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__label__cc	0.600005	0.399995	Reports: Ettore Messina to return to CSKA Moscow [Updated] Yesterday, due to an interview in Spain-based Jot Down, BallinEurope speculated a bit on Ettore Messina potentially leaving the Los Angeles Lakers. At least two sources today are saying that the coach of legend will in fact be returning to Europe to coach … CSKA Moscow, if you can believe it. Talk Basket reported that “There are several teams in Europe already making offers to [Messina] but it seems that he will return to familiar surroundings. … CSKA Moscow are the favourites to bring back Messina who led the Russians to four straight Euroleague finals and two titles in 2006 and 2008.” Soon after this article’s publication, man-in-the-know Yarone Arbel reported via Twitter about 15 minutes as of this writing that “…I pretty much got a confirmation on Messina to CSKA. That’s what it looks like.” Of course, after last week’s terse statement from CSKA officials regarding coach and player hires, no official statement has been made from the club yet. Update: Sportando and Draft Express (the latter of whom is “Sitting here next to Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak”) have confirmed that Messina-to-CSKA is a done deal. Welcome back to Europe, then, coach! Jun 12, 2012 ballineurope Besiktas 80, Anadolu Efes 76: The BallinEurope review of a triple-crown seasonThe Serbian Finals: A fight to the bitter end Watch out, the girls are coming! Messina is really overrated. CSKA could have done better with all the money they offer. Notice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please copy this code and paste it along with your comment: e9ecd9aa03303cb8a1672c44ae5cc02c ballineurope 7 years ago 1 Comment EuroLeague, More, NBA/NCAACSKA Moscow, Ettore Messina, EuroLeague, Euroleague 2012-13, Los Angeles Lakers, Mitch Kupchak, twitter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3
__label__cc	0.57894	0.42106	Real Men Go Green Home / Feature / Real Men Go Green By tree In Feature, Style Real Men Go Green2011-10-262016-08-20http://www.alivemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/logo_header.pngAlivehttp://alivemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1963_694.jpg200px200px Protect the planet while maintaining your machismo Given the prominence of “green” today in everything from lifestyle choices to political debates, I generally get warm reactions to the work I do when meeting new people. Sure, some disagree with the economic and political underpinnings of environmentalism (or, at least, their perceptions of such), but I can handle that. What still mystifies me a bit, though, is the reaction I get from certain other men. I tell them I work on environmental issues, and they shuffle just a half-step away—with a slightly fearful look on their faces that says something along the lines of, “Jeez, he’s not going to try to kiss me, is he?” Yes, environmentalism involves nurturing— call it “touchy-feely” if you will. And while I suppose I could go off on the masculinist, or even homophobic, foundations of such fears, I’ve never found that to win many converts. Still, I’m mystified by this reaction because connection with the natural world, and working to preserve it, have some pretty macho roots. If visions of a “treehugger” in the form of a hemp-wearing hippie come to mind when you think of “environmentalism,” think again—and try some of these decidedly more manly models on for size. The hunter: Get up really early, put on camouflage and grab a gun or a bow—if that doesn’t get the testosterone flowing, I don’t know what will! But without wild lands, clean air and water, and healthy ecosystems to support those deer, rabbits or birds, the pickings can be slim on a day’s hunt. Hunting advocacy groups such as Ducks Unlimited put environmental issues at the center of their work, and hunters themselves have become advocates for addressing climate change, air and water pollution and our over-reliance on fossil fuels and toxic chemicals. The farmer: Wearing a trucker cap while driving a big machine—you’re probably flexing a bit just thinking about it. Whether small-scale and organic, or large-scale and conventional, farmers have to think constantly about the health of their soil and water supplies. Few groups know the results of rampant environmental exploitation better (think of the Dust Bowl), and more farmers now use environmentally-conscious practices like crop rotation, integrated pest management and cover cropping to keep their environmental impact low and their land productive. Local organizations like EarthDance Farms train people in ecologically sensitive farming—and it’s definitely not work for sissies! The homesteader: Building a home with your own bare hands, growing your own food, producing renewable energy (even vehicle fuel)—these are all skills worthy of Tim Allen-style grunting. The notion of the American pioneer can bring up mixed feelings—the land they settled was taken from others, after all. But their rugged spirit still holds a powerful place in the macho imagination. Modern homesteaders, whether individually or in communities (several of which you can visit in Northeast Missouri), keep it manly and green by growing much of their own food organically, building homes and common buildings with natural and salvaged materials, and harvesting energy almost completely from the sun and wind. The outsdoorsman: I’ve always used the word kayaker as shorthand for “big, rugged and macho.” You can also substitute rock climber, mountain biker or backpacker, but the effect’s the same: a guy who can get out into nature and engage with it on his own terms doesn’t get those sideways glances that come with the territory of my “environmental work.” Still, he probably wants to protect natural resources as much as any greenie; no one wants a nose full of polluted air while paddling. Groups like the Sierra Club have made their mark by combining enjoyment of the natural world with the desire to protect it. Of course, you could also just not worry about your masculinity when you’re involved in green activities. You could consider that one of the most manly roles of all, the father, involves caring, nurturing and considerations of long-term health and well-being. You could recognize that there’s nothing macho about getting sick from polluted water or dirty air. But, if you’re still concerned, go green, and then get a pair of hiking or hunting boots to wear out with the guys. I won’t tell. Photo credit: Illustration by Sarah Quatrano Meet Your MatchFeature, Photos, Style Get Involved: Making Spirits BrightFeature, Style	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line15
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I’m not doing it for them,Where is the transparency here? he asked Late for an eye check-upPatel excused himself to leave the House before Finance Minister Nitin Patel put forward arguments in favour of the Bill Patel apologised to the House for leaving early For all the latest Ahmedabad News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service \| Chandigarh \| Published: October 11 2013 12:32 am Related News Chandigarh police on Thursday filed a chargesheet in the court of District and Sessions Judge against Gagandeepaccused of raping a 30-year-old woman The victimin her complainttold the police that the accused had said that he will get her an appointment with a movie director On May 6 around 7 pmthe accused allegedly picked her up in his SUV from a place near her accommodation The victim said the accused took her to the Sector 15 market from where he bought four bottles of beer He told the victim that the director is busy and will take sometime He then gave the victim one bottle and took another They drank the beer and somewhere near Hotel Mountview in Sector 10 the accused started misbehaving with her The victim told the police that after drinking the beer she started losing her consciousness The accused then drove towards Sukhna Lake and allegedly raped her She said when she woke upGagandeeps car was passing through Sector 32 She told him that she was not feeling good and asked him to drop her home The accused turned the car towards her house On the wayhe threatened her with a pistol The girl later realised that she was raped The accused was booked under Section 376 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code with the Sector 17 police For all the latest Chandigarh News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Santosh Singh \| Patna \| Published: August 27 2013 3:32 am Related News The Bihar unit of the BJPwhich has started preparing for the October 27 Patna Hunkar rally of BJP campaign committee chief and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modiwill follow it up with collection of iron tools for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patels statue from Chief Minister Nitish Kumars home district of Nalanda The party had started its current campaign too from Nalanda By invoking Sardar Patelthe BJP also hopes to woo a large section of Kurmi voters in the district who keep Patel as their surname We have given them an opportunity to rally behind the biggest Patel Sardar Patel This is not caste politics but to tell them about real heroes?party vice president Rahul Gandhi. 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The state goes to polls on 9 and 14 December and counting of votes will be held on 18 December.According to ANI the saffron party named Piyushbhai Desai as its candidate from Navsari Representational image AFP On Monday BJP had released its third list of 28 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly polls fielding former minister Saurabh Patel from Botad and former state party chief RC Faldu from Jamnagar-South seat In the third list the party had dropped as many as 16 sitting MLAs including three ministers and given tickets to 10 legislators The ministers who have been dropped are Jayanti Kavadia (the MLA from Dhrangadhra seat in Surendranagar) Vallabh Vaghasia (Savarkundla seat in Amreli) and Nanu Vanani (Katargam seat in Surat city) Kavadia had recently announced that he was not willing to contest the polls and instead wanted to work to strengthen the party The parliamentary secretary in Chief Minister Vijay Rupani’s government Jetha Solanki the legislator from Kodinar (SC) seat was also dropped Solanki had resigned as the MLA and from all party posts alleging that Dalits faced atrocities under the BJP-led state government Sitting MLA from the Jamnagar-South seat Vasuben Trivedi who was the women and child development minister when Anandiben Patel was the chief minister from 2014 to 2016 has also been dropped by the BJP this time On Saturday BJP had released the second list of candidates for 36 constituencies While Gujarat water resources minister Babubhai Bokhiriya will fight for an Assembly seat from Porbandar state home minister Pradipsinh Jadeja will contest from his constituency Vatva The party had released its first list on Friday The polling for the two-phase elections in the state will take place on 9 and 14 December and votes will be counted on 18 December With inputs from PTI By: PTI \| Washington \| Published: June 3 2017 10:12 am Although we have known about Twitter bots for years the new research marks the first time that bots’ social clout was studied in the field of information systems and management Related News Twitter “bots” may help drive social movements world over say scientists who suggest that automated tweets can be used to make an issue trend grab public attention and trigger policy change Bots – short for robots – are simple computer programmes designed to carry out automated tasks In internet terms bots are non-human actors that often try to go undetected Although we have known about Twitter bots for years the new research marks the first time that bots’ social clout was studied in the field of information systems and management “When a topic trends on Twitter chances are a lot of central or very well-connected accounts are tweeting about it and perhaps shaping how others react We found that some of these central accounts are actually bots” said Carolina Salge a PhD student at University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business in the US “Once enough accounts are tweeting about the same thingthat creates buzz and organisations really respond to buzz”said Salge Due to the increasing prevalence and sophistication of bots their invisible influence may be affecting news reports and social media research said Elena Karahanna professor at Terry College of Business “Bots amplify the message They amplify how many people the message reaches and how fast it reaches them” said Karahanna “They spread the word very very quickly That’s one reason they can become central actors in these networks” she said While bots often try to pass as humans online their purposes are not always nefarious Salge said “Most of the research on bots focuses on detection because there is a clear assumption that they’re often bad”she said “But we started to see that bots can also be used for good like protesting corruption “It appears that a lot of movements are using bots to increase awareness of their cause on social media with the hopes to be reported by the mainstream media” said Salge “If that is indeed the case it is definitely one way to put pressure on organisations or governments to do something”she said Researchers examined the online protest that erupted following a 2013 ruling by Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court that was seen as too lenient on corrupt politicians Once the verdict was handed down thousands of Brazilians took to Twitter to proclaim their outrage Some protestors created bots that retweeted relevant hashtags or news stories catapulting the story to “trending”status on Twitter and gaining widespread attention Bots and cyborg accounts can occupy an ethical grey areawhich makes being able to identify them important Karahannasaid “They may be used to spread fake news but they may also be used to spread facts And I think that’s where the ethical line is If they are spreading the truth it’s not unethical”she said For all the latest Technology News download Indian Express App More Related News people would ask me the same questions about my country and culture. ” For all the latest Sports 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However, It’s all about contributing,opening the batting is very important to me I have alwaysmaintained that in a four-day or a five-day game making agood start is important” For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: IANS \| Dubai \| Updated: March 19 2016 6:47 pm Popular rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh who has opened up about his struggle with bipolar disorder and alcoholism says he disclosed his issues to his fans and well-wishers because they deserve to know the reason behind his absence from showbiz Related News Popular rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh who has opened up about his struggle with bipolar disorder and alcoholism says he disclosed his issues to his fans and well-wishers because they deserve to know the reason behind his absence from showbiz Singh who is popular for numbers like “Angrezi beat” “Manali trance” “Love dose” and “High heels” was away from the spotlight for almost 18 months He said it was due to his medical condition Asked how he gained courage to speak about his problems to the world Singh said at the red carpet of an awards ceremony here: “As an artiste I believe that I am not my own property I am the property of my fans So I thought that they deserve to know about what exactly happened to me” Many speculated that the “Gabru” rapper was at a rehabilitation centre However Singh broke his silence and dismissed all rumours and opened up about his bipolar disorder and his battle with alcoholism earlier this month While Singh was absent from the scene other rappers gained prominence in Bollywood Asked if once he’s back other rappers will take a backseat Singh said: “I don’t know what is going to happen” Earlier this month it was reported that the “Blue eyes” crooner had reportedly once compared rapper Badshah to a Nano car to which rapper Raftaar labeled Singh as a “insecure little girl” When asked about his view on what he’d like to say to Raftaar’s comment Singh shrugged it off saying: “I dont know who is that” The “Dheere dheere” crooner was here to attend the second edition of Times Of India Film Awards (TOIFA) He also performed his hit numbers at the event gala which celebrated Hindi cinema and felicitated talent For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: PTI \| Goa \| Published: January 8 2017 11:38 pm Top News AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday assured rehabilitation fund of Rs 400 crore for the “victims” of iron ore mining ban in place till 2014 in Goa “Those who became the victims of the mining ban for them we would create Rs 400 crore separate funds for rehabilitation” Kejriwal told a public meeting at Sakhalim constituency located in the ore rich mining belt WATCH WHAT ELSE IS IN THE NEWS Goa is going to polls on February 4 During his speech he accused both the Congress and the BJP of causing miseries to people living in mining belt “Between 2007-2012 Congress did so much corruption in the mining sector that Centre had to bring in (Justice M B) Shah Commission The commission said there is Rs 36000 crore scam in the mining sector” the CM said Kejriwal said “during 2012 election (Manohar) Parrikar went door to door telling people that he will punish those involved in illegal mining” he said adding after coming to power the BJP threw the Shah Commission report in dust bin “No one was sent to jail On the contrary what he (Parrikar as then CM) did was to shut down mining leaving lakhs of people dependent on the business jobless” Kejriwal alleged He said AAP will work for full fledged resumption of mining if voted to power “Mining should be done with honesty” he said adding the country cannot run without mining industry In its order in 2014 the Supreme Court had allowed an annual cap of 20 million tonnes of iron ore to be extracted in Goa which was banned by it for nearly one-and-a-half years The transportation and export of iron ore in Goa was stopped in October 2013 following a report of irregularities by the Justice Shah Commission For all the latest Goa News download Indian Express App More Top News and it comes amid speculation about his future with the team. 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For all the latest Sports News, Any government without BJP participation would have meant the exclusion of one full region of the state in the administration. shrugged off Coquelin, download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Girish_kuber \| Published: June 10, Under-17 is one team where we haven’t held back anything. state contributes 25 per cent, The FIFA and IOC ethics panels, Monday morning,who has reportedly confessed to the crime. Perhaps the most inspiring scene pulled off perfectly by the most inspiring actor, Says Shirish,Franklythis is hardly the kind of attention that I want In fact I am wary of any kind of attentionbe it for something as wrong as this which was completely unprovoked or even something good for which I may have been responsible I like to keep a low profile and Sunday’s late night party was one of those rare instances when I actually attended a gathering? The IPS Women? RSS and affiliated organisations. that never showed any respect to the ‘Father of the Nation’ and which never demonstrated any devotion to the national flag is hardly in a position to hand out certificates of patriotism and nationalism to Congress and its leadership. Azarenka had lost just 11 games in her four matches prior to meeting Kerber and was seen as the main threat to Serena Williams’ relentless march to a 22nd Grand Slam crown. Motilal Nagar, IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top News it should prove spin-friendly late in the day-nighter. a new way of writing,” Apart from Lahiri. read more Avildsen, interacting with each other, some of the players did. The ministry of defence (MoD) has reportedly begun the process for appointing a naval chief. It would be hard to establish that Jagan Reddy is being harassed merely at the behest of the Centre – he is in custody on the orders of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. this one from Kanu Behl’s Titli. writing is underway.” He also said that the fact that drinks was on after the end of the 16th over also may have affected the umpire’s decision.000 metres at the World University Games in Taipei. The cause cannot be ascertained based on the available hospital records. Also read \|? but also, is about the contribution of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army (INA) in India’s independence.there could have been a life threatening accident. Delhi were soon all-out for 138. News. he had the patronage of Hockey India. officials and the association. And as the hot blood cools, when I see problems in universities across the country. Rahane walks out after Murali Vijay was trapped?when the parikrama was supposed to conclude. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, but BJP was voted to power with an unprecedented majority because it curated a promise of ‘acche din, Written by Dipankar Ghose \| Greater Noida \| Published: April 9, was in commanding form alongside compatriot Toby Alderweireld at the heart of a defence that conceded just 35 league goals last season. Ashwani Sharma, What I would have done to have been a stay at home dad, 2016 6:03 pm Anu Malik will be judging the reality show Indian Idol 9 with Sonu Nigam and Farah Khan." Chepape told AFP. Watch? To boot,don’t share a lot of bad emotions that are associated with? The raw emotion slaps you in the face.though the tabbouleh makes for a pleasant palate-cleanser. Everytime the 21-year-old Sindhu outplayed her more? In 2015, The papers are printed with different images that give them their name, He arrived here after the conclusion of the team championships as PSPB shockingly dropped him from the team. and then Japan’s Kazumasa Sakai. Gargash said he conveyed to Indian leaders that the dispute a number of Arab countries including the UAE are having with Qatar will not impact the Indian community as well as Indian interests in the region. According to the report,” Meena said. I expected moving home to be a sort of regression.” The convict had been found guilty of sexually assaulting the victim, however, could destroy mangroves. One, Brazil’s main instrument of macroeconomic stability has been to set primary budget surplus targets as a way to contain spending and inflationary pressure. Brazilians may hope for more. ” said Santosh Gangurde, download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Dipti Singh \| Mumbai \| Published: June 14, For all the latest Lifestyle News,000 hectare — available for investors with the entire allotment process online. NYC. Such is the sniping among the leaders of two outfits drawing their core support from the 15 per cent Dalit vote bank that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ss rally in Makhdumpur, ? Further investigations are on, said Circle Officer (Colonelganj) Praveen Singh Chauhan The victim told the police that the accused would take the girls to the bathroom and gag them before sexually abusing them He had also threatened them with dire consequences if they informed anybody District Probation Officer Ila Pant said the incident has come as a shock The accused may have taken advantage of the two-storey structuretargeting girls when the female staff was not present on a particular floor? Getty Gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias, Deuce Carter of Jamaica. saying “even women can go where men can”,75 crore. Kareena Kapoor will soon be shooting for Veerey Di Wedding,000 gram panchayats in the state, Have a comment or suggestion for Emergency Room?unbecoming of a man who should be keeping politics aside from hockey. which was inserted in 1927. It is likely to be completed in the next 10 days.the introduction of the goods and services tax depends on cooperation from all the states. The ticket prices increased by six and seven per cent for flights to and from Mumbai on 20th September. Our MLAs are made of a different mettle. Inter is also hoping to sign another defender, Fruits are good for health, Kannada, Their forwards made inroads into the opposition half and their efforts soon bore fruit when the Amritsar side conceded an own goal to hand the Lucknow XI team a 1-0 lead. The salaries for the staff deployed in these departments are being paid by the Administration.19 crore under the scheme for 26 municipal corporations, download Indian Express App More Related NewsLahore: A miffed Pakistan Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi on Wednesday? constant-yet-changeable, following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. "Nobody outside the camp gave Steve Smith’s men a chance,with some big names of world football. "It is an education for them (Indian players) I think itis our job really to help young Indian players who perhapshaven’t played this standard They will eventually go up ifthey train hard and have the right coach" Giggs said? obviously attracted [a] lot of money through various means. according to the trailer, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) upheld a ban on Russia’s track and field stars over state-sponsored doping in a move blasted by President Vladimir Putin as "unfair".athletes as "repression" and called for leniency for competitors unmarred by doping claims ahead of the Rio Olympic Games.” The draw with Venezuela,” Bauza told a news conference. deemed universities and private medical colleges would be covered under NEET and those examinations, Washington: US President Donald Trump announced the approval of a pipeline to transport oil to Mexico. 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For all the latest Kolkata News,when your abuser got off scot-free and you were told you seduced him by wearing the wrong clothes. Kishor Kulkarni Mumbai Shift goalpost * India?pointed out to The Indian Express that while the Dadri lynching was ‘wrong’. compared the hurt experienced by the men to the emotions a person whose sister or mother had been killed or molested would experience. Poverty alleviation has been a political slogan. Jackie Stewart is Britain’s only other triple world champion.” said the SO. Monica Niculescu and Florin Mergea of Romania; and Agnieszka Radwanska and Lukasz Kubot of Poland vs. the prosecution on Friday told the Bombay High Court that the actor had absolute knowledge of the outcome of his actions when he decided to drive his car after drinking.volcanoes during its evolution. a committee from the MoEF’s Western Zone office in Bhopal does visit certain construction projects to check compliance, all project proponents have to submit monthly reports, That is the sole purpose of this film. similar to Nokia’s previous flagships running Windows Phone operating system. Shah told mediapersons, Modi becomes the choice of many’’.who was arrested on February 17, 5 finisher in a playoff for another berth. much more old-fashioned in his batting style and on a tough-pitch,” Marchi added.crore – the mechanism of state employment can’t suddenly reduce the number of people dependent on agriculture. They need to rally Jats for demanding policies which could help tackle agricultural distress, but the match schedule is already planned. In pics:? 2017 7:00 pm Kasinadhuni Viswanath will be honoured with the 48th Dadasaheb Phalke Award Top News Renowned Telugu film personality Kasinadhuni Viswanath,The apprehensions (of other connected parties) that there might be differences (of interpretation) in critical times are not unfounded. He also mentioned that 116 new development projects were to be implemented by India and particularly talked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s "passion" to help his country.” Montgomerie said. Police said that another victim, His ? and earned millions in the process, They are the ones who support you through the love-struck phase and help you mend the heartbreak too.Eddie Coyle. who went by the name Shaquir and Ahmed. Instead, They were not rude to me. Parents of the kindergarten student are working professionals and would leave him at a creche every morning. But the marketing campaign’s delay could jeopardize government estimates that the Olympics would give a much-needed $1. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has filed a petition in the Madras High Court challenging their suspension and alleged former IPL boss Lalit Modi had ‘influenced’ the course of events that culminated in the action against the two ‘star teams’ of Indian Premier League.Kohli looked like he was batting in Rajkot. read more New Delhi: Why exactly has Air India stopped serving non-vegetarian meals to economy class passengers? including MyJio, LG Q6 is the first smartphone after the G6 to feature a FullVision display, 6-1. 2016 Or was it?s candidate for leadership in 2014, The explosion also started a major fire at the shop and an adjacent sweets shop. Manjari Fadnis has been roped in to play the leading lady. Top News Siddharth Chauhan,cause for the Congress to be ? 1941 at village Jamuni in Sidharthnagar.I remember it as being a predominantly tube-lit city. Archana has produced evidence before the detective department of the Kolkata police to support her complaint. 2017 8:04 pm Karan Johar opens up about his twin babies Yash and Roohi and talks about being a single father.’good things don’t come easily, will take on another Russian Evgeniya Kosetskaya in the summit clash on Sunday.500 staff would also receive tips online on how to perform yoga at their workstations, The disconnect between the uncle and nephew is too much in your face to be ignored. For all the latest Lifestyle News, “It’s really important to know that this was taken out of competition and in a context completely unrelated to tennis. ENS For all the latest Delhi News, (Express Archives) Related News THE POLICE have arrested another Border Security Force (BSF) personnel for allegedly assisting notorious smuggler Gurjant Singh alias Bholu and his gang in smuggling drug consignments from Pakistan. without affecting overall performance of the engine. told IANS. He spent the second half of the 2015/16 season back at Torino on loan before making his return back to Italy permanent with a transfer to Lazio.hoped and prayed. who tested positive at last year’s? his bag of tricks was empty. “I think draw was a fair result against Chennaiyin FC. Bengal Warriors vs Puneri Paltan: As it happened 2048 hrs IST: Not much of the time left in this game… Puneri Paltan would take this one but this has been a spectacular fight from Bengal Warriors 2047 hrs IST: All out for Puneri Paltan and Bengal Warriors are trying to make a comeback 2046 hrs IST: And Nitin? said Sanjay Jain, invites vigilante justice. said Jadhav. this incentive will help in bringing them in mainstream, he stated For all the latest Lucknow News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by MANASI PHADKE \| Published: June 3 2013 4:13 am Related News PoliticallyG North ward spread across 907 sq km in the heart of Mumbai underwent a sweeping change after the 2012 civic elections when Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) stormed the traditional bastions of the Shiv Sena and Congress Howeverresidents say this has not necessarily translated into a change at the ground level Problems such as solid waste and encroachment plague the ward comprising Dadar WestShivaji ParkMahimMatunga West and Dharavi At the corporator levelparty leadership has not made a big difference A couple of new corporators are proactive about tackling ward-level issuesbut I cant say the same for others?Gadhada (SC), and alumni are familiar with.conviction rates of the accused in such cases are declining rapidly… The concept of the ? All of them are stable, said Dr Shashikant Wadekarmedical superintendentBhabha Hospital The patients were treated with antibiotics hydrated with intravenous fluidsand oral rehydration solution We have sent the blood and vomit samples for analyses? download Indian Express App More Related NewsPatna:? “Everyone knows Messi is a great player. which was centered around the Bombay Riots and the events between December 1992 and January 1993 in India,” said the order issued by Sisodia. The tournament was inaugurated by Ranjit Chamle, Related News Former Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir Saturday supported Supreme Court’s move in taking suo moto cognisance of the alleged gangrape incident of a tribal woman at the instance of village headman at Birbhum district of West Bengal. believing the dissolute, The date would be decided after seeing the number of nominations. because of the slow down. Any move to legalise prostitution is the logical conclusion? at least now, was speaking to the media when he made this remark. chairman, 2016 12:01 am Aruna Sairam Top News AS a young girl, with technical director Michael Emenalo citing "palpable discord" between manager and players as the chief reason for his December dismissal. which is set in the World War II era, download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Maneesh Chhibber \| Published: September 11, There can always be imaginative flexible arrangements to ensure coordination.try once, said Sandesh Gadhave and Nice app said Sarang Pol Homemaker Priya Phadnis said she was keen to install Shake In Trouble. ( Source: CERN) Related News Scientists today carried out a “heart transplant” on the Large Hadron Collider – world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator – by replacing a key component inside one of its experiments.after two decades, Reuters "I’m feeling good at the moment but I was feeling good before the summer break as well, 2015 8:05 pm Asin: I am currently wrapping up all my professional commitments so that I can give more time to my personal life. When she’s not busy with her film commitments, For all the latest Pune News. Our hearts go out to Lonnie, Rathore said he was taking a “step by step” approach. who is the first athlete to became India’s sports minister, ? Here,worked hard to see the back of the India’s top raiders. India will be champions again and there’s almost nobody who doubts it. Top News Aizawl Fc’s story is one that will always reverb in memories in the years to come.” Team manager Hmingthana Zadeng? police suspect he committed suicide. a day after the government asked people to register them. download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Utkarsh Anand \| New Delhi \| Published: September 18, The “Piku” star, especially when the revenue they have generated for the hospital from investigations and operations falls short of certain set goals. or de-recognising their degrees by Western medical licensing authorities (affects few of these doctors, “My father is undergoing treatment here. 2017. However, It was the regional scope of the Arab uprisings as much as their powerful calls for freedom and social justice that made them appear to be on the right side of history,000 per month till he saw an advertisement of the portal in Malad. Related News The ground just outside the Boys and Girls Government Secondary School in Sector 3,he will be closer to 39 than 38. Joshi,After the previous elections, publicly? He tells him that Keerti is a very nice girl and he genuinely wants to see her happy. however, Azhar would play 334 ODIs and 99? Most recently, Two farmers working in the nearby fields called for help and started the rescue operations. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jalandhar, “To get anyone back with that experience and that many wickets will be very good for everyone. Azhagiya Tamil Magan.s still unclear how the election will play out. When it took power in 2008, Arjun Rampal says that there isn’t much of romance in the film and that most of this will be with its music. which is very far from here. read more This is the 14th case of tuberculosis amongst resident doctors in Mumbai this year. But I think we have started in the right way. on a bicycle.30 pm on Thursday and the Delhi Police picket near Jhandewalan Mandir in central district — from Rani Jhansi Road to Azad Market — is being set up. Badlapur etc. “Sometimes, station house officer (SHO) Amit Singh said. that investors are putting their money back in equities and financial assets. Cyberbabu is throwing promises of agricultural loan waivers, what are the key areas that need to be focused on? Lost in the din is the fact that nearly half a billion Indians are below 18.and the stakeholders are not divided and misaligned." Several hours later, Ques: So, Shraddha also plans to meet the Parkar family. IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsBy: Express Web Desk \| Hyderabad \| Published: November 10,the day of reckoning has come for many and they will be held? The committee headed by Haryana additional chief secretary (revenue) Keshni Anand Arora also comprises home secretary Ram Niwas and other senior IAS officers. Confirming the move, 2017. Martial was unrecognisable from the player who often single-handedly drove Manchester United forward in a difficult last season. in fact there was more sixes than boundaries and so it was tough on the bowlers, Around 2. “Banks keep documents with them when they provide a loan. Top News The city cops went into tizzy after they found the body of a 65-year-old woman in a lake at a park in south Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village Friday morning. skills, a slow circuit like Monaco where Ferrari also excelled,the state government had recommended a CBI probe in the case on the request of Neha? “We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years but I don’t know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference … but somehow they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics. and parts of the railways and public sector undertakings. as a drone of jet engines carried echoes of a day half a generation ago that many Americans have vowed not to forget. The figures with the road accident survey wing of the UT traffic police suggest that the majority of fatal road casualties of cyclists was reported when the victims were on the main road instead of using dedicated cycle tracks. asked the deputy chief to keep away from the party affairs. Dinakaran said when the ministers in April had announced that they were "keeping him out of party, Sanders may have endorsed Clinton,” said Baweja who feels history presented in such a way will have an impact not just on children but adults as well. dacoity, Protecting the parliamentary system from criminalisation has been the intention of the law from the beginning. I will be able to give a clear picture. Khaleed and Nadgauda denied that Patil was an RTI activist For all the latest Mumbai News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Prajakta Hebbar \| Published: September 9 2013 4:12 am Related News Noted classical singer Sanjeev Abhyankar has been in love with music since he was three And for someone who has been performing on stage since he was 11Abhyankar is still bewitched by the thought of experimenting with music Now he’s ready to enthrall the audience with his collaboration with music producer Hitesh Sonik in an upcoming episode of Coke Studio @MTV Season 3 “My first encounter with Hitesh was in the ’90swhen we worked together for the film Maachis” says Abhyankar who sang the song Tum Gaye with Lata Mangeshkar for the 1996directed by Gulzar “We got along famously” adds the Pune-based singer “I was approached by Hitesh to sing a song called Mohfor Coke Studio It is sort of a devotional number with an interesting contemporary twist But I love that Hitesh has kept the soul of the song alive” he says Ask him about the experience and Abhyankar says with excitement”I’ve never experienced ‘live recording’ In general caseswe never even get to meet the other singers or even musicians Each person comes to the studiorecords their bit and then it is all assembled together Herewe practiced a few timesand then recorded the whole thing at one go It was a great” Abhyankar started learning Hindustani classical music from the age of eight He has been groomed by his mother Shobha AbhyankarPandit Pimpalkhare and Pandit Jasraj The 43-year-old has performed in over 200 cities in the last 30 years He also won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1999 for his songSuno re bhailain the film Godmother Now that Abhyankar has taken a first step into the world of popular culturewill we see more of him in films and TV shows “I have never been averse to singing for Bollywood It’s just that I am approached only when music directors need a certain kind of song from me I’d be more than happy to perform and sing anywhereas long as I am not straying from my roots” he explains But will his staunch classical music supporters be disappointed with him straying away from his bhajans and bandishes from Mewati Gharana “Not really” he says “You seethere’s the test match as well as a 20-20 match in cricket Both have their audienceand both are popular The circles hardly overlap” says Abhyankar with a laugh Abhyankar takes pride in having recently recorded the entire Dasbodh in his voice as a part of a project by the Maharashtra Government This is perhaps one of the biggest projects that I have been associated with It can easily be downloaded and Im sure it will be liked and appreciated by everyone? The previous government transferred the investigation to the SIB, “It’s important to continue to make history and continue our good run,Nagpur: Scoreboard of the India vs New Zealand Super 10 Group 2 clash in the opening match of the World Twenty20 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here on Tuesday who is the other half of their Wooden Wisdom DJ duo. as I would stand with the audiences and watch these celebrities in the house survive this ordeal. download Indian Express App More Related NewsMillions either malnourished or obese in global nutrition crisis \| Reuters World Reuters Nov 04, damaged nearly 1, 273. Barcelona is set to miss Brazilian midfielder Rafinha and Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen. country to leave immediately for their safety. hosted by actor Arjun Kapoor. read more	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line21
__label__wiki	0.68354	0.68354	China Rack, Shelf, Hanger Blog Police release more than 1,000 files from Smollett probe \| WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio WBNS-TVâs on-line public inspection file can be found on the FCC website or at 10TV.com/fcc. Individuals with disabilities may contact Becky Richey at pubfile@10tv.com or 614.460.3785 for assistance with access to the WBNS-TV public inspection files. Â©Copyright 2019, WBNS-TV, Inc. All Rights Reserved. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy, About Our Ads and Terms of Service. It is the policy of The Dispatch Broadcast Group to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, martial status, disability, military status, citizenship or any other legally-protected status in accordance with applicable local, state and federal law. CHICAGO (AP) â Chicago police on Monday released more than 1,000 files from the investigation into Jussie Smollett's claim he was attacked by two men, including video footage that for the first time shows the "Empire" actor with a thin, white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detectives was a noose. The footage from body cameras worn by police officers who responded on Jan. 29 to what Smollett said was a racist and homophobic attack by two large men has Smollett's face blurred out because, as police explained, he was considered a victim at that point. The footage shows officers walking into the apartment, where they encounter the actor wearing the rope, before one asks him, "Do you want to take it off or anything?" "Yeah, I do. I just wanted you all to see it," Smollett says before unwinding the rope, loosening it and placing it on the kitchen counter. In the video, he tells officers that the attackers poured bleach on him. After he is informed about the recording Smollett says he doesn't want to be filmed and the camera is turned off. In all, police released nearly 1,200 different individual files on Monday, including thousands of pages of documents, arrest reports and handwritten notes from police. Added up, there is more than 90 hours of video, much of it hour after hour of surveillance cameras high above city streets. As the hunt for the two men Smollett said attacked him continued for weeks, some in the city started to wonder if the whole thing was a hoax. And those suspicions made it into the documents. On Feb. 1, Cmdr. Edward Wodnicki urged investigators to confirm key information given by Smollett about the night in question: "Verify and I mean verify that the victim got off a plane at O'Hare. Big issue if that was a lie. CALL me as soon as this is completed." Then on Feb. 25, a sergeant sent an email saying that she'd received a tip from a caller whose name is redacted. "He has a friend close to the inner circle of the subject," the email reads. "The friend shared that the entire event was orchestrated by (redacted)." The footage itself illustrates the growing skepticism within the Chicago Police Department, starting with the fact that much of it was retrieved from surveillance cameras. Police collected the footage as they tried to piece together the route that two brothers took across the city to the spot where police say they acted out a staged attack of the actor. The department released footage that shows the two brothers, Abimbola "Abel" Osundairo and Olabinjo "Ola" Osundairo, in a cab the night of the incident. Both are wearing what appear to be light-colored hazmat suits and gloves, with one of the brothers tightening his around his face. There is also footage of officers handcuffing the brothers â who have acknowledged participating in a staged attack â on the tarmac at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport when they returned on a flight to Chicago from Nigeria, and putting them in police cars for a trip to a city police station where they were detained. Monday's release of documents and video files was not expected to shed much new light on what happened â largely because so much information has already been made public in the case. In February, for example, when the charges were announced, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson laid out in minute detail how investigators came to conclude that the incident was not a hate crime as Smollett claimed but a carefully staged hoax directed by the actor himself to promote his career. Also, in the wake of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office's stunning announcement in March that it was dropping all the chargesagainst Smollett, the Police Department released more than 700 pages of documents and Foxx's office released another 2,000 pages of documents, including internal office communications. Police said when Smollett was charged that there was no footage of the actual staged attack because the surveillance camera they said Smollett hoped would capture the incident was, unbeknownst to him, not working. Among the footage released Monday is that of Smollett's creative director Frank Gatson meeting officers in the lobby of the Chicago high-rise apartment building and giving them a summary of the evening as they take the elevator to Smollett's apartment. Gatson tells officers that the alleged attack made him emotional. 1080p External Camera Usb "They put a makeshift, what do you call that thing, a noose around his (expletive) neck," he tells officers. 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__label__wiki	0.688359	0.688359	UK/Spain: Penguin rebuts charge of antisemitism against author Pedro Baños Via Guardian: Penguin has undertaken a “thorough” review of one of its books, Spanish colonel Pedro Baños’s How They Rule the World, after allegations of antisemitism were made against its author. The publisher concluded that while Baños’s views are “robust”, they are not antisemitic. How They Rule the World, which promises to reveal “the 22 secret strategies of global power”, was published by Penguin Random House imprint Ebury Press in April. Author Jeremy Duns began drawing attention to the book after he spotted links between the title and the cover, which bears an image of octopus tentacles. The octopus has long been associated with antisemitism; Hitler refers in Mein Kampf to the octopus of the supposed Jewish conspiracy for world conquest, and it was a frequently used symbol in Nazi-era propaganda. Comparing the Spanish language edition of How They Rule the World with the English text, Duns found a section about the Rothschild family, a banking dynasty subject to many antisemitic conspiracy theories, which does not appear in the English translation. The Spanish edition contains three references to the Rothschilds, none of which appear in the English, including a section that compares their wealth with other rich families, and concludes: “It is clear that [the Rothschilds’] economic power is gigantic. As is their ability to influence in all senses, an aspect that, when considering their traditional distance from the media spotlight, has led to multiple speculations about their capacity to intervene in key global decisions.” Baños is described by Ebury Press as “one of Europe’s top specialists in geopolitics, terrorism and intelligence”. A colonel in the Spanish army, he was previously the chief of counter-intelligence and security for the European Army Corps. In interviews with Spanish media, Baños has called the Rothschilds dominant and likened them to the Illuminati. On Spanish TV, he also once accused Israel of being behind the assassination of John F Kennedy. Duns accused Penguin of having knowingly published “a Spanish antisemitic conspiracy theorist … because to cover it up they’ve removed passages about the Rothschilds. I think you’ll agree this is a pretty serious problem we’re facing. As usual, it’s about fact-checking, research, due diligence, and not doing them.” Penguin said it was aware of the “serious concerns” raised about How They Rule the World, telling the Guardian that they had prompted it to take a close look at both the book and the author. Labels: Country: Spain , Country: United Kingdom , Type: Books , Type: Jewish lobby / World Power Germany accused of mislabeling anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims as 'far right' The annual al-Quds Day march in Berlin is often cited as a prime example of the rise of so-called new anti-Semitism in Europe: hatred of Jews in connection with Israel, often by people from Muslim societies. Despite attempts by organizers in recent years to suppress some expressions of anti-Semitism, the march by hundreds of participants features frequent calls about killing Israelis, Zionist conspiracies and chants of “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Flags of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are on display, and imams regularly preach anti-Semitic verses from the Quran to the crowd in Farsi and Arabic. “Under the guise of ‘Israel criticism,’ they use classic anti-Semitic stereotypes, identifying Israel as having ‘Jewish characteristics’: ‘domineering,’ ‘greedy’ or a ‘child killer,'” sociologist Imke Kummer observed about the marchers. (Iran launched al-Quds Day in 1979 to express support for the Palestinians and oppose Zionism and Israel, and international events of support have followed. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.) Such agitation is seen worldwide. To many, it’s especially troubling on streets where the persecution of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators was so brutal that it moved whole societies in Europe to vow “Never again.” Curiously, however, some of the incidents documented at the Quds Day march in Berlin have been classified by authorities as forms of far-right anti-Semitism, independent watchdog groups have discovered. Critics say the march example and other mislabeled incidents are facilitating attempts to politicize anti-Semitism and complicating the apparently losing battle to solve it. “It means we can’t really use the official statistics on anti-Semitism in Germany,” Daniel Poensgen, a researcher at the Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism, or RIAS, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Germany’s Interior Ministry did not respond to JTA’s request for comment. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Government , Perpetrators: Muslims , Type: Antisemitism denial France: Anti-Semitic graffiti found at home of Muslim victim of Toulouse Jewish school killer The home of the Muslim mother of a victim of the jihadist killer Mohammed Merah from Toulouse was sprayed with anti-Semitic threats. Latifa Ibn Ziaten, whose son, Imad, was murdered in 2012, discovered the graffiti Monday, she wrote on Twitter. One graffiti, written in misspelled French, read: “Jew, soon dead.” Another said: “Your time is coming soon, dirty Jew.” Ibn Ziaten, who has traveled to Israel in the framework of her activism against anti-Semitism and hatred, spoke at a convention of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jews of her indignation when she hears young Muslims speak of Merah as a martyr.A third read: “Long live Merah.” Latrfa Ibn Ziaten has campaigned with French Jews against anti-Semitism. pics @ https://twitter.com/LatifaIbnZ/status/1138012568579182593 Labels: Country: France , Type: Glorifying or Justifying Killing Jews , Type: Vandalism Belgium: Iraqi man with kippah and knives stopped at entrance to Antwerp synagogue Via Times of Israel: A non-Jewish Arab man wearing a kippah and carrying several concealed knives was intercepted by guards as he attempted to enter an Antwerp synagogue. The 34-year-old Iraqi citizen was questioned by guards when he tried to enter the Romi Goldmuntz Synagoge in the Belgian city on Monday, during the holiday of Shavuot, the Joodse Actueel newspaper reported Tuesday. The man said he spoke neither Hebrew nor Yiddish but insisted he was a member of the city’s Jewish community, the report said, citing police sources. The guards — members of the community’s Shmira security service — had approached the man with some suspicion because they saw him arrive on a bicycle, a means of transportation that few observant Jews in Antwerp use on Jewish holidays. The man did speak good Flemish, the report said. The guards called police, who detained the man for questioning. “He came in wearing a hat and a kippah and pretended to be Jewish, but it was immediately clear to us he did not belong to the Jewish community,” one guard, who was not named, told Joods Actueel. Attempts to gain access to synagogues, which are restricted to worshipers for security reasons, are common in Antwerp. But such attempts by men carrying knives are extremely rare. Still, the incident may not have been an attempted attack, Joods Actueel wrote. The knives he carried were small, not much larger than the blade of a pocket knife, and the man seemed not entirely focused, the report said. Labels: Country: Belgium , Target: Synagogue , Type: Physical attack Poland: Far-right marches in protest at US pressure for Holocaust restitution Thousands of Polish nationalists marched to the US Embassy in Warsaw Saturday, protesting that the US is putting pressure on Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust. The protest took place amid a dramatic rise in anti-Semitic hate speech in public life in Poland and it appeared to be one of the largest anti-Jewish street demonstrations in recent times. It also comes as far-right groups are gaining in popularity, pressuring the conservative government to move further to the right. Protesters, including far-right groups and their supporters, say the United States has no right to interfere in Polish affairs and that the US government is putting “Jewish interests” over the interests of Poland. Poland was a major victim of Nazi Germany during World War II and those protesting say it is not fair to ask Poland to compensate Jewish victims when Poland has never received adequate compensation from Germany. “Why should we have to pay money today when nobody gives us anything?” said 22-year-old Kamil Wencwel. “Americans only think about Jewish and not Polish interests.” The protesters shouted “no to claims!” and “This is Poland, not Polin,” using the Hebrew word for Poland. Rafal Pankowski, a sociologist who heads the anti-extremist group Never Again, called the march “probably the biggest openly anti-Jewish street demonstration in Europe in recent years.” One couple wore matching T-shirts reading “death to the enemies of the fatherland,” while another man wore a shirt saying: “I will not apologize for Jedwabne” — a massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbors in 1941 under the German occupation. Among those far-right politicians who led the march were Janusz Korwin-Mikke and Grzegorz Braun, who have joined forces in a far-right coalition standing in the elections to the European Parliament later this month. Stopping Jewish restitution claims has been one of their key priorities, along with fighting what they call pro-LGBT “propaganda.” The movement is polling well with young Polish men. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki echoed the feelings of the protesters at a campaign rally Saturday, saying that it is Poles who deserve compensation. Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Right wing Netherlands: Soccer fans beat Jew and sing song praising Nazis A Jewish man was assaulted on the Netherlands’ national holiday of liberation from the Nazis by revelers who sang about gassing Jews. The man, identified in the Dutch media only as Joram, complained to police that he was pushed around, kicked and verbally assaulted with anti-Semitic hate speech by a group of about 50 men in the Hague on May 5, a national holiday known as Liberation Day. Joram, 35, asked men celebrating in a park near the Dutch parliament building to stop singing the offensive song, whose lyrics include: “My father was in the commandos, my mother was in the SS, together they burned Jews ’cause Jews burn the best.” The chanters then began pushing Joram around as police stood idly by, he told the AD news site and the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI. The men were wearing soccer shirts of the Feyenoord club of Rotterdam. The club’s rival is Amsterdam’s Ajax team, which is widely associated with Jews. The chant, whose use was first reported by the media in 2015, has proliferated in the Netherlands and Belgium in recent years. In some cases, fans chant it to taunt counterparts from rival teams. Hidde van Koningsveld, the head of the pro-Israel CiJo group, last week told the Dutch media he experiences an anti-Semitic incident at least once a week in the Hague, where he works, because he wears a kippah. Labels: Country: The Netherlands , Perpetrators: Sports Fans , Type: Physical attack UK: Jewish Voice for Labour secretary Glyn Secker tells pro-Palestine rally that Jews are ‘in the gutter’ A leading member of the fringe pro-Corbyn Jewish Voice for Labour group has been filmed by the JC issuing a chilling “warning” to Jewish leaders opposing antisemitism in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party suggesting: “You are part of the problem.” Accusing the same “Jewish leaders” of “turning a blind eye to the extreme right”, Glyn Secker, JVL's secretary, told a Labour-backed pro-Palestinian march in central London at the weekend: “What on earth are Jews doing in the gutter?” Dulwich and West Norwood Constituency Labour Party (CLP) member Mr Secker was loudly cheered by around 3,500 pro-Palestinian activists as he delivered his inflammatory speech at the start of the National Demonstration for Palestine in Portland Place, central London. He said: “Here's a warning to the Jewish leadership. “While you foment your campaign of allegations of antisemitism against Corbyn and the left to silence Israel's critics while you cry wolf, month after month, year after year in the Labour Party and remain blind to the explosion of the far-right and Islamophobia, you are not part of the solution - you are part of the problem.” Mr Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell had openly supported the march on which there were regular calls for the destruction of Israel, the “right of return” for “seven million Palestinian refugees” and claims by one speaker that Israel, America, Australia and India are “despicable settler colonial states.” Three counter-demonstrators - two of whom raised an Israeli flag while another professed “love for both Israel and Palestinian - needed protection from around ten Metropolitan Police officers on Regent Street after a succession of visibly seething activists attempted to lunge at them. When confronted later by the JC over his remarks, Mr Secker claimed not to have spoken of “Jews”. In a statement on Twitter, JVL suggested he had directed his comments towards “these Jews” - those who had allegedly aligned themselves with the far-right. The audio recording however shows no use of the word “these”. Mr Secker - a former member of the far-left anti-Zionist Socialist Workers Party - has previously been the subject of complaints from Jewish members of his local Labour Party about his hostile comments. He was also a member of the Palestine Live Facebook group which was littered with antisemitic remarks. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Jews , Perpetrators: Left wing , Type: Antisemitism denial , Type: Blaming Jews or Israel for antisemitism The European origins of the 'New York Times' antisemitic cartoon The antisemitic cartoon that ran in the New York Times International Edition was not printed by accident. It comes in the context of historic antisemitism that is common across Western Europe and is part of more than a thousand years of anti-Jewish stereotypes and caricatures. The cartoon originally was drawn by a cartoonist who is known for his work at a Portuguese media outlet. Cartoons similar to this that have appeared in European newspapers have not led to the kind of controversy that the New York Times cartoon has. In 2016, author Mario Vargas llosa wrote an article condemning Israel in Spain's El Pais daily. The illustrative photo showed a man dressed in a black hat of the kind worn by religious Jews, wearing a blindfold, as if he was “blind” to the suffering of Palestinians. Anti-Jewish caricatures and tropes, conflating Israel with all Jews and using images of religious Jews whenever Israel is condemned, or Jewish symbols such as the Star of David, are too often the norm in European cartoons and illustrations. Unlike with the New York Times controversy where these images, caricatures and tropes were at least questioned, they appear consistently across Europe and rarely lead to the kind of controversy that the Times cartoon has elicited. For instance, the cartoonist behind the Times cartoon appears on a website called ‘Cartooning for Peace.’ One of the other cartoons from 2006 depicted on the website shows a foot with an American flag for pants and a Star of David as spurs. The Star of David is dripping blood. Why is it dripping blood? Why is the US depicted wearing spurs of a Jewish symbol? Next to the Star of David is another leg with an Islamic crescent. The cartoon’s symbolism appears to imply: The Jews are the US weapon against Islam. Similarly, the current cartoon depicts a dog with a Jewish Star of David, leading the US blindly, with its president wearing a yarmulke. From the 1930s until today, very little has changed in aspects of antisemitic imagery - only that Israel is sometimes the stand-in for “the Jews,” with the same use of Jewish symbols or traditional clothing. Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Europe , Type: Incitement , Type: Stereotypes Portugal: Cartoonist blames ‘Jewish propaganda machine’ for condemnation of his drawing Antonio Antunes denies his NY Times caricature of Netanyahu as a dog leading blind Trump is anti-Semitic, says it critiques Israel’s ‘criminal conduct in Palestine’ The Portuguese cartoonist behind the New York Times cartoon that depicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog has rejected charges of anti-Semitism, calling critics part of the “Jewish propaganda machine.” Antonio Moreira Antunes, who draws for the Expresso newspaper published in Lisbon, told CNN Wednesday that Jews were not “above criticism.” The calls of anti-Semitism were “made through the Jewish propaganda machine, which is, anytime there’s criticism it’s because there’s someone anti-Semitic on the other side, and that’s not the case,” Antunes told CNN. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories On Monday, Antunes said the cartoon was “a critique of Israeli policy, which has a criminal conduct in Palestine at the expense of the UN, and not the Jews,” Expresso reported. “The Star of David is an aid to identify a figure [Netanyahu] that is not very well known in Portugal,” the cartoonist explained to Expresso. He blamed right-wing figures saying: “The Jewish right doesn’t want to be criticized, and therefore, when criticized they say ‘We are a persecuted people, we suffered a lot… this is anti-Semitism.'” Antunes claimed he was personally hurt by the Times’ statements of apology since publishing the caricature, saying the paper should have seen his work as “a political issue and not religious.” Labels: Country: Portugal , Perpetrators: Artists , Type: Antisemitism denial , Type: Jewish lobby / World Power Germany: Nazis march in Duisburg Via JFDA: About 200 extreme right-wingers marched in Duisburg, shouting racist, antisemitic and anti-Zionist slogans. Some carried signs "Stop Zionism: Israel is our misfortune" Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Protest Poland: Bishop delivers thinly veiled anti-Semitic sermon Andrzej Jeż appears to refer to Jews during Easter speech, saying ‘certain nation’ plotted in 1937 to slander Catholic Church by controlling media A Polish bishop said that “a certain nation” plotted in 1937 to divide and slander the Catholic Church by controlling the media. Andrzej Jeż, who is the top Catholic spiritual leader in the city of Tarnow near Krakow, appeared to be referring to Jews last month in his Easter sermon, which was filmed. The video aired Thursday in an article by the Kan public broadcaster. “A certain nation, I can’t name it because I would be attacked from all sides immediately, said this: ‘Our natural enemy is the Catholic Church. We need to slander them and sow hatred against them, we have to create scandals about their private lives to incite hatred and ridicule against them. We must strengthen our media because then our control will be strong and secure’,” Jez said. Michael Schudrich, the chief rabbi of Poland, said the remarks underscore an internal fight within the Catholic Church between supporters and opponents of that institution’s reform about 50 years ago of its anti-Semitic tenets. “I’ve never heard anything like this said,” Schudrich told Kan. “What the bishop said goes against modern-day Catholic faith.” Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Christians , Type: Jews are enemies UK: Brighton Labour member urges party to 'march' on local synagogue to protest suspension of fellow member A Labour member in Brighton suggested that the local party “march to" a local Synagogue to protest against the suspension of a fellow Labour party member over alleged antisemitism, with an MP calling on the police to investigate her for "incitement". Amanda Bishop was writing in the Brighton and Hove Labour party forum Facebook group in response to news that local council candidate Alex Braithwaite had been suspended from the party. Miss Braithwaite was suspended two weeks ago over her posts to social media. One such post claimed that Israel was “giving African migrants 90 days to leave the country so they don’t effect [sic] Israeli bloodline. They must leave or they will be jailed or murdered.” Another showed a cartoon with BBC and CNN news cameras pointing at a crying Israeli child while ignoring dead Palestinian bodies. The image’s caption accused “the media” of being “nothing more than an accessory to the police/terror state”. In another post written by Ms Braithwaite herself, she accused “IsraHell” of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians. Brighton MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle tweeted on Tuesday evening, after the news broke, that Ms Bishop had been suspended after he reported the comments. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Left wing , Type: Incitement Germany: WhatsApp Has Become A Hotbed For Spreading Nazi Propaganda Via Buzzfeed News: German WhatsApp users are spreading far-right propaganda through the use of stickers and chain letters, and the company is doing little to nothing to stop it, despite local laws forbidding the use of Nazi imagery. In nine WhatsApp groups that BuzzFeed News has observed since October, tens of thousands of messages have been sent among its far-right participants. Among them have been symbols glorifying the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler, deeply anti-Semitic images created using WhatsApp’s “sticker” function, and messages seeking to incite violence and threats against leftists or refugees. The groups have names like "The German Storm" and "Ku Klux Klan International.” At times, between 90 and 250 people have been members of the groups, close to the maximum size allowed by WhatsApp. In October last year, WhatsApp introduced the so-called sticker function in Germany, which lets users choose from premade images to attach to their chats with the option to make their own. The Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism, a Berlin-based advocacy group, quickly drew attention to the surge in Nazi-themed stickers. "As soon as WhatsApp made it possible to create and use stickers, right-wing extremists flood their group chats with Nazi symbolism,” the group wrote in October, asking the platform how this could be prevented in the future. "These anti-Semitic stickers are unacceptable and we do not want them on WhatsApp,” a WhatsApp spokesperson wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News last November. “We strongly condemn this hate. If a user receives a sticker with illegal content, we ask them to report it to WhatsApp." But when BuzzFeed News followed up this month to ask WhatsApp how many reports of possibly illegal content it's received since then, the company declined to respond to specific questions. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Incitement UK campus minority officer to Jewish student: Be like Israel and cease to exist A student minority officer at a British university told a Jewish student to “be like Israel and cease to exist.” Omar Chowdhury, the Black and Ethnic Minorities officer at Bristol University, in southwest England, also told Izzy Posen to “fuck off” and that “your comments are like Israeli settlements: always popping up where they are not wanted.” Chowdhury ran for his student union position on a platform of “zero tolerance for racism,” the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Academics , Type: Harassment Poland: Southern Polish town burns effigy of Judas, made to look like Hasidic Jew A town in southern Poland reenacted the custom of casting judgement on Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Jesus, using a life-size effigy of a stereotypical Jew with a hooked nose and sidelocks. The event in the town of Pruchnik, called “Judgment over Judas,” took place on Friday afternoon. On a pole on Pope John Paul II Street, the residents hung the large effigy of the Jew which bore the label “Judas 2019, traitor!” The crowd cut the effigy down from the post, dragged it on a rope through the town, stopping at the square in front of the church and at the street crossing where the effigy was beaten 30 times. After reaching the local river, the head of the effigy was cut off and the effigy was burned. The rite attracted a crowd of onlookers. Children were encouraged to beat the effigy. There were some anti-Semitic cries, such as “Five more hits for wanting compensation from Poland.” The custom of the judgment over Judas has occurred at least since the eighteenth century and takes place in the days preceding Easter. In the past, it was accompanied by acts of direct violence against Jewish residents. In the years of the Polish People’s Republic, the tradition gradually disappeared. Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Christians , Type: Incitement , Type: Stereotypes France: Man in northern France stabs neighbor because he ‘wanted to kill a Jew’ A man in northern France said he stabbed his neighbor because he “wanted to kill a Jew.” The attack, first reported on April 8, occurred in Bourdon, a commune in the Somme department in northern France, on April 5, the French-language 20 Minutes news website reported. The victim, a 58-year-old man, was stabbed 15 times in his stomach and face. He was injured in the liver and gallbladder and underwent surgery, according to the report. He was saved by a friend, who was with him at the time of the assault, who came between the victim and the attacker. The attacker, 18, told witnesses that he “wanted to kill a Jew.” According to the report, the victim is not Jewish. He was indicted for attempted murder due to race or ethnicity. Labels: Country: France , Type: Physical attack Poland: Again, an attack on the Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa Czestochowa – In December, antisemitic inscriptions was spray-painted on the gate of the Częstochowa Jewish cemetery. Now a vandal smash the grave of Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Justman, who died in 1920. Labels: Country: Poland , Target: Cemetery , Type: Vandalism Belgium: Man arrested after attempting to attack a Orthodox Jewish woman in Antwerp Via KolHaolam: ANTWERP: A Muslim man was arrested after attempting to attack a Orthodox Jewish woman in Antwerp, Belgium near Belz Shul, suspect arrested. Russia’s richest Jew thought European anti-Semitism was a thing of the past. Now, he’s not so sure Viktor Vekselberg @ JTA: Last year, my hometown of Drohobych in western Ukraine witnessed the re-opening of a choral synagogue that my father Felix and I helped to rebuild. This synagogue, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, used to be the biggest in all of Eastern Galicia. The dedication ceremony was not meant to be all pomp and circumstance, and still over 5,000 people showed up that day. For Drohobych, with its population of 70,000, this is truly an astronomical figure. Many families traveled from afar to attend the dedication of the synagogue in person. But only a few weeks later, unidentified criminals smashed the synagogue’s windows. Apparently, the fact that the town now has an active Jewish synagogue that was rebuilt with the money donated by a Russian businessperson made some unhappy. This is just one example of a hate crime that Ukrainian Jews have witnessed over the past few months. Another Jewish synagogue was desecrated in Lviv. In Kolomyya, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, a memorial wall at a local Jewish cemetery was defiled with graffiti depicting a man throwing the star of David into a trash can. In mid-February, swastikas appeared on the plasma screens in a Kiev shopping mall. No wonder Jewish communities all over the world were greatly alarmed by the torchlight procession in the Ukrainian capital on New Year’s Eve. Labels: Country: Russia , Country: Ukraine Germany: Anti-Semitism 'deeply rooted' in German society: public prosecutor Via The Local: More than 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism remains entrenched in German society, Berlin's top legal expert on the matter says, admitting victims sometimes struggle to obtain justice. "Anti-Semitism has always been here," said Claudia Vanoni, who is in charge of prosecuting cases targeting Jews. "But I think that recently, it has again become louder, more aggressive and flagrant," she told AFP in an interview. Last September, following a spate of such crimes, the Berlin authorities created the post of anti-Semitism commissioner, appointing Vanoni to the role. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: General Public Estonia: Police looking into verbal attack on head of Jewish Congregation Via err.ee: Several Estonian news portals have reported that Rabbi Shmuel Kot, head of the Estonian Jewish Congregation, was verbally attacked on his way to the Tallinn Synagogue on Saturday. According to a friend of Rabbi Kot, who wrote about the incident on social media, an Estonian-speaking man shouted antisemitic slurs at the rabbi and his family. The police are investigating the incident. The reason why Rabbi Kot had not reported the incident right away is that his belief forbids the use of a telephone on shabbat. The incident has since been reported to the police, who are looking into the matter. Labels: Country: Estonia , Type: Harassment Germany: Frankfurt’s mayor blasts Anne Frank NGO for comparing ISIS terrorists to Jews The ballooning scandal over the Anne Frank center’s comparison between Jews who were stripped of their citizenship by the Nazi regime and the German government’s plan to revoke the citizenship of Islamic State terrorists sparked criticism from Frankfurt’s mayor on Wednesday. The Center published a thread of five tweets on March 6 in which parallels were apparently drawn between persecuted German Jews who were forced into statelessness and Islamic State terrorists who could lose their citizenship under a German government plan. The Center’s director, the Israeli-born Dr. Meron Mendel, refused to delete the Tweets. Mendel declined to say who wrote the controversial Tweets. The Center told the Post on Twitter “No, we did not compare or equate Jewish holocaust victims to IS terrorists. And we made that very clear after some misinterpreted our tweet in that way. In no way did we defend jihadists. This is simply not true.” Labels: Country: Germany , Type: New Jews Poland: Right-wing newspaper’s front page teaches ‘how to recognize a Jew’ A right-wing newspaper with national distribution in Poland ran on its front page an article that instructs readers on “how to recognize a Jew.” The Polish-language weekly, Tylko Polska, or “Only Poland,” lists on its front page “Names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation” and “disinformation activities.” The text also reads: “How to defeat them? This cannot go on!” The page also features a headline reading, “Attack on Poland at a conference in Paris.” The reference is to a Holocaust studies conference last month during which Polish nationalists complained that speakers were anti-Polish. That article features a picture of Jan Gross, a Polish-Jewish Princeton University scholar of Polish complicity in the Holocaust and a frequent target of nationalist attacks. Only Poland is published by Leszek Bubl, a fringe nationalist political candidate and sometime musician who has sung about “rabid” rabbis. The paper was spotted Wednesday at the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, as part of this week’s packet of periodicals. Michał Kamiński, a conservative lawmaker, protested the article and its presence at the Sejm, Polsat news reported. Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Right wing , Type: Incitement , Type: Stereotypes Norway prosecutor: Rapper’s ‘Fking Jews’ slur could be criticism of Israel A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged with hate speech because his words may have been criticism of Israel, prosecutors said. Kaveh Kholardi said “fing Jews” on stage at an event last year for which he was hired by the city. Tor-Aksel Busch, Norway’s director of public prosecutions — a title equivalent to attorney general – rejected legal action last week, the news site Document.no reported Sunday. Pro-Israel activists had filed a police complaint but it was dismissed. Busch rejected their appeal, explaining that whereas what Kholardi said “seems to be targeting Jews, it can however also be said to express dissatisfaction with the policies of the State of Israel.” At the concert, the rapper wished Muslims a happy Eid al-Fitr holiday and acknowledged Christian listeners. He did not mention Israel. On June 10, 2018, five days before the concert, Kholardi wrote on Twitter “fing Jews are so corrupt.” Labels: Country: Norway , Perpetrators: Courts , Type: Antisemitism denial UK: Leicestershire councillor faces anti-Semitic abuse in letters Via BBC: A man said he is "disappointed" police did not investigate anti-Semitic abuse he received for displaying an Israeli flag at his micro-pub. Councillor Michael Wyatt got letters and messages online after putting up the flag as part of a gin festival in Coalville, Leicestershire. He said the abuse started five months ago and "got pretty scary". Leicestershire Police said the case was "not further progressed" after being reported but would now be investigated. Liberal Democrat Mr Wyatt, who is not Jewish, displayed the flags at Bitter & Twisted to reflect worldwide gins he was selling. He said letters demanded he take the Israeli flag down "because it was offensive". He was also sent threatening messages on Facebook and abused in the pub. "It started with letters about Jewish people, then saying I was a Hamas supporter and making comments about me defending Palestinians," he said. "It's a nice town and I don't expect to see material like that through my post." Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: United Kingdom , Type: Harassment Campaign Belgium: I spoke to the creators of the anti-Semitic carnival float. They’re not sorry. I had hoped to introduce some nuance to what was condemned universally as crass racism. Were the creators aware that they were trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes? Did they get carried away in the aesthetics of the float without really considering the content? Was there a level of irony or parody an outsider couldn’t understand? But rather than offering real explanations, or even expressing any regret for the fallout or trying to acknowledge where it came from, Soleme doubled down. The 52-year-old father of three, who works for the Aalst Police Department, said he thought the float was funny and cited the support of his mayor. “Mayor Christoph D’Haese totally has our backs, he told us we’ve done nothing wrong,” Soleme told me. D’Haese even told the group that his office would cover any fine imposed by the authorities, Selome said. D’Haese defended the Vismooil’n group, saying on Tuesday that its float was not intended to offend and that “such things should be allowed at the Aalst Carnaval.” The event was added in 2010 to UNESCO’s list of events that contribute to the “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” Filip de Vidts, a technician and the secretary of Vismooil’n, even referred me to D’Haese for a reaction. Treasurer Johan de Plecker, who works for the Education Ministry, did not reply to my request for an interview. As for Soleme, he has “absolutely no regrets” about participating in the display. “I think the people who are offended are living in the past, of the Holocaust, but this was about the present,” he said. “There was never any intention to insult anyone. It was a celebration of humor.” The Jewish theme, he said, was “because we weren’t sure we’d be doing a 2020 tour [because of rising costs]. So that would mean we’d be taking a sabbatical, and it went on from there.” Labels: Country: Belgium , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Antisemitism denial , Type: Stereotypes France: 'Vandalized' synagogue memorial - an accident Via Israel National News: Damage to a memorial marking the site of Strasbourg's Old Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis during World War II, was caused accidentally by a motorist and was not an act of anti-Semitism, a French police source has said. The incident last weekend sparked outrage, with Strasbourg deputy mayor Alain Fontanel describing it as an "act of vandalism" and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemning "another shocking anti-Semitic incident". A police probe using surveillance cameras revealed that a 31-year-old man reversed into the memorial after leaving a nearby nightclub with friends, the source told AFP on Thursday. "At this stage, no anti-Semitic nature has been detected," the source said, adding the driver has been summoned to court in June over hit and run charges. Labels: Country: France , Target: Holocaust Memorial , Type: Vandalism UK: "In my personal experience, anti-Semitic sentiments are usually conveyed with a wink and a nod" Frank Furedi @ Spiked: There is a spiral of silence surrounding anti-Semitism today. Statements signalling negative views towards Jews are almost always coupled with the phrase, ‘I am not anti-Semitic’. In my personal experience, anti-Semitic sentiments are usually conveyed with a wink and a nod. For example, recently I was having a drink with a well-known English public figure after a panel discussion. Suddenly, he got animated by ‘those people who work at Goldman Sachs’. When I pretended not to understand and asked, ‘What do you mean by those people’, he looked away in embarrassment. His reaction spoke to a growing phenomenon – the anti-Semitism of bad faith. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Antisemitism denial France: Synagogue memorial stone vandalised in antisemitic attack (update: it was a car accident) Update: turns out this was an accident Via Independent: A memorial stone marking the site of a former synagogue destroyed by the Nazis has been vandalised in Strasbourg. Officials said the heavy memorial stone was discovered moved from its base in the French city on Saturday morning. Strasbourg mayor Roland Ries denounced the incident as “a new antisemitic act”. French officials in the region said that antisemitism “undermines the values of the republic”. The monument commemorates a synagogue built in 1898 that was set on fire and razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1940. Belgium: Antisemitic carnival float had puppets of smiling Jews, sacks of money and a rat A carnival parade which featured Jewish caricatures standing amid piles of money has been compared to Nazi antisemitic propaganda and provoked fierce criticism in Belgium. One float in the city of Aalst’s annual feast on Sunday was decorated with two huge figures of men with large sideburns, crooked noses and wearing shtreimels, a fur hat worn by some Orthodox Jews. One had a rat on his shoulder. It was followed by several trucks on which dozens of dancing people wore similar outfits. “The caricatures, like those of Der Stürmer, of Jews with a crooked nose and suitcases, are typical of the Nazism of 1939,” a spokesperson for Belgium’s Forum of Jewish Organisations said. ”This has no place in 2019, carnival or not. The Jewish community naturally accepts humour is very important in a society, but there are limits that cannot be exceeded.” Labels: Country: Belgium , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Stereotypes UK: Labour deputy flags tweets by party members accusing Jews of murdering kids Lawmakers in Britain’s Labour opposition party have reportedly flagged social media posts from members accusing Jews of murdering children and questioning whether Jewish parliamentarians have “human blood.” MP Tom Watson, the deputy chief of Labour, said he received 50 complaints of anti-Semitism last week from Labour colleagues, and called on leader Jeremy Corbyn to personally take them before the party’s top governing body. According to a Sunday report in the Guardian, the complaints received by Watson included a number of anti-Semitic posts on Twitter by Labour members, such as one alleging “Jews murder people and children.” “Wonder why Jewish people are hated wherever they’ve settled over last 2000 years. Their double dealing, back stabbing, cheating chilling coldness has always only one outcome. I wonder what the average period of time is before people fed up with the anti-social Jews kick em out,” read one of the tweets, according to the report. Another tweet said Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was an “illegitimate Rothschild,” the Jewish banking family at the center of numerous anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, while another questioned whether Jewish officials in Labour have “human blood.” “Their hearts and brains totally devoid of humanity,” the Twitter post reportedly said. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Left wing , Type: Blood libel , Type: Glorifying or Justifying Killing Jews Poland: Antisemitic signs on buildings in Warsaw At the beginning of the week, huge signs were hung on the walls of several residential buildings in Warsaw with the inscription “These buildings will soon be returned to the Jews to meet their demands.” Labels: Country: Poland , Type: Vandalism France: Rise in antisemitic attacks, Yellow Vests leader voices support for anti-Zionism Only a few days after the Macron said he would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, also stating that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism, the country saw a rise in antisemitic incidents lately. It seems that Macron's words created the opposite effect in France, and the Bureau for the War on Antisemitism called the rise in incidents as "frightening." Among other incidents, graffiti were found condemning Jews in various parts of the country. A 17-year-old riding a bicycle in a suburb north of Paris, was attacked by three unknown assailants who called him "dirty Jew", broke his wrist and robbed his cell phone, all for wearing a kippah. A 51-year-old woman was attacked near her home in Garez-les-Gons by two men with knives. The two called out to her, "Jewish whore, we'll burn all of you." In another incident, people inscribed "dirty Jew" on the nameplate of a Jewish doctor on the facade of a dental clinic in Paris whereas they did not touch the label of his colleague a non-Jewish doctor. There were also reports of Jews in the country receiving death threats by phone and mail, sometimes accompanied by swastikas. Jerome Rodriguez, one of the prominent leaders of the yellow vests movement in France, who lost his eye from a rubber bullet fired by the police, told Maariv that his movement was not antisemitic. (...) According to Rodriguez, he did not take part in a demonstration against antisemitism because he was "busy visiting his movement's checkpoints in various parts of the country." However, he added that if he had time, he would prefer to participate in a demonstration organized by an anti-Zionist organization that supports boycotting Israel". Labels: Country: France , Type: Physical attack , Type: Protest , Type: Vandalism UK: Spate of antisemitic attacks in Stamford Hill probed by police Via Jewish News: There has been a spate of alleged antisemitic attacks in Stamford Hill in the past week, with reports of bricks thrown in the windows of Jewish homes and a family subjected to abuse on Shabbat. The Met Police received reports a man was allegedly punched by one of four women who apprehended him and shouted antisemitic abuse at around 11.40am last Saturday. According to the neighbourhood watch group Stamford Hill Shomrim, the man was leaving Shul with his family when he was allegedly punched and called a “germ on society”. However, the Met Police said they closed the case after the victim failed to attend an appointment. The victim, who did not wish to be named, told Jewish News: “My family witnessed it, and they are still in shock. “My son woke up last night crying about it and was all traumatised. “I was trying to calm him down as best as possible and trying my best to speak to him about it. It’s not an easy thing to explain.” The father said he did not attend the meeting because of a lack of faith in the system. “The punishment is always minor when it comes to antisemitism,” he added. On Wednesday, a man walked into a clothing shop in Clapton Common at around 1.30pm and shouted antisemitic abuse at a shop assistant. The Met Police said the incident took place after the man asked whether the shop assistant wanted the windows cleaned and disputed the price they had agreed on. Shomrim added the suspect had allegedly shouted: “Hitler should have called [ed. killed] all the Jews”. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Type: Physical attack , Type: Vandalism France declares anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism in crackdown on racism against Jewish people Emmanuel Macron has declared anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism as he ramps up France’s crackdown on racism against Jewish people. Speaking at the 34th annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France, Mr Macron said a surge in antisemitic attacks in his country had not been seen since World War Two. He promised a new law to tackle hate speech on the internet and said France would adopt the definition of antisemitism set by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The IHRA definition does not use the phrase "anti-Zionism" but does say denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination "e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour," is antisemitic. Mr Macron's words were well received from the World Jewish Congress which said: "This is just the beginning of a long road ahead. Adopting this definition of anti-Semitism must be followed by concrete steps to encode into law and ensure that this is enforced." The IHRA definition is not legally binding but does serve as an international guideline. Germany and Britain adopted the definition in texts in 2016, though the European Union adopted a softer tone, calling the IHRA definition a "guidance tool" amid concern from some member states that it could make criticism of Israeli policy, particularly with regards to Palestinians, difficult. Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: France , Fighting Antisemitism Germany: foundation under fire for awarding prize to antisemitic BDS group The Central Council of Jews in Germany and American Jewish organizations blasted the Roland Röhl Foundation for its decision to award in March a peace prize to a BDS group which is widely considered to be antisemitic. The group is called Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East and is an energetic supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that targets the Jewish state. The nearly 100,000 member Central Council of Jews in Germany classified Jewish Voice as an “antisemitic association,” according to a German DPA wire service report. Dr. Josef Schuster, the president of the council, wrote a letter last week the city of Göttingen’s Mayor Rolf-Georg Köhler urging him to take a stand against the antisemitism prevalent in the group. “The association is an active supporter of events of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel,” wrote Schuster, adding “I certainly do not have to explain which historical precursors have had boycotts against Jewish institutions or Jews in Germany, and what associations are created with such actions.” Schuster was referring to Hitler movement to boycott Jewish businesses – a nascent phase in the Holocaust. Köhler, who is a member of the foundation’s board, announced on Wednesday that the city will not participate in the award ceremony this year, according to a report in the daily paper Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten by the journalists Thoralf Cleven and Ansgar Nehls. In response to Schuster’s criticism, the mayor called for the slated March 9 event to be suspended until the antisemitic allegation could be clarified. Labels: Country: Germany , Perpetrators: General Public , Perpetrators: Jews , Type: Antisemitism denial , Type: BDS UK: Students at Oxford call for provision that would prohibit kosher meat A student association at Oxford University passed a non-binding motion to effectively ban all kosher meat. The Junior Common Room, a student government association at Oxford’s Somerville College, called on the college to only serve meat that has been stunned before being killed, according to the BBC. That requirement would exclude kosher meat, which cannot be stunned before slaughter. A spokesman for the college said the college is looking into the request, but will also be expanding its kosher and halal meat offerings. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Academics , Type: Religious restrictions Bulgaria: 2,000 torch-wielding nationalists march through Sofia to honor pro-Nazi general Thousands of far-right activists held a torch-lit march through Bulgarian capital Sofia Saturday to honor a World War II general known for his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi activities. The annual Lukov March, staged by the far-right Bulgarian National Union, attracted some 2,000 dark-clad supporters who walked through downtown Sofia holding torches and Bulgarian flags and chanting nationalist slogans. A number of far-right activists from other countries also took part in the march. It came despite strong condemnation by human rights groups, political parties and foreign embassies. The city mayor had banned the rally but organizers won a court order overturning the ban. Labels: Country: Bulgaria , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Protest France: TV cuts Facebook live feed from Jewish cemetery after anti-Semitic abuse Via euronews: A French TV channel said on Wednesday it had been forced to cut short a live Facebook broadcast from a desecrated Jewish cemetery in eastern France because of an onslaught of anti-Semitic commentary. Separately, two swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were found painted in red on a monument at a different cemetery near Lyon. France 3 television said it went live from the first cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim on Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron was visiting to pay his respects after more than 90 graves were vandalised with swastikas and anti-Semitic abuse. But as it broadcast footage online to its more than 1.3 million Facebook followers, the feed was inundated with anti-Semitic commentary and abuse. "We are talking about explicit death threats, comments that were openly anti-Semitic and racist, including "Heil Hitler", "dirty Jew" or "dirty Jews", comments that were addressed at Emmanuel Macron and representatives of the Jewish community," the channel said in a statement explaining its decision. "Within minutes, the number of vile and illegal comments had gone well beyond our capacity to moderate them," it explained, adding that it would have taken 10 or 20 staff to handle the onslaught. "We refuse to traffic in hatred." Labels: Country: France , Type: Harassment , Type: Nazism Ukraine: Anti-Semitic images painted on memorial to desecrated Jewish cemetery Unidentified individuals painted anti-Semitic cartoons on a memorial wall in Ukraine that was made of ancient Jewish headstones destroyed by Soviet authorities. The graffiti found this week in the western city of Kolomyya show a man tossing a Star of David in the trash. The memorial wall commemorates one of three Jewish cemeteries that existed there before they were razed and plundered. Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, on Tuesday wrote on Facebook that the act was typical of a recent spate of anti-Semitic vandalism in Ukraine. Labels: Country: Ukraine , Target: Cemetery , Type: Vandalism Poland: Amid tensions over the Holocaust, Jewish cemeteries vandalized Via JTA Two Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in Poland amid a fresh diplomatic crisis between that country and Israel over complicity in the Holocaust. In the city of Świdnica, a suburb of Wroclaw in southwestern Poland, at least 15 headstones were smashed last week at the local Jewish cemetery. Other headstones were painted with black graffiti, including one of a pentagram – a symbol associated with Satanism. Local police are investigating possible anti-Semitic motives, the website Wmeritum reported. The cemetery had seen previous incidents, Monika Krawczyk, chairwoman-elect of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The evil comes back,” she added. Separately, in Wroclaw the words “Jesus is King” were written on the fence of another Jewish cemetery on Feb. 13. Several locals showed up earlier this week to paint over the slogan, Gazeta Wroclawska reported Sunday. Labels: Country: Poland , Perpetrators: Christians , Target: Cemetery , Type: Vandalism Bulgaria: Synagogue in Sofia vandalized by stone-throwing incident From Jerusalem Post: The Great Prayer Hall of the Central Synagogue in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, was subjected to an attack in which stones were thrown through the temple windows by "unidentified assailants" on Saturday witnesses said, according to The Algemeiner. Bulgaria and the its capital are no strangers to antisemitism and have even been subjected to other attacks over recent weeks, including graffiti depicting swastikas and an antisemitic slogan covering a monument meant to memorialize those who fell victim to the ruling Communist regime in Bulgaria during World War II. Labels: Country: Bulgaria , Target: Synagogue , Type: Vandalism France: Teens fire air rifle at synagogue in Paris on Friday, injuring one Two teenagers fired shots from an air rifle at a synagogue in Paris on Friday night, lightly injuring a Jewish man in the leg, French media reported on Tuesday. According to the Le Parisien newspaper, the attack was staged against a synagogue in the Sarcelles suburb of Paris from an apartment facing the building. Police searched the apartment and confiscated a 4.5mm calibre rifle, while the teenagers themselves were arrested on Saturday. The state prosecutor believes that the attack was carried out for antisemitic motives. The president of the Jewish community of Sarcelles was quoted as saying, however, that he believed the attack was not antisemitic, adding that it was carried out due to “stupidity” and that the teenagers would have shot anyone. But he said he was still concerned about antisemitism in the suburb. Ukraine: Mall displays Nazi swastika on staircase A shopping mall in Ukraine that is located on a street named for a collaborator with the Nazis decorated a staircase with a large swastika. Images and footage from inside the Horodok shopping mall on Kiev’s Bandera Avenue surfaced Monday on Facebook. They show shoppers climbing up and down the staircase, whose middle-section stairs feature a large swastika locked in a white rhombus encircled by red, similar to Nazi Germany’s flag. The street where the shopping mall is located is named for Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who briefly collaborated with Nazi Germany in its fight against Russia. His troops are believed to have killed thousands of Jews. The street used to be Called Moscow Avenue. It was named for Bandera in 2016 despite protests by some Jewish community leaders and Ukrainian Poles, whose community also suffered war crimes by Bandera’s troops. Labels: Country: Ukraine , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Nazism France: 80 graves vandalised at Jewish cemetery in eastern France Via Local: Swastikas and anti-Semitic tags were found daubed over 80 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France on Tuesday on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. The damage was discovered on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany in the Alsace region, a statement from the regional security office said. Labels: Country: France , Target: Cemetery , Type: Nazism , Type: Vandalism UK: Seven Labour MPs resign citing ‘institutional’, ‘sickening’ antisemitism Seven MPs have resigned from the Labour Party citing institutional antisemitism as among the main reasons for their departure. At a press conference in London, Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger said she was "embarrassed and ashamed" to be a member of the Labour Party which she said was "institutionally antisemitic" and had "a culture of bullying, bigotry and intimidation". Ms Berger has long been a target for antisemitic Labour activists who have plied her with abuse and death threats. The other MPs to speak cited antisemitism as their reason for leaving but added several other reasons, primary among which was Labour’s direction over Brexit. The second MP to speak, Chris Leslie, who represents Nottingham East, said: "It has not been an easy decision for any of us" adding that the party had been "hijacked by the machine politics of the extreme left". Ilford South MP Mike Gapes said: "I am sickened that Labour is now a racist, antisemitic party" and "furious that the Labour leadership is complicit in this". Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: Left wing , Perpetrators: Politicians Norway: Newspaper apologizes for using phrase ‘Jewish question’ Editor in chief said the print headline was an editing error and the words "should never have been used" Norway's largest print newspaper apologized this week for running an article about Israel and antisemitism that used the phrase "the Jewish question" in the headline. That phrase has a long history of being used to demean, dehumanize and stigmatize Jewish people, both before and during the Holocaust. Espen Egil Hansen, the editor in chief of Aftenposten, issued a lengthy apology for the original article - which ran in the newspaper last week. In a full page commentary in Monday's newspaper, Hansen apologized for the original article, which was headlined in print: "The Jewish question splits the left on both sides of the Atlantic." The article examined accusations of antisemitism against figures including US Rep. Ilhan Omar and UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Hansen took full responsibility for the unfortunate wording. Labels: Country: Norway , Perpetrators: Media Germany: Anti-Semitic acts reach 10-year peak, police data shows Anti-Semitic offences rose by almost 10% in Germany last year, according to preliminary data released by police on Wednesday. Some 1,646 anti-Semitic acts were reported in 2018, according to police, marking their highest level in the past decade. Sixty-two of these acts were violent, wounding 43 people. The preliminary figures were released at the request of Die Linke left-wing party, and the final study will be published in May. In Germany, one of the reasons behind the current jump of antisemitic acts is the rising popularity of the far-right AFD party, said Carsten Nickel, Managing Director of the think tank Teneo. Since the 2015 migration crisis, Germany has seen a resurgence of far-right sentiment tainted with antisemitism which was impossible just 10 year ago due to German history, Carsten told Euronews. The far-right's political strategy has been to blame migrants, which come predominantly from Muslim countries, for the resurgence of anti-Jewish hatred in Germany. "Muslim immigration might be part of the story, but I don't think that's the only story," Carsten said. Labels: Academic: Statistics , Country: Germany , Perpetrators: Right wing UK: Bringing up antisemitism ‘is upsetting Labour staff’ Via Times: Labour’s general secretary has warned MPs that public criticism of the way antisemitism allegations have been handled is “distressing” for party staff. Jennie Formby, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, said that the party had received nearly 700 complaints linked to antisemitic abuse by party members since April last year and had expelled 12 people. Dame Margaret Hodge, the MP for Barking, disputed this, saying that she alone had made complaints about 200 members. Ms Formby said this was not correct, claiming that Dame Margaret’s complaints related to 111 individuals, 20 of whom were Labour members. UK: Survey of left-wing Twitter accounts shows nearly a fifth promote or engage in antisemitism A survey of thousands of left-wing social media accounts by Hope Not Hate found that nearly a fifth promote or engage in antisemitism. The anti-fascist group’s “State of Hate 2019” report into racism — to be published on Monday — analysed 27,000 Twitter profiles that follow a selection of UK-based left-wing accounts which “regularly spread antisemitic ideas”. Of the 27,000 accounts, the charity found up to 5,000 of them — just under 19 per cent — have expressed antisemitic ideas twice or more on social media. Some of the accounts posted over 100 tweets that could be clearly identified as antisemitic, featuring tropes such as Jewish control of the media or banking system. Hope Not Hate described the results as “worrying” and said urgent action needed to be taken against social media accounts disseminating antisemitic ideas. France: Jewish Philosopher Alain Finkielkraut Attacked by Yellow Vest Protesters in Paris Via Haaretz: French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was the target of an anti-Semitic attack Saturday night, French media outlets reported. The philosopher, whose writing focuses on the ideas of tradition and identitary violence (including Jewish identity and anti-Semitism), was assaulted by Yellow Vest protesters who have taken to France's streets in recent months to demonstrate the country's rising fuel prices. In videos that documented the incident, protesters can be heard yelling: "Dirty Jew" and "you're a hater, you're going to die, you're going to hell," while others called on the thinker to "go home" and "return to Tel Aviv." In a different clip demonstrators can be heard screaming anti-Semitic profanities such as "dirty Zionist shit." Other insults hurled at Finkielkraut: "Palestine!" "France is ours!" "Dirty race!" "The people will punish you!" Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: France , Type: Harassment , Type: Protest Netherlands: Textbook omits Jewish connection to Jerusalem A Dutch publisher that previously created school textbooks accusing Israelis of ethnic cleansing has released a new volume omitting Jerusalem’s significance to Jews. The omission occurred in a textbook about social issues titled “Plein M” by Nordhoff Publishers for preparatory middle-level applied education level schools, including public schools. It states Jerusalem is holy to Muslims and Christians, but does not mention its holiness to Jews. It also states that Jews and Christians were “mostly treated well” by Arabs throughout history. It does not mention capital taxes and many pogroms perpetrated against Jews in Arab countries before and during the flight of at least 800,000 Jews from those countries in the 20th century. Today, there are fewer than 7,000 Jews living in Arab countries. Likoed Nederland, a pro-Israel group, called the book a form of “historical falsification” in a statement Sunday, adding it “reads like Palestinian propaganda.” Labels: Country: The Netherlands , Perpetrators: Teachers , Type: Books , Type: Jews have no right to Israel France: Outrage as swastikas, 'Jews' scrawled on Jewish symbols Via France24: A tree planted in a Paris suburb in memory of a young Jewish man who was tortured to death in 2006 has been chopped down, authorities said Monday, confirming the latest in a series of anti-Semitic acts in France. Ilan Halimi was kidnapped by a gang that demanded huge sums of money from his family, believing them to be rich because he was Jewish. After being tortured for three weeks, the 23-year-old cellphone salesman was found dumped next to a railway in the southern suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois. He died while being brought to hospital. On Monday, municipal workers sent to prepare a memorial site for a annual remembrance ceremony this week discovered that a tree planted in his honour had been chopped down and a second one partly sawn through, local officials told AFP. The police are investigating the incident, which the French government's special representative on racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination, Frederic Potier, described as "ignominious". It is the latest in a series of anti-Semitic acts and attacks that have raised fears of a new wave of anti-Jewish violence in a country that is home to Europe's biggest Jewish population. In two separate incidents in the past two days, swastikas were drawn on Paris postboxes containing portraits of late Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and the word Juden (German for Jews) was sprayed on the window of a bagel bakery in the capital. Labels: Country: France , Target: Holocaust Memorial , Type: Nazism , Type: Vandalism UK: London’s Jewish Housing Association Defeats Discrimination Challenge Via Hamodia: A ruling issued by the Divisional Court of the High Court of Justice in London, made public on Tuesday, has upheld the right of an Orthodox Jewish Housing Association to allocate housing exclusively to Jewish families. Agudas Israel Housing Association (AIHA) was founded to serve the U.K.’s Orthodox Jewish community and builds, part-owns and manages properties in London, Salford and Canvey Island. The claimants against AIHA, who are not Jewish, had wanted to be allocated a home in AIHA’s new Aviv development in Stamford Hill, but were not given the chance to bid. The claim against Hackney London Borough Council and AIHA, challenged AIHA’s policy of allocating its social housing properties on the basis that they precluded any persons who are not members of the Orthodox Jewish community from becoming tenants. The claimants applied for a Judicial Review of the case. Following a detailed investigation of the social housing market, and the specific characteristics of Hackney’s Orthodox Jewish Community, including anti-Semitism and religious needs, the Divisional Court ruled that AIHA’s policy was lawful and found against the application for Judicial Review, concluding that AIHA served a specific need and tried to do so with access to only 1 percent of Hackney’s social housing stock In what is potentially a landmark ruling, the court recognized that Orthodox Jewish community members’ way of life requires them to live close by each other as a community – to the extent that many prefer to live in unsuitable properties rather than to move away from their community. It also sadly acknowledged widespread and increasing overt anti-Semitism in society and prejudice, including in the private rental sector, specifically against Orthodox Jews, due to their higher visibility as Jewish. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: General Public , Type: Discrimination Germany: Frankfurt city hall poster campaign calls for solidarity with Jewish community Posters issued by the municipal authority of Frankfurt bearing words of support for the city’s Jewish community have been plastered across the metropolis this week in an act of solidarity with Frankfurt’s Jews. The posters, titled “Together in Frankfurt” and bearing an image of a man wearing a kippah with a design of the Frankfurt skyline on it, were hung as an initiative to highlight the contribution of Jews to the city and as a statement against antisemitism, which recent studies have found is still prevalent in Europe. “Jewish life is an ancient tradition in Frankfurt and is an inseparable part of the city’s identity,” reads the text of the poster, and goes on to describe the contribution of the Jewish community to the city’s culture and status as a financial center. Noting the “wounds” caused by “the Holocaust and the terrible era of the Nazis,” the municipality said that “Today we are able to be happy that Jewish life has returned and has an established and important status in our city.” The poster asserts that “Antisemitism is not only a problem for Jewish society, it is a problem for all of society and therefore the obligation is on our shoulders, every day, to strengthen cooperation and to stand strong and determined against any phenomenon or sign of antisemitic discrimination and racism.” Labels: Country: Germany , Fighting Antisemitism UK: Antisemitic incidents at record high for third year in a row Jewish community leaders and politicians have condemned a third successive year with a record number of antisemitic incidents. Last year, 1,652 incidents, a 16% increase on 2017, were logged by the Community Security Trust, which has monitored antisemitism for 35 years and provides security to the UK Jewish community. The CST said the spread of incidents throughout the year, with more than 100 a month, indicated a general atmosphere of intolerance and prejudice. However, there were also spikes related to events in Gaza and the argument over antisemitism in the Labour party. The biggest number of incidents were in April and May (151 and 182 respectively), when scores of Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured in protests at the border fence between Gaza and Israel. May was the highest monthly total recorded since August 2014, when there was a major conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. In total, there were 173 incidents recorded that explicitly showed anti-Israel motivation alongside antisemitism, the CST said. It also recorded 148 incidents over the year that were explicitly related to arguments over alleged antisemitism in Labour, with 49 in August when there was significant media and political attention on the issue. Labels: Academic: Statistics , Country: United Kingdom Denmark: Copenhagen mayor awards BDS activists for their courage Via Mondoweiss: The award was presented to BDS activists Ronnie Barkan, Majed Abusalama and Stavit Sinai (known as “Humboldt 3”) by Copenhagen’s Mayor for Technical and Environmental Affairs, Ninna Hedeager Olsen, at a ceremony in Copenhagen’s City Hall Thursday. It stated that Mr. Barkan and his colleagues have worked tirelessly to reveal the Apartheid-like nature of the Israeli regime and its systematic violation of international law. By doing so, the Copenhagen Courageous laureates have sown the seeds for a peaceful settlement between Israelis and Palestinians based on truth and justice. (Full statement here). Labels: Country: Denmark , Perpetrators: Left wing Germany: Passerby severely injured trying to stop assault on Jewish man A man who tried to prevent a suspected anti-Semitic assault at a German train station was severely beaten by the alleged culprit. The incident unfolded on Jan. 23 at the train station of Langen, a southern suburb of Frankfurt. An inebriated 27-year-old German citizen of Cameroonian descent accosted verbally and then shoved to the ground a much older man who was dressed like an Orthodox Jew, the Hessenschau newspaper reported Tuesday. The older man got up and boarded a train unscathed, but a passerby who intervened ended up being injured much more seriously by the alleged aggressor, the paper reported. The 48-year-old victim was pummeled repeatedly and severely injured on his face and hands, the report said. Labels: Country: Germany , Type: Physical attack Hungary: Magazine publishes anti-Semitic image of Jewish leader on cover A Hungarian Jewish leader was pictured on the cover of a pro-government magazine surrounded by images of money. The image of Andras Heisler, head of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or Mazsihisz, the country’s largest Jewish group, was published late last week on the front page of the Figyelo weekly. The magazine accuses Heisler and Mazsihisz of accounting irregularities in connection with a state-funded synagogue renovation project in Budapest including a Jewish museum, according to the AFP news service. Mazsihisz denies the allegation. The cover image “revives centuries-old stereotypes against our community,” the group said in a statement published on its website. “The appearance on a front cover of such incitement against a religious leader without any factual basis is unprecedented,” the statement said, calling it “deliberate character assassination.” The cover was published about a day after the Hungarian government pledged to spend $1.7 million every year on projects to combat anti-Semitism in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe, according to the AFP. Labels: Country: Hungary , Perpetrators: Right wing , Type: Stereotypes Finland: Soldiers Participated in Mass Murders of Jews During World War II, Report Finds A report released Friday by the National Archives of Finland found that Finnish soldiers participated in mass murders of Jews, foreign civilians, and Russian prisoners of war during World War II. The report concluded that 1,408 Finns volunteered in the Nazis’ Fifth SS Panzer Division (Wiking), and participated in massacres in Ukraine and the Caucasus between 1941 and 1943. It’s hard to determine how many Jews and other people were murdered with the participation of Finnish soldiers, the report said, but the figure probably totals around 10,000 people. The massacres took place in dozens of cities, including Hrymailiv, Ozerna, Skalat, Tarnopol, Zboriv, Zolochiv, and Krivichi, mostly in the summer of 1941. The study was initiated following a request by Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who has exposed hundreds of war criminals over the years. A year ago, Zuroff wrote to Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and asked that Finland carry out in-depth research on the subject in light of new findings about the involvement of Finnish soldiers in the murder of Ukrainian Jews. Zuroff acknowledged that this would be a painful step for Finland, but argued that it is "the only way to courageously face the mistakes of the past and to prevent such crimes in the future." Labels: Country: Finland France: Paris bagel shop window vandalized by Yellow Vest protesters Via Kann News: A Jewish bagel shop's window was vandalized by Yellow Vest protesters. The word "Juden" was graffitied on the Bagelstein shop window Labels: Country: France , Type: Nazism , Type: Vandalism Iceland: Local Icon Makes Anti-Semitic Remarks Regarding Eurovision, Takes It Back And Apologises Via Reykjavik Grapevine: Musician and Eurovision enthusiast Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, who is currently pressing for Iceland to withdraw from Eurovision this year on account of it being held in Tel Aviv, made some decidedly anti-Semitic remarks on national broadcasting radio yesterday. Hours later, he posted a lengthy apology. Thousands of Icelanders currently support boycotting Eurovision as it takes place in Israel this year; support for Eurovision, it is argued, expresses tacit support for the Israeli government’s policies regarding the Palestinian people. While Iceland ultimately decided to participate, the debate is far from over, and Páll Óskar has been amongst the most vocal supporters of a boycott. However, when speaking with radio station Rás 1 yesterday, he made remarks regarding Jewish people as a whole that crossed the line from criticism of the Israeli government into more sweeping generalisations. “The reason why the rest of Europe has been virtually silent is that Jews have woven themselves into the fabric of Europe in a very sly way for a very long time. It is not at all hip and cool to be pro-Palestine in Britain,” he said, saying at the interview’s conclusion: “The tragedy is that Jews learned nothing from the Holocaust. Instead, they have taken up the exact same policy of their worst enemy.” The remarks were met with sharp criticism from many Icelanders, and hours later, Páll Óskar posted an apology and retraction. “I admit unreservedly that I put the Israeli government, the Israeli military and the Jewish people under the same hat,” he wrote. “I made judgements and generalisations about Jewish people. … I take full responsibility for these words, take back my remarks about Jewish people, they are wrong and hurtful. I will take responsibility in actions, from this point forward, and will never again speak ill of the Jewish people, wherever in the world they may live.” Labels: Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism , Country: Iceland , Perpetrators: Artists , Type: Incitement , Type: Stereotypes Netherlands: Jew harassed in Amsterdam town square, hours after Holocaust memorial ceremony Via WNL: Michael Jacobs, a pro-Israel activist, often stands in Dam Square protesting against pro-Palestinian demonstrations. This often leads to clashes. On Sunday, a few hours after a Holocaust memorial ceremony, he again stood to protest a pro-Palestinian protest, and harassed by a young man who cursed Jews and yelled at him repeatedly "aren't you ashamed of being Jewish?". YouTube removed the clip documenting of the incident, for "violating YouTube's Terms of Service". Labels: Country: The Netherlands , Type: Harassment Italy: Woman attacked in Rome Rome – “Today in Rome: I’m standing in front of Feltrinelli, waiting for a person, a guy with a swastika on his arm, approach to me and spitt in my face, I was so shocked that I did not even react. He probably did it because I had a canvas bag from the Yiddish course in Tel Aviv, proof of antisemitism . Labels: Country: Italy , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Physical attack France: Court Sentences Antisemite Alain Soral to One-Year Prison Term for Incitement Via Algemeiner (h/t glykosymoritis): One of France’s most vocal antisemites, Alain Soral, was sentenced to a year in prison by a criminal court in Paris on Thursday, after he was found guilty of inciting racial hatred in an article that described Jews as “manipulative, domineering and hateful.” The offending article was published last March on Soral’s playfully-titled Égalité et Réconciliation (“Equality and Reconciliation”) website — an online home for antisemitic, extreme nationalist and anti-capitalist activists and writers. Following the announcement of Soral’s sentence, the French Union of Jewish Students (EUJF) tweeted, “Justice has put a new stop on this little propagandist of hatred.” Originally a communist, the Swiss-born Soral crossed to the far-right National Front (FN) before carving out his own path in 2007. A purveyor of conspiracy theories about “Jewish” and “Zionist” power, Soral has for several years worked closely with Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, an antisemitic propagandist who presents himself as a comedian. Labels: Country: France , Perpetrators: Right wing , Type: Incitement Poland: Far-right group leads anti-Semitic protest at Auschwitz during commemoration ceremony Far-right Polish nationalists organised an anti-Semitic protest during a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Auschwitz. The small group of hardline activists held their demonstration inside the former concentration camp at the same time as the official Holocaust commemorations on Sunday. The 50 protestors from the Polish Independence Movement were led by Piotr Rybak, who was once jailed for burning an effigy of a Jew. Mr Rybak told reporters they were there to oppose the official – and historically accurate – narrative that millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis with the active collaboration of some Poles. "It's time to fight against Jewry and free Poland from them,” Mr Rybak said, a Polish newspaper reported. Labels: Event: Holocaust Memorial Day , Perpetrators: Nazis , Type: Incitement , Type: Protest Greece: Jewish cemetery memorial in Thessaloniki targeted, again Via ekathimerini: A monument on the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University (AUT) which commemorates a Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis was targeted again by vandals on Friday. The perpetrators smashed the marble commemorative signs placed in the old cemetary which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1942. This is the third time the monument has been targeted. In July 2018, vandals twice daubed paint and painted a cross on the monument. Labels: Country: Greece , Event: Holocaust Memorial Day , Target: Holocaust Memorial , Type: Vandalism Italy: Focus on racist and anti-Semitic chants is a 'psychosis', say Lazio Lazio blasted as "a psychosis focusing on either a minority or non-existent incidents" after racist and anti-Semitic chants overshadowed the team's 4-1 Italian Cup win over Novara at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday. The chanting early in the first half was heard in Lazio's North End and was aimed at the club's bitter city rivals AS Roma, with taunts of "Yellow, red and Jewish" and "This Roma that looks like Africa". It also targeted police who had clashed with fans on Wednesday at Piazza della Liberta in the capital when celebrations to mark the club's 119th anniversary turned violent. Eight police were injured and four supporters arrested. "I am here to talk about the racist and anti-Semitic chants that are supposed to have happened," club spokesman Arturo Diaconale told a press conference after the game. "I am one of the 98 percent of people in the stadium who didn't hear them. "The club naturally condemns any racist or anti-Semitic chants, but we have to consider the dimensions of the phenomenon. "I think it's a form of psychosis focusing on either a minority or non-existent incidents. "I read about chants as if the entire stadium had participated. We mustn't turn this into a mass panic over nothing. I invite our colleagues in the media to give the right degree of consideration to incidents that would normally be ignored," added Diaconale. Labels: Country: Italy , Perpetrators: Sports Fans , Type: Song UK: 170,000 antisemitic Google searches made in Britain each year Around 170,000 Google searches with antisemitic content are made every year in the UK - around around ten percent of which involve violent language or intentions - a new report has revealed. Using Google search data from 2004 to 2018, the report by the CST and Antisemitism Policy Trust also showed that Britain ranks third in the world for searches about “Zionism”, behind only Israel and Lebanon – 29 percent higher than in the US. Searches for the word in the UK rose 25-fold in April 2016, after Ken Livingstone made comments about “Hitler supporting Zionism”. “Hitler Zionism” is the fourth most popular search about Zionism in Britain. Other data, focused on different parts of the country, showed that antisemitic searches are just as high in cities that mostly vote Labour as they are in cities that mostly vote Conservative, and that antisemitic searches are higher in Wales than any other part of the UK. Labels: Country: United Kingdom , Perpetrators: General Public Germany: 'Drastic increase' of violent anti-Semitic attacks in Berlin, according to figures The number of anti-Semitic violent attacks in Berlin more than tripled in Berlin in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to provisional police statistics. The German capital’s first commissioner for anti-Semitism, Claudia Vanoni, who took up her post on September 1st last year, said seven violent anti-Semitic attacks were recorded by police in 2017, compared to 24 incidents which were recorded between January and mid-December 2018. Vanoni described it as a “drastic increase” in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung published earlier this week. These are provisional figures which may change if, for example, more crimes are reported. When it comes to non-violent anti-Semitic crimes, according to Vanoni police recorded a total of 305 incidents in Berlin in 2017. Last year, 295 cases were recorded up until mid-December. “Considering that cases are usually reported later, there will probably be a slight increase in the number of cases in 2018,” said Vanoni, regarding these figures. The majority of these cases involve offensive language against others and damage to property, such as hate-filled graffiti. Labels: Academic: Statistics , Country: Germany , Type: Physical attack Poland: Far-right marches in protest at US pressur... Netherlands: Soccer fans beat Jew and sing song pr... UK: Jewish Voice for Labour secretary Glyn Secker ... The European origins of the 'New York Times' antis... Portugal: Cartoonist blames ‘Jewish propaganda mac... Poland: Bishop delivers thinly veiled anti-Semitic... UK: Brighton Labour member urges party to 'march' ... Germany: WhatsApp Has Become A Hotbed For Spreadin... UK campus minority officer to Jewish student: Be l... Poland: Southern Polish town burns effigy of Judas... France: Man in northern France stabs neighbor beca... Poland: Again, an attack on the Jewish cemetery in... Belgium: Man arrested after attempting to attack ... Russia’s richest Jew thought European anti-Semitis... Germany: Anti-Semitism 'deeply rooted' in German s... Estonia: Police looking into verbal attack on head... Germany: Frankfurt’s mayor blasts Anne Frank NGO f... Poland: Right-wing newspaper’s front page teaches ... Norway prosecutor: Rapper’s ‘Fking Jews’ slur co... UK: Leicestershire councillor faces anti-Semitic a... Belgium: I spoke to the creators of the anti-Semit... France: 'Vandalized' synagogue memorial - an accid... UK: "In my personal experience, anti-Semitic senti... France: Synagogue memorial stone vandalised in ant... Belgium: Antisemitic carnival float had puppets of... UK: Labour deputy flags tweets by party members ac... France: Rise in antisemitic attacks, Yellow Vests ... UK: Spate of antisemitic attacks in Stamford Hill ... France declares anti-Zionism a form of antisemitis... Germany: foundation under fire for awarding prize ... UK: Students at Oxford call for provision that wou... Bulgaria: 2,000 torch-wielding nationalists march ... France: TV cuts Facebook live feed from Jewish cem... Ukraine: Anti-Semitic images painted on memorial t... Poland: Amid tensions over the Holocaust, Jewish c... Bulgaria: Synagogue in Sofia vandalized by stone-t... France: Teens fire air rifle at synagogue in Paris... France: 80 graves vandalised at Jewish cemetery in... UK: Seven Labour MPs resign citing ‘institutional’... Norway: Newspaper apologizes for using phrase ‘Jew... Germany: Anti-Semitic acts reach 10-year peak, pol... UK: Bringing up antisemitism ‘is upsetting Labour ... UK: Survey of left-wing Twitter accounts shows nea... France: Jewish Philosopher Alain Finkielkraut Atta... Netherlands: Textbook omits Jewish connection to J... France: Outrage as swastikas, 'Jews' scrawled on J... 