see in the next section, hypotheses in the modern literature on the distribution and evolution of consciousness are therefore generally advanced together with theories of its structure and function in the following senses:\nStructure: what are the contents of consciousness (what information, representations, intentional contents, properties, processes, etc. does it include)? What (possibly unconscious or subconscious) information, representations, or other cognitive or intentional processes, entities and relations, are required for consciousness?\nFunction: how does consciousness relate to other (nonconscious) processes, in cognition, the body and the environment? How does possessing consciousness contribute to an animal's ability to navigate and respond adaptively to its environment, to survive and thrive?\nDifferent views about what consciousness is, qua cognitive process, and how it relates to other biological processes such as behavior, development and ecological interaction, largely determine biologically oriented views about which animals have consciousness and when, how, and why it evolved. To illustrate this, we can start with a crude distinction between views that see consciousness as fundamental to the basic perceptual and cognitive processes involved in controlling an animal body, or as something that can be added on or plugged in to a system that is already sufficient for basic control of perception-guided action. The more fundamental consciousness is to basic animal functioning, the more widely distributed and ancient consciousness must be; if, however, consciousness is relatively modular, functionally narrow, and conceptually high level, then it should be narrowly distributed among animals and relatively recently evolved. The views surveyed in the following section all exploit the connections between function, structure, distribution and evolutionary origin.\nOne further point worth noting is that structural models of consciousness are usually justified in terms of phenomenological or introspective observations \u2014 i.e. observations about the nature of consciousness as it is experienced by the subject. Though the use of such first person methods is now and has been controversial in psychology and philosophy throughout the 20th and 21st century, there seems to now be a broad acknowledgement that it has an indispensable role in the scientific study of consciousness, as many authors who have published recent scientific theories of consciousness include some appeal to phenomenological premises in justifying their views (e.g. Seth, Edelman and Baars 2005; Merker 2005; Tononi 2008; Cabanac et al. 2009).\nA variety of hypotheses have been put forward by scientists and philosophers about which animals are conscious and which are not. These views span a huge range of possibilities, from the narrowest, which is that only humans are conscious, to some authors arguing that almost all animals, even simple invertebrates, have a basic capacity to experience the world. Some authors have even argued that single-celled organisms (Margulis 2001) or plants (A. Nagel 1997) are conscious, and some have given arguments for versions of pan-psychism, the view that consciousness is a property of fundamental physical entities, much in the same way that mass and charge are (Chalmers 2015). It is worth noting that neither the attribution of consciousness to single-celled organisms, nor to fundamental physical entities, implies that all animals are conscious. In the former case, it may be that the information processing complexity and integration of relatively complex single-celled organisms outstrips that of the simplest animals. In the latter case, while the version of panpsychism developed by Chalmers attributes \u2018microexperience\u2019 to \u2018fundamental physical entities\u2019, this does not imply that any particular macroscopic object (like an animal) has \u2018macroexperience\u2019 \u2014 i.e. \u201cthe sort of conscious experience had by human beings\u201d (Chalmers 2015). This view is compatible with the possibility that a given animal has no conscious experience, although it is composed of microphysical entities which possess conscious microexperience. These issues will not be discussed further here, as they fall outside the scope of Animal Consciousness.\nThe question of which lineages (species, or more inclusive groupings such as class or phylum) of animals are conscious, inevitably goes hand-in-hand with considerations of the evolutionary origin of consciousness. This is a logical implication of the broadly Darwinian view of life, on which modern organisms have evolved through descent, with modification, from a small number (perhaps one) of very ancient ancestors. If a trait is characteristic of a given species, it either arose in that species, or is derived from an ancestor \u2014 in which case, it will be present in other species derived from that ancestor, unless it has been secondarily lost in those species. Did consciousness first arise in humans, or in an earlier, nonhuman ancestor? If the latter, then what was this ancestor? Another possibility is that consciousness may have arisen multiple times, like winged flight, which evolved independently in insects, birds, bats, and pterosaurs.\nAs described above, the view that consciousness is unique to humans has a long history. It coheres with a religious view of humanity as the pinnacle of creation, and it also may be appealing insofar as it absolves us of any guilt for our treatment of animals. Religion aside, it may derive considerable intuitive support because of the appeal of connecting consciousness to the problem of human uniquenesss. If consciousness can be tied together with language, abstract reasoning, or some other mental characteristic that potentially could explain our apparent seperateness from the natural world, this would solve two outstanding mysteries at once.\nDennett (1991, 1995) has been an outspoken advocate of the human-uniqueness of consciousness. Dennett argues for this position in connection with his anti-realist theory of consciousness, the upshot of which is that consciousness is a sort of \u201cuser illusion\u201d (1995) or \u201cfiction\u201d (1991, p. 365, p. 429) constructed through people's narrative descriptions:\nWhat there is, really, is just various events of content-fixation occuring in various places at various times in the brain... Some of these content-fixations have further effects, which eventually lead to the utterance of sentences \u2014 in a natural language \u2014 either public or merely internal. And so a heterophenomenological text is created... What about the actual phenomenology? There is no such thing. (1991 p 365)\nOn Dennett's view, because consciousness is a sort of story telling, which requires language, and only (adult, normally enculturated and language-capable) humans have language, only these humans have consciousness.\nCarruthers has championed the view that only humans (with the possible exception of chimpanzees) are conscious, although for different reasons than Dennett. Carruthers (1998a,b, 2000) has argued to this effect based on his \u2018higher-order thought\u2019 theory, according to which, phenomenal consciousness requires the capacity to think about, and therefore conceptualize, one's own thoughts.[8] Such conceptualization requires, according to Carruthers, a theory of mind. And, Carruthers maintains, there is little basis for thinking that any nonhuman animals have a theory of mind, with the possible exception of chimpanzees (see Lurz 2011 and Andrews 2012 for in depth discussion of theory of mind in nonhuman animals). This argument is, of course, no stronger than the higher-order thought account of consciousness upon which it is based. But setting that aside for the sake of argument, this challenge by Carruthers deserves further attention as perhaps the most empirically-detailed case against animal consciousness to have been made in the philosophical literature.\nCarruthers neither endorses nor outright rejects the conclusion that chimpanzees are sentient. His suspicion that even chimpanzees might lack theory of mind, and therefore (on his view) phenomenal consciousness, is based on some ingenious laboratory studies by Povinelli (1996) showing that in interactions with human food providers, chimpanzees apparently fail to understand the role of eyes in providing visual information to the humans, despite their outwardly similar behavior to humans in attending to cues such as facial orientation. The interpretation of Povinelli's work remains controversial. Hare et al. (2000) conducted experiments in which dominant and subordinate animals competed with each other for food, and concluded that \u201cat least in some situations chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see and, furthermore, that they use this knowledge to formulate their behavioral strategies in food competition situations.\u201d They suggest that Povinelli's negative results may be due to the fact that his experiments involve less natural chimp-human interactions. Given the uncertainty, Carruthers is therefore well-advised in the tentative manner in which he puts forward his claims about chimpanzee sentience.\nA full discussion of the controversy over theory of mind (e.g., Heyes 1998; Lurz 2011; Andrews 2012) deserves an entry of its own, but it is worth remarking here that the theory of mind debate has origins in the hypothesis that primate intelligence in general, and human intelligence in particular, is specially adapted for social cognition (see Byrne & Whiten 1988, especially the first two chapters, by Jolly and Humphrey). Consequently, it has been argued that evidence for the ability to attribute mental states in a wide range of species might be better sought in natural activities such as social play, rather than in laboratory designed experiments which place the animals in artificial situations (Allen & Bekoff 1997; see esp. chapter 6; see also Hare et al. 2000, Hare et al. 2001, and Hare & Wrangham 2002). Alternative approaches that have attempted to provide strong evidence of theory of mind in nonhuman animals under natural conditions have generally failed to produce such evidence (see, e.g., the conclusions about theory of mind in vervet monkeys and baboons by Cheney & Seyfarth 1990, 2007), although anecdotal evidence tantalizingly suggests that researchers still have not managed to devise the right experiments. Furthermore, theory of mind \u2014 and social cognition more broadly \u2014 are active areas of research, and it is quite possible that new research will reveal evidence of theory of mind in nonhuman animals.\nOn views such as Carruthers', consciousness is grounded in cognitive processes that are highly specific and modular \u2014 indeed, irrelevant for the perceptual, motivational and cognitive processes involved with all nonhuman animal behavior. Given that most of the cognitive processes (and corresponding brain-systems) involved with human activities are shared with nonhuman animals, this line of thinking implies that much of human activity is nonconscious as well. Thus, for example, Carruthers (1989, 1992) argued that all animal behavior can be assimilated to the non-conscious activities of humans, such as driving while distracted (\u201con autopilot\u201d), or to the capacities of \u201cblindsight\u201d patients whose damage to visual cortex leaves them phenomenologically blind in a portion of their visual fields (a \u201cscotoma\u201d) but nonetheless able to identify things presented to the scotoma. (He refers to both of these as examples of \u201cunconscious experiences\u201d.)\nThis comparison of animal behavior to the unconscious capacities of humans can be criticized on the grounds that, like Descartes' pronouncements on parrots, it is based only on unsystematic observation of animal behavior. There are grounds for thinking that careful investigation would reveal that there is not a very close analogy between animal behavior and human behaviors associated with these putative cases of unconscious experience. For instance, it is notable that the unconscious experiences of automatic driving are not remembered by their subjects, whereas there is no evidence that animals are similarly unable to recall their allegedly unconscious experiences. Likewise, blindsight subjects do not spontaneously respond to things presented to their scotomas, but must be trained to make responses using a forced-response paradigm. There is no evidence that such limitations are normal for animals, or that animals behave like blindsight victims with respect to their visual experiences (Jamieson & Bekoff 1992).\nNevertheless, there are empirical grounds for concern that behavior suggesting consciousness in animals may be the product of unconscious processes. Allen et al. (2009) describe work on learning in spinal cords of rats that shows phenomena analogous to latent inhibition and overshadowing. In intact animals, these learning and memory related phenomena have been argued to involve attention. But their similarity to mechanisms in the spinal cord, assumed by most not to involve consciousness, calls into question their status as evidence for consciousness. There are, of course, differences between the learning capacities of spinal cords and the learning capacities of intact organisms, and there are prima facie reasons for thinking that sophisticated forms of learning are related to consciousness (Clark & Squire 1998; Allen 2004; Ginsburg & Jablonka 2007b). But the current point is similar to that made about blindsight: a more fine-grained analysis of these similarities and differences is needed before conclusions about consciousness can be drawn.\nGallup (1970) developed an experimental test of mirror self-recognition that has become widely used as a test of self-awareness, although interpretation of the test remains controversial (see the section on self-consciousness and metacognition below). Gallup argues that the performance of chimpanzees in this test indicates that they are self-aware, and that animals that fail the test lack self-awareness. Further, foreshadowing Carruthers, Gallup argues that self-awareness \u2014 in the sense of being able to think about one's own mental states \u2014 is required for having a mind, and therefore that animals that \u2018fail\u2019 the mirror test have no minds (1982, 1985). Though there has been controversy over just which animals \u2018pass\u2019 the validity of versions of the test modified for use with elephants, dolphins,and magpies has been challenged \u2014 as of 2002, Gallup maintained that there was evidence that humans, common chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans consistently pass the test, and strong evidence that a wide range of other primates fail consistently fail. He took this to support the claim that self-awareness is unique to great apes (Gallup et al. 2002). Combined with his earlier arguments that consciousness requires the sort of self-awareness measured by the mirror test, this would imply that consciousness is unique to the great apes.\nGallup's interpretation of the mirror results have not been uncontroversial (Mitchell 2002). Rochat and Zahavi (2010) challenge Gallup both on a) the interpretation of chimps' mirror-oriented behavior as indicating a human-like experience of mirror self-recognition, and b) the claim that mirror self-recognition is implied by consciousness.\nAs a side note, there has been a debate, ongoing since the early 1990s (Cavalieri and Singer 1994) about whether great apes deserve special legal protection amounting to \u2018human rights\u2019. The crux of the debate is not whether the great apes have consciousness per se (this seems to be assumed by most participants of the debate, on both sides), but whether they have personhood. Personhood is a vexed notion, but is generally thought to be related to certain forms of agency and self awareness, and is often thought to be tightly coupled to moral status, as reflected in this debate (DeGrazia 1997; SEP article on Moral Status of Animals; Varner 2012). Though not essential to phenomenal consciousness, personhood is often thought to presuppose consciousness, and so perhaps is best thought of as a level of elaboration or complexity of consciousness.\nA variety of theoretical and empirical arguments have been put forward to the effect that consciousness is shared across all mammals. Seth, Baars and Edelman (2005) argue that the neural processes essential to human conscious \u2014 widespread reentrant activity in the thalamo-cortical complex \u2014 involve anatomical systems that are shared among all mammals (and perhaps more widely). Panksepp (reviewed in 2005) takes a similar approach, although focusing on the neurophysiological systems involved in the \u2018core emotions\u2019. Although in both of the above proposals, the authors acknowledge that consciousness may be more widespread than just mammals, they argue that in the case of mammals, the weight of evidence based on homology of relevant neurophysiological systems is overwhelming, whereas outside of mammals, the inference is more tenuous because of the biological differences in non-mammalian animals. Further, it should be kept in mind that all of the following proposals imply that consciousness is widely shared among mammals. Hence, the position that all mammals are conscious is widely agreed upon among scientists who express views on the distribution of consciousness.\nQuestions about whether reptiles are conscious (and if so what their mental lives might be like) are especially interesting because birds are more closely related to them than they are to mammals, yet birds display a variety of behaviors that tend to intuitively suggest intelligence and emotion to human observers much more obviously than the behavior of scaly, so-called \u2018cold-blooded\u2019 animals like snakes and turtles. Do birds and mammals share mental features (consciousness, intelligence, emotion, social attachment) that are absent in reptiles? If so this would represent independent, convergent evolution of these phenomena. Alternatively, are these features common to all of these animals, but less obvious in some than others?\nCabanac et al. (2009) argue that consciousness is unique to, and shared by all amniotes \u2014 the clade that includes all descendants of the common ancestor of living birds and mammals, including reptiles such as lizards, snakes, turtles and extinct animals such as dinosaurs, pterosaurs and pleseiosaurs (see http://tolweb.org/Amniota). On this hypothesis, only these animals, and not amphibians, fish, or any invertebrates, possess consciousness. Cabanac's argument is based on an explicit structural and functional theory of consciousness as a unified representational space, \u201can abstract private model of reality with four dimensions: quality, intensity, hedonicity and duration\u201d (2009, p.268). Possessing this ability to model reality allows animals to simulate possible courses of action, using hedonicity (pleasure or pain) as a \u2018common currency\u2019 to evaluate and choose between actions based on expected consequences (which are based on prior experience).\nCabanac identifies a set of behavioral markers of consciousness, based on this model structural and functional theory:\nthe ability to make motivational tradeoffs;\nnavigational detouring (which requires an animal to pursue a series of nonrewarding intermediate goals in order to obtain an ultimate reward);\nexpression of emotion;\nexpression of sensory pleasure;\nemotional fever (an increase in body temperature in response to a supposedly stressful situation \u2014 gentle handling, as operationalized in Cabanac's experiments);\ntaste aversion.\nBased on supposed evidence of these phenomena in amniotes but not in non-amniotes, Cabanac argues that consciousness originated in the common ancestor of amniotes, and hence is present in all living amniotes but in no other animals. Cabanac and Cabanac (2009) also argue that a qualitative difference in the role of dopamine in motivational processes in the brains of amniotes compared to non-amniotes supports this distribution/origin hypothesis.\nCabanac and colleagues have documented the presence of some of these phenomena in amniotes, in contrast with their absence in at least a small number of non-amniote species, such as emotional fever (Cabanac and Bernieri 2000; Cabanac and Cabanac 2000; Cabanac and Cabanac 2004) and taste aversion (Paradis and Cabanac 2004).\nHowever, the assertion that these aspects of behavior and cognition do not exist outside amniota is largely based on absence of evidence (and hence, inherently limited). In particular, they do not offer direct support for their claims that non-amniotes are incapable of trading off punishments and rewards, play or detouring. Indeed, some of these claims appear to be contradicted by existing studies \u2014 for example, documentation of detouring in jumping spiders (Jackson and Wilcox 2003) and work by Elwood and Appel(2009) that shows motivational trade-off behavior in hermit crabs.\nCabanac's structural and functional theory of consciousness can be evaluated independently of the evidence that he marshals in support of his view of the distribution and origins of consciousness. Indeed, one might challenge his views on distribution and origins precisely by accepting his structural and functional theory, and arguing that the list of proposed indicators can actually by identified with a wider distribution (i.e. if motivational trade-offs, play, and detouring are present outside of amniotes). As we shall see, his structural and functional views of consciousness have much in common with those of other authors who argue for wider distributions of consciousness among animals.\n'Fish' is a folk-biological term that does not correspond precisely to any monophyletic taxonomic group. This can be appreciated by noted that a coelacanth is more closely related to a human than to a tuna, or that a tuna is more closely related to a human than it is to a shark. I.e., some things that are intuitively fish are more closely related to non-fish than to other fish. Basically, the folk term 'fish' refers to all vertebrates other than tetrapods, although it is somewhat ambiguous in regards to animals such as sea-horses, eels, hagfish and sting-rays.\nIn any case, there has a lively debate over fish consciousness, mostly focusing on the issue of whether fish can experience pain, stress and suffering (see below, section 7.1; see also Rose (2002) and Sneddon et al. (2003) for contrasting views of conscious pain in fish; Allen 2013 and Brown 2015 for reviews of fish cognition and consciousness as it may relate to pain; and Braithwaite 2010 for a book-length treatment). This is of special relevance in the context of welfare regulation in commercial aquaculture and recreational angling; accordingly, the fish consciousness literature has focused experimentally on salmonids (especially salmon and trout), a group of high commercial and sport-fishing importance, but only a tiny phylogenetic corner of the animals that colloquially count as fish.\nMerker (2005) has proposed that consciousness originated early in vertebrate evolution, and is therefore both ancient and widespread. On this proposal, not only mammals and birds, but amphibians and all marine vertebrates are conscious. Merker begins his argument with the phenomenological observation that the contents of conscious experience are object- and goal-oriented, but exclude the fine-grained sensory and motor details represented in peripheral and low-level neural processing. Merker argues that consciousness is an integrated representational platform \u2014 what he refers to a \u2018synthesized reality space\u2019 \u2014 that, for animals with complex bodies with many degrees of freedom of movement and multiple sensory modalities, solves a cluster of critical neural logistics problems. This includes:\nmaintaining the stability of perceptual contents against interference from self-generated motion;\nintegrating interoceptive information about the body's movements and the body's self-regulative needs (e.g. temperature, thirst, hunger);\naffording high-level decision making that abstracts away from the irrelevant sensorimotor details of implementation.\nThe neuroanatomical details of Merker's argument (2005) are beyond the scope of this article to review, but his conclusion is that the systems that solve the above problems \u2014 giving rise to consciousness \u2014 arose in an early vertebrate ancestor. Hence, consciousness is both ancient and widespread among living vertebrates.\nThere are additional daunting challenges to addressing questions of consciousness outside the vertebrate lineage, given the radical differences between vertebrates and invertebrates with respect to anatomy and physiology. The strategy of identifying homologous and functionally analogous structures and processes, which underlies the confidence of researchers such as Cabanac (2009), Seth et al. (2005), Merker (2005), and Panksepp (2005) that consciousness is shared with other animals is much more difficult to apply (Seth et al. 2005).\nThe vertebrate lineage represents just one of approximately 34 known phyla \u2014 ancient lineages of animals characterized by differences in fundamental anatomical organization and the developmental processes that generate it. Each of these phyla is derived from a relatively simple state (i.e. few tissue types and a minimal central nervous system with limited sensory capacities). Hence, the invertebrates such as cephalopod mollusks (e.g., octopi and squids) and arthropods (e.g. crustaceans, insects and spiders), that are complex enough to attract the attention of those interested in animal consciousness, evolved their complexity independently from vertebrates, and in the case of cephalopods and arthropods, independently from each other.\nToday, only three of the phyla (vertebrates, arthropods, and mollusks) include animals with complex active bodies (Trestman 2013a), characterized by:\narticulated and differentiated appendages;\nmany degrees of freedom of controlled motion;\ndistal senses (e.g., \u2018\u2018true\u2019\u2019 eyes);\nanatomical capability for active, distal-sense-guided mobility (fins, legs, jet propulsion, etc.);\nanatomical capability for active object manipulation (e.g., chelipeds, hands, tentacles, mouth-parts with fine-motor control).\nTrestman (2013a) argues that the evolution of complex active bodies requires a capacity for integrated, embodied spatial cognition, and that this capacity evolved independently in each of the three phyla in which it is currently found (vertebrates, arthropods and mollusks). If Merker (2005) is right that consciousness represents a solution to the neural-logistics problems posed by controlling a complex body in space, it may be a good bet that these three lineages are likely suspects for possessing consciousness. This line of reasoning can be bolstered by considering the role of temporal integration of perceptual information in consciousness and in action-selection and object-oriented perception (Trestman 2013b). Perhaps each of these three lineages evolved consciousness independently during the transition from a relatively simple worm-like body morphology to having complex active bodies.\nOne group of invertebrate animals that has received attention in the context of questions about consciousness is the coleoid cephalopods \u2014 octopuses, squids and cuttlefish. These are large-brained, notoriously clever animals, well-known for their remarkable abilities to camouflage th emselves, and for their flexible hunting strategies. Mather (2008) argues that cephalopods exhibit many behavioral indicators of consciousness, including complex learning and spatial memory, as well as apparent play. Both Merker (2005) and Edelman et al. (2005, 2009) argue that a strong provisional case can be made for consciousness in cephalopods \u2014 although these authors emphasize the limitations on our understanding posed by the differences in anatomy and physiology between cephalopods and vertebrates.\nThe other phylum that has received particular attention is the arthropods, which includes insects, crustaceans, spiders, and many other less familiar animals. This is an ancient and tremendously diverse group of animals, so any generalizations should be made with caution. Arthropods were among the earliest animals to evolve complex active bodies \u2014 and correlatively to evolve brains capable of adaptively controlling complex adaptive bodies (Trestman 2013a), and so if the function of consciousness is to solve problems raised by the control of complex active bodies (cf. Merker 2005), it may have evolved early on in the arthropod lineage, in a common ancestor of all living arthropods.\nFew studies have aimed directly at answering questions about consciousness in arthropods, but relevant empirical work includes:\nWork by Elwood and Appel (2009) that seems to show that hermit crabs remember an aversive event (an electric shock), and can use that memory in later context-sensitive decision-making. This seems to satisfy Cabanac and Cabanac's (2009) definition of \u2018motivational trade-off\u2019 behavior, which those authors argue is an indicator of consciousness.\nWork by Jackson and colleagues (reviewed in Jackson and Wilcox 1998) documenting a variety of impressive behaviors in in jumping spiders, including:\ndetouring and other forms of apparent planning (noted as a potential indicator of consciousness by Cabanac et al., 2009)\nflexible, context-sensitive adjustment of predatory behavior to prey behavior\ndeception and smokescreen tactics\nStudies on bees, revealing pattern recognition, concepts of \u2018same\u2019 and \u2018different\u2019, navigation, communication, and visual working memory (reviewed in Srinivasan 2010), and on mood and cognitive bias (Mendl et al. 2011).\nAnother possibility is that consciousness evolved even earlier in animal history and is even more widely distributed among animals, and hence has a function that is even more fundamental to animal life. Ginsburg & Jablonka (2007a,b) attribute a primitive form of \u201coverall sensation\u201d as a by-product of even the simplest nerve nets in animals. They argue that as these states became harnessed to learning and motivation that they acquired the functional properties of \u201cbasic consciousness\u201d. If this is right, than consciousness may have arisen not independently in arthropods, mollusks and vertebrates, but only once in the common ancestor of these ancient groups, very early in animal evolution.\nWith the gradual loosening of behaviorist strictures in psychology and ethology, and independent advances in neuroscience, there has been a considerable increase in the number of animal studies that have some bearing on animal consciousness. Some of these studies focus on specific kinds of experience, such as pain, while others focus on cognitive abilities such as self-awareness that seem to be strongly correlated with human consciousness. This section contains brief reviews of some of the main areas of investigation. The aim is to provide some quick entry points into the scientific literature.\nGiven the centrality of pain to most accounts of our ethical obligations towards animals, as well as the importance of animal models of pain in clinical medical research (see Mogil 2009 for a review), it is hardly surprising that there is a substantial (albeit controversial) scientific literature bearing on animal pain. Reports by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in the U.K. (Nuffield Council 2005; see esp. chapter 4) and the U.S. National Academy of the Sciences Institute for Animal Laboratory Research (ILAR 2009) have recently covered the definition of pain and the physiological, neurological, and behavioral evidence for pain in nonhuman animals. These reviews also distinguish pain from distress and suffering (see also Bermond 2001), and the ILAR has divided what used to be a single report on recognition and alleviation of pain and distress into two separate reports, although the scientific investigation of distress is relatively rudimentary (but see Dawkins 1985; Farah 2008).\nA proper understanding of neurological studies of animal pain begins with the distinction between nociception and pain. Nociception \u2014 the capacity to sense noxious stimuli \u2014 is one of the most primitive sensory capacities. Neurons functionally specialized for nociception have been described in invertebrates such as the medical leech and the marine snail Aplysia californica (Walters 1996). Because nociceptors are found in a very wide range of species, and are functionally effective even in decerebrate or spinally transected animals, their presence and activity in a species provides little or no direct evidence for phenomenally conscious pain experiences. The gate control theory of Melzack and Wall (1965) describes a mechanism by which \u201ctop-down\u201d signals from the brain modulate \u201cbottom-up\u201d nociception, providing space for the distinction between felt pain and nociception.\nSmith & Boyd (1991) assess the evidence for the pain-sensing capabilities of animals in the categories of whether nociceptors are connected to the central nervous system, whether endogenous opioids are present, whether analgesics affect responses, and whether the ensuing behavioral responses are analogous to those of humans (see table 2.3 in Varner 1998, p. 53, which updates the one presented by Smith & Boyd). On the basis of these criteria, Varner follows Smith & Boyd in concluding tentatively that the most obvious place to draw a line between pain-conscious organisms and those not capable of feeling pain consciously is between vertebrates and invertebrates. However, Elwood & Appel (2009) conducted an experiment on hermit crabs which they interpret as providing evidence that pain is experienced and remembered by these crustaceans. Varner also expressed some hesitation about the evidence for conscious pain in \u201clower\u201d vertebrates: fish, reptiles and amphibians. Allen (2004) argues, however, that subsequent research indicates that the direction of discovery seems uniformly towards identifying more similarities among diverse species belonging to different taxonomic classes, especially in the domains of anatomy and physiology of the nociceptive and pain systems.\nIt is generally accepted that the mammalian pain system has both a sensory and an affective pathway, and that these can be dissociated to some degree both pharmacologically (with morphine, e.g.) and surgical lesions. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a particularly important structure of the mammalian brain in this regard (Price 2000). Allen et al. (2005) and Shriver (2006) argue that this dissociability provides a route to empirical assessment of the affective component of animal consciousness, and Farah (2008) uses it to distinguish suffering from \u201cmere pain\u201d.\nDetailed analysis of other taxonomic groups may, however, indicate important anatomical differences. Rose (2002) argues that because fish lack an ACC they may not be bothered by pain. This is in contrast to Sneddon et al. (2003) who argue that there is adequate behavioral and physiological evidence to support pain attributions to fish. (See, also, Chandroo et al. 2004 for a review.) While the ACC is important to mammals, there remains the possibility that other taxa may have functionally similar structures, such as the corticoidea dorsolateralis in birds (Atoji & Wild 2005; Dubbeldam 2009). Genetic knockout animals are also providing further clues about the affective aspects of pain (see Shriver 2009 for a review and application of these findings to animal welfare.)\nFinally, it is worth noting that a major shift in veterinary practice in regards to animal pain has occurred in the past decade. Whereas surgery on animals was once routinely practiced without analgesics or anesthetics, the vast majority of veterinary practitioners now accept the basic premise that veterinarians can be trained to recognize animal pain reliably, and that veterinary patients benefit from the same kinds of pain alleviation treatments that are delivered to humans. It has even been argued that animals possess the neurobiological mechanisms responsible for phantom limb pain and neuropathic pain (pain in the presence of no obvious tissue damage or disease), and that these conditions may therefore be detectable and treatable in nonhuman animals (Mathews 2008).\nThe idea of animal emotions is, of course, prominent in Darwin's work with his 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Willingness to see animals as emotional beings (and humans, by contrast, as endowed with rationality that can override the emotions) goes back at least to Ancient Greek philosophy. Konrad Lorenz seems to have held a similar view, echoing Oskar Heinroth's statement that \u201canimals are highly emotional people of very limited intelligence\u201d (Lorenz 1971b, 334). These days it is more fashionable to regard emotions as an important component of intelligence. Regardless of the merits of that view, the scientific study of animal emotions has gained its own momentum. Early in the 20th century, although they are not arguing for or about animal consciousness, physiologists recognized that significance of emotion in animal behavior. Dror (1999) explains how the emotional state of animals was considered to be a source of noise in physiological experiments at that time, and researchers took steps to ensure that animals were calm before their experiments. According to Dror, although physiologists were forced to deal with the problem of emotional noise, attempts to treat emotion as a subject of study in its own right never crystallized to the extent of generating a journal or other institutional features (Dror 1999, 219).\nMore recently, Jaak Panksepp (2004, 2005) has been conducting a research program that he calls \u201caffective neuroscience\u201d and that encompasses direct study of animal emotions (2004), exemplified for example in the experimental investigation of rats \u201claughing\u201d and seeking further contact in response to tickling by humans (Panksepp & Burgdorf 2003). Over several decades, his work (reviewed in Panksepp 2005) has elucidated the neuro- and molecular-physiological bases of several \u2018core emotional systems\u2019 including \u2018seeking\u2019, \u2018fear\u2019, \u2018rage\u2019, \u2018lust\u2019, \u2018care\u2019, \u2018play\u2019, and \u2018panic\u2019. Panksepp argues that these are shared by all mammals, and may be more widely shared among vertebrates.\nSufka et al. (2009) have proposed that animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders may also support the experimental investigation of animal emotions. Although depending on a more anecdotal, non-experimental approach, Smuts (2001) and Bekoff (2007) each defend the attribution of conscious emotions to animals from a scientist's perspective. Bekoff has made much of play behavior as an indicator of animal emotions, an idea that is also taken up by Cabanac et al. (2009).\nEmpathy in animals is also a topic of current investigation (e.g., Preston & de Waal 2002). Langford et al. (2002) argue for empathy in mice based on experiments in mice who observe a cagemate given a noxious stimulus, or in pain, are more sensitive to painful stimuli than control mice who observe an unfamiliar mouse similarly treated. Byrne et al. (2008) argue for empathy in elephants as an inference to the best explanation of various capacities, such as diagnosing animacy and goal directedness, and assessing the physical abilities and emotional states of other elephants when these different from their own.\nIt is worth noting that almost all of the work, both theoretical and empirical, on animal emotions has limited its scope to mammals, or at least amniotes (For a notable recent exception, see Mendl et al. 2011). This work has exploited certain deep homologies of, e.g. brain structure and molecular neurophysiology (focusing especially on hormones and neurotransmitters) in making arguments that animals in these taxanomic groups share our emotions because they share the mechanisms of our own emotions (as well as behaviors that tend to indicate emotions in us, and bear the same relations to the underlying physiological mechanisms). This approach is not available to animals which are very distantly related to us, i.e. invertebrates. The ancestors of vertebrates split off from the rest of the animal phyla at a time when all animals were still relatively simple, in terms of structure, tissue types, number of neurons, bodily capacities for locomotion and other forms of behavior. The elaboration of complex physiological systems occurred independently in the various phyla. Therefore the physiological systems underlying emotions in other phyla \u2014 if these exist \u2014 may be very different, and hence difficult to identify, either in terms of direct physiological observations or in terms of observations of behavioral expressions of emotion. It is also possible that the repertoire of emotions in other phyla might be different, further problematizing the task of individuating non-vertebrate emotions. (Further discussion and additional scientific references for the topic of emotions and empathy in animals can be found in the section on emotions and empathy in the entry on animal cognition.)\nThe idea that careful psychophysical work with could help us understand the nature of their subjective experiences of the world can be traced at least to Donald Griffin's experimental tests of the limits of bat echolocation. It is also behind the idea that knowing that horses have near 360\u00b0 vision, or that raptors have two fovea on each retina, may tell us something about the nature of their experiences \u2014 how the world appears to them \u2014 if it is granted that they have such experiences. Neural investigation adds a further layer of analysis to scientific understanding of the nature of perception. For instance, Leopold & Logothetis (1996) used neural data to support inferences about the percepts of monkeys under conditions of binocular rivalry (see also: Myserson et al. 1981; Rees et al. 2002). And Leopold et al. (2003) argue that neural recordings can be used to corroborate the non-verbal \u201creports\u201d of monkeys shown ambiguous visual stimuli. (Think here of whether it is possible for the monkey to report that it is subject to Gestalt switches like those arising from ambiguous figures such as the duck-rabbit or figure-vase illusions.)\nThe phenomenon of blindsight, a form of unconscious visual perception that arises with damage to specific areas of primary visual cortex, has also been investigated in surgically lesioned monkeys (Stoerig & Cowey 1997), with a close correspondence between the monkeys' deficits and those of the human patients vis-\u00e0-vis parts of the visual field that can be processed only unconsciously, and those for which the patients retain consciousness. The non-verbal approach to assessing visual awareness has been further validated by Stoerig et al. (2002). Blindsight subjects, both human and monkey, do not spontaneously respond to things presented to their scotomas (areas where they are visually unaware), but must be trained to make responses using a forced-response paradigm (Stoerig & Cowey 1997).\nThe emphasis on visual perception in most of these examples, no doubt reflects a primatocentric bias. We human primates are highly visual creatures, and, as Nagel (1974) argued, we face considerable hurdles in imagining (again, a visual metaphor) the subjective experiences of creatures in modalities in which humans are weak or completely unendowed. The examples of research also reflect an anthropocentric bias in that much of the animal experimentation is explicitly targeted at relieving human disorders. Although there is good work by neuroethologists on the psychophysics of echolocation by bats and dolphins, or on the sensory capacities of weakly electric fish, questions of subjective awareness are generally not broached in that literature.\nAs with the investigation of animal pain, fine-grained analysis of the neural correlates of consciousness may reveal subtle differences between different species. For instance, Rees et al. (2002) report that while the behavior of rhesus monkeys is rather similar to humans under conditions of binocular rivalry, \u201cthe firing of most cells in and around V1 primarily reflects stimulus properties rather than the conscious percept reported by the animal ... However, several neuroimaging studies in humans have presented evidence that argues for a stronger role of V1 in binocular rivalry and hence, by implication, visual awareness.\u201d Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that they take the behavioral evidence to be unproblematically describable as report of a conscious percept by the monkey.\nA debate has unfolded in the literature over whether other animals, like humans, are capable of thinking about past and future events. Suddendorf and Corballis (1997, 2007) have argued that so-called \u2018Mental Time Travel\u2019 is unique to humans, and indeed plays a major role in explaining what is cognitively unique about humans, including capacities for language and culture. Many mammals, birds and fish exhibit behavior such as food caching, nest building, tool use, or migration that seems to suggest foresight. For example, tayras \u2014 a members of the weasel family found in Central and South America \u2014 hide bunches of bananas inside of bromeliads, recovering them only when the bananas are ripe (Soley et al. 2011). Skeptics are quick to point out that many of these examples may be either a) \u2018instinctive\u2019 fixed-action patterns shaped by natural selection or b) the result of classical or operant conditioning, rather than behavior that is mediated by \u2018cognitive\u2019 processes such as episodic memory, insight, or understanding. However, the novelty, flexibility and ability to make situation-specific adjustments often calls such dismissals into question. For example, tayras cache several species of bananas, and accurately judge for bananas of each species when the banana is mature enough to continue ripening once picked. This includes domestic bananas, to which tayras have not been exposed over evolutionary time-scales (Soley et al. 2011).\nA variety of careful experimental work with animals shows impressive abilities for integrated what-where-when memory \u2014 the ability to recall details of an event together with its location and time. This work was pioneered by Clayton and colleagues with scrub jays, focusing on their caching behavior \u2014 wherein the birds bury food and later recover it (Clayton et al. 2003). For example, if scrub jays are prevented from recovering their caches for long enough, they will recover only nonperishable items (peanuts, in the study), ignoring their caches of otherwise preferred but perishable food (mealworms, in the study) (Clayton et al. 2003). Recent work has also documented what is referred to as \u2018episodic-like memory\u2019 in rats (Crystal 2009), and the apparent ability to plan for the future (including in novel ways that are not plausible ruled out as \u2018mere instinct\u2019) in several animals, including nonhuman primates, birds, rats and other mammals (Feeney et al. 2011 for an example of recent experimental work; see Roberts 2012 for a review and discussion).\nThis debate has been somewhat complicated by the fact that proponents of the human-uniqueness of mental time travel tend to rely on descriptions of the ability that are laden with researchers' and subjects' phenomenological, introspective or intuitive descriptions of the way their own minds work (e.g. Tulving 1985; Suddendorf and Corbalis 2007), whereas animal behavior researchers must rely on strict standards of behavioral evidence to support their claims. Animal behavior researchers are typically circumspect in their interpretations, limiting their claims to operationalizable terms such as \u2018what-where-when\u2019 memory, or \u2018episodic-like\u2019 memory, rather than making claims about the nature of the experience that may be involved in an animal's performing a task. The situation may therefore represent a double standard in the interpretation of evidence about human and nonhuman animal subjects, with researchers uncritically making liberal assumptions about human cognition that would not be allowed for animal researchers \u2014 an example of what Buckner (2013) has called \u2018anthropofabulation\u2019. The question of to what extent, and in what ways, humans' awareness of time differs from that of other animals remains an open one, and an active line of research.\nSystematic study of self-consciousness and theory of mind in nonhuman animals has roots in an approach to the study of self-consciousness pioneered by Gallup (1970). Gallup's rationale for linking mirror-self recognition to self-awareness has already been discussed above. The idea for the experiment came from observations well-known to comparative psychologists that chimpanzees would, after a period of adjustment, use mirrors to inspect their own images. Gallup used these observations to develop a widely-replicated protocol that appears to allow a scientific determination of whether it is merely the mirror image per se that is the object of interest to the animal inspecting it, or whether it is the image qua proxy for the animal itself that is the object of interest. Taking chimpanzees who had extensive prior familiarity with mirrors, Gallup anesthetized his subjects and marked their foreheads with a distinctive dye, or, in a control group, anesthetized them only. Upon waking, marked animals who were allowed to see themselves in a mirror touched their own foreheads in the region of the mark significantly more frequently than controls who were either unmarked or not allowed to look into a mirror.\nAlthough it is typically reported that chimpanzees consistently \u201cpass\u201d the mirror-mark test, a survey of the scientific literature by Shumaker & Swartz (2002) indicates that of 163 chimpanzees tested, only 73 showed mark-touching behavior (although there was considerable variation in the age and mirror experience among these animals). Shumaker & Swartz also report mark-touching behavior in 5 of 6 tested orang utans and 6 of 23 gorillas. They suggest that the lower incidence of mark touching by gorillas may be due to avoidance of socially-significant direct eye contact.\nFor non-human primates outside the great apes, the evidence for mirror self-recognition has been sparse. Gallup himself regards it as a phenomenon restricted to the great apes only, and he was among the first to challenge Hauser's report that cotton top tamarins engaged in mirror-guided self-directed behaviors after their distinctive white tufts had been dyed neon colors, a stimulus that Hauser and coauthors argued was presumably more salient than the red dot used by Gallup (Hauser et al. 1995). Faced with Gallup's challenge, Hauser himself was unable to replicate his initial results (Hauser et al. 2001). However, the idea that Gallup's protocol uses a stimulus that is not particularly salient to monkeys continues to have some currency. For example, Rajala et al. (2010) have presented quantitative and videographic evidence that rhesus monkeys with surgical implants in their heads use mirrors to inspect the implants, as well as other parts of their bodies that they cannot usually see.\nModified versions of Gallup's experiment have also been conducted with non-primate species. Notoriously, Epstein et al. (1981) trained pigeons to peck at a mark on their own bodies that was visible only in a mirror, and they used this to call into question the attribution of \u201cself-awareness\u201d on the basis of the mirror-mark test, preferring an associative learning explanation. Gallup et al. (2002) reject the claimed equivalence, pointing out that chimpanzees were not trained to touch marks before the test was administered. Reiss & Marino (2001) have offered evidence of mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins. Using a modified version of Gallup's procedure that involved no anesthesia, they inferred self-recognition from bodily contortions in front of the mirror (self-touching being anatomically impossible for dolphins). This evidence has been disputed (e.g. Wynne 2004). The mirror-mark test continues to be an area of active investigation in various species including elephants (Plotnik et al. 2006) and magpies (Prior et al. 2008). Various commentators have pointed out that the mirror test may not be entirely fair for species which depend more heavily on senses other than vision (Mitchell 2002; Bekoff and Burghardt 2002).\nAn intriguing line of research into animals' knowledge of their own mental states considers the performance of animals in situations of cognitive uncertainty. When primates and dolphins are given a \u201cbailout\u201d response allowing them to avoid making difficult discriminations, they have been shown to choose the bailout option in ways that are very similar to humans (Smith et al. 2003). The fact that animals who have no bailout option and are thus forced to respond to the difficult comparisons do worse than those who have the bailout option but choose to respond to the test has been used to argue for some kind of higher-order self understanding. The original experiments have attracted both philosophical criticism of the second-order interpretation (e.g. Carruthers 2008) and methodological criticism by psychologists (reviewed by Crystal & Foote 2009), although alternative approaches to establishing metacognition in non-linguistic animals may be capable of avoiding these criticisms (Terrace & Son 2009).\nIn the literature on human cognition, awareness of what one knows is called \u201cmetacognition\u201d and it is associated with a \u201cfeeling of knowing\u201d. Smith and colleagues claim that investigating metacognition in animals could provide information about the relation of self-awareness to other-awareness (theory of mind), and that their results already show that \u201canimals have functional features of or parallels to human conscious cognition\u201d (Smith et al. 2003; Smith 2009). They also raise the question of what this might tell us about the phenomenal features of that cognition. 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"raw_content": "The previous rulings\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s holding in Wayfair overruled two of its precedents. In its 1967 ruling in National Bellas Hess v. Dept. of Revenue, the Court tackled a challenge to an Illinois tax that required out-of-state retailers to collect and remit taxes on sales made to consumers who purchased goods for use within the state.\nThat case involved a mail-order company. The high court found that, since the company\u2019s only connection with customers in Illinois was by \u201ccommon carrier\u201d or the U.S. mail, it lacked the requisite minimum contacts with the state required by the Due Process and Commerce Clauses of the U.S. Constitution to impose taxes. It held that the state could require a retailer to collect a local use tax only if the retailer maintained a physical presence, such as retail outlets, solicitors or property in the jurisdiction.\nTwenty-five years later, in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, the Supreme Court reconsidered the so-called physical presence rule in another case involving mail-order sales. Although it overruled its earlier due process holding, it upheld the Commerce Clause holding. The Court based its ruling on the Commerce Clause principle that prohibits state taxes unless they apply to an activity with a \u201csubstantial nexus\u201d \u2014 or connection \u2014 with the state.\nCriticism of the physical presence rule\nThe rule, established in Bellas Hess and affirmed in Quill, has been the subject of extensive criticism. This has been particularly true in recent years as traditional stores have lost significant ground to online sellers. In 1992, the Court noted that mail-order sales in the United States totaled $180 billion, while in 2017 online retail sales were estimated at $453.5 billion. Online sales represented almost 9% of total U.S. retail sales last year.\nThis market dynamic is highlighted in the new case. As South Dakota argued in its petition for Supreme Court review:\nQuill has grown only more doctrinally aberrant \u2026 But while its legal rationales have imploded with experience, its practical impacts have exploded with the rapid growth of online commerce. Today, States\u2019 inability to effectively collect sales tax from Internet sellers imposes crushing harm on state treasuries and brick-and-mortar retailers alike.\nIndeed, it\u2019s been estimated that states lose $8 billion to $33 billion in annual sales tax revenues because of the physical presence rule. States with no income tax, such as South Dakota, have been especially hard hit. South Dakota\u2019s losses are estimated at $48 million to $58 million annually.\nThe sales tax at issue\nIn response to the rise in online sales and the corresponding effect on sales tax collections, South Dakota enacted a law requiring out-of-state retailers that made at least 200 sales or sales totaling at least $100,000 in the state to collect and remit a 4.5% sales tax. The 2016 law also included a clause declaring an emergency in light of the need \u201cfor the support of state government and its existing public institutions ...\u201d\nSouth Dakota subsequently sued several online retailers with no employees or real estate in the state. It sought a declaration that the sales tax was valid and applicable to the retailers, along with an injunction requiring the retailers to register for licenses to collect and remit the tax. A trial court dismissed the case before trial, and the State Supreme Court affirmed, citing its obligation to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent, however persuasive the state\u2019s arguments against the physical presence rule might prove.\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s reasoning\nThe majority opinion \u2014 penned by Justice Kennedy but joined by the unusual mix of Justices Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito and Gorsuch \u2014 didn\u2019t mince words. It described the physical presence rule as \u201cunsound and incorrect.\u201d According to the Court, the rule becomes further removed from economic reality every year.\nQuill, the opinion said, creates market distortions. It puts local businesses and many interstate businesses with a physical presence at a competitive disadvantage compared with remote sellers that needn\u2019t charge customers for taxes. Kennedy wrote that the earlier ruling \u201chas come to serve as a judicially created tax shelter for businesses that decide to limit their physical presence and still sell their goods and services to a State\u2019s consumers \u2014 something that has become easier and more prevalent as technology has advanced.\u201d\nIn addition, the Court found that Quill treats economically identical actors differently for arbitrary reasons. A business with a few items of inventory in a small warehouse in a state is subject to the tax on all of its sales in the state, while a seller with a pervasive online presence but no physical presence isn\u2019t subject to the same tax for the sales of the same items.\nUltimately, the Supreme Court concluded that the South Dakota tax satisfies the substantial nexus requirement. Such a nexus is established when the taxpayer \u201cavails itself of the substantial privilege of carrying on business\u201d in the jurisdiction. The quantity of business the law required to trigger the tax couldn\u2019t occur unless a seller has availed itself of that substantial privilege.\nOf course, as the Court acknowledged, the substantial nexus requirement isn\u2019t the only principle in the Commerce Clause doctrine that can invalidate a state tax. The other principles weren\u2019t argued in this case, but the high court observed that South Dakota\u2019s tax system included several features that seem designed to prevent discrimination against or undue burdens on interstate commerce, such as a prohibition against retroactive application and a safe harbor for taxpayers who do only limited business in the state.\nThe significance of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling was felt almost immediately in the business world, with the share prices of major online retailers quickly dropping (even those that do collect and remit sales taxes). It\u2019s not just the behemoths that could be affected, though.\nThe Court recognized that the burdens of nationwide sales tax collection could pose \u201clegitimate concerns in some instances, particularly for small businesses that make a small volume of sales to customers in many States.\u201d But, it said, reasonably priced software eventually may make it easier for small businesses to cope. Perhaps in response to this assertion, prices for shares in a company that makes a popular tax-processing software climbed after the Court released its opinion. The ruling also pointed out that, in this case, the law \u201caffords small merchants a reasonable degree of protection,\u201d such as annual sales thresholds.\nFurther, the Court noted, South Dakota is one of more than 20 states that are members of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA). These states have adopted conforming legislation that provides uniform tax administration and definitions of taxable goods and services, simplified tax rate structures and other uniform rules.\nOnly about 15 states currently have sales tax laws similar to South Dakota\u2019s, so it\u2019s likely there will be a staggered imposition of sales tax collection and remittance responsibilities on online retailers. Other states may need to revise or enact legislation to meet the relevant constitutional tests \u2014 including, but not limited to, the substantial nexus requirement. If you have questions regarding sales tax collection requirements for your business in light of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, please contact us at 330-453-7633.",
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"raw_content": "My week in Hawaii was a good one for BPL. I had loads of meetings about the development of our charter school on Kauai that has a major part of the school focusing on Hawaiian culture, language and being in the world in ways that are environmentally sustainable. The people I met there were wonderful. This BPL school on the Northshore of Kauai will be dealing with issues around what are the new economies that emanate from old and new ways of knowing, reducing the brain drain through these skillsets, and through affordable housing which is the primary reason why people born on Kauai are leaving Kauai. As many of you know, I \u201cstumbled\u201d on this work while visiting there and meeting a group starting a charter school. On Tuesday, I went over to Oahu and meet with staff from the Windward School District. We are developing a contract there around a BPL school and the development of a district-wide internship program with ImBlaze and Harbor Freight Fellows. Attending the meeting was also someone from the Castle Foundation who seemed interested in having us do what we did in Philadelphia, start a BPL non-profit there. More to come on all of this.\nhttp://www.dailygood.org/story/2186/when-crafts-become-activism-tracy-l-barnett/\n\u201cSometimes before we even have language, we have images, we have things that are visual. And so, holding space with art materials gives people an opportunity to process, so that by end of it they do have words, and they have a greater understanding of it.\u201d Sara Corbett\nThis is article brings into focus the notion of different ways of knowing. It has been part of what we have done at BPL in our schools, retreats and conferences for decades. Both the cultural and scientific aspects hold water yet, the struggle for academic institutions and schools to accept crafts and trades as a highly valued form of cognition leave students, staff and program in the lurch. It was good to find this article about craftivism.\nIf you haven\u2019t read the President of the Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer\u2019s essay \u2013 Listening to People Who Think We Are Wrong please, take the time to do so this weekend. https://mailchi.mp/hewlett/awlpe1272g-2546713?e=b321cb0cea. I\u2019m so glad to see a foundation president step up and challenge the status quo of his own organization, other foundations, college presidents, think tanks, politicians and all of us. A week ago, I wrote something similar about holding onto more than one narrative. For years, some of us in BPL have been talking about a more inclusive definition of empathy to mean being empathetic to people who are more difficult to be empathetic towards. Larry puts out ways to work on our empathy in more constructive albeit more difficult situations. A big thanks goes out to him for writing this essay.\nI think it was either George Carlin or Lenny Bruce who stated something like: The eagle has a left wing and a right wing and if they don\u2019t flap together the eagle falls on his ass. Personally, this sums up Larry\u2019s essay for me.\nIn the New York Times obituary section there was a story on Bernice \u201cBunny\u201d Sandler, The \u201cGodmother of Title IX\u201d, dies at 90. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/obituaries/bernice-sandler-dead.html. When I read about her early life, I saw she was from Brooklyn and then, I do what I always do, I Google where she went to high school. Turns out, I was on the money. She did go to Erasmus. Why this is all so fascinating is because Erasmus was a neighborhood school. Our school of 5,000 plus students drew from two congressional districts that when I was there were represented by Shirley Chisholm and Liz Holtzman. To give you a small sample of who was in my graduating class there is Stephanie Mills \u2013 The Wiz, Donny Most \u2013 Happy Days and Cheryl Toussaint \u2013 Olympic Silver and Bronze medalist. But, the even bigger kicker about Bernice Sandler was, I noticed that Bernice also went to the University of Maryland so, I emailed my friend Bill Sedlacek who is Emeritus from there. As most of you know his research was on who graduated college on time across race, class and gender. This was in the late 1960\u2019s early 1970\u2019s, way ahead of almost anyone doing anything about on time graduation around issues of race, class and gender. Here is Bill\u2019s response: \u201cEl- I did know Bunny as she was called- she was actually a student of mine - had her in a class & was on her dissertation committee-She was exceptional in many ways.\u201d Today, I spoke with Bill about Bernice. 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"raw_content": "Caring for Kauai\u2019s Community\nWilcox / About Us / Legacy\nGeorge Norton Wilcox and Dora Isenberg were among the first to envision a community hospital with a medical staff, open to all eligible physicians on Kauai.\nThey achieved their goal on Nov. 1, 1938, with the official dedication of a T-shaped, two-story building. It was built at a cost of $200,000 on 17 acres of land donated by the Lihue Plantation. When the dedication ceremony was held, more than 1,000 residents attended. Fifteen days later, the new 96-bed hospital accepted its first patients with a medical staff of 17 physicians and 50 employees. In its first year of operation, Wilcox provided more than 10,000 patient days of care \u2013 75 percent of it for plantation employees.\nOver the years, Wilcox Medical Center has introduced many innovative services to the Kauai community. In 1950, the hospital successfully pioneered an X-ray program in Hawaii for early identification of tuberculosis. In 1968, Wilcox pharmacist Betty Bell introduced an innovative unit dose system of distribution, improving the safer and more efficient delivery of patient medication. The system was recognized nationally and used as a guide by other Hawaii hospitals.\nNov. 1, 2018, marks Wilcox Medical Center\u2019s 80th birthday. As we celebrate 80 years of service to the people of Kauai all year long, we would like to thank our dedicated staff for their skills, their endless commitment and the difference they make in the health and quality of our lives on Kauai.\nToday, it offers the latest in breast cancer detection technology, X-ray imaging, and an infusion center for patients receiving chemotherapy treatments, palliative care, blood/platelet transfusions, IV infusions and phlebotomy.\nWilcox is honored to care for our community and their families, and is dedicated to creating a healthier Hawaii.",
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"raw_content": "\u2018Relay With Ray\u2019 Challenge Begins Tuesday, To Promote & Benefit Blue Ridge Parkway\nPublished Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 9:50 am\nRay Russell will certainly enjoy plenty of awesome views during his epic adventure along the Blue Ridge Parkway.\nEditor\u2019s Note: This story was published last week.\nIn less than four days, Ray Russell, founder of RaysWeather.com, will embark on an epic adventure. He is attempting to run across the entire length of the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway.\nRaysWeather.com posted this picture and caption on its Facebook page on Tuesday morning: Today\u2019s the day! We start Relay With Ray at 9 AM, Milepost 0 near Waynesboro, VA. It\u2019s going to be a rainy, cool first day. Here\u2019s a link to the route: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/336832611\nWe\u2019ll tell the day\u2019s story later this afternoon on relaywithray.com.\nNext week, Russell begins the four-week journey at mile marker 0 near Waynesboro, Va. He will then attempt to run 20 miles a day for the next four weeks until he arrives at the southern end of the parkway in Cherokee in mid June.\nAlthough Russell is an avid runner with an ongoing bucket list to complete the six major marathons (Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, and Tokyo), the upcoming effort amounts to running three-quarters of a marathon every day for four-weeks straight. Running across the Blue Ridge Parkway in consecutive days is something that \u2013 to Russell\u2019s knowledge \u2013 only one other person (Don Lister) has done.\n\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how excited I am, but I am apprehensive about it. It is a tremendous physical challenge,\u201d Russell said. \u201c[This] is the craziest thing I have ever thought of doing \u2013 seriously.\u201d\nRay Russell running along the Blue Ridge Parkway.\nThe Relay With Ray challenge came about as Russell was learning of the numerous activities associated with the centennial year of the National Park Service, such as the 100-hikes initiative along the Blue Ridge Parkway. This year instead of running another marathon, he focused on training for this feat.\nWhile this is a personal challenge for Ray and the others that will join him on the run, this project is also a promotion and celebration of the Blue Ridge Parkway during the centennial and a fundraiser and outreach for the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway.\nRussell said he expects to run, jog and walk the 20 miles or so in about three to four hours, which will allow time to document the trip each day. A self-described \u201crunning encyclopedia\u201d on Blue Ridge Parkway history, Russell will include historical stories or events related to each section of the Blue Ridge Parkway.\nAs Russell wrote in a blog for this challenge, he plans to \u201cexplore and celebrate every twist, turn, nook, and cranny of the Blue Ridge Parkway and document it with photos, videos, blog posts, and on social media.\nYou can also follow Ray and company (including surprise guests) throughout their soon-to-be epic journey at www.relaywithray.com and www.brpweather.com.\nPresenting sponsors of this challenge include ExploreBoone.com, www.BlowingRock.com, Paul H. Broyhill Wellness Center, AppOrtho, RaysWeather.com, and BRPWeather.com.\nGood luck Ray!\nBelow are some photos of Ray on the run along the Blue Ridge Parkway, through the Town of Boone and the App State campus.\n\u00ab Avery County School Bus Driver...",
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"raw_content": "The Basch and beyond\nHarold Bubil Real Estate Editor Emeritus @haroldbubil\nRingling College\u2019s new Visual Arts Center is Sarasota\u2019s latest calling card in the world of contemporary architecture\nThe crop of architecturally progressive buildings going up in Sarasota defy the kind of easy labels that help laypeople understand them.\nThey obviously fall under the vast modernist umbrella, but the modernism of today is much, much different \u2014 in expression and execution if not philosophy \u2014 from that of 50 years ago. The honest and creative use of materials and new technology is still there. But the emotion is bolder and less restrained.\nBuildings like the Center for Asian Art at the Ringling Museum and the Alfred R. 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That is appropriate, because that is the central program of the college\u2019s curriculum.\nThe 38,000-square-foot, three-story building, which cost about $9 million, contains studios for glass sculpture, ceramics, woodworking, printmaking, photography and digital fabrication. It also has classrooms.\nThe Basch Center is really two buildings \u2014 one of three stories and one of a single story that contains a gallery \u2014 that are connected by a sheltering roof over a breezeway. From there, a view corridor unifies the campus from the Ulla Searing Center to the north to the Academic Center to the south.\n\u201cI would argue that the planning proposal is a nod to the successful campus spatial strategies of I.M. 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Inside is a digital lab.\n\u201cI especially appreciate the visual access to the new gallery and the shaded entry foyer on MLK Way, formed by the cantilevered mass above \u2014 a formal entry gesture,\u201d Gold said. \u201cThese are counterpoised with informally spilling the program spaces out into the lawn on the south side.\u201d\n\u201cIn a subtle, understated way, it really makes a beautiful statement,\u201d said Siesta Key resident A. Colin Flood, an outspoken critic of local architecture, on Facebook. \u201cEven though it is just \u2018the Box,\u2019 they have really made it seem like a sophisticated one.\u201d\nOnce one examines the building, the question remains: How to label it? Contemporary? Neo-modern? Millennial modern? Architects, in general, don\u2019t like such labels, but their audiences \u2014 the rest of us \u2014 find them useful in defining the build environment.\n\u201cI see it as contemporary architecture. I don\u2019t have a label other than that,\u201d Sparkman said. \u201cIt is an architecture that allows us to explore ideas that feel relevant today. You don\u2019t usually get to use architecture to explore other mediums.\n\u201cIt is an architecture that uses the functions within the building, the program, to really test the architecture. That building is filled with woodworking, with printing, with glass-making, ceramics, these traditional artistic practices, and somehow we were able to look at those as a way to influence the architecture. It is an architecture that is born out of understanding what the building is about.\u201d\nSparkman gave \u201cone hundred thousand percent\u201d credit to Ringling College President Dr. Larry Thompson and his team for allowing the architecture firm full design freedom.\n\u201cThey managed to guide us and never once did they ever cut us off from trying ways to be creative,\u201d Sparkman said. \u201cThey nailed the role of the client. What you want is to enable architects to do their best and never cut them off. That is a hard role for a client. Sometimes clients just don\u2019t quite know how to do that.\n\u201cRingling sat back and gave us guidance, but never cut us off. There is a message there, which is if our community aspires to great things, the client has to step up with us. And they did. We met them at a place where none of us knew where we were headed, but we were all willing to go there. It was fun.\u201d\nThe fun included building more than a dozen models of the building\u2019s various design-studio iterations, and looking for efficiencies without sacrificing artistic value in a structure whose sole reason for being is art.\n\u201cGo back to Larry Thompson, in an infamous value-engineering meeting,\u201d Sparkman said to illustrate the point. \u201cThere were a bunch of skylights that were proposed, and he looked at me and asked, \u2018Hey, Jerry, tell me what\u2019s important. Are the skylights important?\u2019 I said, \u2018No, not really.\u2019 He said, \u201cIs the zinc important.\u201d I said yes. He said, \u2018OK, keep that.\u2019 It was that direct.\u201d\nRather than just putting the zinc panels on the front of the building, the structure is clad with them on the sides and the back, too. It is as if, Sparkman said, the Basch is carved from a block of zinc.\nThe curving shape of the western wing, the cantilevers and the cutouts pull the project, and Sarasota architecture as a whole, further into the mindset of the best architecture being done around the world today.\n\u201cI hope the Basch Visual Arts Center makes you wonder, makes you curious,\u201d Sparkman said.\n\u201cIf there are any regrets I have, it was when we didn\u2019t stick ourselves out far enough and be willing to take some arrows. If you read that into the building, then great. I am unsettled by beautiful, yet derivative architecture. 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"raw_content": "\u00ab Teacher of the Year | Main | Better than Dr. Phil \u00bb\nBook Review: On-the-Job-Prayers\nEllen Wulfhort\u2019s story on \u201cworkaholism\u201d prompted me to write this short review of William D. Thomson\u2019s On-The-Job Prayers. Small enough to be tucked in a briefcase, glove compartment, toolbox, or top center desk drawer, this book has one hundred brief reflections on spirituality of work, a quote from scripture, and a short prayer. Each page can be read as a meditation in less time than needed for a coffee break. The index provides quick references for work related issues such as \u201cMonday mornings,\u201d happiness,\u201d and \u201cexcellence.\u201d\nLater this weekend, I plan a post on how work can be an addiction and a spiritual path to finding balance on one\u2019s life. For now, here is an extract\nThe problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you\u2019re still a rat.\u201d jokes comedienne Lily Tomlin. And the problem with being a rat at work is that it tends to make your home into a rat hole. Work is an important element of family life, whether it is paid work outside or inside the home, unpaid work at home, or volunteer work at church, or in community or civic organizations. If our work is viewed as a necessary evil, a burden to be bone, a \u201cdaily grind,\u201d then it cannot help but have a negative impact on family life. If mother or father and/or children deters the work, view it as something that detracts from family life and complain about it all the time, then this attitude is going to permeate family live as well. Conversely, if family members are workaholics or consider their work as the really important part of life, then this too can destroy family life. On the other hand, if work is spiritual, that is, if it is conducted in a balanced manner in line with our deepest convictions and values, then work itself can provide the foundation and even enhance the spirituality of family life.\n-Gregory F. A. Pierce, Spirituality at Work\n\u201cDo not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that god the Father has set his seal.\u201d John 6:27\nWorkplace Prayer\nGiver and Sustainer of life, you know how hard it is to strike a balance between the time and energy I give to my work and what I seem to have left to give to my family and friends. I need your help to acknowledge the limits of my physical, emotional and spiritual resources, and to use them well in both places. Help me to be aware of your presence and power in my work life and in my life beyond the job. You are the one God, and I am one person made in our image. By your spirit show me how to experience the wholeness of life lived by your Sprit, lived in your love, may my whole life be sustained by you and used by you to make the world a better place. Amen WDT\nSometimes, it will be helpful develop one's workplace spirituality with the help of a Spiritual director.\nPlease support this blog, buy books through Amazon by clicking on the titles at the right\nMarch 31, 2006 in Marital Spirituality, Personal Growth and Performance Improvement, Spiritual Direction / Coaching, workplace spirituality | Permalink",
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"raw_content": "Home \u00bb Dating Advice \u00bb How to Date With Herpes\nMany people who have been diagnosed with genital herpes often feel alone, as if their prospects for dating are non-existent and as if they will never find love. There is a very unfair social stigma surrounding genital herpes even though it comes from the same virus as oral herpes, and nobody was ever turned down for a date because they once had a cold sore! With a little preparation and a few resources, it is just as easy to date with herpes.\nMillions of people are diagnosed every day and learning how to date with herpes. You are far from alone! This guide will tell you everything that you need to know about the herpes simplex virus and how to date when you have herpes.\nGeneral Facts About Genital Herpes\nAccording to The Center for Disease Control, one of out every six people aged 19-47 have genital herpes. 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There is nothing to be ashamed of and no reason why you can\u2019t keep living your best life.\nDisclosing Genital Herpes To Your Partners\nOften the prospect of telling a romantic partner is one of the most nightmarish parts about dating with herpes. There is still such an unfair social stigma about genital herpes, despite the fact that it is very prevalent, and that can make people feel ashamed or anxious about disclosing their STD status.\nThe sheer number of people who have genital herpes should make the process easier, but that horrible stigma sometimes makes us feel one in a million. Here are some tips and tricks for discussing genital herpes with your romantic or sexual partner or partners. If you date with herpes, you should keep these in mind!\nBe prepared with all of the facts such as statistics from the CDC such as transmission rates and frequency of outbreaks.\nTry not to be too ashamed. Genital herpes impacts a large minority of the population, so you are not alone.\nInvite questions and answer them transparently.\nBe prepared for rejection. Although people who have genital herpes are not rejected as often by their romantic partners as they fear, there is still the possibility.\nAlso, if your partner asks for a little bit of space or time to be able to process the diagnosis, give it to them. Let them know that you\u2019re available to talk when they are. Even if the disclosure goes badly, remember, you are far from alone and the paranoia surrounding genital herpes is one of the most overblown panics in the world. Nobody has ever gotten seriously ill or died because they were infected with genital herpes. Generally, the disease manifests itself in one or more small outbreaks and goes dormant in the body. Knowing these facts should give you the courage to approach your partner with your STD status.\nRomantic rejection is a reality that anyone who is dating has to deal with, but it\u2019s even more common when dating with herpes. Unfortunately, some people have bought into the mythology that genital herpes is one of the worst things in the world that anyone could contract. When someone is trying to date with genital herpes they might be told that they\u2019re unwanted, dirty or unfit for a romantic relationship. None of those things are true, but that doesn\u2019t mean that they don\u2019t sting a little bit.\nWhen we are diagnosed with an STD we can feel totally alone. One of the best ways to feel normal and whole again is to lean on a support system. The STD Project, whose mission is to break the stigma of sexually transmitted infections, compiled a list of support groups for people who have genital herpes. Simply attending one of these meetings will reinforce the knowledge that you are not alone in the world.\nKnow that the stats are changing\nEven though STDs are still a dealbreaker for many people, more and more are coming around to the understanding that they are not as bad as they seem. STDs are becoming less of a factor as people become more educated and aware. Even if your STD status was a problem for potential partners in the past, it might not be in the future. It\u2019s important to understand that not everyone will treat you the way that the person who rejected you did.\nDating Options For People With Genital Herpes\nIf you don\u2019t want to have a conversation about your STD status with a partner who might reject you or ask uncomfortable questions, there is a way to bypass that altogether by simply dating people on STD positive dating websites.\nThese websites are a safe and non-judgemental place for people looking to date with herpes. All of the people on these sites have tested positive for genital herpes, so there is no need to disclose your STD status. Even better, many of these websites have forums where new members can find support and help if they need it.\nThose who have successfully tried these services say that they have found both romance and a great sense of community with others like them. Being diagnosed with genital herpes, or any other STD can make us feel alone, unwanted and unlovable. These dating sites prove that a diagnosis is not the end of the world and that there are plenty of people out there just like us.\nREAD MORE: 2018 Best Herpes Dating Sites For Herpes Singles\nLiving A Full Life With Genital Herpes\nAlthough genital herpes has been unfairly thought of as the STD boogeyman for a long time, this impression is changing rapidly as people become more educated and aware of exactly what genital herpes is.\nWith treatment many people can go symptom free for months or years at a time. 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"raw_content": "Optimization and Corroboration of the Regulatory Pathway of p42.3 Protein in the Pathogenesis of Gastric Carcinoma\nYibin Hao,1 Tianli Fan,2 and Kejun Nan3\n1Zhengzhou Central Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan 450007, China\n2Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450001, China\n3Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine of Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University, Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi 710061, China\nAcademic Editor: Antonino Staiano\nCopyright \u00a9 2015 Yibin Hao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.\nAims. To optimize and verify the regulatory pathway of p42.3 in the pathogenesis of gastric carcinoma (GC) by intelligent algorithm. Methods. Bioinformatics methods were used to analyze the features of structural domain in p42.3 protein. Proteins with the same domains and similar functions to p42.3 were screened out for reference. The possible regulatory pathway of p42.3 was established by integrating the acting pathways of these proteins. Then, the similarity between the reference proteins and p42.3 protein was figured out by multiparameter weighted summation method. The calculation result was taken as the prior probability of the initial node in Bayesian network. Besides, the probability of occurrence in different pathways was calculated by conditional probability formula, and the one with the maximum probability was regarded as the most possible pathway of p42.3. Finally, molecular biological experiments were conducted to prove it. Results. In Bayesian network of p42.3, probability of the acting pathway \u201cS100A11\u2192RAGE\u2192P38\u2192MAPK\u2192Microtubule-associated protein\u2192Spindle protein\u2192Centromere protein\u2192Cell proliferation\u201d was the biggest, and it was also validated by biological experiments. Conclusions. The possibly important role of p42.3 in the occurrence of gastric carcinoma was verified by theoretical analysis and preliminary test, helping in studying the relationship between p42.3 and gastric carcinoma.\nThe occurrence and development of gastric carcinoma is a multifactor, multistage, and multistep process [1]. A large number of molecules have been involved in it and constituted a complex regulatory network [2]. Finding and identifying the key biomarkers of high-risk warning, early diagnosis, and effective treatment of gastric cancer are a focus of gastric cancer research [3]. So far, studies have confirmed that multiple antioncogenes such as PTEN [4], p16 [5], p21 [3], Smad4 [2], Fas [6], and RECK [3] and oncogenes such as, Ras [7], c-myc [1], and MMPs [8] are associated with the development of gastric carcinoma. p42.3 is a novel gene, cloned by applying synchronization, mRNA differential display and bioinformatics. Researchers have proved that p42.3 may play a vital role in the occurrence and development of gastric carcinoma [9]. Some studies indicate that p42.3 has the characteristic of oncogenes and tumor markers and it may be one of the early molecular events in the development from gastric mucosa lesion to gastric carcinoma [10]. However, these results did not explain systematically the specific function of p42.3 in it.\nAccording to our early study, p42.3 may be involved in the regulatory pathway in the occurrence and development of gastric carcinoma and the regulatory pathway is as follows: Ras\u2192Raf-1\u2192MEK\u2192MAPK kinase\u2192MAPK\u2192microtubule-associated protein\u2192spindle protein\u2192centromere protein\u2192cell proliferation [11]. Nevertheless, it has not been verified by molecular biological experiments. On the basis of our previous study, through improvement of the similarity algorithm between the reference protein and p42.3 protein, this study investigated the biological features of p42.3 by means of the regulatory network of the reference protein, optimized the regulatory network of p42.3, modulated the maximum possible pathway correspondingly, and verified it by preliminary molecular biological experiments.\nGastric carcinoma cell lines BGC823, MGC803, SGC7901, AGS, N87, and GES1 were provided by Beijing Cancer Hospital (the original sources were from Shanghai Bioleaf Biotech Co., Ltd.) and were cultivated in DMEM culture media with 5% fetal bovine serum in a 5% CO2 cell culture box at 37\u00b0C.\n2.2.1. Structural Features of p42.3\nAfter obtaining the amino acid sequence of p42.3 (GenBank: NP_848543) from NCBI database, the spatial structure of protein was predicted by the threading prediction tool Phyre2 (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/phyre/, Imperial College London) [12]. Then, relevance to cell proliferation in terms of function was set as the restrictive condition, based on which the protein with the two structural domains were searched and constituted the data set of reference proteins. Whereby, the possible biological property of p42.3 was studied.\n2.2.2. Similarity Calculation of the Reference Protein and p42.3 Protein\nMultiparameter weighted sum method was put to use in calculating the similarity of reference protein and p42.3. First select several parameters in which the two proteins have similarity to calculate the degree of similarity of each parameter, and then add the weight trained by artificial neural network. Finally, obtain the degree of similarity after a weighted summation.\n2.2.3. Selection of the Parameters\nAccording to the literature data, the following nine parameters of protein similarity were selected: protein spatial structure, the number of atoms inside the molecule, the number of amino acids in each protein, the species of amino acids, the location of element P and element S in the protein molecule, and the proportion of the number of atoms C, N, and O in the protein molecule [13\u201316].\n2.2.4. Similarity Calculation of the Spatial Structure of Protein\nBefore calculating similarity values, the coordinates of each atom in the protein structure file (pdb file) were determined and Euclidean coordinates were used as spatial coordinates, with the geometrical center of the protein as the origin. The distance from each atom to the origin was then calculated. According to these distances, the protein was divided into layers and the structure similarity of two proteins in corresponding layers was analyzed by stratified analysis. It was found that the distances between most of the atoms of p42.3 protein and the origin were in the range of 0~80\u2009nm and a small portion of the distance were within 80~100\u2009nm, and also, very few of them were above 100\u2009nm. Therefore, based on the length of radius, p42.3 protein was divided into 10 layers from the center to outer edge. The distances of each layer were as follows: the first layer 0~10\u2009nm; the second layer 10~20\u2009nm; the third layer 20~30\u2009nm; the fourth layer 30~40\u2009nm; the fifth layer 40~50\u2009nm; the sixth layer 50~60\u2009nm; the seventh layer 60~70\u2009nm; the eighth layer 70~80\u2009nm; the ninth layer 80~100\u2009nm; and the tenth layer beyond 100\u2009nm. The number of atoms in each layer was counted for each of the proteins being compared and stored in array vector data 1 and data 2, respectively. The similarity in atom numbers in each layer was then compared using the formula: , wherein sim represents a ten-dimensional vector that has stored the similarity of each layer.\nWeights were then added to the similarity of each layer and the overall density similarity was calculated by the weighted summation method. It is reasonable to suppose that the layers that contain the most atoms will be more likely to determine properties of the protein. Based on this assumption, the more atoms the layer owns, the higher the weight of this layer is, so the proportion of the atoms number in each layer determined the weight of this layer. Of course, it is maybe different in every layer for two proteins, so the average would be taken. Hence, each layer was weighted as the following formula: , , where is the total number of atoms of the first protein, is the total number of atoms of the second protein, while and are the number of atoms in the th layer in protein 1 and protein 2, respectively. Thus, the spatial structure similarity of the two proteins was obtained.\n2.2.5. Similarity of the Total Number of Atoms and the Number and Type of Amino Acids\nSimilarity algorithms of the three parameters were alike. The number of atoms and amino acids, and the number of amino acid types in the two proteins were calculated by textread function in MATLAB software. Then, the number of atoms and the number and type of amino acid can be read from the pdb file of the two proteins. The total number of atoms of the two proteins was recorded as and , respectively, and then the formula used to calculate the similarity in atom numbers was . Likewise, the similarity of the number of amino acids and its types could be also obtained.