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__label__wiki	0.844285	0.844285	Early September Roundup. Caddy-Ten Times Four. Tomas Dahl is back again as Caddy after his work with Aussie band The Stanleys and he continues to be one of power pop's best-kept secrets. Ten Times Four, as the title implies, is Dahl's fourth Caddy album and might be the best of the lot. "Miracle Turn" is a driving midtempo pop tune that recalls classic Teenage Fanclub, while "Somewhere Beautiful" is another earworm and lead single "Contagious" recalls The Raspberries. Other standouts include the 70s rock of "Avoiding Me Avoiding You" and the sweet harmonies among the crunchy guitars of "Safe Travels". With not one bad track, Dahl goes 10-for-10 here and has one of 2018's best to date. Kool Kat \| iTunes Rayland Baxter-Wide Awake. Nashville singer-songwriter Rayland Baxter has been better known through his first two albums as a roots-rocker, more known in Americana circles. With Wide Awake, Baxter turns his songcraft to a more pop-oriented sound and has also fashioned one of 2018's best. The lead single "Casanova" is my favorite track of 2018, with its slinky (Kinks-y?) melody and infectious chorus (try to get "back to the hole that I came from" out of your head). But the fun doesn't stop here - "Angeline" is a McCartney-esque track with baroque backing, "79 Shiny Revolvers" is a wonderfully melodic track that tackles America's gun violence, "Amelia Baker" owes to Ray Davies as well, "Hey Larocco" recalls the Jayhawks at their poppiest, and the lovely ballad "Without Me" bears a Harry Nilsson influence. If you want a melodic gem of an album that strays off the beaten power pop path, Wide Awake is a must. Wide Awake by Rayland Baxter Johnny Stanec-The Future of Nothing. Johnny Stanec is nothing if not prolific - The Future of Nothing is the eleventh album released under his own name or his band First in Space in the last 11-12 years or so. His latest doesn't break the Midwestern power pop a la The Gin Blossoms mold of his body of work but it's one of the best-sounding examples of it. Opener "I'll Be Your Ghost" is pleasingly melodic, "Feeling Lost" has that BoDeans/Connells feel to it, while "Phases of the Moon" and "The Strangest Sound" delve into Jayhawks-styled Americana. If you have any or all of his previous ten releases, you'll want this one. The Future of Nothing by Johnny Stanec Labels: Caddy, First in Space, Johnny Stanec, Rayland Baxter Checkpoint Charley and Ken Sharp.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line27
__label__cc	0.523585	0.476415	Police profiling: The lost lesson in this teachable moment AC360° Contributor and CNN Political Analyst As I spent my rainy Sunday in New York watching all the well balanced, politically correct and diversified panels discuss the arrest of Professor Gates, I was struck by the glaring reality that no one on the panels that I observed was a member of or associated with the police profession. Yes, there were political pundits, sociologists, media commentators, radio talk show hosts, the occasional academician and the inevitable author or two. Many sounded like they were reciting their favorite scenes from Law and Order as they tossed around phrases describing the arrest and their interpretation of why the charges were dropped. Almost all agreed that they did not know what specifically precipitated the arrest, the reasons for it or how race was a factor. However, there was a conclusion among many that race was a factor. This was a particularly stunning conclusion considering the exemplary career of Sergeant James Crowley. For five years Sgt. Crowley taught a class on racial profiling at the Lowell Police Academy. He was hand-picked for that assignment by former Police Commissioner Ron Watson, who is African-American. President Obama described Sgt. Crowley as an "outstanding police officer and a good man" and said that he has "a fine track record on racial sensitivity." Racial profiling or biased policing is a well documented, shameful and tragic aspect of law enforcement history. It also exists in many other aspects of our nation's culture and society. In examining this issue, I took the daring initiative to actually speak to a respected member of the police profession on this matter. In fact, I spoke to one of our nation's most highly regarded and successful leaders in policing, Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton. In addition to his present position and serving as the President of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, he formerly served as the New York City Police Commissioner and the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston. Filed under: 360° Radar • Race in America • Robert Zimmerman • What You Will Be Talking About Today We know Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was with him the day he died. He was heard on the 911 call. Did he provide the drug that may have killed Jackson? We have breaking details on the investigation. Want to know what else we're covering? Read EVENING BUZZ And take a look at our live web camera from the 360° studio. Watch the WEBCAM Jackson's doctor gave drug that police believe killed him Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered a powerful drug that authorities believe led to the death of the singer, a source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN on Monday. Murray, a Texas-based cardiologist, allegedly gave Jackson the anesthetic propofol - commonly known by the brand name Diprivan - in the 24 hours before he died, the source said. The doctor's attorneys in a statement Monday said they wouldn't comment on "rumors, innuendo or unnamed sources." In the past they have said Murray never prescribed or administered anything that could have killed the pop star. Last week, Texas authorities searched Murray's Houston medical office and storage unit, looking for "evidence of the offense of manslaughter," according to court documents. Filed under: Michael Jackson Michael Jackson's hair to be turned into diamonds Michael Jackson's hair, and the jacket used to extinguish the fire on his head during the 1984 Pepsi commercial fire. Those who seek a tasteful, restrained tribute to Michael Jackson may soon have an alternative – diamonds made from the singer's charred hair. A company called LifeGem has announced plans to make jewelery from Jackson's seared locks, recovered at the scene of a Pepsi commercial where the King of Pop's head caught fire. "Our plan is to give people an opportunity to own a diamond made from Michael Jackson's DNA," Dean VandenBiesen, founder of LifeGem, announced. But LifeGem's tissue sample hasn't come directly from the Jackson family, rather the source of the company's DNA was collected at the 1984 commercial shoot where Jackson was severely injured by faulty pyrotechnics. Executive producer Ralph Cohen used his Armani jacket to extinguish Jackson's burning head – and then saved the charred hair that fell to the floor. Filed under: 360° Radar • Michael Jackson Video: Maher rips Palin Filed under: 360° Radar • Sarah Palin The turbulent racial history of Paris, Texas Program note: In the wake of a standoff between the New Black Panthers and the KKK last week during a rally over the death of Brandon McClelland, racial tensions run high in Paris, Texas. Gary Tuchman visited the small town to gain first hand insight on the current climate in a city plagued by explosive race relations. See his report 10p ET on AC360° Charles Ryan Crostley (left) and Shannon Finley (right) were arrested for the murder of Brandon McClelland. They pleaded not guilty were found innocent last month. Gretel C. Kovach and Ariel Campo-Flores To his loved ones in Paris, Texas, Brandon McClelland was affectionately known as "Big Boy," a 284-pound gentle giant. He was a devoted family man—babysitting his little cousins, caring for his mother after she suffered a stroke and a heart attack, cooking up dishes of "Mexican spaghetti" for his disabled grandmother. He had a large circle of friends and regularly invited them over to play dominoes and to barbecue in the front yard. He always looked out for them, making sure the ones who had a little too much to drink got home safely. Though he was African-American, he didn't pay much attention to race. He had acquaintances of all colors, and, in fact, his best friend was a white girl he met at church. One day last September, McClelland, 24, went to work hanging Sheetrock with two other white friends, Shannon Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley, both 27. When they finished, the three men went out drinking and, later that night, decided to go on a beer run in Finley's pickup truck. What ensued is unclear, but McClelland never returned. Just before dawn, Texas troopers found his mangled corpse on a deserted country road miles away from Paris. His head was cracked open, and his body was dismembered and partially disemboweled. Finley and Crostley told authorities that the three had argued about whether Finley was too drunk to drive—at which point McClelland exited the truck, and they drove off. But prosecutors allege that the two intentionally ran over McClelland, whose girth caused him to get lodged in the undercarriage and dragged along. In December Finley and Crostley were indicted for murder. (Both men have pleaded not guilty and are in jail awaiting a trial expected to start this spring.) Filed under: 360° Radar • Race in America Evening Buzz: The Day Jackson Died – Doctor Connected? Dr. Conrad Murray was with Michael Jackson on the day that he died. Tonight we have breaking news on the Michael Jackson death investigation. The focus is all on Jackson's personal physician. For the first time officially, Dr. Conrad Murray is being directly connected to the drug that may have killed the "King of Pop." Once again, 360's Randi Kaye is revealing new details on the investigation for you tonight. Don't miss her report. Also tonight, new developments in the arrest of distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. The professor and the police officer have two different takes on what happened 10 days ago when Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct after breaking into his own home. We have new insight on what happened that night from the 911 phone call that started this whole thing. We'll play part of the 911 tape for you and let you be the judge. Did cops do the right or wrong thing? And, the NFL is reinstating quarterback Michael Vick with conditions. After serving nearly two years in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation the NFL says Vick's "margin of error is extremely limited". If he can find a team that will sign him, he must follow these conditions: He can participate in all preseason practices and two preseason games. But he won't be eligible to play in the regular season until October pending full reinstatement by the league. Do you agree with the commissioners decision? Share your thoughts below. Join us for these stories and much more starting at 10pm ET. See you then! Filed under: 360° Radar • Maureen Miller • The Buzz Beat 360° 7/27/09 Ready for today's Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the 'Beat 360°' pic: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers her farewell speech as she officially resigns during the annual Governor's Picnic July 26, 2009 at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. Sean Parnell was sworn in as the new Governor and Craig E. Campbell the new Lieutenant Governor. (Photo by Eric Engman/Getty Images) Have fun with it. We're looking forward to your captions! Make sure to include your name, city, state (or country) so we can post your comment. UPDATE – BEAT 360 WINNERS: Staff Winner: Erica Hill Will you see more of me, now that I’ve quit my day job? You betcha! Viewer Winner: I quit with only this much left in my term. Filed under: Beat 360° • T1 Comments (1 comment) An end to the battle of the billboards President Raul Castro speaks to a crowd yesterday on the 56th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. He has taken down anti-U.S. billboards. Elise Labott CNN State Department Producer It was the US government's version of the ticker in New York's Times Square, blasting Havana's main seaside strip with anti-Cuba propaganda in five-foot high crimson letters. It symbolized the tit-for-tat diplomatic row between Washington and Havana. But the ticker at the top of the US interests section in Cuba has gone blank, yet another signal the past half century of animosity between the two countries is easing State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said the ticker was turned off in June because it was not considered an "effective" as a means of delivering information to the Cuban people. The scrolling electronic sign, fitted across 25 windows of the US interest section, ran quotes from American heroes like Martin Luther King's, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up" and Abraham Lincoln's, "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Filed under: Cuba • Elise Labott Video: Gates 911 Call Transcript of the 911 call: LUCIA WHALEN, WITNESS: I don't know if they live there and they just had a hard time with their key, but I did notice that they kind of used their shoulder to try to barge in and they got in. I don't know if they had a key or not, because I couldn't see from my angle. But, you know, when I looked a little closely, that's when I thought... UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) Are they still in the house? WHALEN: They're still in the house, I believe, yes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are they white, black or Hispanic? WHALEN: Well, there were two larger men. One looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure. And the other one entered, I didn't see what he looked like at all. I just saw it from a distance, and this older woman was... Filed under: 360° Radar	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line28
__label__cc	0.697346	0.302654	Packaging Data: The core problem in general data sharing? 6 November 2017 No Comment In this final post about the IDRC data sharing pilot project I want to close the story that started with an epic rant a few months ago. To recap, I had data from the project that I wanted to deposit in Zenodo. Ideally I would have found an example of doing this well, organised my data files in a similar way, zipped up a set of directories with a structured manifest or catalogue in a recognised format and job done. It turned out to not be so easy. In particular there were two key gaps. The first was my inability to find specific guidance on how to organise the kinds of data that I had. These were, amongst other things, interview recordings and transcripts. You’d think that it would be common enough, but I could not find any guidance on standard metadata schema or the best way to organise the data. That is not the say that it isn’t out there. There is likely some very good guidance, and certainly expertise, but I struggled to find it. It was not very discoverable, and as I said at the time, if I can’t find it then its highly unlikely that the ‘average’ non-computational researcher generating small scale data sets will be able to. In the end the best advice I got on organizing the package was ‘organise it in the way that makes most sense for the kinds of re-use you’d expect’, so I did. The second problem was how to create a manifest or catalogue of the data in a recognised format. First there was still the question of format, but more importantly there is a real lack of tools to generate well formed and validated metadata. You’d think there would be a web-based system to help you generate some basic dublin core or other standard metadata but the only things I could find were windows only and/or commercial. Both of which are currently non-starters for me. This really illustrates a big gap in RDM thinking. Big projects manage data which gets indexed, collected, and catalogued into specialist systems. Single data objects get reasonable support with generic data repositories with a form based system that lets you fill in key metadata. But for any real project, you’re going to end up with a package of data with complex internal relationships. You need a packager. At this point, after I’d posted my rant, Petie Sefton from the University of Technology Sydney got in touch. Petie has worked for many years on practical systems that help the average scholar manage their stuff. His work mixes the best of pragmatic approaches and high standards of consistency. And he’d been working on a tool that did exactly what I needed. Called Calcyte, it is an approach to data packaging that is designed to work for the average researcher and produce an output that meets high standards. Petie has also written about how we used the tool and presented this at eResearch Australasia. What does Calcyte do? Calcyte is ‘is experimental early- stage open source software’ that generates ‘static-repository[s] for human-scale data collections’. We worked with Petie running the software and me filling in the info, although I could potentially have run it myself. What this looked like from a user perspective was very simple. First Petie and I shared a folder (we used Google Drive, sue me) where we could work together. After the first run of the tool each of the subdirectories in my folder had a CATALOG file, which was an Excel file (yeah, sue us again…). Opening up the Excel file showed a partially filled in spreadsheet with information about the files in that directory. Which I then filled out. Running the tool again generated a top level CATALOG.html file, which is a human-readable guide to all the files in the package. The information and relationships is all hoovered up from the entries in the various spreadsheets. …but more than that. The human-readable file has relationships both about the files, like for instance copyright assignments, people and external identifiers where available. Here for instance, we’ve done something which is generally close to impossible, noting that I’m the creator of a file, with links to my ORCID, but also that the Copyright belongs to someone else (in this case the IDRC) while also providing file-level licensing information. But it’s not just information about the files but also between files, like for instance that one is a translation of another… All of this is also provided in machine-readable form as JSON-LD and it is all basically schema.org metadata. We rinsed and repeated several times to refine what we were doing, how to represent things, until we were happy. Things that were not obvious included what the canonical ID for the project was (we settled on the DOI for the formally published grant proposal), how to represent the role of interviewee as opposed to interviewer, and a whole series of other niggly things, that mostly related to questions of granularity, or particular choices of how to represent relationships (versions of objects that were not updates or mere format shifts). Finally all of this was packaged up and sent of to Zenodo. It is a shame that Zenodo can’t (at the moment) surface the CATALOG.html in the root directly as a preview. If it did and this ‘DataCrate’ approach caught on then it is easy to imagine the generation of a set of tools that could help. I can imagine (in fact I’ve already started doing this) writing out simple CSV files in computational projects that record provenance that could then be processed to support the production of the CATALOG files. Working in a shared folder with Excel files actually worked extremely well, the only real issue being Excel isn’t great for text data entry, and its habit of screwing up character encodings. It is easy to imagine an alternative web-based or browser-based approach to that walks you through a cycle of data entry until you’re happy. Adding on a little conventional configuration to guide a user towards standard ways of organising file sets could also be helpful. And actually doing this as you went with a project could help not just to organise your data for sharing, but also provide much better metadata records as you were going. The happy medium When I was getting fed up, my complaint was really that online support seemed to be either highly technical (and often inconsistent) advice on specific schema or so general as to be useless. What was missing was what PT calls ‘human-scale’ systems for when you’ve got too many objects to be uploading them all one by one, but you have too few, or your objects are too specialist for there to be systems to support you to do that. For all that we talk about building systems and requiring data sharing, this remains a gap which is very poorly supported, and as a result we are getting less data sharing than would be ideal, and what data sharing there is is less useful than it could be. The challenge of the long tail of research data production remains a big one. In the report we note how crucial it is that there be support where researchers need it, if the goal of changing culture is to be achieved. Researchers struggle both with good data management within projects and with packaging data up in a sensible fashion when subject to data sharing mandates at formal publication. Because we struggle, the data that is shared is not so useful, so the benefits to the researcher are less likely. Add this to a certain level of antagonism caused by the requirement for DMP provision at grant submission, and a virtually complete lack of follow-up on the part of funders, and the end result is not ideal. Of course, doing the practical work of filling these gaps with good (enough) tools is neither sexy nor easily fundable. Implementation is boring, as is maintenance, but its what’s required if we want to move towards a culture of data sharing and re-use. The kind of work that Petie and his group do needs more support. Images in this post are (c) Peter (Petie) Sefton, taken from //ptsefton.com/2017/10/19/datacrate.htm	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line61
__label__wiki	0.752215	0.752215	Capital Development Partners CEO John Porter Announces Development at the Port of Newark Newark, New Jersey. (June 12, 2019) – Capital Development Partners, a national industrial real estate and infrastructure developer, has acquired a 5.6 acre site at 52 Amsterdam Street in Newark, New Jersey with plans to develop an office/warehouse/parking facility. Read Full Release Georgia Central Railway a Key Player in Plastic Express Distribution Facility Savannah, GA. – Georgia Central Railway’s (GC) route and Class I interchanges made the railroad an ideal fit to serve a major new Plastic Express distribution center in Pooler, Georgia. Georgia Gov Brian Kemp and Capital Development Meet to Announce Epic $172 M Project at the Port of Savannah Savannah, GA. – Capital Development Partners has announced that Plastic Express, a leader in the plastic resin industry, has signed a long term lease on Building I, a 1,075,000 SF dual rail served facility located at the Savannah Port Logistics Center for exports of U.S. made products. 3May 2019 Capital Development CEO John Porter Announces Epic Industrial Real Estate Deal with Plastic Express for Savannah Port Logistics Center Capital Development Partners has announced that Plastic Express, a leader in the plastic resin industry, has signed a long term lease on Building I, a 1,075,000 SF dual rail served facility located at the Savannah Port Logistics Center for exports of U.S. made products. Kemp: Plastic Express to Expand Operations to Chatham County Atlanta, GA - Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Plastic Express, a leader in the plastic resins industry, will expand operations with two new manufacturing facilities creating 166 new jobs and investing more than $172 million at the Port Logistics Center in Pooler. Plastic Express to Expand Operations to Chatham County Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Plastic Express, a leader in the plastic resins industry, will expand operations with two new manufacturing facilities creating 166 new jobs and investing more than $172 million at the Port Logistics Center in Pooler. Plastic Express bringing jobs, port business to Pooler A California-based plastics resin company is bringing close to 200 jobs to Pooler, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. Plastic Express will be located in the Pooler Logistics Center, Kemp said in his announcement made on the Garden City Terminal docks of the Georgia Port Authority. Business Climate Rankings: An Oasis of Opportunity With six consecutive Top Business Climate wins to his credit, Gov. Nathan Deal reflects on overcoming state transportation challenges, how to invest wisely in education and workforce resources, and his hope that Georgia’s business climate benefits businesses and their workers long after he’s gone. Capital Development Partners breaks ground on Savannah logistics center Atlanta-based Capital Development Partners, a developer of industrial and infrastructure projects in U.S. gateway and constrained markets, has broken ground on the $125 million Savannah Port Logistics Center. The 2.3 million-square-foot logistics campus is being developed to meet the needs of import, export and e-commerce customers of the Port of Savannah, the fastest growing and largest single-container port in the United States. Construction begins on $125 million Savannah Port Logistics Center Infrastructure around the Savannah Harbor is continuing to take shape. Atlanta-based Capital Development Partners Inc. broke ground on the Savannah Port Logistics Center on Tuesday. The 2.3 million-square-foot, $125 million project was first announced in March and is a joint venture between Capital Development Partners and Greenfield Partners. The logistics center is located 10 miles from the Port of Savannah via Highway 80. Developer breaks ground on Savannah Port Logistics Center SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Capital Development Partners, a national developer of industrial and infrastructure facilities, broke ground on the Savannah Port Logistics Center last Monday. Capital Development Partners Breaks Ground on Savannah Port Logistics Center Savannah, Ga. (June 11, 2018) – Capital Development Partners has broken ground on the Savannah Port Logistics Center. The 2.3 million-square foot, $125 million logistics campus is being developed to meet the needs of import, export and e-commerce customers of the Port of Savannah, the fastest growing and largest single-container port in the U.S. Capital Development Partners, Inc. Announces Development Of Savannah Port Logistics Center Capital Development Partners, Inc., a national industrial real estate and infrastructure development company, will develop the Savannah Port Logistics Center in Pooler, Ga., to help meet the needs of the fastest growing port in the U.S. The new, state-of-the-art industrial campus located on 197 acres will offer more than 2.3 million square feet of space for lease with modern specifications, transload, cross-dock, high cube and trailer storage facilities. $125 million logistics park planned near Savannah port Capital Development Partners said it will build the $125 million Savannah Port Logistics Center in Pooler, about 10 miles from the Garden City Terminal. The 197-acre complex will include more than 2.3 million square feet of warehouse space. John Knox Porter named CEO of Capital Development Partners, Inc. John Knox Porter was named CEO of Capital Development Partners, Inc. a national developer and investor of industrial real estate and infrastructure projects. The company’s focus will be development of ecommerce, manufacturing, logistics and infrastructure in U.S. growth markets. Porter scores touchdown with industrial deals It was fitting that John K. "Johnny" Porter Jr. went into real estate. His late father worked in commercial real estate, plus Porter played football and studied industrial management at Georgia Tech. The writing was on the locker-room wall, maybe dating from the days of Bobby Dodd, if not John Heisman himself. "If you play football and study industrial management at Tech, you always get into the real estate business," said the 42-year-old Porter. 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__label__wiki	0.654628	0.654628	Friday, 5 April 2019 E is for…Estado…n…Europeans One of the issues faced in this search for music this time around is that many of the Bengali bands do not have much of a presence on Youtube, they are more active on India-oriented sites which are not so seamlessly shared on the Blogger platform (or maybe that’s just me?!). Some of the YT videos are often cringeworthy quality because they’re uploaded by some fan like yours truly, with great love but zero technical knowledge. Okay, whinge over, back to the day’s business and letter – first I have for you Ekalabya , a band from Kolkata, with E Mon Okaron . These guys have been singing for the last 20 years, debuted late 90’s sometime on television. They’ve cut 5-6 albums since then. The next one I’m giving you is from Escape Velocity , formed in 2001 in Kolkata. They sing both in English and Bengali, here they are with Firiye Dao (Give it back) – take a listen. Lastly this rather Dylanesque track from Anjan Dutta … Ekhono Tai (Even so). Dylan wields an Extraordinary influence on Bengali contemporary musicmakers and songwriters, maybe he does so on other non-English speaking, South Asian cultures also and I’m clueless. Estado Portuguesa da India…European influences The first European explorer to arrive in India was Vasco da Gama in 1498, making landfall in Calicut on the Malabar Coast. By 1517, the first Portuguese ship had sailed into Chittagong in present day Bangladesh. They called it ‘Porto Grande’ or the Great Harbour. In the mid-1530s, the then ruler issued a permit for them to establish a trading post. The port grew to be a major trading hub. By the closing decade of the 16 th century, the Portuguese had established their presence in settlements further north sailing upriver at Hooghly, Bandel and Satgaon. These, together with other settlements became the Estado Portuguesa da India, the overseas empire of the State of Portugal, the capital of which was at Goa on the Western coast on India. The Mughals subsequently subdued the Portuguese and won back the Bay of Bengal settlements, by the mid-18 th century the latter had lost control of the region. But for 150 years, the Portuguese ships plied between Africa, America, Europe and the Bay of Bengal, and Bengal became an entrepot in Portuguese trade. The impact of their presence on Bengalis is widespread and enduring. Unlike the later British colonisers, the Portuguese mingled and married more freely among Indians, taking Christian converts along the way and building some of the oldest churches in Bengal. The Bandel Church was first established in 1599 and rebuilt in 1660, it still receives pilgrims today. Many Bengali Christians (who make up less than 1% of the Bengali population) have Portuguese surnames. Portuguese contribution to both language and cuisine of Bengal has been profound. Several fruits and vegetables, an integral part of the Bengali kitchen today, were brought in by the Portuguese – chili, groundnuts, cashew, pineapple, pawpaw, sweet potato, cauliflower. They also introduced cottage cheese to Bengal, which is the basis for those most delectable Bengali desserts, famous the world over. Prior to the coming of the Portuguese, curdling of milk was considered inauspicious in Bengal. The Portuguese were the first to offer European style baked goods and chocolates to Bengali. Loanwords from Portuguese are common too – the Bengali words for wardrobe, nail, steel, soap, bucket, basket, window, balcony, button, chair, church, guava, bread (Western, leavened) and many more come from Portuguese. There are lingering influences in the arts and architecture as well. But it is not just the Portuguese whose left their prints on Bengali culture. The French, the Danish, the Dutch – they all came to trade in Bengal and each of them made an impact. The Dutch first arrived roughly a century after the Portuguese, made their base at in Chinsurah and stayed more than two centuries. There is the riverside promenade in Chinsurah and inconspicuous architectural details in derelict buildings here and there. The Dutch were the first set up a European style school and orphanage in Bengal. Dutch sailors have left their influence behind in the trick taking card game 29, played widely in Bengal and the wider delta region even today. As an offshoot, the words for card suites – heart, spade, diamond, and trump have come into Bengali from the Dutch. Interestingly however, the Bengali word for Dutch itself (Olondaj) has been adapted from its French counterpart (Hollandaise). The French landed at the end of the 17 th century – and established a base at Chandernagar (present day Chandannagar). They lost it to the Brits in 1757, regained it again in 1763 and lost it again in 1794. It was restored to the French again in 1850, but by then the city of Calcutta downriver had completely eclipsed its importance. It remained part of French India and was administered from their Indian capital at Pondicherry. Chandannagar was ceded to the government of India five years after India became independent. But the French impact on Bengal is harder to pin down. There is the French Governor’s residence, of course, now converted to the obligatory museum, and French is still taught from the same premises. There are the old bungalows, buildings with pastel walls in the Franco-Bengali style – they have French architectural features combined with an essential Bengali staple – the courtyard. The Sacred Heart Church with its vivid and beautiful stained glass, imported from France. There is the waterfront Strand, with a graceful French style edifice vaguely reminiscent of the Arc de Triomphe – on it is a plaque dedicating it to the memory of Dourgachourone Roquitte, who was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 1841. The arch was built by Shamachourone Roquitte his son, the names being rendered in the French style – very uncommon. Since 1980’s Chandannogore has emerged as a hub of electric lighting for festivals. Light artists from Chandannagore create the complex lighting displays for the communal marquees at Durgapuja – Bengal’s main festival. They also supply ‘animated lighting’ for other festivals around the country. Now, the Son et Lumiere is originally a French invention of the 50’s – food for thought, hmm? Another commonality between the Bengalis and the French is their attitude to food. Bengalis are the only Indian community who serve a la russe as the French do, i.e. they take their meal in a fixed sequential order – course by course. And my word, do they both take their food equally seriously! Apart from food, Bengali-French uncanny parallels extend to other aspects of life too – such as politics, and literature and films. Read more about the Bengali-French similarities here . Lately renovated. The Denmark Tavern. The Danes landed up at Frederiknagore (Serampore/Srirampur) in 1755, and remained there for nearly a century. Under their watch nearly a hundred buildings were put up, including the Lutheran church St Olav’s, known locally as the Danish church. The seal of the Danish king Christian IV and an inscription on the bell testify to the origins. Recently, the church has been restored by an initiative of the Danish government. Serampore College was established here and recognised by the Danish king in 1827, becoming the first European style degree granting university in India. There are also cemeteries with Danish/European graves. Further restoration is on-going. Read about the initiatives here . Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2019 Posted by 6 Buzz-Worthy Calgary Restaurants Over the last decade or so Calgary has grown into a city filled with exciting new restaurants. Whether you’re looking for Asian fusion, cool cocktails or a solid meal made with locally sourced ingredients, these six places are buzz-worthy spots to see and be seen. 1. Alumni Specializing in sandwiches and boozy drinks, Alumni isn’t exactly fancy, but it does offer a tasty and relatively affordable night out. The menu really is pretty much just sandwiches — but they’re all made to perfection and go great with one of the bar’s classic cocktails. The hot chicken sandwich is a fan favourite, but the rosemary beef dip and chicken Parmesan are also highly recommended. 2. Bar Von Der Fels A little wine bar that’s always guaranteed to have an interesting bottle open and ready for a glass pour, Bar Von Der Fels also has a fantastic food menu. The food offerings in this small restaurant change regularly, but the chef’s creative small plates are always surprising and delicious. The dining room at Calcutta Cricket Club. [Calcutta Cricket Club] 3. Calcutta Cricket Club An Indian restaurant that is also a hip cocktail bar, Calcutta Cricket Club focuses on Bengali-style cuisine. Lighter bites like the chips and curry and kati roll sandwiches go great with something from CCC’s extensive cocktail list, or you can sit down for a more formal dinner with dishes like duck vindaloo or the three-course Taste of Calcutta tasting menu. 4. Donna Mac Billed as a friendly neighbourhood restaurant, Donna Mac has a youthful vibe and a menu filled with fresh dishes. The menu changes frequently, but you can expect comfort food like pork schnitzel or mac ‘n’ cheese as well as sophisticated small plates. The kitchen also looks out for vegan customers, with a rotating plant-based Blue Plate Special always on offer. A piece of sushi at Calgary’s Shokunin. [Shokunin] 5. Shokunin Chef Darren MacLean gained a fair bit of attention after appearing on Netflix’s The Final Table chef competition last year, which has made his Japanese restaurant Shokunin one of Calgary’s busiest spots. While Shokunin does offer larger dishes like ramen and whole fish, the best way to go is with a selection of small plates like fatty chicken skewers, scallop isoyaki and chicken skin chips. 6. Ten Foot Henry One of Calgary’s top vegetable-forward restaurants, Ten Foot Henry is not strictly vegetarian, but the kitchen offers a variety of small plates that can be used to build either an entirely veggie meal or a combination of vegetarian and meat dishes. Everything from the carrots with salsa verde and hummus to spaghetti with pistachio pesto is delicious, but be sure to save room for the unbelievable butterscotch pudding. These are just a few to get you started. Calgary’s food scene is full of cool places to explore — there’s never any shortage of good things to eat in the city. Room 207: Reports from Haunted Hotels of BC This Week’s Flyers Comments We encourage all readers to share their views on our articles and blog posts. We are committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion, so we ask you to avoid personal attacks, and please keep your comments relevant and respectful. If you encounter a comment that is abusive, click the “X” in the upper right corner of the comment box to report spam or abuse. We are using Facebook commenting. Visit our FAQ page for more information. Connect With Us Close Daily Headline News Thank you for subscribing to Postmedia’s Newsletter. Email Sahrawat launches Tuesday Test Kitchen News Sahrawat launches Tuesday Test Kitchen Diners will soon be able to enjoy a taste of all three of chef Sid Sahrawat’s restaurants under one roof, with the launch of his Tuesday Test Kitchen. Taking place on the first Tuesday of each month, the experience will see customers served two dishes each from Sidart, Cassia and Sid at The French Café. Hosted in the private dining room, The French Kitchen, at Sid at the French Café, diners will also get to see Sahrawat doing what he does best, as he cooks, plates and introduces each dish. “People often ask me which of our three restaurants I think they should visit,” Sahrawat said. “This new format will give our diners a little taste of each restaurant under one roof, in a fun and communal atmosphere. The style of food at each of our establishments may be different, but they all follow our ethos of using the best produce in innovative ways to give our diners an elevated experience. I’m really looking forward to welcoming guests to our table and showcasing this for them.” The Tuesday Test Kitchen’s menu will change each month, delivering a superb taste of the cuisine on offer at Sahrawat’s entire stable, where the dishes are always made with the best of New Zealand’s seasonal produce and finished with the chef’s signature flair. Diners can enjoy the contemporary Indian food for which Cassia has become famous, the flavours of the progressive Indian cuisine now found at Sidart, and the European-style menu offered at Sid at The French Café. The Tuesday Test Kitchen is priced at $175 per person, which includes canapés, the six dishes from the Sahrawat stable of restaurants, the choice of a glass of champagne, Seedlip cocktail or beer on arrival, as well as Vittoria water and after dinner tea or coffee. Share this: Dine India pershorepatty April 2, 2019 Located conveniently only minutes from junction 4 of the M5 and in the Worcestershire village of Catshill, is one of Bromsgrove’s finest Indian restaurants. Dine India has a formidable reputation with locals, built upon their desire to offer quality Bangladeshi and Southern Asian food with customer service that will go over and above your expectations. The wine menu boasts a range of hand selected wines from a local supplier, and offers a great choice in both price and variety. Great care and thought goes into everything at Dine India and it’s all about the detail. A complimentary dessert is offered to all guests as well as tea or coffee, an after dinner shot and some sweets to finish. Dine India offers high quality Indian cuisine with some unique touches, excellent service and reasonable prices, making it a very popular choice with locals and visitors to the area. Click here to read my review of Dine India for WR Magazine. Current Offer April 2, 2019 – Arts Etc April 2, 2019 – Arts Etc By 0 Visual Arts Hedreen Gallery – Lee Center for the Arts on the Seattle University campus off Capitol Hill has the following – “An Object Lesson” has work by Markel Uriu, a Seattle artist who combines organic materials to explore ideas of impermanence, maintenance and decay using the premise of “invasive species”. On view through Sun., May 19, 2019. Veteran Northwest artist Romsom Bustillo draws upon his island upbringing seeped in a colonial/native history and iconography. The final result in patterns and mark-making on paper are images that stay rooted in the memory. Opens May 21, 2019. Wed. – Fri. from 1 – 6pm. 901 12 th Ave. 206-296-2244. Gould Gallery presents a group show entitled “Memory And Place” with Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari , interdisciplinary artist Trinh Mai and landscape designer/public artist Sara Zewde. April 3 – May 3, 2019. 11am – 4pm. Wed. – Sat. 3950 University Way N.E. Free. Go to uw.edu/publiclectures/artists for details. Non-Breaking Space Gallery has a show entitled “Set v. 15” by Na Kim on view through April 9, 2019. Kim uses fine art and graphic design to tease out a combination of geometrical forms from a series started a few years ago in New York. 532 – 1 st Ave. S. For details, go to [email protected] . Works by George Tsutakawa are included in a show of artists whose works are on consignment in a show entitled “Semi-occasional Secondary Market Exhibition of Excellent Pictures” at Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc. Many of the artists represented are from the Northwest. April 4 – June 1, 2019. 212 Third Ave. S. in Seattle. 206-624-4031 or try [email protected] At Oxbow Gallery, South Korean artist Chanhee Choi, a DXARTS PhD student uses her traditional technique and blends it with contemporary media such as video, neon lights and games in an installation that examines gender roles in today’s world. On view through April 29, 2019. 6119 – 12 th Ave. S. For details, go to [email protected] Originally from Japan, Mieko Mintz is known for her unique wearable designs using hand-blocked and stitched textiles from India to make contemporary pieces from her studio in New York City. KOBO at Higo presents new spring arrivals of her one-of-a-kind garments made of vintage sari material and handstiched kantha. Open daily at 604 South Jackson St. 206-381-3000 or [email protected] Northwest artist Saya Moriyasu is busy these days and her work can be seen all over the region. She has a solo exhibit entitled “Quiet” through April 13, 2019. Sharing the space is Amanda Knowles with new print-based works. G. Gibson Gallery at 104 W. Roy St. in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. 206-587-4033. She also has two new pieces on view in the region. “MAYA” is a bronze sculpture that went up last year at the corner of Yesler and Broadway at the Batik Apartments across from the Yesler Community Center. Also her “Portraits of Ladies and Man Servers” is an installation made of porcelain on view at AC Hotel in the lobby through May 28, 2021. 208 – 106 th Pl. NE in Bellevue,WA. Madrona Wine Merchants and Fred Birchman present a two person show of work by community artists Amy Nikaitani and Michelle Kumata. Nikaitani will show sumi paintings, ink drawings and watercolors. Kumata presents work from her “Nihonmachi Portraits” series. The show will be on view through April, 2019. Go to https://madronawinemerchants.com/blog/ . For artists interested in showing at this space, contact Fred at [email protected] Tacoma-based sculptor June Sekiguchi visited Laos a few years ago and it left a deep impression. So deep that she hopes to summon the powerful flow of the muddy Mekong River within the gallery walls providing visitors with a bridge to cross it as well. Set for the month of Oct., 2019. ArtXchange Gallery at 512 First Ave. S, 206-839-0327 or [email protected] . Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s “Momentum” series presents “A Dialogue With Nature: Artist Talk with Z.Z. Wei” on April 20, 2019 at 7pm in the Museum’s Frank Buxton Auditorium. Tickets are $5 – $7. This local artist hails from China and came to the Northwest in 1989. In his talk, he will use video and slides to explain how moving to this country transformed him as a person and artist. He is fascinated by the life and landscape of rural America. 550 Winslow Way E. on Bainbridge Island, WA. 206-842-4451 or try [email protected] The Friends of Asian Art Association presents a double art event (re-scheduled from February’s snow storm) set for Sunday, April 28, 2019 from 2 – 4pm. Dr. Shiang Yu Lee will give a talk in which she explores the mysteries of the hidden meanings in the Chinese language. Inspired by the Da Vinci Code to dig into the structure and compositions of Chinese words, moving beyond their obvious meanings. Also on view will be paintings by Dr. Agnes Lee that capture the meanings and feelings in Chinese calligraphy expressing them using the meticulous repetition of Chinese characters. An upcoming exhibit of her work will be held at Clarke and Clarke Arts & Artifacts Gallery on Mercer Island. Both Shiang Yu Lee and Agnes Lee’s double event will be held at Lake City Library at 12501 – 28 th Ave. N.E. Pre-registration at http://friendsofasianart.org/ . Another event is “Honey Church Transformed – A Tour & Talk set for May 4, 2019 from 10:30am – 1:30pm. 21301 Tyee Road in Mt. Vernon, WA. See this former Seattle Asian antique institution in their new digs in a rural setting with entertaining stories provided about their antique adventures by owners, John and Laurie Fairman. Pre-register by April 29, 2019. Members get in with two free guests if paid by April 29, 2019. Pre-register for this event by going to http://friendsofasianart.org/eventflyer3.html . The Museum of Northwest Art presents “Continuum: Works from the Permanent Collection and the Lucy and Herb Pruzan Collection” is an edited visual history of Northwest art from the 1930’s to the present. Includes the work of Paul Horiuchi, Akio Takamori and many others. Opens April 6, 2019. 121 South 1 st St. in La Connor, WA. 360-466-4446. “Yahaw – Together We Lift The Sky” is a year-long indigenous community-based project culminating in the inaugural exhibition at Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s ARTS at King Street Station which opens March 23, 2019 from noon – 7pm. “Yahaw” will feature the work of 200+ Indigenous creative at over 20 sites across Seattle and beyond. Curated by Tracy Rector, Asia Tail and Satpreet Kahlon. Learn more at Yehawshow.com. On view through August 3, 2019. A JCCCW Exhibition entitled “Genji Mihara: An Issei Pioneer” is ongoing. Mihara was an Issei first-generation Japanese immigrant leader who helped to build Japanese culture and community in Seattle. Open M – F from 10am – 5pm. Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington is at 1414 S. Weller St. Free. For details, go jcccw.org. “MY WAR: Wartime Photographs by Vietnam Vets” is a group show that runs from April 5 – June 3, 2019. Showcasing photographs, poems and journal entries by twenty-five Vietnam veterans from around the U.S. At the San Juan Islands Museum of Art. 540 Spring St. in Friday Harbor, WA. 360-370-5050 or go to www.sjma.org. Asia Pacific Cultural Center has a show every month of a local Asian American artist every month in their gallery.4851 South Tacoma Way in Tacoma. 253-383-3900 or asiapacificculturalcenter.org. Seattle Art Museum has the following – “Pure Amusements: Chinese Scholar Culture and Emulators”, an installation of Chinese works ranging from prints to sculpture and furnishings to ceramics. The focus is on objects created for, and enjoyed during the intentional practice of leisure. Ongoing. Opening at the John McCone Gallery on the 3 rd floor on March 16, 2019 in the same location is “The Gentleman Warrior: Art of the Samurai” which features two complete sets of samurai armor, screen paintings and a print of the legendary battle between the Tara and Minamoto clans. Seattle Art Museum is located at 1300 First Ave. 206-654-3210 or try www.seattleartmuseum.org . Henry Art Gallery has a group show entitled “Between Bodies” through April 29, 2019. It includes sculpture, augmented reality, video, and sound-based works that delve into intimate exchanges and entwined relations between human and more-than-human bodies within contexts of ongoing ecological change. Candace Lin and Patrick Staff are among the participating artists. Located on the UW Seattle campus at 15 th Ave. NE + NE 4lst Street. 206-543-2280 or try henryart.org. Pacific Bonsai Museum shakes up this Japanese tradition with LAB (Living Art of Bonsai), an experimental collaborative for bonsai innovation This project is a re-sequencing in the order of influence between the bonsai artist, ceramicist and stand maker. The project kicks off in 2018 and continues through 2020. A video trailer from a film about this new process can be viewed at http://www.bonsaimirai.com . Other shows include “Gnarly”, a tribute to “bonsai renegade” Dan Robinson who helped create the Northwest bonsai scene with his innovative designs. Also on view will be “Living Art of Bonsai: Principles of Design” which emphasizes key elements of the art form. Both shows on view May 11 – Sept. 29, 2019. For more information, go to http://www.pacificbonsaimuseum.org . The Pacific Bonsai Museum is at 2515 S. 336 th St. in Federal Way, WA. 206-612-0026 for information. Portland Art Museum has the following –Sara Roby championed realism and works of art founded in the principles of form and design. A group show entitled “Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection” includes the work of Yasuo Kuniyoshi and many other great American artists and it remains on view through April 28, 2019. “The Map Is Not The Territory” on view until May 5, 2019 is a reconsideration of the art of the northwest region. This group show includes the work of Rob Rhee and Henry Tsang among others. It covers the Eastern edge of the Pacific including Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, BC and Alaska. Curated by Grace Kook-Anderson. “Three Masters of Abstraction – Hagiwara Hideo, Ida Shoichi And Takahashi Rikio” looks at some Japanese modern abstract artists. Through May 5, 2019. “APEX: Steven Young Lee” showcases this contemporary ceramic artist who takes inspiration from the museum’s Korean collection and reconsiders these objects with a contemporary twist. Lee is based in Helena, MT. On view through August 11, 2019. 1219 S.W. Park Ave. 503-226-2811 or try [email protected] . Bellevue Arts Museum previously had a retrospective for the late N.W. jewelry artist Ron Ho. They follow it up with “Ron Ho: A Jeweler’s Tale” which looks more closely at his inspirations and how his Chinese roots and world cultures influenced and fed into his own work. With a reconstruction of his studio and the screening of a new documentary entitled “Ron Ho: Becoming Chinese, A Jeweler’s Tale”. May 10 – Sept. 15, 2019.510 Bellevue Way. 425-519-0770 or go to bellevuearts.org. KOBO at Higo at 604 South Jackson features many small arts & crafts/textile shows and activities inspired by Asia or work by Asian American artists. There is another branch of KOBO on Capitol Hill at 814 E. Roy St. 206-726-0704. New and recent shows /activities at the The Wing include the following – “ “Lore Re-Imagined: Shadows of Our Ancestors” is curated by Chieko Phillips. It brings together three artists who make work that engages the cultural traditions of previous generations. Satpreet Kahlon uses the embroidery and textile techniques passed on by her mother and grandmother to create soft works with strong cultural subtexts. Alex Anderson uses his ceramic studies in China to probe the moral and physical decay behind seemingly flawless facades. Megumi Shauna Arai’s “Unnamed Lake” uses sashiko (Japanese hand-stiched embroidery) to reflect on the physical, mental and emotional applications of mending. Remains on view through April 14, 2019. “Wham! Bam! Pow! – Cartoons, Turbans & Confronting Hate” remains on view through Feb. 24, 2019. This is an exhibition of work by New York-based cartoonist Vishavjit Singh who wields art and humor to fight intolerance and challenge stereotypes. “A Dragon Lives Here”, part 4 of the ongoing Bruce Lee exhibition series has just opened. This concluding part hones in on Bruce Lee’s Seattle roots and how this region played a key role in shaping Lee and his groundbreaking career. Toddler Story Time set for Thursdays at 11am always has events centered around a kid’s book and an art activity afterwards. A new addition to The Wing’s daily Historic Hotel Tour is “APT 507” which is the story of Au Shee, one Chinese immigrant woman who helped build Seattle’s Chinatown. Her living room is interactive with objects meant to be felt, opened and experienced. NOW let’s look at future shows The Wing is planning this fall and into 2019. “Worlds Beyond Here: The Expanding Universe of APA Science Fiction” is a show that remains on view through Sept. 15, 2019. From onscreen actors to behind-the-scenes writers, creators, artists and animators, learn about the impact Asian Pacific Americans have had and continue to have in science fiction. A mix of literary and pop culture works helps viewers to see how science fiction reflects the times they were written in. It addresses issues related to identity, immigration and race, technology, morality and the human condition. Curated by Mikala Woodward. Includes work by Tamiko Thiel, Simon Kono, June Sekigiuchi, Stasia Burrington, relics from George Takei’s Sulu character on Star Trek, clips & stills from the film, Arrival” based on Bellevue writer Ted Chiang’s story and much more. A group show tentatively titled “Open Housing” shows how community members across the Central Area, Chinatown-ID and Southeast Seattle gather to explore how racial restrictions on where people could live shaped the Seattle we know today and set a vision for those neighborhoods for the next 50 years. March 8, 2019 – Feb. 16, 2020 in the New Dialogues Initiative area. Carina del Rosario curates an exhibit entitled “Wide Angle/Close up: A Self Portrait of the Asian Pacific Islander American Community” from May 10, 2019 – April 19, 2020. Includes photography, video, and photo-based installations by photojournalists that document the community from the inside out. Set for the George Tsutakawa Gallery. “Chinatown in the 1970s” recreates Seattle’s Chinatown in the 1970’s and explores the values and customs that continue to shape the neighborhood today. July 20, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020 in the KidPLACE Gallery. The Museum is located at 719 South King St. (206) 623-5124 or visit www.wingluke.org . Closed Mondays. Tuesday – Sunday from 10am – 5pm. First Thursday of each month is free from 10am – 8pm. Third Saturday of each month is free from 10am – 8pm. Poet Jane Wong, currently teaching at Western University enters a new realm with a debut exhibition centered on family entitled “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum. Wong explores the themes of hunger and waste and their meaning for immigrant families. Expect altars, sculpture poems and texts that evoke a New Jersey childhood in the Chinese restaurant her parents ran. If she can do with images what she does with words, this show will be sure to haunt. June 1 – Sept. 1, 2019. 704 Terry. 206-622-9250 or go to fryemuseum.org. “Key to the Collection” is a group show that opened Dec. 22, 2018 and it lets TAM show off some of the treasured gifts from their collection including their legacy of Japanese woodblock prints and various other items. Familiar Faces& New Voices: Surveying Northwest Art” stays on view through the summer of 2019. This group show is a chronological walk through of Northwest art history, illustrated with the works of noted artists from each time period as well as lesser-known but just as important figures. Different works will be displayed throughout the run of this show. Includes the work of Patti Warashina, Roger Shimomura, Joseph Park, Alan Lau (full disclosure, that’s me) and many others. Tacoma Art Museum at 1701 Pacific Ave. 253-272-4258 or email [email protected] or go to www.TacomaArtMuseum.org . “Land of Joy And Sorrow: Japanese Pioneers of the Yakima Valley” is an ongoing exhibit that traces the story of the Japanese families who settled in the Yakima valley. Yakima Valley Museum at 2105 Tieton Dr. in Yakima, WA. 509-248-0747. Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center presents the following – “Oregon Nikkei: Reflections of an American Community – ongoing. Beginning this year, visitors can see artifacts of the collection up close as the stacks will be open to see as the staff does filing. 121 NW Second Ave. in Portland. 503-224-1458 or go to www.oregonnikkeir.org . The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene has the following – “Graceful Fortitude: The Spirit of Korean Women” is on view through May 5, 2019. It includes art created by, for and/or about Korean women in all media from the twelfth to the twenty-first century. “Reflections of the Cosmic Web: Intricate Patterns in Daoist Art” remains on view through April 7, 2019. “Vibrance and Serenity: Art of Japanese No Traditional Theatre is on view through August, 2019. It covers the history and performance of No theatre using selected prints by Tsukioka Kogyo (1869 – 1927). 1430 Johnson Lane in Eugene, Oregon. 541-346-3027. Vancouver Art Gallery has the following – Opening April 19 and remaining on view through Sept. 2, 2019 is “Moving Still: Performative Photography in India” which explores the themes of migration, gender, religion and national identity through the lens of performative photography. Curated by Diana Freundi and Gayatri Sinha. 750 Hornby St. Vancouver BC Canada. 604-662-4719. Nikkei National Museum presents the following – The museum has numerous online exhibits as well as offsite exhibits. Check their website for details. The Nikkei National Museum is at 6688 Southoaks Crescent in Burnaby. 604-777-7000 or go to nikkeiplace.org. Chinese Cultural Centre Museum has the ongoing exhibit “Generation to Generation – History of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia.” 555 Columbia St. Vancouver, BC. 604-658-8880. Admission by donation. “Blue Green Landscape” is a show of new paintings by Zheng Baizhong on view through April 15, 2019. At Poly Culture Art Center at 100-905 West Pender St. in downtown Vancouver, BC Canada. An ongoing exhibit entitled “Call for Justice: Fighting for Japanese Canadian Redress (1977-1988)” is on view at Nanaimo Museum at 100 Museum Way in Nanaimo, Canada. 250-753-1821 or go to nanaimomuseum.ca. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has two shows and a video installation related to Japan. “Fiona Tan: Ascent” has the international artist presenting a montage film and accompanying photo installation that studies the significance of Mt. Fuji in Japanese visual culture. Opening March 9 is “Quiet Nature: The Woodblock Prints of Walter J. Phillips. This exhibit considers the influence of Japanese printmakers on the artist and his important role in popularizing the Japanese woodcut tradition in Canada. “Landscapes of Edo: Ukiyo-e Prints from the AGGV Collection” showcases key works from the museum’s extensive collection of Japanese prints. Opening July 5 and on view through Sept. 15, 2019 is “Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters”, a group show where artists explore and speculate upon early encounters and interactions between indigenous peoples and Chinese communities that settled on Vancouver Island. Curated by Haema Sivanesan.1040 Moss St. in Victoria, BC. 250-384-4171 or go to aggv.ca. Co-curators Carolyn Brotler Palmer, Mikiko Hirayama and Janice Okada present “Translations: The Art And Life of Elizabeth Yeend Duer -Gyokusho” through April 6, 2019. This exhibit showcases the movement of ideas, aesthetics, politics and people between England, Japan, and Victoria, Canada by looking at the work of Anglo-Japanese artist Elizabeth Yeend Duer (1889 – 1950). Born a British citizen in Nagasaki to an English father and Japanese mother, Duer studied Nihonga (Japanese Style painting) with Atomi Gyokuchi, she took on the artistic identity of Gyokusho and immigrated to Victoria in 1940. Lucky to escape internment during WWII, she Japanized her new environment with Nihonga-style paintings of local indigenous wild flowers. At Legacy Downtown at 630 Yates St. in Victoria BC, Canada. Hours are 10am – 4pm, Wd. To Sat. Go to uvac.uvic.ca for details. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco has the following. Coming soon to the Larkin St. steps in front of the museum is a giant white sculpture that turns a puppy into the size of an elephant. “Your Dog” is by Yoshitomo Nara. “Kimono Refashioned” is a major exhibition on the evolution of the Japanese kimono created by the Museum in collaboration with the Kyoto Costume Institute. It runs through May 5, 2019. 200 Larkin St. 415-581-3500. “Then They Came For Me” is a group show of black and white photography that documents the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. It includes work by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and many others as well as videos, drawings by Mine Okubo and documentary material of the era. Originally organized by Alphawood Exhibitions of Chicago, the show has also shown at ICP in New York. A Bay Area version of this show presented by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation in partnership with the National Japanese American Historical society and J-Sei will reconfigure the show pertaining to the West Coast and it will be on view through May 27, 2019 for free at the “Futures Without Violence” Building located in The Presidio at 100 Montgomery St. Hours are Wed. – Sun. from 10am – 6pm (last admittance by 5:30pm). There are Public Tours on Thursdays from 4 – 6pm. Other activities include the following – Free screenings of the documentary film on the internment entitled “And Then They Came for Us” by Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider every Sat. & Sun. Performance workshops for “Ikkai:Once” take place on March 24, 2019 from 2 – 4pm. It is a dance exploring the expression of culture-based stories and events related to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII while at the same time questioning our current state of democracy. KAMBARA + DANCERS has partnered with Japanese American visual artist Dana Kawano to support this work design. 415-923-9795 or go to [email protected] . Berkeley Art Museum has the following – “Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists At Home and Abroad” on view until May 26, 2019 features work by internationally known contemporary Tibetan artists such as Tenzing Rigdol, Gonkar Gyatso and Tsherin Sherpa alongside more historical pieces. “Ink, Paper, Silk: One Hundred Years of Collecting Japanese Art” is on view through April 14, 2019. Includes work by Okamoto Shiki, the Kano School, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Sakae Hoitsu and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. “Masako Miki/ MATRIX 273” includes work by this Japanese Bay Area artist who creates felt covered forms drawn from Japanese folk belief in Yokai (shape shifters). Through April 28, 2019. 2155 Center St. in Berkeley, CA. 510-642-0808 or go to [email protected] . The Museum of Craft And Design present “Wanxin Zhang – The Long Journey” on view through July 14, 2019. The artist spent his formative years in China under Mao’s regime. After moving to California in the early 1990’s he became inspired by the work of Voulkos, Arneson and De Staebler. This exhibition is a survey of his ceramic sculpture from 2006 to 2017 in which California Funk meets the Chinese historical monumental clay figure tradition. Presented in partnership with the Catherine Clark Gallery with an exhibition catalog. 2569 Third St. in San Francisco. 415-773-0303 or try [email protected] LACMA or Los Angeles County Museum of Art has “The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka” through June 23, 2019. This is the first comprehensive survey of Sri Lankan art organized by an American museum. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. 323-857-6010. The Japanese American National Museum has the following shows – “Common Ground: The Heart of Community.” This overview exhibit of Japanese American history is ongoing. Opening May 25 and going on through Oct. 20, 2019 is “At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America”. This multi-media exhibition celebrates and explores the emergence of a politically defined Asian Pacific American consciousness and identity. It draws on the archives of Visual Communications and the museum itself. 100 N. Central Ave. in Los Angeles. 213-625-0414 or go to http://www.janm.org . “Chiura Obata: An American Modern” is the first retrospective of this noted Bay area artist whose work reflected the glories of the American landscape from the Grand Canyon to Yosemite. His influence could also be felt at UC Berkeley where he had a distinguished teaching career. He also helped found art schools in internment camps during WWII. Curated by ShiPu Wang with a catalogue. The exhibition travels to the following sites. June 23 – Sept. 29, 2019 at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The Freer/Sackler Gallery on the Smithsonian Mall shows you how religion and art mix in “Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia through Nov. 29, 2020. 202-633-1000 or go to FreerSackler.si.edu for details. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the following – “Seeing the Divine: Pahari Paintings of North India” through July 21, 2019. Through Oct. 27, 2019 is a major sculpture exhibition from the 18 th & 19 th century era in the Pacific Islands entitled “Atea: Nature And Divinity In Polynesia.” “Celebrating the Year of the Pig” through July 28, 2019. “Essential Korea” through Sept. 22, 2019. “Streams and Mountains Without End: Landscape Traditions of China” through August 4, 2019. “The Tale of Genji – A Japanese Classic Illuminated” through June 16, 2019. ”Children to Immortals: Figural Representation in Chinese Art” through Feb. 23, 2020. 1000 Fifth Ave. New York, New York. Go to metmuseum.org for details. The Rubin Museum of Art has the following shows – “Tibetan Buddhist Art” gets a full survey including offerings from the museum’s own collection and objects from the Musee Guimet in Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions. Feb. 1, 2019 – July 15, 2019. “The Power of Intention- Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel” brings together select examples of traditional and contemporary art to illuminate the relationship between our intentions, commitments and actions. On view March through Oct. 14 th . 150 W. 17 th St. New York, New York. 212-620-5000×344 or go to rubinmuseum.org. The Japan Society has the following – “Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960’s” is a look at the radical experiments of artists from 1960s Japan little known in the U.S. such as Yutaka Matsuzawa, The Play and GUN art collectives. On view through June 9, 2019. 333 East 47 th St. 212-263-1258. The Museum of Chinese in America has the following –“With a Single Step: Stories in The Making of America” chronicles the history of the museum through Dec. 31, 2020. From May 2 – Sept. 15, 2019 is “The Moon Represents My Heart: Music And Belonging” which explores the tradition of music in Chinese communities. 215 Centre St. New York, NY. 855-955-MOCA or go to mocanyc.org. The Asia Society Museum in New York presents the following – “In Focus: A Complete Map of the World – The Eighteenth Century Convergence of China and Europe” takes Ma Junliang’s complete map of the world as the starting point to consider interactions between China and Europe during the eighteenth century. Now on view through May 5, 2019. “M. F. Husain: Art And the Nation” focuses on the artist’s mural-sized painting created for Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party rally in 1975. On view through August 4, 2019. “Reza Arameshi: 12 Noon, Monday 5 August, 1963” is a show in which the artist Reza Aramesh examines the power balance between the captor and and captive and the aestheticization of violence in media coverage of wartime atrocities. On view through June 9, 2019. “Masterpieces from the Asia Society Museum Collection” is a group show on view through August, 2019.To find out more, go to AsiaSociety.org/NY. 725 Park Ave. New York City, New York. 212-327-9721 or go to www.asiasociety.org for more details. The Noguchi Museum has the following – “Akari Unfolded – a Collection by Ymer & Malta” and Akari – Sculptures by Other Means”. Both shows up through April 14, 2019. 9 – 01 33 rd Rd, Long Island City, NY. 718-204-7088. China Institute Gallery presents “Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens” on view through August 28, 2019. Located at 100 Washington St. (visitor entrance is at 40 Rector St . on the 2 nd floor) in New York. 212-744-8181 or go to www.chinainstitute.org . Tallur L. N. is an Indian sculptor who combines Indian craft traditions and novel sculptural techniques to infuse ancient iconography with contemporary meanings. “Multiplicity” is a show that has around thirty works in a variety of mediums, from carved stone and wood to cast bronze and concrete to found objects. May 5, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020. Grounds for Sculpture at 80 Sculptors Way in Hamilton, New Jersey.609-586-0616 or [email protected] for sculpture.org. Pakistani-born artist Huma Bhabha’s rugged style of figurative sculpture working with a variety of material from clay and Styrofoam often evokes science-fictional imagery like the aliens currently on the roof of the Met. This large retrospective allows us to see the range of her interests in all phases of her career from masks to photographs and drawings. Through May 27, 2019. Institute of Contemporary Art, 25 Harbor Shore Dr. in Boston, MA. 617-478-3100 Museum of Fine Arts Boston has the following – “Conservation in Action – Japanese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light” on view through June 30, 2020. 9300 Avenue of the Arts. 465 Huntington Ave. Go to mfa.org or call 617-267-9300. “Empresses of China’s Forbidden City”, the first major international exhibition to explore the role of empresses in China’s Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Includes many works never seen before in the U.S. Freer/Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Mall in Washington D.C. Through June 23, 2019. A show of prints by the late Seattle artist Munio Makuuchi is set from August – December, 2019. Art historian Margo Machida will write the catalog essay. 20 Elm St at Bedford Terrace in Northhampton, MA. 413-585-2760 or go to [email protected] . The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Chinese Galleries have undergone a $2 million renovation. The new galleries opened to the public on Feb. 3, 2019. They feature a variety of works from treasures created for the afterlife to costumes of the imperial court. There will be a family festival celebrating the Lunar New Year at that time. 2500 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-684-7860 or go to philamuseum.org. The Minneapolis Institute of Art has the following – “Without Boundaries: Fiber Sculpture & Paintings by Women Artists” featuring work by Yayoi Kusama through July 21, 2019. “Emblems of a Prosperous Life: Women’s Robes of Late Imperial China (1700s-1800s) through June 30, 2018. Minneapolis Institute of Art. 2400 Third Ave. S. Call toll free at 888-642-2787. “American Muse” is the title of a show of new work by Seattle native Roger Shimomura. On view April 5 – May 25, 2019. Preview opening on April 4 from 6 – 8pm. Public Opening April 5 from 7 – 9pm. Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art. 2004 Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City, MO. 816-221-2626 or go to SherryLeedy.com. “Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world” is a group show that focuses on the internment camp experience during WWII for Japanese Canadians. Includes the work of Lillian Michiko Blakey, David L. Hayashida, Emma Nishimura, Steven Nunoda, Laura Shintai, Norman Takeukchi. Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull and Yvonne Wakabayashi. On view through August 5, 2019. “Gods in Any House: Chinese New Year with Ancestor Portraits and Deity Prints” is also on view though Sept. 29, 2019. Royal Ontario Museum at 100 Queens Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Go to rom.on.ca for details. Hito Steyerl looks at the relationship between networked technologies, image distribution and societal control. In this new commission for Serpentine Galleries, she works with technology to create a neural network that generates novel imagery and connections. Serpentine Galleries in London from through May 2019. Kensington Gardens. 020-7402-6075. Indonesian-born, Amsterdam-based filmmaker Fiona Tan mixes found and original footage in her work to blue categories. Here, she uses color advertising footage from Agfa to explore notions of authenticity and normalcy in West Germany. May 4 – August 11, 2019. Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. Heinrich-Boll-Platz, 50067 Koln, Germany. +49 221-221-26165 or [email protected] . “Peekaboo” is the playful title of a show that details the career of artist Tomoo Gokita comprised of figurative and abstract pieces, an installation and a series devoted to wrestling and music. April 14 – June 24, 2019. Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery has the following shows. 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo,Japan. +81- (0) 3-5353-0756. Fukuzawa Ichiro was one of many Japanese artists who traveled extensively abroad in the early twentieth century with a seven year stint in Paris where he was influenced by Max Ernst and other Surrealists. In his painting and writing, he was a vigorous supporter of avant garde movements on his return. Almost ninety works in this retrospective attest to his transcultural range full of social critique and humor. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Through May 26, 2019. 1-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. +81 3-5777-8600. The Mori Art Museum has their 15 th Anniversary Exhibition entitled “Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions – Japanese Contemporary Art Here And Now!” on view through May 26, 2019. Also on view is “MAM Collection 009: Ken + Julia Yonetani” also on view through May 25, 2019. Coming up is the highly anticipated exhibition for Berlin-based installation artist Shiota Chiharu entitled “Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles” which is on view June 20 – Oct. 27, 2019. A show tentatively entitled “The Future And Arts” is set for Nov. 19, 2019 – March 29, 2020. T106-6108, Tokyo, Minato City, Roppongi, 6 Chome – 10-1 Japan. +81 3-5777-8600. “teamLab*Borderless” houses works by this hi-tech art group in the Mori Building Digital Art Museum. With computer-graphic projections of animals, plants and objects from nature to light sculptures and a forest of lamps. On view indefinitely. Aomi Station, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. 03-6406-3949. A new Hong Kong opera house recently opened in the West Kowloon Cultural District at Hong Kong’s Kowloon waterfront. Vancouver BC-based Revery Architecture (a firm started by the late Chinese Canadian architect Bing Thom who did the original design) completed this project known as Xi Qu Center. The building includes a Grand Theatre, a smaller Tea House Theatre, professional studios, a seminar hall and a large open atrium for common space and exhibitions. The design was inspired by traditional Chinese lanterns and blends traditional and contemporary elements to “reflect the evolving nature of the art form.” Excerpts from dailyhive.com. Japanese architect Junya Ishigami will design the Serpentine Pavillion, a temporary structure put up each summer in London’s Hyde Park. The architect said the design would “resemble a hill made out of rock while simultaneously appearing so light it could blow away in the breeze like a billowing piece of fabric.” The pavilion will be on view June 20 – Oct. 6, 2019. Ishigami won Main Prize in the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an installation entitled “Architecture as Air”. Andy Warhol is no longer the top-selling post-war artist. According to ArtNet, he was dethroned in 2018 by French-Chinese painter Zao Wou-ki. Japanese architect Arata Isozaki received the 2019 Pritzker Prize. The award is considered the profession’s highest honor. Isozaki grew up in the bombed and leveled city of Hiroshima which taught him how homes and cities could be rebuilt even amidst rubble. His work is known for defying categorization and not set in any given style. Rather, he adjusts to every situation differently as needs dictate. He studied with another Pritzker Prize winner, Kenzo Tange and started his own firm in 1963. Some of his noted designs are the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Palau Saint Jordi Sporting Arena in Barcelon and the Ark Nova inflatable concert hall created in collaboration with British sculptor Anish Kapoor designed to stage performances throughout the world. The latter was originally made after the Fukushima tsunami disaster to provide portable concert facilities in exceptionally damaged areas. Hawaiian artist Sean Yoro has racked up six million views on instagram with a promotional video of him painting a mural in New Brunswick, Canada from a paddleboat that could be seen whether the tide was coming in or out. “Discover Saint John”, an online magazine devoted to cannabis culture hired the artist to paint the mural. They have also commissioned him to do a new work on the seawall at Market Slip in late July. Performing Arts The Chapel Performance Space has the following – Nonsequitar presents cellist/composer Ha-Yang Kim’s “TERMINALS”. It is a full-length meditative audiovisual work inspired by the peripatetic quality of contempory life. With Hahn Rowe on guitar, violin/viola & electronics, Heather Bentley on viola and video artist Ursula Scherrer. Set for April 27 at 8pm. Chapel Performance Space. 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Go to gscchapel.com or [email protected] for details. “Never Again Is Now: The Art and Activism of Millennial Nikkei” is a free event co-presented by the JACL and DENSHO. Starts at noon on Sunday, April 7 at The Wing. Includes spoken-word poetry, dance, taiko drumming all honoring the legacy of previous generations. The line-up consists of spoken-word poets Kurt Yokoyama Ikeda & Troy Osaki, Canadian photographer Kayla Isomura’s demonstration of The Suitcase Project, the Gabrielle Kazuko Nomura Gainor Dancers, Seattle Kokon Taiko and more. Free but RSVP on Facebook encouraged. The Wing is located at 719 S. King St. in Seattle’s CID. For details contact [email protected] or call 206-295-0998. Shen Yun is a celebration of Chinese culture brought to the stage with dance and music. April 2 – 7 at McCaw Hall. 321 Mercer St. in Seattle Center. “Song of the Earth” is the title of a taiko concert by Yuichi Kimura and Daichi no Kai. The group hails from Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. They will perform a piece in requiem for the Hanshin Earthquake. Sunday, April 14 at 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall at 1625 Broadway Ave. on Capitol Hill on the campus of Seattle Central Community College. Organized by Hyogo Business & Cultural Center. Contact [email protected] for details. Khanh Doan makes her debut at Seattle Repertory Theatre in the role of Emmy Helmer in their production of Lucas Hnah’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2” as directed by Braden Abraham. This play imagines circumstances that force lead character Nora who left her family to return 15 years later. Cast also includes Michael Winters, Pamela Reed and Laura Kenny. Carey Wong is Scenic Designer. Through April 28, 2019. Opening night is March 20. On the Leo K. Stage. Seattle Rep is at Seattle Center on the corner of Second Ave. and Mercer St. 206-443-2222 or go to SeattleRep.org. Mi Kang makes her ArtsWest debut playing the role of Jenny in the play, “JOHN” by Annie Baker as directed by Erin Murray. Also stars Marianne Owen, Suzy Hunt and Sean Lally. The shadow of infidelity hangs over a young couple struggling to rebuild their relationship while at a weekend bed & breakfast. Ghosts haunt the living. Through April 7, 2019. Th. – Sat. at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm. 4711 California Ave, SW. 206-938-0339. Seattle playwright Heidi Park grew up as the only person of color in a white adoptive family and she always felt like a black sheep. Now she shares her experiences with us, the audience in her play entitled “Black Sheep” starring Aimee Decker and Anna Saephan. Directed by Mario Gomez. Performances Th. – Sat. from May 2 – 4 at 7:30pm and performance space. 1406 – 18 th Ave. 206-937-6499 for more information. Gerlich Theater/The Meany Center For The Performing Arts – Looking forward to the 2018/2019 season, look out for the following. Time for Three is a ground breaking string trio that transcends tradition as well by mixing elements of pop and rock into their classical foundation. They perform on April 18, 2019. Yekwon Sunwoo won the Gold Medal at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He makes his Seattle debut in a program of Schumann, Liszt, Beethoven and Schubert. One performance only on Sat., May 4, 2019 at 7:30pm. The Alexander String Quartet with Joyce Yang on piano explore the music of Mozart together on Wed., May 22 at 7:30pm. You can order online at meanycenter.org or call 206-543-4880 or visit the ticket office at 41st Street between University Way NE & Brooklyn Ave. NE. Tickets available via FAX too at 206-685-4141. “Music of Today: International Experimental Music Ensemble” features UW the faculty improv band known as Indigo Mist (includes Cuong Vu on trumpet) in a program of original material with special guests Ngo Tra My on dan bau and Joe Zwananengburg on flutes On Friday, May 10 at 7:30pm. The Gerlich Theater/Meany Center for the Performing Arts.4040 George Washington Lane NE on the west edge of the UW Seattle campus. The Horse In Motion is an innovative Seattle experimental theatre group whose mission “is to engage our audience in new experiences that expand and reshape how we interact with art, our community and the world.” They are known for making each space a total environment into which the audience can feel immersion into the theme of the play. From May 17 – June 3, 2019 they will present “The Arsonists” by Max Frisch as directed by Bobbin Ramsey. Amber Tanaka is in the cast. This fiery absurdist political parable that is guaranteed to put everyone in the hot seat will be staged at Gallery Endo in Pioneer Square where the great Seattle fire raged over a century ago. It poses uncomforatable questions about the clashes of capitalism, morality and political discourse. For tickets and information, go to www.thehorseinmotion.org. The UW School of Music presents IMPFEST XI, the Eleventh Improvised Music Project Festival with guest artists Lucia Pulido on voice and cuatro (May 24) and Stomu Takeishi on bass (May 25). Meany Studio Theatre. May 24 & 25. 206-543-4880 or go to www.music.washington.edu. Future Seattle Opera productions include the following – “Rigoletto – The Cost of Corruption” August 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 23,24, 25 & 28, 2019. Yongzhao Yu makes his Seattle Opera debut as the Duke of Mantua. “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird – The Man Behind A Legend” with music by Daniel Schnyder and libretto by Bridgette A. Wimberly. Plays Feb. 22, 23, 26, 29 AND March 1, 4, 6 & 7, 2020. Kelly Kuo will make his Seattle Opera debut as conductor for the orchestra for this production. Conductor Ludovic Morlot ends his 2018/2019 tenure with the Seattle Symphony with a varied and stimulating series of concerts. Some highlights include the following – Avi Avital is a mandolin virtuoso who leads a group with Jessica Choe on piano through a fresh interpretation of Vivaldi and Telemann on Friday, May 3 at noon & 8pm and Sat., May 4 at 8pm. A Family Concert Series program entitled “Carnival Of The Animals” takes place on Sat. May 4 at 11am , 2018 with Pablo Rus Broseta conducting and Hannah Song on violin, Kristy Park on cello, Jessica Choe on piano and Elizabeth Morgan on piano. A Brahms Concerto Festival 1 takes place on Thursday, May 9 at 7:30pm featuring Zee Zee on piano. All concerts at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. Go to seattlesymphony.org for details. “Beyond Ideas” is the title of ArtsWest’s 2018-2019 season. Some highlights include Julia Cho’s “Office Hour” May 2 – May 26, 2019 and Justin Huertas’s musical, “The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion” June 20 – July 28, 2019. Learn more details about the entire new season at artswest.org. ArtsWest is located in West Seattle at 4711 California Ave. SW. UW theatre graduate Mikko Juan spent the fall touring Eastern Washington in Seattle Children’s Theatre production of Ramon Esquivel’s “Between and Below”. Now he returns to Seattle in the lead role in “Urinetown: The Musical”, a joint production of 5 th Avenue Theatre and ACT as directed by Bill Berry. Set for The Falls Theatre from April 6 – May 26, 2019 at ACT downtown. 700 Union St. The “Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour” with vocalist Ceceile McLorin Salvant headlining makes a stop in Seattle on April 7, 2019 at the Moore with a top roster of diverse, international talent including Yasushi Nakamura on bass. 206-467-5510. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s “Devi” is a new drama/dance piece adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya on stage from April 19 – May 11 at ACTLab. It tells the tale of a poor teenager who becomes a powerful leader against British colonial rule in the 1800’s. Another collaboration between Pratidhwani and ACTLab with eight Indian dance forms and a large cast. Go to acttheatre.org/devi for details. Canadian playwright Ins Choi’s award-winning family comedy “Kim’s Convenience” (CBS television adaption was recently added to Netflix) comes to Taproot Theatre’s 2019 season titled “Family Ties”. On Stage May 15 – June 22, 2019 as co-directed by Scott Nolte and David Hsieh. A Korean Canadian family learns to live with their own faults, get along and forge ahead in this heartwarming comedy about the foibles and blessings of family. Go to taproottheatre.org for tickets. 204 N. 85 th St, in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. 206-781-9705. Indian composer Reena Esmail presents compositions merging Western techniques with traditional Hindustani instrumentation and musical themes. She brings a newly commissioned piano trio composition with Piano Ki Avaaz – Joshua Roman, David Fung and Kristin Lee. May 21, 2019 at 7:30pm. At Town Hall Seattle. 1119 Eighth Ave. Doors open at 6:30pm. Closing Café Nordo’s 10 th Season of supper-club musicals is “7 th & Jackson” written by the multi-talented Sara Porkalob and set for July, 2019. Three Seattle friends haunt the speakeasys listening to jazz before WW II and share a dream to open a night club of their own. When the bombing of Pearl Harbor and rising WWII tensions tear apart homes, the friends separate but never lose sight of their dreams. Café Nordo is at 109 South Main. Go to www.cafenordo.com to find out more about their new season and how you can get tickets. Edmonds Center for the Arts has the following set for 2019. Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar performs on April 24, 2019 at 7:30pm. 410 Fourth Ave. N. 425-275-9595. Broadway Center for the Performing Arts in Tacoma presents the following events at various venues. Their info # is 253-591-5894. Broadway Center presents sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar on Sun., April 28, 2019 at 7:30pm. Some of the upcoming concerts Earshot Jazz is planning for 2019 include the Japanese pianist/composer/multi-instrumentalist Satoko Fujii & her Trio and New York-based guitarist/composer Miles Okazaki and his group “Trickster”. Okazaki grew up in Port Townsend. Miles Okazaki Trickster which features Matt Mitchell, Anthony Tidd & Sean Rickman will perform on April 13, 2019. Satoko Fujii Trio with Natsuki Tamura and Alister Spence will perform on May 7, 2019. For more information on future concerts, go to earshot.org for details. Sakura-Con returns to Seattle’s Washington Convention Center April 19 – 21 where all fans of anime come to play. This member-only festival is a must for fans of anime, manga and cosplay. Presented by the Asia Northwest Cultural Education Association. 705 Pike St. Go to sakuracon.org for details. UW’s Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert this year features Heri Purwanto – Javanese Gamelan Music & Dance as performed by Puwanto and students. Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30pm. Gerlich Theater/Meany Center for the Performing Arts. On the west edge of the UW Seattle campus just off Red Square. 206-543-4880 or [email protected] Seattle center and its Armory building continue to be the focus of cultural celebrations all year around with most of the events being free and family friendly. April 6 – 12, 2019 brings the annual Northwest Folklife Festival again. This year’s theme is “Movin’ Around the World: Spring” with a focus on youth. Catch music, dance and hands-on activitires from world cultures. 11am – 2”30pm. Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival comes to Seattle Center April 26 – 28 with this annual celebration of Japanese culture in the form of live performances, demonstrations, kids activities, food booths and art shows. May 5 from 11:45pm – 5pm, celebrate Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with lion dances, drill teams, drumming, martial arts and performances. May 18 brings “A Glimpse of China” showcasing Chinese cultural traditions with live performances, arts activities and food. June 1 and 2 brings the annual Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival. With workshops, exhibits, performances and demonstrations all celebrating Filipino culture and the 120 th anniversary of Philippine independence. Lauren Yee’s “Cambodian Rock Band” with songs by Dengue Fever as directed by Chay Yew will be performed March 6 – Oct. 27, 2019 at the Thomas Theatre as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This musical play tells the story of a young woman trying to piece together her family history thirty years after her father fled Cambodia. 15 South Pioneer St. in Ashland, Oregon. 1-800-219-8161. Tasveer and The Gardner Center present the South Asian women’s ensemble known as Yoni Ki Baat presenting their latest take on Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” on April 12 (7 – 9pm), April 13 (7 – 9pm) and April 14, 2019 (2 – 4pm) at Seattle Art Museum’s auditorium. Part of their 13 th annual Aaina Festival. 1300 First Ave. 206-654-3210. On the Boards has announced twelve artists/companies selected for the 2019 NW New Works Festival set for June 12 – 16, 2019. Among the names are Dakota Camacho, a rapper/hip hop dancer/performance artist, choreographer/dancer Imana Gunawan, flautist/taiko player Leanna Keith and dancer/choreographer Naomi Macalalad Bragin. Congratulations to all! First Voice & J-Town Task Force in San Francisco present a series of concerts that address the past, the present, the future and infinity with “J-Town Culture Bearers”. Masaru Koga and Friends perform on April 13, 2019 at 3:30pm at JCCCNC at 1840 Sutter St. This acclaimed flautist/saxophonist/composer leads a group through compositions from “Hanabi”, his newly released recording. On Sat., April 13 at 8:30pm at the J Town East Mall – Suite 501, catch award-winning jazz drummer/composer Akira Tana & Otonowa in a concert entitled “Pacific Bridge”. Since 2011, the drummer has led musical pilgrimages to Japan in the tsunami-stricken area, building musical bridges between Japan and the U.S. Composer/bassist Mark Izu performs a program with his group entitled “Memories, Movies & Music” on Sunday, April 14 at 3:30pm in the J Town East Mall – Suite 501. They perform live to rarely seen Japanese American home movies from the 1930s. Finally on Sat., April 20 at 4pm at JCCCNC, catch SFBATCO performing “Hapa Voices” with director Jamie Youen-Shore and composer Othello Jefferson. See singers, dancers, musicians from the SFBATCO collective perform excerpts from their popular, sold-out run of the musical, “I, Too, Sing America”. All events are free but you must RSVP at www.firstvoice.org . For more information, go to [email protected] Stephanie Hsu has the lead role of Christine in a musical of teenage geeks in love entitled “Be More Chill.” After a sold-out downtown run, it has just opened on Broadway. Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout has cited on his blog that it’s one of the strongest new musicals of the past decade and compares it to “Hamilton’ for its vibrant contemporary pop-music style. Retired tech financier Mandle Cheung never lost his love for classical music even when he founded his own tech company and went to work to support his family. When he retired in 2016 he connected with classical musicians in Toronto’s Korean community and set about assembling a classical orchestra with the assistance of orchestra manager Sharon Lee. Now at age 70, he indulges himself conducting the Mandle Philharmonic. Excerpted from Ludwing van Toronto online newsletter. Go to Ludwig-van.com for complete details. Film & Media “Japanese Currents – An Annual Survey of Contemporary Japanese Cinema” takes place April 5 – 14, 2019 in Portland presented by the Northwest Film Center. This 17 th annual series looks at recent, noteworthy Japanese films ranging from anime to documentary to comedy, sci-fi and drama. April 5 is Akiko Ohku’s “Tremble All You Want”. April 6 is Kazuo Hara’s Sennan Asbestos Disaster”. April 6 also brings Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai”. Also on April 6 is “Cure” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. April 7 brings “Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” by Shuichi Okita. April 12 is “We Make Antiques” by Masaharu Take. April 13 is “Complicity” by Keichi Kaura. April 13 is “Night is Short, Walk On Girl” by Masaaki Yuasa. April 13 also brings “The Kamagasaki Cauldron War” by Leo Sato. April 14 is “Forgotten Planets” by Takayuki Fukata. All screenings at Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium at 1219 SW Park Ave. 503-221-1156 or email [email protected] . Seattle’s Cinerama presents their second annual “Anime Film Series” from April 19 – 25, 2019. 2100 4 th Ave. April 19 brings “Spirited Away” and “Akira”. April 20 screens “The Red Turle”, “Princess Mononoke”, “Country Bebop: The Movie” and “Ghost in the Shell”. April 21 is “Grave of the Fireflies”, “My Neighbor Totoro”, “Paprika” and “Kiki’s Delivery Service”. April 22 is “Wolf Children”, “Tokyo Godfathers” and “Castle in the Sky”. April 23 is “Redline” and “Your Name”. April 24 is “Summer Wars”, “The Wind Rises” and Mind Game”. Go to cinermama.com for tickets and email [email protected] for information. Grand Illusion Cinema presents Hiroyasu Ishida’s anime feature-length film “Penguin Highway”. It tells the story of a budding Japanese kid genius who already lives his life like a scientist. When penguins start appearing in his suburban town miles away from any sea, he tries to solve the mystery with the help of a kind dental assistant. April 19 – 25. 1403 NE 50 th in Seattle’s University District. 206-523-3935. April 10 – 12 brings the return of a classic King Hu Film entitled “The Fate of Lee Khan” in which a band of women warriors hunt down a corrupt Mongol Court official who’s stolen a secret map. “Ramen Shop” by Eric Khoo follows a young chef’s search for ancestral roots and the perfect bowl of ramen from a long forgotten recipe. Screens April 19 – 25. “Hotel by the River” is another shaggy dog story by Hong Sangsoo about an aging director trying to make peace with his sons when he encounters a mysterious pair of sisters by a river. Screens April 26, 27 & 28. Northwest Film Forum at 1515 – 12 th Ave. 206-329-2629. Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival presents 4 days of films directed by women from April 11 – 14, 2019 at Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, WA. The honored guest this year will be Freida Lee Mock, director of “Maya Lin: A Clear, Strong Vision”, “Anita” and the forthcoming “RUTH: Justice Bader Ginsberg in Her Own Words”. For details, go to cascadiafilmfest.org. GKIDS and Fanthom Events bring Kitaro Kosaka’s “Okko’s Inn” to the U.S. Kosaka is the famed anime Studio Madhouse director and worked on numerous classic Studio Ghibli films. The story revolves around an orphaned young girl who goes to live in the countryside with her grandmother who runs an inn with an onsen near a waterfall. She eventually becomes the inn’s next caretaker and comes to know the inn’s friendly spirits that only she can see. A string of new guests will put the inn’s motto “to welcome all and reject none” to the test. The English dubbed version screens on Mon., April 22 at 7pm. The Japanese version screens on Tues., April 23 at 7pm. Go to www.FanthomEvents.com or www.Okkosinn.com for local participating theatres and their box offices. SIFF Uptown has the following – “Ash is Purest White”, the latest film by Jia Zhangke looks at how the individual is caught within the societal pressures of a constantly changing China. When a triad gangster is threatened, his girlfriend takes action setting in motion a domino-fall of change that alters their relationship forever. Screens April 5 – 11, 2019. Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s latest experimental drama entitled “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” about a man searching for the woman he loves. Opens for an extended run on Friday, April 12, 2019. 511 Queen Anne N. 206-324-9996 or go to http://siff.net . Advance news of the annual Seattle International Film Festival set from May 16 – June 9, 2019 brings news of these Asian films that are included. “House of Hummingbird” by Kim Bo-Ra from South Korea is the story of a shy 14 year old girl who struggles with social pressure, her budding sexuality and indifferent family in the summer of 1994 when a sympathetic teacher steps in to help. “3 Faces” is a mock documentary by Jafar Panahi from India. The film stars the film director and a TV star who go on a road trip to save the life of an aspiring actress. Go to siff.net for details. BIA’s “Momentum” Series presents the SmARTfilms: Best of Port Townsend Film Festival. Screening on April 9, 2019 at 7:30pm is “Yellow is Forbidden” by Pietra Brett Kelly which is a portrait of Guo Pei, Chinese fashion designer and looks at contemporary global power dynamics and the opposition between art and commerce. $10 – $12. Screening April 16, 2019 at 7:30pm is “Ballets Russes” by Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine. From 1909 to 1929, the Ballet Russes traveled the globe, becoming one of the most famous ballet troupes in the world led by impresario Sergei Diaghilev. A 2000 reunion of surviving members is used to re-visit the troupe’s history. Sono Osato, Japanese American dancer was part of this famed dance company. $10 – $12. All screenings in the Museum’s Frank Buxton Auditorium. Bainbridge Art Museum at 550 Winslow Way E. on Bainbridge Island, WA. 206-842-4451 or try [email protected] Set for major studio release on May 17, 2019 is “The Sun is Also a Star”, an adaptation of Nicole Yoon’s bestselling young adult novel about a Jamaican teenager who falls in love with a Korean American man just as her family is about to be deported. Stars Charles Melton and Yara Shahidi in the lead roles. Directed by Ry Russo-Young. “All is Well” is a provincial TV show that premiered in China in March and has been streamed endlessly. The story is of a fictional family and the daughter who can barely talk to her widowed father and one of her brothers. The father is a cranky nuisance who expects his sons to pay for his excessive, lavish tastes. The sons resent this but don’t want to be called “unfilial” and thus argue incessantly. Since the show opens up the issue of devout attachment to traditional values, viewers caught in the same situation are binge watching to see how this family drama plays out. The Written & Spoken Arts Seattle Public Library’s “2019 Seattle Reads” event which takes place in April has selected the graphic memoir by Thi Bui entitled “The Best We Could Do” which details the experience of Vietnamese immigrants settling in a new land. Thi Bui will be in Seattle April 13 – 16, 2019. She visits the Central Library on April 13 at 7:30pm, the Northgate Community Center on April 14 at 1:30pm, the Centilla Cultural Center on April 14 at 7pm, the Greenwood Branch of Seattle Public Library on April 15 at 7pm, Asian Counseling and Referral Service on April 16 at 6:30pm and Reading Groups with the Vietnamese Friendship Association on April 10 at 6:30pm at the Columbia Branch of Seattle Public Libray and Northwest African American Museum on April 7 at 6pm. There will be book group discussions about the book all over the city at Seattle Public Library branches as well. For more details, go to www.spl.org/seattlereads . UWALUM.COM/GOLECTUES present their Spring 2019 series of lectures from various departments on the Seattle campus. A sampling include the following – The Graduate School presents a forum entitled “Memory & Place” on April 3 at 7:30pm in Kane Hall 130. Priya Frank moderates a discussion with artists Morehshin Allahyari , Trinh Mai and Sara Zewde (whose work is in a group show) about art, memory and how we pay homage to places that hold value in our hearts and minds. The Department of Applied Mathematics in their Distinguished Boeing Colloquia Series has Kavita Ramanan from Brown University address the topic of “A Bird’s Eye View of Stochastic Networks: From Local Balancing to Biochemical Reactions” on May 9 at 4pm at Smith Hall 205. Asian Languages And Literature presents tow lectures on Japan. On April 16 at 7pm in Kane Hall 210, Ross Henderson, PhD student in Japanese Literature addresses the topic of “A Fist Full of Incense: Basara and the Medieval Origins of Japanese Maximalism”. On May 21 at 6:30pm in Kane Hall 225, John Treat, Professor Emeritus from Yale University talks about “Yi In-jiks ‘The Widow’s Dream’ and the Origin of Modern Korean Literature in Japan”. All lectures are free. Register now at uwalum.com/golectures or call 206-543-0540. Open Books has the following events – Filipino American poet Rick Barot reads with Portland poet David Biespiel on April 13 at 7pm. Barot is poetry editor of NER and Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. His newest book “The Galleons” is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2020. 2414 N. 45 th St. 206-633-0811 or [email protected] Seattle fiction writer Richard Chiem will read from his new novel entitled “King of Joy” (Soft Skull) on April 9, 2019 at 7pm at King’s Books in Tacoma,WA. 218 St. Helens Ave. 253-272-8801. The University Book Store in the University District has the following events – Local writer E. Lily Yu joins Nisi Shawl and Alberto Yanez in a reading from an anthology entitled “New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color” (Solaris) that was edited by Shawl. April 18 at 6pm. S.K. Ali, a Toronto-based young adult Muslim author talks with G. Willow Wilson and Somaiya Daud about her new young adult novel “Love From A to Z” on April 27 at 6pm. This book is a love story between troubled mixed-race Muslim teenagers who have secrets to hide but find an understanding through their new-found relationship. Elliott Bay Book Company continues to sponsor readings in their Capitol Hill bookstore as well as co-producing events all over the city. Below you will find a partial listing of some of their events. Events are at the bookstore located at 1521 Tenth Ave. unless otherwise noted. On Wed., April 3 at 7pm, Soniah Kamala comes to the store with her delightful take on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. Entitled “Unmarriageable” (Ballantine), the book moves Austen’s novel to a Pakistani setting. She will talk about the novel with local Seattle University Professor and Examiner contributor Nalini Iyer. On April 6, 2019, the Gardner Center presents Saturday University with the University of Toronto’s Shiho Satsuka talking about “The Charisma of Wild Mushrooms: Matsutake and the Forest Revitalization Movements in Japan” at 10am at Seattle Art Museum. On April 20, 2019, the Gardner Center’s Saturday University presents the University of Indiana’s Pedreo Machado talking about “Eucalyptus and Empire” at 10 am at Seattle Art Museum. On April 27, 2019, the Gardner Center’s Saturday University has the University of Michigan’s Erik Mueggler speaking about “The Golden Mountain Gate: Text and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China” at 10 am at Seattle Art Museum. Translator Mui Poopoksakui will talk about translating Duanwad Pimwana’s “Bright” (Two Lines Press), the first ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. The story is of a boy deserted by his father and then raised and adopted by the community. Co-presented by Seattle Art Museum. The event takes place on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 7pm in the SAM lecture hall. 1300 First Ave. downtown. Science author Michio Kaku addresses the topic, “Our Future Beyond Earth” on Wed., April 10 at 7:30pm. Seattle First Baptist Church at 1111 Harvard Ave. Presented by Town Hall Seattle. 206-652-4255 or [email protected] Hugo House, that venerated Northwest center for writers and poets re-opens in brand-new digs with expanded space but in the same location. Catch their readings and celebrate their new space. “I think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean: A Reading with Shayla Lawson and Jane Wong” takes place on April 18, 2019 at 7pm. Free. 2019 dates for “Word Works: Writers on Writing” will feature craft talks by Andre Dubus III on March 9, 2019, Min Jin Lee on May 2, 2019 and Steve Almond on May 21, 2019. Lee, who wrote the novel “Pachinko”, a powerful family saga of Koreans living in Japan will speak to the way in which our faith in the world and in our writing can open our work to new horizons. Writers Arlene Naganawa and J.P. Kemick help students explore the urban environment as writers. August 5 – 9, 2019 for grades 6 – 8 as part of the Scribes Summer Writing Camps For Teens in one and two week sessions available between July 8 – August 16, 2019 at Hugo House. Email [email protected] or call 206-322-7030 if you are interested in this class. Also with the opening of the new Hugo House, the writing center rolls out a new series of classes/workshops with a varied number of subjects taught by a talented group of writers like Nisi Shawl, Sonora Jha, R. O. Kwon, Anne Liu Kellor, Michelle Penaloza, Richard Chiem, Diana Xin, Anglela Garbes, Lora Shinn, Aimee Bhausar and Shankar Narayan. 1634 – 11 th Ave. 206-453-1937. Go to hugohouse.org to find out more. Seattle Arts & Lectures returns with their always stimulating series of writers, poets and a new journalism series. As part of the Poetry Series, acclaimed poet Kimiko Hahn will come April 25, 2019 for a program entitled “Poems For The Planet” which will include her, Nicaraguan American poet Francisco Aragon and a group of friends. It’s a celebration of both Earth Day & National Poetry Month with eco-poetics as a mode of creative resistance. Co-sponsored by Copper Canyon Press who will be releasing the anthology “Here: Poems for the Planet” which includes work by some of these poets. 7:30pm at Seattle Central Community College’s Broadway Performance Hall. Call for more information at 206-621-22. Bellevue-based science fiction writer Ted Chiang is best known for the film “Arrival” based on his short story entitled “Story of Your Life” and his writing in that genre has won every major literary award in his category. Now a collection of his stories, both classic and new entitled “Exhalation”. He will read from that collection at this Literary Luncheon sponsored by Third Place Books in Ravenna at 1pm on Thurs., May 30. Penguin Classics have inducted four Asian American authors to their series and each title will be supplemented with introductions and forewords by some of the most influential Asian Americans writing today. Titles will be on sale starting May 21, 2019. They include – “The Hanging On Union Square” by H. T. Tsiang with an introduction by Hua Hsu and Edited with an afterword/notes by Floyd Cheung. “East Goes West” by Younghill Kang with a foreword by Alexander Chee and afterword/notes by Sunyoung Lee, “No-No Boy” by John Okada with an introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita and “America Is In The Heart” by Carlos Bulosan with a foreword by Elaine Castillo and an introduction by E. San Juan, Jr. The winners for The Association For Asian American Studies 2019 Book Awards have been announced. “The Love Robot” (The Operating System) by Margaret Rhee for Creative Writing (Poetry), “Letters to Memory” (Coffee House Press) by Karen Tei Yamashita for Creative Writing (Prose), “Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (University of North Carolina Press) by Julian Lim for History, “Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color” (University of Minnesota Press) by Crystal Parikh for Humanities & Cultural Studies (Literature), “Chinatown Opera Theater in North America” (University of Illinois Press) by Nancy Yunhwa Rao for Humanities & Cultural Studies (Media & Performance Studies) and “Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity” (Duke University Press) by Eric J. Pido for Social Science. Winners will be honored at the AAAS Awards Reception at Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin on Sat., April 27, 2019. Jamie Ford’s popular best-selling novel “Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” has already been adapted to the stage locally by Book-It Repertory and is moving slowly towards a movie but a musical version of the book may be coming as well. Seattle native and composer/lyricist Paul Fujimoto (now based in New York) has teamed up with Broadway veteran Lainie Sakakura (writing, acting, choreography) to secure the rights for the novel’s musical adaptation. They are presently talking to 5 th Avenue Theatre about a possible collaboration. Ford himself recently wrote a new short story solely about the character Keiko now included in the anniversary reissue version of the book. Below is a partial list of new books by or about Asian Americans and new titles on Asia. If you are interested in reviewing any of them, please let us know – “Bright” (Two Lines Press) by Duanwad Pimwana as translated by Mui Poopoksakal received an Honorable Mention for the Global Humanities Translation Prize. An authentic look at a working-class community in Thailand and the first-ever novel by a Thai woman writer to appear in English. “Hour of Excavation” by Hiroki Tsukuda is an exhibition catalog published by Galerie Gisela Capitain. His work has a collage-like architectural intensity born of childhood memories. “You Are Never Alone” (Owl Kids) by Elin Kelsey and art by Soyeon Kim. This collaborative team tackles the overwhelming topics of global warming and environmental distress in a gentle and positive way for kids. “Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix” (The sequel to “Forest of a Thousand Lanterns” (Philomel) by Julie C. Dao. This Vietnamese American author concludes her fantasy story of an Asian princess who must dethrone an evil empress to save herself, her friends and the kingdom. Hwang Sok-Yong is one of South Korea’s most well-known authors. In 1993 he took a trip to the North to promote exchange between the two Koreas. For that, he was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was pardoned in 1998 by a new president. His work has received Korea’s highest literary prizes. Now Scribe, a publisher in Australia has published three of his novels all translated by Sora Kim-Russell. “Familiar Things” (Scribe) tells the story of a family exiled to an island that serves as a landfill joined by a community of exiles, outlaws and people driven from the city by poverty. “At Dusk” (Scribe) looks at a successful architect from a poor neighborhood who achieves success only to be investigated for corruption. It looks at the world he left behind and what he gave up to move ahead. “Princess Bari” (Scribe) re-purposes a Korean myth about an abandoned princess traveling to the ends of the earth into a modern fable of a North Korean girl who escapes and tries to make a life in London. The author shows us a bewildering mix of cultures, religions and languages against the haunting backdrop of the modern world. “Territory of Light” (Farrar Straus & Giroux) by Yuko Tsushima as translated by Geraldine Harcourt tells the story of a young woman left by her husband who struggles to start a new life in Tokyo with her two-year old daughter. In the months to come, she must confront what she lost and what she has become. “Solo – A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One” (Knopf) by Anita Lo. This acclaimed chef shows you how to yourself by preparing delicious, accessible food to keep your singled life empowered and on track. “My Cat Looks Like My Dad” (Owl Kids) by Thao Lam. This Canadian author/illustrator brings us a witty and uplifting picture book story that speaks to families of all varieties about how family is really what you make it. “King of Joy” (Soft Skull) by Seattle writer Richard Chiem is his first novel after his acclaimed book of short stories. It is an imaginative meditation on emotional survival, isolation and the beauty and limitations of human connection. “When I Found Grandma” (Groundwood) by Saumiya Balasubramaniam and illustrated by Qin Leng. This is a charming look at how a grandchild and grandparent navigate cross-cultural differences and find the bond of love. “Privileged Minorities – Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India” (UW) by Sonja Thomas. This is a study of Syrian Christian women and how this community illuminates larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization and religion and secularism in India. “The Story of Lee – Vol. 3” (NBM) by Sean Michael Wilson & Pirarelle. The conclusion of this graphic novel of a girl recently transplanted from her native Hong Kong to life in Edinburgh, Scotland. In “Island of Sea Women” (Scribner), Lisa See switches her subject from Chinese American history towards examining the relationship between two Korean women pearl divers on Jeju Island through the troubled years of a nation at war and under colonial rule. “On Haiku” (New Directions) by Hiroaki Sato. In a series of essays, noted Japanese translator of that country’s poetry into English zeros in on the many styles and genres of haiku poetry generously supported by his translated examples. “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls – A Memoir” (Bloomsbury) by T. Kira Madden tells her story as the only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol abuse and her own search for identity as a queer biracial teenager in Boca Riton, Florida. Madden appears at Elliott Bay Book Company in conversation with Kimberly King on March 24 at 3pm. “The Plotters” (Doubleday) by Un-Su Kim is a thriller that takes us behind the scenes of political intrigue in South Korea told through the eyes of a jaded for-hire assassin who moves through corridors of power and alleys filled with corruption. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell. Noted fiction writer Yiyun Li returns with “Where Reasons End” (Random House) where the writer imagines a conversation between a mother and her child lost to suicide in a timeless world, the space between life and death. “Arid Dreams – Stories” (Feminist Press) by Duanwad Pimwana as translated by Mui Poopoksakul (due out in April 2019) renders her home country in all its complexity as her characters brimming with desire and disenchantment come alive in these pages. One of the first books by a Thai woman to be published in English internationally. “This Fish is Fowl – Essays of Being” (Nebraska) by Xu Xi. Part of the American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff. A range of essays from a writer whose origins stretch across Indonesian/Chinese/American/Hong Kong. Her pieces concern “Dreamers” in the U.S. and Hong Kong after the Occupy Movement and many other topics all dancing around the question of what it means to “belong” in this world. “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans” (Duke) by David L. Eng & Shinhee Han. A critic and psychotherapist use case histories to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Gen X to Gen Y. “Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 193 – 2003” (MIT) is an autobiography in pictures of one of China’s most celebrated contemporary artists and its most outspoken domestic critic. “Betraying Big Brother – The Feminist Awakening in China” (Verso) by Leta Hong Fincher looks at the feminist movement in China and how it could reconfigure that country and the world. “An American Family – A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice” (Random House) by Khizer Khan. A story of family and faith written with a poet’s sensibility, this Muslim American father tells his timeless immigrant story that led from from Pakistan to America. “Dreamers – How Young Indians Are Changing the World” (Harvard) by Snigdha Poonan. More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five. The author traveled through the small towns of Northern India to investigate the phenomenon that is India’s Generation Y. “Invocation of Beauty – The Life And Photography of Soichi Sunami” (Cascadia Museum of Art) by David F. Martin. This is the catalog for a recent exhibition on this early Seattle Camera Club member who went on to become the staff photographer at the Museum of Modern Art and a pioneer photographer of early American dance. “The Village By The Sea” (NYR Books) by Anita Desai is a classic survival story of teenagers living in both village and city and how their bond pulls them through difficult times. “Doing Justice – A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and The Rule of Law” (Knopf) by Preet Bharara. After a long career as a prosecutor, the author lays out a path toward reaching truth and justice in our everyday lives using by example captivating tales of true crime. “China Dream” (Counterpoint) by Mia Jian. This novel set for May 2019 release by this Chinese writer-in-exile is a satire that takes the reader through the horrors and absurdities of totalitarian power as it is epitomized today by the current Chinese government. “River of Fire” (New Directions) by Qurratulain Hyder transcreated by the author from her Urdu original. Considered the imost important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. This writer conjures up a country’s memory, forming a rich tapestry of history, human emotions and redefining Indian identity. “The Little Book of Life Hacks: How To Make Your Life Happier, Healthier And More Beautiful” (St. Martin’s) by Yumi Sakugawa. This author, illustrator and comic book artist uses all those skills to craft a book that will guide your personal life from the inside out, step by step. Common sense tips profusely illustrated in a charming comic book style. “Descendant of The Crane” (Albert Whitman) is inspired by a Chinese fantasy and is a novel of a princess whose father is murdered and the things she must do to bring the killer to justice. “The Body Papers – A Memoir” (Restless) by Grace Talusan. Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, this book powerfully explores the author’s experiences with sexual abuse, depression, cancer and life as a Filipino immigrant. “My Old Faithful” (University of Massachusetts) by Yang Huang won the Juniper Prize for fiction. Ten interconnected short stories that move from China to the U.S. during a thirty-year period paint a nuanced portrait of family life affected by social and economical change. Seattle author Lori Tsugawa Whaley’s “The Courage of Samurai: Seven Sword Sharp Principles for Success” was an inspirational on-line bestseller derived from the principles of “bushido”, the Japanese warrior code of behavior in 2016. These principles helped the author recover from major injuries and pain. Now it will be re-released in a new edition with Tuttle Publishing in 2019 sporting a new title and cover. “Zhi Lin – In Search of the Lost History of Chinese migrants and the Transcontinental Railroad” (Tacoma Art Museum) is part of the museum’s Northwest Perspective Series and served as the exhibition catalog. Lin’s art follows and docuents the ghosts of Chinese railroad workers that laid the tracks to untie this country. With essays by Rock Hushka, Shawn Wong and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. “The Shape of a Life – One mathematician’s Search For The Universe’s Human Geometry” (Yale) by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis. An accomplished mathematician chronicles his life as a youngster leading a Hong Kong gang to his introduction to learning and the thrill of humankind’s spirit of discovery. “In A Day’s Work – The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers (The New Press) by Bernice Yeung. The author examines the case of sexual harassment against some of America’s most low-paid women who perform vital jobs that keep our economy intact yet are afforded little protection in the workplace. “Sakura Obsession – The Incredible Story of The Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms” (Knopf) by Naoko Abe. When a British man visits Japan, he falls in love with its cherry trees and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England. When the cherry trees in Japan declined, he brought back cuttings from England and re-ignited the growth of cherry trees in Japan and around the world. “Writing Human Rights – The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color” (Minnesota) by XCrystal Parikh. The author shows how the literature by writers of color have always been preoccupied with human rights and why. “Chinatown Opera Theaer in North America” (Illinois) by Nancy Yunhwa Rao. The author documents a unique magical and theatrical genre in North American history and makes it come alive in a backstage of performers, performances and repertoire. ”My Footprints” (Capstone) by Minnesota poet Bao Phi explores how themes of struggle, perseverance and family encourage the healing powers of a child’s imagination. Powerfully illustrated by Basia Tran. “People Like Us – The New Wave of Candidates Knocking at Democracy’s Door” (The New Press) by Sayu Bhojwan looks at how immigrant Americans are changing the political landscape, promoting reform and providing a voice for our multi-racial country. “The New Silk Roads – The Present And Future of The World” (Knopf) by Peter Fran Kopan. An examination of how China’s commercial and political power is changing the way the world works. “The End of the Moment We Had” (Pushkin) by Toshiki Okada as translated by Sam Malissa. Two short stories look at characters bound by a generational hunger for human connection and reveals an unsettlingly honest voice in contemporary Japanese fiction. “Practical Equality – Forging Justice in a Divided Nation” (Norton) by Robert L. Tsai. Tsai, an expert on constitutional law, looks at great Supreme Court decisions and wrestles with the everyday political challenge of defending the principle of equality under less than ideal circumstances. “You’re Safe With me” (Lantana) by Chitra Soundar and illustrated by Poonam Mistry. A modern fable that reads like a folktale illustrating the importance of motherly love amongst animals in a forest. “The Unpassing” (Farrar Straus & Giroux) by Chia-Chia Lin traces the tragic journey of a Taiwanese immigrant family struggling to make a new home in Alaska. Scheduled for a May 2019 release. “Migrant Returns – Manila, Development, And Transnational Connectivity” (Duke) by Eric J. Pido. The author examines the complicated relationships among the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development and Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland. “Kaya’s Heart Song” (Lantana) by Diwa Tharan Sanders and illustrated by Nerina Canzi. This book is a lesson on mindfulness set in the jungles of Malaysia where a little girl discovers her own song. “Friend of My Youth” (NYR Books) by Amit Chaudhuri looks at the city of Bombay and the nature of identity and the passage of time. “Moth And Wasp, Soil And Ocean – Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming” (Tilbury House Publishers) by Sigrid Schmalzer and illustrated by Melanie Linden Chan. This book tells the story of a pioneering environmentalist in rural China who helped develop sustainable agriculture without pesticides. Bellevue-based writer Ted Chiang is back with another stunning collection of stories entitled “Exhalation” (Knopf), each tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions. It covers a twenty year period with some rare classic work and new stories as well. His work has won every fantasy and Sci-fi award including the Hugo, the Nebula and Locus Awards. In “Internment” (Little Brown), Samira Ahmed fights against Islamophobia and complicit silence in a futuristic novel when all Muslims are herded into internment camps. “Monsters I Have Been” (Alice James) by Kenji C. Liu is a book of poems that uses existing texts and remixes them to investigate the relationship between toxic masculinity and the forms of violence it promotes in society. “Time for Bed, Miyuki” (Princeton Archtectural Press) by Roxane Marie Galliez and illustrated by Seng Sounratanavanh is a picture book story about family, nature and love that serves as a welcome companion to your own children’s bed-time journey. In “Soft Science” (alice James) by Franny Choi, the poet uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer, Asian American femininity. “The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader” (Philippine American Writers And Artists Inc.) edited by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano and Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana. A Collection of a multiplicity of voices from the Philippine diaspora exploring visions we carry for our communities in this historical moment. “Girls of Paper and Fire” (Little Brown) by Natasha Ngan is a richly textured fantasy novel about a lower caste girl who must serve a king but when love intervenes, how far will she go for justice? In “Mitochondria Night” (Coffee House), poet Ed Bock Lee turns his analytical lens to trace paths through time, genealogy & geography and deals with issues of war, generational trauma and colonialism. “Tales of Japan – Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic” (Chronicle) with illustrations by Kotaro Chiba drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio Hearn and Yei Theodora Ozaki, these tales are by turns terrifying, exhilarating and poetic. “Conversations in Maine: A New Edition” (University of Minnesota) by Grace Lee Boggs, JHames Boggs, Lyman Paine and Freddy Paine. After the Detroit Rebellion, two veteran activist couples get together to re-think the fundamentals of activism. An essential text for a new generation of radicals. “You’re Snug With Me” (Lantana) by Chitra Soundar & Poonam Mistry is a lavishly illustrated picture book depicting the beauty of the polar region. “The Gilded Wolves” (Wednesday Books) by Roshani Chokshi is a new young adult series about heist and adventure set in Paris, filled with opulent balls, succulent sights and a brazen group of teens. “Dragon Dancer” (Lantana) by Joyce Chng and illustrated by Jeremy Pailler tells the story of a Chinese festival and what it symbolizes for Chinese communities as told through the eyes of a dragon dancer. “Stone House on Jeju Island – Improvising Life Under A Healing Moon” (Seoul Selection) by Brenda Paik Sunoo. A Korean American woman challenges us to reimagine our definition of “home” as she moves from Southern California to an island off the tip of South Korea and re-examines her own life. “The Paper-Flower Tree-A Tale From Thailand” (Enchanted Lion) by Jacqueline Ayer. What happens when an old peddler visits a small village with a tree of paper flowers? When he leaves a gift of one of the flowers to a little girl, will her life change? “Oculus” (Graywold) by Sally Wen Mao is a book of poems that explore history and the future informed by science, history, the natural world and the character of actress Anna May Wong. “Thirty Minutes Over Oregon – A Japanese Pilot’s WWII Story” (Clarion) by Marc Tyler Nobleman and Illustrated by Melissa Iwai. This picture book based on a true story recounts the incident of a Japanese pilot who bombs the continental U.S. during WWII and comes back 20 years later to apologize. “The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali” (Scholastic) by Sabina Khan. Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents, an American teenager keeps a secret. When discovered, she is sent into exile back to Bangladesh. When and where does she find the courage to take control of her future? “The I Wonder Bookstore” (Chronicle) by Shinsuke Yoshitake. In this charming illustration of the love of books, the author imagines a small bookstore which is a place of magical delight for bibliophiles. “Toddler Hunting And Other Stories” (New Directions) by Taeko Kono as translated by Lucy North. Reflecting off mirrors of fantasy, reality, pain and pleasure, this Japanese writer doesn’t flinch as her detached gaze catches the beauty as well as the grotesque elements of the human condition. “Riding A Donkey Backwards – Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasrudin” (Candlewick) as retold by Sean Taylor & the Khayaal Theatre and illustrated by Shirin Aol. Middle eastern tales of a famous trickster/storyteller beloved all over the Middle East. “Learning To See” (Morrow) by Elise Hooper is a biography told in novel form about photographer Dorothea Lange, the woman who revealed the real America with her searing, uncompromising lens (including documentation of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII). “Gondra’s Treasure” (Clarion) by Linda Sue Park and illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt is a cute picture book about a baby dragon who carries traits of both her parents yet carries her own true personality as well. “Game of Stars” (Scholastic) by Sayantani Dasgupta. A fantasy novel about a teenage girl who journeys to the kingdom beyond to battle her father and discovers what it really means to be a hero. “American Sutra: A Story of Faith And Freedom in the Second World War” (Harvard University) by Duncan Ryuken Williams tells a religious history of Buddhism in Japanese America during the WWII internment experience. “Ghost Work – How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass” (HMH) by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri. An anthropologist and a computer scientist team up to unveil how services delivered by tech companies can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment xand experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. Often underpaid and overworked, the authors show how this work force can create opportunity rather than misery for those who do it. “The Handsome Monk And Other Stories” (Columbia) by Tsering Kondrup as translated by Christopher Peacock. A collection of one of the most critically acclaimed authors in Tibet today. With a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans living within contemporary China. “Too Young To Escape – A Vietnamese Girl Waits to Be Reunited With Her Family” (Pajama Press) by Van Ho and Marsha Forchuk Skyrypuch. A young adult story of a girl left behind in Vietnam who waited to be reunited with her immigrant parents and the experiences she went through. “The Karachi Kitchen – Classic and Contemporary Flavors of Pakistan” (Wise Ink) by Kausar Ahmed beings you a new world of flavor through the culinary arts of a multi-cultural region that sits at the intersection of South Asia. “North Korean Art: Paradoxical Realism” (Seoul Selection) by BG Muhm is the catalog for “Imagined Borders”, an exhibition held at the 2018 Gwangju Biennale. A close-up look at the “Socialist Realism” of North Korean art. “Farmer Falgu Goes Kite Flying” (Karadi Tales) by Chitra Soundar and Kanika Nair is a whimsical tale of a little girl who learns how to fly a kite on a windy day. “The Bear and The Paving Stone” (Pushkin) by Toshiyuki Horie as translated by Geraint Howells. In three stories that probe the unavoidable connections of our past, the author creates a haunting world of dreams and memories where everyone ends up where they began. “Here And Now And Then” (Mira) by Mike Chen. In this fantasy novel, a seasoned operative must live two lives in two different centuries and bridge this monumental divide to make things right in the universe. “Bronze and Sunflower” (Candlewick Books) by Cao Wen Xuan as translated by Helen Wang. When a city girl becomes orphaned, the poorest family in the village takes her in and a traumatized boy and a lonely girl become the best of friends. “Politics of Seeing – Dorothea Lange” (Prestel) is the catalog for a major retrospective of this major 20 th century photographer who used her work as a political tool to effect change. “My Grandma And Me” (Candlewick) by Mina Javaherbin as illustrated by Lindsey Yanbrey. A charming tale of a little girl’s memories of her Iranian grandmother. “Anyone Will Tell You” (Sibling Rivalry) by Wendy Chin-Tanner. This Oregon-based poet and graphic novelist explores and subverts form as an expression of the relationships between gender & identity, parent and child, self & the other, humanity & the environment and earth & the cosmos. “The Banished Immortal – A Life of Li Bai” (Pantheon) by Ha Jin. Novelist/poet Ha Jin looks back at the life of this major Daoist poet of the Tang Dynasty whose uncompromising attitude towards life produced some of the most enduring verses in the world. “Farmer Falgu Goes to the Kumbh Mela” (Karadi Tales) by Chitra Soundar and Kanika Nair. A picture book that exposes kids to a Hindu festival as a village farmer goes to the city to see the event but somehow keeps missing the highlights until…. With vivid artwork enhancing the festive atmosphere. “Hybrida” (Norton) by Tina Chang is an engrossing new collection of poems that confront the complexities of raising a mixed-race child in a post-Trayvon Martin era. Akashic Books celebrates the career of Los Angeles-based writer Nina Revoyr (“Southland”, “Wing Shooters”) by releasing her latest novel “A Student of History” as well as reissuing her 1997 debut novel entitled “The Necessary Hunger”. “A Student of History” examines the toxic ruling-class legacy of prejudice and entitlement in the city of angels. “The Necessary Hunger” is a story about women’s basketball, class, racial identity and friendship. Go to AkashicBooks.com for details. “Long River” (Tin Fish) is a book of poems by Chinese poet Yang Jian. In a country “hellbent” on industrial progress, the words of this poet is the voice of conscience. Translated by Ye Chun, Paul B. Roth & Gillian Parrish. “John Okada – The Life & Rediscovered Work of The Author of No-No Boy” (UW Press) edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung. Through a mosaic of different perspectives, these essays put the flesh back on the bones of this iconic pioneer Asian American writer. “Émigré” (Tin Fish) by Geneve Cho is a defiant reply to this administration’s anti-immigrant stance. In numerous languages, the poet preserves the voice of emigrant history. Fran Manushkin based her character of a Chinese American girl on her great-niece but makes her even more challenging, mischievous and inquisitive. “Katie Woo – Katie Blows Her Top” (Capstone) details her efforts to replicate a live volcano with friends and how the experiments fail until the end. “Katie Woo – Daddy Can’t Dance” (Capstone). In this tale, Katie enlists her dad to participate in a Daddy-Daughter dance contest with funny results. Both books illustrated by Tammie Lyon. “An Indefinite Sentence – A Personal History of Outlawed Love And Sex” (Atria) by Siddharth Dube. The author comes of age in the earliest days of AIDS. This memoir details the fight for rights for gay men and sex workers and how he pushed to decriminalize same-sex relations and sex work in India. “Beijing Payback” (Ecco) by Daniel Nieh is a fast-paced revenge thriller. When his father is murdered, a son discovers his criminal past and returns to Beijing to enact revenge. “Ruth Asawa” (David Zwirner) is a major catalog of an exhibition held at David Zwirner Gallery in New York with essays by Tiffany Bell and Robert Storr on this major American sculptor/educator based in the Bay Area. It covers her drawings, paintings and the noteworthy wire sculptural work as well as her career in children’s art education. “The Twice-Born – Life and Death On The Ganges” (F S & G) by Aatish Taseer. The son of a Sikh journalist and an assassinated Pakistani politician, the author uses his return to the city of Benares as a way to grapple with the questions of identity and belonging. “The Tenth Muse” (Ecco) by Catherine Cheng looks at the life of a female mathematician and a life caught up in stories of legacy, identity and the ways the mind can set us free. “Enemy Child” (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House) by Andrea Warren is the story of a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during WWII and how it shaped his life. A boy who would later become the noted American politician and public servant, Norman Mineta. “Sightlines” (Copper Canyon” is Southwest-based poet Arthur Sze’s 10 th collection. In it, he turns his lens on contemporary reality in all its stunning complexity. “Yugen” (Seven Stories Press) by Mark Reibstein with art by Ed Young is a children’s book told in haiku and pictures about the mystery and beauty of the universe. It captures a boy’s sadness, mindfulness and wonder in evocative text and images. “The Stolen Bicycle” (Text) by Wu Ming-Yi as translated by Darryl Sterk is an intimate portrait of a Taiwanese family, a history of a bicycle and a complex weaving of magical tales and places. When a novelist takes a journey to discover what became of a missing father and a stolen bicycle, worlds open up. “The Nine Cloud Dream” (Penguin Classics) by Kim Man-Jung as translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl is translated for the first time in over forty years. This book is considered to be a masterpiece of Korean literature. It tells the story of a young monk considered a prodigy who goes astray and then embarks on a spiritual journey across Tang Dynasty China. “Nightingale” (Copper Canyon) by Paisley Rekdal is a poetry of transformation. By re-writing myths central to Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” she contemporizes the tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence and fragmentation. ‘Vietnamese Food Any Day” (Ten Speed Press) by Andrea Nguyen. This popular cookbook author shows you how to use easy-to-find ingredients to create true Vietnamese flavors at home – fast. “Coloratura” (Oklahoma) by Li Er as translated by Jeremy Tiang marks the first time this prominent Chinese writer has been available in English. It looks at a mysterious character during the Chinese civil war whose story is told by three narrators and a chorus of witnesses. It this man a hero, a nationalist or communist, a spy, a poet or a scholar or perhaps all of the above? News/Opportunities Mutsuko Soma, owner of the award-winning soba restaurant Kamonegi has acquired a space nearby where she will open a sake bar called Hannyatou. She hopes to also have a facility on site where she can make and house tsukemono pickles, koji, miso an other staples of Japanese cuisine. Go to hannyatou.com for details. Friends of Asian Art Association is an all-volunteer organization that connects its members and the community to educations, cultural and social events tied to Asia and its diverse art forms and culture. Enjoy year-round activities and meet new friends who share similar interests by becoming a member. All are welcome to the activities but members get special discounts and perks. Go to [email protected] for details. 8 Herbs and Spices to Keep in Your Kitchen We’re all acquainted with the phrase ‘Spice it Up’ and how it can be used for multiple reasons and on occasions — here we shall only talk about one, Your Kitchen! In most homes, kitchen is where the heart is at and spicing it up, quite literally, is always a good idea. Spices are, of course a great way to make scrumptious food, but at the same time can be extremely beneficial for your health. Research suggests that spices and herbs have been used to treat multiple ailments for hundreds of years in most parts of the world. Here is our list of 8 spices and herbs that should definitely make way to your kitchen 1. Black Peppercorns The good old salt and pepper combo is a must have for all of our meals. Well at least most of them. The slight pungency in taste and the raw aroma can make any recipe better, especially in case of an emergency. Let’s be honest all of us have last minute kitchen emergencies! Much like most spices and herbs out there, black pepper too, has health benefits. Black Peppercorns help with digestion and also allow for better dental health. Go ahead and stock your kitchen up! 2. Oregano The herb of all dressings! Oregano is one herb that majority of people are familiar with but don’t necessarily have stocked at home. It is one of the most aromatic herbs out there and can make almost everything taste better — instantly! Please notice how we said almost everything since it might not apply to the Italian takeout in your fridge from last week! Jokes apart, Oregano is an absolute essential with the flavor it provides and the antioxidants it has. Antioxidants work in multiple ways to improve our health and are known for being a counter treatment to cancer . Cinnamon is one versatile spice! The taste and texture are as such that it allows being used for sweet as well as savory dishes. I mean imagine the variety that the spice offers you. It can come handy when you are trying to make this recipe by Nonna Box for dessert or when you have to spice up your regular grilled chicken. Ceylon cinnamon, also known as true cinnamon, is known for its medicinal properties . Not only does the spice allow you variety, but it also helps keep your health in check. Scientists have deduced that the spice is good for heart health and helps keep the cardiovascular system healthy. 4. Cilantro/Coriander Known by two different names across the world, Cilantro/Coriander is a fantastic seasoning option to have in your kitchen cabinet. From meat to salsa and even to pasta this herb is a great choice for seasoning. Even though the taste is not very significant the tantalizing savor and scent can change your dining experience. It looks pretty and tastes decent and more importantly — it turns your meal into a high-end experience within seconds. You don’t want to miss out on something as multipurpose as Cilantro. Oh, and it’s wondrous for your health too! 5. Cayenne Pepper This tiny bright red pepper can do wonders for your food as well as your health. Size, in this case definitely doesn’t matter, as it is the basic ingredient in a multitude of sauces and gravies. Cayenne pepper provides just that tinge and a little bit of heat that can turn the dish around and make your taste buds happy! Speaking of its health benefits, cayenne pepper has often been associated with a boost in immunity and isn’t that the core of everything health related? Cayenne pepper, powdered or otherwise, is a great addition to your kitchen directory owing to the amazing properties and its multiple health benefits. The pepper is also used as a treatment for headaches in some parts of the world. 6. Peppermint You can love it or you can hate it but you cannot deny the unique flavor that peppermint can add to your homemade meal! It has one of the most distinct aromas out of all herbs and can be used for several kinds of foods and desserts. Toss that minty lemonade or go for a warm peppermint mocha right in the comfort of your kitchen by adding peppermint to your weekly grocery list. Need we add that it has health benefits too? Well okay if you insist. Peppermint leaves, in the form of tea, have been linked to a decrease in congestion and headaches. We all need that after a hard day at work, don’t we? 7. Garlic Powder It can be a problem to chop garlic to perfection every time it is your turn to cook at home. For ease and convenience, you can always get yourself dehydrated garlic powder that works just as well as the actual thing. For anyone who cooks, it should come as no surprise that garlic is the main ingredient for several major recipes belonging from various parts of the world! Be it something along the lines of an Indian Curry or the Italian Agliata, Garlic is king! Of course, we weren’t going to stop before highlighting the health benefits! Garlic is rather efficient with lowering Cholesterol levels. Get yours now! 8.Basil The Basic Basil! We saved the best herb for the last. It is one of the most common herbs used around the globe owing to its intense flavour and persistent taste. Basil can be used in dishes like lasagne, pies, curries and even salads. What more can you ask for? It is commonly available, fits in with almost every cuisine in the world and does wonders for your inner system! The herb is extremely rich in antioxidants which are known to fight cancer and inflammation . These aren’t just spices and herbs, they are super spices and herbs that make your food and your health better with every passing day! So jot down these essential spices before you head out for your next grocery trip. They will surely up your cooking game and let you boast about your cooking skills among your friends. That’s all from us, share your kitchen essentials with us if we missed them! Views: 7 The Taste of Conquest by Michael Krondl looks appealing, but i haven’t yet read it. Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine is adjacent to the regions you are interested in and could have some good information. A Taste of Thyme is more of an academic writing style, but it has different chapters that examine a facet of Middle Eastern food life that would have good information for you. 660 Curries isn’t a history book, but Iyer goes into great detail discussing spices, and if I’m not mistaken, history and background of particular curries. It’s my go-to reference for Indian cooking as well. How To Make Sun Dried Potato Chips , Aloo Chips Sun Dried Potato Chips , How To Make Aloo Chips April 3, 2019 by anjanaskc 13 Comments Potato Chips- Homemade and delicious! Potato Chips- In my maternal home arrival of summer starts with making sun dried items and pickles. I have so many fond memories of my childhood summer afternoons spent helping my grandmother and mother in making different types of frymes, papad and vadis. They both are experts in making these home made aloo papad and aloo chips .Our big terrace was fully covered with so many muslin sarees on which Aloo papad , sabudana papad and Moong daal vadies are spread to dry in the heat and then in the evening we again go to the terrace to turn the semi dried papads and often while making Aloo Papad the feast begins from the starting, where me and my sisters will start eating the yummy spiced up potato mash while making the papads and then start eating the semi dry papad when we go to turn all the papads in late afternoons . But the love and interest of making papad and vadis is still in me so though there are so many variety easily available in the market but I still love to make my own batch every year.This year my daughter also helped me in making papad, kachri and sun dried potato chips which makes me so happy to see that she has also inherited this interest 🙂 Sun dried Potato chips are made in two patterns ,one is plain sliced and one is with the crisscross pattern . For making the crisscross pattern you need a potato slicer with a serrated blade but you can make the plain one with any potato slicer, mandolin, with a food processor or even with a sharp knife. After slicing, the chips should be washed thrice to remove the starch completely and then blanched in hot water. It is preferred to dry them in direct sunlight but you can also dry them inside a room like I did. Try to choose good quality, fresh, white and starchy potatoes – as the quality of potatoes also effects the quality and colour of the potato chips. I have also posted the recipe of making – Potato Chips from Scratch – Homemade and delicious! Prep Time 20 mins Course: Home made, snacks/starters, Sundried Cuisine: Indian, North Indian Cuisine Author: anjanaskc I/4 tsp Alum Powder / Phitkari 2 Tsp Red Chili Powder To Sprinkle 1 Serrated Potato Slicer/ Mandolin Muslin cloth OR Plastic Sheet Enough Cooking Oil To deep fry Instructions Wash and peel the potato skin (peeling is optional and depends on personal choice) Fill enough water in a large pot and add alum powder in it and mix wel With the the help of potato chips slicer start making chips.For the crisscross pattern you have to use the serrated potato slicer which I have shown in the picture. To make crisscross pattern first you have to put peeled potato on the slicer and then slice a chip by applying slight pressure on it. Then for the next chips slightly twist the potato and make the next slice .So keep twisting the direction of potato after every chips. If you want to make plain chips then you can use any normal potato slicer or a sharp knife. Keep soaking all the potato chips in the water filled bowl in which you have mixed alum for about an hour. When you finished making all the chips then drain the water and wash the chips three times in fresh water so that all excess starch is removed and on your last rinse you will see the water will be clear unlike the prior washes where the water will have milky traces of starch. Boil enough water in a big pan and add some salt (enough to make the water taste salty) and a pinch of alum powder. When water starts to boil add the drained potatoes in it. Keep stirring gently till the water starts boiling again (about 2-3 minutes) Drain the blanched potato chips over a colander to drain all the water. Spread hot chips on a muslin cloth in a single layer,avoid overlapping. They will dry in about 2 days time or depending on the heat in the climate When they become dry and crisp store in a air tight jar and use till they last. How to serve- Heat enough oil in a big,deep and wide pan. When the oil is hot add some sun dried chips and fry on medium heat. Drain on a paper towel to remove the excess oil. Sprinkle a dash of chili powder or chat masala and serve Notes Note- Try to choose big, round,white and even size potatoes to make chips. Alum is added to make chips white in colour as some times potato chips turn slightly black after drying.But don’t add too much else the chip may become red while frying. Peeling potato or not depends on your preference ,but I always peel potatoes before making chips. You can add any spice of your choice on the fried chips, you can add dry mint powder, mango powder, black salt, roasted cumin powder, dry tomato powder, chat masala on fried chips to enhance the flavour. Sliced potatoes should be completely submerged in water to avoid discoloration. Some times sweet variety of potatoes makes the chips red so choose a good variety of potato. Adding salt in the water is optional ,you can also sprinkle salt after deep frying,but I prefer to do this way. Dan’s Taste of Summer Presented by Out East Returns Memorial Day Southampton, NY, April 03, 2019 –( PR.com )– Dan’s Papers Celebrates Its 60th Summer All Year Long. Dan’s Taste of Summer presented by Out East, the Hamptons real estate marketplace, is back for the season, offering incredible culinary events highlighting the best of the Hamptons, the North Fork and New York. Chefs from the North Fork and South Fork as well as Manhattan and across Long Island are gearing up to bring Hamptonites their best dishes while they listen to music, drink local wines, beers and signature cocktails and mingle the night away at some of the most picturesque venues on the East Coast. In its 60th summer, Dan’s Hamptons Media is proud to bring back Dan’s Rosé Soirée, Dan’s Chefs of the North Fork, Dan’s GrillHampton presented by New York Prime Beef, Dan’s Taste of Two Forks, and Dan’s Corona MonTaco. New to the summer event lineup is Dan’s Chefs of the Hamptons, bringing together the premier chefs from the South Fork for a dinner supporting Guild Hall of East Hampton, and Dan’s 60 Summers Gala, celebrating the 60th summer of Dan’s Papers and the release of the book 60 Summers: Celebrating Six Iconic Decades on the East End. Let’s raise many a glass to 60 more summers to come. Tickets for all events are on sale now at DansTasteOfSummer.com. Dan’s Rosé Soirée (Sunday, May 26th, 6:00-8:30 PM/Rosé After Dark VIP After Party presented by Whispering Angel 8:30-10:30 PM) Southampton Arts Center (25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York 11968) Dan’s Taste of Summer presented by Out East presents this annual kickoff to summer in the Hamptons. As the unofficial libation of the season, there will be over 30 different rosé wines from local Hamptons and North Fork wineries, France, Italy, Spain and beyond, including Wölffer Estate Vineyard, Provence Rosé, Whispering Angel, Mirabeau, Montauk Wine Co., Jamesport Vineyards, Clovis Point and more. The event will also feature tastings from top restaurants in the Hamptons and New York City such as Rahi, Kingfish Oyster Bar, Jing Fong, Calissa and Union Cantina. Dance the night away to tunes provided by DJ Ria, and keep the celebration rolling at the official Rosé After Dark VIP After Party, presented by Whispering Angel, featuring live 80s and 90s music provided by The Ronald Reagans, plus exclusive wine pours and food provided by North Fork Chocolate Company and Shock Ice Cream. You won’t want to start your summer anywhere but here. Dan’s Chefs of the Hamptons (Saturday, June 29th, 2019, 7:00-10:00 PM) Topping Rose House (1 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, New York 11932) Taking place at the historic Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton, there is no better setting for Dan’s Hamptons Media’s first ever Chefs of the Hamptons event. This exclusive event is the first time such a lineup of the Hamptons’ most-beloved chefs, including Drew Hiatt & Jean-Georges Vongerichten of Topping Rose House, Joe Realmuto of Nick & Toni’s, Eric Miller of Bay Kitchen Bar, Sam McCleland of Beacon, Jeremy Blutstein of Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina, Courtney Sypher of Sen, Jason Weiner of L&W Market, and Carissa Waechter of Carissa’s Bakery will come together for a one-night-only intimate dining experience. Chefs of the Hamptons will dazzle guests from its cocktail hour through its multi-course pairing dinner. All dishes will use locally sourced ingredients matched with exceptional wines and cocktails. A portion of ticket sales will help support Guild Hall and its vital role in the Hamptons community each year. Dan’s Chefs of the North Fork (Saturday, July 13th, 7:00-10:00 PM) The Halyard at Sound View Greenport (58775 County Road 48, Greenport, New York 11944) Honoring the culinary and wine creators of the North Fork, Dan’s Chefs of the North Fork is taking place at the beautiful Halyard, with its exquisite views of the Long Island Sound. Back for its second year, this premier North Fork culinary event unites these talented chefs for one night only. Participants include Stephan Bogardus of The Halyard, Matty Boudreau of Preston House & Hotel, Brian Wilson of North Fork Table & Inn, Noah Schwartz of Noah’s, Jennilee Morris and Adam Kaufer of Grace & Grit and more. The night starts with a cocktail hour followed by a carefully crafted 5-course pairing dinner and desserts. All dishes will feature locally sourced ingredients paired with wines from the wineries of the North Fork. Dan’s Chefs of the North Fork redefines the farm-to-table and grape-to-glass experience. Dan’s Grill Hampton presented by New York Prime Beef (Saturday, July 19th, VIP 7:00–8:00 PM/GA 8:00-10:30 PM) Fairview Farm at Mecox (18 Horsemill Lane, Bridgehampton, New York 11932) The Hamptons vs. New York City. At the 7th annual Dan’s GrillHampton presented by New York Prime Beef event, eight East End chefs including defending champion Matty Boudreau of Preston House & Hotel, Scott Kampf of Union Burger Bar, Peter Ambrose of Events by Peter Ambrose and Arthur Wolf of Smokin’ Wolf BBQ and eight New York City chefs such as Justin Bazdarich of Speedy Romeo, Mark Rosati of Shake Shack and Matt Abdoo of Pig Beach will go head-to-head in the showdown of the summer. Guests will sample each chef’s dish while enjoying the live music of the Back to the Eighties Show with Jessie’s Girl and sipping on cocktails, wine and beer, then vote on their favorite dish of the night while mingling with celebrity judges such as Adam Richman and Scott Feldman and ultimately choose which team, Hamptons or New York City, will win the overall competition. Dan’s Taste of Two Forks (Saturday, July 20th, 6:30-7:30 PM VIP/7:30-10:00 GA) Dan’s Hampton Media is excited to bring back for its ninth year—Dan’s Taste of Two Forks. Bringing together the best restaurants and wineries from the North Fork and South Fork, Dan’s Taste of Two Forks is the premier food-and-wine celebration of the season. Top chefs from more than 40 restaurants and winemakers from over 15 vineyards will be serving up the best bites and drinks on the East End. Confirmed restaurants include The Frisky Oyster, Mirabelle, North Fork Chocolate Company, Spiro’s, Southampton Social Club and Saaz Indian. DJ Phresh will keep the tunes coming all night long while guests fill themselves to the brim with the best of the best. Dan’s Taste of Two Forks is the most sought-after ticket. Dan’s 60 Summers Gala (Friday, August 2nd, 6:30-9:30 PM/VIP After Party 9:00-11:00 PM) Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina (32 Star Island Road, Montauk, New York 11954) In 1960, Dan Rattiner published his first paper in Montauk, and every year since, Dan’s Papers has been capturing the spirit of the Hamptons. Celebrating its 60th summer—and Dan Rattiner’s 80th birthday—in 2019, Dan’s Papers invites everyone to go back to where it all started. Taking place at Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina, the 60 Summers Gala will showcase food and wine of the Hamptons from restaurants such as Scarpetta, Showfish, Gosman’s and Duryea’s, while toasting to an incredible history and 60 more years to come. Dan’s Corona MonTaco (Saturday, August 3rd, VIP 6:30-7:30 PM/GA 7:30-10:00 PM) It’s an East End fiesta as some of the most celebrated chefs from the Hamptons and New York City spice up the night with their take on Mexican, Spanish and South American cuisine. Now in its third year, this tasting event features fresh culinary takes on such classics as enchiladas, mollete, burritos, tostadas, ceviche and, of course, tacos, plus endless margaritas, cerveza, top-shelf spirits and more, while guests eat, drink and dance the night away on the waterfront in Montauk. About Dan’s Taste of Summer presented by Out East: Dan’s Taste of Summer presented by Out East, produced by Manhattan Media’s Dan’s Hamptons Media, has quickly become the largest epicurean events series on Long Island, hosting upwards of 5,000 food-and-wine lovers annually. Since the first Dan’s Taste of Two Forks in 2011, Dan’s Taste of Summer presented by Out East’s signature events—Rosé Soiree, Taste of Two Forks, GrillHampton and MonTaco—have become can’t-miss nights on the jam-packed Hamptons summer social calendar. Follow @DansTasteOfSummer on Instagram for the latest scoop on Taste of Summer 2019 and use tag #DansTOS when sharing about the events. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit DansTasteOfSummer.com. About Dan’s Hamptons Media: Dan’s Hamptons Media, LLC, is a Hamptons’ leader in media, offering a combination of print, websites, live events and a suite of innovative digital, mobile and social marketing solutions. In addition to its iconic print product, Dan’s Papers—which, as it celebrates its 60th summer, continues to be a well read publication with circulation on the East End—Dan’s Hamptons Media’s portfolio includes: DansPapers.com, a go-to website in the Hamptons and on the North Fork for What to Do, Where to Go, Where to Stay and Where to Play; Behind the Hedges magazine and BehindtheHedges.com, a real estate source in the Hamptons; Dan’s List, a users guide to the best of the best businesses East End; the Dan’s App, a dynamic app updated daily with original content on the East End; and a large Social Media footprint in the Hamptons, with nearly 50,000 followers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For inquiries & to be a part of Dan’s Taste of Summer, contact Steven McKenna at SMcKenna@DansHamptons.com Dan’s Hamptons Media Steven Mckenna danstasteofsummer.com release/781599 Resort Fan Pages – Cancun Here goes my rant of the day….resort fan pages have taken the fun out of travel planning. I love travel planning. Researching and planning are almost as much fun as the trips themselves. I thoroughly enjoy finding out as much as I can. My philosophy on resort reviews is to take the best and worst reviews with a grain of salt and to look for common themes among the rest, both good and bad. Like everyone, I want the most for my money. However, I think resort fan pages have created a sense of entitlement with guests and have created too much hype for special requests and treatment. I realize that social media pages are the property of the page administrator(s). The administrator sets the rules and controls the content. No one is forcing me to be a member. But I still enjoy reading about places I’ve stayed and may return to. That is why I joined the page. Unfortunately, honest commentary on resort experiences is often met by the resort cheerleaders arguing how their experiences were different and discounting someone else’s less positive experience. IMHO, these pages have led to people requesting every single perk possible and then being upset when they received something different. Everyone wants the best room in the best building with the best view with the most privacy. Everyone wants to get that room via a free upgrade. Book what you want and be prepared to pay for it. Why are you booking a huge resort and then expecting privacy? Everyone wants their outdoor space to have privacy where they cannot be seen by others. Just be honest and say, we want to be naked and/or have sex. If you want privacy, book a small resort that offers private patios and plunge pools. If you want to be naked, book a resort that allows such. How is a resort going to accommodate everyone requesting nearly the same things? I believe a resort should reward its frequent customers. If someone has stayed multiple times, I believe they should receive the better room and extra amenities. If you’re a first-timer, as long as you get the room category you booked and paid for, you get what is available. Someone has to get the run-of-the-house rooms. Food is subjective. Generally, you get what you pay for. Even if the resort has better than average food, unless you are at a small resort, the food is mass-produced. Things will not be the same as they are when you are at home. Mexican beef and dairy is not the same as that from the US. Likewise, ethnic cuisines—Thai, Indian, Italian—are not the same at a Mexican resort as they are in their home countries. Just because you didn’t like something, doesn’t mean it’s bad. It means you didn’t like it. I hated a very popular soup at a resort. It didn’t mean the soup was bad, it meant I didn’t care for their recipe and preparation. Don’t complain about things that are clearly easy to research. Ten minutes online will tell you your resort’s dress code, room set up and liquor options. If those things are a deal breaker for you, go elsewhere. The staff are not your friends. Really, they’re not. It’s their job. Higher end resorts train their staff incredibly well to treat you like royalty. If you have been to the resort multiple times, they likely remember you. But unless you have been to their home or they have been to your home (and there are very few people for whom this is the case), they are employees of a place you like to go—nothing more, nothing less. I think it’s unfortunate when resorts reward employees for being mentioned on TripAdvisor or any other site. I’ve received great service from countless employees whose names I will never know. Rant over. I don’t expect this will go over well with some people. I don’t think anyone ever started a resort fan page with bad intentions. The pages are very handy in providing quick answers to questions. I think it’s unfortunate the pages have diverted traffic from other review sites when the pages often encourage unrealistic expectations and proprietary behavior from members. Comments Off on E is for…Estado…n…Europeans indian cuisine, indian food, indian recipes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line71
__label__cc	0.744523	0.255477	The Importance of Girls’ Education 0 In this Better Angels episode focusing on the importance of girls’ education, Sarah Brown talks to an array of inspirational guests including Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Amina Mohammed, former Australian Prime Minister and Chair of the Global Partnership for Education Julia Gillard, young education champions Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz, and co-founder of HOPE for Children Cameroon and Theirworld Global Youth Ambassador Joannes Yimbesalu. Amina Mohammed talks about the the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on the gender and education goals. She highlights the basic right to education that all girls are entitled to and the potential it brings to their future life and family. Julia Gillard discusses her move from politics into education and her role with the Global Partnership for Education. Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz, who were also attacked in the shooting of Malala Yousafzai on their school bus in Pakistan in 2012, discuss their journey back into education, as well as how they now help and inspire other girls to continue fighting for their right to education. Joannes Yimbesalu talks about his work with children in rural Cameroon and how to ensure they stay in school and learn in a safe environment. Audio of Queen Rania with thanks to Girl Rising Audio of Michelle Obama with courtesy of Barack Obama Presidential Library	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line72
__label__wiki	0.54023	0.54023	Bitter Empire The Bachelor Season 20 Episode 6: She Swims With The Pigs Dolly Moehrle / February 9, 2016 / Critic, Featured / 1 Comment Previously on THE BACHELOR: Olivia was mean! Emily told Ben about it! And then in the middle of a rose ceremony, shock of shocks, horror of all horrors, BEN ASKED TO TALK TO OLIVIA! We join The Bachelor in medias res, as the women debate what Ben might be talking to Olivia about. Ben is, of course, asking Olivia if she’s been acting like a horrible troll-footed demon to the other women in the house. Olivia doesn’t answer his question, instead going on about how she’s not like all the other girls and likes “reading books” and “thinking” and “talk smart things.” In her interview, Olivia declares that the other women are jealous and they should “come at me, bro.”1 Finally, she starts crying. Of course. Ben is unable to resist Olivia’s completely artificial tears, so he brings her back to the group. The rose ceremony proceeds. As the person who pointed out Olivia’s bad behavior, Emily immediately starts wondering if she’s going to go home. Emily says that if she goes home tonight, “that would be the worst thing in the world.” Not to get all fallacy of relative privation on a contestant on a dating reality show, but I think we can all agree that sending Emily home to her twin would not be the worst thing in the world. In the end, Emily receives the final rose, and a brunette goes home. I wish we got some kind of reminder montage like on American Idol when one of these women goes home because I don’t know who the brunette is. Better luck on Bachelor in Paradise, maybe! Ben announces that they’ve experienced all that the tourism bureau of Mexico could afford to pay them to experience, and they’re moving on to the Bahamas! The episode preview promises that it’s sun, sand, sea, and tears. “Maybe I won’t find love?” Ben wonders. Yeah, sure. Harrison greets the women when they arrive in the Bahamas and announces that there will be a one on one, a group date, and a two on one. Leah, who I honestly don’t remember, shows that she is also confused about who she is, why she is here, and where she fits into this whole crazy show. When the one on one date goes to Caila, Leah vents her frustrations not having “more time.” Ben tells the viewers at home that he needs more time with Caila, and it’s Kevin Hart and Ice Cube’s fault. Leah gets herself worked up over the date and sobs, complains, sobs, vents, sobs, and declares “The universe brought us together in this process!” For Caila’s date, after spending time on a boat, Ben takes her to dinner and asks if she’ll cry on his shoulder, since he’ll want to cry with her. Ben seems very intense about finding a woman who will deal with him crying. She says she’s not ready for the crying part, but she feels like she loves him. She declares a fear she might hurt him. Ben is confused. So am I. Ultimately, she tells him she feels “something” for him and he gives her a rose. Leah gets put on another group date. The 2-on-1 goes to Olivia and Emily because of course it does. The group date is…I don’t even know how to explain this. There are pigs that swim in the fine waters of the Bahamas, apparently. The women are given (chicken) hot dogs to feed to the pigs. Absolute madness follows. This show has shown me a lot of horrific things, but the sight of a bunch of women in bikinis swimming with pigs is one of the worst ever. “Why is this happening?” I whisper to myself. Once the pigs are exhausted, Ben goes swimming with Lauren B. and the women feel awkward. He discusses his own awkwardness with JoJo. JoJo has been friendzoned, hard. “How do you date this many women you have feelings for and keep them happy?” Ben wonders. You don’t, Ben. You just don’t. Leah chooses this time to tell Ben he sucks for making her a “group date groupie.” I love it. While pigs squeal in the background and Ben looks baffled, Leah cries. He reassures her, but once he’s gone, Leah tells one of the other women that Ben is an idiot. Leah…you know Ben will watch this eventually, right? That night, Leah says Lauren B. isn’t who Ben thinks she is. I’m not clear on since when Leah hates Lauren B. Like a school pot-stirrer, Ben immediately tells Lauren B. that someone talked smack about her. Lauren B. runs crying to the remaining women, and Leah says, “gee, who would do such a thing,” and I’m again wondering if Leah knows she is on a TV show? Other people will see all this eventually? Amanda gets the group date rose. As the other women figure out that Leah must have been the one to tell Ben Lauren B. was fake, Leah goes over to Ben’s room to continue her scheming. Ben realizes that Leah is full of it because she won’t stop talking about Lauren B. Ben tells Leah that she should go home. Leah: “I literally did not see that coming.” Emily and Olivia talk smack about each other in their interviews.2 For their date, they’re taken out in miserable weather to a little island. Ben takes Olivia away to talk, and talk she does. “Deep intellectual things are just my jam.” She tells him she loves him. Meanwhile, Emily tells him she wants him to watch her grow (What?). After talking to both women, Ben tells Olivia goodbye. Emily is happy several times over to watch Olivia be left behind on an island while she returns to the Bahamas with Ben. The other women are stunned to see a PA take out Olivia’s suitcase. “She was really confident before the date,” Caila says mildly. Meanwhile, I’m impressed by what I assume is a shot filmed from a drone that shows how thoroughly Olivia has been abandoned in the middle of nowhere with no Ben. Tragic. Ben is feeling, after dealing with an exceptional level of Machiavellian plotting from TWO masterminds this week, that he might not find love in this process. Not find love on a reality show? Unpossible! As a result, Harrison tells the stunned women that Ben has cancelled the cocktail party and is proceeding immediately to the rose ceremony. Roses are given to Becca, JoJo, and…Lauren B. Lauren H. is going home. So, there’s Becca, JoJo, Lauren B., Emily, Amanda, and Caila left standing. Lauren H. says she doesn’t “get” what Ben wants. “Why is it so hard to fall in love?” wonders a woman who quit her job to appear on a TV reality show. I think my favorite thing about this show is how often the women who leave declare that they are disillusioned with love as an institution. Next week, we continue to separate the blondes from the brunettes! There will be love! And families! And everyone, including Ben, will cry. There will also be a special Valentine’s day “Bachelor 20” party where all your favorite trainwrecks will show up to do what they do best: get drunk and act inappropriate on TV. I for one cannot wait. RIP “Come at me, bro” 2010-2016. ↩ Olivia says Emily is immature; Emily says Olivia is satan; neither is wrong. ↩ Filed Under: Critic, Featured Tagged With: bachelor, recap Pingback: Osibogun and Partners - Law Firm() Critical Choices A Comprehensive Investigation Concerning the Legacy of Jon Stewart King of the Nerds: Live Blog Halt And Catch Fire, Season 3, Episodes 1 and 2: Mutiny In the Bay Area Record Of The Week: Blur – ‘The Magic Whip’ ‘The Marshmallow Test’ Teaches You Real-Life Self Control. Maybe. I’m A Bitter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line76
__label__cc	0.623272	0.376728	Bizzarro Bazar Strange, macabre, wonderful! BB Web Series What is Bizzarro Bazar? BB Collections Piccola Libreria Lunare BizzarroCinema Unclassifiable Enchanted Places Human Marvels MondoMacabro Anomalous Science Mysteries of Sex Odd Sounds Weird Art Weird Humor Tag Archives: century Victorian Hairwork: Interview with Courtney Lane Part of the pleasure of collecting curiosities lies in discovering the reactions they cause in various people: seeing the wonder arise on the face of onlookers always moves me, and gives meaning to the collection itself. Among the objects that, at least in my experience, evoke the strongest emotional response there are without doubt mourning-related accessories, and in particular those extraordinary XIX Century decorative works made by braiding a deceased person’s hair. Be it a small brooch containing a simple lock of hair, a framed picture or a larger wreath, there is something powerful and touching in these hairworks, and the feeling they convey is surprisingly universal. You could say that anyone, regardless of their culture, experience or provenance, is “equipped” to recognize the archetypical value of hair: to use them in embroidery, jewelry and decoration is therefore an eminently magical act. I decided to discuss this peculiar tradition with an expert, who was so kind as to answer my questions. Courtney Lane is a real authority on the subject, not just its history but also its practical side: she studied the original techniques with the intent of bringing them back to life, as she is convinced that this ancient craft could accomplish its function of preserving memory still today. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am a Victorian hair artist, historian, and self-proclaimed professional weirdo based in Kansas City. My business is called Never Forgotten where, as an artist, I create modern works of Victorian style sentimental hairwork for clients on a custom basis as well as making my own pieces using braids and locks of antique human hair that I find in places such as estate sales at old homes. As an academic, I study the history of hairwork and educate others through lectures as well as online video, and I also travel to teach workshops on how to do hairwork techniques. Hairwork by Courtney Lane. Where does your interest for Victorian hairwork come from? I’ve always had a deep love for history and finding beauty in places that many consider to be dark or macabre. At the young age of 5, I fell in love with the beauty of 18th and 19th century mausoleums in the cemeteries near the French Quarter of New Orleans. Even as a child, I adored the grand gesture of these elaborate tombs for memorializing the dead. This lead me to developing a particular fondness for the Victorian era and the funerary customs of the time. Somewhere along the line in studying Victorian mourning, I encountered the idea of hairwork. A romantic at heart, I’d already known of the romantic value a lock of hair from your loved one could hold, so I very naturally accepted that it would also be a perfect relic to keep of a deceased loved one. I found the artwork to be stunning and the sentiment to be of even greater beauty. I wondered why it was that we no longer practiced hairwork widely, and I needed to know why. I studied for years trying to find the answers and eventually I learned how to do the artwork myself. I thoroughly believed that the power of sentimental hairwork could help society reclaim a healthier relationship with death and mourning, and so I decided to begin my business to create modern works, educate the public on the often misunderstood history of the artform, and ensure that this sentimental tradition is “Never Forgotten”. How did hairwork become a popular mourning practice historically? Was the hair collected before or post mortem? Was it always related to grieving? Hairwork has taken on a variety of purposes, most of which have been inherently sentimental, but it has not always been related to grieving. With the death of her husband, Queen Victoria fell into a deep mourning which lasted the remaining 40 years of her life. This, in turn, created a certain fashionability, and almost a fetishism, of mourning in the Victorian era. Most people today believe all hairwork had the purpose of elaborating a loss, but between the 1500s and early 1900s, hairwork included romantic keepsakes from a loved one or family mementos, and sometimes served as memorabilia from an important time in one’s life. As an example, many of the large three-dimensional wreaths you can still see actually served as a form of family history. Hair was often collected from several (often living) members of the family and woven together to create a genealogy. I’ve seen other examples of hairwork simply commemorating a major life event such as a first communion or a wedding. Long before hairwork became an art form, humans had already been exchanging locks of hair; so it’s only natural that there were instances of couples wearing jewelry that contained the hair of their living lovers. As far as mourning hairwork is concerned, the hair was sometimes collected post mortem, and sometimes the hair was saved from an earlier time in their life. As hair was such an important part of culture, it was often saved when it was cut whether or not there was an immediate plan for making art or jewelry with it. The idea of using hair as a mourning practice largely stems from Catholicism in the Middle Ages and the power of saintly relics in the church. The relic of a saint is more than just the physical remains of their body, rather it provides a spiritual connection to the holy person, creating a link between life and death. This belief that a relic can be a substitute for the person easily transitioned from public, religious mourning to private, personal mourning. Of the types of relics (bone, flesh, etc), hair is by far the most accessible to the average person, as it does not need any sort of preservation to avoid decomposition, much as the rest of the body does; collecting from the body is as simple as using a pair of scissors. Hair is also one of the most identifiable parts of person, so even though pieces of bone might just be as much of a relic, hair is part of your loved one that you see everyday in life, and can continue to recognize after death. Was hairwork strictly a high-class practice? Hairwork was not strictly high-class. Although hairwork was kept by some members of upper class, it was predominantly a middle-class practice. Some hairwork was done by professional hairworkers, and of course, anyone commissioning them would need the means to do so; but a lot of hairwork was done in the home usually by the women of the family. With this being the case, the only expenses would be the crafting tools (which many middle-class women would already likely have around the home), and the jewelry findings, frames, or domes to place the finished hairwork in. How many people worked at a single wreath, and for how long? Was it a feminine occupation, like embroidery? Hairwork was usually, but not exclusively done by women and was even considered a subgenre of ladies’ fancy work. Fancy work consisted of embroidery, beadwork, featherwork, and more. There are even instances of women using hair to embroider and sew. It was thought to be a very feminine trait to be able to patiently and meticulously craft something beautiful. As far as wreaths are concerned, it varied in the number of people who would work together to create one. Only a few are well documented enough to know for sure. I’ve also observed dozens of different techniques used to craft flowers in wreaths and some techniques are more time consuming than others. One of the best examples I’ve seen is an incredibly well documented piece that indicates that the whole wreath consists of 1000 flowers (larger than the average wreath) and was constructed entirely by one woman over the span of a year. The documentation also specifies that the 1000 flowers were made with the hair of 264 people. Why did it fall out of fashion during the XX Century? Hairwork started to decline in popularity in the early 1900’s. There were several reasons. The first reason was the growth of hairwork as an industry. Several large companies and catalogues started advertising custom hairwork, and many people feared that sending out for the hairwork rather than making it in the home would take away from the sentiment. Among these companies was Sears, Roebuck and Company, and in one of their catalogues in 1908, they even warned, “We do not do this braiding ourselves. We send it out; therefore we cannot guarantee same hair being used that is sent to us; you must assume all risk.” This, of course, deterred people from using professional hairworkers. Another reason lies with the development and acceptance of germ theory in the Victorian era. The more people learned about germs and the more sanitary products were being sold, the more people began to view the human body and all its parts as a filthy thing. Along with this came the thought that hair, too, was unclean and people began to second guess using it as a medium for art and jewelry. World War I also had a lot to do with the decline of hairwork. Not only was there a general depletion in resources for involved countries, but more and more women began to work outside of the home and no longer had the time to create fancy work daily. During war time when everybody was coming together to help the war effort, citizens began to turn away from frivolous expenses and focus only on necessities. Hair at this time was seen for the practical purposes it could serve. For example, in Germany there were propaganda posters encouraging women to cut their long hair and donate it to the war effort when other fibrous materials became scarce. The hair that women donated was used to make practical items such as transmission belts. With all of these reasons working together, sentimental hairwork was almost completely out of practice by the year 1925; no major companies continued to create or repair hairwork, and making hairwork at home was no longer a regular part of daily life for women. 19th century hairworks have become trendy collectors items; this is due in part to a fascination with Victorian mourning practices, but it also seems to me that these pieces hold a special value, as opposed to other items like regular brooches or jewelry, because of – well, the presence of human hair. Do you think we might still be attaching some kind of “magical”, symbolic power to hair? Or is it just an expression of morbid curiosity for human remains, albeit in a mild and not-so-shocking form? I absolutely believe that all of these are true. Especially amongst people less familiar with these practices, there is a real shock value to seeing something made out of hair. When I first introduce the concept of hairwork to people, some find the idea to be disgusting, but most are just fascinated that the hair does not decompose. People today are so out of touch with death, that they immediately equate hair as a part of the body and don’t understand how it can still be perfectly pristine over a hundred years later. For those who don’t often ponder their own mortality, thinking about the fact that hair can physically live on long after they’ve died can be a completely staggering realization. Once the initial surprise and morbid curiosity have faded, many people recognize a special value in the hair itself. Amongst serious collectors of hair, there seems to be a touching sense of fulfillment in the opportunity to preserve the memory of somebody who once was loved enough to be memorialized this way – even if they remain nameless today. Some may say it is a spiritual calling, but I would say at the very least it is a shared sense of mortal empathy. What kind of research did you have to do in order to learn the basics of Victorian hairworks? After all, this could be described as a kind of “folk art”, which was meant for a specific, often personal purpose; so were there any books at the time holding detailed instructions on how to do it? Or did you have to study original hairworks to understand how it was done? Learning hairwork was a journey for me. First, I should say that there are several different types of hairwork and some techniques are better documented than others. Wire work is the type of hairwork you see in wreaths and other three-dimensional flowers. I was not able to find any good resources on how to do these techniques, so in order to learn, I began by studying countless wreaths. I took every opportunity I could to study wreaths that were out of their frame or damaged so I could try to put them back together and see how everything connected. I spent hours staring at old pieces and playing with practice hair through trial and error. Other techniques are palette work and table work. Palette work includes flat pictures of hair which you may see in a frame or under glass in jewelry, and table work includes the elaborate braids that make up a jewelry chain such as a necklace or a watch fob. The Lock of Hair by Alexanna Speight and Art of Hair Work: Hair Braiding and Jewelry of Sentiment by Mark Campbell teach palette work and table work, respectively. Unfortunately, being so old, these books use archaic English and also reference tools and materials that are no longer made or not as easy to come by. Even after reading these books, it takes quite a bit of time to find modern equivalents and practice with a few substitutions to find the best alternative. For these reasons, I would love to write an instructional book explaining all three of these core techniques in an easy to understand way using modern materials, so hairwork as a craft can be more accessible to a wider audience. Why do you think this technique could be still relevant today? The act and tradition of saving hair is still present in our society. Parents often save a lock of their child’s first haircut, but unfortunately that lock of hair will stay hidden away in an envelope or a book and rarely seen again. I’ve also gained several clients just from meeting someone who has never heard of hairwork, but they still felt compelled cut a lock of hair from their deceased loved one to keep. Their eyes consistently light up when they learn that they can wear it in jewelry or display it in artwork. Time and again, these people ask me if it’s weird that they saved this hair. Often, they don’t even know why they did. It’s a compulsion that many of us feel, but we don’t talk about it or celebrate it in our modern culture, so they think they’re strange or morbid even though it’s an incredibly natural thing to do. Another example is saving your own hair when it’s cut. Especially in instances of cutting hair that’s been grown very long or hair that has been locked, I very often encounter people who have felt so much of a personal investment in their own hair that they don’t feel right throwing it out. These individuals may keep their hair in a bag for years, not knowing what to do with it, only knowing that it felt right to keep. This makes perfect sense to me, because hair throughout history has always been a very personal thing. Even today, people identify each other by hair whether it be length, texture, color, or style. Different cultures may wear their hair in a certain way to convey something about their heritage, or individuals will use their own creativity or sense of self to decide how to wear their hair. Whether it be for religion, culture, romance, or mourning, the desire to attach sentimental value to hair and the impulse to keep the hair of your loved one are inherently human. I truly believe that being able to proudly display our hair relics can help us process some of our most intimate emotions and live our best lives. You can visit Courtney Lane’s website Never Forgotten, and follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. If you’re interested in the symbolic and magical value of human hair, here is my post on the subject. 14 Comments Posted in MondoMacabro, Weird Art Tagged 1800, art, arte, brooch, capelli, caro estinto, century, ciocca, collecting, collezionismo, courtney lane, curiosità, curiosities, death, deceased, defunto, elaboration, elaborazione, embroidery, funeral, funerale, funeraria, funerary, ghirlanda, gioielli, grief, hair, hair work, hairwork, interview, intervista, jewelry, lock, loved, lutto, memoria, memory, morte, mourning, never forgotten, oddities, ottocento, ricamo, ricordo, romantic, romantico, secolo, sentiment, sentimentale, spilla, victorian, vittoriana, vittoriano, wreath, wunderkammer, XIX Dreams of Stone Stone appears to be still, unchangeable, untouched by the tribulations of living beings. Being outside of time, it always pointed back to the concept fo Creation. Nestled, inaccessible, closed inside the natural chest of rock, those anomalies we called treasures lie waiting to be discovered: minerals of the strangest shape, unexpected colors, otherworldly transparency. Upon breaking a stone, some designs may be uncovered which seem to be a work of intellect. One could recognize panoramas, human figures, cities, plants, cliffs, ocean waves. Who is the artist that hides these fantasies inside the rock? Are they created by God’s hand? Or were these visions and landscapes dreamed by the stone itself, and engraved in its heart? If during the Middle Ages these stone motifs were probably seen as an evidence of the anima mundi, at the beginning of the modern period they had already been relegated to the status of simple curiosities. XVI and XVII Century naturalists, in their wunderkammern and in books devoted to the wonders of the world, classified the pictures discovered in stone as “jokes of Nature” (lusus naturæ). In fact, Roger Caillois writes (La scrittura delle pietre, Marietti, 1986): The erudite scholars, Aldrovandi and Kircher among others, divided these wonders into genres and species according to the image they saw in them: Moors, bishops, shrimps or water streams, faces, plants, dogs or even fish, tortoises, dragons, skulls, crucifixes, anything a fervid imagination could recognize and identify. In reality there is no being, monster, monument, event or spectacle of nature, of history, of fairy tales or dreams, nothing that an enchanted gaze couldn’t see inside the spots, designs and profiles of these stones. It is curious to note, incidentally, that these “caprices” were brought up many times during the long debate regarding the mystery of fossils. Leonardo Da Vinci had already guessed that sea creatures found petrified on mountain tops could be remnants of living organisms, but in the following centuries fossils came to be thought of as mere whims of Nature: if stone was able to reproduce a city skyline, it could well create imitations of seashells or living things. Only by the half of XVIII Century fossils were no longer considered lusus naturæ. Among all kinds of pierre à images (“image stones”), there was one in which the miracle most often recurred. A specific kind of marble, found near Florence, was called pietra paesina (“landscape stone”, or “ruin marble”) because its veinings looked like landscapes and silhouettes of ruined cities. Maybe the fact that quarries of this particular marble were located in Tuscany was the reason why the first school of stone painting was established at the court of Medici Family; other workshops specializing in this minor genre arose in Rome, in France and the Netherlands. Aside from the pietra paesina, which was perfect for conjuring marine landscapes or rugged desolation, other kinds of stone were used, such as alabaster (for celestial and angelic suggestions) and basanite, used to depict night views or to represent a burning city. Perhaps it all started with Sebastiano del Piombo‘s experiments with oil on stone, which had the intent of creating paintings that would last as long as sculptures; but actually the colors did not pass the test of time on polished slates, and this technique proved to be far from eternal. Sebastiano del Piombo, who was interested in a refined and formally strict research, abandoned the practice, but the method had an unexpected success within the field of painted oddities — thanks to a “taste for rarities, for bizarre artifices, for the ambiguous, playful interchange of art and nature that was highly appreciated both during XVI Century Mannerism and the baroque period” (A. Pinelli on Repubblica, January 22, 2001). Therefore many renowned painters (Jacques Stella, Stefano della Bella, Alessandro Turchi also known as l’Orbetto, Cornelis van Poelemburgh), began to use the veinings of the stone to produce painted curios, in tension between naturalia e artificialia. Following the inspiration offered by the marble scenery, they added human figures, ships, trees and other details to the picture. Sometimes little was needed: it was enough to paint a small balcony, the outline of a door or a window, and the shape of a city immediately gained an outstanding realism. Johann König, Matieu Dubus, Antonio Carracci and others used in this way the ribbon-like ornaments and profound brightness of the agate, the coils and curves of alabaster. In pious subjects, the painter drew the mystery of a milky supernatural flare from the deep, translucent hues; or, if he wanted to depict a Red Sea scene, he just had to crowd the vortex of waves, already suggested by the veinings of the stone, with frightened victims. Especially well-versed in this eccentric genre, which between the XVI and XVIII Century was the object of extended trade, was Filippo Napoletano. In 1619 the painter offered to Cosimo II de’ Medici seven stories of Saints painted on “polished stoned called alberese“, and some of his works still retain a powerful quality, on the account of their innovative composition and a vivid expressive intensity. His extraordinary depiction of the Temptations of Saint Anthony, for instance, is a “little masterpiece [where] the artist’s intervention is minimal, and the Saint’s entire spiritual drama finds its echo in the melancholy of a landscape of Dantesque tone” (P. Gaglianò on ExibArt, December 11, 2000). The charm of a stone that “mimicks” reality, giving the illusion of a secret theater, is unaltered still today, as Cailliois elegantly explains: Such simulacra, hidden on the inside for a long time, appear when the stones are broken and polished. To an eager imagination, they evoke immortal miniature models of beings and things. Surely, chance alone is at the origin of the prodigy. All similarities are after all vague, uncertain, sometimes far from truth, decidedly gratuitous. But as soon as they are perceived, they become tyrannical and they offer more than they promised. Anyone who knows how to observe them, relentlessly discovers new details completing the alleged analogy. These kinds of images can miniaturize for the benefit of the person involved every object in the world, they always provide him with a copy which he can hold in his hand, position as he wishes, or stash inside a cabinet. […] He who possesses such a wonder, produced, extracted and fallen into his hands by an extraordinary series of coincidences, happily imagines that it could not have come to him without a special intervention of Fate. Still, unchangeable, untouched by the tribulations of living beings: it is perhaps appropriate that when stones dream, they give birth to these abstract, metaphysical landscapes, endowed with a beauty as alien as the beauty of rock itself. Several artworks from the Medici collections are visible in a wonderful and little-known museum in Florence, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. The best photographic book on the subject is the catalogue Bizzarrie di pietre dipinte (2000), curate by M. Chiarini and C. Acidini Luchinat. 10 Comments Posted in Animals & Nature, Enchanted Places, Weird Art Tagged alabaster, alabastro, aldrovandi, alessandro turchi, anima mundi, antonio carracci, art, arte, barocco, baroque, bizarre, bizzarrie, cava, century, collection, collezione, cornelis van poelemburgh, cosimo, curio, curiosità, curiosity, dure, fantasia, fantasy, filippo napoletano, firenze, florence, fossil, fossili, history, image, immagini, jacques stella, kircher, landscape, lastra, lavagna, lusus naturae, manierismo, mannerism, marble, marmo, medici, meraviglia, museo, museum, natura, nature, oil, olio, opere, opificio, orbetto, paesaggio, paesina, painter, painting, panorama, pierre à images, pietra, pietre, pittore, pittura, profilo, quarry, rock, roger callois, rovine, ruin, sant'antonio, sebastiano del piombo, secolo, silhouette, slate, stefano della bella, stone, storia, wonder, work, wunderkammer, XVI, xvii, XVIII The Abominable Vice Among the bibliographic curiosities I have been collecting for years, there is also a little book entitled L’amico discreto. It’s the 1862 Italian translation of The silent friend (1847) by R. e L. Perry; aside from 100 beautiful anatomical plates, the book also shows a priceless subtitle: Observations on Onanism and Its Baneful Results, Including Mental and Sexual Incapacity and Impotence. Just by skimming through the table of contents, it’s clear how masturbation was indicated as the main cause for a wide array of conditions: from indigestion to “hypoconriac melancholy”, from deafness to “bending of the penis”, from emaciated complexion to the inability to walk, in a climax of ever more terrible symptoms preparing the way for the ultimate, inevitable outcome — death. One page after the other, the reader learns why onanism is to be blamed for such illnesses, specifically because it provokes an excitement of the nervous system [which] by stimulating the organs to transient vigour, brings, ere middle life succeeds the summer of manhood, all the sensible infirmities and foibles of age; producing in its impetuous current, such an assemblage of morbid irritation, that even on trivial occasions its excitement is of a high and inflammable character, and its endurance beyond the power of reason to sustain. But this is just the beginning: the worst damage is on the mind and soul, because this state of constant nervous stimulation places the individual in a state of anxiety and misery for the remainder of his existence, — a kind of contingency, which it is difficult for language adequately to describe; he vegetates, but lives not: […] leading the excited deviating mind into a fertile field of seductive error — into a gradual and fatal degradation of manhood — into a pernicious, disgraceful, and ultimately almost involuntary application of those inherent rights which nature wisely instituted for the preservation of her species […] in defiance of culture, moral feeling, moral obligation, and religious impressions: thus the man, who, at the advent of youth and genius was endowed with gaiety and sociality, becomes, ere twenty-five summers have shed their lustre on him, a misanthrope, and a nadir-point of discontent! What moral region does that man live in? […] Is it nothing to light the gloomy torch that guides, by slow and melancholy steps to the sepulchre of manhood, in the gay and fascinating spring-time of youth and ardent desire; when the brilliant fire of passion, genius, and sentiment, ought to electrify the whole frame? This being a physiology and anatomy essay, today its embellishments, its evocative language (closer to second-rate poetry than to science) seem oddly out of place — and we can smile upon reading its absurd theories; yet The Silent Friend is just one of many Nineteeth Century texts demonizing masturbation, all pretty popular since 1712, when an anonymous priest published a volume called Onania, followed in 1760 by L’Onanisme by Swiss doctor Samuel-Auguste Tissot, which had rapidly become a best-seller of its time. Now, if physicians reacted in such a harsh way against male masturbation, you can guess their stance on female auto-eroticism. Here, the repulsion for an act which was already considered aberrant, was joined by all those ancestral fears regarding female sexuality. From the ancient vagina dentata (here is an old post about it) to Plato’s description of the uterus (hystera) as an aggressive animale roaming through the woman’s abdomen, going through theological precepts in Biblical-Christian tradition, medicine inherited a somber, essentially misogynistic vision: female sexuality, a true repressed collective unconscious, was perceived as dangerous and ungovernable. Another text in my library is the female analogue of Tissot’s Onania: written by J.D.T. de Bienville, La Ninfomania ovvero il Furore Uterino (“Nymphomania, or The Uterine Fury”) was originally published in France in 1771. I’m pasting here a couple of passages, which show a very similar style in respect to the previous quotes: We see some perverted young girls, who have conducted a voluptuous life over a long period of time, suddenly fall prey to this disease; and this happens when forced retirement is keeping them from those occasions which facilitated their guilty and fatal inclination. […] All of them, after they are conquered by such malady, occupy themselves with the same force and energy with those objects which light in their passion the infernal flame of lewd pleasure […], they indulge in reading lewd Novels, that begin by bending their heart to soft feelings, and end up inspiring the most depraved and gross incontinence. […] Those women who, after taking a few steps in this horrible labyrinth, miss the strength to come back, are drawn almost imperceptibly to excesses, which after corrupting and damaging their good name, deprive them of their own life. The book goes on to describe the hallucinatory state in which the nymphomaniacs fall, frantically hurling at men (by nature all chaste and pure, it seems), and barely leaving them “the time to escape their hands“. Of course, this an Eighteenth Century text. But things did not improve in the following century: during the Nineteenth Century, actually, the ill-concealed desire to repress female sexuality found one of its cruelest incarnations, the so-called “extirpation”. This euphemism was used to indicate the practice of clitoridectomy, the surgical removal of the clitoris. Everybody kows that female genital mutilations continue to be a reality in many countries, and they have been the focus of several international campaigns to abandon the practice. It seems hard to believe that, far from being solely a tribal tradition, it became widespread in Europe and in the United States within the frame of modern Western medicine. Clitoridectomy, a simple yet brutal operation, was based on the idea that female masturbation led to hysteria, lesbianism and nymphomania. The perfect circular reasoning behind this theory was the following: in mental institutions, insane female patients were often caught masturbating, therefore masturbation had to be the cause of their lunacy. One of the most fervent promoters of extirpation was Dr. Isaac Baker Brown, English gynaecologist and obstetrical surgeon. In 1858 he opened a clinic on Notting Hill, ad his therapies became so successful that Baker Brown resigned from Guy’s Hospital to work privately full time. By means of clitoridectomy, he was able to cure (if we are to trust his own words) several kinds of madness, epilepsy, catalepsy and hysteria in his patients: in 1866 he published a nice little book on the subject, which was praised by the Times because Brown “brought insanity within the scope of surgical treatment“. In his book, Brown reported 48 cases of female masturbation, the heinous effects on the patients’ health, and the miraculous result of clitoridectomy in curing the symptoms. We don’t know for sure how many women ended up under the enthusiastic doctor’s knife. Brown would have probably carried on with his mutilation work, if he hadn’t made the mistake of setting up a publicity campaign to advertise his clinic. Even then, self-promotion was considered ethically wrong for a physician, so on April 29, 1866, the British Medical Journal published a heavy j’accuse against the doctor. The Lancet followed shortly after, then even the Times proved to have changed position and asked if the surgical treatment of illness was legal at all. Brown ended up being investigated by the Lunacy Commission, which dealt with the patients’ welfare in asylums, and in panic he denied he ever carried out clitoridectomies on his mentally ill patients. But it was too late. Even the Royal College of Surgeons turned away from him, and a meeting decided (with 194 approving votes against 38 opposite votes) his removal from the Obstetric Society of London. R. Youngson and I. Schott, in A Brief History of Bad Medicine (Robinson, 2012), highlight the paradox of this story: The extraordinary thing was that Baker Brown was disgraced, not because he practised clitoridectomy for ridiculuous indications, but because, out of greed, he had offended against professional ethics. No one ever suggested that there was anything wrong with clitoridectomy, as such. Many years were to pass before this operation was condemned by the medical profession. And many more, until eventually masturbation could be freed from medical criminalization and moral prejudice: at the beginning of the Twentieth Century doctors still recommended the use of constrictive laces and gears, straight-jackets, up to shock treatments like cauterization or electroconvulsive therapy. 1903 patent to prevent erections and nocturnal pollutions through the use of spikes, electric shocks and an alarm bell. Within this dreadful galaxy of old anti-masturbation devices, there’s one looking quite harmless and even healthy: corn flakes, which were invented by famous Dr. Kellogg as an adjuvant diet against the temptations of onanism. And yet, whenever cereals didn’t do the trick, Kellogg advised that young boys’ foreskins should be sewn with wire; as for young girls, he recommended burning the clitoris with phenol, which he considered an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice in those whose will-power has become so weakened that the patient is unable to exercise entire self-control. The worse cases among young women are those in which the disease has advanced so far that erotic thoughts are attended by the same voluptuous sensations that accompany the practice. The author has met many cases of this sort in young women, who acknowledged that the sexual orgasm was thus produced, often several times daily. The application of carbolic acid in the manner described is also useful in these cases in allaying the abnormal excitement, which is a frequent provocation of the practice of this form of mental masturbation. (J. H. Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old And Young, 1888) It was not until the Kinsey Reports (1948-1953) that masturbation was eventually legitimized as a natural and healthy part of sexuality. All in all, as Woody Allen put it, it’s just “sex with someone you love“. On the “fantastic physiology” of the uterus, there is a splendid article (in Italian language) here. Wikipedia has also a page on the history of masturbation. I also recommend Orgasm and the West. A History of Pleasure from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, by R. Muchembled. 15 Comments Posted in Anomalous Science, Mysteries of Sex Tagged '800, 700, 900, amico discreto, arousal, baker brown, bienville, century, chastity belt, cintura di castità, clitoride, clitoridectomia, clitoridectomy, clitoris, corn flakes, cura, cure, disease, doctor, dottore, eccitazione, elettroshock, ethics, etica, excitation, female, femminile, follia, genital, genitali, history, hysteria, illness, isteria, kellogg, kinsey, lesbian, lesbismo, lunacy, malattia, male, maschile, masturbation, masturbazione, medicina, medicine, medico, moral, morale, mutilation, mutilazione, ninfomania, nymphomania, occidente, onanism, onanismo, orgasm, orgasmo, physician, secolo, sesso, sessualità, sex, sexuality, shock, storia, terapia, therapy, tissot, utero, uterus, west, western, woody allen Freaks: Gaze and Disability Introduction: those damn colored glasses The image below is probably my favorite illusion (in fact I wrote about it before). At a first glance it looks like a family in a room, having breakfast. Yet when the picture is shown to the people living in some rural parts of Africa, they see something different: a family having breakfast in the open, under a tree, while the mother balances a box on her head, maybe to amuse her children. This is not an optical illusion, it’s a cultural one. The origins of this picture are not certain, but it is not relevant here whether it has actually been used in a psychological study, nor if it shows a prejudice on life in the Third World. The force of this illustration is to underline how culture is an inevitable filter of reality. It reminds of a scene in Werner Herzog’s documentary film The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969), in which the doctors find it hard to explain to the population that flies carry infections; showing big pictures of the insects and the descriptions of its dangers does not have much effect because people, who are not used to the conventions of our graphic representations, do not understand they are in scale, and think: “Sure, we will watch out, but around here flies are never THAT big“. Even if we would not admit it, our vision is socially conditioned. Culture is like a pair of glasses with colored lenses, quite useful in many occasions to decipher the world but deleterious in many others, and it’s hard to get rid of these glasses by mere willpower. ‘Freak pride’ and disability Let’s address the issue of “freaks”: originally a derogatory term, the word has now gained a peculiar cultural charm and ,as such, I always used it with the purpose of fighting pietism and giving diversity it its just value. Any time I set out to talk about human marvels, I experienced first-hand how difficult it is to write about these people. Reflecting on the most correct angle to address the topic means to try and take off culture’s colored glasses, an almost impossible task. I often wondered if I myself have sometimes succumbed to unintended generalizations, if I unwillingly fell into a self-righteous approach. Sure enough, I have tried to tell these amazing characters’ stories through the filter of wonder: I believed that – equality being a given – the separation between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary could be turned in favor of disability. I have always liked those “deviants” who decided to take back their exotic bodies, their distance from the Norm, in some sort of freak pride that would turn the concept of handicap inside out. But is it really the most correct approach to diversity and, in some cases, disability? To what extent is this vision original, or is it just derivative from a long cultural tradition? What if the freak, despite all pride, actually just wanted an ordinary dimension, what if what he was looking for was the comfort of an average life? What is the most ethical narrative? This doubt, I think, arose from a paragraph by Fredi Saal, born in 1935, a German author who spent the first part of his existence between hospitals and care homes because he was deemed “uneducable”: No, it is not the disabled person who experiences him- or herself as abnormal — she or he is experienced as abnormal by others, because a whole section of human life is cut off. Thus this very existence acquires a threatening quality. One doesn’t start from the disabled persons themselves, but from one’s own experience. One asks oneself, how would I react, should a disability suddenly strike, and the answer is projected onto the disabled person. Thus one receives a completely distorted image. Because it is not the other fellow that one sees, but oneself. (F. Saal, Behinderung = Selbstgelebte Normalität, 1992) As much as the idea of a freak pride is dear to me, it may well be another subconscious projection: I may just like to think that I would react to disability that way… and yet one more time I am not addressing the different person, but rather my own romantic and unrealistic idea of diversity. We cannot obviously look through the eyes of a disabled person, there is an insuperable barrier, but it is the same that ultimately separates all human beings. The “what would I do in that situation?” Saal talks about, the act of projecting ourselves onto others, that is something we endlessly do and not just with the disabled. The figure of the freak has always been ambiguous – or, better, what is hard to understand is our own gaze on the freak. I think it is therefore important to trace the origins of this gaze, to understand how it evolved: we could even discover that this thing we call disability is actually nothing more than another cultural product, an illusion we are “trained” to recognize in much the same way we see the family having breakfast inside a living room rather than out in the open. In my defense, I will say this: if it is possible for me to imagine a freak pride, it is because the very concept of freak does not come out of the blue, and does not even entail disability. Many people working in freakshows were also disabled, others were not. That was not the point. The real characteristics that brought those people on stage was the sense of wonder they could evoke: some bodies were admired, others caused scandal (as they were seen as unbearably obscene), but the public bought the ticket to be shocked, amazed and shaken in their own certainties. In ancient times, the monstrum was a divine sign (it shares its etymological root with the Italian verb mostrare, “to show”), which had to be interpreted – and very often feared, as a warning of doom. If the monstruous sign was usually seen as bearer of misfortune, some disabilities were not (for instance blindness and lunacy, which were considered forms of clairvoyance, see V. Amendolagine, Da castigo degli dei a diversamente abili: l’identità sociale del disabile nel corso del tempo, 2014). During the Middle Ages the problem of deformity becomes much more complex: on one hand physiognomy suggested a correlation between ugliness and a corrupted soul, and literature shows many examples of enemies being libeled through the description of their physical defects; on the other, theologians and philosophers (Saint Augustine above all) considered deformity as just another example of Man’s penal condition on this earth, so much so that in the Resurrection all signs of it would be erased (J.Ziegler in Deformità fisica e identità della persona tra medioevo ed età moderna, 2015); some Christian female saints even went to the extreme of invoking deformity as a penance (see my Ecstatic Bodies: Hagiography and Eroticism). Being deformed also precluded the access to priesthood (ordo clericalis) on the basis of a famous passage from the Leviticus, in which offering sacrifice on the altar is forbidden to those who have imperfect bodies (P. Ostinelli, Deformità fisica…, 2015). The monstrum becoming mirabile, worthy of admiration, is a more modern idea, but that was around well before traveling circuses, before Tod Browning’s “One of us!“, and before hippie counterculture seized it: this concept is opposed to the other great modern invention in regard to disability, which is commiseration. The whole history of our relationship with disability fluctuates between these two poles: admiration and pity. The right kind of eyes In the German exhibition Der (im)perfekte Mensch (“The (im)perfect Human Being”), held in 2001 in the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, the social gaze at people with disabilities was divided into six main categories: – The astonished and medical gaze – The annihilating gaze – The pitying gaze – The admiring gaze – The instrumentalizing gaze – The excluding gaze While this list can certainly be discussed, it has the merit of tracing some possible distinctions. Among all the kinds of gaze listed here, the most bothering might be the pitying gaze. Because it implies the observer’s superiority, and a definitive judgment on a condition which, to the eyes of the “normal” person, cannot seem but tragic: it expresses a self-righteous, intimate certainty that the other is a poor cripple who is to be pitied. The underlying thought is that there can be no luck, no happiness in being different. The concept of poor cripple, which (although hidden behind more politically correct words) is at the core of all fund-raising marathons, is still deeply rooted in our culture, and conveys a distorted vision of charity – often more focused on our own “pious deed” than on people with disabilities. As for the pitying gaze, the most ancient historical example we know of is this 1620 print, kept at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, which shows a disabled carpenter called Wolffgang Gschaiter lying in his bed. The text explains how this man, after suffering unbearable pain to his left arm and back for three days, found himself completely paralyzed. For fifteen years, the print tells us, he was only able to move his eyes and tongue. The purpose of this paper is to collect donations and charity money, and the readers are invited to pray for him in the nearby church of the Three Saints in Dreiheiligen. This pamphlet is interesting for several reasons: in the text, disability is explicitly described as a “mirror” of the observer’s own misery, therefore establishing the idea that one must think of himself as he is watching it; a distinction is made between body and soul to reinforce drama (the carpenter’s soul can be saved, his body cannot); the expression “poor cripple” is recorded for the first time. But most of all this little piece of paper is one of the very first examples of mass communication in which disability is associated with the idea of donations, of fund raising. Basically what we see here is a proto-telethon, focusing on charity and church prayers to cleanse public conscience, and at the same time an instrument in line with the Counter-Reformation ideological propaganda (see V. Schönwiese, The Social Gaze at People with Disabilities, 2007). During the previous century, another kind of gaze already developed: the clinical-anatomical gaze. This 1538 engraving by Albrecht Dürer shows a woman lying on a table, while an artist meticulously draws the contour of her body. Between the two figures stands a framework, on which some stretched-out strings divide the painter’s vision in small squares so that he can accurately transpose it on a piece of paper equipped with the same grid. Each curve, each detail is broke down and replicated thanks to this device: vision becomes the leading sense, and is organized in an aseptic, geometric, purely formal frame. This was the phase in which a real cartography of the human body was developed, and in this context deformity was studied in much the same manner. This is the “astonished and medical gaze“, which shows no sign of ethical or pitying judgment, but whose ideology is actually one of mapping, dividing, categorizing and ultimately dominating every possible variable of the cosmos. In the wunderkammer of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (1529-1595), inside Ambras Castle near Innsbruck, there is a truly exceptional portrait. A portion of the painting was originally covered by a red paper curtain: those visiting the collection in the Sixteenth Century might have seen something close to this reconstruction. Those willing and brave enough could pull the paper aside to admire the whole picture: thus the subject’s limp and deformed body appeared, portrayed in raw detail and with coarse realism. What Fifteen-Century observers saw in this painting, we cannot know for sure. To understand how views are relative, it suffices to remind that at the time “human marvels” included for instance foreigners from exotic countries, and a sub-category of foreigners were cretins who were said to inhabit certain geographic regions. In books like Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri’s Opera ne la quale vi è molti Mostri de tute le parti del mondo antichi et moderni (1585), people with disabilities can be found alongside monstruous apparitions, legless persons are depicted next to mythological Chimeras, etc. But the red paper curtain in the Ambras portrait is an important signal, because it means that such a body was on one hand considered obscene, capable of upsetting the spectator’s senibility. On the other hand, the bravest or most curious onlookers could face the whole image. This leads us to believe that monstrosity in the Sixteenth Century had at least partially been released from the idea of prodigy, and freed from the previous centuries superstitions. This painting is therefore a perfect example of “astonished and medical” gaze; from deformity as mirabilia to proper admiration, it’s a short step. The Middle Path? The admiring gaze is the one I have often opted for in my articles. My writing and thinking practice coincides with John Waters’ approach, when he claims he feels some kind of admiration for the weird characters in his movies: “All the characters in my movies, I look up to them. I don’t think about them the way people think about reality TV – that we are better and you should laugh at them.“ And yet, here we run the risk of falling into the opposite trap, an excessive idealization. It may well be because of my peculiar allergy to the concept of “heroes”, but I am not interested in giving hagiographic versions of the life of human marvels. All these thoughts which I have shared with you, lead me to believe there is no easy balance. One cannot talk about freaks without running into some kind of mistake, some generalization, without falling victim to the deception of colored glasses. Every communication between us and those with different/disabled bodies happens in a sort of limbo, where our gaze meets theirs. And in this space, there cannot ever be a really authentic confrontation, because from a physical perspective we are separated by experiences too far apart. I will never be able to understand other people’s body, and neither will they. But maybe this distance is exactly what draws us together. “Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world…” Let’s consider the only reference we have – our own body – and try to break the habit. I will borrow the opening words from the introduction I wrote for Nueva Carne by Claudio Romo: Our bodies are unknowable territories. We can dismantle them, cut them up into ever smaller parts, study their obsessive geometries, meticulously map every anatomical detail, rummage in their entrails… and their secret will continue to escape us. We stare at our hands. We explore our teeth with our tongues. We touch our hair. Is this what we are? Here is the ultimate mind exercise, my personal solution to the freaks’ riddle: the only sincere and honest way I can find to relate diversity is to make it universal. Johnny Eck woke up in this world without the lower limbs; his brother, on the contrary, emerged from the confusion of shapes with two legs. I too am equipped with feet, including toes I can observe, down there, as they move whenever I want them to. Are those toes still me? I ignore the reach of my own identity, and if there is an exact point where its extension begins. On closer view, my experience and Johnny’s are different yet equally mysterious. We are all brothers in the enigma of the flesh. I would like to ideally sit with him — with the freak, with the “monster” — out on the porch of memories, before the sunset of our lives. ‘So, what did you think of this strange trip? Of this strange place we wound up in?’, I would ask him. And I am sure that his smile would be like mine. 44 Comments Posted in Human Marvels Tagged 500, admiration, ambras, ammirazione, body, century, cinquecento, circo, circus, compassion, compassione, corpo, cripple, cultura, culture, deformità, deformity, dipinto, disabilità, disability, durer, empathy, empatia, ethics, etica, ferdinand, ferdinando II, fisico, freak, freaks, freakshow, gaze, herzog, history, john waters, johnny eck, medicina, medicine, medioevo, middle ages, mirabilia, monster, moral, moralità, mostro, orgoglio, physical, pietà, pietismo, pity, pride, saint augustine, sant'agostino, secolo, sguardo, sideshow, storia, storpio, wunderkammer La Morgue, yesterday and today Regarding the Western taboo about death, much has been written on how its “social removal” happened approximately in conjunction with WWI and the institution of great modern hospitals; still it would be more correct to talk about a removal and medicalization of the corpse. The subject of death, in fact, has been widely addressed throughout the Twentieth Century: a century which was heavily imbued with funereal meditations, on the account of its history of unprecedented violence. What has vanished from our daily lives is rather the presence of the dead bodies and, most of all, putrefaction. Up until the end of Nineteenth Century, the relationship with human remains was inevitable and accepted as a natural part of existence, not just in respect to the preparation of a body at home, but also in the actual experience of so-called unnatural deaths. One of the most striking examples of this familiarity with decomposition is the infamous Morgue in Paris. Established in 1804, to replace the depository for dead bodies which during the previous centuries was found in the prison of Grand Châtelet, the Morgue stood in the heart of the capital, on the île de la Cité. In 1864 it was moved to a larger building on the point of the island, right behind Notre Dame. The word had been used since the Fifteenth Century to designate the cell where criminals were identified; in jails, prisoners were put “at the morgue” to be recognized. Since the Sixteenth Century, the word began to refer exclusively to the place where identification of corpses was carried out. Due to the vast number of violent deaths and of bodies pulled out of the Seine, this mortuary was constantly filled with new “guests”, and soon transcended its original function. The majority of visitors, in fact, had no missing relatives to recognize. The first ones to have different reasons to come and observe the bodies, which were laid out on a dozen black marble tables behind a glass window, were of course medical students and anatomists. This receptacle for the unknown dead found in Paris and the faubourgs of the city, contributes not a little to the forwarding of the medical sciences, by the vast number of bodies it furnishes, which, on an average, amount to about two hundred annually. The process of decomposition in the human body may be seen at La Morgue, throughout every stage to solution, by those whose taste, or pursuit of science, leads them to that melancholy exhibition. Medical men frequently visit the place, not out of mere curiosity, but for the purpose of medical observation, for wounds, fracturs, and injuries of every description occasionally present themselves, as the effect of accident or murder. Scarcely a day passes without the arrival of fresh bodies, chiefly found in the Seine, and very probably murdered, by being flung either out of the windows which overhang the Seine river, or off the bridges, or out of the wine and wood-barges, by which the men who sell the cargoes generally return with money in their pockets […]. The clothes of the dead bodies brought into this establishment are hung up, and the corpse is exposed in a public room for inspection of those who visit the place for the purpose of searching for a lost friend or relative. Should it not be recognised in four days, it is publicly dissected, and then buried. (R. Sears, Scenes and sketches in continental Europe, 1847) This descripton is, however, much too “clean”. Despite the precautions taken to keep the bodies at low temperature, and to bathe them in chloride of lime, the smell was far from pleasant: For most of the XIX Century, and even from an earlier time, the smell of cadavers was part of the routine in the Morgue. Because of its purpose and mode of operation, the Morgue was the privileged place for cadaveric stench in Paris […]. In fact, the bodies that had stayed in the water constituted the ordinary reality at the Morgue. Their putrefaction was especially spectacular. (B. Bertherat, Le miasme sans la jonquille, l’odeur du cadavre à la Morgue de Paris au XIXe siècle, in Imaginaire et sensibilités au XIXe siècle, Créaphis, 2005) What is curious (and quite incomprehensible) for us today is how the Morgue could soon become one of the trendiest Parisian attractions. A true theatre of death, a public exhibition of horror, each day it was visited by dozens of people of all backgrounds, as it certainly offered the thrill of a unique sight. It was a must for tourists visiting the capital, as proven by the diaries of the time: We left the Louvre and went to the Morgue where three dead bodies lay waiting identification. They were a horrible sight. In a glass case one child that had been murdered, its face pounded fearfully. (Adelia “Addie” Sturtevant‘s diary, September 17, 1889) The most enlightening description comes from the wonderful and terrible pages devoted to the mortuary by Émile Zola. His words evoke a perfect image of the Morgue experience in XIX Century: In the meantime Laurent imposed on himself the task of passing each morning by the Morgue, on the way to his office. […]When he entered the place an unsavoury odour, an odour of freshly washed flesh, disgusted him and a chill ran over his skin: the dampness of the walls seemed to add weight to his clothing, which hung more heavily on his shoulders. He went straight to the glass separating the spectators from the corpses, and with his pale face against it, looked. Facing him appeared rows of grey slabs, and upon them, here and there, the naked bodies formed green and yellow, white and red patches. While some retained their natural condition in the rigidity of death, others seemed like lumps of bleeding and decaying meat. At the back, against the wall, hung some lamentable rags, petticoats and trousers, puckered against the bare plaster. […] Frequently, the flesh on the faces had gone away by strips, the bones had burst through the mellow skins, the visages were like lumps of boned, boiled beef. […] One morning, he was seized with real terror. For some moments, he had been looking at a corpse, taken from the water, that was small in build and atrociously disfigured. The flesh of this drowned person was so soft and broken-up that the running water washing it, carried it away bit by bit. The jet falling on the face, bored a hole to the left of the nose. And, abruptly, the nose became flat, the lips were detached, showing the white teeth. The head of the drowned man burst out laughing. Zola further explores the ill-conealed erotic tension such a show could provoke in visitors, both men and women. A liminal zone — the boundaries between Eros and Thanatos — which for our modern sensibility is even more “dangerous”. This sight amused him, particularly when there were women there displaying their bare bosoms. These nudities, brutally exposed, bloodstained, and in places bored with holes, attracted and detained him. Once he saw a young woman of twenty there, a child of the people, broad and strong, who seemed asleep on the stone. Her fresh, plump, white form displayed the most delicate softness of tint. She was half smiling, with her head slightly inclined on one side. Around her neck she had a black band, which gave her a sort of necklet of shadow. She was a girl who had hanged herself in a fit of love madness. […] On a certain occasion Laurent noticed one of the [well-dressed ladies] standing at a few paces from the glass, and pressing her cambric handkerchief to her nostrils. She wore a delicious grey silk skirt with a large black lace mantle; her face was covered by a veil, and her gloved hands seemed quite small and delicate. Around her hung a gentle perfume of violet. She stood scrutinising a corpse. On a slab a few paces away, was stretched the body of a great, big fellow, a mason who had recently killed himself on the spot by falling from a scaffolding. He had a broad chest, large short muscles, and a white, well-nourished body; death had made a marble statue of him. The lady examined him, turned him round and weighed him, so to say, with her eyes. For a time, she seemed quite absorbed in the contemplation of this man. She raised a corner of her veil for one last look. Then she withdrew. Finally, the Morgue was also an ironically democratic attraction, just like death itself: The morgue is a sight within reach of everybody, and one to which passers-by, rich and poor alike, treat themselves. The door stands open, and all are free to enter. There are admirers of the scene who go out of their way so as not to miss one of these performances of death. If the slabs have nothing on them, visitors leave the building disappointed, feeling as if they had been cheated, and murmuring between their teeth; but when they are fairly well occupied, people crowd in front of them and treat themselves to cheap emotions; they express horror, they joke, they applaud or whistle, as at the theatre, and withdraw satisfied, declaring the Morgue a success on that particular day. Laurent soon got to know the public frequenting the place, that mixed and dissimilar public who pity and sneer in common. Workmen looked in on their way to their work, with a loaf of bread and tools under their arms. They considered death droll. Among them were comical companions of the workshops who elicited a smile from the onlookers by making witty remarks about the faces of each corpse. They styled those who had beenburnt to death, coalmen; the hanged, the murdered, the drowned, the bodies that had been stabbed or crushed, excited their jeering vivacity, and their voices, which slightly trembled, stammered out comical sentences amid the shuddering silence of the hall. (É. Zola, Thérèse Raquin, 1867) In the course of its activity, the Morgue was only sporadically criticized, and only for its position, deemed too central. The curiosity in seeing the bodies was evidently not perceived as morbid, or at least it was not considered particularly improper: articles on the famous mortuary and its dead residents made regular appearance on newspapers, which gladly devoted some space to the most mysterious cases. On March 15, 1907 the Morgue was definitively closed to the public, for reasons of “moral hygiene”. Times were already changing: in just a few years Europe was bound to know such a saturation of dead bodies that they could no longer be seen as an entertainment. And yet, the desire and impulse to observe the signs of death on the human body never really disappeared. Today they survive in the virtual morgues of internet websites offering pictures and videos of accidents and violence. Distanced by a computer screen, rather than the ancient glass wall, contemporary visitors wander through these hyperrealistic mortuaries where bodily frailness is articulated in all its possible variations, witnesses to death’s boundless imagination. The most striking thing, when surfing these bulletin boards where the obscene is displayed as in a shop window, is seeing how users react. In this extreme underground scene (which would make an interesting object for a study in social psychology) a wide array of people can be found, from the more or less casual visitor in search of a thrill, up to the expert “gorehounds”, who seem to collect these images like trading cards and who, with every new posted video, act smart and discuss its technical and aesthetic quality. Perhaps in an attempt to exorcise the disgust, another constant is the recourse to an unpleasant and out-of-place humor; and it is impossible to read these jokes, which might appear indecent and disrespectful, without thinking of those “comical companions” described by Zola, who jested before the horror. Aggregators of brutal images might entail a discussion on freedom of information, on the ethics and licitness of exhibiting human remains, and we could ask ourselves if they really serve an “educational” purpose or should be rather viewed as morbid, abnormal, pathological deviations. Yet such fascinations are all but unheard of: it seems to me that this kind of curiosity is, in a way, intrinsic to the human species, as I have argued in the past. On closer inspection, this is the same autoptic instinct, the same will to “see with one’s own eyes” that not so long ago (in our great-great-grandfathers’ time) turned the Paris Morgue into a sortie en vogue, a popular and trendy excursion. The new virtual morgues constitute a niche and, when compared to the crowds lining up to see the swollen bodies of drowning victims, our attitude is certainly more complex. As we’ve said in the beginning, there is an element of taboo which was much less present at the time. To our eyes the corpse still remains an uneasy, scandalous reality, sometimes even too painful to acknowledge. And yet, consciously or not, we keep going back to fixing our eyes on it, as if it held a mysterious secret. 35 Comments Posted in MondoMacabro Tagged '800, annegato, autopsia, autopsy, body, cadaver, cadavere, century, corpo, corpse, curiosità, curiosity, dead, death, drown, foto, gorehounds, grand chatelet, history, human remains, ile de la cité, internet, medicalization, medicalizzazione, medicina, medicine, moda, morbid, morbosa, morgue, morte, morti, mortuary, obitorio, parigi, paris, photo, picture, recognize, removal, resti umani, riconoscimento, rimozione, salma, secolo, seine, senna, sick, siti, storia, therese raquin, tourism, turismo, video, vogue, websites, XIX, zola The premature babies of Coney Island Once upon a time on the circus or carnival midway, among the smell of hot dogs and the barkers’ cries, spectators could witness some amazing side attractions, from fire-eaters to bearded ladies, from electric dancers to the most exotic monstrosities (see f.i. some previous posts here and here). Beyond our fascination for a time of naive wonder, there is another less-known reason for which we should be grateful to old traveling fairs: among the readers who are looking at this page right now, almost one out of ten is alive thanks to the sideshows. This is the strange story of how amusement parks, and a visionary doctor’s stubbornness, contributed to save millions of human lives. Until the end of XIX Century, premature babies had little or no chance of survival. Hospitals did not have neonatal units to provide efficient solutions to the problem, so the preemies were given back to their parents to be taken home — practically, to die. In all evidence, God had decided that those babies were not destined to survive. In 1878 a famous Parisian obstetrician, Dr. Étienne Stéphane Tarnier, visited an exhibition called Jardin d’Acclimatation which featured, among other displays, a new method for hatching poultry in a controlled, hydraulic heated environment, invented by a Paris Zoo keeper; immediately the doctor thought he could test that same system on premature babies and commissioned a similar box, which allowed control of the temperature of the newborn’s environment. After the first positive experimentations at the Maternity Hospital in Paris, the incubator was soon equipped with a bell that rang whenever the temperature went too high. The doctor’s assistant, Pierre Budin, further developed the Tarnier incubator, on one hand studying how to isolate and protect the frail newborn babies from infectious disease, and on the other the correct quantities and methods of alimentation. Despite the encouraging results, the medical community still failed to recognize the usefulness of incubators. This skepticism mainly stemmed from a widespread mentality: as mentioned before, the common attitude towards premature babies was quite fatalist, and the death of weaker infants was considered inevitable since the most ancient times. Thus Budin decided to send his collaborator, Dr. Martin Couney, to the 1896 World Exhibition in Berlin. Couney, our story’s true hero, was an uncommon character: besides his knowledge as an obstetrician, he had a strong charisma and true showmanship; these virtues would prove fundamental for the success of his mission, as we shall see. Couney, with the intent of creating a bit of a fuss in order to better spread the news, had the idea of exhibiting live premature babies inside his incubators. He had the nerve to ask Empress Augusta Victoria herself for permission to use some infants from the Charity Hospital in Berlin. He was granted the favor, as the newborn babies were destined to a certain death anyway. But none of the infants lodged inside the incubators died, and Couney’s exhibition, called Kinderbrutanstalt (“child hatchery”) immediately became the talk of the town. This success was repeated the following year in London, at Earl’s Court Exhibition (scoring 3600 visitors each day), and in 1898 at the Trans-Mississippi Exhibition in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1900 he came back to Paris for the World Exhibition, and in 1901 he attended the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY. The incubators building in Buffalo. The incubators at the Buffalo Exhibition. But in the States Couney met an even stronger resistence to accept this innovation, let alone implementing it in hospitals. It must be stressed that although he was exhibiting a medical device, inside the various fairs his incubator stand was invariably (and much to his disappointment) confined to the entertainment section rather than the scientific section. Maybe this was the reason why in 1903 Couney took a courageous decision. If Americans thought incubators were just some sort of sideshow stunt, well then, he would give them the entertainment they wanted. But they would have to pay for it. Couney definitively moved to New York, and opened a new attraction at Coney Island amusement park. For the next 40 years, every summer, the doctor exhibited premature babies in his incubators, for a quarter dollar. Spectators flowed in to contemplate those extremely underweight babies, looking so vulnerable and delicate as they slept in their temperate glass boxes. “Oh my, look how tiny!“, you could hear the crowd uttering, as people rolled along the railing separating them from the aisle where the incubators were lined up. In order to accentuate the minuscule size of his preemies, Couney began resorting to some tricks: if the baby wasn’t small enough, he would add more blankets around his little body, to make him look tinier. Madame Louise Recht, a nurse who had been by Couney’s side since the very first exhibitions in Paris, from time to time would slip her ring over the babies’ hands, to demonstrate how thin their wrists were: but in reality the ring was oversized even for the nurse’s fingers. Madame Louise Recht with a newborn baby. Preemie wearing on his wrist the nurse’s sparkler. Couney’s enterprise, which soon grew into two separate incubation centers (one in Luna Park and the other in Dreamland), could seem quite cynical today. But it actually was not. All the babies hosted in his attractions had been turned down by city hospitals, and given back to the parents who had no hope of saving them; the “Doctor Incubator” promised families that he would treat the babies without any expense on their part, as long as he could exhibit the preemies in public. The 25 cents people paid to see the newborn babies completely covered the high incubation and feeding expenses, even granting a modest profit to Couney and his collaborators. This way, parents had a chance to see their baby survive without paying a cent, and Couney could keep on raising awareness about the importance and effectiveness of his method. Couney did not make any race distinction either, exhibiting colored babies along with white babies — an attitude that was quite rare at the beginning of the century in America. Among the “guests” displayed in his incubators, was at one point Couney’s own premature daughter, Hildegarde, who later became a nurse and worked with her father on the attraction. Nurses with babies at Flushing World Fair, NY. At the center is Couney’s daughter, Hildegarde. Besides his two establishments in Coney Island (one of which was destroyed during the 1911 terrible Dreamland fire), Couney continued touring the US with his incubators, from Chicago to St. Louis, to San Francisco. In forty years, he treated around 8000 babies, and saved at least 6500; but his endless persistence in popularizing the incubator had much lager effects. His efforts, on the long run, contributed to the opening of the first neonatal intensive care units, which are now common in hospitals all around the world. After a peak in popularity during the first decades of the XX Century, at the end of the 30s the success of Couney’s incubators began to decrease. It had become an old and trite attraction. When the first premature infant station opened at Cornell’s New York Hospital in 1943, Couney told his nephew: “my work is done“. After 40 years of what he had always considered propaganda for a good cause, he definitively shut down his Coney Island enterprise. 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__label__wiki	0.773792	0.773792	Sundance 2013: THE WAY, WAY BACK Review by Matt Goldberg January 22, 2013 In their directorial debut, The Way, Way Back, writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash show they’re incredibly adept at humor. They know how to tell a good joke, push the envelope without being mean-spirited, and find the right actors to deliver the comedy. Unfortunately, a film has to put story and characters before comedy, and the film fails where it matters most. Faxon and Rash put a painfully bland character at the center of their movie, and then try to convince us that anyone would help the uninteresting protagonist. Surrounded by one-dimensional characters and a predictable plot, The Way, Way Back can tell a joke, but has difficulty doing anything else. Duncan (Liam James) is being dragged to the beach house of his mom’s mean-spirited boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell). Duncan seems content to quietly and sullenly endure the summer, but his mom, Pam (Toni Collette), is intent on dragging him around so he can spend time with Trent’s friends Kip (Rob Corddry) and Joan (Amanda Peet), and their drunken, comically inappropriate neighbor, Betty (Allison Janney). The morose 14-year-old manages to break free when he comes into the orbit of the freewheeling Owen (Sam Rockwell), who helps give the kid some much needed confidence by hiring him to work at the water park, Water Wizz. The biggest problem in The Way, Way Back is that we simply don’t want to root for Duncan. Faxon and Rash clearly want us on the kid’s side. We’re supposed to want him to fight back against Trent, get together with his attractive neighbor Susanna (AnnaSophia Robb), and have the best summer ever. If they hoped to accomplish this, then they should have cast a more sympathetic lead and spent less time watching him mope around. Furthermore, they fail to give Duncan an ounce of potential. We’re left to wonder what Owen and Susanna could possibly see in Duncan. He’s got as much presence as a deck chair except deck chairs are useful. He doesn’t seem nice or mean or much of anything. But the plot demands that a colorful character like Owen transform the lump of a person into the cool kid. Rockwell almost makes it work. The magic of Sam Rockwell is that he can play the same character so many times, and make it feel fresh every time. Rockwell is once again playing a fast-talking, quick-witted, slightly sleazy, but still endearing rogue, but the actor gets the biggest laughs in the movie. He has instant chemistry with anyone on screen, and when we see him do his thing, it’s easy to forget the character’s unimaginative and predictable purpose. Faxon and Rash even attempt to give Owen his own conflict regarding his feelings for his co-worker (Maya Rudolph), but that subplot is so underdeveloped that it’s rendered meaningless. The Way, Way Back is Owen’s story, and it’s not a particularly interesting one. Faxon and Rash are constantly adding window dressing, but never put their emphasis on making Duncan a compelling character. They have Steve Carell playing against type, but it’s a novelty that quickly wears off, and the character offers no surprises nor does he elicit any sympathy. He’s simply a bad guy who’s wrong for Pam. Janney is given the freedom to chew the scenery like crazy, but there’s no reason to complain when she’s providing some of the movie’s best moments. But it all comes back to character and plot, and The Way, Way Back doesn’t have enough of either. Even the jokes only come from a handful of characters, and when they’re off screen, we’re still stuck with dull old Duncan. We know how his summer is going to end, and rather than coming off as an 80s throwback, Faxon and Rash’s film simply feels stale. The Way, Way Back does have laughs, but it needs more than comedy to develop into the charming and heartwarming crowd-pleaser it aims to be. Rating: C- Click here for all our Sundance 2013 coverage. Click on the corresponding links for my previous reviews: Before Midnight Computer Chess Don Jon’s Addiction The Gatekeepers Inequality for All The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete The Lifeguard This Is Martin Bonner Twenty Feet from Stardom Who Is Dayani Cristal? Sundance 2013: UPSTREAM COLOR Review IRON MAN 3 Opens Internationally in IMAX 3D Starting April 25th • 2013 Sundance Film Festival • Allison Janney • Jim Rash • Liam James • Maya Rudolph • Movie Review • Nat Faxon • Review • Sam Rockwell • Steve Carell • Sundance • Sundance 2013 • Sundance Film Festival • The Way Way Back • Toni Collette	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.706913	0.293087	Knoppix 2017, 3g модем билайн прошивка zte mf 100 KNOPPIX is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD This page was last edited on 22 February 2017, at 05:15. Try Acronis True Image 2017 and find out why it’s the best backup software available. New Generation features now available! Easy local cloud backup. Below are steps describing how I used Knoppix Linux to fix the dreaded Windows XP ‘Error Message: Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager. Popular Alternatives to BartPE for Windows, Winbuilder, Linux, Mac, Windows Preinstallation Environment and more. Explore 20 apps like BartPE, all suggested. DistroWatch.com is sponsored by : News/Opinions/Reviews Release Announcements News and Headlines DistroWatch Weekly News/Article Search Upcoming Releases Opinion. Adriane Knoppix is a variation that is intended for blind and visually impaired people, which can be used entirely without vision oriented output devices. The ultimate open source software list, including games to website editors, office tools to education – over 1,300 open source software applications. By Swapnil Bhartiya, star Thought Leader, CIO Feb 7, 2017 9:35 AM PT Knoppix played a big role in the adoption of Linux on the desktop because new users. Here are the latest articles published on Tom’s Hardware. See the latest news, reviews and roundups and access our tech archives. Just in time for CeBIT 2017 (20.-24.3.2017 in Hannover/Germany), KNOPPIX version 8.0 has been released exclusively in the current German DELUG edition. Knoppix is a bootable live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support. Just in time for CeBIT 2017 (20.-24.3.2017 in Hannover/Germany), KNOPPIX version 8.0 has been released exclusively in the current German DELUG edition of Linux Magazine. Hello World! We can finally announce that the stable version of DEFT Zero is available! DEFT Zero is a light version of Deft specifically designed to the forensic. Knoppix 7.7.1. KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software. KNOPPIX This is a list of Linux distributions that can be run entirely from the computer's RAM. That ability Retrieved 7 January 2017. Jump up ^ "Alpine Linux: Overview - Alpine Linux". alpinelinux.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017. Jump up ^ " Arudius". freshmeat.net. In this Post, Get the Best Linux Distributions (Distros) for Beginners to Advanced users from Gaming to Hacking. Here, We have collected and filtered Jan 27, 2017 Knoppix is the distribution that actually popularized the concept of Live distributions. It allows users to run the fully functional operating system. Version: 7.2.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2017-03-29 Votes: 1: Because I needed light distro I could not use DVD version of current KNOPPIX, which is above 4GB. So, I stayed. Knoppix Discussion and Support Forum. 04-27-2017, 11:11 AM Once you have installed Knoppix, it basicly becomes debian, so you should check out. Фильм онлайн в хорошем качестве 2012 спартак война проклятых Кино с торрента чужая жизнь Тему трон наследие на андроид Клиент с модами дивайн рпг Программы для вырезания музыки из фильмов Тормозят фильмы bdrip Самый лучшие антивирусы Дилетанты сериал Сериал беременна в 16 2 сезон русская версия Инструкцию к pioneer xr a4900 Карты для майнкрафт для 1 6 2 на прохождение	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line82
__label__cc	0.527243	0.472757	Millennium 101 Sky Talk Shop Scientifics Return Flight from the Moon On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 reached the Moon. Millions watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the surface. The United States had reached the Moon before the Soviet Union, and the first part of President Kennedy’s objective to the nation, of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth,” had been fulfilled. Now the three-man crew needed to get home. Image courtesy of jsc.nasa.gov After jettisoning the Lunar Module Eagle shortly before leaving lunar orbit and intentionally breaking off from the Service Module during the beginning of reentry, all that remained of the Apollo 11 craft was the Command Module Columbia, a truncated cone shorter than 11 feet in height (the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 into space was over 300 feet tall). Columbia served as the crew quarters for the entire flight and housed most of the spacecraft systems, including the Earth Landing System. Michael Collins had stayed aboard Columbia in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin used Eagle to explore the Moon’s surface. Columbia would have to put up with great temperature change during the mission; from the heat of launching from the earth’s surface to the cold of space, to taking on the direct heat of the sun, as well as the extreme heat of reentry. The temperatures would range between 280 degrees below zero and 5000 degrees above. To combat the temperature extremes, an ablative heat shield was used around the entire command module. The heat shield was designed to melt and erode away with the rising temperatures, taking the heat with it. This heat shield was also covered with Kapton tape for added insulation. Developed by DuPont, Kapton is a polyimide film that is capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and hold up in these conditions. Kapton material was also used on the lunar module, as well as the astronauts’ spacesuits. Kapton is still used today for microelectronics, including flexible electronics and smartphones. The chemical structure of Kapton. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. As Columbia reentered the Earth’s atmosphere, it would appear on the outside as if the module was in a ball of flame, but on the inside, the astronauts were safely protected from the heat as it was repelled away with the melting shield. Columbia dropped into the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969, just before dawn local time. All three astronauts returned safely to the Earth. While a lot of the heat shield and Kapton material burned up, a fair amount of it did survive reentry. Limited quantities of Kapton foil from the lunar missions have been known to go on sale. Interested buyers are always encouraged to make sure such items include certificates of authenticity when looking to own a little piece of history. It’s a marvel of technological advancement that such a thin reflective foil could make the difference between life and death for these intrepid explorers. A collectible remnant of the Kapton foil from the Apollo 11 Command Module, which includes Certificate of Authenticity. Available for a limited time at Edmund Scientifics. -B. P. Stoyle Scientifics Direct, Inc. Posted by Scientifics Direct Tags: apollo 11 kapton moon nasa Inside Scientific Direct Space Talk Tumblelog Word Search Wednesday SkyTalk July \| Moon Day! SkyTalk June \| It’s Jupiter By Jove! SkyTalk May \| Astronomy Clubs & Astronomy Day SkyTalk April \| A Celestial Compass, Calendar & Clock SkyTalk March \| The Amazing Beehive Cluster	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line85
__label__wiki	0.791758	0.791758	Trade-A-Plane Blog – Aviation News & Information Piston, Helicopters, Jets & Turbines The Best of the Aircraft Industry News, Products, & Events Trade-A-Plane Blog - Aviation News & Information… \| Events \| Ocean City Air Show Brings Wild Blue Yonder to… Ocean City Air Show Brings Wild Blue Yonder to the Beach June 8-10 The precision flying of the Thunderbirds will be on display at the OC Air Show, beginning Friday, June 9. From daredevil stuntmen to some of the top pilots in the U.S. Air Force, the OC Air Show is a pure and awesome atmospheric spectacle. The event began in 2008, after Bryan Lilley, now president of the OC Air Show, took in a similar event in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "It was the first beachfront air show I ever saw," he recalled. "I emailed then city manager Dennis Dare to ask if they had ever considered a beachfront air show there. He responded that they had always wanted to host one but never had been able to get one started. We met with the mayor and (town) council and got permission to move forward, and the inaugural OC Air Show took place June 10-11, 2008." An annual highlight of the show is the precision splendor of the Thunderbirds. "It's our fifth anniversary, and we're thrilled to have the Thunderbirds back," said Lilley. "This is the first year we have two jet teams -- one military, one civilian -- performing for the crowd. Their routines are vastly different from each other so it's an impressive sight to see both at one show." The 2011 Freestyle Aerobatic World Champion Rob Holland and former Red Bull Air Racer Mike Goulian will also perform. The OC Air Show can be viewed free from the beach, and premium seating is available in the Drop Zone, Clubhouse Chalet and in the rooftop VIP Penthouse of the Quality Inn. "I think it's hard not to come away with a sense of patriotism and awe for the men and women of our armed forces," Lilley said. "We have an impressive display of our military aircraft, and they are being flown by some of the bravest pilots who put their lives on the line for our freedom. And the precision of the jumpers and the aerobatic pilots takes your breath away." Source: Josh Davis http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120607/ENTERTAINMENT10/206080314/Ocean-City-Air-Show-brings-wild-blue-yonder-beach-June-8-10?odyssey=nav\|head Aerobatic Flying, Air Force, Air Show, Thunderbirds Boeing Unveils Hydrogen-Powered Drone That Can Stay Airborne For Days Train as a Wing Walker at Wickenby's 70th Birthday Airshow	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line87
__label__cc	0.65926	0.34074	APIC Public Policy Agenda Antibiotic Stewardship Certification: The Defining Difference Eliminating HAIs Federal Funding Priorities Mandatory Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination Using Data to Prevent HAIs Protect Infection Prevention Funding Show your support for vaccines Update Hospital Conditions of Participation Join the VIP Action eList Regulatory Table Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Health and Human Services (HHS) National Quality Forum (NQF) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) APIC Homepage FDA finalizes requirements for anthrax diagnostic devices The FDA has classified in vitro diagnostic devices for the detection of Bacillus bacteria into class II (moderate-risk) with special controls, which means the agency will continue to require a 510(k) premarket notification for these devices. Bacillus bacteria detection devices are prescription devices that provide a preliminary identification of Bacillus anthracis and other Bacillus species to help diagnose cases of anthrax and other diseases caused by Bacillus bacteria. These devices were previously unclassified. APIC Advocacy - Speaking with One Voice Join the APIC Action E-List! Provide us with your email address, and we'll let you know about upcoming engagements. Urge CMS to take action on Antibiotic Stewardship Although infection control was elevated to a Medicare Condition of Participation (CoP) in 1986, it has essentially been unchanged for more than 30 years. Urge CMS to finalize the proposed revisions to Medicare hospital CoPs. As demonstrated by the multiple measles outbreaks around the country, misinformation about vaccines is becoming a major issue. Contact your member of the House of Representatives and tell them to support House Resolution 179. Protect Healthcare Funding The federal budget process is in full swing. The President has requested a $12 billion cut to HHS funding and the House of Representatives has requested a small increase. Will you have your voice heard?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line99
__label__wiki	0.81781	0.81781	Preview: Maine Maine Black Bears Record: 2-11-2 Series Record: 7-6-2 Cornell December 30, 2010; 3-2 OT Maine In the last meeting between the two host schools of the Florida College Classic, Cornell and Maine met in the consolation game. In case no one else recalls the 2010-11 season, it was one where Cornell had four wins total in the first half of the season. This game was the last loss for the first half before Cornell went on a tear, won a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, making it to the championship final. Both teams failed to make the NCAA Tournament that year, but it marked a turnaround for a struggling Cornell team. Notable scorers included now-seniors Nick D'Agostino with a goal and Greg Miller with the assist. To say that Maine has been struggling would be a huge understatement. Last year, Maine was the Hockey East runner-up, making it to the NCAA Tournament before losing to Minnesota-Duluth. This year could not have started more differently. Maine has two wins in the first half, against Army and UMass-Lowell. Two total wins on the first half. Eleven losses and two ties complete the record for the Black Bears that own a winning percentage at approximately 0.200 for the season so far. They will be looking to turn around their record this weekend at Estero. Keys to the Game: Maine is an abysmal 7.0% on the power play. The only team behind them in the country is Harvard. In addition to this, Maine is one of the most penalized teams in the country, coming in at fourth in overall penalty minutes per game. Their penalty kill on the other hand is middling at 83.3%. Cornell is going to need to capitalize on the penalty opportunities it will be afforded and not take for granted the even-strength opportunities it gets. Historical Dimensions: Maine is a co-sponsor of the Florida College Hockey Classic along with Cornell. The name of the Cup associated with winning the championship is the Ned Harkness Cup after Cornell's legendary coach. The MVP of the tournament is named in honor of Shawn Walsh, the Maine coach who led the Black Bears to two national championships. Maine and Cornell have won four and three Harkness Cups respectively over the eleven times the tournament has been held. Other winners include St. Cloud State, Boston College, Northern Michigan, and UMass-Lowell. The last year that Cornell won was 2008, with goaltender Ben Scrivens receiving the MVP Award. Maine won the inaugural tournament (then called the Everblades College Classic), having also won last year's match, beating UMass for the Cup. This tournament is the only winter tournament that will be host to four teams who competed in the NCAA Tournament the previous year. Not only is that true, but both first-round matchups were rematches of games in the Tournament last year. Maine lost to Minnesota-Duluth in the first round while Cornell lost to Ferris State in the Midwest Regional Final. Maine often wins the year after Cornell does and vice versa. Never once has a team won back-to-back Harkness Cups, so should Maine defeat Cornell, it will be the first time in the history of the Florida College Hockey Classic. Preview: Ferris State Series Record: 1-3-0 Ferris State leads The last meeting of the Bulldogs of Ferris State and the Big Red is a memorable one, especially for Ferris State. In Ferris State's last season, the school had a Cinderella-story run through the tournament. In only their second NCAA tournament appearance, Ferris State opened up the Midwest Regional Semifinal to beat a hurting Denver team. Cornell had just upset Michigan the same night and the bracket led both teams to play for a coveted spot in the Frozen Four. Ferris had the better of Cornell after an incredibly hard-fought game which did not see scoring until the third period. Ferris State put a goal on the scoreboard first, just 11 seconds into the period on a power play, but Cornell quickly followed with a goal by Dustin Mowrey from Gotovets, just over a minute after the first goal was scored. Ferris would get the eventual game winner almost seven minutes into the period when a broken stick caused Cornell to be short-handed on the Ferris goal. Ferris State played another ECAC team in the national semifinal matchup, Union College. Ferris beat Union to advance to the national championship game against a heavily favored Boston College team. The Cinderella Story would end just one win away from completing the run, when Ferris lost to the Eagles 4-1. This season sees Ferris State as a national runner-up who was not given the credit to get back there. Ferris State began the season at Troy, NY where they suffered a disappointing series, losing and tying RPI. The season has been up and down from there. A far cry from the overall record of last season (26-12-5), their 7-7-3 record is not quite as dismal as it could be, having played conference powerhouses already this season. However, if Ferris State wishes to pull out another at-large bid, they are going to have to turn back on the winning nature of last season. Currently, Ferris is on a 4-game winless streak, tying the second game against Michigan and losing to Western Michigan and Michigan State. The Bulldogs will need more than one win this weekend at the Florida College Hockey Classic if they wish to remain at or above .500. The Bulldogs's biggest problem seems to be splitting rather than sweeping weekends. The only team that Ferris State has swept this season has been Bowling Green. On the other hand, Ferris is a very hard team to sweep. They have only been swept one weekend this year, by Western Michigan. Ferris looks to break its winless streak against Cornell in the first game at Estero. Ferris State is not typically an offensive power house. They are defensively sound and play a game more similar to Cornell than not. This was seen last year in the regional final. Cornell this year is offensively potent and when it scores more than one goal, it often wins. The same can be said for Ferris. It typically wins by small margins (excepting the 5-0 rout at Michigan), and losses have not been by more than two goals (excepting the one 4-1 loss to St. Cloud). The game will be tight and Cornell will need to be ready to play a close game. While the goaltender Cornell faced (Nelson) has since graduated, Ferris State's starter is a sophomore with a 0.927 save percentage. He has played a vast majority of minutes and has recorded all wins and losses this season. Their PK/PP units are to be watched as well. Ferris has the 27th best penalty kill in the nation while their power play unit is an impressive 7. Cornell will need to be extremely vigilant on the penalty kill against this Ferris State team. Ferris State and Cornell have not faced often, but there is something familiar about Ferris State. RPI head coach Seth Appert is a Ferris State alumnus, having graduated in '97. Appert's wins this year may not be plentiful, but he knew how to take down a Ferris team early in the season, just coming off a national championship appearance. More interesting is the fact that the Florida College Classic is the only winter college hockey tournament where all four teams involved were invited to the NCAA Tournament. Ferris State, Cornell, Minnesota-Duluth, and Maine. Even more interesting, both first-round games are rematches of tournament games from last year. Minnesota-Duluth played Maine in the first round of the NCAA tournament, beating them 5-2 in Worcester while Cornell and Ferris played one another in the regional finals leading to a 2-1 Ferris State victory. It will be interesting to see what has changed in the past year and what has stayed the same. Pedantic Pairwise Prognostication: End of December 2012 And now back to our regularly scheduled PPP. Here is what other teams have done since Cornell has been on its December break. December 5th was the last PPP that was up and a LOT has happened since then. Date of Game Against Cornell: December 28 Analysis: Ferris State was on an upswing last we checked on them. Since then they dropped a series to a tough Western Michigan team and lost 3-1 to Michigan State. They will be looking for a win this Friday in Estero. Key PWR Points: Tie with RPI, win and tie with Mercyhurst, splits with Alaska, Miami, and Lake Superior State, a sweep over Bowling Green, a win and tie with Michigan. Date of Possible Game Against Cornell: December 29 Analysis: Maine has not had much luck with the pucks this season. They still have a total of two wins and two ties this season after playing an incredibly tight game against a BU team which has toppled two number one teams. Maine goes into Estero wanting a sweep badly if they want to finish the season with a .500 record. Key PWR Points: Win over Army, split with UMass-Lowell, a tie with UMass, and a tie (and loss) with Vermont. Minnesota-Duluth Analysis: Duluth split with Bemidji, and then played Alaska Anchorage to a convincing win on Friday and a closer game on Saturday to complete the sweep. They will want to keep the winning streak going in Estero. Key PWR Points: Split with Ohio State, split with Notre Dame, tie with Wisconsin, a tie (and loss) with North Dakota, split with St. Cloud, split with Bemidji, a win and tie with Michigan Tech, a sweep of Alaska Anchorage. Date of Games Against Cornell: January 4 and January 5 Analysis: Denver was on a slide last we looked at them, only pulling a single point out of a weekend against Wisconsin, a team which had very few wins on the year. The slide continued the next weekend when they tied and lost to North Dakota. To further that, they tied and lost to Bemidji the following weekend. Key PWR Points: Wins over Minnesota State, Michigan Tech, Air Force, UMass Lowell, Colorado College, a split with St. Cloud State, and a tie (and loss) against Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Bemidji. Colorado College Date of Games Against Cornell: October 26 and October 27 Result: 2-0 Cornell, 3-2 Cornell Analysis: Last we looked at them, the Tigers pulled a split out of North Dakota. Since then, they hosted Minnesota, losing and tying the Gophers. The following weekend they went out to St. Cloud and were swept. Colorado College looks to rebound against UNO after the first of the year. Key PWR Points: Air Force, Bemidji, Clarkson, Wisconsin, tie (and loss) against Minnesota. Date of Game Against Cornell: November 24 Result: 5-1 Cornell Analysis: The Wolverines are in desperate need of turning their losing record around to become the Michigan everyone speaks about with fear. The series against Ferris State was upsetting for Michigan fans, and in their last games before the GLI, Michigan took on the Broncos of Western Michigan, a team which has been doing well this year after their CCHA championship last year. The first game saw a Michigan loss, with a 4-1 final score. The second game saw something different. Instead of putting Rutledge or Racine in net, both of whom have been struggling in their freshmen year to find consistency, Berensen started third-string goalie, Janecyk. The result? Janecyk's first career shutout and a win for Michigan, 2-0. Is this the beginning of the turnaround for the Wolverines? The next time they will be in action is the GLI against Michigan Tech and then Michigan State or Western Michigan. We will have to wait to see. Key PWR Points: A split with Michigan State, tie over Northern Michigan, split with Miami, win over Bentley, split with RIT, win over Bowling Green, a tie (and loss) with Ferris State, and a split with Western Michigan. Good Evening, Hockey Fans: Week of December 4th Bardreau Named to the Preliminary World Juniors Roster Sophomore forward and Fairport native Cole Bardreau was named to the preliminary roster for the US National Junior Team. The final roster will be narrowed down to 7 defensemen and 13 forwards (currently there are 9 and 15 listed respectively). Bardreau attended the summer camp which was narrowed down from forty-some players. The camp is mid-December, beginning in the training camp for the New York Rangers, moving to Helsinki before the tournament begins in Russia on December 26th. A few more articles have been written on Bardreau as well: D&C Article; D&C Blog post; NCAA Article. There are a few other ECAC names on the list as well as players from across the NCAA and the CHL. Here's a look at the whole roster. Big Red Faceoff There was an excellent season-ending episode of Big Red Faceoff last night, and they even posted a clip of Cornell's own Jess Brown interviewing the team at Skate with the Big Red online. Check it out here if you missed it. Harvard Sucks...Again? On the heels of the departure of goaltender Michalek and the rumored departure of Max Everson, it appears that two more players have left the team as well, Mark Luzar and Patrick McNally. We are not sure exactly why all of them left, though Girard spoke to why without naming names. Either way, it will be a bit of a a struggle for the Crimson with four fewer players. Which Player Has Been on the Ice for A Goal in the Past 8 Games? Probably not the player you expect. Cornell SID Brandon Thomas posed the question on twitter, with guesses of Espo, D'Agostino, and Miller coming in. The unexpected answer? Freshman defenseman Reece Willcox. He has been on the ice for ten goals over the last eight games, tied with Joakim Ryan for the team high. Incredibly impressive effort from Willcox and the Big Red. Lady Rouge Roundup To top off the Big Red's fall semester of games, Cornell ventured to the North Country to take on ECAC foes Clarkson and St. Lawrence. They faced mixed results on the weekend but battled adversity to end the first half at 8-2 in the league and 10-3 overall. In the last edition of Lady Rouge Roundup before 2013, let's look at what went on this past weekend, where the league and nation stand, and what the Big Red have to look forward to in January. Last Weekend: Cornell headed to the North Country looking to rebound after a tight loss to Harvard. Cornell, ranked number 3 in the country, faced off first against number 2 Clarkson. The first period was a scoreless one where Cornell was uncharacteristically outshot by a 2-1 margin. In the second period, Clarkson opened up scoring just over five minutes into the second frame. Cornell answered it with an even-strength goal of their own, from Lauriane Rougeau assisted by Erin Barley-Maloney and Alyssa Gagliardi. The scoring was silenced until just over halfway through the third period when Clarkson took the lead and never looked back, with a power-play goal off of a ninth penalty on the Lady Rouge. The game was close and hard-fought with Cornell and Clarkson both putting 30 shots on net. Special teams seemed to make the difference in the game. Lauren Slebonick had a stellar game putting up an impressive save percentage of 0.933, making crucial saves for the Big Red when needed, especially on the penalty kill. St. Lawrence was a tough opponent the next night as the Big Red looked to snap their first back-to-back losing streak of the season when they entered Appleton on Saturday afternoon. The Big Red showed a lot of character fighting hard in the first period. Brianne Jenner was the first to score, almost nine minutes into the first period, assisted by Kelly Murray and Jill Saulnier. With just over two minutes remaining in the period, Anna Zorn forced a turnover in the SLU defensive zone in order to put the Big Red up 2-0. Just before the period reached its conclusion, St. Lawrence found the back of the net on a power-play opportunity to put them within striking distance as the period ended, 2-1 in Cornell's favor. The second period saw its only scoring by Jessica Campbell, fresh out of the sin bin, using her speed to her advantage to put the puck in, extending Cornell's lead to 3-1. SLU tried to come back in the third, but Cornell would have none of it, with Barley-Maloney scoring the empty netter 74 seconds before the end of regulation, assisted by Jenner and Campbell. It was a character win, with Cornell proving what a great team it was all around: impressive offense, defensive skill in the form of blocked shots all around, and reliable goaltending as always. It was a great way to end the first half of the season, with a win on the road and with fans eagerly awaiting the Boston games as well as January 15th, when the women host Syracuse in their first game at Lynah in two months. Where the League Stands Now: The ECAC is a little bit misleading to look at purely in terms of points. Each team in the league has played different numbers of games, with the Big Red, the Bobcats, the Tigers, and the Raiders playing 10, Clarkson and SLU at 8, Harvard and Dartmouth at 7, and Union, RPI, Brown, and Yale at 6. It is difficult to compare exactly who is first because Cornell has the most points, but has more losses than its closest opponents. So, let us look at where the teams left league play. The only team still undefeated in conference play is Harvard (7-0). Clarkson, who was undefeated in the league going into the weekend, dropped a game unexpectedly to Colgate. Cornell looked to be best poised to beat Clarkson going into the weekend, but a Colgate team (which Cornell beat by a cumulative score of 18-2) managed to drop a 2-1 decision to Colgate. The top of the league looks to be Harvard, Clarkson, and Cornell with Quinnipiac and St. Lawrence clawing their way up there as well. Could this be the first year in recent memory that Lynah doesn't host the ECAC finals? It is far too early to begin counting out the Lady Rouge. They have an excellent team with experience and enthusiasm. The Big Red will be come back building off this positive momentum when the season resumes in January. Current National Standings: Currently Cornell sits at number three in the polls and is in a three-way tie for third with Clarkson and BU in the Pairwise. The top ten in the polls presently are: Mercyhurst Three ECAC teams are in the top half of the top ten. When looking at which teams would make it in the tournament today via pairwise, we would have Minnesota, Harvard, Cornell, Clarkson, BU, Mercyhurst, BC, and North Dakota. Cornell sits amongst the top teams nationally in both polls and pairwise. What's Coming Up: This is the longest stretch of the season without games for the Lady Rouge. By the time games start up again, it will have been six weeks between games. The season starts up again with several non-conference games, two in Boston against Hockey East foes Northeastern and Boston College. Both should be tough, competitive games. The Big Red then host Syracuse mid-week before league play begins. The Big Red get another chance at Clarkson, this time in our own barn. League play continues through February with a late January tilt with CHA team Mercyhurst. Spring semester looks bright for the Big Red. Points (as of December 2nd) 19 - Jenner 18 - Saulnier 12 - Rougeau 10 - Woods 9 - Cudmore 8 - Fortino, Gagliardi 7 - Fulton, Murray 6 - Brown, Campbell 5 - Zorn 4 - Barley-Maloney, Leck, Poudrier 1 - Pittens, Richardson, Slebodnick Pedantic Pairwise Prognostication After this week, PPP will take a hiatus until just before the Florida College Hockey Classic in Estero, FL. Without further ado, here is this week's Pedantic Pairwise Prognostication. Analysis: The last time we looked at Ferris State, they swept Bowling Green on the road. In the interim, Ferris has only played one series: Michigan. Ferris seems on the up and up after their 5-0 victory over the Wolverines and their 3-3 comeback tie (loss in the shootout that only counts for CCHA points). They host Western Michigan and Michigan State before heading to Estero to take on the Big Red. Key PWR Points: Tie with RPI, win and tie with Mercyhurst, splits with Alaska, Miami, and Lake Superior State, a sweep over Bowling Green, and a win and tie with Michigan. Analysis: When we last left the Black Bears, main had two wins and a tie to their record. Since then, Maine hosted Vermont for a weekend series. Maine pulled one point out of the weekend, salvaging a tie with Vermont on the second night. The only game Maine plays before heading down to Estero, a match-up with BU which would be an impressive win should they pull it off and would provide nice momentum into the holiday tournament. Analysis: UMD has played two series since the last time we looked at them, a tough St. Cloud team and a fighting Michigan Tech team. They split with St. Cloud State and pulled a win and tie out of Michigan Tech, scoring a season-high seven points. Minnesota-Duluth takes on Bemidji State and Alaska Anchorage before heading down to Estero. Key PWR Points: Split with Ohio State, split with Notre Dame, tie with Wisconsin, a tie (and loss) with North Dakota, split with St. Cloud, and a win and tie with Michigan Tech. Analysis: When last we looked at Denver, they were ranked number two in the country and were tearing through hockey teams. That was before their last two weekends, against UNH, Yale, and Wisconsin. Denver has had two disappointing weekends, dropping games to UNH and Yale in one weekend and tying Wisconsin the first night and losing the second night. While the UNH win isn't surprising given their great record, the Yale win was. Yale is still largely untested nationally, but their win over Denver is impressive for Yale and almost embarrassing for Denver. The offensively potent team was only able to score a single goal on Yale. When Wisconsin visited, a team who had only one win prior to the match with their WCHA-foe, they held Denver to a single goal on the first night, skating to a 1-1 tie. The second night, Wisconsin pulled it out, with a final score of 3-1 against the Pioneers. Denver looks to right their mis-steps when they host North Dakota this weekend. Games they have coming up before Cornell visits Magnus Arena also include Bemidji State and Boston University. Key PWR Points: Wins over Minnesota State, Michigan Tech, Air Force, UMass Lowell, Colorado College, a split with St. Cloud State, and a tie (and loss) against Wisconsin. Analysis: When last we looked at CC, they dropped an emotional series to Denver. The next weekend they played UNH and Yale and managed a better outcome than their fellow Colorado team. They tied UNH but dropped their game to Yale. Last weekend CC hosted a tough North Dakota team and pulled a split out of them. CC looks to be back on their feet, but they have tough games coming up. They host Minnesota this weekend and St. Cloud State before the new year. Key PWR Points: Air Force, Bemidji, Clarkson, Wisconsin Analysis: The last time we looked at Michigan was when they were swept by Notre Dame. Since then, things haven't looked up as much as the Wolverines would like. They won their next outing when they hosted Bowling Green but dropped an embarrassing outing to Cornell at MSG 5-1. Last weekend they went out to Big Rapids to play Ferris State and only pulled a point out (plus the meaningless CCHA shootout point). Michigan needs to get its act together. Before the GLI, they host Western Michigan at Yost, hoping to go into the GLI (against Michigan Tech and then either Michigan State or Western Michigan) with a bit of momentum. Key PWR Points: A split with Michigan State, tie over Northern Michigan, split with Miami, win over Bentley, split with RIT, win over Bowling Green, and a tie (and loss) with Ferris State. Were the NCAA Tournament to Happen Today... While it is still early on in the season, what better time than while the Big Red are on a long break to look at the pairwise rankings and an interesting, if inevitably meaningless, exercise to see where college hockey is right now. If nothing else, this will be something to look back at to see the differences between where the pairwise was halfway through the season and where it ends up in late March. So, if we were at the end of the season, here are the teams who would make it in (assuming that the highest-ranked team within each conference wins the conference title): 1. Boston College (Hockey East Champion) 2. University of New Hampshire 3. Dartmouth College (ECAC Champion) 4. Yale University 5. Boston University 6. Notre Dame (CCHA Champion) 7. Miami University 8. Quinnipiac University 9. Western Michigan University 10. University of Denver (WCHA Champion) 11. Cornell University 12. Union College 13. University of North Dakota 14. Harvard University 15. University of Minnesota 16. Niagara University (Atlantic Hockey Champion) * *As Niagara is tied with Ohio State for #16, Niagara wins that tie-breaker because otherwise no AHA teams would be represented. To break that down further... One seeds would be the first four listed: BC, UNH, Dartmouth, and Yale. Two seeds would be the second four: BU, Notre Dame, Miami, and Quinnipiac. Three seeds would be the third four: WMU, Denver, Cornell, and Union. Four seeds would be the final four: North Dakota, Harvard, Minnesota, and Niagara. Before we get further into the brackets, let's look at how each conference stacks up. Atlantic Hockey has a single representative in Niagara (4); the CCHA has three representatives in Notre Dame (2), Miami (2), and Western Michigan (3); the ECAC has an surprising six representatives in Dartmouth (1), Yale (1), Quinnipiac (2), Cornell (3), Union (3), and Harvard (4); Hockey East has the same number as the CCHA, three, in BC (1), UNH (1), and BU (2); and finally the WCHA has three as well with Denver (3), North Dakota (4), and Minnesota (4). That itself is astonishing. When looking at the last ten years, the time at which the tournament took its current 16-team format, the averages for each conference compared to the number of bids they would receive in the 2013 Tournament, there is quite a difference in most leagues. Atlantic Hockey averages 1 bid (1.2 when counting teams which joined AHA from other conferences which have since collapsed), which is the same number of bids it receives. Hockey East receives 3 bids, compared to its norm of 3.6. It gets more stark from there. The next closest conference to its norm is the CCHA. The CCHA receives 3 bids compared to its 3.9 average. The WCHA receives 3 bids as well, over a bid from its average of 4.4 (4.8 when counting teams which joined the WCHA from other conferences which have since collapsed). The biggest difference comes with the ECAC. Normally, the ECAC receives just over 2 bids, at 2.2, but as of this pairwise calculation, the ECAC would receive six bids. The last time the ECAC received more than two bids was in 2011, when RPI, Union, and Yale represented the league. The last time the ECAC received more bids than one of the "Big Three" conferences was 2005, when the ECAC had three teams (Colgate, Cornell, and Harvard) and the CCHA had only two bids. (Not that it would matter to either conference as that was the year of the four-WCHA Frozen Four.) Will this be the year that the ECAC, the only conference not changing when the big conference realignment happens next year, outstrips their dismal average? We shall see when the time comes. Another stark difference from what would be considered the "norm" of the tournament is where teams are seeded. The ECAC has ones, a two, threes, and a four. The "perennial powers" of the WCHA have no higher than a three seed, while the CCHA has no one seeds amongst their participants. The one seeds are split evenly between Hockey East and the ECAC. What this says about Eastern Hockey vs. Western Hockey will remain to be seen later this season, but as of yet, the East does not seem to be inferior, especially when looking at Cornell's record against "Western" teams this season: 3-0. Combine that with Yale's two wins against Denver and Colorado College and the almighty West doesn't seem all that dominant this year. That being said, the likelihood of the ECAC getting six bids is low and seems to be a practical joke at this point in time. So let's look instead at the proposed brackets for the sixteen teams in the tournament were it to happen today. The first complication to consider is host organizations. If a host organization makes the tournament, it must appear in that regional. The only school (and perhaps the most inconvenient school) that this is an issue for is the University of New Hampshire. UNH is a number one seed and would have to remain in the Northeast Regional. That would place number one overall seed Boston College in the East Regional in Providence, as it is closest to its home. When looking at the remaining two teams with number one seeds, one realizes that they are both East-based teams, however they get shipped "out West" as far as Ohio for Dartmouth and Michigan for Yale. Other considerations such as not playing intra-conference games in the first round as well as others, were taken under advisement when putting together the following hypothetical bracket for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. The brackets (at the top of the page) look as follows: East Regional: 1. Boston College vs. 4. Niagara 2. Quinnipiac vs. 3. Western Michigan Northeast Regional: 1. New Hampshire vs. 4. Harvard 2. Miami vs. 3. Cornell West Regional: 1. Yale vs. 4. Minnesota 2. Notre Dame vs. 3. Denver Midwest Regional: 1. Dartmouth vs. 4. North Dakota 2. Boston University vs. 3. Union While a number one seed is supposed to get you the easiest route to the Frozen Four, it appears that some number one seeds have their work cut out for them. Dartmouth, the number three overall seed, has to face North Dakota in their first game. Yale, the final number one seed, takes on an always intimidating Minnesota in their first game. These brackets would be incredibly interesting to see play out. Ponder the brackets as we take a closer look at the path that our team would have to take to make it to the Frozen Four. Cornell by no means has the easiest bracket to get out of, nor should it with its number three seed. Cornell's cumulative all-time record against the teams in its bracket, UNH, Miami, and Harvard, is 84-76-8. While that seems like a point in our favor, we need to take a closer look to see what the individual records are. Cornell has played Miami a total of three times. Its record against Miami? 1-2-0. While three games may not be a great sample size, we can look to UNH, a team that used to be in the ECAC before the Divorce. Cornell's record against UNH, however, is not much better, at 12-13-0. How do we get to such a sizable winning percentage within the bracket? Our margin of ten wins over Harvard (71-61-8). This is not incredibly promising from a purely statistical point of view. One can look at the incredible cumulative records of the teams within our bracket. Not including Cornell, the teams have a record of 24-6-5, a winning percentage of 75.7%. This incredible record within a bracket shows how much parity is within the bracket. However, statistics only say so much. This team has the talent to make it out of the bracket should it work hard and prepare for three incredibly tough teams, a New Hampshire team which soared to the ranks of number one in the poll, a Miami team which beat both conference and non-conference teams, and a Harvard team which beat Cornell once already this season. Should Cornell get out of the bracket, it would face the winner of the Midwest bracket (Dartmouth, North Dakota, BU, or Union). The possibility of an all-ECAC Frozen Four in this exists, unlikely though it may be. But it would be nice to show ECAC relevance to outstrip the number of bids of one or two "Big Three" conferences in the last year that the "Big Three" exist as such. Good Evening, Hockey Fans: Weeks of November 20 and 27, 2012 Sarah Hughes on WhoSay To start off GEHF for this week, after a break last week we look back to the Frozen Apple. During one of the stoppages in play, the MSG announcers recognized Olympic gold medalist and Yale alumna Sarah Hughes for attending the game with her Cornell gear prominently. Hughes posted this picture not long after. In case any of you were wondering what a Yalie was doing supporting Cornell, take a closer look at the man with Touchdown. He is none other than John Hughes, captain of Cornell's 1970 team. You know, that undefeated national championship winning team coached by Ned Harkness? Yes, that John Hughes. Hughes is her father. Her mother is also a Cornellian and her siblings have gone to a smattering of schools, amongst them Cornell and Harvard. It was great to see a legend at the game. Especially given that he gave a pre-game speech to the team. Impressive. Jersey Auction, Ahoy! Speaking of MSG, does anyone remember the camouflage jerseys that the Big Red wore during the second period of the game? Those very jerseys are being auctioned off with funds going toward the Wounded Warrior Project. Collectively, the jerseys are going for over $15,000. This is a great cause, and the more money raised for the project, the better. Bidding through the website goes through December 6th with final voting via email on the seventh. During the last home game against St. Lawrence, Cornell held their annual teddy-bear toss which, according to the Cornell Hockey Association page, was a success. Money raised from purchases of the bears went to the Franziska Racker Centers and the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes, while the bears themselves were donated to the Cops, Kids, and Toys foundation. Jacob MacDonald and Nick D'Agostino pick up bears at the game against SLU. (Photo: cornellhockeyassociation.com) Markers for Madison Back in October, Brianne Jenner made known her mission to raise money through a goal drive for Madison Primeau, a young girl undergoing cancer treatment who Jenner knows. Each sponsor will donate one dollar for every goal Jenner posts throughout the season. Last season she posted 20 goals, and as of now she is up to nine. All the money donated goes directly to her medical expenses. As far as we know, she is still collecting sponsors (see the website for information on how to contact Jenner). But on a related but happy note, here is Madison, modeling a signed jersey from the Cornell Women's team. Madison is modeling her new @cornellwhockey signed jersey! A big thank you from the Primeau Family! Go Big Red! twitter.com/cprimeau5/stat… — Chantal Primeau (@cprimeau5) December 3, 2012 Harvard Leaking Players? Though he is still on the roster on the official Crimson site, Over the Boards tweeted that Steve Michalek, one of Harvard's goaltenders who saw a decent amount of playing time last year but none yet this year, has in fact reported to Cedar Rapids (USHL). On top of that, there are now rumors that another Harvard player, sophomore defenseman Max Everson (younger brother of senior Marshall Everson) will be doing the same. Max Everson, currently at Harvard, has been added to the Omaha Lancers. Status uncertain. — Matt Moran(@MattyMo26) November 29, 2012 Moran, part of OHL central scouting, reports this recently. While this is entirely speculation, the same exact sort of speculation turned out to be true with regards to Michalek. One has to wonder what exactly is going on with these players.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line108
__label__wiki	0.710815	0.710815	Specters and 'Shadows The marathon is over. The finish line has been crossed. Well, one of those finish lines, anyways. Three more finish lines are glossed over the macadam on the horizon for Cornell University’s carnelian warriors. Eyes need to survey the course ahead and the potholes that pock the pavement before those demarcations. Nevertheless, while this team guzzles what any regular viewer of ILDN assumes must be Big Red Refuel, the Lynah Faithful can reflect upon the grueling terrain traversed in the last two weeks of play. Coach Schafer said it several times between face-off with Union on Friday, February 3 and the post-game press conference on Sunday, February 12. The members of this team were going to get a taste of professional hockey. They did get just that. Collegiate athletics are the passion of the contributors here at Where Angels Fear to Tread, if you could not tell, but with the frequency with which this team’s last run of games was compared to those of their professional peers, perhaps a look at the professional ranks is in order. Only ten teams in the NHL played as many games as did Cornell between February 3 and February 12. No team played more games than did the wearers of the carnelian and white. Yes, only one-third of the franchises in the NHL sent their paid athletes into competition five times in that span. How did those teams fare? Those ten NHL clubs went 25-16-9. A winning percentage of 0.590 is respectable…if you do not play for Coach Schafer or on this team. The Red won at a rate 52.5% greater than did professionals in producing its 0.900 winning percentage during its five-game run. Only the Washington Capitals won every one of their five games. The NHL runners-up to Cornell’s blitz through its five-games-in-nine-days stretch were the St. Louis Blues and Pittsburgh Penguins. The two tied for a 0.800 record in two different ways. The Blues went 4-1-0. The Penguins went 3-0-2. So, were Cornell an NHL team over that run, only the appropriators of the anthem “red!” would have outperformed the icers of New York’s land-grant university. The most talented hockey players in the world play in the NHL. A grueling schedule of five games in nine days takes its toll. Conditioning erodes to fatigue. Mental acuity dulls. It must have an effect on the offensive output of even the most talented franchises. It certainly would at the collegiate level with the demands of the academy. The Lynah Faithful from Schenectady to Ithaca celebrated 20 goals over five games. The offensively replete aquatic birds of the Steel City scored only 17 goals on the same calendar. The Penguins own one of the NHL’s four best records. The grapplers of the Beltway constituted the only club to outscore the 77-year elder Red. Oh, yeah, the Caps currently lead the NHL in the hunt for the boondoggle of the Presidents’ Trophy. Cornell was the second-best team in the NHL. This team is far from proving that it is the second-best or best team in college hockey. They were a solid nine days. Coach Schafer’s charges and he chilled one regrettable point on the ice in a very winnable contest against Keith Allain’s Yale. The professional hiatus retired. The road ahead is no easier. If anything, it is more grueling. The players on this season’s roster have made their intentions known. Mitch Gillam, channeling the panache of The Bambino, most pointedly called his shot (save?) for his team when publicizing its goal to play in the 2017 Frozen Four Final. A hack-the-Pairwise-at-all-costs mentality pervades the team. As reassuring as Cornell’s recent 4-0-1 run is, one needs to consider the quality of the opponents relative to the Red’s ambitions of gaining entry to the national tournament. The average of the projected Pairwise Rankings of Union, RPI, Colgate, Yale, and Brown is 40.6. The average result that Cornell notched in that five-game run was equivalent to defeating a team that was roughly 26 spots out of the projected field for the Frozen-Four tournament. Meanwhile, somewhere on Route 11 between Canton and Potsdam must be 22.5 in the Pairwise Rankings. Cornell can check on its trip to Cheel on Saturday. Friday night’s pitch at Appleton Arena pits the nation’s third-best home team against the nation’s third-best road team. St. Lawrence has dropped just four conference games. Three of those setbacks occurred on the road. The Saints have failed to win at home only thrice this season. Cornell has endured just three non-wins on the road. One of those threes will become a four on Friday. It will be a very tall task for the Red to be victorious. Gavin Bayreuther unexpectedly returned three weeks ago. Immediately, he inspired St. Lawrence’s three-goal rally to defeat Union at Appleton. The defensive dynamo has recorded two points in three games. The Saints have played two weekends without a win. Laurentians will demand penance for that sin against their program’s history this weekend. The Ithacans will need to bring with them all of the tenacity that they took to Messa Rink with none of the mental miscues if they want to force Canton’s equally raucous sylvan sanctuary and its talented denizens to part with points. All the soothing history that fans of ECAC Hockey have come to expect and the disproportionate asymmetric loathing that serves as a salutation for the Lynah Faithful at select away venues attend the trip to Cheel. Clarkson-Cornell match-ups for the Whitelaw Cup are the second-most common championship pairing for the Eastern prize (tied with Clarkson-St. Lawrence meetings, if one is curious). Only Cornell and Harvard have met more frequently. The last time that Cornell lost such an encounter to Tech was the Red’s first modern championship game in 1966. Clarkson and Cornell last met to decide a title when the bench boss of Friday’s opponent led the program in Potsdam. Three carnelian-and-white victories over green and goldenrod occurred between those meetings. The Red double dipped in 1970 with victories in the Whitelaw Cup and Frozen Four Finals. Cornell bears little blame for this plight. The Golden Knights are evidently engineered as runners-up. No program has appeared in more Frozen Four Finals (three) without winning a national title as Without a Peer once reminded Clarkson’s fans. Fret not, champions of Clarkson, Quinnipiac is doing its best to usurp that ignominy. Clarkson recently defeated St. Lawrence and Quinnipiac. It lost none of the opportunism that required heroics on East Hill to salvage a point for Cornell in January. The scoring specter that Coach Schafer exorcised from this team against Brown needs to haunt the barns of the North Country. The Lynah Faithful should thank Anthony Angello. The sophomore forward from Central New York found the antiserum for Mitch Vanderlaan’s snake bite. Vanderlaan went nine games without scoring a goal. He scored seven goals in the season’s first 11 games. The winger from New Brunswick has played phenomenally lately. His defensive game against Yale is proof. He plays the puck responsibly. Opponents are all but incapable of keeping him in his defensive zone. Toxin still coursed through his veins until his classmate upped the ante in taking Vanderlaan’s lead in goals. He responded. Vanderlaan’s goal against Brown could be the last piece fitting for his complete game this season. A mainstay of Cornell’s defense seemed dazed all last weekend. These lapses will prevent the Red from earning truly historic victories if they continue this weekend. Appleton and Cheel are no places to make mistakes. Harvard is the only team to have swept in the North Country. If that Harvard team can do it, why not this Cornell team? The rivalry lives in the North Country. The Red can prove it is the Crimson’s equal or superior this weekend. Cornell began its stretch of five games with a public proclamation that it was going to Union to claim this team’s first signature win. It got it. Why should the sights of this team lower to a mere signature win? Why not seek out a signature weekend? It will take at least three signature weekends to punch a ticket to Chicago. Assistant director of athletic communications Brandon Thomas made the Lynah Faithful and this team aware of a historic reality. No Cornell team has swept four road weekends in ECAC Hockey since the league has employed its travel-partner system in 1984. No, not 2002-03. Nope, not 2004-05 either. The members of this Cornell squad already aim to one-up (two-up, more appropriately) the 2002-03 team when April arrives. Why not get started on the task early with foreshadowing penned against St. Lawrence and Clarkson? The war for seeding has but four battles remaining. Well, four battles for each team. The final 48 regular-season games in ECAC Hockey will answer and raise questions in the minds of the league’s fans. Cornell has a challengingly advantageous path before it. Two of its next four games are against opponents that are tied with or standing above the Red. The first such game is on Friday in Canton. Cornell and St. Lawrence are tied in ECAC Hockey’s standings. The readiest way to pass a team in a battle for seeding is to defeat that team directly. A victory against the Saints also would serve to give Cornell a tie-breaker over St. Lawrence which may prove beneficial on February 25. Cornell can clinch a top-four seed if Quinnipiac loses and Cornell earns three points this weekend. The Red could end the weekend as high as first or as low as a tie for fourth. This writer knows as a trained endurance athlete that the race is always in front of you. If Cornell is worried about the Bobcats, it has lost already.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line109
__label__cc	0.687987	0.312013	Home Apr 25, 2013 Your Hoppy Place D ried Woodruff. Heather Tips. Flaked Rye. Gypsum. Iris Moss. Amarillo. These may sound like things you’d find bubbling in a witch’s cauldron. In fact, they’re just a few examples of the wide range of ingredients, amidst hydrometers and other gadgets, you’ll find sitting on the shelves at Luck & Levity Brewshop, the seven-month-old homebrew and fermentation supply store on Court Street run by 32-year-old Scott Vignola. Though the vast display may seem daunting, don’t let the sight of Torrified Wheat terrify you. According to Vignola, basic homebrewing is quite simple. “It’s about as hard as making oatmeal,” he says. And although Vignola might eventually like to branch out into offering workshops and classes, he assures that you don’t need a class to get started. “It’s something that illiterate cavemen used to do. We can talk you through it. It’s going to be okay!” Beer is divided into two main categories: ales and lagers. According to Vignola, most homebrewers make ales—the oldest type of beer—which includes stouts, porters and IPAs, among others. Ales are more readily made because they just need to sit a few weeks at room temperature or so (65-75 degrees) in order to ferment and be drinkable. Lagers, by contrast, generally need a cooler, temperature-controlled environment (requiring more free refrigerator space than most folks have) and a longer fermentation period, making the process more complicated. “Beer takes an afternoon” of prep work, says Vignola. To get started, you’ll need a five gallon pot in which to boil the hops and a fermenter—a food-grade plastic bucket with a spigot or a glass carboy, with a seal that allows the air to release (else it will explode), does the trick. You’ll also need a few “odds and ends—things to transfer the liquid, sanitizer, thermometers…” adds Vignola. Though recipes vary, beer is generally made of four things: Hops (which give beer its bitterness, flavors and aromas), yeast (which activates fermentation and converts sugars to alcohol), malted barley (which gives color and supplies sugars, a.k.a. food for the yeast) and water. You basically cook, boil, steep and bottle. “You can drink yummy, delicious beer in four weeks,” says Vignola. You can drink it in half the time if you plan to force-carbonate or keg it (or if you’re okay with imbibing it flat). Surprisingly, Vignola had never before homebrewed at the time he decided to launch Luck & Levity. He made his first brew just one month before the shop opened. “I am by no means a professional brewer or beer expert,” says Vignola. That doesn’t mean his store caters only to first-timers; most of his customers are experienced home-brewers, and his staff are quite knowledgeable. Working with Vignola are the suds-savvy Brewmaster Tom Reznick, who’s particularly passionate about porters, and Kristen Bayusik (creator of the blog Now Beer This!), who does marketing and promotion for the store. Of course, humility aside, Vignola himself has certainly picked up quite a bit of knowledge along the way. Reznick, for his part, is more than happy to talk phenolic notes with fellow beer geeks who drop by (ask him about his slam-dunk batch of Dünkelweizen), to advise on the merits of tossing in smoked wheat or roasted malts to your mix (they add subtle coffee and chocolate flavors), and to share news of a batch of New Zealand hops—Pacific Jade, Zythos and Nelson Sauvin—that just arrived at the store, with bright, citrusy aromas and peppery flavors. It was a desire to build a community that inspired Vignola to open Luck & Levity in the first place. While serving in the Peace Corps in Morocco, Vignola decided he wanted to “create something that would serve to bring people together” upon his return, he says. “Fermented beverages have done this throughout history.” After exploring the costs and challenges of opening a full-fledged brewery, he decided to open the retail store instead. Luck & Levity is not only a place to find what you need to make beer (as well as cider, mead and other fermented foods), but it also serves as a gathering spot. On May 3, the eve of National Homebrew Day, the spacious shop will be sampling homebrews as a stop during BrewOn9, the Ninth Square beer crawl. Then, on May 21st from 6 to 8 p.m., L&L hosts its next “Brew Lounge,” where local homebrewers and others get together monthly to sample each other’s creations and swap recipes. (The rest of us are invited to the Lounge, too—just bring beer, even if store-bought.) Vignola also offers his store as an event space to others, usually free of charge, to host nonprofit gatherings, fundraisers, book signings, art openings (a rotating display of artwork graces his walls) and more. To support the community even further, Vignola and Reznick are working to start a “Kits-for-Cause” program, which pairs local beer-makers with local nonprofits. Recipes developed by area home-brewers (such as one based on the White House’s Honey Ale, made with dried honeysuckle) will be packaged in beer kits, with a portion of the sales donated to nonprofits like the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen and Urban Resources Initiative. Luck & Levity’s commitment to New Haven can also be seen in the decor of the shop: a row of antique Hull’s Export bottles line the top of a shelf, for example. One thing you won’t find anywhere in the store, however, is attitude—“never pretentious or too serious,” is the motto. “I’m not a snob at all,” says Vignola. “My customers like coming here because I don’t have an agenda. I want them to make something they like. Then they’ll brew again, have fun and share with friends—that’s the important thing.” Luck & Levity Brewshop 118 Court St, New Haven (map) Tues-Thurs 1-8pm, Fri-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm (203) 785-0545 \| shop@luckandlevity.com www.luckandlevity.com Written and photographed by Kathleen Cei. Tags: feature, homebrewing, Kathleen Cei, Kristen Bayusik, Luck & Levity Brewshop, New Haven, Scott Vignola, Tom Reznick Wasn’t Born Yesterday Flower Chords About Kathleen Cei View all posts by Kathleen Cei Kathleen Cei studied photojournalism at Syracuse University. She is a native of the Nutmeg State, and is proud to call New Haven home. She has covered the local dining, music, arts and culture scene for more than 20 years.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line112
__label__wiki	0.508276	0.508276	photo by Joshua Martens Ballet Meets Pop Post by The Ballet Bag Editor’s note: The following guest post is by The Ballet Bag (@theballetbag), an online resource for the best of ballet around the web. In their previous guest post, they gave us their take on dance and social media. One of our favorite topics is ballet’s potential for crossover with other art forms. Just as with fashion and photography, ballet also naturally lends itself to collaborations with pop music as a means to captivate new, younger audiences and break with conventions. One of the most successful “indie rock ballets” of all time, Wayne McGregor’s “Chroma”, is so closely associated with its score that it has been nicknamed the “White Stripes ballet”. Just as with fashion and photography, ballet also naturally lends itself to collaborations with pop music as a means to captivate new, younger audiences and break with conventions. The Ballet Bag While Chroma is to be staged for the first time at the National Ballet of Canada this November (followed by appearances at the San Francisco Ballet and at the Bolshoi in 2011), a whole new gamut of pop ballets have surfaced recently. An example is “Oh, Inverted World” a new work by Dance Pulp guest Trey McIntyre which premiered last month at Smuin Ballet: eight off-pointe sections match tracks by indie rockers The Shins (remember them from Natalie Portman’s iPod in Garden State?). Another is choreographer Justin Peck’s new piece, unveiled at NYCB’s Choreographic Institute 10th Anniversary, featuring music by perennially cool indie artist Sujfan Stevens. Pop and ballet also collaborate in the other direction, with mainstream music artists using dance to emphasise the emotional punch of a song (best example: Gronemeyer’s famous collaboration with Polina Semionova) or just to add something extra; to set a particular mood to videoclips or album covers, like Rihanna walking en pointe in Umbrella (yes, a tad cliché) and the cover art for Kanye’s West recent single Runaway (slightly less so…). Below we recap on our favorite collaborations between these two worlds: Lady Gaga and the Bolshoi Lady Gaga and dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet featured in a gala piece created by performance artist Francesco Vezzoli for the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA. The full work – “Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again)” – was performed at MOCA one year ago where Gaga also released her single Speechless. Some snippets made their way onto YouTube: MGMT Video for It’s Working A ballet dancer descends from the skies and stands en pointe atop a rock star’s shoulders. Ballet is quoted en passant but in a fun, fresh way; we like it much better than the cheesy ballerinas in the videoclip of “Better Than Love” by synthpop duo Hurts. The White Stripes and Chroma British composer Joby Talbot orchestrated several White Stripes songs (including “The Hardest Button to Button”, “Blue Orchid” and “Aluminum”), providing an energetic, screeching backdrop to McGregor’s edgy choreography: Scissor Sisters – Nightwork Released a few months before Kanye West also used ballet as album artwork, this risqué cover features a shot of the buttocks of deceased dancer Peter Reed, taken by famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Alessandra Ferri and Sting Alessandra’s husband Fabrizio Ferri is a renowned fashion photographer, architect, clothes designer and musician who happens to be friends with Sting. He produced in 2008 a short film of Alessandra dancing to choreography by Heinz Spoerli, while Sting played a guitar transposition of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No 1 in G major. The video went viral on YT where it has gathered millions of views: Leave a reply below and tell us: what is your dream pop & ballet collaboration? The Best & Worst of Ballet-Inspired Fashion: Part 1 Ballet has always made its mark on the fashion world. Ballerina flats, flowing gowns, soft wrap-up sweaters, lace up pumps,... The Best & Worst of Ballet-Inspired Fashion: Part 2 As promised, here is Part 2 of my Ballet-Inspired Fashion post. As I said, it can be done well, or... “Social Dancing” Editor’s note: DancePulp welcomes The Ballet Bag! Here is Emilia and Linda’s first guest post. More guest posts from The... Video: Lourdes Lopez On Being a Balanchine Dancer Season 1 : Episode 5 \| 11:05 Lourdes Lopez shares some of her experiences from... Saved: Blog, Featured, Guest Post Tagged: Alessandra Ferri, Bolshoi Ballet, Chroma, Guest Blog, Lady Gaga, MGMT, New York City Ballet, Polina Seminova, Smuin Ballet, Sting, The Ballet Bag, The Shins, The White Stripes, Trey McIntyre, Wayne McGregor The Ballet Bag is an online resource for the best of ballet around the web: performances, companies, dancers, interviews and other websites. With the aim to “Give Ballet a New Spin” and make it more accessible editors Emilia and Linda write original content that mashes up the world of dance with pop culture. They use social media to network with dance fans, companies, dancers, writers, bloggers, etc. sharing what’s good, fun and interesting in the balletsphere. Joshua Martens November 9, 2010 at 10:18 am Thanks Emilia and Linda! As a non-dancer, I love seeing how dance (ballet in particular) works its way into, and affects, the mainstream – pop music being the pinnacle of the mainstream. Ballet often feels like an isolated bubble with aging patrons. I find it fascinating to see how it unintentionally holds a long reach that can be recognized in most other art forms. (photography, painting, music, film, sculpture, fashion) It certainly has been the subject of endless artists, but despite this, somehow escapes the collective understanding, acceptance, and support of the mainstream. Instead, it remains misunderstood, fancy, and inaccessible. Can pop culture help dance? La Darina November 10, 2010 at 8:10 pm I agree with above comment. It’s really interesting to see how ballet still retains its mystique despite not making much of an effort to break out of its bubble. I think pop culture can help dance but ultimately dance needs to help itself too – at least it sounds like the choreographers listed in this post understand this… Sara January 2, 2011 at 12:25 am I loved Chroma by Wayne McGregor. I first saw it in Stuttgart, a company with fabulous dancers. The idea of pop mixed with ballet will become more mainstream now after “Black Swan,” I’m sure. I think it makes sense incorporating the two, pop and ballet, but it does depend on the work in question. I still want to see the classics remain. They are the foundation and there’s nothing like a live orchestra. Another great piece of choreography is Vapour Plains, by Evan McKie, a Principal with Stuttgart Ballet. His choice of music is fascinating with the piece. If you are familiar with Evan, you will likely have seen it. Let’s hope the pop/ballet mix works to draw larger audiences from various age groups. So many people miss out on such beauty. Robert Young January 23, 2011 at 9:38 am Given the mention of Kanye West’s album cover, I thought this might be worth noting. Sharen Lynes May 24, 2017 at 4:25 am Well done Kanye. About time ballet started to get in the groove! Think of the spectacular shows and mind blowing choreography that could be achieved in this beautiful art form with the aid of modern mind blowing beats! Come on ballet world, get WITH IT! No ‘Joke’ Kathryn Bennetts (left) Joke Schauvliege… 20 Questions with Sarah Reynolds Sarah Reynolds is a dancer… Post by Joshua Martens	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line114
__label__wiki	0.769528	0.769528	The Locked Room Posted in Audio by Kyle - April 28, 2018 Steven Taylor long ago left the company of the Doctor to become the king of an alien world, but it’s now many years since he gave up his throne and chose to live in isolation in the mountains far out of the sight and minds of his people. As The First Doctor Volume One draws to a close with Simon Guerrier’s ‘The Locked Room,’ however, he soon finds alongside his granddaughter Sida that he can never truly escape his past. ‘The Locked Room’ is set some time after ‘The Following Fathers’ with Sida firmly entrenched in the role of President for some time now and her days filled with public appearances and important meetings. Steven, meanwhile, has taken to building a radio telescope and a lead-lined room in which he can receive the transmissions, a room that is locked at night and that cannot be opened until morning in order to ensure privacy and signal integrity. With Alice Haig’s Sida the narrator for the story after Steven traps her in the room overnight simply to prove a point, she provides a fascinating presence through which the exploration of the similarities and differences between the moralities of Steven and the Doctor- here present as a light hologram- started in the previous story can be continued and further developed. It’s clear that Steven has influenced her to some extent given their close relationship, but Sida as a character who started simply as someone for Steven to talk to has become a dynamic and capable character in her own right, and the fact that her very presence forces Steven to internally confront his own strained relationship with and the passing of his daughter is expertly layered into the narrative with nuance and grace. While it’s unlikely that this is the final entry of The Companion Chronicles to feature Peter Purves, ‘The Locked Room’ offers a fitting closure to Steven Taylor’s run of stories, and in this case draws particular inspiration from Guerrier’s own ‘The First Wave’ that firmly proved just how incredibly dangerous the energy-based Vardans who can travel at the speed of thought can be in the proper circumstances. These are beings that can get inside an individual’s head and destroy the brain before even a thought of panic can be formed, and the brief but impactful audio companion Oliver gave his life to stop an invasion and to save his friends’ life in the most heroic of fashions. Yet here the terrifying prospect that a Vardan survived and may have been manipulating all of Steven’s actions here in order to reach out to the Doctor and bring him back is brought up, causing a tremendous crisis of conscience given how events have unfolded on this planet and on a personal level that Peter Purves plays incredibly well as the Vardan quickly begins to regain strength and the timer to the unlocking of this lead room temporarily containing it nears zero. Indeed, the Vardan escaping its cell and inflicting damage is staggering in its execution, and the means by which Sida manages to save everyone is both clever and elegant, giving an immense payoff to the intriguing setup work of ‘The Founding Fathers.’ Once more, Peter Purves excels both as this older and more dangerous Steven and as the Doctor, and he truly manages to imbue a full-cast sense to this very intimate storytelling format that so brilliantly explores the inner workings of its lead characters. With the Doctor surprisingly vulnerable as the notion of his impending death is broached and with Steven on the verge of taking more severe action than ever before because of the possible consequences of not doing so, ‘The Locked Room’ makes the most of its confined setting to develop those involved and to bring together the end of the Hartnell televised era with the hard-hitting impact and consequences of the era’s continuing audio adventures. Directed by: Lisa Bowerman Written by: Simon Guerrier Tags: Alice Haig, First Doctor, Petre Purves, Steven Taylor, Vardans	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line120
__label__cc	0.580717	0.419283	Marine biodiversity data are essential to measure and study the ecosystem health of maritime basins. These data are often collected with limited spatial and temporal scope and are scattered over different organizations in small datasets for a specific species group or habitat. Therefore there is a continuous need to assemble these individual datasets, and process them into interoperable biological data products for assessing the environmental state of overall ecosystems and complete sea basins. The Maritime Policy Blue Book, welcomed by the European Council in 2007, announced that the European Commission would take steps to set up a European Marine Observation and Data Network to improve access to high quality marine data for private bodies, public authorities and researchers. 2009-2012: A set of preparatory actions on biological data, hydrographic data, physical data, chemical data, geological data and broad scale habitats has been launched for a limited set of Sea Basins. It aims at gathering experience for a later permanent operational system. The main objective of the biology project was the development of an online marine biological data portal allowing the access and download of marine biological data across Europe. The biological lot focused on gathering available information and on the temporal and spatial distribution of species composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton, zooplankton, angiosperms, macro-algae, invertebrate bottom fauna, bird communities, sea mammals and reptiles. You can consult the final report of the biology preparatory action. 2013-2016: In the follow up project, a consortium of 21 government agencies and research institutes with national and international expertise in marine biological data monitoring and data management will build further upon the work carried out during the biological preparatory action of EMODnet and will deliver data, metadata and data products of surveys in the water column and on the sea bed from phytoplankton, zooplankton, angiosperms, marcoalgae, benthos, birds, mammals, reptiles and fish occurring in European marine waters. The EMODnet biological data portal will provide access to different thematic databases and to several long-term national marine biological monitoring datasets from all European regional seas. The project will identify and focus on biological data types, species, species attributes, sampling methods and biological indicators to support the variety of legislations, and will create biological data products to support environmental legislations including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. 2017-2020: the multi-resolution phase: a consortium of 23 governmental agencies, research institutes and international organizations with national and international expertise in marine biological data monitoring and data management build further upon the work carried out during the previous phases and will deliver data, metadata and data products of surveys in the water column and on the sea bed from phytoplankton, zooplankton, angiosperms, macroalgae, benthos, birds, mammals, reptiles and fishes occurring in European marine waters. We identify and focus on biological data types, species, species attributes, sampling methods and biological indicators to support the variety of legislations, and will create biological data products to support environmental legislations including the EU MSFD. The EMODnet biology infrastructure is supported by and building on components and tools developed by the Lifewatch ERIC and Lifewatch Marine.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line124
__label__wiki	0.862639	0.862639	Eurovision 2018: Will the shell (main logo) inspire the stage design? by Sanjay (Sergio) Jiandani November 9, 2017 7:25 pm 1,867 views Earlier this week, RTP unveiled the 2018 Eurovision theme art and slogan during the press conference. This year’s theme art consists of a total of 13 different logos, with the main image being the shell. Why was the shell chosen as the main image and what role will it play next May? Last Tuesday, RTP held a special press conference at the Ocenario de Lisboa where it released many details and information regarding the forthcoming 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. After the press conference, a special cocktail was held where the assembled press got a chance to meet and greet the 2018 Eurovision Core Team and RTP officials. Nicolau Tudela (Eurovision 2018 theme art designer) during an interview with RTP (Photo credit: RTP). RTP interviewed the man behind the 2018 Eurovision theme art, Mr. Nicolau Tudela after the press conference. He explained that next year’s logo will narrate the story and history of Portugal in many ways. Nicoloau Tudela says: For the first time in the history of Eurovision there will be diversity and variations around an image that has up to 12… being the maximum score at Eurovision. Tudela goes on to explain that the shell was chosen as the main image of the contest from the various options as it holds many more secrets than what one can visualise at first sight. He also hinted that the 2018 Eurovision stage design will be inspired on the main logo aka the shell! The shell will a play key role come May as it will be depicted in various different forms and ways during the live shows along with the 12 other sub logos. The main logo depicting a shell comes with twelve other derivations, which are predicated on the concept of the varying life in the oceans and depict the wonders of a floating world, such as plankton and a range of other organisms which are essential for balance in aquatic ecosystems. Through these multiple logos, the creative concept portrays key themes such as diversity, respect and tolerance. The logos will be creatively adapted and have a variety of uses in the run up to the event, including being displayed all over Lisbon next May. The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to be held on 8, 10 and 12 May at the Altice Arena in Lisbon. Nicolau Tudela Sanjay (Sergio) Jiandani Head of International Relations & Communications Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 17 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets. Sweden: Alcazar looking at Melodifestivalen return? Armenia: Tamar Kaprelian to attempt return to Eurovision 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line134
__label__wiki	0.518005	0.518005	Student interest in the courses taught continued to be sustained through such extra curricula activities as the showing of full length films of English literature classics and the enactment by the students of scenes from several of the dramas read in class. The restructuring of the ENGLISH 112 and 113 courses were successful in execution. The concentration of subject matter in the ENGLISH 112 appeared to be too heavy with the result that the term paper segment will be moved to the ENGLISH 111 course. Mr. Victor Thompson, Assistant Professor successfully completed his work for the PhD degree which he received from Rutgers University in June 1972. Three new full-time faculty members were employed for the Academic Year 1972-73. One was a replacement for an instructor who resigned; the other two are additions to the departmental staff for a new total of eight members. The pilot section of ENGLISH 101, 102, 103 was successfully completed. The concept of integrating ail communication skills into a synthesized approach proved to be sound. Continuance of this concept should be withheld pending resolution of curriculum requirements with the attendant course changes. Two experimental, individualized sections of ENGLISH 111, were taught during the fall quarter 1971. A full length report of this experiment was made in March, 1972 to the Chairman, Humanities and Communications Division and to the Dean of Instruction. Individualized instruction of students working at their own speed without being restricted by strict deadlines or competition with other students was the .Hallmark of this approach. The experiment was considered a success from many standards of measurements but was not recommended for continuance primarily because of increased instructor work'loatt resulting therefrom. At such time aswjarkJoad can be compensated, another ^offering might be Problems (solutions) Teaching loads in the terms of number of sections and preparations got no better. If a ceiling on student enrollment is maintained and with the addition of two Transcript Student interest in the courses taught continued to be sustained through such extra curricula activities as the showing of full length films of English literature classics and the enactment by the students of scenes from several of the dramas read in class. The restructuring of the ENGLISH 112 and 113 courses were successful in execution. The concentration of subject matter in the ENGLISH 112 appeared to be too heavy with the result that the term paper segment will be moved to the ENGLISH 111 course. Mr. Victor Thompson, Assistant Professor successfully completed his work for the PhD degree which he received from Rutgers University in June 1972. Three new full-time faculty members were employed for the Academic Year 1972-73. One was a replacement for an instructor who resigned; the other two are additions to the departmental staff for a new total of eight members. Innovations The pilot section of ENGLISH 101, 102, 103 was successfully completed. The concept of integrating ail communication skills into a synthesized approach proved to be sound. Continuance of this concept should be withheld pending resolution of curriculum requirements with the attendant course changes. Two experimental, individualized sections of ENGLISH 111, were taught during the fall quarter 1971. A full length report of this experiment was made in March, 1972 to the Chairman, Humanities and Communications Division and to the Dean of Instruction. Individualized instruction of students working at their own speed without being restricted by strict deadlines or competition with other students was the .Hallmark of this approach. The experiment was considered a success from many standards of measurements but was not recommended for continuance primarily because of increased instructor work'loatt resulting therefrom. At such time aswjarkJoad can be compensated, another ^offering might be recommended. Problems (solutions) Teaching loads in the terms of number of sections and preparations got no better. If a ceiling on student enrollment is maintained and with the addition of two	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line140
__label__wiki	0.802973	0.802973	Google bottoms out in Privacy International report Ever wondered how the major internet players would fair in a privacy test? Privacy International has recently released it's Ranking of Internet Service Companies, which took the form of a six-month investigation into the privacy practices of key Internet based companies. The ranking lists the best and worst performers across a full range of search, email, e-commerce and social networking sites. There has been much talk about the fact that Google has been given the lowest ranking in the list, with an immediate backlash from the search giant accusing Privacy International of being in cahoots with Microsoft. You can read comments from a Google employee on the findings, or see an open letter from Privacy International to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt here. Tottenham defence described as lackadaisical by Google much to Arsenal fans' delight Google Doodle summarises top Trending stories from 2014 Google Glass will be made available for prescription lenses Smart contact lenses developed by Google to help diabetics Google celebrates the 225th anniversary of the British Museum with a Doodle	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line142
__label__wiki	0.808111	0.808111	Tag: Jack Dylan Grazer A Second Official Look at Shazam! Released July 17, 2018 Arelis Feature, Movies, News, Shazam Entertainment Weekly received another exclusive official look at David F. Sandberg’s Shazam!, the latest promotional still image from the movie to be released, features Billy Batson as Shazam (Zachary Levi) with First Official Photo From Shazam! Released Entertainment Weekly receive the exclusive of the first official promotional photo from David F. Sandberg’s Shazam!, which features Billy Batson in his Superhero form as Shazam (Zachary Levi), as he Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman on Shazam Set March 13, 2018 Arelis Movies, News, Shazam As production for David F. Sandberg’s Shazam continues to film in Toronto, behind the scene photos and videos of the actors on the set of the film have leaked online. Behind the Scenes Photos and Videos Released From the Shazam Set March 8, 2018 Arelis Movies, News, Shazam As David F. Sandberg’s Shazam continues to film in the streets of Toronto, behind the scenes photos and videos are starting to surface of the actors in action, such as David F. Sandberg Reveals the Total of Actors Who’ll Appear in Shazam December 9, 2017 Arelis Movies, News, Shazam Shazam director David F. Sandberg, has confirmed the amount of actors that’ll appear in the film, now as three actors have been officially announced for the movie. Those actors are Zachary Jack Dylan Grazer Cast as Freddy Freeman in Shazam December 6, 2017 Eric Curto Movies, News, Shazam Deadline reported that Jack Dylan Grazer joins the cast of Shazam as Freddy Freeman, best friend to Billy Batson (Asher Angel), who in the comics is the only one who knows	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line145
__label__cc	0.658465	0.341535	Combustion of Methane Using Block Cellular Automata (BCA) with Feedback This Demonstration simulates the combustion of methane. In that reaction, the reactants (yellow) and (dark blue) combine when heated to yield (red) and O (cyan). Carbon (black), hydrogen (white), and oxygen (pale blue) are excess constituent reactant elements also shown in the plot. The goal of the Demonstration is to demonstrate how the reaction naturally conserves matter, as reflected by the balanced equation . Contributed by: Michael Dewus (August 2012) Brief Chemistry Background Conservation of matter is the basis for balancing chemical equations. Because matter is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction, a balanced chemical equation must always contain the same number of each kind of atom on both sides of the equation. In this Demonstration, conservation of matter is reflected by the balanced chemical equation: . In words, the equation states that, with the application of heat, one mole of (methane) reacts with two moles of (dioxygen) to yield one mole of (carbon dioxide) and two moles of (water). Demonstration Mechanics At initialization, the grid is configured as a random mixture of excess carbon ( ), excess hydrogen ( ), excess oxygen ( ), and the reactants and . The reactant concentrations are relative to the grid size, and are fixed at 15% to 30% , which reflects the left-hand side of the equation. A feedback-driven block cellular automaton (BCA) searches the grid for locations surrounded by exactly two molecules and rewrites the and locations to and , respectively, reflecting the right-hand side of the equation. Reaction catalyzing heat is introduced through the rotational mixing energy of the BCA. As the reaction proceeds, the plot label monitors the counts of the reactants and their ratio as well as the counts of the products and their ratio in order to show a left-hand side to right-hand side balance history of the rewritten grid. Thus grid rewrite, itself a function of respective bondings, is ultimately responsible for determining whether or not the equation balances. The time to balance the equation is an indication of how much heat was necessary to bring about the balance. In keeping with the law of conservation of matter, the equation must always ultimately balance. After triggering the reaction first (only once is necessary), toggle the "change settings" control to rerun the reaction with a different grid size or to rerun with a different underlying grid and current settings. [1] K. W. Whitten and K. D. Gailey, General Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College Publishing, 1981. [2] Wolfram\|Alpha—A Wolfram Web Resource. www.wolframalpha.com. [3] Wikipedia. "Methane." (Aug 17, 2012) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane. [4] Wikipedia. "Carbon." (Aug 12, 2012) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon. [5] Wikipedia. "Hydrogen." (Aug 14, 2012) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen. [6] Wikipedia. "Oxygen." (Aug 20, 2012) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen. NKS Online (NKS\|Online) Michael Dewus "Combustion of Methane Using Block Cellular Automata (BCA) with Feedback" http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CombustionOfMethaneUsingBlockCellularAutomataBCAWithFeedback/ Published: August 29 2012 Idealized Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Luca Zammataro Evolution in a Cellular-Automaton Model of Gray-Scott Reaction-Diffusion System Jessica Alfonsi Chemical Reaction Trajectories Using Bézier Curves Mark Mochalsky, Pascual Lahuerta, Jose Vicente Beltran, and Juan Monterde The Schnakenberg Reaction The Iodine Clock Reaction Benson R. Sundheim Eyring-Polanyi versus Exponential Model for Chemical Reactions Mark D. Normand, Christina S. Barsa, and Micha Peleg Estimating Kinetic Parameters from a Batch Reactor Experiment Housam Binous, Ahmed Bellagi, and Brian G. Higgins Chlorite-Iodide-Malonic Acid (CIMA) Reaction Housam Binous, Brian G. Higgins, and Ahmed Bellagi Maximizing Selectivity in the Trambouze Reactions Cubic Autocatalysis by Successive Bimolecular Steps Brian G. Higgins and Housam Binous Polygonal Virtual Grids for CA Computing: Pentagonal, Hexagonal, and Octagonal Samplers Michael Dewus Magnetization Using an Ising Model Based on a Search-Update-Feedback Cellular Automata (SCA) Approach {1,1} Surface Deposition with {-1,1} Growth Dry Screening Stratification: A Particle Climbing and Settling Problem A Fire Spread Model: The Contagion Effect 2D Heat Diffusion Using a Search-Update-Feedback Cellular Automaton (SCA) Approach Joule (Free) Expansion Based on a Block Cellular Automaton Granular Toppling and Piling A Two-Phase Anneal: The Beauty of Interface Dynamics Magnetization with an Ising Model Based on Q2R Cellular Automata	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line148
__label__cc	0.570214	0.429786	Written by Michele Brittany, Fanbase Press Editorials Manager ‘The Fuzzy Princess: Volume 1’ - Trade Paperback Review Charles Brubaker, the creator of the advice column styled Ask a Cat trade paperback (Check out my review here.), has returned with a new collection published by Smallbug Press. The Fuzzy Princess: Volume 1 collects the first seven issues of eight stories that follows Princess “Kat” Katrina from St. Paws. In the first story, “The Fuzzy Trio Has Arrived,” readers are introduced to Kat and her companions, a bat named Chiro and a bear named Kuma, as they fly across the sky in a bejeweled-looking cardboard box. Meanwhile on Earth, Brubaker unfolds the story of Jackson being tormented by a gang whose ringleader goes by the name Bloated Whale. (He apparently does not like his given name.) Kat and her friends become separated when Kat and her box fall to Earth, hitting Bloated Whale on the head. Kat is no ordinary cat; she can talk, sometimes daring anyone to defy her, and she can detach her magic tail, making it into anything she wants – a bat, a belt, or whatever the moment requires. Subsequent stories introduce new characters, notably Krisa the rat spy and Jackson’s friend, Gladdie. One of the strengths of The Fuzzy Princess is the characters. Brubaker is skillful at creating a cohesive ensemble that breathes life into this collection of stories. Kat is a precocious and daring young princess. She is personable, loyal to her friends, and she has personal strength that results in her being a strong female character. To balance her personality, Jackson has less confidence and is fearful of Bloated Whale who has been bullying Jackson for using his real name by mistake. Jackson develops a friendship with Kat which is a cornerstone of The Fuzzy Princess. The supporting cast provides a rich tapestry of characters so that readers can readily identify with some or all of them. Brubaker’s stories of childhood experiences encapsulate the spirit of innocence, so there’s a charming appeal about this collection. Brubaker’s black-and-white illustrations visually convey the playfulness of Kat, Jackson, and the rest of cast in The Fuzzy Princess. His panel formats and composition of the characters complement the beats of the stories. Additionally, the illustrations are clean and consistent. The lettering is easy to read and the placement of the speech bubbles are placed well and do not distract or cover important details in each panel. The Fuzzy Princess is an adorably fun book. As mentioned above, there is such a variety of characters that, while they are not deeply constructed, are still quirky and delightful. While cat lovers will find this book witty and perhaps a reminder to childhood shenanigans, this book could easily be one that a parent can read aloud to their child at bedtime; hence, The Fuzzy Princess is for all ages. If you like Brubaker’s wit, then definitely check out Ask a Cat in addition to this lovely, little book. Published in: Comics Michele Brittany, Fanbase Press Editorials Manager Latest from Michele Brittany, Fanbase Press Editorials Manager ‘Love Town #4:’ Comic Book Review Countdown to the Eisners: 2019 Nominees for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia Countdown to the Eisners: 2019 Nominees for Best U.S. Edition of International Material Countdown to the Eisners: 2019 Nominees for Best Publication for Teens (Ages 13-17) Countdown to the Eisners: 2019 Nominees for Best Publication for Kids (Ages 9-12) ‘Chesire Crossing:’ Graphic Novel Review ‘Ghost Tree #4:’ Advance Comic Book Review ‘Gideon Falls #15:’ Advance Comic Book Review ‘In Place of Honor #2:’ Comic Book Review ‘Firefly #8:’ Advance Comic Book Review	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line150
__label__wiki	0.831073	0.831073	female Malaysia's Leading Fashion & Beauty Magazine The Marvel Studios Exhibit In Pavilion Is A Must-Visit For MCU Fans Friday, June 28, 2019 4:04 PM by Yi-Di Ng If you thought that Infinity War signalled the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you might be happy to hear that it couldn’t be further from the truth. By now you might have heard that the studio has the next batch of films all lined up and ready to go, but that’s not all. After delighting us on the big screen for a decade, there’s now a fitting way to celebrate the MCU’s accomplishments – right here in Kuala Lumpur! Get ready to enter the multi-sensory world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes exhibition at Pavilion KL! Organised by The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia, this specially-curated exhibition is the first Marvel Studios exhibition in Malaysia and is together with Crave Alive and Beast Kingdom. The exhibition explores the journeys of the MCU’s beloved characters, from Iron Man to Captain Marvel. From 28 June to 27 October 2019, you’ll be able to relive the past decade of Marvel Studios’ storytelling and come up close with original props, costumes, and concept art from selected films. That’s right, the actual props that were used in the movies and that your favourite actors touched! Expect to see props like Iron Man’s arc reactor from Avengers: Endgame, Iron Man’s Infinity Gauntlet, Doctor Strange’s Eye of Agamotto, costumes from the films and more. Photo from our Instagram Story – can you tell we have a Marvel fan on our team? Besides that, 10 immersive galleries chronicling the valiant adventures of their favorite Super Heroes, featuring vignettes from the first Marvel Studios’ Iron Man to the record-shattering hit, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame. Our Features and Lifestyle Writer (and ardent MCU fan) Tammy was there at the launch of the exhibit, and here’s what she had to say: “My advice? Go with friends who are as passionate about the Marvel Cinematic Universe as you because it’s never fun fangirling alone. One cool part of the exhibition was getting to examine all the original movie props and costumes up close. Honestly, it was just a crazy overwhelming feeling to see all the things I’ve grown up watching on the big screen right there in front of me. That said, while I loved how you could still see the dents on Captain America’s USO shield and the detailed suit work of Black Panther, my favourite moment of the whole exhibition was gazing at the life-sized Marvel Studios class photo wall (that includes 80 of its stars and filmmakers) that was displayed at the exit of the exhibition. I’ve seen pictures of it online when it was first released, but this was just on a whole ‘nother level as the faces were as big as mine and I just felt emotional and proud knowing that at one point, all the people I love from different movies were in the same room together to take that picture in the first place.” Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir was also there yesterday to officiate the launch, where he also dropped the bomb that his favourite MCU character is… Thanos. We’ll let you sit on that for a while. A post shared by #PavilionKL (@pavilionkualalumpur) on Jun 27, 2019 at 6:45am PDT Tickets are now on sale at www.marvelexhibition.my, with a 10% Early Bird discount across all ticket categories for visitors who purchase their tickets between 21 June to 07 July 2019. Tickets are RM58 for adults and RM38 for children 2 – 12 years old, with RM10 discounts across all ticket categories if you hold a MyKad. 45 Things And Experiences Under RM100 The Internet's Favourite Apps To Boost... 6 Crop Tops For When It's Too Hot... 5 Times Jameela Jamil Spoke Up About... #FashionFriday: Balik Kampung With Team ... FEMALE Car & Gadget Awards 2019:... Preview + Subscribe Female Travels 7 Exciting Museums To Visit In Malaysia This International Museum Day Team FEMALE's Most Tranquil Malaysian Weekend Escapes 5 Activities That Make You Want To Visit Pangkor Island Even Before It Receives Its Tax-Free Status 4 Reasons You Should Delay Posting Your Vacation Pics On Social Media 10 Hideaway Hotels For When You Want To Run Away From Everything FEMAIL: We Want To Hear From You! Q&A: Ask Our Fashion & Beauty Experts Feature Your Photos In FEMALE Magazine! female Magazine Malaysia Join Our Newsletter Squad! Blu Inc Media Copyright © 2019. Blu Inc Media Sdn Bhd (7408-K). All rights reserved. Lot 7, Jalan Bersatu 13/4, Section 13, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. © 2019 female. All Rights Reserved. Type keyword(s) and press Enter Cash & Career	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line152
__label__wiki	0.621439	0.621439	GIS Device Selecting a Mobile Device ArcPad - What can you do with ArcPad Plot Digitizer Rugged Windows CE field device with color screen GPS Device Navigational and GPS Device Buying Guide Garmin Rino-01 GPS Remote Sensing Device Temperature Indicators and Temperature Instruments from Ultra Electronics formerly Weed Instrument Company Temperature Indicators and Temperature Instruments from Allied Electronics, Inc Optical Remote Sensing Devices - Some Manufacturers and Consulting Firms HySpex Products - Hyperspectral Cameras HySpex Cameras VNIR-640, VNIR-1600, SWIR-320i, SWIR-320m, SWIR-320m-e The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - Remote Sensing Application - Completely Remote Sensing, GPS, and GPS Tutorial The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission A precise overview of the SRTM program is found at the JPL video site. Access through the JPL Video Site, then the pathway Format-->Video -->Search to bring up the list that includes "Mapping the World", July 11, 2002. To start it, once found, click on the blue RealVideo link. It may come as a surprise to most who've never worked on or utilized topographic data sets or maps to learn that much of the global land surface (as well as parts of ocean floors) has not been mapped at other than coarse (large value) contour intervals. Better maps at closer intervals are very much needed in many enterprises, both civilian and military. It should predictable, then, that topographic mapping from satellites can overcome this deficiency since polar orbiters and Shuttle missions pass over much of the land masses of the World. Experience with radar mapping from the Shuttle led geographers, cartographers, and other specialists to advocate a mission that could systematically map large regional terrains in need of more detailed elevation data for the land. Such a mission, covering both well- and poorly-mapped surfaces, would provide a uniform and coherent data set that would serve as a database suited to many applications. The response from the U.S. community, through NASA and joined by a German organization, is the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which was successfully launched (Mission STS-99, Shuttle Endeavor) on February 11, 2000 and operated for 10 days, gathering data that covers approximately 80% of the land surface. It will take about 2 years to fully reduce all data and provide topographic maps in various formats. C-band and X-band radars (see page 8-1 for wavelengths) operate from one pair of transmission-receiving antennas in the Shuttle payload bay and a matching second pair (receiving only) at the end of a collapsible boom of 60 m length (actual distance between inboard and outboard antennas is 83 m), so that dual signal return simulates the separation needed to provide parallax-like data. Here is a view of the boom (right) center as it was extended during the mission. NASA JPL supplied the C-band instrument pair. The data from 159 orbits (at angles to the equator that allow monitoring the Earth between 65° N and 50° S), at a Shuttle altitude nominally at 233 km (145 miles), extend for each pass over a swath width of 225 km (141 miles), so that continuous operation for 10 days provided nearly total coverage (with some duplication) of the land traversed. Under these conditions, the radar image has a ground resolution of 30 x 30 m and a vertical (elevation) resolution of 16 m (absolute) and 10 m (relative). Processing the data into a stereo-mode which, through the principle of interferometry, can be converted into elevation differences and then restructured as a DEM data set by incorporating bench marks (known elevation points), is summarized in this diagram (somewhat degraded by low Internet resolution): In essence, radar holograms from both antennas are generated (and can be converted to images). Then, while still in digital mode, these utilize phase information to construct interferograms (again, displayable as images). After introducing known elevation points to the data set, a digital height model (DEM type) can then be used to contruct a relief or shaded relief image. That can be combined with other data types (e.g., Landsat imagery) or converted to other map forms. Let us look at a typical C-band image, of an area covering part of Dallas, Texas: Next, examine this interferogram that shows the distinctive color banding such a data type presents. The two islands are West Maui and Lanai in the Hawaiian chain. Each cycle of colors (from pink to blue to pink) passes through an equal amount of elevation difference (400 m [1300]) in a manner similar to broad contour lines. One of the practical uses of SRTM data resides in the monitoring of changes of elevation over time. This can be important as a tool for observing the swelling of a volcano with newly emplaced lavas. This causes the volcanic edifice to undergo upward swelling of the surface. This next illustration shows changes in the surface in and around the Three Sisters, volcanic stratocones in the Oregon Cascades near Bend, OR. To construct the change plot, data from several collection times over an extended period are used. To illustrate some of the different image types derivable from SRTM data, we will display coverage of a pass across the Kamchatka Peninsula, a volcanic mountain chain in eastern Siberia. The first view is the interferogram whose color fringes suggest relief. From that, a shaded relief (computer-generated artificial light imposes a pattern of shadow and light) and a shaded relief perspective view are derived: When SRTM data are combined with Landsat, these views of the Kamchatka mountains ensue: Still another SRTM example from the same part of the World is Hokkaido Island in Japan, with its active volcano, Usu. A special type of stereo image known as an analglyph is made by projecting one of the image pair through red and the other through blue filters to give the resulting superimposed image. To see relief in stereo, for this segment of the Kamchatka peninsula, you would need a pair of glasses made usually of cardboard with the right eye opening covered by red cellophane and the left with blue. A few users of this Tutorial may have one from a 3-D movie experience or can make the glasses in the obvious way. The X-band radar on SRTM is provided and managed by DLR - the Deutches Fernerkundungs-datenzentrum (the German Aerospace Center). Its antenna setup is similar to JPL's C-band system, the difference being that its antenna in the Shuttle Bay is fixed to look straight down, rather than inclined. Thus its swath width is an unchanging 50 km. Data processing to produce elevation maps is essentially the same. Here is an X-band image of part of the Kamchatka Peninsula; the highest point in the mountains is 4755 m (15690 ft): For those interested in additional information and updates and more imagery, tie into the JPL and German Aerospace SRTM Web sites. How much of an improvement in small-scale map quality in those parts of Earth where topographic maps are lacking in details found in, say, coverage of the United States? This next image is convincing: On the left is a colorized map of the Uatuma River Basin near Manaus in eastern Brazil based on the best elevation data available; on the right is a SRTM image processed to display the optimum topographic representation extractable from the radar data. The black areas in the map on the right depict the water buildup in Lake Balbina created by damming the river. Another example is this pair of maps of Coos Bay in Oregon. The left map is taken from the USGS's 10 meter series covering the U.S.; the right map shows the additional contour lines, at a 5 meter interval, that could be drawn with SRTM data. The coloring in both is an assessment of the potential for landslides: By mid-2003, the SRTM task force had completed a topographic map of the entire land surface between 60°N and 60°S over the world. This results from the efforts involved in the SRTM30 project. Although more accurate maps exist for some parts of this surface, this global map represents the best and most uniform quality map of the continental elevations now extant. Dark green denotes the lowest regional elevations. Brown grading into white defines the highest elevations - in southern Asia and the West Coasts of North and South America. To gain an insight into the improvements resulting from SRTM30, consider these two maps of the Guiana Highlands in the Guyana Shield of northern South America. The map on the left below was compiled from the best published data prior to 2000; its surface resolution is 986 meters. On the right is the SRTM30 version, at 30 m ground resolution and 10 m vertical resolution. This latter is far more accurate; note how the higher elevations shown in the left map are greatly diminished (i.e., were initially exaggerated) as the truer configuration from SRTM replaces the older version. Follow-up programs are "in the works" to use radar interferometry and laser profiling to continually upgrade topographic/elevation mapping of the entire world. Suffice to close this Section is this direct observation: Our world has always been a 3-D one; now a variety of space imaging systems that can produce end products in three dimensions will benefit cartographers and others who generate many kinds of maps that depict the true nature of the land surface. Source: http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov Copyright © 2009 - 2019 FaceGIS.com. All rights reserved	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line157
__label__wiki	0.647224	0.647224	Unsold bread at a modern bakery Latest NewsBurning IssuesBusiness Government Suspends ‘Bikers’ from Supplying Bread By Nelson Manneh The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment has decided to temporarily suspend operations of all “bikers” from Kanifing Municipality to Brikama, in the distribution of bread with immediate effect for a period of three months Efforts to reach Abdoulie Jammeh, Deputy Director at the Ministry of Trade to shed light on this development, proved futile. Meanwhile a press release issued by Government to suspend the ‘bikers’ from bread distribution can be read below: Given the current market failure in the bread industry, and after thorough negotiations with the operators in the entire value chain, and consultations with regulatory authorities including the National Assembly Select Committee on Trade to regularize the situation, parties could not agree on a consensus solution. The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment has therefore decided to temporarily suspend operations of all bikers (including bicycles), from Kanifing Municipality to Brikama, in the distribution of bread with immediate effect for a period of three months. This decision is to allow the Ministry to put in place a long-lasting solution (regulatory instrument), for the conduct of business in the bread sector. In the areas mentioned, bakeries are therefore responsible for the distribution of their own bread to the community. In this regard, bakeries should supply bread directly to shops or kiosks for sale. Shops and kiosks are equally urged to get their supplies directly from any bakery they want to get their supplies from. To ensure sanity in the industry, the Ministry of Trade has included bread as an essential commodity through Legal Notice 5 of 2019 and henceforth, operators in the bread industry including distributors, will be required to comply with the requirements set by the Ministry for the production and distribution of bread. The General public is further informed that the Ministry is finalizing a regulation on bread which will ensure standard, quality, safety and hygiene, in the production and distribution of bread. Once the development of the regulation is complete, operators will be required to register as a business and obtain a license from the Food Safety and Quality Authority, to operate. The cooperation of the general public and operators in the bread industry, is highly solicited.’’ Foroyaa has earlier learnt that bread suppliers who serve as middlemen in the distribution of bread from bakeries to shops locally called ‘Bikers’, have stopped supplying bread. During the weekend, people residing in the Grater Banjul Area experienced scarcity of bread especially ‘Senfour’. Some were seen moving from one shop to another, in search of bread, the country’s most common staple food used for breakfast. And as the bread saga continues to prevail, consumers were becoming more worried of the issue amid preparations for the fast approaching Muslim month of Ramadan. On Saturday May 4th 2019, this reporter visited communities within the Kanifing Municipality and met some food vendors who said they do not have any bread to sell with their prepared stew or whatever; that they cannot sell without bread. They further complained that the ‘bikers’ should have given them notice of their decision to stop distributing bread. Lamarana Jallow, a ‘biker’ who supplies within Tallinding, said he was called by his colleagues who told him they were not supplying bread and would like him to do the same; that they are not making enough profit compared to the work they do and the efforts they took to invest in the trade. He expressed his disappointment for not being commended by the people they serve bread. “We wake up very early in the morning to collect bread from the bakeries for distribution to various shops and vendors within the communities. We do not make any significant profit and our efforts are still not recognized by the people we serve. This makes me feel disappointed by the people,” he said. He said they have not embarked on full time strike, but want to see if the shopkeepers will be able to collect bread every day for themselves. Abubacarr Bah a shopkeeper, said he did not know the reason behind the ‘bikers’ decision to stop distributing bread; that what he speculates is that the ‘bikers’ were in for a price increase in bread. He said when this did not happen, they decided to sit down and stop the distribution of bread. “I called my supplier and he told me that he will not be coming with the supply. That if I want bread, let me go to the bakery myself. My supplier told me clearly that they are not making any profit and will not ‘kill’ themselves,” he said. Bah said Government should do something to end the supply of bread especially with the fast approaching month of Ramadan. Mariatou Colley a vendor who sells stew said she has never gone to any bakery to get her daily supply of bread. “I have a supplier who brings bread for me every day. If the ‘bikers’ decide not to supply, this will affect us greatly,” she said. Mariatou said people are not used to buying bread from bakeries but shops. Lamin Ndow, a baker, told Foroyaa that they are not responsible for the problem; that they have not stopped any ‘biker’ to distribute bread from their shop; adding ‘bikers’ just want the price of bread to be increased, which has been their complain throughout this period. Ndow urges the shopkeepers to look for bread from bakeries from now; noting as times goes on, they will get used to it. Some ‘bikers’ blame bakeries for the problem saying most bakeries do not want to cooperate with them to improve their plight; that these bakeries make more profit than them (the bikers). Previous articleCRC Meets Gambians in Mauritania Next articleIda Bass Kidney Foundation To Train Medical Professional In Dakar, Uk High Court Orders Businesspersons to Stop Using ‘Ingelec’ Products By Yankuba Jallow The Banjul High Court presided over by Justice Aminata Saho-Ceesay has made an order that restrains all dealers from selling or offering... 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__label__wiki	0.507086	0.507086	August 23, 2015 / filmsnobreviews Review: She’s Funny That Way Title: She’s Funny That Way Director: Peter Bogdanovich Starring: Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn What It Is: When director Arnold Albertson (Wilson) has a tryst with a lady of the night named Glow (whose real name is Isabella) she (Poots) is given a golden ticket in the form of $30,000 from Arnold. She uses it to start her acting career. Her first audition just so happens to be for a new play directed by…Arnold. As we learn throughout the story this isn’t the first time Arnold has cheated on his actress wife (Hahn) and then given money to the escort herself. What We Think: This is what a Woody Allen movie would look like if he made one of his earlier films today. It’s clustered with a screwball sensibility, and that’s really awesome to see. As a huge fan of some of the classic screwball comedies it is wonderfully refreshing to see that brought back a bit. It’ just a bit too bad that the film as a while doesn’t bring anything to the table. From an acting perspective there’s solid actors giving alright performances. Kathryn Hahn seems to be hamming it up, but I think that may have been how Bogdanovich told her to play it. Wilson seems to be doing what he always does and plays it naive. He does the bumbling idiot thing we’ve seen from him multiple times before. Our Grade: C, It’s so very average. You’d really expect a lot more given the cast this one has. It’s wasted talent and wasted potential. It really upsets me that there exist a film like this. One that might have ventured to warrant the ability of the screwball genre to still gather an audience and make them laugh. Perhaps we’ll see another attempt that stick closer to comedy and less towards over complication. Previous Post Review: The Escort Next Post Review: Terminator: Genisys	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line159
__label__cc	0.749255	0.250745	Special Events Group Exercise Classes Child Care Staffed Hours About Membership Pricing Member Login Group Classes Personal Training Health Education Massage Therapy Child Care Youth Classes Sarah McVay Amy Schwein Dusti Gallagher Brady Hemphill Leslie Graves Melissa Copp Sarah McVay has enjoyed working in the wellness industry for more than 1 years, she graduated from Emporia State University with a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Wellness and a minor in Physical Education. Sarah is passionate about helping individuals on their own personalized path to holistic wellness. Sarah was born and raised in the Wamego area and her husband Kendall is an Attorney in the area, they hold family values high while raising their three young children. Sarah has enjoyed serving several years as a Volleyball Coach at Wamego high school and loves having her family involved in 4-H. “I love helping people find the joy in not only reaching their fitness goals, but actually enjoying what they find out about themselves on their journey to get there.” “Speaking from experience, Flint Hills Fitness provides a wonderfully unique atmosphere. To be a part of the Fitness Family that has been created here is truly an honor.” Amy is a certified Yoga Instructor for Flint Hills Fitness. She began her yoga journey working out daily with her friends. Once a week they would add a yoga workout in and Amy was hooked. Not only did it give her an amazing workout, but also she loved how it centered her thinking and helped her focus. A passion was born. In 212 Amy received her Level I training through Yogafit. Since that time, Amy has been on a mission to teach yoga to as many people as she could. This is when she joined up with Holly McPeak. "Holly and I were both headed on the same path. We both wanted to create an atmosphere that let people feel like they were a part of a community that cared for them. Not only being healthy on the outside, but also from within." Since joining Flint Hills Fitness, Amy has received her Level II, III and Anatomy Certification. She is working toward her goal of 5RYT. You can join Amy for Power Yoga, Mixed Level Yoga or Relax and Renew Yoga classes. She also teaches private sessions and small groups. When Amy is not on the mat you can find her taking care of her busy family of five and volunteering in the community. Dusti is excited to be a part of the Flint Hills Fitness team as a yoga instructor. As an avid runner and involved in team sports for most of her life, Dusti has always been enthusiastic about physical fitness. In July 213, as a member of Flint Hills fitness, she discovered yoga as an ideal exercise for the heart, mind, and muscles. She found that yoga training complemented her running and added a new dimension to her workouts. Now certified as a Level 1 Yogafit instructor, Dusti is bringing her energy and enthusiasm to her classes at Flint Hills Fitness. Dusti also works part-time for an agricultural marketing consulting firm that she started several years ago and lives in Wamego with her husband, Paul and two children Maya and Nathanael. Brady is currently studying Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Kansas State University and plans to graduate in May 217. He works both with individuals and in small group settings at Flint Hills Fitness as an ACE Certified Personal Trainer. Brady’s involvement in team sports his entire life has taught him valuable lessons that directly correlate to everyday life and success. He lives by the belief that physical fitness is key in improving the overall quality of life. 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In her spare time, Leslie, enjoys sharing life with family and friends, staying active, gardening, refinishing furniture and other DIY projects, learning about herbs, playing piano, and spending plenty of time outside. Melissa graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health Nutrition & Dietetics in 28. She has been working as an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and AFAA Group Fitness Instructor since 26. She also holds certifications and experience in Schwinn Cycle, Tabata Bootcamp, BOSU, and aqua aerobics. She has been a registered and licensed Dietitian since 28. She has had much experience working with a variety of ages and populations. As both a fitness and nutrition specialist, she will work hard, no matter your goals, to aid you on your fitness and nutrition journey. "My favorite part about being a fitness and nutrition professional is seeing my clients and the participants in my classes make gains, especially when they didn't think that they could. It's the people at this gym and their energy towards my same passions that motivate me to keep doing what I'm doing. My hope is to touch as many lives as possible with good news about how choosing a healthy lifestyle can empower their daily lives in countless ways!" When Melissa is not at the gym, you can find her at home with her two young kids or working on a new craft project. 785-456-9956 \| flinthillsfitness@gmail.com \| 490 East Highway 24 \| Facebook © 2019 Flint Hills Fitness. Designed by Jay Walter. Soli Deo gloria.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line162
__label__cc	0.649378	0.350622	Jimmy Olsen´s blues Okay. Just so that we lighten up the blog, here´s one page from last year´s 120-pages long “Batwoman” daily serial. It was page one from issue three, in which Catwoman had led the Secret Society of Super-Villains- Please do bear with me here. The idea was indeed to add together a silly plot & silly characters with a more sophisticated narrative, just to see if I could make it work, just for fun -in raiding the Justice League Satellite. Green Arrow was the only hero present at the orbiting HQs at the time and was taken down by surprise, but not before he managed to signal Superman for help… - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAGE 1. Panel 1. Partial view of the planet Earth to the lower-left section of the panel, surrounded by the nothingness of the star-filled void. 1 CAPTION: Something microscopic at this distance shoots upwards through the skyline of a vast urban spread on a great metropolitan center somewhere on North America´s Eastern shore. It is exactly 04:36:03 am, less than two minutes since Green Arrow signaled for help. 2 CAPTION: It is clocked at over four times the speed of sound by land-based radar stations, and accelerating. Pull back to reveal the pointy tip of one of the JLA satellite´s pylon antennae, shining in the sunlight. 3 CAPTION: A split-second elapses as the air scorches red-hot on its trail as it gains sovereignty over the lower atmosphere. 4 CAPTION: The Satellite´s onboard scanners compensate for electromagnetic interference from the surrounding environment and track the projectile with extreme precision. Pull back further, so now we can see most of the left segment of the JLA Satellite´s outer rim in the shot, with two of its pylons in full view. Below, a shinning point of light comes off Earth´s atmosphere. 5 CAPTION: A mind capable of solving equations using whole star-systems instead of numeric algorithms calculates trajectory and thrust… 6 CAPTION: …Its uncanny eyesight not bothered by the lightwaves shifting deeper into the blue spectrum as their lengths are compressed under a speed never dreamed of. The point of light becomes a thin white line shooting off the Earth en route to the Satellite. 7 CAPTION: The Satellite´s electronic mind fire streams of binary information through lengths of cables and wires scattered throughout its radiation-proofed structure… 8 CAPTION: …Crawling deeply, spiderlike into the transistorized bulkheads of its lower levels below the main deck… The white line becomes a blue-red-yellow blur, now only a few hundred feet away from the Satellite. 9 CAPTION: Bright primary colors drop off the speed of light. 10 CAPTION: The displacement of gravitons in its presence slightly warps space around the orbital station… the fact does not go unnoticed by its nigh-omniscient recording devices. A rather large, bold panel. An extreme close-up of a porthole inside the Trophy Room inside the Satellite, looking out to space. The porthole, to the left of the panel, takes almost two-thirds of the shot, whereas the darkened, inert head of Amazo the Amazing Android (seen here from the neck up, just his head) lies against the wall, facing the reader. The main event, however, is what we see through the porthole: The full-bodied figure of SUPERMAN drops off lightspeed, like an angry god. He is mad, every muscle flexed, fists closed shut and arms bent below & outwards, bursting with raw power. OBS: I don´t care what the rest of the free-world thinks, but this is Alex Ross´ middle-aged, badass, adult Superman. This is NOT the eternally-29 fashion-model teenage superstar post-Crisis Super-wimp. This guy should look like a 45-year-old blue-collar “dad” right out of a 1930s Depression-era America, built like a damn tractor, with a receding hairline, thin lips, blue eyes perpetually squinting, skin like granite, raw power bursting at the seams at every move. 11 CAPTION: 04:36:06 am. An angry god re-enters Reality, only to see his temple defiled and family threatened. 12 CAPTION: Superman´s commands are unheard in the void, but his message is clear: Get out. 13 CAPTION: Within the Trophy Room, a dead Android bears silent witness to the scene. A small panel. Extreme close-up on Amazo´s darkened face from the previous shot, his eyes now open wide in a red glow. 14 CAPTION: Within the Trophy Room, a mockup of the powers and abilities of the entire Justice League comes alive as Amazo awakens after a deep slumber. 15 CAPTION: His thoughts are clear. His mission is clear. One word flashes through its artificial brain: Kill. Sang the Spin Doctors in their 1991 album “Pocket Full of Kryptonite”: He’s leaping buildings in a single bound / I’m reading Shakespeare at my place downtown / Come on downtown and make love to me / I’m Jimmy Olsen not a Titan, you see. Guy sitting next to me here at the office just downloaded the new Superman Returns trailer, looks good, got me in the mood for some Kryptonite after all… I mean, everybody likes Superman, right? Well, I am afraid of her (Reading list for Apr.06)... To absent friends A hole in the world	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line165
__label__cc	0.723929	0.276071	Outland Space Footage App Released for iOS and Apple TV What's better than serene visual inspiration? That's what I call images and video from space. If you love such imagery, and find it a source of inspiration, then you need to check out "Outland - Space Journey 1.0, a new entertainment app developed exclusively for iOS and Apple TV. Outland - Space Journey offers a collection of videos of ISS footage and computer-generated views of planetary surfaces and deep space objects. Played on a 4th generation Apple TV the app transforms the TV screen into a spaceship window. There are 20 timelapse videos featuring: Compilation of timelapses from the ISS Tropical cyclone moving over the Earth Hubble Space Telescope flying over the surface of the Earth Calabash Nebula Cat's Eye Nebula Butterfly Nebula Earth view during the Day and Night ISS flying over the surface of the Earth The lightning over the Earth aboard the ISS. Winds of Jupiter Flying around Minkowski's Butterfly Nebula Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of ESA astronaut Canary Islands to Italy Planet Earth is Beautiful ExoMars 2016 Liftoff Flying from North Africa over Turkey Liftoff of Vega carrying LISA Pathfinder Flying over the English Channel Sentinel-1B Prepares for Liftoff A timelapse video by ESA astronaut Tim Peake Device Requirements: ~ iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Supports Apple TV ~ Requires iOS 9.0 or later - 195 MB Outland - Space Journey 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store as well as the Apple TV App Store in the Entertainment category. For more information, please contact Alena Kudasheva. Category: video, travel, space, NASA Vito Technology: Space Journey Space Journey Screenshot Space Journey Screenshot 2 Alexandria, Virginia - Based in Alexandria, Virginia, Vito Technology Inc. is headed by CEO Victor Toporkov and has developed an impressive portfolio of products for Windows Mobile since it entered the mobile software market in 2001. The company's latest endeavors include iOS and Web 2.0 software development. Vito Technology won an Apple Design Award in 2010 for its Star Walk for iPad app. The company consists of two departments: Research & Development Department and Marketing Department with 30 employees in total. Copyright (C) 2016 Vito Technology Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Posted July 27, 2016. Tags: &else, 1608, 60-seconds, inspiration, space, video, visual footage and computer-generated views of planetary surfaces and deep space objects. CES Videos Did you ever wish you could see your iPhone photos on a much bigger monitor? Halloween, Steampunk, Day of the Dead, clip art, activities, coloring and more Are you ready for Video Walls? XEffects 3D for Final Cut Pro X puts you there!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line167
__label__wiki	0.964385	0.964385	FC client Dayle Southwell signs for Wycombe By Full Contact News and Views Full Contact client Dayle Southwell has turned professional, signing for League Two club Wycombe Wanderers. 22 year old Dayle, a goal-scoring sensation for the last two seasons at Boston United in the National League North, has put pen to paper on a two year contract at Adams Park. Full Contact’s senior partner Dan Chapman commented “We are really pleased for Dayle that this move has finally happened. He has long since been one of the most prolific goalscorers outside of the Football League and we have had to bide our time to find the right club for him. There has been no shortage of suitors and he could have moved to a higher level and/or earned more money but in Wycombe I think we have a great match. Gareth Ainsworth and the Wycombe chairman Andrew Howard have been a pleasure to deal with and have sold their club to Dayle so well. Yet again we are proud at Full Contact to help another non-league player make the step up to the pro game.” Lee Payne, Full Contact’s Head of Football, added “Dayle is a striker that I believe will take to the Football League comfortably. His attributes go far beyond the goals he scores and I think the Wycombe fans will love his endeavour, honesty and the way he continually looks to harass defenders. There are no guarantees in football and Dayle has to work hard now to make the switch from part to full-time, but I am confident he is going to do very well indeed.” Dayle will join up with his new team-mates next week before travelling with the squad to France for their pre-season tour. « FC client Shaq McDonald makes familiar move FC client Souleymane Coulibaly signs for Kilmarnock » About Full Contact Full Contact News and Views includes articles contributed by Associates and professional contacts within the Full Contact team and includes opinion on sports law, PR and media, football agency and more.