\n2.2.6. Similarity of Each Element\nThis study was mainly to analyze elements C, N, O, P, and S. Firstly, the proportion of the number of C, N, and O to the total number of atoms in each protein was calculated. Then, the similarity was calculated among C, N, and O in accordance with the formula: . In addition, in protein molecules, the number of elements P and S was usually small, but they both play crucial roles in the function of protein. While in p42.3 protein, there was only one S atom and no P atoms. Therefore, it is obviously not scientific to calculate the degree of similarity according to the number of atoms of the two elements. Instead, similarity of the location between atoms P and S was set as the criteria for calculation. In this algorithm, it was assumed that if the two elements P and S were in the same layer, the similarity was regarded as 1.0; if they were in adjacent layers, the similarity was 0.8; otherwise, the similarity was 0. Therefore, the similarity parameter of each element in proteins was achieved.\n2.2.7. Calculation of the Weight of Each Parameter\nBased on the similarity of each parameter of protein that had been figured out, the overall similarity was worked out by the weighted summation method. Before this, data of 100 pairs of similar protein pairs had been collected. According to the methods described above, the similarity of each parameter in each pair of proteins had been calculated: \u2013. Then, BLASTp was used to search the homology of each pair of proteins, which was regarded as the overall similarity. Therefore, for each pair of proteins, a similarity data vector of 110 can be achieved: . Then the similarity data of the 100 pairs of proteins was input to BP (back propagation) artificial neural network for training; thus, the weights of each parameter Qi had been achieved (Table 1).\nTable 1: Similarity weights for each parameter.\nTherefore, for each pair of proteins, their overall similarity can be calculated by formula: . In this formula, is the overall similarity of the two proteins. represents the similarity of each parameter. were spatial structure (density), number of atoms in the protein, number and type of amino acids, number and proportion of C, N, and O atoms [8], and spatial position of P and S atoms in the protein, respectively. On the basis of this formula, the similarity of the reference protein and p42.3 was thus figured out and the data set of the reference proteins was composed.\n2.2.8. Construction and Optimization of a Bayesian Regulatory Network\nIn condition of cellular proliferation, the reference protein set obtained by the similarity calculation was screened out. Then, with a reference protein as the starting point and cell proliferation as the ending point, the acting pathway and node of each reference protein were collected. There are crosses between different pathways, thus constituting a regulatory network [11]. In the network, \u201c+\u201d indicates a positive role in promoting the regulation; \u201c\u2212\u201d represents a negative role in inhibiting the regulation. The similarity of each reference protein and p42.3 was set as the initially prior probability. By applying knowledge of conditional probability, the probability of occurrence in each node was worked out. The formula is\nBayesian networks are Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), which describe the joint probability distribution of a finite set of variables . Bayesian networks can be symbolized by the element pair , where is a DAG in which the nodes represent random variables . It can symbolize gene expression vectors in expression profiling data, while represents the conditional probability of each variable. DAG showed the independent relation under the following conditions. It was the Markov assumption; each variable was independent of its nonchild node in the prerequisite that it was the parent node in . Based on the assumption of independence, the Bayesian network had only one joint probability distribution for set was , where symbolizes the parent node of . In order to determine the joint probability above, all the conditional probabilities in this formula need to be confirmed.\nIn the Bayesian network in this paper, after obtaining the probability of occurrence in each node and pathway, the Bayes theorem was used to inverse the probability of protein in acting their roles in each node, thus finding the highest possible regulatory pathway of p42.3 protein.\n2.2.9. The Molecular Biological Test of the Optimal Path\nAfter obtaining the highest possible acting pathway of p42.3 protein through calculation and prediction, some basic biological experiments were carried out for initial validation. To begin with, Trizol (invitrogen, America) method was used for extraction of the total mRNA in the six cell lines: BGC823, MGC803, SGC7901, AGS, N87, and GES1. Through reverse transcription, cDNA was synthesized (cDNA reverse transcription kit, Thermo fisher scientific company, United Kingdom). According to the gene sequence of the reference proteins and p42.3, the primers were designed. The sequence of the primers was shown in Table 2. In contrast with \u03b2-actin, the RT-PCR was used to amplify, respectively, (PCR amplifier, Eppendorf Company, Germany). After PCR products were detected by agarose gel electrophoresis, the expressions of various proteins in different cell lines were compared.\nTable 2: Primers sequence of PCR.\n3.1. Structural Features of the EF-Hand and CC-Domain\nThe spatial structure of protein was predicted by the threading prediction tool Phyre. A three-dimensional ligand-binding model of the characteristic of p42.3 in EF-hand region was predicted by using 3DLigandSite (http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/~3dligandsite/, Imperial College London) [17]. The metal ion binding sites of p42.3 were ALA78, SER79, TYR81, and ARG86, as shown in Figure 1. The protein data set that had high structural homology with EF-hand and CC-domain (p42.3 molecule) was searched. Some of them with the same structure of EF-hand were shown in Table 3. Then, proteins relating to cell proliferation functionally were screened out as the reference protein.\nTable 3: Structural data set of EF-hand that is similar to the partial structure of p42.3 molecule.\nFigure 1: Ligand combination model of EF-hand structural domain in p42.3 molecule.\n3.2. Similarity Calculation of the Reference Protein and p42.3\nThe similarity algorithm of protein was compared by the similarity of nine parameters mentioned above. The MATLAB software (MathWorks, America) was used for programming. The similarity of the reference protein and p42.3 was calculated. After screening by \u201ccell proliferation,\u201d the results were displayed in Table 4.\nTable 4: Protein data set gained by using the spherical coordinate space hierarchical similarity algorithm.\n3.3. Bayesian Regulatory Network\nCell proliferation was set as the restrictive condition, and the acting pathways and nodes of different reference proteins were worked out by literature collection. With different acting pathways crossing, the regulatory network was thus formed, shown in Figure 2. The round nodes represent the reference proteins and they are the initial nodes. The relation between each node is upstream and downstream regulation. Arrows indicate the direction of action. \u201c+\u201d: a positive regulation and \u201c\u2212\u201d: a reverse regulation.\nFigure 2: Primary regulatory networks.\nThe similarity of the reference proteins and p42.3 was treated as prior probability of the initial parent nodes. According to formula (1), the probability of occurrence in each node downstream was calculated until figuring out the final results of cell proliferation. The final one is the probability of occurrence of that pathway. The results were shown in Figure 3. The probability of the path in thick line was 0.9781, higher than that of other pathways. Connected with the results of protein similarity comparison, it can be initially verified that the pathway \u201cS100A11\u2192RAGE\u2192P38\u2192MAPK\u2192Microtubule-associated protein\u2192Spindle protein\u2192Centromere protein\u2192Cell proliferation\u201d was with the highest possibility.\nFigure 3: The most possible acting pathway of p42.3 protein by optimization of Bayes theorem.\n3.4. The Molecular Biology Test\nBased on the analysis of the spatial structure of p42.3 and Bayesian regulatory network, expressions of S100A11 (the protein with the largest positive maximum weighted value) and S100A2 (the protein with the shortest negative acting path) in gastric carcinoma cell lines were examined, respectively, for preliminary valediction of the correlation of p42.3 and S100A11. The results showed that when p42.3 showed normal expression, both S100A11 and S100A2 had shown expressions. In Figure 4, it was indicated that expression of S100A11 was extremely similar to that of p42.3, while the expression of S100A2 was considerably different from that of p42.3. By referring to the analysis of the protein structure, it could be concluded that the regulatory pathway of p42.3 may be consistent with that of S100A11, or it may be involved in the regulatory pathway.\nFigure 4: Expressions of p42.3, S100A11, and S100A2 in the cell lines of gastric carcinoma.\nThe occurrence and development of gastric carcinoma involve changes in the structure and expression of multiple related genes [9]. In particular, the activation of oncogenes and inactivation of tumor suppressors play important roles in it [10]. So far, many studies have tried to disclose the molecular regulatory mechanisms of gastric carcinoma in order to find biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer, which is expected to be an effective adjuvant therapy of surgery and chemoradiotherapy.\np42.3 expression is dependent on mitosis and is expressed at low levels or not at all in normal gastric mucosa but is highly expressed in gastric carcinoma tissues. It has the effect of promoting cellular proliferation and tumor metastasis [9]. Changes of p42.3 gene expression that occur during the development of gastric carcinoma indicate that p42.3 might be a direction of gastric carcinoma diagnosis and treatment [10, 11]. It was found that an EF-hand structural domain existed in the N-terminal amino acid sequence of p42.3 protein, which also presented in the S100 family of proteins [36]. The EF-hand structure consists of a typical helix-loop-helix structural unit; that is, two alpha helixes linked by a chelate ring [37]. In all the reports about EF-hand structures, the majority of EF-hand structural domains are even number and form structural domain pairs, separated by connexin, or homologous or heterologous dimmers, such as S100 family proteins with two EF-hand structural domains [38, 39]. Proteins with odd number of structural domains usually need to form homologous or heterologous dimers and their activity is presented in the form of dimer. CC-domain is a kind of super-secondary structure of protein, intertwined by two to seven \u03b1 helices (most commonly two or four) to form a braided structure [40]. Many proteins with coiled helical structures have significant biological functions, such as the transcription factor in the regulation of gene expression [40]. The most well-known proteins containing coiled helical structures are oncoprotein and tropomyosin. To study the action mechanism of p42.3, a similarity algorithm with multiparameter calculation was adopted to find proteins with high structural similarity to p42.3. As a result, proteins that might be related to the occurrence of gastric carcinoma were screened and treated as gene regulatory path nodes [11]. By a series of probability calculation, it was found that the possible action mechanism of p42.3 in the pathogenesis of gastric carcinoma was S100A11\u2192RAGE\u2192P38\u2192MAPK\u2192Microtubule-associated protein\u2192Spindle protein\u2192 Centromere protein\u2192Cell proliferation (Figure 3). And the initial molecule experiments also confirmed the consistency of p42.3 and S100A11 gene expression in gastric carcinoma cell (Figure 4). The study of gene regulatory networks can be used to quantitatively mine information regarding gene expression regulation from one side. Through extracting and analyzing this information, gene function and genetic networks can be understood, and the pathogenesis of the disease will be clear. The study of gene regulatory networks aids in the exploration of gene function in the overall framework [11]. Genes\u2019 functions should be studied not only from a structural level but also from a network level. Genes affect each other and work together in intricate networks, which consequently contain new functions that cannot be fully revealed by the DNA sequence.\nThe S100 proteins are a group of calcium-binding proteins with low molecular weight (10\u201312\u2009kDa). Its amino acid sequence is highly conserved in vertebrates [41]. S100 proteins share a high degree of homology with calmodulin and other EF-Hand calcium binding proteins [41]. From the biological function, specific expression and chromosomal localization in tumor of S100 protein family and the intimate relation between S100 protein and tumor can be found. Recently, studies have indicated that S100A11 (S100C) can serve as a tumor suppressor protein in some tumors and a tumor promoter in other tumors [42]. S100A11 is upregulated in breast cancer, prostate cancer, and nonsmall cell lung cancer, where it promotes tumor metastasis and invasion [43, 44]. On the contrary, S100A11 acts as a tumor suppressor in urinary bladder and renal carcinoma [45]. Our experimental results present an upregulated expression of S100A11 in gastric cancer. As a candidate tumor suppressor protein, the expression of S100A2 is significantly lower in a variety of malignancies, such as breast, liver, prostatic, and esophageal cancer [46\u201349]. Studies have indicated that S100A2 can inhibit cell proliferation and invasion and act as a tumor suppressor involved in the occurrence and metastasis of gastric carcinoma [50], which is in agreement with our findings. Through analysis of expression of S100A11 and S100A2 in gastric cancer, both of which contained EF-Hand structure, it was verified that p42.3 could participate in the occurrence and development of gastric cancer from both consistent and opposite to the p42.3 effect direction.\nCurrently, there are various ways to compare protein structures, each with their own advantages and disadvantages [51]. By analyzing the structure of the proteins, most of them calculate the similarity value of a pair of proteins by applying a mathematical algorithm. That is, from the spatial conformation of protein, they all have only analyzed the characteristics of spatial structure of proteins. The similarity of proteins in other aspects was not taken into account. For example, element P and element S are crucial to the functions of proteins. Using the multiparameter comprehensive comparison method, this study not only compared the differences between the two proteins in the spatial atomic density but also considered the similarity of many other aspects. When conducting the weighted summation of each parameter, the weights used all came from training of diverse data not from subjective weighting. It guarantees the accuracy of weight of each parameter and avoids the mistakes that some parameter is of little importance to the overall similarity but with high weight. Consequently, the similarity of two proteins was figured out more accurately. All the process of calculation was carried out by the M file compiled by MATLAB. Batch comparison of any amount of proteins could be carried out easily and quickly.\nHere, the ligand-binding model of the EF-hand structure of p42.3 was successfully predicted. Meanwhile, a Bayesian network using the corresponding mathematical algorithm was constructed and optimized to predict the most likely pathway. On the other hand, molecular biology experiments indicated that p42.3 and S100A11 may be with the commonplace in character, and this provided a hypothesis for us to conduct further research. In a word, our findings provide important research directions for exploring the mechanism of action of p42.3 in gastric cancer.\nThanks should be given to workmates of the authors within the same department for their general support. 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Held between 11st and 15th April this year, there were more than 1,000 inventions presented in 822 exhibitions from over 40 countries and regions at the event.\nHKSTP\u2019s partner company Marvel Digital Limited, a leader in 3D visualisation technologies, collected the Prize of the Romanian Delegation, a Gold Medal and a Silver Medal at the event with two of their acclaimed products. These included the Memto Live Picture Frame, which is a cloud-based imaging solution that produces naked-eye 3D images in clear, 4K ultra-high definition; and their Advanced Image Rendering Algorithms for Autostereoscopic 3D Display.\nThe other Hong Kong companies who made a strong showing at the show, winning the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury included BrainNow Medical Technology Limited, Neosen Energy HK Limited and TFS Global Company Limited. 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"raw_content": "Hands-On With The Archimede Pilot Bronze (Live Pics)\nBack in 2007, after months of obsessive browsing on watch forums, I bought my first \u2018serious\u2019 mechanical watch: a 42mm pilot's watch from German brand Archimede. Six years later that Archimede is still a regular on my wrist, and is still ticking strong. Here I give you a hands-on look at the Archimede Pilot Bronze.\nFor those unfamiliar with Archimede, the brand offers some of the best value propositions out there in sub-$1,000 watchmaking. Aside from sensible, legible designs and continued use of reliable ETA movements, Archimede is known for the quality of its cases. In fact, Ickler, the parent company, has been around for three generations and has always been known for excellent cases.\nSo when Archimede announced it was going to make a version of its flagship pilotin bronze, an en vogue move these past few years, the chances were pretty good it was going to be a winner.\nAt first glance, the pilot bronze is essentially the same design as Archimede\u2019s other pilots, which is a good thing. The brushed bronze (CuSn8 for all you alloy nerds) looks amazing, and fresh out of the box it has the rich feel and bright look of rose gold. Bronze is a good option for a gold tone watch if the real deal is out of your budget and you don\u2019t like the idea of plate wearing off. Think of it as the rugged alternative.\nBut after only a week exposed to the atmosphere of a hot Australian coastal town, the bronze developed a pretty impressive patina, which is of course a large part of the metal's appeal. You might have been tempted to mistake it for gold fresh out of the box, but not anymore.\nThough I said the pilot bronze is \"essentially\" the same design as the regular pilot, that is admittedly a slight over-simplification. Clearly Archimede has taken the opportunity to make some minor improvements to the case design with this edition. The crown is now signed with an Archimede \"A\" and the knurling has been refined and improved, resulting in much less \"wrist-bite.\" Likewise, the rear edges of the case at 12 and 6 have been slightly flattened so that thicker straps can be accommodated without the case damaging the leather. And, speaking of lugs, the case has \"Bronze\" engraved between the top lugs and \u201c1924\u201d with the Ickler logo between the lower lugs. I\u2019m not in love with these details, which just add clutter to a watch that is all about simplicity, but I\u2019m not going to lose any sleep over them either.\nIf bronze is your thing, there\u2019s not a lot to dislike about this watch. Some might find the stainless steel buckle out of place (especially since the mandatory pilot's rivets are bronze), but Archimede didn\u2019t want any of the parts that are in contact with the skin to be bronze. Having said that, I did find that the large crown left the occasional green mark on my wrist.\nI wasn\u2019t sure if the bronze look would translate well to the style and aesthetic of the pilot, especially since it has largely been the domain of chunky divers thus far. But, ultimately, I think it works nicely. The pilot bronze is, like all of Archimede\u2019s watches, a great combination of value and quality - you get a lot of watch without a massive price tag.\nThe Pilot 42 Bronze from Archimede sells for \u20ac560.00 directly from the brand's online store.",
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"raw_content": "Tales of The Desert Padre: Fr. John J. Crowley '15\nHe gave his life to a barren desert valley that had been stripped of life by the Los Angeles irrigation system. In doing so, Fr. John Crowley '15 became a legend.\nBy William E. Webster '48\nAlongside state Route 14 in the California high desert country, a stark memorial-a white, rust-stained cross made of plain metal pipe bearing the inscription, \"Father John J. Crowley\"-rises from the arid, mesquite-covered plain some 23 miles north of Red Rock Canyon State Park. This simple memorial marks the location where Fr. Crowley died in 1940, killed while driving his ancient Ford along this lonely stretch of highway. A graduate of Holy Cross, his story is the stuff of legend.\nMy family had passed that simple memorial many times on our way to camping and fishing locales in the Eastern Sierra Nevada country. Further north, we had driven by Crowley Lake, which, I later learned, had been named for him.\nA Catholic priest who served in the desert area in the 1920s and '30s, Fr. Crowley has been cited in the book, Water and Power, by William L. Kahrl, as one of the most influential advocates of tourism in an area desperately in need of economic development during the Depression years. The reference piqued my curiosity; later, while browsing in a bookstore in the Owens Valley, I discovered a book entitled, Desert Padre, by Joan Brooks and learned that Fr. Crowley was a graduate of Holy Cross. This discovery inspired me to learn more about this wonderful man.\nTo appreciate the role Fr. Crowley would play in Owens Valley, one needs to understand the geography and history of this area situated between the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west and the stark White and Inyo mountains to the east. Starting in the 1870s, early settlers trapped the Owens River to irrigate fields and orchards in the remote valley and created, for a short time, one of the most productive agricultural areas in California. That would change, however, when the gigantic irrigation projects diverted the water from the valley along 223 miles to Los Angeles, resulting in that city's phenomenal growth and the corresponding decline of the Owens Valley farms. (The incident is the subject of the movie Chinatown.) Before long, the verdant valley was returned to desert conditions where the vegetation consisted largely of greasewood and sagebrush. It was in this harsh environment that Fr. Crowley would live during his years of service to the area. With the demise of agriculture as an economic base, Fr. Crowley turned to tourism as a potential means of helping the valley residents survive. And it is to these efforts that he would devote the final six years of his life.\nJohn J. Crowley was born on Dec. 8, 1891, in County Kerry, Ireland. His family emigrated to Worcester in 1903. Crowley entered Holy Cross in 1911 and became an active participant in college life, contributing stories, essays and poems to The Purple and serving as the journal's editor in chief during his senior year. This literary flair would stay with him throughout his life as he wrote for various local and diocesan publications during his 22 years in California.\nAfter graduating from Holy Cross, he entered the seminary in Baltimore, Md., with a reference from Rev. Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. Ordained in 1918 in Fall River, Mass., he left shortly after for Los Angeles, borrowing 50 dollars from his bishop to purchase his train ticket to the coast. He served briefly in two parishes before he volunteered, in 1919, to serve in a parish located in the desert region of four different counties-Mono, Inyo, Kern and San Bernadino. His initial parish covered 30,000 square miles, an area equal in size to all of Ireland. His northernmost church was in Bishop, 200 miles from its southern counterpart in Barstow. And in those years, this remote area had few paved roads. Driving between his scattered parish meant bouncing over gravel and sand. The parish contained both the lowest spot in the United States, Death Valley, and the highest, Mount Whitney. In his first 16 months, Fr. Crowley put over 50,000 miles on his Model T Ford. Adapting quickly to his new environment, he kept a sleeping bag in his car for emergencies and donned the uniform that would be his trademark: riding boots, khaki riding pants and a khaki shirt under which he wore his clerical collar.\nAfter serving in this desert parish for five years, he became pastor of St. John's Cathedral, Fresno, in 1924. During this time, Fr. Crowley was instrumental in starting St. Columba's High School there; as part of a major diocesan fund-raiser, he arranged for Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to appear in an exhibition baseball game.\nTen years later, Fr. Crowley returned to Eastern Sierra County and the Owens Valley. He was disheartened by what he found.\nWith the water supply diverted to Los Angeles, many of the region's residents had despaired and abandoned their farms and homes. With frightening speed, the Valley had turned from a thriving community into a sun-baked wasteland. The people that remained were embittered. Moved by the grief and poverty he encountered, Fr. Crowley made it his mission to try and save Owens Valley. It was a daunting undertaking.\nStudying water-flow charts and the scandalous history of land acquisition by Los Angeles, Fr. Crowley became convinced that, had the Long Valley Dam been constructed in the correct location, there would have been enough water for both the city and the valley. He also realized that the only way to reverse the disaster was to unite the valley people. So, he made it his business to get to know every man, woman and child living in the Owens Valley, whether they were his parishioners or not.\nAs writer Irving Stone pointed out in a famous Saturday Evening Post article, \"(Fr. Crowley) worked constantly for religious tolerance. Protestants forgave him for being a Catholic, and the Catholics forgave him for having so many Protestant friends. Somewhere along the line, the padre became The Padre, an understanding father to whom the frightened, the weary and the confused could come for comfort and help.\"\nThe desert padre began spending 16 hours a day in his battered jalopy, driving from town-to-town in an effort to unite the valley residents to regroup and rescue the community. Tourism, Fr. Crowley believed, was the answer. The region offered hunting, fishing, skiing and some of the most spectacular scenic views in the nation.\nHis parish was now mostly Inyo County. Each Sunday he would celebrate Mass in the county's two major towns, at 7:30 a.m. in Lone Pine, and then, at 10 a.m., in Bishop, a grueling drive of 60 rocky miles. His duties also included ministering to the tiny mining community of Keeler and the missions in Death Valley as well as serving as chaplain to the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was during this period that he wrote over 200 columns entitled, Sage and Tumbleweed, under the nom de plume, \"Inyokel,\" a play on words both geographic and humorous. His stories appeared first in the diocesan paper in Fresno, and later, in the secular press, as their popularity grew. In this column, Fr. Crowley addressed an amazing variety of topics but always with humor and humanity. The pieces remain remarkably fresh and timely today.\nDuring this time, the country between Lone Pine and Whitney Portal, the trail ascent of Mount Whitney, became a favorite location for Hollywood filmmaking. This area, known as the Alabama Hills, is familiar to filmgoers as the shooting location for Gunga Din, King of the Kyber Rifles and the Hopalong Cassidy pictures. Fr. Crowley developed friendships with some of the most famous stars of the era. Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. were his dinner companions during the filming of Gunga Din, but his very best friend was Mexican character actor Leo Carrillo, who shared with Fr. Crowley a great love of children.\nAs part of his ongoing efforts to publicize the Eastern Sierra as an ideal tourist location, Fr. Crowley organized an extravaganza in October 1937. The three-day celebration entitled, \"The Wedding of the Waters,\" commemorated the completion of a paved road from Death Valley to Whitney Portal, linking the lowest spot in the country to the highest-in the then 48-state nation. In a clever publicity move, Fr. Crowley filled a desert gourd with water from the highest lake in the country. The gourd was carried first by a Native American, then transported, on horseback, by one of the first men to climb Mount Whitney. Next it was taken in a stagecoach, driven by the descendant of an original stagecoach hand who was accompanied by the governor of California. The gourd was passed along to a covered-wagon driver who was a descendant of the ill-fated Donner Party, and then handed over to the engineer of a narrow-gauge railroad. After a short run on the rails, the gourd was passed to the driver of a new 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. At the end of this ride, President Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key that sent word of the celebration to the rest of the country. The Zephyr driver passed the gourd to a World War I combat pilot who flew to Death Valley where the gourd was emptied into Bad Water Sink, the lowest body of water in America. \"The Wedding of the Waters\" was featured in papers across the nation, bringing the publicity Fr. Crowley had sought. Recently, the Public Broadcasting Company's Los Angeles affiliate sponsored a reenactment of the ceremony. The widow of Hopalong Cassidy was present for the activities.\nFr. Crowley was indefatigable in his efforts to attract tourists to the Owens Valley. Each year on opening day of trout season-which he managed to have declared a county holiday-he blessed fishing equipment. In another publicity effort, on Sept. 14, 1934, he climbed Mount Whitney and became the first priest to celebrate Mass on the summit. Pictures of the Mass appeared in the Los Angeles Times.\nThe priest's flair for publicity paid off. Tourists began to flock to the valley, and the once-hostile residents began to welcome them. Using constant media pressure, Fr. Crowley finally secured a hearing with commissioners of Los Angeles regarding the plight of the Owens Valley. At one point, Fr. Crowley actually locked chief water engineer H.C. Van Norman in a meeting room until the exasperated engineer conceded to requests to build a new dam that would restore water to the impoverished desert.\nWhile returning from a publicity trip to San Francisco in Sept. 1940, Fr. Crowley struck a steer that had wandered onto the highway. His car was forced into the path of an oncoming truck, and he was killed instantly.\nWhen the new Long Valley Dam was completed, the reservoir it created was named Crowley Lake in honor of the desert priest. 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"raw_content": "Personal Stories, Top Story\nI\u2019m not doing so well in my role as lab rat as of late. I\u2019m expecting the powers that be will soon be calling me back on the carpet. I\u2019m getting used to that. Being told to do one thing and then doing another never gets a hand clap from the overlords of medicine, so I\u2019ve discovered.\nIt started with the multiple diagnosis\u2019s a year after I was first put in the cage for the \u201cexperiment\u201d. I can remember it like it was yesterday. The pursed lips of disapproval and those side shifting eyes. I didn\u2019t get it back then. I was too preoccupied with my devastation to notice. I see now how futile my efforts were in trying to assist them. That kind of behavior will get you a special label and believe me, their kind of special is not a pleasant one.\nIt\u2019s hard adjusting to being in a cage after years of freedom. The overlords don\u2019t seem to get that fact. For them it\u2019s all numbers and weights and measures and instruments that poke and prod. There\u2019s a lot of heading shaking and nodding and hands on chins while they observe my reactions and record my symptoms. I can see it in their eyes. The data is not adding up. They don\u2019t know how to interpret what they are seeing but I remain silent\u2026.at first.\nI\u2019m busy adjusting\u2026adapting to what has become my new prison. I\u2019m busy in my head connecting dots. Still reeling from the shock of being caught. Still taking stock of the damage they have wrought on me with their potions and notions and endless pills. Each tentative step forward fraught with trepidation and my silent anger. Their white lab coats have become a symbol of their surrender to my angry eyes but as always they soldier on in the pursuit of science.\nMarking and measuring symptomologies, feigning a knowingness I know they don\u2019t possess. After all, isn\u2019t that how I ended up here, on the weight of their duplicity?\nI\u2019m not alone in this cage but I\u2019m alone in myself. I am beginning to understand that I am just one cog in an endless wheel that they have created. A Frankenrat, crippled and ever mutating under the power of their chemistry, as they silently observe. I can feel myself shrinking under their disapproving gaze but it\u2019s only a momentary slip. I retreat inside myself. I become invisible, silent and still.\nI watch the watchers\u2026waiting for that perfect moment\u2026that golden opportunity I know is coming. Every day is a new day I tell myself. Every day that I wake up and draw a breath is another day I have won. I may be a lab rat but I am no longer their lab rat. I dream of the day when all of the lab rat nation will rise up as one and our voices will be heard. That\u2019s the beauty of experiments\u2026one never really knows what the outcome will be.\nYes, I\u2019d like to support Hormones Matter\nThis post was published originally December 1, 2015.\nListening to Patients \u2013 A New Opportunity for Medical Science Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics Associated with Nervous System Damage Hormones Matter Top 100 Articles of 2015 Do Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics Trigger Charcot-Marie-Tooth and Other Genetic Diseases?\nS M. says:\nI was made sick by a drug I should have never been given, and I\u2019ve been unable to live decently since I was 16 years old because of that. It\u2019s been 20 years. I never got to have a life at all.\nKevin Schumaker says:\nThat is one of the best articles I have read!!! Reminds me of the song lyric \u201d despite all my rage, I\u2019m still just a rat in a cage.\u201d\nIt does feel that way at times, doesn\u2019t it?",
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"raw_content": "JOCKEY Tony Hamilton is hoping the Richard Fahey-trained Forest Ranger can upstage Classic winners Masar and Saxon Warrior in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown and provide him with the biggest success of his career. The Group One summer showpiece, which forms part of the 35-race QIPCO British Champions Series, has drawn a final field of eight. It carries prize money of \u00a3790,625 and will be the richest race ever run at the Esher racecourse.\nHamilton has enjoyed many big winners for Fahey during their 17-year association but none of them have been at the highest level and he will be riding in the mile-and-a-quarter contest for the first time.\nThe 34-year-old said: \u201cForest Ranger has got to improve on what he\u2019s done but he seems on an upward curve and hopefully he will give a good account of himself. It\u2019s going to be a tough race, and you\u2019d be hopeful rather than confident, but it\u2019s great to be involved.\u201d\nForest Ranger was gelded at the end of last season and has shown improved for in his two races this campaign. He won the Group 3 bet365 Earl Of Sefton Stakes at Newmarket on his reappearance in April and was a commanding winner of the Group 2 Homeserve Huxley Stakes at Chester on his latest start.\n\u201cChester was definitely a personal best for him,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cIt was the first time he\u2019s quickened like that and I thought the way he went away from the field was most impressive.\nI don\u2019t know whether the gelding operation has had anything to with his improvement, but I doubt it. He\u2019s a gent of a horse and no different than when he was a colt \u2013 I\u2019d say it is more that he has just grown into his body.\n\u201cHe\u2019s a huge horse \u2013 the biggest in the yard \u2013 and is maturing. He\u2019s just getting better with age and I think he\u2019ll keep getting better.\u201d\nForest Ranger\u2019s record relays that he goes well fresh and he has had a two-month break since his Chester win. However, Hamilton has sat on him plenty in the interim.\n\u201cI ride him in all his work. He doesn\u2019t do a lot at home and you just go by his wellbeing and demeanour,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you are working him with a 60 or 70-rated horse he will just go with it, but if you take him with a nice horse he\u2019d go with that too. They are the ones you want \u2013 those who don\u2019t do a lot at home but sprout wings when they get to the track.\u201d\nThe weight for age scale means Forest Ranger has to concede at least 10lb to the three-year-olds in the line-up and is a key factor when considering the key areas of sports betting. \u201cI have no strong opinion on it [the scale] but it\u2019s a lot of weight and could prove costly. We\u2019ll just have to see,\u201d Hamilton said.\nThe betting market is headed by Epsom derby winner Masar who is the 7/4 favourite. The horse he beat at Epsom Roaring Lion is next at around 3/1 and Aidan O\u2019Brien threw a spanner in the works by declaring 2,000 Guineas winner Saxon Warrior, who is 4/1.\nCharlie Appleby is delighted with the wellbeing of Masar ahead of the colt attempting to become only the fifth Derby winner in the past 50 years to win the Eclipse in the same season. The other quartet have been Mill Reef (1971), Nashwan (1989), Sea The Stars (2009) and Golden Horn (2015).\nThe Godolphin-owned chestnut, supplemented to run on Monday at a cost of \u00a350,000 after satisfying his connections in a dawn workout at Newmarket\u2019s July Course on Saturday, created history at Epsom last month when he became the first Derby winner to race in four different countries \u2013 England, France, America and Dubai \u2013 en route to scooping the premier Classic.\nMasar will already be having his fifth run of the season but his Newmarket-based trainer believes he has never been better. \u201cWe do tend to look after and protect them (the horses) but he\u2019s thriving on his racing,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever he runs on Saturday, he looks if not better now than before the Derby. Physically, he\u2019s doing well and he\u2019s becoming a very professional sportsman.\u201d\nAppleby points to him competing at the Breeders\u2019 Cup last November, when he was a close sixth in the Juvenile Turf after not enjoying the rub of the green, as being pivotal in his development.\n\u201cIt helped him, there\u2019s no doubt about it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen it for years with Coolmore and Ballydoyle \u2013 they travel their horses all over the world and they just seem to get stronger. Mentally it [the travelling] makes them stronger and those who don\u2019t stress so much put condition on, so then the body becomes stronger. That\u2019s part of the game \u2013 in any sport you need mental resolve and that\u2019s what he has.\u201d\nMasar will be dropping to a mile and a quarter and the ground seems certain to be faster than it was at Epsom with no end to the hot spell of weather in sight.",
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"raw_content": "Understanding the Interwebs\nA few months ago a caught wind of a video made by some guys at my alma mater entitled Price Hill Girlz. Take a look at it now if you haven't seen it yet. Pretty good work. I have no tolerance when it comes inappropriate\u00c2 [read: racist] humor and this didn't even make the radar. I realized that the viral nature of the video was picking up as two people with absolutely no connection to Cincinnati Christian University emailed me the video this last week. Apparently it hit the media this week as both a local television station and radio station commented on the video. Media vultures: if there's even a hint that you can lambaste Christians for something that could be deemed \"unspiritual,\" they're all over it.\nIt is my understanding that the emergence of this video left the school's administration scrambling as the inevitable \"I'm offended\" calls started to come in. I'm not quite sure how they've handled it. The video was originally pulled from YouTube earlier this week but someone else put it right back up. Hopefully the students who made it don't face any repercussion, especially since I did much worse than making a stupid video like that when I was in school.\nIf you take a look at some of the local buzz surrounding it [even from a liberal mag], many in the community seem to get it: it's a joke. It shows that CCU students are somewhat relevant and have a good sense of humor. In fact, this viral video has done as a good a job marketing the school than renting out billboards and bus ads.\nSpeaking as a former president of the university's alumni association, as well as a former employee who worked in the field of student recruiting, I'd take a different angle with these guys: I'd get them to make more videos. This kind of stuff resonates with seventeen and eighteen year-old kids. Plus, despite people who get ticked-off at anything and will voice their opposition, I think it gives the community a new perspective of the school, showing the creativity of its students.\nThe internet, and the way this emerging generation uses it, is forcing high school and college administrators to grapple with how they interact with the students. In many cases, faculty and staff are uncertain of what students are doing out on the world wide web and their natural response by officials is fear. But you can't keep kids away from the internet; it's now a part of their life and their education. Instead, they need to make concerted efforts to understand their online habits so, when something like a video going viral makes waves, they react responsibly.\nAll in all, not a big deal.\nNewer PostMiggity Mac\nOlder PostThese Hills",
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"raw_content": "Consciously Creating Results...The Ultimate Manifestation Course!\n\"Everything I've learned over 35 years in 5 easy steps...Dr. Joe Vitale\"\nHi. I'm Dr. Joe Vitale.\nThis is all about Consciously Creating Results.\nI'm calling it the Ultimate Manifestation Course, and that's what I intend for it to be for you.\nI don't know who you are, and I don't know what you've already studied.\nMaybe you know about the law of attraction.\nMaybe you know about creating your own reality.\nMaybe you know about goals and goal setting.\nMaybe all of this is new to you.\nMaybe you're a skeptic.\nMaybe this is the last straw.\nMaybe this is the last course.\nMaybe this is the first course.\nI don't know, and it doesn't matter, because what I'm doing is taking 35 some years of my personal experience and condensing it, boiling it down into a tight five step program.\nThese five steps will work. They will work for you.\nI'm gonna walk you through how to do each step. It is very simple. It's very easy. I will just break it down, so it's not complicated at all.\nI'll give you to-dos. You do the to-dos. You'll get the results.\nNow, that should be fantastic news for you right there, because if you haven't been getting results before, you're finally going to get them with this program, and I can guarantee it. I can guarantee it, because I'm living proof of it.\nAll of the concepts that I have used in my life I first tested on myself. When they worked on me, I went ahead and started sharing them with others. When they worked on others, I started putting them into books. 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I know what it's like to go through the dark night of the soul.\nI don't know if you're going through that or not, but I want to end it for you.\nI'm here to say you never have to struggle again. I'm here to say you never have to suffer again. I'm here to say you never have to worry again.\nYeah...You can worry. You can suffer.\nYou can struggle if you want to, but that's drama that is no longer necessary, especially after you go through this short course.\nNow, I'm calling this the Ultimate Manifestation Course, because I intend for that to be the exact definition of this course.\nThis is all about consciously creating results. Up until now, you've been creating by default, meaning you've been creating unconsciously.\nYou've been responding to life and life circumstances, and you haven't really been staking your claim, stating intentions, and going for them with any sort of definiteness of plan or purpose, but I want to help you get past all of that.\nI know the shortcuts. I know the hacks.\nI know how to get from here to there in the shortest way possible. I know how to help you make your dreams come true.\nNow, I don't know what your dreams are, and maybe at this point you don't even know.\nMaybe you are putting your toe in the water, and you're wondering If I can even help you decide on what you want.\nWell, I can help you there too, because a lot of people make mistakes about choosing what they want. A lot of people make mistakes about how they think manifestation works.\nA lot of people make mistakes about a misunderstanding concerning the law of attraction.\nA lot of people make mistakes about creating the results they want, and I want to wipe all of that away.\nNow, I'm at a point in my career ... I'm in my mid-60s. I've written 70 books. I'm a musician with 15 albums. I'm in movies. I think I'm in 15 to 20 movies both as an expert and as an actor. I've been on Larry King Live. I've been on every kind of major news media.\nI've been in all the major countries. I travel around the world, Russia, Peru, Poland, Bermuda, I mean, more countries than I even knew existed when I was growing up.\nI never knew I would get to do all of this, and have so much fun, and live the lifestyle of the rich and famous, but I didn't start this way.\nI started just like everybody else, scrambling, confused, desperate, clawing at life, trying to figure everything out, going through, as I mentioned, homelessness, poverty, and all this dark night of the soul. In fact, there were many dark nights. There wasn't one, but I came to the other side.\nI came out the other side, and my job now is to help you.\nThis course has a price on it, but this course has a price on it only to make sure you invest in it. I don't mean invest just money, but invest your energy, your attention, your time.\nI give away a lot of things. You can Google it. I give away Attract Money Now, which is at AttractMoneyNow.com. I give away the Beginner's Guide to Miracles. It's at TheBeginnersGuideToMiracles.com.\nI give away the book, Abundance Manifesto. I think it's at AbundanceManifesto.com. I have three volumes in the Miracles Manual.\nI give those away at MiraclesManual.com. I give away a lot of stuff.\nMost of the time when people receive something for free, they don't respect it.\nThey don't utilize it, and they don't get results from it. They need to have an investment.\nYou need to make an investment. That's why there's a price on this. It's a small price.\nDo you really think it's gonna make much difference in my life? It's gonna make a difference in your life. So, the small price for this is an investment, but it's an investment not of just money, but it's an investment of your psychological commitment.\nI want you to tell yourself you are in to make a difference. 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I'm living proof of it, but I've helped so many people, people that were broke, people that were homeless, people that were unknown, people who had no belief that they can change.\nThey have changed.\nI don't care if they wanted financial freedom, if they wanted just a little bit more money, if they wanted a relationship, if they wanted a healing, if they wanted to help their pets, or their neighbors, or a cause they believed in, or even if it was about awakening and having spirituality, which is so important to me as well.\nI've been able to help them with this method:\nThese five steps I'm recording for you in this very intimate video mentoring kind of program.\nThere is a price on it, only because I need you to commit that you're gonna watch these and you're gonna implement these.\nThen the promise is if you go through this, when you go through these programs and you implement everything, you will learn how to consciously create results, which means you will be able to choose what you want to have, do, and be.\nYou'll be able to select it, and you'll be able to manifest it.\nI'm gonna keep the mumbo-jumbo to a minimum.\nI'm a very metaphysical guy. 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If you feel ready, if you like the comfortableness of my intimate speaking to you in this way, that's what this program is going to be like for you.\nI'm gonna speak to you.\nI'm gonna do my best to help you awaken to how you change your mind and then discover what you need to do in a very easy, brief, concrete way to actually consciously create the results you prefer.\nThis is about the ultimate manifestation course.\nIf it feels like it's right for you, then by god, push the buy button.\nGo ahead and enroll in this, and let's move forward and start creating your reality.\nIf it isn't for you, then godspeed to you. Go to the next program. Go to the next book. It's fine with me.\nI want you happy.\nI want you wealthy.\nI want you healthy.\nI want you to have a fantastic life.\nIf I can participate in making that so for you, wonderful, but if there's somebody else, something else that feels more compelling to you, by god, go do it. I'm for it.\nYou know? I'm still learning. 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"raw_content": "The Outer is a Reflection of the Inner-Marla Stone\nOrganizing one's self if a big task that takes time and effort. Organizing one's space is a big task that takes time and effort. I don't know which one is easier or less frustrating or more valuable. I am pretty sure they go hand in hand. I do know there is a saying that says \"the outer is a reflection of the inner\". It is no mystery to me when I walk into a home or work environment or a friend's car that is piled up with papers, trash and STUFF that there is probably something going on inside that person either mentally, physically and or emotionally. It does not take a \"rocket scientist\" to know there is something going on creating the\"cyclone\" effect. I know all to well from my own environmental \"hurricane effects\", that my own \"Disorganized Self\" (D.S.) can create chaos and get in the way of my \"Organized Self\" (O.S.). I will start having an accumulation of piles of papers, collections of unnecessary items, wild and crazy clothing options, or duplicates of the same clothing item, and a sense of hopelessness and wonderment when looking at it all. My hopelessness comes from thinking about when I will have time to sort through everything, and organize it, and my wonderment comes from the wondering \"how did it happen\"? As I recall, I organized it the week before, so it should still be clean, correct?? I know that something is going on with me for the passionate chaos to perpetuate week after week, losing my abilities and techniques for on-going organization and order.\nI realize that \"Outer Disorganization\" (O.D.) is due to something with the inner self being off kilter. I know that I create O.D. when my lifestyle choices grow old and mundane, and I get stuck, frustrated and impatient creating and implementing new goals and dreams. I create the O.D. so I can focus on the STUFF, papers, confusion and my tropical storm path, instead of on the \"major issues\" of my life, like making real life changes, and resolving challenges. I realize that change and facing life challenges can be difficult, and then going forward with the changes, and working through the life challenges, can be like hitting a blizzard with a bikini on....cold and practically life-threatening.\nKnowing who I am, what I want and where I want to go can be daunting with thoughts twirling around and around like the Merry-Go-Round of my past. Knowing how to slow it all down, so there is calm and focus, and sorting through ideas, challenges, wants, desires and dreams can be confusing and scary. At the same time the change and challenge \"tunnel\" I must go through to get to the \"new me\" and \"the new lifestyle\" is an opportunity for growth and fulfillment.\nThe first stage of reckoning with one's D.S. is to formulate an idea of your \"ideal lifestyle\". Whatever that means to you. Whatever you would love your life to look like, smell like, taste like and be like. This idea will begin to create your individual life picture. Creating a dream board, by cutting out all the pictures and words and symbols from magazines that represent your inner self, and gluing them onto a big cardboard can start you off. Making a list of your dreams and goals may help you become clear on your lifestyle image. Writing out a journal of ideas, thoughts, dreams and wishes will help you formulate your \"ideal lifestyle\". That is the first step to Self & Space Organization.\nMy background as a Social Worker for 17 years, counseling 1000's of people, has led me to understand human nature. I love working closely with people and helping them learn to understand and love themselves better so they could be freed up in every way possible. After 17 years of sitting in the \"therapist chair\" I was glad to get my ARS up and running again. Being a Psychotherapist has its advantages, don't get me wrong. I was able to achieve so much in my 17 year career. I worked with the most extraordinary people, families, groups and colleagues imaginable. I worked with people that had debilitating challenges, Seniors, Children, Families and Individuals. I had a contract to see the Military Personnel from Camp Pendleton, and create interventions for PTSD and serious mental health challenges. I developed a Medication/ Treatment Alliance Program and still write articles pertaining to Serious Mental Health Challenges. All in all assisting people to become the best they can is my focus.\nI-Deal-Lifestyle is a Self & Space Organizationsm service where I can assist people in getting it all \"straight\"nd out!\nMarla Stone, Lifestyle Expert",
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"raw_content": "My Friend Actually OWNS A Notebook Shop!\nSometimes a notebook is so special you just have to take your time deciding what you want to use it for.\nWhen my friend, Liz, told me that she had undertaken a new venture - Hope House Press - I squealed with delight even thought I felt slightly jealous that she now owned a stationery-related company. It's a huge leap of faith for her and the family and they are working day and night to make this a success. Whilst it is a learning curve for them all, it's also wonderful (and a bit nervewracking) to hear all the behind-the-scenes news.\nEssentially, Hope House Press make personalised and bespoke leather notebooks which can be used as diaries or journals to document those important (and not so important) moments in your life. It's also probably the best present you can gift to any stationery lover or someone starting a new venture that needs documenting to look back over at a later date! My own leather notebook is caramel in colour (although I am also drooling over the British racing green) with black inking.\nMy B.O.A.T. (Book Of All Things) is an important part of my life as it acts as a diary, a bullet journal, a brain dump, a mind map, an ongoing bucket list... it's literally my life wrapped in a leather cover. I've not written in this notebook yet though, simply because I'm haven't found planner happiness this year. It's April and I've already attempted four systems!!! I'm a one-notebook kinda girl and when I settle in to something then that's IT! Once I do find that happy place (and I seriously think there isn't a printed planner out there to suit my needs, hence my obsession with notebooks and journals) then I will use this notebook. I know... I'm fussy but if you had a notebook this lovely, you'd want to make sure that it was fit for purpose, wouldn't you?\nAnyway, I'm all about supporting small UK businesses and products from the Hope House Press shop are at the top of my shopping list for at least three or four people for their birthday or Christmas this year. If you've got something specific in mind for a friend, why don't you have a chat with them to see if they can help out?\nHope House Press : Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram\n*Hope House Press did send me this notebook as a gift as they were trying out new techniques for the journals and their cover printing but I wanted to show them some support too. I truly believe in supporting home-grown small businesses, especially with stationery. The fact that I've got a glorious new leather notebook is a bonus*\nVictoria Wood - Gone But Never Forgotten\nMany times I have wondered how people can find themselves so emotionally involved with a 'celebrity' that they participate in public grieving on social media channels. I often think it is so that they can 'be seen to care' or to join in with a trend. I usually comment on the passing, sometimes share a relevant news article and then wait until the next Deadpool newsletter.\nHearing about the sudden and shocking passing of Victoria Wood was different. I immediately understood why people feel the need to communicate their grief. And why they feel so completely and utterly bereft.\nVictoria Wood is someone who's comedic genius I have grown up with. Even before I was old enough to understand her observational humour, I remember her appearing on our family television. Then slowly, and surely, some of the jokes felt as though they made sense - the Northern intention, the strong women used in her sketches... but just the way in which she managed to cover almost every single subject using music and humour and very little swearing. My mum used to email me Victoria Wood clips and quotes and scripts to cheer me up when she knew I was having a bit of rough week.\nI can't pick an absolute favourite sketch or song as there are so many to choose from. Acorn Antiques will always be one of the most ingenious \"continuing drama series\" that has ever been created and everyone loves The Ballad Of Barry And Freda. I occasionally revisit her sketch series, As Seen On TV and dinnerladies has one of the most connected scripts I've ever seen on a \"comedy drama\". I never tire of watching any of her stand-up shows whether they are as old as An Audience With... or something more recent such as Victoria Wood, Live At The Albert Hall. However, this is one small sketch that has been attributed to the way in which I deliver a stretch session after I've taken my running group out. The first time someone mentioned it, I cringed but, seriously, it's an honour to even have that accolade.\nI have no idea why I felt compelled to write this - there are far better tributes out there - but 2016 feels like the year that the best of the best started depleting and this just tipped me over the edge.\nLabels: cancer, celebrity, comedy\nEles Clothing Giveaway\nWhilst looking for clothes for my impending holiday, I came across this great website - Eles Clothing. They are a wholesale clothing company stocking ex-chain store items at rock bottom prices with all garments being guaranteed at brand new Grade A perfect stock (unless otherwise noted).\nI've been in touch with Eles Clothing and they've happily agree to give one lucky reader from the Typecast blog a dress from their new arrivals section which changes on a daily basis. It's really easy to enter - you just have to follow their Twitter account - @elesclothing - and let me know that you've done it via the Rafflecopter widget below. I've also included some additional entries to make it a bit more fun!\nTERMS AND CONDITIONS * This giveaway will begin at 00:01 on 21st April 2016 and will close at 23:59 on 29th May 2016 * This giveaway is open to any of my readers aged 18 or above who reside in the UK. * There is no cash alternative to the giveaway * There is one compulsory entry which asks the entrant to follow the Eles Clothing Twitter account. You can gain additional entries using the options in the Rafflecopter widget * There is one (1) prize in total * The prize has been provided by Eles Clothing * The prize winner will be asked to provide their email address so that contact can be made to arrange prize delivery * Entries will only be accepted as instructed and any entrant that does not complete the qualifying requirements will be disqualified * The winner will be chosen by using a random number generator built into the Rafflecopter widget and will be contacted direct on the email address provided within five (5) days of the draw.\n5 YouTube Channels You Should Be Watching In April\nMy previous YouTube recommendation post was a HUGE hit, which was a bit of a surprise. The theme was picked up on by Kirsty who is also sharing her fab five each month now. It's always intriguing to see what type of content other people watch, whether they actually subscribe to receive regular updates from one particular content creator and how much time they spend watching their chosen content.\nIt's also interesting to see how YouTube take your viewing history and recommend more videos for you to watch. I've tried it with a few themes and the endorsed content is always from highly-subscribed channels and/or videos that already have a huge number of views - especially where they are all connected to a specific 'keyword' (i.e. What's In My Bag, The Best Friend Tag, My Boyfriend Does My Make-Up... meh). Where is the support for the channels looking to grow or those that cannot seem to break through this type of crap? Leading on from this, there is a fascinating realisation from a handful of highly-subscribed channel owners that regular content is becoming static and there are fluctuating trends for certain styles.\nI don't know what the fix is - or if, indeed, there is one. It feels as though more people are producing video content these days and expecting to make an income from it. I truly believe that, just like in television or film, there are a few people who are engaging and know how to retain audience attention and there are others who don't. So, on that note, here are the five YouTube channels I think you should be watching in April.\nThe Stomach Churner\nThere's parkour and urban climbing and then there's James Kingston. His style of video production and communication with his audience has improved dramatically over the past 12 months or so and it's one of the best uses of a GoPro on YouTube at the moment.\nThe Travel Vlogger\nI can't remember how I discovered Christian le Blanc's channel (it definitely wasn't his elephant selfie that went viral because I've literally only just seen that) but he has done something that most of us only dream of - given up his corporate life to travel the world. His channel is woefully under-subscribed for the experiences that he shares and for the really useful \"How To...\" travel-related videos\nWhen I picked up a ukulele for the first time last year, this was the first channel that can up in a search when I was looking for instructions on how to play a certain song. The Ukulele Teacher makes learning really easy with demonstrations and annotations and I love that he's not the best singer (I hope he doesn't mind me saying that...) but has a go anyway!\nThe Over-40 Female Vlogger\nDominique Sachse is a newscaster from Houston, Texas and shares a lot of lifestyle tips for women who are a similar age to her. She's obviously learnt a lot from the professional studio stylists over the years and is extremely adept at styling her own hair and make-up application. There's also some great advice videos on topics such as public speaking, fitness and looking good in photographs.\nThere were a few shocked faces last month when I didn't recommend Dr Pimple Popper but I thought it was a bit too obvious, what with my obsession with cysts! Anyway, due to popular demand, here is the best channel out there for all things filled with pus - no dodgy camerawork and profession-led explanations about the procedures. I still wish I hadn't bottled it when I had my pyogenic granuloma removed last month - I really should have filmed the whole operation!\nIt's time to recommend me some new content to watch. I don't care what it is but it should be something that really engages you and, as I said last month, the more random, the better!\nYou can also subscribe to me on YouTube too if you like...\nLabels: How To, lifestyle, make-up, music, parkour, travel, youtube\nExciting times as I'm off on my holidays soon and one thing I pride myself on is packing a good travel bag.\nThis year's travel bag is the Mia Tui Emma in Tan. It's such a fabulous size (it is cabin size compliant) and a gorgeous tan shade which, I think, is a timeless and classic colour (it also matches my shoes and is the colour I hope to be on my return...). I have talked previously about how much I love the concept of the Mia Tui bags, especially the coordinating accessories that are included. So let's see what I'm going to put in it.\nFirst in (and out) of the bag is my Filofax Flex. I was never too enamoured with this as a notebook system however it makes the perfect travel document case. In here we keep our passports, all our travel documents, the airport parking information, our travel insurance and our EHIC (Eurpean Health Insurance Cards). I always keep a pocket notebook in here too with emergency contact details jotted down and a pen.\nNext is my tablet which I have loaded up with music and podcasts to keep me entertained whilst travelling. Our flight this year is under three hours but you never know if there is going to be a delay, do you? And, of course, I have my headphones too. The ones I'm taking this ear are bluetooth headphones from 1byone on Amazon and take up next to no room at all.\nI also take my Kindle with me. I know I could use the Kindle app on the tablet but I prefer the compactness of the Kindle - it's something I've got used to over the years. You'll notice that I'm still using a 4th Gen Kindle - it works perfectly and is usually to hand wherever I am anyway. If you've got a book to recommend to me before I go, let me know!\nI'm not keen on taking a coat onto the airport - I sometimes carry a lightweight jacket - but a scarf/pashmina style wrap is always a great addition to my hand luggage. I can use it to cover up to keep warm or as a neck cushion on the plane.\nBecause of all the gadgets, I've obviously got to carry a few chargers with me. I champion Lumsing because they make great products so from their Cube series we are taking a 2-port wall-charger which is super-lightweight. I've also got my trusty Lumsing powerbank with me to give the mobile phone a bit of a boost if I've been using it in the flight lounge.\nThis year I was torn about taking my big camera with me as the majority of my photographs are taken on my mobile phone but, at the end of the day, there are some shots that just need a better camera - and I've packed my tripod so I might be able to get some time-lapse shots too. #channellingCaseyNeistat\nWe are going somewhere with a fair bit of sun so sunglasses are a must for when I get off the plane and I tend to have a little bag of personal essentials which include everything to freshen up. Go-to items are my Tangle Tease hairbrush, a small amount of make-up, some deodorant, lip balm and anti-bacterial handwash (or wet wipes). My toothbrush and some toothpaste is always in this section of the bag too. The last thing that I've got in there is a spare pair of glasses and some contact lens solution.\nFinally, I have my purse (which I trim down to take just the essentials like my driving licence, identification, bank/credit card and some local currency), my keys, my mobile phone and a pack of mints!\nHave a look at everything in my video too. Am I missing anything? What are your travel essentials - let me know in the comments.\nLabels: filofax, handbag, holiday, lifestyle, Lumsing, Mia Tui, travel\nWho Is Your #EPICDANCEOFF Winner?\nWe all know I'm a bit of a reality TV show junkie so when MoneySupermarket invited me to gather the family, have a bit of a party and view their latest advert during the first episode of the new series of Britain's Got Talent, I didn't hesitate. If you haven't already seen it then watch it here...\nTwitter went a bit mental over the #EPICDANCEOFF - and quite rightly so. We saw high-kicking Dave battling it out with pole-dancing Colin with a bit of body-popping Gary thrown in for extra awesome-sauce!\nThe whole idea behind the advert is to show you how epic saving money can make you feel (I'm not sure it can make *me* walk in heels that high or do the splits after all these years) and you can vote for your favourite dancer on the MoneySupermarket website.\nLet me know who you vote for!\nThis post is in collaboration with MoneySuperMarket, but all thoughts are my own.\nThree Reasons Why Writing Matters\nFor National Stationery Week, I was asked why I believe writing matters so I picked these three reasons.\nHandwriting fascinates me. We all have a hand and a writing implement and have been taught how to form letters and numbers however, the way in which we connect our hand to our pen and make the swirls and shapes on the paper creates a style of handwriting that is as individual as our DNA. My handwriting is part of me... part of my personality and it's probably the reason that I enjoy analogue note-taking rather than using a digital method. I also find that writing something down makes it feel more permanent and helps me to remember it. I don't have the neatest handwriting in the world but it's legible and I would love to learn calligraphy one day.\nAs I just touched on, I'm very much an analogue note-taker and fill notebook after notebook of rambling thoughts and jottings. At work I have lists of contacts and I always make a little note next to their name so that I can make the next phone call a little bit more personalised and make them feel important. Of course, I use my bullet journal every day (love, love, love list making) and I always have a notebook to hand to scribble ideas into. I don't feel that we make as many personal notes on our digital gadgets - just reminders that ping throughout the day, telling us that we've got something else to do.\nI don't really have a favourite pen - although my J Herbin rollerball comes close to owning that title - so I use fineliners, biros, eraseable pens, fountain pens, pencils, highlighters... all sorts of ways to get those thoughts, ideas and lists into my planning system by using my own handwriting.\nNational Stationery Week runs from 25th April - 1st May 2016. You can find out more about why writing matters by visiting the National Stationery Week website and you can have a read of this great A-Z of why writing matters too!\nDid you know that I've been nominated as Stationery Blogger of the Year by National Stationery Week? >>> you can vote for me here <<< and I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance.\nGreat to be working with @small_man_media again on the #blog for #nationalstationeryweek at the end of April. Here are some off their sponsors - looking forward to trying out those pastel pens the most !! \ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udcd2\u2712\u270f\ud83d\udcce\nA photo posted by Nickie (@nickieohara) on Mar 13, 2016 at 5:09am PDT\nLabels: National Stationery Week, stationery\nWhat's in store for the UK Property Market in 2016\nWhile most of us are only interested in whether house prices will go up or down, it appears that the UK property market will have several other issues to contend with in 2016.\nThe recent budget introduced several factors which will impact the property market, particularly for second-home buyers and buy-to-let landlords. However, despite the fact that the country is suffering a major housing crisis, in terms of supply, the budget had nothing to address this shortage, or anything that gave hope that house price inflation would be brought down to a more manageable level.\nSo let's take a look at what we predict will happen to the UK property market in 2016.\nA rush to buy buy-to-let properties before the deadline\nFollowing the announcement that stamp duty is set to rise in the new financial year, some people may have rushed to make a purchase prior to the higher stamp duty rates taking effect. Although this will have led to a temporary rise in property prices, they'll probably fall back down again over the next few months as the demand for properties goes down. However, due to the Open Property Group\u2019s house buying process, there's always an easy way to ensure that you get the best prices when selling your property.\nEncouraging first-time buyers back to the market\nHouse prices and sales have been given a boost by the government's Help-to-Buy scheme, and the announcement that there will be a new ISA for people under 40, where the Government will top up funds by 25% as an incentive to get people to save for a deposit, will see more young people being able to buy their first property.\nA potential rise in mortgage rates\nAlmost seven years have passed since the Bank of England cut interest rates to a record low of 0.5%. Since then, despite yearly predictions that interest rates will rise, they've remained low. However, now that the US central bank has increased its interest rates, are we set to follow suit? Independent economists think that the time has come to increase rates, although they're likely to only go up by a maximum of 0.5%. However, any rise in interest rates will have implications for mortgage holders, whether they've got an existing mortgage or are just about to enter the property market.\nMore expensive rental properties\nThe announcement that stamp-duty rates are set to rise by 3% means that there's likely to be hard times ahead for landlords, particularly as this will be combined with changes to some of the tax privileges that buy-to-let landlords have enjoyed thus far. Furthermore, the Bank of England are looking to limit overall lending to buy-to-let borrowers, a measure which is likely to be granted. While these changes are based on the premise that the rise in the number of private landlords is one of the reasons for the difficulties faced by first-time buyers in getting on the property ladder, this is going to hit renters hard as landlords simply raise their rents to cover their extra outgoings. This in turn will have an effect on the renters' ability to save money for a deposit to buy their own home.\nMarch has been and gone and it's been a busy and emotional month for me. Here are some of the things I learnt over the past 31 days or so.\nA possible cancer scare can make you re-evaluate your life. I can also make you want to curl up into a tight little ball and want to block the world out for a few days even though you have to carry on as normal. It wasn't cancer (see below) but that thought was in the back of my mind a lot.\nThe NHS moves fast... very fast. I've had reason to utilise our bloody fantastic National Health Service over the past six weeks or so for two completely different reasons. On both occasions a referral for treatment was required and, despite being told there may be a waiting list of a few weeks, I was treated as an urgent case within a week for the first referral and received an appointment for assessment in under two weeks for the second. No matter what is written in the media about our health service, you can't deny that it's one of the best in the world.\nGiovanna Fletcher is pretty bloody awesome. The woman who pointed out her \"mummy tummy\" just a few days after Gi had given birth is not. Don't even get me started about the way in which there are media expectations for new mums to 'bounce back'...\nOh, Giovanna Fletcher, you are my absolute heroine this week!! For everything you said on your Instagram post I just...\nPosted by Nickie O'Hara on Friday, 4 March 2016\nmagazine.co.uk are a great company to work with (I'm one of their writers for The Hub) and it's always worth entering their competitions as one of my readers, Sam (who writes the blog So Bad Ass) will testify after leaving this comment on my Facebook page! Congrats, Sam!!\nThe first item to be sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. I also found out (via this Buzzfeed article) what the first video ever uploaded to YouTube was, the first picture shared on Instagram and that the first ever text-based online multiplayer game can still be played and it looks a lot like that game at the start of the film 'Big'.\nThe BBC website is producing some great longform articles at the moment. I found the article \"How The Tube changed music\" totally fascinating and never knew that the programme took its name from the circular covered walkway leading to the studio!!\nTippex was probably the reason we have MTV today. We all know that Mike Nesmith's (he of The Monkees) mum was responsible for investing Tippex but when she died, he invested his inheritance into a 'pop clips' TV show concept which paved the way for MTV. [more stationery facts in this Telegraph article]\nNot one person in my twitter timeline ever clicks on a link that a celebrity has retweeted for \"charity\" or to \"raise awareness\" but a few of my friends who are fairly well-known (authors, television presenters) are asked to do it on a regular basis and have to decide whether to support everything (and risk having their timeline flooded with requests) or nothing (and being seemingly heartless). What would you do? Let me know in the comments\nIf, on the day of the budget (16th March) you see this clip from BBC Breaking...\nUk Chancellor George Osborne appears with traditional red box ahead of #Budget2016. More: https://t.co/RzCbjSNadw https://t.co/F60PEpCb2y\n\u2014 BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 16, 2016\nand ask for someone to \"slow it down and put the Reservoir Dogs theme tune behind it\"...\nPlease can someone slow this down and put the Reservoir Dogs theme tune to it? #Budget2016https://t.co/5IZOZtOYQn\n\u2014 Nickie (@nickieohara) March 16, 2016\nsomeone actually will!! Thanks Andy!!\nNo-one can tell me Why People Write Like This On Social Media and no-one can find the setting to make it happen on their mobile phone keyboard. It's hard to touch type like that and even harder to remember to put a capital letter at the beginning of each word anyway but it's bloody annoying (point of note: the test panel is probably all aged over 30 - maybe I should ask some of GenY - or those born in the 1990s).\nI'm thinking of starting a Cysterhood monthly round-up. I'm ever so slightly fascinated with cyst-popping videos and I attempted to collate a few once upon a time but I feel waaaay too old for Tumblr and it's just another place to update. Anyway... would you be interested in something like that or should I just link to my hero of the year, Dr Pimple Popper once a month? Doesn't she have the BEST job in the world?\nWe should give Kim Kardashian more credit that we probably are doing. I never thought I would say something like that but I was reading an article about her open letter on International Women's Day which is based around her feeing empowered by her own body. It made me think that, regardless of how she became famous, and whoever it was that 'leaked' her sex tape, she's taken that notoriety and turned it into a multi-million dollar business for her and her family. And there's definitely no shame in that.\nHere is my video of the month. It's one that's been in my favourites for a while and I'm sure I've shared it with you before but I was reminded of it during a conversation with Liska. It's Bobby McFerrin demonstrating 'expectation' using the Pentatonic Scale. The way he says that no matter where he travels, the results are the same just go to show that music transcends all languages.\nSo there we go. Every day is a school day and it was a wisdom-packed experience this month. Let me know something that you've learnt this month in the comments.\nLabels: blogging, health, music, politics, random, stationery\nSlots Of Fun... then and now\nI was brought up in a Victorian seaside town. We had a traditional \u2018square\u2019 where all the shops were housed (including one that was very much like the department store in the British sitcom, Are You Being Served), a boating lake, beach huts and a pier.\nIt was a great treat to visit the pier as we knew that we were going to have a walk along the rickety wooden slats, with the wind whipping at our hair and our face, we would probably have an ice cream and a ride on the dodgems and then be given a bag of 1p and 2p pieces to play on the slot machines - you know the ones\u2026 the push and shove game-of-chance ones where you ended up putting in all your money - even your winnings! But the thrill of watching that precariously balanced pile of coins, just waiting to topple off the edge and into your winning tray was worth it.\nEven after growing up and moving away from the seaside town, I took my children - and now even my grandchildren - to the same pier and watch the excitement in their eyes as they try to win a new pile of coins in exactly the same way I did and even on exactly the same machines!\nToday, I can replicate that excitement without even leaving the house. There are lots of slots games to play online and it\u2019s safe to say that the concept of gambling online is an idea that has taken hold.\nEveryone has their favourite game on their mobile. It\u2019s a great way to kill time when you\u2019re waiting for an appointment or to meet a friend, or you\u2019re just at a bit of a loose end wherever you may be. And now, of course, it\u2019s not just about getting to the next level on Candy Crush; you can also play for cash whenever you feel like it.\nThere are lots of different casino games and slots that you can play online. I like finding gaming websites that allow you to play for free (in demo mode) to give you a feel for the game, understand the rules and decide which game suits you best. At sites like http://slots.info/ you can start playing in just a couple of clicks. There is also a choice of mobile games which include some of the site\u2019s most popular slots like a Game of Thrones themed game.\nPlaying games on your laptop or mobile is now as accepted as everything else we do almost everything online \u2013 from catching up with friends to paying the bills. There\u2019s nowhere more convenient to play games as you can login to play wherever you are at any time that takes your fancy.\nWhy Are Some Men Looking for a Russian Bride?\nWhat makes men from all over the world want to have a Russian bride? That\u2019s actually the question that haunts many today. The reason for such an interest is probably the constantly growing number of international marriage agencies available online. If you have ever delved into this topic, you know that many of dating websites are scams. Along with that, there are still reliable ones that truly offer their unique services with the only aim \u2013 to unite lonely hearts. For those who are interested, one of them can be found here: https://www.marriageagency-nataly.net. However, that\u2019s not really the point right now, as the main question is why Russian girls? Surely, most of them are fashion-conscious, beautiful, and looking great even in the grocery store, but there are also lots of attractive women in the U.S. and Western Europe. Are Russian women great personalities? Most likely, they are, as well as plenty of other women throughout the world. So why are some men looking for a Russian bride? Here are the reasons provided by several happy husbands who were lucky enough to marry Slavic women:\nThe fact is that for many years Russians were not allowed to leave the Soviet Union so that the female population spent long time trapped by the \u201cIron Curtain.\u201d However, after its fall, these girls appeared on the world\u2019s scene in all their glory. Attractive appearance plus distinctive personal traits have done their job. Even after all these years, Russian women can surprise, and that is what makes them desirable to so many men throughout the world.\nWhat are Russian traditional family values? In fact, they are the same that were in the U.S. before the late 1960\u2019s, to be more exact, the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement. In Russia, the family is still the top priority. This simple truth, as well as the woman\u2019s role within the family, is passed from mothers to their daughters. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the latest generation is beginning to behave more and more like their peers elsewhere in the world.\nMysterious Russian soul\nThat\u2019s probably the most unusual reason for such an interest in Russian women. The fact is that nobody knows exactly what it means, even Russian girls themselves. Perhaps, that is something about cultural wealth or Russian long-lasting traditions. However, like any other mystery, this one requires a solution that enthusiastic men are trying to find.\nIt\u2019s not a secret that lots of Russian women grew up in families with below-average income. Moreover, the situation did not change much even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at least, for most people. As a result, some men believe that dating a Russian girl is their chance to save money as there is no necessity to give her expensive gifts. Hey, guys, that\u2019s not the case! Although Russian girls are content with little, this doesn\u2019t mean that you don\u2019t have to be lavish. Girls love nice things, and Russians are not an exception!\nSo these are the real life reasons for dating a Russian woman. You can accept them or reject them. Anyway, they have the right to exist. As for the girls, they are just seeking for love, respect, understanding, trust, honesty, and confidence in the future, as well as all other women no matter what country their come from. However, if you still want to have a Russian bride, you know where to find her!\nHow to Prepare for a Smooth Flight\nOne of the great aspects of living in England is the proximity to other European Countries and cultures. Whether it\u2019s a weekend away to a lively beach resort or a week long holiday to explore an entirely different culture and maybe brush up on second language skills, the short distance and affordability of international travel from England make it all possible. As an experienced traveller, I decided to highlight some of my top tips that I have learned to help make your next travel experience a pleasant one.\nIf you are late to the Bus, you scream at the top of your (internal) voice and then wait for the next one. When you arrive late to work, you simply give your Boss an excuse and then sit down to start your daily tasks. Do you know what happens if you are late for your flight? \u201cSorry Ma\u2019am, your flight has already boarded, and you will have to buy another ticket.\u201d If your airline of choice has advised you to arrive three hours before your scheduled departure, don\u2019t take it as a guideline, take is as gospel.\nDon't Count on Entertainment\nTechnology has made flying a much more comfortable experience. However, it isn\u2019t infallible. I can\u2019t count the times that my headrest screen didn\u2019t work, or I was stuck with a broken headphone plug, or my mobile phone ran out of battery just as I boarded the flight and I have spent five hours listening to the person next to me tell me about their entire life. If you aren\u2019t sure what to buy, the Groupon discount codes page for Debenhams has some great options for games and puzzles. 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"raw_content": "https://www.incomeinvestors.com/dividend-investor-earn-9-percentage-energy-sector/12299/\tEEP Stock: Earn a 9.0% Return from the Energy Sector\tGaurav Sharma, BA Income Investors 2017-01-13T03:00:50Z 2017-08-09 11:58:39 Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. NYSE:EEP EEP stock dividend stocks dividend investors Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE:EEP) is a stock that dividend investors should not ignore, because high barriers to entry, inflation-indexed revenue, and high margins. Dividend Stocks,Enbridge Energy Partners Stock,News https://www.incomeinvestors.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dividend-Investor-150x150.jpg\nEEP Stock: Earn a 9.0% Return from the Energy Sector\nDividend Investors Shouldn\u2019t Ignore This Company\nAs a dividend investor, the most important information after the yield is how the business operation is going to support the dividend. The dividend\u2019s safety relies on every aspect of the business, from the financials to the competitive environment.\nSince it is difficult to start such a business, there is not much in terms of competition. Since there are so few companies in the sector, the existing ones own a larger percentage of the market share as a whole when compared to a low-barrier-to-entry market. This is called an oligopoly environment.\nSo few companies in the market also means that those companies\u2019 profits are inflation-indexed. From a dividend investor point of view, this is all great because it means that the dividend is protected because the bottom line should grow. With growing profits there is also a possibility that dividend hikes could be seen.\nThe company I\u2019ve found has high profit margins and operates in the energy sector. This sector requires a large up-front capital investment to start a business in. But, after the initial investment, costs outside of maintenance are minimal.\nThe company I\u2019ve found that meets these criteria is Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE:EEP). Enbridge operates in the pipeline sector, which is spread across North America.\nThe current dividend yield for EEP stock is 9.04%, which is based on the current trading price of $25.78. Even though the dividend yield is high, it has been increased every year for the past seven years, in part because of the sector the business is in.\nEnbridge\u2019s competition primarily comes not from other pipeline companies, but the railway sector. However, when comparing the two different methods of transporting oil, there is a clear winner.\nPipelines vs. Railways\nWhen oil companies are looking to partner with a company to move oil, there are two important factors they need to consider: cost and efficiency.\nThe two most popular choices when moving oil are pipelines and railway carts. In terms of cost, pipelines are the clear winner between the two. The fees associated with pipelines are approximately a third of those associated with moving oil via railway. For oil companies, these fees could be the difference of meeting or missing quarterly earnings. (Source: \u201cAbout Pipelines,\u201d Association of Oil Pipe Lines, last accessed January 12, 2017.)\nToni Lucatorto/Flickr\nAnother reason why pipelines are preferred over railways is their safety efficiency record. History shows that railway carts are over 4.5 times more likely to see an oil spill during transportation. Besides the obvious loss of money and time, oil spills can be a public relations nightmare. (Source: \u201cSafety in the Transportation of Oil and Gas: Pipelines or Rail?, \u201d Fraser Institute, last accessed January 12, 2017.)\nBut pipelines aren\u2019t perfect, and occasional oil spills will happen. However, the majority of the time, the spill occurs in the facility and not in the actual pipeline. And, even then, the amount of oil spilled is much less than in a railway oil spill.\nTime is another efficiency metric that makes pipelines the clear winner. Filling the pipeline with oil is done seamlessly, but is very time-consuming for railway carts because they need to be filled one at a time.\nFinal Thoughts on EEP Stock\nNo matter how you look at it, EEP stock is a great investment for dividend investors to consider. This is especially true with yields on saving accounts and money market products offering little return.\nAs a dividend investor, Enbridge Energy Partners is exactly what investors want from a company: high barriers to entry, inflation-indexed revenue, and high margins.\nThis 10.7% Dividend Yield Has Gotten a Lot Safer",