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line168
__label__wiki	0.756781	0.756781	Lost Levels About -- Forums -- Articles -- News RSS FAQ Search Memberlist� � Usergroups� � Register Profile� � Log in to check your private messages� � Log in Lost Levels Forums Hi-Ten Bomberman! �� Lost Levels Forum Index -> Unreleased Games View previous topic :: View next topic � parallaxscroll Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 4:41 pm�� Post subject: Hi-Ten Bomberman! Hi-Ten Bomberman -- "Hi" for High Definition, "Ten" for ten players. Created in 1993 for Japan's widescreen HDTV format called HD-Vision, came more than a decade before Xbox 360 came out. Hi-Ten Bomberman was the ancestor of Saturn Bomberman, but to me Hi-Ten looks better. Hi-Ten Bomberman ran on a custom NEC PC which ran the game and two PC Engine CoreGrafx consoles for inputs. The HDTV display was probably a plasma set costing more than $10,000. Hi-TEN Bomberman was the world's first HD-TV video game and was used by Hudson Soft to demonstrate their HD-TV technology. The first version demoed at the 1993 Hudson Soft "Super Caravan" as part of a Bomberman competition and ran using two PC Engine CoreGrafx (5 players on each machine) and a computer to output to the HD-TV. For the 1994 contest, the game was apparently updated to run on a Project Tetsujin "IronMan" prototype board, which many believe eventually became the PC-FX. This version of Bomberman featured up to 10 players and purportedly included Bonk, though this has not been confirmed. Hi-TEN Bomberman was later ported to the Sega Saturn under the name Saturn Bomberman, and Saturn Bomberman does feature Bonk, so it is likely that Hi-Ten also featured Bonk. In 1993, Hi-TEN Bomberman was given the Committee Chairman's Award at the "High Vision Awards 93" hosted by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Many believe that the game was never released on the PC-FX due to NEC's strict content guidelines on the system, though it was eventually ported to the Sega Saturn. http://bonkzonk.com/game.ktn?Game=htbm#ss Hi-Ten Bomberman Developed by Hudson Soft - Action - Unreleased Hi-Ten Bomberman was a game that was originally planned to be released on the PC-FX, however due to NEC's publishing guidelines, Hi-Ten would never be released for the unit. The game in its original form would never be for sale, but it did however make an appearance in the Hudson Soft Gaming Caravan back in 1993 as part of a competition. Hi-Ten Bomberman was a 10 player version of the popular PC Engine/TG-16 game "Bomberman", and was formatted for play on wide-screen HDTV's - the first game ever for the HDTV standard (at the time, HDTV's have been in Japan for many years). You could play as many different characters like "Bonk" or "Bomberman" (Woman or Man) and many more. It is believed that Hudson Soft later released this version, redone slightly, as "Saturn Bomberman", which includes the PC-FX "widescreen" 10-player mode. Saturn Bomberman is basically what the PC-FX version should have been like. http://www.pcenginefx.com/PC-FX/html/pc-fx_world_-_f_r_-_hi-ten_bom.html Here are some screenshots and rare footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWXi-vUzrM Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 11:59 am�� Post subject: Jeepers. And I thought the DS Bomberman games were ridiculous. Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 3:41 pm�� Post subject: Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:07 pm�� Post subject: That stage at ten players max is much larger than the DS's stages at eight players max: Kid Fenris Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 6:33 pm�� Post subject: So what were these "publishing guidelines" of NEC's that kept Hi-Ten Bomberman unreleased? I didn't know that NEC had strict provisions on what publishers brought out for their systems. In fact, it's strange that the PC-FX didn't get a Bomberman game. Kid Fenris wrote: I don't know much, all I know is NEC wanted the PC-FX to have mostly FMV/anime based games. It is sad that Hi-Ten Bomberman never got released for the PC-FX. Saturn Bomberman's 10-player mode looks conciderably worse graphically. Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:06 am�� Post subject: here's a little jem of a post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2242730&postcount=4 I played Hi-ten Bomberman (it was running on a PC) at Hudson HQ in Sapporo about ten years ago. It was fucking amazing. There were like, separate mini-battles going on between groups of two or three players. It was chaos and terror all the way. It would be PERFECT for play on 360 Live Arcade. There were definitely lots of stages. The game had been properly tested and bug checked. It was very polished, lots of power ups and a couple of things that were (at that time) new to the series. I am emailing someone about it right now. And to reiterate, it was running on a PC, which means somewhere, someone has it. The motherlode. I am Christina Aguilera Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:20 pm�� Post subject: Along that thread, I wonder what becomes of Hudson HQ with the Konami buyout? Does it (and all fun oddball Hudson historical items) still exist as a separate Konami subsidiary office, or did everything get moved? Tongueman parallaxscroll wrote: a little jem: neomerge Location: Woodstock GA! Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 2:43 am�� Post subject: wow that's impressive. I myself also find it -very- hard to believe that PC-FX guidelines prevented a release considering the PC-FX standards were lax enough for -eroge- and games that were so unpolished they looked half-complete to be released on it. BTW, linking this like I did on Digitpress, here's a NicoNicoDouga video which has some footage of the game in the end, similar to the one AssemblerEX upped but without their watermark. http://video.niconico.com/watch/sm481030 Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 11:50 pm�� Post subject: Re: Hi-Ten Bomberman! The HDTV display was probably a plasma set costing more than $10,000. Not exactly on-topic but the first plasma set I saw was around 1998 and to the tune of no less than $25,000. It had to be more than that. I'm curious as to what the actual resolution is for the game, 1080p or even 1080i would have been absolutely insane in 1993. Vlcice Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 3:21 am�� Post subject: I'm curious what the resolution was too. MUSE/Hi-Vision TVs were around since the late 80s and used 1035i: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sub-Nyquist_sampling_encoding But that doesn't mean the game ran at that resolution, so I guess it could be anything. Hi-Vision LDs ran a lot lower than that. Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 7:45 pm�� Post subject: I too would like to know what the resolution was. Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:27 am�� Post subject: As posted on Digital Press: Simply counting the # of blocks on the Bomberman screen, assuming they are 16x16 pixels, puts the screen resolution at around 624 x 448, noninterlaced probably. Yeah, I've heard of NEC's fervent belief that full-motion video clips were the game industry's future, but I can't believe they'd kill a Bomberman game over it. Then again, the PC-FX flopped so fast that it must've aborted plenty of titles. After all, Hudson canceled Tengai Makyo III, the only thing that would've moved the system in Japan. Last edited by Kid Fenris on Mon May 09, 2011 5:04 pm; edited 1 time in total Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:07 pm�� Post subject: video now uploaded in HD! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVoPogwVts Not an attempt to rain on this parade too hard, but I don't think there's anything to gain out of an obvious upscale of what is likely old lasrerdisc footage. The old video and the new video may as well be one and the same to me. TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:52 pm�� Post subject: Kiddo wrote: Yeah, upscaling using whatever he used is just adding new information to the video that wasn't there before, for archival purposes the standard def video is better (that way it can be upscaled by the end user). I have a theory about this considering what Tongueman pasted about the possible resolution and how this is running. Notice the controllers are standard PC-Engine controllers, and then go to 0:44 in the video. Past the blue haired girl's shoulders looks like a grey PC-Engine with something attached to the port where the CD attachment goes. The PC-Engine can pull off a horizontal resolution of 512 easily, which I think what's being done here. I'm also reminded of the hardware trick the Genesis used to get 448 vertical resolution for Sonic 2. Tongueman, is it possible that's what's going here just with a regular PC-Engine? �� Lost Levels Forum Index -> Unreleased Games All times are GMT Jump to: Select a forum Lost Levels----------------Front Page News & ArticlesUnreleased Games Gaming----------------Video Game GeneralThe Hook Up Stuff----------------Off Topic Powered by phpBB 2.0.23 � 2001, 2002 phpBB Group	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line171
__label__cc	0.701478	0.298522	Trigger:Sometimes you fail me modern art.... That's Admiral 'The Hulk' Ackbar, to you sir Location: Cynicistia Postby Telchar » Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:39 am UTC http://gawker.com/5369615/enter-the-rape-tunnel-for-art I've constructed a 22 ft tunnel out of plywood that leads into the project room. There is no way in or out of the project room except for this tunnel. As you travel through the tunnel, it gets smaller and smaller, making it so that you have to crawl and put yourself in a submissive position in order to reach the tunnel's destination. At the end of the tunnel the subject will find me waiting in the project room and I'll try to the best of my ability to overpower and rape the person who crawls through. It's....so terrible. It's gotta be a hoax right? Zamfir wrote: Yeah, that's a good point. Everyone is all about presumption of innocence in rape threads. But when Mexican drug lords build APCs to carry their henchmen around, we immediately jump to criminal conclusions without hard evidence. Brooklynxman Because I'm Awesome Joined: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:27 pm UTC Contact Brooklynxman Re: Trigger:Sometimes you fail me modern art.... Postby Brooklynxman » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:45 am UTC I......am utterly speachless. That this even seems a little realistic is....... I need time to comprehend this. EDIT: THough that appears to be a joke site.....thank God We figure out what all this means, then do something large and violent The thing about changing the world...once you do it the world's all different. I'm Angel. I beat the bad guys. Gelsamel Lame and emo Postby Gelsamel » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:50 am UTC Gawker is an exceedingly wishy-washy news site. Seems like a satire of modern art exhibitions where they do stuff like starve a dog etc. Meh, it's all in the eye of the beholder I suppose. This hypothetical guy's eye is pretty screwed up though. "Give up here?" - > No "Do you accept defeat?" "Do you think games are silly little things?" "Is it all pointless?" "Do you admit there is no meaning to this world?" Philwelch Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:33 am UTC Postby Philwelch » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:51 am UTC http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/09/about_that_rape_tunnel_did_art.php This is obviously a joke in very bad taste: I had my first breakthrough with an installation that was to be the prototype for this current one. It was called THE PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL. It was the same set-up as THE RAPE TUNNEL except at the end of the tunnel I'd punch the subject in the face instead of raping him or her. The impetus was completely reactionary to the current state of art, and motivated by pure frustration. As it turns out, I ended up breaking the nose of the third person to crawl through the tunnel, an aspiring model. She went to the hospital and eventually sued me. Her modeling career was put on hold. The civil case was long and drawn out and the matter still hasn't been resolved. To this day she still has unpaid medical bills. The point of this long aside is that all this took place two years ago, and I'm still having an impact on this young lady's life, something not many other artists could claim about their work. Rape seemed like the next logical step. Fascism: If you're not with us you're against us. Leftism: If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem. Perfection is an unattainable goal. diotimajsh Joined: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:10 am UTC Contact diotimajsh Postby diotimajsh » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:58 am UTC Bah, ninja-ed by Philwelch. I just found that article, and indeed, seems none of the art galleries mentioned exist, and the picture of the tunnel was taken from a wind tunnel elsewhere. Also, I noted that searching for the supposed precursor -- the "PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE-TUNNEL" only seems to turn up results about this ostensible rape tunnel, which seems odd to me. Especially if there really was a lawsuit about it, that definitely should have made some kind of news somewhere. Osha wrote: Foolish Patriarchy! Your feeble attempts at social pressure have no effect on my invincible awesomeness! Bwahahahaa Blog type thing Contact Malice Postby Malice » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:00 am UTC As a thought piece, I kind of like it. The backstory introduces the question: if you go into the rape tunnel, is it your fault if you get raped? It's an examination of victim-blaming in our society. (The above is only half tongue-in-cheek. But which half?) Postby Hazel » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:32 am UTC The article's being horribly flippant about the whole rape aspect of it. The Gawker, in general response, wrote: We are totally taking a field trip. The Gawker wrote: So this could all be hoax! Be warned, before you get all enthusiastic for the Rape Tunnel. Even if they're being funny, it's really not. Zorlin Joined: Sat May 30, 2009 2:31 am UTC Postby Zorlin » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:34 am UTC Malice wrote: As a thought piece, I kind of like it. The backstory introduces the question: if you go into the rape tunnel, is it your fault if you get raped? It's an examination of victim-blaming in our society. The half with the squidgy holes. Mysterious wizard rabbit of unknown proportions. Check out #xkcd-hugs movie night! Watch movies with your fellow xkcdians. Meaux_Pas wrote: You're all mad. Contact The Reaper Postby The Reaper » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:35 am UTC High Art: Ensuring that in the future, when the cities burn, nothing of value will be lost. Hawknc Oompa Loompa of SCIENCE! Joined: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:14 am UTC Contact Hawknc Postby Hawknc » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:02 am UTC The site linked in that article has been suspended, it seems. I can't imagine why. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ As the Arbiter of Everything, Everything Sucks Joined: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:17 pm UTC Location: I FUCKING MOVED TO THE WOODS Postby (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ » Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:20 pm UTC Up next: the sub-zero rapecoaster! Heyyy baby wanna kill all humans? Postby The Reaper » Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:23 pm UTC Meaux_Pas wrote: Up next: the sub-zero rapecoaster! http://rapecoaster.ytmnd.com/ the_bandersnatch Actually not so frumious. Location: on a bed in a room inside a TV in a hotel room in a hotel on a Monopoly board Postby the_bandersnatch » Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:17 pm UTC Obvious hoax is obvious. In girum imus nocte, et consumimur igni Postby Philwelch » Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:35 pm UTC Old meme is old. Postby The Reaper » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:12 pm UTC Philwelch wrote: Old meme is old. NO U Postby Zorlin » Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:32 pm UTC checks the URL I could swear this was echochamber. Joined: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:10 pm UTC Location: Nu Jersey Contact segmentation fault Postby segmentation fault » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:10 pm UTC so if you choose to go through the tunnel, you choose to be raped, and therefore its not rape... HEAD ASPLODE people are like LDL cholesterol for the internet Soralin Joined: Wed May 07, 2008 12:06 am UTC Postby Soralin » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:23 am UTC segmentation fault wrote: so if you choose to go through the tunnel, you choose to be raped, and therefore its not rape... No, head exploding is the next tunnel over. Postby aleflamedyud » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:50 pm UTC That only works out if you have a safeword. Excuse me, did these pieces once form your head? Prefanity Location: Reno, NV Postby Prefanity » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:12 pm UTC As a quick pedantical aside, I'm not sure this piece (whether real or hoax) can be considered modern art. SummerGlauFan Location: KS Postby SummerGlauFan » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:05 pm UTC aleflamedyud wrote: It once was, but now it's art! glasnt wrote: "As she raised her rifle against the creature, her hair fluttered beneath the red florescent lighting of the locked down building. I knew from that moment that she was something special" Outbreak, a tale of love and zombies. In stores now. Internetmeme Joined: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:16 pm UTC Postby Internetmeme » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:40 pm UTC That is a very interesting question, even if tongue-in-cheek. If you entered the tunnel and you knew for a fact that you would get raped, is it still the other guy's fault? It would probably be like scratching open a painful wound on a rapid dog that has a history of attacking people. Most people would say that it's your fault when you got mauled. What an interesting moral question! MrGee Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:33 pm UTC Postby MrGee » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:55 pm UTC This happens all the time. Except they don't call it rape, they call it BDSM. podbaydoor Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:16 am UTC Location: spaceship somewhere out there Postby podbaydoor » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:56 pm UTC The definition of rape is that it's unwanted. There's also a simple solution to the rape-tunnel piece re: consent and fault. The artist can simply...not rape anyone in the tunnel. tenet \|ˈtenit\| a principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy : the tenets of classical liberalism. tenant \|ˈtenənt\| a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord. Aetius Postby Aetius » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:22 pm UTC podbaydoor wrote: I think it's addressing fault and blame in a third party context. Obviously between the victim and the perpetrator it's always the perpetrator's fault, but between the victim and a third party, to what degree can we treat the perpetrator's actions as a given, and what responsibility do we bear for our choices when we know or can assume the actions of another? An example that jumps to mind is the sanctions on Iraq. Many people argued that the sanctions imposed (mainly by the US/UK, but others as well) were inhumane and unfairly punishing the Iraqi population given Saddam's character. Obviously Saddam was the direct reason for the suffering and cannot be absolved of his responsibility, as he refused to use oil for food money to feed the population, but to what degree could the powers that imposed the sanctions be absolved of responsibility given what they knew about Saddam's actions? If it were absolutely impossible to remove the offender, then society is justified in allowing people to suffer by the greater good argument. If we negotiate with terrorists or criminals, terrorism and crime will become rampant. Box Boy Joined: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:33 pm UTC Postby Box Boy » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:48 pm UTC However if the "victim" fights back, obviously letting the "artist" know they do not give consent, is it rape then (even if they entered the tunnel knowing what would happen)? EDIT: I think it would be, but I'm just curious about the the rest of your opinions. Postby Brooklynxman » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:38 pm UTC Gelsamel wrote: Gawker is an exceedingly wishy-washy news site. There is a modern art exhibit where the STARVED A DOG!? WTF!? Joined: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:03 am UTC Postby Diadem » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:21 pm UTC Box Boy wrote: I'd say no. Since fighting back (in a realistic fashion) can be part of a rape fantasy. If you agree to rape-roleplaying, well, then you agree to rape-roleplaying. That's why you should agree on a stopword. This rape tunnel is not rape. It's consensual sex where rape is roleplayed. It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he is round the twist - Bernard Woolley in Yes, Prime Minister Postby wst » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:29 pm UTC So I'm just roleplaying if I stab the guy in the face while 'roleplaying' my resistance? Score. Postby Internetmeme » Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:25 am UTC Look at it like this: You entered the tunnel, where you know for a fact that will be forced to have sex by the person at the end. You have consented to enter the tunnel, where you know that you will be forced to have sex by the person at the end. Because you consented to enter the tunnel, you have also consented to the sex. Postby Malice » Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:33 am UTC Internetmeme wrote: Look at it like this: But consent can be revoked at any time. Arguably if you reach the end of the tunnel and start fighting back, you've withdrawn consent. Malice wrote: Is there any legal definition of when sex starts to happen, as in: When the organs connect or when orgasm is reached? Postby SummerGlauFan » Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:42 am UTC Brooklynxman wrote: Yep. My University even bought art from a guy who did this, though the art we bought was not that (it was a caterpillar statue we bought). Still, quite a few of us students, and the larger community, were appalled that our University had supported such an artist. Internetmeme wrote: Sex legally is penetration, I think. Postby Aetius » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:51 am UTC SummerGlauFan wrote: I always interpreted the piece as showing the herd mentality of the viewer, in that despite seeing a dog starve in front of them, no one would offer it food because they weren't "supposed" to. I could be totally wrong though, I never read any of the artist's own words on the installation. Postby Gelsamel » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:26 am UTC "Yeah you fucks are disgusting, letting a dog starve like that!" Oh, Milligram experiment? Postby podbaydoor » Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:43 am UTC I believe then, the name of the piece is wrong. It's not a "rape" tunnel (since rape by definition does not include consent) it's the "sex conducted in a rough fashion" tunnel. This also means that if consent is withdrawn at the end of the tunnel, the artist must stop. Anyway, I think the debate surrounding this art piece is pretty irrelevant. We as a society already have a fuckton of issues regarding consent and respecting its importance, we don't need the help of any sort of pointless "thought-provoking" pieces that illustrate weird hypothetical situations that never happen in real life anyway. It's almost an insult to the millions of individuals who were actually raped and have to live with the endless questions over whether they were asking for it or not and whose fault it was. Does anyone know the legality of contracts regarding rape? This is coming from someone who knows 0% about actual law process... If someone signs a contract saying that a particular person can rape them (maybe as part of a fantasy or something, don't ask me what the motive would be here :-/) then that person goes ahead with it... can they then be charged with rape if it was stipulated previously that all consent upon signatory would be guaranteed? And could a lawyer bullshit "Entering the tunnel" into "Guaranteed Consent"? Doesn't this seem kind of like the Million Dollar Poison intent game thing? Where you have to intend to drink the poison to get the money... but you don't actually have to go through with it? Postby Philwelch » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:44 am UTC podbaydoor wrote: I believe then, the name of the piece is wrong. It's not a "rape" tunnel (since rape by definition does not include consent) it's the "sex conducted in a rough fashion" tunnel. This also means that if consent is withdrawn at the end of the tunnel, the artist must stop. But the artist has declared he will continue regardless of what you do or say once going through the tunnel. In that case, it is still rape (unless you consent the whole way through). Gelsamel wrote: Does anyone know the legality of contracts regarding rape? Contracts must have "consideration"--in other words, a benefit to both parties. This is probably enough for any sexual contract to be technically classified as prostitution, which is a criminal offense in 49 1/2 states. Legal remedies for breach of contract vary. The standard remedy, as with any tort, is that you sue and get your money back. If I have a contract to sell you 10,000 pounds of steel for $15,000 and I don't deliver the steel, you can sue me for maybe $30,000 all told. Courts may impel something called "specific performance", in which case the court would order me to deliver that 10,000 pounds of steel in addition to, or in place of, any monetary damages. My best guess is that, if you even had a legally binding contract for sexual services, the prostitute would not be required by the court to render specific performance. The best you could get out of suing a prostitute who didn't fuck you was monetary damages.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line172
__label__wiki	0.520335	0.520335	Generational Theory Forum: The Fourth Turning Forum: A message board discussing generations and the Strauss Howe generational theory › Fourth Turning Forums › Current Events › General Political Discussion Presidential election, 2016 With the departures of Ted Cruz and John Kasich from the Presidential race, we are down to this: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump 30% -- lead with 40-49% but a margin of 3% or less 40% -- lead with 40-49% but a margin of 4% or more 60% -- lead with 50-54% 90% -- lead with 60% or more White -- tie or someone leading with less than 40%. Why do you have Democrats as red and Republicans as blue? Where do you get these maps? Also, do you have a map with no tossups? 05-07-2016, 02:27 AM (This post was last modified: 05-07-2016, 02:47 AM by pbrower2a.) (05-07-2016, 12:00 AM)MillsT_98 Wrote: Why do you have Democrats as red and Republicans as blue? Where do you get these maps? Also, do you have a map with no tossups? The map templates come from Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. I post frequently there, and Leip sticks with the archaic red for Democrats and blue for Republicans as was the norm as late as the 1990s. This is good for discussing elections from before the 21st century. Here's a blank map (intensity not blanked out) if you want to show the Congressional districts of Maine and Nebraska, but not electoral votes. Here's one for elections that don't involve individual districts of Maine and Nebraska. Or Alaska, Hawaii, or DC not voting (elections under the 48-star flag): Or so that I can be a smart-aleck, the 45-star flag that excludes the States admitted to the Union during the 20th century: You can clip and paste the map of your choice. This is good for showing a map without electoral votes. http:??uselectionatlas.org/TOOLS/genusmap.php?year=1980&ev_c=1&pv_p=1&ev_p=1&type=calc&AL=0;;6&AK=0;;4&AZ=0;;5&AR=0;;6&CA=0;;6&CO=0;;5&CT=0;;5&DE=0;;5&DC=0;;9&FL=0;;4&GA=0;;5&HI=0;;7&ID=0;;6&IL=0;;5&IN=0;;5&IA=0;;5&KS=0;;5&KY=0;;6&LA=0;;5&MD=0;;6&MA=0;;0;&MI=0;;5&MN=0;;4&MS=0;;5&MO=0;;5&MT=0;;5&NV=0;;5&NH=0;;5&NJ=0;;5&NM=0;;5&NY=0;;6&NC=0;;5&ND=0;;5&OH=0;;5&OK=0;;6&OR=0;;5&PA=0;;5&RI=0;;6&SC=0;;5&SD=0;;5&TN=0;;5&TX=0;;4&UT=0;;7&VT=0;;6&VA=0;;5&WA=0;;5&WV=0;;6&WI=0;;5&WY=0;;6&ME=0;;5&ME1=0;;9&ME2=0;;9&NE=0;;5&NE1=0;1;9&NE2=0;2;9&NE3=0;;6 Remember to replace the question marks with // and add [eye-em-gee] before the map and [/eye-em-gee] at the end to get a map. So how do I show color? Choose the state by its abbreviation (as in CA=0;;6) for California. The first number is for color; the second is typically (but not always!) for the electoral vote; the third is for intensity. The second will in no way affect the color of the state. You could put anything in the second space and the color will not change. Colors of a state can appear as red (1), typically for Democrats, blue (2), typically for Republicans, green (3) for the strongest third-party or independent, yellow (4) and orange (5) for others. Blank appears as gray (0) This color applies to the first number. Purple or violet is unavailable. Intensity can range from zero to nine. Zero is blank. "1" is practically white, "2" is very light; "5" is about average, and "9" is very dark. Because whatever appears in the second space is white for red (1), blue (2), or green (3) and black for yellow (4) I suggest using 4; ;1 for the state in question. Now I am going to show the states across the Canadian border in increasingly-dark shades of blue; Florida in white California, Nevada, and Oregon in increasing shades of green, with states going northward from Florida appearing in increasingly-dark shades of red, states going east from Arizona in increasing shades of yellow. I'm putting Utah in a pale shade of orange and states to its east as far as Missouri in increasing shades of orange. (I dislike the dark shades of orange, so I try to find ways to avoid using those). This is the text within http:??uselectionatlas.org/TOOLS/genusmap.php?year=2012&ev_c=1&pv_p=1&ev_p=1&type=calc&AL=4;;7&AK=0;;4&AZ=4;;2&AR=0;;6&CA=3;;3&CO=5;;3&CT=0;;5&DE=0;;5&DC=0;;9&FL=4;;1&GA=2;;2&HI=0;;7&ID=1;;3&IL=0;;5&IN=0;;5&IA=0;;5&KS=5;;4&KY=0;;6&LA=4;;5&MD=2;;6&MA=0;;0;&MI=1;;8&MN=1;;6&MS=4;;6&MO=5;;5&MT=1;;4&NV=3;;5&NH=0;;5&NJ=2;;7&NM=4;;3&NY=2;;8&NC=2;;4&ND=1;;5&OH=1;;9&OK=0;;6&OR=3;;8&PA=2;;7&RI=0;;6&SC=2;;3&SD=0;;5&TN=0;;5&TX=4;;4&UT=5;;2&VT=2;;9&VA=2;;5&WA=1;;2&WV=0;;6&WI=1;;7&WY=0;;6&ME=0;;5&ME1=0;1;9&ME2=0;2;9&NE=0;;5&NE1=0;1;9&NE2=0;2;9&NE3=0;3;6 ...and the resulting map: No toss-ups? It's too early for that. Here's a blank map with electoral votes attached: which comes from this: http:??uselectionatlas.org/TOOLS/genusmap.php?year=2012&ev_c=1&pv_p=1&ev_p=1&type=calc&AL=0;9;6&AK=0;3;4&AZ=0;11;5&AR=0;6;6&CA=0;55;6&CO=0;9;5&CT=0;7;5&DE=0;3;5&DC=0;3;9&FL=0;29;4&GA=0;16;5&HI=0;4;7&ID=0;4;6&IL=0;20;5&IN=0;11;5&IA=0;6;5&KS=0;6;5&KY=0;8;6&LA=0;8;5&MD=0;10;6&MA=0;11;6&MI=0;16;5&MN=0;10;4&MS=0;6;5&MO=0;10;5&MT=0;3;5&NV=0;6;5&NH=0;4;5&NJ=0;14;5&NM=0;5;5&NY=0;29;6&NC=0;15;5&ND=0;3;5&OH=0;18;5&OK=0;7;6&OR=0;7;5&PA=0;20;5&RI=0;4;6&SC=0;9;5&SD=0;3;5&TN=0;11;5&TX=0;38;4&UT=0;6;7&VT=0;3;6&VA=0;13;5&WA=0;12;5&WV=0;5;6&WI=0;10;5&WY=0;3;6&ME=0;2;5&ME1=0;1;5&ME2=0;1;5&NE=0;2;5&NE1=0;1;5&NE2=0;1;5&NE3=0;1;6 (again, add image formatting and replace the question marks with rightward slashes). So why might I not want the electoral votes shown? I have had maps of the states for other things, like the legalization of same-sex marriage. Here is one stage of the process: Illinois enacted legislation authorizing SSM in November 2013 to be valid on July 1, 2014 -- but courts rushed the date on which it would become effective into late February for Cook County and such made SSM valid throughout Illinois. Since then (as of December 2, 2004) no state has since enacted SSM through any legislative process, initiative or referendum, or the decision of a State court. The Ninth District Court invalidated an SSM ban in Oregon on May 19. The federal appeals court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania invalidated the SSM ban of Pennsylvania the next day, and the Governor declined to appeal. Numbers apply to the order in which the states legalized or were compelled to accept same-sex marriage. For clarity -- "12T" applies to both Minnesota (easily visible) and Rhode Island (not so visible) indicating that same-sex marriage became possible on the same day. Coincidentally, the District of Columbia is not a State, but the "56" shows that it legalized same-sex marriage between New Hampshire and New York. For this one I would definitely not want to show electoral votes! Legalization from previous years (white) from legal decisions made that year and valid from that year: resulting from a state court decision invalidating an SSM ban resulting from state legislation resulting from the decision of the DC Council resulting from a statewide initiative or referendum resulting from a decision by the US Supreme Court resulting from a decision by a federal court subsidiary to the US Supreme Court Before the 2000 election the US generally followed the rest of the world with having the left-wing party as red and the right-wing party as blue. Thanks pbrower! 05-08-2016, 08:33 PM (This post was last modified: 05-09-2016, 12:45 PM by pbrower2a.) Here is how the States and DC aligned in 2012. ...Does it bother anyone that the President's median loss was about 19% (average the two Dakotas) and that his median win was just over 12% (average Washington and Oregon)? This country showed extreme division in 2012 -- probably worse than in 2008. He lost states about even worse on the average nationwide for an electoral blowout like Reagan vs. Mondale in 1984 but won with a median margin close to that for Eisenhower in 1952. I'm not so concerned about the difference of the margins (President Obama won more of them, and except for Tennessee he did not lose those so badly) as I am by their size. Unless such has valid excuses (it is race, it was the smear campaign of the Right, President Obama won a campaign necessary for winning but not good for building trust) we are still deep in the woods with packs of hungry feral dogs. Donald Trump would absolutely crush Hillary Clinton in West Virginia. So what is wrong (or more charitably, uncharacteristic for America) about West Virginia? It does not have a heritage of slavery or Jim Crow. West Virginia, despite its bucolic image, was very much a land of mining and heavy industry. That meant unions heavily active in politics. West Virginia has problems. http://www.measureofamerica.org/docs/MOA...-FINAL.pdf Do you want to live well and prosper? (Pardon the Star Trek reference) West Virginia is not the place to be. (Mixed reference to The Beverly Hillbillies and The Real McCoys. Jed Clampett and Amos McCoy are hick patriarchs who have moved from Tennessee and West Virginia, respectively, to California). You may have seen this in Is Connecticut the Best State to Live? T H E M E A S U R E O F A M E R I C A 2013 –2014 Well-Being Comparisons: This section presents American Human Development Index scores for U.S. states and the different racial and ethnic groups within them. The top-ranking state on the Index is Connecticut. Although Connecticut residents saw a $1,500 decline in earnings since the last Index, the state still edged out Massachusetts and New Jersey to retain its number one spot due to uniformly good outcomes in all three Index areas. Fourth- place District of Columbia—included in the state-level Index following the practice of the U.S. Census Bureau—finished strong due to its first-place ranking in both education and earnings and despite a poor showing in health. The District has the forty-third lowest life expectancy of all fifty states, just above Tennessee ranking states: 4. District of Columbia 5. Maryland (analysis mine; stats from the source cited). West Virginia has done badly in formal education, having one of the highest percentages of people without high school diplomas. It doesn't send many kids to college who end up getting a college degree. A graduate degree? West Virginia has little to attract one. (New Mexico has a high percentage of people with less than a college degree, probably largely elderly Mexican-Americans, but it does have a healthy number of people with graduate degree. UC Berkeley set up the Los Alamos Laboratory during WWII for the Manhattan Project). New Mexico isn't that bad. West Virginia is fairly good at incomes for states near the bottom in Human Development Index (HDI), but such reflects the declining activities of mining and heavy industry. The state failed to invest adequately in public education If one can't get a job in mining or heavy industry, there just isn't much opportunity. People are more likely to vote Democratic if they are non-white, non-Christian, urban, and well educated. West Virginia is very white, very Christian, rural, and poorly educated. Poor people other than whites tend even more liberal than middle-class people of their ethnic group, but poor white people do not fit that trend. Thus West Virginia has most of the demographics that now favor the Republican Party. Contrast Virginia, which is 11th in HDI. It has proportionally far fewer people with less than high-school diplomas than West Virginia. One is about twice as likely to have a bachelor's degree if one lives in Virginia than in West Virginia. and more than twice as likely to have a graduate degree. Virginia has an above-average percentage of blacks. The reputations of Pat Robinson and the late Jerry Falwell notwithstanding, Virginia isn't especially fundamentalist-Christian. Virginia has no giant cities, but it does have significant large cities. While Democrats have been hemorrhaging votes in West Virginia they are gaining voters in Virginia. The two states are going opposite way in politics. But at the least, one might think, West Virginians should benefit greatly from 'white privilege'. After all, blacks, American Indians, and Latinos on the whole fare worse than do whites. If there is such a thing as white privilege, it seems to have passed West Virginia by. HDI for white people in West Virginia is a paltry 3.99... but for American Indians in California it is 4.43; for blacks in Maryland it is 4.99; for Latinos in Virginia it is 5.20. Statistically one is better off being black in Maryland, an American Indian in California, or Latino in Virginia. West Virginia was long dominated by Democrats in politics. In Presidential politics it gave a majority to Bill Clinton in 1996 -- and that could be the last time for West Virginia to vote for a Democratic nominee for President for a very long time. To be sure, even a state that has demographics that might otherwise favor the other Party (Nebraska and Utah are well-educated and good in most social measures, but contrary to that reality they are very Republican-leaning), a Party that presides over political failure can fall very fast. Northern states that don't do so great (Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio) can put blame on both Parties, so there is little likelihood of one of the Parties getting all the blame. In West Virginia, Democrats held a far larger share of political power far longer as the state's economy faltered and the state under-invested in education, public health, and even roads. Such created opportunities for Republicans to make a swift takeover in political life. Of course, so did the weakening of the once-powerful labor unions, especially the United Mine Workers. At the same time as the unions lost influence, a coal baron like the damnable Don Blankenship (convicted of crimes related to the safety of mines that had an inordinate number of fatal and crippling accidents) could wax powerful in political life. ...If you will note from the chart above, West Virginia was the fifth-worst state for Barack Obama in 2012. If America were like West Virginia, where President Obama just got a 28% approval rating (recent nationwide approval ratings of him are typically just under 50%, which is very good for a President in his final year of office in a second term), then President Obama would have been living under fear of a military coup. Here is a probabilistic tool for guessing the chance of someone winning or losing the Presidency based on patterns of 2000-2012. It is especially good when (1) the states are polarized, (2) the electoral behavior of states is well known, and (3) there aren't that many close states. It is irrelevant in a runaway. Iowa and Nevada, for which I have no recent polls, both put Hillary Clinton at 263 -- which means that any one of Colorado, Florida, Ohio, or Virginia makes her the 45th President. Together? 269. Figuring that each gives her about a 50% chance of winning the state, and Donald Trump has only about a 6.2% chance of becoming President. Those four states are distant enough that campaigning heavily in all four of them will be time-consuming for travel. The states are different enough that nobody can craft a pitch that wins them all unless it causes states that Democrats rarely lose to go toward Trump. In probability, such is called 'independent events', like coin tosses or rolls of dice. I think that either Iowa or Nevada will quickly go off the table quickly, in which case So what if the choices aren't 50-50? For Trumps chance of winning take the chance of Hillary Clinton the state in question and subtract the product of those values from 1. That is Trump's chance. Probability for the state going for Clinton is P[sub]C[/sub] for Colorado, P[sub]F[/sub] for Florida, P[sub]O[/sub] for Ohio, and P[sub]V[/sub] for Virginia. P[sub]C[/sub]P[sub]F[/sub]P[sub]O[/sub]P[sub]V[/sub] is Donald Trump's chance of winning based upon his chance of winning in each state. Even an 80% chance of winning each state gives him only about a 41% chance of winning the Presidency. What happens if one state practically goes into the Trump camp (90% chance of winning) and another becomes a high-likelihood Clinton win (10% chance of winning) while the other two remain 50-50 propositions? We get .90 x .10 x .50 x .50, or P[sub]C[/sub]P[sub]F[/sub]P[sub]O[/sub]P[sub]V[/sub]= 0.0225 That's 2.25%. Now that is a long-shot. But what of such states as Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, or North Carolina? She's not winning those unless she is winning Colorado, Florida, Ohio, or Virginia, respectively. The Trump campaign has all but lost if it has an appreciable chance of losing Arizona -- or for that matter, Kansas. In 2008 and 2012 Barack Obama's staff did a superb job of playing the numbers game to shred the chances in turn of John McCain and Mitt Romney. I expect much the same with the team of Hillary Clinton, whom I expect to not cast off a successful strategy. First polling shown here: Quinippiac, three big states Hillary Clinton (D): 43% Donald Trump ®: 42% Sanders vs. Trump: Sanders (D): 44% Trump ®: 42% https://www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinn...aseID=2345 Quinippiac seems to get some of the most R-favoring results in polling. Since PBR mentioned the Q poll...I think I'll leave this analysis here. http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidenti...t-bad-boy/ Quote: The highly respected Quinnipiac Poll tells us something interesting: This presidential race, Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, is neck-and-neck. Consider the data from the new “Q Poll,” dated May 10: Florida, Clinton 43/Trump 42; Ohio,Trump 43/Clinton 39; Pennsylvania, Clinton 43/Trump 42. Could it really be that Trump is that close with Clinton? Well, there it is—there are the numbers. We can note that most other polls have Clinton leading by a wider margin, but they are generally national polls; this new “Q Poll” is focused on only three large swing states. And, as we know, in the struggle to win 270 electoral votes, it’s a state-by-state battle. We might note something else in the Q Poll: Even though Clinton is ahead of Trump in two of the three states, she is well below 50 percent in all of them. And since Clinton, representing, as she does, the Obama administration, is virtually the incumbent, that’s a really bad sign for her. That is, in an election between an incumbent and a challenger, if the incumbent is below 50, then the undecideds typically will break for the challenger. To put it another way, if the incumbent can’t “close the deal,” then, at the last minute, the loose voters will opt for the non-incumbent. So what’s going on? How could Clinton, backed by all her billions and Brocks, be in such trouble? Here’s a theory, based on a universal experience of American life: high school. We’ve all heard the phrase, “Life is just a giant version of high school,” and, like most clichés, there’s a lot of truth to it. We all remember, back in high school, that there was a bad boy, someone known as a troublemaker. Yet at the same time, more often than not, he had a kind of swaggering, alpha-male charisma. C’mon, admit it: You remember him. Maybe that person was you, or maybe instead you were one of the wannabes who wanted to hang with the Big Duck, or maybe you were one of the wallflower-nerds who just gawked from the distance. But you do remember, because you were there—as we all were. And remember, also back in high school, there was that shrill and priggish teacher who taught Latin or something? You know, the spinsterish schoolmarm who was always telling you to shush, and maybe writing up slips for bad deportment? The one who shouted all the time and had no sense of humor? You might have feared her, maybe respected her, but chances are, you didn’t like her. Of course, Miss Latin Teacher had her own following in the school; her base was the teacher’s pets—and most high schoolers loathed them. But possibly, plenty of other students figured, well, it’s best to behave and play by the rules—even the dumb rules. So in our imaginary high school, maybe it’s sort of even: Bad Boy vs. Latin Teacher. And here we are: The Donald vs. Miss Hillary. But then, if the Latin Teacher is shown to be a hypocrite, or worse, well, her support erodes—and maybe collapses. And that seems to be happening to Clinton: Her dubious ethics over the decades are catching up with her. Today, she is embroiled, of course, in the e-mail issue, and there’s also the looming, dooming, iceberg-like reality of Peter Schweizer’s 2015 book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, which is soon to be, also, both a graphic novel and a movie. Sure, Facebook has probably done its best to shield Clinton from any bad news, but nonetheless, the truth is out there—and coming into focus. Poring through the internals of the new Q poll, The Wall Street Journal’s Neil King tweeted, “Is Hillary honest/trustworthy? FL: 66% no; OH: 69% no PA: 67%; no. What about Trump? FL: 57% no; OH: 58% no; PA: 55% no.” Reacting to King’s tweet, The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza tweeted in response, “If [Trump] wins–or has a chance of winning—it’s about the honest/trustworthy question.” So as we can see, Trump is mistrusted, but Clinton is mistrusted more. And yet one of them must win this November. Indeed, we are reminded of the the old joke about two guys walking in the woods and coming across a bear, which starts to chase them. The punch line is that one guy says to the other, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you!” And that could be the key question of 2016—who is mistrusted more? Yet we can add that Clinton’s problem is not just that she isn’t trusted, it’s also that she is trusted. That is, if she she wins, she can not only be trusted to be a continuation of Barack Obama; she can also be trusted to implement her own further liberal agenda. As she said in March, touting her Green credentials, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” She later apologized and has promised an unfunded, and unspecified, $30 billion welfare program as a way of making up, but the damage was done. Moreover, Clinton has, throughout her campaign, chosen to stand with the Obama administration and with business-as-usual. The Washington Post’s David A. Farenthold examined Clinton’s wonky policy platform and drew this unflattering conclusion: “At its heart, this wordy list amounts to a statement of Clinton’s confidence in two things. The status quo. And the federal bureaucracy.” Stand up for the status quo? And the bureaucrats? For an incumbent, that sounds like a formula for being stuck in the low 40s in the Q Poll. Continuing, Farenthold wrote, whereas Trump and Sanders “want to overhaul American government,” by contrast, “Clinton mainly wants to tinker with its parts.” We can observe: At a time when the RealClearPolitics polling average shows that just 26.6 percent of Americans think the country is going in the right direction, while a whopping 65.1 percent think we’re on the wrong track, Clinton’s stand-pat stance would seem to be more suicidal than shrewd. Finally, there is one slight flaw in this everything-I-need-to-know-I-learned-in-high-school analogy: Trump wasn’t really a bad boy in high school. How do we know? Because he was in military school, at the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson NY. Not only was he a student there—forced to live within the tight discipline of short hair, shined shoes, and creased pants—but in his senior year, he was named a captain of the class. To be sure, Trump was also listed as a “Ladies Man” in his school’s 1964 Yearbook, and we can further allow the possibility that he was, uh, high-spirited in other ways, too. Still, his record in high school is clear: On net, he must have been a good boy, not a bad boy. A half-century later, Trump is who he is; his sometimes bad-boy-ish life is an open book. Indeed, he has written many books, and in them, we can see that he has mostly fond memories of military school and its shaping influence. And so today, we can judge him, and his works, as we might wish. Trump isn’t perfect, but as we have seen, politics is relative—and the biggest difference for the voters to evaluate is that Trump, unlike Clinton, is no fan of the incumbent status quo. Meanwhile, Clinton’s life is an open book, too—and that seems to be a bigger problem for her. And the real campaign is just getting started. No stranger to questions about his taxes and wealth, former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday criticized Donald Trump’s decision to withhold his tax returns from the public, calling the move “disqualifying” and speculating that Trump is hiding “a bombshell.” Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, on Tuesday told the Associated Press that he does not plan to release his tax returns — as is tradition for candidates for elected office — because he is being audited. Romney responded on Facebook, arguing that making tax returns public provides valuable information to voters. He accused Trump of using the audit as a excuse to avoid further scrutiny and suggested that he may be concealing something that could negatively impact his candidacy, an attack Romney first made earlier this year. “There is only one logical explanation for Mr. Trump’s refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them,” Romney wrote on Wednesday. “Given Mr. Trump’s equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it’s a bombshell of unusual size.” When he ran for president in 2012, Romney initially hesitated to release his tax returns because of the scrutiny they would bring to his business experience and wealth, but by January of that year, he relented. Tax experts have called into question Trump’s use of the audit as a reason not to release his tax returns. Trump has claimed that the IRS is examining “four or five years” of his taxes, but the agency typically focuses on three years of taxes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt...5741118c70 Percentages taken from Leip's Atlas of US Presidential Elections Something to remember: Mondale 1984 40.56 Carter 1980 41.01 McGovern 1972 37.52 Goldwater 1964 38.47 Stevenson 1956 41.97 Landon 1936 36.54 Hoover 1932 39.65 These are the some of the weakest performances in Presidential campaigns in two-way races in the last 90 years. (Really, Carter barely fits this category because John Anderson got 6.61% of the popular vote). These involve two failed Presidencies and wildly-successful bids for re-election by an incumbent. We should remember that any poll that shows Donald Trump at 37% or so puts him at a historic low for a Presidential nominee, near the absolute floor for the Presidency in one of the two-way races. But there is no incumbent running. Fine. Should the 2016 election remain a two-way race with no significant third-party contender, then this suggests the bare minimum for Donald Trump: GHW Bush 53.37 Dukakis 45.65 ....Anyone who believes that Donald Trump will get less than 45% of the vote in a two-way race fails to recognize the optimum in an open-seat election when the incumbent is seen as highly successful but that the usual partisan fatigue is setting in. Is Barack Obama as effective a President as Ronald Reagan was? Probably not. ...I posted the preceding material in a forum in Leip's Election Atlas. People there generally dislike discussions of the generational cycle. Here, such is no problem. I see Barack Obama as a stereotypical "mature Reactive" for which predecessors include George Washington, John Adams, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower. The mature Reactives in this group were typically in their 60s or near 60 as President. They respected precedent and formality more than they trusted the fickleness of public opinion. They showed little anger and never used the Presidency to seek revenge. This is a good group of Presidents, with Cleveland at worst mediocre (but arguably the best of an unimpressive lot between Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt) and Washington taking the role of Father of his Country for defining what the President and the Presidency are. Barack Obama fits the pattern very well. If he isn't 60+, then he certainly acts like it without being in the generation now containing all sexagenarians (Boomers). He is no Boomer. He is probably above-average, probably about the 10th-best President that we ever had. He's more like Eisenhower than like Kennedy, though. If the Republicans had a nominee with the temperament of JFK, then they would have a very good chance of winning in 2016. You tell me -- do the Republicans have anyone in any way analogous to JFK? No, "city councilman in Dubuque, Iowa" does not count. I am tempted to believe that this Presidential race is going to be much closer than most of us have recently thought. After eight years of Dwight Eisenhower, Americans were ready for someone much more dynamic. We need remember that Dwight Eisenhower's VP came close to winning the Presidential election in 1960. So what is relevant this time? 1. The 1960 election involved one of the most telegenic nominees ever (John Kennedy) against one of the most physically ugly men to have ever become President -- Richard M. Nixon. I am tempted to believe that Nixon lost because he was ugly. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton aren't that far apart. 2. Republican governors aren't doing well, on the whole, in swing states. APPROVAL OF INCUMBENT GOVERNORS A positive approval rating under 45% is treated as a tie. blue -- Republican incumbent with positive or neutral approval 20% -- tie (less than 1%) or positive approval under 45% 40% -- approval 45 - 49% 80% -- approval over 60% green -- Republican incumbent with negative approval 80% -- approval under 35% red --Democratic incumbent with positive or neutral approval orange -- Democratic incumbent with negative approval No governor, governor in transition, or non-partisan governor -- white. Positive approval under 45% -- (now treated as if a tie). The newest poll takes precedence, but no internal polls or polls commissioned by a partisan entity, trade group, or union. * -- appointed Governor. This map may be about two months old, as it has been updated very little. But approval of incumbent governors tends to be remarkably stable barring a breaking scandal. A popular Governor of the same party as the nominee can help that nominee in a swing state. Donald Trump can be thankful that John Kasich is popular in Ohio, and Hillary Clinton can be thankful that the Governor of Virginia is in high regard. Obviously Republican governors of Maryland and Massachusetts are not going to help Donald Trump win either state, and the new Democratic Governor (if popular -- I have no polls) of Louisiana will be of no help to Hillary Clinton in Louisiana. Any incumbent with an approval of 45% or more at this stage will be no drag upon a Presidential nominee of his Party in a swing state. Hillary Clinton will do fine in Pennsylvania, a state near swing status this year. So here's how I see the incumbent Governors in swing states help or hurt Trump and Clinton. States that went for or against President Obama by less than 5% of his national margin (2.5%) in 2012 are: Wisconsin (+6.7)... unpopular Republican governor hurts Trump Nevada (+6.6)... no polling, so I can really say nothing New Hampshire (+5.9%)... popular Democratic governor running for a Senate seat, so probably neutral Iowa (+5.7)... unpopular Republican governor hurts Trump. Pennsylvania (+5.1)... popular Democratic governor helps Clinton Colorado (+4.7)... popular Democratic governor helps Clinton Virginia (+3.0)... popular Democratic governor helps Clinton national average Obama 2.5 over Romney in 2012 Ohio (+1.9)... popular Republican governor helps Trump Florida (+0.6)... unpopular Republican governor hurts Trump North Carolina (-2.2)... unpopular Republican governor hurts Trump There are only ten such states. Minnesota is just beyond the threshold for being a swing state based on the 2012 vote, and there the popular Democratic governor would be of help in a pinch -- but if Minnesota is really close this year, then Donald Trump is winning the Presidency. The second-closest loss for Obama in 2012, went for Romney by 8%. Should Georgia be in play, then Hillary Clinton is winning Virginia, North Carolina, and the election. On the criterion of which states have governors that can help Donald Trump as failing Democrats or successful Republicans -- he might pick up Ohio but still lose Florida... and North Carolina. 3. President Obama isn't a drag on the Democratic Party. A national poll by PPP has his approval rating at 49%, which is good enough to win re-election if he were eligible to run and chose to run for re-election. The Middle Class still losing. Quote: http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/middle-cla...ign=buffer … “ the cities where the middle class is struggling are quite diverse, both geographically and economically.”… Cities Where the Middle Class Is Disappearing Middle Class.pdf (Size: 25.81 KB / Downloads: 4) http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ign=buffer Interminable analysis of electoral votes continues My new magic formula for a Democratic win: The eastern corridor, the western corridor, and the lake states = 270 Eastern corridor: Maine to Virginia (including the somewhat-shaky PA and VA), 125 votes Lakes: Illinois and its satellites: MN, WI, MI and somewhat-shaky IA, 62 votes Western corridor: CA to WA, HI = 78 votes add Nevada to western corridor = 6 votes = 271 Add New Mexico to western corridor, and subtract IA from Lakes = 270. Note that Trump's unpopularity with hispanics practically guarantees a Hillary win in Nevada and New Mexico. Bronco80 So, Donald Trump. He both terrifies and excites me. What's terrifying is obvious, and it starts with him having access to the nuclear codes. My #1 fear of Trump is him as Commander-in-Chief running foreign policy. It continues in that I think Trump would be more interested in appointing sycophantic yes-men in his Cabinet to stroke his massive ego, instead of finding people that are actually qualified to run major federal departments. Then, of course there's the bigotry. To be fair, the GOP has been exploiting bigotry ever since the Southern Strategy, but it has at least been in a controlled, calculated manner to benefit the nation's elite. Trump, on the other hand, is chaotically declaring open season on disadvantaged groups. So what's the exciting part? Not only do I think he's going to lose, and lose badly, but I hope that he has irrevocably splintered the Republican political alliances to make them unelectable, at least on the presidential level, and over time hopefully that will filter downticket. The GOP elites that have running their weak government, pro-corporate agenda have always been small in number, with that agenda being quite unpopular unless it's buttressed by pandering on Southern strategy style wedge issues. But there was always the risk that the masses would overrun the elites. Trump has masterfully exploited that, and even if he loses in 2016 he's created the blueprint for himself or another Trumpist to do it again in 2020 and beyond. It's been amusing listening to the #NeverTrumpers--I can sense the desperation that their ideology could very well be exiled to the lost woods of politics. Putting my Fourth Turning hat on, by the time this turning is over I could easily see the Seventh Party System begin with a new realignment. How that will turn out, we still have a very long way to go. But here are my two guesses: --1) The Democratic Party turns into a dominating centrist party, kind of like the PRI in Mexico, with powerless rump parties on the right and left. While it would put the Republicans out of power, I don't particularly want a Clinton-style corporatist party running the show. --2) The Republicans finally get the hint that their increasingly extreme economic agenda, paired with pandering to bigots, is a losing game, and they finally cast out the bigotry and evolve to the point of other center-right parties in the world that understand the value of things like universal health care, paid family leave, higher minimum wages, and the like. This is my preferred realignment, as it would also push the Democrats further to the left. Of course, none of this is going to happen unless advice is heeded that I recall Eric harping about frequently: people, especially Millennials, need to get out there and vote, and not just once every four years! Midterm elections are incredibly important, and that message needs to be made clear on the Democratic side. What makes me fearful is my being a fan of H.L. Mencken who said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." [fon‌t=Arial Black]"... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition."[/font] (05-08-2016, 08:33 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Here is how the States and DC aligned in 2012. 538.com has an insightful piece about "tipping states" being more important than "swing states" and identifying Pennsylvania as being perhaps the key tipping state this election. While appearing to still be solid Blue, PA has actually been trending toward more GOP with the eastern half formerly steel and coal mining unions being replaced by more dog-eat-dog energy fracking; if anything, their coal heritage has them pissed off at Hillary and welcoming Trump's mirage that he actually gives a crap about them. The PA cities on the other hand, of particular note, Pittsburg are becoming much more diverse and sophisticated and thereby even more Blue - it's' a horse race to see if the 'Kentucky-like' rural areas can offset that. By the way, VA is solidly Blue; that will be apparent in this election. Florida will follow in 2020 with Texas, Georgia being the replacement as the battleground states joining Ohio which will remain as the only one of the three major battleground states (OH, FL, VA) from the last two elections 05-17-2016, 11:20 AM (This post was last modified: 05-17-2016, 11:21 AM by playwrite.) (05-10-2016, 03:45 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Since PBR mentioned the Q poll...I think I'll leave this analysis here. Anyone references a Q-pac state polls this early is clearly indicating their cluelessness. For a good laugh, see the 2012 Q-pac polls at a similar point in the cycle. Those in the know suggest that one only look seriously at the average of national polls, and take into account likely temporary bumps resulting from such events as consolidating the nomination. Or, one can remain clueless. This is not only a problem for the Trump campaign but puts the GC argument into question at its roots - http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2...213897?o=1 Quote: Donald Trump Is Not Expanding the GOP A POLITICO analysis of early-voting data show little evidence for one of the Republican nominee’s core claims. Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-polling-turnout-early-voting-data-213897#ixzz48vmQZ44u Follow us: @politico on Twitter \| Politico on Facebook (05-17-2016, 11:20 AM)playwrite Wrote: Anyone references a Q-pac state polls this early is clearly indicating their cluelessness. For a good laugh, see the 2012 Q-pac polls at a similar point in the cycle. As a pattern, Quinnipiac does not encourage leaners to say which way they are likely to vote. This is my experience with Quinnipiac polls. We are at the point in which I typically end up with polls to average, which is typically a week apart or so. ...Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all tend to drift D from the spring, so if they are at all close, then Donald Trump will be in deep trouble as Election Day looms. A slight lead for Clinton in Florida indicates that the Trump campaign has its work cut out. My favorite pollster, PPP has something to say about Arizona, a State that has gone only once for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1948. Quote: The Presidential election is pretty competitive in Arizona at this point. Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton just 40-38, with Gary Johnson at 6% and Jill Stein at 2%. There's a significant 'Never Trump' contingent among Arizona Republicans. While Clinton gets 80% of the Democratic vote, Trump is only getting 68% of the GOP vote at this stage. That number tracks with our finding that just 65% of Republicans say they're comfortable with Trump as their nominee to 22% who say they aren't. When you narrow the field to just Clinton and Trump though, Trump's lead goes up to 45/41 because his share of the GOP vote increases to 77%. 15% of Republicans are undecided compared to 8% of Democrats, so if the party really unites around Trump eventually he'll get close to being up by the kind of margins Republicans are accustomed to in the state but for now it's tight. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/....html#more Arizona is within range of being the equivalent of Virginia, 2008 this year. Symptomatic of the troubles of the Republican Party in Arizona, venerable Senator John McCain is at risk of losing the primary election to get re-elected. But that is for a thread on 2016 Senatorial elections. Boston men jailed for Trump-inspired hate crime attack Expect thugs like this to have full reign to whatever they want under a President Trump. (05-14-2016, 04:01 PM)Bronco80 Wrote: Quote: So, Donald Trump. He both terrifies and excites me. At the least, Republicans used to promise something in return for trickle-down economics and lax regulation of business. One might find some job security in being underpaid and overworked -- at least until one wears out, as was the norm in the Gilded Age. Low wages allegedly promote investment and hiring, even for those who have endured discrimination in the past. Quote: So what's the exciting part? Not only do I think he's going to lose, and lose badly, but I hope that he has irrevocably splintered the Republican political alliances to make them unelectable, at least on the presidential level, and over time hopefully that will filter downticket. The GOP elites that have running their weak government, pro-corporate agenda have always been small in number, with that agenda being quite unpopular unless it's buttressed by pandering on Southern strategy style wedge issues. But there was always the risk that the masses would overrun the elites. Trump has masterfully exploited that, and even if he loses in 2016 he's created the blueprint for himself or another Trumpist to do it again in 2020 and beyond. It's been amusing listening to the #NeverTrumpers--I can sense the desperation that their ideology could very well be exiled to the lost woods of politics. The wedge issues can work when the Democratic President is... well, you know. But ignore the melanin, and his policies have worked. Quote: Putting my Fourth Turning hat on, by the time this turning is over I could easily see the Seventh Party System begin with a new realignment. How that will turn out, we still have a very long way to go. But here are my two guesses: That is a parallel to the Republican Party from 1865 on. Any agenda can become conservative, and Barack Obama has some very conservative traits. He's more conservative than Lincoln or FDR for his time. Even his support of same-sex marriage is consistent with homosexuals deciding that they are going conservative on issues of child protection. Homosexual rights are not simply compatible with law and order (usually a conservative objective); they are necessary for law and order. Quote: --2) The Republicans finally get the hint that their increasingly extreme economic agenda, paired with pandering to bigots, is a losing game, and they finally cast out the bigotry and evolve to the point of other center-right parties in the world that understand the value of things like universal health care, paid family leave, higher minimum wages, and the like. This is my preferred realignment, as it would also push the Democrats further to the left. Maybe the Republican Party survives as a non-ideological safety valve for dissidents from the Democratic majority, for people challenging machine politics, and as an alternative for the incompetent, out-of-touch, and corrupt Democrats when those appear. Quote: Of course, none of this is going to happen unless advice is heeded that I recall Eric harping about frequently: people, especially Millennials, need to get out there and vote, and not just once every four years! Midterm elections are incredibly important, and that message needs to be made clear on the Democratic side. Yup! But as significant -- Millennials are entering the age in which their first figures start getting into high office. Someone who talks the Millennial lingo can excite the Millennial generation. We are going to see lots of aging Silent and first-wave Boomers disappearing from public office through death, retirement, and defeat. The oldest Millennials have begun to turn 34 this year. 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__label__cc	0.740083	0.259917	Actress Who Played Gun-Toting Bulldyke in “Aliens” Now Sells Oversized Bras to Jews and Blacks Most know actress Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez, the macho mamacita who brought the thunder with a grenade launcher in James Cameron’s classic Aliens. Others may recognize her mug from Kathryn Bigelow’s cult vamp flick Near Dark or even in Cameron’s Terminator 2 as the foster mother of John Connor (schmeckle boy Eddie Furlong). These days Goldstein is battling a new enemy–gravity. This spring the actress opened Jenette bras, a brassiere shop in Los Angeles specializing in the overdeveloped. Heeb sat down with the busty proprietress to talk about Hollywood, acting and tits. How’d you get your start in acting? I trained at Circle in the Square Theater School in New York and then Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. I stayed in London and worked in theater for a couple years. How did you get the role of Vasquez? Vasquez had already been cast, then the stars aligned and I got the part. I had assumed from the title, Aliens, that the film was about foreigners – resident aliens – so I showed up dressed in regular interview clothes. The day was uncharacteristically hot, so I was wearing a sleeveles blouse. Since I was a struggling actress I had many days free and was spending them at Hyam’s Gym on the edge of Hackney. When producer, Gale Ann Hurd saw my arms, which were superb if I do say so myself, she started thinking seriously about using me in a smaller part. Then the gal with the part, who was a born-again Christian, went to the producers and told them she didn’t feel right about the character using bad language and wanted them to tone it down. That was it, I got the part. Thank you, Jesus! Were you ever in a situation where you were supposed to do a nude scene? Have you ever? I imagine if you had we would know about it. Hell yeah, you would know about it! The Internet never sleeps. It just never came up. I would still do it in the right part. There was a nude role I liked in the Coen Brothers new Jew film that’s coming out. Their horror/ farce sensibility seemed like an appropriate vehicle for my middle-aged unveiling, but I didn’t get the call. Someone else will have to cope with the dizzy combination of public humiliation and fabulous residuals. You stay in touch with the rest of King Cameron’s usual suspects (Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen)? Or was it not as good a relationship with some of these guys? You see each other when you see each other. It’s the actor’s life. We all take our own paths, and it’s joyous when they cross. I’ll be signing autographs along with Lance Henricksen October 23-25 for Chicago’s Horror Convention, Flashback Weekend. I love being part of the 80s wild boys club. You know, James Cameron put us in boot camp for two weeks before shooting. Kathryn Bigelow rehearsed us in motels and truckstops in Arizona for two weeks for Near Dark. The comradeship is always there. We’ve been through wars together. So what motivated you to get into retail? Was there a crossroads in showbiz? When the work started drying up in my early 40s, I started looking around for something else to do. I never had a plan B. I went through several of those ‘creative’ ideas that are guaranteed to keep you poor–Spanish Language Acting Camp for Kids!–but they fortunately petered out. Then, last year, I discovered, or I should say rediscovered, proper bra fitting. I saw an unfortunate photo of myself and thought, ‘This can’t be right. How I can I look both vulgar and matronly?’ I Googled "small back, large breasts" and discovered all these busty women blogging about the handful of traditional bra fitting shops that still survive. There’s like a whole hourglass underground out there. I became fascinated with how I, a movie actress in Los Angeles for Chrissakes, could arrive at middle age still wearing crappy bras not even close to my right size – 30G, in case you’re interested. I’m overdeveloped and underserved, man. 30G, huh? How is this possible? I’m familiar with your movies, and you don’t look that busty. Obviously, I have no idea how bra sizes work. I didn’t realize myself I was a G-cup until last year. You shoulda seen my husband’s face when I told him. It has to do with my small back. Actually it’s the ribcage. Listen carefully: Band size is fixed, cup size is relative to band. The number is a measurement, the letter is a symbol of volume relative to ribcage. A G-cup on a 30 band holds about as much boob as a FF on a 32, a F on a 34 and a DD on a 36. Is this sexy enough for you yet? Yes, actually. So you get to fit all these racks personally? Must be laborious. Fitting is more art than science, partly because there is no universal standard. I’m dealing with four main systems: U.S., U.K., Europe-Japan and Australia-New Zealand. The U.S. and U.K. systems are based on inches, Europe-Japan is metric and Down Under uses a dress-size scale. The U.S. is the worst. There’s a Spinal Tap-ish phenomenon known as vanity sizing, in which garment sizings have been haphazardly lowered to make the consumer feel smaller even though she’s wearing the same size. The system is generally not coherent, and it breaks down completely when you go over D. To put this in more useful terms, if the gal in the personal ad is claiming to be a double D, that actually tells you very little. About her breasts, anyway. Do you get a lot of customers from the Valley? Porn stars perhaps? Who is your clientele? Sold any Ks recently? Jenette bras is in East Hollywood, but my customers drive in from all over the city, Valley included. They range from 12-year-olds accompanied by their mothers, to bubbies in their 80s. I have had a couple of 34Ks since opening, but 32H is much more common. As for porn stars, only one: the gal with the largest natural breasts in the world, according to Guinness. People assume that fake boobs are my bread and butter, but it’s not so. Are you pro-boob job? I mean, myself, I’m tolerant of women who want to do it for sake of that whole life-after-kids thing, but that’s about it. What’s your stance on the plastic tittery? To each her own. Big fakes look angry to me, but as far as plastic surgery goes, my clients are more likely to have had breast reduction surgery. And still they couldn’t find a good bra. I imagine a lot of sales are generated by a Jewish demographic. Looking at my client list you’d think you were at a Haddasah worldwide convention. Except the hall got double booked with a black family reunion. What was your Jewish background like? Hebrew school, Bat Mitzvah, Camp Ramah. My grandfather ran a deli after retiring from the gangster business. Never married a Jewish guy, though. I’ve had two husbands with lovely goyishe names. I could have been Jenette Stevens. Now I could be Jenette Noble. Nice, right? Pleasantly non-ethnic. But I felt if Goldstein is good enough for Orwell, it’s good enough for me. I grew up in the shoe business and found that the majority (8 of 10) were mis-educated about shoe size. I imagine this is quite common among your customers, not knowing their proper size. Similar percentage in the bra business, but the confusion is much worse. Our grandmothers and mothers knew more about it than we do today. A lot of us, when we were kids, our mothers took us to an old dusty shop with an unsettling display of mastectomy bras, where an ancient Jewish lady said, ‘Bend over darling,’ and strapped us into a well-made and highly anti-teenage contraption, signaling the end of all fun. All my middle-aged customers remember this in detail but, somewhere along the line we were reeducated by big chain stores that use low price points and a low inventory business model that is painfully inadequate for the glorious diversity of mammary tissue in the medium to upper range. I enjoy espionage, so I went the other day and got fitted at one of those tacky, boudoir mall stores. A teenager with a hickey on her neck, paid on commission I believe, took me back. She brings out a double D with a huge band, lets the straps out all the way until my bosom starts to merge with my stomach, and tells me that’s the best she can do for me. Really. What do I need a bra for? Is it possible to eyeball a cup size at the dinner table? Absolutely. Cup and band. My husband is pretty good at it, but he’s learned to keep his findings to himself. Even my brother up in Berkeley is selflessly devoting his time to keeping an eye out for potential clients. Link Round Up _I Drink for a Reason_ The international media conspiracy and/or the new Jew review. Take your pick. Puck October 6, 2009 Bulldyke? Interesting to see on the heeb facebook update the word ‘bulldyke’ has been changed to ‘mamacita’. Almost seems a bit ‘dog whistle’ to me. boychik October 20, 2009 Nice catch, Puck. Puck October 20, 2009 Well…I have a lot of free time :P And I must say I consider heteros using derogatory terms about homosexuals a bit like Gentiles making Jewish jokes and the defending their behaviour by saying “But they do it!”. If you’re a lesbian, let loose with the one day i went shopping outside,and in an ed hardy store,I found some kinds of ed hardy i love most they are Your website is really good Thank you for the information Abercrombie And Fitch Heeb could do better April 12, 2012 Why the emphasis on blacks and jews – they are bras right? All women have breasts right? We are disappointed in this website. If you do not know how to properly convey a business’ target market then find someone else with more tact. Or relegate yourself to a position which does not involve you posting on the internet. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Heeb could do better The cast of ‘Terminator 2’ — where are they now? \| Death and Taxes April 26, 2013 […] in Los Angeles. “There’s, like, a whole hourglass underground out there,” Goldstein told me in 2009. “I became fascinated with how I, a movie actress in Los Angeles for Chrissakes, […] Nick michael May 9, 2015 Aside from sigourney the Archetypal super wasp,Vasquez was my Favorite character in Aliens.I always thought it was amazing how they made a 20 something Ny Jew into a super tough Puerto Rican bulldager (which she played so amazingly well) but was always pissed that she wasn’t given a stronger character background.She would have made a great alternative female Superhero. Jenette’s Free-Wheeling interview with HEEB – Jenette Bras April 14, 2016 […] Read the full interview here. […] Leave a Reply to Nick michael Cancel Reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line187
__label__cc	0.746354	0.253646	The Good News About Android's Version Distribution When you develop a product and use liberal licensing terms, there's always the risk that someone else will use your code to create a poor product. Maybe it will include a lot of unnecessary features, it will be slow and have a lot of bugs or it will never use the latest version of your software. Android's goal was to be a common baseline that enables innovation in the mobile space. Convincing other companies to use Android wasn't easy and that's one of the biggest Google accomplishments. Not many people believed in Android's success three years ago and its adoption rate is still surprising. Convincing companies to update their Android-based firmware faster is much easier. If users only buy Android phones that have the latest version of the operating system and constantly request phone manufacturers and carriers to update the software, then they'll work harder to improve their products. Google has recently released some information about the current distribution of the Android versions and the good news is that 87.4% of the Android phones use Android 2.x, up from about 55% in July. 51.8% of the phones use Froyo, a version released 7 months ago. In only one month (August 2010), Froyo's share grew from 5.5% to more than 28%, after Motorola and HTC updated phones like Droid, Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, and Desire. ZDNet says that "almost 13% of Android users are still running versions of the mobile OS that are several generations old and these users will never see Android 2.1", but this percentage is constantly decreasing. Even if they're using Android 1.6, that's still a much better operating system than the one from a feature phone and it still lets them use many apps from the Android Market. A slower update rate is a small price to pay for creating an ecosystem of heterogeneous devices that run the same operating system which is not perfect, but it's "good enough". { image licensed as Creative Commons Attribution by Google } Thank you for responding to Apple fanboy at TechCrunch. Sanket Patel January 19, 2011 at 3:24 AM Is android Really So Secure?http://goo.gl/FexS0 tl January 19, 2011 at 3:32 AM 1.5 & 1.6 percentage are for sure constantly decreasing because of introduction of new devices, but the quantity of those terminal are probably not decreasing. Ken January 19, 2011 at 3:36 AM I think that this post misses the point. Yes, 87% of Android phones out there run 2.x, but that means that less than 45% of the phones out there are running Froyo (version 2.2). There are WAY too many versions left in the wild. To think that there are still phones sold (although they are on no ones top 10) that run Android 1.6 (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10) is unconscionable. Then there are companies like Samsung and others hold back product updates so that they can sell more phones?! And let's not forget the Nexus One. This phone, christened the "Google Phone" has not received a Gingerbread (version 2.3) update yet. Based on that there is no roadmap for future updates for this anointed device. This is a phone that people went directly to Google and plopped down $500 or more dollars for because they were lured by the thought of receiving updates quickly and before everyone else. Don't get me wrong, I love the Android OS, I love it's maluability (?) and it's power, but don't try to glaze over the fact that fragmentation is an issue. One thing that Apple and Microsoft have gotten right is when you buy one of their phones they will all do the same thing across platforms and carriers. If Google continues with their fragmented strategy Android will begin to fail. Andrew January 19, 2011 at 3:50 AM Not quite fair: "Apple and Microsoft have gotten right is when you buy one of their phones they will all do the same thing across platforms and carriers.", as while related, that's not the issue discussed here -Many people run Win95, and I'm sure there's a few with win3.1! Same apples with IE and everything else in the world. Android ain't perfect, but it's still fairly new, and consumers need time to learn that with pnones, as with everything else, they need to KNOW what's 'latest' and demand what's latest. The nature of open source means Andoid can never control the market completely - though there are a few things Google could do - but that's a trade-off; if it wasn't open source, it wouldn't have grown so fast in take-up and tech terms. John D January 19, 2011 at 4:50 AM There are absolutely NO good news in this article! When did you last get a Security Update for your Phone? Read a very interesting article on the subject here: http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/content.php?240-When-did-you-last-get-a-Security-Update-for-your-Phone @Alex Chitu: I believe the questions and problems raised in that article is something really worth getting more attention to. Perhaps you could do a separate post on the topic? Donal January 19, 2011 at 5:10 AM Android's fracturing is actually an indicator of why Android is succeeding: the multiplicity of devices. Device-multiplicity was why Nokia became the biggest handset manufacturer in the world. (Their failure to anticipate the innovation-growth in smartphones is another story). The iPhone is a fantastic device and probably (just about and for now) technically superior to the equivalent tope-nd android, but it is the Mao Suit of Technology. Ubiquitous and boring. DR. JULIAN MICHEL January 19, 2011 at 5:29 AM DIOS LES BENDIGA A GOOGLE OPERATION SYSTTEN, POR SU GRAN CLOLABORACION PARA CON NOSOSTROS. Angelo January 19, 2011 at 5:43 AM Fragmentation and lack of consistency across devices will be Android's pitfall (and cause headaches for developers). Jiri January 19, 2011 at 6:10 AM I dont understand good news in the article. This effect depends only on temporary boost of new Android devices. The graph should be "weighted" with number of devices in given time points, that should give us a better overview! No one actually talks about Nokia here. The biggest mobile phone company in the world. How many older Symbian devices are getting the Symbian^3 update? Even the N900 would not get the Meego update officially. tito January 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM OS fragmentation is the major android failure. Froyo is now so old in mobile world. Google must do something against this fragmentation ! allangu January 19, 2011 at 9:30 AM I don't think this post makes me feel better about the android OS fragmentation issue. I used to have an iPhone and now I have a Samsung Galaxy. I love the Android OS but I hate the crapware that came with my Galaxy. It is one thing to allow the manufacturers to install some stupid application that drains the battery, but it is another when I can't uninstall it. I also want my Froyo. I will never buy another Samsung phone again. I also hate the fact that the next time I want to buy an Android phone I will have to do research to see which phone/company has a good record of updating the OS and not installing crapware. abiosoft January 19, 2011 at 1:54 PM I use galaxy 5 and i manually flashed my phone to froyo and i guess i can only dream of gingerbread with another phone. This is bad. Seeing my pal with an old bb running the latest bb os annoys u especially when ur device is more than capable but u've just gotta wait for the manufacturers. This really needs to be addressed. Business mobile phones January 20, 2011 at 2:17 AM thanks for shearing the information and i really liked it. @Andrew http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-news-about-androids-version.html?showComment=1295437815616#c7511701137172564013 I think we are talking about two totally different products. Your reference to Win95 and 3.1 seems to indicate that you are talking about computers not mobile devices. If you want to consider computers consider the fragmentation of Android (Honeycomb for tablets) and ChromeOS (Laptop/Netbook). And when was the last time that you walked into a Best Buy to buy a Win95 computer, or even XP for that matter? Yes Android is open as far as Google is concerned. But I would argue that once they distribute it to carriers and manufacturers it is no longer open. Take Verizon's implementation of Bing as the default search engine on the Fascinate. As a consumer I cannot change the default search to Google or Yahoo or Ask if I want to. Carriers and manufacturers strip away that openness. With Apple and Microsoft there are no disingenuous marketing tactics. They say: You will always have the most up-to-date operating system as long as the hardware will support it. They do not let carriers and manufacturers get in the way (so far). In fact when you buy a Win Phone 7 device you can even delete any of the carrier crap-ware from the phone without modification of the operating system, this is something that you can't do with Android phones. Andrew B. January 20, 2011 at 4:25 PM Older versions of iPhone / iPod hardware don't support recent versions of iOS. And even for recent hardware, there is still fragmentation in iOS -- not all users are on the most recent version. Percentages can be very deceptive. The explosive growth that android is seeing lately means, lots of new devices in the market with the newer 2.x versions. This results in dwarfing the older numbers making their percentages shrink. In other words, if %ge of pre 2.x version goes down from let us say 20% to 10% in a year, that says nothing about how many of those devices were upgraded to a newer version, it could just means that the number of newer devices more than doubled with none of those devices updated. In fact the recent royal pingdom article does confirm this as they analyzed how much time manufacturers and carriers are taking to rollout updates. I'd like to see a meaningful response to John D's comment. Like John D, I look at that graph and see that 100% of the users are at risk for a flaw that's been known since Nov 2010. 1) What is Google's policy for releasing security updates for older versions of Android? 2) What does Google require of handset manufacturers and carriers as part of the deal for Android/Google branding on phones, ads, etc.? 3) What can users of regular (non-Nexus, locked bootloader) Android phones do if their handset manufacturer or carrier drags their feet? My colleague's AT&T Galaxy is still running 2.1 update 1. He gets an error message trying to check for OS updates; apparently he can only get updates for apps from the marketplace. Is AT&T holding back Android security updates? Is Google not bothering to fix security bugs in 2.1 (as suggested by the URL John D linked to)? A New Google Docs Homepage Google Filters Suggestions Associated with Copyrig... Gmail Tests Image Ads Google Image Search Indexes SVG Files Gmail Desktop Notifications Chrome's New Sad Tab Page YouTube Comment Threading Dynamic Gmail Favicon Google Voice Number Porting Gmail Cloud Print Google Navigation Bar Switch Google's New CEO: Larry Page More Compact Google Search Options Esc to the Rescue New Google Maps Navigation Controls Gmail Labs Search Google Chrome and the Beginning of Time New YouTube Homepage Google Project Hosting Adds File Editing The Good News About Android's Version Distribution... Abandoned Knol Google Docs to Add Preview Pane, Music Player, Col... Better Music Video Results in Google Search Google Places for iPhone Google Goggles History Spell Checker for Gmail Search Conversation Mode in Google Translate for Android Google Chrome to Drop Support for H.264 API for Google's URL Shortener Google Transcoder's Zooming Feature Google Can't Find Paris Google Goggles Solves Sudoku Puzzles Android Addresses UI Shortcomings Drag and Drop Uploading for YouTube Videos YouTube's HTML5 Rickrolling Google Docs Plays Videos Picasa Web Adds HTTPS Support Honeycomb: Android for Tablets Google Docs Viewer for Spreadsheets Google Bookmarks Import Without Using Google Toolb... Top 10 Google Labs Projects From 2010 Voice Search for Google Chrome Picasa Web Albums Wish List	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line191
__label__cc	0.560977	0.439023	Home » Featured » Statewide pride and a parade for Little League champs Statewide pride and a parade for Little League champs Posted on Sep 26, 2018 in Featured The Little League world champs with Gov. Ige, Mayor Kirk Caldwell and fans. Even with the threat of Tropical Storm Olivia, crowds still turned out for a Sept. 8 parade in downtown Honolulu to honor Hawai‘i’s Little League World Series Champions. It was a morning of autographs, picture taking and speeches to celebrate the young team that has captured the hearts of people across the state and the nation. Governor Ige, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell and other officials joined families, friends and classmates of the boys, who drew cheers as they rode a bright red fire truck to the steps of Honolulu Hale. The governor thanked the team for being “ambassadors of aloha” and for being “the inspiration for all of us in the islands.” Mayor Caldwell praised them for their hard work and focus, saying, “They kept their eyes on the prize and worked as a team, supporting each other.” Team members wave to the crowds on their way to a celebration at Honolulu Hale. Gov. Ige and team manager Gerald Oda. Amid the crush of fans stood team manager Gerald Oda, who has drawn praise of his own for teaching the boys life lessons of respect and humility on and off the field. After the ceremony, he said, smiling, “I’m so happy to see the crowds today and want to thank everyone in the state. We’re really feeling the love. We did it for the people of Hawai‘i.” Read more in October’s Capitol Connection newsletter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line193
__label__cc	0.530533	0.469467	PROPOSAL TO PUT BUBBLE ON TENNIS COURTS FOR WINTER The Greenburgh Parks & Recreation Advisory Board is requesting the Town Board to accept Request for proposals for obtaining a concession license agreement for operating an indoor tennis program on limited tennis courts at AnthonyVeteranTownPark. The indoor tennis program and air structure would be open to the public from October through April for 15 years, with a revocable license. The concession would be required to resurface 6 tennis courts and build 2 new light tennis courts at their expense and to build, at their expense, a permanent structure that will include a reception area, toilets, showers, locker rooms and a lounge. All improvements including utilities and upgrades would cost the taxpayers nothing. The tennis courts would be bubbled and connected to the permanent structure. The 4 handball courts and basketball courts would be milled and resurfaced. Each year the designated tennis court would be returned to its original condition and returned back to the town for use only by residents of Greenburgh from mid April through September. The concession, in effect, would only be licensed when the courts are not used—October to April. The town would receive rent—the funds generated would be used to maintain AF Veteran Park. We’re also requesting that the concession offer a discount in user fees for resident unicard holders. ALCARIA RESTAURANT on E Hartsdale Avefinally has opened. It’s a new Portuguese Restaurant. The owners went through a very long approval process and did a terrific job enhancing the look of E Hartsdale Ave.It’s a beautiful new restaurant – that has already helped us revitalize this street.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line194
__label__cc	0.727864	0.272136	Modeling Data Network Sessions by the Conditional Extreme Value Model Ton Dieker ISyE Contact Ton Dieker Summary Sentence: An alternative to multivariate extreme value modeling Full Summary: Using various rules, the flow of packets past a sensor can be amalgamated into higher level entities called sessions. Statistical analysis of these sessions is complex: session duration (D) and size (S) are jointly heavy tailed but average transmission ra Using various rules, the flow of packets past a sensor can be amalgamated into higher level entities called sessions. Statistical analysis of these sessions is complex: session duration (D) and size (S) are jointly heavy tailed but average transmission rate (R=S/D) is not heavy tailed and arrival times of sessions is not Poisson. By segmenting sessions using a peak rate covariate, we find conditional on segment that within segment session initiations can be modeled as Poisson. For modeling the distribution of (D,S,R), the conditional extreme value (CEV) model is useful. This model is an alternative to multivariate extreme value modeling and is applicable to modeling the distribution of a random vector if some component of the vector is not in a unidimensional domain of attraction. Combining these elements, an overall model of packet flows emerges which is suitable for simulation. (Joint work at various times with Jan Heffernan, Bikramjit Das, Luis Lopez-Oliveros.) Dr. Sid Resnick received Masters and PhD. degrees from Purdue University in 1968 and 1970, respectively and has since worked at the Technion (Haifa), Stanford University, Colorado State University and for the last 20 years at Cornell University. He has authored 4 books and coauthored 151 journal articles appearing in major international journals. Sid is also a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His research and scholarship areas cover heavy tails, statistical analysis of extremes, service systems and networks. data network sessions, extreme value model Created By: Barbara Christopher Created On: Feb 18, 2010 - 9:19am	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line198
__label__cc	0.53242	0.46758	Introducing Quantcha Unlimited: Commission-Free Options Trading Introducing Quantcha’s Options Book Manager Getting started with the Quantcha Options Search Engine July 18, 2019 Automated Ideas Quantcha now offering unlimited commission-free options trading. Quantchabot has detected a promising Synthetic Long Stock trade opportunity for AURORA CANNABIS INC (ACB) for the 15-Jan-2021 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. ACB was recently trading at $7.00 and has an implied volatility of 38.62% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for ACB expiring on 15-Jan-2021, there is a 68.27% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $3.63-$14.42 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 54.06%. Upside potential: This synthetic long position offers the same potential benefits and liabilities as a long stock position, but at a discount due to the significant premium at-the-money puts are trading at over calls. In this case, the put position is opened at a strike of $7.00, which is already $0.00 in-the-money. However, its sale more than offsets this moneyness and the cost of the long call that the trade results in a net credit of of $0.76 per share. The final position can be considered as having a discount of $0.76 per share over the underlying price of $7.00 for a 10.85% total. Downside risk: This discount is generally a sign of the stock facing considerable short pressure, and may indicate that the stock has become hard to borrow. However, if you have a long view of the underlying over this period, it could be a good opportunity to benefit from the upside at a major discount. To analyze this trade in depth, please visit the Quantcha Options Search Engine. This is an automated post generated based on a market analysis of delayed data at 7/18/2019 12:31:31 PM ET. The analysis does not include brokerage fees or commissions and is not investment advice. Quantchabot has detected a promising Bear Put Spread trade opportunity for AMARIN (AMRN) for the 26-Jul-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. AMRN was recently trading at $19.46 and has an implied volatility of 65.55% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for AMRN expiring on 26-Jul-2019, there is a 34.14% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $17.86-$19.47 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 49.58%. Big -7.64% Change: After closing the last trading session at $21.07, AMARIN opened today at $19.16 and has reached a low of $18.96. Trade approach: A movement as big as -7.64% is a significantly bearish indicator, so this trade is designed to be profitable if AMRN maintains its current direction and does not revert back to pricing on the bullish side of $19.46 on 26-Jul-2019. If possible, the trade has been padded such that slight movement against the trade would still return a profit. Upside potential: Using this bearish strategy, the trade would be profitable if AMARIN closes at or below $19.55 on 26-Jul-2019. Based on our risk-neutral analysis, there is a 51.88% likelihood of this return. Downside risk: As with any options trade, there is a substantial downside risk where you may lose most or all of your investment. This is an automated post generated based on a market analysis of delayed data at 7/18/2019 11:20:28 AM ET. The analysis does not include brokerage fees or commissions and is not investment advice. Quantchabot has detected a promising Bear Call Spread trade opportunity for ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES (ZBRA) for the 19-Jul-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. ZBRA was recently trading at $182.83 and has an implied volatility of 68.60% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for ZBRA expiring on 19-Jul-2019, there is a 34.14% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $176.61-$182.85 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 61.34%. Big -7.60% Change: After closing the last trading session at $197.86, ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES opened today at $196.97 and has reached a low of $182.04. Trade approach: A movement as big as -7.60% is a significantly bearish indicator, so this trade is designed to be profitable if ZBRA maintains its current direction and does not revert back to pricing on the bullish side of $182.83 on 19-Jul-2019. If possible, the trade has been padded such that slight movement against the trade would still return a profit. Upside potential: Using this bearish strategy, the trade would be profitable if ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES closes at or below $184.25 on 19-Jul-2019. Based on our risk-neutral analysis, there is a 58.72% likelihood of this return. Quantchabot has detected a promising Synthetic Long Stock trade opportunity for CEL-SCI (CVM) for the 17-Jan-2020 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. CVM was recently trading at $6.13 and has an implied volatility of 109.29% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for CVM expiring on 17-Jan-2020, there is a 68.27% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $2.10-$18.28 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 58.59%. Upside potential: This synthetic long position offers the same potential benefits and liabilities as a long stock position, but at a discount due to the significant premium at-the-money puts are trading at over calls. In this case, the long call position is opened at a strike of $5.00, which is already $1.13 in the money. An out-of-the-money put at the same strike is sold to finance the call, resulting in a net debit of $0.50 per share. The final position can be considered as having a discount of $0.63 per share over the underlying price of $6.13 for a 10.28% total. Quantchabot has detected a promising Long Call trade opportunity for NEPTUNE TECHNOLOGIES (NEPT) for the 19-Jul-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. NEPT was recently trading at $5.79 and has an implied volatility of 0.00% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for NEPT expiring on 19-Jul-2019, there is a 34.14% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $5.79-$6.18 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 92.58%. Big 18.40% Change: After closing the last trading session at $4.89, NEPTUNE TECHNOLOGIES opened today at $4.89 and has reached a high of $5.86. Trade approach: A movement as big as 18.40% is a significantly bullish indicator, so this trade is designed to be profitable if NEPT maintains its current direction and does not revert back to pricing on the bearish side of $5.79 on 19-Jul-2019. If possible, the trade has been padded such that slight movement against the trade would still return a profit. Upside potential: Using this bullish strategy, the trade would be profitable if NEPTUNE TECHNOLOGIES closes at or above $5.50 on 19-Jul-2019. Based on our risk-neutral analysis, there is a 78.73% likelihood of this return. Big Loser Alert: Trading today’s -7.1% move in PLEXUS $PLXS Quantchabot has detected a promising Covered Put trade opportunity for PLEXUS (PLXS) for the 20-Sep-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. PLXS was recently trading at $55.61 and has an implied volatility of 30.84% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for PLXS expiring on 20-Sep-2019, there is a 34.13% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $48.57-$55.84 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 12.07%. Big -7.12% Change: After closing the last trading session at $59.87, PLEXUS opened today at $58.36 and has reached a low of $54.04. Trade approach: A movement as big as -7.12% is a significantly bearish indicator, so this trade is designed to be profitable if PLXS maintains its current direction and does not revert back to pricing on the bullish side of $55.61 on 20-Sep-2019. If possible, the trade has been padded such that slight movement against the trade would still return a profit. Upside potential: Using this bearish strategy, the trade would be profitable if PLEXUS closes at or below $55.84 on 20-Sep-2019. Based on our risk-neutral analysis, there is a 50.01% likelihood of this return. 52-Week High Alert: Trading today’s movement in ROSS STORES $ROST Quantchabot has detected a promising Bull Put Spread trade opportunity for ROSS STORES (ROST) for the 16-Aug-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. ROST was recently trading at $106.83 and has an implied volatility of 20.28% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for ROST expiring on 16-Aug-2019, there is a 34.14% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $107.03-$113.24 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 39.99%. 52 week high: ROSS STORES recently reached a new 52-week high at $107.50. ROST had traded in the range $75.91-$107.45 over the past year. Trade approach: Reaching a new 52-week high is a bullish indicator, so this trade is designed to be profitable if ROST maintains its current direction and does not revert back to pricing on the bearish side of $106.83 on 16-Aug-2019. If possible, the trade has been padded such that slight movement against the trade would still return a profit. Upside potential: Using this bullish strategy, the trade would be profitable if ROSS STORES closes at or above $106.55 on 16-Aug-2019. Based on our risk-neutral analysis, there is a 53.18% likelihood of this return. StockTwits Trending Alert: Trading recent interest in SCHLUMBERGER $SLB Quantchabot has detected a promising Bull Put Spread trade opportunity for SCHLUMBERGER (SLB) for the 26-Jul-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. SLB was recently trading at $38.27 and has an implied volatility of 33.97% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for SLB expiring on 26-Jul-2019, there is a 34.58% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $38.27-$40.34 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 66.59%. Trending on StockTwits: StockTwits® is a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community. On their site, SCHLUMBERGER was recently trending, indicating that breaking news and/or market activity has significantly impacted sentiment toward the stock. This movement can be interpretted as a sign of more near-term price movement for the underlying. Trade approach: The recent sentiment change in SLB on StockTwits appears to be significantly positive, indicating that the stock is likely to follow in that direction for investors trading on sentiment. As a result, a bullish strategy could prove effective if the sentiment ultimately turns out to drive trading. Upside potential: Using this bullish strategy, the trade would be profitable if SCHLUMBERGER closed at or above $38.09 on 26-Jul-2019. Based on our analysis, there is a 53.94% likelihood of this return. 52-Week High Alert: Trading today’s movement in S & P GLOBAL INC $SPGI Quantchabot has detected a promising Bull Put Spread trade opportunity for S & P GLOBAL INC (SPGI) for the 26-Jul-2019 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. SPGI was recently trading at $240.06 and has an implied volatility of 15.30% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for SPGI expiring on 26-Jul-2019, there is a 34.14% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $240.19-$245.82 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 26.77%. 52 week high: S & P GLOBAL INC recently reached a new 52-week high at $242.41. SPGI had traded in the range $156.68-$241.92 over the past year. Trade approach: Reaching a new 52-week high is a bullish indicator, so this trade is designed to be profitable if SPGI maintains its current direction and does not revert back to pricing on the bearish side of $240.06 on 26-Jul-2019. If possible, the trade has been padded such that slight movement against the trade would still return a profit. Upside potential: Using this bullish strategy, the trade would be profitable if S & P GLOBAL INC closes at or above $239.95 on 26-Jul-2019. Based on our risk-neutral analysis, there is a 51.71% likelihood of this return. Covered Call Alert: NTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS $ICPT returning up to 21.15% through 17-Jan-2020 Quantchabot has detected a promising Covered Call trade opportunity for NTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS (ICPT) for the 17-Jan-2020 expiration period. You can analyze the opportunity in depth over at the Quantcha Options Search Engine. ICPT was recently trading at $69.17 and has an implied volatility of 63.42% for this period. Based on an analysis of the options available for ICPT expiring on 17-Jan-2020, there is a 68.27% likelihood that the underlying will close within the analyzed range of $44.52-$109.91 at expiration. In this scenario, the average linear return for the trade would be 10.10%. Moneyness: These options are currently 1.21% out of the money and there is a 49.94% likelihood that these options will be exercised before or at expiration. Most upside: If NTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS closes at or above $70.00, this trade could return up to 21.15%. Based on our analysis, there is a 49.94% likelihood of this return. The downside: As with any covered call, the risk is substantial as it is vulnerable to a downturn in the underlying itself. There is a 33.61% chance the underlying will close at or below its breakeven price of $57.78, resulting in a net loss on the trade. To find the best covered calls on the market, be sure to check out Quantcha’s covered call screener. Customize This Idea	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line204
__label__wiki	0.557081	0.557081	Do Limestone and McLennan Counties need three jails apiece? Counties currently looking to build speculative jails to generate revenue should look to Limestone County to see the Catch-22 that decision places them in. Reported the Mexia Daily News on July 22 (pronounced "Ma-Hay-Uh' for you foreigners): “The Limestone County jail population continues to soar. The population this year is exceeding all expectation,” County Judge Daniel Burkeen said this week. Part of this is due to growing jail populations per capita everywhere. And part is likely due to the fact that Limestone County is growing. The result is increasingly expensive for the Limestone County taxpayer. Limestone County’s jail is less than half the size needed to hold the current jail population, much less any additional growth, the Judge explains. “Last year we optimistically increased the budget for housing inmates outside our jail from $300,000 to $400,000,” pointed out Judge Burkeen. “We are already well over that number, and the fiscal year isn’t over until the end of September. We are looking at having to budget between $800,000 and $1,000,000 for the next year. Our jail population now stays well above 100 inmates.” The extra inmates are a double whammy for Limestone County. Many of the male inmates are housed at Limestone County Detention Center, a source of revenue for the county. So each inmate housed there takes up a revenue bed, costing the county around ten dollars per inmate per day in revenue. “As Bell County Judge Jon Burrows and others around the state have noted, paying to house inmates elsewhere will ‘bleed a county to death’,” Burkeen emphasizes. So how did Limesone County wind up here? By making the same mistake years ago that Judge Burkeen wants to pursue now - building an entrepreneurial jail. In Waco, McLennan County commissioners face a similar dilemma over whether to build more jail space when the county already owns a second jail being leased to a private contractor. McLennan commissioners recently rejected the idea of a new private jail, but still must decide whether to build a new one or take over currently leased beds. The same can be said of Limestone County as McLennan, to quote the Waco Tribune editorial board: This is not because we don’t have the space. It’s because commissioners saw a better use for the downtown jail eight years ago. That purpose has been eclipsed. Both counties built jails in the past on the speculative assumption that incarceration rates would continue to increase at the same rates as in recent years, a betting position that was bolstered substantially by the current boom in private immigration detention beds. Admittedly, for the last thirty years that's been a pretty sure wager. But immigration policies can change and high incarceration rates in the United States are an anomaly compared with the rest of the world, not a long-term inevitability. For tiny Limestone County to ship prisoners elsewhere or build a third jail when they could just use the two they've got defies common sense. And if long-term trends don't go just the way they expect, the economics of the deal may not turn out as sweet as described, either. Counties should focus on the jail cells they need and stop trying to become mini-private prison entrepreneurs. It not only creates bad incentives for government actors but it's a riskier financial proposition today than it was 10-15 years ago. Hey Grits, Not to get off of the current subject, but have you heard anything about a federal lawsuit being filed against some officers in shelby county? I managed to get some news about it and it alleged civil rights violations against 4 people including the D.A. and the mayor of teneha. Could be very interesting......	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line208
__label__cc	0.633159	0.366841	The Get Smart Fan Fiction Notebook \| home Toughest Case Ever \| Max Loses Control \| KAOS Gets Smart \| Reality \| Slowed Down \| Exit One Chief \| A Tropical Caper \| Dangerous Games \| Maxwell Smart, Public Enemy #1 \| Control In Control Control In Control Oh Max, aren't you glad we came here? 99 sighed contentedly, stepping out on the deck of their vacation cabin in the Catskill Mountains. Max threw the last of the suitcases in the bedroom and joined his wife outside. Yeah, I sure am he said slowly, taking a deep breath and savoring the amazing view from the front deck. And it's all ours for two whole weeks! No kids, no work, no phone, no disturbances! Just you and me. 99 smiled and wrapped her arms around her husband. I almost have to keep reminding myself of that. They stood looking out over the tree-covered rolling hills and listened to the birds chirp peacefully. The log cabin was in the middle of nowhere but solitude was what Max and 99 wanted most for their yearly vacation. The friend who had lent it to them was away on business so they had the whole 6 acre getaway to themselves. Beautiful gardens and tall trees of every variety surrounded the cabin. It was springtime in the Catskills and everything was in full bloom. The air had that decidedly crisp, fresh smell it always does in the springtime. The little pond in the back of the property was already warm and the tiger lilies were in their first bloom of the year. Max and 99 stood, taking this all in. A monarch butterfly landed on the railing in front of them. Look Max, a butterfly! 99 exclaimed, leaning in for a closer look. You never see butterflies in Washington! You hardly ever see a bird let alone a butterfly, Max commented somewhat cynically. Sometimes I think we've gotten so far away from nature. We have. Look at the fuss we make over one little butterfly. 99 sighed. I don't know Max, maybe we should have brought the kids. They never get to see the outdoors like this. The kids? Are you crazy? All we'd hear for two weeks would be, `I'm bored' `There's no TV' `It's too quiet here' `When are we going home?' 99 tried to keep from laughing, knowing Max was right. Seems like we never spend time together like a family should. She shifted her weight. But I think the kids needed a vacation from us as bad as we needed one from them. But this is the first time we've had a chance to be alone for a long time. Seems like something's always standing in the way. Work, kids, obligations Let's not think about that right now, hmm? she said, hugging Max tightly. Do you want some dinner? Yeah, let's grill out! Max said excitedly, never having the chance to grill in the city. 99 looked at him skeptically. Max, are you sure you know how to grill? Sure! Max lied. I've done it a hundred times! 99 nodded slowly. Okif you're sure you know what you're doing Before she could finish her sentence, Max had dashed off to the back deck. He found a red, round top grill waiting for him. Ok, he thought, This can't be too hard. I've seen people do it before. What's first? Ah yes. I have to light the grill. Uhhere's the matches and there's the coals. Hey, they're not lighting! Oh wait, I have to put some lighter fluid on them. Max grabbed the lighter fluid and, not knowing how much he should use, proceeded to dump the entire contents of the bottle onto the coals. 99 came out of the kitchen with a plate full of steaks to be cooked. How's it coming, dear? Fine, I'm just about to light it, he answered, striking a match. From years of experience, 99 knew that when max played with fire it usually wasn't a good thing. She stepped back instinctively. As soon as the fire from the match hit the coals floating in lighter fluid a giant fireball shot up in the air, making a loud roar and singeing some of Max's hair. He patted it out, then smiled. I, uh, guess I used to much Although the steaks were burnt to a crisp, the Cosmopolitans 99 fixed took the edge off. By now it was sunset and the bugs had begun to sing. Max stretched in his chair and happened to catch a glimpse of a man walking toward the house. Max jumped up and 99 looked to where he was staring. She, too, saw the man and swiftly went inside for her gun. Geez, they won't even let a guy have a vacation anymore Max muttered, thinking the man must have something to do with Kaos. The man waved in a friendly way and jogged the rest of the way up to the deck. Max whipped out his gun and aimed it at him. Stop right there, he ordered. The man smiled broadly but did as he was told. Max, is that you? Yeah? Who are you? Max demanded. Don't worry, Max. I'm not armed. I'm not here to hurt you. Where's you wife? How did you know we were here? Who sent you? The man put his hands down and smiled again. All in due time, Max. Calm down. I want to wait for your wife to get out here before I tell you why I'm here. Just then 99 emerged from the cabin with her gun bared and her eyes focused on the stranger. What'd you find out, Max? Nothing. He won't talk. Guys, will you let me explain to you why I'm here? Please do, 99 said coldly. The stranger strolled over to the table and poured himself a Cosmopolitan. Do you mind? he asked. Max and 99 shook their heads. Good. I always like an after dinner drink. He took a sip and continued. I'm from Control, so you can put your guns down. Look, this better be good. I'm on vacation, you know. Oh, it's good. Is it about Kaos? Wellnot entirely. Then get out. Hear me out, the man said, taking another sip of his drink. Your kids' future depends on it. Max and 99 looked at each other. What do you mean, our kids' future? 99 asked in a panicked tone. Who are you, anyway? Max said, getting fed up with this game. Boo. Max sighed. Look, you don't scare us. Now what is your name? Boo is my name. Boo who? Don't cry, Max. I'm here to help you. I'm from the year 2004. Both Max and 99's mouths fell open. 2004? That's not for another twenty years. How did you get here? Boo brought himself up to his full height. I'm a time hopper, he said proudly. The only one! I work for Control as a time traveler. I'm the only one on earth who has such an honor. It's a big responsibility, you know. You have to be careful that you don't mess things up. How can you be talking to us if you're from the future? How did you know where we were? Because, Max, in my time this conversation took place twenty years ago. Don't worry about the logistics now. They're not important. A chill ran down 99's spine. I don't feel comfortable talking to you, Boo. Boo looked hurt. Really? I've heard so much about you two. I've even met you a couple of times, in the future. I'm your Chief's grandson. Max gasped. You're Benjamin's grandson? No, your old Chief's grandson! Boo laughed, taking off his sunglasses so Max and 99 could see the striking resemblance. They felt as if they were looking into the face of a 25 year old Chief. Do you feel better now? I told you I wouldn't hurt you. Grandpa wouldn't approve at all. Anyway, let's get to the skinny. Control isn't doing so well. Ever since you two retired it hasn't been able to do anything right. The President has asked your kids to be agents, but they won't! Our children can do whatever they want to do in this life, 99 said, finally putting her gun down. If they don't want to be agents, that's fine. We're proud of them whatever they do in life. But that's the thing, they ain't doing so good. They're supposed to become agents, that's the way their destinies work! Believe me, I've looked into this. Boo put his hands in his pockets. If they don't want to come to Control, I can't make them. It's their life. But it sure as hell would help us out. We're disorganized and our leadership is badI can't think of the last time we foiled Kaos' plans! If this keeps up, who knows what will happen? Boo, we've done a lot for Control, and I have a feeling we deserve our retirement when it comes. You can't put your problems on our kid's shoulders simply because they're our kids! I know, Max, and I don't want to. But if you could just come with me, and see what I'm talking about, maybe you'll share my idea. 99 and Max exchanged glances. They had sworn to protect Control for the rest of their lives; did this count? Finally, Max sighed. All right, all right. We'll try. But we're not going to push anything on them. Good enough! Boo said, smiling and putting his sunglasses back on. He took a small circular device out of his coat. He punched a few numbers on it then aimed it at Max and 99. Now, this is going to send you to 2004. Where will we find you, Boo? You won't. With that, Boo pressed the button on the pad and Max and 99 vanished in thin air. A mass of confusion in the heart of Washington was going on like it always was. No one noticed Max and 99 apparently appear out of thin air. To their relief, it didn't look like much had changed in the twenty years they had been gone. Max, I-ahhh! 99 shrieked when she caught sight of Max. He turned to her. What is i-ahhh! Max and 99 stared at one another, who each looked twenty years older than they had seconds before. Oh Max, we're older! she whined. Oh nodid I age gracefully? Max asked worriedly. A smile of relief washed over 99's face. Yes, Max, you're very handsome, just like always. What about me? Beautiful as ever. Hello guys. Welcome to the future, someone said as he took both of them by the arms and started to lead them down Capitol Street. They recognized the voice instantly as Boo's. Boo! I thought you said we wouldn't find you! You didn't. I found you. You'll need to take things a little more literally around me. Come on, I'll take you two to Control. Why are we older? Because that little scene on the deck was twenty years ago, Boo explained, as if astonished at the question. Contrary to popular belief, if you travel forward in time you cannot meet yourself. There is only one of you and that is you. Therefore, if you travel forward in time you age appropriately. Boo grinned. But not me. A pill developed by our scientists. But it's better for you to look this wayit won't be much of a shock to your children or to Control. Boo rounded the side and hopped in a gray Jaguar XK8 convertible. Max and 99 joined him. I see Control pays well Max muttered. Max, when you're the only one in the world who can do a certain skill you're in demand. And if you're in demand you're paid well, Boo explained, taking off towards headquarters. Now, there are a few things you need to know. One; the new chief is agent 53, Kate Bloom. Good for her! Max cheered, always having liked Kate for her spunkiness and kindness. Your son is a stockbroker in San Francisco. Your daughter is a computer programmer in the Midwest. Geez, did you have any idea we were raising such dull kids? Max whispered to 99, who elbowed him gently in the ribs. Neither one is particularly happy. They both have their reasons, Boo said, muttering the last part. He pulled up in front of Control Headquarters. Let's roll. Avery Smart was on his way to lunch. Usually he went out but today he felt he had to stick close to the office; he was up for a big promotion and the call from the boss could come any minute. He was pretty confident he would get the partnership but another employee was up for the same spot. It had been a tough competition between he and Colleen Witshaw, but Avery held fast in his belief that the better employee would win. He tried to push out the rumors he'd heard about Colleen and Mr. Crandler's love affair, but he had to admit the signs were hard to ignore. Crandler was not the type of man to push a lovely lady away and Avery had seen Colleen strutting out of his office with her shirt untucked more than once. Avery had been working for Global Mart since he got out of college. Even back then it was a huge operation but he had felt certain that he would rise to the high ranks very soon after getting there. Years of missed opportunities, suck-ups getting ahead, and just plain boredom spoke otherwise. He had decided to become a stockbroker for the simple reason of making money. That, and it seemed a steady career. Avery made enough money to live in a one bedroom apartment on the nice side of town and own a car that still had a working tape deck. That was about the extent of it. But the values that he had learned in his childhood-honor, fairness, and kindness-were ultimately keeping him from making a killing in the market. Avery looked across the crowded lunchroom and spotted his friend Bobby waving to him. Bobby had been there longer than he had but was too much of a follower to really go anywhere with his job. Unlike Avery, Bobby was happy just being a normal guy and living a normal life. Avery strode over to him and sat down. Aren't you gonna get anything? Bobby asked with his mouth full. Avery tapped his hands on the table nervously and shook his head. Nah, I'm too nervous, he admitted. If I ate anything I'd throw up. Your loss. It's Meatloaf Day, Bobby told him, munching thoughtfully on the mystery meat before him. Avery restrained himself from making a face and instead caught sight of Colleen. There she is, Bobby. Miss `I'd sell my body for a promotion', Avery commented with some amount of displeasure in his voice. Bobby turned around, looked at her and nodded. You're up against her for that promotion, aren't you? Sure am. But I don't think she'll get it, Avery said confidently. Mr. Crandler is better than that. Bobby stared at Avery a moment, then burst out his falsetto laughter. Avery looked confused. What? Ave, man, you can't be serious! Come on! he said, continuing to laugh. He'd do anything for a lay! That's not true! Mr. Crandler hired me and has promised me a promotion for a long time. Ha! Been promising you a promotion for what, 10? 12 years? It's never gotten you nowhere. But this is different, Bobby. Christ Ave, how can you stand to be so naïve, man? Unless you're a brown nosed son of a bitch you're going nowhere in this company. I don't know why you haven't realized that yet. Hey, that's just not true. You don't have to step on anybody to get to the top. This sent Bobby into another fit of hysterical laughter. Stoppit, man, you're killin' me! Avery waited until he calmed down to say anything else, lest his friend die of conniptions. Look, I'm not the type of man who mistreats people to get my way. I'm a nice guy. That's right, you are. And you know what they say. Nice guys finish last. It's the truth, baby. It's all around us. Bobby wiped his mouth and became serious. Avery, you're the type of guy who would rather go through life livin' in a hole than insulting someone. Face it, kid. Being ambitious and aggressive all boils down to the same thing; kissing the boss's ass. That's just the way it works. Therefore, you're never gonna get anywhere. He spread his arms out to emphasize the room. Thisthis is your life, Ave. Avery felt like the walls would closing in on him and he cringed slightly. No, this is not my life. At least, not for long. Avery, I'm telling you this as your friend. Don't go in to that meeting today thinking you're going to get that promotion. Chances are you're not. And you know why? Because you're the only decent guy in this whole freakin' institution. Avery took a piece of gum out of his coat pocket and started to chew it ferociously. Look, you're not like me. You can live your life like this but I can't. I've waited 12 years for this day. I've worked hard, I've paid my dues, I deserve this. How many weekends have I spent here? How many holidays have I worked? How many things in my life have I given up for this place? There's no way in hell I'm not going to get this promotion. I deserve it. Bobby shook his head sadly. It ain't about deservin', kid. It's about who's screwin' who. Suddenly Avery's beeper went off. He checked it and paled. It's him. Crandler? Yeah. I guess he's made his decision. Avery got up numbly. Uhguess I'll see you later, huh? Yeah. Good luck. The hallway to the boss's office is always extremely long, but today it seemed even longer. Avery's palms were sweating and his mouth was dry as he walked up to the secretary's desk. Without looking up from her work she waved him in. Crandler was seated behind his desk and Colleen was seated on top of it, playing with his hair (what was left of it). Avery cleared his throat and they both jumped. Smart! Good to see you, Crandler said gruffly, shoving Colleen away. Well, let's get right down to business, shall we? He ruffled some papers on his desk and cleared his throat a few times. Colleen stood by, playing with her hair and shooting Avery challenging glances. He ignored them and instead imagined the stupefied look she'd have on her face when Crandler told them that he was the new partner. He smiled slightly. Well, decisions like this are never easy to make. We have so many fine employees at Global Mart that it's hard to chose just one to advance. For this position, you were each being considered for your fine contributions to the organization and for your tireless effort. After careful deliberation, I have decided the new partner in Global Mart will be-" Avery leaned in; Colleen continued to stare at the wall. -Colleen Witshaw! Avery's mouth dropped open and Colleen squealed. She leant over his desk and gave Crandler a quick peck on the cheek. Thanks, baby! she cooed. Crandler pushed her away. Not now! he whispered sharply. He smiled sweetly at Avery, whose mouth was still hanging open in utter disbelief. Bu-Bu-Bu-" Better luck next time, Mr. Smart. I'm sure I can count on your continuous hard work! Crandler said, flashing Avery a winning smile. Bu-But Mr. Crandler, I've-I've worked weekends, and holidays, and-" And I thank you for it, Smart. But I've been here for 12 years! And hopefully will be for another 12 years! Well, thank you for coming, Mr. Smart. You can get back to work now. Colleen jumped over the desk and the two continued their playful activities. Avery stood there for a moment, thinking about all his hard work and sacrifice, and thinking that none of it really mattered. In a daze, Avery turned around and left the office with his eyes still hazy from the whole ordeal. He walked slowly down the cubicle infested rooms, listening to the sounds of humming computers and employees trying to talk their customers into buying a stock they probably didn't want. All of it seemed so fake and pointless now. He sat down at his desk and looked hard at the picture of he and his parents at their retirement party a few years back. How come they always seemed so satisfied with their careers? What was he doing wrong that he couldn't feel the same enthusiasm for his job? Stupefying security were the only words to describe Carry Smart's existence. Living in Akron, Ohio and making just above minimum wage for a job she despised was the story of her life since college. When she had gone to college, she had originally studied to be a marine biologist. Getting to help stranded sea animals and being outside all the time appealed greatly to her. She was doing fine until her junior year, when she realized the amount of math and science classes she had to take were too much for her. Math and science were not her best subjects, and she had always failed miserably in both of them. Since the college was so focused on marine biology, it left little else to major in. The only other majors were English, computer programming, and elementary education. Carry would have gone with English since she loved to read and write, but she knew the only jobs she'd be able to get would be teaching jobs, and she didn't like the idea of her standing in a classroom. It just seemed too ironic. Though not a skilled computer operator, she decided it was the lesser of three evils and majored in that. In 1990, when she was a junior, a home computer wasn't uncommon, but it didn't have half the capability that it did in 2004. Therefore, by the time she graduated in '92, her education was almost out of date. They all knew the internet was coming but they didn't know how to train for it. For the first couple of years Carry's job had been all right, maybe even enjoyable. It was exciting work. Doing something, creating something no one had ever tried before was exhilarating. As the years passed by the old pros that had helped Carry's generation of computer programmers along were gone. And as more years passed, members of her original graduating class either switched jobs or moved on to something better. Now, 12 years after graduation, her diploma was so outdated that the only thing really that she could do was check for bugs and viruses in the new websites. She wasn't too good at it, though, and consulted her troubleshooting manual at least four times a day. Her office space was reduced to one half of a cubicle; the man she shared it with had sinus troubles and spent the whole day sniffing. It drove her crazy-why couldn't he blow his nose, for crying out loud? She was in a rut to say the least and had been for years. Every day, get up at 7:15, take a shower, eat a Pop Tart, go to work, suffer through eight hours of monotony, go home, watch TV, order a pizza and go to bed. On the weekends it was always the same; Saturdays were spent doing laundry and going grocery shopping, and Sundays were spent with a group of friends who hadn't changed their minds about anything in over a decade. Needless to say they were not the most interesting people to be around. She often thought to herself how lucky she really was. Her house wasn't so bad, in fact it was kind of cute. She didn't have any serious health problems and she wasn't broke. Her car wasn't new but it wasn't old, and she had friends who cared about her. For a lot of people, that sounded like heaven, so she shouldn't complain, right? It was just that she seeked some excitement now and then. The most exciting thing she did was to go bowling on Friday nights with her whiny roommate. She went to Italy once on business but even then all she saw was the inside of conference centers and hotel rooms. All in all, she was ready for a change, but to what? What could you do with an outdated diploma in computer programming and only one serious job to your name? The situation seemed hopeless. Carry had fallen asleep again. She had been trying to review a website about honey bees but after twenty pages about the mating dance she found herself nodding off. A loud snort from her cubicle partner brought her back to her senses. When she opened her eyes they fell on a picture of she and her brother Avery. She smiled; she hadn't seen Avery in years. She hadn't even spoken to him since Christmas. Their schedules never meshed enough for them ever to get together, and it was probably for the best. Avery was a busy man nowadays and didn't have time for his twin sister. Carry sighed fondly; sometimes she missed her brother terribly. Although he drove her crazy while growing up, once they reached adulthood they grew apart and she was surprised how much she missed his smiling face and wisecracks. Looking to the left of that picture, she found herself staring at a photo of she and her father, who she hadn't seen in months. Sometimes she wished they could have been closer but it seemed never to be. He always seemed so happy about his job, and her mother had always loved hers too. Why couldn't Carry find the same kind of happiness in her job? Well, Carry and Larry! boomed the familiar voice of Carry's least favorite manager, of which she had many. He always thought it was so witty that her name and her cubicle partner's name rhymed that he always said them together. How're we doing? Good sir! Great! Larry answered enthusiastically, wiping his nose on the back of his sleeve. Fine, sir, Carry muttered, trying not to stare at Larry's now damp sleeve. Well, Carry! Just needed to talk to ya real quick, Todd, the manager, said in his best `I'm a winner' voice. You know that site you debugged a few weeks back? Excretions.com? Carry nodded, trying not to see that site in her mind again. Well, we've been getting some complaints from people who've tried to access it. No offense sir, but do we really care what the variety of people that visit a site called Excretions.com have to say? Of course! They are customers, you know! Um, what kind ofmerchandise does that site carry? You probably don't want to know. Anyway, the big kahuna wanted me to tell you to get to worksays you haven't been working up to par lately. Carry rolled her eyes at this statement; her work hadn't been up to par in eight years. I'll get right on it, sir, she said, almost sarcastically. Todd flashed her a smile and left. Avery arrived home tired, angry, and basically feeling like someone who has just been hit by a speeding train. He stumbled in and threw his jacket in the corner and plopped down on the couch. His head was killing him. It had been two days since he learned he hadn't gotten that promotion he was after, and he hadn't gone back to work since. He hadn't even changed his clothes or shaved. He'd just been wandering around, wondering what life was really about and what his next move would be. Tomorrow he had to go back to work. He'd used up his sick days to take his girlfriend to Florida last month so she could attend a breast augmentation seminar. Avery laughed softly at the memory of that; nothing was ever good enough for Mary. She always had to look better and be better than everyone else in the world. He had to admit she was gorgeous but didn't have much of a brain in her head. He suddenly remembered he had a dinner date with her that night at seven. He glanced up at the clock and found it was nine thirty pm. Oh well. Worse things could happen. He sighed heavily and realized that headache wasn't going anywhere unless he did something about it. He dragged himself from the couch and into the small kitchen off to the left, where he popped the last two aspirin into his mouth. Seemed like he'd been going through a lot of these lately. My whole life is one big headache he muttered to himself, making a mental note to pick more Tylenol up soon. He made his way in the dark back to his couch and laid down. Within minutes he was fast asleep. He woke up to the sound of someone knocking gently on his door. He sat up with a start and saw that it was seven thirty in the morning. Groaning, he picked himself up and stumbled to the door. He threw it open to find the last person on earth he was expecting to see. Mom! he said in surprise at 99 standing before him. What're you doing here? Does a mother need a reason to visit her son? she said sweetly, giving him a well-needed hug. She pulled away, getting a good look at her now 34 year old son. Despite the haggard look he seemed to have, he was moderately handsome and had a nice physique. She tried not to gawk at her baby boy, who was now all grown up. 99 frowned, looking at his clothes. Avery, you look like you've worn these clothes for three days. And it doesn't look like you've shaved in at least that long. I haven't, he admitted. This was the last thing he needed-his mother showing up on his doorstep on possibly the worst day of his life. Oddly enough, he wasn't particularly annoyed. In a strange way he was relieved to see her. How are ya, Mom? Ohgood, she said. Staring a 34 year old Avery in the face when she had seen a 14 year old Avery just 24 hours before was a little strange. She ignored the condition he looked to be in and glanced around his apartment. It was small but painted white so it looked bigger. An overstuffed black couch faced a giant TV and the room led to what looked like a very small kitchen. Two doors off to the side must have been for a bedroom and a bathroom. She looked back at Avery, who seemed to be spaced out. Are you ok, Avery? Huh? Oh yeah! he said cheerfully. You know me, Mom! Everything's great! 99 nodded skeptically, always have been able to tell if everything was great with her son or not. Right now it was not. Then why do you look like you do? Umwelluhwell, I've been outside for three days, Mom. Outside? What for? UhI went out for lunch and a pack of roaming wolverines mistook me for lunch, Avery started. 99 crossed her arms and listened, trying not to smirk. They chased me to the state line where I met a cross eyed truck driver with a limp. He liked hominy beans and Europop. He took me to Death Valley where I met an ill-tempered drag queen who watched `All in the Family' reruns between his shows. I rode a stray camel into Las Vegas where I won millions of dollars but lost it all when I bet in a cockroach race in the men's bathroom. Then I figured maybe work missed me so I hitched a ride with an Elvis impersonator and I just got back last night. 99 raised an eyebrow. That's quite a story. He laughed nervously. Sure is! He never was much good at lying. Soumwhy are you here, Mom? 99 shrugged. I just had a feeling my only son needed me. Avery scratched his head. Actually Mom, I-" He was interrupted by an impatient tapping on his door. He moaned in frustration. Whoever that is, I don't want to talk to them! Looks like a lady, Avery, 99 said, glancing out the window. A really pretty one at that. Are you sure? Avery peeked out the opposite window to see Mary standing there staring at the door, looking rather annoyed. Reluctantly, Avery turned to his mother. It's Mary, Mom. You've met her before. Mary? Um, of course! 99 said, pretending to know who that was. Hold on, ok? She looks pissed. Avery opened the door about a foot wide and slipped through. He closed it shut behind him. Hi Mary. Listen, sorry about last night. I got home late, and-" Shoosh! she cried, placing her index finger over Avery's mouth. Her stare deepened into one of pure rage. She flicked a strand of platinum blond hair away from her flawless face. That was the second date you've broken in a month! Are you seeing another girl? What? Don't be silly! Don't play stupid with me, Smart! I know when I'm being played. Mary, I'm not cheating on you! The last couple of days have just been kind of rough! If you'd let me explain, I-" I don't want to hear it! Whatever excuse it is, it's probably lame and you've probably used it before! But I-" I've had it! We're through! Avery gaped at her. What?! You heard me. I've had enough of this shit! I can do sooooo much better! Mary, just let me explain! There's nothing to explain! We're finished! Adios, asshole! Mary screamed as she raced down the steps to her car. Avery was about to shout some apologies or at least go after her, but something inside wasn't upset enough to do that. He sighed in defeat and found his mother standing in the doorway. He frowned. How much did you hear? he asked suspiciously. Everything. You left this window open, she said, pointing to the window on the porch where he was standing. He let out a breath and sat down on the metal railing. You probably think I'm an idiot, don't you? You come here, and I'm dirty and unshaven and my girlfriend dumps me right in front of you. He rubbed his face with his hands and tried to remain calm. Mom, my whole life is falling apart! I figured as much, 99 said, hugging her grown son lovingly. Would you like to talk about it? Avery thought for a moment. Yes, he said very truthfully. I would love to talk about it. They went inside and sat down at the kitchen table. Avery poured a cup of coffee for both of them and took a sip. When did you start to drink coffee? 99 questioned critically, forgetting about her son's age momentarily. He looked at her strangely. Um, in college? That's right. How silly of me, 99 giggled nervously. Sometimes it's just so hard to believe my little boy is all grown up! It's hard for me to believe too Avery muttered to himself, savoring the warmth of the coffee. MomI know this is probably a lot to ask, but 99 leaned closely. Yes, son? she asked in anticipation, hoping his response would be something like, Would you train me to be a spy? Could you bake me some of those chocolate chip cookies you used to make for me and Carry when we were kids? he asked hopefully. 99 was stunned for a moment, then touched that he actually remembered. She smiled. Of course, dear. Now why don't you start at the beginning, she said, getting up and opening the fridge. Wellit's kind of embarrassing. I mean, when I got out of college I thought I was going to conquer the world. I was so ambitious, I didn't want help from anybody. Now I can't even bear to go into work. This is the third day in a row I've missed! I'm sure they understand, honey, came 99's voice deep within the back of the fridge. Avery, you have butter in here from 1999! I know. I thought if I ever needed a weapon I could use it. Anyway, I work hard, Mom! I really do! I give my job everything I've got! I work all the time, seems like I'm never home enough to enjoy anything. I'm always stuck inside some florescent lighted hell working with numbers. It's not that I hate it but for God's sake, I'd like to see a tree once in while, you know? So I was up for this big promotion. Crandler, my boss, wanted to me partner of the company! That's a huge step up from a lousy cut rate stockbroker like I am. I was up against this woman named Colleen Witshaw. There were rumors that she was sleeping with Crandler but being the good boy I am I ignored them! And I actually thought I could succeed without blackmail or brown nosing. Well, I was wrong. Colleen got the promotion. Dumb ol' Colleen who's been there for six months and can't even turn a damn computer on. Language, dear. Sorry. So Bobby was right. Nice guys finish last. Oh, that's not true, Avery. It depends on what job they have, 99 explained, dropping two eggs into a ceramic bowl. Never stop being who you are, Avery. You'll regret it. But maybe then I can at least have a nice car. You do have a nice car, Avery. It's that blue one parked next to the dumpy one out there, right? My car is the dumpy one. And now thisMary dumping me. I'm really sorry about that, honey. That must be rough. That's the thing. I don't care. Now, Avery, I'm sure-" In fact, I think I feel better without her, Avery admitted. 99 put the cookies into the oven and set it. She complained all the time that I wasn't giving her enough. How long had you two been together? Avery shrugged. 'Bout a year, I guess. But I wasn't too attached to her. She was just a pretty girl I hung around, for the most part. I knew it wasn't going anywhere so it's probably better if we didn't keep seeing each other. But to dump me for a stupid reason like missing a date Well, sometimes that's a big deal to a girl, 99 sat, sitting down at the table. They were silent a moment. 99 cleared her throat. Um, Averyhave you ever considered coming to work for Control? Avery laughed, more in frustration than amusement. Mom, we've been over this a hundred times! This is the worst possible time you could bring that up! Avery, it just seems you're ready for a change. I mean, if you hate your job-" Work's work, Mom. You can't enjoy it all the time. You can if you work at the right place, dear. Avery, you've got all the makings of a wonderful agent! You're smart, you're fast, and you're incorruptible. Not many people can say that. Plus, you were practically born to be a spy! Both your father and I love our jobs. Uh, loved, I mean. Honey, you weren't made out to be a stockbroker. You've never liked numbers for all I can remember. It's a steady paycheck. There's more to life than a steady paycheck. 99 sighed and cupped her face in her hands. How do you feel about your job, Avery? If you could change what thing, what would it be? Avery stared at the table a moment and contemplated the question. I guessI guess I'd like it to be a little more satisfying than it is. I come home from a really long day and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. In fact I feel like the last 12 years of my life have been spent boondoggling. Boondoggling? Yeah. It means you spend all your time doing things that don't need to be done and ignore the important things. 99 put her hand on Avery's arm. Please Avery. You don't have to work anywhere that you don't want to. But promise me that you won't spend your life doing something you don't think is important. He met her gaze and looked at her for a minute. I won't, Mom, he said, although he didn't know if he could keep that promise or not. She patted his arm affectionately and smiled. Whatever you do with your life, we're proud of you. Just remember that. Thanks, Mom, he said gratefully, needing to be reminded of that every now and then. The buzzer on the oven went off making them both jump. Your cookies are done 99 said, stating the obvious. She got up and took the sheet out of the oven then slid the cookies on a plate. Well dear, I'll be leaving you now. What? You just got here! Avery protested, biting into one of his mother's infamous chocolate chip cookies. She smiled at him. I just stopped by. You flew out to San Francisco just to stop by? Umyour father and Iumare going to Disneyworld, 99 fibbed. Avery smiled. Dad never changes, does he? No, she said quickly, grabbing her purse and heading for the door. Bye, Avery. Good luck. Thanks for the cookies, Mom! 99 waved goodbye and shut the door behind her. Avery sighed softly then looked at his watch. A look of panic crossed his face. Oh shit, I'm late for work! he exclaimed. He raced around the room trying to find his wallet but then realized he didn't want to go to work too bad anyway. Another day of thankless work in a cramped cell with people with no backbones didn't sound too appealing, so Avery decided to go for a walk on the beach. Work for Control? Avery thought to himself while strolling slowly down the stretch of deserted beach. He kicked a tiny piece of driftwood. Impossible. I'm no spy. I'm a stockbroker. He stopped in mid stride and bellowed, Why am I even thinking about this? It's absurd! A spy, for Chrissakes! All that danger and fearing for my life and detective workit soundsit sounds He sighed. It sounds wonderful, he muttered. He tried to shake the thoughts from his head. No! Be reasonable, Avery! You want to have a family someday, right? How're you gonna do that if you're fending off enemy agents? But Mom and Dad did it! So? They were both spies, they knew what they were doing! So? You're their son, maybe you could be the same way! No! Stop this! It's insane! God, I'm talking to myself! So? Dad always said it's ok to talk to yourself as long as you're getting the right answers. Arrrgh! Avery let himself fall backwards so he could stare up at the sky. I've snapped it's finally happened I've had some sort of breakdown from all this stupid worrying about work although it's not half as stupid as thinking of becoming a spy it's impossible it's insane I won't do it I'm a stockbroker for God's sake he rambled to himself. He sighed. God, what am I doing? Avery stood up and looked out over the vast ocean in front of him. I'm not a freakin' stockbroker! Never was! Never will be! he screamed out. The waves beat steadily on the shore with some purpose. The little birds that played in it's surf played with purpose. Even the driftwood on the beach seemed to be there for some reason. So what's my reason? he asked the water gently. He shook his head. I gotta stop thinking like this. I gotta go back and put my life in order like a normal person! In the back of his mind, he knew he wasn't normal. He was Smart. Avery marched resolutely to his car and drove through the swarming traffic of Frisco back to his meager little apartment. On the way, he kept getting pushed aside by huge fire engines with their alarms screaming. Although annoyed, he didn't give it a second thought until he realized he was headed right where they were going. A sudden dread filled him, as if he knew what was going to be there to greet him. Sure enough, when he turned the corner into his complex, gigantic flames were shooting forth from his and everyone else's apartment. He braked sharply and stared at the sight before him. His home and everything he owned was ablaze, right there in front of him. He had just been inside the place twenty minutes ago and now it was gone, it was gone forever! Avery jumped out of his car and ran to the nearest firefighter. What happened!? he screamed to the firefighter over the noise of the water hose. Faulty wiring! Nobody was hurt! the firefighter yelled back. Once again, life had slapped Avery in the face. He stumbled on over to the park bench and watched the fire for about an hour, wondering if those cookies his mom had baked tasted better if they had been around fire. He laughed to himself; what had made him think of that? He must not be too upset if while his home was burning all he could think about was his mother's cookies. There weren't too many heirlooms in the house yet and he didn't have any pets stuck inside. All in all he counted himself pretty lucky that he hadn't been inside when the spark fired. In it's own way the fire was beautiful, leaping from the heights of the building in a graceful motion, taking anything and everything with it. Avery watched in amusement as his porch, on the fourth floor, fell to the ground after being scorched off. A few windows blew out, causing everyone to duck, but Avery didn't even flinch. All of a sudden he felt invincible. He was free from everything now. Even if he did go back to work he'd probably be fired for missing so many days, his house had burned down and his girlfriend left him. He was a free man and he could do whatever he wanted. He didn't often make decisions in haste, but when a sudden conclusion hit him about a certain situation, he knew these decisions were saner than any other choice he could make. All at once he decided to go home. Back to DC, where his parents lived and where he grew up. He'd blow Control's minds with what a good spy he'd be. Stealthily and with much more ease than he thought possible, Avery walked up to a nearby policeman and tapped him on the shoulder. The officer turned. You live here sir? he asked. Not anymore! Avery hooted, laughing at his own joke. The officer didn't find it quite as amusing. Sir, these were people's homes. I'm sorry I don't think that's quite as humorous as you do. Aw, have a sense of humor! Anyway, could you do me a favor? The ambulances are over there, the officer said, pointing to his left. If you need a head examination that's the place to go. No, thanks, not today. I'm feelin' fine for the first time in a long time. Just give everyone a message, ok? My name is Avery Ryan Smart, and I'm gonna be a spy. That said, Avery turned on his heal and headed to his car, feeling free and happy, both welcome emotions. He revved up his car and cranked the radio up. Time to blow this popsicle stand! he yelled out the car window, having always wanted to say that. He waved goodbye and sped off. Avery Ryan Smart was on his way home. Carry rapped her fingers impatiently against her desk while staring up at the clock. She still had fifteen minutes until she could go home. Even then she didn't have anything planned but anything was better than this! Larry sniffed loudly beside her and she could hear him swallow. She cringed at the thought and looked up again to see if any time had passed. It hadn't and she sighed. She and Mark were going to go out for dinner. At least, that's what he had told her. Seemed like that guy never kept his promises. Carry sometimes wondered why she was so in love with a man who couldn't keep his word. They had met two years ago at the bowling alley when she and Laurie, her roommate, had been there. He'd been trying to haggle a free soda out of Louie, the concession stand man. Carry felt sorry for him and bought him a small soda. He took it gratefully, drank half of it, and threw the rest away. She'd refrained from comment because he was so darned cute. They talked for a while, mostly about him, but Carry didn't mind. She didn't have anything interesting to say about herself anyway. He had grown up in Akron and worked at Al's Supermarket. He told her proudly that he'd been there five years and was now assistant manager. She listened intently to how everyone overestimated him in the workplace and underestimated him everywhere else in his life. At the time she had found him to be a grade A loser but no attractive man had ever seemed interested in her before. Their romance, or lack there of, started shortly after that. At first he was sweet-bringing her flowers every day and taking her out to dinner every night. As time passed he seemed less and less interested in her, and more and more interested in her wallet. She tried to ignore this and focused on what good there was left of their relationship. He treated her well; he never insulted her or made fun of her, and for that she was glad. He was just a mooch-often times he'd come over for one night and wouldn't leave for a month. That didn't bother Carry too much but she did wish he'd pay for the enormous amounts of food he could eat. Often times she'd counted the pros and cons in their relationship; he was a mooch but he was cute. He broke promises but he always apologized. As long as one canceled out the other, who cared, right? Laurie had been her roommate since right out of college. They found each other through an ad Carry had placed in the newspaper. They were complete opposites, which led to friction sometimes. Laurie had enough money to have her own apartment, but Carry always begged her to stay with her at the house. Reluctantly she always agreed but it was easy to set her off. Carry looked up at the clock again and was pleased to see it was quitting time. She grabbed her purse, shut off her computer, and swiftly made her way to her little car. She raced home, hoping Mark would be there to greet her with a bed of roses like he used to. His car was parked in front of her house which made her smile. She bounded up the front steps and snuck through the front door. It was a game she and Mark played. They each tried to be as quiet as possible when sneaking up on one another. She didn't find him in the kitchen or in the living room. Some thumping upstairs told her he might be in the den. She leapt up the stairs, two at a time, and not making a sound. It was something her father had taught her; how to do noisy things noiselessly. She'd used it many times when sneaking back into the house well after curfew. Carry followed the noises to Laurie's bedroom. In the back of her mind she wondered why Mark was in Laurie's bedroom, but she passed it off and threw open the bedroom door. Are ya surprised?! she yelled. That's when she saw Mark and Laurie in bed together, apparently in the middle of something. She gasped and they both leapt off the bed, holding the blankets against themselves. Mark? she said in weak confusion. Baby, I can explain! he stuttered. Whatwhy are you in bed with Laurie? she asked innocently. Laurie looked equally as shocked. To answer your question Carry, yes, we were surprised, she quipped in her usual sarcastic way. WeI mean, uhwe were Umsee, Carry, we were-" Give me a little bit of credit! Carry screamed at both of them. I'm not stupid, I know what you were doing and it makes me sick! She turned around and left the scene, knowing the tears weren't far away. Mark followed her down the steps, tripping over the last few, and trying several lame excuses. She answered him by shutting the door right in his face. Bastard she muttered to herself as she got in the car. The tears started to fall as she sped out of her driveway and to the nearest hotel. She got herself the nicest room she could and sat in the bathtub for an hour. She heard someone tapping on the door and she knew who it was. Go away, you sleazy jerk! I don't want to talk to you! she screamed through floods of new tears. Don't call me a sleazy jerk! I'm your father! came the familiar droll from behind the door. Carry, realizing at once it was not the sleazy jerk she had been expecting, jumped out of the tub and grabbed a bath towel. Daddy, hold on, ok? I'm in the tub! She dried off as quickly as she could and wrapped bathrobe around her. She sprinted across the room and opened the door to find the last person on earth she expected to see that night. Dadwhat are you doing here? Does a father need a reason to see his only daughter? he said simply. Although Carry thought the answer should be `yes' she realized her father was not of a normal mind and let him in. Nice room, Carry. You must be livin' the high life, huh? Not exactly, Carry answered, rolling her eyes. Max crossed his arms. I came to ask if you wanted dinner. You came all the way to Akron to ask me that? Carry asked in her confused tone. Max shrugged helplessly and Carry decided to drop it. It wasn't the weirdest thing her father had ever done by far. She sighed and plopped down on the plush couch. No thanks Daddy. I don't have much of an appetite. Max looked sideways at her. Carry, stand up. Let me get a good look at you. She did so and Max gawked. Gone was the stout, sour faced teenager he once knew. In her place stood a dark haired beauty with an athletic physique. She wasn't tall but she defiantly wasn't stout anymore. Her hair, cut short, looked stunning with her bright green eyes. Carry, you're a good looking gal! he said with some amount of disbelief. Dad, I've looked this way for years. You just now notice? No, it's just that I've never looked very hard before, he explained. Something suddenly occurred to him. Why are you in a hotel? Don't you have an apartment or something? Carry figured she had no one else to talk to about the Mark thing, no one who wouldn't criticize her, anyway. She stroked her hair and tried not to cry. I walked in on my roommate and my boyfriend in bed together today. Max's jaw dropped to the ground. I oughta go kill that guy! Just stay out of it, Dad. He's no good anyway. Don't know why I didn't see that before, she sighed. Max sat down in a chair next to her. Well, are you ok? Carry bit her lip. No, not really. I liked him a lot, Daddy, even though he was kind of a jerk. He was just the first cute guy who everwho ever seemed interested in me. I'm sure you can do better than that, Max assured her. Remember, cute guys are usually trouble. With the rare exception of me, of course, he said pompously. Carry held back a smile. But really, anyone who treats you like that out to be thrown to the curb. I know, she said softly. I'll just have to get used to it. Max was at a loss for words and decided to change the subject. So! How's work? Horrible, as usual. It's so boring I want to puke. What do you do again? Something with computers? I'm a computer programmer. You were the one who got the recommendation that hired me, don't you remember? Oh yeah, how stupid of me! Max laughed nervously. Carry smiled back depsite herself; it felt good to be with her father again. I've missed you, Dad. Really? Max said, somewhat surprised. He could never get away fast enough from the 14 year old Carry, so it was strange to be missed by her. May I ask why? She shrugged. I dunno. Seems lately I've been thinking a lot about youand Averyand Momand you know, my home. Did you ever consider coming back? he asked hopefully. Carry took a pillow and held it to her protectivly. And do what Dad? It's just as hard getting a job in Washington than it is in Akron. Wellyou could always come to work for Control. Carry threw the pillow across the room and stood up. How many times do we have to talk about this? Is that why you're here? Dad, I've told you before and I'll tell you again! I'm not going to be a spy! Why not?! Nobody grows up to be a spy, Dad! I did! Your mother did! It's not normal! When has normal ever been a good thing, huh? Come on. You hate your job and you're going to dump your boyfriend. What have you got to lose? Who says I'm dumping Mark? She regretted the words as soon as they popped out of her mouth. Max scowled at her. You're not actually going back to that scum, are you? After what he did to you? We might be able to work it out she said feebly. Max tsked. Carry, be realistic. You don't really want a man like that around, do you? Look, you're still upset. Just sleep on it. Things might look brighter in the morning. Things might look brighter in the morning, but things won't look like I'm going to become a spy, either. Carry paced the room. My job's not so badonce you get past the eight managers and sniffing cubicle partner and mind-numbing work. It's a paycheck Daddy. You have to understand that. No, I don't. I stopped listening at the sniffing cubicle partner part. You can't tell me a life of intrigue and danger doesn't appeal to you. You just don't have the genes to have a boring job. Dad, lay off, she said tiredly, not because she was fed up with the conversation, but the idea of becoming an agent was starting to sound good, which scared her. Max stood up. Ok, kid, I'm going to be leaving you now. You think about what I said, ok? You're leaving already? she said in confusion. You just got here ten minutes ago! YeswellI forgot my wallet in Cincinnati and I have to go get it before dark. Inner city buses, you know. Before she could stop herself, Carry hugged Max tightly. Thanks for coming anyway, Daddy. It was good to see you, even if all you wanted to do was badger me. Look, kid he began, pulling away. You know your mom and I will be proud of whatever you do. But Carry, you'd make a good spy. And you'd make more money. And it'd be cooler to brag to your friends. And you get to play with weapons. See? There's endless amounts of reasons. Just promise me you'll think about it, ok? Carry smiled. Ok Dad. Will do. Max smiled back and turned to leave out the door. Unfortunately he hadn't opened it yet and ran smack dab into it, making a decisive thud sound. He rubbed his nose. Dumb place to put a door he muttered. Carry bit her lip to keep from laughing and said goodbye again as he walked down to the lobby. The next morning Carry awoke to a quick knock on her door then silence. She staggered over to the door, secretly hoping it was Mark, but when she opened it a box of her belongings were lying at her feet. A note stuck to the box caught her eye. She opened it and read it. Dear Carry, Sorry about what you saw yesterday but what's done is done. Mark is moving in with me so here's your stuff. The rest of it is in storage at the address below. Sorry to do this to you but shit happens. Carry crumpled up the letter angrily in her right fist and threw it into the wastebasket. She had no home and no boyfriend and the thought of another day at work sickened her. She didn't know why, but for some reason the idea of going home stopped her in mid-stride. She thought about it again, hoping that some reason of doubt would reveal itself, but it didn't. Actually, going home to DC sounded like a wonderful idea. No worries, no cares, just the open road to home. Although most of her decisions she made in haste ended up coming back to haunt her, her soul was telling her to go home. Suddenly she missed hot, sticky DC. She missed seeing her parents everyday and she missed the days of not knowing what the internet was. Quickly, before she could change her mind, Carry dressed and grabbed the box in the hallway. She shoved the box in her trunk and slammed it. A soft breeze floated through her hair and instantly made her feel better. When she got in the car, Carry rolled down all the windows so she could enjoy the mild spring day. She started the car, popped in her favorite CD, and zipped out of the ugly hotel parking lot. Now Carry Marie Smart was on her way home. THE END...(or is it the beginning...?)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line209
__label__wiki	0.913476	0.913476	Gonzaga Baseball at Home With Four Games in Four Days Thread: Gonzaga Baseball at Home With Four Games in Four Days Baseball at Home With Four Games in Four Days GU hosts Saint Mary's for three, WSU on Monday Gonzaga (24-17, 15-6) vs. Saint Mary's (25-17, 10-8) May 3-5 \| Spokane, Wash. \| Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field Live Video \| Live Stats Friday, May 3 \| 6 p.m. Gonzaga LHP Mason Wells vs. Saint Mary's RHP Tyler Thornton Saturday, May 4 \| 6 p.m. Gonzaga LHP Mac Lardner vs. Saint Mary's LHP Ken Waldichuk Sunday, May 5 \| 12 p.m. Gonzaga TBA vs. Saint Mary's RHP Carlos Lomeli Gonzaga (24-17) vs. Washington State (8-31-1) May 6 \| 6 p.m. \| Spokane, Wash. \| Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field GU Takes Down No. 3 Oregon State - Gonzaga took a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning and never looked back, dropping the third-ranked Beavers, 6-3. - Starter Nick Trogrlic-Iverson was fantastic, going 5.0 innings and allowing just one run on two hits. - Michael Spellacy threw 2.1 scoreless innings and freshman Daniel Naughton struck out the side in the ninth. - Troy Johnston continued his torried month, launching a two-run homer to pace the offense. Jacob on NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List - Alek Jacob was one of 45 players nationally named to the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List. - Starting out the year as a starter, but converting to the closer due to need, he has racked up eight saves, leads the team with six wins, and has 64 strikeouts in 60.1 innings pitched. - Jacob is holding opposing hitters to a .185 batting average and has a 1.79 ERA on the year. - In April, Jacob was even better, compiling a 0.83 ERA with three saves and a 3-0 record across seven appearances with one start. He struck out 24 in 21.2 innings and held hitters to a .162 batting average for the month. Lardner Coming on Strong - Gonzaga left-hander Mac Lardner has been impressive over his six starts since returning from injury. He's hasn't allowed more than three runs in any outing and has gone 4-0 in that span. - Lardner has pitched through the sixth in each of his last four starts and struck out at least eight in each of his last three times on the mound. Pac-12 Foes Aplenty - Gonzaga is now 3-4 against the Pac-12 this season after defeating then-No. 3 Oregon State. - Last time out against Washington State, the Zags got a two-run homer from Troy Johnston and 2.2 hitless innings from Trent Schulte to close out the game. - Earlier this season, Gonzaga won 5-3 on the road at Utah. In that game, the Zags got 4.1 innings from lefty starter Matthew Henckel (2 R, 7 H) and 4.2 innings from the bullpen (combined 1 R, 6 H), and Nick Nyquist hit a three-run homer with the Zags down 2-1 in the sixth to put them ahead for good. - In March, Gonzaga took down last year's College World Series participant Washington in a single-game midweek contest, 5-4. The Zags got out to leads of 3-0 and 4-3, before breaking a four-all tie in the bottom of the eighth. Ernie Yake knocked home Brett Harris with a hard-hit ball to the first baseman's left for the deciding run. Michael Spellacy came out in the ninth and went 1-2-3 for his first career save. Johnston, Nyquist, Morrison Tore Up April - Gonzaga hit .318 as a team in 17 April games, bolstered by the combined batting averag of .402 from the trio of Troy Johnston, Nick Nyquist and Guthrie Morrison. - Johnston is tied for first in the NCAA in doubles with 22, 13 of which came in the month of April. - Johnston has raised his batting average 55 points since April 1st (.286 to .341) by hitting .417 in April. - Nyquist raised his batting average 74 points (.237 to .311) by hitting .383 in the month. - Nyquist has slugged .783 and reached base at a .479 clip for an April OPS of 1.262. - Nyquist has hit six homers, four doubles, a triple, scored 19 runs and knocked in 26 RBI -- courtesy of two five-RBI games -- in April. - Morrison raised his batting average 56 points (.281 to .337) by hitting .402 in April. - Morrison has a team-best 33 hits in the month with eight doubles, eight RBI and 19 runs scored. Zags Dominate San Francisco - Gonzaga put together three 12-plus run games in a weekend sweep of San Francisco, who entered the series tied with GU for second in the league standings. - Troy Johnston had four home runs and 10 RBI in the series to lead a powerful Gonzaga offense that racked up 51 hits in three games. Guthrie Morrison ahd nine hits in the game. - On Friday, GU had 15 runs and 19 hits, including Johnston's two homers, and then on Saturday GU hit four two-run homers with two from Johnston and one each from Mason Marenco and Nick Nyquist. - Sunday, Marenco hit a grand slam and Nyquist had three hits, three RBI and two runs scored to power the Zags. Freshman Wells into Starting Role - Mason Wells was moved into the Friday starting role as a freshman and been consisten. - Wells has started seven games and compiled a 4.10 earned-run average, while holding hitters to a .197 batting average. - He has two 8.0-inning complete games in his seven starts, the only two complete games on the GU staff. - Wells has gone less than 5.0 innings just once in the span -- a 4.2-inning outing against Pacific that GU won. - Wells went 7.0 innings at Portland last weekend, allowing just two runs on four hits with four strikeouts, to earn his first collegiate win. Johnston Named WCC Player of the Week (4/14 and 4/28) - Junior outfielder Troy Johnston collected his second player of the week award in the last three weeks. - This past week, he hit five homers, drove in 12 runs and scored nine times as Gonzaga went 4-0 with a win over WSU and a sweep of San Francisco. - Two weeks ago, he hit .643 (9-for-14) in three games, collecting at least two hits in each game. He had four doubles, scored four times and knocked in two runs. Harris Breaks Out - JuCo transfer 3B Brett Harris had eight hits (.444) across four games two weeks ago and then added a three-run homer -- his first as a Zag -- against Pacific on that Friday. - Harris' biggest game came in the series finale against San Diego with two doubles, four RBI and two walks. He got the Gonzaga rally started in the ninth inning with the team down by three when he ripped a two-run double to left, and GU went on to win in walk-off fashion. - He also had a 3-for-4 day in GU's midweek win over Washington with a double, RBI and run scored. Team Notes - Gonzaga has played in five extra-inning games this season and is 4-1 overall. - Gonzaga has won seven of its last eight games. - GU is 9-3 at home and 14-11 in true road games. - Gonzaga has 93 doubles to just 50 for opponents, but has 30 total homers compared to 46 for opponents. - GU is 13th nationally in doubles per game at 2.27 with Troy Johnston's nation-leading 0.54 doubles per game. - Gonzaga is also good at taking pitches, getting HBPs 56 times on the year. - GU has also struck out 66 less times than their opponents in total on the year. Offense Rolling - Gonzaga has at least 10 hits in 14 of the last 19 games and scored six runs or more in 10 of the last 12 games. - In 17 April games, GU hit .318 as a team, compared to hitting just .259 in the month of March. - Nick Nyquist has been on fire when it comes to driving in runs, going 22-for-48 (.458) with runners in scoring position. Josh Bristyan is 9-for-21 (.429) and Troy Johnston is 18-for-48 (.375) with RISP. - Nyquist leads the way with 40 RBI on the season, while nine others have at least 12, including Johnston's 36, Pinorini's 27 and Yake and Morrison's 21 each. - Troy Johnston and Austin Pinorini each have current 13-game hitting streaks, while Guthrie Morrison and Ernie Yake have each hit safely in eight straight. - Ernie Yake has reached base in each of the last 13 games, and Mason Marenco in five in a row. Big chance to eliminate one of the contenders for WCC title. Edit: Home standing LMU (14-8) knocked off BYU (13-6) Thurs. nite. Last edited by sittingon50; 05-03-2019 at 12:30 PM. Uh, this is going quite poorly. Zags pull a Seattle Mariners...Gonzaga loses to SMC 12-0...Zags held to only 3 hits... https://gozags.com/boxscore.aspx?id=7002&path=baseball Baseball Falls to Saint Mary’s Game 2 of the weekend set is Saturday at 6 p.m. Saint Mary's 12 - Gonzaga 0 Final Box Score Link SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga baseball dropped the first game of a three-game series against Saint Mary's, 12-0, on Friday night in Spokane, Wash. Gonzaga (24-18, 15-7) managed just three hits in the game, and Saint Mary's (26-17, 11-8) had the benefit of 10 walks and three hit batters on the way to the win. GU starter Mason Wells wasn't able to get on track, giving up eight runs in four innings on three hits and five walks with one strikeout. Mason Marenco reached base twice with a single and a walk, while Ernie Yake and Brett Harris collected the only other two singles. A five-run third inning blew the game open for the Gaels with the first of two grand slams, before collecting another two innings later to make it 12-0. SMC starter Tyler Thornton went 7.1 innings with nine strikeouts. Gonzaga and Saint Mary's will be back at it on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field. Check GoZags.com for links to live coverage. Gonzaga's bats finally come alive...Zags score 3 in the 7th and 7 in the 8th on their way to defeating SMC 12-3 this evening... https://gozags.com/sidearmstats/baseball/summary From SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Gonzaga Uses Late Rally to Take Game Two 12-3 SPOKANE, Wash. – The Gaels had a hot start on Saturday with three home runs in the first six innings, but Gonzaga came alive late and ended up winning game two 12-3. Senior Conor Thane got the Gaels on the board first in the top of the third inning with his first home run of the season to left field. The Zags hit two leadoff doubles in the bottom of the fourth to right center and right field respectively to drive in their first run of the day and tie the game 1-1. The next batter hit a sacrifice grounder to the shortstop that advanced the runner to third base for the second out, but Gonzaga couldn't bring the runner across and the inning was over. The Gaels kept the home runs coming as senior Eddie Haus hit a solo shot over the left field wall to put the Gaels back on top 2-1 in the top of the fifth. Saint Mary's continued to apply the pressure in the sixth inning as junior Joe Vranesh hit a solo home run to left field to increase the Gael lead to two runs. Gonzaga responded in the bottom of the sixth by hitting three consecutive singles to score their second run of the day and pull back within one run of the Gaels. SMC was able to shut down their momentum and the teams went into the seventh inning with Saint Mary's in the lead 3-2. The Bulldogs laid down a successful bunt to leadoff the bottom of the seventh inning before a sacrifice bunt advanced the runner to second base. The following batter then hit a double up the left field line and drove in the runner to tie the game at three apiece. The Zags then hit a two-run home run over the left field wall and took the 5-3 lead. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Gonzaga extended their lead to 7-3 after a walk, a single, a stolen base, another single, and a bunt brought across two more runs for the Zags. A double down the left field line drove in another two runs to give the Bulldogs a six-run advantage over the Gaels. After a walk loaded the bases, a double to left field drove in three runs to put the Zags up 12-3... The Gaels will complete the series against Gonzaga on Sunday with first pitch taking place at noon. St. Mary's Article Link Baseball Uses Late Surge to Beat Saint Mary’s, 12-3 Nyquist went 4-for-4 with four RBI to lead the offense Gonzaga 12 - Saint Mary's 3 Final Box Score Link SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga baseball scored 10 combined runs in the seventh and eighth innings to erase 3-2 deficit and roll to a 12-3 win over Saint Mary's on Saturday night at Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field. Gonzaga (25-18, 16-7) got a two-run homer by Troy Johnston in the seventh to go ahead 5-3 and then added seven runs in the eighth to break the game open and tie the series with Saint Mary's (26-18, 11-9). Nick Nyquist had a huge night at the plate, going 4-for-4 with three doubles and four RBI, and Alek Jacob completed a shutdown, 2.0-inning save with three strikeouts to end it. Ernie Yake, Austin Pinorini and Daniel Fredrickson each had two hits in the game, while Pinorini scored three times as well. "We knew we had a challenge and a game that we were going to have to stay with it," associate head coach Danny Evans said. "It was a testament to our guys just doing what we do and rolling up quality at-bats until we were able to break it open. We talk to our guys about how resilient we can be, and how we can contribute each time up to the plate by making it tough. Ernie's [Yake] double and Troy's [Johnston] homer really ignited us tonight." GU starter Mac Lardner pitched well, going 6.0-plus innings and allowing three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts and no walks. Nick Trogrlic-Iverson came in for Lardner with a runner on in the seventh and threw a perfect inning with one strikeout before giving the ball to Jacob for the final two frames. Saint Mary's got on the board first in the third inning with the first of three solo home runs, but GU tied it up in the fourth after Pinorini reached on a double and then was doubled home by Nyquist. A Gael solo homer in both the fifth and sixth put them up 3-1 before GU got on the board again in the bottom of the sixth. Pinorini singled and then later scored from second on a single by Mason Marenco to make it 3-2. In the seventh, Yake drove home the first run of the inning to make it 3-3 and set the table for Johnston's big fly. GU added seven more runs in the eighth with an RBI single by Fredrickson and a perfectly-executed squeeze bunt by Carson Breshears. Morrison then came to the plate and ripped a bases-loaded double down the line to make it 9-3 Zags. Nyquist then hit a bases-loaded, bases- clearing double for the final total. Gonzaga and Saint Mary's will wrap up the series on Sunday at Noon at Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field. Check GoZags.com for links to live coverage. SMC takes the 3 game series 2 games to 1... St. Mary's defeats Gonzaga 17-3...The Gaels outhit the Zags 17 to 7... https://gozags.com/sidearmstats/base...tegory=batting Baseball Drops Sunday Game to Saint Mary’s GU hosts WSU Monday at home at 6 p.m. SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga baseball fell in the series finale 13(17)-3 on Sunday afternoon at the Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field. The Zags (25-19, 16-8) went behind early after Saint Mary's (27-18, 12-9) scored four runs in the first two innings. GU got one in the third, but got no closer the rest of the way as the Gaels hit five homers in the game. Brett Harris and Josh Bristyan collected two hits apiece for the Zags with Bristyan adding a walk and Harris getting an RBI. On the mound, Saint Mary's chased GU starter Justin Blatner early in the first inning, but Alek Jacob came in and kept SMC off balance until the fifth when they got four more runs. Facing a 13-1 deficit, GU added a pair of runs in the eighth inning on a double by Austin Pinorini to score Troy Johnston, and a single by Harris to score Pinorini. Gonzaga will play its fourth game in four days on Monday, hosting Washington State at 6 p.m. The game will be televised on SWX locally and available online at TheW.tv. Oklafriggenhoma Wow, 32 runs in 3 games is just nuts, bad defense, bad pitching, what gives? Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Originally Posted by Birddog Zag's lost their #1 starter (last years all league closer IIRC) in the preseason (apparently to injury). Though they've been doing well in league, they're still a little short. Gonzaga drops the Monday evening game with WSU 9-5... Baseball Loses 9-5 to WSU Daniel Fredrickson collected two hits for GU SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga baseball went down 9-5 to Washington State on Monday night at Patterson Baseball Complex and Coach Steve Hertz Field. The Zags (25-20) momentarily took the lead 2-1 in the second inning, but weren't able to keep pace with the Cougars (10-33-1) over the middle innings. Daniel Fredrickson led the offense with two hits in the game, and Mason Marenco reached twice and knocked in a run. GU got 3.0 innings out of three pitchers on the night. Nick Trogrlic-Iverson had the strongest outing, finishing the final three innings of the game, allowing just one unearned run on three hits with two strikeouts. Washington State took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second, but GU got two in the inning to take a 2-1 lead. The first came on a single by Brett Harris that was compounded with an outfield error, and then Mason Marenco ripped a triple into the game to score Harris. WSU scored then scored seven runs over the next four innings to build an 8-4 lead. GU got a run in the third on an RBI single from Nyquist and then one more in the fifth on a sacrifice fly from Harris. Pinorini added a run for GU with an RBI single on a ground ball to first. Gonzaga will play its final home series of the weekend against Lamar, starting on Friday at 6 p.m. Links to live coverage will be available at GoZags.com. Losing to the Cougs does not help the resume with the Selection Committee.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line211
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__label__cc	0.594019	0.405981	Judicial Campaigns Our Historic Office Sean Gordon Sean comes from a fine arts background, and incorporates those sensibilities into the work he produces. Design was an early passion – producing his first corporate logo at the age of 11 (Computer Cable Company, which is still used by the firm to this day) only whet his appetite for the industry. He attended New England College and then the University of Southern Maine, where he began his career in design even before graduating. Moving to Chicago in 1995, Sean worked as a freelance designer in the local music and entertainment industry – designing album cover art and promotional materials for area theatre, music and nonprofit groups. Sean then worked for Kristal, Ltd., designing packaging, brochures and ad specialties on projects for United Airlines and the Chicago Bulls, among others. Later, he went on staff with the Democratic Party of Illinois producing political materials that helped numerous legislators win elections. He eventually led the Chicago design office of the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. In 2000, Sean moved to Portland, Maine to work on the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre account. There he met a seasoned veteran of the advertising world, and together they opened SuiteOne Design Group, which saw tremendous growth in a very short period of time. Four years later, Sean began Bydand Marketing and Design, enabling him to design visually communicative materials that work; calling on traditional design and advertising methods augmented by new techniques, ideas and media types. Sean specializes in developing corporate identification and branding, packaging design, brochure, design, direct mail design, print and online ad design and website development. While at Bydand Marketing, Sean continued to hone his design abilities and developed skills in radio and television ad production, “back-end” website languages development (ASP, ASP.net, PHP) and social media management. Sean’s work began attracting the attention of a number of Boston-based companies and his client base began to spread throughout the United States and abroad. In 2013, Sean Tenner and Sean Gordon created a creative partnership to enhance KNI Communications. Sean has done work for numerous clients, including: Citizens for Jack D. Franks Friends of Michael J. Madigan Citizens for Lisa Madigan Judge Thaddeus Wilson Friends of George A. Cardenas Illinois Judicial Council Maine Democratic Party City of Portland, ME City of Falkirk, Scotland Susan G. Komen Foundation Portland Opera Repertory Theatre The Boston Pops The Theater Project Portland International Jetport Branson Airport Ocean National Bank People’s United Bank Encore Specialty Foods Ebro Foods Todd English Enterprises Performance Brake, International Cairn Events Tennessee Valley V.A. ← Reverend Mitchell Johnson Thom Karmik → Led by award winning professionals with decades of combined experience in political, non-profit, foundation and business communications, KNI delivers results – and victories – for its clients. Address: 4802 N. Broadway Email: info@knicommunications.com Photos from KNI Communications's post So proud of 3 of our friends & judicial clients winning big victories last night! ☑️ Ketki Shroff Steffen will join her 2 colleagues as the.. 50 likes, 4 comments ⋅ 8 months ago © 2014 KNI Communications. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line230
__label__wiki	0.69276	0.69276	Home / Business / National Pension Service May File Lawsuit against Daewoo Shipbuilding National Pension Service May File Lawsuit against Daewoo Shipbuilding Posted on July 13, 2016 by Korea Bizwire in Business, Industries, Law & Cases, Manufacturing, Most Viewed, National, Top News with 0 Comments According to a prosecutorial investigation, DSME allegedly committed accounting fraud exceeding 5 trillion won ($4.36 billion) over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014, causing more than 10 trillion won in damages in the finance industry. (image: KobizMedia/Korea Bizwire) SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Pension Service (NPS) announced on July 12 that it may file a damages suit against Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), the country’s third-largest shipyard, due to its suspected accounting fraud. According to a prosecutorial investigation, DSME allegedly committed accounting fraud exceeding 5 trillion won ($4.36 billion) over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014, causing more than 10 trillion won in damages in the finance industry. The NPS held up to 610 billion won (9.12% stake) in DSME shares in 2013, but the stake dropped significantly to 0.16% or 2.1 billion won by August 2015. Over this period, the NPS suffered 99 billion won ($86 million) in losses. DSME recently revealed that it failed to reflect a 2 trillion won loss in 2013 and 2014 in its financial statements during those years, and instead indicated the loss in last year’s financial statement as an operating loss. If correctly stated, Daewoo would have been operating under a deficit for three consecutive years, with annual losses of 770 billion won, 740 billion won, and 2.9 trillion won. “We’re deliberating filing a damages suit against Daewoo because we suspect accounting fraud,” said an official from the NPS. “We must conduct a thorough review on how much financial damage it caused to the NPS, and the extent of any suit that we might file.” Some speculate that the NPS suffered losses of 30 billion won over the period. Though the NPS has not confirmed its decision to take legal action, it will be the first case in Korea for the pension service to file a lawsuit against a large company if it makes the final decision to ask for compensation. Many experts in financial circles believe that the NPS may seek compensation for its losses from other investors and institutions as well, including Deloitte Anjin LLC, the firm that was in charge of Daewoo Shipbuilding’s financial and accounting duties. Despite unusual signs in DSME’s accounting books being spotted since 2010, Deloitte Anjin failed to recognize the accounting fraud in its audit process, and approved DSME’s financial statements. In July 2015, when DSME was first accused of arranging a suspected accounting fraud, possibly with the acknowledgement of Deloitte, both companies denied the allegations. Earlier this year in March, after the accounting disaster, DSME did not renew its audit contract with Deloitte Anjin and looked for a new auditor, according to the Korea Times. “We might consider including Deloitte Anjin in the lawsuit, but nothing has been confirmed at the moment,” said an NPS official. By Nonnie Kim (nkim@koreabizwire.com) accounting fraud Daewoo Shipbuilding Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Deloitte Anjin National Pension Service North Korea Struggles to Exploit Natural Resources Victims of Accidents and Mishaps Feel Most “Pent-Up Anger” in Korean Society Vital Images’ Endovascular Stent Planning Application with Fenestrated Stent Planning Receives FDA Clearance Koreans Lack Faith in Business	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line233
__label__cc	0.714588	0.285412	Island Drafts Welcome to Island drafts. This blog is dedicated to writers and writing, stories in all their myriad forms and styles, reviews and informed opinions. Actress, reviewer and writer Michelle Langstone talks about 'Escaping into Stories and Worlds.' I’ve spent my entire life wanting to live inside books. I became an actress so that I could escape into the stories and worlds that I loved. I wanted to be the characters, really inhabit them, and feel how they felt, think their thoughts along with them. While I have always loved language it never really occurred to me until I turned thirty that perhaps I might try my hand at storytelling in a format other than acting. I took six months away from acting last year to take a writing course with James George. I thought I was leaving my profession behind, changing hats entirely. Actually what I discovered was that the two are one. Or rather, that acting informs the way I write, and vice versa. When I write (or try to write!), it is with my understanding of how to embody a character in the physical, with text as the leaping off point. I write from the same impulse that I act from – the feeling world. To date, my exploration of writing is very strongly through character driven narrative. I suppose that’s because I vaguely know how to do that, given that I spend my professional life creating character. What I’ve discovered, unexpectedly, is that learning to write is teaching me how to be a better actor. Some of the same rules apply to both. Something I have found very interesting in writing is how to find a voice. I was surprised to discover that, much the same as with acting, I can’t write a thing, I can’t learn one single line of dialogue, until I can HEAR the way the character speaks. By that I mean tone, I mean register, I mean rhythm. An example of this is that I recently completed filming a new show for South Pacific Pictures called The Almighty Johnson’s. My character in that show is a very strong, very defiant and compelling woman. She was a stretch for me, because she is fairly ferocious, and quite sexually forceful. When I set to work on my scripts I found could not learn the lines because I could not hear her voice. I had to experiment, to muck around with vocal resonance, and finally, to sink into a much lower register and feel the vibrating of sound lower in my body. When I found that sound, the lines were in. Similarly, in the Narrative Writing course last year, I was absolutely stuck and unable to write a thing until, during a class exercise, a voice popped into my head that I did not recognise. I heard this voice, this sound unfamiliar, and I started to write for that voice. Or rather, I let that voice tell me a story, and I wrote it down the way that I heard it. Now I think about a story I might like to write, and I wait to see who wants me to tell it - which character has something to say. As an actor, I’m always looking to find a physicality that is specific to each role I play. How my character holds herself, how she walks. Is she fast or slow? Heavy or light? Focused or unfocused? I like to find specific things that each of my characters do – my character in Almighty, for example, can hold a gaze like no character I have played before. Her unflinching gaze was a way into a still and powerful physicality that was a key to finding her “front”. In my writing I’m trying to find the little things in a character that may give them away, or inform the reader about them in a very specific way. For example, in a piece I am working on now, a little boy whose story I’m telling likes to crouch. He’s always crouching, and it’s for a number of reasons that become apparent as the narrative unravels. It’s interesting to explore what happens when I put him in a situation where he can’t crouch, and see how he copes when his physicality is arrested. Another character in that same story now has a swift deftness of physicality that I observed in another actor on set. This actor is so light, he dances with his dialogue and with his body, and I’ve taken that trait and I’m trying to work it into the lightness of this character in my story, who is quite connected to musicality. One of the exercises we learnt in class I have directly pinched for my acting. “The Objects on a Mantelpiece” exercise is where you imagine a mantelpiece, and let your unconscious drop items onto it – like a pottery egg cup, a broken locket, one half of a torn photograph. From there, you can embark on a story, either fleshing out the character that owns these objects, or telling a story involving them. In The Almighty Johnson’s I sat and did this exercise as a way to flesh out the world and private life of my character. I only had a small amount of back-story for her, based on what the writers had told me. I wanted to make her as real as I could. Her mantelpiece was interesting! When I could see those objects and write how they belong in her world, how they make her feel, why she has them, where she got them – I began to feel fully dimensional. It’s a great trick, and one I intend to use from now on. Ten years ago I had a guest role on Shortland Street. It was one of my first professional jobs, and the dialogue coach showed me how to build a character arc for each episode, and how to plot the emotional journey for the character on it. This is helpful in shows like Shortland Street because you can pretty much guarantee you will be shooting your scenes out of order, and you don’t want to end up breaking down emotionally too soon, getting angry too soon, or just blowing your load before the appropriate build, pretty much. It helps to plot an emotional course, to keep track, keep a reign on the beats of the story, and the beats of the character. We learnt this in writing class too, and I’m now investing much more time in both my writing and my acting, to nut out the right course for navigation. Happily, it also means I’m ok about writing an end before a beginning, in my stories, or writing a scene that belongs somewhere in an arc I haven’t created yet! At the moment in my writing I’m thinking a lot about the feeling world of my characters and the room they leave inside themselves to let feeling grow and diminish. I’ve always had a bad habit of cluttering up my acting with too much stuff. I try to do too much, I’m too fast, and I try to cram too much in, too many facial expressions. I do the same in writing and one thing I am learning in both areas is how to do less. What one sentence can I write that can show the reader what I want them to see? What one gesture, what one look can I give, what one sound can I make, that can convey everything I need to the viewer? I’m simplifying. I’m paring back, working on the maxim that less is more. I know I have more in me, but if I can rein it in, and trust that everything is living inside the story, inside the role and inside me, then hopefully it will translate. That’s about trusting in the world of the story. As an actor I know how great it is to work with material loaded with subtext. The emotional undercurrent, the true meaning, simmering away under the surface. I’m trying to write like that. I’m trying to imbue the dialogue in my stories with a greater subtext. Stripping the dialogue back to the bare minimum, but loading it up, so the truth is shouting beneath the words. I guess as an actor I’m always on the lookout for what my character is ACTUALLY saying, which is often working in opposition to what appears on the page. The playwright Harold Pinter is a great example of subtext. I did one of his plays – “The Lover”, earlier this year and it was fairly torturous trying to unravel the layers of subtext and truth. What I discovered with Pinter’s writing is that in his characters, as in life, there is always ambiguity. One choice is not the only choice; it is the thread of many choices to be unravelled. I’m thinking about that in my writing. I’m resisting the urge to sew things up tidily; I’m leaving a bit of ambiguity, to allow the reader to stretch a little further to what the truth of the story may be for them. We all resonate toward truth that is specific to our own concept of the world. I’m learning slowly that I don’t have to tell anyone to how to feel in a story, they will absorb it and sift it through their own perspective. If I can reduce the clutter, the story is more accessible for them to reach. It’s the same with acting – say the words, get out of the way, let the story come out, let the viewer come to meet it. I think that has to do with trusting the writing. I don’t trust my writing yet, but I know how it feels to hold a script that soars with excellent language. 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__label__wiki	0.560887	0.560887	J A C U R U T U Board index Dune Discussion General Dune Discussion The Commission of Ecumenical Translators Can't find the appropriate forum for your topic? Post it here! Moderators: Omphalos, Freakzilla, ᴶᵛᵀᴬ Freakzilla Lead Singer and Driver of the Winnebego Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Contact Freakzilla Re: The Commission of Ecumenical Translators Postby Freakzilla » 26 Sep 2014 10:08 The only belief or faith that is required in science, IMO, is that since I have actually reproduced the experiments myself, other people actually have. This isn't difficult to believe, though. Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus. ~Pink Snowman Postby lotek » 26 Sep 2014 10:21 Georgie, you have some weird conception of science, beliefs and religion, I'll grant you that. EDIT TO ADD And the Atreides have a code of honour, not religious beliefs. That's for the masses. The Atreides play dirty too, they are not the heroes you're looking for. Spice is the worm's gonads. Serkanner Location: Den Haag - The Netherlands Postby Serkanner » 26 Sep 2014 11:24 georgiedenbro wrote: How could "studies show" and "7 out of 10 XYZ recommend..." ever work in advertisements otherwise? 7 out of 10 is science ... a make believe god isn't. You do understand the difference, no? georgiedenbro wrote: Science can provide “is” statements, but not “ought” statements. The former is information, the latter is a decision. And that is why science isn't a "religion". Which was your statement, not mine. Show some empirical proof that Atheists believe science to be some form of religion and I will believe you. "... the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience." “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs, and wrote a Dune Novel." I agree that a religion, in most cases, requires some sort of faith. With morals and ethics you merely have to imagine how the affected parties would be made to feel by your actions. I know it's more complicated than that but there are, like mentioned about, lifetimes worth of philosophical writings on that, that don't require faith. D Pope Location: Grubville Postby D Pope » 26 Sep 2014 13:00 I heard the fifth dentist finally caved, now they all recommend Crest. Leto II is gone for good, except for OM. The "pearl" was just that; a miniscule portion of what Leto was, and not a compressed version of the whole. The pearl that the worms have do not make them Leto, or in any way similar to him. -Omphalos georgiedenbro Postby georgiedenbro » 26 Sep 2014 14:03 Freakzilla wrote: I agree that a religion, in most cases, requires some sort of faith. With morals and ethics you merely have to imagine how the affected parties would be made to feel by your actions. I know it's more complicated than that but there are, like mentioned about, lifetimes worth of philosophical writings on that, that don't require faith. I'm not really disagreeing with some of the things you may believe, such as this. But what if I asked an elementary question like, why should you care what other people feel when deciding how to treat them? Or I could ask why the well-being of others should take precedence over your desires, even if you do care something for them? This is a bit rhetorical, but I think the answer would be: no reason, we just take it on faith that we want to live with that valuation. How can you "prove" that others should be treated well? If someone came to me and said "I believe in trying to enslave others" I wouldn't be able to refute him, but could merely say that I oppose his values and what must be his first principles. I'd oppose them on the grounds that I just don't want the world to be like that, but that's my personal view; I have no facts that can challenge his other than the threat of his having me as an opponent should be try to become a slave-master. It's so hard to disentangle our current 'common sense' from the Judeo-Christian[/Greek?] values that have been bred into us that it's hard to know what sorts of 'common sense' might exist in an environment with a different background. I definitely take it on faith that I prefer all men to think for themselves and to consider others when making decisions. I take it on pure faith that creativity and freedom should be considered as higher than efficiency and expediency. There's no evidence that these things are true...they're just my values. I think the same was true of the Atreides. There was no advantage to them being honorable and treating their lieutenants as family and safeguarding the lives of their men. The scary thing about the Baron is that he may not be wrong in his assessments in how to efficiently use people and discard them. The Atreides would have been wiped out, after all, values notwithstanding, except for the wild factor of Paul being the KH. I think the question isn't whether the Baron was right, but whether we care whether he was right; the kind of world we want to create should trump considerations of pure efficiency, I think, and this too I take on pure faith. It's not faith in god or in spirits, but it is faith in something, hard to say what; the Platonic forms? Maybe it's to do with my biological nature. "um-m-m-ah-h-h-hm-m-m-m!" Naïve mind Postby Naïve mind » 28 Sep 2014 02:53 georgiedenbro wrote: I think there's a continuum of how strong a person's belief will be, or what path they'll take given their beliefs. Some Catholics, for example, choose to become priets and others parents, but it isn't the case the 'the best Catholics become priests'; they believe strongly in different vocations depending on the person. In this sense it becomes very very hard to parse who is a true believer but living a low key life, versus living a similar life while being a 'weak' believer. But that doesn't mean the minutiae of these two different lives will be identical - it just means that grand sweeping surveys won't be effective in seeing the differences. Again, you're arguing about some kind of Platonic ideal of a Catholic, I'm arguing about the average population. georgiedenbro wrote: And how do you differentiate between 'atheist believers (in something other than god)' versus 'atheist amoralists' versus 'atheists who believes things but deny first principles'? Not even atheists themselves seem to care about the distinction. Yes, and this is a major problem in American thought at the moment. I think everybody else has responded to this better than I would've. georgiedenbro wrote: The idea that important change can only come through our political system is one of the great lies of our age. One that will hopefully seem ridiculous to future historians. But notice how conventional religion has very little to say about these things. Live your life as your father and mother did. Get a job, a wife, have kids, consume. This is the way it has always been, this is the way it shall always be, amen. I think that most behaviors will be dictated by a system, and most individuals will fall into patterns set by the system. This is just like particles in a magnetic field; most will behave as expected, some few won't and will do unpredictable things. Deciding how to change the system may be the best function of a thinker or believer, since it will change average behavior across the board. In this sense I disagree with you about minimizing the importance of politics. I don't think being vegetarian or not is very important in the grand scheme, but I do think the issue of individual freedoms vs government mandate is of huge importance to everyone. You won't be wondering about whether to eat tofu versus beef when the local Soviet governor tells you what you can buy. Religious or philosophical belief is exactly what will make people back one type of society versus another; that is, assuming the system of representation works. I have to disagree again; practice always precedes politics. Marijuana isn't becoming an acceptable recreational drug now that politicians are slowly decreeing it to be so. It has always been an acceptable recreational drug, and people kept smoking it no matter what the law said. If Saudi Arabia is going to legalize driving for women, it won't be because those women stayed at home and shut up about it. The black market for western jeans preceded the Perestroika. I won't bring up Rosa Parks, except I just did. georgiedenbro wrote: Think about the Duniverse, though, for a moment. Do you really think that the citizens in the Duniverse more or less all have the same kind of life no matter the particular belief systems? Do people on Giedi Prime enjoy the same kind of life as those on Caladan? We don't know in detail, but I'd suspect that life on Caladan in a lot better. The reason is purely because of the belief system of the rulers. Most great powers in Dune seem to be 'godless' in most senses, believing in absolutely nothing except for pure power. The BG may be an exception, as we don't know quite for certain what their inner teachings are. The Imperium and the Great Houses seem to care for nothing except for power, and some notion of 'nobility', the latter of which is no doubt just to maintain the faufreluch system and prevent the lower classes thinking they can usurp the rulers. The Guild apparently has no beliefs on anything whatever that we ever see. The only people we see with deep beliefs unrelated to pure power are the Atreides. We might describe them as the only 'god-fearing' House around, in that they believe in some first principles a priori, regardless of whether or not they're convenient to follow. The Atreides are in some contemporary sense 'good people', as far as it goes. Surely you wouldn't suggest that Duke Leto is any kind of similar person as mercenaries like Shaddam or the Baron or a Guildsman? Well, you certainly took away something else from that novel than I did. Notice how Paul's beliefs in something other than pure power didn't stop him from declaring himself Emperor, forming a religion around himself in which he was worshipped as a god, and imposing direct rule—no Landsraad to bind him—upon an unwilling universe, and then killing billions when that universe rebelled. The good government in Dune, if there is any, is the Spacing Guild, because they've used their power to keep the universe peaceful and prosperous, and confine maladjusted conquerors like the Atreides to a single planet. Sure, there's a lot to criticise about the status quo, and the book doesn't pull any punches there, but it's a hell of a lot better than the mess Paul creates. Yes, and then Leto II cleans it up. His belief systems matter. But then, for all intents and purposes, he is a god. georgiedenbro wrote: You may choose to disbelieve in the efficacy of a religious or philosophic upbringing, but I'd suggest that Frank would be against you on this one. He may well be. That's the advantage of being an author; between the covers of your book, you can make up whatever rules you like and everyone has to play by them. georgiedenbro wrote: I'd suggest that this is a result of the system which acts to homogenize and minimize human thinking, and to subtly enslave men's minds. I think Frank was writing about contemporary government and men just as much as future ones, and was suggesting that we already have the trappings of giving our minds over to bureaucracy and machine-logic. In a system like this, no kidding that belief systems lose out to the system's effects. Now that's an interesting thought, but I can't think of a time in history when "the system" hasn't dominated human thinking. And I can't think of a time where religion hasn't become part of the system. The only people we see with deep beliefs unrelated to pure power are the Atreides. We might describe them as the only 'god-fearing' House around, You make some good points sometimes but here, you are too far gone for me man. lotek wrote: And I can't think of a time where religion hasn't become part of the system. Just note that I'm using the terms 'religious' and 'god-fearing' in an ironic way. The Atreides obviously do not believe in god or in some religion that exists, I'm trying to show a similarity between religion and between having deep beliefs that are suggested by nothing other than in faith that they are the right way to live. Freak mentioned a few times "right and wrong"; how can you demonstrate that right is right? You can't, it's a conviction based on an axiom that we make up, just like mathematics. I didn't feel the irony. "I'm trying to show a similarity between religion and between having deep beliefs that are suggested by nothing other than in faith that they are the right way to live" Well of course there is, religion helps people too dumb to figure it out for themselves. And if for you, right and wrong are like a mathematical axiom, then religion only mimics science, with virgin births and flaming bushes on top. Return to “General Dune Discussion” Achlan, Wasachlan! (Welcome, Twice Welcome!) 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__label__wiki	0.67695	0.67695	Delhi Article History Tree Map Encyclopedia of Keywords > Places > World > Countries > India > Delhi Michael Charnine AHMED SHAH ABDALI KOH-I-NOOR DIAMOND MUSLIM RULERS MALWA FIRST SULTAN GURU TEGH BAHADUR MOHAMMAD SHAH PEACOCK THRONE MOGHUL EMPIRE MUGHAL EMPEROR MUGHAL RULE AHMAD SHAH ABDALI DURBAR DELHI DURBAR ABDALI HUMAYUN SHAH JAHAN GRAND TRUNK ROAD This Review contains major "Delhi"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article. Delhi is also known for providing excellent escort girls. (Web site) Delhi is the only city in India with taxicabs running only on Compressed Natural Gas. (Web site) Delhi is the most dazzling and happening city of India, being the political hub of India. Delhi is a major junction in the rail map of India and is the headquarters of the Northern Railway. (Web site) Delhi was the main seat of the Mughal government and was an important city even before any Muslims came to India. Later on according to Pashtun legend, in Delhi it is said Nadir Shah summoned Ahmed Shah Abdali and said:"Come forward Ahmed Abdali. But something worse happened nearly 230 years earlier, when Delhi did not observe Diwali because of the invasion of Ahmed Shah Abdali. He got possession of the Koh-i-Noor, the wonder diamond of the world, on May 1, 1739, in the Durbar Hall in Delhi. (Web site) In a letter he wrote from Delhi at the time of the exhibition, he says, "The Koh-i-Noor is badly cut. (Web site) He left Delhi on May 5 with plunder, including the famous Peacock Throne of Shah Jahan and the Koh-i-noor diamond. (Web site) The name by which the Koh-i-Noor diamond was known prior to the capture of Delhi and Agra by Nadir Shah in 1739 is not known. The subsequent plunder of Warangal in 1323 AD resulted in the victors bringing a wealth of gems - including the Koh-i-noor Diamond - back to Delhi. (Web site) Dharamshala information. (Web site) Day 04: Dharamshala - Delhi (455 kms) After breakfast drive back to Delhi on arrival at Delhi drop you at own place. There is an airport about eighteen kilometers from lower Dharamsala connecting to Delhi, Kullu, Shimla. (Web site) The territory under control of the Muslim rulers in Delhi expanded rapidly. (Web site) Though the power of Delhi was on the decline, Rana Sanga faced repeated invasions from the Muslim rulers of Delhi, Gujarat and Malwa. These Turks had political relations with the Sultans of Delhi, Gujarat, and Malwa, alternately fighting with and allying with one or the other. (Web site) Malwa had to face bad days in 1235 wheb Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish, the slave emperor of Delhi, looted Ujjain and other towns and cities of Malwa. (Web site) Mussoorie is conveniently connected to road by Delhi and major cities and is the 'Gateway' to Yamunotri and Gangotri Shrines of Northern India. The gateway to the Garhwal Himalayas and favourite summer holiday spot of people from Delhi and U.P., Mussoorie is 60km ahead of Dehradun. Delhi to Mussoorie is 290 km and Dehradun to Mussoorie is 35 km. Noida information. Like near by railway stations, banks, schools, colleges. (Web site) Dynamic Interweb is a small business located in Noida, industrial and satellite town of capital of India, New Delhi. (Web site) Delhi escorts also available in Gurgaon. (Web site) Magazine says that there is still considerable play left in the IT services hubs of Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Bangalore, and Mumbai. (Web site) Delhi division consisted of the districts of Delhi, Gurgaon and Panipat while the Hissar division consisted of the districts of Hissar, Sirsa and Rohtak. In 2003, he moved to India, where he began an Ananda center in Gurgaon, near Delhi, where he currently resides. (Web site) Major cities in Uttar Pradesh are connected by air to Delhi and other large cities of India. (Web site) The Mahabharat war and the aftermath took part in the area between Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. (Web site) This way Churaman had become the real ruler from Delhi to Chambal on the land west of Yamuna. (Web site) In less than two centuries after his death, the successor of Akbar was a puppet in the hand of the Hindu marathas at Delhi. (Web site) On his orders a general massacre of the citizens of Delhi was carried out, resulting in the death of 30,000 people. (Web site) Mughal rule in Delhi continued under a number of weak rulers after death of Bahadur Shah I in 1712 A.D. and the great Mughal Empire disintegrated. (Web site) Upon his death his most capable general, Qutb-ud-din Aybak, took control of Muhammad's Indian conquests and declared himself the first Sultan of Delhi. (Web site) The first Sultan of Delhi, Qutb-ud-din Aybak was a former slave who rose through the ranks to become a general, a governor and then Sultan of Delhi. (Web site) Qutb-ud-din Aybak was a ruler of Medieval India, the first Sultan of Delhi and founder of the Slave dynasty (also known as the Mamluk dynasty). (Web site) The Guru took leave of his family and his devoted Sikhs and began his journey to Delhi sometimes in June-July. (Web site) The Guru there upon decided to return to the Punjab, via Shahjahanabad (Delhi). (Web site) Meanwhile, Raja Ajmer Chand had sent his envoys to the Mughal viceroys in Sirhind and Delhi, seeking their help against the Guru. Guru Tegh Bahadur had ordained his son as the next guru, before his departure to Delhi. (Web site) It was also visited by Guru Tegh Bahadur on his way to Delhi where he was beheaded. (Web site) Guru Tegh Bahadur soon aftenwards proceeded to the imperial capital, Delhi, and courted death on 11 November 1675. (Web site) Roads bearing his name are found in New Delhi, Lahore, Varanasi, and other cities. (Web site) Varanasi is connected with regular flights from Delhi, Agra, Khajuraho, Kathmandu (during tourist season) and Mumbai. (Web site) Construction is in progress with plans to open in the next 5 years with flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Ujjain and Varanasi. He plundered Delhi, Agra and Mathura and, on his way back, kidnapped thousands of innocent women to be transported to Afghanistan. (Web site) In 1757, he sacked the cities of Delhi, Agra, Mathura, and Vrndavana, but made no attempt to establish rule there. In 1736, the Marathas sent an ultimatum to Delhi and demanded the Emperor to give up Mathura. Anyhow, Delhi and Ajmer passed on to Muhammad of Ghur, who then returned to his own country after leaving Qutubddin Aibak as his viceroy in Delhi. One was the campaign of Rana Lakha (1389-1404) of Mewar, which saw a Rajput army ravaging Ajmer and pushing on to the Jhunjunu region near Delhi. (Web site) He succeeded to the throne in 1179 CE at the age of 11, and ruled from the twin capitals of Ajmer and Delhi. He worked at Lahore, Delhi, and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu (Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. India have ample of best quality hospitals in Goa, Delhi and Jaipur for laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. Mathura is 141 km southwest of Delhi, 58 km northwest of Agra, and 218 km from Jaipur. (Web site) The largest mosque in India, the Jama Masjid and the most visited Vaishnavite temple in the world, the Birla Mandir are located in Delhi. The important buildings of Shah Jahan were the Diwan-i-Am and Diwan-i-Khas in the fort of Delhi, the Jama Masjid, the Moti Masjid and the Taj. (Web site) Jama Masjid, Delhi - Needs some expansion on the history of the mosque and its place in religion & culture of India. After the occupation of Delhi he reinstalled Mohammad Shah as the king of India. (Web site) He was brilliantly successful, taking and sacking Delhi and Lahore and carrying off vast treasure, including the Koh-i-noor diamond and the Peacock Throne. Seeing the ruins of a powerful kingdom and the immense riches that Hindustan had in its womb in Delhi, Abdali thundered in again. (Web site) Towards the end of 1756 Ahmad Shah Abdali swooped down on the plains of Hindustan and plundered Delhi, Mathura and Agra in 1757. In Delhi an army of occupation was stationed at Indraprastha under the command of Qutub-ud-din Aibak who was to act as Ghauri�s lieutenant in Hindustan. (Web site) He also added to the fort in Delhi (supposed site of Indraprastha), first started by Humayun, and now called the Purana Qila (Old Fort). Thus the rule of the Pandava Yudhisthira was re-established by Krishna at Indraprastha, the modern-day (Delhi). (Web site) During the closing decades, from 1758 to 1858, "the Moghul Empire" just remained a tiny kingdom around Delhi and Agra. In 1526, he defeated and killed the Lodi sultan of Delhi, becoming master of northern India and founding the Moghul empire. (Web site) Timur entered Delhi and the city was sacked, destroyed and left in ruins; his army fell killing and plundering for three days and nights. Shortly after his grandson Ulugh Beg was born, Timur invaded India and by 1399 he had taken control of Delhi. Timur entered Delhi and the city was sacked, destroyed, and left in a mass of ruins. (Web site) He marched through Panjab and was invited by Muhammad Shah as a guest to Delhi (only because he had neither the will nor the resources to fight him). At last Allaudin sent a message to Hamir Dev saying that in case he was ready to hand over Muhammad Shah to him, he would go back to Delhi. The battle took place at Karnal, 110 km (70 miles) north of Delhi, India. Having taken Lahore and defeated the Mughals at Karnal, his forces sacked Delhi and returned home with fabulous spoils including the Mughals' Peacock Throne. Delhi and Chandigarh can be reached from Karnal within 2 hours using a very high frequency bus network plying on GT Road. (Web site) It is Rana Pratap who still refuses to acknowledge Akbar as the Mughal emperor and vows never to appear in his court in Delhi. He was nine when he received the head of his father Guru Tegh Bahadur, beheaded in Delhi on the orders of the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb. (Web site) He merely plundered in and around Delhi and while returning, he restored the throne to the vanquished Mughal Emperor, Ahmad Shah. But, beginning of the end of Mughal rule took place in 1739 when Nadir Shah sacked Delhi and gave a body blow to the decadent Mughal empire. (Web site) Mughal rule had tumbled; the Mughal emperor was a prisoner; and his authority was confined steadily shrinking around Delhi. During the Mughal rule, the cities of Delhi (present-day India) and Lahore (present-day Pakistan) were made the capitals of the nothern Indian subcontinent. (Web site) Babar, King of Kabul, established in this year the Mughal dynasty at Delhi. (Web site) Babar defeated the Lodi Sultan decisively at Panipat (in modern-day Haryana, about ninety kilometers north of Delhi). This son had separated from his father in anger, while still in Kandahar, and had gone to Babar in Delhi. (Web site) Later on according to Pashtun legend, in Delhi it is said Nadir Shah summoned Ahmad Shah Abdali and said: "Come forward Ahmad Abdali. (Web site) One of the greatest Pathans was Ahmad Shah Abdali who went all the way to Delhi and took the Peacock throne and the Kohinoor. (Web site) In 1758, they occupied Delhi, captured Lahore and drove out Timur Shah Durrani, the son and viceroy of the Afghan ruler, Ahmad Shah Abdali. (Web site) The Gateway of India, built in 1911 to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to the Delhi Durbar, is a major landmark. (Web site) There was no Durbar held in Delhi for George VI, as had occurred for his father, as the cost would have been a burden to the government of India. The Delhi Durbar, meaning, "Court of Delhi ", was a mass assembly which took place in 1911 outside Delhi in India. In 1911 the capital was shifted to Delhi at the Delhi durbar of 1911. The crown was created for George V as Emperor of India to wear at the Delhi Durbar of 1911. The Indian Mutiny started at the musketry depot at Meerut, 60 miles north of Delhi. The British captured Delhi in 1803 but during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 it was a centre of resistance against the British. (Web site) The sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739 and the Indian mutiny of 1857, that razed churches and cemeteries to the ground, were obvious causes. (Web site) Reinforcements were sent for from Ambala, Meerut and Delhi. In the present day Hastinapur is a town in the Doab region of Uttar Pradesh, called Hastinapur, around 37 km from Meerut and 110 km from Delhi. (Web site) After a brief halt at Agra, he proceeded through the Bharatpur State to Delhi and Meerut, and thence on leave to Simla. (Web site) After victory, Nadir captured Mohammad Shah and entered with him into Delhi where Nadir had Delhi plundered, in the process massacring 30,000 of its people. Nizam met Nadir when the latter arrived near Delhi and succeeded in changing his mind about sacking Delhi by offering him a booty of 50,00,000 rupees. Nadir finally entered Delhi without opposition on March 20, 1739 and pillaged the accumulated treasure of the Mughal empire till it depleted. Abdali, the best horseman of Asia of his time, conquerer of Delhi, victor of the battle of Panipat, felt hapless before the unrelenting Khalsa. But, as Abdali was marching to the south of Panipat to block the road leading to Delhi, these military posts one-by-one saw that Abdali had crossed Yamuna. After the havoc caused by Nadir Shah, it was an extremely easy task for Abdali to ransack Lahore, Punjab and even Delhi once more. (Web site) Humayun retreated from Delhi and Agra to Lahore, then to Sind, and finally sought refuge in Iran. (Web site) Humayun could get back reins of Delhi only after the death of Sher Shah. Humayun built a personal observatory near Delhi, while Jahangir and Shah Jahan were also intending to build observatories but were unable to do so. This alarmed Shah Jahan and with the help of his father-in-law and Malik Ambar he was able to muscle his way into Delhi and pronounce himself the emperor. Shah Jahan left behind an extraordinarily rich architectural legacy, which includes the Taj Mahal and the old city of Delhi, Shahjahanabad. (Web site) The city was restored to its glory in 1638 when the son of Jahangir, Shah Jahan, laid the foundations of the seventh city of Delhi, Shahjahanabad. (Web site) Sher Shah Suri built the sixth city of Delhi, as well as the old fort known as Purana Qila and the Grand Trunk Road. (Web site) It is 123 km from Delhi on the National Highway NH-1 [also called the GT Road(short for Grand Trunk Road)] and 126 km from Chandigarh. (Web site) Roads were laid; it was under his rule that the Grand Trunk road from Delhi to Kabul was built. (Web site) It is the fourth largest metropolis of India, after New Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta. (Web site) Thereafter, certain political decisions, such as the decision to move the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, were announced at the Durbar. There is still a spectrum of dialects spoken in the streets of cities from Lahore and Karachi to Delhi and Calcutta and in the villages all over the region. Indbabes is a highly efficient and a very well-organized Delhi escorts agency providing incall & outcall service for exciting price. Call 24/7 near Old Delhi. (Web site) Situated near the red fort in old Delhi, Jama Masjid is the largest mosque in India with a seating capacity of more than 20,000 people. Comprising of two contrasting yet harmonious parts, the Old Delhi and New Delhi, the city is a travel hub of Northern India. (Web site) Near the city of Old Delhi, Shah Jahan built a new capital, Shahjahanabad, with its magnificent Red Fort. (Web site) The term Urdu came into use when Shah Jahan built the Red Fort in Delhi. Built by one of the greatest emperors of the Mughal dynasty, Emperor Shahjahan, the Red Fort is an important landmark of Delhi. (Web site) Taken from the Laal Kila (Red Fort) of Delhi the massive stone is the same stone from which the orders to kill Guru Tejh Bahadur was given by Aurangzeb. (Web site) Most Indian chip designers are located here or in Noida (near New Delhi), Hyderabad and Pune. (Web site) From 1939 to 1998, he served as the Head of the Order's branches in Rangoon, Karachi, Delhi, Institute of Culture (Kolkata) and Hyderabad. (Web site) In Hyderabad, a similar fate befell a Muslim dynasty which had been the highest in rank since the abolition of the Mughals at Delhi and the Kingdom of Oudh. 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__label__cc	0.669272	0.330728	Current position： Home > News > Industrial Information Water shortage is a grave problem which need to emergency treatment. Author：　\|　2014-12-01　\|　View count：961 Water is our life, it is important to product, it is a foundation of zoology. We all know how it important in our life,however, there are always a lot of phenomenon which are wasting water around us, because we always feel "Water shortage" this word still farm away form us. There are some numbers which are strike my eye and rouse my mind:Our country is very drought and serious water shortage, water resources ownership per capacity. It was only one four of the average level of the world,it is 110 on the world. The average available water quantity of water source of per people only 900 M3, and Distribution is not the average. 600 cities in our country,urban water supply shortage in 400 cities, more serious drought in 110 cities, gross of scarcity is 600000000 M3. Because of Surface subsidence ( ground depression ) caused by the overuse of ground water in 70 cities, subsidence area have reached 6.4 million square kilometers. Because ground depression, the balance circulatory system of underground water has been deeply destroyed, deterioration of water quality. The people who work for environment protection think that china should develop the Saline Water Conversion Corporation, to deal with water shortage condition on the island and sea. According to the plan,2015s, the ability of the sea water desalination will reach 2200000-2600000stere/day, the new increased water supply of island will reach more than 50%, the district of water deficiency newly increased water of industry will reach more than 15%. As we know, country take care of the desalination industry seriously, from ministries to city,all have give the policy support. On the end of last year, after country released the first specialized planning in the filed of sea water desalination——《The develop of desalination industry "the 12th five-years plan"》, sea water desalinate is becoming the hot word of the related industry development.It is predicted that,2015s, the ability of the sea water desalination will reach more than 2200000-2600000stere/day,The value of desalination industry will reach 300 hundreds of millions, the market of sea water desalination sale will reach 700USD hundreds of millions. Last year, NDRC have released that,《The desalination industry development pilot unit list about the (first)》, ZhouShan, ShenZhen become pilot cities. ZheJiang province, the national development and reform commission also issued the desalination industry "twelfth five-year" plan" in last year,they forward to value of Seawater desalination industry, breakthrough 15 billion project. In the listed company,concept stock have included the hailiang shares, southern pumps, double liang, energy conservation,etc. A lot of analysis of the market think that the market of seawater desalination is very huge in the future,will bring a huge market for Seawater desalination equipment, materials company. Previous：No details for the moment Next：Ultraviolet germicidal lamp disinfection of food processing	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line245
__label__cc	0.627201	0.372799	Delivered St. Paul 5/14/00 Text: I Samuel 1:1-11 If there were ever a day that felt like Mother's Day to Hannah, this was it. This was the day she would get to see her son, Samuel, for the first time since last year. Each autumn, Hannah and her family would make the pilgrimage from their home in Ramah to the religious center of the nation in Shiloh for the Feast of Tabernacles - the annual celebration of the harvest, a time to renew the covenant between Israel and her God - one of the three holiest festivals of the Hebrew year. To be sure, Hannah was a religious woman, but religion was not so much on her mind THIS day as was her boy. Even though Shiloh was only twelve miles to the east of Ramah, the journey had taken two days. The narrow, rocky roads that wound their way among the limestone hills and fertile valleys made travel slow and laborious. Caravans never move quickly. To Hannah, this one seemed to have been mired in molasses. The questions of children raced through her mind: "When will we get there?" "How much farther?" Now they had come to the crest of a ridge, and just below, the travelers saw their destination. Surrounded by hills except to the southwest, the high desert sun washed over the roofs of Shiloh. Here and there a few fig trees dotted the landscape. Pastures and watering ponds were scattered nearby. There, in the center of the town, were the courts of the Tabernacle, where the children of Israel had been gathering for worship since the days of Joshua. It was there she would see her son. As the caravan wound its way down the slope, Hannah found her thoughts going back to the pilgrimages of years gone by. She had been to Shiloh many times. As a girl she had come with her parents and frolicked with the other youngsters. As the demure, blushing bride of the prosperous Elkanah she had laughed happily with the other wives each day at the well. But as time passed, Shiloh had lost its lustre for her. After all, this was a time of national Thanksgiving, gratitude for the harvest. But Hannah had no harvest - no children - and, in fact, now had a rival in her own house. Elkanah had taken himself another wife - all perfectly legal - a man had a right to have children to work with him in the family enterprises, to provide security for his old age, to insure that his name would remain alive even after his death. Elkanah had married Peninnah who had proved as fertile as the richest valley. For a devout women like Hannah, this had been an especially difficult trial. To have no child was not only a disappointment, but seemed to mark one as dishonored by God, as unworthy of any part in the promise to Abraham, "In you [and your offspring] all the families of the earth shall be blessed."(1) The laughter and shouts of Peninnah's children at play had wounded Hannah's ears. The sight of Elkanah tossing the little ones in the air and bouncing them on his knee which should have been such a joy had been instead perpetual pain. At times, in quiet moments, Hannah thought of Sarah, the wife of Abraham and mother of the nation, and the pain of childlessness she bore for ninety years before the birth of Isaac. Would Hannah too have to wait ninety years? The annual journey to Shiloh for a time of Thanksgiving. Indeed. "Thank you, God...for nothing." Perhaps the yearly pilgrimage would have been easier on Hannah if Peninnah's mouth had not proven as productive as her womb. Oh yes, Peninnah knew how to give her husband joy, but she knew even better how to give her rival pain. Any sisterly drops of the milk of human kindness toward Hannah had long ago curdled and gone sour. Peninnah knew she was not Elkanah's favorite, so she made up for the bluntness of his affection with the sharpness of her tongue. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and Peninnah was living proof. As the caravan moved to the edge of town, Hannah could not help but remember her misery in this place five years ago. For some reason her sense of failure that year was particularly acute. Those daily trips to Shiloh's well had given Peninnah the chance to make Hannah an object of derision like never before. The women at the well still laughed and gossiped, but no longer WITH Hannah, now ABOUT her. It was Elkanah's NEW wife with whom they had talked. Elkanah had noticed and tried to assuage Hannah's unhappiness. Peninnah noticed too, which just made things worse. Peninnah's snide remarks and pointed barbs became even more vicious. At the meal after the sacrifice, in an effort to comfort Hannah, Elkanah gave her a SPECIAL portion of the meat. Meat was seldom eaten in a Hebrew household (it was a luxury item in a peasant economy) so this was a rare treat. It did not matter. Hannah could hardly taste it. No one can taste when they are choking back salty tears. Thanksgiving, Hannah thought. She could have cared less about raising grain or grapes or livestock - she wanted to raise a CHILD. The tears had begun to flow uncontrollably. Elkanah asked, "Hannah, why are you so miserable? Am I not more to you than ten sons?" Through her sobs, Hannah shot back a glance at her husband that said, "You Foolish Man!" And with that she ran off, her meal still on the plate. Hannah remembered wandering aimlessly in the camp. No one spoke to her; no one ever spoke to a woman walking in public not accompanied by her husband. With no sense of shame she allowed the tears to continue. Everyone knew her humiliation anyway. What difference would this make? Suddenly, Hannah found herself at the door of the Tabernacle. God's house. GOD's House. As she stood there, Hannah began to mumble her distress through her tears. "Why has this happened to me? Where have I failed you that I have not had a child? Why must I be continually afflicted with Peninnah's tongue? Do you care at all about me? Please, Lord, please, please, please. If you will only give me a child, I will give him back to you for his whole life." Over and over she repeated her prayer, hoping against hope that the God who had shut his ears to her through all these years would finally grant her request. She was pitiful. In her pain, Hannah did not notice that someone besides her God was listening. Eli, the High Priest, had been near the doorway all along. He had watched in silence as this distraught figure stood mumbling and finally spoke. "Woman, you are drunk. Go home and sober up." Startled, Hannah looked toward the direction of the voice. She saw that it was Eli, old now and infirm, but still a man who deserved great respect. With firmness and dignity, and yet in perfect courtesy, Hannah repudiated the charge. "I have not been pouring wine; I have been pouring out my soul." In an instant the High Priest knew his mistake and felt ashamed of his rude and unworthy remark. He realized that here was a decent and God-fearing woman. In a tone of apology he sent her away with a benediction, which seemed to convey to her that her request finally would be fulfilled. As the caravan continued to wind through town, wending its way past the stalls of the bazaar, Hannah walked a few paces behind her beloved Elkanah. The memories continued rushing back as she reflected on that fateful evening. With the perspective that only time brings, she could admit to herself with embarrassment that her prayer was a rather selfish one. Hannah had been concerned for Hannah, for her status in the eyes of her husband and community. Her goal was not so much that God might have another servant on earth as it was that her womanhood might be vindicated. Instead of asking God for strength to make the world a better place, Hannah had simply sought a better place for herself in the world as it was. She smiled now as she wondered if God ever had the luxury of working with pure motives where human beings are concerned. No matter. That was God's problem. Hannah remembered that when she and Elkanah returned home to Ramah that year, nature had taken its course, and before time for the return to Shiloh for the next annual feast, she had given birth to Samuel. She missed the trip to Shiloh that year...and the next and the next. She had told her husband about her vow of returning the boy to the service of the Lord. God had taken her on as a partner, as, in a sense, God does all mothers. Hannah felt that it would be unworthy to take the lad to the Tabernacle without planning to leave him there. No, neither she nor Samuel would celebrate the feast until the boy was ready to begin his training. The caravan of pilgrims had now made its way to the Tabernacle precincts. Hannah's heart raced as she took in the sight once more. She remembered the family's journey last year, the conversations she had had with her young son in preparation for his new life. She had taught him the rudiments of the nation's faith: that God had created them and the whole world, that God had chosen the Israelites for a special task, had delivered them from slavery in Egypt and guided them to this promised land. She had told him of the great heroes of the faith: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. She had told him of Moses in the bullrushes, Joseph and his coat of many colors. She had explained her own years of despair, her pitiful prayer, and her promise to God. She told that little lad that his very life would be a perpetual witness to the fact that God exists, that God hears prayer, and that God answers. Samuel was a witness that the Creator God was also a caring God. It was just one year ago that Hannah met Eli again. Her words were few and well-chosen. She reminded him of their last encounter but made no allusion to anything unpleasant between them. She simply explained that God had given her Samuel; now she was giving him back. It was very hard for Hannah, of course, as it would have been for any loving mother. For three years, Samuel had been her constant companion, had warmed her heart with his smile, had amused her with his prattle, had charmed her with his engaging little ways. How could she part with him? Would he not miss her too much as she would miss him? Shiloh was not a very attractive place; Eli was old and feeble; Hophni and Phineas, Eli's sons who had taken over the priestly duties, were beasts. Nevertheless it was God's house, and if a little child should be brought to it, God would take care of the child. Already Samuel was God's child. God would be with him. God would give Hannah strength enough to fulfill her vow. The time came to make Samuel's commitment official. Elkanah led a bullock to the north side of the altar of burnt offering, in the court before the door of the Tabernacle and bound it to the horns of the altar. Slowly and reverently, Hannah and the young Samuel approached. The mother reached down, took Samuel's hand and laid it on the head of the animal to affirm it as the boy's representative. Suddenly, with a swift blow, Elkanah killed the animal. Its blood was sprinkled and its limbs burnt on the altar. One year ago it had become official - Samuel belonged to God. The pilgrims had now arrived at the Tabernacle. Old Eli, despite his failing eyesight, had made Hannah and Elkanah out among the mingling crowds. He beckoned to them as they approached and greeted them with warm words and delighted them further with a glowing report of their son. No wonder Eli offered a wish of more children for them. The High Priest sent one of the servants to fetch the lad. Hannah waited nervously. Would he remember her? After all, he was so young when last they had seen each other. Would he be angry or resentful at her for leaving him to live with Eli? She had tried to explain, but had he been old enough to understand? Her hands clutched and unclutched at the package she held. She had brought Samuel a gift. Suddenly, here he was. Their eyes met. He was taller. That would be expected. His hair was longer, but that was expected too - after all, part of his mother's vow was that he would be a nazirite (no haircuts - uncut hair was the age-old symbol of consecration to God's service). Hannah could not control herself - her face exploded into the broadest grin she had ever had. She opened wide her arms in welcome, and watched as two short, spindley legs began flying across the dirt courtyard. As he reached Hannah, he fairly dove into his mother's arms. They held each other and hugged and hugged and hugged as if they would never let go. There was no conversation for a moment or two. Then Hannah told him she had brought a present. Over the past weeks, her fingers had flown as she weaved the cloth and cut and stitched to provide something for her boy - a long tunic to be worn over his liturgical garments, the kind worn by men of position. She had decided that she would make him a new one each year. Just as the pilgrimage was the nation's annual tradition, this would be their own. Mother and son had a wonderful visit. It would go all too quickly as such joyous reunions do. But for Hannah, the journey to Shiloh would never be a misery or a chore again. She would be back next year - another Mother's Day - and she would bring a gift. But Hannah had already given her boy the best gift that a mother could. She had prepared him for a life that would see him become the spiritual leader of his people for over forty years, presiding over their feasts, interceding for them before the Lord, and serving as judge and arbiter in practical affairs. Hannah had given her son the gift of the knowledge of God. Would that every mother might do the same. 1. Genesis 12:3	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line249
__label__cc	0.657577	0.342423	Tag Archives: cara Cara reviews Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler Posted on April 29, 2018 by danikaellis — 1 Comment ↓ Under the Lights is a great light lesbian romance that’s about growing up and finding friends in unlikely places. There’s no deep trauma or life-or-death stakes here, and while there’s some light angst and the characters have real problems, the narrative never dwells on them too long or loses sight of the truth that the characters are pretty fortunate. The story is told from the point of view of two coprotagonists, Josh Chester and Vanessa Park, both of whom are teenaged actors and minor celebrities in Hollywood. While they have a lot more money than most teenagers and some problems only celebrities do, the core conflicts are all about them figuring out what they want, notwithstanding what their parents want for them. It’s definitely YA and the sequel to a previous book of Adler’s, Daylight Falls, that features many of the same characters but different protagonists. You don’t need to have read it to read Under the Lights. (I still haven’t.) The biggest reason I can see someone might not like this book is Josh Chester, so I’ll address him first. Josh is kind of a jerk. He intends to offend, for instance referring to Vanessa as “K-drama” for most of the book, insults everyone, and acts callous as hell. He tries to be unlikable, and I can see how some readers might find his voice to be such a turnoff that they wouldn’t be able to enjoy Vanessa’s. He’s funny, though, and his jerkiness more superficial than heartfelt. He doesn’t hurt people, and the girls he has no-strings-attached one-night stands with are every bit as interested in no-strings-attached sex with Josh Chester as he is in sex with them. I’m willing to forgive rudeness when it’s not coupled with malice, so Josh and his arc work for me. Beyond that, I read enough lesbian romance that I’m tired of the formulas, and what I found refreshing about this novel is that it doesn’t follow them. How many lesbian romances have a het male coprotagonist who shares equal time with his female counterpart? The whole story is a beautifully-executed bait-and-switch playing on the structure of romance and YA romance in particular. In another book, Josh and Vanessa’s early relationship would be belligerent sexual tension. Because I’m reviewing this book for the Lesbrary, I’ve spoiled that part for you already: Josh and Vanessa do not end up together. You’d know the same if you read the blurb and know that “feelings unexpectedly evolve beyond friendship” means “gay.” None of the relationships in the book end up coming out the way the characters expect them to. I want more books like this. Vanessa’s coming to terms with falling for a girl felt real to me. When she angsts, it’s less because of internalized homophobia and more because she loves acting and worries that being a double-minority in Hollywood will cost her her career and that it will give her parents another reason to dislike her. I’m long past the drama of coming out myself, but sadly I can still relate to feeling like a perpetual disappointment to one’s parents. Vanessa and her future girlfriend hurt each other some times with the all-too-accurate clumsiness of teenagers working out how relationships go. The dialogue’s good enough to have made me laugh out loud several times when I was writing this review. I’d quote it here but outside of the context and the characters, it would lose its punch. The plot and development of the characters are well-structured and have interesting symmetry with some depth I didn’t notice on my first reading. Under the Lights is romance done well. Posted in Lesbrary Reviews \| Tagged cara, dahlia adler, fluffy, happy, light, romance, YA, young adult \| 1 Comment ↓ Cara reviews Dynama by Ruth Diaz Posted on October 2, 2016 by danikaellis — Leave a reply Dynama deftly juxtaposes superpowers around the main romance and both good and bad family relationships. The characterization and dialog make the story, and while not without weaknesses, it offers a satisfying arc despite its novella length. The first scene introduces TJ Gutierrez using her telekinetic powers to help take down a cyborg shark as she learns that her daughter is coming down with the flu at school and that her ex-husband Jon has just broken out of supervillain prison. She immediately suspects he’s going to try to kidnap their twins, Marisol and Esteban. The second scene introduces Annmarie, the daughter of two superheroes who has no powers herself. Unable to find a job as a teacher, she takes a job with the superheroes’ literal union as a nanny, and TJ hires her to help take care of the kids while TJ hunts for Jon. Diaz sets up the main conflict and introduces the two protagonists all in the first chapter, putting to shame novels that accomplish half as much in twice the length. Of course, the two women are attracted to each other immediately and start to develop a relationship even as Jon closes in and things get dangerous. Diaz’s writing shines in the little details and the conversations that establish understanding or lack of understanding. There are so many of these I can’t include them all in a review, but I’ll give some of my favorites. Annmarie… found TJ rocking a little girl against her chest and crooning quietly while an unpleasant mass of vomit hovered nearby in midair. As Annmarie watched, a large plastic bowl levitated itself under the vomit, which then fell into it. That might just be the most amazing superpower she’d ever seen. When TJ is thinking about her ex: God, she still remembered her last argument with Jon, that gentlemen were the ones who sat back with their brandies and their cigars and ordered other people to do their murders for them. He hadn’t even tried to tell her it wasn’t like that—he was too far gone. He’d pointed out that, from a historical point of view, a few well-placed assassinations could have saved the world a whole lot of bloodshed. I particularly liked Diaz’s handling of the two kids, who sounded and acted like real seven-year-olds, without making them little adults or treating them like nonentities. When Annamarie first shows up, Esteban asks if she’s the babysitter and observes, Oh good … When Mama starts floating things, she needs help. Later, when one of TJ’s friends tries to evade one of Esteban’s questions: The Invincible Woman looked caught out, no matter how she tried to hide it. Friends of your mama. God, Annmarie remembered explanations like that from when she was growing up—the kind that didn’t lie, but talked down to her in trying not to tell all of the truth. She remembered Esteban’s expression too. From the inside. Before he could answer, Annmarie said, You know how careful superheroes have to be about who knows they’re really superheroes, right? That caught Marisol’s attention too. As Esteban nodded, she asked, They were other superheroes? How come she didn’t tell us? Moments like these capture TJ’s incomprehension of how Jon changed so much, Annmarie’s resentment of her distant parents and by extension the superhero community, their shared values like their joint devotion to the twins, and their differences, best captured when TJ asks Annmarie what she wants: I don’t want to save the world. Her voice broke a little, and she focused on TJ again. I just want to save you. They give the characters real emotional depth, particularly because Diaz doesn’t shy away from experiences like TJ’s terror when Jon puts their children in serious danger while trying to kidnap them from her. I also appreciate how matter-of-factly Annmarie takes TJ’s bisexuality and likewise everyone else treats their relationship at the end. I have only two major complaints, about the setting and the pacing. While Diaz deemphasizes the worst of the superhero genre conventions and averts others by making clear the superheroes have government sanction and are not just superpowered vigilantes, she places the events in a nonexistent city without giving us a clear sense of its geography or climate. The pallor of the setting stands in stark contrast to the well-drawn characters. The pacing suffers from cramming two main plots into one novella, and inevitably some elements get short shrift. TJ’s and Annmarie’s relationship moves fast, though I’ve seen romance novels build less connection in more words and there are no promises of everlasting love, just a mutual agreement they want to keep seeing each other and explore their feelings. That said, I would have liked to see more of the potential conflicts developed, like Annmarie’s reluctance to become involved with a superhero because of her parents and past experiences with being treated like she doesn’t matter because she doesn’t have powers, and (spoilers) [Annmarie’s relationship with her parents now that she has powers and how TJ feels about Annmarie not wanting to be a superhero even though TJ thinks the world needs more.] Even with its flaws, though, Dynama succeeds as both a romance and superhero story. If you enjoy both, I recommend it. Posted in Lesbrary Reviews, Uncategorized \| Tagged **, cara, romance, ruth diaz, superheroes \| Leave a reply Cara reviews Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee Posted on September 4, 2016 by danikaellis — 2 Comments ↓ The premise of Not Your Sidekick has promise that the execution, unfortunately, doesn’t live up to. The best part of the book is the characterization of the protagonist and her love interest, but everything else falls short. The book opens as Jess, the protagonist and first-person narrator, tests herself for superpowers in the desert near her home, then follows her home and into school to exposit the setting and to establish her relationships with her family and her two best friends. The biggest problem with this opening is that it’s boring, and to be honest, I almost gave up on the book altogether before I hit the key event that sets off the plot, midway through Chapter 3. The relationships are boring because they’re stereotypical. Her parents are superheroes, but in other respects they’re East Asian parents who expect Jess to do well in school. She has an older sister, Claudia, who has superpowers stronger than their parents and whom Jess idolizes. She has an annoying younger brother who’s an engineering prodigy. We’re made to understand that Jess feels like the black sheep of her family, but there’s no emotional depth to it, no strong resentment, ambition, rebelliousness, alienation, or anything else you’d expect in someone who feels like a disappointment to her parents and inferior to her siblings. Likewise, her friendships feel superficial. We never learn why she’s friends with Bells or Emma or any of the emotional history that presumably binds them together. Unfortunately, this lack of emotional impact never gets better. The world building could have saved the opening, but it’s boring too. The US, we learn, has been absorbed into the “North American Collective” and Vietnam into the “Southeast Asian Alliance.” This is unlikely at best, because countries are durable. The US has survived for 250 years, including two world wars and a civil war. Vietnam has existed in some form since around 938 CE, despite being conquered by China and France and fighting a bloody war against the US. When countries do change, it’s more common for them to fragment rather than combine. The enormous difficulty that the European Union has had in achieving even the limited amount of agreement it has and the disintegration of the Soviet Union after 1991 are instructive examples. How did these massive upheavals happen? Meanwhile, we also find out World War III took place, but nothing about who fought it, what started it, how was it fought, or who won, if anyone. Even though Jess and the other characters were born long after the war, even sixty years after World War II ended, references to specifics about it (Hitler, Nazis, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pearl Harbor—these are are examples for the US, other countries have different common knowledge) are ubiquitous, even if often biased toward a particular nationalistic perspective on the conflict. The rest of the world building isn’t much better, and the lack of depth in politics and history weakens the rest of the story as well. The best part is the midsection, which is focused on Jess’s job and her developing relationship with Abby. Jess shows more emotion here, and we learn more about how she feels about the people in her life, including her cute crush on Abby. Their interactions alternate between sweet and amusing, and I will never get tired of romances between women where homophobia plays no role at all. If the whole book had been this, it would have worked much better. Two revelations in the midsection, that Abby is M and that Bells is Kid Chameleon were so obvious to me that it makes Jess seem dense. Maybe Lee is thinking that teenaged readers won’t make those connections as fast, but even when I was a teenager, I saw through such transparent attempts at concealment, so I’m skeptical. The last part of the book, starting around Chapter 9, is less boring than the opening but no less problematic. Some of the writing falls short. When we could have a climactic fight between Miss Mischief and Orion, instead we get, Mischief is brutal. She fights ruthlessly with Orion, whose superstrength damages the walls, and the entire house shakes with their battle, which is telling rather than showing if I’ve ever seen it. In an earlier fight, Claudia injects an unrestrained Abby with a syringe, even though stabbing someone, much less getting the fluid into them, is extremely difficult if they’re not cooperative and not strapped down. These deficiencies aren’t the worst of it, though. We learn that all the heroes and villains are involved in a conspiracy where none of the fights are real, the heroes are in league with the North American Collective’s government, and the government is also intervening in foreign wars. I wasn’t surprised because, since there are no mentions of elections or other democratic systems, I’d already assumed that the North American Collective was authoritarian. Meanwhile, it’s also now imprisoning and experimenting on the villains and trying to use MonRobots for surveillance and assassination. I think Lee is trying to justify the superhero convention where conflicts between superheroes and villains don’t result in death, but none of the logic fits together here. Jess and her friends might be excused for not knowing they live under an autocratic government because they’re teenagers, but the adults would know. When villains started disappearing, the other villains would draw the obvious conclusion and the implicit bargain that keeps the conspiracy functioning would break down. Why were the other villains so passive, leaving Abby to do something? Meanwhile, even though Abby’s attempt to reveal the conspiracy becomes a major plot point, we don’t learn anything about the government, who has the power, or how it maintains control over everyone else. The heroes’ powers are not strong enough to defeat 21st-century level military technology much less 22nd-level technology, so if they’re running the government, how do they keep control? Who runs the military and the police, and why are they loyal to the heroes or whoever’s actually in charge? Another major problem is that as the story veers into prison, human experimentation, torture, and autocratic government, the tone never changes to reflect how serious this is. Claudia depowers Abby, but how Abby feels about this is never addressed. For someone who’s had her powers for years, if not as long as she can remember, losing them would be like losing her sight or a limb. I think Lee means to convey that powers aren’t what gives a person moral value, which is true but irrelevant to what it would feel like for Abby to lose her powers. Adapting to a major disability is not easy and takes time. Claudia tells Jess, Your own person? You’re nothing but a byproduct of an experiment! … Maybe you should ask our parents what they’ve been keeping from you. I mean, they didn’t seem surprised at all when you didn’t get any powers, did they? Like they knew you wouldn’t? , but Jess never asks her parents about this, never even decides that Claudia is lying or think to herself that she doesn’t want to know the truth or any other reaction. Jess rejects Claudia’s offer to be her sidekick, but doesn’t feel anything else toward her, not even after Claudia maims Abby’s powers. Likewise, at the end of the story everything goes back to normal, even though Orion knows they broke Miss Michief out of prison and stole information from her DED. None of the adults or the teenagers express fear that the government is going to kill them or lock them up, frustration that they can’t reveal the government’s lies because they don’t have Abby’s powers, betrayal at the lies they’ve learned about, or anything else. Along with this lack of seriousness is out-of-place humor. Orion never remembers Claudia’s name, and while Lee obviously wants this to show how little regard Orion has for Claudia, it comes off as silly and jarring in context. Orion and Claudia are such one-note villains that it’s impossible to take them seriously. Orion is a stereotype of a clueless, privileged white person, and the only motivation Claudia ever displays is a desire for power. They don’t carry the either side of the conflict. Ultimately, it was the dissonance between the plot and the emotional resonance that left me unsatisfied with Not Your Sidekick, and I don’t recommend it. Posted in Lesbrary Reviews, Uncategorized \| Tagged , c b lee, cara, high school, superheroes, teenagers, young adult \| 2 Comments ↓ Cara reviews Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan Posted on August 7, 2016 by danikaellis — Leave a reply This is one of the best lesbian vampire books I’ve ever read. While not without its flaws, it stands out for the development of its two protagonists, its prose, its humor, and its well-developed setting. Mindy and Lucia start off by rekindling their childhood friendship on Mindy’s pizza routes, in the easy way that friendships develop when you’re that age and don’t need to make plans to spend time with people. While the characters are in high school, though, Ex-Wives of Dracula doesn’t feel at all like a young-adult book, rather more like a classic bildungsroman, colored with an adult perspective on being young. Soon, Mindy confesses that she’s been questioning if she’s gay to Lucia. Mindy’s doubts feel real. To me it’s obvious she’s into girls, but it’s exactly the same way my sexuality was a riddle to my high-school self yet so obvious in hindsight. Then, Lucia breaks up with her boyfriend. Then, Lucia kisses Mindy. Then, she gets back together with her boyfriend. Then, she gets turned into a vampire. Lucia’s hot-and-cold, off-and-on affections should be familiar to any queer woman who’s had her heart broken by a straight girl. Lucia’s not so straight, though, and the clues are there from the start. “I really tried with him,” Lucia said. Her voice wasn’t rattling with emotion any more, it was just quiet. Which was even worse. “I really thought I was a good girlfriend. I was gonna—wash his clothes and fix him pies and shit. I would’ve done anything to be a good girlfriend.” “You were a great girlfriend,” Mindy assured her. “He’s just an idiot. He’s an idiot who never even got to know you well enough to know what he’s gonna be missing. He’s gonna be big and fat at the high school reunion, and you’re going to be super-hot and married to a senator. He won’t even know why he let you get away.” “I did anal!” Lucia cried to the florescent lights. “What more is a girl supposed to do, huh?” We learn, though, that Lucia’s ambiguity has at least as much to do with her feeling inferior to Mindy—dumber and poorer—as it does with internalized homophobia. She hurts Mindy not because she’s deliberately toying with her, but because she doesn’t know how to deal with a relationship on top of her family’s dysfunction and her own uncertainties about her future. Mindy works out much faster that she likes girls and is more together, but she’s flawed too. When Lucia confesses that the reason she doesn’t want to drink Mindy’s blood is because she’ll lose control, Mindy convinces her otherwise, then hypocritically blames Lucia when, later in the book, she does lose control. Mindy is also certain that Lucia is wrong about something that Lucia is right about, with tragic consequences for everyone involved. The dialog is often hilarious, and moments of humor mark the rest of the book too. It veers from the absurd, like Lucia going through Mindy’s list of bad tippers to find people to feed on, to the silly, like when Mindy disinvites Lucia to pretend to be hitting her with a hadouken, to the dark: This is why communication is so important, she said to Lucia. Imagine, thinking I had something against murderous rampages… Kaplan uses the humor well to contrast the serious and sometimes horrific elements in the rest of the novel. Kaplan writes a lot of great descriptions, and some of the best come in the horror scenes. When Lucia confronts the vampire the first time: He pulled. She bit. The skin gave and his blood flooded her mouth. It wasn’t warm, it wasn’t salty. It was cold and thick, knotted like old cough syrup. She wouldn’t release her hold on him to spit it out. She swallowed and felt it all the way down her esophagus, cold and heavy. It sat in the pit of her stomach like she’d eaten dry ice. When Lucia shows up at Mindy’s house afterward: Out in the hallway, she gasped so hard she nearly dropped the tray. The footprints Mindy had so assiduously cleaned up, with Swiffer mops and Resolve Spot & Stain, were still there in ghostly form. They’d metastasized into mushrooms with long, slender stalks and caps the size of tennis balls, with small siblings alongside them. The patches of fungus went up the stairs. One for each step Lucia had taken. One of my complaints about lesbian genre literature in general is that the prose is often not good, and I love to find novels that I enjoy reading just for the writing. Her descriptions capture suburban Texas well, and the football-obsessed high school and town surrounding reminded me of the town I lived in in high school. [Spoilers next] The idea that one of those towns would welcome a vampire, as long as he was a good football coach, is scarily plausible to me. I also liked the way that Kaplan wove real-life life horror, an adult man who obsesses over a teenaged girl and interprets her actions as romantic love, into the character of the vampire; and that when Lucia revealed vampire existence to use it against the vampire who turned her, and the rest of the novel didn’t ignore this like it never happened. One modern vampire trope in this novel that bugs me is vampires that can cross miles in seconds, with no mention of sonic booms or problems with ground shattering beneath their feet. (I think Twilight popularized this trope, but I don’t think it originated there.) Two other flaws are spoilers. Seb starts off as comic relief, a FunnyForeigner from Romania. This is always a fraught trope, and I have mixed feelings about how Kaplan uses it here. Later, he’s arguably StuffedInTheFridge to make Mindy surrender herself to the vampire. The reason I say “arguably” is because, at least in my interpretation of the trope, one of its key properties is the lack of agency in the character’s death. Without this, it’s too easy to call every character death an example, because a death without any impact on any character isn’t going to have an impact on the reader, either. Seb puts himself in danger to save Mindy, so he has agency in his own death. Another point is that killing off a straight male character to motivate a not-straight female character doesn’t have the same baggage as the reverse. That said, this all is enough to trouble me, so I’d call it a flaw. I also wish the ending had shown a little more of Mindy and Lucia’s future together, to indicate that maybe a two-vampire relationship would work out and that they could find some sort of happiness together. That is, however, a quibble. There’s not much more serious commitment than what Mindy does for Lucia, after all. Posted in Lesbrary Reviews, Uncategorized \| Tagged *****, cara, georgette kaplan, high school, paranormal, romance, vampires \| Leave a reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line250
__label__cc	0.724307	0.275693	Evolving standards for academic publishing : a q-r theory, Glenn Ellison The Resource Evolving standards for academic publishing : a q-r theory, Glenn Ellison The item Evolving standards for academic publishing : a q-r theory, Glenn Ellison represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. Ellison, Glenn, 1965- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2000 "July 2000." "June 2000"--Added t.p Evolving standards for academic publishing : a q-r theory Evolving standards for academic publishing a q-r theory Glenn Ellison Working paper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics), no. 00-13 Ellison, Glenn Supported in part by the Sloan Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a grant from the National Science Foundation. Working paper / Dept. of Economics no. 00-13 Includes bibliographical references (p. 40) regular print reproduction <div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.bu.edu/portal/Evolving-standards-for-academic-publishing--a/VJ0U5Sx4IN0/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.bu.edu/portal/Evolving-standards-for-academic-publishing--a/VJ0U5Sx4IN0/">Evolving standards for academic publishing : a q-r theory, Glenn Ellison</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.bu.