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"raw_content": "Keep a close eye on the Colts' newest tight end, Ross Travis\nIndianapolis Colts tight end Ross Travis, a former hoops star, is one of many new players on the roster. But the team is excited about his potential.\nKeep a close eye on the Colts' newest tight end, Ross Travis Indianapolis Colts tight end Ross Travis, a former hoops star, is one of many new players on the roster. But the team is excited about his potential. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/2BPyMHv\nStephen Holder, stephen.holder@indystar.com Published 5:03 p.m. ET Dec. 20, 2017 | Updated 8:27 p.m. ET Dec. 20, 2017\nIndianapolis Colts coordinators Ted Monachino and Rob Chudzinski discuss the uncertainty of the NFL and how their families deal with it. 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(Photo11: Matt Kryger/IndyStar)\nColts at Ravens, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, NFL\nINDIANAPOLIS \u2013 Ross Travis still remembers when he was first approached with the idea of pursuing a spot in the NFL.\nFresh off a college basketball career at Penn State \u2013 and by fresh, we mean two weeks \u2013 the seed was planted in Ross\u2019 head by agent Casey Muir, who had been referred to Travis through a friend.\nAll Travis had to do was prepare for a pro day \u2026 in two days.\n\u201cI was like, \u2018What am I supposed to do in two days?\u2019\u201d said Travis, now a member of the Indianapolis Colts.\nTravis successfully pushed his tryout back a couple of weeks, but there\u2019s no amount of time that would have prepared a non-football player for a football tryout of this magnitude.\n\u201cA few teams came out,\u201d Travis said. \u201cI was out there running the 40-yard dash with two weeks of training. I felt like I was just out there running around, really.\u201d\nAnd then Travis ran it in 4.6 seconds.\nScouts took notice. What if this gangly, 6-7 basketball forward actually had some football potential? What if he could be the latest in a long line of former college hoops players to make the transition to tight end? As it turns out, Travis has answered both those questions in the affirmative.\nBut the Colts want to know more. And they\u2019re going to have a chance to find out.\nInsiders Stephen Holder and Zak Keefer discuss Luck's future and coaching changes. Clark Wade/IndyStar\nIndianapolis claimed the former Kansas City tight end off waivers on Nov. 28, using its high waiver priority (the waiver wire order is tied to a team\u2019s record) to reunite General Manager Chris Ballard with a player he is familiar with from his time with the Chiefs.\nTravis joins the Colts at a late juncture, with just two games remaining in 2017. But they have him under contract for next season, too, and you shouldn\u2019t be surprised if he\u2019s a player they take a closer look at in the coming offseason.\nThe Colts already have made an effort to get Travis involved. He doesn\u2019t know the entire offensive playbook but coaches gave him a package of plays he could run and wasted little time putting him to use.\nTravis caught two passes for 33 yards in the Colts\u2019 Week 15 loss to the Denver Broncos, a small sample but one that created significant intrigue nonetheless.\n\u201cHe\u2019s everything (Ballard) said before he brought him in here,\u201d coach Chuck Pagano said. \u201cHe\u2019s one of those mismatch guys that you can move around, get him out in space and he\u2019s long and athletic. Got a huge catch radius. He can run; he\u2019s deceptively fast. He understands coverage, can find a way to get open, so he\u2019s an interesting guy moving forward. I\u2019m glad we have him.\u201d\nIf you find Travis\u2019 route to the Colts surprising, you shouldn\u2019t. Travis certainly does not. Football was always in his heart. But basketball was in his genes.\nThe 3-11 Indianapolis Colts play the 8-6 Baltimore Ravens Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Clark Wade / IndyStar\nFootball \u201cstarted out as my first love,\u201d he said. \u201cBut my whole family played basketball, so I played basketball. But I missed the game. So, I came back to it.\u201d\nWhen Travis stepped on the football field back in the spring of 2015, it was his first foray into football since the ninth grade.\nThat makes it all the more impressive to consider that he seems to be a quick learner and has already managed to show shades of what he might be in the future. It will be interesting to see what kind of leap Travis can make in the offseason and in next year\u2019s training camp. He\u2019s certainly in dogged pursuit of progress. He spent his time in Kansas City absorbing what he could from star tight end Travis Kelce. And last offseason, he sought out former All-Pro Tony Gonzalez and trained with him in California.\nHe\u2019ll have to fight to make a mark in Indianapolis. The Colts already have do-everything tight end Jack Doyle on their roster and they\u2019re excited about the return next season of another converted basketball player, Erik Swoope, from a knee injury that sidelined him for all of 2017.\nTravis doesn\u2019t have enough bulk to be much of a blocker right now. He\u2019s listed at 235 pounds, not much for a player of his height. One of his goals in the coming months is to add significant weight. But even if he does not, he\u2019s got a skill set that is tantalizing. The Colts can use him as a true hybrid tight end in the Coby Fleener mold. Fleener, when he was with the Colts from 2012 to 2015, often lined up in the slot.\nIf you\u2019re wondering why Kansas City didn\u2019t hang on to Travis, it\u2019s largely because of his lack of involvement on special teams. The Chiefs, in the midst of the AFC playoff hunt, are in a much different situation than the Colts and have had to be more judicious with their roster spots. Travis actually started three games earlier this season, but his playing time dipped later in the season, making him susceptible to being cut.\nBut in Indianapolis, Travis is getting a shot. There\u2019s opportunity behind Doyle and Swoope in a tight end unit that lacks depth. And Ballard is a big proponent of acquiring players with unique qualities. 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"raw_content": "Whether you are looking to position your company as the obvious choice for that lucrative new contract or to position yourself as the obvious choice for that new promotion an important part of your influence strategy will be to highlight your previous experiences and past accomplishments. The skills you have developed and the successes you have achieved can serve as important pointers serving to persuade future customers and employers alike to choose your organization or you.\nBut when it comes to convincing others, doesn\u2019t prospect beat precedent? And as a result won\u2019t people be more persuaded by your potential to deliver for them in the future rather than the success you have had delivering for others in the past.\nWhen it comes to the business of influencing others, where should you focus most of your attention \u2013 describing the realities of your past, or communicating your potential to deliver in the future?\nIn a quick (and admittedly very unscientific) survey that I conducted with some folks in the office, a clear answer to this question emerged. Focus on your past success and achievements. At first glance this intuitively seems to make sense. Actual achievements are surely more compelling than the potential to achieve in the future for one very good reason. They have already been achieved. They are concrete. They leave no room for doubt.\nTherefore, all other things being equal, it is more likely that the award winning company with many years experience will be more likely to secure that lucrative new contract compared to the less experienced company that merely has the potential to win future awards. Similarly, it is likely that the candidate who has already achieved notable success will be more attractive to a prospective employer than one who only has the potential to succeed.\nOf course this isn\u2019t always the case. Examples abound of budding sports stars that negotiate eye-watering sums of money on the basis of their future potential. Former American Football Quarterback JaMarcus Russell was The Oakland Raiders\u2019 first pick in the 2007 NFL draft, landing a contract worth an astounding $61million. Clearly, the Raiders saw such potential in Russell that they were persuaded to pay top dollar for his services despite that potential, never translating into reality.\nThe persuasive pull of potential isn\u2019t just limited to the domain of sports \u2013 it happens in business too. Many of us will recall examples where the inexperienced but promising candidate landed that promotion over a more experienced one. And pretty much everybody who has worked in a business development or sales role will, at some time, have lost a deal to a supplier that, at least on paper, didn\u2019t match your level of experience and past achievements.\nIn a new set of studies soon to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Stanford University Professor Zak Tormala and his colleagues sought to find out why, when making decisions, people often find potential more compelling than reality.\nIn one of their studies, participants were asked to evaluate two applicants who had applied for a senior position in the banking division of a large company. Each of the candidates\u2019 backgrounds and qualifications were identical with one key exception. The first applicant, let\u2019s call him Candidate A, had gained 2 years\u2019 relevant industry experience and also scored highly on a Leadership Assessment test. The second applicant (Candidate B) had gained little experience but did score highly on a Leadership Potential test. The results of the study showed that those shown information about the Candidate B\u2019s potential rated that applicant as more successful and a better leader than those shown information about what Candidate A had achieved.\nIn an attempt to test this preference for potential in a more consumer based environment, another study was conducted with users of a social media website. In the study Facebook users were shown a series of quotes about a comedian. Half were shown quotes highlighting the comedian\u2019s potential. They read comments such as \u201cThis guy could become the next big thing\u201d or \u201cNext year everyone could be talking about this comedian.\u201d The other half were shown quotes that focused attention on the comedian\u2019s actual achievements. \u201cCritics say he has become the next big thing\u201d or \u201cEveryone is talking about this guy.\u201d\nAs was the case with the recruitment study, Facebook users registered much greater interest (measured by click-rates) and liking (measured by fan-rates) in the comedian when quotes about his potential were advertised demonstrating general preference for information about potential compared to information about reality.\nSumming up their findings Tormala and his team came to the conclusion that whilst potential achievements will undoubtedly be more uncertain than actual achievements, uncertainty does have a tendency to arouse more interest.\nDoes this mean that when it comes to decision making, people actually believe potential to be a more reliable decision trigger than reality? Certainly not. But given that potential is considered more arousing it could lead to people paying greater attention to it which may result in it having a bigger impact. In fact the study authors go on to make this exact point suggesting that if supporting information is provided immediately after attention is focused on potential (e.g. a testimonial from a trusted source, a high leadership score or some other type of persuasive message), people\u2019s likelihood to develop a more favorable attitude or impression to what is being offered is increased.\nSo if you are applying for that promotion (or providing an endorsement for someone who is) then the science is suggesting that you would be more effective by first highlighting the future potential you (or the person you are endorsing) will bring to the role rather than immediately leading with prior experience. 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"raw_content": "Jacob Freud\nJacob Freud (1815-1896) was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.\nBorn in Galicia,[1] and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah,[2] he mainly earned his living as a wool merchant.[3]\nJacob Freud married three times, with two children coming from his first marriage, and eight children from his third marriage to Amalia Freud, twenty years his younger. His eldest son from his first marriage became a father a year before Sigmund - the first son of his third marriage - was born; so that the latter was an uncle at birth, with his nephew John a constant (and older) playmate in his early years.[4] Ernest Jones speculates that the unusual family background may have prompted Sigmund - the eldest but third son - into an early interest in family dynamics.[5]\nBy all accounts, Jacob Freud was a genial, unassuming character with a \"Micawberish\" streak of optimism:[6] Sigmund would write warmly of \"his characteristic mixture of deep wisdom and fantastic lightheartedness\".[7] Yet there is evidence that Jacob's meekness in the face of anti-Semitic bullying also disturbed Sigmund profoundly.[8] Much of the latter's ambition, his combativeness, and his subsequent quest for powerful father figures such as Ernst Br\u00fccke and Joseph Breuer,[9] may be traced back to his ambivalence about his own yielding and 'vague' father.[10]\nWilhelm Fliess\n\u2191 Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (964) p. 31-2\n\u2191 Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 599-600\n\u2191 Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (964) p. 32\n\u2191 Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 5-6\n\u2191 Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (964) p. 37-40\n\u2191 Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 88\n\u2191 Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 11-2\n\u2191 Peter Gay, Reading Freud (1990) p. 63-5\n\u2191 Peter Homans, Jung in Context (1979) p. 149\nMarianne Kr\u00fcll, Freud and his Father (1979)\nLeonard Shengold, 'Freud and Josef', in M. Kanzer ed, The Unconscious Today (1971)\nRetrieved from \"https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Jacob_Freud&oldid=720951843\"\nJews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)",
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"raw_content": "An Underdog Hits the Mark: Lessons From Rutgers' Fundraising Campaign\nRutgers has long had a problem with fundraising.\nOther American universities that date back to the colonial era\u2014such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale\u2014formed the Ivy League and amassed huge endowments with the help of wealthy alumni. Rutgers, however, lagged behind in its fundraising efforts, so much that the school, then known as Queens College in New Brunswick, was forced to temporarily shut down twice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. When Revolutionary War veteran Henry Rutgers donated interest from a bond he held, the grateful school renamed itself.\nIn 2010, Rutgers launched the \u201cOur Rutgers, Our Future\u201d campaign, with the goal of raising $1 billion in five years. Only a few weeks into 2015, the university announced it had surpassed that goal. The school has raised more than $400 million for faculty and research, $300 million in new endowment funds, and more than $100 million in athletics funding (spurred by Rutgers\u2019 entry into the Big Ten conference).\nThe revamped fundraising efforts and successes are instructive for struggling colleges and universities, which increasingly rely on other funding sources as states reduce aid to higher education. Here are a few of those lessons, some of which are especially pertinent for schools that have been laggards on the fundraising front.\nRally alumni, yes, but also non-alum donors\nIn sharing stats from the campaign, Rutgers president Bob Barchi said the university had engaged 130,450 donors, of whom 70,690 were alumni. That's interesting. Many of these non-alums are no doubt linked to Rutgers through family ties, with parents of students likely making up the biggest share. But as we've also been stressing in our reporting, schools often reel in non-alums who live nearby and see boosting higher ed as a way to improve the community and broader region. In Rutgers' case, it has enormous brand identity in New Jersey, one of the wealthiest states in the country (and one where some residents have a chip on their shoulder). Clearly, the school has a found a way to cash in on that.\nAs for engaging alumni, Rutgers rallied the troops enough to hits its goal, helped by a number of wealthy and hardworking alums who served as co-chairs of the campaign. Along the way, it overcame some major weaknesses in this area. In 2013, Rutgers brought in a new fundraising chief, Nevin Kessler, a star fundraiser from NC State, who wasn't pleased with some of what he found when he got to campus. Kessler discovered that many Rutgers alumni had not had any contact with the university in decades. Take, for example, U.S. Trust President Keith Banks, a 1977 graduate who has given nearly $300,000 in the past decade. Rutgers never contacted him to solicit donations; Banks contacted them himself and asked how he could give back.\nHow could a university have so little on the ball in hitting up an alum who was a top bank executive? It's more common than you might think, and we've come across other examples of super-wealthy alums who reached out to offer help after being overlooked by campus fundraisers. The elementary lesson here, of course, is to zealously track your alumni.\nMake the best of institutional supporters\nRutgers is based in a state packed with major corporations, as well as one of the biggest foundations in the country, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The school has worked hard to take advantage of that fact. RWJF is Rutgers\u2019 top benefactor; the foundation has given the university more than $80 million in the past decade, including $12.5 million in 2014 to help Rutgers merge with University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Other big donors include major pharmaceutical firms in New Jersey, such as Novartis and Bristol-Myers Squibb.\nNot every school lives in this kind of target-rich environment, but all should obviously be hitting up whatever businesses and foundations are nearby. One promising corporate strategy is to connect with the labor needs of companies, particularly around STEM. We've been seeing an avalanche of funding for STEM education by corporations worried about finding enough skilled grads. Rutgers has capitalized on some of that, but it's put more energy into connecting with the financial industry, which is one of the biggest employers in the New York area and a destination of a fair number of Rutgers grads. A program called Rutgers on Wall Street, intended to strengthen and monetize ties with finance, has been part of its billion-dollar campaign.\nHealth and Medical Education = Donor Dollars\nHealth science and medical programs bring funding for medical research and other health-related projects. Nearly a quarter of the University of Michigan\u2019s endowment is reserved for the UM Health System. The acquisition of University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey gave Rutgers several medical and health science schools, which university officials hoped would boost Rutgers\u2019 standing and attract more dollars. Colleges with programs in medicine, nursing, public health, and related areas must leverage these to attract funding.\nHere, again, connecting with the needs of local employers can be key. The healthcare sector will remain one of the fastest-growing areas of the economy over the next decade, and many employers in this area are worried about meeting their future labor needs. Universities can pull in big money by positioning themselves as helpful in this regard.\nSports Boost Fundraising (and Not Just for Sports!)\nIt\u2019s no secret that sports generate millions in revenue for colleges and universities across the country. Rutgers\u2019 entry into the Big Ten pushed athletics into the spotlight and helped drive donations, but the majority of funds raised went into research and academic activities rather than athletics.\nDespite its fundraising successes, Rutgers\u2019 endowment still trails those of other Big Ten schools, such as Michigan and Ohio State. A 2014 analysis by the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark found that Rutgers\u2019 $783 million endowment ranked dead last among Big Ten conference schools. 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"raw_content": "How Do You Raise Money for a Tough Cause? Show Results and Have New Ideas\nDecember 10, 2015 / Paul M.J. Suchecki\nHomelessness is growing in Southern California, where housing costs are outpacing income. \u201cIn Orange County, there is only a 2 percent vacancy rate right now in rentals, which makes anybody who\u2019s had any type of poor credit or eviction or any types of credit challenges like bankruptcy really locked out of the rental market,\u201d said Donna Gallup, president and CEO of Orange County-based American Family Housing, in an interview with Inside Philanthropy. \u201cWe are seeing a lot of people staying in their cars, people living in RVs, people who just can\u2019t get access to an affordable apartment. The last statistic I saw in Orange County was that rent was up 7 percent and the average apartment is $1,848.\u201d\nMost landlords want to see their tenants earn 40 times their annual rent to qualify for housing. At that level of rent, Orange County renters would need an average annual income of $73,920, yet one in five Orange County households makes less than $25,000 annually, which helps explain why there are over 15,000 homeless people in Orange County.\nEnter American Family Housing (AFH), founded 30 years ago by Jim Miller, committed to ending the cycle of homelessness by helping low-income families become self-sustaining. CEO Donna Gallup has been with the charity for about a year, having worked previously as the CEO of the LAMP Community on skid row in Los Angeles, where she had bought a loft to confront the homeless problem head on.\nAFH has an interesting revenue model. First and foremost, it has rentals that generate an income stream. \u201cAmerican family housing is mostly self-supporting,\" Gallup said. \"Sixty-five percent of our revenue comes from funds generated by our 53 properties in three counties [Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino]. The majority of those properties do not have any type of commercial debt. Even though we keep the property rents affordable for the tenants at all those sites, we still generate income that goes to support the operation and services of the organization.\"\nStill, more than a third of the charity\u2019s $4.5 million annual budget comes from elsewhere. \"The reality is that diversity of funding is the key to being successful for the long-term,\u201d Gallup said. \u201cWe have a balance between private enterprise, foundations, and individual donors. We have big support in this organization from the faith community, so we get regular checks from churches because the organization was founded on faith.\u201d\nHomelessness can be a tough issue to raise money for, because the cause can strike many people as hopeless. Initiatives have come and gone for decades, and yet homelessness is as bad as ever\u2014or worse.\nYet solutions do exist, and AFH has had substantial success getting people housed. Gallup believes that people becoming acquainted with the formerly homeless and those who have turned their lives around through AFH is an essential aspect of her fundraising, \u201cI have a group of individuals that I\u2019ve been meeting with since February in my organization. They are all clients. They\u2019ve all been homeless. Many of them have disabilities. They meet with me every single month, and my quality council. They have become ambassadors for the organization. They come to events. They call foundations and donors to thank them, so that donors touch and feel someone who has been in that situation.\u201d\nAFH's efforts to showcase the concrete results that come from its work line up with the growing desire among many donors to know what their donations are accomplishing. Inside Philanthropy just wrote yesterday on this topic, reporting on a new survey that shows how many nonprofits are scrambling to find new and better ways to document their impact as donor expectations rise.\nRelated: Are You Scrambling to Show Donors Your Results? Well, Join the Club\nAFH also is angling to excite donors in another way\u2014with new ideas.\nThe organization will soon begin a capital campaign to raise money for an innovative project that will provide micro-housing units for chronically homeless people. Micro-units are small living spaces, often tiny houses, that can be built at a low cost to provide basic shelter, along with privacy and security. The concept is generating a lot of excitement in different places (along with some controversy).\nAFH has a property where it aims to build build 16 micro-units, one for the property manager and 15 units for the homeless. Eight of them will be for chronically homeless veterans.\nGallup says about this project, \"The most interesting part of it is we\u2019re trying to be a model that can be replicated. It\u2019s an innovative approach to development, because the structures are manufactured off-site while the site work is being done. Then they are delivered to the site and are put together to create housing, so the process shortens the time it would normally take to build a project.\u201d The units are designed to be \u201cvery strong, very sustainable and very energy efficient.\u201d\nIt will be interesting to see how donors respond to requests to give for micro-units. Innovation is often appealing to funders, who like investing in something that is new and could offer a big step forward. If micro-units really are a scalable idea that can change the economics of housing the homeless, they could attract a lot of excitement from donors.\nPulling the lens back further on AFH's work, Gallup thinks it's crucial for her and the organization to be visible and constantly communicating. Just as crucial is meeting people where they are. \u201cYou have to have as many opportunities as possible for the community to be able to participate at whatever level they are comfortable with financially and emotionally, whatever their interests are,\u201d Gallup said. \"Sometimes it\u2019s volunteering and sometimes that\u2019s writing a check because that\u2019s what makes you feel good, and that\u2019s all you want to do. 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"raw_content": "It's Personal: What's Interesting About This Gift for Museum Audience Engagement\nPhilanthropic software provider Blackbaud recently gave $1 million to the International African American Museum (IAAM), planned for construction at Charleston, South Carolina's Gadsden's Wharf.\nBut it's how the money will be used that caught our attention. The gift will fund the development of the museum's Digital Media Lab, through which visitors can trace their family roots, research their ancestry, and record family stories.\nAs previously noted, many big grantmakers, most notably Bloomberg Philanthropies (BP), have thrown big money behind things like mobile apps for the museum-going experience. Just a few months ago, for example, BP announced the launch of its ASK Brooklyn Museum app, which enhances access and engagement by enabling visitors to \"interact with museum experts in real time.\"\nBlackbaud's gift to the IAAM, while certainly interactive, is nonetheless different than your typical ask-an-expert app. It makes visitors direct participants in the museum-going experience by encouraging them to share their stories and experiences, a point that strongly resonated with Blackbaud CEO Mike Gianoni.\n\"We are incredibly moved to be a part of this endeavor and it\u2019s a privilege for our company to help to bring a sense of connection and identity for those wishing to find answers and complete their own personal stories,\" he said.\nTo that end, the gift is reminiscent of a multi-year grant from the James Irvine Foundation's Exploring Engagement Fund, profiled here, to the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) to support a two-year storytelling project titled \"Crossing Fences: Conversations and Stories with African-American Men Across the Generations,\" underscoring how museums can capitalize on the growing popularity of storytelling to engage new audiences.\nAnd what about the company that Gianoni runs? Well, the Charleston-based Blackbaud will be familiar to many of our readers as a supplier of software and services specifically designed for nonprofit organizations. Its products focus on fundraising, website management, CRM, analytics, financial management, ticketing, and education administration.\nYet the company, as we've already seen, does its own share of philanthropy. Established in 1996, the Blackbaud Fund, which is held at the Coastal Community Foundation (CCF) in Charleston, SC, supports organizations that focus on the education of minority and disadvantaged.\nIn 2013 it launched Blackbaud Community Matters Grants, which awards grants in non-Charleston locations where the company has offices. Preference is given to grant requests that focus on general operations and capacity building or the education of disadvantaged populations.\nFor more information on Blackbaud's philanthropic efforts click here.\n(And if their name rings a bell it's because we recently referenced a Blackbaud study, Diversity in Giving: The Changing Landscape of American Philanthropy, which among other things, looks at how organizations tend to be a bit myopic when engaging a predictable and stagnant set of donors.)\nThe total cost of opening the International African American Museum is estimated at $75 million; fundraising is currently at 67 percent of that goal.\nThe Impact of a Clinton Presidency ...\nAn Interesting Twist in the Growing ...",
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"raw_content": "Ed Funders Need to Think Bigger About Systemic Change. Here Are Some Ideas\nJanuary 22, 2016 / David Callahan\nPhilanthropy\u2019s quest to improve K-12 education feels stuck in a rut. Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder-backed efforts aren\u2019t yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no dramatic change,\u201d Bill Gates told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof last year, summing up the results of his own foundation's efforts, which have entailed spending billions of dollars over 15 years.\nMeanwhile, though, philanthropy\u2019s muscular efforts to influence K-12 policy have generated a strong backlash\u2014helping fuel a highly polarized education debate, as well as rising public distrust of foundations.\nIt isn\u2019t surprising that funders can\u2019t claim glowing success after many years of rising giving. Education is a famous graveyard of philanthropists, in part because of the size of this sector. To take one example, New York City\u2019s public school system spends as much money in a month as all the top ed reform funders spend in a year. Nationally, K-12 is a $600 billion enterprise that is highly decentralized. Funders are wielding a peashooter in comparison.\nThat said, ed funders have limited their effectiveness by piling too many chips on select reform strategies and, even more so, by failing to think big enough. Charter schools are a great example. Even if you believe that charters deliver superior results, funders are looking at a long, tough slog to push a reform that\u2019s proven difficult to scale, yet is not having the competitive catalytic effect on traditional schools that proponents had hoped. Foundations like Walton and Broad now face decades of trudging to bring more charters to high-poverty urban areas. They certainly have the resources to sustain that march, but you\u2019d think they\u2019d also be casting around for some other, more strategic levers to pull that could speed up change and reach more kids.\nOverall, it's striking what's not on the agenda of education funders these days. For all the talk of systemic reform and disrupting the status quo, most ed funders have been reluctant to look at the bigger societal picture of why so many students struggle. As the scholar Larry Cuban writes in a recent edited book on the new education philanthropy, donor-pushed reforms have \u201cconcentrated on schools rather than the economic and social structures outside of schools that freeze institutional inequalities into place.\u201d\nIt\u2019s easy to understand why funders have focused on changing schools, which seems a lot more doable than changing society. But as the limits of that narrow approach have become clearer, and as inequality has drawn new attention, now is a good moment for education funders to think anew about what a broader agenda for systemic change might look like. Here are a few strategies for funders to consider.\nReforming How Public Schools Are Funded\nOne of the most familiar and obvious systemic problems in education is how the U.S. funds its schools, with a heavy reliance on local property taxes. Thanks to that set-up, unusual among advanced countries, big resource inequities are baked into the education system. As a report last year by the Education Trust stated:\n... funding inequities are devastatingly large. The highest poverty districts in our country receive about $1,200 less per student than the lowest poverty districts. The differences are even larger \u2014 roughly $2,000 per student \u2014 between districts serving the most students of color and those serving the fewest\u2026 These gaps add up. For a middle school with 500 students, for example, a $1,200 funding gap per student means a shortage of $600,000 per year. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2 million in missing resources.\nQuite apart from these disparities in public dollars, there are big disparities in private funding, too, with affluent school districts pulling in lots of philanthropic support. My son\u2019s school district, for example, has a private foundation that raises over $3 million a year, money used to hire scores of extra teaching assistants, among other things.\nEd reformers often say that more money is not the key to better schools, and there\u2019s some truth to this, given how much is spent per pupil in some truly dismal school districts. Also, we do know that the same poor children can perform much better in some schools than others, even controlling for resources. Still, most parents operate on the assumption that money does matter, angling to live in better funded school districts. Funders should pay more attention to that fact.\nThere\u2019s a long history of efforts to reduce funding disparities in public schools and adopt more centralized, equitable financing mechanisms. Some funders have been involved in this, especially in New York State, where there\u2019s been a concerted organizing push for equitable financing. But most funders steer far away from this area. I won\u2019t pretend equalizing financing is an easy road. But it\u2019s a key reform that needs to be achieved in the long term. Among other things, many of the advanced countries the U.S. will be competing with in the decades ahead use smarter ways to finance their schools and, more broadly, develop human capital. It\u2019s crazy for America\u2019s schools to rely on a patchwork mix of local and state funding the way we do.\nWith their deep pockets and proven appetite for political combat, today\u2019s top ed reformers could make major new headway in this area, which has long frustrated reformers. Or perhaps a new funder could enter this space in a big way. Financing litigation is the most obvious strategy here, but there are others.\nChallenging School and Residential Segregation\nToday, U.S. schools are nearly as segregated as when Brown v. Board was decided in 1954, and in some places, more segregated. Spend time in Westchester County, where I grew up, and you\u2019ll see how this plays out. Most of the black kids in the county go to less well-funded schools with virtually no white kids in places like Mt. Vernon and Yonkers. That same pattern holds in many other places across the nation.\nBrown v. Board, you'll recall, was partly informed by research that documented the damage inflicted on children of color who attend segregated schools. We now have tons of additional knowledge regarding why segregation is bad, especially when it plays out against a backdrop of school funding disparities. Yet I can\u2019t think of a single major foundation that is actively and explicitly attacking the problem of school segregation. You can kind of understand why, given the explosive politics around this issue and past disappointments. Also, tackling school segregation often requires going after the tough underlying problem of residential segregation, which determines where kids live and go to school.\nAs we\u2019ve reported, exclusionary zoning rules play a central role in keeping poor families out of more affluent suburbs with better public schools. Such zoning blocks the construction of more affordable multi-unit housing that could offer an entry point for lower income renters who want their kids to grow up in better communities.\nThere are a lot of ways for funders to challenge residential segregation, which is supposed to be illegal under the Fair Housing Act. But few funders have been interested in this issue. I get that. It\u2019s another tough one for philanthropy to address, for sure. But if funders really want to think bigger about systemic reform, residential segregation patterns can\u2019t be ignored.\nRace has re-entered the national conversation in a big way since Ferguson, and that\u2019s a good thing. Now it needs to come back into the education conversation.\nOffsetting Poverty Effects, I: Stable Housing\nA key reason that reform funders have focused at the school level is because we know that poor kids perform much better in some schools or with some teachers than they do in other situations. Thus, the logic goes, improving schools alone should be able to deliver transformative results for America\u2019s low-income kids.\nIn fact, though, many experts have long argued that out-of-school factors related to poverty are the biggest reason that low-income students do so poorly. This point will be intuitive to any parent who has ever shopped around for schools. Take my city of Santa Monica, for example, which has a diverse school district, with excellent and well-funded schools that rank among the best in Los Angeles. Still, there are vast disparities in student achievement. The poor kids, mostly Latino, do much worse than the more affluent kids.\nNo matter how good a school is, many poor kids still live with single parents in unstable homes in dangerous neighborhoods, often going without such basics as proper nutrition and eyeglasses. A growing body of research suggest that poverty can produce lasting negative effects on children\u2019s cognitive development. A 2015 report on poor children in New Orleans summed things up this way:\nChildren in poverty are much more likely to experience exposure to violence, chronic neglect, and the accumulated burdens of economic hardship. This kind of chronic stress causes prolonged activation of the stress response system, which in turn can disrupt the development of brain architecture, leading to lifelong difficulties in learning, memory, and self-regulation.\nWhile many ed funders are reluctant to tackle poverty writ large, housing is one specific area where they might focus to achieve positive results for children. Research shows that unstable housing situations are a major obstacle to stable schooling for kids. When poor parents constantly lose their leases, kids are jerked around, often changing schools. Living in crowded or difficult circumstances with relatives can also be hugely distracting for kids.\nA number of foundations have long considered this issue, including the Gates Foundation, as we\u2019ve reported. Last year, the CEO of the foundation, Susan Desmond-Hellman, wrote on the Impatient Optimists blog that a \"stable place to call home\" is one of the \"few things that every child needs to lead a healthy, productive life.\" Gates is doing some interesting work at the nexus of housing and education, mainly in the Pacific Northwest, and other efforts are also afoot to break down the silos between these obviously related areas. But housing is not yet on the radar of most top education funders. It should be.\nOffsetting Poverty Effects, II: Involved Fathers\nAs every parent knows, you need all hands on deck to shepherd kids through school. Whether it\u2019s helping with homework or reinforcing discipline, or just getting them there and back, schooling a child is a two-parent job. Yet too often, many fathers are absent from the lives of their children and their children\u2019s education. Large-scale and successful efforts to bring fathers back in could yield real dividends for student achievement\u2014particularly as part of a broader strategy of boosting parental engagement in schooling, which research has long shown pays big dividends. In short, this is another specific leverage point for funders to focus on in combating the negative poverty effects on education.\nWe recently reported on the work that a number of funders are doing in this area, with good results. Kellogg is the most notable player, here, but other major foundations have also been involved, like Annie E. Casey and F.M. Kirby. Still, we were struck by the number of funders who aren\u2019t backing fatherhood work who should be. In particular, such work is a great fit for many of the conservative or centrist funders that now fuel charters and other ed reform efforts, since these funders often believe that more personal responsibility and self-reliance are keys to social progress. Well, here\u2019s an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is.\nOffsetting Poverty Effects, III: Jobs and Income\nAs we report often, quite a few funders are working to increase the supply of good jobs, boost people\u2019s skills, and also raise wages by updating labor regulations. But top education funders should also look at what they might do in this area. While these funders may feel that economic issues are too far afield from their main mandate to boost student achievement, research and common sense suggests the opposite is true: Parents\u2019 job prospects and earnings crucially affect how well kids do in school. Among other things, parents who boost their earnings can move to more affluent communities with better schools. There may be no better way to promote school choice than to boost parental income and geographic mobility.\nThere\u2019s a lot of possible ways that ed funders could get into work on jobs and income\u2014too many to discuss here. Rather, the larger point is that these funders need to broaden their thinking about what role they play in helping students advance.\nThis is obviously a big topic, and other people will favor a different set of priorities aimed at broadening today\u2019s philanthropic quest to boost student achievement. Others, too, might well inject a more pointed analysis of why so many education funders don\u2019t look at the broader inequities in our society. I\u2019ve skipped such a discussion here, since I and others have written elsewhere about the limitations of philanthropy in tackling inequality. Rich people, unsurprisingly, are not so attuned to challenging an economic status quo in which they have thrived.\nStill, I\u2019m not among those who question the motives of wealthy philanthropists involved in K-12 education. I believe their hearts are in the right place and they do want to make things better for America\u2019s poorest kids. Now, they just need to move outside their comfort zones to think more boldly about how to do that.\nJanuary 22, 2016 / David Callahan/\nWhich Funders Are Targeting Chronic ...\nLongtime Ed Reformer Reed Hastings ...",
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"raw_content": "President of the Union of Kazakhstan's Poultry Farmers Ruslan SHARIPOV:\nTHE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR US NOW IS NOT TO REDUCE THE PRODUCTION RATE\nNegative factors in the economy have brought their adjustments into the poultry business. This year a number of poultry plants have been closed down in Kazakhstan, many enterprises have been forced to reduce production. In addition, due to the market being saturated with cheap imported products, poultry meat sales by many Kazakh poultry plants have been almost halved. President of the Union of Kazakhstan's Poultry Farmers Ruslan SHARIPOV told Interfax-Kazakhstan on how the industry managed to retain the rates, which were reached, as well as to expand into new markets.\n- How does the industry plan to wrap up the year 2016 by and large? What targets do you seek to achieve?\n- At the beginning of the year, the Union of the Poultry Farmers forecast the total poultry meat production of 182,000 tonnes. But, as always, life makes its adjustments. A number of poultry plants have been closed down; the others have reduced the output. And this year, given the current dynamics the poultry meat production will amount to 150,000 tonnes, the total poultry population will be 38 million head, egg production will increase to 5 billion.\nThe most important [thing] for us now is not to reduce the production rate, on the contrary, to increase poultry meat production and poultry product exports.\nIn the first 9 months of this year, egg production across all categories of farms amounted to 3.601 billion, or an increase of 0.3% compared to the same period last year; 110,729 tonnes of poultry meat were produced in January-September, an increase of 8.3% compared to the same period last year. The number of poultry also grew by 0.9% to 38.823 million head.\n- What are the plans for next year?\n- The main objective is to retain the current production rate, expand into new markets. For next year we set ourselves the task to keep egg production flat and increase poultry meat production to 186,000 tonnes.\nIn 2017 a broiler factory - Aulie-Ata Phoenix LLP - is to be to put into operation in Zhambyl region, the first phase of Makinsk Poultry Plant (Aitas group of companies) is to be commissioned in Akmola region. Each poultry plant expands the production capacity and plans to increase the poultry meat output at the expense of that. The same situation is with egg production.\n- What changes have taken place in the industry lately?\n- In the past five years production across the whole poultry farming industry has increased in general; the poultry population grew by 8% to 35.6 million head in 2015 from 32.7 million head in 2010, production of commercial eggs rose by 21.2% to 4.7 billion in 2015 from 3.7 billion in 2010, poultry meat production increased by 29.5% to 146,000 tonnes in 2015 from 103,000 tonnes in 2010.\nDuring this period, all the poultry farms were re-equipped, their equipment was upgraded, the production capacity expanded.\n- What was done well, namely, and what performance are you not quite satisfied with?\n- We consider the production growth an achievement. It is no secret that during the last decade the poultry industry was on the brink of bankruptcy. Thanks to the government support, as well as skills to do business, poultry farming shows positive dynamics. Of course, no one should be satisfied with what was already achieved; it's necessary to develop further, to move from simple production to deep processing of table eggs and meat poultry thereby increasing the range of products.\n- Is the opening of new production facilities expected?\n- Yes, of course. The opening of the first phase of the broiler plant (Makinsk Poultry Plant) is planned for next autumn in Akmola region. This is a project being implemented within the framework of the long-term development strategy of the Aitas group of companies with the support of the EBRD and the fund CITIC. The construction of the poultry plant started in 2015 in the town of Makinsk of Akmola region. The project value is 40 billion tenge and this makes it the largest investment project in the industry. The plant would produce 60,000 tonnes of products per year.\n- What problems is currently the industry facing?\n- The poultry industry's breeding base is extremely poor; the lack of floating capital, feed; feed, premixes, vaccines, vitamins are expensive.\nTo this end, we propose to increase subsidies by 2-3 times, as well as make adjustments to include subsidies for waterfowl meat (goose and duck meat), and so that the subsidies provided be targeted. To subsidize: vaccines against especially dangerous contagious diseases, activities to diagnose diseases of birds, purchases of premixes, vitamins and other biological additives. To create a 1st grade poultry and egg breeding reproduction facility with the government support, to build two [reproduction] centers in the southern region and another two in the northern region. It is necessary to expand investment subsidies to cover the plant construction expenditure, for poultry breeding reproduction facilities, for the deep processing of eggs and poultry meat; for poultry plant waste recycling.\n- You have recently raised the issue of the necessity of extending subsidies for the poultry industry. Has the government backed you on this matter?\n- Yes, we have raised this issue in the Agriculture Ministry. As you know, currently the state authorities are drafting a new program for the agricultural complex as instructed by the head of state, which envisages reducing subsidies for table eggs but increasing subsidies for poultry meat production and poultry breeding. The Agriculture Ministry has pledged to take our proposals into consideration.\n- What hampers productive work? Tell, please, in more detail.\n- The prices are our problem. We have repeatedly voiced that now the poultry plants sell their products below or at cost price. All of the components - public utility services, transportation costs, electricity, water, feed, premixes and many more - doubled or tripled in price, the feed wheat price increased by 61%. In addition, the devaluation [of the tenge] made credit commitments more expensive: it is no secret that all the foreign-made equipment was purchased in foreign currencies.\nHowever, the poultry plants cannot raise the prices as the inspection bodies begin an investigation straight away.\nAt the same time middlemen buy products from manufacturers at a lower price and sell at a higher price. We propose to prohibit middlemen and other trade organizations from reselling our products at a price higher than 15-20% of the manufacturer\u2019s wholesale price.\n- What is the current situation with the product sales?\n- The share of imports in our industry is still high. We import almost 50% of poultry meat. For example, in 2015 Kazakhstan consumed 320,000 tonnes of poultry meat, of which domestic manufacturers produced 146,000 tonnes.\nThe main competitors of Kazakhstan\u2019s poultry-farming enterprises are, of course, Russian [companies]. We are forced to sell [on the local market] below their prices in order for them not to enter our market. They produce large volumes, which are not comparable with ours. They have their own breeding reproduction and production centers, and in addition, our neighbors enjoy good state support. Statistics show that, due to the market saturation with cheap imported products since the beginning of the year, poultry meat sales by Kazakhstan\u2019s many poultry plants have been almost halved. But we are trying to stay afloat, seeking to expand into neighboring countries across the border; our domestic production is in high demand in the CIS countries.\nThus, domestic poultry farms producing eggs have managed to enter foreign markets for the first time in the last decade. This is, in the first instance, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, with turkey meat exported to Moscow (Russia) and Kyrgyzstan. And this encourages us very much.",
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"raw_content": "Former India cricketer Sandeep Patil feels the current players are saving themselves for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. The scheduling of the domestic calendar has faced a lot of criticism with tournaments like the Irani Cup being played after the Ranji Trophy. To make matters worse, Umesh Yadav and Wasim Jaffer.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the players who should say something about this. These days, the players save themselves for the IPL. The season is practically over now. The Aussies will play only a few limited over games here. The pace and direction at which modern-day cricket is going, it\u2019s difficult to revive these tournaments,\u201d Patil, a former chairman of the selection committee, was quoted as saying according to a report in the Times of India on Wednesday.\n\u201cThe importance of domestic cricket has gone down drastically. The inability of the (top) players to participate in it has marred it. In our time, Irani and Duleep ties were selection matches. The selectors used to pick teams after these games. Now, they aren\u2019t bothered with these games. It\u2019s sad, and we had discussed this four to five years ago in the Board when Sourav Ganguly was the chairman of the Tours and Fixtures Committee. Unless the BCCI takes a stance on this, nothing will improve,\u201d he explained.\n\u201cUnless you improve the standard of domestic cricket, you won\u2019t get classy players. If the second-stringers keep playing in domestic cricket, then who will the selectors pick? There\u2019ll be no fun in watching domestic cricket. There will be a time when you have good replacements available,\u201d he said.",
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"raw_content": "Rosenblatt Recitals Presents mezzo-soprano Serena Malfi\nThe latest Rosenblatt Recitalist, Italian mezzo-soprano Serena Malfi, is something of a revelation. At 26 years old, the lively young woman from Naples exhibited a level of artistry well in maturity of her years. She studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, and has performed major roles such as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Zurich, and Angelina in La Cenerentola. Malfi has an ebullient personality, making eye contact with her audience, and she performs with an honesty that is truly endearing. She shows the depth of her emotional involvement with her vocation in a recent interview with the Rosenblatt Recitals team, as part of their \u201cIn conversation with\u2026\u201d series:\n\u201cI will never forget the excitement that accompanied me throughout all the acts [of my debut in La Cenerentola] and I will never forget the many uncontrolled tears that came from my eyes as soon as I had sung my last note\u2026 although the orchestra still had a coda to play!\u201d\nMalfi\u2019s appearance at St Johns, Smith Square was her \u201cfirst ever recital\u201d. It was interesting to see what themes would be present, and how she would express her background and personality through the recital program. The balance between aria and song was excellently conceived, and used to emphasise the contrasting and complimentary modes of expression available in each genre. Malfi emphasised her Neapolitan roots, through the use of both composers native to Naples, such as Gasparo Spontini, and music with Neapolitan themes, such as \u201cUocchie de suonno\u201d (Dark eyes).\nOne other interesting feature of the concert was that many of the composers had also trained, or performed, as singers. This was true of Vincenzo Righini, Pasquale Mario Costa, and Malibran and Viadot themselves. By using works composed by singers, Malfi was able to showcase music which had been created with real understanding of the singing mechanism. She also focused on the arias performed by the diva Maria Malibran, and her sister Pauline Viadot.\nLa Malibran, as she was known, was a young, feisty diva who wowed the musical establishment at the time with her amazing musicality, and her phenomenal range, which comfortably fell between G3 and E6, (though she had been known to sing down to a D3!). To associate oneself with such a figure (as did Cecila Bartoli, for instance, in her album Maria) is a brave and confident thing. Malfi, like Bartoli, was more than up for the challenge!\nThe opening three pieces were songs from Dodici Ariette (Op. 7), by Vincenzo Righini who, like J. A. Hasse before him, had trained as a tenor before becoming a composer. He took over from Antonio Salieri as court kapellmeister in Vienna for a short time, before being appointed to the Royal Prussian court in 1793. The opening line of the first piece, \u201cVorrei di te fidarmi\u201d, had Malfi producing a sound richer and more voluminous than many had been expecting. The most engaging of the three songs was the third, \"Mi lagner\u00f2 tacendo\", which was slightly darker than the other two, and was best suited to her voice.\nNext on the menu was a song from the Neapolitan composer Gasparo Spontini, who apparently had altercations with Felix Mendelssohn while working for Frederick William III of Prussia in Berlin. Malfi sang \"Ben mio ricordati\", a song which suited her strong, emotive voice. Her treatment of the melody on the lines \"Io se pur amano le fredde ceneri nell'urne ancora t'adorer\u00f2\" (And if the cold ashes can love you in the urn I will still adore you) was particularly haunting.\nOne of Malfi\u2019s future engagements will be the Role of Annio in Mozart\u2019s La Clemenza di Tito, at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Here she sings an aria attributed to Sesto (originally performed by the castrato Domenico Bedini). In the Adagio section of \u201cParto, parto ma tu ben mio\u201d,Malfi\u2019s Sesto was full of longing and adoration for his beloved Vitella. There were some lovely touches, like the carefully emphasised discordant leading note on the word \u201cpiace\u201d, and the change from flowing melody to staunch declamation on the phrase \u201cQuel che vorrai faro\u201d.\nIn the Allegro the combination of power and agility made for an electric performance. Her speed and accuracy on the rising triplets up to the Bb were impressive, as was her delivery of the surprise drops into the chest such as the drop from F5 on the word \u201cBelt\u00e0\u201d to the D4 on the word \u201cdonaste\u201d. The subsequent syncopated rise back to the F5 was glorious, as was the finale, which was typical, joyous Mozart.\nAnother composer not originally intended for musical greatness was Nicola Vaccai, whose parents intended for him to study law. He instead chose music, and left a legacy of 18 operas, of which Giulietta e Romeo was the greatest. The opera premiered in Milan in 1825, and had its London premier at King\u2019s Theatre in 1832. The role of Romeo was written for Contralto Adele Cesari, who sang the role en travesti. The scene chosen by Malfi, \u201c\u00c8 questo il loco... Ah, se tu dormi, svegliati\u201d, was made famous by Maria Malibran when she inserted this scene into Bellini\u2019s I Capuleti e i Montecchi during her performance. This then became a trend which continued until 1897.\n\u201c\u00c8 questo il loco... Ah, se tu dormi, svegliati\u201d was one of the highlights of the evening, requiring the singer to express several conflicting emotions. The opening was tender, yet fearful. Malfi kept the suspense building until the terrible cry of \u201cGiulietta\u201d, where Romeo believes his beloved is dead. The aria \u201cAh, se tu dormi, svegliati\u201d, is a masterpiece of musical phrasing, charting Romeo\u2019s oscillation between reality and madness. The most touching moment was Malfi\u2019s almost ecstatic singing on the phrase \u201cAmor si condurr\u00e0\u201d followed by the heartrending realisation of \u201cMa tu non odi\u201d.Malfi coped well with the low tessitura, and exhibited a maturity of musicality that was most impressive.\nMalfi reprised the role of Romeo in the next aria, this time from the great Vincenzo Bellini\u2019s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Many of its arias had been taken from his previous opera, Zaria, which had been a failure. Bellini said: \"Zaira, hissed at Parma, was avenged by I Capuleti\". In the introductory recitative, Malfi asked us all to listen \u201cpoich\u00e8 verace favella io parlo d\u2019amistade e pace\u201d (because I bring you a true message of friendship and peace). She then launched into the first part of the aria, \u201cSe Romeo t\u2019uccise un figlio\u201d.\nMalfi sang the opening lines gracefully and passionately: in true Bellini style. Malfi carried the full bodied richness from the top to the bottom of the phrases, while her descent down to G3 on the phrase \u201ce piange ancor\u201d was powerful and bold: no\u201cbottoming-out\u201d here! Both of the ascents to G5 on the twice repeated phrase \u201ce un altro figlio troverai\u201d were fiery and bold. Malfi exuded martial energy in the second half of the aria, \u201cLa remenda ultrice spada\u201d. The drops into the chest register were truly frightening, and the high B5\u2019s were solid and thrilling. This was a perfect way to end the first half of the concert.\nMalfi\u2019s first song of the second half was \u201cPi\u00f9 non t\u2019amo\u201d by Luigi Caraccilo which warmed her up for the beautiful \u201cNon \u00e8 ver!\u201d by Tito Mattei. Mattei was a prodigy, who gave his first concert at the age of 5, and was made a professor at the age of eleven. He was the King of Italy\u2019s pianist, Conductor at Her Majesty\u2019s Theatre in London, and he even received a gold medal from the Pope! The song \u201cNon \u00e8 ver!\u201dwas perfectly chosen to showcase Malfi\u2019s creamy and luxurious middle register. With a gentle touch, Malfi took some of the weight from her voice, giving an intimate performance which was a hit with the audience. The highlight was the ardent sound in the rising phrase \u201cMa mentisti, indegno, appien\u201d,followed by the cry of \u201cNon fu il cor\u201d, where Malfi exploded into full voice.\nAs the applause died away I looked up towards the high window of the church of St John\u2019s, Smith Square, and saw the burnt-red evening light. It was a perfect vision to introduce the next song: \u201cSogno\u201d (Dream) by Francesco Paolo Tosti. Tosti, a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, received a knighthood from King Edward VII. Malfi was enchanting, singing with a darkened tone. The most beautiful part of the song was the last two lines \u201cChiusi gli occhi, ti stesi le braccia, ma sognavo e il bel sogno svan\u00ec\u201d. Particularly powerful was the exclamation on the words \u201cti stesi le braccia\u201d. It was a lovely piece, and one which I hope she records.\nPasquale Mario Costa, another tenor-composer, was the next offering from Malfi. He was a singer, composer, and poet who enjoyed adding folk images to his songs. The song performed by Malfi was called \u201cNapulitanata\u201d or \u201cUocchie de suonno\u201d (Dark Eyes). The melody screamed \u201cNeapolitan\u201d, and I was interested to see if Malfi would emphasise her native dialect: she did! The performance was amazing \u2013 all strutting, posturing, and big emotions, and her Rubato on the phrase \u201cde \u2018sta faccella janca \u00e1nema site\u201d was perfectly executed. The whole piece left me with a vision of a night-time soir\u00e9e, filled with laughing, dancing and glasses of chilled Limoncello.\nThe next three pieces were written by the Garcia sisters, Pauline and Maria. Maria, of course, would later be known as Maria Malibran, the famous mezzo. She made her debut in London at the tender age of 17, singing the aria \u201cNacqui all\u2019affanno\u201d from Rossini\u2019s La Cenerentola. Sadly, she died after a riding accident in London, aged only 28 years old. Her sister, Pauline, was also a mezzo of great renown. She had much success, but decided to concentrate on teaching and her love of composition. Both of the Garcia sisters composed songs which they themselves performed.\nThe two songs by La Malibran were perfect vehicles for Malfi\u2019s feisty and playful character, but it was the song by the younger sister, Pauline, that was truly captivating. The beautiful \u201cHa\u00ef luli\u201d was the only non-Italian piece in the recital. The gentle piano introduction, like the patter of raindrops, leads to the opening line of this romantic lament: \u201cJe suis triste, je m\u2019inqui\u00e8te\u201d. Malfi\u2019s tender singing on the phrase \u201cHa\u00ef luli\u201d was soft yet expressive, and full of pathos. In the third verse, Malfi vents her jealous rage in the phrase \u201cSi jamais il deviant volage\u2026Le village n\u2019a qu\u2019a bruler, et moi-m\u00eame avec le village!\u201d, and ardently ascends to the G5 on the final \u201cHa\u00ef luli\u201d.Then, tenderly and sorrowfully, she asks: \u201cA quoi bon vivre sans ami?\u201d\nAfter that, we all needed cheering up! So Malfi decided to let off the fireworks with the magnificent \u201cNacqui all\u2019affanno... Non pi\u00f9 mesta\u201d from La Cenerentola. One of Rossini\u2019s best loved operas, La Cenerentola still pulls the crowds into opera houses around the world. Written in three weeks, when the composer was only 25 years old, the opera contains some of the most exciting music in the whole of the Rossini repertoire. Some of this is recognisable to those acquainted with other Rossini works. In fact, \u201cNon pi\u00f9 mesta\u201d was originally written for a tenor in the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia. (You can read about the tenor version of this aria in my article on leggiero tenor Bogdan Mihai.) In La Cenerentola, the aria was first performed by the famous coloratura contralto, Geltrude Righetti.\n\u201cNacqui all\u2019affanno\u201d, is a mix of accompanied recitative and arioso. Malfi easily navigates the wide range required in this section, exuding power in the lower register while keeping the notes above the stave solid, full and without flare or shrieking. The transition between the upper and middle registers is silky smooth, while Malfi booms magnificently as she smashes into the basement notes. There was absolutely no slur in the rapid coloratura of the phrase \u201ccome un baleno rapido\u201d, which was performed with skill and confidence.\nIn the aria \u201cNon pi\u00f9 mesta\u201d, the opening staccato notes were like pin-drops, and pitch-perfect. The machine-gun coloratura of the four-semiquaver-per-syllable section was stylish and energetic, without losing tonal or vocal integrity, and her control during the runs from A5 to G3 was astonishing. It was nice to hear the G3 ring out, rather than disappear into breathiness. At the final cadence, Malfi\u2019s magnificent B5 rang out across the hall.\nAfter so much applause that Malfi herself was taken aback, she held up her hands for quiet, and proceeded to give us the first of her two encores. In the first, Malfi opted for comedy, with the aria \u201cLa ra la\u201d from Salieri\u2019s La grotta di Trofonio. The final offering from Serena Malfi can only be described as exceptional. The aria was \u201cVedr\u00f2 con mio diletto\u201dfrom the opera Il Giustino by Vivaldi. Premiering in Rome in 1724, Vivaldi used music from around 20 of his earlier pieces, and one can even hear bits of \u201cSpring\u201d from the Four Seasons in the first act. Interestingly, as the opera was performed in Rome, the company had to abide by the Papal decree that no women could perform on stage. Thus, all of the female roles were performed by castrati en travesti.\nMalfi\u2019s interpretation of this aria was pure magic. The interplay between her and pianist Angelo Michele Errico was perfect: two people performing with one mind. Malfi reached into the heart of the piece, and found the soul that Vivaldi had created all those years ago. The key to performing this piece is threefold: legato, breath control, and intelligent dynamics. The accompaniment in this aria is syncopated staccato, giving the singer sole responsibility for carrying melodic line. This means that a strong sense of legato, of smoothness, must characterise the performance of this aria.\nCecilia Bartoli talked often about the phenomenal breath control of the castrati (The aria was originally sung by the castrato John Ossi who created the role of Anastasio, the Emperor of Byzantium in the opera), and it is this ability to sing through to the end of the passage which makes all the difference in the performance. Combined with a mastery over the art of dynamics, the third major requisite, the singer can produce an almost mesmeric effect which gives an esoteric, almost mystical quality to the aria, and it was this mystical quality which Malfi was able to produce. So masterfully did she weave her enchantment that even the hustle and bustle in the street outside seemed to disappear. As Malfi sang through the 5-bar line \u201cil core del mio cor\u201d, she allowed the volume to ebb and flow like a tide, gently rocking the dynamic backwards and forwards.\nThe F minor \u2018B\u2019section was very touching, particularly the pianissimo \u201csospire\u00f2 penando\u201dphrase which floated effortlessly above the piano accompaniment. In the Da Capo, Malfi was restrained and subtle, which was exactly the right choice. The volume was reduced, and the phrasing just that little bit gentler. When Malfi finished, there was a moment of silence, before people started to breathe again. Then: the applause. It was well deserved: Malfi\u2019s rendition of this aria was the best I have ever heard. It was also the aria on everybody\u2019s lips as we left the hall.\nIt was a pleasure to listen to this amazing singer: Malibran herself would have joined in the applause.\nSerena Malfi\u2019s Future engagements include Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs Elys\u00e9es in Paris, and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Royal in Madrid. The next Rosenblatt Recitalist will be Vuyani Mlinde, the South African Bass-Baritone, on 28th June at 7:30pm.",
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"raw_content": "8 Types of Bad Bosses \u2014 And How to Survive Them\nStrategies to stay one step ahead of an inferior superior.\nMost of us have a boss (unless you work for yourself!). For the majority of us, the boss is just someone we deal with as part of the daily grind. However, some bosses stand out for all the wrong reasons. Here are the eight worst offenders; which one do you have?\nIf you have ever seen an episode of either the UK or U.S. version of \"The Office,\" you know this kind of boss all too well. This kind of boss has one driving priority \u2014 to be popular. He or she will be cracking jokes at every meeting, and will have an office filled with \"wacky\" gadgets and posters that put a dorm room to shame.\nHowever, they are so focused on getting people to like them that they refuse to make tough decisions. They won't reprimand anyone for fear of losing a friendship. And they certainly won't make changes that are necessary, but unpopular. This kind of boss will lead to the downfall of his or her department.\nYou know what motivates this boss, so use it to your advantage. Suggest that making certain decisions may not appear popular in the short term, but will make the boss a hero in the long term. At the very least, laugh at his or her jokes, and stay popular long enough to get a few raises and promotions before moving on to a different department, or company, that is not destined for a nose-dive.\n2. The Seagull\nThe seagull boss flies into the department (often from another location or division), makes a lot of noise from a great height and disrupts before quickly flying away. They don't know the real problems and strengths associated with the daily routine, and they really don't care. All they want to do is look good by making everyone else look bad. Nothing you do will ever be good enough, and even if you implement their ideas, you will be blamed when they don't work. This kind of boss reduces morale quicker than a pay cut and a canceled holiday party.\nFirst, don't react \u2014 at least, not negatively, and not to his or her face. They have power that you don't, and they are happy to use it against you. Let the seagull boss do what they have come to do, but take it all with a huge grain of salt. Then, when they leave, figure out as a team what you need to do to make the suggestions work, or improve the department to the standards that have been set, without annoying the boss or tanking morale even further.\n3. The Ladder Climber\nThis boss has enough ambition for the whole department, but lacks the moral fiber of conscience to care how the promotions happen. Stepping on good employees to climb just one rung is seen as \"all part of the job.\" They'll smile to your face and bad-mouth you behind your back. They will take credit for your work, and put their mistakes firmly on your shoulders. They want just two things \u2014 promotions and raises. And if you get in the way, you're history.\nDon't do anything to impede their success. They're the boss, so they have the upper hand. Instead, be civil, and even ask how to help them achieve their goals. Your aim is to get them promoted into a position that no longer impacts your daily life. Hopefully, they'll take a job somewhere else for more pay and a better title. If you happen to send them these opportunities, saying they are meant for greatness, even better.\n4. The Insufferable Martyr\nWhatever this boss is doing, they're doing it for you. And, they work harder than anyone in the office. You think you had it rough last week? Well, just listen to their sob stories and be put in your place. 100-hour weeks. Being berated by clients and management. Rewriting proposals during their daughter's sixth birthday party. Building a time machine just to go back a week and stop a disaster from happening. OK, so maybe not that bad, but it does get ridiculous. Everyone rolls their eyes but stays quiet as this boss recounts the worst week of their life, which happens every single week.\nYou really only have one way to deal with this one; go along with it. If you challenge them that they don't have it as rough as they say they do, they'll consider you to be unempathetic and against them. However, you really don't want to enable this behavior \u2014 it makes things worse. Just nod, agree that life is tough, and move on.\nThere's an old saying; \"Fake it till you make it.\" Sometimes, people in business fake it really well, and sadly, they're still faking it by the time they become your boss. You won't learn anything from this type of manager, other than how to bite your lip when they say something that's clearly wrong. However, they got this far, and the chances are they'll continue to do well by employing the same charm and guesswork that got them here in the first place.\nIf they have friends in high places, they'll take full advantage of that favoritism. If you're good at your job, they'll use you to make themselves look good. They may even ask you to do their job for them, in a roundabout kind of way. And as you wonder how they ever got this far, they'll get yet another raise and promotion. It really is infuriating.\nIt's tempting to set a trap for \"the faker\" to show how little knowledge they actually have. But, a word of warning: Setting them up, perhaps in a meeting, will only put you on their bad side. They have spent years, or even decades, avoiding detection by those in power. They have more excuses than you'll ever be able to combat, and they have a long memory. You do not want to get on their bad side, especially with this kind of move. At some point, they'll either move on, or make a mistake they cannot squirm out of. Keep your cool.\nThe sky is always falling for this boss. Corporate is constantly down on his or her department, and the pink slip is coming any day now. Jobs are going to be severed. Wages cut. Bonuses slashed. Everything is horrible, the department is doomed, and you should start looking for new work because it's all going wrong.\nThe problem with this kind of boss, other than the constant stress he or she exerts on employees, is that it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Time spent stressing and running around looking for answers becomes more important than the actual job. It gets noticed, and they eventually seal their own fate; perhaps yours as well.\nBe careful what you believe, and what you toss aside as speculation and worrying. There are always problems in every company, and news can be taken one way or another. 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A storm surge warning was also in effect from Florida\u2019s Okaloosa-Walton county line to the Anclote River near Tampa.\nThe National Hurricane Center expected Michael to move inland and then weaken as it moved northeast across the southeastern United States on Wednesday night and Thursday.\nHurricanes are rated according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which grades them from Category 1 (maximum sustained winds of 74-95 mph) to Category 5 (sustained winds of 157 mph or higher). \u00bb\nAs rain bore down in Panama City, a steady stream of evacuees filled Rutherford High School, hauling yapping dogs, crying babies, blankets, mattress pads, oxygen tanks, folding chairs, crates of water and grocery bags stuffed with Wonder bread and Doritos.\nPatricia Barnes, a 76-year-old retired bookkeeper, was a bit short of breath and her blood pressure was up when she arrived at the shelter. 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Some rested their heads on wooden desks or curled up in sleeping bags on linoleum floors, while others passed the time playing cards, reading paperbacks or monitoring the hurricane on their cellphones.\nIn her rush to find a cab in the middle of the night to get her to the shelter, Tamika Rowe, 27, a criminology student who moved to the area a few months ago from Jamaica, had grabbed important documents such as her birth certificate and passport. She had not thought to bring blankets or pillows.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be easy sleeping,\u201d she said ruefully after she had picked a narrow space on a linoleum floor in a hallway.\nMore than 50 shelters were open across Florida. In Bay County, emergency officials urged residents to stay off the roads and warned those who still remained in their homes to stay inside and seek shelter in an interior room with few windows.\nFlorida Democrats sue to extend voter registration deadline as Hurricane Michael nears\nEvacuate or not? 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"raw_content": "There are two good reasons Trump should accept a no-wall deal\nA deal on border security funding would provide no money for a wall along the southern border but $1.37 billion for more fencing, like the section shown here in Nogales, Ariz., Saturday. (Ariana Drehsler / AFP/Getty Images)\nTrue to form, top congressional appropriators found a way to cut a deal on border security issues Monday night, opening a path to a fully funded, functioning federal government for the remaining seven months of the fiscal year.\nNow, if only President Trump will take it. He may be tempted to say no, but he has better reasons to say yes.\nBy including no money for a new border wall, and even less money for border fencing than the Senate had proposed in December, the negotiators sent an obvious but still somehow necessary message to Trump: Elections matter. The president had made the midterm elections a referendum on border security, and the GOP lost the House. So Republicans don\u2019t have nearly as much leverage over the issue as they used to.\nTrump told reporters Tuesday morning that he was \u201cnot happy\u201d about the deal, adding that he would meet with other administration officials later in the day to decide how to respond. He could obviously reject it, which would almost certainly force another partial government shutdown.\nThe last shutdown clearly damaged Trump\u2019s standing with most Americans, driving down his already weak approval ratings. But Trump may be tempted to take another run at forcing Democrats to cough up some money for his wall because he may finally have found a message on border security that works, at least in the context of his bid for reelection next year, and another shutdown would give him the opportunity to keep beating that drum.\nA Trump theme for 2020 is that the Democratic Party has been taken over by extremists who want to open the border, disband Immigration and Customs Enforcement and unleash dangerous criminals on unsuspecting Americans. And yes, there are some on the left who have called for disbanding ICE and who oppose almost all deportations. But that\u2019s cherry-picking, not unlike calling the GOP the party of zero reproductive rights because there are some Republican lawmakers who oppose abortion in any and all circumstances.\nUnfortunately for Democrats, their negotiators from the House Appropriations Committee made a demand that was easy for Trump to caricature as an attack on border security.\nThe House conferees proposed a tough cap on ICE detentions in the interior of the United States \u2014 that is, away from the border. The point, as Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Downey) explained in an interview, is to force ICE to shift its focus back to violent criminals in the country illegally. \u201cRight now, ICE is just indiscriminately going out and rounding up not just criminals, but mom and dads heading to church, taking their kids to school,\u201d she said.\nThe detainees Roybal-Allard characterizes as moms and dads, however, the administration paints as MS-13 gang-bangers. In a briefing Monday, ICE Deputy Director Matt Albence said, \u201cIf we are forced to live within a cap based on interior arrests, we will immediately be forced to release criminal aliens that are currently sitting in our custody. We'll be releasing gang members. We'll be releasing individuals convicted of ... domestic violence and drug crimes.\u201d\nThat\u2019s a powerful image, even though it seems to be anchored in a mischaracterization of who detainees are. ICE\u2019s statistics show that the agency removed 256,000 people in fiscal 2018 who had been ordered deported, 57% of whom were \u201cconvicted criminals.\u201d But it did not break down what those convictions represented. Customs and Border Patrol did offer a breakdown of the convictions obtained for the nearly 6,300 people it arrested in the first 11 months of fiscal 2018, and more than half of them were convicted simply of entering or reentering the country illegally. Less than one-sixth of the arrests were for violent crimes or weapons-related charges.\nOnly ICE knows for sure the sort of folks who would be released if detentions were capped, and ICE is insisting that the results would be a horror show. That assertion fits into Trump\u2019s Democrats-as-extremists meme.\nOn the other hand, here are two reasons Trump would be better off taking the deal.\nFor starters, he simply doesn\u2019t have the votes to get more money for his wall. Since Democrats won the House, the offers from Congress have been getting worse, not better; a bipartisan proposal in December would have provided $1.6 billion for 65 miles of new fencing, compared with less than $1.4 billion for 55 miles of fencing in the current proposal.\nSecond, given that most Americans oppose Trump\u2019s border wall, the president is mainly interested in scoring points with his base \u2014 the group that may be hard-pressed to accept anything less. 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They don\u2019t have any strategy, they were not drilled for it nor do they have a hierarchy to take decisions and everything indicates that if they survive the landing it all might end with chaos.\nAs it is often the case, context creates or at least awakens the potential leaders and in this scene we see two of the main protagonists argue and make a speech to rally followers. Clarke Griffin used to be a privileged, a member of the high society within the spaceship and yet she ended on earth as a delinquent. The other is Bellamy Blake, a former guard who decided to sneak and join the stranded in order to help his younger sister who was on board. Both argue about the importance of the communication wristband that each person wears and that provides information about their well-being to the spaceship. Where Clarke believes they should keep it, Bellamy prefers they earn their privacy and with it their freedom.\nWhat do we learn from Clarke and Bellamy\nBoth Clarke and Bellamy are older than most of the other 100\u2019s. They\u2019re more experienced and possess skills, attributes and personality traits that make them stand out. However, in a situation of survival, it is important for the group\u2019s unity that one person claim and earn the \u201ctitle\u201d of leader and the status that goes with it.\nIn indigenous societies, electing the leader is often done by a form of challenge. Sometimes it\u2019s verbal and more often it is decided with a fight. The strongest is the fittest to rule or the one chosen by the gods. In a more civilized society, it is most frequently decided through a vote, and this is where democracy pops in. Is the latter better than the others? When I see how politics impacts leadership, I\u2019m not really convinced.\nIn this scene, we see Bellamy gaining the upper hand for the following reasons:\nMost of the stranded are petty criminals and low class citizens who had little resources and education on the spaceship. They had to take actions in order to survive and do not trust the upper class. This is the first reason why they trust Bellamy more as he\u2019s one of them.\nIf we look at the 100\u2019s sets of values, \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201csecurity\u201d are probably the highest in the list. Freedom means not being in touch with the adults they perceive as captors and security can be provided by someone strong, preferably a warrior and a man.\nThe moment they stranded on earth their survival instincts kicked-in; which means that intelligent people will use their brain more effectively, whereas the majority will use their physical attributes; which again supports Bellamy.\nBellamy seems to be more of a charismatic leader telling people what they want to hear using the right intonations, whereas Clarke sounds more of a pain they want to avoid.\nLastly, Clarke tries to explain the situation and speaks about the context which may be too abstract for the people, whereas Bellamy uses the opportunity to make a real speech about the people and how the can take matters into their own hands. While Clarke seems to be lecturing and condemning, Bellamy\u2019s speech focuses on the positive.\nThis resulted in Clarke having the brains (engineers, scientists\u2026) as followers and Bellamy the majority.\nWe\u2019ve seen in a previous post that leading people is not about oneself, but about the others. In her speech, Clarke explain that the 100 and the rest of the crew which still are on the spaceship have to cooperate to survive, yet for Bellamy their small group is self-sufficient. This example shows that Clarke has an holistic view of the situation and considers the stakes for everyone. Bellamy on the other hand is more of a tactician looking at what\u2019s in front of him. While a leader should have a systemic understanding of the situation, that person doesn\u2019t have to communicate that way and should instead focus on what\u2019s important for the audience.\nLooking at this scene we clearly see that Bellamy has won this first round.\nBefore the speech, he was there all the time taking notable decisions, whereas Clarke was outside the camp and had little visibility.\nHe spoke about the people with empathy and emotions rather than about the context.\nHe is part of the story and echoes authenticity\nHe invokes their past and possible future accomplishments\nBellamy made indeed a powerful speech which forced Clarke to leave and reconsider the situation.\nSpeech and action\nA good speaker can ignite passion within the audience. It is said that a well-delivered speech is one of the most significant tools at a leader\u2019s disposal. 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"raw_content": "Living Off The Grid Is Easier Than It Seems And These 7 Communities Prove This\nHome/Environment & Planet, Lifestyle/Living Off The Grid Is Easier Than It Seems And These 7 Communities Prove This\nIf you crave a life that\u2019s frugal, simple, and a little less ordinary, living off the grid is for you.\nWe are used to a fast-paced world of computers, smartphones, and instant gratification. Living off the grid may seem undoable. But the concept of simplicity and getting away from it all works. It leaves us with a sense of calm happiness, as proven by communities which have embraced this lifestyle.\nWhat it means to live off the grid\nWhen was the last time you started a fire with sticks and stones?\nWe live in the lap of luxury these days. Conveniences are more than a given; we expect them. We want what we ask for immediately. We\u2019ve been cut off from nature and therefore, independent living.\nLiving off the grid is just existing as you are, with only nature as a resource. You\u2019re not dependent on modern trappings or conveniences such as the cell phone, the internet or television. People survive without relying on society or the government. They live in houses with apparently endless supplies of food, water, fuel, and fabric.\nThis way of life also means not wasting resources. Conservation is a necessity; living off the grid means using renewable energy. You must make the best of what nature gives you.\nIt\u2019s a timeless lifestyle. Without the television, cell phone, all the Internet to distract you, you\u2019ll only need to spend time on a handful of tasks. You won\u2019t face the stress that comes with constant communication.\nSome off-the-grid communities rely on barter for their survival. They trade water, fuel, food, and other commodities.\nBenefits of living off the grid\nThe phrase living off the grid may seem scary. It conjures up images of freezing winters, hot summers, and rocky, inaccessible roads. But it has its perks.\nFirst of all, it\u2019s inexpensiv. Using renewable energy means saving money on your electricity bills. Some power companies offer their clients the option of selling surplus energy back to them via a net metering system. They make energy accessible through distributable generation sources.Think of solar panels, methane digesters, and natural gas microturbines.\nAlso, it\u2019s a flexible way of life. It\u2019s for you if you enjoy nature and wide open spaces. You have the freedom to live anywhere you wish.\nIt has a positive impact on the environment as well. Global warming is causing noticeable climate change. Going off the grid and using renewable energy means reducing carbon gas emissions.\nA life without modern conveniences may seem unthinkable. But it\u2019s entirely possible. These communities have embraced back-to-nature living and are successful at it.\n1. Wildroots, an Appalachian Mountains community\nFirst of all is a group of people who exist peacefully in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. This group of friends, who call themselves Wildroots, have retreated from the hustle and bustle of life.\nThey live off wild animals, look after a forest garden, and gather wild berries. Todd, the community\u2019s founder, says that this surpasses a nine-to-five lifestyle when he would sit in his office and wish the day would end.\nThe community has no electricity and hauls water from a stream that runs through it. The people cultivate food that just grows. Wildroots is keenly aware that society exists but disengages from it because it believes that people have become too dependent on ecosystems.\n2. A Community on Lasqueti Island\nThe inhabitants of this little Island located roughly 50 miles away from Vancouver, Canada live entirely off the grid.\nTheir homes are simple. They have no connection to electrical networks. A more elaborate house is the Earthship, built out of recycled materials. Residents on the island live without money and grow food.\nThe community acknowledges that not all people are used to frugal living, so they offer compromises. There is a recycling center where resources like utensils and books are available. There\u2019s also a school, bakery, and restaurant.\nThe community\u2019s education level is surprisingly high- it\u2019s the highest in British Columbia.\n3. Auroville, Southeast India\nAuroville is one of the most established experimental eco-villages in Southeast India. Located in the Viluppuram district, it seeks to unify humankind. The community has nearly 2500 people from 40 countries, all progressing to words harmony.\nThe town has an apt symbol, the Matrimandir, which represents humanities desire for perfection. The power plant supplies energy to the township and the green belt zone, the research area that has seed banks, farms and water catchment systems. It keeps the town self-sustaining.\n4. Findhorn eco-village, Scotland\nLocated in northern Scotland, the Findhorn eco-village is one of the world\u2019s examples of sustainability. The community comprises 450 dedicated members who have supported it since the 1980s. It aims to show that people could sustain themselves socially, economically, and environmentally.\nFindhorn built Europe\u2019s first living machine, the water treatment system that can support up to 350 people. Research proves that Findhorn works \u2013 its ecological footprint is lower than many other sustainable communities.\n5. Tamera, Portugal\nTamera is an off-the-grid community of about 250 people, and it\u2019s all about peace. The Portuguese describe it as a biotope or a place where life lives. \u2018 It aims to find ways to create a future that\u2019s peaceful and sustainable. It has introduced many environmental initiatives, including an anti-war publication.\nOne of its establishments is the Global Campus, which teaches people how to establish peace villages. Another is The Love School, an institution which aims to end gender discrimination.\n6. Free and Real, Greece\nAre you looking for the eco-Village experience while traveling through northern Greece? Free and Real is where you want to be.\nThis experimental community, located in Istiaia\u2019Adipsos, Northern Euboea, is the perfect model for sustainability. They create structures that have a minimal impact on the environment. To reduce waste, they rely on natural farming methods. They do this by building structures that will minimize the impact on the environment. Furthermore, they reduce waste through a process known as bioclimatic integration. Their farming methods are natural.\nFree is an acronym for Freedom of Resources for Everyone, Everywhere. Real refers to Respect, Equality, Awareness, and Learning. Isn\u2019t the name fitting?\n7. Colufifa, Senegal\nThis African community became self-sustaining out of necessity. It\u2019s among 350 villages that have been working towards self-sufficiency. They achieve this aim organic farming, literacy, malaria prevention, and women\u2019s rights.\nIt doesn\u2019t want to build a new village like other eco-communities. Instead, Colufifa\u2019s goal is to make existing ones sustainable. Its aim is less lofty but noble.\nIn all, your aim of going back to basics is reachable. 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"raw_content": "Mahwah police chief to retire after 41 years on force\nThe retirement of Police Chief James Batelli, a member of the force for 41 years, was announced by Mayor John Roth at Thursday's council session.\nMahwah police chief to retire after 41 years on force The retirement of Police Chief James Batelli, a member of the force for 41 years, was announced by Mayor John Roth at Thursday's council session. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/mahwah/2019/02/08/mahwah-police-chief-james-batelli-retire-after-41-years-force/2813198002/\nMarsha Stoltz, North Jersey Record Published 4:50 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2019 | Updated 6:07 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2019\nJames Batelli, the Mahwah police chief, on how police are fighting the heroin and opioid epidemic. Steve Janoski/NorthJersey.com\nMAHWAH \u2014 Police Chief James Batelli, a member of the force for 41 years, is retiring, announced Mayor John Roth.\nBatelli will retire at the end of the month, and the mayor's recommendation for a successor is scheduled to be discussed at a closed council session next Wednesday.\nIn October, Batelli's department was one of two in New Jersey, and among 34 nationwide, to receive Category 1 grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to support law enforcement officers and first responders fighting drug addiction. The $300,000 grant is being used to advance drug services to the public.\nMahwah Police Chief James Batelli in his office. (Photo11: Tom Nobile/NorthJersey.com)\nBatelli joined the department in June 1978, was promoted to sergeant in 1986, lieutenant in 1989 and patrol captain in 1992. He succeeded Samuel Alderisio as the department's seventh chief in February 2002.\nSome of what Batelli accomplished while in office:\nCALEA accreditation, achieved by only 5% of law enforcement agencies;\nYouth Leadership Program, the only one in the state;\nOver $4 million dollars in cash seizures;\nCompletion of a $1.7 million police headquarters (90 percent paid with seized funds);\nRenovation of 911 Communications room;\nK-9 programs,\nCommunity outreach programs,\nCreation of PSU and drone teams.\nBatelli was embroiled in a number of township disputes over the years.\nIn 2015, a series of events involving the police department led to the first recall vote against then-Mayor William Laforet, who was recalled last fall. The events include:\n$500,000 in police overtime that was authorized by Laforet without council notice or approval;\nA $30,000 renovation of a roller-hockey rink built through the police department's former DARE program was authorized by Laforet in January 2015 to accommodate ice skating without council notice or approval;\nThe township's Nixle police emergency notice system was authorized by Laforet without council notice or approval, and according to detractors was subsequently misappropriated by Laforet for non-emergency purposes promoting his programs and activities;\nDPW Director Edward Sinclair was fired in March 2015 following an investigation based on an anonymous tip found pornography on a DPW computer. He was reinstated by council two weeks later, stating there was no evidence linking Sinclair to the computer.\nIn April 2015 resident Annette Freund filed a petition seeking signatures authorizing a recall vote of Laforet, specifically citing among the reasons Laforet's misuse of the police communication channel, and police overtime authorization. The petition failed to secure the necessary number of signatures by deadline.\nNJ NEWS: Workers could get twice as much time off with expanded family leave\nLOCAL CONTROVERSY: Bergen County officials say Overpeck Park dinosaur plan is extinct\nIn August 2015 Sinclair died suddenly, and his widow filed a $20 million lawsuit citing \"significant stress\" from the investigation and subsequent department atmosphere for causing his death. Laforet, Batelli, and the Township Council were named in the suit.\nIn December 2015 Township Council authorized a $45,000 police staffing study to examine the force's efficiency, and determine if they should continue financing 56 officers on $9 million of the township's $37.5 million budget. A report was issued in closed session the following July, but was not made public.\nIn July 2017 Batelli sought guidance from then-Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal about enforcement of an ordinance limiting use of the township's parks to residents and was advised the ordinance \"raises numerous constitutional concerns\" and told not to enforce it.\nLaforet refused to sign the park ordinance, cited among the reasons for a second successful recall campaign that unseated him in November.\nThat, and a dispute that same summer over regulating lechis or plastic pipe installed on utility poles to create a religious border, led to an October 2017 lawsuit against the township by the Attorney General's Office charging the two regulations constituted bias aimed at Orthodox Jewish residents in neighboring Rockland County.\nIn August 2017, Township Council investigated creating a police director position that would allow it to have direct power over the police chief. 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"raw_content": "\"I always like to ask myself. Is this serving me or is this serving the story? And if it is, is it doing its job to serve the story, because this is about more than myself. And if you keep yourself always in the story, than it\u2019s about you and not the characters nor the world, and thats like the most important part.\"\nWelcome back to Nothing Shines Like Dirt Episode 42. Elise and Lesley sit down with triple threat designer (costumes, lights, sets) Sarah Cogan. They discuss creating the world, assistant costuming CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait, and being comfortable in the unknown.\nFACEBOOK | IMDB | Website\nInferno - \u201cThe Heist\u201d - Ep.1 | White Lies Noir\nSarah Cogan is a Film/TV designer with experience in costume, production and lighting design, making her a triple threat. Sarah's journey into design began in college at UC Santa Barbara, then continued on with a Masters in Costume and Lighting Design from on of the top design programs, UC San Diego. Her philosophy about filmmaking comes from a deep place. She argues: Film is a visual art based in literature. And, people listen to how you say it over what you say. In film, the how-you-say-it is your visual/audio approach and the what-you-say is the script. Sarah's work include a wide range of shorts, films, and tv shows including: costume design for White Lies Noir starting Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead), production design for Inferno (Nominated for Best Design by the International Academy of Web Television), both costumes and production design for Pay to Stay and Stitched (Award Winning at Canada Shorts, MAC Underground & more). Assistant costume design includes: Nat Geo's American Genius, HBO's Last Week Tonight, and currently: CBS's Kevin Can Wait.",
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"raw_content": "(1) Anyone who owns a motor vehicle, and wants to drive it on public roads in Nova Scotia. This includes automobiles, vans, sport utility vehicles, trucks, campers, trailers, motorized homes, etc. (2) Anyone who owns an off-highway vehicle, and wants to drive it in Nova Scotia. This includes ATVs, snowmobiles, dune buggies, etc.\n(In Nova Scotia, a Vehicle Permit is not the same as a Vehicle Registration, which registers your ownership of a vehicle.)\nNote: When you move to Nova Scotia, you have 90 days to get a Vehicle Permit and Nova Scotia licence plates. (A licence plate is assigned to the vehicle when the vehicle permit is issued, and getting your plate is part of that process.)\nGETTING A PERMIT for a vehicle you own:\nNote: Effective January 1, 2004, any time a vehicle registration (plate) is issued or renewed for a motorized vehicle (excludes off-highway vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers and miscellaneous towed vehicles), insurance information is required. A Statement of Insurance form must be completed for in-person and mail requests. For requests online, you must provide this information electronically.\n1) You become the owner of a vehicle when the previous owner signs over the vehicle registration certificate to you. There is space to do this right on the registration certificate itself. (Note: this signed certificate is your proof of ownership, and you cannot get a vehicle permit without it.)\n2) Once that registration certificate has been signed over to you, take it to a Registry of Motor Vehicles counter and they do three things:\n(a) Issue a new Registration certificate in your name (which costs $13.20);\n(b) Issue a Vehicle Permit in your name (the cost is explained below); and\n(c) Give you a new set of licence plates (if you need new ones).\nFor information on Identification Requirements, please visit the Registry of Motor Vehicles website.\nGETTING A PERMIT for a vehicle you do NOT own: see Related Requirements, below.\nRENEWING A VEHICLE PERMIT: see Expiry & Renewal , below.\nThis permit is valid for 2 years (from the end of the month it is issued) in the case of most vehicles which have licence plates with three letters and three numbers (like BXM 424].\nIt is valid for only 1 year (January 1 to December 31) in the case of motorcycles, trailers (over 5,000 kg), and some other vehicles.\nIt can be renewed, and the renewal time is 2 months before the date it expires. The Department will send out a renewal notice before the permit expires. So be sure to let the Department know if you change your address. You can provide us with your change of address online.\nHOW TO RENEW YOUR VEHICLE PERMIT:\nALL vehicle permits can be renewed at a Registry of Motor Vehicles counter or by mail.\nMany permit renewals can be submitted online.\nFirefighter plates (require support from firefighter chief or deputy chief)\nVolunteer Firefighter plates (require support from firefighter chief or deputy chief)\nGround Search and Rescue plates (require support from Ground Search Team President)\nCommercial plates bearing condition 101 - ambulance (require support from Department of Health)\nCommercial plates bearing condition 105 - one way allocated (prorate)\nProrate plates (International Registration Plan).\nFarm Tractor plates (permanent registration - do not require renewal)\n1) ONLINE Plates can be renewed (except for list above) through our Online Services. You may renew up to two months before the expiry date. You will be asked for insurance information for the vehicle (exception: off-highway vehicles and trailers), and, your credit card information (Visa, MasterCard or American Express) or will be directed to the Interac\u00ae Online service to complete payment for the transaction. The results of your transaction will be confirmed, including details of your payment, which can be printed for your records. Unless otherwise indicated, your payment receipt will be valid as a 10 day Interim Vehicle Permit. This 10 day Interim Vehicle Permit will legally allow you to operate your vehicle while you wait to receive your renewed vehicle permit and registration sticker in the mail. Your plate renewal request will be processed within 4 business days, and your new Vehicle Permit will then be mailed to you. Please allow additional days for postal delivery.\n2) IN PERSON All vehicle permits can be renewed in person at any of the Motor Vehicle or Access Nova Scotia offices listed above (see Where can you get this... ). Please bring with you either (a) the renewal portion of your existing vehicle permit; or (b) the Renewal Notice sent to you by the Department. If you do not have either of these, you can fill out an application form at the counter. You will also be required to complete a Statement of Insurance form. You can pay at the counter by cash, debit card, Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit card, or cheque (or money order) made out to the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Your renewal will be effective immediately, and you will be given your new Vehicle Permit at the counter.\n3) MAIL All vehicle permits can be renewed by mail . To do this, use either: (a) the renewal portion of your existing vehicle permit; or (b) the Renewal Notice sent to you by the Department. You will also be required to complete a Statement of Insurance form. Fill them out and mail in, along with the proper fee (see Price & Payment, below....). Please pay by cheque or money order made out to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.\nOnce your application has reached our office, your renewal will normally be processed within 10 business days and your new Vehicle Permit will be mailed to you. Please allow additional days for postal delivery. Please note, you can renew your vehicle online at isd.acol.ca/isd/rmv/VehiclePlateRenewal/Start.do?lang=en and receive a 10 day temporary permit. The online service is not available to vehicles registered with firefighter plates, volunteer firefighter plates, ground search and rescue plates, prorate plates or registered as an ambulance.\nThe PRICE of a vehicle permit depends on its weight: the heavier the vehicle, the more you pay.\nLess than 1000 kilograms: $143.30\n1001-1500 kilograms: $176.90\nTo find out the cost for your type of vehicle, contact Motor Vehicles (see Where can you get further information.... above)\nPayment at counter: cash, debit card, Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit card, cheque or money order made out to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.\nPayment online: Debit card (Interac\u00ae Online), or\nVisa, Mastercard or American Express credit card.\nIf you are getting your first permit for a particular vehicle, and the vehicle is owned by someone else (for example, a leasing company), then you will need either: (a) written power of attorney from the owner, or (b) an Application for Ownership, Permits and Plates which has been signed by the owner of the vehicle on the front and the back of the form.\nYou can get this application form by mail or from any of the offices listed above (see Where can you get... , above), or you can download a form from the Internet.\n1) Because of unpaid fines or parking tickets , your access to certain Registry of Motor Vehicle transactions may be blocked. If so, your request for a Vehicle Permit (or renewal) will be turned down until the fines are paid. Meanwhile, your payment will be refunded.\n2) Keep this Vehicle Permit in your vehicle at all times. It shows who is the owner of the vehicle and who is the owner of the vehicle's licence plates. It also shows whether or not the licence plates are valid.\n(However, it is unwise to keep your Certificate of Registration in your vehicle, because that can make it easier for an auto thief to sell the vehicle.)\n3) Any conditions attached to the permit are printed on the reverse side.\n4) If you are bringing in a vehicle from out of Province, and it does not have a *valid safety inspection sticker from either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, when you apply for your Vehicle Permit, you will be given a 10-day inspection delay.\n* For vehicle inspection requirement see Safety Inspection.\n6) Replacement licence plates: If your licence plate is damaged, stolen or lost, you need to get a replacement plate. This costs $5.80 per plate. You can come to the Registry of Motor Vehicles counter (see Where can you get ... above) and get a replacement immediately. You will need to know the year, make and serial number of the vehicle, and the licence plate number (the easiest thing is to bring your Vehicle Permit with you).\nYou can get a replacement plate by mail; this process usually takes several weeks. Send a letter to the Department explaining what happened to your licence plate, and include either (a) a photocopy of your Vehicle Permit, or (b) this information: year, make, model and serial number of the vehicle, and the licence plate number and signature. Also include the fee of $5.80; please pay by cheque or money order made out to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.\n7) You do not need a vehicle permit to drive a vehicle on a private road in Nova Scotia.\n8) Stolen & Wrecked Vehicle Program: Nova Scotia belongs to a Canada-wide database which tracks all stolen and wrecked vehicles. As soon as a vehicle has been reported stolen, or in a major accident, that information is kept on file.\nVehicle permits & registration certificates can be 'branded' [or 'red-flagged'] in one of four ways:\n(a) \"stolen\" -- When police report a vehicle stolen, that information goes into the national database. That will help prevent vehicles from being stolen in one province and issued plates in another. If the vehicle is recovered by police, this brand is removed from the vehicle's registration, and permits and plates can be issued as before, upon receipt of a \"Notice of Recovery\" letter.\n(b) \"non-repairable\" -- This is a vehicle which has been so badly damaged by collision, accident, fire, flood, etc., that it cannot be put back on the road. It must be junked or sold as scrap or for parts. 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"raw_content": "2018 Maple Sugaring at Millbrook Village on March 10\nContact: Carla Beasley, (570) 426-2413\nA Drop in the Bucket: Maple Sugaring Program Heralds Arrival of Spring\nBushkill, PA- The National Park Service and the Millbrook Village Society will present a maple sugaring demonstration at Millbrook Village in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on Saturday, March 10, from 10 am to 3 pm.\nJoin park rangers and volunteers as they celebrate the approach of spring with the North American tradition of maple sugaring. American Indians, early settlers, and their descendants all looked forward to collecting and boiling the sap of locally abundant sugar maple trees. Experience this tradition for yourself! Visitors will be able to see and participate in the \u201csugaring\u201d process from the tree to the table. Sap from Millbrook Village maples will be boiled down in cast iron kettles over an open \ufb01re to create maple syrup. Woodstove and outdoor cooking demonstrations will showcase the use of maple products in recipes common during the 1800s.\nAdmission is free. In case of severe weather, the program will be held on Saturday, March 17.\nMillbrook Village is located in New Jersey at the intersection of Old Mine Road (12 miles north of Interstate 80 from Exit 1 in New Jersey) and Route 602 (seven miles west of Blairstown, New Jersey).\nFor more information on Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area call park headquarters at (570) 426-2452, Monday through Friday from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm; visit our website at www.nps.gov/dewa; or follow us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/DelWaterGapNPS.",
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"raw_content": "HomeAcademicsProfessional EducationNurse Leadership Institute\nMaryland needs nurses who will lead changes to enhance health outcomes for its residents. In 2015, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (MHSCRC) invested $2.5 million to build nursing leadership capacity across the state and establish the Nurse Leadership Institute (NLI).\nThe NLI is designed to:\nbuild leadership capacity within Maryland nursing faculty and clinicians\nfacilitate partnerships between faculty and clinicians for developing strategies that shape effective health care systems\nprepare a nursing workforce to assume roles within these evolving systems.\nBecome a part of this leadership movement:\nThe NLI\u2019s year-long Leadership Development Program (LDP) prepares nurses to assume leadership positions and participate as full partners in developing health care delivery models that improve health outcomes for Maryland residents.\nIn July 2015, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission approved and awarded funding for the Nurse Leadership Institute (NLI) at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. This five-year, statewide initiative was designed to build Maryland\u2019s nursing leadership capacity. The NLI\u2019s ultimate goal is to improve the health of Maryland's population in conjunction with other funded initiatives. The Commission identified nursing leadership as an essential force in shaping health care service models to accomplish this goal.\nA previous Maryland Nurse Support II (NSP II) grant, awarded to the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, supported a two-year leadership consortium among five Maryland schools of nursing. Building on the success of that project, this grant-funded program administered through the Commission expands the size, scope, and funding of the original grant.",
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"raw_content": "Stephen A. Smith was truly terrified of flying to Atlanta because of the shutdown\nStephen A. Smith is afraid with a capital A.\nThe bloviating ESPN talking head went on a rant about the government shutdown on Friday, admitting, in his always unparalleled discourse, that he is a \u201cstraight punk\u201d when it comes to flying. And he ultimately got results, because the shutdown ended shortly after his spiel.\n\u201cI have no guts, I\u2019m a scaredy cat, I\u2019m a chick, I\u2019m quack, quack, quack,\u201d he spewed. \u201cEvery time I see these damn reports, the stuff about federal employees and the shutdown and the TSA workers with attitudes, people not getting paid, and then I see these reports about these planes that have been delayed because there\u2019s not enough air traffic controllers. I mean dammit. I don\u2019t know about the rest of y\u2019all but I\u2019m scared as hell.\u201d\nYa boy is a straight PUNK! Mannnnnn with this government shutdown, I was planning on driving 14 hours STRAIGHT to Atlanta before this damn Shutdown was resolved......for the moment! pic.twitter.com/OXKbyFGMwA\nStephen A. was referencing reports from Friday morning that airports are experiencing significant delays because of a shortage of air traffic controllers due to a \u201cslight increase in sick leave,\u201d according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.\nWith the Super Bowl in Atlanta only a week away, Smith is nervous about his travel plans. If he\u2019s to be taken at his word, Stephen A. is considering driving from New York City to Atlanta, a road trip that he is well aware is \u201cabout a 14 hour drive.\u201d\n\u201cESPN needs to rent a bus, I mean something,\u201d he said.\nHe found many people to blame, though, for exposing his flying phobia.\n\u201cPresident Trump, whassup. Nancy Pelosi, whassup. Mitch McConnell, all of them, whassup,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not a joke y\u2019all.\u201d\nStephen A.\u2019s prayers were answered, though, considering Trump caved to the pressure from the Democrats (and who knows, maybe from Smith himself) and agreed to re-open the government for three weeks, which would cover Stephen A.\u2019s trip to the Super Bowl.\nStephen A. Smith. (John Salangsang / John Salangsang/Invision/AP)\nWarriors, who twice refused to visit Donald Trump's White House, have private audience with Barack Obama \u00bb",
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"raw_content": "New York|Bomber Strikes Near Times Square, Disrupting City but Killing None\nBomber Strikes Near Times Square, Disrupting City but Killing None\nFour people were injured in an explosion in the passageway connecting the Times Square and Port Authority subway stations. A suspect is in custody.CreditCreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times\nA would-be suicide attacker detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his body in the heart of Manhattan\u2019s busiest subway corridor on Monday, sending thousands of terrified commuters fleeing the smoke-choked passageways, and bringing the heart of Midtown to a standstill as hundreds of police officers converged on Times Square and the surrounding streets.\nBut the makeshift weapon failed to fully detonate, and the attacker himself was the only one seriously injured in the blast, which unfolded just before 7:20 a.m.\nLaw enforcement officials said the attacker, identified by the police as Akayed Ullah, 27, chose the location because of its Christmas-themed posters, a motive that recalled strikes in Europe, and he told investigators that he set off his bomb in retaliation for United States airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria and elsewhere.\nIt was the third attack in New York City since September 2016, and the second in two months, coming only weeks after eight people were killed in a truck attack along a Hudson River bike path. Like the earlier two, the attack on Monday appears to have been carried out by a so-called \u201clone-wolf\u201d terrorist.\nThe explosion on Monday morning echoed through the subway tunnels just off Times Square and filled parts of the Port Authority Bus Terminal with smoke as commuters fled. Even as smoke still filled the chamber, Mr. Ullah was subdued by Port Authority police officers.\nAkayed UllahCreditNY Dept of Motor Vehicles, via Associated Press\nAfter he was subdued, Mr. Ullah was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he was in serious condition with burns to his hands and abdomen, according to Daniel A. Nigro, the commissioner of the New York Fire Department. Three other people had minor injuries, he said.\nAn immigrant from Bangladesh, Mr. Ullah came to live in Brooklyn through a visa program available to people who have relatives who are United States citizens.\nOn Monday afternoon, in his first remarks on the attack, President Trump assailed the current immigration system that allows for extended family members, and not just spouses or minor children, to receive green cards.\n\u201cThe terrible harm that this flawed system inflicts on America\u2019s security and economy has long been clear,\u201d Mr. Trump said in a statement. \u201cI am determined to improve our immigration system to put our country and our people first.\u201d\nThe attack occurred in a long pedestrian walkway connecting the Eighth Avenue, Seventh Avenue and Broadway subway lines. Among the commuters traveling beneath Times Square was a man in a hooded sweatshirt. 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A former marine, Officer Manfredini, 28, found the suspect on the ground with \u201cvisible wires coming from his jacket into his pants,\u201d Mr. Egbert said.\nThree other Port Authority officers followed: Jack Collins, Sean Gallagher and Drew Preston. They arrived just as Mr. Ullah was \u201creaching for a cellphone,\u201d which the responding officers thought might be used to trigger another device, Mr. Egbert said. They dived and wrestled it from him.\nEmergency vehicles near the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday.CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times\n\u201cThese officers went into this situation blind, only becoming aware of the danger involved once they confronted the suspect,\u201d Mr. Egbert said.\nPolice released a photo of Mr. Ullah that appeared to have been taken inside the subway walkway after the blast. In it, he is curled in a fetal position; his exposed stomach is blackened.\nMayor Bill de Blasio found himself for the second time in two months calming the city after a terrorist attack, in this case, on the system that moves millions of people across the city every day.\n\u201cOur lives revolve around the subway,\u201d he said at a news conference on Eighth Avenue a few hours after the incident. \u201cThe choice of New York is always for a reason, because we are a beacon to the world. 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An hour after the attack, she stood outside the bus terminal, calling her mother and father in North Carolina to tell them she was O.K. \u201cI feel good,\u201d Ms. Bethea said. \u201cI am alive!\u201d\nAll morning, thwarted travelers spilled into the streets of Times Square, towing suitcases in bewildered silence. They gathered at police cordons stretched across the city\u2019s most trafficked thoroughfares, boulevards vacant at the height of the holiday season, and filmed the red lights of scores of emergency vehicles.\nOn Monday morning, police searched a six-story apartment building where Mr. Ullah may have lived with his parents on Ocean Parkway, as well as two other residences. At around 11 a.m. officers led a woman in a dark coat from the Ocean Parkway home, a gray hijab covering her hair, into a patrol car, and sped off. The area is home to a few thousand Bangladeshi-born residents, and it represents the heart of their Brooklyn community, with stores and mosques built along Church Avenue.\nMr. Ullah is a permanent United States resident, according to Tyler Q. Houlton, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, having arrived in 2011.\nThe method of attack \u2014 self-detonation, or the attempt at least \u2014 introduces something of a new element to a long history of the city as target, a place that has yet somehow avoided the bomb-wearing attackers that are the hallmark of terrorism in places like Israel and Nigeria.\nSince the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, there have been about 26 terrorist plots against the city that officials have identified as being thwarted \u201cthrough intelligence, investigation and interdiction,\u201d John J. 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The man, Sayfullo Saipov, was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors; he has pleaded not guilty.\nWhile no formal announcement had been made, both federal and local law enforcement officials indicated that Mr. Ullah would be prosecuted in federal court in Manhattan by the office of the acting United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Joon H. Kim.\nBut by Monday afternoon, the city was busy forgetting. On 42nd Street, tourists strolled unperturbed, or hurried into the reopened bus depot to catch their rides.\nJust hours before, John Frank had stood on that street by the Port Authority exit when he felt tremors through the pavement. \u201cThat\u2019s how strong it was,\u201d said Mr. Frank, 54. 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"raw_content": "White Sox notebook: Podsednik no longer No. 1\nCHICAGO \u2013 White Sox notebook from July 24\nScott Podsednik returned to the White Sox on Tuesday, but his spot in the batting order wasn\u2019t there waiting for him. Coming off a rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte, Podsednik started both games of Tuesday\u2019s doubleheader in left field, but he batted seventh instead of his usual leadoff spot. Rookie Jerry Owens, at least for now, is the Sox leadoff man. \u201cRight now, I don\u2019t know what \u2018Pods\u2019 \u2019 stage is,\u201d manager Ozzie Guillen said. \u201cHe\u2019s got to show me how he can do running and all the different skills he needs to show us he\u2019s back on his game. We had Owens the last 15 days, and he showed me a lot of improvement offensively, and he showed me that since we called him back up, he\u2019s played pretty well.\u201d Guillen said if Podsednik can return to the form he showed before straining his rib cage, the Sox will \u201cthink about\u201d putting him back up top. Still, it\u2019s going to hard to pry the spot away from Owens. \u201cWherever I can contribute, I want to contribute,\u201d said Owens, who had hit safely in 15 straight starts, batting .319 over that stretch. \u201cIf that\u2019s at the top of the order, that\u2019s awesome. That\u2019s where I want to be. If it\u2019s elsewhere, that\u2019s awesome, too.\u201d Owens could be playing for a 2008 Opening Day roster spot right now, especially if the Sox either trade or don\u2019t re-sign Jermaine Dye and choose not to bring back Podsednik (arbitration-eligible) and/or Darin Erstad (club option for next season). \u201cGuys get their opportunities all the time,\u201d Owens said. \u201cGuys come up, and some guys make the most of it, other guys don\u2019t. I\u2019ve come to learn, especially the second time around, it\u2019s just part of the job.\u201d Speaking of Auditions Rookie Josh Fields continued his recent hot streak as the replacement for Joe Crede (back surgery) at third, hitting a homer in his second consecutive game Tuesday afternoon. It was the first time in his career he homered in back-to-back games. \u201cHopefully, the more and more games I play, I\u2019ll stay comfortable, I\u2019ll have a lot more success,\u201d said Fields, whose solo homer in the fifth off Jeremy Bonderman made him 7-for-14 with six RBI in his past four games heading into Tuesday\u2019s nightcap. \u201cI think if they continue to swing the bats like this, they\u2019re going to be here for a while,\u201d Guillen said of Fields and Owens. Heard That One Before Guillen met with general manager Ken Williams in the morning and insisted the trade market is \u201cquiet\u201d and there is \u201cnothing out there\u201d right now for the Sox. Still, Tuesday\u2019s starter, Javier Vazquez -- who signed a three-year, $34 million extension in the spring and has been mentioned in numerous rumors -- would rather not hear anything. \u201cYou hear your name out there, but I\u2019ve heard my name for a lot of years -- especially around this time,\u201d Vazquez said. \u201cI don\u2019t read about it. If you guys don\u2019t tell me about it, I don\u2019t know. I hate reading the paper. It\u2019s not an important issue.\u201d Making Some Moves The Sox optioned reliever Dewon Day (11.25 ERA in 13 games) to Charlotte to make room for Gavin Floyd, who started the nightcap. They put Luis Terrero (groin injury) on the 15-day disabled list to make room for Podsednik. More White Sox coverage is at www.dailysouthtown.com/sports.",
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"raw_content": "You Are Here: Home \u00bb Blog \u00bb taxi history \u00bb History of the Taxi\nIn one form or another, taxis have been around for maybe millennia, or at least since the invention of chariots and wagons. Even before the wheel, royalty and people of merit were borne on litters, usually carried by the strongest and best-looking slaves. In modern times, we typically think of a taxi as a car for hire, usually paid by distance, time, or destination. Regarding this latest form of the taxi, how long has this been around? Here\u2019s a brief history of the taxis of the past, present, and what we might expect in the future.\nThe first taxis came along soon after the invention of the automobile, but they weren\u2019t called taxis until at least the late 1890s or early 1900s. The short-name \u201cTaxi\u201d is derived from an 1891 invention, the \u201ctaximeter,\u201d developed by Wilhelm Bruhn. The taximeter was a mechanical device \u2013 it was eventually replaced by an electronic device \u2013 that calculated the fare based on distance, and the first \u201ctaxi\u201d appeared in 1897, a Daimler Victoria with a taximeter built in.\nUnsurprisingly, Stuttgart, Germany, was the first city to employ a more-or-less modern motorized taxi fleet. But cities worldwide would eventually start using similarly-equipped fleets, Paris in 1899, London in 1903, and New York in 1907, for example.\nIn the early years, taxis were typically built as such, featuring larger doors, security glass, or other passenger-related comfort items. London Black Taxis are noted for being quite maneuverable, featuring a tight 28-foot turning circle (previously 25 feet). No longer custom-built, New York taxis are required to be production vehicles, including modern hybrids and accessibility-modified vans and SUVs.\nWith so many people needing transportation, taxi fleets flourished in big cities, usually taking on a certain look or style, but not all have been Checkered or Yellow:\nIn the 1920s, John Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company, all painted yellow because they were the most visible from a distance.\nChecker Cab Manufacturing originated in Chicago, providing distinctive Checker cabs, featuring a black and white or yellow checkerboard pattern along the side.\nIn what might be an unusual choice of color, the London Black Cab was black for decades, though today they can be found in other colors and advertising wraps.\nWorldwide, there are dozens of other taxi liveries, ranging from a \u201ctaxi\u201d sticker in the window to distinctive paint schemes, advertising space, even full body wraps.\nToday, depending on local regulation, taxis appear in many shapes and colors, but future services might not even be called taxis. Car-sharing, ride-sharing, and companies like Uber and Lyft could change the face of taxis. Such programs have become more popular than ever, a ride or a car as close as a smartphone tap away.\nWhile taxi companies fight back with regulation, the sharing economy may never overtake them. Still, maybe these companies have shown the taxi companies how it could be done. Adapting as they have over the last century, future taxis might not be much different than today.\nPosted in Car history Tagged taxi history |",
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"raw_content": "You Are Here: Home \u00bb Blog \u00bb tire \u00bb Retreads are an environmentally friendly tire replacement alternative\nRetreads are an environmentally friendly tire replacement alternative\nA tire retread is when you do not replace the entire tire on a vehicle and instead just replace the tread, hence retreading. This method is used on everything from school buses to emergency response vehicles. It is a viable option to simply replacing your tires outright.\nAn article from amoz.com states this:\n\u201cRetreads are also used by thousands of owner/operators, small package delivery services such as FED EX, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. There is even a U.S. Federal Executive Order (13149) MANDATING the use of retreads on many government vehicles.\u201d\nSo if the government mandates it is must be safe, and it\u2019s also eco-friendly. Most major trucking fleets also use the retreading method. But to have a successful retread your tires need to be properly maintained so that they can be safe and effective after retreading them.\nMaintaining your tires for retreading includes things like constantly checking up on your tire\u2019s air pressure and being aware that you are not driving a vehicle that is overloaded.\nRetreading is mostly done on trucks and not really small vehicles, but it can be a very economical way to get the most out of your tires. Of course, you still need to do the proper tire maintenance to get the most out of retreading a tire.\nPosted in Tire Maintenance Tagged tire |",
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"raw_content": "Phoenix Attorney Helping Convicted Felons Restore Their Civil Rights\nWhen one is convicted of a felony then they automatically lose many of their Constitutional Rights. However, once you have completed your sentence it is often possible to petition the Court to have those rights restored. If you are eligible to have your conviction set aside you are also eligible to regain the rights that make you a full citizen in the eyes of the law. Bretton Barber has helped hundreds of Arizona citizens regain the rights that are important to them. Contact our Phoenix area attorney today for a consultation.\nBy far the biggest complaint of those convicted of a felony, or misdemeanor domestic violence, is that the right to bear arms is automatically taken away. This is inconvenient for gun collectors, enthusiasts, and avid hunters. It may also create a financial hardship for anyone who was previously employed in fields such as the military, private security, or law enforcement. The good news is that many felonies that did not involve a sexual motivation or cause significant harm to the victim are eligible to restore gun and other civil rights. Other rights that can be petitioned for restoration include:\nThe right to hold public office\nThe right to certain benefits such as financial aid\nIf you have completed all requirements of your sentence then you deserve the right to move on with your life as a full citizen. When you contact the Barber Law Group, Bretton will sit down with you and discuss the details of your case. He will explain the benefits of having your rights restored, and determine if you are eligible for such a petition. Bretton strongly believes that all persons interested in rehabilitation deserve a second chance and always negotiates a reasonable fee. Contact him today and learn if you are eligible to have your gun and other civil rights restored. In addition to Phoenix, our attorney represents defendants in other Maricopa County cities such as Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, Chandler, and Gilbert. We also assist Pima County residents in Tucson as well as others throughout the state.",
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"raw_content": "Effectively Engaging Key Opinion Leaders And Stakeholders\nYour medical communication and education is only as good as the healthcare professionals you reach and before you can reach them you need to understand who they are, where they are, and what they need. This is something you will need to do for every program.\nOne way to do this is to partner with key opinion leaders. By bringing in experts you can ensure that your communication program is genuine and clinically relevant to your target audience. Working with KOLs to develop content is not essential but, in my experience, it optimises the quality of the content and the learning participation.\nHealthcare professionals are at least as busy as they\u2019ve ever been and have become more discerning when it comes to where and how they spend their time improving their knowledge and skills. It is therefore essential that any program you develop is the very best it can be.\nWe can all guess what healthcare professionals need to know; unfortunately our judgement can be clouded by our own commercially oriented insights. Yes, it is important for healthcare professionals to learn about and understand your products but if this information is not presented in a clinically relevant, patient-centric and balanced way, then its value can be significantly diminished.\nSo, rather than guess, we can go with the less risky and more sensible option of finding out exactly what they need to know. That starts by identifying the right people, bringing them on board, and making the best use of their knowledge.\nOne of the more common challenges I have is persuading clients that they actually need to look for the right key opinion leaders. In some cases, their default is to work with their established pool of KOLs, which is entirely sensible so long as they are the right people.\nIt is also worth noting that it is just as important to let the wrong one go as it is to attract the right KOL. Too often I see clients working with KOLs that are not the right fit or simply because they are a friendly face.\nIt\u2019s understandable why companies do this. They know it\u2019s important to build good relationships with key healthcare professionals, and it seems sensible to build on existing relationships instead of trying to create new ones from scratch, especially when you\u2019re working to very tight timeframes. It\u2019s efficient and low-risk. The problem is that it may not be very inspiring.\nSometimes we even need to think about replacing a KOL with someone that is better skilled or has more knowledge in a particular therapeutic area or subspecialty. This can be challenging. But if the aim is to produce content to the highest possible quality, then this is something that has to be done. Granted, it doesn\u2019t come without some risk but in most cases this can be managed.\nOne of my projects involved helping a client re-structure a communications plan based on engaging and mobilising a number of key opinion leaders. As a starting point, they had pulled together their own list of KOLs and advocates in descending order of importance.\nWorking with our client, we developed a list of key criteria to objectively evaluate and rank a list of KOLs. Much to the client\u2019s surprise our ranking did not match theirs, even though we had used criteria they agreed with. They had been focusing on \u2018friendly\u2019 KOLs rather than true thought leaders.\nGenerally speaking, there are no good or bad KOLs; it just depends on the rationale for engaging them. Regardless of the specific criteria, the aim is to objectively assess potential KOLs. Once you\u2019ve worked out which of them to partner with, think about why you want to work with them.\nClearly, no one wants to work with people that are openly hostile or antagonistic toward you or your company. It is a normal response to be cautious of, or even avoid, the opinionated individual for fear they may derail proceedings.\nHowever, you shouldn\u2019t ignore the opinionated or the more \u2018challenging\u2019 types. More often than not, they can provide the sort of insight that will propel your program to the next level. Generally speaking, if you\u2019ve done your screening and briefed your panel beforehand you will significantly mitigate the risk of your meeting going off the rails.\nRegardless, just because someone might be outspoken is no reason to avoid them. What makes them disruptive is probably also what makes them opinion leaders. They also make it less likely your panel will fall into a comfortable consensus that might not reflect clinical reality. The last thing you want is a committee looking for a compromise position that gets them to a path of least resistance.\nIf there are one or two outspoken people in the group you\u2019re likely to get a much more dynamic process. They stop things getting complacent and challenge some of the more comfortable assumptions.",
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"raw_content": "Office Space (1999) Review \u2013 A hard hitting cult classic\n(Office Space - 1999 - CC. 20th Century Fox)\n\u201cI can\u2019t believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We\u2019re looking up money laundering in a dictionary.\u201d \u2013 Peter Gibbons, Office Space (1999).\nThere\u2019s something that I appreciate about cult classic films. I really do, I find it amazing that after seventeen years this film is still being talked about. This film is only ten months older than me, God I\u2019m young aren\u2019t I. Anyways that\u2019s not the point, I had an excuse to rewatch Office Space once again and I leapt on this chance. Why wouldn\u2019t I to be fair, it\u2019s a great film and I could definitely do with watching it again.\nPeter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) loathes his job at Initech. To combat this and a failing relationship, he goes to hypnotherapy. In the middle of his hypnotherapy, his hypnotherapist dies, leaving Gibbons in a state of tranquil bliss. He no longer cares about anything or anyone. So when his friends Michael Bolton (David Herman) and Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) are to be made unemployed, they pull off an impossible heist to set them up for life. The cast also includes Jennifer Aniston, Mike Judge, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley and Stephen Root.\nThe key to a good comedy is to always keep you laughing. While it does have a few misfires, for the most part it is a pretty solid comedy. I liked how Gibbons is just so carefree and it does lead to some amazingly funny moments throughout. However, although this was my favourite part of the film, I don\u2019t think it was done amazingly well. There are times where he clearly does care about things that are happening. For example the entire plot of the film is based off of him getting money for his friends through a scam. Although it\u2019s a fairly solid plot, why would he want to do it with this carefree attitude.\nThe hatred of the office environment is very easily drawn up on the big screen (Office Space \u2013 1999 \u2013 CC. 20th Century Fox)\nAside from poking holes in really good comedies, I\u2019d also like to talk about the general cinematography of the film. To me it captures the drab and boring space of an office extremely well. Grey is used frequently in this film and pretty much nothing else is colourful at all. Not even scenes that take place in different parts of the workplace are any more colourful. That boring grey follows the characters and more to the point, you, throughout the entire film. It adds to the atmosphere extremely well, it\u2019s one of the few comedies to use cinematography to its advantage.\nSpeaking of which there are one or two nice shots throughout this film. I\u2019m not going to go into detail about how certain shots begin to show us greater understandings of the character, mainly because it\u2019s not that interesting. However I will say that from my point of view it does add quite a bit to the film. Again the lighting adds a lot to it given that it\u2019s just so dull. The only real light that comes from the film is towards the end and I obviously can\u2019t spoil what that is.\nIt\u2019s always good when the opening credits to a film can make you laugh. Seeing the main trio stuck in traffic and trying to get to work is just oddly funny. There are a lot of funny moments within this film and none are funnier than Milton. As a character Milton is just damn funny because of how weird he is. It\u2019s all thanks to Stephen Root, who plays the role with such a great confidence. I\u2019d argue that he is one of the reasons this film is considered a cult classic. Forget the main trio, the real comedy comes from the supporting cast in my opinion.\nBill is a brilliant character because he\u2019s so easy to hate (Office Space \u2013 1999 \u2013 CC. 20th Century Fox)\nBecause this film is technically a 90s comedy (much like I am technically a 90s kid), it\u2019s obvious that there are going to be a few tropes in there. Most notably is the romantic subplot. I swear they\u2019re just the bane of my existence at this point because to be quite honest they\u2019re always the same. Here it is no different, Aniston and Livingston provide this angle throughout the latter half of the film. At least it doesn\u2019t completely focus on it, by the end of the film Aniston has disappeared off to do another season of Friends or something.\nI did like the character of Bill Lumbergh, but then again who doesn\u2019t? He\u2019s such a perfect jackass that portrays the typical boss so very well. I suppose that\u2019s one of the many things this film does right. When it goes after a stereotype it goes after it hard and works it extremely well. He and Milton were two of the best characters in this entire film simply because the dynamic between the two is exceptionally good. How can I forget the two Bob\u2019s either, one of which being John C. McGinley pre-Scrubs era. Again, like the rest of the cast, he\u2019s absolutely marvellous.\nAt it\u2019s heart, Office Space is a very funny film that relies on many different aspects to keep itself funny. The comedy as a whole is so broad and suitable that it just surprises me that it can cater to so many different audiences. For the most part humour is very subjective, it depends on what mood you\u2019re in and what type of comedy you like. So when a film can mix a wide variety of different styles of comedy, you know something has been done very right.\nSome great performances throughout that have had a very lasting impression are featured throughout. Although it does fit into the cliched taste of mediocre romance plot, Office Space is a genuinely fantastic film. It\u2019s a whole lot of fun for an hour and a half and to be quite honest you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a funnier cult film than this. There\u2019s just something about it that makes it work so well. Office Space heavily relies on the petty hates that office workers and those that have blue collar jobs hate. It works extremely well in painting this picture that their life is hell. For the most part then, it can resonate rather easily with an audience. Quite clearly it can, especially considering it\u2019s still talked about almost eighteen years on.\nA cult classic that is down right hilarious, Office Space taps into the minds of every office worker and just simply highlights the worst aspects of their life. Using tropes and cliches, it builds a great environment and an even greater comedy.",
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"raw_content": "Through special admissions and enrollment programs, SUNY Potsdam supports success at the college level for all students.\nSpecial Admissions Programs:\nEarly Admissions to Undergraduate Programs\nSUNY Potsdam will offer early admission to exceptionally qualified high school juniors and seniors in a program referred to as College Unlimited at SUNY Potsdam (CUSP).\nStudents applying for early admission must possess a \"B\" average or above in their course work and test scores indicating strong potential for college-level work.\nThey should have 14 or more academic units from high school in the areas of social studies, English, foreign language, science and mathematics.\nIn addition, applicants for early admission must demonstrate the necessary maturity to adjust to college life.\nThis is accomplished through submission of at least two letters of recommendation (including one from the high school principal or school counselor and one from a teacher of an academic subject).\nThe high school principal or school counselor must also send a letter approving any course work taken at SUNY Potsdam.\nEarly admission candidates seeking federal financial aid will need to have a letter signed by the high school principal stating that course work will not be counted toward the high school diploma.\nNote: This is not an Early Decision or Early Action Policy. Please contact the Admissions Office at (315) 267-2180 for more information.\nUndergraduate Bridges Program\nThe Bridges Program is a special admissions program for students who show potential for success, despite falling slightly below our regular admissions requirements. Bridges supports the transition to a college workload for such students through access to expert academic advising, tutoring resources, and other support services.\nBridges students will be formally enrolled in the program for their first two semesters of college; however, students can continue to access guidance and support beyond the first year.\nAll Bridges students will participate in a customized orientation process with expert advising, which takes place as part of SUNY Potsdam\u2019s regular summer orientation program. Students have guaranteed access to some of the most sought after SUNY Potsdam courses: COMP 101 \u2013 Writing & Critical Thinking and FY 100 \u2013 First Year Success Seminar.\nAccepted students also receive a generous discount on Bear Bus tickets (for travel home during breaks), have access to free school supplies and are automatically eligible for the SSC Student Award (typically a $500 award).\nCompetitive applicants for the Bridges Program have high school averages that range from 78 to 84 and demonstrate their potential for success through personal essays, letters of recommendation, and interviews.\nTo receive consideration for the Bridges program, supplement your application with two letters of recommendation that address your work ethic and academic abilities, and a personal essay that addresses how you have overcome challenges and your college goals.\nPlease contact us with any questions or concerns you might have and we will do our best to assist you. You can reach us at bridges@potsdam.edu or by calling (315) 267-2702.\nEducational Opportunity Program (EOP) for Undergraduate and Graduate Study\nThe Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) provides academic support and financial aid to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who show promise for mastering college-level work, but who may otherwise not be accepted.\nEOP students must qualify both academically and financially. Students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority.\nTo learn more about eligibility, services, scholarships, and resources, visit the SUNY Potsdam Educational Opportunity Program page.\nVisiting and Non-Matric Enrollment for Undergraduate and Graduate Study\nVisiting student is a non-degree seeking status at SUNY Potsdam. Being admitted as a Visiting student does not grant you automatic admission as a traditional student.\nContact the Office of Graduate and Continuing Education at 315-267-2165 for information on becoming a visiting undergraduate or graduate student.\nVisiting Student (Non-Degree Seeking) Application\nApply Online (includes undergraduate and graduate non-matriculated students)\nCollege in High School Students Application (Students seeking to enroll in a course for credit at their High School)\nCollege Advancement Program (current HS students seeking to register for a course at Potsdam for college credit)\nIf you have been enrolled in an undergraduate program previously, or if you have completed a degree and are returning to seek a second bachelor's, you are considered to be a \"readmitted student\", and you will need to apply through the Registrar\u2019s office.\nAdmission Criteria - Undergraduate\nCurrent High School Student \u2013 Take a course at Potsdam\nMinimum 80.0 grade point average in a Regents/college preparatory curriculum as reported on an official high school transcript\nA letter of recommendation from high school principal and/or guidance counselor\nCurrent High School Student \u2013 Coursework at your High School\nComplete the College in High School (CHS) inquiry form online\nFill out the form carefully, and be sure to look up your high school code\nFor additional information, visit the Early College Programs office website\nCopy of high school diploma or GED certificate\nCurrently Enrolled Student with another College or University\nAn official transcript through last semester attended\nStudents who have been dismissed or separated, and who are not eligible to return to the current college or university they are attending do not qualify for admission as a non-matriculated student\nStudents must have both a current and overall minimum grade point average of 2.0 to be admitted\nCopy of highest degree earned\nPreviously Enrolled Student with another College or University\nAn official transcript through the final semester attended\nStudents who have been dismissed or separated, and who are not eligible to return to the most recent college or university attended, do not qualify for admission as a non-matriculated student\nAdmission Criteria - Graduate\nIn addition to the application, students must submit official transcripts showing evidence of completion of their bachelor's degree.\nYou must have a GPA equivalent to the requirements for admission into a graduate degree program. Exemptions may apply with additional documentation.\nIf you are a lifelong learner, and do not intend to transfer coursework into an official master's degree, you may be eligible for an exemption to the six credit cap normally instituted on graduate coursework. To request this exemption, please download the Lifelong Learning Agreement form, and submit it to the Division of Graduate and Continuing Education. You will be notified at the time of your application for coursework.\nUndergraduate: A maximum of 30 semester hours may be taken as a non-matriculated undergraduate student with no more than 15 hours per year and 8 hours per semester or two courses per semester. Additionally, a maximum of 30 semester hours taken as a non-matriculated undergraduate student may apply towards a Bachelor's degree if/when a student matriculates.\nNon-matriculated students who are registered for coursework may be bumped to a waiting list if a matriculated student seeks a seat in the same class and none are available.\nAll students are required to provide proof of measles, mumps and rubella immunization. If measles, mumps and rubella immunization is not provided by the stated deadline, the student may be dismissed. Questions should be directed to Student Health Services at (315) 267-2377.\nContinuance as a visiting student at SUNY Potsdam requires a minimum of a 2.0 cumulative grade point average from completed coursework.\nAdvising is available for non-matriculated students. If you would like advising assistance before determining which classes to take, please contact the Academic Advising Office, Sisson 128 (315) 267-2580. If there are no available seats in your preferred class/classes, the normal add/drop process will be your method of registration. The same applies if you will be registering after the start of a semester. Add/Drop forms are available in the Division of Graduate and Continuing Education (Raymond Hall 206). To register for classes during the add/drop time period, you must obtain the instructor's signature on an add/drop form. Bring the completed form to the Division of Graduate and Continuing Education (Raymond 206).\nTuition and charges for non-matriculated students are assessed per semester hour for each course up to a maximum cost for a full-time, in-state student. Tuition and billing information is available on the Student Accounts webpage. You can also call the Student Accounts office at (315) 267-2137.\nHealth insurance is also available. For more information, contact Health Services at (315) 267-2377.",
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"raw_content": "Clients frequently ask me how much automobile insurance they should have? Having full coverage means different things to different people. Whether you chose to buy towing and rental car reimbursement should not be as important as having sufficient UM (underinsured motorist or med pay coverage). Having adequate UM coverage indicates that you are concerned about protecting the people in your car as well as yourself. Unfortunately, the time to look over your insurance policy usually happens after the accident when its too late to increase the coverage one should really carry. Each person should regularly look at their own policy and make sure that they are adequately insured in case of an accident. By the time they call Powers Law Group, the client is probably not at fault for causing the accident, but in need of a trial lawyer. This is when we can help you make the right decisions about handling your case.\nCar Insurance Laws in Georgia\nFirst, the State of Georgia only requires one who gets a car-tag to have the minimum liability insurance coverage of $25,000. This coverage pays when a vehicle owner is at fault and that driver is responsible for the harm they caused to the another motorist, pedestrian, passenger in a car or bicyclist. Remember this insurance coverage does not pay for medical treatment for the at-fault driver. A driver in Georgia must carry this insurance on their car or they cannot get a license plate or renew that tag at their local DMV office.\nSecond, if you only buy the bare minimum insurance you can also get a Underinsured or Uninsured insurance policy for the same limits of $25,000 which protects \u201cyou or the people in your car\u201d when your car is in an accident. If you want to have more UM insurance, you need to increase your liability insurance coverage. This is what we recommend you do right now.\nThird, you should also have medical payment insurance coverage on your OWN insurance policy. This is because if you and your passengers are injured in an accident, your \u201cmed pay\u201d insurance pays those persons medical bills directly to the providers. Many people wrongly assume that if they are in a car wreck, the other person\u2019s insurance will pay their medical bills. This is not the law nor is it the duty of the at-fault party\u2019s insurance company. Questions of how the accident happened, who is at fault and is there anyone else to blame (i.e. an unknown motorist may have contributed to the accident) may have to be answered. The bottom line is that if you get medical treatment, you owe that provider or hospital for services rendered. It\u2019s like eating in a restaurant, \u201cif you ordered it, you bought it,\u201d and must therefore pay for what you ordered.\nFourth, everyone should buy as much UM insurance as they can afford. For example, a recent case we handled at Powers Law Group, was when our client was hit from the rear in his car by a driver who had $25,000 in liability insurance. Our client had $100,000 in UM insurance but it was the traditional UM coverage and not added \u2013 on which would have given him a total possible recovery of $25,000 from the liability insurer and only $75,000 in coverage from his own policy. Our client was taken to a hospital where he was examined and then treated for several weeks at a chiropractor and then, eventually, a neurosurgeon operated on his back. His medical bills were in excess of $100,000 and, thankfully, were paid by his wife\u2019s own group health insurance. The health insurer had a subrogation right (they could get their $$$ back) in our recovery because that is what the contract between the policy holder required our client do if he was ever in an accident.We were successful in obtaining the full policy limits from the liability insurer ($25,000) and our client\u2019s own UM ($75,000 coverage). We then had to help the client negotiate his health insurance lien to put as much of the recovery in the client\u2019s hands. Had the client had more in UM insurance, he most certainly would have recovered more from the settlement of his case. The difference in the client having more UM insurance was less than $100 for another $150,000 in coverage. That\u2019s why, at Powers Law Group, we encourage our clients to periodically review their auto insurance policies and make sure they are fully insured. If you can afford it, ask your insurance agent to give you a quote on an Umbrella Insurance policy. This policy can be tied to your homeowners insurance and your cars or trucks.\nFifth, let\u2019s examine another scenario: You are rear-ended in a car accident on I-75 southbound. Your airbags deployed and you have a brief loss of consciousness and perhaps short-term memory loss. Paramedics, law enforcement and emergency personnel arrive on the scene. You are bleeding from a part of your face and you cannot feel your feet and cannot walk. A decision is made to have you put on a board and transported to the closest hospital. At the hospital, you are seen by several nurses, physician assistants, an emergency room doctor, a neurologist and perhaps an orthopaedic or vascular surgeon. Medical personnel order CT scans, x-rays, maybe an MRI and a decision to operate is made as your closest relative gives consent for the invasive procedure. At this point, there is a good chance $30,000 in medical bills have already occurred. If you do not have medical insurance or medical pay insurance, who will pay your medical bills? Do you have enough UM insurance coverage to compensate you for your losses?\nYou need a personal injury trial lawyer and someone who can provide advice on what to do with having to pay these medical providers and seek follow up medical treatment. In summary, if you get the treatment, you have to pay the providers for the services rendered. Our firm represents people from all over Georgia in cases such as this.\nTags: personal injury lawyer macon, personal injury trial lawyer, underinsured motorist insurance\nhttps://www.powerslawgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/car-accident-lawyer-macon.jpg 282 425 Powers Law Group https://www.powerslawgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/powers-law-group-logo.png Powers Law Group2012-10-12 11:22:302019-01-10 09:31:33The Importance of Underinsured Motorist Insurance Coverage\nWork Injury \u2013 Billy Maddox Work Injury \u2013 Lori M.",
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"raw_content": "You could be forgiven if, at first glance, you thought Brisbane\u2019s Lady Cilento Children\u2019s Hospital was an art museum. Brightly colored fins, stacked buildings, and balconies jutting out at different angles challenge approaches to layout and give the hospital a stunning, modern look that also integrates it into the community.\nThe billion dollar public hospital opened in 2014 and has 359 beds. A \u201cliving tree\u201d was used as a model for the layout. A network of double-height spaces (branches) radiate from two vertical atria (trunks) at the centre of the hospital. These vertical and horizontal spaces allow users to intuitively navigate the building. In addition, each floor has its own dominant color palette to help orientation.\nWith the abundance of natural light entering through the portals and windows, more than 2,900 fins are strategically placed on the fa\u00e7ade to serve as sunshades as well as reflectors to bring in daylight. Brisbane\u2019s subtropical climate makes it ideal for maximizing daylight as well as natural ventilation, so the design also includes louvers to bring in fresh air to the main public areas. Localized heating and cooling is provided in the reception areas for the few days that optimal temperature cannot be provided by the natural ventilation system.\nTo further connect to the outdoors, just 23 percent of the site area is covered by a conventional roof. The remaining\n77 percent is public open space or roof gardens.\nLady Cilento Children\u2019s Hospital creates an inviting campus setting with expansive openings to the street and public amenities\u2014including a caf\u00e9, courtyard, and play space\u2014inviting engagement with the facility and allowing it to become a normal extension of the community.\nTags: children's hospital, public hospital",
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"raw_content": "[National Oppression] [Control Units] [Texas]\nI see that the United Front has broken down on the issue of migrants, or what some term illegal immigrants. All I can say is those who call themselves Marxist-Leninist or Maoist should read their works on this issue. What is going on now is nothing new that the imperialists are doing, Lenin, Mao and Stalin all dealt with this. Besides, if you really claim to know the history of Amerika you'll know that this nation was started by who? White Settlers! Or illegal immigrants, because I've never seen the documents granting them tribal citizenship by the five nations, or what was once northern Mexico. So get past your chauvinisms so-called anti-imperialist revolutionaries.\nAs for myself, I still sit languishing in the Texas state prisons' version of control units. We call them \"High Security Buildings.\" And this is all because I won't and refuse to become part of their program GRAD: Gang Related Activity Desensitizing. You know the game that the federales play, if you wanna get out you renounce your affiliation to whatever family you are a part of and you become an informant for the administration. No thank you, I'll pass.\nSo I'll sit in this cold ass building and study, plan and grow mentally, physically and spiritually. If these prisoners before me that were kept isolated for their beliefs could hold up with no let up ten and twenty years strong. I would be doing my ancestors in the struggle a grave disservice by becoming weak for an opportunity to get an extra tray at chow or watch a football game out in the dayroom among others. How could I be amongst them and call myself a man knowing I'm snitching for the man. They can keep those bullshit illusory privileges. Remember if we keep pulling, snapping and twisting, we'll eventually break this damn chain of imperialism. We have nothing else to lose.\nHelp Fight Censorship in NY\nby a New York prisoner July 2007 permalink\nThe lady in the mail room here has committed so many mail fraud violations she should be my neighbor.\nI didn't know anything about the package sent back to you, but I did receive about five MIM Notes and one MIM Theory on the 24th of July minus several pages, courtesy of media review. They said that the material excited rebellion, as if any rebellion isn't a direct result of this systems abuse and oppression.\nAround the same time I sent you my initial letter conveying my interest in your organization, I also wrote the SYDA Foundation, which is also based in Cali. It's basically a yoga study course. Anyway, after my first lesson they began taking pages out of each lesson, which destroyed the lessons. After that I lost interest in the course.\nMedia Review is just another way for them to control population, they label almost everything gang related if they don't understand it, and any group that is not on the commissioner's approved list is unauthorized organization material, etc.\nThese people have little regard for our rights, as long as they can hide they harrassment behind the goose of \"security reasons\" and get away with it they will.\nMIM responds: This report is more evidence that NY State Dept of Corrections is violating its own rules regarding censorship, not to mention the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Despite the department's stated purpose of, \"encourag[ing] inmates to read publications from varied sources if such material does not encourage them to engage in behavior that might be disruptive to orderly facility operations,\" it now appears that \"varied sources\" is often interpreted to mean a small selection of publications hand-picked by department officials.\nThere have been numerous reports of prisoners being charged with 105.12 violations for possessing materials from certain political groups, including MIM. We are currently working with comrades from the New Afrikan Maoist Party, who are leading the efforts to bring a class action suit against these violations of our First Amendment rights to communicate and affiliate with people thru prison walls.\nRule 105.12 doesn\u2019t prevent NY prisoners from, writing about, writing for, possessing the literature of, corresponding and associating with, or being members of any outside organization, so long as the organization is not a gang and the prisoners don\u2019t organize inmate chapters of it within the facility without approval. But due to incompetence, lack of training, and prejudice many staff members are applying Rule 105.12 to written materials related to outside organizations they\u2019re not familiar with or don\u2019t like or agree with. This tactic has been effective in scaring a number of potential comrades away from working with us, or even reading our literature.\nPrisoners in NY can join and contribute to this case by writing affirmations attesting to the facts around this struggle. If you have faced a 105.12 charge or similar censorship it is even more important that you help out. Write us to request more information on the case and how to compose an affirmation. Readers on the outside will be able to get more information about this battle soon at www.prisoncensorship.info.\n[Abuse] [Salinas Valley State Prison] [California]\nVisitation cut off at Salinas Valley State Prison\nby a comrade of United Struggle from Within July 2007 permalink\nI am writing to let you know that these fucking pigs are at it again. Yesterday and today these pigs turned away at least fifty people from coming in to visit they're incarcerated loved ones. I myself was waiting on a visit yesterday and today. However since we are on lockdown at the moment there is no possible way for me to know whether my visitor did indeed come. If she did, then she would've come all the way from New York for nothing. Protocol for these pigs requires that they notify us inmates if they refuse our visitors entry into the facility, however that almost never gets done.\nWe here at Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) have been having many difficulties with our visiting for the past couple months, it is now beginning to come to a boiling point.\nOur recent troubles mostly began a month and a half ago when rumors first started flying within the inmate population that there would be new visiting guidelines implemented. The main guideline affecting us at this moment is one which states that from now on all previously approved visitors must re-submit every two years. Now when rumors of this new implementation were first whispered, I as well as other inmates wrote and inquired to staff about it. Somehow visiting staff nor any other staff seemed to know anything about anything.\nAll of a sudden at the eleventh hour about 65 inmates on the yard received notices that some of the people on their approved visitors list were due to re-submit by July 9th or risk being taken off of their visiting list. Now they say that visitors were due to re-submit by the 9th of July, however no one was official notified until the last week of June and everybody knows it takes an average of 30 days or more to be approved. These pigs know damn well that even if visitors re-submitted before July 9th it still wouldn't have given anyone enough time to be re-approved by the deadline.\nMore than 65 people on the yard have had their visitors entry into the insitution denied, and furthermore they were never duly notified before or after the fact. They all had to find out from their own visitors days later via the phone and in some cases weeks later thru the mail. Total bullshit!\nNow today there are new reports of these pigs callousness. It's like they're just making up their own new and special rules every other weekend. They have been changing the color which visitors are permitted to wear on a regular basis. In addition to prohibiting solid blue and solid red, which we all have know about for a long time, they recently added solid brown and solid green tops and bottoms. Today they denied a woman entry because she had on white pants. They are also now stating that there is to be no blue or red of any kind on any piece of clothing at all, no matter how minute. This is perposterous!\nTo add insult to injury these pigs don't even have the decency to communicate with our friends and family in a civilized or respectfull manner. They always speak to our families in a disrepsectful tone. And if our loved ones try to argue that point, then these pigs always have the same response, \"Don't like it? Then you could leave\" or \"That's it, you're not coming in today.\" Now remember, these are grandmothers and mothers, fathers and brothers, with children in tow. More than half the people coming every weekend are coming from Los Angeles, San Diego and other parts of Southern California or further away in Northern Calif. It's one thing to deal with us in a certain manner, it's an entirely different thing to disrespect our families.\nPeople are also being denied entry onto the grounds due to a new metal detector in the visitor processing area. If, after going through the metal detector three times, an individual is not able to clear it, then they are being denied entry for the day. We all know that women are not allowed to wear bras with metal wire, so nobody does, however now if the bra has a metal clip or button they are being forced to cut the metal off of the clothing/bra if they want to come in. I was told of a grandmother having to do this in order to come inside. She was forced to cut the metal clip off the bra and then tie it back together.\nI will be 602ing this weekend's actions and hopefully everyone involved in these incidents will be held responsible. It would be of great importance and help if you could help us out by calling the institution head wardens office and anybody else who might be able to draw attention to these matters. Call and or write, bug the hell out of em.\nSend protest letters to:\nM.S. Evans, Warden\nSend MIM(Prisons) a copy of your letters.\nGrievance Fight Assisted with Citizen Complaint Letters\nULK30: Consolidating Forces for a New Year\n[Rhymes/Poetry] [California]\nInside this cage I spill all of my rage onto this blank white paper to expose this place\nWhere I'm not locked down held captive.\nLiving in an artificial world with no rights but my mind's still active\nThinking about the way things happened.\nAt 16 years old I caught a case and was sentenced like Osama Bin Laden\nThey say that the system's to serve me\nBut all I see is wicked court judges using laws to hurt me\nC/Os and wardens at work see\nBehind these prison walls you're no more than a fish in the dark see\nThe shark he'll eat your alive\nGet ta talking too loud and the man'll put a hit on your life\nSee it's easy they'll just set you up.\nGet another inmate to come at you no respsect or love\nOnce the fight starts their gone shoot.\nAnd you better believe their only one real target is you\nOne shot then your life is gone.\nAnd it's nothing to them but paperwork and a short call home.\nRight now I'm in a four wall hell.\nLocked up in the hole living life underneath my cell\nWith just enough food to survive.\nif I'm given anything lesser then it I'm fa'show gone die.\nCrying tears for the years they gave me.\nI understand the pain that I caused but was it truely that crazy?\nThese rules that they make are amazing.\nIt seems they only trap me in a world with a system that hates me\nAnd once I feel that time has arrived.\nTo stand up, and speak out they shut me down with a basket of lies\nWhen will they ever abide\nBy the rules that they set in the shade while we stand outside\nProbably never and we'll never survive until we all unite together to try and open the eyes\nOf our brothers, sisters and mothers.\nAll families and friends\nCause even though we locked in prison we can still start trends\nYa feel my rage?\nSecond Support Strike in Calipatria\nForce-Feeding Approved for CA Hunger Strikers\nSan Quentin Hunger Strike Suspended\n[Organizing] [California] [ULK Issue 1]\nYoung prisoner ready to step up\nPlease allow me to briefly compliment you on both your program of the MIM - what y'all want and what y'all believe - and your political platform for ways of getting those wants and beliefs.\nAs a 19 year old brotha locked down by a system who cares for no one but themselves, I admire someone who is willing to step to the plate and educate the people about the wicked system which they are a part of. When I first wrote to your organization I was looking for someone who I could turn to and gain political knowledge on this so-called land of the free. Not only does it seem as if I've found that, but also someone willing to teach and give me the tools I will need to change this wicked system that not only takes place here in America, but world wide.\nWhile reading your brief letter I took notice of your speakings on the United Struggle from Within. It is something that I would definitely like to know more about because it sound like something that I'd like to be a part of. Being a young brotha of the struggle within this prison system has made me a young brotha seeking for knowledge and truth about this world and the forces that rule it. I want to learn how to change those forces to make them work for me and the people instead of working against us.\nI am one who fully understands and believes in the saying \"the blind can't lead the blind anywhere, but into a brick wall or off a cliff.\" Now while having that in mind, I wish to attain knowledge and see and then lead, or attempt to lead the blind into a safe place of being.\nWith your help and your guidance I can make that attempt or we can make that attempt together. I've been incarcerated for the past four years and I have plenty more years to go with nothing but time. If given the opportunity I will work and also learn at the same time.\n[Legal] [Censorship] [Washington]\nInmate Mail and Communications in WA\nby a Washington prisoner July 2007 permalink\nAccording to WAC 137-48-050 procedures for restrictions of incoming and/or outgoing mail, the Department of Corrections does not usually comply with paragraph (1) or (2) of this section on 137-48.\nThe Department of Corrections is not sending publishers or senders a copy of the mail restriction according to the mandatory language of shall.\nFor example, WAC 137-48-050(1) states in pertinent part:\n...This notification shall be provided to the inmate and the sender of the specific publication, letter, or package which has been restricted and the reason for this action.\nAnother example, WAC 137-48-050(2) states in pertinent part:\nThe inmate and sender shall be advised in writing of his/her right to seek review of the decision to restrict his/her mail...\nThe Department of Corrections in Washington State is not abiding with this mandatory language in the code.\nPublishers and senders are not receiving notice and this is a Due Process issue according to the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and also violates 1st Amendment Rights for the publisher and senders of publications.\nInmates probably have no standing to challenge the issue, but the publishers do. My advice to all inmates in the Washington State Department of Corrections to do is send the publisher or sender a copy of the restriction. Inform them of the WAC 137-48-050 mandatory language. Also explain to them the fact that they have standing to challenge the Department of Corrections under 1st and 14th Amendment grounds for censorship and Due Process. The more inmates that do this, the more prison mailroom and administration will be working that prisoners will start seeing less mail restrictions coming to them.\nAlso challenge on your appeal how the rejection affects you by not allowing the publisher notice since prisoners cannot even see what is being restricted, how can a prisoner effectively appeal the mail restriction? This is another issue every prisoner should challenge in court too. The fact us prisoners cannot see what the Washington Department of Corrections is censoring or restricting there is no effective appeal process because it leaves the keepers with total control without giving prisoners a \"meaningful\" avenue to peaceably redress government violation of the 1st Amendment and 14th Amendment grounds.\nThe more people that unite together the more we can expose the hypocrisy of the so-called state administrative governments. Exercise your rights, because if you don't they will continue to take and take until you are totally defenseless. It is better to try and fail than not doing anything for yourself and fellow man. Past generation prisoners have died for what few rights we have such as clean conditions, medical care, food, mail, etc. Don't let the new prison administrators take without a fight.\nMIM responds: This comrades points are in the spirit of Black August, which is now coming to a close, when we commemorate the history of the prison movement behind bars; the struggles, both successful and failed and those whose lives were taken. And as the comrade points out, it is still worth fighting even if you don't win immediately. Particularly when there is a movement that you are fighting as a part of. With enough appeals from prisoners and outside groups we can put enough pressure on the prison administration in Washington and elsewhere to at least follow their own rules, if not change their rules.\nIn 2001 we passed two resolutions in Congress calling on MIM's Prison Ministry to take leadership in fighting censorship. The first resolution took ownership for the censorship of our literature as a violation of all writers for MIM Notes, many of whom are tax-paying amerikkkan citizens. So, we fully agree with this comrade's call for distributors, particularly anti-imperialists who are being targeted with this censorship, to demand their so-called \"rights\" to free speech and association be respected. Our Prison Ministry regularly fights the censorship we face through legal and administrative challenges. Prisoners can help by letting us know when they do and don't receive the literature we send them and sending us copies of any rejection notices and facility regulations. And of course, those who are serious about winning this battle can contribute through articles like this one and by leading legal battles on their own behalf as the writer suggests.\nThe second resolution we passed in 2001 established a regular report of humyn-rights violations in u$ prisons, with a focus on censorship. Following this resolution we also began reaching out to other groups working with prisoners to compile information on censorship. Only recently have these efforts become visible to the public on the Prison Ministries new website www.prisoncensorship.info. This site will feature news from prisons, including everything printed in ULK, a searchable database of censorship incidents, and rules and regulations compiled by state and facility. (On the site you can view the most recent rejection notices that Washington DOC sent MIM for political cartoons that contained swastikas.) We will be using this site to begin issuing regular censorship reports again, which will be more detailed than we were able to do in the past. We will also be accepting submissions of censorship incidents from other organizations and individuals and incorporating them into our work. We hope these efforts will encourage more collaboration with other groups, lawyers and prisoners in fighting censorship within the u$ injustice system.\n[Medical Care] [Abuse] [Spanish] [Clinton Correctional Facility] [New York]\nAbuso del Medico en Clinton Correctional Facility\npor [email protected] [email protected] en New York July 2007 permalink\nQuiero dejarle saber lo que me hacen aqui los oficiales. El 7/8/07 el oficial J. Cross le puso veneno o algo a los tres unsources que me dan el medico. Porque el mismo me lo dijo. Y ademas pase el dia vomitando y estoy enfermo desde ese dia. La enfermera hizo un reporte de este incidente. Y el 6/22/07 este oficial me boto todos mis medicinas. Y cuando trabaja no me dan comida, y le dice a los otros oficiales que no me den comida y no me dan comida. Y me tiene amenazado de muerte, y no puedo ir a la clinica a ver al medico porque me quieren golpearme los oficiales de la clinica porque el oficial J. Cross le dijo.\nEl 6/22/07 mi madre me mando unos libros y el oficial Bruce no quiere darmelo, aunque tengo los recibos de los libros. Aqui no me dan el ba\u00f1o ni la hora de la recreaci\u00f3n que tiene que darme mandatoriamente.\nAdemas, apagan las camaras de video, y me acusan de cosas que no hice, y me dan tigues. Ademas, aqui no me procesan los grievances. Los Sargentos W. Bisso y Giambruno son lo primero racistas y abusadores. Y el Superintende no hace nada por mi aunque le ense\u00f1o las pruebas de los abuses de los oficiales contra mi.\nLe escrib\u00ed al Commissioner en Albany para que me ayude, y me saque de Clinton y no han hecho nada por mi tampoco. Ayudemen si pueden para salir de Clinton porque mi vida esta en peligro con los oficiales y los sargentos.\nVictim in Clinton Brutality Needs Legal Help\nKkklinton Continues Persecution of New Afrikans\n[Control Units] [Southport Correctional Facility] [New York]\nSensory Deprivation in NY\nLet me explain what sensory deprivation is and how it is applied on prisoners in the SHU.\nFirst, a prisoner is placed in extended isolation with no human contact, no natural light, no clock and no calendar.\nWhile in isolation, the prisoner is interrupted by strange blaring sounds orchestrated by the corrections officer. This technique deprives the prisoner's mind of contact with an outer world and thus forcing it in upon itself. This is called sensory deprivation.\nAfter a short period of time, the prisoner will be reduced to a delusional state and easy to control, and many of them will lose their mind or their personality will disintegrate. Sensory deprivation may also result in extreme anxiety, hallucinations, bizarre thoughts, depression and antisocial behavior, as well as significant psychological disorders.\nThe CIA and the US military have been using this sensory deprivation technique since the early 1960's. Active and reserve members of the U$ military who are also corrections officers, have brought these dirty U$ military psychological torture techniques to U$ prisons, specifically the \"Security Housing Units\" (SHU).\nI am actively drawing attention to the links between the ghastly practices of dehumanization at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and their everyday application in prisons across the U$. I have been a target for retaliatory actions by Southport prison officials because of my pursuit of numerous federal civil action lawsuits and my political and religious views.\nI am currently trying to notify as many media outlets as possible to get my strong voice and political views out to the public. I would appreciate your assistance in getting my voice out to the public.\nThank you for your time and consideration. 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"raw_content": "The world\u2019s third largest asset manager, State Street Global Advisors, wanted to bring awareness to gender diversity and promote diverse boards. They are a $2.5 trillion investor unit within State street Corp., and they are rolling out a new campaign to persuade companies to add more women to their boards. The hedge fund stated they would vote against boards if a company failed to have at least one female board member and does not demonstrate that tangible, concrete measures are being taken toward fixing its gender gap. State Street plans to send letters to 3,500 companies asking them to act.\nWe are living in a new world and women should be treated equally in the workforce. It is important to promote growth and diversity, not just at entry level roles in companies but also at the higher decision making positions. Barclays was the first financial services company to sign up to the UN\u2019s HeForShe campaign when it launched in 2015. Currently their workforce stands at 51% female, 49% male. Twenty four percent of Barclay\u2019s Managing Directors and Directors were female at the end of 2016. That is a three point improvement from 2013 and they are on track to meet their 2018 target of 26%. JP Morgan Chase provides many diversity programs that encourage women to succeed. Two of their most recognized programs are: Women on the Move, an internal program created in 2013 which aims to increase the number of women in senior management positions and their ReEntry program which helps and encourages women return to the workforce after time away to raise children or care for aging parents. Following the trend Bank of America currently has 11 executives, 4 of which are female. Wells Fargo also has 11 executives three of which are female.\nProspect 33 has long history of employing women with an almost even gender breakdown across all of our offices globally though ironically this was never a conscious effort. We have always prided ourselves on hiring the best people and in that process a diverse workforce emerged. One of our initiative that helped shape this culture is our financial executive training program - \u201cThe Future Leaders Programme,\u201d - a worldwide initiative that educates and encourages the next generation of industry leaders with an emphasis on female empowerment and diversity in the workplace.\nAs an industry we have come a long way and we will only continue to grow and change. Spotlights on galvanizing issues like this serve only to unite the major players and strengthen us as we create a better world for all.",