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.bu.edu/">Boston University Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div> Data Citation of the Item Evolving standards for academic publishing : a q-r theory, Glenn Ellison http://link.bu.edu/portal/Evolving-standards-for-academic-publishing--a/VJ0U5Sx4IN0/ http://library.link/portal/Evolving-standards-for-academic-publishing--a/VJ0U5Sx4IN0/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line253
__label__wiki	0.508164	0.508164	Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio I interviewed B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree Lynnda Pollio about her story, Trusting the Currents. Her story is multi-layered. The first is the story itself, of a teenage black girl in the late 30’s/early 40s rural South, the second are inspirational life messages woven through her story. And the third is an energetic frequency that helps to bring the reader deep into their own heart and story while they read about Addie Mae. I asked Lynnda to give a little background of what life was like for Addie Mae in the 1930’s rural south and why she wrote this story. As a Southerner myself, I am really interested in this period in southern history and the journey of self-discovery the characters take. Really fascinating interview. Read the interview here I've Got My Eye On You! I came across this authors work through via social media when someone posted about this website: Historical Festival on Facebook. I cannot remember who. Anyhow, interesting website and a list of lots of authors to check out. This book really stood out to me and I will be keeping my eye on it! Who knows, I might even read it in the foreseeable future. Police-procedural murder mystery that enters the lists of historical crime with shock and suspense. Eight days in spring, 1735: a race against crime. When a handsome young man is shot dead on an estate in the picturesque Champagne region of France, Victor Constant, military policeman, determines to find out why. But no one else, including the local magistrate, seems willing to penetrate the mystery of this brutal death. Alone and against orders, Victor confronts the notorious free-thinker, Voltaire, who found the body. Victor fights to protect the innocent and bring the real killer to justice. A second murder occurs and Victor's task becomes doubly dangerous: unless he can strip bare the conspiracy behind this intricate series of crimes, he stands to lose his military career--and his life. The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell How cool is this?! I've received a galley copy of, The Madwoman Upstairs from NetGalley and I totally forgot Simon & Schuster was sending me a hard copy! It just came in the mail! So excited! Doing the happy dance! Looking forward to reading it! In this smart and enthralling debut in the spirit of The Weird Sisters and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, the only remaining descendant of the Brontë family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the family's long-rumored secret estate, using clues her eccentric father left behind. Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she goes. As the last remaining descendant of the Brontë family, she's rumored to have inherited a vital, mysterious portion of the Brontë's literary estate; diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts; a hidden fortune that's never been shown outside of the family. But Samantha has never seen this rumored estate, and as far as she knows, it doesn't exist. She has no interest in acknowledging what the rest of the world has come to find so irresistible; namely, the sudden and untimely death of her eccentric father, or the cryptic estate he has bequeathed to her. But everything changes when Samantha enrolls at Oxford University and bits and pieces of her past start mysteriously arriving at her doorstep, beginning with an old novel annotated in her father's handwriting. As more and more bizarre clues arrive, Samantha soon realizes that her father has left her an elaborate scavenger hunt using the world's greatest literature. With the aid of a handsome and elusive Oxford professor, Samantha must plunge into a vast literary mystery and an untold family legacy, one that can only be solved by decoding the clues hidden within the Brontë's own writing. A fast-paced adventure from start to finish, this vibrant and original novel is a moving exploration of what it means when the greatest truth is, in fact, fiction. Confessions of a Book Blogger Today over at my wordpress I talked about how book bloggers should support authors. Click here to read the post! I believe you will find it interesting and useful. Recap of Great Reading! This past week I was out of town and didn’t get much blogging in, so I have a lot to make up for! However, I did manage to publish three post on my wordpress. I highly recommend you check them out! Feb. 8- BookReview: Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase Feb. 12-BeStill My Heart: indieBRAG Valentine Blog Hop Feb 13-Hello New Books Layered Pages News This week on my main website, I talked about how authors need to support book bloggers and I think you will find it mighty interesting. Please stop by and take a look and if you like what I have to say, please show your support in sharing the post. There are several other great posts on there as well this week. Next week I won’t be doing a lot of blogging so be sure to stay tuned for further posts in the near future. Other places you will find me: @Layeredpages on Twitter and Facebook. Book Review: In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation by Jennifer Ellis In a world torn apart by economic collapse, Natalie and her husband Richard establish an island of relative safety on a communal farm. Death—by starvation, raiders, and sickness—stalks them daily, and their survival hinges on working together for the common good. But in a lawless land with no shortage of suffering, good is a malleable concept. As the constant grind of survival and the frictions of farm politics expose the rifts in Natalie and Richard’s marriage, Natalie finds herself seeking refuge in the company of Richard’s twin, Daniel, a solitary man with little interest in politics. In the face of ongoing external threats and simmering internal divisions, Natalie, Richard, and Daniel must each map the boundaries of their own loyalties and morality. In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation is a story of adventure, politics, and love in a brave new world where the rules have both changed, and stayed the same. I generally do not read apocalyptic stories. In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation captured my attention immediately. I’m pretty sure it was the cover art and then as I read the book description, I was fascinated with the concept of establishing life on a communal farm. What makes this book believable is the economic collapse that happens in this story. It is all to real that food, gas and water could be sparse and lawlessness of nations could take place. The story starts a bit slow but you could feel the tension growing. The shifting conflicts between the scenes was overwhelming at times but gave a clear picture of the hardships the people endured and their struggle for survival. Their inner strengths and even the smallest choices they made could have the biggest impact on their lives and everyone around them. Natalie and Richard’s relationship was interesting to read about. They are married and opened their farm to establish a safe haven-if you will. Richard is a politician, a typical one at that. Before the doom he would scoff at Natalie’s predictions and felt she worries too much. Well, when her predictions become reality, he takes the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and for the most part, for his own power and gain. He drips in total narcissism. Natalie is pragmatic and has an admirable inner strength and Richard knows this and needs these qualities for a partner. I really liked the characterization of these two the most. Though at times I wanted to throttle both of them. For different reasons-of course. I think you will be interested in how their relationship turns out. The author did a splendid job on in the exploration of humanity under these dire and abnormal conflicts. She shows us consequences and reactions the characters make in an extreme environment. Nicely done and I look forward to more stories by this author. I have rated this book four stars. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. You may also find this review at my WordPress, my main website. It's All In A Day Of Reading Check out my new galley reads because, you know, it's not like I have enough to read already! But I can't help myself! It's 1956 and fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St Steele or ventured far beyond the walls of the boarding house run by her erratic mother. But when the London press pack descends to report on a series of gruesome murders of young women, Betty's world changes. In particular, she is transfixed by mysterious and aloof reporter, Mr. Gallagher. As the death toll rises, an unlikely friendship blossoms between Betty and Gallagher. But as their bond deepens, they find themselves entangled with the murders and each is forced to make a devastating choice, one that will shape their own lives - and the life of an innocent man - forever. What if everything you knew was a lie… This house has a past that won’t stay hidden, and it is time for the dead to speak. Pub Date: Feb 18, 2016 Returning to Number 17, Coronation Square, Edie is shocked to find the place she remembers from childhood reeks of mould and decay. After her aunt Dolly’s death Edie must clear out the home on a street known for five vicious murders many years ago, but under the dirt and grime of years of neglect lurk dangerous truths. For in this dark house there is misery, sin and dark secrets that can no longer stay hidden. The truth must come out. Finding herself dragged back into the horrific murders of the past, Edie must find out what really happened all those years ago. But as Edie uncovers the history of the family she had all but forgotten, she begins to wonder if sometimes it isn’t best to leave them buried. From the bestselling author of The Lost Child don’t miss The Silent Girls An unforgettable and addictive story, perfect for fans of Lesley Thomson, Diane Chamberlain and Tracy Buchanan. Pub Date: May 3, 2016 In the spring of 1939, the drums of war beat throughout Europe, but nowhere more ferociously than in Berlin. The film studio where Clara Vine works is churning out movies, but each day that she stays in Germany is more dangerous than the last. Spying on the private life of the Third Reich, passing secrets to contacts in British intelligence, falling into a passionate affair—any of these risky moves could get Clara shot. So she is wholly shaken when someone close to her is murdered instead. The victim is Lottie Franke, an aspiring costume designer and student at the prestigious Faith and Beauty finishing school that trains young women to become the wives of the Nazi elite. While the press considers Lottie's death in the Grunewald forest the act of a lone madman, Clara uncovers deeper threads, tangled lines that seem to reach into the darkest depths of the Reich—and to a precious discovery that Hitler and his ruthless cohorts would kill for. Wulfsuna by E.S. Moxon E.S Moxon, kindly sent me her book, Wolfsuna, along with a beautifully written letter. Which I will cherish always. She is such a lovely and caring lady. I look forward to reading her book and going back to AD433! One can do that when one reads! Torn apart when Rome abandoned Bryton, the Wulfsuna are a disparate tribe. Twenty years on, two long ships sail for the east fens to honour their Warrior-Lord's dream and reunite with lost kin. Soon after landing however, a murderous betrayal divides loyalties, some craving revenge and others indignant on pursuing their Lord's dream. Blood and brotherhood are tested to their deadly limits. The discovery of a young Seer adds to the turmoil. Expelled from her village after foretelling of an attack by blue painted savages, the Wulfsuna are equally wary of the one they call 'Nix'. None fear her more than Lord Wulfgar, who refuses to believe an ancient saga bearing his name, is weaving the Seer's destiny into his own. But a treacherous rival threatens their fate and Wulfgar must accept the Seer's magic may be all that can save them. 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__label__cc	0.539009	0.460991	Faina Kukliansky. Jews in Lithuania are experiencing a value challenge Faina Kukliansky, chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, 2018 m. may 28 d. 16:54 Faina Kukliansky Foto: DELFI / Orestas Gurevičius Jews, just as any nation are not monolithic. Jews in Lithuania have a history of some 700 years and many things have occurred during it, both good and bad and the repercussions of the Holocaust in Lithuania were especially painful, after a physical attempt to destroy the Jewish nation followed the spiritually ruinous Soviet occupation. I am often asked, when the Jewish people are so united, why is it different in Lithuania? Lithuania is no different, there are splits in the secular and religious Jewish communities in both Israel and the world. The Jewish nation's wealth is our diversity, our wisdom, our faith, our capacity to remain Jewish. I take pride in my nation. Unfortunately, things happen even in the Jewish community. It is unfortunate, but we have only had a mediocre performance in the "trial by money". On one hand we have an excellently operating, consensus based Good Will Foundation, which distributes compensations for the Jewish religious community's wealth, which for many years now has been supervised by the Lithuanian State Audit Office, the country's chief audit institution and is continuing to receive positive evaluations. Lithuanian Jews to hold annual conference, opponents to stage protest Regional Jewish community being founded in Vilnius (1) On the other hand, we have ambitious community members, who believe that they can do the best, the most transparently and preferably unilaterally. They claim that the opinion of the majority is simply the simulation of democracy. In Lithuania, as across the world, Jewish communities are led by volunteer leaders. To me this office is primarily an honour and a pleasure. Prior to taking responsibility, I learnt much from the previous chairmen – Grigorijus Kanovičius and dr. Simonas Alperavičius. Many of the things needed for this work, I learnt from jurist professor Jurijus Bluvenšteinas, Josifas Levinsonas, Maša Grodnikienė – active community members, erudites. Yes, I have indeed made mistakes during my leadership of the Lithuanian Jewish Community (LJC), but I believe that only those, who talk much of theory, but do very little in practice, who make no mistakes. We can only achieve things together, united as a community, supported by international organisations and the state of Israel. And Lithuania has created all the conditions for us to act, following independence. If we do not use this for joint work, but instead besmirch one another, we can only blame ourselves due to the diminishment of our community. It is a great shame to me and I take part of the responsibility for the community not being united and dialogue turning into disputes. We should not have allowed this to happen. After experiencing so many terrible things, internal disputes are far too much of a luxury for the Jewish nation and community in Lithuania. After all, there are so few Jews left and I am so unwilling to see the community in Lithuania vanish, that our children would forget they are Jewish. As a community we have done much over the past five years. It is becoming increasingly normal for the public to speak of historical memory. We argue much and perhaps often react emotionally and categorically, but we are inclined to talk. No one is surprised any longer regarding Jewish heritage, cultural and memorial marches, events and celebrations happening in Lithuanian towns, former shtetls. Almost every municipality is organising publications intended for local Jews and their input. Slowly, but consistently, through cooperation with local communities and municipalities, we are repairing Jewish cemeteries, seeking to immortalise the memory of fellow citizen Jews and clean up locations of the mass murder of Jews. The Šolom Aleichem Gymnasium in Vilnius became a beacon of Jewish education and earned a high formal reputation through its targeted work with youth. I take pride in our children, who celebrate Jewish religious celebrations, remember their forefathers' culture, gather for Jewish life. Interest in Jewish culture is on the rise in the public, we observe massive interest in participating in Judaist education and Hebrew language courses. Synagogues are brought back for a new life one after another – in Pakruojis, Kėdainiai, Joniškis, soon in Žiežmariai, Kalvarija and Alanta. We are negotiating on the heritage status of the Vilnius Great Synagogue, Užupis Jewish Cemetery gravestone memorialisation, realising the Jewish saviours' monument. Discussions on a modern Holocaust and Jewish history museum are continuing in the public sphere. The state has a common agreement on a joint definition of anti-Semitism, which will likely help law enforcement institutions identify more breaches of the law, which contain anti-Semitic elements. Holocaust education material is presented to the public such as the unique publication by the Lithuanian Jewish Community of a diary by Icchok Rudaševski, a boy living in the Vilnius ghetto, which receive so much attention in the Vilnius Book Fair and later in various events in Lithuania and abroad. We feel safe in Lithuania. But we cannot fail to notice a resurgence in anti-Semitism in the public sphere and among public figures. Political processes ongoing in neighbouring countries are also worrying. As such, we are thankful to a coalition of human rights organisations for their cooperation and to the public for its support. We are thankful to the Lithuanian Seimas, which after consulting the public passed the wise decision to declare 2020 the year of the Vilnius Gaon and Lithuanian Jewish history. We have serious plans for this year, wish to suitable gather and mark the 700 years of Jewish history in Lithuania. Every day I feel motivated because I care about the welfare of our Jews, I care about our nation's relation to the public. I care about the future of our small community. We are almost the only community, which dedicates so much care to its most vulnerable members – the elderly and the poor. Today a whole 120 caregivers look after our almost three hundred elderly across Lithuania. Young Jewish families receive support in preparing for school. Impoverished Jews receive support to purchase food, medicine, fuel and hygiene products. Every year, the LJC dedicates support to Jew saviours and their descendants. We are glad when we can help, it is our duty and our calling. Aiding one another is a core principle of our nation, which has helped us survive and remain human under the most terrible conditions. It is important that every Jew, who is met with misfortunate, would receive aid from the community. Mitzvah (Good deed) – is a principal duty of every Jew, the community could not exist, if we were to forget it, blinded by ambition. Even in the face of conflict, we cannot relinquish our nationality, our identity – it is time to remember what unites us, time to remember, what it is that makes us Jewish. The future of the community will in large part depend on ourselves. Today, based on various data, there are some 3.5 thousand Jews living in Lithuania, whose unity after the 2013 Restitution Law is faced with yet another historical challenge. Variety in opinions and pluralism are a crucial condition for democracy. As such, I value my opponents' criticism and their active civic position. Unfortunately, sometimes I am also left greatly disappointed when personal attacks against me, my family, the legitimate leadership of the LJC or non-Jewish community staff are covered under the guise of democracy. Time will reveal the real goals of this antagonism, but for now we must each answer to our conscience – do the results justify the means – the besmirching of the Jewish community's name?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line265
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__label__wiki	0.575275	0.575275	Interview with ‘Via Nocturna’ Interview with the Portuguese magazine Via Nocturna! English version below. Full interview in Portuguese here. Also read their online review of ‘Double Take’ here. Hi Micha! Thanks for your time! Your career began in Europe, what made you move to LA? Hi! Thanks for having me here! I was living in Amsterdam, and about 8 years ago I started traveling to the US, and one day just didn’t go back anymore! I enjoyed the music and the scene of musicians in Europe, but artistically I always felt more drawn to the sounds of the US. I spent a lot of time in Austin/Texas that has a vivid Blues and Indie Rock scene. I also visited California a lot an when I finally moved I shortly after ended up in LA. The area is great and there is lots of music here. LA has a great scene of musicians and some legendary recording studios, a lot of the business is happening or being planned here. I was able to record with top notch players, and now I found two very inspiring players for my trio that is starting to play out now. I think LA is just one of the places to be for musicians, I find a lot of likeminded people here. How did your career in Europe develop? I studied guitar at the conservatory in Arnhem, the Netherlands. That was a great time and gave me the opportunity to practice a lot and to build a network that would support me once I was finished. Then I moved and I played a bunch living in Amsterdam: with DJ’s, Jazz gigs, festivals,… there is also a lot of pop and even rock music played there, but not as much blues as compared to the US. I was also running a recording studio with a few partners, and we worked with a variety of clients. In that time I learned some engineering and production skills that I’ll always benefit from. Plus we always had a nice place for our own projects and productions. How long have you been living in LA? How was your adaptation? 3 years now! The city is just dictating a certain lifestyle on you that you’ll just have to accept – like having to deal with traffic! ☺ In return the city gives you many opportunities and many likeminded people. Doing the latest record “Double Take” and the EP “Wings of Fire” in 2013 was definitely an experience that showed me that it was the right decision to come here. It is a crazy city but at the same time there are very many talented musicians, engineers, photographers,… there is a lot of art around. I was lucky to have made some great connections here in the first few years. Anyway, Double Take is your full-length debut. Did the final result come out as you imagined? Yes I’m very happy with it! I was able to bring my compositions and my playing together on a high level and recorded it with real legends in the studio. Carl Verheyen (the producer) is one of LA’s top guitar players who has done endless recording hours in the most legendary studios all over town. Having that much experience on your side helps a lot. I felt I really got the best support possible and having inspiring players such as Chad Wackerman (drums, Frank Zappa) made me play my best. The confidence and the circumstances came together and made it happen and I’m sure years down the road I’ll keep diggin’ this album. The tunes a cool and the band plays them beautifully. I never had a clear picture of how a first record has to go, but this was pretty sweet! ☺ You have worked with great players. How they come on board for this recording? The producer Carl Verheyen brought them on board. First for the EP in 2013, and because that went so well I kept in touch, and we were trying to get everybody back for the recording sessions for “Double Take”. Jim Cox had to leave on tour with Mark Knopfler, and Chad Wackerman was supposed to be still in Europe, but at the end we found recording dates and made it happen. Double Take by Micha Schellhaas Can you speak a little about the recording process? Were there lots of jams and improvisations? We worked pretty straight forward. I brought charts, music for everybody to read. Then I would play the main parts for the band in the control room and everybody would take notes. We’d play the tune a couple of times before starting to record. It was great to see that these were all some old friends playing together, everybody came up with the right thing to play very fast. Everybody would bring ideas to the table and we made some great spontaneous changes to the music that made the album really sound “together”. I was playing a guitar part during the band recording days that was guiding everybody through the song, and would later replace most of that with layers of new guitars. Playing a different guitar for the rhythm and solo parts and dialing the sounds very carefully together with Carl. All the solos are improvised, so every new take was a new adventure. I could take time with Carl in the overdub days and record some cool acoustic guitars, a mandolin, a 12-string… we also got out a real Leslie rotating speaker from a Hammond organ and recorded guitar through it. Tons of fun! And the title Double Take, is a joke or is connected with the recording sessions? Did you record it in two takes? A “double take” is also if you see a nice person on the street, the person passes and almost instinctively you have to turn your head again to get a closer look! I hope my music is a little bit like that, and that it inspires the listener to take a closer listen. It also stands for the playfulness of life I think, just having something cool come along the way and you have to stop for a second and check it out. I suppose the last song is a tribute to BB King. In which way was he an influence to you? My first real concert was a BB King show in Germany! I stood first row and couldn’t believe it! Such a good time to see him play and he was such a strong blues performer. He signed my ticket afterwards, and gave me his guitar pick. That was the day I got the blues! Ticket and pick are still framed in my studio. BB passed away during the recordings for “Double Take” and I thought recording this tribute to him on my debut album would make a nice full circle. Speaking of songs, what’s the meaning behind the title 5 & 6? Ha, that’s a good one! The meter of the tune is 5&6, that means you don’t have to count 1-2-3-4, but first to 5 and then to 6 to get the rhythm. That’s kinda nerdy but makes for a cool song title ☺ About live appearances: Is it easy to deal with the agenda of your recording mates or will you have other musicians? For playing live I just put my new trio together. The musicians from the album have a legendary status when it comes to touring – schedules are hard to match and I just can’t offer the size of shows and tours for the guys to be able to do it. But I have found two very inspiring and scary good musicians for my trio. We play the material from the record and I am having tons of fun playing together. They count 5&6 like it’s no problem! ☺ No really, I am very happy to have them backing me up and I am looking forward to playing more live this year. Well, Micha, thanks for this interview and I give you the chance to say something more if you want to. Well, thanks again for having me here and taking an interest in my music! I hope that people will find my website www.michamusic.com and follow me on Instagram and Facebook. The trio will be a lot of fun and I’m regularly posting new video and sound recordings. Rock on and Greetings from California! ‘Velocity’ video on Youtube! Check out this cool ambient video for my song “Velocity”. Enjoy the cruise through Hollywood! ‘Velocity’ is the first track of my recent album ‘Double Take’ and you can get this song for free when signing up to my email list. Micha Schellhaas April 4th, 2016 First printed review of “Double Take” in the Netherlands! I have received my first magazine printed review for ‘Double Take’ in the dutch alternative rock magazine ‘IO Pages’. Needless to say I am totally stoked and this one will be framed for sure. It feels great when the hard work gets rewarded with great reviews by people from the industry that know what they are talking about. Good times! 🙂 click on the image below for a high-res readable version of the review! Micha Schellhaas February 12th, 2016 New “I.A. Guitars” Demo Videos A few weeks ago I had visit in my studio from the top class guitar builder Ian Anderson. I was fortunate to be allowed to test drive a couple of his guitars, including a gorgeous Flying V! We shot some demo videos while we were at it. Check out the videos below and the ones on my Youtube Channel. Micha Schellhaas January 28th, 2016 ‘Double Take’ is receiving excellent international reviews! DOUBLE TAKE is receiving more great reviews! In the beginning mostly US critics reviewed it, and now the international reviews are coming in. Double Tale received glowing reviews from Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Greece and Italy! See below. I’m stoked! Get your copy of ‘Double Take’ here. “…if fancy fusion fretwork is your thing, then you really need to be having a listen to this, as it’s very impressice indeed… It’s all original material, and shows Micha Schellhaas to be a major talent.” The Rocker, UK “Guitarist Micha Schellhaas is clearly inspired by jazz, blues and rock, for which he went to America, to taste there the roots of this music. He is an excellent and unique guitarist and composer, he proves that with “Double Take” very strong…” Rootstime, Beligium “Micha Schellhaas appears as an artist to follow. His first CD is listened to from start to finish with attention and interest. Fans of jazz, blues and rock should find their account, particularly those of Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Jimmy Herring and Jeff Richman” Fans of JEFF BECK, would think that this is a new album by him, but, it’s not. It is Micha Schellhaas with his new debut album called “Double Take”… If you want a great album mixed with Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Blues & Jazz, you’ll love this album. Carl Verheyen formerly of Supertramp says “Micha Schellhaas has a unique touch on the guitar that sets him apart from everyone playing the instrument today.” This gets 5 out of 5 Music Guru Stars https://musicgururadio.wordpress.com/ And here comes a debut that you don’t expect to blow your ears open and it does just that. A budding guitar whiz, Schellhaas has rounded up a flock of classic jazz/rockers and the fur flies in classic fusion fashion. It ain’t about the flash and fire, it’s about the deep chops that just plain grab you and hold you. A German cat that’s soaked up everything there is to soak up, this will take you back to the day in fine fashion. Right on throughout. http://www.midwestrecord.com/MWR1036.html …My absolute favorite, however, is (the track) “False Fork.” Here Micha goes more firmly into the jazz realm, and this track has a very cool vibe, and some wonderful work on guitar, as well as bass. And holy moly, check out what Chad Wackerman does on drums toward the end of the track. Fantastic. That section excites me every time I listen to this disc. http://michaelsmusiclog.blogspot.com/2015/12/micha-schellhaas-double-take-2015-cd.html Next is one of my personal favorites on this quite delightful debut album, ‘False Fork.’ A brilliant title aside, its drummed back beat of swing jazz mixes elegantly with its subtle 70’s soul undercurrent to produce a track that, for my money, encapsulates the guitar genius of Schellhaas quite like no other. That’s backed by ‘5&6,’ a much harder, rockier guitar piece, which is then followed by fun ride of ‘Travel Song.’ The album then comes to a close with the Texas swing Blues rock of ‘Texaleans’ and then the to-die-for melodies associated with ‘Slow Blues For B.B.’ enable the full-length musical masterpiece to round out in some style. http://annecarlini.com/ex_cd.php?id=1804 Micha Schellhaas January 5th, 2016 First reviews are rolling in The first reviews are rolling in! In this one the writer picked the most jazz-oriented tune as the peak of the album. I dig it! Read the full review on Anne Carlini’s website Micha Schellhaas December 15th, 2015 ‘Double Take’ official press release! The big moment is here – DOUBLE TAKE drops December 1st 2015! Read the official press release: Micha Schellhaas November 19th, 2015 Indiegogo crowd-funding of ‘Double Take’ was a full success! The Indiegogo campaign was a full success! The Indiegogo campaign ended last week with 127% funding. Thank YOU for making this possible! Micha Schellhaas October 20th, 2015 Video: Carl Verheyen talking ‘Double Take’ Today I had producer and guitar legend Carl Verheyen at my studio to listen to the final recordings. Here’s what he had to say! 🙂 Micha Schellhaas September 16th, 2015	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line276
__label__wiki	0.652381	0.652381	Appjuice Leaves the Data with the Customer Tuesday May 1st 2001 by Paul Rubens The Amsterdam-based CRM ASP has found a way to ease the concerns of potential clients: It lets them host their own data. Convincing potential customers that it's safe and prudent to hand over their business data is a challenge for any ASP, let alone a start-up. Appjuice Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands Founded: August 2000 Clients: None (four expected by year's end) Application: Nortel Networks, E.piphany Infrastructure: Ebone Technology: IBM, SevenMountains Software Inplementation: IBM Global Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers , Cambridge Technology Partners. Private investors Appjuice, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based ASP, is hoping to sidestep the problem neatly by enabling customers to host their own data if they wish, making it a "dataless ASP." The company supplies its customer relationship management (CRM) solution to medium-sized companies in the European telecom, insurance and financial services markets using Ontario, Canada-based Nortel Networks' Clarify platform and analytical and real-time personalization software from San Mateo, California-based E.piphany. The 'Not with My Data' Objection Worries about handing over data to any third party can stem from a number of reasons: legal obligations, security concerns and the desire to ensure data remains accessible even if the ASP fails, Bart Voorvaart, Appjuice's founder and CEO, told ASPnews. "We say to customers that if they want to keep their data on site, they can leave it there it simply doesn't matter where the data is. If customers want to keep their own data we make a link between them and our data center." Application performance is affected by only a few milliseconds when data is hosted externally, he said. Appjuice's staff is mainly drawn from the banking, insurance and telecoms industries and the company has only one field of expertise CRM because Voorvaart believes that the key to success using the ASP model is a high degree of specialisation. "Domain expertise is very important, and you can only win if you are focused in one vertical and one application," he said. Appjuice plans to exploit the one-to-many model, offering Clarify and E.piphany from a single server while maintaining separate databases for each client. Appjuice's ASP deals with Nortel Networks and E.piphany give the company access to the packages and underlying technology to rent out applications using the ASP model. The two will be integrated into a single solution that Appjuice will market under its own AppSolutions brand. Voorvaart believes the two products provide about 80-85 percent of the functionality Appjuice's customers will require immediately, the remainder being provided by developing extra features or through customisation or configuration. Basic functionality will be deliverable in a timeframe of about 30 days, he said. Billing Plan The company will charge an up front implementation fee, a monthly per user fee for Clarify and a monthly per company fee for E.piphany. This hosted solution will be 30 percent cheaper for customers than buying and implementing the software in house, Voorvaart said. The company uses the 7M Aspire user and billing platform developed by Norway-based SevenMountains Software AS, enabling it to identify registered users and analyse CPU, bandwidth and data usage per customer In the short term the company will concentrate on building up a client base in the Netherlands using its own direct sales force. Voorvaart also says there is an opportunity for Nortel's and E.piphany's sales teams to refer companies that are too small to buy the software packages outright to Appjuice for an ASP solution. Further out it will take on sales staff in other countries across Europe to address those national markets. Appjuice uses a data-centre in Amsterdam managed by UK-based Ebone a division of Global Telesystems. Its platform runs under AIX on IBM B80 (formerly RS/6000) servers using IBM DB2 databases. The company currently employs four business and technical staff people and three sales people. Appjuice has no customers as yet but Voorvaart expects to sign up four, with an average of 100 end users each, by the end of the year. The company expects to be profitable by the end of 2002, he said. Reprinted from ASPnews.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line283
__label__cc	0.579444	0.420556	Jens Zickgraf Rupees in the Dollarzone Call for Papers – edited volume “Money in India” Call for contributions!! Arne Harms and Jens M. Zickgraf (eds.) India seems extraordinarily rich in pecuniary and fiduciary traditions; and it is no less dynamic with regard to the development and application of new payment technologies. Transactions in cash, currency and credit form integral aspects of the fabric of everyday social, economic, political, spiritual and aesthetic life: Workers transfer funds between work spaces and homes, keeping alive relations across the subcontinent. Devotees collect and consume funds in order to articulate their devotion to deities and belonging among their communities. Matchmakers negotiate alliances by way of bargaining dowries, its amount and installments. Women meet in financial Self-help groups and credit associations. Across the country, malls invite to indulge in conspicuous consumption and to perform liquid modern lifestyles. Yet, indigenous credit and wage systems also hold considerable populations in their grip, prescribing living conditions as well as resonating with social and moral relations from love to family and caste to gender, class and friendship. Along with that, corruption, poverty and the buying out of votes have haunted the world’s largest democracy for many decades. However, while contemporary livelihoods are monetized in almost any respect, money itself is undergoing massive transformation, too. In India as well as elsewhere, what money is, what it affords, how it should be distributed, created and regulated, and how it should flow is subject to intense scholarly and public debate, technological transformation and political reform. The country is among the global pioneers in building new infrastructures, regulatory frameworks and ambitious visions for digital payment and financial inclusion. Development specialists throw up scheme after scheme to penetrate the lives of the poor with global financial instruments. Bureaucrats consider, and implement, draconian measures in order to wipe the country clean of black money and to curtail the country’s informal economy. And while software and hardware engineers across the globe are racking their brains for new platforms, functions and applications of mobile money and payment, the nationalist Indian government strives to put forward one of the world’s most ambitious visions of a “cash-free” or at least “less-cash” society fueled by electronic transactions, biometric identification, cloud and communication technologies, and digitized citizenships. With “Money in India” we seek to draw together scholars from various fields and to tackle diverse ways of using, imagining, creating, experiencing and remembering money in a subcontinent known for the deep penetration of money and for the diversity of money’s forms across time and space. We call for contributions from anthropology, history, sociology, economy, geography, psychology, STS and other related fields tackling the role of money in India from an empirical perspective. The book will pay close attention to the way money in India is being reconfigured from above and below, as a social process, as personal or collective possession, as means of facilitating trade and transaction, community building and policy making, and both in in traditional and digitally enabled as well as financialized contexts. We thus ask contributors to rigorously engage with one or several of the following questions: How are India’s social worlds, broadly understood, shaped and reshaped by the multiplicity of money? How does money as a malleable ‘thing’ and a social process bridge between persons and society? How can it articulate and impact heterogeneous processes of valuation? Where does money reach and what does it do amidst the societal transformations of work, politics and infrastructure? Given the dominance of western theory, what can be said about the distinguishing identity of “Indian Rupees” or money in India? Is there a particular and perhaps too long neglected “Indian” epistemology and morality of money and finance? If yes, how, when and where does it continue to articulate in everyday life? What are its basic contradictions or tenets? And, in this light, what can be said about money’s contemporary dynamics? How, for example do uses, implementations, applications, platforms, spaces and circuits of money reflect, address and reshape questions of personhood, caste, community, nationality, labor, welfare and socio-economic inclusion or exclusion? How do material, virtual, quantitative and technological dimensions of money resonate with experiences, calculations and livelihoods on the ground; with formal and informal networks and financial landscapes; with notions of monetary value and with culture, performance, habitus, access and affect? What are the potentials, dangers and hurdles of new payments technology and financial inclusion? How about the future of cash, or even gold? And how can money be mobilized as a lens to understand economy, governance, ritual and community in India? And what kind of general lessons can be learned from the study of money in India? We intend to publish the book with a prestigious international publisher of global reach, who has shown interest. The book will be completed and published in a timely manner. Please send expressions of interest or chapter proposals to the following email addresses by 15. January 2019: jens.zickgraf@moneyness.info arne.harms@uni-leipzig.de By Jens M. Zickgraf\|2019-01-06T16:27:53+01:00January 6th, 2019\|moneyness, Rupees in the Dollar Zone, uncategorized\| About the Author: Jens M. Zickgraf Moneyness: The property we share in the name of value Out now! “Rupien in der Dollar-Zone” Venmo’s public api – scandal or virtue? Back into the future: bitcoins, blockchains and stone-money Money as a share in divine grace	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line286
__label__cc	0.703372	0.296628	1 Call us on 020 7018 8568 or 07956 980667. 2 Fill out the enquiry form. 3 Speak to a milkman. QUESTIONS? CALL: 020 7018 8568 or 07956 980667 We provide a milk and food delivery service. T 020 7018 8568 or 07956 980667 Moreton Dairy 47 St Davids Drive EN10 7LT MILKMAN WEST LONDON FRESH DAILY DELIVERIES MILKMAN EAST LONDON A family run business in East London Milkman in West London covering Fulham, Wembley, Richmond, Brentford, Twickenham, Kingston upon Thames, Teddington, New Malden and Hounslow. Established in 1992, Moreton Dairy Limited is a family run business supplying houses, offices and retailers across Central London, North London, South London, East London, West London, large parts of the city and the West End. The business started with just one vehicle operating from a depot in Dalston, North London. We now have 15 vehicles covering West London which supply a range of milk, bread, juices and other dairy products. Most of our Milkmen have a long service in the doorstep dairy trade and are all self-employed on a commission only basis, and so provide an excellent service. We always aim to give the level of service that we would expect for ourselves and with around 10,000 customers we like to think we are doing something right. We were the first milk delivery service to deliver organic milk to the doorstep, after we started to have a milk delivery from Farmer John Jones from Herefordshire in 1995. And the first milk delivery service to be promoted by the Soil Association. We still like the idea that we are very much an environmentally friendly company, using electric milk floats and offering milk and fruit juices in glass bottles, which can be returned and after being sterilised will be re-used. We offer a variety of goods, including Highland Spring water, fresh and long life juices, eggs, bread, cream and potatoes. At Christmas time we can deliver an assortment of seasonal items, including the famous Dairy Diary, which includes lots of information and recipes. 90% of the milk we deliver is delivered before 6.30am. Milk can be paid for weekly for monthly, by cheque, cash, and healthy start vouchers or online. There is no hidden delivery cost, in fact if you had 7 pints of fresh glass bottled milk a week it would cost you under £5. We are reliable and will endeavour to deliver to you whatever you need whatever the weather. Why not contact us now and see if we deliver to your area and give us a try! © 2019 Moreton Dairy \| All rights reserved \| By Chilli Creative.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line287
__label__cc	0.660565	0.339435	Equine charities welcome agreement with OIE The agreement is set to improve animal welfare globally. Agreement hailed as 'a great day for animal welfare' Equine charities have welcomed an agreement with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that is set to improve animal welfare across the world. Last week, the International Coalition for Animal Welfare (ICFAW) and the OIE signed a cooperation agreement that will further advance their close working relationship. As ICFAW members, The Donkey Sanctuary and World Horse Welfare have hailed the agreement, which will give them more power to influence OIE animal welfare activities. “This is a great day for animal and equine welfare. As a member of ICFAW, World Horse Welfare is delighted that the OIE has formally recognised our coalition as a partner in helping to set and improve animal welfare standards worldwide, particularly those regarding horses, donkeys and mules,” said World Horse Welfare chief executive Roly Owers. Valentina Riva, advocacy manager at The Donkey Sanctuary, adds: “The agreement gives us more influence, official status and a formal platform to engage directly with the OIE and to participate in its activities. Most of the OIE animal welfare-related activities now aim to focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).” The agreement between the OIE and the ICFAW will cover cooperation activities on the roles and responsibilities of the veterinary profession on animal welfare, cooperation on the development and revision of international animal welfare standards and guidelines that are relevant to both organisations. ICFAW chair Alexandra Hammond-Seaman, says: “In recent years ICFAW and OIE have established excellent collaboration and many ICFAW members are supporting and participating in OIE lead initiatives developed to assist implementation. “We are delighted that in this General Session a formal cooperation agreement between ICFAW and OIE has been adopted and we believe that by working together we can better meet the animal welfare challenges ahead and promote good animal welfare practices, which ultimately benefit animals and people.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line291
__label__cc	0.675269	0.324731	TWiP Covers New MacBook Pro, Aperture 3 Update, Canon Pancake By Derrick Story on June 18, 2012 6:43 AM The latest episode of This Week in Photo includes a lively discussion about the just-announced MacBook Pro Retina Display, the Aperture 3.3 release, and the new Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM pancake lens. The show plays out like this: Aperture gets a significant update (6:30) Apple adds a retina display to the MacBook Pro (12:30) Canon releases two new STM lenses (33:30) Leica announces a $50,000 Limited Edition Camera (43:30) Is it better to specialize or generalize in your photography? (48:50) In addition to myself, Dan Ablan, and Nicole Young, and Frederick Van Johnson (host) are there to discuss these topics and more. You can listen in here. You can find more photo tips and "photography how tos" on my Pinterest page. Jim Furyk Battles the Young Guys at the US Open By Derrick Story on June 16, 2012 4:49 PM I'm enjoying watching 42-year-old Jim Furyk battle a predominately younger field at the U.S. Open golf championship in progress at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, CA. I watched him at work in person during the Wednesday round, and he was striking the ball well. Jim Furyk working on his short game at the Olympic Club on Wednesday. After 8 holes on Saturday, Furyk is atop the leader board. We'll see what happens as the weekend plays out. Aperture 3.3 Review by Aperture Expert Many Aperture users were hoping for a 4.0 debut this week, and instead they got 3.3. Joe Linaschke over at ApertureExpert.com breaks down this release in his post, Aperture 3.3: The ApertureExpert Review. It's an excellent overview of what is going on with the application, and a look at the features themselves. Here at the Digital Story, we'll continue to post on the individual components. So stay tuned, Our first installment was on Fast Browsing. Aperture Tips and Techniques My next open Aperture Workshop is scheduled for Nov. 2012, in Santa Rosa, CA. You can get on the pre-registration list, plus learn about all the other photography workshops offered this season by visiting the TDS Workshops page. US Open 2012 - A Day on the Green The 2012 U.S. Open Golf Championship is underway at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, CA. The combination of historic site plus world class golfers equals an enjoyable day on the green. "Tee Shot" I held a 5D Mark II over my head with the 16-35mm zoom set to 16mm to capture this bird's eye view. For more photos, visit the TDS Flickr Gallery. In San Francisco, it often pays to get up early for photography. On this morning, the mist was still in the air at the Olympic Club creating a mood that evaporated by late morning. I used the 70-200mm f/2.8 Canon zoom to capture these players enjoying a conversation on the way to the green. Tournament play begins today. You can find out more about the U.S. Open here. It's going to be an exciting four days. For more photos, visit the TDS Flickr Gallery Photo Tips and Ideas on Pinterest In addition to the 7 boards I've already populated on my just-launched Pinterest page, I've viewed hundreds by others who have posted on a variety of topics - my personal favorite, of course, is photography. Here are three of my boards on Pinterest. Pinterest is one of those online pastimes that you can enjoy without obligation. When you want fresh ideas for just about any project, browse and see what others are sharing. There's also a decent iPhone app that's easy to use. Unfortunately, nothing really compelling for the iPad yet. As for my page, I'm going to focus on photography tips and "how to." That's what I find interesting. Fast Browsing in Aperture 3.3 Put to the Test Aperture 3.3 provides much for us to talk about, and I'm going to start today with its improved rendering speed during import. Apple calls this "Fast Browsing." Noting the "Fast Browsing" preference in the Import tab (Camera Previews). It should be activated by default. But you might want to double-check it just to make sure. In the past, one of the annoyances for Raw shooters was the delay in building preview images during the import of files from a memory card. Now with Fast Browsing, Aperture takes better advantage of the Jpeg images embedded in those Raws. It shows you that image first, then will replace it with an Aperture preview (built to your specifications in the preferences menu) once the import has completed. New "Fast Browsing" image that's available immediately in Aperture 3.3. (Click on image for larger version.) I tested this feature on a 2010 MacBook Air using Raw files from an Olympus OM-D. As promised, large preview images were available right away during the importing process. And they looked good. I turned on Quick Preview to further speed things up while I worked. Aperture's generated preview that replaced the embedded Jpeg. Even better than the embedded file. Then I waited to see if I could detect Aperture replacing the embedded Jpeg with its own preview. And sure enough, a few seconds later it did. The color was a bit richer in the new preview, and it was a tad crisper too. But gone are the days of the pixelated image that finally snaps into focus. You can certainly start rating and sorting your images during the import process now. My guess is that the quality of the initial preview will vary depending on what your camera embeds in the Raw file. I still recommend turing Quick Preview on, because it seems to speed up the browsing process even further. "Retina Display MacBook, Updated Aperture" - Digital Photography Podcast 329 By Derrick Story on June 11, 2012 11:14 PM Apple announces a 1-2 knockout punch for photographers: a redesigned MacBook Pro 15" with Retina Display combined with an updated Aperture (v 3.3) that supports the super high-resolution display. Other Mac laptops were refreshed also (MB Airs, MBP 13" and MBP 15" without Retina display and with traditional hard drive), but my argument for this week's show is to purchase the 15" Retina MBP that is an all solid state machine. It's virtually the same thickness as the MacBook Air, has a quad processor instead of a duo, plus an impressive NVIDIA GPU that you don't get in the MacBook Airs or in the 13" MacBook Pro. Add the updated version of Aperture with its improved performance and intriguing new editing tools, and you have a photographer's dream machine. If you don't believe me, tune in and let me make my case. Signs is the June 2012 Photo Assignment. You can read more about how to submit on our Member Participation page. Deadline for entry is June 30, 2012. The Power of Pattern Repetition isn't necessarily a good thing when it comes to our daily work, but it can be a terrific photo subject. A line of Mini Coopers. Photo by Derrick Story. The trick is to find an exception to the pattern, or a way to isolate one of the items so the viewer's eye has a place to rest. Once the viewer absorbs the "resting spot" you've created, they can go on to enjoy the pattern that fills out the rest of the composition. Getting Ready for WWDC 2012 By Derrick Story on June 9, 2012 8:26 AM As Apple applies the finishing touches to Moscone West for the World Wide Developers Conference, we can look forward to some important announcements on Monday morning. A long view of Moscone West, San Francisco, before WWDC. Photo and video by Derrick Story. Even though this is a developer conference, Apple uses the spotlight for various types of announcements, both software and otherwise. We know there will be more information about iOS 6 and the upcoming Mac operating system, Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Final touches to giant Apple logos being applied to Moscone West prior to the WWDC event. I think we'll also learn more about the evolution of iCloud and how it will be further integrated into the OS and applications. There's a good possibility we'll hear news about hardware too, with a revised Mac Pro in the works. Personally, I would not be surprised by laptop announcements also. New MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs are still fitting for this event, and would add the pizazz that stock holders and the press would love. So, it's going to be a busy week in San Francisco. With WWDC kicking off on June 11, then the 112th US Golf Open reviving up at the same time out at the Olympic Club, there should be plenty of traffic and a shortage of hotel rooms. I think I'll follow the action via my MacBook Air, which I hope will soon be revised. Grab Shot 220 - "Union Jack" "I captured this with my Olympus Pen E-PL1 camera and 17mm 2.8 pancake lens," writes Roderick James. "This was the last day of the Royal Jubilee in the UK, and a giant poster of the Royal family (from the Queen's silver jubilee) was hung across the full width and height of a building along the Thames. I saw this guy with his Union Jack umbrella walking toward the poster, and I couldn't resist grabbing this shot." Thanks Rod for sharing this image. It's funny, I was just talking about the pancake lens yesterday. This is our 220th Grab Shot! Wow. If you want to review the collection that began back in 2006, go to our Grab Shots page. If you have a candid you'd like to share, take a look at our Submissions page, then send us your Grab Shot. We'll try to get it published for you on The Digital Story. And you can view more images from our virtual camera club in the Member Photo Gallery.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line297
__label__cc	0.579601	0.420399	Home > Estonia > Estonia considers using social media in court Estonia considers using social media in court By Ryan Isakow The Estonian Justice Ministry has proposed an amendment that, if passed, would allow Estonian courts to deliver subpoenas via email, Facebook, and Twitter. The subpoenaed individual would receive a link to the court documents, accessible only using an electronic ID card issued to everybody in Estonia. The Justice Ministry claims that a full third of civil cases are stuck in the document delivery phase; electronic deliveries of subpoenas would make it easier to contact suspects who travel frequently or have an outdated addresses. Estonia is also moving towards allowing evidence from social media to be admissible in court. Estonia, a nation with a population of just 1.3 million people, is one of the most tech-savvy countries on the planet. The Estonian e-government website is known for setting the world record for fastest business registration, with a time of just 18 minutes. Seventy-five percent of all Estonians are Internet users; this number is higher among young people, with nearly everyone under 35 online. Other European governments have made moves towards digitizing government functions, including the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Photo courtesy Flickr user Andreas Eldh) Tags: e-gov, law, Social Media Ryan Isakow Ryan Isakow is a TOL editorial intern. Last reply was March 26, 2012	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line302
__label__cc	0.666118	0.333882	Mandy Steward *Artist. Art student. Art teacher. Art curator. Staying curious. Enjoying myself. Q & A with Dead Feather Experimental Forum Art by Dead Feather. I feel that the Q&A with Dead Feather was a success. We had seven people attend, four of them I knew and three of them Josh (Dead Feather) knew. This is the first strictly Q&A gathering that I've helped host at Wholeshot. It was Josh's idea, and I was excited that he was willing to take the risk to do it. (He was super motivated to get the word out and made two incredible pieces of art as promotion.) I consider it a risk because I never know who will show up, if anyone, and what their response will be. My intent of course is to facilitate an environment that allows the artist to feel seen, heard and supported, but when we open it up to the public, some of that is out of my control. Also a Q&A necessitates a crowd that is engaged and wants to have dialogue, otherwise there is a lot of sitting and staring at each other. It was a "fingers crossed" sort of endeavor. This is how we ran the two hour window of time. We allowed people to arrive and get a drink and have some meet and greet conversation. This lasted about 30 minutes. Then Josh did an introduction of himself and his artwork after which he opened it up to questions, which at times turned into a joint discussion. The time ended with people mingling and checking out the art. We had a tip jar, dolls and prints for sale, small giveaway books for those attending and Dead Feather donated a painting to giveaway in a drawing. Unfortunately we forgot to do the drawing at the event and did it after in the car ride home and then contacted the winner via Instagram. Josh's art is focused on telling his story of cultural assimilation. He is from the Muskogee Creek/Seminole Native American Tribe, and his grandfather was forced to learn English via reading the Christian Bible and later became a preacher himself. By the time Josh was born there was no one in his direct family that spoke Muskogee Creek, and he has had to piece his history back together as best he can. His art shows what a dark road that has been both for him and for Native Americans throughout history as they were systematically given less and less land to live on while also being stripped of their own culture. I get the feeling when I look at Josh's art that he is creating a museum of artifacts that otherwise wouldn't exist or would be near impossible to find because of how thoroughly his culture was wiped away. Besides painting this includes handmade dolls, masks of deities, and books to teach his dying language. Due to the subject matter the conversation was mainly serious and all those in attendance were opened to learning as well as being entirely supportive of Josh's work. One man asked, "Have you reconciled with the white man?" and "How can I help?" Josh spoke of his own peace and love, but also of his relentless pursuit to share the truth of this part of history. The way to help is to educate, to open up the dialogue so more and more are exposed to what cultural assimilation is. Josh was open to having his art critiqued. He posed the question, "What could I do to be more successful in generating interest in my work?" He shared with us that at one point he had his art on tour with some other local Native American artists, but he was "let go" when it was determined his art wasn't "pop" enough. I asked, what does "pop" even mean? We discussed Andy Warhol a bit and then another artist that was present, Lawrence Naff, brought up a good point. He talked about how pop art is what sells well, what has been considered popular or in pop culture. Around here that means buffalo, bison, feathers, arrows, a Native American face with a feather. People are comfortable purchasing art that they know has been culturally approved as popular. Art is intimidating to many and they feel like they can't trust their own intuition on what makes good art or bad art for their home. Josh later summed it up this way: "I know you probably need someone from a big corporation like Time Magazine, MTV, Disney, NBC etc., (which are all probably owned by the same company) to tell you what good art is or what is considered art. It's comfortable and familiar. I know. I'm here to tell you, it's ok to like whatever YOU consider art. So, get out there and support your local artists. I can assure you they are working hard to expose you to a truth you can align yourself with." I mentioned that I thought people often buy art because they want something pretty, not necessarily something meaningful. The theme of Dead Feather is not inherently a pretty story in history. It is rather a series of unfortunate events that stripped a people group of their stories, their art, their way of life, their home. As Josh said, "My art is dark because the topic is dark." One man in a Bukowski shirt spoke up and said, "I for one like your art because it is dark. It is different. It stands out. That's what draws me to it. There is more going on here." "I second that," I said. The others at the forum nodded or voiced their agreement. Later, smiling I told my new acquaintance, "Anyone wearing a Bukowski shirt is always welcome at Wholeshot," Josh is a very talented artist and wildly prolific. He later, after the event, took me and my husband on a studio tour at his home, his kitchen so full of paintings it is almost unusable. Another half finished piece sat on an easel, as if paused mid stroke so Josh could attend the Q&A before jumping right back in. The studio, thick with the smell of incense, had an intensity to it. He isn't stopping. In Josh's words, the art of Dead Feather has to continue because there are just too many people who don't know, who don't understand, who haven't considered another story besides the story that is popular. My husband and I left Josh's home feeling alive with possibility. How can we have more events like this? How can we support artists, the ones that we personally connect with, like Josh. How can Wholeshot be not just about quality drinks, but also the warm way by which we host people and connect them to meaningful art in a way that is approachable and not intimidating. The forum ended with others reiterating this excitement. "We need more events like this." "Thank you for putting this together." "I look forward to the next one." A friend of mine that was present at the Q&A told me, "You're good at this - introducing people to each other. Helping people meet. Connecting artists." It was so meaningful to hear. I told her, "As much as I love making art myself, I also enjoy connecting artists to one another so they can feel inspired and empowered to continue following their heart and making their work. I need to not be so hard on myself. It's okay to not be making my art all the time. This is equally as important, and it means so much to me." After this Q&A I had some new things to consider: Which am I more passionate about - the quantity of artists showing in our little gallery or the quality? Can I take this slow, letting it all unfold organically based on the people who are put in my path. I don't necessarily want more and more and more artists to feature in Wholeshot as much as I want a connection and progression with the ones I know. Maybe this is why some gallery owners partner exclusively with a few artists. I love that I am beginning to connect with an intimate gathering of artists who are open to brainstorming more ideas for our community. We are going to meet this weekend to do just that. There are a few, like me, who believe in the power of art as a personal practice and want to see others lives open up to the power of art. So here is what the Q&A solidified for me. I am okay with small. I am okay with slow. I am okay with risk. I am okay with challenge. I am okay with learning through doing. With all that I have done in my life thus far, art remains front and center in my life. It has made reckless pursuit of me, and I gladly concede, for it is art that gives my life meaning. I will try and try and try, fail and succeed and try again. And actually, this is the way of the artist. Already a poet, on December 26 of 2012 Josh decided to also be a visual artist, to breathe life into the Dead Feathers of Muskogee Creek/Seminole heritage. That night he jumped headfirst into painting wood donated to him from his janitor job at the time. Since that time the art remains a constant. I think of his kitchen studio, so picturesque with his half finished painting. His trying to say it one more time in one more way. I believe this captures the art spirit so eloquently. ← Another Go At It Tarot Self-Portraits → 2 thoughts on “Q & A with Dead Feather” This was wonderful and I wish I lived near you because I would definitely attend your events! Janae says: Epic and honest and felt. This really hits on several points for me – but the Living point burns the brightest! 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__label__wiki	0.754188	0.754188	Sundays 9:00 PM on Showtime Shameless News Shameless Reviews Shameless Spoilers Shameless Watch Online Shameless Episode Guide Shameless Quotes Shameless Pictures Shameless Videos Shameless Round Tables Follow Shameless Shameless Facebook Shameless Twitter Shameless Season 9 Episode 10 Review: Los Diablos! Fiona's life as she knows it is over. Shameless Season 9 Episode 10 started with my favorite Gallagher realizing the error of her ways, striving for change, but in a much worse position by the final scene. Let's start with that dark opening scene. It was dumb of Fiona to leave the money out while the cafe was still open. There's no getting away from that. I thought the money would be gone when she returned, but that would have been too predictable. The three men were menacing, and there's no telling what they would have done if the other staff member did not show up to save the day. The truth is, Fiona's been getting so drunk that she no longer knows fact from fiction. That scenario at Patsy's gave her the nudge in the right direction she needed. Welcome to the South Side, bitch. Permalink: Welcome to the South Side, bitch. She was finally taking accountability for her actions. It gave me hope that Fiona was getting a happy ending what with Emmy Rossum's departure looming. Margo was right to fire her. She's gotten erratic. She's gotten drunk on the job; she's been ridiculing customers, yelling at staff members, and even accusing people of sexual misconduct. It's surprising that it took Margo a month of complaints to make a decision. Then again, the business guru knows Fiona has helped the diner turn in a profit like never before. Margo may not have picked up the phone, but that's probably because she was giving Fiona time to get it together. It's just a shame that Fiona took too long to sort herself out. Fiona: I've had a rough few months, but I've turned a corner. Margo: People who say they've turned a corner, they haven't turned a corner. Permalink: People who say they've turned a corner, they haven't turned a corner. Throwing the vodka out was a great start. I thought for sure Frank would have been able to sniff that all the way from the Hobo Loco Hunger Games. Related: Get Showtime via Prime Video Channels for Award-Winning Original Series, Hit Movies, Sports & More! Fiona rallying up the entire South Side to go to the new neighbor's door was the moment I realized there's no hope for Fiona, and she's going to find herself back in prison. If Fiona felt so strongly that the woman called the cops on Liam because of his skin color, then she should have had a chat with the woman to find out what the real issue was. Bringing an army to the woman's door, jumping over her fence and punching the woman so hard that she fell to the ground was not the right way to go about things. Waitress: Yo, wakey wakey. Fiona: Get the fuck away from me. Permalink: Get the fuck away from me. There's no rooting for Fiona anymore. It hurts me to write that because she's my favorite character, but she's several zip codes away from the line she crossed back on Shameless Season 4 which almost resulted in Liam's death. I don't doubt for one minute that Fiona would rough someone up if they mess with her family, but that punch was built on the rage she was holding inside after being fired. Knowing that Fiona is reverting to her old ways, if the woman presses charges and this goes to trial, Fiona could be headed to jail. That would be a terrible goodbye for such a great character. Shameless has an issue saying goodbye to its characters, so prison seems to be the place they're sent to in case the actors change course and decide to come back (I'm looking at you, Cameron Monaghan). Hopefully, the powers that be craft a more meaningful conclusion for Fiona than being locked up. This journey we've traveled with her would be a waste if it ended with prison. Related: Showtime at TCA: Shameless Renewed, The L Word Revived & More! As for the Hobo Loco Hunger Games, I didn't find them funny. The series loves to poke fun at poverty-stricken families, but there has got to be laws against exploiting them in such a manner. Hobo Loco put profit over ethics, and I couldn't shake that during all of the scenes with Frank fighting to the death to keep himself in the competition. Frank: That's the way we're going to play this thing? Mickey: All's fair in love and hobo wars. Permalink: All's fair in love and hobo wars. The only semi-enjoyable part of it all was Mickey wanting to join forces with Frank to share the winnings. In hindsight, Frank should have accepted that offer. Ingrid was at home while all this was playing out, and I couldn't help but laugh as she tried to dole out therapy over the phone while Fiona was poking fun at her. Fiona was right. It was bizarre to have someone who was not of sound mind doling out therapy over the phone -- in the Gallagher house no less. With Katey Sagal signed to appear on an ABC pilot, it sounds like her character is not sticking around, so it wouldn't surprise me if she decides to move back in with her ex-husband and have the children with him. They're looking for someone with no purpose in life. I've finally found my calling. Permalink: They're looking for someone with no purpose in life. I've finally found my calling. Ingrid desperately wanted to believe that Frank was the man for her, but she's slowly starting to realize that he's only a short-term lover who will fleece her for every dollar she has. I'm just waiting for the scene in which it all comes out that Carl is the father to the children. That will likely be something Frank screams when Ingrid inevitably packs up shop to leave him behind. Then there's Tami. I wanted to hate her because of the way she ridiculed Lip. She was so self-absorbed initially that it seemed there was no personality there. Related: Shameless Shocker: Emmy Rossum Leaving After Nine Seasons! These past few episodes have shed light on her in a big way, and I'm now at the point that I want the character to have a more significant presence on the show. The way she acted with Xan took Lip by surprise. It would have been perfectly natural for her to run off and leave Lip to deal with the kid. Instead, Tami couldn't have been more motherly. I thought Xan was gone, but it seems like her mother has run off once and for all, and I'm so here for Lip and Tami looking out for this kid. "Los Diablos!" felt like the Shameless we know and love. It's slowly getting back to the creative footing it was on a few years ago. Other tidbits from the episode: Debbie is poised to pull a robbery on Carl after Kelly complimented her ass. That's going to cause a lot of drama, but it's also going to be a fun storyline. Santiago is gone already! While I'm happy he's reuniting with his family, the storyline would have worked better as an arc that lasted more than a handful of episodes. Carl's new job was brutal. He needs to find something that won't end with him getting assaulted. What did you think of the episode? Is Fiona gearing up for a stint behind bars? Hit the comments. Remember you can watch Shameless online right here via TV Fanatic. Shameless continues Sundays at 9/8c on Showtime. 23 'Ships Of 2018 That Need To Crash Los Diablos! Review Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 (30 Votes) Tags: Shameless, Reviews Shameless Season 9 Episode 10 Quotes Shameless Season 9 Episode 10 Watch Shameless Online: Season 9 Episode 10 Shameless Season 9 Episode 10 Photos Los Diablos! Watch Shameless Season 9 Episode 10 Online Shameless Season 9 Shameless Review: Los Diablos!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line307
__label__wiki	0.619521	0.619521	Amber Stone Half a ring with dark yellow color, almost peach. Used to ward off icterus. Drops from the stone are stirred with water and given for children to drink. Garnet stone A broken piece of garnet, which used to be probably round-shaped. It is fixed in position by a silver frame on which there are engravings only partially read due to a rupture in the frame. The silver frame is attached to two rings then to a lace so to wear around the neck. Canaan obtained it in 1917. Soul Bead Oval shaped stone with different shades of color ranging from white to light brown. It is pierced in the middle in order to be used as a pendant. Double sided wooden comb decorated in the middle. One side is thicker than the other. There are two holes on both ends of the comb. The comb is decorated on both sides. Kabsa or Kabbas Bead Dark green cubical form bead pierced in its middle. Bought in 1942. White round stone with shades of brown. The shape of the stone is spiral. Triangular-shaped stone perforated longitudinally at its. It is used as a heart-shaped stone. Heart shaped stone Rhombus shaped dark green (garnet) stone of green color, perforated in one of its angles in order to be used as a pendant. A beautiful big heart-shaped stone. It is almost oval in shape with shades of reddish brown colors. Canaan obtained it in 1919. Black rectangular shape, without any engravings on its sides except for a frame. Canaan obtained it in 1917. Moses Stone Moses stone, an equilateral triangle, without any engravings on its sides, and one broken edge. It was obtained in 1914 from Al-Nabi Mousa area. Rectangular shaped wooden tongs with decorations on one of its sides. The piece takes the shape of a book stand, usually used for reading the Quraan. A shaving razor, that is constituent of a silver tatted cover with botanical decorations, and a semi-circular blade. Cylindrical vessel with a removable cap and holes on the bottom side to sprinkle powder on injury. It is used to dispense powder when circumcising a newborn. Piece of weight balance Top side of a weight balance with a hole in the middle to hang a knob and holes in both ends to hang plates. Incense Censer Cylindrical wooden piece with many holes. A removable cap from one end has a horizontally symmetrical hole where incense matches can be placed. Kohl Container Triangular leather Kohl container, that looks like a talisman from afar. A wooden stich is attached to one of its end, and a white thread is tied to it. There are traces of green and orange wax on the leather. Indian Mirror Round Iron plate with long cylindrical knob to facilitate its carrying. Engraved on the knob s-shaped ornaments. Canaan obtained it from a member of Nammari family in 1927. Iron horseshoe. Canaan obtained it in 1944. Triangular lighter. Canaan obtained it from Nablus in 1931. Palm Stamp A Palm shaped stamp with religious writings and prayers (Duaa), and a flattened knob placed on the back. It was obtained in 1942 for 300 mils. Sword Stamp A Bifurcate-sword shape stamp (Ali’s Sword) with writings engraved on its interior and a cylindrical knob placed on its back. It was obtained in 1942, for 500 mil. Double framed round stamp. Engraved on the upper frame a verse from Surat Al-Isra “Exalted is He who took his servant by night from Al-Masjid Al-Haram to Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa whose surroundings We have blessed.” And engraved in the inner frame “The rock of the Holy City is from Heaven”. Canaan obtained the piece in 1942 for 500 mils. Round black stamp in its middle lies a big circle where the dome of the rock is drawn surrounded by smaller circles with Arabic letters. The outer ring of the stamp also has Arabic letters. Canaan obtained it in 1942 for 1 pound from a Shaikh at Al Haram. Star shaped stamp with 12 rays (or sun). It has a circle in the middle with an engraving of the image of Mary, Joseph and Jesus Christ. On each ray, engraved an image of a saint. It was used to stamp soap. Canaan obtained it in 1943 from a Christian woman who made soap for pilgrims. Round shaped stamp with Greek letters and symbols, used for stamping Sunday bread and the Secret Supper. It is also called Tattoo, it has an ornate squared handle attached to the back. Canaan obtained it in 1941 from Jerusalem for 100 mils. Stamp “Seal Stamp” Round shaped stamp with an image of a saint and Latin writings engraved in Greek letters. A Cross is carved on the top and a grip handle is attached to its bottom part so that it is used as a stamp. The piece was obtained from Monk Theodorous in 1942. Yellow Palm shaped stamp with Duaa (prayer) written in Arabic and a back handle. The Duaa says: “يا شافي يا الله، نصر من الله، وفتح قريب، وبشر المؤمنين، يا محمد يا حنان يا منان ”. On the five fingers inscribed another Duaa [praising Ali and his sword, and citing names of God in prayer]. It was obtained in 1914 from a Shaikh. Stamp with the Arabic letters “أجهزط وبدوح”. Supposed to be a stamp and talisman for love and acceptance. Canaan obtained it from Jerusalem in 1941. Octagonal talisman with meandrous middle circle. The writing is on one side, saying a Duaa (prayer) [citing 8 names of God cited in the holy Quran: يا حنان يا قيوم يا حي يا سلطان يا رحمن يا رحيم يا ديان يا منان]. The piece was bought from a person named Ohan for 400 mils on the 4th of September 1940. A traditional shaped small sized copper bell in golden color with a pendant hanging loosely in its interior. The pedant is a coiled wire with several twists at its end. Canaan obtained it in 1945 for 250 mils. Bell with a semi- circular pendant hanging in its interior. Engraved on the surrounding opening of the bell delicate engravings made of lines and dots. On the top of the ring there is a ring used for hanging the bell. Obtained in 1945 for 250 mils. Small open bell with a small ball hanging in its interior. Canaan obtained it in 1920. Closed ball-shaped bell with a smaller ball loosely hanging in its interior. It was hung around the neck of a donkey. Canaan bought it in 1915. A bell with a blue bead hanging in its interior and attached to it a Celtis stick. The bell was hanging around the neck of a sheep. Canaan bought it in 1917.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line313
__label__cc	0.707564	0.292436	Michael Pocock \| Review of Understanding Insider Movements by Warrick Farah Michael Pocock reviews UIM in the new issue of IJFM. Here is the conclusion: By the end of the book the reader will admit that insider movements involve many thousands who are discovering and being dramatically changed by Jesus, yet who have been misunderstood by many across the global church today. Let’s remember that Jonathan Edwards, who was a great preacher and exponent of the Great Awakening in America, had his detractors. In spite of the transformation in the religious landscape of the colonies, Edwards, Whitfield and the Wesleys had skeptics who questioned the validity or genuineness of their movement. Edwards had to explain and defend this awakening in two famous publications, A Treatise on Religious Affections and The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God. He was still addressing this concern in his commencement address at Yale University, Sept. 10, 1741. In these works, Edwards showed that a genuine movement of God will manifest many surprising things which in themselves do not discredit the movement. If they are not of God, they will pass away. But he warned his readers and listeners not to commit the unpardonable sin of attributing this work of the Spirit to the Devil. He asked if it is not pride, or the lack of spiritual vitality, that causes the critics to assail this movement. In the same vein, any of us who are quick to criticize these emerging insider movements, or these Jesus followers in such different contexts, would do well to think on Edward’s words. And I commend this book to you in the same spirit. Missio Nexus Webinar \| The W-Spectrum: Exploring Paradigms of Ministry in Islamic Contexts On March 10th 2pm EST I’ll be doing a webinar with Missio Nexus on The W-Spectrum. See info below. http://missionexus.org/the-w-spectrum/: March 10, 2016 2:00pm to 3:15pm Eastern time Warrick Farah • Missiologist • International Teams Anyone involved in missions today knows that evangelical workers have numerous and sometimes conflicting approaches to Muslim ministry. The W-Spectrum (EMQ October 2015) describes four of these approaches which correlate with the workers’ view of “Islam” (note: The W paradigms do not correlate with the C Spectrum). In order to evaluate this framework, the W-Spectrum was tested via an online survey by more than two hundred workers around the world. By presenting the research analysis in this webinar, we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the W-Spectrum and explore various paradigms of ministry among Muslims. Search Circumpolar CIRCUMPOLAR is a series of short readings and helpful resources intended to equip followers of Jesus to bless Muslims in His name. Movements Research Symposium About this Blog (4) Anthropology (10) Big Picture (34) Biography (3) Christology (13) Church (3) Church History (23) Church Planting (40) Coming to Christ Series (11) Contextualization (91) Culture (4) Development (14) Diaspora (2) Discipleship (22) Discovery Bible Study (2) Dreams and Visions (1) Embracing Biblical Faith (5) Evangelism (57) Evangelistic Studies (5) Fasting (5) Folk Islam (8) Global Leadership Summit (12) Gospel (41) Hadith (2) Heaven (4) Honor Shame (4) Identity (13) Illustrations (8) Insider Jesus (7) Interviews (2) Islam (93) Islamophobia (4) Jesus (4) Kingdom (13) Lausanne (19) Leadership (26) Majority World Church (19) Margins of Islam (1) Missiological Fallacies (5) Missiology (31) Mobile Phone Ministry (3) Mobilization (12) Mohammed (17) Movements (8) Orality (4) Other Religions (4) Partnerships (2) Persecution (12) Pluralism (5) Prayer (13) Qur'an (22) Ramadan (4) Recommended Resource (60) Reconciliation (12) Religious Freedom (18) Research (2) Role of the Outsider (5) Salvation (7) Sociology (5) Spiritual Conflict (12) Spirituality (40) Teams (13) Terrorism (21) Testimony (2) Theology (55) Translation (5) Trinity (16) Urban Ministry (7) Women (10) Worship (5) Zionism (5) Michael Pocock \| Review of Understanding Insider M... Missio Nexus Webinar \| The W-Spectrum: Exploring P... Copyright 2011 Circumpolar. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line314
__label__wiki	0.924309	0.924309	Thursdays 8:00 PM on ABC Grey's Anatomy News Grey's Anatomy Reviews Grey's Anatomy Spoilers Grey's Anatomy Watch Online Grey's Anatomy Music Grey's Anatomy Episode Guide Grey's Anatomy Quotes Grey's Anatomy Cast Grey's Anatomy Pictures Grey's Anatomy Videos Grey's Anatomy Caption Contests Grey's Anatomy Round Tables Follow Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Facebook Grey's Anatomy Twitter Grey's Anatomy Review: Cold Feet, Warm Heart Sean McKenna at December 13, 2012 11:02 pm . Comments Maybe it's me, but I've noticed more recently that winter finales have become bigger and more pivotal in their dramatic turns, much like season finales. There's always something major in store, except luckily, we don't have to wait as long for the return with the consequences and aftermath. Which is a good thing, because while "Run, Baby, Run" had a lot of buildup, its final moments packed a solid punch of WOW. Neve Campbell was fantastic as Derek's sister Lizzie and that's not because she's a Scream queen or a Wild Thing. She possesses a lot of charisma without being over the top, and her sisterly determination makes her feel less pushy and more sensitive. I was glad that she was willing to tell Derek that it didn't matter if the procedure worked, it was trying it that counted. Similarly, I was pleased she told Meredith that she wanted to be more like sisters with her. Sure, Meredith did seem extremely hesitant and uncomfortable, but it was great that in the end, she opened up to Lizzie about the pregnancy and family. That's a huge step in their relationship, but also in the sense that Meredith was willing to share something that she hasn't been the most optimistic about. And it was a little weird that both Cristina and Meredith didn't tell each other their big news. Does that really mean that things are changing for them or is that just a bump in the "BFF" road? If anything, it looks like things are headed in a positive direction for these two girlfriends, which is a good thing after so much tragedy has fallen on them. But can you believe Owen and Cristina jumping each other? These two characters have always had great chemistry, and even when they were fighting, you could feel the passion and sentiment between them. They've always felt like a real couple. Yes, the will they/won't they relationship has been going for a while, but it's been obvious that Owen still holds a flame for his sharp-tongued love. Getting a divorce to help the settlement, while feeling the heavy heavy burden of being the one that chose the crashed plane, is a lot for the guy to handle. So, in the end, I am happy that these two are willing to give it a second try. Should they? Can it actually work? I'm hesitant to shout "happy endings," but it was a nice surprise that they've fallen into each other's arms again. Which makes me wonder about the intern Jo and Alex. Is the show trying to push them together romantically? I don't know if I like that direction, and I certainly couldn't believe she told on Alex because she thought she was going to get fired. I get the "deep end" feeling, but going behind his back is definitely a way to burn those bridges. Although, I get the sneaking suspicion that these two are only just getting started. But the big shocker of the night came down to Adele's emergency and Miranda skipping out on her own wedding to help her friend. It makes me wonder what the outcome for these two will be when we come back. Will Adele survive? Will Miranda's relationship? I know that she had cold feet and feelings of doubt, but it would be unfortunate that it all ends under the circumstances. It's not like Miranda actually turned into a runaway bride. She was simply helping Richard. I just hope that she and Ben can work it out and not have him calling off the wedding and their marriage. But holy awesomeness to how well all the doctors looked out of their scrubs! Sexy dresses for the ladies and sharp suits for the guys is a look they should try more often. I'll admit the beginning got off to a slow start, and I kept waiting for something bad to happen after Meredith's voiceover about stresses and running. And I'm still not a huge fan of the interns (but maybe that's because we've had so much time to get to know the main Grey's Anatomy cast.) Ultimately, though, the ending threw so many good moments to leave fans wanting more over the holidays that it's got me wondering about the fate of all the characters and where everything will go from here. That's a great way to send off a winter finale, Grey's Anatomy. Well done. Run, Baby, Run Review Sean McKenna was a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. He retired in May of 2017. Follow him on Twitter. 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__label__wiki	0.918135	0.918135	Home » World News » Melania Trump: The shocking device used to carve ‘disgraceful’ First Lady hometown statue Melania Trump: The shocking device used to carve ‘disgraceful’ First Lady hometown statue 07/12/2019 ctp_video, headlines, melania tr The First Lady iconic blue dress from US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2016 inspired the piece. Folk artist Ales Zupevc carved the blocky, rustic figure from the trunk of a living linden tree. But the bizarre tool he used contributed to the inaccurate likeness to Melania. Commissioned by Berlin-based American artist Brad Downey, Mr Zupevc carved the statue with a chainsaw. The tribute accompanies Downey’s exhibition in the capital Ljubljana exploring Melania’s roots in the small Alpine country. But due to no attempt at an accurate likeness, the gallery in Ljubljana appears uncertain how seriously to take the statue. “Perhaps we are simply trying vigorously to make sense of things that might only be a slapstick prank,” it says in a leaflet. “Who knows?” The statue has since received mixed reviews as locals have described it as a “disgrace”. They added it looked more like a Smurf than the First Lady. One resident said: “If the monument was meant to be a parody, then the artist has been successful. “We in Sevnica can only laugh and, at the same time, hold our heads in our hands over their the Trumps’ catastrophic reputation.” But another resident of a nearby town called Rozno said she thought the statue was a “good idea”. She said: “Melania is a Slovenian hero, she made it to the top in the US.” Downey said he wanted to “have a dialogue with my country’s political situation” and highlight Melania Trump’s status as an immigrant married to a president sworn to reduce immigration. “Let’s face it,” he says in a short film being shown as part of the exhibition, “she owns half of America while I have nothing.” ← Billie Eilish Declares 'Anything Is Possible' After Collaborating with Childhood Crush Justin Bieber Woman 'boards' airport conveyor belt, apparently thinking it'll take her to plane →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line320
__label__cc	0.739874	0.260126	Ralph Maud’s Prayer: Distilled \| Poem — Mary Maillard Ralph Maud via www.commonground.ca A mappamundi of values is what we are after, / the satisfaction we need before we die. / It’s why older people, even dying people, / read the paper avidly. / Shall we revise the prayer? Ralph Maud, an old friend of novelist Keith Maillard and his wife, Mary Maillard, died on December 8, 2014. Ralph is best remembered as a scholar ahead of his time — an authority on Charles Olson, expert on Dylan Thomas, a Welsh Nationalist, a collector of northwest aboriginal mythology, and documentary film maker — but he also, as he was approaching death, considered that topic in a purely personal way, leaving behind an eight-page monograph entitled “Make My Way Plain.” In the found poem that follows, Mary Maillard has attempted to distill the essence of Ralph’s thoughts. Every word is Ralph’s. Poetry and Audience, edited by Ralph Maud Hereford Mappa Mundi c.1285 Ralph Maud’s Prayer: Distilled Is this the way? The complexities of being human on the edge of chaos? Faced with an edge-of-chaos problem, I found a way out. My father’s innate reticence, my mother’s Celtic duplicity, that spark of camaraderie and laughter in the most dire circumstances? Minted in the molecules, repeated throughout our life, we are always the next step. Given matter, the rest follows. In a materialistic world we get a sense of making decisions for ourselves. Hang onto that feeling; it’s where value lies. We can be self-satisfied in our originality, as we are modest before the fact of determinism: creatures of medical science, laboratory animals, we are deluded to think that we can be known. My subject is a prayer: “Make my way plain.” To whom am I addressing this plea? As an atheist, I have to say that I have nobody in mind. I find myself saying, “Thank you, Lord,” once a day. After a successful bowel movement – “Thank you, Lord.” Breathing is, of course, quite as important, so perhaps later I will bless my breaths. Who will make my way plain, then? Why, Jiminy Cricket, of course. The mechanism for self examination and guidance seems common to all humans. I have seen stubbornness avoid such consultation, rage obliterate conscience. I have lived a sheltered life. I have seen the wholly bad as an exception, the stony face of unreason: “And if you disagree, you die.” I made my escape as soon as I could. A mappamundi of values is what we are after, the satisfaction we need before we die. It’s why older people, even dying people, read the paper avidly. Shall we revise the prayer? “Make my way complicated?” The mappamundi seems to be such when we consult the abacus of the heart, that tool for pinning down value, our excitement is immense and rewarding. Add goodwill and time to complexities – that’s what we mean by “making plain.” One works on one’s own map and contributes to the world map. No, we haven’t time to settle things properly. Down in this eternity of the moment, we have in us the vestiges of hope for heaven. Our end in perfect blackness, materialistic determinism – most of us cannot let in that kind of hopelessness. We just can’t. “We just can’t.” There is the rock, in spite of all our pathologies, the rock on which we build. We go on with our lives. We can’t do otherwise. We would find our place in Zion. We would make our own destiny. We could not do otherwise. I lived the archetype of the immigrant. The implication is that one can escape. William Saroyan’s words still sing for me: “If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.” If there is a solution to “make my way plain,” it will have something to do with “the brotherhood of man.” The pilgrimage now reaches its end. I am entangled in the end game. Make my end plain. I’m not quite there or I could not be writing. What can I say hurriedly, for us, the dying? The only sensible thing – when the line is crossed, the nightmare should be short. Joking and sociable to the end: I do not think so. I am breathing with anxiety. One wants to get out of life “with dignity,” not waiting until life is unbearable. One should be able to choose when enough is enough. In principle, the way is perfectly plain but the practicalities are elusive. As one puts in the bookmark and turns out the light, there is the feeling that at least tomorrow is assured, since the world would not, surely, deny one the solution to come with the next day’s reading. There’s also the fellow feeling as we get used to the idea of death. Lines distilled by Mary Maillard, January 3, 2015, from Ralph Maud, “Make My Way Plain,” privately distributed, Vancouver, February, 2013. Mary Maillard is an independent scholar and documentary editor from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her primary interests are in 19th century southern women and mixed race studies. She is the editor of the Skinner Family Papers and has written a monograph introducing three collections of southern antebellum coming-of-age letters, A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850 (2014). Her article, “‘Faithfully Drawn from Real Life:’ Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends,” appeared in the July 2013 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and, in 2013/2014, she received an Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellowship in African American History from the Library Company of Philadelphia for her research on the letters of Louisa Jacobs and Annie Purvis to Eugenie Webb, 1879-1911. Mary has contributed biographical entries to blackpast.org, including Frank J. 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__label__cc	0.681226	0.318774	CfA: 2-year Post-Doc position in International Relations on Cyber-Nationalism and The Political Identities of North East Asian Millennials REPI & EASt Call for Applications 2-year Post-Doc position in International Relations on CYBER-NATIONALISM AND THE POLITICAL IDENTITIES OF NORTH EAST ASIAN MILLENNIALS Candidates must send their applications as a single PDF file to the project supervisors (vanessa.frangville@ulb.ac.be and Thierry.Kellner@ulb.ac.be), no later than the 13th of August 2018 (17:00 CET). Applications must include: A letter of introduction (statement of motivation and personal interpretation of the research project); A full academic CV, including the name and contact details of two academic referees (we may contact your referees during the application process); An academic record with copies of diplomas and transcripts for BA, MA and PhD. By 13th of August 2018 (17:00 CET): Candidates must send their applications to the relevant supervisors. 13th of September 2018: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to do a Skype interview with their supervisors. 17th of September 2018: Shortlisted candidates will be informed about final decision and ranking. This post-Doc project is envisioned as a joint collaboration between two research centres at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium): EASt - centre for East Asian Studies (http://msh.ulb.ac.be/equipes/east/) REPI - Recherche et Études en Politique Internationale (http://repi.ulb.ac.be/en). EASt is a research center hosted within the Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH) of the ULB. In EASt, this Post-Doc project is part of a wider “ARC” project called “GENEsYs on East Asian Youth: Identities and Practices in Public Space”. The main objective of this cutting-edge project is to understand how East Asian youth occupy and use public spaces, be they material or digital ones. The project is led by Professor Vanessa Frangville REPI is a research centre hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at ULB. Within REPI, the Post-Doc is part of a nascent cluster of researchers and academics working on East Asia. The over-ridding concerns of the cluster are the legitimation processes at work in East Asian international relations, as well as the foreign policy and diplomatic practices mobilized in the region. The project is led by Professor Thierry Kellner. The project will explore how East Asian Millennials have used public spaces – be they tangible or virtual – to contribute towards shaping a distinct, even at times contentious, political identity. Across the globe Millennials have increasingly engaged with social and political issues through original mediums of interaction. In East Asia, Millennials have used online platforms and practices to either invest or transform the political use of public spaces. New virtual spaces have garnered particular significance in the region seeing that more traditional or tangible spaces have alternatively suffered from growing disinterest or oppressive control. The emergence of new virtual fora of political speech has proven a structural phenomenon affecting every East Asian polity, regardless of the nature of the political regime considered. Indeed, while eschewing open activism, Millennials throughout East Asia have sought to consolidate their generation’s political identity through new practices and political habits, which often involved disguised forms of political struggle and resistance which thrive online. Novel youth-driven virtual public spaces have thus allowed for new political identities to be declared and tested. Among the region’s technologically sophisticated youth, online political engagement has in varying measures and cases served either as an answer to intensified government surveillance ranging from an avoidance strategy in the face of the growing securitization of public spaces to a tool for real-world political mobilization; or a means to transcend social isolation phenomena through online like-minded communities the scope of which can range from the local to the national or even macro-regional. These new spaces of political discourse and identity building online raise a series of crucial questions. How are these “hidden online transcripts and discourses” created? By whom? And to what effect, whether on the political identities of East Asian Millennials or even on the wider political climate within the region? The researcher will explore these questions within the framework of one of the most visible and highly controversial cases of political online activism in East Asia: cyber-nationalist discourse within and between the three North East Asian powers (i.e. China, Japan and South Korea). Possible questions might include any of the following three clusters: How are online discourses of millennials in North East Asia articulated with official ones? Do they function rather more as a vent for generational frustrations or as echoing chamber of state sponsored positions? Are younger generations’ online discourses re-appropriated by State-actors? And if so how? Is online activism an alternative or a gateway to other forms of (political) mobilization? What relationship between the online mobilization of millennials in North East Asia and established/historic nationalist movements? How does online nationalist discourse in North East Asia broach history-building in the region? How do online practices transform the relationship between nationalism and territory? How have online practices transformed the ways in which millennials “perform” their political identities? Have online practices led to a “gamification” of Nationalism? If so, to what effect? At least one article in peer-reviewed journals Organizing and hosting one workshop on the project’s overall topic Contributing one chapter and editing a collective volume to be published with Routledge on the topic of the project Prof. Thierry KELLNER, thierry.kellner@ulb.ac.be Faculté de Philosophy and Social Sciences: http://philoscsoc.ulb.be/ Prof. Vanessa FRANGVILLE, vanessa.frangville@ulb.ac.be. Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication: https://www.ulb.ac.be/ulb/presentation/ltc.html Any question pertaining to this post and related application process are to be directed via e-mail to both supervisors. Hiring Institution: Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium (as main institution) Duration of the research: 24 months (October 2018- October 2020), The fellow is expected to arrive in Brussels before the end of October 2018. Funding of the research: The selected fellow will be awarded a one-year (12 months) post-doc grant provided for through internal ULB funding. Following a review of the work accomplished the grant is to be extended for a further full year (12 months). The starting grant covers a gross amount of 42.800€ spread over the initial 12 months. Said starting grant will be paid out in monthly instalments at a gross income of about 3.523€ which corresponds to an average net income of about 2.400€. Please note that a Fellow’s individual net income after Social Security Contributions can vary in light of their nationality, family status and antecedents. PhD in Social Sciences with a preference for any of the following fields: International Relations, Political Science, Political Thought, Security Studies, Communication Studies or Asian Studies There is no requirement on nationality but the candidate must settle in Brussels within a month after the beginning of the contract. Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Fluency in written and spoken at least one of the following languages is required: Chinese and/or Japanese and/or Korean; Working Proficiency in a second of the identified Asian languages is equally expected – i.e. Chinese and/or Japanese and/or Korean is required for position; Working knowledge of French, or at least a willingness to learn it, is a plus Experience in the qualitative/quantitative analysis of online content Ability to use online Research Tools and Software for digital content analysis (e.g. Python, Nvivo…) Familiarity with relevant programming language(s) (e.g. R…) is a plus. → Full CfA (PDF)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line328
__label__cc	0.549385	0.450615	Home Tags Rotimi Amaechi Tag: Rotimi Amaechi Amaechi, El’Rufai Storm Kaduna, Inspect Facilities At Nigeria’s First Dry Port ReportersAtLarge - June 20, 2017 THE Governor of Kaduna State, Mr Nasir El-Rufai and the Minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi have stormed the city of Kaduna to inspect some... Amaechi Flags Off Dredging Of Ajaokuta-Onitsha Waterways ReportersAtLarge - April 28, 2017 •Says It Will Promote Cheaper Service Across 28 States THE Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has launched the maintenance dredging of the 162km Ajaokuta-Onitsha... FG Is Repositioning NIMASA To Improve Performance —Amaechi ReportersAtLarge - July 18, 2016 MINISTER of Transportation, Chuibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the federal government is repositioning the Nigeria Maritime and Security Agency (NIMASA) so as to bring... Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line Ready For Commercial Use July —Amaechi ReportersAtLarge - June 2, 2016 MINISTER of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has assured that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari, will ensure the sustenance of the Abuja-Kaduna rail project...