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"raw_content": "Cognitive Benefits of Playing Video Games\nResearch shows that video-game play improves basic mental abilities.\nIn two previous articles (here and here), I summarized evidence countering the common fears about video games (that they are addictive and promote such maladies as social isolation, obesity, and violence). I also pointed there to evidence that the games may help children develop logical, literary, executive, and even social skills. Evidence has continued to mount, since then, concerning especially the cognitive benefits of such games.\nThe most recent issue of the American Journal of Play (Fall, 2014) includes an article by researchers Adam Eichenbaum, Daphne Bavelier, and C. Shawn Green summarizing recent research demonstrating long-lasting positive effects of video games on basic mental processes--such as perception, attention, memory, and decision-making. Most of the research involves effects of action video games\u2014that is, games that require players to move rapidly, keep track of many items at once, hold a good deal of information in their mind at once, and make split-second decisions. Many of the abilities tapped by such games are precisely those that psychologists consider to be the basic building blocks of intelligence.\nSuch research employs two strategies\u2014correlational and experimental. In a correlational study, regular gamers are compared, on some perceptual or cognitive test, with otherwise comparable people who don\u2019t play video games. The typical finding is that the gamers outperform the non-gamers on whatever test is used. This suggests that gaming is a cause the better performance, but doesn't prove it, because it is possible that people who choose to play video games are those who already have superior perceptual and cognitive abilities. The best proof that video-gaming improves these abilities comes from experiments in which all of the participants are initially non-gamers, and then some, but not others, are asked to play a particular video game for a certain number of hours per day, for a certain number of days, for the sake of the experiment. In these experiments, the typical finding is that those who play the video game improve on measures of basic perceptual and cognitive abilities while those in the control group do not.\nIn what follows, I\u2019ll simply list some of the findings that have come from this sort of research, all of which are summarized in the article by Eichenbaum and his colleagues. The reference I cite for each finding is to the original research report.\nImprovements in basic visual processes\n\u2022 Improved visual contrast sensitivity. Fifty hours of action video game play (spread over ten to twelve weeks) improved visual contrast sensitivity (the ability to distinguish subtle differences in shades of gray) compared to controls (Li et al., 2009).\n\u2022 Successful treatment of amblyopia. Amblyopia (also called \u201clazy eye\u201d) is a disorder arising from early childhood in which one eye becomes essentially non-functional. Li and colleagues (2011) performed experiments in which some adults with this disorder played action video games using only the bad eye (the good eye was covered). Other adults with the disorder did other things with the good eye covered, such as knitting or watching television. The result was that those in the gaming condition showed great improvement\u2014often to normal or near-normal functioning\u2014while those in the other conditions did not. Many in the gaming condition developed 20/20 vision or better in the previously \u201clazy eye,\u201d and visual attention and stereoscopic vision (ability to coordinate input from the two eyes to see depth) were restored to normal.\n\u2022 Improved spatial attention. Green & Bavelier (2012) found that action video gaming improved performance on the ability to locate, quickly, a target stimulus in a field of distractors--a test that has been found to be a good predictor of driving ability.\n\u2022 Improved ability to track moving objects in a field of distractors. Action games improved the ability of children and adults to keep track of a set of moving objects that were visually identical to other moving objects in the visual field (Trick et al., 2005).\n\u2022 Reduced impulsiveness. Action games improved performance in a test of the ability to refrain from responding to non-target stimuli, in a situation in which most stimuli called for a response but an occasional stimulus called for no response (Dye, Green, & Bavelier, 2009).\n\u2022 Overcoming dyslexia. Dysexia, in at least some cases, seems to derive from problems of visual attention. One study showed that as few as 12 hours of video game play improved dyslexic children\u2019s scores on tests of reading and phonology (Franceschini et al, 2013). In fact, the improvement was as great or greater than that achieved by training programs that were explicitly designed to treat dyslexia.\nExecutive functioning refers to a person\u2019s ability to allot his or her mental resources (such as perception, attention, memory) in ways that allow for rapid, efficient problem solving or decision-making. Many experiments have shown positive effects of video-game training on measures of executive functioning. Here are two examples\n\u2022 Improved ability to engage in multiple tasks simultaneously. Chiappi and colleagues (2013) found that 50 hours of experience on an action video game significantly improved performance on a test called the Multi-Attribute Task Battery, which is modeled after skills required in piloting aircraft. It involves using a joystick to keep a target centered on a screen, monitoring fuel levels, responding to lights on an instrument panel, and listening and responding to radio communication. High scores on this test correlate well with real-world piloting performance.\n\u2022 Increased mental flexibility. A number of researchers have shown that experience with action video games improve people\u2019s abilities to switch rapidly and without error between tasks that have conflicting demands ((Anderson et al, 2010; Green et al, 2012; Colzato et al, 2014).\n\u2022 Reversing mental decline that accompanies aging. Cognitive flexibility, attention, working memory, and abstract reasoning all tend to decline with age. Many experiments, with elderly participants, show that video game play results in improvement in all of these abilities (e.g. Basek et al., 2008). One study found that such play led not just to cognitive improvements, but also to better self-concepts and enhanced qualities of life in elderly participants (Torres, 2011).\nMany studies indicate that video games improve job performance, especially for jobs that require good eye-hand coordination, attention, excellent working memory, and quick decision-making. One correlational study, for example, demonstrated that video gamers were better than non-gamers in ability to fly and land aerial drones and were essentially as good as trained pilots on this skill (MKinley et al., 2011). Another correlational study revealed that young, inexperienced surgeons who were also avid video gamers outperformed the most experienced surgeons in their field (Rosser et al., 2007). In an experiment, novice surgeons who were provided with experience with video games improved their performance in laparoscopic surgery compared with a control group of surgeons who did not have that experience (Schlickum et al., 2009).\nTo cognitive scientists, such research on effects of video games is fascinating in part because it demonstrates that the brain is far more moldable, throughout a person's life, than was previously believed. Until fairly recently most psychologists believed that the basic building blocks of intelligence were rather rigidly set (hard-wired) by one\u2019s genes. But the research summarized here, coupled with much other research, indicates that this is not true. It's interestng to note that video games appear to build these components of intelligence faster and more efficiently than any other intervention anyone has devised.\nIf you are a parent who has been limiting your child\u2019s computer play because of the claims you have read of harmful effects, the research summarized here and in my previous posts on video gaming might give you pause. The bulk of the research suggests that the claims about negative effects of video gaming are largely myths and the positive effects are real. As children know in their bones, the kinds of mental skills that video games help to develop are among the skills that are increasingly important in today's world.\nAnd now, what are your thoughts and questions about all this? What experiences have you or your children had with video games? This blog is a forum for discussion, and your ideas, knowledge, and questions are valued and taken seriously, by me and by other readers. As always, I prefer if you post your comments and questions here, in the comments section, rather than send them to me by private email. By putting them here, you share with other readers, not just with me. I read all comments and try to respond to all serious questions. Of course, if you have something to say that applies only to you and me, then send me an email.\n-Free to Learn is now available in paperback as well as hardcover.\n-For a wealth of information about self-determined education, see alternativestoschool.com]\nAnderson, Ashley F., Daphne Bavelier, and C. Shawn Green. 2010. \u201cSpeed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Cognitive Tasks in Action Game Players.\u201d Journal of Vision 10: 748.\nBasak, Chandramallika, Walter R. Boot, Michelle W. Voss, and Arthur F. Kramer. 2008. \u201cCan Training in a Real-Time Strategy Video Game Attenuate Cognitive Decline in Older Adults?\u201d Psychology and Aging 23:765\u201377.\nChiappe, Dan, Mark Conger, Janet Liao, J. Lynn Caldwell, and Kim-Phoung L. Vu (2013). \u201cImproving Multi-Tasking Ability through Action Videogames.\u201d Applied Ergonomics 44:278\u201384.\nColzato,LorenzoS.,WeryP.M.vandenWildenberg,andBernhardHommel.2014.\u201cCognitive Control and the COMT Val (158) Met Polymorphism: Genetic Modulation of Videogame Training and Transfer to Task-Switching Efficiency.\u201d Psychological Research 78:670\u201378.\nDye, Matthew W. G., C. Shawn Green, and Daphne Bavelier. 2009. \u201cIncreasing Speed of Processing with Action Video Games.\u201d Current Directions in Psychological Science 18:321\u201326.\nEichenbaum, A. E., Bavelier, D., & Green, C. S. (2014). Video games: Play that can do serious good. American Journal of Play, 7, 50-72.\nFranceschini, Sandro, Simone Gori, Milena Ruffino, Simona Viola, Massimo Molteni, and Andrea Facoetti. 2013. \u201cAction Video Games Make Dyslexic Children Read Better.\u201d Current Biology 23:462\u201366.\nGreen, C. Shawn, and Daphne Bavelier.. 2012. \u201cLearning, Attentional Control, and Action Video Games. Current Biology 22:R197\u2013R206.\nLi, Renjie, Uri Polat, Walter Makous, and Daphne Bavelier. 2009. \u201cEnhancing the Con- trast Sensitivity Function through Action Video Game Training.\u201d Nature Neuro- science 12:549\u201351.\nLi, Roger W., Charlie Ngo, Jennie Nguyen, and Dennis M. Levi. 2011. \u201cVideo-Game Play Induces Plasticity in the Visual System of Adults with Amblyopia.\u201d PLoS Biology 9.\nMcKinley, R. Andy, Lindsey K. McIntire, and Margaret A. Funke. 2011. \u201cOperator Selec- tion for Unmanned Aerial Systems: Comparing Video Game Players and Pilots.\u201d Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine 82:635\u201342.\nRosser, James C. Jr., Paul J. Lynch, Laurie Cuddihy, Dougls A. Gentile, Jonathan Klonsky, and Ronald Merrell. 2007. \u201cThe Impact of Video Games on Training Surgeons in the 21st Century.\u201d Archives of Surgery 142:181\u201386.\nSchlickum, Marcus K., Leif Hedman, Lars Enochsson, Ann Kjellin, and Li Fellander-Tsai. 2009.\u201cSystematic Video Game Training in Surgical Novices Improves Performance in Virtual Reality Endoscopic Surgical Simulators: A Prospective Randomized Study.\u201d World Journal of Surgery 33:2360\u201367.\nTorres, Ana Carla Seabra. 2011. \u201cCognitive Effects of Video Games on Old People.\u201d International Journal on Disability and Human Development 10:55\u201358.\nTrick, Lana M., Fern Jaspers-Fayer, and Naina Sethi. 2005. \u201cMultiple-Object Tracking in Children: The \u2018Catch the Spies\u2019 Task.\u201d Cognitive Development 20:373\u201387.\nSubmitted by Leila on February 20, 2015 - 10:58am\nIt still feels difficult for me to back up this article with my experiences because of the opinions of family and friends towards my son's delight in playing video games. However, there was nothing that stimulated him more than playing with friends world of warcraft and when he was younger runescape. There was a downside though and that was that he was a bit obsessed by them and I don't think that was particularly helpful for his development (or his health as sadly there's little activity involved in playing games).\nAn article like this does highlight though the benefits of gaming which are downplayed like crazy by parents, perhaps because of the addictive component and the fear they will take away from schoolwork (even if it is mind-numbing ;).\nMy son gave up tennis at the time, but took it up again at the age of twenty and is now coaching part-time and crazy for it in the same way he was for games. Certain brains need certain things I feel. Thanks for the great article.\nReply to Leila\nQuote Leila\nGaming and Autism\nSubmitted by Delia on February 20, 2015 - 12:02pm\nWe are gamers in our family. But a fair number of unschooling parents of children with autism report the side effect of dysphoria after their children play video games or play them for too long. Some report increased anxiety and decrease in self-care, like eating and going to the bathroom when needed. I believe these cases are outliers, but it is still worth mentioning. Parents should go with their natural gut instincts on what is good for their children and what is not. Our children are antecdotes and not statistics. That's why nature gave them parents instead of \"experts\". :)\nQuote Delia\nIsolation in gaming\nSubmitted by Lauren on February 20, 2015 - 1:06pm\nMy 13 year old son loves his xbox and his itouch. He is very good at the games he plays, so much so that his 19 year old brother and his friends enjoy playing with him; the 13 year old enjoys it because he often wins :)\nMy concern is the isolation of gaming. Gamers connect with others via xbox live but those are people we have never met and have no idea what goes on in the dialogue. I know there is foul language and I am not pleased about that. I believe that to be a poor example for a kid who is still learning how to express himself. The bigger concern, though, is that gaming now seems to be a case where individuals play with strangers, not a couple of neighborhood kids gathering in a friend's rec room. My son is a bit of an introvert and I wish I could reconcile my wish for more interaction with kids in person with his love for playing xbox. Most families around us have their kids involved in all kinds of sports and other activities, something we have a hard time affording, let alone convincing my son to do.\nI would really like to see more long term studies done on the interpersonal relationships as well as the ambitions of people who spent a very large part of their formative years playing video games (it takes a large amount of time to become good at those games!). Does any such information exist?\nSomething to consider is that\nSubmitted by Becky on February 20, 2015 - 6:43pm\nSomething to consider is that for a person without access to in-person social opportunities, gaming could keep them from feeling isolated. My 12 year old plays minecraft and other games several hours a day with kids we don't know. I think this helps him feel very socially connected. Sure, he has in person friends, and he also plays with them more online than in person. For many kids, if they didn't have that outlet, they might not have anything at all. When I think about the people I went to school with who were social outcasts and very lonely, even when surrounded by other kids, I think if they had had gaming as an option, they might not have felt so lonely.\nSubmitted by Peter Gray Ph.D. on February 23, 2015 - 7:47am\nGood question, Lauren. I don't know of any long-term follow-up studies comparing gamers with non-gamers. There is research, however, which I referred to here--https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201201/the-many-benefits-kids-playing-video-games--indicating that gamers are not more socially isolated on average than non-gamers, and maybe are less isolated. The truth is, we have created a world in which it is very difficult for kids to find one another in physical space without adult intrusion, so they find one another online. See also my post here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201402/five-myths-about-young-people-and-social-media. -Peter\nqeagwhjrfkelOW:SIhubckvjxl;sasjhdgaklesdhfgbhxjdksal\nSubmitted by Sahil Sharma on May 13, 2016 - 1:39pm\nPeter Gray Ph.D. wrote:\nthat gamers are not more socially isolated on average than non-gamers, and maybe are less isolated. The truth is, we have created a world in which it is very difficult for kids to find one another in physical space without adult intrusion, so they find one another online. -Peter\nReply to Sahil Sharma\nQuote Sahil Sharma\nGames are good for social development\nSubmitted by Cedric on October 26, 2016 - 11:06am\nI play games all the time and it has helped develop social skills. True it took awhile but 6 years of playing games has made me more extrovertish and I can say that if you studied the social development of kids my age ( around 13 ) you would find that they were awkward at first but it usually gets much better in a few years of keeping at it, and working hard at m games helps me work hard at my homework.\nPS: Extrovertish is something only I say but it helped get the point across\nReply to Cedric\nQuote Cedric\nSubmitted by NH27 on December 7, 2015 - 2:21pm\nI don't think you should be worried with your kid playing with strangers. If anything, it will help him realise who he is and who he isn't when playing with people that he likes (or doesn't like.) I, myself, am a gamer and before I played video games online, I was an introvert as well. I didn't really like talking to other people and rather preferred being alone. In a way, I am still that same way, but I have changed drastically. I went from never socialising with people to not being afraid to say what I want. I can now speak in front of people and not have my heart pounding in my chest. Having these experiences, although not in person, I think is crucial to a person that is an introvert as having these kinds of connections will \"break the shell\" as it did in my case.\nReply to NH27\nQuote NH27\nEffects of visual stimuli\nSubmitted by Jennifer on February 20, 2015 - 2:05pm\nI find if my daughter plays video games longer than an hour that she becomes hyper and irritable . this happens most with the fast moving, visually exciting games (as opposed to a mine craft type game). I think video games are great but some types are very stimulating on the brain. Flashing llights can cause seizures in some kids for example.\nVideo games\" is a very broad almost useless description. Solitaire vs Call of Duty? Very different games in many ways.\nMy trouble with screen time\nSubmitted by P on February 20, 2015 - 2:11pm\nMy trouble with screen time is that it becomes all consuming for our kids. All they want to do is get on the screens and if it's not an option, we have horrible scenes over it.\nMy kids benefit from their screen time. When we don't let them get on the computer, they complain, but eventually they read, play outside, help their dad in the workshop, etc. Those really important activities would not happen if we let them choose how much electronics they can have. (As that's what they would mainly choose to do.)\nI think it would be easier if we never let the kids on the screened devices, but then they would miss out. I wish there was an easy way to set limits without them always wanting more.\nQuote P\nSubmitted by N on June 20, 2015 - 6:07pm\nThe reason kids always \"want more\" games or \"want more\" TV is because that content is designed to be addictive. Game developers or writers of TV-series create their content with that goal in mind. If they keep kids playing or watching longer they will usually make more money. So, to achieve that they design their content with that specific goal in mind.\nReply to N\nQuote N\nOur world is becoming more and more technologically advanced at a really high rate. We are now at a point where technology is crucial to our being. This \"screen time\" you're talking about that overwhelms your children is something that happens because they are growing in an age where \"screen time\" is a part of every day life. Sure, I'm not saying let them stay on computers all of the time, but we're not living in the 80's anymore. There are people, more and more, choosing to interact over the internet than in person because we're in the Digital Age.\nscreen time trouble\nSubmitted by Chris on February 14, 2019 - 10:50am\nIf you take a moment to think about it, its more of a hobby then anything, whereas football is the same thing, there are many players who want to play football for extensive periods of time, very similar to how gamers just want more time. in my eyes theirs not much difference except that one trains your mind while the other trains your body\nSubmitted by Holly on February 21, 2015 - 1:19am\nI have several questions on this topic. I was wondering what you think about them.\nOne of your arguments for why gaming isn't addicting is because it's strategy vs. gambling is luck. What about games that are more about luck than skill. My personal favorite is Candy Crush. I don't really think there's ever a sense of mastery to it, and it's hard to tell whether you only won the level because the game gave you a lucky set of circumstances. What do you think about those kind of games?\nI liked what you said about it being more of a time management problem than an addiction, but I was wondering how you can help your kids improve their time management skills? It does seem logical to me that by giving them limits, they'll only want it more and won't learn to limit themselves.\nMy last question, which I've never seen addressed at all, is do you think that school has an effect on kids' desire to play video games in their free time instead of other pursuits (Like many of the parent commenters have mentioned)? It seems to me that video games are a way to recuperate after so many hours of school. My dad thinks that when given technology kids will naturally gravitate toward less educational or useful pursuits, but I think they might behave differently if they weren't working on such limited free time. Are there any studies about school's effects on video game usage?\nGreat questions, Holly. Here are my thoughts:\n1. It's an interesting question as to whether games that are more luck-based might be more addictive than those that are more skill-based. Gambling addiction seems to occur because of the combination of the random, unpredictable nature of the rewards and the fact that the rewards are real-world rewards (money). In mosts video games (unless they are used for gambling), the reward is purely an in-game reward (points); so I wouldn't predict them to be addictive in the way that gambling is.\n2. I agree that giving children limits does not help them learn time management. I think children learn time management by being allowed to manage their own time, to the degree possible, and learning from their mistakes. The child who misses out on something he or she wants because of failure to think ahead learns a valuable lesson. When parents step in and continuously remind the child, or nag the child, the child doesn't learn self-discipline.\n3. Concerning your last question, I don't think any controlled studies have been done on the effects of schooling on gaming. However, in interview studies many kids talk about the things that gaming provides that school doesn't. In the game, unlike at school, they are in charge of their own activity, the are engaged at the highest level of their competence, and they are able to socialize freely, as they chose, with others. Also in the game they are not belittled, as hey are in school and in so much of the rest of their lives. Thus, the game meets the three basic human needs of autonomy, competence, and sociability, which school does not meet. For more on this, see the reference in Note 11 in this post: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201201/the-many-benefits-kids-playing-video-games\nschook vs gaming\nSubmitted by Heidi on October 29, 2015 - 12:18pm\nHi Holly and Peter,\nI can add some anecdotal observations about gaming vs schooling. My kids attend a non-coercive, self directed and democratic school where they can select whatever they do each day. And gaming is alive and well!\nDo they select gaming over \"more academic\" pursuits, as your father is concerned about? Yes, sometimes. Interestingly, I've noticed that they don't stay just playing the same games over and over again. It's human nature to learn and grow! So I've noticed one group is learning how to build a server so they can host their own group games (Minecraft, in this case). Others are teaching themselves programming so they can build their own games or mods for Minecraft. Another subgroup got interested in programming and has taken that over to robotics now.\nAs they grow, our school works on a coaching model where we talk with them about what they want to do beyond school. And many at some point then choose the academics they will need to meet those goals. These kids easily slide into math and science classes. They have superior team building skills. They work towards goals in a very focused way. And communication skills are well practiced before any formal English classes are undertaken.\nThere are certainly a lot of fears that kids will do nothing but game. But from a community that has actually let the kids do nothing but game, we can say that they consistently self select their paths and goals which may include gaming, but also so much more!!\nSubmitted by billybob9 on December 12, 2017 - 10:16am\nYou spelled school wrong\nReply to billybob9\nQuote billybob9\nWe love gaming!\nSubmitted by Jo on February 21, 2015 - 9:37pm\nI'm surprised to see all the comments are mostly negative...it really seems parents just don't want to change their thinking about video games, in spite of the glaring positive evidence.\nMy son is 8.5, and has never been limited in his use of video games of any kind (we are unschoolers - so he also isn't limited to after school). He has an Xbox, a Wii, a gaming laptop, a 3ds and an iPod.\nGaming has been amazing in our lives. He has learnt so much from gaming, and all kinds of different games. Once he learnt to read, he reads complex words and instructions in his games. He's learnt to navigate YouTube and upload gaming 'lets' plays', he skypes and plays with friends locally, and overseas and we have met many people through gaming.\nAnd yes, he does other things than gaming! He swims, plays soccer, see's his friends, snorkels, goes to park days, fishes with his Dad, etc....\nThe research shows that parental concerns are invalid....\n-Gaming helps eyesight, it doesn't damage it.\n-There is no evidence gamers are more overweight or 'socially isolated' than anyone else.\n-When children seem 'irritated' after gaming, it's usually because parents have made them stop when they weren't ready - so not the fault of 'gaming' at all.\nWe will continue with unlimited gaming here, and we love it!\nQuote Jo\nsurprised there are any positive comments at all!\nSubmitted by k j on February 22, 2015 - 6:42am\nSo, your son has other intrests and things to do when he's not gaming? that's great! but what would you say if your 8.5 yr old were 13.5 and spent ALL of his free time playing online, either call of duty or grand theft auto?...if all that time was spent in a dark room with the door shut?...if he only came out of that room to use the bathroom or grab a quick bite to take back to his room to eat? ...if he says he doesn't like to talk to,or be around people? what would your thoughts be if your child failed scool last year because of failing grades, got diagnosed with ADD, was put on medicine, and the only changes you see is that NOW instead of having a low F (25-30) he has a 65 F ? every time i take it away, he starts yelling, then he cries and says i'm being mean because i'm trying to change who he is. I've tried to tell him it wasn't healthy having it this way as a lifestyle. We've tried a schedual but that didn't work. he thinks i'm being lazy and mean when i ask him to do certain things things that I can't do (I've been in and out of either a wheelchair or crutches for the past 3.5 years due to a wreck that happened in 2011) and NOW, he's almost 14. Is it wrong for me to make him do chores or 'man-jobs' around the house like - cleaning litter box, taking plastic rings off of (5) 6pks of dr.pepper, getting the clothes out of the dryer and into the laundry basket, shovel snow, empty trash cans, he gets mad when he has to get off the game to clean up a mess HE made -or- to do something he was supposed to have already done? i have tried every technique google has to offer and NONE of them have worked\nhe doesn't have any intrests, not sports, school, not drawingnot painting. I even intro duced him to things i like but he said he didn't want to learn. how is he suppose to learn everyday things, like how to sweep, mop, to clean up spills on floor (whether it be a solid or liquid or anything inbetween??\nReply to k j\nQuote k j\nKJ, thank you for sharing this concern. My heart is with you and your son. What you describe is not the normal case for gamers, not even for people who are intensely involved in gaming. Please read the section of my article on video game addiction entitled \"In some cases, though, great amounts of time playing video games (or doing any other single thing) can be evidence of something missing in a person's life.\" Here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201202/video-game-addiction-does-it-occur-if-so-why\nYou might also be interested in my article about the great improvement that can happen when people diagnosed with ADHD are taken out of school for homeschooling, unschooling, or democratic schooling. Here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201009/experiences-adhd-labeled-kids-who-leave-school\n[If the links don't show up here, you can find the articles in the TOC for my blog, Freedom to Learn.]\nSubmitted by KJ on February 24, 2015 - 11:02pm\nSo, you think it's ok for a teen to be in his room every waking hour? You don't think he ought to spend ANY time with his parents?...just hanging out with his parents, while they do every day things? How's the kid gonna learn how to sweep a floor, or how to clean a small mess in the floor? I watched my son do both of these things. He had the broom all over the place and when I told him to get a wet paper towel, (which he gave me, without wringing the water out) therefore,dripping water ALL OVER the kitchen floor. I watched my grandpa do things. That's where I learned a great percentage of my ability to fix things, using tools, woodworking, etc. I tried to teach my son (or have him help me) cut a peice of wood with a circular saw. One time I told him I was going to need his help for some project I was doing. He didn't know what that meant. If he wasn't physically doing something, he thought Ihe was finished and rushed back into his room to play the game. I told him what I meant was hang around, watch me, and be there if I needed his help measuring, cutting, holding something, etc. ...and you can bet your sweet ass he's gonna patch that hole he made in the wall by opening the door so hard the doorknob went through the wall! ...and do you know WHY he was so mad? because I told him to get off the game and help me...nuff said\nQuote KJ\nhome school? Really?\nSo, you want me to home school him? Then, he won't have a social life at all! After the 'schooling' is over, he'll revert BACK into his room! Uuh, NO! I don't think so! What the hell kinda person are you? definately not a man with kids! ...and if you do have kids and you're raising them by some of the advice you're giving me, they'll be ADULTS, one day...and step outside, into the real world and have a total mental breakdown. They'll be the one's sitting in a corner, sucking their thumb, and rocking back and forth!\nYou might be the problem\nSubmitted by aParent on February 26, 2015 - 11:30pm\nForgive me, but by reading the way you responded to other people's advice, I sense that you are a person that have issues controlling your kid, and you probably do not have good relation with him. You really need to think about your own issue - the problem is normally not the kids, but their environment. Learn to understand others, this is a first step.\nReply to aParent\nQuote aParent\nYou should NEVER jump to conclusions!\nSubmitted by KJ on March 24, 2015 - 3:56am\nas a matter of fact, my son and i get along beautifully. We are very close, always have been. He is very well behaved. He is so well-mannered when we go out, people have actually commented on how polite and sweet he is. I do not have issues controlling him. Who might you be saying I have issues?(other than dealing with my son's game playing) - and yes, I value advice I get but, not when that advice is going to push him farther in the wrong direction. ...and homeschool?? When would he ever socialize with other kids his age? That would only give him more time in his dark room on those games I'm sorry. I DO NOT agree.\nTo each his own... Whatever floats your boat.\neveryone has their own opinion I guess, but you should NEVER jump to conclusions\nSubmitted by Meltokio on April 13, 2015 - 2:05pm\nConsider for a moment if you will, the KINDS of games your son plays, are they MMOs? FPS? RPGs? Various types of video games stimulate different kinds of activity in the brain, for example, allowing your child free reign to play Runescape teaches him or her finance and economical strengths. There are forms of commerce in many games that teach kids the value of money. It might not be 'real' money, but they learn if they want something expensive they must save up for it. I understand and sympathise with your situation, but you must also be sympathetic and understanding to your child's plight. Not everyone is going to need to understand woodworking when they grow up for example, so your child might view this activity as highly unreasonable or proactive to his aims and usually results in halfassed work output. Compromise with your child and find a happy medium that provides both interest and desire to apply himself on his part, and a willingness to understand his own fragile mindstate at this trying time for him.\nReply to Meltokio\nQuote Meltokio\nSharing your pain\nSubmitted by OM on October 25, 2015 - 9:29pm\nI know this is a very late reply, but I felt that it was important to reach out to you. I am so sorry for what you (and your son) have gone through. Having been through a terrible accident that left me in and out of hospitals, wheelchairs and crutches for almost a year, and then never really \"whole,\" I truly understand what you've suffered. When every day is a struggle just to get through, when simple household tasks become insurmountable obstacles, when carrying a plate from the kitchen to the dining room table is a logistical problem, it is difficult to face life with joy and vibrancy. There are some very interesting studies on how chronic pain changes a person and, for myself, I know that I felt that I went from a healthy, young 30-something, full of life and playfulness, to a decrepit old woman full of anger and resentment almost overnight.\nI would suggest that your son is going through at least as much of a difficult time as you are. He has watched his mother change from an able bodied \"normal\" mother, to (from what you've said) practically an invalid. Of course he loves you!! Of course you are close!! But I'm sure that your frustration and resentment over the situation that you now find yourself in is mirrored in his behavior. From the anger and frustration I hear in your comments, you are not happy and since you are the main force in his life, it stands to reason that your emotional state will strongly affect him. He loves you, but he needs to get away from your anger, from your criticism, from your displaced frustration.\nNo, I am not saying that it is \"your fault\" that he has become obsessed with gaming, rather that you are both victims of the same horrible accident. You deal with it in your way and he deals with it in his. I think you would both benefit from having someone to talk to who isn't part of the family and won't judge you. I know that talking to a therapist helped me immensely.\nAs for the gaming: My son is only 6.5 and has only just started playing a few kid friendly video games, but I see the tendency to get sucked in already. We limit his time to weekends only and that only for a few hours. When he is 13, I hope that he will learn to limit it for himself, but I don't have a crystal ball to see into the future!\nI do agree with others who have commented that the games are specifically designed to be addictive, especially for younger children. That is why I feel it is important for parents to help young children navigate these waters until they are old enough to know for themselves what is healthy. Just as I wouldn't take my son to a smorgasboard covered with a few healthy options and lots of cake and cookies and let him pick whatever he wanted to eat. I might do that as a special treat, but I would not do it on a daily basis. When he is a teenager, I hope that healthy eating will be a habit and he will have more impulse control.\nI disagree with Dr. Gray in applying these results to children, when the subjects of the studies were adults. I think that young children should be outside playing, moving their bodies, developing problem solving skills by climbing trees, inventing their own games, resolving arguments amongst themselves, etc. But I also understand the pressures that many parents feel from neighbors, teachers, strangers, etc, to conform to the modern helicopter parent model (I've been called a \"bad mother\" more than once by complete strangers, because I make different choices than they do). And it is easier to keep your kids out of trouble and away from prying, well-meaning, do-gooders if they are playing video games than if they are outdoors wandering the neighborhood. (I read about the Mietiev's struggles with horror!) But I still vote for wandering the neighborhood or the woods or wherever you can safely let them wander.\nBut, none of that is relevant to you. What is important is that you find a way to get help for your son. And yourself, as well. I truly do wish you the best!\nQuote OM\nSubmitted by \u57fc\u7389\u770c\u306e\u533b\u7642\u4fdd\u967a\u898b\u76f4\u3057 on February 21, 2017 - 10:51pm\n\u57fc\u7389\u770c\u306e\u533b\u7642\u4fdd\u967a\u898b\u76f4\u3057\u3092\u899a\u3048\u308b\u3088\u306d\u3002\u7528\u5177\u3092\u6574\u7406\u3057\u307e\u3059\u306d\u3002\nReply to \u57fc\u7389\u770c\u306e\u533b\u7642\u4fdd\u967a\u898b\u76f4\u3057\nQuote \u57fc\u7389\u770c\u306e\u533b\u7642\u4fdd\u967a\u898b\u76f4\u3057\nYou're right about NEVER jumping to conclusions\nSubmitted by LJM on April 17, 2015 - 1:48pm\nBut you just jumped to conclusions about Peter's kids and about homeschooling.\nHomeschooled kids have great social lives and get out into the real world as often or more often than conventionally schooled kids.\nI homeschooled my very active, social son who has been playing video games since he was three. He's 15, he's not smarter than your average kid, but he is in his second semester of college. And sometimes he spends hours playing video games.\nReply to LJM\nQuote LJM\nI'm picturing the video game\nSubmitted by Blondie on February 23, 2015 - 2:05pm\nI'm picturing the video game lounge at the community college where I work. Let's just say \"intelligence\" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I look at the boys in there.\nQuote Blondie\nsnap judgments snap both ways\nI'm picturing the comments section of internet articles. It's best not to judge large groups based on limited experiences with small portions of those groups.\nSubmitted by Brenda on February 24, 2015 - 4:49pm\nI think the studies show that gamers get better at gaming. With the exception of the lazy eye, dyslexia study and possibly the impact of gaming on seniors, all the other studies are tautological. They ask, do gamers get better at doing the things that gaming requires people to do. It may be that some executive functions are involved in playing the games, but, in the total context of a child's growing years - such executive functions may not be as important as embodied social play in the real world of people and weather. There is a particular kind of suffering these days for parents who have witnessed their bright lively child disappear into the dark enclosed hole of screen addiction. Everything else falls away from their lives while we listen to the world rationalize this form of \"play\" and it is so clearly destroying their physical, social and emotional health. No doubt, cocaine could also be studied for certain cognitive gains and alcohol has its health benefits - but for the developing brain, for the young body, the opportunity costs alone - without further study - outweigh the benefits, I believe. The games hijack everything else. Children have self-reported that they would prefer outdoor play with their friends over screen play, but they can't get it or find it. Before we invest further in rationalizing the benefits of virtual play, we need to make it easier for children to find each other, their challenges and their freedoms in the real world.\nGeneralized cognitive improvements\nIf you read the article I was reviewing you will see that a major point was that they don't just get better at gaming. They get better at basic cognitive skills that generalize to a wide variety of real-world tasks. This has been in some ways the most surprising yet consistent finding of this research.\nSubmitted by Brenda on February 27, 2015 - 8:53am\nThank you Peter. I appreciate your point. Are these studies about children specifically or are they extrapolating backwards after studying adults? For example, I have no doubt that adults studying surgery need to get good at mousing, etc, for laparoscopic surgery, but does this mean that children should be mousing for 4 hours a day? If we could really limit it to one activity among many - fine. But gaming has drained the social life of boys, especially, away from the real world, away from their bodies, their muscular gladness, their physical exuberance. During recess, the boys talk about the games and can't wait to get in front of a screen to socialize with their classmates on-line. The freedom, competence and socializing that you commend are drained away from the physical embodied world, just as science is catching up with the philosophical notion that we are embodied minds. In our household the only conflict with our son has been about these games. They trump every other social value, every other educational goal. They own his mind and his body. He is very good at them because he has logged in so many hours. I know I am one of many loving well-intentioned parents that have torn out their hair in frustration and fear. What do I do to get him out the door, into the world, on his own initiative? I feel these studies present a rationale that is only half-true - even if the cognitive benefits are there for children. What good is all that cognition if the world no longer holds any interest for the millions of extreme gamers out there and in the making?\nI love your blog, by the way.\nGaming to the exclusion of other activities\nSubmitted by Peter Gray Ph.D. on February 28, 2015 - 3:57pm\nThe experiments listed in this article were mostly with college students (the typical subjects in psychological research). As I said, most were experiments, in which some non-gamers, for the sake of the experiment, played a certain video game for a certain number of hours per week and showed improvement on cognitive tests compared to control subjects. Thus, these studies are not really pertinent to the problem that you (and some others) describe here. Studies that are more pertinent are described in my earlier article in video game addiction, here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201202/video-game-addiction-does-it-occur-if-so-why\nIn general, my observation is that children who have lots of real opportunity for outdoor play--e.g. there are many kids to play with and freedom to play away from adults and have real adventures--generally choose a balance of computer play and outdoor play. The problem is that it is hard for kids to find other kids to play with outdoors today, without adult interference. That is a problem that can be solved, however. You might look at this article, too: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201402/five-myths-about-young-people-and-social-media--to gain a better understanding of why so many young people spend so much time at the computer.\nParents fault, not video games\nSubmitted by Earl on September 14, 2015 - 3:19pm\nYes people do get better at things that games ask them to do, I agree with you there. The problem is the misconception among our culture of what games ask us to do. There's problem solving, management, eye tracking, reaction time, reading, thinking fast ie. coming up with a correct solution under duress ect.\nSo well I agree with that point that doesn't really do anything to discredit any of the benefits, it's more like saying why do we need a study to realizing games are good for the mind/eyes.\nAs for the whole kids don't go out and play, that's on the parents not the kids. Decades ago parents let 10 year olds go miles away form home with no supervision at all, now it's hard for a kid to get 7 meters away from a supervising adult outside and parents instead of finding/driving/paying for places where their kids can hang out they just sit them in front of the tv or computer. I really don't see how you are blaming video games for this since it happens even to kids without them and even without the internet.\nReply to Earl\nQuote Earl\nI agree with your smart comments.\nSubmitted by Denise on July 13, 2018 - 11:02am\nI love your logic, and the points you make, and could not agree more. When our sons were young, we limited their time playing video games just as my parents did, our TV time and as a result, they learned to entertain themselves, by reading books, playing outside, looking actively for alternative entertainments. As adults (both computer programmers), they're gamers, but that's fine. We don't regret having placed limits on their gaming as kids. We were, after all, the parents.\nSubmitted by Simone on March 1, 2015 - 3:57pm\nWhat really surprised me while reading this article, was the positive impact on dyslexia. I wouldn't think gaming might be so powerful and useful. To be honest, I've always thought games are mostly about quick reactions and unproductive escapism. I had no idea they contain so much text and thus force gamers to improve their reading skills. But I guess, it also depends on kinds of games they choose to play.\nIt seems like both funny and useful way to treat dyslexia.\nWould you recommend them for adults learning foreign languages as well?\nSpeaking from my own\nSubmitted by Gabe on April 13, 2015 - 11:44am\nSpeaking from my own experience, video games (together with a dedicated study program) undoubtedly helped me to learn Japanese, which is one of the most different and difficult languages for native Latin-based language speakers to learn how to read, and I have an Italian friend who learned a lot of English from playing games as well. So for my part, I would wholeheartedly recommend them for learning foreign languages.\nReply to Gabe\nQuote Gabe\nIn my experiences\nVideo games have been a very positive experience for me and I honestly believe the type of game one plays takes a strong role in development of various abilities. Consider the arcades and driving games, kids who become pros at it learn how to drive easily once they learn the controls in the car. It almost seems like a video game come to life. By a reasonable age your child should learn the difference between reality and fiction. Adult gamers for example might play video games for reasons different than children and may get different experiences as a result.\nIn a reply I talked about MMOs and how many of them teach kids finances they will most undoubtably need in the real world. Many in depth fictional universes have an internal commerce, if you want that sword you need to save up for it. Runescape is a prime example here. With hard work, perserverence, etc, comes a good reward.\nExample? Let's say your child is playing runescape, he does not have a high combat level, but he wants a very expensive outfit, your child makes inductive reasoning working through the various aspects of the game and what would make him the most money in the shortest time so he can purchase his prize. Many of these tasks to make money are long, tedious, boring, etc. It is just like an actual job working for your paycheck to pay your bills, or to buy that new item you wanted. You need to work this job to get the means to obtain your reward.\nI honestly believe these types of video games are very useful to use in real life experiences. Just make sure your child knows there is a world out there other than the fictional one on his or her screen. And get them interested in it by using the signifiers found in the games they play and connect them to the real world. Understanding your child and knowing what kinds of games they play is very important.\nDo not belittle a game until you learn what it is about and what it can teach your child. Taking an interest in your child's games will make them much closer to you and you as a result will be able to keep more of an eye on them, learning what they learn on their gaming experiences.\nSubmitted by jmack on November 7, 2015 - 12:32pm\nYou believe video games help teach kids about real world experiences....\nWhy wouldn't you just use real world experiences to teach a child about real world experiences?\nI think it's bizarre to defend the video game by saying \"many of the tasks are long boring and monotonous\" in order to \"earn\" items in the game. As if that's noble somehow? Children wasting hours doing monotonous things to acquire virtual items? That have no real value? Yes I understand that it might be mimicking a \"real job\" scenario but again - why not use real life instead? Where they are physically doing something, and earning a tangible reward? Not only that, but they are contributing to the household, learning a sense of productivity, thereby gaining confidence and responsibility. For example, give them chores and an allowance. That's real. I don't understand substituting that with a game where the end product of so many hours of sitting and moving thumbs is just a virtual item. Where's the value?\nReply to jmack\nQuote jmack\nSubmitted by Matt Metzgar on April 30, 2015 - 8:39pm\nStill pining away for the positive effects of video games, sigh. The studies you are putting forth are not a comprehensive view. Just look at PubMed in the last year and you will see a number of studies showing negative effects.\nAgain, don't you think the (for-profit) video game industry has enough money behind their ads? You are wrong about this, the research is inconclusive at best. Common sense says kids will develop better in real situations with real people, not sitting in front of a screen playing a game.\n\"The evidence strongly suggests that exposure to violent video games is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, and aggressive affect and for decreased empathy and prosocial behavior.\"\n\"Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in eastern and western countries: a meta-analytic review.\"\nReply to Matt Metzgar\nQuote Matt Metzgar\nProblems with those studies\nSubmitted by Earl on September 4, 2015 - 2:18pm\nThere are many problems with those studies. For instance they only test short-term benign aggressive, not long term likelihood to commit physical harm/aggressive criminal acts. They have tests like the hot sauce test in which they have the person put hot sauce on a burger and if after the video game they put an extreme amount that's considered increased aggression.\nThe problem with short term aggressive tests is it doesn't really mean anything in terms of development. They also don't bother testing competitive games versus violent games nor do they compare it to other things like playing/watching a sport. It is entirely possible that anything that is competitive or gets us otherwise riled up (such as a provocative show, disagreement with family/friends or news report) has similar or even the exact same effect. If literally everything does it than what makes video games so bad?\nSubmitted by dickshan on May 9, 2015 - 10:47pm\nhttp://www.yoodig.com\nMany studies indicate that video games improve job performance, especially for jobs that require good eye-hand coordination, attention, excellent working memory, and quick decision-making. One correlational study, for example, demonstrated that video gamers were better than non-gamers in ability to fly and land aerial drones and were essentially as good as trained pilots on this skill\nReply to dickshan\nQuote dickshan\nSAP Business Application Development Company in UK\nSubmitted by steeveave on May 14, 2015 - 1:54am\nGood information,Thanks\nReply to steeveave\nQuote steeveave\nSubmitted by Bryson on July 8, 2015 - 4:27pm\nI do believe that video games can have a very positive effect on people. If you play video games, for the correct length in time, there can be many benefits to playing video game like in aiding in the development of learning templates, decision making skills, and other ideas. A study done at the University of Rochester looked at these ideas and confirmed that people who played action based games develop these templates faster and have better performance in using these templates.\nSource: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/playing-action-video-games-can-boost-learning-78452/\nReply to Bryson\nQuote Bryson\nSubmitted by alice on July 27, 2015 - 6:07am\nthe benefits of gaming are limitless..nice content thanks for sharing :) i would like to add some more technologies added to the gaming technology which will increase the benefits of gaming: http://goo.gl/JvoY4i\nNumerous research indicate\nSubmitted by williama on August 28, 2015 - 2:05am\nNumerous research indicate that games enhance job efficiency, especially for tasks that require good eye-hand sychronisation, attention, excellent working storage, and quick decision-making. Unblocked Games 2\nReply to williama\nQuote williama\nSubmitted by Alkaf on October 6, 2015 - 4:37am\nI read the whole article, and loved it. I'm a person suffering from schizophrenia(a mental disorder/serious mental illness) I use to be a hardcore gamer myself growing up when I was a teenager. I'm glad to hear that games do have some beneficial values. Also, I read all of the comments in the comments section. I'm going to agree with all of you.\nDifferent people, different results. But, gaming is just another time-waster we spend doing anyway. I believe, Life is more than just about gaming... Hehe. However, one thing rings to my mind. Question:\nDoes playing video games have a positive effect on people diagnosed with Schizophrenia, or bi-polar disorder, other brain disorders?\nReply to Alkaf\nQuote Alkaf\nWHAT GAME HAS THE MOST TO OFFER?\nSubmitted by Hugh on November 9, 2015 - 11:46pm\nIs there a game that offers all of these benefits?\nAre any *specific* games recommended?\nSubmitted by Julia on August 2, 2016 - 11:09pm\nHi Hugh!\nThe first game that comes to mind for me (ESPECIALLY when considering children) is Minecraft!\nMy 10yo son has learned to type, spell, perform basic math skills, multi-tasking, teamwork (through online servers), creative problem solving, patience, the list goes on and on and on! Minecraft has even introduced him to some of the basics of geology, chemistry, and biology! 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Nearly 30 years after the release of When Harry Met Sally, this slick battle of sexes feels as timeless as The Philadelphia Story. Ephron recognizes the fundamental differences between men and women and embraces it, giving Billy Crystal one of the greatest lines in movie history: \u201c\u2026[M]en and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.\u201d And, so begins the story of Harry and Sally, one of the funniest, sweetest, most real relationships ever captured on film. Crystal and Meg Ryan have the same on-screen chemistry as Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn \u2014 they war, they fume, they fall in love. And, the audience swoons.\nAny way you slice it, Ephron is head and shoulders above other rom-com writers and directors. For starters, she was a hell of a writer, cutting her teeth as a journalist, running with the boys at Esquire and New York magazine in the 1970s. And, her films are fairy tales, carefully crafted odes to love, to the differences between men and women, to New York City. Sleepless In Seattle is wonderful in its absurdity. Who falls in love with someone they hear on the radio? It\u2019s outrageous, but Ephron acknowledges that, when Rosie O\u2019Donnell says the classic line, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.\u201d And, who doesn\u2019t feel that way sometimes?\nShe didn\u2019t always get it perfect. In Heartburn, a movie about her messy marriage to famed journalist Carl Bernstein, Jack Nicholson is grossly under-utilized in his role, and the deep subject matter feels like it's given short shrift. Later, in Hanging Up \u2014 a script penned by Ephron and her sister Delia \u2014 miscast sisters Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow deal with the illness of their alcoholic screenwriter father (Walter Matthau). Again, the tough subject (which may hit too close to home: Ephron was the eldest of four girls, daughters of Hollywood screenwriters) is treated too lightly. And, by this time in her career, Meg Ryan had fallen victim to the plastic surgeon \u2014 her lips are the only thing memorable about the movie.\nEven so, each Ephron movie contained her trademarks: smart, strong female leads; a quirky but likeable cast of characters; and a white-bread, upper-middle class, intellectual environment. You want to join the bookstore crew\u2019s Thanksgiving dinner in You\u2019ve Got Mail, or stroll through Manhattan with Harry and Sally. Ephron creates a pretty and interesting \u2014 yet still complicated \u2014 world that feels oh-so attainable, especially to the young women watching her movies.\nAt the heart of it, that\u2019s why the films work: because they are so relatable. We\u2019re all a little bit like Sally, finicky about our food, demanding things be just so. We understand why Sam yells at his son in Sleepless In Seattle. We get the frustration. We feel for Annie as she struggles to reconcile her feelings for the man she\u2019s engaged to, who\u2019s lovely but not the one. We\u2019ve all had moments like Kathleen in You\u2019ve Got Mail, where we\u2019ve fumbled for the perfect comeback, only to be left tongue-tied. We\u2019ve been there. And, it\u2019s relief to see it up on the big screen, confirming our feelings and giving them a voice.\nNora Ephron\u2019s characters are vulnerable. They struggle to understand their own motivations, and they struggle to connect with the world around them \u2014 like we all do. And, so, while these may be fairy tales (New York has never looked as good as it does in You\u2019ve Got Mail), they\u2019re also incredibly real, incredibly clever, and incredibly fun to watch.\nShortly after Ephron\u2019s death in 2012, Lena Dunham wrote a poignant essay in The New Yorker about the writer. 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He uses finite element analysis to aid the firm in tooling and product development.\nNORTH CANTON, Ohio\u2014Giving proper simulation of rubber product processing remains difficult, but there has been much improvement in recent years, and its usage is increasing.\n\"The difficulty in simulating rubber is it is a non-linear simulation,\" said Tony Johnson, senior tooling engineer for mold making at Quadra Tooling & Automation, a unit of Q Holding Co.\nHe is responsible for the mold design department at Quadra's facility in North Canton, and he also assists in product design, working regularly with finite element analysis programs.\nSome of the software from Ansys Inc. is among the better of the higher-end, non-linear software available on the market, according to Johnson.\nThe process can help both its customers and its internal operations. 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That led to a design change that reduced the stresses considerably and eliminated the tearing.\nAnother customer was having problems with an auto connector seal, where there had to be uniform contact at each point, and the holes needed to be in perfect alignment.\nJohnson said the first step was to look at the product as it was formerly designed. \"What I found was a problem that showed why they got high forces,\" he said. \"We went 14 iterations on this until the final version that we supplied to them. We increased the sealing pressures, reduced the internal stresses and reduced the insertion forces.\"\nIt's normal to do about 10-15 simulations per project, according to John Miller, Qure Medical technical support manager. \"You usually improve after two, but you really don't know unless you do a pretty wide range to find out how far you can go,\" he said.\nOne key is to make sure that any materials data being input for the testing gives the proper information.\n\"Junk in equals junk out,\" Johnson said. \"If you have bad material data, it means you're going to get bad results. If we don't have the material data, I'll use something I know works. 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Parks officials say that at parks across the state, parking lot gates and restrooms are being locked, and anyone venturing onto the properties will be asked to leave. \u2026 Paterson and parks Commissioner Carol Ash announced earlier this year that dozens of the state\u2019s 178 parks and 35 historic sites would have to be closed and others would have their services reduced because of New York\u2019s budget deficit, now estimated at $9.2 billion.\u2019 Oh, yeah! They\u2019ve gotta close the parks, gotta close the historic sites. We\u2019re not gonna get rid of the 15,000 redundant people in every school system. No, we\u2019re going to close the parks. We\u2019re going to tell people how bad it is, and next it\u2019s going to be the cops, and next it\u2019s going to be the teachers, and next it\u2019s going to be the firemen.\nBack to the phones we go. We\u2019re going to go to Long Island. This is Rob. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. 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Just to give you an idea, if you had an index of the private sector for the public sector New York state for 1.2 million state workers you\u2019d save $8 billion right there. You\u2019d have money for your security in Times Square. And there was an article by Amy Merrick in the Wall Street Journal \u2014\nRUSH: Wait, wait, I\u2019m missing some of what you\u2019re saying. You said if there was an index of the private sector. What do you mean that, an index?\nCALLER: Well, I\u2019ve always felt it was unfair that, for example, a guy-like Captain Sullenberger, who was responsible for probably, what, 300,000 lives in a given year, transporting people on an airplane. His union was exposed to market forces. His union went bankrupt. His union had to reschedule all their benefits.\nRUSH: Oh. Oh. Well \u2014\nCALLER: But if you\u2019re in the public sector, there\u2019s never any kind of rescheduling.\nRUSH: Oh, no. There are no cutbacks, no union concessions. Look at New Jersey. 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When everybody leaves, who\u2019s Paterson going to tax? He can close every park in the world \u2019cause nobody\u2019s going to be able to get to \u2019em anyway. California\u2019s looking at the same thing. People are leaving California in droves pretty soon, and Villaraigosa is saying, \u2018Oh, yeah, illegals adding to our economic might here in the city of Los Angeles.\u2019 Everybody\u2019s leaving, and the only people left are going to be those on the dole, and who\u2019s going to pay for \u2019em?\nCALLER: I read somewhere it was $57 trillion of unfunded defined pension benefits to state workers across the country. It\u2019s just not real.\nRUSH: Yeah. Well, guess who\u2019s on the hook for that?\nCALLER: Me.\nRUSH: That\u2019s right, us!\nCALLER: And you, yes.\nRUSH: All that stuff\u2019s going to be off-loaded to the federal government. A hundred percent of it won\u2019t be but the taxpayers of California, New York, and the rest of the country are on the hook for this stuff. 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"raw_content": "San Diego Family Lawyers\nHaving to face divorce or a family court case can be one of the most emotionally trying and overwhelming situations that you will ever face. When you couple the emotional difficulties with the legalities, however, the situation can become even more stressful. For this reason, it is important to realize that you do not have to face this situation all on your own.\nBy working with a San Diego divorce and family law attorney from Claery & Hammond, LLP, you can protect your rights and receive the guidance that you truly deserve as you move forward through the process.\nBy working with our legal team, you can trust that we will go the distance in our efforts help you. You can be confident that we will stop at nothing in our efforts to help you achieve your desirable result, always keeping your best interests at heart. We know how important the outcome of a divorce is and stand ready to help with a variety of issues, including (but not limited to):\nAt Claery & Hammond, LLP, we are deeply compassionate to the stress associated with divorces and are fully ready to offer our legal support and guidance in every way possible. If you choose to work with our firm, you can breathe easier knowing that we will be by your side every step of the way, even when the situation isn't easy and the issues are complicated.\nDo not hesitate to contact a San Diego family attorney at our firm today to learn more about how we can help!",
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"raw_content": "My Sheep \u2013 John 10:27\nJesus tells the Pharisees, \u201cMy sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.\u201d Jesus had told the Pharisees that they were not true shepherds. Shepherds were those who loved, tended and cared for the sheep. Now Jesus tells them that they are not even His sheep. He explains who are His sheep \u2013 \u201cthose who listen to His voice and follow Him.\u201d In other words, true followers of Christ are not hearers only, but doers of His Word. They do as Jesus says and does. Jesus said in John 18:37, \u201cEveryone on the side of truth listens to Me.\u201d One of the reasons Jesus was sent to earth was to testify to the Truth. He was testifying to Truth as He spoke to the Pharisees, but they didn\u2019t hear His Word.\nThe way to know the Shepherd\u2019s voice is through studying the Bible comparing scripture with scripture. No part of the Godhead will speak contrary to scripture. 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For this reason, it is important for Christians to know the Word of God, rightly-divide it, understand it and then do it.\nJesus knows each one of His followers intimately and personally. We are His treasured possession. God doesn\u2019t change! He called Israel His treasure in Exodus 19:5 above all the people of the earth. The Israelites were the carriers of the Word of God even though they were sinful and didn\u2019t always obey God. For this reason God had to send the Perfect Man who was also fully God (Jesus) to earth to be perfectly obedient to the Father so humanity could be saved. Only One who is God could do this. Now, both sinners whether Jew or Gentile must be restored to the Father through the sinless, shed blood of the Perfect Man Jesus. The sin of the first holy man Adam had to be paid for by a holy Man Jesus \u2013 the Second and Last Adam.\nThose who love and follow Jesus are His treasure \u2013 both Jew and Gentile. And, God wants us to treasure His Word. Proverbs 7:1: My son, keep My words, and treasure My commands within you. In Psalm 119 about the Word of God, he said, \u201cHow sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it that I will follow your righteous laws. Vv103-106 David understood this. He was a man after God\u2019s own heart although not perfect.\nJesus is continually drawing us closer and closer to Him. If we are to be satisfied, we must find our meaning and purpose in Jesus. We were made through Him, by Him and for Him. (see Colossians 1:16-17) When His Word abides in us, He abides in us because He is the Word brought to life.\n\u00b7 They follow Me\n\u201cFollow\u201d is in the present tense meaning that it is a continual and habitual activity. To follow Him means to have faith in Him and learn from Him \u2013 to walk as He walks. When Jesus invites us to follow Him, He is inviting us into an intimate relationship with Him. This relationship is fueled by love just as Jesus\u2019 relationship with His Heavenly Father was fueled by love. Jesus was obedient to the Father because of His love for Him and for humanity. He wants us to do the same with Him. He is our example. We don\u2019t earn salvation through obedience. Our obedience shows Him that we love Him and establishes His Word and life within us. He abides in us! In obeying and following Jesus, we bring glory to God and Jesus as Jesus brought glory to God in all that He did while on earth. He only did what the Father told Him to do and only spoke what the Father told Him to speak. Because Jesus was in human form, He was submitted to the will of His Heavenly Father.\nJesus goes ahead of His sheep and they follow Him. He even went ahead of the Old Testament saints who had died and they followed behind Him to the Heavenly Promised Land.\n\u00b7 \u201cI Give Them Eternal Life\u201d\nHearing Jesus\u2019 words and obeying them is the way Jesus and the Holy Spirit breathe spiritual, eternal life into us now. When we do His Word, Jesus\u2019 life abides in us. In other words, His Word takes on spiritual life within us and is established in us. The way of salvation and eternal life is through the death of Jesus in the flesh. Obedience is not giving us salvation. That is the gift of God through Jesus Christ\u2019s death on the cross, but listening to Jesus and the Father\u2019s Word breathes spiritual, eternal life in us as we walk on earth. We obey Him and want to please Him because we love Him, just as Jesus pleased the Father through His obedience to His will and word, and love. The mark of Christ\u2019s sheep is that they listen to Him and follow Him. 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"raw_content": "Then there was the day again, when I should change my location. By bus, of course. At the bus station, I realized that I still have the hostel key in my pocket. I'm an idiot. But the friendly bus staff kept the key and I could tell the hostel owners, by the way another collective, where they can pick it up. In Antalya, I organized a couch again. In the western part of the city, I was allowed to spend a few nights at Goncas (TR) place. Gonca works at a bar in a concert hall and lives together with her roommate Merve. Both are great, funny, experienced couchsurfers and we became friends immediately. Already on the first evening I unpacked my guitarlele and we sang together while eating a good cup of tomato soup. An excellent start. And also on the following days, the two had to work during the day, we had always a lot of fun, even if Gonca split up with her girlfriend only a few days ago.\nOf course, I went to explore the city. I took the bus to the Cam Pyramit, this pyramid is used as a trade fair center and there was a book fair that day. 4 books are all I have seen in English. The zillion others were, of course, in Turkish. But it was still exciting to stroll around the publishers and see what the Turkish book market has to offer. At the fair I met Aylin (TR). She is a student teacher and because we liked us from the beginning, we also spent the day together. She wanted to show me her city on this, as well as the following day. So in Antalya I had the opportunity to get to know the people and not only the tourisitc Antalya. We have experienced cool things, which I have edited here briefly.\nAntalya is a very interesting city. Particularly noteworthy is the steep coast to the sea. There are only two beaches on the west and east coast of the city. The city ends with an almost continuous park directly at 40m deep cliffs. Only a few kilometers into the country, a magical mountain and rock panoramic sourrounds the city. Up to 3,500m high mountains and fantastic rock formations as well as the sea give you a 360 \u00b0 nature view, even if you are in a big city. Antalya is the fastest growing city in Turkey. A few decades ago it was still a small town with a few ten thousand inhabitants, but as soon as tourism discovered the marvelous possibilities here in the region, the city grew to impressive 2.2 million inhabitants. In addition the tourists who come here mostly from Russia and Germany.\nThe picturesque old town with the small port, the buildings from Ottoman times and the little streets make a nice atmosphere and the parks on the steep coast offers enough space, green and paths for relaxing, kite flying, strolling, cycling or a cozy enjoying a sip of Turkish coffee. And the steep coast is also used in the evening hours as a meeting point for a glass of wine or beer. With Gonca and Merve I\u2019ve done the same, of course. The city has not much to offer in historical sights, because it was very unimportant until recently. A few Roman remains and the \"broken minaret\" are all there is to see.\nD\u00fcden and it's Waterfalls\nWhat makes the city very special in my eyes is the immediate proximity to beautiful\nnature. Not only the mountains make you want to go hiking, climbing and finding\nprospects, but directly through the city flows the river D\u00fcden with its waterfalls. Together with Aylin I visited the, unfortunately very touristic waterfalls. First we drove by Dolmus upstream into the hinterlands. Here the municipality has built a beautiful recovery area and tourist attraction around the upper waterfalls. Many small bridges, barbecues, restaurants and green areas are set up around the impressive falls. The roaring water not only falls deep, but also forms a torrent in its continuation. Centuries old trees line the river and the caves that formed around the waterfall offer a lot of fun and unique views of the waterfall. Unfortunately it is forbidden to swim in the vicinity of the waterfall or even to enter the water. The security did not allow me to try. Too bad.\nEven at the second gigantic waterfall, which also marks the end of the river, I could not find a way to get near the roaring water even after an hour of trying. In the middle of the city the water crashes the 40m high cliff into the sea. A breathtaking spectacle, a crazy noise and an almost meditative view. The waterfall is the landmark of the city and, of course, they take care that no one falls down the cliff or hurt himself while trying to get into the water. I should have made it like the few people who did it. Rent a boat and approach the waterfall from below. But Aylin and I spent some time here and enjoyed the happenings very much.\nEXPO World Exhibition 2016\nOne afternoon, Aylin suggested to visit the EXPO World Exhibition, which is luckily\nhappening this year by Turkey in Antalya. A financial disaster for the country.\nMillions were invested in infrastructure and the exhibition itself, and the political situation led to the fact that the visitors and even parts of the exhibiting countries stayed away. But what the Turks built up here was awesome. For me as an eventmanager very interesting and of course also as a traveler it was great that the EXPO is just here. So we drove with the newly built tram to the exhibition grounds outside the city. An enormous area with conference buildings, museums and the country gardens was to be explored. This year the countries presented themselves through the theme of botany, gardens and sustainability. Thus every exhibiting country has created a garden to present itself and its botanical peculiarities. And yes: the German pavilion had also garden dwarfs.\nSince we had only arrived in the dark, I unfortunately could not invest so much time to get to know the country gardens. I would have liked to have a full day here, but as the chance is mostly, today was the last day of the exhibition. Since the exhibition is running for half a year and I come on the last day. Lucky me! So we could at least enjoy the final fireworks, which sadly has underwhelmed my expectations. Disappointing. But after all we could climb the exhibition tower by elevator to get a glimpse of the bright area. The question arises, of course, how sustainable it is to put this gigantic, artificial area into nature and then philosophize about sustainability and lure tourists into their own country. But I liked it and I value a visit as absolutely worthwhile and interesting.\nOops?! I know this guy!\nI had discussed with Janosch (Cycling for Nepal) that we could meet in Antalya once, but we were both greatly surprised when we suddenly stood side by side at the great D\u00fcden waterfalls. The world is so small. Still on the spot we decided to start a joint tour again. This time we were accompanied by Frank (D), Janosch's father who was visiting Antalya. Rather, I tended to accompany them. We went to withe water rafting in a canyon about 1.5 driving hours from Antalya. The two run an outdoor camp in Bavaria and are experienced paddlers. But since I like to try new things lately, I have also invested here, at a good price, some money in experience. With a group, we went about 3 hours down the river. It was nice. Yes, unfortunately not more. There were a few rapids, but I was a bit confused. I had expected more action. It was nice to have a charming view. Only nice ... We had a lot of fun to comment on the endless sales attempts of the crew. Partially we felt like on a coffee trip. But that\u2019s the way it is in one of the most tourist areas of Turkey. I have definitely got a first impression of rafting and I liked it. But next time I have to make sure that some more action is offered.\nOn the evening before my departure, Michal (PL), another Couchsurfer, came to Gonca's apartment. He has also been traveling in Turkey and Georgia for months and will soon be going to Iran. We talked for a long time and spontaneously decided to travel the next day together. And this time we were hitchhiking. After a portion of half chicken with rice, we also found relatively quickly a Turkish businessman who has brought us to our next destination. The small, alternative tourist village of Olympos. A Turk had recommended to spend a few days here. And he was right. Michal was not to make this experience, however, since he still changed his plans in the car and went to Fethiye.\nOlympos - Kadir's Treehouses\nOlympos is unique. Even if the Turks and Greeks are still unanimous, which mountain is the right Olympos. What makes the region unique, however, are the treehouse camps, which have emerged here over the course of time in a - now unfortunately former - nature reserve. A few hippies started with it a few years ago and now it is the address for backpackers, alternative and also climbers in the south of Turkey. Kadir's Tree Houses is the oldest, most famous, most visited and also the only camp which has opened all year. In fact, there are only a few original tree houses here in the village, but there are many beautiful cottages, restaurants and bars built of untreated natural wood. Through these facilities, the alternative inhabitants and travelers creating an extraordinary, interesting, friendly atmosphere. And for 10 \u20ac the night including breakfast and dinner also at a more than fair price. Of course, I've met wonderful people here. But again I had arranged to meet Janosch here. He still stayed with his father in Antalya and then cycled after me.\nSo I decided to do a hike for one day on the Lycian Way. I tried another part of it in Fethiye already. The way led me through the ruins of the antique village of Olympos directly next to the treehouse camps. A beautiful etap through the forest and the mountains. But after a while I had to climb a rock about 20-25m height to have a look above the trees over the valley. On my way back I passed endless fields of oranges and lemons until a friendly Turk picked me up to drive me back to the treehouses. 24km with ups and downs were quite enough for me to hike on one day. But of course the muscle sore did not hold me back to play some nice songs around the bonfire. Almost every night we sat together, talked, sang and shared experiences. Very peaceful and nice. There could have been more People around, but regarding the political Situation a lot of tourists, even backpacker, avoid to travel Turkey right now. And for the Turks it's already winter. But we were a small and fun group anyways. I liked it!\nWhen Janosch arrived at the camp, we hired a kayak to explore the coast on the waterway. Of course, we did not miss a single rock in the sea to climb and jump into the still pleasant warm water. It was really fun. A few kilometers further, however, our kayak was filled with water because of the waves. Which is not only unpleasant to paddle, but I had completely wet equipment again. On the steep coast, we managed somehow to get the kayak upside down to get the water out, but after 30 seconds our efforts were in vain, because new water swapped in. We just laughed about it and made our way back to the beach. Of course, such two hours won\u2019t leave me without a trace. But a muscle ache mostly testifies good experiences.\nAfter Janosch and I also climbed the rocks in Olympos for a day, we mobilized in the evening a large group in the camp to visit the main attraction of the region. This mystical place was said to have been the home of the hybrid creature Chimaera. A monster that was shaped like a lion at the head, a goat in the middle, and at the end like a snake / dragon. The hero Bellerophon finally managed, with his winged horse Pegasos, to kill this monster. What the Greeks have probably brought to this legend is a rare geological phenomenon lasting several thousand years. Passing through small fissures and openings, flammable gases are released and the rocks appear to be burning. Today, the flames are still about 50 cm high, but in ancient times meter-high flames have already pointed the way to sailors. So we went with twelve friends from the camp on a nice night trip to the nature spectacle about 7 km away.\nAnd it was worth the trip. It is indeed a magical place. From countless cracks, intersections, holes are thousands of small flames to be discovered. A few large fireplaces are also to be found and so we made ourselves comfortable at one of these \"burning stones\". We played, grilled marshmallows and enjoyed the flames. We let flames go out and ignite them again. An amazingly interesting and impressive phenomenon. I have not experienced this before. And it is also handy. A camp fire without large smoke development and without wood. Perfect. We spent a lot of time on the flaming mountain and were finally the last who enjoyed the stars and never ending flames. But at some point we made our way back again and arrived in the early morning hours.\nIt is a recommended region here around the Turkish Olympos. And I'll get to know them even better. Together with Janosch and Dave (D), we decided to go to one of the world's best climbing areas for rock climbing. Since Dave's sister Helene unfortunately had to go back to Germany, but provided her rental car, the next day we went the 90km to Geyikbayiri by car.\nI will hopefully report you soon what will happen there.\n- I had the great luck to be on the Turkish national holiday in Antalya. Tarkan played live and there were parades and flags. Hopefully, this reminds one or the other that they live in a democracy ...\n- Aylin teached me some Turkish words ... at least she tried hard. I just not getting used to the language.\n- I even briefly talked to Aylin's mother. She once lived in Germany and had not spoken German for 25 years. That was very interesting.\n- In the hitchhiking to Olympos, we entered a military control. Of course, Michaels and my backpack were searched for bombs etc. too, better this way.\n- To get from the tree house to the beach, you have to cross the archaeological area of the ancient city. 1 entrance 20 TL, 10 times pass of 7,5 TL. Of course, the pass of 10 is not advertised.\n- Maximum Banana! In a neighboring camp lives Maximum. A totally crazy guy at my age who already camps 2 years here. For him everything is maximum! Maximum Energy, Maximum Love.",
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"raw_content": "The Collapse of North Korea\nChallenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification\nTara O (Autor)\nThis book highlights the increasing risk of North Korea's collapse and considers the necessary actions that would enable the neighboring powers to prepare for such an event. North Korea's deteriorating economic conditions, its reliance on external assistance, and the degree of information penetration all provide hints of its collapse. Whether the chance is high or low, the collapse of North Korea and subsequent Korean unification would drastically alter the geostrategic landscape and profoundly affect the national interests of the regional powers-South Korea, China, the United States, Japan, and Russia. The most desirable scenario for a post-unification Korean Peninsula is a successfully developed and integrated non-nuclear Korea acting as a responsible regional and world stakeholder. This work considers the major challenges expected after a North Korean collapse, including the control of nuclear weapons, disorder in the immediate aftermath of collapse, and economic and social integration. The author then outlines how regional powers need to prepare to handle these challenges in order to minimize suffering and to set the foundation for long-term development and regional stability.\n2 farbige Tabellen, 2 farbige Abbildungen\nTriggers of collapse\nIndicators of collapse\nSouth North Korean economy\nTara O is an Adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies, USA, and a retired U.S. Air Force officer. She worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the U.S. Her assignments included the Pentagon and the U.S.-Republic of Korea Combined Forces Command. She holds degrees from the University of Texas-Austin (Ph.D.), Princeton University (MPA), and University of California-Davis (BA).\nList of Tables.- List of Figures.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Unification Scenarios and Cost.- Chapter 3: Thinking about Collapse: Indicators and Triggers.- Chapter 4: Geopolitical Landscape and Regional Bilateral Issues.- Chapter 5: Preparing for the Challenges of Collapse.- Chapter 6: Summary.- Appendix 1.- Bibliography.- Index.\nDiktatur / Totalitarismus\nTotalitarismus & Diktaturen",
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"raw_content": "Take a test aimed at the world's English language learners\nEnglish-language students in China practice their blackboard skills.\nEleanor Klibanoff | NPR | October 1, 2014\nIt's tuff to master English. It's even tough for people born in America, who (or whom?) are often confused by too/to/two many konfusing things.\nSo you can only imagine how tough it is for non-English speakers trying to learn the tongue.\nAs these non-native speakers struggle, they want to know how they're doing. And now there's a new way to find out. EF Education First, a Swiss education company, noticed that their students wanted an inexpensive, standardized way to test their knowledge before paying for official language tests for university admissions. In response, the company has released its own free, online standardized test.\nAccording to the above paragraph, what demands does the test meet?\nA) There's no cost for taking the test.\nB) It is available on the Internet.\nC) It is standardized.\nThe answer is D) All of the above. (Isn't it always?)\nThere are an estimated 1.5 billion English language learners in the world, and that number is expected to exceed two billion by the end of the decade. The EF Standard English Test, or EFSET, hopes to provide this group with a self-assessment tool.\nGary Cook, the research director at WIDA, which creates official tests for English as a Second Language programs, thinks a free English proficiency test will be welcome, especially in low-income countries.\n\"Other tests can cost almost what someone makes a year in some countries,\" says Cook. The range is $150 to $600.\nAll it takes is a smartphone to take the test, Cook notes. \"And if you can provide proof of your language skills, that opens doors for graduate schools and employment.\"\nThis test isn't yet ready to be used for such official purposes, though it is scored according to international language standards. An online, self-administered test leaves a lot of room for cheating, so for now the company advertises it mainly as a self-assessment tool.\nWondering how your English skills stack up? You can take the hour-long test online. Or try this excerpt, which is ranked as \"medium\" difficulty. Be forewarned: A spokeswoman for the company says that even a fluent English speaker might not get all the answers right.\nThe writer Roald Dahl was born in 1916, in Wales to Norwegian parents. When he was growing up, he used to love to listen to his mother's stories from her home country. As a young man, he served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II. He became an expert pilot but suffered terrible injuries in a crash. However, he managed to make a full recovery and, amazingly, return to the skies. After the war, Dahl became famous by writing books for both children and adults; he became one of the world's best-selling and most influential authors. His short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humor. Many of his stories have also been made into films, although with varying degrees of success. By the time of his death, in 1990, his talent had brought him international recognition and great wealth.\nOne of my favorite authors has always been Roald Dahl, who was born in Wales almost 100 years ago. When I was a child I loved his stories for many reasons, though mainly because they could be quite frightening while also making me laugh. I think he must have enjoyed scaring children! In fact, he wrote lots of terrifying stories for adults too. As an author myself, it is always interesting to see where great writers find some of their inspiration. According to Dahl, his Norwegian mother had an amazing memory and was a great story-teller; although Dahl himself was born and brought up in the UK, he loved nothing better than listening to his mother's stories from her homeland. Apparently, she inspired the character of the grandmother in his famous book, The Witches, which was also adapted into a successful movie. Although he died over 20 years ago, his distinctive style is still imitated in children's literature written today.\nChoose which passage supports the following sentences.\n1. The author thinks that Roald Dahl was a brave man\na. Passage A\nb. Passage B\nc. Both Passages\nd. Neither Passage\n2. The author states that Roald Dahl's work is funny.\n3. The author states that Roald Dahl used stories from Norway in his books for children.\n4. The author thinks Roald Dahl's books are better than their movie adaptations.\n5. The author focuses on Roald Dahl's life.\n6. The author focuses on Roald Dahl's writing.\n(Scroll down to see the answers. No cheating!)\n1=A, 2=C, 3=D, 4=A, 5=A, 6=B\nP.S. If you don't agree with the answers, don't blame us. Debate amongst yourselves in the comments!\nStudy: California's education system fails English learners\nHow language seems to shape one's view of the world",
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"raw_content": "Nearly half of local millennials consider moving as Seattle-area home costs soar again\nGreater Seattle once again had the biggest home-price increase in the nation, with home values soaring at nearly twice the national rate.\nBig housing-cost increases are taking a heavy toll on millennials throughout the Seattle area, which has retained its title as the hottest housing market in the country.\nA new poll from a local nonprofit finds that 45 percent of millennials in the Puget Sound region think they will have to move somewhere cheaper to afford the life they want, even though nearly all would prefer to stay in the area.\nLocal young adults ranked housing costs as their biggest concern, beating out problems that older adults find more troubling, like traffic and homelessness (although older adults said housing costs were one of their most important issues, as well).\n1. Seattle +10.8%\n2. Portland +10%\n3. Denver +8.9%\n4. Tampa +8.4%\n5. 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Single-family-home prices across Greater Seattle grew 10.8 percent year over year in December, the most of any region in the country and nearly double the national growth of 5.8 percent, according to the monthly Case-Shiller home price index, released Tuesday.\nThe Seattle region has beaten Portland for the top spot for four straight months and has finished among the two top housing markets in the country for a full year. And after local home-price increases had slowed for the past few months, they picked back up again slightly in December across King, Snohomish and Pierce counties.\nCompared to just a month earlier, home prices were up 0.6 percent, which may not sound like much, but it was triple the national average. This is normally the cheapest time of year for local real estate, but a record-low supply of homes has made this winter frustrating for buyers, with a median price of $635,000 for a house in Seattle.\nThe home-price data comes as the new millennial survey shows how those added housing costs \u2014 including soaring rents \u2014 could be forcing out young adults here. King County alone has 400,000 millennials, among the highest concentrations of young adults in the United States.\nThe poll was conducted by EMC Research for local environmental nonprofit Forterra, which advocates against sprawl, with funding help from Microsoft. Researchers talked to a representative sample of 300 young adults in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties late last summer, and supplemented the findings with a web poll of about 870 local millennials.\nThe research found that 92\u2009percent of local millennials, ages 18 to 35, were concerned about housing costs, with a little more than half saying they were \u201cvery concerned.\u201d That beat out all the other topics raised, including traffic, crime, inequality, the environment, employment prospects and college costs.\nResearchers asked respondents whether they wanted to stay in the Puget Sound region for the long term, and 87 percent said yes.\nBut when asked whether they could afford to live the life they wanted in their current community, only 54\u2009percent said yes. Groups that were especially likely to say they might move include women, people in their late 20s and those with low incomes.\nThe poll didn\u2019t delve further into the question, so it\u2019s unclear if those millennials were thinking about moving out of the area entirely, or if they simply thought they\u2019d have to move to a cheaper part of the region.\nPlenty of prior generations have experienced the \u201cdrive until you qualify\u201d phenomenon, where people extend their commutes to afford a home purchase, although outlying suburbs here are now seeing home prices rise faster than in Seattle.\nIn all, local home prices and rents have soared more than 40 percent in the last four years, adding several hundred dollars a month onto housing bills. And the National Association of Realtors expects home costs to rise more in Washington than in any other state in 2017.\n\u201cWill we become a cost-prohibitive place like San Francisco or New York \u2014 attractive to recent college grads, but only for a couple of years before they move on?\u201d asks Forterra President Gene Duvernoy. \u201cIf so, what will we sacrifice, both in talent and civic involvement?\u201d\nLike many young Americans, Nicolette Bruer, 23, is dealing with crippling student debt \u2014 she graduated owing $100,000 and is now dealing with a rent increase at her shared Capitol Hill apartment while trying to get by on an entry-level job.\n\u201cIn a way it feels like I was set up to fail, and now that housing costs are so high I have to accept that I cannot afford to live alone unless I want to move far, far from the city,\u201d Bruer said. \u201cIf prices keep rising then there is no possible financial way I could stay here. I think it would force me to move somewhere cheaper.\u201d\nAlthough some are moving out of the region entirely, others are settling on more affordable places nearby, like in Snohomish and Pierce counties, and traveling an hour or more into work each day.\nSarah Farahani, 30, moved to Tacoma after getting a huge rent increase and now commutes to her public-transit job in Seattle.\n\u201cI\u2019ve quickly come to the conclusion that I\u2019ll never be able to live in Seattle proper,\u201d she said. \u201cI would love nothing more than to live closer to work but it\u2019s just not realistic with my current financial obligations.\u201d\nLainey Piland, 31, grew up in Redmond and Monroe and had to move out to Lake Stevens with her husband to afford a house. Now she\u2019s dealing with a \u201cterrible\u201d commute.\n\u201cI never thought I wouldn\u2019t be able to afford to buy a house in the town where I grew up,\u201d said Piland.\nOf course, plenty of millennials are making it work. Brian Kostol, 27, rents with his girlfriend near Green Lake and has scrimped with lower-tier apartments to save up for a home. They think they can make a mortgage work by combining incomes.\n\u201cI understand that it\u2019s a big price tag and a big down payment and all that,\u201d Kostol said. \u201cWe both still have the mindset that it\u2019s worth it. I still think it\u2019s a good long-term investment.\u201d\nAlthough the size of homes is expanding nationwide, local millennials aren\u2019t looking for huge houses. Asked about the type of housing they want in the poll, they ranked \u201chaving a large house\u201d as the lowest priority, even behind having space to garden. 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Welcome to the WSU Cougar Family, @Gagegubs! #GoCougs #JoinTheHunt\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re excited about it,\u201d WSU coach Mike Leach said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got three real quality quarterbacks in that class, so I think it\u2019ll be a heckuva battle over the spring, and I think it\u2019ll be a heckuva battle in camp, too.\u201d\nAccording to Leach, Gubrud will enroll in graduate courses on Feb. 18, which allows him to participate in spring football and get a head start on learning the Cougars\u2019 high-volume passing offense.\nGardner Minshew picked up Leach\u2019s Air Raid schemes in a hurry after transferring from East Carolina, though he didn\u2019t begin practicing with the Cougars until August. Gubrud has time on his side, but doesn\u2019t have Minshew\u2019s background knowledge of the Air Raid, which helped the eventual WSU starter fend off challengers Trey Tinsley and Anthony Gordon.\nUnless former four-star recruit Cammon Cooper or early enrollee Gunner Cruz make an unexpected push, Gubrud will be in the same position Minshew was in last year, auditioning for WSU\u2019s starting job alongside two QBs \u2014 Tinsley and Gordon \u2014 who have significantly less game experience but a decent understanding of the Air Raid and the respect of the locker room.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got all the film, all the resources, all those things and it\u2019s going to have to be pretty quick,\u201d Leach said. \u201cHe\u2019ll have a little more time than Gardner did, but not a lot more.\u201d\nGubrud was a three-year starter at EWU who collected just about every accolade available to an FCS quarterback. But his journey wasn\u2019t as easy as it looked on paper. Gubrud, a native of McMinnville, Oregon, didn\u2019t earn a scholarship out of high school and may become the third straight former walk-on to start for the Cougars, following in the footsteps of Minshew and Luke Falk.\n\u201cHe\u2019s come from quite a ways, too,\u201d Leach said. \u201cHe walked on at Eastern Washington, I believe, and of course clawed his way in there.\u201d\nOnly 70 miles separate the schools, but getting the dual-threat Gubrud from EWU to WSU came with some major hurdles. Five days ago, the QB confirmed that his efforts to obtain a medical redshirt had been denied by the NCAA, though Gubrud was planning to appeal the decision, citing \u201cunusual circumstances.\u201d\nThe NCAA moved swiftly to overturn the initial decision, granting Gubrud his sixth year of eligibility less than a week later, though it\u2019s unknown what criteria was used to reverse it.\nNonetheless, the QB\u2019s situation may be unprecedented at any level of college football.\nGubrud suffered a season-ending toe injury during EWU\u2019s fifth game of the year, at Montana State. Explosive sophomore backup Eric Barriere took over and guided the Eagles to the FCS playoffs, then carried them to the national championship game, which EWU lost to North Dakota State 38-24.\nThe NCAA states that a player is eligible for a medical redshirt if he played in one-third or fewer of his team\u2019s games. But because the Eagles advanced to the national title, and therefore played in 15 games, Gubrud met that standard.\nGubrud entered his name into the NCAA\u2019s transfer portal and the QB confirmed that he\u2019d narrowed his choices down to WSU and Utah. The school down the road piqued Gubrud\u2019s interest \u2014 which was telling by his social media activity and the numerous WSU football-related Twitter accounts he began following.\nOver the years, Gubrud had also become close with a few WSU players \u2014 namely linebacker Peyton Pelluer.\n\u201cNot sure how we found out (Gubrud was transferring), could\u2019ve been word-of-mouth,\u201d Leach said. \u201cA lot of times this stuff gets out word of mouth. I think we were on his list to begin with. Look forward to it being a heckuva battle, but he\u2019s certainly a really talented guy that\u2019s had a lot of success in the past.\u201d\nGubrud will be back in Martin Stadium three years after making the first start of his career there. He and wide receiver Cooper Kupp, now with the Los Angeles Rams, charged the Eagles\u2019 offense in a 45-42 upset win that saw Gubrud contribute six touchdowns \u2014 five of those passing and another rushing. He completed 34-of-40 attempts for 474 yards in the game and rushed for 77 yards.\nMinshew\u2019s escapability gave WSU\u2019s offense a new dimension in 2018, but Pac-12 defenses may have an even tougher time tracking down the elusive Gubrud.\n\u201cWhen he\u2019s on the move, he\u2019s fairly threatening,\u201d Leach said. \u201cSome guys, when you get them on the move and you say, \u2018Good he\u2019s on the move, he\u2019s liable to screw this up.\u2019 \u2026 Then other guys kind of put you in that screwy bind of, OK you\u2019ve got to affect the quarterback because if you don\u2019t affect him there won\u2019t be any bad throws and you won\u2019t sack him.\n\u201cBut if all the sudden he breaks the pocket and \u2014 some guys you\u2019re afraid may run, but in (Gage\u2019s) case not so much that. He might, but he throws it pretty well on the run. Once he takes off and breaks the pocket, that\u2019s when he gets some of his explosive plays.\u201d\nBy the end of his sophomore season, Gubrud had become one of the most electric quarterbacks in the nation, turning heads with his legs when he wasn\u2019t doing it with his arm. He was twice named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award (2016, 2017) \u2014 the FCS equivalent to the Heisman Trophy \u2014 and earned FCS All-American honors in 2016. That same year, he shared Big Sky Player of the Year honors with Kupp.\nWithout Kupp, Gubrud and the Eagles were flattened 59-24 this season by a much stronger WSU team, although the QB found humor in watching snippets of that game when coaches pulled up the season highlight reel all recruits watch when making their official visit.\n\u201cKind of highlights of the season, the locker room, the pageantry and things \u2014 and he\u2019s one of the victims,\u201d Leach said. 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"raw_content": "Asbestos in Schools: Update\nProbe on asbestos in schools\nThe House of Commons Select Committee on Education has held an evidence session on 13th March 2013 on the subject of asbestos in schools.\nThe one-off evidence session focused on the issues relating to asbestos in English schools.\nAn initial panel of witnesses gave the Committee the opportunity to explore the issues raised with interest groups, experts in the field and individuals with direct experience of the problem.\nIt was followed by evidence from the Schools Minister and the Health and Safety Executive on relevant government policies.\nThe session was welcomed by the GMB trade union, which says it represents \u201can increasing number\u201d of schools support staff potentially at risk from asbestos fibres in schools.\nThe union claims that more than 75% of state schools contain asbestos, much of it in a dangerous condition.\nThe union is also concerned that an on-going Department for Education (DfE) audit on the condition of schools to establish refurbishment priorities apparently expressly excludes asbestos.\nCommenting on the issue of asbestos in schools, John McClean, the union\u2019s National Safety Officer, said, \u201cGMB welcomes the call for evidence on asbestos in schools. Last year\u2019s report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Health & Safety made it clear that a cohesive and clear strategy to deal with this serious matter needed to take place. Hopefully the Education Select Committee which holds its hearing on Wednesday 13th March will reach similar conclusions that enable the DfE to begin dealing comprehensively with this problem.\u201d\nGuidance on managing asbestos in schools\nThe Department for Education (DfE) has published new guidance on managing asbestos in schools for head teachers and other interested stakeholders.\nThe new asbestos management guidance provides information and advice for those who manage schools or oversee the maintenance and repair of school buildings. The guidance is aimed at head teachers, governors, and other members of the school management team, but will also be of interest to school staff.\nA source at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said that although the guidance has been produced for schools in England, it includes information and links to useful resources for schools and colleges across Great Britain.\nThe guide points out that before the health effects of its fibres were fully understood, asbestos was considered a valuable building material as it had high strength and fire resistance. As a result, it was extensively used in schools for fire protection and insulation.\nAsbestos can be found in Victorian schools, system-built ones, or traditionally constructed buildings and in schools that were refurbished before its use was banned in 1999.\nThe DfE says that more than 14,000 schools were built between 1945 and 1975, when the use of asbestos was at its height, and many others were refurbished. More than three-quarters of schools have some buildings that contain asbestos.\nthe types of asbestos and where it might be found\ndiseases related to asbestos exposure\nactivities that can accidentally disturb asbestos\nthe legislative framework and responsibilities of duty holders\nasbestos records and plans\nconsequences of failing to comply with asbestos regulations\nresources on asbestos.\nThe guide can be accessed at www.education.gov.uk.\nCaution Asbestos Signs\nCaution Asbestos/Protective Clothing Signs",
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"raw_content": "Cinema by the Bay: 6 more who call region home\nPam Grady July 7, 2016\nWriter-director-actor Matt Ross, whose film \u201cCaptain Fantastic\u201d opens Friday, July 15, is hardly alone among people in the film world who call the Bay Area home. Companies like Pixar, Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic provide jobs to scores of people in the region. Filmmakers, their crews and actors also hang their hats here, some commuting like Ross, others based here for experiences and an atmosphere Los Angeles can\u2019t provide. Here are a few:\nFrazer Bradshaw, 43, Oakland\nExperience: Writer-director (\u201cEverything Strange and New\u201d) and cinematographer. Bradshaw moved to the Bay Area initially to study at the San Francisco Art Institute.\nWhy the Bay Area: \u201cThe primary advantage of the Bay Area is simple: Quality of life. Specific to filmmaking, the advantage is the same. The producers and crews I work with in the Bay Area are fantastic people.\u201d\nWhy not the Bay Area: \u201cAs related to film, money and power are concentrated in L.A. and New York. Trying to finance a film or build a career as a director in the Bay Area is exponentially harder.\u201d\nPeter Coyote, 74, Mill Valley\nExperience: Actor: S.F. Mime Troupe, the Diggers, Magic Theatre, \u201cJagged Edge,\u201d \u201cOutrageous Fortune,\u201d \u201cLaw & Order: LA,\u201d as well as the voice for many documentaries. After first visiting San Francisco in 1959, he returned in 1964 to get his master\u2019s in creative writing at S.F. State.\nThe importance of being in the Bay Area in the \u201960s: \u201cThe real acting school is life. I was fortunate enough to have survived 12 adventurous years, with no restraints and playing for keeps. I lived for a while with the president of the S.F. Hells Angels, knew and worked with the Black Panthers, traveled around the U.S. in a truck caravan as a longhair when it was definitely not cool outside of California. All those adventures and my thoughts and refinements of them contributed to everything I brought to the craft of acting.\u201d\nAnthony Lucero, Berkeley\nExperience: Writer-director (\u201cEast Side Sushi\u201d) and visual effects.\nBay Area advantages: \u201cFilmmaking is still a bit of a novelty in the Bay Area. People are not used to seeing a camera crew and actors filming in their neighborhood, so they tolerate us a bit more. \u2026 It is also one of the most diverse areas, which means there are limitless amounts of story possibilities here as well.\u201d\nDisadvantages: \u201cCost of living, by far. It\u2019s a tough place for artists to make a living.\u201d\nCarl Lumbly, 64, Berkeley\nExperience: Actor: \u201cAlias,\u201d \u201cThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension,\u201d \u201cQuitters,\u201d \u201cZoo,\u201d and \u201cRed Velvet\u201d (S.F. Playhouse). After living in the Bay Area in 1976, Lumbly moved here permanently in 1993.\nWhy he moved here: \u201cMy late wife was a native San Franciscan. After the birth of our son, we decided that for the overall health and well-being of our family, the Bay Area held many advantages over Southern California. I felt it would be possible, if not advisable, for me to maintain my career and my sanity by commuting. I have been lucky.\u201d\nH.P. Mendoza, 39, San Francisco\nExperience: Writer-actor-composer (\u201cColma: The Musical\u201d). Writer/director (\u201cFruit Fly\u201d and more).\nHow to make it work: \u201cSan Francisco is way too expensive to subsist on your own indie films. It\u2019s a tech town. So I work on various tech and tech-adjacent projects to pay the bills, often incorporating my filmmaking skill set.\u201d\nWhy sometimes it doesn\u2019t work: \u201cLiving in fear of your apartment building mysteriously burning down.\u201d\nJennifer Phang, Oakland\nExperience: Writer-director (\u201cHalf-Life,\u201d \u201cAdvantageous\u201d). A residency with the San Francisco Film Society lured her back to the Bay Area after she lived in New York and Los Angeles.\nWhy the Bay Area: \u201cIt\u2019s good for writing and inspiration to be around people who aren\u2019t all entertainers. It grounds you and helps you understand your audience better. I enjoy the diversity in some parts of the bay, and the highly progressive and open-minded culture.\u201d\nWhy not the Bay Area: \u201cI\u2019m concerned, like most, with the rate of gentrification. I feel it threatens some of our core Bay Area values.\u201d\n\u2014 Pam Grady\nPam Grady is a San Francisco Chronicle movie correspondent based in San Francisco.\nCinequest 2019 slate includes Terry Gilliam\u2019s \u2018Don Quixote\u2019\nReel local news: Italian Cinema in SF focuses on new and veteran filmmakers\nReel Local News: SF Iranian Film Festival now in its 11th year",
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"raw_content": "Portal 2 Co-Writer Jay Pinkerton Returns to Valve A Year After Departing the Company\nThe writer seems to have rejoined the ranks of his old stomping grounds for good.\nIn 2017, Valve lost quite a few writers, namely that of Portal 2 co-writer Jay Pinkerton, as well as Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek, who worked alongside him. Pinkerton's last day at the company was in June that year, but now it seems one year later, he's decided to jump back aboard.\nA Valve representative has confirmed to PC Gamer that Pinkerton is now back with the company, though no one's sure what that might mean for the future. Could we potentially see a new game in the company's future?\nPinkerton has taken his rightful place once more on Valve's official staff page with a short bio, which means he's presumably back for the foreseeable future. Aside from penning Portal 2 with a cavalcade of other talented folks, he worked on parts of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, as well as some of the Team Fortress 2 comics. What he'll be put to work on for the time being, however, is anyone's guess.\nAfter Valve's Gabe Newell made the announcement earlier this year that the team is going to be shipping games again, anything is possible. Right now, the company's working on the project Artifact, though there's no telling what all could be in store. We'll have to relax and keep an eye out for what's coming down the pipeline, as well as what Pinkerton could have his hands on going forward.\nBrittany Vincent posted a new article, Portal 2 Co-Writer Jay Pinkerton Returns to Valve A Year After Departing the Company\nThey're getting the band back together!\nHopefully this the bat signal for the future release of orange box 2?\nTF2 Battle Royale incoming\nMaybe they\u2019ll actually make a game.\nOr at least some absolutely hilarious press releases!\nsomeWayne",
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"raw_content": "Shell Cansolv Technology Used At The First Commercial-Scale Post-Combustion Carbon Capture And Storage Plant\nShell Cansolv technology is capturing the carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) at SaskPower\u2019s new world-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Saskatchewan, Canada, which has opened today. The SaskPower facility at the Boundary Dam Power Station is expected to capture around 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year, which is up to 90% of CO2 emissions from one train of the power plant. It is the first commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture system at a coal-fired power plant in the world.\n\"The opening of the SaskPower Boundary Dam CCS project marks an important step for the CCS industry, as it demonstrates the viability of large-scale post-combustion CO2 capture,\u201d said Lori Motherwell, President and GM at Shell Cansolv. \u201cIt\u2019s also an important moment for Shell Cansolv, as it is our largest CO2 capture project so far, proving the technology at industrial scale and paving the way for future developments.\u201d\nThe Shell Cansolv integrated technology can remove CO2 and SO2 from a broad range of industrial flue gases, providing a simplified solution to emission regulations. The technology can be added to an existing plant or incorporated in a new installation.\nShell Cansolv\u2019s technology also has the potential to lower capital and operating costs. The combined capture system can help reduce the energy used in the capture process. The technology also uses regenerable aqueous amine solutions to capture the SO2 and CO2, making the process more cost-effective and minimising environmental waste.\n\u201cSaskPower\u2019s carbon capture and storage project at Boundary Dam Power Station is the world\u2019s first post-combustion carbon capture and storage system. The effort has provided us with unique opportunities to work with valued partners, such as Shell Cansolv, as we work to power our province today and for generations to come,\u201d said Robert Watson, SaskPower President & CEO.\nThe Shell Cansolv technology removes sulphur dioxide (SO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in two stages. At the SaskPower Boundary Dam project:\nThe power plant\u2019s flue gases are desulphurised first. The SO2 is further processed and used as feedstock for a sulphuric acid plant. Sulphuric acid has a number of industrial uses including fertilizer.\nThen the CO2 is removed and compressed. Most of the CO2 will be used in enhanced oil recovery projects. Some CO2 will also be injected into a deep saline formation as part of the Aquistore Project. In both cases, the CO2 will be permanently stored underground so that it does not enter the atmosphere.\nThe amount of CO2 expected to be captured at the Boundary Dam Power Plant is equivalent to taking approximately 250,000 cars off the road.\nThe Shell Peterhead project in Scotland, currently in the front end engineering and design stage of project development, is also expected to use Shell Cansolv CO2 capture technology.\nShell International Media Relations: +44 20 7934 5550\nBusiness Development: mail@cansolv.com or +1 514 382 4411\nThe companies in which Royal Dutch Shell plc directly and indirectly owns investments are separate entities. In this press release \u201cShell\u201d, \u201cShell group\u201d and \u201cRoyal Dutch Shell\u201d are sometimes used for convenience where references are made to Royal Dutch Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general. Likewise, the words \u201cwe\u201d, \u201cus\u201d and \u201cour\u201d are also used to refer to subsidiaries in general or to those who work for them. These expressions are also used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular company or companies.\n\u2018\u2018Subsidiaries\u2019\u2019, \u201cShell subsidiaries\u201d and \u201cShell companies\u201d as used in this press release refer to companies in which Royal Dutch Shell either directly or indirectly has control, by having either a majority of the voting rights or the right to exercise a controlling influence. The companies in which Shell has significant influence but not control are referred to as \u201cassociated companies\u201d or \u201cassociates\u201d and companies in which Shell has joint control are referred to as \u201cjointly controlled entities\u201d. In this press release, associates and jointly controlled entities are also referred to as \u201cequity-accounted investments\u201d.\nThe term \u201cShell interest\u201d is used for convenience to indicate the direct and/or indirect ownership interest held by Shell in a venture, partnership or company, after exclusion of all third-party interest.\nThere are a number of factors that could affect the future operations of Royal Dutch Shell and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements included in this press release, including (without limitation):\n(a) price fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas\n(b) changes in demand for the Shell\u2019s products\n(c) currency fluctuations\n(d) drilling and production results\n(e) reserve estimates\n(f) loss of market share and industry competition\n(g) environmental and physical risks\n(h) risks associated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition properties and targets, and successful negotiation and completion of such transactions\n(i) the risk of doing business in developing countries and countries subject to international sanctions\n(j) legislative, fiscal and regulatory developments including regulatory measures addressing climate change\n(k) economic and financial market conditions in various countries and regions\n(l) political risks, including the risks of expropriation and renegotiation of the terms of contracts with governmental entities, delays or advancements in the approval of projects and delays in the reimbursement for shared costs; and\n(m) changes in trading conditions. 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"raw_content": "Pictures from the Ukraine Riots\nUkrainian citizens, young and old, are currently involved in a tumultuous revolution in the capital city of Kiev. The protestors first began their anti-government demonstrations in late November, following President Viktor Yanukovich\u2019s decision to withdraw the nation from a landmark trade pact with the European Union. Since then, they\u2019ve had growing clashes with the police, escalating with time and rage on both sides. Below you see some shots from the battleground.\npictures by: Ilya Varlamov",
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"raw_content": "Juan Carlos Osorio, Mexico Were a Failed Relationship, Doomed from the Start\nJuan Carlos Osorio declined a contract renewal after nearly three years at the helm of El Tri, stepping down with an impressive record as the team's 12th head coach in nine years. Despite his efforts, however, it would never be good enough for a nation that never truly accepted him.\nWell, he\u2019s out.\nAfter becoming Mexico\u2019s 12th head coach in the span of nine years and the team\u2019s first ever Colombian, Juan Carlos Osorio leaves his post as manager.\nDespite half-hearted efforts from the Mexican Football Federation and its new president Yon de Luisa, Osorio turned down a contract renewal, and so came the end of a three-year tenure, where he guided the squad to 33 wins, 10 losses and nine draws.\nTo put those numbers in perspective in relation to the history of Mexico's men\u2019s national team, out of all the managers who managed at least 20 matches, he secured the second-best record. Only Javier Aguirre topped Osorio\u2019s, but he needed two terms (2001-2002, 2009-2010) in order to achieve it.\nThis statistic, however, including Osorio\u2019s influence with young and experienced players, his passion for detailed strategy which led to an undefeated World Cup qualifying campaign or the team\u2019s impressive victory against Germany last month in Russia, was never going to be good enough for a nation who never truly accepted him.\nUltimately, his decision to leave El Tri is anything but surprising as Osorio the outsider never felt welcomed and as it usually seems in Mexico, the job was doomed from the start.\nFirst, we must begin with the elephant in the room. It would be na\u00efve to say that not being Mexican was never a factor as it was a continuous theme among many Mexicans. Ex-player and manager Hugo Sanchez, for example, was a major critic of Osorio as his usual theme when depicting his work usually circled around him being Colombian.\n\u201cI trust in the talent and quality of the player, but not in the technical team,\u201d Sanchez said in April before the World Cup. \u201cThere\u2019s no style, they can be modern or innovative but let him (Osorio) do it with Colombia, not with Mexico.\u201d\nThere was also a matter of philosophy and what Osorio\u2019s style represented. In simple terms, he was never going to succeed in Mexico because success meant something else to Mexicans.\nOsorio wanted stability while Mexico wanted results, no matter the opponent.\nFans also did not appreciate his tinkering approach, where players rotated due to his obsession with formation and design but despite the criticism, Osorio remained stoic and committed to his plan. Much like his mentor Sir Alex Ferguson, the Colombian wanted to build a culture where winning came out of tactical development, which essentially produced quality on the pitch. For him, teaching his players the tactical aspects of the game was just as important as winning and as Jonathan Dos Santos said earlier this year, training with him was like going to school where players ended their days in a video room and Osorio would hold one-on-one sessions dissecting their work in previous matches.\nFor Osorio, Liga MX was an important place to find and develop Mexican talent but ultimately, it was Europe, where he wanted his players to compete. But what many critics of his work failed to understand was that this preference towards Europe had nothing to do with a distaste of Mexico\u2019s domestic league. It was thanks to Osorio, after all, where young Monterrey players such as Jonathan Gonzalez and Cesar Montes made their senior teams debuts.\nBut in the end, Mexican fans wanted immediate results as this became the central theme ever since the team\u2019s humiliating 7-0 loss against Chile at the Copa America Centenario. It was a wound that never properly healed, and it seemed as if the only way to fix it was to do the same thing to someone else. But it never happened, so the anxiety kept elevating.\nDuring one particular interview last year, Osorio commented on this pressure to deliver, \u201cthey\u2019re not happy with us winning,\u201d said Osorio. \u201cWe have to win and humiliate the opposition. There is no country in the world that keeps so much pressure on a national team coach. There is none.\u201d\nDespite an almost perfect, undefeated World Cup qualifying campaign, the criticism on Osorio kept building, and by spring of this year, the consensus was that Mexico would struggle in Russia. During El Tri\u2019s 1-0 victory against Scotland in June, for example, Mexican fans chanted \u201cFuera Osorio!\u201d (Osorio, out!) throughout the game. Just imagine that scenario: It was the team\u2019s sending-off match, a time to bid farewell and good luck as the nation prepared for its seventh consecutive World Cup appearance, and Mexico was asking for its manager\u2019s head.\nAt the World Cup, Osorio gave Mexico arguably its greatest ever victory with a 1-0 win against Germany, and for a brief, glorious period, Mexicans were happy with their manager. They were the belle of the ball, and Osorio the carriage that brought them there. But once again, the reality crushed the fairy tale and after a dissapointing performance against Sweden in the final match of the group stage, El Tri bowed out of the tournament in the Round of 16 against Brazil. The game ended up as a disappointing conclusion to a tournament that offered so much promise.\n\"I want to thank all our fans, they're really wonderful,\" Osorio said after the World Cup. \" I want to thank them for their support and love! I apologize to them for our failure to qualify for the next round. I deeply regret this. I think we have the best fans in the world.\"\nDirectly after the loss, he was asked on his future and whether he would stay with the team and renew his contract. \"We have to allow time for us to heal and process this loss, and in the next few days, the federation will make its decision, and so will I, and you will all know.\"\nIn truth, everyone already knew the answer.\nAs the Mexican federation looks to rebuild its identity under new leadership, while preparing to co-host the World Cup in 2026, conventional wisdom would suggest that the next manager would be either Mexican or an established presence inside Liga MX. Names such as ex-Chivas manager Matias Almeyda and Miguel Herrera come to mind. Another could be Tigres head coach Ricardo \u201cTuca\u201d Ferretti. The 64-year-old coach signed on as interim manager in 2015 after the aforementioned Herrera was fired but made it clear he only wanted the role on a temporary basis. 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Despite an often outdated view of how advanced farming is today, agriculture has long been one of the most prescient industries in the world, offering a glimpse into the future of mainstream technology. From reinventing hand tools to the introduction of mechanization and even guidance, agriculture has been at the forefront of technological revolution, getting there before many other industries.\nTo truly understand where automation is headed, again we look to the farm, with the introduction of precision ag technology. Decades ago, farmers used to look at harvest maps, which show farmers how much yield each section of their field produced, at the end of each season, evaluate the end result, and use their findings to determine what needed to be done differently the following year. With just one planting season per crop a year, farmers only have approximately 40 tries over their whole careers to get it right. 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Using GPS technology and correction signals, technology could now guide vehicles to a repeatable process through the field within an inch of accuracy, allowing the operator to focus on additional operational activities in the cab\u2014like monitoring yield during harvest. As new advancements were introduced into equipment, they transformed from farm tools to technologically advanced, smart machines.\nFast forward a couple decades later and agriculture is leading the charge as a technologically advanced industry. Hundreds of thousands of highly automated vehicles are now in operation across the globe, leveraging connected and autonomous technologies to improve productivity and make better decisions with fewer resources, increasing sustainability efforts and decreasing downtime. As more industries like the automotive look to implement autonomous technology, they ought to look to the farm for key best practices.\nAnd yet, we\u2019ve only just scratched the surface of what\u2019s possible. Take a look at AI, for example. We\u2019re starting to see what can happen when you combine automated machines with advanced AI technology, accelerated by John Deere\u2019s acquisition of Blue River Technologies. This partnership provides the ability to see and manage each plant individually, understanding and addressing what each one of the plants needs to thrive and giving farmers the ability to think about profit and investment at the level of each of those plants.\nAs more of this technology gets integrated into automated machines, we can imagine a combine or tractor with implement that\u2019s fully equipped with sensors and AI that tracks data, analyzes it and delivers insights to the farmer for real-time evaluation on how to be the most productive and efficient as possible. We will continue to see things become more connected, more precise and more advanced.\nBut will we ever reach full autonomy? While we\u2019ve proven that the technology is there, the question is now whether customers are ready for it. For the ag industry, we don\u2019t believe that the farmer will ever be removed completely from the picture. While the majority of farmers have fully embraced automation into their daily routines, there is a connection to the land that simply can\u2019t be replaced with technology. In the case of the automotive industry, it\u2019s too early to tell whether full autonomy will be accepted amongst consumers. However, it\u2019s clear that there\u2019s been a dramatic transformation over the last two decades when it comes what\u2019s possible, and we can only imagine where we will be 20 years down the road.\nWhile we\u2019re starting to see automotive makers make tangible advancements in self-driving technology, you can look to the agriculture industry\u2019s history to see where those developments first started. Although the demands of the customer may differ between the two industries\u2013 whether it\u2019s a farmer who is looking for his machine to maximize its use of the land or a businessman looking to get a head start on work on his way to the office\u2013it will always come down to the capabilities of the machine and its role in the driver\u2019s life.",
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"raw_content": "Scott D. Pierce \u2022 He turns in an amazing performance in new Showtime series.\n(Photo: Ollie Upton/Showtime) Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the title character in \u201cPatrick Melrose.\u201d\nMore often than not, Twitter sucks.\nWell, not the social-media platform itself, but the way a lot of people use it. The way they hide behind the anonymity of their Twitter handles to spew venom and ignorance.\nBack when most of our interactions were personal, many bigots, misogynists and homophobes made some effort to keep their vile views to themselves \u2014 albeit not altogether successfully. Today, they proudly broadcast their hate and anger on Twitter, and they\u2019ve come to believe their views are acceptable.\nLike Fox News, this has not made the world a better place.\nOn a much less important level, it\u2019s annoying that so many people respond to a tweet without bothering to click on the link to read what they\u2019re commenting on. So they\u2019re \u2026 um, off base.\nOK, First World problem. Goes with the job. Sorry for whining.\nSo imagine my surprise when I learned that Twitter is directly responsible for Benedict Cumberbatch starring in \u201cPatrick Melrose.\u201d If there\u2019s any justice to this year\u2019s Emmys (always a big if), Cumberbatch will win one come September.\nHe ended up playing the title character because (a) he loves Edward St. Aubyn\u2019s semi-autobiographical novels, on which the five-part series is based; (b) he\u2019s always wanted to play Patrick Melrose; and (c) Twitter.\n\u201cSomebody tweeted about Benedict wanting to play the part,\u201d said executive producer Michael Jackson. \u201cAnd we said, \u2018Aha!\u2019 We actually rang up his people, and we had a coffee.\n\u201cHere is an example of something really positive that happened because of Twitter.\u201d\nScott D. Pierce: Holy Sith! The live-action \u2018Star Wars\u2019 TV series is a terrible idea.\nScott D. Pierce: If \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 can\u2019t change, it\u2019s time for the show to go\nTurns out Cumberbatch himself had tweeted his desire to play the part.\n\u201cDid I say I was a stable genius in that tweet?\u201d he said, taking a shot at Donald Trump. \u201cI want to play an unstable genius. That\u2019s my twist on that tweet.\u201d\nPatrick Melrose isn\u2019t a genius, but he\u2019s certainly unstable. This five-episode series \u2014 one episode per book \u2014 tells the story of an abused boy who grew up in a British world of privilege and became a self-destructive drug addict and bon vivant, a dichotomy that Cumberbatch portrays in amazing fashion. His performance as Patrick is repellent and riveting, horrifying and hilarious.\nSaturday\u2019s premiere (7, 8:05 and 9:10 p.m., Showtime) veers from ghastly scenes of Patrick shooting heroin to weirdly gleeful scenes of Patrick on Quaaludes. And, as the extent of the abuse he suffered is revealed in flashbacks, we understand his response when asked how his father died: \u201cI forgot to ask. I was too dizzy with glee. I\u2019m sorry \u2014 I mean, dazed with grief.\u201d\nCumberbatch\u2019s performance is nothing short of spectacular.\n\u201cGood things can come from Twitter,\u201d Cumberbatch said. \u201cWorld wars can also come from Twitter, but, hey, I got a part out of it, so I\u2019m not complaining.\u201d",
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"raw_content": "Subscribe to Foreclosure\nThe Automatic Stay In Chapter 13, And Foreclosure Sales\nBy Nicholas Gebelt on September 4, 2014\nPosted in Chapter 13, Foreclosure\nA fellow bankruptcy attorney recently posed an interesting question regarding a threatened foreclosure sale before the automatic stay is lifted in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Here is the exchange I had with her:\nI just got an email from a Chapter 13 client who has a confirmation hearing on 8/21. She told me that auction.com just came by her house and posted a sign that her house is up for auction on 8/14. There has been no relief from the automatic stay issued in this case, nor has a motion for relief from the automatic stay been filed. When we filed the case in March, we stopped a foreclosure action and the client was going to try to save her home so we put the arrears and some IRS tax debt in the plan. Her original confirmation hearing was on 6/21 but the Chapter 13 Trustee\u2019s office continued it to 8/21. In the interim she lost one of her jobs and decided that she would just surrender the home and pay the priority tax debt in the plan. We amended the plan indicating that she would be surrendering the home, but no arrangements have been made yet on the terms of the surrender.\nDoesn\u2019t the bank still need relief from the automatic stay to auction the house?\nI. The Terms Of The Confirmed Plan Will Bind The Debtor\nThe Bankruptcy Code provides: \u201c[T]he court shall confirm a plan if \u2014 . . . [for an] allowed secured claim provided for by the plan \u2014 . . . the debtor surrenders the property securing such claim to such holder . . .\u201d 11 U.S.C. \u00a7 1325(a)(5)(c). Thus, your client is entitled to propose a plan in which she surrenders her home to the creditor holding the first mortgage. Once the Court confirms the plan, its provisions will \u201cbind the debtor . . .\u201d 11 U.S.C. \u00a7 1327(a), meaning that she will have to surrender the home. Continue Reading The Automatic Stay In Chapter 13, And Foreclosure Sales\nI Just Received A 1099-C Cancellation Of Debt Form. What Should I Do?\nPosted in Debt, Foreclosure\nAlthough I posted an article on this topic of tax debts after foreclosure on July 12, 2011, this question still comes up fairly frequently. Therefore, another blog post on it is in order. However, this one will not be a carbon copy of the July 12 post.\nI. The Five Exceptions To Cancellation Of Debt Income Tax\nWhen a creditor forgives a debt you owe, the forgiven debt is usually credited to you as income for tax purposes. The typical scenario these days involves the loss of a home in a foreclosure or a short sale.\nDue to a provision in California real estate law, if the lender comes up short after the sale, it cannot come after you for the deficiency. Instead, it will report the loss to the IRS and the Franchise Tax Board (\u201cFTB\u201d). When it does, it will send you a 1099-C Form, listing the amount of debt it had to cancel. This is your cancellation of debt income, and it\u2019s taxable unless it falls within five exceptions listed in the Internal Revenue Code, and incorporated into the California Revenue & Taxation Code.\nThose five exceptions are:\n\u2022 the discharge \u2013 i.e., the debt forgiveness \u2013 occurred in a bankruptcy,\n\u2022the discharge occurred when you were insolvent,\n\u2022the indebtedness discharged was qualified farm indebtedness,\n\u2022in the case of a taxpayer other than a C corporation, the indebtedness discharged was qualified real property business indebtedness, or\n\u2022the indebtedness discharged was qualified principal residence indebtedness which was discharged before January 1, 2013.\nFor the first exception to apply, you have to have filed the bankruptcy before the debt was forgiven. That way the debt is discharged in the bankruptcy. If the debt is forgiven before you file the bankruptcy, then at the point of forgiveness the identity of the creditor changes from the bank to the taxing authority, and the debt you have is a tax debt instead of a mortgage debt. Tax debts are usually not dischargeable in bankruptcy, so you could be out of luck. (I\u2019ll discuss the dischargeability of income tax debt in bankruptcy in my next post.)\nFor the second exception to apply you have to still be insolvent immediately after the debt was forgiven. To illustrate what could go wrong, let\u2019s use an example. Suppose just before a foreclosure sale on your home your total debt was $525,000 \u2013 of which $500,000 was your mortgage debt. And suppose your assets including the house were worth $450,000, with the house being worth $300,000. At that point you would certainly be insolvent because the value of your debts ($525,000) exceeds your liabilities ($450,000). However, insolvency for the second exception is measured after the sale, not before. Thus, if the house sold for its market value of $300,000, and the bank forgave the post-sale shortfall, then after the sale your assets would be in value $150,000 (= $450,000 \u2013 $300,000), and your liabilities would be $25,000 (= $525,000 \u2013 $500,000). This would mean that the value of your assets ($150,000) would be greater than your liabilities ($25,000), so you would no longer be insolvent \u2013 and you would be ineligible for the insolvency exception. Ouch.\nThe third and fourth exceptions generally do not arise in the typical consumer bankruptcy case. Therefore, if you think you might be eligible for either of them, consult a competent tax professional.\nThe final exception sunsets on January 1, 2013, and was enacted in response to the current housing mess. If you lost your principal residence \u2013 this one does not apply to a rental property \u2013 and the debt that was forgiven was the original purchase money debt, then the amount forgiven after the sale does not get added to your gross taxable income. Unfortunately, if you refinanced your home, and later lose the property, the debt forgiven would not qualify for this exception \u2013 unless you could prove to the taxing authority\u2019s satisfaction that every penny of the refi went into home improvement.\nIf the forgiven debt does not fall within the ambit of any of these five exceptions, prepare for a tax hit.\nII. Filing The Tax Return\nSuppose you were smart and filed for bankruptcy protection before the debt was forgiven. Then the debt was discharged in a bankruptcy, so you don\u2019t get the tax hit. But the taxing authority won\u2019t know that the debt was discharged in bankruptcy. Contrary to what you see in the highly entertaining Bourne movies, the federal and California governments, and in particular, the IRS and the FTB, are not omniscient.\nTherefore, when the taxing authority receives the 1099-C from the (former) creditor, it will assume that the cancelled debt should be credited to you as income. To obviate this problem you should include the one-page Form 982 with your tax return \u2013 both state and federal \u2013 and check box 1 a because the debt was discharged in a title 11 case; title 11 of the U.S. Code being the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.\nYou may wish to consult a tax professional to help you complete your tax returns.\nIf you\u2019re close to losing a home in foreclosure, or expect to have a creditor forgive a debt you owe, hire an expert los angeles bankruptcy attorney to help you before it\u2019s too late. Good luck.\nThe 2012 Foreclosures, The World And U.S. Economies, And Bankruptcy\nPosted in Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 7, Debt, Foreclosure\nBankruptcy filings should surge in 2012 because the foreclosure pace is picking up speed, and because the world and U.S. economies are not headed for improvement in the near future.\nI. Foreclosures In 2012\nI haven\u2019t written about foreclosure in a while, but an article in the Thursday Los Angeles Times has given me the impetus to do so.\nIn the January 12, 2012 Business Section, E. Scott Reckard reported:\nCalifornia and other states are likely to see an enormous wave of long-delayed foreclosure action in the coming year as banks deal more aggressively with 3.5 million seriously delinquent mortgages. And experts said that dealing with the foreclosure process, from issuing notices of default to selling repossessed homes, is likely to push housing prices lower this year before the real estate market has a chance to recover.\nWow! Three and a half million seriously delinquent mortgages. That\u2019s a lot of toxic real estate. If you\u2019re one of those 3.5 million people with a seriously delinquent mortgage, isn\u2019t it time you considered bankruptcy?\nII. The World Economy\nIs that the only bad financial news? You know better than that. Here\u2019s what Sue Chang of the Wall Street Journal\u2019s Market Watch reported on Friday, January 13, 2012:\nStandard & Poor\u2019s late Friday stripped France and Austria of their triple-A ratings and also downgraded Spain, Italy, and Portugal. France and Austria are now both rated AA+ while Spain is at A and Italy is rated BBB+. Meanwhile, Portugal\u2019s rating was slashed to a junk grade of BB. The move had been anticipated after the ratings agency placed 15 euro-zone countries on CreditWatch negative in early December. Continue Reading The 2012 Foreclosures, The World And U.S. Economies, And Bankruptcy\nChapter 13 Bankruptcy And A New Foreclosure Scam\nA recent corrupting trend in Chapter 13 bankruptcy is creating serious challenges for honest Chapter 13 debtors, their attorneys, mortgage companies, and Bankruptcy Courts. The problem is a new foreclosure scam called property dumping, and it illustrates the ingeniously evil thinking of some real estate crooks.\nProperty dumping has cropped up in response to the desperation of homeowners facing foreclosure sales. It involves a fraud on the Court, pure and simple. Here\u2019s the typical scenario:\nA homeowner facing foreclosure is told by the crook that he can postpone the foreclosure sale for many months for a small fee \u2013 say $1,500. As part of the process the crook has the homeowner quitclaim the house to himself (i.e., to the homeowner, not to the crook \u2013 we\u2019re using the reflexive pronoun correctly here; deeding the home to the crook is a different scam that\u2019s been around for years) and an unnamed person \u2013 the name line is left blank, and the deed is not dated. The crook then finds a recently filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy case, backdates the quitclaim deed to prior to the date the bankruptcy was filed, lists the Chapter 13 debtor in the previously blank name line, and then photoshops the County recording stamp and notary stamp from a previously recorded valid deed onto the bogus one. The crook then sends the fraudulent deed to the mortgage company and claims that since the Chapter 13 debtor is on title to the property, the automatic stay of 11 U.S.C. \u00a7 362(a) is in force, so the foreclosure sale is halted.\nThe mortgage company then files: (a) a motion for relief from the automatic stay, (b) a proof of claim in the Chapter 13 bankruptcy case for the large outstanding mortgage arrearage, and (c) an objection to plan confirmation on the basis that the Chapter 13 plan fails to provide for the mortgage arrearage. The results include a protracted confirmation process in the Chapter 13 case, lots of unnecessary costs incurred by both the victimized Chapter 13 debtor and the mortgage company, and a clogging of the Bankruptcy Court. Pretty clever, n\u2019est pas? Actually, it\u2019s downright illegal, and should lead to some free room and board for the malefactors.\nAlthough this is a growing problem, I have not yet heard of criminal charges being filed against anyone by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office. However, I recently chatted with one of the bankruptcy judges in the Central District of California, and he indicated that the problem was serious enough to warrant a major push by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office. The nature of this scam makes it fall within the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute of title 18 of the U.S. Code. See, in particular, 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1961. The penalties for RICO violations are outlined in 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1963, part of which is reproduced below:\nWhoever violates any provision of section 1962 of this chapter shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years (or for life if the violation is based on a racketeering activity for which the maximum penalty includes life imprisonment), or both, and shall forfeit to the United States, irrespective of any provision of State law\u2014\n(1) any interest the person has acquired or maintained in violation of section 1962;\n(A) interest in;\n(B) security of;\n(C) claim against; or\n(D) property or contractual right of any kind affording a source of influence over;\nany enterprise which the person has established, operated, controlled, conducted, or participated in the conduct of, in violation of section 1962; and\n(3) any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds which the person obtained, directly or indirectly, from racketeering activity or unlawful debt collection in violation of section 1962.\nI predict that sometime in the near future we\u2019ll read of arrests of these crooks, and later that they have been given long stays in government housing. Stay tuned.\nThe Home Mortgage Nightmare Gets Worse\nOver the last few weeks Alejandro Lazo of the Los Angeles Times has written about new mortgage problems looming on the horizon. On September 14, 2011 he discussed the toxic combination of relatively high interest rates and heavily underwater property values as presaging the next wave of residential foreclosures. He observed:\nA total of 10.9 million homes with a mortgage were in a negative equity position at the end of the second quarter, constituting 22.5% of all residential properties with a mortgage, according to Santa Ana research firm CoreLogic. That was only a slight decline from 22.7% during the first three months of the year. And of those \u201cunderwater\u201d homeowners in the second quarter, 3 out of 4 were paying interest that was above the market rate, the data show. . . . Economists consider high mortgage payments on homes that are underwater, or worth less than the debt owed on them, to be more likely to lead to foreclosure. Homeowners in this situation can feel hopelessly trapped and more willing to give up paying.\nHe made a great point: the next wave of residential foreclosures is on its way.\nBy the way, there is a wave of commercial real estate foreclosures headed our way. Those who live in the Los Angeles area must have an inkling of this as they drive around the southland and see all of the \u201cfor lease\u201d and \u201cavailable\u201d signs everywhere. However, that was not Mr. Lazo\u2019s focus.\nYesterday Mr. Lazo looked at the federal government\u2019s recent move to gradually extricate itself from the mortgage business:\nUncle Sam is about to take a first tentative step out of the mortgage business by lowering the size of home loans that the federal government will guarantee, and it\u2019s already hitting California neighborhoods with higher costs and bigger down payments.\nWhere does that leave us? Those of you that are familiar with my previous discussions on mortgage debt and the federal government\u2019s role in the current mess will not be surprised to learn that on one level I think it is a good thing for Uncle Sam to reduce his presence in the mortgage and real estate markets. If he does, it will help the housing market to get to its natural level more quickly than it would with his meddling.\nWhile Mr. Lazo is quite correct that a reduction of government interference will lead to lenders requiring larger down payments, this will reduce the likelihood that people lacking the income to make the monthly mortgage payments will get into houses they can ill-afford. Putting someone in a house with a loan that requires 75% of that person\u2019s monthly income to cover the mortgage payments is part of the kind of folly that led to the current financial mess.\nWhile one version of \u201ccompassion\u201d says that the government should step in and guarantee home loans for people who can\u2019t possibly afford the monthly payments \u2013 it was this sort of compassion that led to the option ARM meltdown \u2013 true compassion does not put people into this sort of untenable financial situation.\nMy sense is that housing is still overpriced because sales continue to drop. The ridiculously high home prices a few years ago were created by government interference into the natural market mechanisms, and it will take some time for the prices to drop to their natural levels. Once the market returns to the natural sensible setting where only those who can afford to make the monthly payments will get a mortgage, house prices will have returned to their natural levels.\nBy the way, it doesn\u2019t take great perspicuity to see that government interference in the market created unnatural incentives that led people to do things they otherwise wouldn\u2019t have done. After all, humans respond to both incentives and disincentives. Unfortunately, while the underlying policies may have been put forward with the best of intentions, they led to unintended but very destructive consequences.\nThe truth is that any governmental policy should be based on the way people really are, not on the way some theoretical model says people ought to be. As the nightmarish socialistic/communistic experiments of the twentieth century Soviet Union, 1940s National Socialist Germany, 1970s Cambodia and Ethiopia, etc., . . . amply demonstrate, humanity cannot be reengineered to fit theoretical models.\nUnfortunately, the United States has had its share of failed social experimentation (though thankfully, without the breathtaking mass murder of the aforementioned hellholes). As I detailed in previous posts, the Community Reinvestment Act was the failed social tinkering that led to the housing debacle. Perhaps a much needed extrication of government from the housing and mortgage markets will slowly undo some of the damage.\nThat said, while I am very optimistic about the spirit of the American people, I am less so about the government\u2019s willingness to back off from the real estate and mortgage markets. Too many of the people involved have the \u201chall monitor\u201d mindset that makes it impossible for them to go gentle into that good night.\nThis came home to me years ago while I was in law school. During a friendly conversation, one of my fellow students decried the supposed problem of \u201curban sprawl\u201d, and told me that he thought a legitimate role for government was to \u201cforce people to live in downtown metropolitan areas and use public transportation, rather than live in suburbs and drive their cars.\u201d He never explained to me why he thought that government officials were in a better position to decide where and how people were supposed to live than the people themselves.\nIn any event, I will not be surprised if Uncle Sam changes his mind and gets back into the mortgage business. Stay tuned.\nHomeowners Association Dues And Bankruptcy\nIt is not news to say that today\u2019s real estate market is terrible. 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"raw_content": "Since being published in 1923, Rudyard Kipling\u2019s The Jungle Book has been adapted for pretty much every era in a multitude of mediums. Most famously, Disney\u2019s 1967 animation brought Kipling\u2019s world to life; introducing the world to man-cub Mowgli and his anthropomorphic friends. In Mowgli, the second feature film directed by Andy Serkis, you won\u2019t find any happy songs or care-free adventures. Serkis\u2019 adaptation goes right back to the source, highlighting the anthology nature of The Jungle Book and zoning in on the moralistic survivalist of Mowgli\u2019s chapters.\nFirst off, Serkis has set himself a tough challenge. The Jungle Book is one of Disney\u2019s most loved properties, and it only just got a gritty remake in 2016 from Jon Favreau. The proximity of adaptations is a bit weird and maybe not the best business decision, especially when the two adaptations share so many gritty modern sensibilities. It seems a particular shame that Serkis\u2018 film was pushed back, to avoid going head to head with the Favreau project, when it seems to have been kicked off first and offers a fresher perspective on such a well-loved character.\nSerkis has cut the songs, and the light-hearted adventure of the Disney adaptation, in order to strip the story back to Kipling\u2019s nature-wary caper. The jungle is dark and dangerous; built on laws and hierarchy, survivalist, and team work. There\u2019s a visceral danger to the whole thing which puts it a bit outside the kid-friendly arena Disney\u2019s adaptations stayed in. For one thing, Serkis doesn't shy from realism and has no qualms with letting his animals be animals, human voices or not. The fight sequences are visceral and blood spattered, chases are exhilarating and wonderfully kinetic, fully utilising the jungle environment. It\u2019s a tooth and nail world where wandering from the pack spells certain death and the dangers are not limited to a tiger and some hyenas.\nSeem of that physicality and danger comes hand in hand with the motion capture used to bring the animals to life. Serkis has become synonymous with Mo-Cap after his work on the Apes films and the Lord of the Rings, so it makes sense that he\u2019d bring that technology to Mowgli in an attempt to give it a vibrant modern makeover. It seems there\u2019s no shortage of A-List actors when it comes to adapting classic Disney either and Serkis has called in, amongst others, some of his LOTR and Hobbit fellows, for a less cuddly ensemble than the 2016 film. Serkis himself makes a great gruff cockney Baloo, Christian Bale is a colder Bagheera, Peter Mullan is a mercurial Akela, Benedict Cumberbatch is an underwhelming Shere Khan in the face of Idris Elba\u2019s, but Cate Blanchett is a better Kaa than Scarlett Johansson was. There\u2019s no signing Christopher Walken or cuddly Bill Murray like there was with Favreau so even in the casting department it feels a bit bolder.\nSerkis was right to sell his adaptation as darker than the one Disney produced two years ago, but, as you might expect, it\u2019s not as much fun. Clearly bored of the same old Disney-isms, Serkis wants to peel that cosy layer off Kipling\u2019s work and deliver a true adaptation which doesn\u2019t avoid the realities of animal life or the natives who live near-by. The result is a balanced and cathartic jungle caper with a decent core message about staying true to who you are. It\u2019s got a lot of heart, plenty of shocks, and doesn't overstay its welcome.\nMOWGLI: LEGEND OF THE JUNGLE / CERT: 12A / DIRECTOR: ANDY SERKIS / SCREENPLAY: CALLIE KLOVES / STARRING: CHRISTIAN BALE, CATE BLANCHETT, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, NAOMIE HARRIS, ANDY SERKIS / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW",
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"raw_content": "Apple Developing Headphones To Rival Bose And\u2026 Beats\nBillboard | March 5, 2018 - 2:50 pm\nCREDIT: Kiichiro Sato\nApple is reportedly working on a line of high end over-the-ear headphones following the somewhat surprising success of its dangly AirPods, according to a new Bloomberg report. Work on the noise-canceling headphones has been going for over a year, with plans to launch by the end of 2018 \u2014 though sources cautioned that a redesign is possible, which could push it all back.\nThe headphones would be priced on the high end of the market, akin to Apple\u2019s in-ear AirPods and the recently launched HomePod smart speaker, says Bloomberg. Whether that cannibalizes the sales of Apple\u2019s Beats line of devices remains to be seen, though the latter has carved out a more budget friendly niche in the market with headphones ranging from $130 for Beats EP to $350 for the high-end Beats Studio3Wireless.\nAside from Beats, the crowded headphone market includes big names like Bose, Sony, Skullcandy, and Sennheiser, among others. Combined, Apple and Beats already make up 27% of the total market, according to the NPD Group, and Research and Markets has determined the headphone market should bring in $20 billion in annual revenue by 2023.\nTags: Apple, Beats By Dre, Bose",
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"raw_content": "God formed each of us in our mother's womb. We had no say in this process nor did God ask us our opinion. God could have just as easily formed and designed you and me in the womb of a mother in North Korea, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia or another country where religious oppression abounds, but He did not. God could have designed us to be born in a refugee camp or in the slums of India facing horrific challenges, but He did not. Instead, my family and I were born in the United States because, and only because, God designed it. We were not born where we are because we are superior to those born elsewhere or because we deserve it more than they do.\nAs I think about little Alan and the millions like him, I am reminded that it is important to remember that God is the potter and I am simply the clay. Knowing that I had zero control over where I was born humbles me. Understanding what God has given me is, by itself, enough to move me into action to help those in dire circumstances. Jesus said, as recorded in Luke 12:48, \u201cEveryone to whom much was given, of him much will be required\u2026\u201d.\nFor those of us who have been given a lot, a lot is expected, and that is biblical. Whether we are in the USA, China or Pakistan, if God has given us the ability to help (individually and collectively as local churches), we should be helping displaced peoples, not as charity cases but as those created in the image of God, just like you and me. We need to ensure they get to safer places where they can eat, feed their family and find new work to support themselves. Even more than this, we need to ensure that those who are apart from Christ gain access to the Gospel. For those in Christ, we need to ensure they gain fellowship with believers in their new city, country and community.\nWe must not simply talk about them or their plight on Social Media. We must not claim to care for them then ignore the abundantly available opportunities to assist them. We must not expect the United Nations or our governments to meet their needs, even though I am glad the UN and my country is helping. Instead, we as the body of Christ, must take responsibility and do what God designed us to do. We must love our neighbors (displaced peoples included), we must love our enemies (those from lands we may deem our enemy) and we must give our lives to serving in God\u2019s Kingdom, which includes inconveniencing ourselves for the sake of advancing and representing God\u2019s Kingdom among displaced peoples.\nThe question I always like to leave you with, \u201cIs Jesus Worth It?\u201d. Is Jesus worth serving the global displaced population? Is Jesus worth becoming inconvenienced so others can enjoy what you and I enjoy simply because of where God designed us to be born and live?\nIs Jesus Worth It? \u200b",
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"raw_content": "When Danny Thomas opened St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1962, his vision resonated with Judi Didcoct.\nJudi Didcoct\n\u201cCancer has had a strong presence in my life,\u201d Judi said. \u201cIn high school, I lost a childhood friend to leukemia, and the next year my father also died from leukemia.\u201d Later, she lost her mother to breast cancer and her husband to T-cell lymphoma.\nThe retired school teacher loves children, though she doesn't have any of her own. \u201cWhen I heard what Danny was trying to do for kids with cancer, it hit a nerve, and I thought, \u2018This is something I want to be part of,\u2019\u201d she says.\nQ: What have you been doing since your retirement?\nA: One thing I have been doing since 1997 is volunteering in developing countries with the St. Paul volunteer organization. I went to Indonesia, one of the poorest places I\u2019ve ever seen, to teach English at a small Catholic school. That trip really touched my heart, and so I\u2019ve continued to help. I\u2019ve volunteered in many places like Vietnam and Brazil, and I just returned from a session in Mexico. It also helped me realize that I wanted to do something for the kids at home, which cemented the idea of St. Jude being one of the central beneficiaries of my estate.\nQ: How did you get involved with St. Jude?\nA: I met my St. Jude representative, Jen, at a luncheon for St. Jude donors in my retirement community. They had a very good program explaining all the wonderful things the hospital does, and I told Jen about my estate gift. Talking to her really helped me feel certain that I made the right decision, and she has been able to provide me with a lot more information to show me how my gift will really make a difference.\nQ: Have you visited the hospital, and was there anything about your visit that surprised you?\nA: I visited with my niece, and it was wonderful to see everything firsthand. I was particularly impressed with the kids and the fact that they didn\u2019t look down and out. I was also really interested in the St. Jude School program and to learn how the children are able to continue their education while they are in treatment.\nQ: What would you say to others who may be considering a gift to St. Jude in their will?\nA: I would encourage anyone to visit St. Jude, and they will realize why it\u2019s so important. St. Jude\u2019s work is all-encompassing in researching and treating childhood cancer, and I want to ensure that continues long into the future. My gift is an investment in the mission, and it means that these children will have a chance to live a normal life. That is the most important thing.\nLearn More About Wills and Bequests",
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"raw_content": "What On Earth Is Tiger\u2019s Eye?\nTiger's Eye is most identifiable by its contrasting colors and luster that make it perfect for decorative and jewelry pieces. The rippled wavy bands of gold to red-brown color often resemble a scenic view such as desert sunset.\nThe Physical Properties of Tiger\u2019s Eye\nTiger's eye is composed chiefly of silicon dioxide. It is colored mainly by iron oxide, giving it its golden to red-brown color with a silky luster. It has a hardness of 5.5 \u2013 6. As a member of the quartz group, tiger's eye obtained its silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibers.\nThe History of Tiger\u2019s Eye\nTiger's eye is mined in Western Australia, US, Canada, India, South Africa, Burma, and Namibia. In the late 16th century, Tiger\u2019s Eye was considered more valuable than gold for certain tribes for being so rare and strikingly beautiful. In fact, only tribal leaders and their immediate family could possess.\nThroughout history, it has been highly regarded as a stone of prosperity and good fortune, protecting one from the malice or threats from others.\nThe Lore of Tiger\u2019s Eye\nTiger\u2019s Eye was referred to as an \"all-seeing, all-knowing eye,\" making it perfect as a talisman. It was mysterious and powerful and revered and feared at the same time. It grated the wearer the ability to see everything, even through closed doors. The Egyptians would use Tiger's Eye as the eyes for their deity status to express sacred vision and was believed to provide the protection of Ra, the sun god, and Geb, god of the growing land.\nIn Eastern mythology, Tiger's Eye was linked to the magical tiger, the king of beasts. Tiger\u2019s Eye represented courage, integrity and right use of power. Roman soldiers carried it to deflect weapons and to remain brave in battle.\nThe Metaphysical Properties of Tiger\u2019s Eye\nIf you're feeling stuck creatively or spiritually lost, Tiger\u2019s Eye will serve as your compass and guide you towards your path. It will show you how to harness the powers of the universe and light the way when things get dark. This makes it the perfect stone for those want to discover their passions or are at a crossroads with their career path.\nTiger's Eyes is also known to bring good luck to the wearer who only needs to focus their mind to unlock its powers. It promotes mental clarity and unclouds conflicting emotions.\nIt is particularly useful for healing emotional and mental illnesses as it dismisses fear, paranoia, and anxiety. Because it promotes insight, it allows the wearer to recognize one's needs in relation to others, invigorating the emotional body, Tiger's Eye calms mood swings and releases tension. It instills willpower, a sense of purpose. It cultivates courage and self-confidence.\nTiger's Eye is also recognized for its healing properties. It treats eyes, throat and reproductive organs. It is said to be helpful in repairing broken bones and restoring the alignment of the spinal column. It is known to release toxins and alleviate pain.",
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"raw_content": "Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit US next week: Obama\nMyanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be visiting the US next week, said US President Barack Obama. PHOTO: AFP\nhttp://str.sg/4pgu\nVIENTIANE (AFP) - Myanmar's newly installed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi will visit the United States next week, US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday (Sept 6).\nPlans for a visit had previously been announced in July, but no date had been given by either side. During a speech in Laos, Mr Obama revealed Ms Suu Kyi's trip to Washington was imminent.\n\"I look forward to welcoming State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to the White House next week as we stand with the people of Myanmar in their journey towards pluralism and peace,\" he said.\nThe invitation reinforces Ms Suu Kyi's primacy on the international stage as the real head of a government she is technically barred from leading.\nDespite winning a landslide in last November's elections, which ended decades of brutal military rule, the Nobel laureate is banned from being president by a junta-era constitution.\nInstead she has taken the role of foreign minister and created a new position for herself as state counsellor. She has also appointed long term friend and ally Htin Kyaw to be a proxy president.\nMr Obama and Ms Suu Kyi first met in 2012 shortly after the veteran dissident was released from house arrest where she had spent much of the last two decades under junta rule.\nHe also met Ms Suu Kyi during a visit to Myanmar in 2014, when he criticised the ban on her taking the presidency.\nMyanmar's peaceful transition from military to civilian rule has been hailed in a world where such transitions seem rare.\nBut the military, who spent decades brutalising the population and enriching themselves, remain enormously influential.\nOfficers are still guaranteed a quarter of legislative seats, giving them a veto on constitutional change, while the military retains control of the crucial home, border and defence ministries.\nThey also control huge business conglomerates, with some key army-linked figures still under US sanctions.\nThere have been suggestions Washington may lift some of those sanctions during Ms Suu Kyi's visit, something rights groups have balked at.\n\"US sanctions are focused on the Burmese generals and their cronies in order to encourage democratic reforms,\" said Mr John Sifton, from Human Rights Watch.\n\"They shouldn't be fully lifted until the democratic transition is irreversible.\"",
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"raw_content": "New guidelines on 'robo-adviser' requirements\nProviders of digital financial advisory services must already be licensed under the Securities and Futures Act (SFA) and/or the Financial Advisers Act (FAA).PHOTO: ST FILE\nhttp://str.sg/onTE\nNew guidelines will refine the rules regarding \"robo-advisers\", which give investment tips using automated tools with little to no human interaction.\nThe Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) guidelines will improve clarity about the rules and set out refinements on statutory requirements. They will also cover expectations on the governance and supervision of algorithms.\nProviders of digital financial advisory services must already be licensed under the Securities and Futures Act (SFA) and/or the Financial Advisers Act (FAA).\nBut robo-advisers offering fund management to retail investors could now be eligible for licensing even without fulfilling the SFA corporate track record requirements if they meet other specified safeguards.\nAnd those that operate as financial advisers can now pass a client's trade orders to brokerages and re-balance a portfolio in collective investment schemes without needing another capital market services licence under the SFA.\nMeanwhile, digital advisers can be exempted from the FAA requirement to collect a host of data on clients' financial circumstances, such as income and financial commitments, if they have risk-mitigating measures.\nThese can include questionnaires to identify and turn down would-be investors who are \"clearly not suitable\" for the products on offer.\nThe MAS added that digital advisers should set up \"robust frameworks to govern and supervise their algorithms\". It cited faulty algorithms and cyber threats as examples of the \"unique risks\" of the robo-advisory business model.\nMr Lee Boon Ngiap, assistant managing director of capital markets at the MAS, said in a statement that the central bank is \"refining our regulatory framework to support innovation in financial advisory services while maintaining adequate safeguards to protect investors' interests\".\n\"The guidelines will facilitate new online business models to provide investors with more options to access investment advice,\" he added.\nA version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 09, 2018, with the headline 'New guidelines on 'robo-adviser' requirements'. Print Edition | Subscribe",
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"raw_content": "Site for sea burial facility chosen after careful consideration\nhttp://str.sg/oNPp\nWe thank Dr Leslie Kuek for his feedback (Sea current will carry ashes to recreational area; April 27).\nSince 2010, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has been working with the relevant authorities to identify a suitable site in Singapore for conducting rites prior to scattering cremated remains at sea.\nThis is in response to requests received from some members of the public for such a facility, to preserve the dignity and decorum of the proceedings, which hitherto had been conducted at other spots along the coastline, and to make the provision of after-death care facilities in Singapore more comprehensive.\nThe selection of this Tanah Merah site was done with careful consideration of other competing needs, and in consultation with the various authorities that represent the interests of their constituent stakeholders.\nNEA is currently procuring consultancy services, which include a study to minimise the environmental impact of the construction and operation of the proposed facility.\nSeparately, we have also received requests from the sailing fraternity to be included in the environmental impact study, and we will be engaging it.\nWe will work closely with the relevant authorities to incorporate the feedback and suggestions of various interested parties in the design and operation of the facility.\nWong Chiu Ying (Ms)\nDirector Facilities Planning and Development\nA version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on May 07, 2018, with the headline 'Site for sea burial facility chosen after careful consideration'. Print Edition | Subscribe",
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"raw_content": "Georgia State University: European Studies in Strasbourg\nEver thought of spending a semester in France and living in a castle while earning GSU credit towards your degree? If so, this is just the program for you! This comprehensive semester program includes: university courses, language courses, cultural act\nStrasbourg, France; Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt Am Main, Germany; Luxembourg, Luxembourg\nGeorgia State sponsored exchange programs are formal exchange agreements with foreign universities around the world. Exchanges offer semester or academic year studies directly at a foreign university, and classes may be taught in either the host language or English. Exchange programs are among the most affordable study abroad options as the costs are roughly similar to spending a semester on campus in Atlanta. Students who are very independent tend to do well on exchange programs. These programs offer a high level of cultural immersion, as students will be taking their courses at the overseas partner institution with local students. Some GSU exchanges offer GSU credit, while others offer transfer credit. Another type of semester long program offers students a cultural experience and outings in addition to their academic work. These programs carry an additional program fee. Financial aid and scholarships are available.\nEver thought of spending a semester in France and living in a castle while earning GSU credit towards your degree? If so, this is just the program for you! This comprehensive semester program includes: university courses, language courses, cultural activities, multiple excursions, professional visits, and the chance to live in an 18th century historic castle! The EU Studies program is designed to be an interdisciplinary program, bringing together a broad range of courses including political science, economics, business, management, history, art, languages, literature and culture. This program is unique in that all courses are taught in English. English-taught courses are held at the School of Management and the Institute for Policy and Political Studies, both of which are located at the University of Strasbourg. Students may also choose from courses offered by the University of Strasbourg if their French language skills are sufficient. Additionally, there are numerous planned progam excursions, including... In Strasbourg, France: Visit to the European Parliament , Visit to the Council of Europe, Visit to the European Court of Human Rights, Visit to the EURO Institute In Brussels, Belgium and Luxembourg: Visit to the European Court of Justice, Minist\u00e8re des Affaires Etrang\u00e8res de Luxembourg, 2 Visits to institutions, for example - NATO, SHAPE, EU Commisions, Council of the European Union, US Mission and / or World Bank Group In Germany: Visit to the Bundesbank (German Central Bank), Visit to the German Stock Exchange, Visit to the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Karlsruhe Cultural visits and activities: Day tour with a private guide along the Alsatian wine route \u201croute du vin\u201d during the day and a visit to an Alsatian winery incl. wine tasting, Guided tour of the Haut Koenigsbourg Castle and visit to the former concentration camp Struthof, Day trip to the city of Heidelberg, Germany. Walking tour and visit to the famous Heidelberg Castle, Guided boat tour of Strasbourg, Guided tour of the Historical Museum, Visit to the Kronenbourg Brewery including a beer tasting, visit to an automobile company in Rastatt, Company visit in the region near Strasbourg.\nPlease contact for program costs\nWhile in Strasbourg, students will stay and study in the Ch\u00e2teau de Pourtal\u00e8s, a 250-year-old castle which is nestled in a beautiful park located just six miles from the historic city center of Strasbourg. The castle has dormitory rooms, classrooms, lounges, a computer lab, WiFi access throughout the facility, a library, laundry facilities, a breakfast room and TV lounge. Numerous outdoor and recreational facilities are located on the premises and nearby. A resident academic director from Georgia State University and a permanent staff member from the Ch\u00e2teau will assist students with their daily academic and living needs. Living in this castle is an opportunity you don't want to miss!",
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"raw_content": "First look around Sunderland\u2019s iconic Joplings site as it opens its doors as student accommodation\nThe tills at Sunderland\u2019s iconic Joplings site may have fallen silent eight years ago, but the legacy of the popular department store lives on in the site\u2019s new chapter.\nWork is nearing completion on the site in John Street, which will open its doors as student accommodation in January.\nFirst look around Jopling House, new student accommodation with Groovy Strudents spokesperson Steven Kwan\nAs well as being honoured in the new name, Jopling House, the original signs are being restored and the well-known clock on the corner of the site is being replaced with a new, working clock.\nJoplings\u2019 place in Wearside\u2019s shopping history began in 1919 when it launched in High Street West before moving to John Street in 1956, and new owners Groovy Students say it was important to remember the site\u2019s past in their design.\nSteven Kwan, spokesperson for the company and himself a former Sunderland University student, said: \u201cJoplings is a Sunderland institution which goes back decades and it was such a shame when it went into administration in 2010.\n\u201cIt would be such a shame for all that history to be lost, but we\u2019ve managed to keep some of it, such as with the name. The public reaction to the site is so strong that the name Jopling House was a no brainer for us so that we could carry that legacy on.\u201d\nGames room at Jopling House\nThe former store is now home to 140 en-suite student rooms, which are a mixture of rooms, studios and apartments ranging from 35sq metres to 60sq metres, as well as communal rooms, a gym, yoga room and conference rooms, the latter of which is available to the community.\nSpeaking about what appealed about the site, Steven said: \u201cThe sheer size and location was perfect for us. There had been previous plans for a hotel on the site but they never came to fruition and it\u2019s such a shame to have a huge building like this standing derelict in the city centre.\n\u201cIt was a perfect opportunity for us and students are an important part of the city centre. Sunderland University has such a big influence on the city\u2019s economy and it\u2019s important to have students living and spending in the city centre.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cAlthough the rooms are all en-suite and many have kitchens, we also have a number of communal areas in the building as we feel it\u2019s important for students to have that sense of community whilst also being able to have their own privacy. Mental wellness is a big thing for students and it\u2019s important that they\u2019re able to support each other.\u201d\nAll of the rooms are en suite\nA number of rooms, which start from \u00a389 a week, have already been taken at the site which will have 24/7 security and daily cleaning staff.\nIt\u2019s taken more than a year of building work from Spitfire Construction and more than a million pounds of investment to breathe new life into the site and Steven says although final touches are still being made there\u2019s been a lot of interest in its new chapter.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of interest,\u201d explained Steven. \u201cWe released a block of 30 rooms without doing much publicity and 15 of them have already gone. We\u2019ve also had a lot of interest from the general public walking past who are keen to see what we\u2019ve done with the site.\u201d\nFuture plans at Jopling House include creating a number of parking spaces in the basement, as well as a late night cafe, open to the public, which will be on the ground floor under the famous clock.\nThe new name honours the history of the site\nMany of the rooms have their own kitchen area\nInside one of the rooms\nJoplings in its heyday. Image: 5 Star PR Marketing\nCommuncal games room\nOne of the conference rooms",
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"raw_content": "DEAR SOUTHERN GUY: Because you think your wife might pull that stunt again, stop sharing any details of your online dating pursuits with her. Definitely refrain from telling her which sites you're using. (Use different ones than before.)\nOr, hearken back to the good old days and try meeting people in person. The worst that could happen might be that you encounter your soon-to-be ex in various disguises -- but you know her well enough by now that you should be able to see through them.\nDEAR ABBY: I am engaged to a wonderful man, and we will be married soon. We have been together two years and get along well. His parents live 35 minutes away and his mom doesn't drive.\nThe other day he commented that she wanted us to invite her over, as she hadn't been over in a year. I told him his mother is always welcome and should just call to make sure we are home. He then proceeded to tell me he wanted her to spend the night. He said that in his previous relationship, his mother would stay over occasionally.\nI didn't know what to say, but at the age of 40, should he really be wanting sleepovers? It struck me as odd. I'm a private person and I'm not sure how to resolve this. I don't want him to feel I'm rejecting his mom, but I don't see why she needs to spend the night. I don't want to walk on eggshells with her, because she called and scolded me about how I spoke to her son several months ago. Advice? -- LADY OF THE HOUSE\nDEAR LADY: Is there something you haven't mentioned? Why has it been a year since your fiance's mother has been invited to visit? Certainly in all this time you could have picked her up. A blanket \"come anytime, just call first\" isn't a proper invitation -- particularly if the person doesn't drive.\nIf you prefer she not be an overnight guest, I don't think your fiance should force it. And if you prefer that she not meddle in your relationship with her son, I hope you made it clear to her when she \"scolded\" you. Of course, it wouldn't have happened if her son hadn't tattled to her -- which should be a glimpse of what marriage to him may be like if you don't get this straightened out now.",
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"raw_content": "To illustrate how much this can matter: In 1995, the U.K.'s Committee on Safety in Medicines issued a warning that third- generation oral contraceptive pills increased the risk of thrombosis by 100 percent. What that meant was that the risk of getting thrombosis -- potentially life-threatening blood clots in the legs or lungs -- went from one in 7,000 for women taking second-generation birth control pills to two in 7,000 for those taking the third-generation variety.\nNot a huge risk, then. But a 100 percent risk increase sounds quite ominous. As psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer describes in his book \"Risk Savvy,\" the warning scared many women away from the pill. One result was an estimated 13,000 additional abortions the following year in England and Wales. Another was, ironically, a lot of thrombosis cases -- pregnancies and abortions are much more likely to bring on the condition than does taking a third-generation birth control pill.\nInformation about relative risk can be misleading, then, unless it's presented in the context of absolute risk.\nSo what's the absolute risk of getting colorectal cancer? To sum up tables from the National Cancer Institute, men men 60 and younger face almost 5 percent chance of getting colorectal cancer in their lifetimes, and a greater than 2 percent chance of dying from it. For women it's about 4.5 percent and 1.9 percent.\nColorectal cancer, then, is a relatively common and deadly disease. It tends to hit people later in life, when they're eventually going to die of something in any case. But still, it's worth trying to avoid. Let's say you're a man, you have about a 5 percent chance of eventually getting colorectal cancer, and you up your bacon consumption by two pieces a day. That increases your cancer risk to almost 6 percent -- not a trivial jump.\nUnlike the ill-advised and since-revoked U.S. dietary recommendations against cholesterol, these processed-meat cancer-risk estimates are based on years and years of empirical research. The 18 percent figure comes from a 2011 meta-analysis, published in the open-source journal PLOS One, of nine different studies of colorectal cancer.\nIt's just an estimate, and it's always possible that other things that processed-meat eaters tend to do -- such as standing around grills full of burning charcoal -- raise their cancer risk.\nStill, it wouldn't be unreasonable to make changes in your diet based on this evidence (and similar but weaker evidence on the link between red meat and cancer).\nI like bacon a lot, but I'd rather have a five in 100 chance of getting colorectal cancer than a six in 100 chance. Good on the World Health Organization for getting the word out. What I don't understand, though, is why they didn't present the risks in those terms.\nContact Justin Fox, a Bloomberg View columnist writing about business, at justinfox@bloomberg.net",
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"raw_content": "University Sends Students Outside for National Park Centennial\nPublished: September 12, 2016 | Author: Abigail Wyatt | Category: Special Events\nMore than 4,500 students, faculty and staff from Southern Utah University celebrated the National Park Service Centennial on August 25. Classes were suspended on that day for SUU Day in the Parks, which encouraged the SUU community to actively engage and explore the amazing parks and recreational areas surrounding campus.\n100 free university-sponsored experiences were offered with 40 buses and vans taking participants to National and State Parks all over Utah, Arizona and Nevada. Activities included educational research in Bryce Canyon National Park, caving in Great Basin National Park, hiking in Zion National Park, wilderness medicine in Brian Head, poetry writing in Kolob, painting in Cedar Breaks National Monument, mountain biking at Three Peaks Recreational Area and exploring the Grand Canyon. Additional activities included rock climbing, kayaking, rappelling, service projects, documentary film production, and stargazing.\n\u201cI\u2019m so thrilled with the participation and support we received for SUU Day in the Parks,\u201d said President Scott L Wyatt. \u201cWe made history. As we know, this is the largest university field trip that any institution has ever made.\u201d\nSUU Outdoors led several local trips to nearby climbing, rappelling and mountain biking areas. Rob Myers, director of outdoor recreation, explained that the mission of his department is to inspire meaningful adventures. \u201cBased on our location and resources, we really believe that SUU can provide an education for a lifetime of adventure.\u201d\nMcKena Harvey, a senior majoring in outdoor recreation and a student employee with SUU Outdoors, was excited to participate and even lead a couple groups.\n\u201cIt was fun to see people try new things,\u201d said Harvey. \u201cThey were nervous at first, but when they got the hang of it they had a good time and loved it. We are so fortunate to live in this area, and I really wanted to show people how easy it is to get outside.\u201d\nDr. Kyle Bishop, SUU honors program director, organized a trip to Great Basin National Park to tour the Lehman Caves.\n\u201cThe students enjoyed an unexpected treat,\u201d said Bishop. \u201cIn celebration of the Centennial, all tours were conducted by lantern in an attempt to replicate the conditions of the original tours. We learned a great deal about cave formations and were able to form new bonds and friendships in the dark recesses of the cave.\u201d\nThe university-wide field trip was possible due to the many partnership SUU has with the local land management agencies including the National Park Service, Forest Service, Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Land Management, and several Cedar City businesses. The event was also sponsored by Findlay Subaru.",