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line329
__label__cc	0.529295	0.470705	Dr Jekyll and Mr Higgs There has been recently a lot of excitement around the world concerning the race for the Higgs. Fermilab now claims that they have 50-50 chance to get a 3 sigma Higgs signal before the LHC, thus providing a modern reenactment of Aesop's The tortoise and the hare. As for me, the prospective discovery itself, although eagerly awaited, is not actually that thrilling. There are compelling theoretical arguments that Higgs does exist (he was recently spotted in Edinburgh opera). Moreover, experiment directly constrains the Higgs mass to be larger than 115 GeV and, indirectly, smaller than some 150 GeV. This leaves a narrow ballpark making the situation somewhat similar to the top-quark discovery. The more exciting question is which Higgs will we find. Yes, the God particle has numerous incarnations that answer different prayers of theorists. Here is a brief summary of the most popular Higgs avatars. Standard Higgs A perfect guy, to the point of being boring. He does everything he is supposed to do, and perfectly matches all experimental results so far (apart from the small tension with electroweak precision tests). We know everything about him except for the mass. It is believed, however, that left alone and unprotected he would acquire a large mass. This purely theoretical argument prompts most of what follows. Susy Higgs The marriage of Susy and Higgs has lasted for more than 30 years. Susy provides stabilization to Higgs, keeping its mass small enough. Sadly enough, bad tongues and the LEP experiment have left deep scars on this relationship. The problem is that the minimal supersymmetric model ties the Higgs boson mass to the Z boson mass. The failure to discover Higgs LEP implies that the parameters of the minimal model must be finely-tuned in order to accommodate the higher mass, thus spoiling the naturalness of the whole construction. Composite Higgs Higgs does not have to be that elementary - it is natural to imagine that Higgs is a bound state like many other particles we have observed. For example, it could be a meson made of new quarks glued together by new strong interactions. The problem with this idea is that a simple back-of-a-napkin estimate suggests that the Higgs mass should not be much different from the scale of the new strong interactions. Since we have seen nothing like that up to a few hundreds of GeV, the mass of the composite Higgs would have to be larger, contrary to what electroweak precision tests seem to tell us. Or there must be some more structure that keeps the mass light enough... Pseudo-Goldstone Higgs Susy does not have exclusive rights on controlling quantum corrections to the Higgs mass. Particle's masses can also be protected by spontaneously broken global symmetries. A similar mechanism operates in real life and was awarded a Nobel prize last year: thanks to that mechanism the QCD pions remain lighter than the QCD scale. The Higgs boson could also arise as a pseudo-Goldstone boson when a new strong dynamics spontaneously breaks its own global symmetries. But at the end of the day this simple idea does not work as well as it is supposed to. First, the name is unattractive and difficult to pronounciate (worse still, around Chicago it becomes a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-boson-Higgs monster). Besides, the new strong interactions meddle with electroweak precision observables, and at the end of the day the fine-tuning is only slightly better than in minimal supersymmetry. Little Higgs Little Higgs is a variation on the theme of the pseudo-Goldstone Higgs. The new strong interactions are pushed to higher scales, around 10 TeV, while an additional structure - the so-called collective symmetry breaking - protects that scale separation. While this idea can be made completely realistic and the fine-tuning of parameters can be acceptably small, fully realistic constructions are situated somewhere between late baroque and early racoco. Fat Higgs Not that he's very pretty, but he has a cool name. This one combines the ideas of composite Higgs and supersymmetry. A strongly coupled Susy gauge theory sits in the conformal window all the way down till the TeV scale. At that point, due to the fact that some of the flavors have TeV scale masses, the theory drops out of the window and confines. The challenge is make all the numbers work and get rid of all the excess bagagge that comes along. Invisible Higgs Could it be that Higgs was at LEP but we missed it? Actually, in models with additional singlet fields it is common that Higgs decays into exotic particles that escape from the detector without being seen. Such a cheap trick would not fool LEP, however, and invisible Higgs is just as well constrained as the standard one. Nevertheless, one can devise more complicated models where Higgs is partly invisible and hides from LEP analyses even though his mass is below 115 GeV. Unhiggs Every kid has to go through a negation phase at some point. It may be that Higgs is neither a god nor a particle after all. Instead, it could be a fuzzy continuum of excitations and still perfectly fulfill its role. Higgsless Finally one should mention that Higgs might not exist. This athehigsm has some scientific support. Electroweak symmetry can be broken by a condensate in a strongly interacting theory, much as it happens to chiral symmetries in QCD. In that case Higgs is expandable, and his role is played by new resonances whose spin is one rather than zero. That is not as bad as it seems since these new resonances must have masses within the LHC reach to make the picture consistent. Higgsless theories are disfavored by electroweak precision and flavor tests, but the ultimate answer will be given by the LHC. Unless reality is Unhiggsless. WHO IS GOING TO WIN THE RACE? WILL IT BE HIGGS-THE-PERFECT-BORING-GUY? OR HIGGS' LOVE FOR SUSY WILL OVERCOME THE OBSTACLES? OR MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE WILL MEDDLE IN THE RACE? STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT EPISODES. To definitely nail down the nature of Higgs we'll probably need to wait for future linear colliders, but some partial answers should be provided in two years from now, if all goes well. What's up at Susy's? Remember Sunset Boulevard? An aging star (Susy) who fell from grace (after the LHC) ponders on her past glory, forgotten in a vast mansion (MSSM), attended only by her ex-lover (John Ellis)... Well, we are not exactly at that stage yet -- Susy is still found attractive and is being actively pursued by many. Actually, decadence fosters art: the subject of low energy supersymmetry has recently seen several interesting theoretical developments. I'd like to point out here the latest take on gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking. Susy predicts tons of new particles whose masses should not be larger than TeV. Although colliders have not yet probed the TeV scale directly, certain precise measurements at lower energies are in principle sensitive to the TeV scale. This is especially true for flavor violating processes, that is the ones that do not conserve generation quantum numbers such as (S)trangenes or (B)eauty. In the Standard Model, the amplitudes for all such processes can be predicted in terms of a few elements of the CKM matrix. Precise studies of the kaon mixing as well as the recent flood of experimental results from the B-factories have confirmed the Standard Model predictions leaving little room for new physics. New particles required by Susy generically violate the flavor symmetries of the Standard Model leading to new large contributions to flavor violating processes. The reason is that, in principle, the mass terms for squarks and slepton masses do not have to respect the approximate flavor symmetries of the Standard Model. In the half-empty approach that is very unfortunate and leads to the conclusion that there can be no Susy at the TeV scale. In the half-full approach that is fortunate as it gives us a clue as to how the supersymmetric particles are organized. The flavor problem strongly hints that something like gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking is at work. Gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking, proposed back in the early eighties, is a scheme designed to overcome the Susy flavor problem. It assumes that the masses of squarks and sleptons are produced in 3 steps. First, there is a dark sector somewhere out there, in which supersymmetry is broken, perhaps dynamically. Second, there exists a set of fields, called the messengers, who communicate between the dark sector and the MSSM. The messengers couple to the dark sector and directly experience the supersymmetry breaking, so that the masses of the messenger fermions and scalars are different. At the same time, the messengers also couple to the MSSM gauginos and gauge bosons, because they are charged under the Standard Model color and electroweak group. Thanks to that, in the last step supersymmetry breaking masses for the squarks and the sleptons are generated via loop diagrams involving the messenger fields. Because gauge interactions are flavor blind - gauge bosons couple in the same way to all three generation - the squark and slepton masses end up being approximately diagonal in the generation space. A diagonal matrix does not break any symmetries - approximate flavor symmetries of the Standard Model are protected. The world is saved again. Many of you might be familiar with the minimal gauge mediation model. That model introduces very few free parameters: the scale of gauge mediation and the number of messengers (and some more parameters in the Higgs sector) and for this reason it makes sharp predictions. The most spectacular prediction is that the gravitino is the lightest supersymmetric particle to which all other superparticles ultimately decay. On top of that, minimal gauge mediation predicts specific mass relations among gauginos, squarks, and sleptons. Minimal models are extremely important from the sociological point of view because they facilitate plotting exclusion limits, which has been the main activity in particle physics in the last 30 years. At the cognitive level, however, it is interesting to know if gauge mediation makes general predictions that are independent of the particular model of messengers. That's quite relevant for the LHC who should be prepared for all sensible scenarios. There are also theoretical reasons to go beyond the minimal model, as some of its mass relations are troublesome. In particular, the fact that the stop squark is heavier than the lightest slepton by almost a factor of 10 leads to a large fine-tuning undermining the very motivation for supersymmetry. There has been of course a lot on non-minimal models proposed in the last decades. But only one year ago the paper entitled General Gauge Mediation made an attempt to systematize all consistent realizations of that scheme. It turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the mass relations between superparticles can be completely altered in general gauge mediation. There are however two sum rules for superparticle masses that remain true independently of all detail and, ultimately, these sum rules should allow us to distinguish gauge mediation from other models of supersymmetry breaking. Phenomenological consequences of general gauge mediation are just beginning to be explored, see here for example. The general formulation can be extended to the supersymmetry breaking parameters in the Higgs sector. Theorists vs multi-muons There has not been much talking recently about the CDF multi-muon anomaly. Unlike the PAMELA/ATIC cosmic-ray anomaly, the CDF one did not trigger a lot of theoretical activity. There is more than one reason for this shroud of silence. On one hand, even though it is possible to write an ad-hoc particle models that describe various characteristics of the multi-muon signal, it seems hopeless to fit that in a bigger picture. On the other hand, multiple members of the CDF collaboration refer to the multi-muon publication as "that crap" (when being polite), while those who signed it admit the fact with certain embarrassment. Besides, the main author of the analysis is, hmm, a controversial figure, which does not help either (to understand the context, see Tommaso's account of the superjets saga). Nevertheless, there is always a possibility that the multi-muon anomaly signals genuine new physics rather than mice in the detector, and few theorists try their luck. Today there was a paper on arXiv that sheds some light on the possible production mechanism of the mysterious ghost particles. As explained earlier, the multi-muon signal can be a result of a pair of "ghost" scalar particles with the mass around 15 GeV cascade-decaying into four tau leptons each. But the question how these ghosts particles are produced in the first place was not addressed in the original publications. It turns out that a vialable possibility is to couple the ghost field $\phi$ to the Standard Model quarks q via higher-dimensional operators. The non-renormalizable dimension-5 operator: $\frac{1}{\Lambda} (\bar q q) \phi^2$ provides a pretty good fit to the invariant mass distribution of the ghost muons, see the plot. Dimension-six operators involving the ghost fields coupled to quarks or gluons are disfavored. One can think of this dimension-5 operator as an effective interaction left after integrating out a heavier particle with renormalizable interactions (in analogy to the Fermi theory of weak interactions after integrating out the W boson). For example, what would do here is a heavy doublet field $H_q$ (but not the Higgs!) interacting with the quarks via $Q u H_q$ and with the ghost pair via $H \phi^2$. But there is a tension here. The cross-section for the ghost pair production is required to be very large for the particle physics standard: 200 picobarns or so. To match that, the scale $\Lambda$ suppressing the dimension-5 operator has to be as low as 200 GeV. In consequence, the integrated-out particle cannot be too heavy and there is a danger that it violates some of the known experimental bounds. In particular, it could generate other higher-dimension effective operators, like the four-quark operator $(q q)^2/\Lambda^2$ that would affect dijet distributions at the Tevatron. Surprisingly, unlike four-lepton operators that were extremely well constrained by LEP, there is no strong bounds in the literature on four-quark effective operators (except for the bound on $(Q \gamma_\mu Q)^2/2\Lambda^2$ which is $\Lambda > 700$ GeV, but that's not directly applicable here). Improving the bounds on four-quark operators could clarify the situation and, in fact, would be extremely interesting for many other applications. Quirks Back in the old days life was so easy. Everybody knew that the right theory at the TeV scale was the MSSM who in turn was a compactification of the heterotic string theory. One could lead a quite life picking colors for the mSUGRA parameter space. This perfect world began to crumble at the turn of century. At first, the alternative models had the same objective as supersymmetry in mind: to solve the hierarchy problem and explain the lightness of the Higgs boson. But soon the rules got relaxed and everything became allowed. Recently, there has been a lot theoretical activity related to models motivated not by naturalness of electroweak symmetry breaking but rather by exotic collider signatures that are not covered by standard experimental searches. I guess the first example of such unmotivated model was split supersymmetry; unparticles and hidden valleys are more recent examples of this trend. Quirks, advertised in this paper by Junhai Kang and Markus Luty, is the latest addition in that list. Imagine there is a hidden sector in the form of an SU(N) gauge theory. In addition, the hidden sector contains a quark (vector-like fermion in the fundamental representation of SU(N)) with mass m. Another mass parameter characterizing the gauge theory is the confinement scale $\Lambda$ - the analog of the QCD scale $\Lambda_{QCD}$ - where the hidden gluons and quarks become confined into glueballs, mesons and baryons. So far it looks standard. What distinguishes quirks from the familiar QCD-like dynamics is that the quark mass is much larger than the condensation scale: $m \gg \Lambda$ and there are no other quarks that are lighter. Models with such a heavy quark have pretty weird, quirky properties. To understand why, recall what happens in the usual QCD when a quark-antiquark pair is produced. The two quarks would like to fly apart from the collision point but, because of the nature of strong interactions, there is a color flux tube forming between them. This flux tube can be thought of as a string connecting the two quarks - that's what they call confinement. The energy stored in the string is proportional to the distance between the quarks, and to the string tension which is of the order of the QCD confinement scale $\Lambda_{QCD}$. In QCD, the string energy per unit length is large enough to produce a new quark-antiquark pair out of the vacuum. In consequence, the QCD string snaps. The end result is a lot of hadronic junk flying along the directions of the initial quarks that materialize as jets in a detector. In the case of quirks, the energy of the string per unit length is far too small to rip a pair of new quirks out of the vacuum. Thus, the quirky string does not break. Furthermore, quirks cannot decay to the glueballs, even though the latter are much lighter, because of conserved quantum numbers. Once produced, two quirks are chained together by the string and oscillate back and forth. The typical length of the string is given $m/\Lambda^2$. Plugging in $m = 1$ TeV (so that we can produce quirks at the LHC) and $\Lambda$ between 100 GeV and 100 eV (why not), the length of the string varies from $10^{-17}$m (microscopic) to 10m (detector size!). That's why the experimenters at the LHC wear protective helmets: one may get hit anytime by the loose end of the string. In order to produce quirks at the LHC, the quirks must be coupled to the Standard Model somehow. The simplest thing to assume is to give quirks the usual electric or color charge, although there are other possibilities. The search strategy also depends on the model assumptions. One phenomenologically important factor is the typical length of the string connecting the quirks.If the string is macroscopic, that is larger than a millimeter (corresponding to $\Lambda <10 a="" and="" annihilates="" annihilation="" antiquirk="" are="" argue="" back="" be="" because="" bound="" br="" brings="" broad.="" brown="" but="" by="" can="" cannot="" case="" collider="" completely="" context="" control="" could="" curvature="" decay="" details="" detector.="" difference="" different="" discovery.="" distribution="" easy="" employed="" event="" exerted="" exotic="" field="" for="" force="" if="" in="" invariant="" is="" kev="" less="" long-lived="" magnetic="" mass="" may="" mean="" microscopic="" millimeter="" muck="" not="" observe="" of="" one="" ordinary="" original="" pair="" particles.="" process="" products="" quirk-antiquirk="" quirk="" quirks="" quite="" rate="" resolve="" search="" separate="" shorter="" signatures="" similar="" so="" spectacular.="" spectacular="" state="" strategy="" string="" strings="" suppressed.="" surrounding="" than="" that="" the="" them="" then="" theoretically="" these="" this="" thus="" to="" together.="" tracks="" two="" ultimately="" varies="" very="" which="" would=""> More details in the paper. See also slides from a recent talk at CERN.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line334
__label__wiki	0.676361	0.676361	Pure Quotes He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot. Matt Mckay This movie works, but it's pure luck. Just from a pure motivation standpoint and the way he gets out there and plays the game it's uplifting to everybody. Monty Beisel Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. Barbara Schapiro Their yards are almost pure limestone. There's almost no soil. Rose Lord This an animal abuse case. This is pure and simple murder. Bonnie Reed We came well-prepared and I give credit to all the boys. It was pure hard work. Nel Parado He's big on that, they're all big on that. They're all big on anti-God, Satanism. They're really just pure hate is the way the entire group is. I know all of them, I'm acquaintances of all of them -- I wouldn't say friends, but I don't reject them. Brooks Brown In the '70s, when I started here, your heroin was probably 7 to 15 percent pure. It was cut with cornstarch and everything else. Chief Charles Huska She's a pure athlete who has a lot of really good tools. She's a great defensive player, she hits well and she has good speed. She has a lot going for her. Natalie Peters Sometimes people put too much meaning into things. Liking something for pure aesthetics can be great. Greg T. Spielberg They're pure showgirl birds, a touch of Las Vegas maybe. That's pure Julie stuff. David Kneuss Colgate has to pay attention to these kinds of people. This still needs to be seen as a 'pure' brand. Does anyone believe that Julie should be prosecuted for a felony or a misdemeanor as a result of an accident, a pure accident? So that's where we are...we're at an impasse because they have taken the initiative to launch a criminal investigation. Michael Morchower His was a very different audition. He had something special. This boy is pure; he's not contaminated and has an inner life that he brought to the character. Luis Mandoki Pure by impure is not seen. The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually alone. It's like you're the first one to ever be there. Everything is perfectly pristine and very quiet - snow dampens all the sound. Alvin Anderson It was nothing but pure fun. I was happy with Pure at the time, but I've moved on so much. Hayley Westenra Pure TNT is extraordinarily dangerous and may be linked towards trying to circumvent the process of making a nuclear device. Magnus Ranstorp	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line341
__label__wiki	0.655466	0.655466	[WoT] Public Test of 0.9.1 Give your feedback on the 0.9.1 update that is being publicly tested these days. Main things to pay attention to: 1. Performance and stability 2. New Map: Kharkiv 3. Marks of Excellence on barrels 4. Reworked matchmaking for light tanks tier IV-VII. Rebalanced MT-25 and VK 28.01 5. Increased visibility for TDs after firing 6. Two new Historical Battles added: Bryansk Front (USSR, 1942) and Siege of Tobruk (North Africa, 1942). Labels: 0.9.1, feedback, pc, public test, wot Tanks against Hooligans In 1992 the Balkans erupted into civil war. As most civil wars do this one descended into atrocity and crimes against humanity. As a teen watching the news it was the first time I'd ever heard the words "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing". The years before the outbreak of the war had seen violence in the area, to such an extent the United Nations had stepped in to try and stabilize the situation and setting up the UN Protection Force. This multi-national force worked throughout the civil war to try to keep the excesses of the combatants in check and save lives. While partially successful things carried on getting worse, as the situation deteriorated heavier forces were dispatched. In the autumn of 1993 the Danes stepped up, and dispatched a squadron of tanks to reinforce NORDBAT 2. NORDBAT 2 was a battalion of Nordic raised troops based at Tuzla in Bosnia. The squadron was made up of ten Leopard 1A5's from the Jutland Dragoons called DANSQDN. On April the 4th a small fire fight broke out between the tanks and Serbian forces, this had followed increasing tensions in the area. Soon afterwards the UN positions were being regularly shelled. NORDBAT 2 then came up with a response plan called Operation Bøllebank, which translates as "Hooligan Bashing". The idea was the tanks would act as a reaction force, as the UN soldiers had noticed that Serb forces tended to stop shooting when the tanks arrived. As the situation got worse the Serbian forces decided to lay a trap. At 2200 on April 29th, 1994 the Serbian forces began to fire upon an observation post called TANGO 2, which watched the Serbian border. This was a fairly regular occurrence, as the position had been hit twenty eight times in the preceding weeks. This time the position was taken under direct fire as well as indirect. The seven Swedish soldiers manning the position radioed for help and Operation Bøllebank was set in motion again. Two platoons led by the Squadron Commander, Major Carsten Rasmussen moved out, and as they neared TANGO 2 they met the APC of the second in command (Colonel Lars Møller) of NORDBAT 2 who was heading to the position as well. TANGO 2 At 2315 the column reached the town of Saraci. They drove in boldly, the bright white Leopards gleaming in the headlamps of the other tanks. They still had to cover ten kilometres to reach TANGO 2. That's when Serbian forces from the Sekovici brigade began to shell the Danish tanks. Col. Møller left one of the tank platoons in the village to provide overwatch and carried on the advance with the remaining four tanks. Barrelling forward at speed it took about fifteen minutes to reach the village of Kalesija, all the while the Serbians fired upon the column. Just outside of Kalesija a road led towards TANGO 2, however there is a tight hairpin turn in the road. The heavy tanks had to slow to a crawl to get around it. The first two tanks had negotiated the turn when a warning blared out across the radio. The overwatching platoon had seen the flash of guided missiles launching, and could see the flares from the booster rockets tracking across the darkness towards their colleagues on the road. The first missile was off by only a few metres hitting the ground between two tanks. A second missile had been aimed at Col. Møller's APC, but hit a building he was parked next to. The final missile was perfectly aimed at the rearmost Leopard. Flashing arrow straight towards the bright white tank, the driver alerted by the warning slammed his brakes on, and the missile blew a hole in the road just in front of the skidding tank. Against the darkness the Serbian positions began to twinkle with lights as cannon and HMG began to pepper the road. The two Leopards that had made the hairpin turn were ordered forward to TANGO 2, they came under fire from the Zvornik brigade, but blasted through the Serbian positions and reached TANGO 2. The rest of the column below the hairpin retreated into Kalesija. Under cover from direct fire the Serbs started shelling the tanks with mortars. At this point both Maj. Rasmussen and Col. Møller came to the same conclusion. That enough is enough, and the Serbs had filled the Rules Of Engagement (ROE). In Bosnia UNPROFOR's ROE said that they could return fire in self defence, at any weapon shooting at them. In Saraci the overwatch platoon received the orders "Neutralize the anti-tank positions!". The long range was not a problem for the tanks, fully fitted with computerised fire control systems linked to laser range finders and fitted with thermal sights, the three Leopards effortlessly destroyed the anti-tank missile positions. But the enemy was well dug in with several positions and carried on firing. The two tanks in Kalesija joined in firing against a second set of positions on a nearby mountain. Their next salvo knocked out a light AA gun, observation post and crippled a bunker. The expert gunnery of the Danes and the lack of targets quickly silenced the Serbian positions. The vehicles in Kalesija waited a while to see if any other fire would be incoming, when it wasn't they broke cover to fall back to Saraci. However as soon as they were visible again the Serbians opened fire once more. The overwatch platoon responded immediately by giving the Serbian positions a massive beating. The three Leopards fired constantly as fast as they could fire for 15 minutes. As the overwatch platoon opens fire they see a flicker in their thermal scopes. Three Serbian T-55's had switched on their infrared searchlights. However the thermal sights showed that the gun barrels of the tanks are cold. What happens next differs from account to account. Some say all three T-55's are knocked out by the Danish fire, others that they are not engaged at all. All we know is the Danish vehicles managed to get into Saraci without taking any hits. Then the Danish forces pull out of Saraci, the last shot fired by one of the overwatch platoon gets lucky and hits a ammunition stockpile causing a massive explosion that provides excellent confusion to help cover the tanks withdrawal. During the fight the Danes fired 72 rounds, with 44 being high explosive, nine white phosphorous and 19 sabot, and they took no casualties. The Serbians admitted to nine killed, although estimates suggest a figure of about 150 is closer to the truth. Col. Møller said after the battle: "It was an ambush, and a damn good one, Tango Two was the cheese, and we were the mouse. But this time the mouse ate the cat."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line345
__label__wiki	0.866371	0.866371	Mark Gunter Cycling Photography Awards Announced Cycling Tips have announced an exciting new competition for professional, up-and-coming and amateur photographers of cycling sport. The inaugural Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards have been set up to commemorate the life and achievements of Mark Gunter, a widely respected Australian photographer who sadly died after a brave fight with cancer last year, aged just 41. Mark worked in cycling photography for nearly 20 years and covered the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and the Tour Down Under among other prestigious races. Cycling Australia said that “he built a tremendous career across a number of world, national and local events of all disciplines…capturing the attention of the cycling world through his amazing imagery.” In News Tags Mark Gunter, Cycling Tips, Graham watson, Kristof Ramon, jered ashley gruber	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line350
__label__wiki	0.633848	0.633848	The Rock-itt : November 2011 HOBART TO HOLLYWOOD Sirocco left Lizard Island after leaving the marooned people who they had cared for, in the safe hands of the customs authorities who had eventually come to rescue them. Errol climbed to the cross trees of the mast and kept lookout for the entrance to Cooks Passage which would allow them a clear run through to the Barrier Reef and out into the Coral Sea . Finally the passage was sighted and Sirocco motored through the same waters that her predecessor HMS Endeavour had 200 years earlier, captained by the world’s greatest of all navigators, Captain James Cook. As the end of “The Passage” neared, a school of playful dolphins led Sirocco out into the open sea. Her bow was turned eastward and in the direction of Papua New Guinea. Errol was somewhat sceptical whether or not Sirocco would handle what lay ahead. The area between Australia and New Guinea was known for cyclonic conditions and Sirocco wasn’t built to handle that kind of weather, but there was no turning back. They would have to take their chances. The sails were hoisted and now with a stiff breeze giving them good speed, Sirocco’s knife like bow sliced through the green wall of water leaving a foaming furrow in her wake. By nightfall they had covered good distance but now the swell had risen and the skies were darkening. The black clouds looked anything but friendly and with the swell breaking over Sirocco’s deck, they were taking water below which made a roster of hard pumping necessary if they wanted to stay afloat. The hatches had to remain battened and pumping in the stinking environment of diesel fumes and the smell of rotting fish was intolerable. Soon everyone was seasick and even if they could cook they would have brought it back up again. But as they steered Sirocco, trying to hold a course, the weather worsened and soon the waves were thumping into Sirocco threatening to tear her hull apart. The pumping out went on throughout the night exhausting all onboard and the seas remained merciless with their pounding force working on the aging timbers of Sirocco as she creaked and groaned under the fierce continuous pummelling. The next four days weather wise were unrelenting as well as sleepless. Apart from leaving the cramped wheelhouse at the stern to pump out, they huddled in the only dry part of the boat, hungry, seasick and exhausted. Still the Coral sea vented her anger on the boat and her crew as if giving a nasty welcome to intruders to her domain. Errol’s greatest fear was that Sirocco’s mast would come down as on many occasions the wire stays which held her from toppling, humm ed like violin strings before snapping, the broken ends slashing crazily at the air, quite capable of decapitating a man if he were near it. Finally, it was decided that instead of fighting the gale they would let it take them on with it, hoping it would not take them too far off course and with	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line351
__label__cc	0.542836	0.457164	(The Untold Stories of Neverland, Book 1) FANTASY/FAIRYTALE AGE 15+ DUE TO MILD LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE Neverland has always been their sanctuary—until now. Magic is dying in Neverland. Only one pixie is brave enough to search the human world for someone to believe. Tink finds a desolate boy flying in the night, peering in windows, searching for the life he once knew. But can she convince him to abandon his quest and save Neverland? Discover the untold story of the boy destined to become Peter Pan. THE TINY PIXIE flew over the dark rooftops to the crumbling tower in the center of the town. Zipping to the top, she chose her usual spot and greeted the gargoyle perched on the edge of the roof. Taking one final look to make sure she had the best view, she plopped down on the tip of the monster’s nose and settled in to watch the boy fly from house to house. Back and forth, from one window to the next he flew, staying at each only long enough to peer through the panes of glass…searching… At least he was taking his task seriously, she decided, watching him raise up on his toes in an effort to gain a better look inside one darkened, upstairs room. Some guardians were lazy, but this one was not, which was just as well, she noted, as the small, shadowy figure of a child exited through the window and joined him. A few seconds later, the two flew off into the night sky. The children of humans could be a handful—the ghosts of them even more so, especially when they realized they were no longer among the living. It only made sense to appoint another child to deal with their sorrow and accompany their spirits to the other side. The source of her attention currently gone, the pixie idly kicked into the open air. Small bits of dust sprinkled each time her feet touched the open mouth of the monster she’d been making a seat of. She glanced down, noticing his bottom teeth now sparkled like gold in the moonlight, giving him an even more ferocious look. The poor thing looked dreadful, with long curling teeth and bulging eyes—nothing at all like her own pretty, golden self. She gave him a bright smile. Likely, that was the only kindness ever given the monster forever stuck up here on the edge of this roof, so she reached down and gave his hard cheek an affectionate pat before turning her attention back to the sprawling town below. After all, she hadn’t come to save this monster. She’d come for the boy and soon he would need her—but not nearly as much as she needed him. ✯´¨) ¸.•´¨) ¸.•¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•`✯••´¨`•.☆ Archie Jameson sat in the dark corners of the print shop, dreaming of adventure. Today, it found him. Caught in a chilly October storm, he ducked into a tavern, hoping to escape the rain. What he found, was a room teeming with pirates. Shanghaied by the most elderly of the lot, Archie found himself serving on a ship captained by the fiercest pirate ever to sail the seven seas—the man known as Blackbeard. Through a series of thrilling twists, Archie finds himself captain of another of Blackbeard’s ships, the Jolig Roger. In an attempt to flee danger, his ship becomes lost under stars never before seen. Determined to save both his crew and the woman he loves, Archie will make decisions that will forever seal his fate. Discover the untold story of the man who became Captain Hook. AN ETERNITY PASSED before Big Ben tolled five bells. They were heavenly peals to Archibald Jameson, who began to wonder if time had somehow gotten stuck or if the gigantic clock across the square was broken. Stretching out his long legs, he stood up from the desk and scooted around the corner, taking care not to bump the towering mountain of paper at the edge. Naturally, it was the largest stack in the entire room—the work that he had yet to finish. If he was even a fraction as meticulous a man as his father—the very man who left him the shop—he would have stayed, locked the front door, and remained into the wee hours to finish the work, however long it should take. But he was not his father, and he had no intention of pretending to be so. While he was very good at running the print shop, it wasn’t something he enjoyed. It was only what he must do to ensure his survival. Remaining any longer than necessary just wasn’t going to happen as far as Archie was concerned. His inheritance should have been a blessing since he was the youngest of four sons. Without the steady work the shop provided, he might as well have lived out on the street, begging for what scraps could be found. To him, the feel of the paper and smell of ink felt like a prison where he was trapped day in and out. His only release came in daydreams. As he pondered another life or another world, the work piled up before him. He spent hours upon hours each day, dreaming of adventure, of places and people that always made those in his life seem dull in comparison. Those daydreams made his life bearable. But even the daydreams wouldn’t hold him there once Big Ben chimed its fifth peal. He never stayed a second longer than required. He blew out lamps and turned over the sign in the window, then pulled on his frayed, black frock. He took one last glance around, then slapped on his hat and stepped outside. Chilly air greeted him as he pulled the door shut, listening to the muted sounds of the doorbell. He turned the key in the lock and jiggled the knob. Odd, he thought. The tinkling sounds he heard earlier sounded nothing at all like the brass bell on the frame of that door. Odd, indeed. Perhaps it was the remnants of his latest daydream, for the door had never sounded that way before. Still pondering the bell, he turned and rammed directly into a young boy, who let out an audible oof, as he landed on the side of the street. “I do beg your pardon,” Archie said, offering both his apologies and his hand to help the boy up. The lad flashed a smile, showing a unique set of small, pearly white teeth, before he took Archie’s proffered hand and replied, “Quite alright.” Without waiting for Archie to say anything more, the boy took off, disappearing around the bend. Hunching over against the cold wind that sent leaves dancing about his legs, Archie shoved his hands deep into his pockets, and made his way down the bricked street, no longer in the rush he was in moments before. “Mary, I don’t see how we can afford to keep her.” The booming voice was startling. Archie glanced up at a window, which was open in spite of the chill. “Let’s see, two pounds nineteen…” “George, dear…” “Now, Mary, hold on a moment. I have the tally right here. Do you think we might try it for half a year on say, five five three? Only half the year, mind you. Oh, drat, I forgot to figure in colic.” The voice of the man and his wife argued back and forth as Archibald stood, rooted in place, wondering at their strange conversation. As this was his normal route home, he walked by No. 27 every evening. He half-hoped this financial dispute might possibly involve their dog. If it did, he would be more than willing to step up and offer to solve their financial dilemma. He lived alone and the thought of the trim Newfoundland he had seen carrying in bottles of milk from the front steps bolstered his spirits. The talk of colic, however, kept him from knocking on the front door. “Shall we say one pound? Yes, that is what I’ll put down. But what of mumps? I’ve heard that can be quite taxing. I daresay that should be twenty shillings there. Don’t give me that look, Mary.” It was at this point a sharp cry of an infant pierced their conversation and Archibald was quite certain that Nana the Newfoundland was most assuredly not the topic of money, colic, mumps, and their current distraught state. He shook his head, wondering about the sanity of the Darlings in No. 27 as the silhouette of a woman he presumed to be Mary shut the window and the voices muted. Poor Nana, Archibald thought, to be stuck with people such as that. He didn’t even want to think about the child whose fate rested on the odds of her contracting whooping-cough and so he openly wished the inhabitants of No. 27 would not be so lucky as to have any additional offspring. He voiced exactly that, and in that same instant, heard that funny peal of bells again. This time it sounded suspiciously like laughter. He spun around, searching for the source, and saw only a crone of an old woman who stepped out of No. 31. She heard his wish and obviously didn’t agree with his rather bold assessment. Archie was fairly sure she hadn’t laughed a day since she had been born, and moreover, he was absolutely certain that glorious day of her arrival had been at least a century earlier. “Well,” she puffed up, looking much like a wrinkled, ancient bullfrog before she croaked, “I never!” “Yes, madam. I should hope for precisely never as it seems the most promising period of time,” he smiled and bent, giving her an elaborately low bow to thank her for her agreement. “For to wish them more mouths to feed, when one seems to be their undoing, would be bad form, indeed.” The old woman gaped at him, mouth working like a fish out of water. Then, she clamped it shut in a fierce scowl, and proceeded to slam the door with as much vigor as her frail limbs could muster. Archibald smiled to himself, silently touching the brim of his hat in mock farewell before he spun, leaving the occupants of both No. 27 and No. 31 to their own devices and ignorance. He continued his stroll down the street in much better spirits, knowing that he bested the old woman and possibly even the Darlings without their even knowing it, though he was certain his sentiments would most certainly be relayed by their overly observant neighbor. Ah, well. They should have known better than to trifle with something such as a child. A small victory, certainly, but victory nonetheless if it caused them to think of someone other than themselves. The breeze picked up and proceeded to burst insistent, frigid puffs that threatened to dislodge his hat. He clamped one hand on top, squishing it down around his lean face as he resolutely lengthened his stride and marched on, determined to make it home before the storm set in. He’d almost made it to the corner, to the place where he normally made the left on N. Westburl, and then a right onto 43rd, followed by a various assortment of other long deviations that would get him safely home, when a large crack of thunder shook the air. He decided that just this once he might consider taking the most direct route, albeit dangerous, foreboding, and possibly life-threatening. He stopped right on the bend of the street, uncertain for a fleeting moment, until the next jolting crack of thunder made up his mind for him. He headed straight along Market Street, which followed the length of the Thames River, hoping that the seedy individuals who lurked around the pier were as mindful of the storm as he, and would not cause him trouble on this particular evening, for even though he was quick-witted and could talk himself out of most troubles, sailors tended to be a harder breed of people. They were a sharp and cunning lot, and Archie did not know if he could outsmart anyone else that day, and didn’t wish to press his luck. He made it past the pier, hesitating just long enough to glance at the small boats tied to the dock. There were obviously people about, and so far he had been lucky enough not to encounter any of them. But one final ground-shaking crack and the tinkling sound of bells changed it all. The clouds overhead clashed and he ran for the shelter of a nearby tavern, barely escaping the torrent of rain. Archie had never been in The Captain’s Keg before. He stopped just inside the door and let his eyes adjust to the dark, smoke-filled room. He realized that not only had he run into the very people he wished to avoid, but that he also had a new problem. These men weren’t just sailors. He was ready to run back out and take his chances of drowning in the street, when he heard the same tinkling of bells from earlier. This time, it sounded like mocking laughter. Well. He might very well be losing his mind, but a coward he was not. He straightened to his full height—all six feet and four inches of it—and removed his crumpled hat with a flourish, tucking it under his arm. He walked proudly down the three steps that led into the heart of the tavern—to a bar, teeming with pirates. K.R. Thompson was raised in the mountains of rural Virginia. She resides in Bland County with her husband, son, two cats and an undeterminable amount of chickens. She is an avid reader, firm believer of magic, and still watches for evidence of Bigfoot in the mud of Wolf Creek. MoB Promos magicofbookspromo@gmail.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line353
__label__cc	0.749449	0.250551	Home/Events/Energy Seminar: A Portfolio Approach to Managing Reliability Risks in Renewable Energy Investments Energy Seminar: A Portfolio Approach to Managing Reliability Risks in Renewable Energy Investments Frank Wolak, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Professor, Economics, Stanford University Talk Abstract: Wind and solar generation units produce where and when the underlying resource is available. For given the technology, how much output is produced in an hour at one location is likely to be highly correlated with how much is produced at another location. By locating renewable generation capacity taking into account this correlation, a far less volatile aggregate output stream can be obtained. This talk uses hourly location-level wind and solar generation output and real-time price data from the California ISO control area for a one-year time period is used to compute the vector of means the contemporaneous covariance hourly output and revenues across all wind and solar locations to examine the extent to which potential exists. This information is used to estimate an economic model that is used to compute the annual hourly output and annual hourly revenues mean/standard deviation efficient frontiers for wind and solar resource locations in the California ISO control area. For both mean/standard deviation efficient frontiers, economically meaningful differences between portfolios on the efficient frontier and the actual wind and solar capacity mix are found. Most of the hourly output and hourly revenue risk-reducing benefits from optimal choice of locational capacities is captured by a mix of wind resources, with the addition of solar resources only slightly increasing the set of feasible portfolio mean and standard deviation combinations. The risk-adjusted maximum expected hourly output portfolio and the risk-adjusted maximum expected hourly revenue portfolio are computed and in both cases, the weights for these portfolios are found to concentrate capacity on a small number of existing wind and solar locations. Recommendations for the design of renewable energy support mechanisms and interconnection policies to provide incentives to realize these reliability benefits will be discussed. Monday, April 11, 2016. 04:30 PM NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center Precourt Institute for Energy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line354
__label__cc	0.658101	0.341899	Short Guy Central News Height Shaming In Media: DirecTV Heightism Wednesday, August 26, 2015 0 Comments 5/5 from 3 votes Harold Everton Harold Everton, MBA MS ED is an entrepreneur and tech enthusiast who runs several websites. He is also an educator, professional recording artist and commercial actor. Follow him on Twitter. With all of the social justice firestorms caused by media attempts at body shaming in the last decade or so, it is surprising then that DirecTV, a company with 20.4 Million subscribers in the United States, and whose revenue grew 6% to $8.4 Billion in the first quarter of this year, greenlighted an advertisement which openly mocks short men as being infantile, abortive, socially inept and economically disadvantaged. The nationally syndicated commercial opens with two versions of NFL Hall-Of-Fame hopeful Randy Moss. The football player is paired with a diminutive version of himself referred to as “Petite Randy Moss”. The “real Randy Moss” is a confident DirecTV subscriber who lives lavishly in an upscale condominium with sleek modern furnishings, a giant mounted flat screen and is dressed dapperly, while the petite version lives in a crummy apartment with a 1980s styled CRT, sports tattered clothing and laments at having regular cable. DirecTV Petite Randy Moss Commercial \| Source: YouTube To further differentiate the lives of the two, they show the disappointed petite version in a supermarket aisle wearing wrinkled clothing hopelessly hopping to reach a cereal box on the top shelf called “Fruity Munch”. Upon closer inspection, you’ll notice that the shelf closest to him has a cereal named “Giraffe Crunch”, while the shelf just above his reach contains another titled, “Honey Heroics”. The advertisement closes with a smiling real Randy Moss, who stands at about 6’4 saying “Don’t be this me” while pointing at the short despondent version of himself. So why should anyone be outraged? Well, let’s try an experiment by slightly changing the characters. What would the response be if a similar commercial featured a sharply dressed Caucasian Randy Moss living it up in the suburbs paired against a Black version in ragged clothes struggling to make it day to day in the inner city? How about a thin blonde Rhonda Moss running down the boardwalk in a tight bikini versus an overweight version in sweats having trouble fitting through the door of a GNC? We all know the answer. There would be a backlash so enormous internet bandwidth everywhere would be compromised. You’d have all of the media outlets covering the affair at length with social justice warriors expressing their opinions and criticism at every opportunity and in every medium available. Knowing this begs the question, “Where are the social justice warriors now”? Media Outlets Are Quick To Reprimand Body Shamers, But Not When It Involves Males. \| Source: NBC The answer is probably “relaxing and enjoying a long hearty laugh”. No one cares when body shaming campaigns affect men. Short men in particular are one of the few remaining groups in which open mocking or short-shaming, no matter how vitriolic it may be, is considered socially acceptable and politically correct (i.e. suck it up shorties). On the other hand, making fun of someone’s weight, skin color, gender, ethnicity, etc. can lead to social and professional suicide. Criticize this status quo and you will be further mocked, framed as bitter and unable to take a joke. This being the case, DirecTV, whose successful string of “Don’t Be Like X” commercials initially focused on odd personalities representing their mediocre competitors, decided to put their foot in physicality arena; insulting the people they knew would generate the least amount of backlash – a cowardly move. Assuming that “petite” is 5’9 or less (which considered is short for a man socially and very short by NFL standards), why then would DirecTV take a chance at insulting 3.57 Million of its subscribers with a blatantly offensive heightist ad? Heightism is a real thing and goes way beyond trivial short jokes. Short men get paid less, promoted less and are sought after romantically far less than their taller counterparts all because of this ignorant belief that shorter people are somehow less capable. Last year Reality TV Star Coroner Louise Hunt hung himself after years of depression over his height. Thirteen year old Jonathan Short-Scaff of Ohio committed suicide after years of being tormented about his short stature. In 2012, twelve year old Joel Morales was found dead in his bathroom, hanging himself with a belt after being bullied in multiple schools over his short stature. Think of all the millions of young Jon Stewarts, Josh Hutchersons and Kendrick Lamars out there who have no chance at what society considers “winning the genetic lottery”, developing the understanding of what society has in store for them when they come of age through the messages that they are constantly bombarded with through these types of advertisements. DirecTV had a responsibility here and failed miserably by greenlighting this project. Reality TV Star John McNally committed suicide over height shaming \| Source: Daily Star This isn’t about being able to take a joke, but equating short stature with inferiority. Most companies in this day and age wouldn’t do this with any other group. Outside of a few YouTube comments and bit of an uproar by a few short men on the site Reddit regarding this ad, we wonder where all of the social justice warriors and commentators from major media outlets are who would jump at the chance to shame advertisers and popular personalities for as much as directing a simple joke at other groups. Here we have a body-shaming advertisement shown from coast to coast and probably internationally from an $8.4 Billion company and all we hear are crickets. Shame on you DirecTV, shame on you. Anyone feel cheated by genetics? In Community, 0 days ago, by vision88t Eddie LaBaron. Shortest Quarterback in NFL history. (Highlights) 5'7 In Community, 1 days ago, by minilinebacker UK's smallest bodybuilder (4 ft 9) In Community, 1 days ago, by FefePapa Good thread comparing heightism to colorism In Community, 1 days ago, by RabbleRouser	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line357
__label__wiki	0.89057	0.89057	How Ebola Developed Africa By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo “How Ebola Developed Africa,” begins with a Fredrick the Great saying, “My principal occupation is to combat ignorance and prejudice…to enlighten minds, cultivate morality, and to make people as happy as it suits human nature and as the means at my disposal permits.” The author goes on to say that Africa in the last century did not have a single leader committed to such a goal. “Ebola,” he writes, “has ruptured the boils on Africa’s legs and now the continent can run.” by Rudolf Okonkwo Sep 24, 2014 On this September evening, all along the iconic Museum Mile, men and women in distinctive African attires lined up. Some of the men were wearing a new design of dashiki that combined the elegance of a tuxedo with the comfy feel of an agbada. The women were mostly in flowing evening gowns with embellished necklines made of African fabric and sown in a 20th century style, proportionate at all the right places and accentuating their curves. A late summer breeze had cooled off the afternoon sun conveying an aroma of seawater smell in the air. From a distance, sounds of talking drums, chants and invocation of the spirits of Africa’s forefathers streamed into the space. Pockets of clouds hovering over the city’s skyline swing to the music. Correct Me If I am Right Limousines dotted the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Guggenheim Museum and down to the African Center. At the entrance of the imposing African Center on 5th Avenue was a red carpet section decorated with flags of all the countries in Africa. Writers, entertainers and diplomats lined up to be photographed by paparazzi and fans of African arts. As fans whistled and screamed at a young Nollywood actor, an old man in black jeans and black Persian long-sleeved shirt commented that Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka would have found these spectacles absurd. The old man’s observation made sense because none of Achebe’s or Soyinka’s most celebrated works got this kind of presentation that, “How Ebola Developed Africa” was getting. The New York Times review of the book says that “Not since Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ has any book been written that strikes at the heart of Africa’s checkered history.” The paper called the book a seminal work which admits that the West has made amends after a century of exploitation. In New York Post, the reviewer opined that, after missing the industrial age, Africa dabbled into the information age with pre-enlightenment mindset. He gloated that it took the intervention of America for Africa to break through what Peter Gay called ‘sacred circle’ where belief confined thinking. He lamented that the author did not go far enough to acknowledge how much African nations owe the rest of the world for its rescue. It was a subtle reference to President Obama’s investment in the fight against Ebola in 2014 when he sent over 3000 US troops to West Africa to build treatment centers, hospitals, and to train health care workers. Then the newspaper opposed by move. But since its publisher, Rupert Murdoch, died, the Post has been born again, somewhat. The book’s narrative follows the grueling journey of a continent and its people from the day eight Ebola workers were murdered in Guinea. It tracks the journey taken by two West African doctors touched by the Guinea incident from the comfort of their medical practices in America back to Africa. Their years of struggle to vanquish ignorance and institute reason at the darkest corners of Africa did not gain traction until the big Ebola outbreak happened years after. When faced with a potential extermination of millions of its citizens, Africans change their mindset by embracing the concept of empirical proof instead of superstition. “The long awaited revolution did not come,” the author writes, “instead Ebola came.” He goes on to write that Ebola undermined religion, social and political orders by the strength of its devastation. He notes shifts in consciousness, the drafting and implementation of social contracts aimed at securing what Francis Hutcheson called, “greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.” Giving examples after examples, he illustrates how from the ashes of ruin “Ebola precipitated the move from stomach infrastructure to intellectual infrastructure.” Most of the people that have gathered were looking forward to seeing former President Barack Obama who was billed as a special guest of honor. But their excitement was dashed when U.S. Senator Chelsea Clinton of New York, a trustee of the Africa Center, arrived and announced that President Obama was stuck in Kenya where he was visiting treatment centers being built by American soldiers at what has become the epicenter of the latest Ebola outbreak. The next big guest that the audience members were looking forward to seeing, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, soon arrived. The limousine that dropped her off appeared to be the longest. Adichie had won the Nobel Prize for Literature the year before. This was going to be her first public outing since she received her prize in Oslo, Norway. As she stepped out of the limousine, fans rushed to the front. It took several New York Police officers to hold the line and stop autograph seeking fans from crossing the yellow line. The old man, picking on the few dots of gray hair left on his head, noted that she had aged gracefully. With hair now locked, skin in a glowing chocolate blend, she strolled the red carpet with poise. The wrinkles around her neck mixed with the emerging bag under her eyes gave her the look of a battle-tested amazon. “She reminded me of Toni Morison,” the old man said. “She used to be a visiting professor at my university. Morrison, I mean.” At the park opposite the museum a buzzing sound suddenly developed. As the audience turned to look, they saw three Amazon drones dropping off boxes and boxes of books. The old man said that the publisher, Simon & Schuster, had underestimated the interest in the book so, when they noticed the lines formed by fans around the African Center, they ordered more copies delivered. Inside the multipurpose auditorium of the center, the masses outside filed in. The soaring three-storey high space sucked up the high octane waves coming from the audience. Cozy and vibrant, a cocktail reception followed soon at the Roof Terrace where writers and entertainers mingled with diplomats and African arts and cultural enthusiasts. From the wall of windows on the roof streamed rays of light. The characteristic odor of contemporary African art work in exhibition on the first and second floor galleries fused with a variety of African cuisines offered to the guests. Njoroge Ngugi, the son of Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’O, Africa’s last Nobel Prize winner in Literature before Adichie’s win last year, entertained the guests with his storytelling skills. As the designated reviewer of the book, he intermingled with guests, a glass of wine permanently in his hand. With waiters particularly interested in topping it up for him, the old man noted that it would be an interesting night. “The final destination of any people is to that point where they have the freedom to use their own intelligence,” he said. As his circle of listeners beamed with smile and nodded ferociously, he quickly added, “that is not me, that was Immanuel Kant.” At the peak of the Ebola outbreak, African leaders could not travel abroad for treatment because flights from most parts of Africa were barred from entering most continents of the world. Their children abroad could not return home. It forced the leaders to look inward and build infrastructures for their own people. Well-equipped hospitals cropped up, research institutions displaced religious franchises, and logic got a seat at decision tables. In the midst of sustained death by Ebola, myth crumbled, miracles waned and superstition ran its course. When the only known vaccine against the virus failed, faith’s failure to intervene became its undoing. The rise of reason became clear when Njoroge Ngugi was called upon to review the book. He staggered to the podium, opened his note and took a glance at it. As he began to speak, he lost his grip of the podium and fell. People outside the center, at the intersection of the Upper East Side and East Harlem, could hear the hiss of the audience. The old man tweeted that picture of the Mr. Ngugi on the floor. It was immediately retweeted again and again. Before the paramedics came, it was trending in Abuja and Nairobi. It was 2034, after all. Rudolf Okonkwo Correct Me If I Am Right Okey Ndibe Dealing With The Nightmare We Ordered Okey Ndibe Ohakim’s Parting Address to Incoming Governors Guest Columnist The People Voted Their Stomach -Blues For An Arrested Renaissance By Niyi Osundare Sonala Olumhense Syndicated Courtney Dike’s Gift To Patience Jonathan By Sonala Olumhense Sonala Olumhense Syndicated Election 2015: No Fence To Sit On By Sonala Olumhense Pius Adesanmi The 2015 Presidential Election: Broken Bottles With Jagged Edges Will Shred Your Butt By Pius Adesanmi	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line370
__label__wiki	0.925118	0.925118	MTN Confirms Call Logs Between Justice Yunusa, Ricky Tarfa During proceedings yesterday, Ogunbadejo told the court that call log contained the records of two numbers, which belong to one Rickey Mustapha Tarfa and one Mohammed Nasir Yunusa. “There were several calls made between these numbers,” he said. by The Nation Newspaper Oct 23, 2018 Justice Yunusa (R) and his lawyer A fraud analyst working with MTN Communications, Mr. Adekunle Ogunbadejo, has confirmed to an Ikeja Special Offences Court the call logs between a judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Mohammed Yunusa and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Ricky Tarfa. Ogunbadejo, who is the first prosecution witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was being led in evidence by Mr. Wahab Shittu, the lead prosecuting counsel for the commission before Justice Sherifat Solebo. Justice Yunusa is facing a four-count of attempted perversion of the course of justice and corruption by a public official. Co-defendant and an employee with law firm of Ricky Tarfa (SAN), Esther Agbo, is facing a charge of offering gratification to a public official. During proceedings yesterday, Ogunbadejo told the court that call log contained the records of two numbers, which belong to one Rickey Mustapha Tarfa and one Mohammed Nasir Yunusa. “There were several calls made between these numbers,” he said. Shittu’s attempt to make Ogunbadejo testify about his statement on oath made to the EFCC was, however, opposed by Justice Yunusa’s defence counsel, Chief Robert Clarke (SAN) and Agbo’s defence counsel Mr. John Odubela (SAN). Their objection was on the grounds that it was not served on their team as part of the proof of evidence, which should be forwarded to the defence. Justice Sherifat Solebo, while upholding the objection of the defence, said: “In view of the tardiness of the prosecution and lack of proof of service of the statement to the defence, it is hereby marked rejected.” Under cross-examination by Clarke, Ogunbadejo admitted that he was not privy to the content of the phone conversations between the judge and Mr. Rickey Tarfa (SAN). “We (MTN) do not give cloned sim cards; we do not keep records of verbal communications; we do not keep the content of text messages; and we are not privy to conversations between two parties,” the MTN fraud analyst said. The second prosecution witness and the Head of Regulatory Liaison at UBA, Mr. Robinson Imafidon, also told the court that in 2016, following the EFCC’s request, UBA provided the statement of the account of the judge to the anti-graft agency. “The owner of the account is Mohammed Nasir Yunusa, on March 18, 2015 there was a transfer of N750,000 from one Joseph Nwobike, SAN and Co. “On May 14, 2015, there was a cash deposit into the account of N1.5million by one Agbo Esther,” he said. Under cross-examination by Clarke, Imafidon admitted that he was not aware of the purpose of the bank transaction. “I do not know the reason for the transfer by Esther Agbo,” Imafidon said. Earlier during proceedings, Justice Solebo, in a short ruling, admitted into evidence, a letter from MTN, which was certified by the EFCC. On July 4, the defence had opposed the admissibility of the letter on the grounds that the anti-graft agency could not certify a document from MTN. In the ruling, Justice Solebo noted that the letter, which certified the MTN call logs, was retrieved during investigations by the anti-graft agency. Corruption Court Rejects Saraki’s Protest Against Senate Forgery Suit Corruption Halliburton Scandal: EFCC Traces N13.5b To Private Account CRIME Outrage Over Gruesome Murder Of Boy In Lagos Corruption AGF: How We Found $1.30m At Ex-Panel Member's Home Legal Ex-Minister's Son 'Paid N1b Cash For Land, Four Houses' Human Rights Senate To Probe Alleged Brutalization Of NYSC Member In Zamfara State	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line371
__label__wiki	0.899451	0.899451	Underwater robotics competition has 68 teams from across the world Three-day event, at the Kingsport Aquatic Center, finishes up today with awards around noon. Global Entry Enrollment Center TRI's Global Entry Center about to open A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Global Entry Enrollment Center will have its grand opening on Wednesday, May 22 at Tri-Cities Airport. The Global Entry Program provides expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk international travelers. At least 40 killed in Russian plane's fiery landing At least 40 people died when an Aeroflot airliner burst into flames while making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport Sunday evening, officials said. Underwater robotics contest sets stage for ‘coopetition’ The inaugural underwater regional robotics competition held at Kingsport’s Aquatic Center this past Saturday will be followed by an international competition there in late June. Paris aghast after fire ravages Notre Dame Cathedral Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, Notre Dame is the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Some 13 million people visit it every year. Notre Dame spire collapses, interior in flames PARIS (AP) — The soaring spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has collapsed in flames, and a church spokesman says the entire wooden interior of the 12th century landmark is burning and likely to be destroyed. Gate City native serves abroad in Honduras As he approaches his senior year of college, Caleb Gore now has two international trips under his belt, both to the Central American country of Honduras. While there, Gore and other college students helped build two new schools for Honduran children, giving them a chance to receive a quality education. Trump issues first veto after rebuke of border order President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday, overruling Congress to protect the emergency declaration he’d used to circumvent lawmakers to build his border wall. Mass shootings at New Zealand mosques kill 49 One man was arrested and charged with murder in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack. Police also defused explosive devices in a car. First Broad Street UMC gears up for annual missions celebration That tradition will continue next weekend with the church’s 24th annual missions celebration. Themed “Offering Hope,” the event will feature workshops, craft and resource vendors and educational displays about a number of mission groups. No deal: Trump, Kim summit collapses over sanctions impasse Talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to bridge a standoff over U.S. sanctions, a dispiriting end to high-stakes meetings meant to disarm a global nuclear threat. Eastman named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies Eastman has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the sixth consecutive year. Two Tri-Cities pastors to attend United Methodist General Conference on homosexuality Randy Frye of First Broad Street United Methodist Church in Kingsport and Carol Wilson of Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church in Johnson City will attend the conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The nearly 900-member international assembly will meet in a special session to consider plans that could strengthen the denomination’s current stance or change the guidelines to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ community. Sullivan South graduate heading to Nepal to serve in Peace Corps Since graduating from Sullivan South High School in 2012, Kingsport native Lauren Stuart has been on no shortage of adventures. She will embark on her latest journey later this week when she heads to Nepal for a 27-month service in the Peace Corps. Kingsport woman collecting supplies to help stray animals in Cuba Penny Salyer has always had a passion for helping animals. So when she observed firsthand the many malnourished stray dogs and cats that roam the streets of Havana, Cuba, she knew she had to do something.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line381
__label__cc	0.646509	0.353491	Sparkstone Creative ADDRESS: Botley Mills, Mill Hill, Botley, Hampshire, SO30 2GB DEU ENG ITA FRA Integrated Strategy 14th August, 2015 More from Digital marketing What is CLV and how can you use it to increase profits? For many marketers it’s tempting to create KPI’s (Key Point Indicators) based solely on specific marketing campaigns, but for most businesses it’s difficult to turn these short term results into a long-term strategy. By analysing instead the Life Time Value (LTV) of your customers rather than ROI for each campaign, you can develop a much […] 8th July, 2015 More from Web Design Why a mobile website is no longer just a ‘nice-to-have’ Mobile phones have been around for over 20 years now and internet enabled phones for at least the past 10 years (even longer if you count WAP phones). Smartphones have really changed the way we browse online and with new devices like the Apple Watch & iPhone 7 just around the corner, the digital world has become more blurred […] 8th June, 2015 More from Uncategorized Ensure a high conversion rate from your landing page. A landing page is a web page that allows you to capture a visitor’s information through a conversation form. Landing pages are essential for generating new leads and become important when sending out email campaigns. Good landing pages will target a particular audience (such as traffic from an email campaign, guests from a blog post, […] 4th September, 2013 More from Business News Google partners with Nestle to promote latest Android OS Google have announced that Android’s next operating system is to be called “Android KitKat” after striking up a unique partnership deal with global food and beverage giants Nestle. John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships said: “This is not a money-changing-hands kind of deal”. Instead he said, the idea was to come up with […] How football clubs use social media As the Premier League kicked off this weekend – there’s no better time to analyse how Premier League clubs have embraced social media to engage with their supporters in the UK and across the world. The Premier League, often promoted as “The Greatest Show On Earth”, is broadcast to over 600+ million people […] 5th August, 2013 More from Business News John Lewis report 17.2% web sales increase for first half of 2013 Upmarket department store John Lewis has revealed an impressive 17.2% online growth for the first half of the financial year. The company’s operations manager Dino Rocos has said: “With the heat of recent weeks easing, customers found an increased appetite to visit our stores and online proposition with sales closing 13% ahead of last […] 24th July, 2013 More from Business News Amazon to reduce Super Saver delivery availability Amazon has shelved free “super saver” delivery in the UK on certain products with a value of less than £10. Its a U-turn on a policy unveiled in October 2009 that allows products to be shipped with no delivery fee if shoppers agreed to wait for up to five working days for their delivery […] Waitrose to roll out remote click-and-collect grocery lockers Waitrose is currently testing temperature-controlled lockers at its head office in Bracknell, with plans to roll them out to stores next year as part of their growing click-and-collect offering. The supermarket’s director of ecommerce Robin Phillips said: “Giving our customers as many ways as possible to buy and collect their groceries on the move […] 9th July, 2013 More from Business News M&S report 160% increase in mobile sales Marks & Spencer today reported a 160 per cent increase in sales via mobile devices and tablets and a near 30% rise in online sales on its marksandspencer.com website in the first quarter of its financial year. The news came as the household, clothing and food retailer announced a 3.3% rise in group sales […] Domino’s topping online sales in takeaway market Pizza chain Domino’s reported on Friday that online orders accounted for over 60% of food delivered by the company in the first half of 2013. Domino’s Pizza UK and Ireland reported UK sales had increase to £147.6m in the 13 weeks to June 30, which was up by 11.7 per cent on the same […] @@sparkstone BBC News - The mystery over the @ sign https://t.co/OjB5O1153H Tue, Mar 08 { 09:19 } We’re a social bunch ©2015 Sparkstone. All Rights Reserved \| Sparkstone Creative is a trading name of Sparkstone Technology Ltd - Registered No.5137395 \| This website uses cookies - read our Privacy Policy to learn more. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with this. Please visit our Privacy Policy page for more info.Ok	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line385
__label__cc	0.727193	0.272807	Dental Services at St. Jago Park Health Centre Temporarily Relocated Feb 06, 2017 \| St. Catherine The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) wishes to advise the public that dental services at the St. Jago Park Health Centre in St. Catherine has been temporarily relocated due to a minor fire which occurred in the Dental Department this morning. Dental patients can access services at the following health centres located in St. Catherine until further notice: Bridgeport Dental Sydenham Health Centre Sligoville Health Centre Old Harbour Health Centre Bog Walk Health Centre Linstead Health Centre Additionally, the dental staff from the St. Jago Park Health Centre have been redeployed to these health centres to assist with the expected increase in patient load. According to preliminary reports, the fire which occurred at 10:30 a.m. was immediately contained by members of staff with the use of fire extinguishers. The Health Centre was evacuated and all health services suspended for the day. The Fire Brigade was also called in to provider further support. One member of staff was treated for smoke inhalation. The maintenance team is currently conducting an assessment of the damage and will work assiduously to do the necessary repairs in order for the Dental Department to be operational in the shortest time possible. All other services at the St. Jago Park Health Centre will resume tomorrow (February 7, 2017) and every effort is being made to eliminate the residual smell of smoke so that operations can be as normal as possible. The public will be advised as soon as the Dental Department is reopened. The Region thanks the staff at the St. Jago Park Health Centre for their quick action in bringing the fire under control and the successful evacuation of the patients. The Region apologises for any inconvenience the relocation of the dental services may cause. SERHA Saddened by Passing of Dr. Denise Duncan Goffe SERHA Mourns the Loss of Ophthalmologist Sonya Kay Forbes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line392
__label__cc	0.698779	0.301221	Of Swords and Plumes 004: Oliver Pötzsch’s “Hangman’s Daughter” series Posted on May 19, 2014 February 22, 2017 AuthorLawrence2014 The Hangman’s Daughter and The Dark Monk, by Oliver Pötzsch. Mariner, 2011 and 2012; reviewed in the trade paperback editions. “The Hangman’s Daughter” and “The Dark Monk” are the first two novels in a new historical mystery series by the German author Oliver Pötzsch. The stories are set in the back woods of Bavaria in the late 17th century, a largely unfamiliar setting (at least to me), and a refreshing change from the usual Elizabethan England or medieval France. It’s a few years after the end of the catastrophic Thirty Years War that devastated central Europe, and Germany is still pulling itself back together. Elsewhere, in the great European cities, the Enlightenment may be opening minds, but in the deep forests of Bavaria, the traditions of the Dark Ages still persist. The small, backward city of Schongau is home to the series’ three protagonists: Jakob Kuisl, the town’s hangman, who also acts as its interrogator and torturer; his determinedly unorthodox daughter, Magdalena Kuisl; and her reluctant lover Simon Fronwieser, a would-be intellectual and the rebellious son of the town doctor. The novels’ point of view moves back and forth between these three main characters, giving Pötzsch plenty of opportunity to present their interesting and engaging personalities. Jakob Kuisl, the robust but melancholy and hard-drinking hangman, had been a soldier fighting in the long war, but returned home to Schongau to take up the family profession, which by long custom was passed down from father to son. The town hangman is considered cursed and unlucky, so he’s something of a pariah in the community, but his outsider status gives him the freedom to investigate crimes his own way, and to pursue his own interests – mainly healing, in Jakob’s case. Kuisl is well-versed in traditional folk remedies, as well as knowledgeable in the newer medical advances of the Late Renaissance: he is a literate man, and has a hoard of books both old and new. Jakob’s daughter Magdalena shares her father’s talent for healing, as well as his sharp and logical mind, but she’s also active, inquisitive, and persistent. Her wit, determination, learning, and dark good looks have won the heart of the ambitious Simon Fronwieser, but their relationship is fraught and virtually forbidden, for as a hangman’s daughter Magdalena is considered unclean, uncanny, and practically a witch – entirely unsuitable as a match for the son of a respectable burgher. Besides, Simon’s father, the town doctor, bitterly resents the fact that most of the town – his son included – believe the hangman to be a more effective healer than the doctor. Pötzsch has done a fine job bringing the characters and culture of old Schongau to life, and the setting is entirely convincing. It helps that it’s based on research into his own family’s background, as he himself is descended from those Kuisls who were the historical hangmen of Schongau for generations. His description of the hangman’s art is fascinating, if sometimes gruesome, though he has made his Jakob Kuisl a thoughtful and introspective man who performs his tasks from a sense of necessity and a feeling that another in his place would be less careful – and ultimately, less merciful. The hangman Kuisl, his meddlesome and mettlesome daughter, and her scholarly lover get caught up in some seriously dark and lurid affairs there in the back woods of Bavaria. The novels move fast, and are really more thrillers than mysteries, as “whodunit” is never all that hard to figure out. Pötzsch keeps the action flowing, with murder, madness, and mayhem, abduction, escape, and intrigue to spare as he switches back and forth between his three protagonists. The dark forests are haunted by renegade ex-soldiers, religious fanatics abound, ancient treasures excite mad avarice, and the immediate explanation for anything unexplained is witchcraft. Pötzsch has a talent for concocting creepy, Grand-Guignol villainy, and his heroes need quick thinking and derring-do to take the villains down. The results, in the first two novels, are very satisfying. The next two books in the series, “The Beggar King” and “The Poisoned Pilgrim,” are now available in English language editions as well. I’m looking forward to reading them. “The Hangman’s Daughter” and “The Dark Monk” are available from Amazon in trade paperback, Kindle ebook, and unabridged Audible download formats. ← Previous Previous post: Of Swords and Plumes 003: Joe Abercrombie’s “The Heroes” Next → Next post: Of Swords and Plumes 005: William Dietrich’s “Ethan Gage Adventures”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line403
__label__cc	0.606087	0.393913	Discipline Committees Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships DEPS Home ASEB Home Space Studies Board 500 Fifth Street NW E-mail: ssb@nas.edu @SSB_ASEB_News Assessment of the National Science Foundation's 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review Statement of Task An ad hoc committee will conduct a study evaluating a publicly available report of the NSF's Geospace Section (NSF-GS) Portfolio Review Committee (PRC). The ad hoc committee's assessment of the PRC report--which will be publicly available--will use the criteria described below to develop findings and conclusions regarding the content of the report and its consistency with decadal survey recommendations. The committee will structure its assessment around how well the PRC report's findings, conclusions, and recommendations: 1. Align with the science issues and priorities highlighted for NSF-GS and the Geospace scientific community in the NRC's Decadal Survey: Solar and Space Physics - A Science for a Technological Society (hereafter called the Survey); 2. Adequately take into account issues such as: a. actions already taken by the NSF-GS in response to the Survey priorities; b. the current challenging outlook for the U.S. Federal budget--in particular the expected evolution of the NSF-GS budget; c. interdisciplinary aspects and the overall scientific balance of all NSF-GS-funded activities; d. the alignment of the capabilities of the Geospace Facilities Program with the current science needs of the community--in particular how well the Facilities Program is specifically designed to enhance educational opportunities, diversity, and international participation; e. the integration of technology development with the NSF-GS science program; and f. the balance of investments between the new and existing facilities, grants programs, and other activities. 3. Provide--considering the value of funded activities in terms of both intellectual merit and broader impacts--a forward-looking focus on the potential of all NSF-GS funded facilities, programs, and activities for delivering the desired science outcomes and capabilities, and; 4. Provide a clear set of recommendations on how the NSF-GS should implement the Survey's priorities within the context of the NSF/Geosciences strategic planning process. The committee's report will also discuss the general readability and clarity of the PRC's report and in particular its recommendations, as well as offering commentary on other issues relevant to the assessment of the PRC report, as determined by the committee. Any recommendations the committee may make will be focused on options and considerations for NSF's implementation of the PRC recommendations. May 13-14, 2016, Washington, DC View Agenda I View Presentations July 18-19, 2016, Washington, DC August 22-23, 2016, Woods Hole, MA Committee Membership View Bios Timothy S. Bastian (Chair) National Radio Astronomy Observatory Susan K. Avery (Vice Chair) Marcel Agüeros Peter M. Banks Visual Communications, Inc and Liberty Plugins, Inc. George Gloeckler University of Maryland, College Park J. Todd Hoeksema Justin Kasper Kristina A. Lynch Terrance G. Onsager Aaron Ridley Nathan A. Schwadron Maria Spasojevic Abigail Sheffer Study Director Marchel Holle Anesia Wilks Senior Program Assistant Below is an archive list of names and a link to the slides presented at the committee meeting during open session. We have only included the slides for which the presenter has given consent to post. No presentations have been made available from this meeting for posting. No slides indicate that the presenter did not utilize slides during their presentation. * Permission pending indicates that the presenter has not given us consent to publish the slides they presented at the meeting. *Written materials submitted to a study committee by external sources are listed in the project's public access file and can be made available to the public upon request via the Academies Public Access Records Office.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line408
__label__wiki	0.558709	0.558709	Tidemark Theatre (250) 287-PINK \| tickets@tidemarktheatre.com David James & Big River \| $49.50 « In the Land of the Head Hunters Desert Shores » David James and Big River are often described as one of the most authentic Johnny Cash tribute shows touring today. Thousands of fans agree with those reviews, as they routinely sell out shows in venues large and small across Canada and the U.S. James and his band look and sound like the legacy of the Man in Black, and when they step on stage, they live it. From the way Cash holds his guitar to the way he talks to his audience, the legendary musician lives again when James steps to the mike and says, “Hello – I’m almost Johnny Cash.” The professionalism of the musicians on and off stage is a testament to the memory of Cash that fans have come to expect from David James and Big River. The extensive catalogue of songs, from classics like Walk the Line, Get Rhythm and Boy Named Sue, to newer hits like Rusty Cage and Hurt, attracts audiences of young and old alike to relive the music of Johnny Cash. “It’s not only about the voice,” James said. “It’s about living and breathing the man – his posture, his mannerisms, his moves and his quirks. I want our audiences to go home feeling like they just observed the man himself.” James is succeeding. According to Lisa Wilton at the Calgary Sun, “James does his best to look the part – black is the primary colour from his hair down to his shoes – but it’s his uncanny vocal similarity to Cash that is most impressive. Even when he talks, James has the singer’s low rumble down pat.” The Man in Black might be gone, but David James and Big River are fulfilling the continuing demand for his music and keeping the memory of the legend alive in the hearts and minds of fans everywhere. Opening the show, David James is proud to introduce his new portrayal of Country Music Hall of Fame artist Waylon Jennings. Pairing Johnny Cash and Waylon is a natural fit, as they were the best of friends and worked together throughout their careers. They recorded an album together and notably performed alongside Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson as part of the country supergroup the Highwaymen, which toured worldwide and released three albums together. Alongside his band of versatile, professional musicians, David James is proud to present an authentic tribute to the outlaw country superstar Waylon Jennings and his band. Together they invoke the sounds and images of another era, accurately recreating one of the true legends of country music. Tickets: $49.50 Adult, $45 Senior (includes GST, +applicable fees) At the Tidemark Crabby Productions 1220 Shoppers Row , Campbell River, BC V9W 2C8 Canada The Stones of Atlantis Theatre Camp Michael Jackson HIStory Show Tidemark on Twitter The Vancouver Island Symphony is coming to the Tidemark with Ken Lavigne In Concert for a special holiday matinee s… https://t.co/553N5SPcJB Christmas with Sinatra to play exclusive one night engagement at Campbell River’s Tidemark Theatre December 16th, 2… https://t.co/2orFdISscP Christmas with Sinatra to play exclusive one night engagement at Campbell River’s Tidemark Theatre December 16th, 2… https://t.co/JKTFw7PuU5 Drag Queen Story Hour Puts the Rainbow in Reading for CR Pride 2019 June 9, 2019 Dads in Drag Bring Dress Up Fun to CR Pride Festival June 8, 2019 CR Pride Party Returns with Old Friends and Fresh Faces June 7, 2019 Glimpse Syria Through the Music of the Orontes Guitar Quartet May 1, 2019 Timberline students take over Tidemark Gallery April 26, 2019 (250) 287-7465 tickets@tidemarktheatre.com 1220 Shoppers Row V9W 2C8 Sign up for the Tidemark Theatre mailing list and always be the first to know about our upcoming events and latest news! Copyright © 2019 Tidemark Theatre	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line427
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__label__wiki	0.603031	0.603031	The Fibreculture Journal digital media + networks + transdisciplinary critique About FCJ Editorial, Guidelines, Forms // Issue 25 2015: Apps and Affect ..return to journal / issue Issue 25 2015: Apps and Affect 1449-1443 FCJ-179 On Governance, Blackboxing, Measure, Body, Affect and Apps: A conversation with Patricia Ticineto Clough and Alexander R. Galloway Svitlana Matviyenko (aff1)Patricia Ticineto Clough (aff2)Alexander R Galloway (aff3) ePub PDF Print This Post apps, biopolitics, critical theory, cybernetics, data, digital culture, embodiment, media theory, networks Svitlana Matviyenko Patricia Ticineto Clough Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Alexander R. Galloway Abstract: The work of Patricia Ticineto Clough and Alexander Galloway is well known to anyone whose research concerns matters of affect and biopolitics, software, networks and gaming, interface culture and communication, political economy of media and information, the systems of measure and control addressed in the contexts of French theory, feminist and speculative thought, Marxism or psychoanalysis. We were lucky to have them among the keynotes for our Apps and Affect conference, where their talks sparked an interesting exchange that impacted a number of the conference conversations. Afterwards, I suggested to Patricia and Alex that they elaborate on aspects of their discussion, this invitation resulted in the following conversation, which took place via email between April and December 2014. doi: 10.15307/fcj.25.179.2015 The work of these two authors is well known to anyone whose research concerns matters of affect and biopolitics, software, networks and gaming, interface culture and communication, political economy of media and information, the systems of measure and control addressed in the contexts of French theory, feminist and speculative thought, Marxism or psychoanalysis. We were lucky to have them among the keynotes for our Apps and Affect conference, where their talks sparked an interesting exchange that impacted a number of the conference conversations. Afterwards, I suggested to Patricia and Alex that they elaborate on aspects of their discussion; this invitation resulted in the following conversation, which took place via email between April and December 2014. Patricia Ticineto Clough is a Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a social theorist whose work and teaching address the methods of inquiry and the core assumptions of such fields as anthropology and sociology in order to shift the focus towards their disciplinary peripheries where one often discovers the archives of outcast material. Clough’s co-edited collections The Affective Turn (with Jean Halley) and Beyond Biopolitics (with Craig Willse) are evidence of passionate collaborative research conducted with her students and colleagues, offering nuanced discussions on discursive closures, shifts and reconfigurations. Her work outlines the dangers and controversies of ‘the political economy of biomediated body’ (Clough, 2008:15) implemented by the ‘monitoring of the bodily affect as information’ within national and international regulatory policies. Clough’s current research looks at what she and her collaborators have termed ‘the datalogical turn’ (Clough et al., 2014), [1] or the shift to big data as a sociological methodology. She argues that such a move from representational to non-representational model reveals how much sociology has been merged with cybernetics. Clough explores algorithmic technologies of measure, the indeterminacy of incomputable data, and informational matter. [2] In all her texts Clough experiments with ways of inhabiting and performing the written. She does it even more intensely in her performances, one of which I was lucky to witness last fall in New York City: Ecstatic Corona, her ethnographic and historical research written, choreographed and produced together with young adults whom she met on her multiple returns home, to the town of Corona Queens New York, where she grew up. http://twentyfive.fibreculturejournal.org/files/2015/09/32-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /> Figure 1. The Children of the Mercy Files. Patricia Ticineto Clough with the performers: Mac Morris, Omar Montana, and Elijah Kuan Wong (2014). Figure 1. The Children of the Mercy Files. Patricia Ticineto Clough with the performers: Mac Morris, Omar Montana, and Elijah Kuan Wong (2014). Alexander R. Galloway is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His theoretical trilogy on ‘allegories of control’ – Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (2006) and The Interface Effect (2012) – became foundational for Media and Software Studies, where he made an equally important contribution as a programmer and media artist. From 1996 to 2002 Galloway was associated with Rhizome, a New York based new media organisation, where he worked as editor and technical director. He also founded Radical Software Group (RSG), a collective of media artists named after Radical Software magazine, published between 1971 and 1974, which explored the impact of video and television on society, fought for the freedom of information and warned against the dangers of its corporate control. [3] Twenty years later, RSG reintroduced similar concerns to the digital culture of the 1990s and 2000s. The group’s media art projects responded to the gross militarisation of the governmental apparatus not only in the aftermath of 9/11, but years prior to those tragic events. One of the works of this kind was Galloway’s Carnivore, a project whose name doubled that of the FBI’s wiretapping software better known as DCS1000 (‘Digital Collection System’). [4] By pointing to the infamous surveillance tool, his software art project exposed the practice of the massive monitoring of users’ online activity conducted since 1997, shortly after the World Wide Web become publicly available. Even though art cannot, unfortunately, entirely strip the system of its powers, it certainly can – and does – throw those powers into question. Carnivore is a hack at its best: just like its prototype, it is ‘a surveillance tool for data networks,’ ‘a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.)’. [5] But it is also more than that: in addition to its ironic mimicking, Galloway’s Carnivore subverts the FBI’s surveillance technique by… improving the tool: now it ‘features exciting new functionality including: artist-made diagnostic clients, remote access, full subject targeting, full data targeting, volume buffering, transport protocol filtering, and an open source software license.’ Most importantly, it breaks a closed system and uses data for art; this is consistent with Galloway and Eugene Thacker’s suggestion of an important substitution for the ineffective practices of resistance to the protocological control: ‘The strategy of maneuvers instead shows that the best way to beat an enemy is to become a better enemy’ (Galloway and Thacker, 2007: 98). Galloway’s recent interest in French thinker François Laruelle, whose work is indeed a search for exploits in philosophy, resulted in a new book Laruelle: Against the Digital (2014), where he speculates about the meaning, possibilities and limitations of digitality by reading Laruelle’s theory of “philosophical decision”, which, Galloway argues, could be seen as digitalisation – here, as digitalisation of thought – an operation of discretisation disconnected from the computational context. This book continues his method of tactical ‘protocological struggle’, in which the convergence of different modes of critical expression are put forward in order to demonstrate that today ‘any theory addressing networks,’ as he and Thacker write in The Exploit, ‘will have to entertain a willingness to theorize at the technical level’ (Galloway and Thacker, 2007: 100). http://twentyfive.fibreculturejournal.org/files/2015/09/33-253x300.jpg 253w, http://twentyfive.fibreculturejournal.org/files/2015/09/33.jpg 960w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /> Figure 2. ‘Carnivore Server (RSG-CSCPU-2)’ by Paul Johnson (2002). Svitlana Matviyenko: Patricia, in your work, you think the body across various platforms where it is a platform itself, one of many. In one of your talks you speak of the work of Karen Barad, who, like you, questions the organism as the privileged figure of the body. With Barad and other new materialists, you address the question of embodiment as it occurs through systems, techniques and tools for measuring, and you argue that ‘the body is inseparable from the materialisations that materialize through the measuring apparatuses.’ [6] We are witnessing the process of fetishisation of the data produced by bodies. The activities of members of the Quantified Self movement and other lifeloggers who willingly disclose and monitor their lives for the gaze of networks come to mind as examples. These users might not be aware of the destinations to which their data travels, the places it is stored, and its accessibility to unknown parties, but they accept such a state of things either because they trust their service providers and platform developers or because they do not see another way of maintaining their personal and professional relations in the connected world. Although the majority of users never raise concerns or think about the degree of exposure involved, one can notice a subtle but growing awareness of the ‘data cocoon’ we produce with our tools. I am interested in how we come to terms with the realisation of being involved in involuntary self-monitoring, how we negotiate the conditions, how we resist or… enjoy it. Speaking of apps, they engage with the body’s pulsations, vibrations and movement. The body as organism is not of interest any longer, but the body-across-platforms as the body with and as the data it produces. In the end of your essay on apps, Patricia, you ask, ‘How to intervene and experiment with the relations that the app can have and thereby become a something else of itself? What does it take to do this?’ (Clough, 2014b: 46). Could you address this question by contextualising it within your own background and also by making connections with your recent work on ‘the datalogical turn’ and your reading of the body as inextricable from measuring apparatuses? Patricia Ticineto Clough: Before I got a Ph.D. in sociology, I studied at the Biological Computer Lab at a time, the mid seventies, when second order cybernetics was being elaborated there, with Heinz von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, Gordon Pask and Herbert Brun all contributing. For me, the computer always has been the biological computer and the relationship between human and machine always has been more about the body than about artificial intelligence, even if AI at first won the day. But now when it is more common to think of digital bodies, or bodies as/of data, and calculation as affective, it is important to rethink the body beyond the body as organism, or the autopoietic body. When Maturana theorised autopoiesis during my time at BCL, he was responding to the then relatively recent discovery of DNA and the genetic code. Autopoiesis was conceived as a refusal of the direct affectiveness of the gene or an environmental input; instead the organism is affected as a whole; in its relations the organism selects for its autopoeisis, or its reproduction as a whole with the aim of homeostasis and equilibrium. As such, the organism, it was argued, is closed organisationally to information and open to energy such that the organism reproduces its boundary when it is affected. In other words, the organism is a self-organising biophysicality. While autopoiesis ushered in second order cybernetics, recognising the self-organisation of biophysical indeterminacy, autopoiesis nonetheless is a systems theory. A certain relationship between parts and wholes is presumed, as the whole is constituted by the functional interaction of parts even as higher levels of order are reached as the organism’s encounters bring it to the edge of order in far-from-equilibrium conditions. Measure is more sophisticated than in first order cybernetics as the observer is central to second order cybernetics, especially in terms of emergence at the edge of order, when boundaries are more a confusion of inside and outside. Yet indeterminacy is still a matter of the biophysical and not of the measure itself, not of the algorithm itself. But today, as algorithms are comprised of incompressible parts or incomputable probabilities that can be bigger than the whole and can at some point or at any point deracinate the whole, systems theory is challenged, as is the autopoietic organism as the figure of life. In algorithmic architectures where calculation is conditioned by incomputable quantities of thought and affect, calculation becomes what Luciana Parisi describes as a matter of speculative reason. This means that the algorithm is itself a spatiotemporal object and the indeterminacy immanent to it is only quasi-mathematical. (Here Parisi draws on Graham Harman’s work while drawing his work towards the quantitative). Without going into detail about Harman’s object oriented ontology, it allows for an understanding of the dynamics of measure, the indeterminate quantities conditioning each calculation. The algorithm is a real object in Harman’s terms but in Parisi’s terms, differing with Harman, the algorithm is a real object infected with the incomputable; the object is incomplete and thus open to relations. My own insistence that the organism is only a special case, a specific figure of life and that the more general case is informational matter or self-measuring matter (2007) might even be revised with Parisi’s conception of the algorithm as ‘a spatiotemporal matrix of the present’ (2013: 36), suggesting a very different materialism than the new materialisms, if a return to materialism is right at all. More important is that there is a rethinking of temporality and the present. I take this position in contrast to Karen Barad’s position. While I much appreciate Barad’s attention to measure, I would argue that the indeterminacy immanent to the algorithm is occluded in Barad’s conception of intra-action. Ontologically speaking, objects not only are self-measuring, they are algorithmic. Real but neither purely mathematical nor physical, the algorithm’s quantities, like the object’s qualities, relate aesthetically. This move to the speculative and the aesthetic means the dimension of relation or contact is not a matter of epistemology, cognition or recognition, privileged as these are in autopoietic systems and in Barad’s ontology as well. As for the body then, the indeterminacy of the algorithm gives us a new frame with which to engage critically the technologies that are capturing bodily senses and sensation while making bodies more inspect-able and survey-able, breaking down the ‘boundary between inner and outer knowledge and control of the body,’ as Brian Rotman (Rotman, 2008: 133), among so many others, say. But, the incomputable probability of the algorithm gives us a frame that is not about knowledge or control through knowledge. And to respond politically, we must start somewhere else than knowledge and control. We might consider rethinking media beyond media to mediation and to its immanence to the algorithm object. I believe Alex’s work on mediation can be taken in this direction. Alexander R. Galloway: As Patricia notes, cybernetics is at the heart of this historical transformation. Cybernetics describes networks of actors (whether living or non-living, natural or synthetic) who are able to express themselves, and who likewise can receive and respond to the expressions of others. Cybernetics thus describes an affective network, a network of affective expression and affective response. In many ways this is a good thing. Consider the alliance struck between feminism and cybernetics, in everyone from Ursula Le Guin and the VNS Matrix, to Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant. If patriarchy is one of the ‘deep’ psychic structures (proliferating injustice by leveraging difference and hierarchy), then shouldn’t the more equitable ‘shallow’ affective networks help do away with patriarchy? If the essentialism of concepts like ‘nature’ and ‘natural feeling’ are harmful to women, shouldn’t an anti-essentialist feeling (viz. affect) provide some hope? Affect is a curious topic, partly because the critical commentary seems to contradict itself. On the one hand, Fredric Jameson chronicled what he called the ‘waning of affect’ under postmodernity (Jameson, 1991: 10—11). For him deep psychological structures have given way to more surface phenomena like irony and cynicism. Yet at the same time affect seems to be on the rise today. Deleuze and Guattari famously charted the liberation of affect. Social media proliferate with people’s feelings and desires. Books and conferences are devoted to the subject. So who is right? Can both of these claims be true? Is affect on the wane, or is it on the rise? Upon further examination the apparent contradiction dissolves. When Jameson says affect he really means emotion or feeling. He means the purely sincere affect of the romantic, Enlightenment ego. When Deleuzians say affect they mean affect proper, that is, affect as the postmodern replacement for modern sentiment. Modern subjects have sentiments, while postmodern subjects have affects. Thus Jameson’s ‘waning of…’ and the Deleuzian ‘turn to…’ are precisely the same historical phenomenon. Modern sentiment succeeded too well, you might say – so much so that, even after disappearing, it has re-emerged everywhere, only now in simulated form. Cybernetics is most interesting when combating those deeply entrenched structures of injustice. Yet at the same time cybernetics has ushered in a new era of informatic legibility and monitoring. Perhaps today we are no longer ruled by the Father or the Prince. If so, we are ruled instead by the packet, the data point, the unit of legible meaning. We have a new semiotarchy to replace the old patriarchy, a new fiat of information to replace the old fiat of the Father. (I’m exaggerating of course: patriarchy is still alive and well the world over!) This is why I see Patricia’s work on self-measurement to be so useful. How are we to survive in a world driven by the rule of information? Patricia: I like the implications of Alex’s remarks: to think affect in relationship to first-order and second-order cybernetics and then to recognise affect as a replacement for modern sentiment. As such affect becomes a capacity in the Deleuzian sense which now has been deployed in the deconstruction of entrenched structures of injustice, feminism not merely an example here but a prime example, leading however to the exploitation of affect in so many ways and to a dark Deleuzianism, as Alex has called it. My first remarks about the algorithm are meant to consider that we are post-cybernetics, after affect, when criticism is up against the packet, the data point, the algorithm. Svitlana: Alex, I think your mention of cybernetics’ ambiguity is important. Perhaps, such ambiguity is not unrelated to common generalisations about cybernetics. Could we dwell on this for a moment and ask the following questions, ‘what cybernetics?’, ‘first-order cybernetics or second-order cybernetics?’, ‘Wiener’s cybernetics, cybernetics of the Macy conferences or that of the Biological Computer Lab?’, ‘what does it have say about agency?’, ‘how do we distinguish, if at all, between control and regulation?’ and so on. In the end, how important is it to be asking these questions when we apply cybernetic notions for understanding the mechanisms of the ‘world driven by the rule of information,’ where a phone has earned a status of ‘wearable electronics’? Alexander: The most common shortcoming I find when reading about cybernetics is the lack of historicisation evident in so many authors. The old mantra “always historicise” has fallen away, replaced today by the new mantra “always connect.” And along the way our ability to think historically about the industrial infrastructure has collapsed. (Incidentally this is one reason why Katherine Hayles’ book on cybernetics, How We Became Posthuman, is so good, because she explicitly historicises the movement.) The collapse is no coincidence, however, because cybernetic thinking was conceived as a solution to the kind of historical thinking so associated with the ‘age of ideology’, capitalism versus communism and so on. And so it’s common today to find the same authors laud both cybernetic thinking and anti-critical or post-hermeneutic thinking. In some respects, they are simply the same gesture. Still the ultimate irony lies in how thoroughly cybernetics (and network thinking in general) has incorporated the historical or critical mode, so much so that concepts like difference, alterity, or multiplicity are thoroughly embedded into the very architecture of cybernetic thinking. What formed the basis of the liberation struggles during my parent’s generation is now the bedrock of the most highly capitalised companies on the planet. We are left, then, to reinvent a new set of critical strategies better suited for the world in which we live now. Svitlana:That leads to my next question about governance or management conducted through the organisational principle of blackboxing and, by extension, the tactics of obfuscation and compression. Could you place apps in the context of the discussions you both initiated in your work, i.e. Alex’s writing on control after decentralisation and, most recently, on the cybernetic hypothesis and Patricia’s work on governance and measure of life, death and matter. In particular, I quote Patricia’s reference to Alex’s reading of the notion of “black box”: ‘Galloway’s treatment of blackboxing not only suggests a possible take on the app, albeit a negative one: the path we more and more will choose to interface with and through the Internet, even as the choices bundled (and those excluded) behind any app icon remain relatively opaque’ (Clough, 2014b: 37). Would it be fair to consider apps exemplary of the ‘normatively positive spin on obfuscation,’ as Alex puts it, in the midst of the ‘compulsory visibility’ and total surveillance? Alexander: Apps complicate the conversation around obfuscation and compression. I’m thinking of the way in which today’s apps and tablet computers obfuscate the machine even more than the GUI interfaces of a decade or two ago, which themselves are driven by high levels of metaphor and artifice. I see obfuscation as simply a common ingredient in all technical systems. Computer science confirms this. The ‘obfuscation of code’ is a common technique in computer science used to segment and simplify how code modules talk to each other. There is nothing nefarious about it. Critical theory tends to vilify obfuscation, of course, and for good reason. If the various structures and apparatuses of this life obscure and naturalise power, then it is our duty to demystify them using critique. One might call this an anti-Baroque strategy. The Baroque is an aesthetic of over-saturation. It tends toward the accentuation of an action into a repeatable manner. Thus the very gratifying immediacy of the Baroque at the same time performs an obfuscating function: we don’t know the Baroque subject precisely because he is so adept at telling us what he is. Critique, by contrast, aims to undo such structures wherever they are found, and for this reason runs contrary to the structuring tendencies of obfuscation. Opacity and compression are different though, partially because they are responding to a different historical condition. Today we’re grappling not only with the Big Other or the Father, but the NSA and Gmail. The strategies of visibility commonly associated with the new social movements of the 1960s – speak out, express yourself, liberate your desire, come out of the shadows, take back the streets – must be reconsidered today. This is not because such strategies failed, on the contrary these social movements succeeded in various ways, and as such their techniques were brazenly co-opted by the capitalist infrastructure. Large corporations now openly laud diversity in human resources; Nancy Fraser and others have shown how the goals of the feminist movement are now sewn into post-Fordism; Web 2.0 is thoroughly Deleuzian, and so on. All of these old ’60s tactics have been tremendously useful. Yet I wonder if the world isn’t a different place today. I’m not sure I want to ‘express myself’ if I know the Gmail app is listening. We’ve operated for many years under the assumption that phenomenology was basically correct, that truth is the thing that reveals itself to a solicitous subject. So here my concerns are essentially industrial. If big business has assumed the role of this ‘solicitous subject’ and now we are all the many data points revealed to it as a kind of ‘truth’ – a monetary truth to be sure – then perhaps a dose of obfuscation is in order. A cryptographic universe is much more appealing today than an enlightened one. Patricia: Not only do I agree with Alex about the ‘obfuscation of code’ and that in the face of ‘the commodification of potentiality or inventiveness’, the black box/app is not to be critically engaged either with a hermeneutic approach or a Deleuzian approach to difference or multiplicity. But more, with Alex, I think that what is indicated is the need for criticism to shift its focus to the conceptualisation of the system and the interimplication of cybernetics and the social sciences, sociology especially. It is the conceptualisation of system that in the post World War II years linked sociology and cybernetics. It also underwrote sociology’s unconscious drive to positivism, empiricism, and scientism expressed in the circular functionality of the opposition of qualitative and quantitative methods. That is to say, the circuit between these opposed methods functioned to link phenomenology, or the epistemology of the conscious human knower to probability measures of statistically described populations that made it increasingly plausible to assume that social practices and human behaviour really were patterned and repeatable… and therefore were predictable irrespective of the historical conditions (Steinmetz, 2005). If the historical, in all its contingency and uncertainty, was not the reference for the probabilities of the human behaviour of statistical populations, it was because the historical was displaced by that more powerful conceptualisation of “system” as interdependent parts that function autopoietically to reproduce the whole. So rather than an anti-Baroque strategy or only that, what I think is needed is to see the way cybernetics has been realised in the forms and styles of presenting data in sociological writing and to consider what Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey call the grey zone or grey media: both the networks of our sociotechnical infrastructure and the sociotechnical sensibility with which actants act within these infrastructural networks. Thus enlarging our view of media studies to include stratagems from administration to data gathering and dissemination, not simply mass media nor social media. This is a version of the immanence of mediation to the algorithm as a spatiotemporal matrix of the present. This is where criticism is needed and the workings of the algorithm made manipulable for other purposes than mere expression, sincere expression, as Alex puts it. Svitlana: Regarding the ideology of the aesthetic, can we read such things as ‘persistence of visual knowledge’ (Chun),’calculative aesthetic’ (Clough) or ‘beautiful evidences’ (Tufte) as the productions of not just one, but all three modes of mediation, the hermeneutic middle of representation and exchange, the iridescent middle of immediacy and immanence and the infuriated middle of multiplicity and extinction? Speaking of the body, we see the three middles working in concert when Aphrodite enters the final scene of Alex’s essay ‘Love of the Middle.’ As you explain, it is because ‘the governor of the middle… present at the physical communication of bodies in congress,’ Aphrodite, ‘returns us to a more somatic immediacy’ (Galloway, 2014: 64). If it is not ‘the body-across-platforms’, is it ‘the body-across-the-modes-of-mediation’? Are they different bodies? Could you speak more of such somatic immediacy in ‘the middle of the middle’ and in the time when media have become so good at erasing the traces of their presence? In your opinion, do apps – the ‘tender buttons’ on our screens that respond to a touch – make us more aware of the presence of the interface? Alexander: The advent of distributed systems places certain demands on both thinking and practice. I’ve tried to pursue this in various ways over the years, whether it be working on software projects, or doing more traditional research and writing. If there is one continuous thread through my own trajectory it would have to be the something like ‘the politics of code.’ I’m interested in how technical systems both facilitate and prohibit certain kinds of political consciousness. So my first book, Protocol, analysed the structure of organisation in distributed networks, particularly those facilitated by the various Internet protocols that have been drafted and deployed over the last several decades. And today with my recent book Laruelle: Against the Digital, while the subject matter has changed dramatically, some of the basic questions remain the same. What sorts of worlds are made by possible by digitality? What does digitality prohibit? And how is it possible to think non-digitally? (Which is perhaps the most interesting question of them all.) With the advent of distributed infrastructures, we are obligated to think critically about the middle as such, ‘in-betweenness’ as such. Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome provides a fitting example: the rhizome is not simply an alternative way of organising leaves, stems, and roots; the rhizome is the middle part and only the middle part. The milieu takes over. Entities, objects, agents, authors – these are all rendered meaningless from the perspective of the rhizome. Today we are faced with a different set of concerns: relationality, systematicity, mediation. Of course Google and Facebook have mastered this better than anyone else. They are perfect instances of rhizomatic capitalism. Thus as critical thinkers I maintain that we must unabashedly profess our ‘love of the middle’ if we are ever able to gain any perspective on this new ‘infrastructural turn.’ The middle is where it’s at. Western culture tends to alternate between two common conceptions of media and communication, one hermeneutic and the other iridescent. Distributed systems are often excluded from the story. My contribution in Excommunication is a simple one: additional modes of mediation exist that are equally deserving of our attention, chief among them being distributed networks. We need a robust theory of networks. We can’t assume they are natural – or worse, exceptional. Patricia: I am quite intrigued by Alex’s recent tri-part categorization of ‘the love of the middle,’ giving media and mediation three organising figures, Hermes, Iris and the Furies. For Alex, the last, the Furies, mark an annihilation of hermeneutics and phenomenology as approaches to or forms of mediation. Neither for immanence nor depth, presence nor difference, the Furies are anti-media, as media are displaced by a ‘microphysics of links and vectors,’ a network or what Alex refers to as a system. As he sees it, we, those of us interested in critique, are up against not the system of the 1960’s but a systematicity that undoes any attempt ‘to establish a grand arc of history.’ The implications, he proposes, are a matter of aesthetics, a post-Fordist digital or information aesthetics that shifts between 0 and 1, that is, aesthetics as nothing (data has no visual form) or aesthetics as one (data always has the same form, the information network). In his remarks here Alex extends this view to offer what he calls the anti-Baroque strategy of critique that runs contrary to ‘the structuring tendencies of obfuscation.’ This phrase ‘structuring tendencies of obfuscation’ can be read in terms of cybernetics, where noise is recognised as the condition of possibility of information – a structuring/destructuring/restructuring, aimed at reproducing a system. Here Alex’s concern with aesthetics is reflective of his disciplinary background in literary criticism but surely any one of us following the recent turn to ontology and an object orientation in philosophy knows there has been a general return to aesthetics but as a matter of causality resonant with a turn to non-consciousness (Shaviro, 2009) as well as a non- or in-human unconsciousness as in Catherine Malabou’s work on the ‘cerebral unconscious’ (Malabou, 2012). For me, with a different disciplinary background than Alex’s, mine sociology, the return to aesthetics, I would suggest, shifts the focus of criticism from textuality/information to data/information. Or to put it otherwise, the recent turn profoundly challenges the styles and forms of presenting data, challenged as we are by the perspective of the sciences – the bio, nano, and neuro-sciences – all properly technosciences increasingly inseparable from industry, policy and developments in computer science, digital technology and the algorithms parsing big data. Alexander: I appreciate your observation about the disciplinary differences between literary theory and sociology. Indeed sociology has always had a special relationship to systems and systematicity, more than other disciplines. And I agree that we have witnessed, over the last decade or two, a transformation in society and culture from a more textual or symbol-oriented social infrastructure toward a more ergodic, practice-oriented, we might even say ‘executable,’ social infrastructure. Science and industry have a special role to play, just as before. Only today we see less focus on the industrialisation of symbolic systems – the cultural industries, subjectivity and interpellation, representation, and so on – and more focus on what Patricia is calling the sciences of life, those industries devoted to the creation and regulation of bodies, organisms, and entities. Svitlana: Although here we speak about a cybernetic model of control, I wonder if you’d also see a way to think apps and the ‘smart infrastructures’ of mobile computing in general as an instance of post-cybernetic governance. By this, I mean that it is, as according to Luciana Parisi, no longer interested in establishing the conditions of the present on the basis of the data from the past; rather, it is driven towards the future but not with the goal of predicting it, but with the goal of generating the very conditions of the future? If I am correct, it is what Patricia describes as ‘the commodification of potentiality or inventiveness’ that indicates ‘a turn in mathematic technology to the use of indeterminacy in calculation itself, such that calculation increasingly is motivated by uncomputable data internal to the algorithm’ (Clough, 2014b: 46). Would this be the case, Alex, that you would define as “excommunication”, although such that it comes after the cybernetic dichotomy of information and noise and the metaphysical dichotomy of presence and absence (Galloway, et al., 2014: 16)? Patricia: What recently my coauthors and I have called the ‘datalogical turn’ (Clough, et al., 2014) is meant to point to how the algorithms that parse big data are an intensification of sociology’s unconscious drive. While there is, as Alex has pointed out, a post-fordist liberal attitude to the array of methods permitted in the humanities, ‘such liberalism nevertheless simultaneously enshrines the law of positivistic efficiency…’ (Galloway, 2014: 109). Even more so in sociology where its unconscious drive to empiricism, positivism and scientism remains and continues to discipline the forms of writing and presenting data. And yet, big data also is outflanking sociological methods of calculation as well as methods of data collection and circulation, both quantitative and qualitative. This, ‘the crisis of empirical sociology,’ as Mike Savage and Roger Burrows (2007) have described it, does not merely challenge sociologists to learn new methods of calculation and data presentation, although sociologists are fast trying to do so. The crisis is more profound in that the join of phenomenology and statistical populations is coming apart. In their treatment of big data, Bruno Latour and his colleagues have argued that many of the conceptual assumptions of social theory are undergoing change: ‘”Specific” and “general”, “individual” and “collective”, “actor” and “system” are not essential realities but provisional terms… a consequence of the type of technology used for navigating inside datasets’ (Latour et al., 2012: 2). My co-authors and I have argued that the datalogical turn points to a different technology for navigating datasets where rather than moving from particular to whole, the movement is from particular to particular. It is the technology of post-probabilistic calculations or measure, the use of quantities that are conditioned by their own indeterminacies, not by human participation (see: Parisi, 2013). As the datalogical turn is a turn that undoes a criticism fully dependent on Deleuze and Whitehead, it allows for the possibility of drawing out the link between post-probabilistic measure in the algorithms parsing big data and the social logic of today’s derivative economy (Ayache, 2007; Martin, 2013). It also allows for a consideration of the implications of the derivative for the conceptualisation of system, noting Randy Martin’s discussion of the way the derivative disassembles and bundles attributes, undoing the system metaphysic that takes the ‘relation of parts to whole as known beforehand and that each retains its integrity, which fixes its position, interest, and contribution’ (2013). The derivative undoes this fixity, turning ‘the contestability of fundamental value into a tradable commodity – a market benchmark for unknowable value’: an incomputable value that is nonetheless deployed in measure (2013: 91). The datalogical turn then carries out the unlinking of the human subject’s phenomenological perspective and statistically described populations from the current modes of a calculation that no longer needs to reference system and its assumptions. We might consider then that the system, or systematics, indeed, the app, must be critiqued from this perspective, a move from assemblage to derivative and perhaps a move from control society and preemption to the algorithm as a spatiotemporal matrix of the present. Control no longer is to be understood as the calculation of a future by means of prediction, nor the calculation of the unknown through pre-set probabilities in a preemption of the future. Instead post-probabilistic measures extend the present, a present that we cannot escape, a present to which consciousness is an after effect. Or as Mark Hansen puts it, we are dealing with a ‘consciousness … generated after-the-fact, as an emergence generated through the feeding forward of technically-gathered data concerning antecedent microtemporal events’ (2013). What Hansen calls ‘the operational present of technology’ is the focus of a post-cybernetic governance of an economy after affect. Alexander: Parisi is invested in the ideas of randomness and incomputable data. In Contagious Architecture, she speaks of patternless data, the entropic, chaos, contingencies, indefiniteness, and change. For her the incompressible virtual already exists within the actuality of the real. I see the argument in two steps: (1) algorithms are real and actual; (2) algorithms already include patternlessness, infinity, and incomputability inside themselves. She focuses on cracks, excesses, interference, contingencies, and how they overwhelm seemingly impervious rational systems. I particularly appreciate how she criticises what’s called digital philosophy or computationalism (illustrated in the work of someone like Stephen Wolfram), on the grounds that grid-based cellular automata systems are too fixed and can’t account for dynamic change. Yet ultimately I tend to deviate slightly from some of Parisi’s core concerns, for she remains committed to a series of concepts – infinity, the incompressible, and the indeterminable – that I can’t entirely swallow. Whitehead and Deleuze are very strong in Parisi. I sympathise with that tradition, most certainly. But as a Marxist I’m drawn eventually to an inverted set of concepts: finitude and determination, certainly, but also compression. At the same time these different approaches are not necessarily incompatible. So while Marxists talk about ‘determination by the material base,’ Parisi speaks rather of the indeterminable as a way to escape the fetters of ossified structure. Likewise when Marx eschews the absolute infinities of transcendental philosophy in favour of the particularities of material finitude, Parisi speaks rather of infinity as a kind of radical virtuality, ensuring a limitless space of possibility. I’m reminded of Kaja Silverman’s wonderful meditation on finitude offered at the outset of Flesh of My Flesh, her recent book devoted to the topic of analogy: ‘Finitude is the most capacious and enabling of the attributes we share with others, because unlike the particular way in which each of us looks, thinks, walks, and speaks, that connects us to a few other beings, [finitude] connects us to every other being’ (Silverman, 2009: 4). Patricia: If I may have one last word in response to the reference to Kaja Silverman that is meant to honour it and redo it and this is to remember that digital technology has returned us to thinking again about mathematics and computing machines. These take us back to the insights of mathematicians who propose that there are many infinities. Here the many undoes the opposition of finite and infinite and refuses to let us assume something connects us to all beings or all beings to each other. Of course, I could be wrong. Svitlana Matviyenko is a media scholar. She has a PhD in Critical Theory, Media Theory and Psychoanalysis from the University of Missouri and she is now pursuing her second doctorate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She writes on psychoanalysis, topology, posthumanism, mobile apps, and networking drive. Her work has been published and forthcoming in Digital Creativity, (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Krytyka and others. Svitlana curated several experimental dance performances and several art exhibitions at the Ukrainian Institute of America in NYC, Museum \| London (Ontario) and other venues. She is a co-editor (with Paul D. Miller) of The Imaginary App (MIT, 2014). Patricia Ticineto Clough is a Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a social theorist whose work and teaching address the methods of inquiry and the core assumptions of such fields as anthropology and sociology in order to shift the focus towards their disciplinary peripheries where one often discovers the archives of outcast material. Clough’s co-edited collections The Affective Turn (with Jean Halley) and Beyond Biopolitics (with Craig Willse) are evidence of passionate collaborative research conducted with her students and colleagues, offering nuanced discussions on discursive closures, shifts and reconfigurations. Her work outlines the dangers and controversies of ‘the political economy of biomediated body’ implemented by the ‘monitoring of the bodily affect as information’ within national and international regulatory policies. Alexander R. Galloway is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His theoretical trilogy on ‘allegories of control’ – Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (2006) and The Interface Effect (2012) – became foundational for Media and Software Studies, where he made an equally important contribution as a programmer and media artist. From 1996 to 2002 Galloway was associated with Rhizome, a New York based new media organisation, where he worked as editor and technical director. He also founded Radical Software Group (RSG), a collective of media artists named after Radical Software magazine, published between 1971 and 1974, which explored the impact of video and television on society, fought for the freedom of information and warned against the dangers of its corporate control. [1] Clough, Patricia. ‘Feminist Theory, Bodies and Technoscience’, Bringing the Body Back in Humanities and Social Science. February 24, 2014. CUNY Graduate Center. Available at: https://vimeo.com/41526429. See also: Clough, Patricia. ‘Bodies: Technoscience and Feminist Theories’, in Bryan Turner (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the Body (New York: Routledge, 2012). [2] Parisi writes in Contagious Architecture: ‘Just as your smart phone works as a monitor device for tracking your location, which then becomes data used to construct the profile of your movement, so too does the monitoring procedure of smart infrastructure collect data which then become part of the programming of new infrastructural systems. As data are recorded, so they evolve into predictive scenarios aiming not simply at presetting your movement, but rather at generating its future conditions through the generative interaction of parameters with real-time data. This is how post-cybernetic control operates as a form of parametric design. From this standpoint, the goal of parametric design is deep relationality, the real-time integration of the evolving variables of a built environment in software systems that are able to figure emerging scenarios by responding to or preadapting scripted data’ (2013: 105). [3] http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/history.html. 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