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"raw_content": "Do you ever have these thoughts playing out in your head?\nI'm about to be exposed for the phoney I really am\u2026\nIt was a lucky fluke that I got this job\u2026\nDo you think you have to work twice as hard as everyone else to prove your worth?\nThe good news is - you are not alone, the bad news?\nThis negative thinking will not help build your confidence and self-esteem; comparing yourself to others who you believe are better, smarter, more accomplished will only keep you in that state of stress and anxiety. But there are ways to conquer these feelings and enjoy your hard-earned successes.\nFirstly, that thing about not being alone? Studies have shown that up to 70% of us have suffered from what is known as the Impostor Syndrome, at some time in our lives.\nThe term was first coined by psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Immes, in a 1978 paper, The Impostor Phenomenon In High Achieving Women. The authors defined it as a problem affecting women who \u201cDespite outstanding academic and professional accomplishments, persist in believing that they are really not bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.\u201d But many high-achieving women experience anxiety about performing well at work\u2014how can you tell the difference?\nPeople with impostor syndrome have very specific thought patterns. They feel they don\u2019t deserve the success they\u2019ve achieved, that their accomplishments are the result of luck or being in the right place at the right time instead of their talent, or that they\u2019re a fraud who will eventually be found to be incompetent,\nWhilst much has been written about possible reasons for these feelings, even more advice is available on to how to overcome them.\nIt helps me when I hear some of the most talented, capable and successful people out there, being prepared to share their moments of insecurity.\nFacebook\u2019s Sheryl Sandberg is known to have said\n\u201cThere are still days when I wake up feeling a fraud, not sure I should be where I am.\u201d\nNobel Laureate Maya Angelou once said\n\"I have written 11 books, but each time I think 'uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody and they're going to find me out.'\"\nIt also helps to know that the majority of people who feel this way are high - achievers, so at the very least you deserve a pat on the back for that.\nThere are many ways to increase your self-confidence and beat this impostor feelings, here are just a few:-\nIf you\u2019ve been invited to give a presentation, apply for a job or something equally scary, remember that the person who has invited you believes you can do it and that you are suitably qualified. Making an assumption that their judgement is flawed by asking you, is as bad as brushing off heartfelt compliments. (Oh - you do that too?) Feel that fear and do it anyway!\nToo often we can feel like a fake when we think that what we are doing is so really important. If you are aiming for perfection all the time, give yourself a break. Forget the self-importance and you\u2019ll feel less like a fraud.\nFaking things, really can work and doesn\u2019t necessarily make you a fraud. When talking about increasing confidence, I often suggest smiling, whether you feel happy or not. I don\u2019t mean walking about grinning inanely at everyone - that is more likely to get a less than helpful response from the local law enforcement agency. Endorphins are released when you smile. They are triggered by the movements of the muscles in your face, which is interpreted by your brain, which in turn releases these chemicals. Endorphins are responsible for making us feel happy, and they also help lower stress levels. Faking a smile or laugh works as well as the real thing\u2014the brain doesn\u2019t differentiate between real or fake as it interprets the positioning of the facial muscles in the same way.\nI have compiled an A-Z of Banishing the Impostor Syndrome, a simple guide to understanding why you feel like a fraud and giving lots of tips on how you can overcome these limiting beliefs.\nTo get your copy, follow this link to download the guide.\nThis article first appeared as a guest blog on the Springboard Consultancy website",
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"raw_content": "Business Leaders Hear From Fort Smith School Boss\nIn an address to business leaders Friday, Fort Smith's top educator noted the ties that bind education and the economy.\nIn an address to business leaders Friday, Fort Smith\ufffds top educator noted the ties that bind education and the economy.\n\ufffdOne of the things that always puts us behind some of our counterparts across the nation is \ufffd low income and a low educational level among our workforce,\ufffd Superintendent Benny Gooden said. \ufffdYou fix that by raising the educational level and bringing in quality jobs where people can make a living wage.\ufffd\nGooden was the keynote speaker at the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce\ufffds monthly First Friday Breakfast event held at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.\nThe chamber\ufffds education committee chairman, David Humphrey of Arkansas Best Corp., introduced Gooden.\n\ufffdWe were so excited yesterday to celebrate the Health Management Associates\ufffd announcement of doubling the number of jobs in Fort Smith,\ufffd Humphrey said. \ufffdAs we all know, education is a big part of somebody\ufffds decision on where they want to go.\ufffd\nHealth Management Associates, parent company of Sparks Health System in Fort Smith and Summit Medical Center in Van Buren, announced it is locating a regional service center in Fort Smith. The move is expected to add more than 500 jobs and an annual payroll/compensation package of $21 million.\nGooden told those in attendance Friday that his school district is becoming more diverse by the year.\n\ufffdWe have one of the richest cultural representations anywhere in this part of the country,\ufffd he said. \ufffdThat\ufffds a plus, because the young people who attend our schools are going to be well prepared to interact anywhere they go. Ethnically, racially, they will understand the people with whom they associate.\ufffd\nApproximately 71 percent of Fort Smith students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.\n\ufffdThat\ufffds a challenge,\ufffd Gooden said. \ufffdWhat that means is that in a typical fifth-grade classroom or a third-grade classroom, seven out of 10 children are living in a home that\ufffds not going to have a lot of amenities that a lot of you have and provide for your children. They\ufffdre going to be lacking.\ufffd\nGooden said educators strive for a \ufffdbalanced educational program\ufffd that \ufffdaddresses the needs of every student.\ufffd\n\ufffdEvery one of us know people who spend their whole lives talking about negatives,\ufffd Gooden said. \ufffdThings are bad and they could get worse, or things are not so bad now, but just wait. Those people make me tired. The glass is more than half-full. That\ufffds what we need to celebrate.\ufffd\nGooden, Fort Smith superintendent for 27 years, is also serving a stint as president of the American Association of School Administrators.\n\ufffdIt is truly an honor to say we have a national leader in education here in Fort Smith,\ufffd Humphrey said.\nElected to the position, Gooden is leading the association for a year.\n\ufffdI told somebody the other day, it really doesn\ufffdt change what I\ufffdve done for the last 20 years, which is be engaged in educational issues at the national level,\ufffd Gooden said. \ufffdI am pleased to represent Fort Smith and Arkansas, because Arkansas never had a national president. So I\ufffdm plowing new ground, as it were.\ufffd",
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"raw_content": "\u00ab Previous: Dan Geer explores the DevOps\u2026\nNext: Is a career in application\u2026 \u00bb\nHeartbleed: OpenSSL vulnerability lives on\nPosted by Synopsys Editorial Team on May 2, 2017\nDespite disclosure of the highly publicized Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability three years ago, some companies have yet to remediate this vulnerability. Why?\nIt\u2019s hard to believe that it\u2019s already been three years since the Heartbleed vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) was announced, and five years since it was accidentally added to OpenSSL\u2019s line of heartbeat code. While the Heartbleed exploit was an accidental product of the underfunded and understaffed OpenSSL team, it turned out to be what some have called a \u201ccatastrophic flaw\u201d or \u201cone of the biggest flaws in the Internet\u2019s history.\u201d\nEven harder to believe is that three years later, many servers and devices are still affected by the Heartbleed vulnerability. According to a January 2017 report by Shodan, about 200,000 devices and servers are still vulnerable to this OpenSSL vulnerability.\nDespite the seriousness of the Heartbleed vulnerability, the Heartbleed Bug website mentions one silver lining: that this well-publicized vulnerability would motivate companies to maintain their software and become vigilant against future attacks. However, in the intervening three years many companies have yet to remediate the vulnerability, either because they rely on outdated software or are unaware of the issue in their code.\nWhile larger corporations and affected companies remember the Heartbleed bug as one of the largest flaws in the Internet\u2019s history, other companies may not have understood how it might impact them or weren\u2019t seeking out that type of vulnerability information. It\u2019s hard to know you have a problem when you don\u2019t know where to look or if it even exists!\nWhile I originally found understanding a serious OpenSSL vulnerability like Heartbleed daunting, I learned a lot while writing this post. Below is a basic overview based on my research.\nThe basics of OpenSSL\nOpenSSL (a.k.a. TLS) is a security and encryption technology used by many (many) developers. It allows encryption to occur when information is being passed between a computer and its server. This means that if you create a username and password, it is sent to and stored on the server. While your private information is being sent to the server, OpenSSL essentially disguises (or encrypts) it. As a result, your password remains secure.\nOne aspect of OpenSSL (and other security technologies) that ensures the server and computer are always connected is called \u2018heartbeat.\u2019 This heartbeat is added to code to keep tabs on how connected the server is to the computer. It sends a request to the server periodically for some basic information to be sent back. This informs the computer that the server is listening and the connection is successful.\nAn example: The computer asks the server to send the word \u2018bird\u2019 back in four characters (because that\u2019s how many letters are in the word bird). If the server is successfully connected and operating correctly, it sends the computer the word \u2018bird.\u2019 These small tests allow the connection between the computer and server to remain strong.\nHeartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability\nAs you may surmise, the Heartbleed vulnerability was found in the heartbeat\u2019s line of code. The accident that occurred was that there was (basically) no character limit on the amount of information the server sent back during the heartbeat tests. This was disastrous, because a hacker could use the heartbeat request to ask the server for the word \u2018bird\u2019 in 500 characters (far more than the four characters necessary to spell bird). The server then sends the word \u2018bird\u2019 as well as the last 496 characters the server held in recent memory. Essentially, if you recently typed in your password to your email or Facebook account, it would be sent in the message from the server. (Visual learners should check out this xkcd comic.)\nSome people believed that the bug was not a huge deal because you could only get 64 kilobytes from the Heartbleed method. But hackers could execute this attack easily and repeatedly\u2014making it simple to exploit. Not only that, the Heartbleed bug is completely untraceable.\nRemediating Heartbleed\nRemediating the vulnerability seems fairly simple. The patch essentially ignores Heartbeat Request messages that ask for more data than their payload needs. According to the Wikipedia article:\nVersion 1.0.1g of OpenSSL adds some bounds checks to prevent the buffer over-read. For example, the following test was introduced to determine whether a heartbeat request would trigger Heartbleed; it silently discards malicious requests.\nWith this basic understanding of the Heartbleed vulnerability, it is baffling that about 200,000 devices and servers are still affected by this flaw. The number of affected devices is decreasing over time: \u201c[The] 11 percent [vulnerable to Heartbleed] is a number that is likely to dip into the single digits.\u201d If you are not sure whether a website (or your own website) is affected by this OpenSSL vulnerability, you can do a quick Heartbleed test to check if you have any vulnerabilities.\nCheck my open source for security issues\nAutomate security tests and build security in from day one\nAgile development for application security managers\nMaximize your Embedded World 2018 experience with Elevate",
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"raw_content": "Trade unions are exactly what Conservatives need\nMany union members have conservative instincts and care little for the grandstanding of their political extremist leaders\nStrikes have once again brought London to a standstill Photo: London News Pictures\nBy David Skelton\n\"Why every trade unionist should vote Conservative.\" It\u2019s not the most memorable political advert \u2013 there are no pictures and there is four rows of text! But the message itself is powerful.\nIndeed, the advert was followed a year later by a massive \"Conservative Trade Unionists\" rally at Wembley and the votes of trade unionists, disenchanted with a militant but out of touch leadership, were a major reason for Margaret Thatcher winning the 1979 election. At a rally, Mrs Thatcher said that:\nAs you well know, for over 100 years, ever since Disraeli\u2019s day, since before the Labour Party existed, it has been the belief of the Conservative Party that the law should not only permit, but that it should assist, the trades unions to carry out their legitimate function of protecting their members\u2026.\nYou, as Conservative trade unionists, are part of the force for reason and responsibility in the movement. You are part of the majority which is both reasonable and moderate... it is for the benefit of the trades union movement, and of the whole country, that those of reason and moderation should be as active and determined in union affairs as are the extremists.\nThis is a reminder that there is a strong tradition of Conservative trade unionism. Indeed, it was Disraeli who legalised picketing in the teeth of fierce opposition from Gladstone\u2019s Liberals and their dogmatic belief in laissez faire. Many of the values that unions represent, such as community, mutual-help and a strong - dare I say \"big\" society - are important conservative values too. Trade unions are some of the country\u2019s largest voluntary institutions, rather than being arms of the state. In a number of ways, they provide services that seek to provide services locally, rather than through the centralised state.\nConservatives have always helped to empower individual trade unionists, who are not always well represented by occasionally demagogic leaders. They gave trade unionists the right to picket and empowered trade union members with the right to ballot and today\u2019s announcement that people can decide to \"opt-in\" to pay union dues is another example of this.\nNow Conservatives should make an active effort to reach out to ordinary trade unionists, over the heads of some of the union leadership. It\u2019s important to make a distinction between trade union leaders and trade unionists. Most trade union members have no sympathy for the political grandstanding of some of their leaders \u2013 they pay their dues for employment protection, collective bargaining and a number of other benefits.\nHI, I'M LEN MCCLUSKEY. I'M KIND OF A BIG DEAL Photo: PA\nCrucially, trade unionists also have pretty conservative instincts. In 1979, more trade unionists voted for Margaret Thatcher than voted for Jim Callaghan. Polls have consistently shown that around a third of trade unionists vote Conservative. Research by Lord Ashcroft also showed that only 12 per cent of Unite members would opt to join the Labour Party as an individual member, 86 per cent support the benefit cap and that the two most popular newspapers amongst Unite members are the Conservative-supporting Daily Mail and The Sun.\nMeasures to empower individual trade unionists should be accompanied by steps to resurrect Conservative Trade Unionists, which once had 250 branches, and offer free Conservative membership to Conservative-supporting union members. And they should encourage trade unions to modernise in a way that will benefit the economy as a whole.\nAt their best, trade unions are some of the most important and positive institutions in British society. Just as unions should regard the right to strike as the last resort, it\u2019s also important to remember that the right for workers to organise and, within strict rules, withdraw their labour is a hallmark of a free society. But unions also need to modernise if they are to become more relevant to today\u2019s economy and today\u2019s society. And they should remember that strike action should be very much a last resort if they aren\u2019t to alienate the public and become self-defeating.\nTrade unionists have pretty conservative instincts. Polls consistently show that around a third vote Conservative\nTrade union membership has reduced from 13 million in 1979 to 6.5 million today and for many younger workers and private sector workers, trade unions have no relevance at all. Only 2.6 million private sector workers are in trade unions and unionists are much more likely to be older workers, with 37 per cent being over 50. All some younger, private-sector workers, who might well benefit from union membership, might know of unions is seeing the language of conflict from union leaders in the media. Historically, from rejecting In Place of Strife and the Bullock Report to opposing the minimum wage, trade unions have held out against the kind of modernisation that could benefit both them and their workers.\nAs unions consider how to modernise, they could look to morthern Europe, where their sister organisations work closely with management to improve working conditions and boost productivity. They could look to Sweden, where local union officials have much more power in terms of pay bargaining. Or they could look much closer to home to the Nissan plant in Sunderland, where unions and management work closely together and have made it the most productive car plant in Europe, producing more cars than the whole of Italy.\nWorkers today don\u2019t want the antiquated, class-war driven approach to industrial relations that is being pushed by some union leaders. They don\u2019t want talk of a \u201cBlairite virus\u201d or class treachery. 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"raw_content": "Australian prime minister Tony Abbott ousted by staunch republican Malcolm Turnbull\nMillionaire lawyer Malcolm Turnbull defeats controversial Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott in a matter of hours just two years into his term\nTony Abbott speaks during a press conference in the Blue Room, at Parliament House in Canberra Photo: AFP\nBy Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney\nAustralian prime minister Tony Abbott has been ousted in a stunning coup by self-made millionaire Malcolm Turnbull, continuing the nation\u2019s five-year run of leadership swaps.\nWinning a 54 to 44 Liberal party-room vote in Canberra on Monday, Mr Turnbull, 60, promised to unite the party and the nation with a new style of leadership that \u201crespects the people\u2019s intelligence\u201d. The deputy Liberal leader, Julie Bishop, backed Mr Turnbull and easily won back her position in a 70 to 30 vote against cabinet minister Kevin Andrews.\nThe former Rhodes Scholar and investment banker holds more progressive political views than Mr Abbott, an ardent conservative and monarchist, but immediately signalled he will restrain his own personal support for same sex marriage and strong action on climate change.\nMalcolm Turnbull speaking to the media after winning the leadership ballot Photo: Getty Images\n\u201cThis will be a thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market,\u201d he said.\nPraising Mr Abbott\u2019s tough migrant policies and free trade deals with China, Korea and Japan, he promised a \u201cthoroughly consultative, a thoroughly traditional cabinet government\u201d.\nThe successful coup resulted in Australia\u2019s fourth leader since 2013 and followed an 18-month run of dismal polls for Mr Abbott. The demise of Mr Abbott, a London-born former boxer, began with his unpopular first budget in 2014 and continued with his widely-mocked decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip.\nFacing an electoral wipe-out at the next election, due in 2016, the Coalition turned to Mr Turnbull, an eloquent, accomplished and supremely confident MP who once led the nation\u2019s republican movement.\nPolls show Mr Turnbull is far more personally popular than Mr Abbott, who has a reputation for boorishness, gaffes and poor judgment.\nAttempting to fend off Mr Turnbull\u2019s surprise challenge on Monday, Mr Abbott warned that the switch would repeat the revolving-door leadership of the previous Labor government. Labor effectively imploded after twice ousting sitting prime ministers, replacing Kevin Rudd in 2010 with Julia Gillard, who was in turn defeated by Mr Rudd in 2013.\nMr Abbott said Australia\u2019s prime ministership was \u201cnot a prize or a plaything to be demanded.\u201d\n\u201cIt should be something which is earned by a vote of the Australian people,\" he said.\nBut his fellow MPs ignored the warning, convincingly voting to oust Mr Abbott.\nDespite their vastly different political outlooks, Mr Turnbull has much in common with the man he just toppled: both are Catholics who studied law in Sydney, went to Oxford, dabbled in journalism and are married with children (two for Mr Turnbull, three for Mr Abbott).\nMr Turnbull first rose to international prominence in the mid-1980s as the brash young lawyer who represented Peter Wright, a former senior British intelligence operative with MI5, who took on the British government in the famous Spycatcher case. Mr Turnbull succeeded in blocking Britain's attempts to prevent publication of Wright\u2019s memoirs.\nBut the case marked the beginning of a prominent career in which he made millions as an internet entrepreneur and Goldman Sachs banker before turning his attention to becoming prime minister. An MP since 2004, he is one of Australia\u2019s wealthiest politicians and lives in Point Piper, one of the nation\u2019s most exclusive suburbs, with his wife Lucy Turnbull, a former lord mayor of Sydney.\nTony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull at the conclusion of Question Time on Monday Photo: EPA\nMr Turnbull oversaw the bid for the nation to remove the British monarch as head of state \u2013 an attempt which ultimately failed at a referendum in 1999. He did not comment on Monday on whether he will now try to lead a shift to a republic.\n\u201cOf course policies change \u2026 but they will be when people should have the confidence that we will be making decisions in a thoughtful and considered manner,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThere has never been a more exciting time to be alive than today and there has never been a more exciting time to be an Australian.\u201d\nMr Turnbull will formally become prime minister when he is sworn in by the Governor-General, the Queen\u2019s representative, in the coming days \u2013 an occasion which will be tinged with irony, given the incoming leader\u2019s lifelong devotion to the republican cause.",
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"raw_content": "Now Reading: Seceding from History\nSeceding from History\nSlavery apologists are using the 150th anniversary of the Civil War to whitewash history.\nTue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:47 pm CST\nphoto by Mary Hockenberry\nEvery year, around Feb.19, a crowd of tourists gathers in front of the Alamo to watch the re-enactment of a pivotal moment in history. There\u2019s a ragtag company of men dressed like a scruffy 19th-century Texas militia, wearing buckskin and ill-fitting clothes made from homespun burlap. With muzzle-loading long rifles over their shoulders, they\u2019ve copped the appropriate rough-and-ready attitudes. Squared off against the Texan frontiersmen are soldiers from the U.S. Army, sporting cavalry uniforms and blue kepi caps. The soldiers march with precision. The militia lacks the discipline for close-order drills. Both sides are prepared for a bloody confrontation.\nThis isn\u2019t the re-creation of the most famous battle at the Alamo, but a lesser-known episode from 1861 known as \u201cTwiggs\u2019s Surrender.\u201d The battle took place shortly before the Civil War and illustrated how tense things had become in the state. If fate hadn\u2019t shrugged that day, the Civil War would have begun right here at the Alamo. Maj. Gen. David Emanuel Twiggs was the commanding officer of the U.S. Army in Texas. The Alamo was the supply depot for the state in the effort to protect settlements from Indian attacks and bandits from Mexico. Little did Twiggs realize his most dangerous foe would be Texas settlers.\nAt last year\u2019s re-enactment, a narrator stood at a podium and told the crowd about Twiggs\u2019s dilemma as the confrontation unfolded. Twiggs had command of a \u201cmeager\u201d 160 soldiers at the garrison, and he faced about a thousand \u201cwell-armed Rangers and experienced frontier fighters.\u201d According to the narrator, Twiggs had little choice. He was outmanned by the militia and outmaneuvered by the secessionist leaders who called themselves The Committee for Public Safety. The secessionists demanded that Twiggs surrender federal property and armaments under his control\u2014including the armory at the Alamo and 17 forts in the Texas wilderness.\nThe re-enactors are sticklers for the accuracy of historic uniforms, weapons and gear. There were no Confederate uniforms, flags or insignia in the re-enactment. (The Confederate Army didn\u2019t form until after Twiggs\u2019s submission.) But there were Confederate flags and uniforms not far from the action. They were on display at a table under a shade tree in Alamo Plaza, manned by Russ Lane of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, or SCV.\nThe organization is one of the organizers of the annual re-enactment, and Lane provided historic background to curious tourists. It\u2019s a version of history sympathetic to the Southern cause. \u201cThe Civil War was not fought to free the slaves. The South was fighting for states\u2019 rights,\u201d he said. Lane is a friendly man, and he told his story earnestly. He said events like the re-enactment are opportunities to teach the community what he calls the \u201ctruth\u201d of the Civil War. \u201cIn school they are not being educated with the whole story. Children are left to think the war was fought to free the slaves and that Lincoln was a great man,\u201d he said.\nThe re-enactment reached its climax. Actor soldiers called out for action. It looked like a fight. Then Twiggs stepped forward and offered his surrender in exchange for the safe passage of his men out of Texas. The militia men let out a whooping cheer. Women actors in ornate ball gowns celebrated. Tourists clapped and cheered the defeat of the American federal forces and the victory of the pro-slavery secessionists.\nThis year marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Each Southern state is grappling with its legacy from a war that killed more than a half-million Americans. Here in Texas, it\u2019s becoming popular to celebrate the war as the opening salvo in the conservative campaign for states\u2019 rights. Neo-Confederate organizations and pro-secessionists are among the leading groups in organizing Texas\u2019 commemorative events. Their version of history downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War and encourages anti-federal government political ideology. They make no bones about it: They\u2019d be happy to see Texas secede again.\nEven in conservative Texas, it\u2019s odd that the state relinquishes events like this re-enactment to groups like the SCV. The group has long been monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry. \u201cThis is the latest episode of these neo-Confederates rewriting history,\u201d says Mark Potok, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s Intelligence Project. Potok said the SCV frequently portrays itself as a group that promotes Southern heritage and history. Potok said they are actually a white-supremacy, neo-Confederacy group that seeks to revive pro-Confederacy sentiment. \u201cThey want people to think the war had nothing to do with slavery.\u201d\nPotok said the group is using media attention to the war\u2019s 150th anniversary to grandstand across the South under the guise of teaching history. On Feb. 19, a week after the re-enactment of Twiggs\u2019 Alamo surrender, hundreds of Civil War re-enactors will parade up Montgomery\u2019s main street to Alabama\u2019s state Capitol to recreate the swearing-in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The Southern Poverty Law Center is joining civil rights leaders and the NAACP in condemning the celebration as an offensive event that sanitizes history.\nThe neo-Confederate groups openly say that slavery wasn\u2019t as bad as people make it. Russ Lane of the SCV said reports of atrocities against slaves were exaggerated. \u201cI didn\u2019t live through it, but it doesn\u2019t make sense for someone to whip their own private property,\u201d he said. Lane said that in the early 1860s, photography was available and that while there is some photographic evidence of scarred backs of beaten former slaves, there should be more proof if whipping was widespread.\n\u201cThe Sons of Confederate Veterans are the Holocaust deniers of American history,\u201d said Michael Phillips, professor of History at Collin College in Plano and the author of White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas. \u201cThey have undertaken a long and deliberate campaign to whitewash our history\u2014I deliberately said \u2018whitewash.\u2019 The Sons of the Confederate Veterans offers a version of history that makes great theater and does shape the public\u2019s understanding of what happened during the Civil War.\u201d\nNorth Texas history professor Randolph B. Campbell said each year he faces college students who insist that the Civil War was fought over states\u2019 rights. \u201cSure, the states\u2019 right to allow slavery,\u201d he said. Campbell has written eight books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, including An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas. Campbell said there is no debate about the facts. When Texas broke away from the Union, it issued \u201cA Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union.\u201d The document says Texas \u201cwas received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery\u2014the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits\u2014a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.\u201d\nThe Texas Historical Commission could be taking the lead on commemorating Texas\u2019 role in the Civil War. By allowing the Sons of Confederate Veterans to use Texas historic sites for its re-creations, the commission gives the impression that the events have tacit approval from the state.\nThe Historical Commission is taking a low-key approach to recognizing the Civil War\u2019s sesquicentennial. It is focused on two events, the May 1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last major battle of the Civil War (fought in Brownsville after Lee surrendered), and 2015\u2019s Juneteenth in Galveston, which will celebrate emancipation.\nWilliam McWhorter, Texas Historic Commission program coordinator, said the commission is facing two challenges with the Civil War sesquicentennial. First, the state has a tight budget, and there might not be enough funds for special programs. And the sesquicentennial comes the same year that Texas celebrates its 175th anniversary of independence. The commission will have three regional \u201cSesquicentennial of the American Civil War Workshops\u201d this year in Austin, Laredo and Tyler. The workshops are being financed by a grant from the Society of the Order of the Southern Cross, a nonprofit dedicated to the \u201cpreservation of Southern Heritage through Confederate philanthropy,\u201d according to its website. It\u2019s hard not to wonder how balanced these workshops will be.\nOf course, no matter how well-intentioned, any reenactment or retelling of history will have its own angle. Jesus Frank de la Teja, former state historian and a Texas State University professor, says the commission \u201cis not the state\u2019s history police.\u201d He says historical research and writing is a dialogue between the present and the past. \u201cDemographic, economic and social change will take care of popularly held memories\u2014whether intentionally fabricated or spontaneously created. We live in a land of free speech, but free does not mean correct.\u201d\nAnd in another week, Twiggs will once again fail to make a stand at the Alamo. How will history judge the man? Was he a hero or a villain? \u201cNeither,\u201d said historian Campbell. \u201cHe was just a human being caught in a really bad situation.\u201d\nDavid Martin Davies is a journalist in San Antonio. 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"raw_content": "The Climate Conspiracy Theory Coming to Your Congressman's Twitter Feed\nIt's an innovative app, but it's being used to push an odd, odd message.\nThere's a better way for geoengineering conspiracy theorists to get their elected officials' attention.National Journal\nFilmmaker George Barnes first grew suspicious after he left his camera on all day to create a time-lapse effect for a car commercial. The sky, he noticed, had turned entirely white. When he played back his tape, he saw jets flying in a grid pattern across the New Jersey sky. He asked a fellow producer to look into it, resulting in a packet of information with terms like \"chemtrails\" and \"geoengineering.\"\nAnd from there, to Barnes, the conclusion was inescapable: His tape was evidence of a broad, high-level conspiracy to use airplanes to spray chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere and alter its climate\u2014a desperate, secret, and misguided attempt to fight global warming.\nBarnes has since dedicated his life to raising awareness of chemtrails and pushing those in power to acknowledge them. Since his New Jersey discovery more than two years ago, he's rolled out a documentary film with a Baldwin brother, a petition with the former speaker of the Florida House, and an app that could change the way citizens get in touch with Congress.\nThe chemtrails conspiracy isn't a new one, but it has taken off in recent years. It's part of the premise behind the summer movie Snowpiercer, in which humans geoengineer the Earth until it completely froze over. (In the opening credits, a shot of airplane contrails is heralded with an ominous blast of brass, kicking off a story in which post-chemtrail-apocalypse humanity is confined to a single class-stratified train that circumnavigates the globe.)\nGeoengineering\u2014a catchall term for intentional, large-scale human actions aimed at combating climate change\u2014is real, at least as a studied theory. The National Research Council will release a report on the topic next week, while academics and the United Nations have acknowledged it as a hypothetical\u2014but far off\u2014option to combat global warming.\nThe chemtrail conspiracy, however, is concerned about something that's as fictional as Snowpiercer. Regular airplane contrails can linger for hours, based on the moisture content of the air, and that's been the case for as long as there has been air travel. Grid patterns are just the result of airplanes flying on predetermined paths. And given the number of people who would be needed to pull off such a stunt, it's extremely unlikely that it's going on\u2014and being kept secret.\nBut does not deter the believers, to whom denials amount to nothing more than catnip. They're trying to bring the issue to people in power, from local government to the halls of Congress, to try to stop what they see as a fatal experiment.\n\"Short of a nuclear cataclysm, there's no more greater or immediate threat to all of us than climate engineering,\" said Dane Wigington, lead researcher at the chemtrails tracking site GeoEngineering Watch. \"Just speaking statistically and mathematically.\"\nIt's tempting to write off Barnes as a run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorist, his quest has produced an interesting side benefit: a tool that could make it easier for activists of all stripes to command their elected officials' attention.\nBarnes created the Skyder Alert app, which combines photo and geolocation technology to make it easy for everyday Twitter users to communicate with their elected officials. Through the app, users snap pictures of \"suspicious\" contrails and can then\u2014via the locator portion of the app\u2014tweet them directly at the House representatives, senators, and governor who represent the spot where the user is standing, along with a prewritten petition with the hashtag #CivilRightsViolation.\nThe geolocation feature, which allows citizens to quickly contact a district's officials even if they don't already know who those officials are, was a creation of Barnes's and appears to be unique. It also opens a host of possibilities: Imagine being able to quickly tweet photos of uncollected trash or of potholes to your local alderman, or images of a people benefiting from a federal program that local officials favor cutting.\n\"It's a brilliant concept for an entry-level citizen to get engaged,\" said Steven Polunsky, a research scientist at Texas A&M University who also worked on technology for the Texas state Senate. \"For someone who doesn't contact their government regularly, it's going to start with this kind of single-issue motivator that gets them out of their chair.\"\nAnd, because many elected officials run their own Twitter accounts personally, Barnes says it's a chance to make direct contact in a way one couldn't through traditional media.\n\"You always hear stuff like 'contact your congressman, call this number,' and it's something nobody ever does,\" said Barnes. \"So I'm thinking, what's the easiest way to do it? How can we get the most amount of people to contact Congress from their own information?\"\nBarnes, then new to coding, wrote the app himself with the help of a team of more-experienced programmers, manually inputting the boundaries of congressional districts.\nBut is it working to bring attention to the \"chemtrails conspiracy\"? National Journal contacted congressional offices that had been pinged with SkyderAlert notices. Multiple offices acknowledged seeing the tweets, some with a chuckle, but hadn't responded to them.\nSen. Dean Heller, a Nevada Republican, responded last year to a constituent inquiry on chemtrails with a letter that discussed his own work on chemical-safety reform. New Jersey Republican Rodney Frelinghuysen also responded to a request about \"the ongoing Stratospheric Aerosol GeoEngineering, Solar, Radiation Management programs\" with a promise to meet with staff, although there does not appear to be any followup.\nFor Barnes, the app is one part of an attempt to lend more legitimacy to a movement that has its fair share of off-kilter behavior. The chemtrails conspiracy may be best known for its extreme believers, such as a woman who filmed herself yelling at the sky and spraying vinegar to clear contrails. Or a line of parody songs from YouTube user Michael Fleming, including \"Smells Like Chemtrail Spirit,\" \"Satan Claws Is Sprayin' Your Town,\" and \"Under the Chembow\" (\"Somewhere under the chembow / children die / There's a land that's been gassed with / sulfur dioxide\").\nBut with big data, the hope is to lend some credence to the arguments and raise the issue at the top. Skyder Alert compiles pictures of suspicious contrails on a map, an effort that Barnes said has paid off. In the days before a massive storm dumped 6 feet of snow on Buffalo in November, Barnes said his map showed a rash of unusual contrails (meteorologists said the storm was an escalated lake-effect snow).\nGeoengineering Watch has pointed to a whole slew of negative effects resulting from \"weather warfare,\" from UV radiation killing trees to clusters of cancer cases that it links to aluminum being sprayed on unsuspecting citizens. Even California's drought and the warming oceans have been linked to chemtrails.\nSo supporters are pushing to raise the issue with anyone they think can answer their questions. Skyder Alert joined the People's Climate March outside of a U.N. meeting in September amid established green groups. Arizona state Sen. Kelli Ward convened a two-hour meeting this spring in response to activists' concerns about chemtrails, where dozens of citizens slammed the government's secret experiments and raised alarms about being poisoned. The board of supervisors in Shasta County in Northern California even voted this summer to research chemtrails after a three-hour meeting that local media said was the best attended by citizens.\nBarnes has also been promoting his film Look Up! about chemtrails, which features narration from William Baldwin (the one from Backdraft). Under a deal with a theater distribution service, it's hitting cinemas, and people can petition local theaters to hold screenings. The movie includes repeated clips of Holdren talking about geoengineering and interviews with Foster Gamble, a descendant of the founder of Procter & Gamble, who has founded the Thrive Movement to assist \"humanity in thriving through the evolutionary challenges threatening our survival.\"\nThe movement has even drawn some academic attention. A November study in The Geographic Journal looked at the chemtrails movement as part of a broader social shift on climate change and geoengineering, drawing a line between the \"paranoid\" and \"normal\" views. \"Certain elements of the discourse (such as the moral outrage at the idea of powerful elites controlling the climate, or the importance of emotional and spiritual connections to weather and climate) highlight concerns of relevance to mainstream geoengineering debates,\" wrote author Rose Cairns of the University of Sussex.\nThe debate over geoengineering is heating up, although with no real work being done. A section of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report discusses its possibilities, but notes a lack of evidence, and a recent Newsweek cover examined its potential. 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"raw_content": "9AM To 9PM 6 Days A Week - Silicon Valley Confronts the Reality Of Its Chinese Rivals\nThe Chinese tech work ethic is punishing and it has paid off in relatively short time. But the trade-offs expected of employees, investors, workers and citizens would not be acceptable in the US - and some are questioning whether they are sustainable in China.\nWhether it is or not, China may surpass the US in some advanced technologies sooner rather than later. JL\nLi Yuan reports in the New York Times:\nChina has become a tech rival to the United States in barely two decades.Silicon Valley once saw China as a copycat, but it now has some of the world\u2019s biggest and most powerful internet companies. It has more unicorns, or privately held companies with valuations of over $1 billion, than the United States. The China offices of venture capital firms now manage bigger funds than their American headquarters.\nOne Chinese technology executive said he worked 14 to 15 hours a day at least six days a week. Another said he worked every waking hour and forced himself to watch movies to relax.\nThe reaction from a group of Silicon Valley executives: Wow.\n\u201cWe\u2019re so lazy in the U.S.!\u201d blurted Wesley Chan, a venture capital investor, on the first day of what would be a weeklong journey into the Chinese technology scene.\nWork habits weren\u2019t the only sharp difference between the Valley and China. By the end of the week, a group of American executives and investors found an alternate tech universe. It resembles Silicon Valley superficially. Look closer, and it becomes a futuristic yet closed-off world that can be equally impressive, alienating and dystopian.\nChinese technology executives, they found, were even more driven and more willing to do whatever it takes to win. But that comes with major trade-offs, and punishing work schedules are only the beginning. They found Chinese tech executives to be less reflective about the social impact and potential misuse of their technologies, a potentially worrisome quality in a country with loosely enforced privacy laws, strict government censorship and a powerful domestic surveillance apparatus.\n\u201cIt was impressive to see the pace of innovation in China,\u201d said Mark Goldberg, a partner at Index Ventures, a venture capital firm. \u201cSome of the newer technologies, like facial recognition software, can be very powerful, and will need to be deployed thoughtfully \u2014 not just in China, but also in the West.\u201d\nIn August, Mr. Chan, Mr. Goldberg and 11 other Silicon Valley investors and start-up founders took a trip to Beijing and Shenzhen, two cities that are competing for the title of the Silicon Valley of China. Organized by the venture capital firms Basis Set Ventures, Index Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank, it was intended to help them understand how China has become a tech rival to the United States in barely two decades.\nSilicon Valley once saw China as a copycat, but it now has some of the world\u2019s biggest and most powerful internet companies. It has more unicorns, or privately held companies with valuations of over $1 billion, than the United States. The China offices of venture capital firms like Sequoia Capital now manage bigger funds than their American headquarters. Silicon Valley luminaries like Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital have been urging American entrepreneurs and investors to learn from China\u2019s work ethic, ambition and technological advances.\nThe Americans got upfront lessons on how quickly China embraced mobile phones, electronic payments and video streaming, and how intensely it has pursued artificial intelligence.\n\u201cI live in San Francisco, but I find it helpful to visit the other parallel universe from time to time,\u201d said Lan Xuezhao, founding partner of Basis Set Ventures, who was born in China and visits the country every year. \u201cTo some degree, it\u2019s like looking into the future.\u201d\nIt started the moment the group members entered their rooms at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Beijing\u2019s central business district, where a notice listed some of the websites they would be unable to call up \u201cdue to Chinese internet regulations\u201d: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Bloomberg and The New York Times.\nOnline payments represented another telling metaphor. Mobile payments are almost ubiquitous in the biggest Chinese cities, but setting up an account requires a local mobile number and a Chinese bank account.\nOne afternoon they were desperate for caffeine and spotted a Luckin Coffee outlet, an up-and-coming Chinese brand, in the canteen of Bytedance, the A.I. information and entertainment powerhouse. But Luckin takes orders only on its mobile app. At the cashier-less convenience store at the headquarters of JD.com, the online retailer, an employee paid for their snacks with his own phone.\n\u201cChina\u2019s internet is a walled garden,\u201d Mr. Chan said. \u201cNo one can break in unless you\u2019re from here.\u201d\nWithin that walled garden, everything seemed to be moving at an extraordinary speed. While Silicon Valley start-ups raise funding every 18 to 24 months on average, the group was told that the most successful Chinese companies do it every six months. It isn\u2019t unusual for a hot start-up to raise funding three to four times a year.\n\u201cEvery time I go to the U.S., I feel that I\u2019ll need to grow 10 times faster,\u201d said Alexander Weidauer, a founder of the Berlin-based A.I. chatbot developer Rasa and the only member of the group not from Silicon Valley. \u201cNow I feel I\u2019ll need to grow 100 times faster. The pace in China is crazy.\u201d\nTheir hosts kept reminding them of the advantages China had over the United States in A.I. development. China\u2019s vast population and loose privacy laws give them access to much more data. A.I. companies also have considerable government support and are willing to pay more for top talent.\nThe Silicon Valley group discussing facial recognition technology with the Face++ team in Beijing. Chinese companies have little choice but to cooperate with the government\u2019s growing surveillance efforts.CreditYan Cong for The New York Times\n\u201cThe U.S. competitive edge over China may not be long,\u201d Kai-Fu Lee, chief executive of Sinovation Ventures and former head of Google China, told them. \u201cIn fact,\u201d he added, \u201cthe Americans now have the information disadvantage.\u201d\nBut it was also obvious to the group what China was missing. For starters, everybody is Chinese. Even in its early days, Google had employees from 39 nationalities speaking 40-plus languages.\n\u201cChina is a bit homogeneous,\u201d said Mr. Chan, an early Google employee. \u201cYou don\u2019t find as much the perspectives of the world here compared to Silicon Valley.\u201d\nThen there are the work schedules. The Silicon Valley natives were introduced to the Chinese start-up concept of 996: Work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. Once they got over their shock, they had to ask: Does that punishing schedule make sense?\n\u201cI\u2019m not worried so much about my portfolio companies not working as hard as the Chinese companies,\u201d said Mr. Chan, now a partner at Felicis Ventures. \u201cI\u2019ll worry when they\u2019re less creative and less efficient.\u201d\nWhile China is becoming more innovative, many members of the group said they believed \u2014 and some of their Chinese counterparts agreed \u2014 that the United States still led in some areas.\nAlthough some Chinese tech companies can look very Silicon Valley-esque \u2014 with sprawling campuses that include dining halls, gyms and nap rooms \u2014 their preferred management style is still top down and results driven. Unlike Silicon Valley, smart underlings have less freedom to start something new.\nUnderscoring their admiration for strong leaders, the Chinese technology figures told the Silicon Valley group that many in China idolized the Uber founder Travis Kalanick, who resigned as chief executive last year after the company was embroiled in various scandals. The reason: In his battles with a bigger local rival, Mr. Kalanick could be as aggressive and scrappy as a Chinese boss.\nThere was very little discussion about the consequences of Chinese companies\u2019 ruthless focus on growth and the social impact of the technologies they develop \u2014 criticism Silicon Valley now faces. The visitors asked how Chinese companies dealt with the issues of censorship and algorithm-driven social media, but their hosts either seemed puzzled by the questions or brushed them off.\nTechnology itself is neutral, some of the Chinese executives said. 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Coming back to the United States was somewhat a relief \u2013 like, \u201cAh! I can be myself!\u201d, but that doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t get a wave of nostalgia whenever I see a photo or video of Japan.\nWhy did you start writing a blog whilst training in Japan?\nI had left the monastery and was living in Kyoto. I was destitute, still living as a nun, and needed a way to make money. A friend suggested I start a blog to reconnect with my family, who I\u2019d had a falling out with (they didn\u2019t like me living in Japan). What started out as a travel blog blossomed into a pretty big platform \u2013 it got me a book, and a husband (he was the fanboy who was the first to comment on all my posts)! I\u2019ve also met dear friends through the blog. Writing has always been a way for me to connect; I feel like I can\u2019t really express myself out loud most of the time. My true self comes forward in my writing.\nHave you received any feedback from Japan about your book?\nI have not! 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I went up to a food stall and the women started gushing about Buddha and how happy she was to see a young nun like me. She pointed out her vegetarian bento box, which was called something like \u201cZen Monk Bento.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to disappoint her so I bought the vegetarian bento\u2026 even though I really wanted the meat option. Generally, people think clergy are perfect, but we are not. Actually, clergy are often more screwed up than laity! That\u2019s why we became clergy to begin with \u2026 we needed to figure some things out for ourselves.\nI\u2019m writing my second book now. It\u2019s called Just Enough: Recipes from Japan\u2019s Buddhist Temples. And I\u2019m studying to be a marriage and family therapist. I would like to work with clients \u2013 young women in particular \u2013 and help them navigate life\u2019s challenges in a way that is both spiritual and psychological. I always want to keep writing, learning, and asking questions about reality.\nIs there any particular Buddhist teaching that you think is beneficial for everyone?\nThere is a saying in Buddhism that enlightenment is like a bird, and it has two wings: one is wisdom and one is compassion. You need both to fly. I think easy distillations of this are practices of concentration and loving-kindness. Concentration can be attained by counting the breath, for example, and loving- kindness arises by generating unconditional good wishes for ourselves and others. Throughout our day, we can easily practice counting the breath or simply being kind to ourselves, not beating ourselves up if we make a mistake at work or get in an argument with someone. We can practice being kind to our partners, family and co-workers. We can practice breathing and smiling. 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"raw_content": "Distance Learning ideas\nWritten by Caroline Eason on 4 January 2018\nHello and Happy New Year to everyone.\nIn 2019 I will have to deliver IT related training over 12 different countries. As I am the main training specialist, I will not be able to do this on a face to face basis.\nAlthough we will be using eLearning, I personally don't think that it is as effective when training on tools and application used in IT.\nThe participants will need to understand what is being taught very quickly and will only need to use it for a short amount of time (6 weeks to 1 year)\nTherefore, I am looking for some ideas of how to deliver this training, keeping in mind that there will be 10 different cultures and languages (although the main language would be English).\nI was thinking that sociocultural learning would be a good start, but have not had any experience in this.\nHas anyone used this type of learning and if so, could you let me know a little of your experience. Or if anyone has other ideas, I would be grateful if you could share them.\nJLockhart91\nNot an expert of sociocultural learning so won't pretend I can help on that!\nOne of our clients had a similar project (although many more languages!), they focused on live virtual classrooms with the help of Microsoft Translate. I think this is still a bit around around the edges but offers consistent learning at a distance, translated for the languages they are supporting.\nMay be an idea!\nThank you for your response and yes, this will be one option for the training delivery.\nDo you know if he was happy with the Microsoft Translate in respect of speed and accuracy etc?\nSubmitted on 16 January, 2018 - 14:43\nIt sounds like virtual classroom training should definitely be up there on your list! I wrote this for TJ a little while ago and might be useful: https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/feature/group-you-cannot-see\nUsing a platform that can offer the forum-like discussion for social learning is an excellent addition too!",
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"raw_content": "Family Travel: Tips for Traveling to Europe for the First Time with Your Kids\nby Eric Stoen, Gnational Gnomad (Sponsored) | Feb 1, 2017 | Family | 1 comment\nEric Stoen of Travel Babbo has traveled to Europe 15 times with his three kids (6, 9 and 11). We asked him for his advice to first-timers.\nFor a lot of Americans, Europe is the first major international trip they take with their kids. That makes sense \u2013 Europe is extremely kid-friendly, it\u2019s easy to navigate, and there are flight options from most US and Canadian cities. I receive a lot of questions from people heading across the pond with their kids for the first time. Here are my best Europe travel tips for families.\nYou can\u2019t just add kids to an adult-oriented vacation and think that they will have fun \u2013 long lines and five-hour museum visits aren\u2019t kid-friendly. You\u2019ll have a better trip if you arrange kid-friendly walking tours, museum visits, cooking classes, art classes and other activities in advance. In short, make the trip about the kids. And if your kids are old enough, involve them in the planning process \u2013 it will make them excited about your destination.\nOn a kid-oriented walking tour through Le Marais in Paris with Paris Muse\nLearn a Little of the Language\nA month before you\u2019re departing, start teaching your kids a few words and phrases from the country that you\u2019re traveling to. Hello, good morning, goodbye, please, thank you, good night and 1-10 are good places to start. Some language skills will help your kids connect with the destination and culture a little more, and locals appreciate when kids make an effort. My daughter\u2019s third word ever was \u201cciao\u201d, learned when we were living in Italy for a summer.\nI Love You written in 250 languages in Paris\nDon\u2019t Worry About the Flights\nNon-stop flights to Europe are anywhere between 6 hours and 12 hours depending on where you\u2019re traveling from, and in virtually all cases the flights are overnight. That makes it easy \u2013 you and your kids can get some sleep, and when you arrive in the morning you\u2019ll be ready to head out for sightseeing\u2026even if you\u2019re a little tired. Flights with kids under two are rarely perfect, but all flying is cumulative \u2013 you may have some difficult flights early on, with some crying or some time spent in the galley rocking the kids to sleep, but as a result your kids will be amazing travelers by the time they\u2019re five. And remember \u2013 no matter what happens, you\u2019ll never see the people on the plane again!\nDon\u2019t Worry About the Food Either\nIf your kids only eat pizza and pasta, there\u2019s no better place to take them! Europe does pizza and pasta extremely well, and most restaurants have kid menus. Of course travel is a great opportunity to broaden your kids\u2019 culinary horizons, but if you need to fall back on the basics, they\u2019re there for you.\nThis cafe in Budapest has a wide-range of Hungarian dishes. And pizza.\nYou Can Buy Practically Anything Once You Get There\nWe\u2019ve never traveled to Europe with a stroller or car seat. If we need a stroller, we\u2019ll buy a cheap one when we get there, abuse it on the cobblestone streets, and then leave it behind. For a car seat, it\u2019s always possible to include one with your rental car, but we\u2019ve also found that at some rental locations people have left their seats behind and we\u2019ve been able to borrow one or two for a couple weeks before putting them back for the next travelers.\nOur inexpensive umbrella stroller that we purchased and then left behind in Italy one summer\nDon\u2019t Fight the Time Change\nEurope is anywhere between 5 and 9 hours ahead of North America, but you don\u2019t have to shift your body clocks that much. Europe has far more of a late-night culture than the US. Some restaurants don\u2019t even open until 8pm. So if your kids\u2019 bedtime is 8pm at home, think about changing it to 11pm in Europe, and then let the kids sleep in in the mornings. That will let you adjust faster to European time zones, and make it far easier to re-acclimate when you return home.\nEurope can be fun late at night, so it\u2019s ok for your kids to turn into night owls\nPharmacies Are a Great Resource\nIf you have a health concern, head to a pharmacy \u2013 there are usually employees who speak English and they have access to different over-the-counter medicines than in the US. And when there\u2019s something that can\u2019t be taken care of easily, we\u2019ve found that pharmacists are willing to look up English-speaking doctors and even make appointments. That\u2019s happened to us twice now, both times in France.\nPharmacies are everywhere in Europe, including this one near Piazza della Repubblica in Florence\nFinally, don\u2019t be afraid to have a relaxed vacation. Paris will always be there \u2013 you don\u2019t have to see everything in one trip. Spend time at playgrounds and in parks. 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"raw_content": "Home \u00bb South India \u00bb Temples Of South India\nTop 10 Famous Temples of South India\nAn imagination of sacred and captivating temples runs through our minds when we talk about South India. Southern Part of India is known for its numerous exquisite temples. The beautiful temples built in the South Indian art and architectural style draws the attention of many tourists from all over the world. Let\u2019s find out the top most amazing temples of Southern India, which cannot be missed.\nList of Top Temples of South India\n1. Tirupati\nTirupati Temple dedicated to Lord Venkateshwar (Lord Vishnu) is the most popular amongst the pilgrims. The temple is situated in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The pilgrims need to climb 4,000 steps up the hill to the temple. It takes from two to four hours to reach atop the hill to the temple. There is an alternate and easier way to reach the temple is by bus.\nIt is one of the wealthiest and most visited temples in India. It has a gold plated dome. It has been patronized by not only the kings and rulers but also the film stars. Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan offered prayers at this temple after getting married. It is believed that only true devotees can make their way to the temple as one has to face several challenges during the pilgrimage.\nSuggested Tour : 22 Days Tamilnadu Cultural Tour\nOne of the most impressive temples of South India is Meenakshi Temple situated in the ancient Madurai, in Tamil Nadu. Whenever you make it for South India, be sure to visit this temple. This massive temple has a complex, covering an area of 15 acres, comprising of 4,500 pillars and 12 towers. It has many astonishing sculptures. In the month of April, the heavenly wedding of the temple's god and goddess is featured on the 12 day Chithirai Festival, held in Madurai every year.\nSuggested Tour : 7 Days South India Pilgrimage Tours\n3. Kanchipuram\nBesides its silk sarees, Kanchipuram is known for its unique temples and is titled \"City of a Thousand Temples\". It is located at a distance of 80 kilometers from Chennai, on the road to Bangalore. It had been the capital of the Pallava dynasty. The temples are dedicated to Lord Shiva and Vishnu. These temples were built by various rulers (the Cholas, Vijayanagar kings, Muslims and British). Each ruler sophisticated the design.\nSuggested Tour : 15 Days South India Temple Tour Package\n40 Km away from Tanjore is situated Kumbakonam town, which has 18 temples! It is a place with fabulous temples. The Sarangapani Temple is the most popular and impressive temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. It has a shrine in the form of a chariot. The 12th century Airatesvara Temple is located four km west of Kumbakonam. This Temple is famous for its temple art specially the exquisite stone carvings. Another well known temple is Gangaikonda Cholapuram Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.\n5. Rameshwaram\nThe Ramanathaswamy Temple of Rameshwaram is famous for its captivating pillared hallway. It is regarded as the longest in India. The mesmerizing painted ceiling draws the attention of the visitors. It is located about 100 meters away from the sea, where the pilgrims take a bath, before entering the temple. The water is believed to be sacred and purifying for both mind and body. Rameshwaram is the place where Lord Rama with his disciples built a bridge across the sea to rescue Sita.\nSuggested Tour : 12 Days South India Temple Tours\n6. Thanjavur (Tanjore)\nThanjavur is regarded as the strength of Tamil culture in the 11th century. More than 70 temples were built by the Cholas in Thanjavur. The 1000 years old, Brihadeswara Temple is the most popular among all. It is now a World Heritage site. The temple which is dedicated to Lord Shiva symbolizes the unrivaled supremacy and might of the Cholas. It is constructed with stone having 60 meters high dome.\nSuggested Tour : 11 Days Tamilnadu Kerala Tour\n7. Chidambaram\nThe Natraj Temple situated in Chidambaram, draws a large number of tourists. The Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva in the posture of cosmic dance. This ancient temple follows Vedic rituals (set by the sage Patanjali). The rituals are performed every morning as part of the puja (centered on fire and yagna -fire sacrifice).\n8. Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)\nThe Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple of Tiruchirappalli or Trichy is the largest temple in India. It is dedicated to a reclining form of Lord Vishnu. It covers an area of 156 acres with 21 gopuram (towers). Its main tower is 73 meters high and is regarded as the second tallest temple tower in Asia. Also visit the Rock Fort Temple (by the Nayaks of Madurai) and Thayumanaswamy Temple. The Vinayaka Temple, dedicated to Lord Ganesh is also a must to visit temple.\n9. 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"raw_content": "The next Selma\nHow the Black Lives Matter movement challenges Unitarian Universalists.\nKenny Wiley | 3/30/2015 | Spring 2015\nThe Rev. Marlin Lavanhar, senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, puts his hands up as 130 members of the church march in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade in Tulsa wearing hoodies with the slogans \u201cGot Soul\u201d on the front and \u201cDon\u2019t Shoot / Seek the Truth in Love\u201d on the back. (\u00a9 Matthew Edwards)\nSocial Justice, Anti-Racism, Racial Justice, Personal Inspiration\nNervous energy permeated the popular Denver grocery store. It was rush hour, true, but clearly even those not in on the impending action were aware that something was different. A tall woman glanced around the produce section. Aren\u2019t there a lot of people here not really buying anything?\nAnxious hands shook. Would we be loud enough? Strong enough?\nThe plan was simple: arrive at the King Soopers store, spread out, then sing the first verse of \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d eleven times\u2014for the eleven times Eric Garner uttered \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d as a police officer ended his life in Staten Island, New York, on July 17, 2014.\nOver sixty people showed up. Some shopped, a form of multitasking protest. I had volunteered to start the singing because I thought a young black person should start things off. Jitters threatened to overwhelm me before I reminded myself to look around. Over a dozen of my fellow Unitarian Universalists made the time to show up. My faith community was with me.\nI breathed in, aware I could do what Eric Garner had cried out he could not, and began to sing.\nWhen I was a child in Texas, my friends read comics; I read little history books. Children\u2019s stories about civil rights leaders, about women like Ida B. Wells and Susan B. Anthony, littered my room. Thoughts of the people in those stories kept me up at night. How did Harriet Tubman not lose hope? How did Rosa Parks find her courage?\nI am a proud, lifelong Unitarian Universalist and a proud black American. With the release of the film Selma and the fiftieth anniversary of the deaths of Jimmie Lee Jackson and UUs Viola Liuzzo and the Rev. James Reeb, I have found myself lately, like many UUs, dreaming of heroes.\nIn this time of remembrance and of celebration, we may lose sight of how hard courage can be. Everyone may love Dr. King now\u2014or, at least, love to quote him selectively\u2014but in life, many reviled him. People who stand up for the oppressed are not celebrated. They are ignored, and when they refuse to be silent, they are despised at least as often as they are admired. Sometimes they are killed.\nBut they are my heroes.\nHeroes say the hard thing. They do the hard thing\u2014sometimes the hardest thing\u2014by showing up. Viola Liuzzo was a UU hero, because she showed up. James Reeb was a UU hero, because he showed up. But they were not alone. They, and hundreds of other allies, showed up to encourage and support people whose heroism is hard to overstate.\nThe heroes I admire didn\u2019t show up in order to stand in the spotlight. They didn\u2019t ask to be the stars. Their heroism was their courage to stand with the oppressed.\nToday, the Black Lives Matter movement is confronting violence against people of color all over the country. It is calling attention to police killings, which are almost never prosecuted. It is calling attention to vigilante killings, like George Zimmerman\u2019s killing of teenager Trayvon Martin. And it is calling attention to the laws and policies that allow these deaths to continue almost without consequence to the perpetrators.\nThe movement for voting rights in Selma had a clear leader, and that leader\u2014the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2014put out a call for justice\u2014seeking people to come to Selma. Dr. King put out a call for heroes. The Black Lives Matter movement has no Dr. King, nor does it want one, but it too has put out a call. The call has not come in the form of a telegram but in tweets, in Facebook statuses, in public witness, in protests: Join us. Join us wherever you are, however you can. We need you to show up.\nIncreasingly, Unitarian Universalists are answering these calls\u2014but slowly, and with caution. \u201cWhy not \u2018All Lives Matter\u2019?\u201d some ask. Others hesitate because some of the black people killed had criminal records, or were suspected of committing nonviolent crimes. (Eric Garner was suspected of selling loose cigarettes.) Those of us in the movement respond by saying that such crimes ought not be punishable by death.\nI grew up thinking of Unitarian Universalists as heroes\u2014as people who show up for justice, for those who have been forgotten. Mary White Ovington, raised Unitarian, dreamed that white people such as herself would join the struggle for racial equality and helped found the NAACP. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a black woman and member of the Unitarian church in Philadelphia, worked tirelessly for abolition and, later, for women\u2019s suffrage.\nBut the Black Lives Matter movement challenges us. We UUs are not its leaders, and because most of us are white, it decenters us. Although its slogan may challenge us, and its structure and leaders may be unfamiliar, the movement\u2019s stated aims\u2014I daresay, its theology\u2014align with ours.\nHere in Colorado, the Denver Freedom Riders\u2019 mission statement begins: \u201cWe believe in the inherent dignity of human life. 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"raw_content": "Most of you have likely heard of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD), maybe in passing or because someone you love has been diagnosed with this disease. To those who have not heard or are not aware, Alzheimer\u2019s is the degradation of brain cell connectors and the cells themselves. This disease eventually destroys the affected person\u2019s memory and other important mental capabilities. Unfortunately, no cure exists at this time, but medications and treatment may temporarily help stabilize a patient\u2019s symptoms.\nI would love to be able to tell you with complete certainty that focusing on your health and wellness will prevent this disease, but unfortunately it\u2019s not that simple. While strategies for physical and mental fitness are common in hopes of preventing Alzheimer\u2019s, the mechanism underlying these strategies is poorly understood. That means, focusing on your wellness may slow down the degradation process, but no one has a good reason why or any idea what techniques work best. My suggestion? Talk to a fitness or nutritional professional or your doctor about ideas and plans to address your personal health and wellness. The intent of this blog is not to lay out the perfect wellness plan to combat Alzheimer\u2019s because such a thing doesn\u2019t exist yet. The intent of this blog is to bring awareness to the severity of this disease and the lack of research that has currently been done to help those in need. We need to be able to cure this disease! We need to know what we can do to prevent this from affecting more families! Why am I so insistent? Because this is already affecting my family and I would like to give you a personal glance into what it really looks like to have a loved one diagnosed with this disease.\nMy family and I found out two years ago that my dad was diagnosed with AD. We were all shocked by the news. We didn\u2019t know what to expect or how to handle it. From that moment until now, my family has had to adjust itself to this disease and learn how to approach it towards my dad. As a family, we continue to treat my dad as what he is, our dad/husband. We have learned that Alzheimer\u2019s is a 24-hour job that is in no way easy. But we have also learned to give ourselves each a time away to refresh because we simply cannot afford to become burnt out. My dad is suffering through this disease and we need to be ready and able to help through every step of the process.\nI know I need to get away for an hour or so every once in a while and I use that time to focus on my health so I\u2019m fit to help my dad. Fitness has played a large role in my life over the last two years. The gym is where I can de-stress; I can get all my anger, sadness, or whatever out. I have a gym family that greets me as soon as I walk in and fills me with positive energy that I can bring back home. I come home refreshed and over the past couple months, this has been critical.\nIn the past couple months my dad\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s has progressed more and more. Some of the signs we noticed were my dad losing the ability to write or perform simple daily tasks he always used to do. He also always needs someone, like my mom or me, near him or he starts to get anxious. There are other consequences of this disease that we have been able to find some peace in. We have discovered what brings my dad joy and what he loves to do. He loves going on walks, coloring, watching boxing, playing the piano and simply spending time with us.\nAlzheimer\u2019s is a sad disease to watch someone suffer through and is particularly hard on the caregivers. You watch as someone you love loses memories and abilities they\u2019ve always had. I feel frustrated when I have to repeat myself multiple times and angry with myself for feeling that way because I know none of this is my dad\u2019s fault. What I have never lost is the knowledge that my dad is my dad and will always be my dad. As a family, we take it day by day and have learned to cherish each moment and not take life for granted. Our family has been forced to learn how hard it is to care for someone who has AD, but luckily we have also become stronger by it. Please help raise money to find a cure for AD, so someday other families won\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s.",
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"raw_content": "This Is Trump's Supreme Court Now and for a Long Time to Come\nHis selection of Brett Kavanaugh is the reason many conservatives voted for Donald Trump. It will cast a long shadow.\nBrett Kavanaugh (left) and Donald Trump. Photos by Chip Somodevilla/Getty\nOn Monday night, Donald Trump made what is sure to be one of the most consequential moves of his presidency, nominating Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. If he's confirmed, as expected, it will nudge the court from merely being right-leaning much of the time to serving as a conservative stronghold, maybe for decades.\nThis is the fulfillment of a nakedly cynical promise Trump made to social conservatives. In 2016, he campaigned relentlessly on the idea that he'd appoint right-wing justices who would roll back abortion rights. Trump might have spent his entire adult life cheating on his wives and telling Howard Stern he would have done Princess Diana\u2014not exactly Christian behavior\u2014but at least he had a Federalist Society\u2013approved list of rock-ribbed conservative judges he'd promote if he got the chance. It gave a lot of uneasy Republican voters a reason to vote for Trump.\nSo while everyone was curious about the name in advance of Monday's announcement, it was clear there would be no surprises here. There will be equally few surprises when it comes time for Kavanaugh to drop the hammer on bedrock liberal causes as a fifth vote in some massive 5\u20134 decisions.\nKavanaugh had a long career as a Republican lawyer before becoming a judge. He spent time investigating the Clinton White House as part of Kenneth Starr's team, then worked for George W. Bush during the infamous Florida recount of 2000. (It was Bush who appointed him to the federal bench in 2003, though Democrats blocked him from taking the seat until 2006.)\nMore predictable than Trump's selection of Kavanaugh is the nominee's likely path from here. Republicans have a narrow majority in the Senate they can use to confirm him, and they may be able to squeeze a few red-state Democrats into backing him as well. It's going to be a tough confirmation battle with well-funded outside groups spending heavily, but Democrats don't have much of a chance of stopping the confirmation and are therefore looking at a grim future.\nIt's widely anticipated that Roe v. Wade, the landmark court case that legalized abortion throughout the country, will be overturned. As many as 21 states could ban abortion immediately (or almost immediately) after that ruling. But the court will have the opportunity to rule on a wide variety of cases and strip away protections many take for granted. Before the announcement, the Washington Post's Paul Waldman outlined how dark things could get:\nRegulations on health insurance companies, say, to ban people from being denied coverage because of preexisting conditions? Sorry, that\u2019s an infringement on the right of the companies to offer whatever products they want to consumers. Environmental regulations? Nope, that, too, is a restriction on economic freedom. Anti-discrimination laws? We can\u2019t tolerate such a limit on freedom of speech and \u201creligious liberty.\u201d Reasonable measures to limit gun violence? No, the Second Amendment is virtually limitless. Limits on direct contributions to candidates? The court has already made a mockery of campaign finance laws meant to stop corruption, so why not just let billionaires hand politicians briefcases full of cash?\nThat might sound alarmist, but even before Kennedy's retirement, the Supreme Court had gutted regulations intended to fight political corruption, stripped away key components of the Voting Rights Act, chipped away at unions, and came close to striking down the Affordable Care Act (ACA).\nIn a Monday statement, Chuck Grassley, the Republican chair of the Senate Judicial Committee, said that while Democrats \"are results-oriented and focus on the policy outcomes of judicial decisions,\" Republicans \"want judges who rule according to the law and leave the policymaking to elected representatives.\" Trump in his nomination speech emphasized that he didn't care about the nominee's \"personal views.\" Similarly, Kavanaugh said Monday night that judges \"must interpret the law, not make the law.\"\nThis is a bit of obvious obfuscation that Republicans love to trot out\u2014partisans on both sides denounce the court whenever it rules against them, as conservatives did when Chief Justice John Roberts preserved the ACA. More to the point, Kavanaugh holds the standard right-wing positions you'd expect. As a circuit court judge, he ruled that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's structure was unconstitutional, often sided against the Environmental Protection Agency, and disapproved of net neutrality. Whatever his principles are, they have him sitting on the conservative side of nearly every issue. (Social conservatives expressed some reservations about him because he wasn't quite as right-wing as some names on Trump's list, but there's no doubt about which side of the aisle he hails from.)\nThe largest question moving ahead is one that won't be answered for years. Assuming Kavanaugh is confirmed, the Supreme Court will remain firmly in conservative hands even if the Democrats sweep back to power in 2020. If that happens, will right-wing justices veto any progressive legislation that gets signed into law on the basis that it is an unconstitutional overreach? 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"raw_content": "Photo illustration by Lia Kantrowitz from a photo by Al Drago/CQ Roll Call\nInside the State Where the GOP\u2019s Authoritarian Streak Has Run Wild\nNorth Carolina's power-grab politics have been replicated all over the country.\nIn December 2016, North Carolina\u2019s Republican-controlled General Assembly convened a special session. The stated purpose was to pass an emergency relief bill in response to Hurricane Matthew\u2019s ravaging of the eastern part of the state and wildfires that destroyed 60,000 acres of land in western Carolina. But after passing the bill and adjourning the special session, the three Republican leaders of the legislature\u2014Speaker Tim Moore, Senate Leader Phil Berger, and Senate President Dan Forest, the state\u2019s lieutenant governor\u2014huddled on the Senate floor. Then they convened a long-rumored second special session. The purpose was unclear, but those reading the tea leaves in Raleigh rightly assumed that Republicans would move to strip power from the governor\u2019s office and the state supreme court before Democrat Roy Cooper, who had won the 2016 gubernatorial election, took control.\nThe Democrats were blindsided. \u201dWe're as stunned as anybody. I don't know what's going on,\" Democratic Senate Leader Dan Blue told me that December day, immediately after the second special session was convened. \"I asked my colleagues in the Republican caucus as well as the Republican leadership, and none of them felt any necessity to let us know.\u201d\nOver the course of the following three days, the legislature passed several bills that outgoing Governor Pat McCrory signed into law, including one that required Senate approval of the governor\u2019s cabinet nominees and another that combined and overhauled the state boards overseeing ethics and elections to give the legislature an equal number of appointments to the governor. (This January, the North Carolina Supreme Court decided that only Cooper could appoint members to the new board, but other parts of the case are still in litigation.)\nThe executive branch hasn\u2019t been the only institution to face the wrath of the General Assembly. The legislature has passed a number of laws in recent years aimed at limiting the power of the courts, including one (over Cooper\u2019s veto) that phased out three seats on the Court of Appeals, preventing Cooper from making any new appointments in the case of a retirement. The legislature and the state Democratic Party are involved in ongoing litigation over a law that canceled judicial primaries. Later this year, lawmakers are expected to take up a controversial judicial redistricting project that could have much of the same effect as its other gerrymandering efforts.\n\u201cWe have a legislative process that exists mainly as a series of ambushes,\u201d Democratic State Senator Jeff Jackson told me. \u201cAt this point it\u2019s a genuine surprise if we\u2019re given time to fully read a piece of legislation.\u201d (Emails seeking comment from Representative Tim Moore and Senator Phil Berger, the GOP\u2019s leaders in the General Assembly, went unanswered.)\nThese nakedly partisan maneuvers by North Carolina\u2019s Republican party have garnered national attention and been derided by many on the left as a \u201cpower grab.\u201d But the type of hard-nosed, domineering tactics pioneered in North Carolina have become standard for Republicans all over the country.\nTwelve months after that fateful special session, Republicans in the US Senate dropped their 479-page tax bill on Democrats hours before the scheduled vote. This kicked off a frenzy of activity, with some changes made in the margins of the bill text itself as it marched toward becoming law; after the Senate voted to pass it on a narrow party-line vote, the House had to vote on it again due to some confusion over a couple provisions. The process was just as chaotic as the one surrounding the secretively written healthcare bill, but where the Affordable Care Act repeal effort faltered thanks to a couple Republican senators voting no, the tax bill was signed into law by Donald Trump on December 22.\nRepublicans at the state level are increasingly comfortable consolidating power in unprecedented ways. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court implemented new Congressional maps on its own rather than wait for the Republican-controlled legislature and Democratic Governor Tom Wolf to come to an agreement, Republican lawmakers filed resolutions to impeach the court\u2019s Democratic justices. In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker refused to call special elections for two open seats formerly held by Republicans in the legislature until his hand was forced by rulings made by three different Wisconsin judges\u2014just before the legislature was able to reconvene to pass a law preventing the special elections from happening.\nBut even among those examples, North Carolina stands out for how often the legislature has wielded absolute power in recent years. \u201cIf you\u2019re looking to make our federal government more divisive and less transparent, it\u2019s hard not to look at NC\u2019s legislature and be inspired,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cIt feels like our legislature is running an experiment in how to torch our credibility. We\u2019re a 50/50 state that\u2019s run by the 10 percent of people who vote in Republican primaries, which means 90 percent [of North Carolinians] aren\u2019t being heard.\u201d\n\u201cThe typical Republican\u2019s philosophy, be it a state legislator or a congressman, is to get the bill done regardless of methodology,\u201d Congressman G.K. Butterfield, a veteran House Democrat who previously served on the North Carolina Supreme Court, told me. \u201cAnd if it means introducing a bill at 11:59 PM and fast-tracking it the next day, they will do it.\u201d\nNorth Carolina has been a one-party state for essentially its entire post-Civil War history, and until relatively recently, that party was the Democrats. After Democrats took control of the legislature in 1898 essentially via coup, they implemented Jim Crow and disenfranchised black voters, which helped them dominate the state for a century. Since 1901, there\u2019s been a grand total of 16 years where North Carolina has had a Republican governor.\nAfter the realignment following the Civil Rights Act, however, Republicans slowly but surely started to gain power in North Carolina. The state went for Richard Nixon in 1968, and the segregationist Republican Senator Jesse Helms was elected four years later. From then on, Democrats generally held power at the state level, but North Carolina mostly went red in presidential elections; Barack Obama was the first Democrat to win the state\u2019s electoral votes in 32 years. Two years later, the famous Republican wave of 2010 swept Republicans into power in both chambers of the General Assembly for the first time in a century, and two years after that, the state elected as its governor former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory.\nRepublicans led by then House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger immediately got to work in cementing these majorities, exacting a hundred-plus years of frustration with Democratic rule. The new Congressional and legislative maps they produced had the effect of packing black voters around the state into districts as possible. Butterfield\u2019s First Congressional District, for example, snaked through cities and towns in the northern, central, and eastern parts of the state that had large populations of black voters. Butterfield\u2019s district\u2019s perimeter, a lawsuit would later note, was longer than 1,300 miles.\nOver the past seven years, Republicans have worked not just to make the party\u2019s power permanent, but to consolidate authority in the legislature; Legislators passed a law in 2013, after McCrory\u2019s election, preventing the state\u2019s governor from expanding Medicaid without the consent of the legislature. Even McCrory sometimes clashed with his fellow Republicans in the General Assembly: In 2014, McCrory sued Tillis and Berger over their attempts to appoint a majority of members to a state commission on cleaning up a coal ash spill in the western part of the state.\nRepublicans in the state capital have also overridden the priorities of progressive cities, most notably in the instance of HB 2, the state\u2019s hastily written anti-trans \u201cbathroom bill.\u201d After the city of Charlotte passed a non-discrimination ordinance that included protections for transgender people in February 2016, state legislators called a special session the following month. In a whirlwind of a day, a bill asserting that local governments didn\u2019t have the right to pass such ordinances\u2014as well as those protecting workers\u2014was passed and signed into law, leading to a year of national outrage and boycotts; emails later showed that McCrory didn\u2019t fully understand what he was signing. (The law was repealed the following March.)\nA little over a year into the Trump administration, you can draw a straight line from Republican efforts in places like North Carolina to the unified Republican federal government.\nOn matters of policy, the similarities are obvious predictable. Trump has used trans soldiers as a bogeyman to fire up his base, borrowing a tactic from the North Carolina GOP even though he came out against HB 2 on the campaign trail. The EPA, like North Carolina\u2019s Department of Environmental Quality under McCrory, now looks less like an environmental regulator and more like an ally of polluters. And the initial priorities of Trump and the Republican Congress looked a lot like some of the first major victories for Pat McCrory and Thom Tillis\u2019s unified Republican government: a huge tax cut for the rich and business and a slashed safety net.\nBut beyond those traditional right-wing priorities, the North Carolina model of winning and wielding power means adopting an opaque legislative process and limiting the power of Democrats by whatever means necessary\u2014then, if those means are challenged in court, change the laws or threaten the judges.\n\u201cI think the writing is on the wall, [the legislature] having been rebuked on their racial gerrymandering efforts,\u201d said Allison Riggs, a staff attorney for voting rights at the NC-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice. \u201cSo now the position is, \u2018What do we do to cement some of the gains we\u2019ve made over the past seven years?\u2019 And if you\u2019re on your way out, rigging the judiciary is a pretty good way to make sure nothing can get undone.\u201d\nIf they\u2019re successful, it could have national ramifications ahead of November\u2019s election, which seems poised to see some sort of swing toward the Democrats. As Riggs points out, these efforts in North Carolina\u2014as well as other southern states where Democrats had long held onto state legislature majorities but recently turned fully red\u2014were backed by national groups, particularly the Republican State Leadership Committee. North Carolina was a prime target in the wave election of 2010, as the RSLC spent $1.2 million there to elect Republicans, funneling the money through a local-sounding PAC called Real Jobs NC. It succeeded, as Republicans regained control of both houses of the legislature at the same time for the first time in more than a hundred years.\nAs the executive director of the progressive watchdog group Institute for Southern Studies noted in 2012, Real Jobs NC \u201caccounted for more than half of all independent spending directed at N.C. legislative races and gave Republicans a 10-to-1 money advantage in support from independent groups.\u201d (Disclosure: I used to work for the Institute for Southern Studies.) Once in power, the new North Carolina majority hired Tom Hofeller, a former redistricting director and consultant for the Republican National Committee, to draw the new district maps.\n\u201cIf you look at the extent to which Republican redistricting efforts were coordinated through DC and the Republican State Leadership Committee, and you look at the way that work was nationally coordinated\u2026 North Carolina was at the top of their target list,\u201d Riggs said. \u201cThat, to me, confirmed that NC is the testing ground for this kind of stuff.\u201d\nIn June 2011, the legislature hired political science professor Thomas Brunell, the author of a book called Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America, to defend Hofeller\u2019s new maps. In a report for the legislature, Mother Jones reported, Brunell wrote that \u201cthere is clear evidence for the presence of statistically significant racially polarized voting,\u201d which meant that the only way to maintain the political influence of black voters was to concentrate them them into a few districts.\nThe courts haven\u2019t bought Brunell\u2019s logic. As a result of a series of federal court orders over the past few years, the state\u2019s Congressional map was redrawn in 2016\u2014the new map is still being challenged in court\u2014and there have been significant changes made to the legislative map by court-appointed expert Nathaniel Persily.\nIn maybe the clearest example of the North Carolina model trickling up to the federal level, this November Trump picked Brunell to run the United States Census. After months of criticism and charges that he would help manipulate the 2020 Census to help Republicans further benefit from gerrymandering, Brunell withdrew his name from consideration. But that hasn\u2019t ended fears that the Census will be politicized\u2014in March, the Trump administration announced it was adding a citizenship question to the Census, a move experts fear could result in many fewer people responding to the survey. Several state attorneys general (including North Carolina\u2019s Josh Stein) joined a lawsuit by New York\u2019s Eric Schneiderman to take the citizenship question off the Census.\nNorth Carolina\u2019s problem with democracy is obvious; figuring out what can be realistically done to stop the cycle is quite a bit harder.\nJackson and Butterfield have a predictable answer: elect Democrats. But if the Democrats do take power\u2014which, considering how gerrymandered the legislature is, would be far from a certainty even in a huge wave election\u2014Jackson says his first priority wouldn\u2019t be to mirror the GOP\u2019s tactics, but rather to pass an independent redistricting constitutional amendment. Such a move, Democrats argue, would help North Carolina\u2019s legislature more closely mirror the state\u2019s purple political leanings.\n\u201cThat\u2019s the first bill, a constitutional amendment to implement independent redistricting,\u201d Jackson told me. \u201cWe can argue over what the second bill needs to be, but that needs to be first.\u201d\nIn response, Republicans have shot back that they supported independent redistricting when they, too, were in the minority, but were never given a vote by the Democrats. 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It\u2019s this mentality that the public isn\u2019t gonna get really worked up about a lack of transparency\u2026 the best we can do is that when we litigate cases, fight these discovery battles and every little tooth and nail for ever piece of information.\u201d",
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"raw_content": "Jealousy, Greed, and Soccer Moms: Exploring the 'Great Beanie Baby Bubble' of the 90s\nZac Bissonnette talks to VICE about the story of Ty Warner's billion-dollar plush toy empire and the speculative bubble it created.\nPhotos courtesy of Peggy Gallagher\nSomewhere in your parents' basement, there's a plastic Rubbermaid bin filled with worthless plush toys that once promised riches. The Beanie Baby frenzy of the 90s spread from suburban Chicago across the United States, creating a mass speculative bubble, with sales reaching $1 billion at their peak. Ty Warner, creator of the Beanie Baby, was an \"obsessive\" perfectionist, slaving over the minute details of each toy even after they had gone to market. This neurotic striving for the perfect design turned Ty into an accidental marketing genius: by replacing old designs with updated, slightly tweaked toys, Ty created a market of speculation that ultimately crushed the collectibles industry.\nZac Bissonnette, a writer previously known for his books Debt-Free U and How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents, spoke with VICE about his latest book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute. Inspired by a sad Rubbermaid container full of pristine and worthless Beanie Babies, Bissonnette began a deep investigation into the bizarre story of Ty Warner's empire.\nVICE spoke with Bissonnette about American greed, consumer stupidity, and Ty Warner's extensive plastic surgery.\nVICE: How did you end up writing a book about Beanie Babies?\nZac Bissonnette: It was 2010 or 2011, and I was at an auction in Massachusetts. I went to auctions a lot\u2014I was furnishing my condo\u2014and in the back of the room at one sale were these huge Rubbermaid containers full of Beanie Babies, which I remember from the 90s. The interesting thing about them was not the Beanie Babies themselves but the manifest conviction of whoever had assembled this collection and thought that it would one day be of great value. They were all preserved with these plastic protectors over the heart tags, and there were all these spreadsheets about what each animal was worth, color-coded stuff. Very type A. And all this energy was poured into the cataloging of a collection of Beanie Babies, which were worthless. I think the whole thing sold for $100.\nBut for a few years in the late 1990s a huge swath of America thought that these animals were the ticket to long-term riches. The stats are really interesting. At one point, Beanie Babies were worth 10% of eBay sales. The guy who invented them, Ty Warner, was worth around $2 billion. And all that money was from Beanie Babies.\nWhat happened? What caused these people to think Beanie Babies were so valuable?\nTy had been a very successful toy salesman. In 1994, he released the first Beanie Babies. And at first, nothing happened. Retailers thought they looked cheap. They worried that they were too inexpensive and would cannibalize sales. So at first it was very, very hard for [Beanie Babies] to get it going at all. But Ty Warner was just really convinced that this was the product that was gonna put him on the map. The guy who did his distribution in Canada remembers Ty summoning him into his office in Westmont, Illinois. Ty reaches into his desk and pulls out the prototype for Legs the Frog, and says, \"From now on, every dime we have goes into this.\"\nWhen I first heard that, I thought it was fake, like a line from a movie. But other people said the same thing. His girlfriend at the time recalled him showing Legs the Frog to her daughters and throwing it in the air, saying, \"Can you believe how fun this is?\" He'd bring prototypes to their family dinners and ask the daughters to name them. His girlfriend would say, \"We're just trying to eat dinner,\" and Ty would say, \"We can eat after the toys have names.\" So nothing really happened with them at first, but Ty was just... very perfectionistic. He'd spend several hours over every animal. He used to brush the hair on each toy before it shipped. And that obsession didn't change after a piece was released. He would take an animal after it had been released, and he'd change the design on it because he decided it didn't look right. Peanut the Elephant, in 1995, was this royal blue color. They shipped a few thousand, not that many. Then Ty decide that instead of this royal blue color it should be a baby blue color. So Ty started to change stuff, and no one really cared.\nThen, all of a sudden, Beanie Babies started to develop a following among kids from suburban Chicago. The mothers started collecting them; a lot of this was tied into this soccer mom culture of the 1990s, much of which was centered around consumerism. The Beanie Babies were sort of the apotheosis of this. These women started to get really into it, started trying to assemble complete sets of Beanie Babies. As they went from store to store, calling around, they started to realize there are all these weird variations. Like they would find that he had changed the design on Teddy the Bear. So they started to pay higher prices for the variations. And the word of these higher prices got out. An economist once said that \"there is nothing so dangerous to one's sense of self as to see a good friend get rich.\" And so it was that these stories of a relatively small group of people paying increasingly higher prices for the rarest Beanie Babies turned this into a phenomenon with no major marketing and no major stores.\nPhoto via Flickr user Jason Adams\nThis wasn't Ty's original idea?\nEveryone has always thought that it was. Forbes did a story in 1999 on his \"mystique marketing.\" But when I brought this up with people who worked with Ty at the time, they would laugh. This wasn't a strategy, this was madness. This was an obsessive compulsive guy. His girlfriend at the time described it as \"this never-ending striving for a perfect that doesn't exist.\"\nAre there still Beanie Babies out in the world?\nYeah, the Beanie Boos! Ty is still the biggest plush toy brand in the world. You don't realize it until you start to look for it, and then you see Ty everywhere. They're sold in Duane Reade.\nWhile researching The Great Beanie Baby Bubble, did you have the chance to meet Ty Warner?\nI met him once at a toy fair. It was very, very strange. He showed up to look at his booth, this very strange-looking man. He's had a lot of plastic surgery. 70 years old with this very blonde hair. Very spiffy dresser. I walked over to him and I think he was kind of surprised. He doesn't really talk to people. He lives in this $150 million mansion in Montecito and no one really talks to him.\nBut I told him that I thought he had an incredible story, one of the great entrepreneurial stories\u2014how from $5 plush toys he became one of the richest men in the history of the American toy industry, still one of the richest people in America, certainly in the top 300\u2014and that I hoped he'd tell his story to me. He said, \"Well, the Beanie Baby thing was a lot of good and a lot of bad. If I told you the story, I'd probably just tell you the good and it wouldn't be balanced.\" And I said, \"Well, thank you, Mr. Warner. I could talk to other people too, to be balanced.\" And he said, \"I just think it's better if you talk to other people.\" So that's what I did, and he didn't restrict my access. I spoke with his estranged sister, his ex-girlfriend, many of his former workers...\nIt sounds like this story is teetering on tragedy. Were there people whose lives were ruined by Beanie Babies?\nI mean, certainly, people lost a lot of money on Beanie Babies. Ty sales were, at one time, more than $1 billion a year. Virtually all of that demand was speculative. It's not unreasonable to say that at least 70% of Beanie Babies sold were bought because people thought they'd go up in value.\nDid they ever go up?\nYes, that's what drove it. It's a lot like the real estate bubble or the internet bubble. In 1998, if you had been one of the original collectors\u2014because I know these collectors, I talked to them a ton\u2014they all had collections that they bought for basically nothing and were worth at one point half a million dollars if they sold them. One collector sold hers to adopt her first child, another built a house. Some of them lost money on internet stocks.\nThe story of The Great Beanie Baby Bubble, the reason I called [the book] Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, is partially an allusion to Charles Mackay's book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, the first book on speculative bubbles. But really the story to me is about how wrong people can be about what has value, and sort of the process by which that happens. And coming to terms with the fact that you were wrong about it. The Beanie Baby craze ended really badly for everyone. This was a high point in people's lives, but the Beanie Babies ended up worthless and Ty Warner ended up miserable and alone.\nIs there anything now that mimics the Beanie Baby pattern of delusion?\nThe fallout from Beanie Babies was so spectacular that people in the collectibles industry believe that this ruined the industry. It hasn't recovered. Once bitten, twice shy: the fallout of the Beanie Baby craze really did teach people that consumer goods probably aren't going to go up in value. If it's in a store and everyone thinks it's going to make you rich, it probably won't. But certainly the real estate bubble isn't terribly different. People were fueled by these stories of how much their neighbors were making, and that jealousy and greed led them to irrational financial decisions.\nPhoto courtesy of Flickr user Liz West\nWas jealousy and greed motivating the Beanie Baby craze?\nAbsolutely. [Former editor of Mary Beth's Beanie World magazine] Mary Beth Sobelewski sort of sighed at one point and told me, \"The thing I remember so much about Beanie Babies in the beginning was how they just made people feel so happy, and so warm and fuzzy. Then it just became greed. And it got really dark.\"\nIs there any silver lining to the story?\nWell, these things do have long term benefits. For instance, you have an unprecedented number of very well-made, mint-condition plush animals that aren't worth anything. Every week in local papers there will be a story about someone donating a thousand Beanie Babies to a local children's hospital or a police office. And the kids who get these toys while they're going through traumatic situations, like cancer, they have no knowledge of the fact that, at one point, people put so much faith in the abilities of these lifeless things.\nThe Great Beanie Baby Bubble comes out March 3rd, 2015 from Portfolio Penguin.",
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Police arrested a 31-year-old Baltimore man in Halethorpe and charged him with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree and second-degree assault, two counts of reckless endangerment and two handgun violations.\nMARIE AVE., 100 block, 8:10 p.m. Sept. 27. Property was stolen from a residence entered by breaking a basement window.\nWELLHAM AVE., 300 block, 8 p.m. Sept. 25 to 6:45 a.m. Sept. 26. Property was stolen from a residence entered through an unlocked side window.\nPARKE WEST DRIVE AND QUARTERFIELD ROAD, Sept. 25. A green Saturn was stolen.\nOdenton Area\nANNAPOLIS RD., 1100 block, 10 p.m. Sept. 26 to 7 a.m. Sept. 27. A vehicle and tools were stolen from a business entered by forcing a door.\nANNAPOLIS RD., 1-100 block, Sept. 26 to Sept. 27. A green 1999 Ford was stolen.\nFORT SMALLWOOD RD., 8500 block, 7 p.m. Sept. 25 to 9:30 a.m. Sept. 26. A business was entered by breaking a front window. 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A male punched a 20-year-old female acquaintance in the face, took her keys and then punched her several more times before leaving.\nFRANKLIN ST., 1-100 block, 8 p.m. Oct. 1. Police, responding to a report of a fight, detained a man when a gun fell out of his jacket at the scene. According to a relative of the man who approached police, the two of them had been drinking alcohol and took a cab home. The man then refused to get out of the cab, pulled out a gun and waved it. The relative grabbed it, and during the struggle the gun discharged. No injuries were reported. Police arrested a 41-year-old Annapolis man and charged him with first-degree assault and unlawful carrying of a handgun.\nGEMINI DR., 1200 block, 3:04 p.m. Sept. 26. A youth pointed a gun at an 11-year-old girl as she walked home from school. Police arrested a 17-year-old Annapolis male and recovered a BB gun. He was charged with assault.\nMADISON ST., 1100 block, 12:45 p.m. Sept. 29. A female punched and kicked a 29-year-old female acquaintance in the abdomen. The acquaintance was four months pregnant. The case was under investigation.\nNEWTOWNE DR., 700 block, 9 to 10 p.m. Sept. 25. Three males approached a 28-year-old man who was visiting friends, accused him of being a police operative and hit him repeatedly with sticks. The three fled in a car.\nANNAPOLIS WALK, 600 block, 10:53 a.m. Sept. 28. A male approached a 21-year-old woman as she was getting into her car in front of a house, implied he had weapon and demanded her purse. The woman screamed, and he grabbed her by the arm and continued to demand her purse. When the woman screamed again, a woman stepped outside the house to see what was happening and the male fled.\nCITY GATE LANE NEAR LARKIN STREET, 2:50 p.m. Sept. 30. A 26-year-old man was robbed of his wallet by a couple.\nFOREST DR., 1200 block, 12:11 a.m. Oct. 3. 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"raw_content": "Hackers\u2019 threats prompt Sony Pictures to shelve Christmas release of \u2018The Interview\u2019\nSony Pictures has canceled the Dec. 25 release of \"The Interview\" after hackers threatened terrorists attacks and the five largest multiplex chains in North America pulled the film from its screens. (AP)\nBy Drew Harwell and\nSony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday canceled the Christmas Day release of \u201cThe Interview,\u201d bowing to threats of a wide-scale attack from hackers who U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were working for North Korea.\nU.S. officials, though, were not prepared to publicly accuse the reclusive government, in large part because the Obama administration has not determined what, if any, action it could take.\nAt a briefing Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the hack was being treated as \u201ca serious national security matter.\u201d He declined to comment on whether North Korea was behind the cyberattack, saying that the matter is \u201cstill under investigation.\u201d\nEarnest added that the White House national security team is \u201cconsidering a number of options,\u201d although he did not describe the options being weighed.\nIntelligence officials believe with \u201c99 percent certainty\u201d that hackers working for the North Korean government carried out the attack, said one individual who was briefed on the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity. But the administration hasn\u2019t figured out what to do, U.S. officials said.\nOfficials agree that there are no good options. Unlike China, which the United States has publicly accused of stealing vast amounts of intellectual property from U.S. companies, North Korea is far removed from the global economy and already under economic sanctions, imposed by the United Nations, targeting its nuclear program.\n\u201cThere are no sanctions left,\u201d said a U.S. official. \u201cNor do we have any trade with them to sanction. So there certainly is a very limited number of tools in the toolbox.\u201d\nNational Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said late Wednesday that the United States \u201cis investigating attribution and will provide an update at the appropriate time. The U.S. government is working tirelessly to bring the perpetrators of this attack to justice, and we are considering a range of options in weighing a potential response.\u201d\nSony said in a statement Wednesday that it was \u201cdeeply saddened at [the hackers\u2019] brazen effort\u201d to suppress the movie and was opting \u201cnot to move forward\u201d with the Dec. 25 release. A Sony spokesperson later said that the studio \u201chas no further release plans for the film.\u201d\nEarlier in the day, the nation\u2019s five largest theater circuits \u2014 Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment \u2014 said they would delay the $44 million film\u2019s opening.\nRegal, the biggest of the five, said it would delay the screening because of \u201cthe wavering support of the film\u201d by Sony \u201cas well as the ambiguous nature\u201d of the threats. Cineplex said it \u201ctakes seriously its commitment to the freedom of artistic expression\u201d but added that safety was paramount because of the \u201cunprecedented and complex situation.\u201d\nThat an anonymous hacking squad could derail the plans of one of the world\u2019s biggest entertainment firms, experts said, marks a worrying new precedent for cyberterrorism that could encourage more attacks. With one inexpensive hack, a team can generate the kind of international fear once achievable only through bomb or terror threats.\n\u201cThis is the real danger to corporate America in the cyber domain,\u201d said Alec Ross, a senior fellow at Columbia University\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs.\n\u201cThe cost to build powerful malignant weapons is shockingly low. There are very well-developed communities of hackers for hire all over the world that can develop very powerful cyberweapons for exceedingly low costs.\u201d\nGuardians of Peace, the group claiming responsibility for the hack, issued a sharp warning this week promising a \u201cbitter fate\u201d for those going to the movie and warning others \u201cto keep yourself distant from the places at that time.\u201d\n\u201cThe world will be full of fear,\u201d they said in an anonymous online posting. \u201cRemember the 11th of September 2001.\u201d\nThe North Korean government has denied involvement in the hack but called it \u201ca righteous deed\u201d and threatened to undertake \u201ca merciless countermeasure\u201d due to the film\u2019s premiere. It added that the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy, which ends with the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is a \u201cmost blatant act of terrorism and war.\u201d\nAnalysts say any military action in retaliation for a cyberattack on a studio would be out of proportion and would risk escalation. Indictments would be pointless, as North Korea would never let its citizens stand trial in the United States. At most, some analysts say, the administration could deliver a public shaming, as one former U.S. official said, to \u201clet North Korea know \u2018We know you did it.\u2019\u200a\u201d\nJames A. Lewis, a cyberpolicy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the administration is in a bind when it comes to naming a state like North Korea.\n\u201cThere are a couple of worries here,\u201d he said. \u201cThe first is that they want evidence that would stand up in court. If that\u2019s your standard, that\u2019s pretty high.\u201d\nSecond, he said, \u201cIf we do something to North Korea, what do they do back? They know how bad our [cyber] defenses are.\u201d\nSaid a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic: \u201cWe are not willing to escalate.\u201d\nPresident Obama did not mention North Korea when he commented on the Sony hack in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday. \u201cThe cyberattack is very serious,\u201d the president said. \u201cWe\u2019re investigating, and we\u2019re taking it seriously. We\u2019ll be vigilant. If we see something that we think is serious and credible, then we\u2019ll alert the public. But for now, my recommendation would be that people go to the movies.\u201d\nInvestigators reached their conclusion in part by comparing malware used in the hack to malware North Korea used in hacks against South Korean banks in recent years, said individuals familiar with the probe. They also found that the hackers routed their attacks through computers in seven countries \u2014 including the United States, Thailand and Bolivia \u2014 to try to hide the attack\u2019s origin and that some of the malware was written using the Korean language.\nThe Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that there is no credible evidence suggesting an active plot against U.S. movie theaters in connection with the hack, and a State Department official said Wednesday that the agency has no specific information lending credence to the threat.\nStill, Bow Tie Cinemas, a smaller chain of 55 theaters in six states, said in a statement Wednesday that it was \u201csaddened and angered by recent threats of terrorism\u201d and, \u201cgiven that the source and credibility of these threats is unknown,\u201d the chain would cancel the movie\u2019s Dec. 25 premiere.\nThat decision created its own backlash, as people took to Facebook to call the chain \u201ccowards\u201d for \u201ckowtowing\u201d to the threats. In response, Bow Tie spokesman Joe Masher said: \u201cThe safety of our patrons and staff are our number one priority. Period. It was a difficult decision for us to make.\u201d\nThe theaters acted days after Sony said it would not object to any deciding not to show the movie. Some legal experts said that statement transferred legal liability for any attack from Sony to the theaters, should they decide to proceed with a showing in the face of a known threat.\nThe National Association of Theatre Owners said in a statement that its member theaters \u201cmay decide to delay exhibition\u201d until \u201cthe responsible criminals are apprehended.\u201d\nWith the premiere scuttled, Sony could choose to unveil the film later in theaters or skip the big screen altogether and release it through video-on-demand. That would upend a longtime agreement between theaters and film studios of months-long delays between big-screen premieres and at-home viewing.\nRogen declined to comment, and messages left with Franco were not returned. They have canceled talk-show appearances and other media interviews.\nThe hacker group has released several years of sensitive internal Sony documents, including employee salary data, health information and Social Security numbers. It also promised a \u201cChristmas gift,\u201d likely another dump of stolen internal secrets.\nSony executives have held meetings to apologize to workers whose data was leaked, and the company has hired crisis specialists to deal with insensitive e-mails that have embarrassed the firm\u2019s top brass.\nBut the firm has also gone on the offensive, partnering with such companies as Entura, a London privacy firm, to attempt to block sharing of the files and cap further leaks. It has also hired lawyer David Boies, who has threatened legal action against media outlets that report details pulled from the Sony leaks.\nThe delay could prove financially devastating to Sony during the holidays, one of Hollywood\u2019s most lucrative box-office seasons.\nSome theater executives worried that a cancellation could accelerate the trend of viewers turning away from the big screen in favor of watching movies at home.\nThe hacker group gave no details of the extent of its threat.\nThe movie\u2019s derailed premiere stunned Hollywood. 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"raw_content": "PostEverything Analysis\nWhy big business keeps winning at the Supreme Court\nThe rest of us will lose out to corporate power without populist justices.\nThere was one constant in the Supreme Court term that ends Monday \u2014 corporations usually won. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)\nThe Supreme Court has undergone historic change over the past year or so. It lost its most distinctive voice, added a new justice after an unprecedented political battle and now faces rumors about swing Justice Anthony M. Kennedy\u2019s impending retirement. Yet one thing remains constant on a dynamic Supreme Court: corporations and business interests win.\nThe term ending Monday lacked the sort of high-profile cases that draw wide public attention, such as marriage equality or affirmative action. Yet the court\u2019s docket was filled with cases involving conflicts pitting business against consumers and workers. Although they do not generate big headlines, these cases profoundly affect the lives of millions of ordinary people \u2014 and the court usually sides with business.\nBecause these cases also have an impact on the bottom lines of many American corporations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was once again one of the most active groups in the Supreme Court this term. The chamber filed \u201camicus,\u201d or friend-of-the-court, briefs in 15 cases. More impressive still is the chamber\u2019s record: 11 wins and only three losses (one case remains to be decided).\nWhen the chamber wins, it is often common people who lose. The court this term sided with the organization and held that debt-collection companies do not engage in a false, deceptive or unfair practice by filing stale, unenforceable claims against a person in bankruptcy \u2014 even though the whole point of those claims is to fool people into paying money they are not legally obligated to pay.\n[Neil Gorsuch always sides with big business, big donors and big bosses]\nIn other cases this term, the court limited the ability of states to protect residents of a nursing home from being forced into arbitration; erected new hurdles for people seeking to bring class actions; and restricted the ability of the Securities and Exchange Commission to force people convicted of securities fraud to pay back their ill-gotten gains. In each of these cases, the court ruled in favor of the side supported by the chamber.\nThe chamber\u2019s success rate is nothing new: In the past six terms, the court has ruled with the chamber 74 percent of the time the group has gotten involved in cases that come before it. That\u2019s a record of 65 wins out of 87 cases, with one still to be decided.\nStudies have shown that the court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., is the most business-friendly court in nearly a century, and the cases decided this term only buttress that finding. Of the 19 decided cases pitting corporations or business entities against individuals or government agencies \u2014 regardless of whether the chamber filed a brief \u2014 the court ruled in favor of business 14 times, or 74 percent of the time.\nThe success of business interests before the nation\u2019s highest court is not due simply to a conservative majority of justices. Neil M. Gorsuch participated in only a handful of cases, and for most of the term, there were an even number of liberals and conservatives. Yet the notoriously ideologically divided justices came together this term, as they often do, in cases involving business.\nIndeed, the most remarkable thing about this term was that it was liberal justices who led the charge for business. The court\u2019s opinion in the debt collectors case was written by Stephen G. Breyer. Elena Kagan wrote the opinion in the arbitration case. Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion in the class action case. Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion in the securities fraud case.\n[Democrats can\u2019t win until they recognize how bad Obama\u2019s financial policies were]\nThe court\u2019s near-consensus in business cases is tied to a larger phenomenon: the abandonment by progressives and liberals of their traditional focus on issues of economic justice and income inequality. Such issues were once central to liberal legal thought. More than 70 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a \u201cSecond Bill of Rights\u201d that focused on economic rights, such as access to housing, health care and a social safety net. He also nominated to the court economic populists such as Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, who were committed to curtailing the judge-made rights of corporations, expanding consumers\u2019 access to courts and empowering government to protect workers and others easily taken advantage of by the large corporations of the postwar era.\nToday\u2019s court is composed of excellent jurists, with a variety of different judicial philosophies. There are originalists such as Clarence Thomas, textualists such as Gorsuch, pragmatists such as Breyer. None of the justices, however, are economic populists in the vein of Black or Douglas.\nRecent Democratic presidents \u2014 Bill Clinton and Barack Obama \u2014 eschewed the politics of economic equality \u2014 as is reflected in their choices for the high court. Of the four confirmed justices they nominated, three (Ginsburg, Breyer and Sotomayor) were endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce. The chamber took no position on Kagan, although she has since sided with the chamber more often than not.\nRecent Republican presidents, by contrast, have prioritized economic issues, and several of the conservative justices were probably chosen in part because they are committed to scaling back government regulation, expanding property rights and limiting lawsuits against business. The surprising thing is how often their colleagues nominated by Democratic presidents join them.\nSince November, Democrats have been debating whether the party must embrace economic populism to win back white working-class voters. But economic justice is not just about winning elections. It is also about winning cases. And until Democrats begin nominating economic populists to the nation\u2019s highest court, consumers and workers will continue to lose time and again to business.",
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"raw_content": "Eugene McLean\nDecember 8, 1931 ~ August 2, 2018 (age 86)\nEugene Liles McLean, 86, of Rockingham, died Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018 at the home of his daughter in Kentucky. Eugene was born Dec. 8, 1931 in Richmond County, a son of the late John W and Fannie McLean.\nEugene was a member of Beaver Dam United Methodist Church. He shared his faith by serving the Lord \u2014 through volunteer activities and by singing as a member of the East Rockingham Men's Chorus. Eugene served his country honorably for thirty three years - first in the United States Air Force, and continuing in the Air Force Reserves. Later, he served as a Master Sergeant in the N.C. Air National Guard Communications Squadron for 33 years in Badin, NC. He was an Industrial Engineer at J P Stevens and Bibb in Rockingham, NC. Eugene was deeply devoted to his faith and his family - a proud grandfather of five and a great grandfather. He served as a member of the American Legion and the Men's club at Beaver Dam. He loved his family and made friends with everyone he met, coaching Little League for several teams including Swink Oil and supporting Boy Scouts in both North Carolina and Kentucky with his three grandsons receiving the rank of Eagle.\nHe is preceded in death by his wife, Betty Alice Gibson McLean and son Michael Eugene McLean. He is also preceded in death by his parents, his brothers Grady McLean, Earl McLean, and his sister Mary Ellen Saunders. He is survived by his brothers John McLean and James McLean. Eugene is survived by a daughter, Betty Gallagher and husband Ted of Simpsonville, Ky.; a son, John Robert (Bobby) McLean and wife Adelia of Central, SC ; grandchildren, Ben McLean of Raleigh, NC; Drew McLean and wife Mollie of Charleston, SC; Zachary Gallagher, Rachel Gallagher and Jamie Gallagher, all of Louisville, KY; and great-grandson Eli McLean of Charleston, SC.\nFuneral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at Beaver Dam United Methodist Church with the Rev. Terry Cornelius officiating. Burial will follow at Richmond County Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. prior to the service at the church.\nMemorials may be made to Beaver Dam United Methodist Church, c/o Calvin Gibson, 702 McDonald Church Rd., Rockingham, NC 28379 or Richmond County Relay for Life, c/o American Cancer Society, 1901 Brunswick Ave., Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28207.\nOnline condolences may be made at www.watson-kingfuneralhome.com.",
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"raw_content": "Soldiers to get Army's new uniforms in 2020 after finalized design\nThe Army plans to begin issuing its newly announced Army Greens to new soldiers beginning in summer 2020, the service's senior enlisted leader said Nov. 19, 2018.\nArmy Secretary Mark Esper approved the Nov. 11, 2018 adoption of the much-discussed Army Greens, which all soldiers must wear by 2028. The new uniform, recently renamed by service brass, is a version of the iconic pinks-and-greens uniform Army officers wore during World War II.\n\"This uniform is still in the minds of many Americans. This nation came together during World War II and fought and won a great war,\" Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey said in a briefing with reporters at the Pentagon. \"That's what the secretary and [Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark Milley] wanted to do, is capitalize on the greatest generation because there is another great generation that is serving today, and that is the soldiers serving in the United States Army.\"\nSoldiers currently serving in the active duty, National Guard and Reserves will be able to purchase the new uniform in summer 2020, but they do not have to buy it until 2028, Army officials have said. The current blue Army Service Uniform (ASU) will become the service's optional dress uniform.\n\"I know it seems like a long time,\" Dailey said, explaining that the extended phase-in period is designed to give enlisted soldiers time to save up their annual clothing allowance to pay for the new uniform. \"We've got to give the soldier ample time to be paid for those uniform items prior to it being required for them to wear it.\"\nHe said it would be \"premature\" to release the estimated cost of the new uniform.\nSoldier Models of the proposed Pink and Green daily service uniform display the outfits overcoat, as they render the hand salute during the National Anthem at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the Army-Navy Game Dec. 9, 2017.\n\"We have an estimated cost,\" he said. \"We are not done with any contracting at this point, so it would be premature to give you any of those costs. What we do know is that, because of the measures we are taking, it is going to be cost neutral to the taxpayer and the soldier in the long run.\"\nDailey justified the cost of the new, more-expensive Army Greens uniform by saying it will last longer than the current-issue ASU.\n\"The estimated cost of the new [Army] Greens uniform is higher than that of the current service blue uniform ... because it is a higher-quality uniform,\" he said. \"We could easily make it the same cost, but that's not the intent here. The intent here is to increase the quality of the uniform, and that is why we extended the life of the uniform.\"\nThe new Greens jacket will be made of a 55-percent/45-percent \"poly-wool elastique.\" The pants will feature a gabardine weave made of a 55/45 poly-wool combination as well. The shirt will be made of a 75-percent/25-percent cotton-poly blend, said Army officials, explaining that service life of the Army Greens is six years compared to the ASU's four years.\n\"We went for a higher-quality fabric. The uniform costs more as a result ... but we intended to do that because one of the chief of staff of the Army's directives to us was build a higher-quality uniform, which inherently costs more,\" Dailey said. \"And the way you offset that is you capitalize on the life of that uniform based upon its higher quality.\"\nDespite the recent adoption announcement, the Army Greens design is not yet finalized.\n\"There were some design changes all the way up until the week before the secretary made the decision,\" Dailey said.\nThe uniform prototype Dailey wore recently at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in October 2018 featured a jacket belt with a gold buckle, he said, adding that the final design will be more subdued.\n\"The chief of staff has made a slight change on the length of the collar on the male jacket,\" Dailey said. \"From a design perspective, it's the right decision the chief made.\"\nThe jacket buttons will also feature an antique finish instead of a brass color, Army officials said.\n\"The next set of photographs we want to get out to the media, we want them to be accurate\" to show the final design, Dailey said.\nBefore the Army starts issuing the redesigned uniform to the force, the service intends to field 200 sets of Army Greens for a final evaluation.\n\"We are in the process of being able to produce about 200 uniforms that we want to issue out to designated forward-facing units ... and when I say 'forward-facing units,' I'm really talking recruiters,\" said Col. Stephen Thomas, head of Project Manager Soldier Protection & Individual Equipment. \"Then, what we will do is get feedback from those soldiers on how to better refine the uniform so that when we go to final production ... we have a comprehensive uniform design that soldiers like.\"\nOfficials from Program Executive Office Soldier said the process should be complete by summer 2019.\n\"This is a great day to be a solder,\" Dailey said. \"As I go around and have talked to soldiers in the last few days ... they are very excited about it, and the overwhelming majority are just truly excited about the new uniform.\"\nHistory of U.S. Army Uniforms | Military.com \u203a",
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"raw_content": "Let\u2019s Make it Possible for Everyone to Work Who Wants To\nThe blog this week was written by George T. Martin, President of The Arcadia Institute. This country needs new approaches, and the large population of people with disabilities provides a pool of talent to draw from. We cannot afford to throw people away because they require us to make changes in order to include them.\nLet\u2019s consider some changes in the marketplace that could shift our thinking about what people can do and may well result in an economic landscape that is not only more equitable but more viable as well.\nIn this time of significant unemployment for far too many people, we need to ask ourselves whether we are doing all we can to welcome everyone into the workplace. Yes, we are talking about everyone, including people with disabilities. The fact that others without disabilities are struggling to find jobs cannot be an excuse for making people with disabilities \u2018wait until the economy improves\u2019.\nWe need to stop wasting the time and the talent of so many of our citizens, when we know enough to make alternations and accommodations in the marketplace for all who want to work.\nThe focus of many job training programs has been on preparing the individual for work. Certainly these efforts are needed. People need to learn job-specific competencies, as well as job-related skills like good hygiene practices and appropriate social interactions.\nIt also makes sense for employers to make changes in their environments and their ways of doing business to welcome people who are different. Let us consider a person on the autism spectrum, who may behave in ways that are not typical but who has specialized skills that a business needs. It is time for the business to change itself to include this worker, rather than place all the burden on that person to fit in. This approach makes good business sense in an age when businesses are crying for people with certain skills and need creative approaches to problems.\nConsider some of our very successful entrepreneurs in recent years. Some of them would not have \u2018fit in\u2019 to many typical business environments, because of their social skills, or lack thereof. This is a time to embrace the nonconformist, the one with highly idiosyncratic behavior.\n\u2190 Barrier of PolitenessAn Entrepreneur and An Advocate \u2192",
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"raw_content": "The Cataract definition from Merriam-Webster defines cataracts as:\"a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light.\"\nWhat are Cataracts\nA cataract is when the lens of the eye becomes foggy. The lens is made up mostly of water and protein. There is no blood supply to the lens. Cataracts develop when the proteins are damaged and they become translucent or opaque.\nThe lens sits behind the iris. Light passes through this clear part of the eye and then focuses light or an image onto the retina in the back of the eye. Once it reaches the retina, light is changed into nerve signals that are sent to the brain.\nWhen the lens is clear the retina receives a sharp image. If the lens is cloudy from a cataract, the image is blurred.\nThe lens must be clear for the retina to receive a sharp image. If the lens is cloudy from a cataract, the image you see will be blurred. Most often cataracts will grow larger and cause more clouding of the lens. The lens is also responsible for adjusting the eye's focus so we can see things clearly whether they are up close or far away. The ability of the lens to focus diminishes as the lens hardens.\nCataract types are categorized by where the cataract is located, when it developed and by the cause of the cataract. A person can have more than one type of cataract and each type affects our vision differently.\nTypes of cataracts generally fall into these 4 categories.\n1. Age Related Cataracts\nAn age related cataract is the most common of all the types of cataracts. In fact over 50 % of those over the age of 80 in the U.S. will have a cataract in one or both eyes. These cataract types are based on where they form on the lens. The three types are:\nA. Nuclear Cataract\nThe nucleus of the lens is at the center. When a cataract forms in the center of the lens it is a nuclear cataract.\nB. Subcapsular Cataract\nWhen a cataract forms in the membrane that surrounds the lens, the capsule, it is a subcapsular cataract.\nC. Cortical Cataract\nThis cataract forms on the outer edge of the lens, called the cortex, and as it grows, it goes toward the center.\nEach of these types of cataracts affects vision in a different way. A patient may have more than one type of cataract at the same time.\nA congenital cataract means it was there at birth. They don't always cause a vision problem. Most of the time a congenital cataract is from an undetermined cause, but sometimes it is just one of many symptoms that are associated with a syndrome.\nIt is important that the vision of the child be assessed to see if treatment is needed. When an infant experiences a severe loss of vision their development in many other areas can be delayed and greatly affected.\nTraumatic cataracts occur after there has been some type of trauma to the eye.\nIt can result from a blunt force, a foreign object, radiation, chemicals or an electrical current.\nThe cataract may form right away or not for years.\n4. Secondary Cataract\nA secondary cataract forms after some other type of eye surgery, or as a result of another health condition, like diabetes.\nSome patients will develop a secondary cataract after their initial cataract surgery. This happens when the capsule that holds the artificial lens in place becomes cloudy. It can happen weeks or years later after the cataract surgery. The symptoms are like that of other cataract types - clear vision becomes cloudy, hazy or blurry.\nMany people with age related macular degeneration also have developed cataracts. It's really not so surprising since both eye conditions are most frequently seen in the senior population.\nAs we age different factors cause the lens to become foggy, hard and dense. Cataract causes can be some of the same ones you will find for age related macular degeneration such as aging, smoking and free radical damage. The eye is subject to lots of oxidation and free radical damage just because of all the light that enters the eye.\nOne thing both of these eye conditions have in common is oxidation. Oxidation is the result of excess free radicals bringing harm or damage to the cells.\nCataracts form as a result of oxidation and free radical damage to the lens. Free radicals can harm our cell walls and cell DNA. The lens absorbs UV light. They eyes are exposed to more oxidation than most other parts of the body, because of it's exposure to ultraviolet and blue light.\nAnti-oxidants neutralize free radicals. It is important to have a good ratio of free radicals to antioxidants so that the free radicals are disarmed.\nEye cataracts become more common as we age. According to the National Eye Institute, \"By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.\"\nWhile the vast majority of cataracts are the result of just getting older, there are other reasons people can develop cataracts.\nAn injury to the eye can lead to cataract development - but not usually right away.\nHealth conditions like diabetes and glaucoma can hasten the development of a cloudy lens as can the heavy use of steroids or cortisone.\nA research paper posted in JAMA (1992 Aug 26;268(8):994-8) called A Prospective Study of Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Cataract Surgery in Women concluded that \"Smoking appears to increase the risk of cataract extraction.\" This is not surprising since smoking increases the amount of toxins a person is exposed to as well as increasing the amount of free radicals.\nEye cataracts often develop very slowly and may take years before vision is affected. When they begin to interfere with one's quality of life, that is when a discussion with your ophthalmologist is needed.\nSymptoms of cataracts can be similar to some of the early symptoms of macular degeneration. At first when it is small, the cloudiness affects only a small part of the lens and you may experience no symptoms. As the cataract grows, your vision will gradually get worse. Your vision may get duller or blurrier.\nCommonly, cataracts will affect both eyes, although one may progress faster than the other one.\n2. Sensitivity to light - Sunlight, headlights and lamps may seem too bright.\n3. Sensitivity to glare - A halo may appear around lights.\n4. Colors seem faded\n5. Poor night vision\n6. Need more light for reading\n7. Depth perception is diminished\n8. Vision is tinted with a brownish shade\nThe lens slowly colors with age. At first, you may not notice it, but gradually the increased discoloration may make it more difficult to read and to identify colors.\nCataract removal surgery is the most common treatment, but cataract eye drops, lifestyle changes, nutrition and supplements may also help delay the development or progression of a clouded lens.\nTreatment of cataracts depends on:\n1. Where the cataract has developed\nIf it on the outside of the lens, you may not notice it, but if it is in the center of the lens, you will experience blurred vision and less vivid color perception.\n2. The size of the cataract\nA small cataract may not affect your vision at all while one that covers most of the lens will result in symptoms\n3. How fast it grows\nSome cataracts remain small while others can grow quickly and cover a large portion of the lens.\nWhen your cataracts affect your vision in a way that interferes with your lifestyle it may be time to consider cataract surgery. A state of the art eye center will use only topical anesthesia and mild sedation.\nWhen a person has cataract surgery the lens of the eye will be removed and then replaced with an artificial lens, called an intraocular lens or IOL.\nNormally the lenses are clear, but some of the new IOLs block UV and blue light rays which can damage your retina and cause macular degeneration.\nThose who have macular degeneration and develop cataracts need to do some research before making the decision to have cataract surgery. There are anecdotal situations where patient's dry macular degeneration has turned to wet AMD shortly after their cataract surgery. Read more here:\nCataract eye drops are promoted on the web as an alternative to cataract surgery. You may be wondering if their claims to reverse cataract symptoms are really true.\nDr. Marc Grossman, a leading holistic eye doctor, a licensed optometrist and acupuncturist, who has been in practice for over 27 years, is one who believes that lifestyle and nutrition plays an important role in the prevention and even reversal of many eye conditions, including eye cataracts.\nOf course in the holistic world, cataract treatment isn't as simple as putting a couple of drops in one's eyes everyday - oh no, you will find instructions on foods to eliminate, use of microwaves, juicing recipes and more. Although all of these diet and lifestyle changes may not appeal to you, I think you will find his information on cataracts quite interesting. To go to Natural Eye Care click here:\nCataract Nutritional Recommendations\nAccording to Dr. Lylas Mogk, author of Macular Degeneration; The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximzing Your Sight , \"With very advanced cataracts ... you may also have macular degeneration without knowing it, because your doctor can't see through the cataracts to detect the AMD.\"\nIf the blurry vision is from a cataract, your vision will be clearer once the cataract is removed. But if the blurred vision is from macular degeneration, the blurred vision will still be present after the cataract surgery.\nThe formation of cataracts and macular degeneration is the result of the oxidation process. Because these eye conditions are both age related, many older people will have both of these eye diseases.\nGo from Cataract Definition to Eye Cataracts\nGo from Cataract Definition to WebRN Macular Degeneration Home",
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"raw_content": "New Zealand Chambers of Commerce (Inc.)\nThe New Zealand Chambers of Commerce (Inc) - NZCCI - is an umbrella organisation serving the interests of 32 accredited Chambers of Commerce nationwide. These, in turn, represent over 24,000 businesses. NZCCI has nine directors made up of the CEOs of the Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago Chambers, and another director from each region. The ninth Board member is elected by the representatives of all the accredited Chambers at the NZCCI AGM. NZCCI's registered address is at the Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce offices.\nThe 32 constituent members of NZCCI are are fully independent Chambers of Commerce. They are arranged for administrative purposes into four regions, or hubs - Northern, Central, Canterbury and Otago. The WECC is the hub Chamber for the central region. Auckland Chamber of Commerce is the hub Chamber for the northern region. Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce looks after the Canterbury Region and Otago Chamber of Commerce the Otago region.\nOther New Zealand Hub Chambers\nOtago Chamber of Commerce\nThe New Zealand Chambers are part of a global chamber network that spans almost every country in the world.\nConfederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry\nThe Kiwi Chamber in Korea\nNew Zealand Thai Chamber of Commerce\nNew Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong\nMalaysia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce (MNZCC)\nNew Zealand United States Business Council\nKorea New Zealand Business Council\nLatin America New Zealand Business Council",
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"raw_content": "Over Installing Software May Subject A Company to Liability for Copyright Infringement\nIts that time again; time to upgrade your computer operating system and associated programs. Microsoft\u2019s new operating system, Vista, is coming pre-installed on new computers and laptops, along with new versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Along with Vista, other business software manufactures are taking this opportunity to roll out upgrades and offer entirely new programs.\nAnytime a company decides to upgrade or purchase a new program which has to be rolled out to a significant number of users, the company\u2019s IT department faces a very big task \u2013 to install numerous copies of the program in as time efficient manner as possible. The IT department may face even greater challenges where users of a particular program are not assigned to one specific computer workstation but need to have access to the program on multiple computer work stations. To deal with this situation, instead of individually installing the program onto each machine, the IT department may use hard drive imaging-copying the complete content of a master hard drive on to the hard drive of individual computers. Where a company has purchased a limited number of licenses to a program, but must install it on a larger number of computer stations, an IT department may configure access to the program such that only a particular number of users have access to it at any one time. Depending on the type of software license the company acquired, this could be the prelude to a Copyright infringement lawsuit.\nSoftware can be licensed to users in a variety of different manners. Some software companies license software for a flat fee and allow for an unlimited number of users on an unlimited number of computers. Others may supply the software for free but require the licensee to subscribe to a service contract. 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Because of the mobility of the officers working in the jail facility, the Sheriff\u2019s department determined it needed to have the program installed on 6,007 computer stations. The Sheriff\u2019s department configured the program such that only 3,663 users were allowed to access the program at any one time.\nThe license grant in the Sheriff\u2019s license agreement provided as follows:\nWall Data \u2026 grants you (\u201cYou\u201d), the end user, a non-exclusive license to use the enclosed software program \u2026 on a single Designated Computer for which the software has been activated. A \u201cDesignated Computer\u201d is either (i) a stand-alone workstation, or (ii) a networked workstation which does not permit the Software to be shared with other networked workstations. You may not use the Software in any other multiple computer or multiple user arrangement. 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"raw_content": "Everyone loves to have a clean house, but few people actually have the time to do it efficiently. All Star Cleaning Services was voted the Best Northern Colorado Cleaning Service in 2017 and 2018, by Style Magazine. Known for their professionalism, knowledge, and use of nontoxic and environmentally friendly green products, they have won the hearts of many Fort Collins residents. Offering services that range from decluttering, to spot cleaning, to entire house cleanings, All Star can help with big projects or day-to-day maintenance. If you are juggling a to-do list, barely have any extra time, or just want to spend more time with the people you love, We R Foco thinks hiring a team of cleaning professionals could be a great option for you.\n1. You Will Have More Free Time\nCleaning is considered a chore for many households. Between work and other commitments, it can be challenging to carve out time and energy to clean. Plus, when you do have free time, you probably want to spend it hiking Horsetooth with your friends or taking your family to play mini-golf at Fort Fun. All Star can handle the cleaning, and then you don\u2019t have to sacrifice any time with your loved ones. It\u2019s a win-win.\n2. All Star Cleaning Produces Consistent Results\nHaving a professional cleaning service on a regular basis will ensure that you have consistent and thorough results. Whether you have cleaning done once a week or once a month, you\u2019ll know that it\u2019s done with care and professionalism. It can be a relief to know that no matter how long your day is, you will always come home to a decluttered and spotless space.\n3. You\u2019ll Appreciate Your Home In a New Way\nComing home to your professionally cleaned home will feel great. It will make every day of the week feel like a fresh start. Knowing you don\u2019t have a cleaning to-do list waiting for you when you come home will allow you to instantly kick your feet up and reap the benefits of spending quality time at home.\n4. Professionals Are Professionals, and They Care About The Details\nMost people know the basics to keeping a house clean, but All Star Cleaning has expertise that goes beyond the fundamentals. They understand what spaces in your home are most important, where germs hide, and what areas are typically forgotten in normal cleaning routines. Plus, they can have cleaning supplies, specialized equipment, and years of skills that many regular households may not.\nAll Star Cleaning is able to customize their services to your needs and expectations. They can fit around your chaotic schedule, fold the laundry the way you like, and bring you a level of convenience that is worth every penny.\nNow that you know why We R Foco supports hiring a local cleaning service, call All Star Cleaning Services at 970-215-2224. In addition to having a cleaner space, you\u2019ll have more time to spend with family and friends, gain peace of mind that your home was cleaned the right way, and know that you can spend time enjoying your home rather than cleaning it!",
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"raw_content": "Wallscourt Fellow in Digital Manufacturing\nWallscourt Fellowships are an innovative and exciting opportunity for exceptional individuals to focus on a combination of research and the delivery of teaching and learning. These roles are relate to UWE Bristol\u2019s Beacon Research Themes, aligned with the priorities of UK Research and Innovation, the Government\u2019s Industrial Strategy and the University\u2019s current strengths and ambition. These roles are part-funded by the Wallscourt Foundation, a charitable foundation with historic links to UWE Bristol, along with investment by the University in line with its Strategy 2030.\nThis is an exciting time for Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics (EDM). In Sept 2020, we will move into our new \u00a345 million purpose built Engineering facility, which will enhance our ability to deliver an innovative and exciting problem-based learning curriculum and strengthen our stakeholder engagement activity regionally, nationally and internationally.\nUWE Bristol is also home to Bristol Robotics Laboratory, the leading and largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. It is a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) and the University of Bristol, and home to a vibrant community of over 200 academics, researchers and industry practitioners, which lead current thinking in service robotics, intelligent autonomous systems and bio-engineering.\nWe are looking for an outstanding researcher in Digital Manufacturing to contribute to research in this key subject field. The successful candidate will have a strong record of accomplishment in advanced manufacturing technologies and will be expected to lead research and teaching in the area of Industry 4.0 in line with the UK Government Industrial Strategy. UWE Bristol has ambitions to become a leading authority in helping develop UK manufacturing by connecting emerging and smart technologies, such as robotics and automation, to enable an industrial digital transformation. The role holder will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Computer Science Research Centre housing world-class expertise in AI, particularly evolutionary computing, and the Engineering Modelling and Simulation (EMS) research group, a vibrant and dynamic team comprising over 20 academic members and 20 PhD students.\nInterviews are planned for Wednesday 27th February.",
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"raw_content": "Dem Party Includes Voter Registration Forms in \u201cRefugee Welcome Baskets\u201d\nNebraska Democrat Party chairwoman Jane Kleeb posted a video to Facebook last week showing herself and her staff preparing a bunch of welcome baskets for incoming refugees and immigrants. While most of the baskets\u2019 contents were acceptable, there was one item that was not OK.\n\u201cWhen (President Trump) put in his racist travel ban, we put out a call to action to Democrats across the state saying \u2018help us create welcome baskets for refugee and immigrant families who are making Nebraska their home,\u201d she said in the video, referring to President Donald Trump\u2019s non-racist immigration moratoriums.\nThe moratoriums, both of which have been stalled in the courts, simply imposed a temporary ban on immigration from terror-prone nations until it can be done more safely.\n\u201cWe made sure that we had individuals write a little note to the families, and then inside each basket there\u2019s also a letter from the Nebraska Democratic Party welcoming the family to Nebraska,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s signed by me as chair of the party, and then we include a sticker in here for them to put on their car.\u201d\nOK, fine. I\u2019m not sure how many refugees are driving their own cars, but whatever. So far, so good. Until \u2026\n\u201cIt also includes a voter registration form,\u201d Kleeb added.\nShe didn\u2019t even try to hide the form.\nWatch her shocking video below:\nThis video has since gone viral, spurring backlash from Americans fed up with the Democrat Party trying to buy new votes from those not even entitled to participate in the nation\u2019s election process.\nKleep has since told Conservative Review that she was merely trying to get the refugees and immigrants \u201cfamiliar with the forms.\u201d\nWhat exactly would be the point of that? It takes at least half a decade for an immigrant to obtain citizenship. Did she expect them to study the forms nightly for five years until they become useful?\nDemocrats aren\u2019t even trying to hide their malicious and underhanded behavior anymore. They\u2019re doing it publicly without any scruples whatsoever.\nAsked if she had made it clear to the refugees and immigrants that completing and the submitting the forms would be illegal, Kleeb tried another flimsy excuse.\n\u201cCan I just be very clear that on the voter registration form it says that you have to be a U.S. citizen, so I don\u2019t think that I said that in the letter, but on the voter registration form it talks about that,\u201d she claimed.\nWhat a slimy and underhanded woman. With credentials like this, she should probably run for the chairmanship of the Democrat National Committee.\nPlease share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about the Nebraska Democrat Party\u2019s underhanded behavior.\nWhat do you think about these welcome baskets? Scroll down to comment below.\nTags: Democrat Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, immigration, letter, Nebraska, refugees, video, voter fraud",
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"raw_content": "Why Bognor's BrightHouse closure has been welcomed\nBrightHouse in London Road is set to close within two months. Picture courtesy of Google\nIs the BrightHouse closure good news? Here's what you had to say...\nFollowing the news London Road would be losing the rent-to-own retailer BrightHouse in the next two months, readers of the Observer shared their thoughts on its closure.\nWhile many readers said it was a shame for the staff at the store, some called the news 'excellent' and said they would rather another retailer took its place.\nCommenting on social media, Charlie Fullers said: \"Sad for the employees but good for the people of Bognor in general, BrightHouse has always taken advantage of those at the bottom of the pay scale...\"\nThe store announced that it will close 30 of its stores across the country, making 350 members of staff redundant.\nJudith Crisp said: \"Said that there is another store closure, but I am please that it is this store. Stores like this on a high street are not good, they encourage people to go seriously into debt, although there are people where stores like this are sadly their only option.\n\"If stores did no have to pay out so much money in taxes, rates and leases we would have a much higher diversity of individually run and small businesses and chain stores, rather than the big retail giants that every high street has, and of course the usual bounty of charity shops.\"\nBecca Broad said: \"I'm sorry some people will lose jobs but glad to see the back of this shop, getting poor people into more debt. Disgusting.\"\nSarah Williams said: \"Don't think I've ever set foot in there since it's opened. Glad it's going.\"\nGraham Levell said: \"Well that was always going to happen. Thankfully the economy doesn't need these types of stores anymore.\"\nA spokesman for BrightHouse: \u201cBrightHouse is proud to offer those on lower incomes a way to get the household goods they need. At this difficult time, our thoughts are for our loyal colleagues and customers in Bognor Regis.\u201d\nThe nearest stores for customers and any staff that are 'redeployed' are Havant and Worthing.",
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"raw_content": "Italian cooperatives create 36,000 new jobs in 2012\nDespite the current crisis, it is estimated that between 2007 and 2011, employment in cooperatives has increased by 8%, compared with a decrease of 2.3% in all types of enterprises in Italy. In 2012, the employment in Italian cooperatives has grown by 2.8% creating 36,000 new jobs compared to 2011 and increasing up to a total of 1,341,000 employees. In terms of job creation per company, the average employment figures indicate that cooperative enterprises employ 17.3 people, 5 times more than traditional companies who employ an average of 3.5 workers per firm. Those are some of the conclusions that arise from the first \u201cAnnual Report on Cooperation in Italy\u201d produced by the Italian research institute, Censis, for the Alliance of Italian Cooperatives, that joins together the three main Italian confederations of cooperatives (AGCI, Confcooperative and Legacoop).\nThe study shows that nowadays, cooperatives contribute to 7.2% of the total employment created by enterprises in Italy. Regarding sectors of activity, the most significant contribution is in the service sector (where 23.6% of workers are employed in cooperatives), in particular in health care and social assistance (49.7%), transport and logistics (24%) and support services for business (15.7%). Social cooperatives have registered \u201ca real boom\u201d of employees in the period between 2007-2011 (17.3%), which has been continuing in 2012 (4.3%). However, the crisis is still affecting the construction sector, where 9.3% of jobs were lost between 2007-2011 and a further 1.6 % loss was registered in 2012.\nIn terms of gender equality, the Italian cooperative model has a strong female presence: 52.2% of the cooperative workers are women and hold 29.1% of seats on the boards. In 17.9% of the cooperatives more than half of employees and board members are women.\nSource: CECOP - http://www.cecop.eu\nRetrieved from \"https://www.wikipreneurship.eu/index.php?title=Italian_co-ops_create_36,000_jobs_in_2012&oldid=11339\"\nEuropean Union > Member States > Italy\nType of enterprise > Co-operative",
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"raw_content": "Special Envoys, \u201cSilos\u201d and Coherent International Policy\nSecretary of State Pompeo recently appointed four special envoys to help him manage high priority portfolios regarding Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, and North Korea. His actions are understandable and can yield valuable results, if implemented well. The nomination and confirmation process for senior State Department positions in Washington and overseas has been terribly slow, yet the world has not slowed. The Secretary of State wants capable senior individuals who can be \u201cgo-to\u201d persons to help formulate, guide, and manage big-ticket problem areas that cut across U.S. agencies and offices and that demand focused tending of partners and adversaries to achieve progress.\nExperience over the past sixty years suggests that the use of stand-alone special envoys or representatives should remain limited to a few roles of high importance and be well integrated into existing \u201cbureaus\u201d and interagency structures. Otherwise, these \u201cspecials\u201d will likely add to the silos and bureaucratic infighting that have long complicated efforts to produce and implement a coherent foreign policy, and they can contribute to fragmented international policy.\nIn an increasingly complex and fast-paced world, the United States more than ever needs \u201cwhole of government\u201d approaches to forge effective policies. Structures and processes should strengthen the ability of policy makers to see the larger picture, while simultaneously providing expert and informed understanding about specific issues from a range of officials, including those designated as special envoys, ambassadors-at-large, advisors, or senior coordinators. Devising a formula that fosters coherent and integrated policy options, good decisions and effective implementation is hard, and its process needs regular scrutiny.\nSpecial Envoys, Representatives, Coordinators and Advisors: When to use them?\nU.S. Presidents and Secretaries of State have turned to special representatives for a range of reasons, whether they are called envoys, ambassadors, coordinators, or advisors. They broadly fall into two groups.\nOne group of special representatives are named to manage a particularly important crisis or negotiation that involves multiple countries, many U.S. bureaucratic players, and demands more problem-solving hours, concentration, and travel than the normal State Department structure can handle. Secretary Pompeo\u2019s recently named envoys fall into this category, as do various Middle East Peace envoys, the Ebola czar named under President Obama, and the envoys who led U.S. efforts on the Kosovo crisis in the late 1990s or Afghanistan work in recent years, among many others.\nA second group of \u201cspecials\u201d are named because a new area of importance arises that cannot be handled by the existing structure or because a particularly important set of stakeholders (often in Congress) thinks the issue needs to be given a \u201cspecial\u201d focus and access to the Secretary of State and other top officials. This category of envoys has had a wide variety of manifestations at the State Department from the Counter Terrorism Coordinator and the Office of Global Women\u2019s Affairs to the special representatives to counter trafficking in persons, to protect religious freedom, to deal with hostage affairs or to promote food security.\nTo work well, any of these \u201cspecials\u201d need to be well integrated into the bureaucracy, the interagency process and to have active support. However, that is often not the case, especially with the second category of envoys.\nAssociations representing current and former U.S. diplomats have called for limiting special envoys to a small number of key roles and integrating many of them into existing policy bureaus.\nLooking at the high-stakes diplomatic envoys (the first category), a study by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the American Academy of Diplomacy argues that they are more likely to succeed in a way that reinforces overall U.S. foreign policy objectives, if the envoy is clearly empowered and well-resourced in a way which assures communication and collaboration with other relevant U.S. bureaucratic actors.\nMany foreign affairs professionals regard the second type of special envoys as a mixed bag. Some like the Counter Terrorism (CT) and the Women\u2019s Affairs Ambassadors-at-Large have become accepted as important actors on vital crosscutting issues, and CT has become a full-fledged \u201cbureau.\u201d Other \u201cspecials,\u201d however, are viewed as adding structure but little value. They frequently have added more \u201csilos\u201d to the foreign policy process and contributed to internal conflicts. Through poor coordination with bureaus and embassies who handle the core parts of diplomacy, \u201cspecials\u201d often end up making it more difficult to formulate a coherent international approach. Additionally, while the envoys may nominally be attached to the Secretary of State\u2019s office, they often do not get regular access to the Secretary, nor do they function well with other parts of the bureaucracy or interagency actors.\nFor such reasons, associations representing current and former U.S. diplomats have called for limiting special envoys to a small number of key roles and integrating many of them into existing policy bureaus. This also explains why these groups of foreign policy professionals welcomed the reduction of special envoys at the beginning of the Trump Administration, even though they were opposing efforts to reduce State Department funding and personnel.\nTo clarify: the objection from professional diplomats is not an objection to special envoys per se, but rather that special envoys are often not integrated into the relevant bureaus at the State Department. Integration into a bureau, for example, would allow for better communication and coordination on policy and implementation. Even including \u201cspecials\u201d in a cluster of bureaus reporting to an Under Secretary helps integrate policy priorities and sort out differences. Though professional diplomats also point out that, in many cases, an existing Assistant or Deputy Assistant Secretary can take on the \u201cspecial\u201d tasks, rather than creating a new entity.\nThere are numerous examples of where \u201cspecials\u201d worked well. In the State Department\u2019s European and Economic bureaus in the late 1990s and first six years of the 2000s, special representatives were very successfully integrated into each bureau allowing them to carry out their focused roles in a way that worked in sync with wider and related policies. The special advisors for the Kosovo crisis, for Holocaust issues, and for assistance to Central Europe worked smoothly in the European Bureau, using that organization as a base for coordination with other bureaus, agencies, embassies and international partners. The Economic Bureau successfully integrated the ambassador for international communications and information policy, the advisor for conflict diamonds, and the senior advisor for Caspian Basin Energy Issues, while the bureau\u2019s leadership took on the new tasks of going after terrorist financing in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, without the need for a \u201cspecial\u201d representative.\nDifficulty of achieving an effective and coherent international policy process\nAssuring effective coordination and integration of America\u2019s international policy has long been a serious challenge for reasons other than the use of special envoys. The renowned study of the Cuban Missile crisis by Allison and Zelikow, the political science classic on bureaucratic politics and foreign policy by Halperin and Clapp, and the histories of the National Security Council written by Rothkopf and others document well the lessons and missteps since World War II in trying to get the foreign policy process right.\nSome administrations have been better than others have at minimizing the natural tendencies for agencies and individuals to go their own way and act as \u201csilos,\u201d rather than forging international policy with teamwork, a well-functioning decision process and good implementation. Importantly, a well-coordinated and disciplined policy process also facilitates the ability of leaders to explain clearly U.S. priorities and vision to other governments, Congress, and the public.\nCentrifugal forces arise in every administration. The National Security Council under President George H.W. Bush with NSC Advisor Brent Scowcroft arguably achieved the best approach for an effective and efficient NSC process that curbed tendencies to work in silos and prized teamwork in policy development and implementation. Crucially, the President empowered his Secretary of State to be the leader in taking forward key foreign policy decisions. This team produced excellent decisions on how to handle the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reunification of Germany, the invasion of Kuwait, and the negotiation of major trade agreements, and, carried them out with aplomb.\nEven that model team had shortcomings, however. The decisions to turn away from Afghanistan once the Soviets left and not to engage seriously to temper the violence in the former Yugoslavia proved costlier than expected. On the process side, they had not integrated the Treasury Department fully into the NSC process. Once George W. Bush was elected, veterans from the H.W. Bush years made sure to integrate Treasury into the NSC process.\nComplex 21st Century World\nWhile the basic model of the George H.W. Presidency still shines brightly, the tasks of managing U.S. international policy have become more complicated since those years. The international agenda has grown significantly. The number of consequential actors has multiplied exponentially. U.S. engagement expanded in \u201clong wars\u201d in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere against terrorism and extremism. New technologies are adding new challenges, such as cybersecurity. The rapid flows of massive amounts of information challenge our ability to absorb meanings while demanding immediate responses.\nThe challenges of achieving successes are magnified by the ongoing need to build international (and domestic) coalitions around agreed strategies as well as the complicated work of dealing with adversaries.\nThese developments have added players to the national security team, such as the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director for National Intelligence. Environmental and health threats have required other agencies to become involved. All these factors compound the need for a \u201cwhole of government\u201d approach.\nWhole of Government Policies\nToday\u2019s international challenges frequently cut across the traditional bounds of individual U.S. government agencies and invite the broader use of special envoys of various types. They simultaneously underscore the need for more \u201cwhole of government\u201d problem-solving and policy innovation in the White House, in the interagency process, and in the State Department and in U.S. Embassies. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico, for example, has some 30 U.S. agencies represented and across-USG strategies and proposals are needed to manage well bilateral relations.\nThis complex pattern of issues makes it harder to implement well policies involving action by multiple USG actors and more difficult for Congress and the American public to make sense of what is going on in the international arena. Leaders themselves have a much harder time understanding the complexity and setting priorities in a manner that renders a clear, coherent vision. Without strong discipline and good systems to forge and carry out \u201cwhole of government\u201d decisions, silos, stovepipes, and in-fighting will add incoherence.\nDuring the Obama years, Secretaries Clinton and Kerry established many new special envoys, representatives and offices at the State Department, while at the White House, the National Security Council (NSC) and others, such as the Homeland Security Advisor, were given more power to manage international decision-making and policy implementation.\nThis two-pronged approach often produced a more micromanaged, cumbersome, and \u201cbalkanized\u201d process, diminishing the role of agencies like the State Department. Ironically, the concentration of day-to-day policy management in the NSC and the proliferation of special envoys contributed to the difficulty of setting clear priorities and vision for U.S. foreign policy by cluttering and slowing the policy process.\nSpecial envoys also effectively weakened the main-line \u201cbureaus\u201d at State. The proliferation of specials multiplied the channels reporting to the top and diminished the integration and prioritization that should have taken place first within key geographic and functional bureaus at State. Crucially, with a larger role for White House/NSC staff, the Secretary of State was not as empowered to lead international policy on behalf of the President, as had been the case in the model established under George Bush senior. The interagency process could also arguably have worked more effectively at developing and integrating perspectives by having more leadership of senior officials from State and other agencies, working with the NSC staff.\nThe United States needs structures and processes adjusted for the added complexity of today\u2019s international policy agenda. They should effectively integrate the additional policy actors, whether they be special envoys or new substantive specialists.\nAt the end of the Obama years, the Atlantic Council, the Heritage Foundation and the Rand Corporation, among others, provided excellent recommendations for the incoming Trump team on how to mitigate the challenges and draw best practices from previous U.S. administrations. It is not clear that many of those suggestions were adopted, though Secretary of State Tillerson did take up the proposal to reduce the number of special envoys.\nCoherent Foreign Policy Solutions and Vision\nThe United States needs structures and processes adjusted for the added complexity of today\u2019s international policy agenda. They should effectively integrate the additional policy actors, whether they be special envoys or new substantive specialists. As the studies cited above make clear, a disciplined culture that demands teamwork, collaboration, and communication and that penalizes those who do not follow the norms is essential for good outcomes.\nMore than ever, America\u2019s decision makers need a better integrated understanding of the interconnections between priority problems and broader U.S. interests. 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"raw_content": "I never cease to be amazed at how a company I know nothing about can make itself look so stupid, thus burning the image of inept leadership into my brain for years to come. I refer to Forever21, a company that should be working hard to get my money. As a middle-aged male I don\u2019t believe I\u2019m in the target demographic, but I have three daughters. The only reason I\u2019m aware of Forever21 is because my wife said something about taking one of our offspring there the other day. Before that it was just one of the 200 (out of 202) stores I ignored on my semi-annual trip to the mall.\nOne of my daily email updates from MediaPost featured a story about a blogger that incurred the wrath of Forever21. Her crime was expressing her opinions about their fashions, most of which she seems to find somewhat laughable. The legal team sent her two cease and desist letters. She decided after her own legal consultation to ignore the threats and continues to publish her blog http://wtforever21.com/.\nABC News picked up the story, as did New York Magazine, the Village Voice, Huffington Post, and an endless list of media and bloggers. She has 2,240 fans on her Facebook page, all laughing at Forever21.\nThis company elevated an unknown blogger to fame and made themselves look like petty control freaks. Didn\u2019t anyone talk to the marketing department before pulling out the gun and shooting right into their own feet? Corporate intimidation can be exposed online in less than 24 hours today.\nI have a mental picture of half a dozen men, probably all about 60 years old, sitting in an office, talking about being dissed online by a young woman.\n\u201cWho does she think she is? We\u2019ll have our corporate lawyers sue her into the Stone Age.\u201d\n\u201cDamn right. She can\u2019t talk that way about us. We\u2019ve been business bigwigs for longer than she\u2019s been alive. Bring me another glass of scotch.\u201d\nHow do a bunch of old men know anything about young women\u2019s fashion?\nSo what should they have done? The first option would be to ignore her. She might have been influencing a few hundred people at any given time, but now she\u2019s influencing thousands and thousands.\nThe second option would be to invite her into the fold. Demonstrate that you have a sense of humor and link to her blog from your website. Send her samples of your clothing and let her review them. I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll laugh at a lot of the products, but I\u2019ll bet she finds stuff she likes. And even if she laughs, a bunch of her readers will check out what she\u2019s laughing at, and some will like it, and buy it.\nIn either case, the name Forever21 will be in front of the right audience. And the company will be seen as so cool that they can laugh at themselves and have fun with their customers. Right now they seem so uptight that it will take a team of highly skilled surgeons to remove the stick from management\u2019s backside.\nThe world has changed, and if you decide to act like a fool, you\u2019ll be called on it in a very public way. When you embrace change it can work for you. Ignore it and there may not be any consequences, or you may become irrelevant. But try and fight it, and you\u2019ll get run over.",
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"raw_content": "The Tesla Dividend: Better Internet Access\nElon Musk\u2019s newest car doesn\u2019t just run on electricity \u2014 it needs a world class fiber network\nI\u2019m looking forward to Tesla\u2019s release of its mass-market Model 3 electric car next week. Owners love their beautiful Teslas, and this one will reportedly cost $35,000 before federal and state tax credits, meaning the net price could be less than the cost of an average American car. But my pulse rate is higher not because of the car itself, or even its pricetag. I\u2019m excited because of what\u2019s inside: a battery that can cost-effectively store enough energy to allow for hundreds of miles of travel. And an operating system that needs constant upgrades. Tesla Motor\u2019s CEO Elon Musk says that lowering the cost of delivering a kilowatt hour to every car is the key to lowering the cost of electric cars. With the gigantic Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada grinding away producing batteries \u2014 5.5 million square feet! 150 acres under one roof! \u2014 he is convinced he\u2019ll be able to achieve the economies of scale that make the Tesla batteries truly cheap and the Model 3 an accessible vehicle for many Americans. His goal: sell half a million electric vehicles by 2020. Cheaper battery, cheaper car: mass market adoption.\nIf you\u2019re a Tesla follower or a Musk fan, you might have heard this already. But here\u2019s what you haven\u2019t heard: For all those cars to do their jobs, we\u2019re going to need fiber high-speed Internet access connections deep into every neighborhood in the country.\nHere\u2019s why. Once (relatively) cheap electric cars are a reality, we\u2019ll be a step closer to sustainable transportation by way of self-driving (or, at least, technology-assisted), clean-energy cars. The Model 3 will likely have the Tesla \u201cautopilot\u201d functionality available, which uses many sensors and a variety of cameras to make the car capable of driving itself \u2014 although an alert driver still needs to be behind the wheel.\n(Todd Frankel of the Washington Post wrote about driving a Tesla using autopilot earlier this month; meanwhile, the federal auto safety regulator has told Google that the \u201cdriver\u201d of a self-driving car could be a computer system. We are moving \u2014 slowly\u2014 beyond hype into the land of reality.)\nTesla updates its autopilot system through pushed software upgrades, which means big downloads by each car. But there\u2019s also a tremendous amount of data being uploaded by the system as each car learns from its experience: The whole point of \u201cdeep learning\u201d computing is that computers like those in the Tesla fleet of cars are finding patterns in enormous amounts of data and making predictions based on those patterns. And then spreading that knowledge around the fleet.\nThe data ingested and spewed out by these vehicles will become overwhelming at the same time that our desires for immediate, no-delay inputs and outputs from these vehicles will become requirements. And the only way to move all this data around is to have fiber everywhere, in every neighborhood in the country.\nYou may say: Wireless! Who needs wires? \u2014 the future is free of wired connections!\nAnd you\u2019d be wrong.\nWhether we\u2019re talking about WiFi (open or proprietary) or mobile data sold by Verizon and AT&T, all of those towers and hot spots your devices (or cars) connect to are designed to transmit and receive data over the air over very short distances. In order for that data to travel any significant distance beyond the tower, in most cases it needs to be carried over a wire. In other words, saying \u201cwireless is the future\u201d is like saying \u201cAll you need to fly around is an airplane! 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"raw_content": "Women\u2019s March Minnesota (WMM) is pleased to announce the organizations who have agreed to become sponsors and endorsers for the Minnesota Women\u2019s Wave March taking place on Saturday, January 19, 2019 in St. Paul.\nWOMEN'S MARCH MN AND THE UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN\u2019S WAVE\nThis is the year we declare that we are UNSTOPPABLE in our fight for equity, equality, and justice for all Minnesota women, gender non-identifying folks, and allies!\n10:00 AM \u2013 10:30 AM, Pre-March Rally, Western Sculpture Garden, 387 Marion St, St. Paul\n10:30 AM \u2013 11:30 AM, March, south on Marion St/Kellogg Blvd and north on John Ireland Blvd\nNoon \u2013 1:00 PM, Rally, Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd\nOFFICIAL STATEMENT: Reevaluating Ties to Women\u2019s March, Inc.\n1/10/19: St. Paul, MN ---- Women\u2019s March Minnesota shares the concerns of Minnesotans about Women\u2019s March, Inc. (WMI) and the controversy surrounding the national leaders\u2019 connections with those who have engaged in anti-Semitic, anti-woman, and anti-LGBTQ hate speech.\nJackie Craig January 9, 2019\nWhy I Marched: Josine D.\nAfter the election in 2016, I went into a funk. I turned off Facebook, I turned off the television. I turned inward. For me, it was a time of healing and deep doubt. I questioned myself, my choices.\nI had chosen to be here, in the U.S. I came here for school, met my husband, and stayed. Where I come from, I was taught to fight for justice, speak out and up. My parents taught me that I had to fight for everyone. If one person suffers, we all suffer. You need to do something. But I think when I came here, I lost that. Life got busier and easier.\nHear Us, March / Rally, Resilient ResisterArlene Mathison December 27, 2018\nPlease take the WMM Survey \u2013 Chance to Win $50\nWomen\u2019s March Minnesota (WMM) is looking for your two cents and by sharing your thoughts you could win one of three $50 Visa gift cards. WMM is asking people across Minnesota to take the survey. It should take less than 10 minutes and each survey has a chance to win $50 gift card.\nWe are working with 100RuralWomen to help spread the word.\nThe survey is designed to assess how WMM can better meet the needs of potential members across the state both in terms of support and programs, and also reflect the policy concerns of people outside of the Twin Cities. WMM appreciates your time and frank answers. 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